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// Chapter Two - The Debate 
// Story: What Is That? 
// by TheStoryMaker 
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I was drifting in darkness, it swayed and rocked me to sleep. Carrying me like a little baby swaying in a motion to where I can't describe it. It was a wonderful feeling, a feeling I can't ever get. It was warm, nothing can harm me. My heartfelt different like a new bloodstream entered me not in a bad way but perhaps a good way. I felt something warm, something soft. I pulled it closer but every time I did it was harder for me to get a hold of.

'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know'

I slowly opened my eyes to the 'alarm' it was an alarm that connected to a radio and would play that song as an 'alarm'.

'Where the treetops glisten and children listen. To hear sleigh bells in the snow'

I looked at the clock as it read, '10:00 AM' I set it as an alarm so I really didn't want to spend my whole day sleeping. I then got up to a sitting position and looked at my right direction.

"AAAHHUGH!" I jumped, from my bed and chocked as if it was more of a 'jump-scare' when really I didn't mean to do it on purpose. I landed on the ground on my bed, taking some of the blankets in the process. I held to her foreleg that was warm and soft with her hair or fur, I was bringing it closer to me to 'cuddle' with I guess.

She was still there and woke up.

She yawned, stretching at the same time. She saw me as I got up, I was on my knees carrying the sheets on my both hands as I held it close to my mouth so she wouldn't see the scared face I had.

"Wait, a minute," The yellow pegasus said. "Oh, Celestia! I thought it was only a dream!" She exclaimed as she raised both of her hooves up to her head.

"You a dream?! I thought I was hallucinating!" I exclaimed, she placed her hooves on her head and shook in fear. And buried her head in the mattress. "Oh God, this is real. You're real, this can't be a dream! Not a hallucination or a..." My mouth couldn't get out the words I needed to finish my sentence. My heart started to beat faster knowing it she was real the whole time. "Oh, Scheiße," I spoke in German, I knew some German mostly because I was interested in it. I threw the covers that slowly fell on the shaking pegasus.

"How, how will I get home?" The yellow pegasus pony asked herself. Meanwhile, I got on the bed and went under the covers from the cold ground. I looked toward my right and saw a lump sticking out of the covers.

"Fluttershy right?" I asked her name, I looked at the ceiling of the room. I heard a sound of the blanket rubbing against the pony as she moved the covers from her. "God, I don't know why this is happening to me," 

"Don't worry, here I- I'll just go," She got off the bed and walked toward the door then placed her hoof on the doorknob. I got up to a sitting position almost immediately.

"NO!" She looked back at me with worried eyes. "Please, don't go," I stopped to catch my breath. "Please," I said in a gentle voice.

"But I don't really mean anything to you," She said as she hid some parts of her face behind her mane. "I- I know that,"

"Well, you-," I looked at her as she stood there. The shadow from her mane made it hard to distinguish what type of facial expression she made. "Remember what I said last night? That's, that's what I'm talking about," I dropped my back to the bed letting gravity do its thing and landed my head on the pillow, "People are insane, if you were fake I would have forgotten about all this, but you are still here in our gloom, dark, insane, hatred world. If 'they' saw you 'they' would take you away to some other place and would get tested on or whatever," I said as I shivered in fear of the thought of anybody seeing her, but as it did the song 'White Christmas' was still playing in the background due to the alarm.

'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. With every Christmas card I write'

"Where is the music coming from?" She asked pointing to the 'alarm' as I looked toward my left and saw the alarm still playing its song. She wanted to change the subject because of that thought of being away from home, and the worry of how she can get there. I don't blame her for that.

"A radio," I answered. "It plays songs twenty-four-seven." I thought changing the subject was a good idea instead of the whole 'Fluttershy is going to leave,' scenario as well.

There was something deep inside me that wanted to keep her instead of kicking her out of the house. I have no idea what that feeling was, my heart felt like it had some pain. Pain to keep her with me.

"What type of music?" She asked again. I thought of the question. I really didn't want to expose nowadays music to her as most of them are trash. The 'Golden Age of Music' was more like 2009 - 2011for me. As it played one of the biggest hits ever.

"Well, right now it's Christmas," I said. "So it plays Christmas music during the season."

"Christmas?" She asked again.

"Yeah, you know...." I had a sharp worry in my heart. "I mean, you know, well do you have a holiday where people hang up ornaments, trees in their homes and sing 'Christmas' carols?" I stopped still, she was near the door. "It's the dead of winter and no animals are here, they are hibernating."

"Well, we do have 'Hearth's Warming Eve'." She said.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Um, everything that is happening right now."  She said, then looked at me. "It was Hearth's Warming Eve before I came here." 

