"I swear I had the weirdest dream," I explained to Lorena as we headed to the Ad Building, "Lyra is a pony from Equestria." Lorena looked at me with a funny look on her face.
"So you're telling me... first she is a weird "costume player" who is pretty good at playing Lyra Heartstrings. Now you are telling me she is the pony," she stated as she waved her hand at me to try and make a point. We opened the door of the building. I let her go in first.
"Yes! .... I mean, yeah I'm a horrible accuser. But I'm serious!" I told her the dream was we headed up the stairs to the second floor. Lorena intently listened, but she still had that confused look on her face. Lorena, aware that I'm a brony, doesn't know anything about the show. She didn't know who Discord, Bon Bon, and Lyra was. So telling her the dream did nothing much to her. So I told her who the characters are.
"Okay then-"
"But no, Lyra is something more than a background character. Bronies have this idea that Lyra is a pony who wants to be human because of this one episode she was featured in. She was sitting on a bench in a way that humans sit: butt first."
"I really want to believe you, but I really don't see it."
"HI!" someone shrieked behind me. I turned around to see Marijke tackling me into a hug, "I miss you!"
"But... I saw you yesterday-?" I gasped for air. She swayed me side to side. I mumbled, "can I go?" As Marijke lets go, I stumbled back and into the ground with a loud thump. Everyone looked at me for a moment then continued with their conversations.
"So... whatcha talkin' about?" my best friend sweetly sang. I rubbed my side and slowly got up to my feet.
"Okay, you know Lyra right?"
"Yeah, the new chick."
"She's a pony," I said flat out. Marijke gave me a blank look. She assumed that I'm just messing around with her like what I usually do. "she's a pony from the TV show."
"Gabby had a dream last night that she was talking to a pony that said that Lyra was switched from the pony universe." Lorena whispered to Marijke.
I began to fume.
"Okay! I will prove to all of you that Lyra Heartstrings is the Lyra Heartstrings from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!" I exclaimed loud enough where everyone was staring at me.
Ah, ah, ah! The voice of Discord rang through my mind, remember our agreement?
Yes, I did! Thank you much, everyone just thinks I'm a weirdo as usual. I spat.
"It's okay Gabby. We still love you," Marijke insisted and patted my head. The bell rang and everyone was already streaming out of their classes. I adjusted my gray beanie once more.
"I'm off to Algebra," I declared and turned away. The two yelled goodbye over the loud crowd while I headed in.
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The math teacher began to teach. He began to drone on and on about to move the x variable to the other side of the equation. I sat in the back day-dreaming as usual. I didn't like sitting in the back since I can't focus well and I knew that I was going to fail Algebra 2. But I didn't think about it.
How on earth am I going to prove to everyone that Lyra is a pony? I thought to myself, there must be someway to do something about it. I can't think.... I got back into the math state once again since everyone was writing notes. I hate math a lot.... Maybe I can tug on her hair to prove that she isn't a cosplayer! .... Maybe not, they'll just say that she probably died her hair.... But Lyra is supposed to dye her hair blonde or something to fit the policies in school! Right? I dunno. I might try that. I gave out a random smile as I stared off into space. The teacher looked at me with a funny look but continued teaching.
Maybe if I catch her saying "everypony" or "anypony!" Hmmm... I don't think so. Any brony would say that otherwise. Ooooh, I don't know! I wrote down more math notes. This was going to be a long time.
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Lunch time came around. Everyone was already crowding behind the lunchroom doors. Some people cut to the front because they found their group ahead. I bet everyone was a bit impatient. Well, maybe not as impatient as me. I crossed my arms and leaned against the picket fence. I wanted food. I needed it so bad since breakfast at school starts at 6:30 in the morning. Did it seem like I'm that type of person to wake up at 6:30?
In the distance, coming out of the Girl's Dorm, was Karly. She stood behind the crowd as if she were waiting in line like a goody-two shoes. Then she saw me. I waved her over, but Karly shrugged as if it were a question of "Why?"
"Just come over here!" I yelled over the loud crowd but came down to a whisper, "please?"
Karly weaved through the people and walked over.
"You made me cut, Gabby. That's very rude," she sneered. I rolled my eyes.
"You're hungry, right? You should be thankful that I made you come over," I retorted. She stuck out her tongue and rolled her eyes back at me. Then, I changed the subject, "so you know Lyra right?"
