A light knocking echoes through out my room and a fuzzy ball of fur rubs against my head.
"Jack..no.." He keeps bugging me till I wake up and I look at him, he's gnawing on a baby carrot. I roll my eyes, the knocking slowly gets louder and in an annoyed tone I slightly yell, "What?!" The knocking stops and it creaks open,
"S-Sorry.." My eyes widen and I quickly get out of bed and open the door,
"Fallout..?" He smiles nervously as his yellow stripe of hair shows brighter than it use to. I smile and give him a huge hug. "What are you doing here?! I thought you and Pinkie were going to that baking convention?"
"W-Well I convinced her to go without me, so because I did that, I have free time."
"Ooohh, cool! Here, just um...just hold on a sec." I wave my hoof and quietly close the door. Trotting as quietly but as fast as possible, I brush my mane out and put on my cap.
"I was also wondering if you'd like to catch up, maybe go meet every pony else? Like the old days?" Though his voice was muffled I clearly understood every word.
"Sounds good.." I hear creaking of steps and his voice no more. I put my satchel on me and put Jack in it. His eyes look at me with confusion as I put my hair in a ponytail. I gently open the door and take in the whiff of completely freshly grounded coffee beans and the smell of muffins. I trot down into the main area with ease. Mocha turns and looks at me with excitement,
"I'm gonna go get Icy real quick!" She gallops past me and I look at Fallout with confusion.
"I invited her to come with us."
"Ooh yeah, let me get some pony okay? I'll be right back, stay here!" I drop my satchel gently so I don't hurt Jack and I gallop out into the bustling village of PonyVille. I make my way to a dark blue cottage and knock intently, "Doc??" I suddenly hear windows open and an all too familiar voice,
"Great wickering stallions! Red, you're just in time! Just come in!" The windows quickly shut and the door flies open to a messy maned colt with goggles on his head and an sonic screwdriver behind his right ear. He quickly grabs me and takes me to his lab where colorful looking flowers lay piled and beakers of strange substances lay around carelessly, "My newest invention is one I think you'll enjoy!~" He grabs a colorful square flower and hands it to me,
"A flower..?"
"Not just any flower!" He politely grabs the flower from my hoof and throws it in the air but nothing happens, I lightly giggle nudge him,
"So what is it then..?" He sighs and blushes a bit,
"Their fireworks, but I don't know what sets them off. I would just ask Twilight but you know how that type of thing went with Trixie.." I nod and smile,
"Well if it's anything, even if they don't explode, they're still a wonderful creation." I nuzzle him and he smiles. I suddenly remember why I even came over to his majestic cottage. "Okay so the gang is gonna get back together and I was wondering if you wanted to go with me?"
"The gang?" He looks very puzzled, like he's trying to figure out how to have the perfect bowling turn.
"Yeah, school mates? The ones we talked about yesterday?" He suddenly lights up like he just figured out this impossible equation.
"Ooh, splendid! I need to look nice for the occasion.." I tilt my head slightly as he rummages through his things,
"You know, you look fine-"
"Aha!" He pops out of the chest and puts on this multi colored scarf.
"Honestly, that's adorable." He takes in a deep breath and says, with a slight yell,
"Alomsy!"
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As we walk down to meet the group, I receive old memories of every pony. The days we all laughed and did our work together. When we'd gallop around without a care in the world...how foolish we all were. Little did we know the heartache and struggles of life, making decisions you wish you didn't have to make.. The old Galaxy would be fantasizing over the young Doctor and how he plans to travel the universe and time, Icy would've been staring at Mocha with love eyes until Valerium came back over to Mocha.. Fallout and me would be laughing..
"Red, you okay?" Little did I realize we arrived, Icy was slowly waving his hoof in my face to catch my attention. I slightly jump and every pony stares at me concerned, "You went into deep thought there..maybe too deep."
"Uh....y-yeah, I was just thinking..you know me.." I smile nervously, every pony smiles and goes back to talking, Doctor nudges me gently to see what was up and I nod my head to say I was fine. I walked into the circle with the rest of them and joined in the conversation...or tried..I keep zoning out and thinking long and deeply. Suddenly, I can hear Crystal, Galaxy's wife.
"So, Red, seems like you're the only one without a love life." I blush, and try to bring The Doctor into light,
"He doesn't either!" I pull him right beside me by his scarf, when I let go he catches his breath.
"Well, him and Derpy seem to-"
"No, no, no stop right there. Me and Derpy aren't a thing, we're just friends." Crystal chuckles and everyone else soon joins in with the laughing, excluding me and Doc. Galaxy bursts out,
"That's what they all say!!" The tall colt that always stayed by my side as happy and cheerful looked quite stern and mad. To break this conversation from getting anywhere I say hesitantly,
"Well Fallout doesn't have his wife here." He blushes deeply,
"She's-" All of a sudden a loud sequel is heard and a bright pink bouncy ball tackles Fallout.
"Ssswweeettieee, is this why you didn't wanna go with meee?!" Her head slowly moves up in a creepy manor but her smile stays, oddly. "Sorry to crash the party, but he's mine now...OH NO IVE BECOME A PARTY CRASHER!! THIS IS HORRIBLE BECAUSE PARTIES ARE MY WHOLE LIFE AND IF I DON'T THROW PARTIES NO ONE WILL BE HAPPY AND IF NO ONE IS HAPPY I'LL LOSE MY PRETTY JEWELRY AND THEN-" Fallout quickly sits up and kisses Pinkie, causing her to stop talking and kiss him back. I lightly smile and look at Doctor who's just staring at the ground at this point, suddenly, Galaxy's voice chimes in,
"Take it to y'all's cottage, love birds." Fallout slowly stops and looks at Galaxy.
"Fine..come on Pinkie." She smiles and trots next to him, we all waves our hooves as they leave and slowly we all go back to normal conversation. I keep looking at Doc, hoping that he'd look back and leave with me, not that I didn't want to be there but because I want to be greedy. Selfish for lack of a better word. I just wanted him all to myself, besides, who knows when he'll take off on another adventure. I wanna make the time we have together count.
It's as if we were each other's secrets. No one knew of us, so it was a quiet love. Wait, are we even a thing? We never even went over any of this, we kissed and then never talked about it afterwards. Oh lord it's like Lyra and Special Agent Sweetie Drops no one knows if they're together but they probably don't even consider themselves together-
"So it's a deal. For Halloween, we're gonna go around in any costume we please!" Everypony nods and slowly look at me, to fit in, I nod as well. Mocha continues, "Awesome! See you guys later!" She smirks and pulls Icy along with her, somewhat evilly if you get what I mean. Galaxy and Crystal wave goodbye and sweetly trot together. All that was left of the once large group was me and the Doc.
"Would you like to come back to my cottage..to find out what makes those flower fireworks go off?" I smile brightly, which causes him to blush lightly.
"You know it! Let's go!" I start to gallop, "Last pony to the cottage gets sent to the moon!"