"Then how did you get here?" I asked again.

"Oh, well I don't know. That's the question, I don't know how I got here," She answered back. She walked closer to me as I got up. I put on a T-shirt and some shorts.

"Okay," I stopped as she got on the bed and sat near the corner, I stood and leaned against a wall.  "So if you are here and if you want to find a way home, we will try to find a way out to get you into your world."

"Really, I mean but for me?" She asked as she pointed her hoof at herself. "I thought you thought of me as a hallucination, that's why you didn't really care about me," She looked down as her stomach growled as she finished her sentence. "Sorry, I'm just hungry." She got off the bed and walked towards the door.

"No! Don't do it!" I exclaimed as she looked at me and had a hoof at the door once again. 

"I'm not gonna leave, I was just going to get food," She said as she lowered her hoof.

"I don't want anybody calling the government or anybody bad that might take you away," I said as I walked toward the door and had a hand on the knob tight, so nobody can get inside or outside. "I'll get the food for you,"

"The- the government?" She asked it looked like she was more concerned about the U.S.A government instead of food for her to eat. "What is that?" She had a scared face, as she leaned back in fear.

"Well, it's a rule, to be honest, like a rule of power," I said and looked at her. "You must have one, right?" I asked, she looked at me, then looked down.

"We do have two princesses," She said sheepishly with a little smile. 

I scoffed, then felt as my own stomach growled and wanted food, "Of course," I mumbled, it's a little girl's show what did I expect? But then again, there was something inside me that felt like meeting her was more of a 'miracle' than a curse or huge mistake. How can a pony make me feel that? "Well, I'm gonna go and get some breakfast," I said as I placed my hand on the knob. "And hide when someone comes okay?" I wanted to get her confirmation.

"Okay, I'll stay here.... alone," She sat looked at the ground as she grabbed her mane closer to her face as I looked at her.

"Ok, I'll be back," I said as I swung open the door and closed it behind me. I walked down the stairs again hearing the radio play, 'The Christmas Waltz'. I let that song sink in my head, "Maybe it should be my new ringtone," I walked toward the kitchen and saw Diego and mom sit on the table having a good breakfast.

"Oh good morning JC," My mom called out, I went to the sink turned it on and washed my face to wake myself up some more. "How does it feel to be out of school?" She asked.

"Thank God, Jesus," I said as I turned off the sink, grabbed a towel and dried my face. "I can finally sleep, and rest," I placed the towel back. I then looked at the counter.

Pancakes, my mother made pancakes this morning.

"How many do you want?" Mom got up to the counter I was next to. 

"Two please," My mother didn't spoil me, she never wanted to do that in the first place, she gave me that 'Tough Love' thing so I did lots of things by myself. I grabbed a fork from the drawer below the counter and grabbed the two pancakes my mom gave me on a paper plate. I walked toward the table to eat, which had milk and syrup there already, as always I poured the syrup and ate the pancakes. I also got up to get a cup of milk.

"Remember JC we got nine more days until Christmas," Diego reminded me, To be honest, he is a cool guy but God he just doesn't listen. 

"Oh shit really?" I asked holding the fork ready to take another bite.

"Uh-huh," He said in a 'yes' hum.

"Wow," I took a bite of the pancake while thinking of the surreal thought of Fluttershy upstairs. As I did, I wanted to take my time in order to process what is happening through my mind. "That's crazy,"

"Well, it's that time of the year again," Diego took a bite almost finishing his plate.

"No dur, Diego God, everywhere you go to it's either going to play some Christmas music or it's gonna be decorated in Christmas decorations," I said, then again taking a bite of pancakes. I could feel myself starting to break off, more of a daydream thought of Fluttershy. A pony, a talking pony upstairs in my room. What has my life become?

I continued to eat until there were no more pancakes, during that time the conversation was more about Christmas and by the time I was almost done Diego had already fled. "DIEGO!" I called out as by now he hurried upstairs.

"WHAT?" He asked back.

"Don't go into my room okay?" I lowered my voice I knew that he can hear me now since I got his attention.

"Why not?"

"Just don't do it, man, it's better off, like that," I said in a more serious tone.

"Okay, I wasn't going to anyway." He said as I looked at the 'bridge' and heard a door close. "Ah, thank God," He went into his room. My mind couldn't take it anymore, I got up with my empty paper plate and threw it in the trash. I looked back and found mom having a purse in her hand walking past me toward the laundry room. "Where are you going to?" I asked. 

"To volunteer at a church," She said as she looked back at me. 

"Oh for the poor or what?" I asked.

