29 - Moving Day!
The day had arrived! My car was scheduled to be picked up and carried off to our new house, so I couldn't take it with me, so I ended up summoning a taxi with one of those new apps, Luber or Ubyft or whatever it was. I was dropped off at the U-haul and with a swipe of the credit card and a few signed forms, I was allowed to step aboard the massive van.
Did I mention it was large? Because it was! I never drove something so large before, so I took it nice and easy and soon coaxed it out onto the highway. I drove over to Kevin's to find he had moved a lot out of his house and was piling it out front. When I drove up, he waved eagerly.
I hopped down and joined him. "Taking half the house?" I teased.
He snorted light-heartedly. "I wish. This is most of it. Pop open the back and get down the ramp and we'll start loading up. Did you get your stuff or are we heading there next?" He moved around the back of the van and spotted the trailer hooked up there. "Ah, right, gotta get my car up on this."
We worked together and got the trailer unhooked and separated so we could bring down the ramp and start loading things.
It took some work, but I felt oddly energetic through the whole thing. That related to another odd thing. After that day I had slaved for Applejack, I woke up physically sore. Sure, I was mentally there and didn't feel 'tired', but I was sore. There I was, picking things up and moving them that I was fairly certain I would have been complaining about before ponies came into my life.
It wasn't as if I had become a weight-lifter or athlete. It was just that I could do it without huffing and puffing like a woman my age who didn't exercise nearly enough should have been doing.
We got all his things loaded up, closed the door and rolled up the ramp. Even as I worked to get the truck and the trailer back together, Kevin was gazing at his house. "Gonna miss it, huh?" I had a feeling that was what it was. "Need a minute?"
Kevin drew a deep breath. "It was my parents' money that got me in here. They covered the first and the last, and they co-signed way back when, when my credit wasn't so hot." He smiled a little. "College, ya know?" He turned from the house. "Sorry, just being emotional. We got stuff to do. You want me to take the wheel back to your house?"
I took him up on his offer and slid up into the passenger seat. Soon we were off.
Loading my things took longer. I had more things, and I wasn't pre-moving before anyone got there. We moved furniture, my computer, television, and all other matter of things out one at a time until we had that poor van practically full of things. I might be losing a house. "--But I'm not losing my things," I finished out loud. "We have the map up?"
Kevin flipped out his phone and pressed a few buttons before a cheerful British voice started giving directions. He pulled a wire out of a pocket and connected it to the phone. "Have battery, will roll. It'll help avoid traffic along the way too. I didn't have one of those chargers that connects to the car."
That was a good idea. "If we see one at a truck stop," I suggested as we loaded ourselves into the truck. It was time to go.
Our grand little adventure had begun. It had a lot less manticores and crazed dragon chickens than Equestria could offer, but there we were, leaving our roots behind to find a better life in the grand unknown. It was an adventure, and I was content to have it.
While I was busy giving myself a silent talking up, it seemed Kevin was going the other way. I could see he was bottling it up and trying to not show any of it. If not for my True vision, I was fairly certain I would have missed the tells. "Can we pull in to use the next restroom?" I asked, though I had no need for it.
He made an affirmative noise and soon we had pulled in beside a gas station, but I didn't hop out. Instead I put a hand on one of his. "It's alright to be upset."
He tensed.
"It's also alright to have feelings. You don't have to turn in your man card."
A smile came at that. "You're too good, Linda." He flopped back in his seat. "It's just all hitting me at once, and I feel stupid for feeling bad in the first place. I'm an adult. Adults move sometimes."
"But not always so far," I argued. "It's not a crime to feel off. Look, let's trade spots and you can just... feel for a while. Don't bottle it up like it'll go away if you ignore it."
So we did that, and I was in the driver seat, making the van push forwards. "So, what's our first stop?"
He started, then a little smile came. "Oh shit, I almost forgot the plan." He swept a finger over his phone. "The first one's still a few hours out." The phone cheerfully started giving new directions. "Locked in. I think you'll like it."
Thinking about our first stop seemed to bring him around, and his energy improved dramatically, just to take a sudden twist. "Linda, thank you, again."
