It's Princess Twilight Sparkle's birthday, and the human Eric Reed is part of a big birthday party for her. However, he earlier received some very hard news, has a heavy heart, but he tries to put on a happy face for Twilight. Eric doesn't want to ruin the birthday of who he thinks of as an Equestrian big sister, so he plans to tell Twilight what happened the next day.
However, it will be difficult for him to pretend to be happy the whole day, when he's anything but happy on the inside. Starlight Glimmer knew it, and she tries to get him to change his mind, and don't keep waiting to tell Twilight what's wrong. Because he needed her now.
This story takes place after the events of my "A Giant Adventure to Equestria" story, and it has a couple of spoilers about what happens at the end of it. It's not required to read it first to understand this story, other than to learn more on the backstory of the human OC character Eric Reed, but here's the link to it, if you want to check it out.
A Giant Adventure to Equestria
You can really tell the heart that went into writing this. Thank you for sharing these feelings with us.
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Thanks. This was the hardest story I've written so far. Couldn't stop the tears as I was writing the second half of it.
This hits you hard. Right in the feels. Thank you for writing this.
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You're welcome.
Not a lot of written stories that get me chocked up. This one did. It hits hard. I tried to guess the reason several times during the story but I didn't even come close to guessing how bad the real reason is. And while I can somewhat understand Eric's perspective, this is not the type of news you keep from someone who cares about you. No exceptions.
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One of Eric's character flaws is that his emotions can override his judgment even when he knows better. it is even worse at it if his emotional state is unstable or stressed at the level it was in this story and even more if his fear of being unusually selfish is activated, screwing up his judgment even further.
He seemed to learn his lesson, so he probably wouldn't repeat this kind of mistake again.