"Yeah, I have PE with her," she answered, "she's really nice. You have classes with her right?"
"English, Bible, and Health."
"Oh. Cool. One thing about her is that she keeps going on about how cool it is to run, skip, jump, and all sorts of things during PE. It was odd." I took that to mind. Lyra is the one who wants to be a human, or at least be two-legged duh! Of course she would ramble on and on about it. Today in English, though, she didn't say anything about humans. "What's the long face for?"
"Shut up," I muttered.
"What! I'm just asking!" Would I tell her? I don't even think she knows that I like My Little Pony. I bet she will think I'm nuts when I first tell her that I like a little girls TV show, then tell her that Lyra was actually a pony from the show. Best to not tell her now.
"Nothing."
"I know you're lying," she studied my face. I gave her a solid look on my face.
"I'm telling you, nothing!" I looked into her brown eyes, trying to make her believe I was telling the truth. She studied once more and looked away. Finally. I sighed.
The flood gates of the cafe opened. People streamed into the cafeteria hurriedly. I decided to walk across the cafeteria to get in the other line where no one seemed to go much. Karly followed after me.
"Stop stalking me!" I joked and paced faster. Karly tried to catch up.
"I'm. Not. Stalking. You!" cried Karly.
We sat at a table. As more people came into the cafeteria, Lorena, Marijke, Sarah, and Lyra came over.
"Hello everypony! I mean- everyone," Lyra said eagerly. Maybe I should make a move?
"Lorena, she said everypony. Do you think she is a pony now?" I whispered to her. Lorena shrugged back.
"I don't know! I guess?"
"Gabby, any brony could say that," Marijke who sat on the other side of me whispered into my ear. I groaned. I knew this would happen.
"'Tch!"
"So! How is everyone's day today?" Lyra said loudly and motioned her hands towards us. It seemed that she was very energetic. It kind of scared me.
"Pretty good," most of us responded. Marijke disproved today because she was tired again. I disproved because of her, but I didn't say anything.
"How about yours?" asked Sarah while she bit into her pizza. Lyra placed her finger on her chin and thought deeply.
"I... I don't know," she stammered and rested her head on her elbow, "I kinda miss my best friend actually. She lives somewhere away from here."
"Are you from around here?" Marijke asked.
"No. I'm from Ponyville."
"SEE?" I whispered to Lorena. She shrugged again.
"Calm down, Gabby. Maybe she is." I slapped my forehead. Lorena glared at me, "you're being rude!"
"Ponyville? Where is that?" Karly asked, her food was not touched yet.
"Equestria."
"Her name is Bon Bon, right?" I finally had to say something. Lyra, so full of shock, gasped loudly. She leaned forward, her hair was touching her food, but she didn't care.
"H-How do you know?" tears swelled in her eyes. She wiped her eyes and looked at me sharply, "it's because you have those statues, you know my friends! That means you must know Bon Bon right?"
Everyone on the table looked at me with confusing looks. Karly was the most confused one out of everyone. I glanced at everyone and tried to sum up something. They didn't believe me, (I have told Sarah during Bible) so what do I have to say? "I told you so?" What?
"Umm," I began slowly, "not really. I mean, I just know who she is."
Lyra tried not to cry. Everyone was quiet and was staring at each other. I began to eat my food slowly. I wonder why Lyra was so sad, I mean she is human shouldn't she be happy? I guess when she made that wish she didn't know what was there to come. She didn't know that even everyone in Ponyville was looking for her. I looked back at Lyra and began to notice something. She was crying! No, I'm not being immature about it! But there is something about it... The tears were genuine, she was definitely crying over her best friend and I don't think any cosplayer would do it as close to this.
At the end of Freshman year, Marijke and I were fighting. Not physically fighting, but you know how girls fight? (They speak with words! Or then they cat fight....) It was because there were so many things that happened one of them being her jealous with her ex because he seemed to be looking at me. Before then she broke up with her boyfriend so it seemed like the time of month. Another one being that I wanted to be around her since began to hang out with other. We were arguing on Google+. To put it short, it didn't end well.
I was crying at least every night. It was very painful. Even though this is a completely different scenario than what Lyra was going through, but I somewhat knew the pain of being separated from your best friend.
During the summer it was somewhat resolved, but I couldn't seem to trust her still. How did I solve the problem? .... I tried making new friends. Maybe, Lyra could make some new friends.