"Hmm?"
"About the whole Twilight thing. I know you don't have that much reason to confide in me. So, thanks."
I gave a bit of a smile in kind but kept my eyes on the road. "You got yourself in, don't forget. What was my other option, really? Pretend you were crazy so you'd look harder? Let's be adults about this."
"Right, adults." He shrugged a bit. "Maybe it just doesn't even occur to you as an option, but there were a lot of things you could have done, starting with just getting me thrown out onto the street, as if the boss wouldn't side with you in an instant if a choice had to be made."
It was true, I could probably have done that and gotten away with it cleanly. "But you don't deserve that, and that would have been wrong to do in the first place."
He nodded at that. "See, you're too good, so, thanks, really."
"Is this a bad time?" Twilight was on the windshield, looking between the two of us. "Hello, Kevin, Linda."
My fingers clenched at the wheel to keep it straight despite the surprise. "While driving is not the ideal time--"
"--Hey Twilight!" Kevin wriggled a few fingers. "Jesus, wow... It's really you."
"I am me," she agreed, nodding. "Where am I, speaking of?" She glanced left and right. "Are we moving?"
Kevin and Twilight chatted quite happily. She grilled him for information on how cars worked and strange minutiae on how the highways worked, and he asked about her, magic, and the other ponies.
Twilight's horn glowed and Kevin's phone lifted from his lap. "And this, I've seen these before. It's a portable phone and computer, is it not?" She ran her magic across it, but couldn't activate it, which seemed to bother her a little. "It only reacts to fingers, not magic, or hooves. I've tried before."
Kevin could not look happier, even if his phone was half-stolen. "Here, let me." He took the phone back from her grip and had it on in short order.
Twilight leaned towards the 'camera', taking up more of the windshield. "Is that a moving map? How ingenious! How do you ever claim to not have magic is beyond my understanding. You live in a world packed with it in every direction!"
"Twilight, dear." I gave a forced smile. "It is against the law to take up the windshield while a vehicle is in motion."
She started in shock, ears perking right up. "Oh! I'm so sorry!" She fled off 'camera'. "Is this better?"
I let out a breath. "Much."
Kevin tapped his phone. "We should take a little break. Is there some way we can tell you when we're available?"
Twilight paused. "I've been considering that, but nothing concrete, yet. Have fun, and I'll see you later, Linda."
The hazy view of nothing blinked away, it was clear.
"Later?" asked Kevin. "Take the next exit, but what did she mean by that?"
Ah shoot...
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7922058 Fixed, and found some others lurking nearby.
Ha, busted
Ive told you before not to call me on this wall.
The fun we had helping sister and 5 kids move. I think at peak we had 12 people doing bucket brigade of stuff from the garden into the 8 metre, 15, 20 tonner? A lot less than 2 hours and the thing was absolutely stuffed. Glad they managed to pull it off the tree stump, out of the potholes and up the icy side road. Would hate to have tried to help push it.
Why does Kevin want to be so blunt, its like she gets stoned every night or something.
He instantly assumes it's not just Twilight coming back later. He instantly assumes there's some other way they're in contact.
Just poking holes in the story, don't mind me.
Hold on! Lemme go to my computer and post the authors note reference!
7922246 If there isn't, why did Twilight specifically target Linda and not him despite her clearly knowing and speaking to both? If there isn't, Twilight was just kinda strangely rude for no reason at all.
excersize - exercise
closer the door - closed the door
Found a last couple of stragglers
And so the adventure begins, as Linda and Kevin find out that it's a long way down that holiday road...
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Glad to see I'm not the only one to think of that.
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Twilight might want to talk to Linda privately.
7922958 And that rousing attention is odd?
So some physical attributes are transferring over, or are merging somehow? Interesting...
Keep going! ;)
Linda's right, trying to pass it off as nothing would have just made him look harder and getting Kevin fired would have been too mean.
Did you mean "exercise"?
closed
our first stop
Questions need question marks.
Just a bit of late cleaning. :3
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Finely aged typos, drunk with style, like adults.