"Yeah, something like that I'm going to just help them and package up some toys for them, you know how the family can't afford to buy their kids toys and food," She said as she got on her phone. "Even after Hurricane Harvey," We weren't affected by the hurricane. There were sewer drains and the water would just enter into them and never come back up to the surface.

"Well, where's dad at?" That man would get up early in the morning always, he would go to work and hit the gym too. Oh, wait a minute, "Oh never mind! Never mind!" I said fast before mom could say anything about how in common sense my dad was at work, "Well, take care mom see you later,"

"Alright well bye," She said to me as she went out the door.

"Bye,"  The door closed and I heard the sound of an engine starting and the sound of the garage opening and closing.

"Annnd, she was gone, God," I said as the sound went away. My mother was a cool mom she was funny and straight. But she liked volunteering for others it was her own act of kindness. "Well, crap I'm stuck with a pony, my mind is crazy. Diego is in the house, Fuck." I took a moment to breathe, "And I'm talking to myself,"

I would just do that and talk to myself as it helped me through of what's going on. It can help me express my words and thoughts. Anyway, I grabbed a paper plate from the table and picked up the syrup, I grabbed the two pancakes and placed it on the plate then covered the pancakes with syrup, not that much though I didn't know how much syrup Fluttershy favored over, then finally I grabbed a fork. "I think that's enough," I said as I 'speed' walked upstairs and into my room.

I slowly opened the door without making it creak, and barely took a step. I looked down at my footing then looked up and still right there was Fluttershy. She was looking out the window as she must have opened it, her mane blew with the wind from outside and she looked to see our world. She grabbed her mane and buried her face in it, "How in Celestia could I get home?" I didn't want to get mad at her to open the window but then again I let that anger go away.

I felt myself getting weird, almost. Different, I must have been blushing as she closed the window then looked at me in which I was in a frozen position and looked at her with a dumbfounded look. My heart dropped, "Hiiiiii, Fluttershy," What the hell was that? My mouth wanted to stay frozen but I forced it to move. "I brought some breakfast,"

She looked at me with the same 'type' of blush as before. "Oh, thank you JC I c-couldn't thank you enough for it," I looked around to set the plate at, my mind was going insane. 

"Uh, where do you want me to place the plate at?" I asked her, I kept my eyes on the floor to avoid some eye contact. I dunno I guess I was afraid of her, or embarrassed.

"On the floor is fine," She pointed to the floor as I kneeled down to set the syrup and the plate. I got up as she hopped out of the bed and sat next to the plate.

I watched as she started eating it without the fork entirely. I kept watching not focusing on my surroundings and sat-fell on my bed. She ate it like a normal person would, to be honest, I expected her to leave crumbs everywhere. As I did I just stared at her as she ate it 'That couldn't be me eating the pancakes, I'm already full. It just can't.' I thought of that as she looked up to me. At that very second, I quickly turned my head to the ceiling to show that I was just minding my own business.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to-" She understood what I did, but I quickly cut her out.

"No, no. Fluttershy, you didn't do anything wrong," I said to hopefully convince her that I wasn't staring at her eating. "I mean you-"

The sound of Big Band music started playing. I looked at that direction, it was my ringtone. I always had a fascination with old music instead of new. It was, in my opinion, way better than how 'bad' nowadays music sounded.

I looked at my phone as it read, 'Incoming Call: Alex'. Alex was calling me, but for what? I looked and swiped it to answer the call, I then looked at Fluttershy. Who then continued to eat her pancakes.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Hey, JC, I see how it is," I heard a familiar voice into the phone. I tried to think of who said it.

"Is, is, is this JJ?" I asked into the phone, I didn't mean to stutter but again a lot was going through my mind one part about Fluttershy and one part about what's happening right now. God, I know this voice but it's on the tip of my tongue.

"No, no this is far from JJ," It said smoothly, and more like I was going to get hunted. I looked at Fluttershy as she looked up towards me, with a mouthful of pancakes and some crumbs falling onto the plate. I don't wanna get hunted, and my death to be silenced, from whoever the hell this is.

"Who the hell is this and what the hell do you want?" I asked into the phone.

"Oh ok, I see how it is in Slasher," The voice said, I knew he was talking about. He was talking about the game-mode in Grand Theft Auto. I knew who talking on the phone.

"Saquan, is that you?" I asked. He was good on that game-mode. He was the hunter, we were the hunted almost always in every match.

"Hahaha, yeah it's me," He laughed into the phone. "I just wanted to see if you recognized my voice." He said with humor. A huge sigh of relief came over me.

"Jesus, you gave me a freaking heart attack," I said then lied down on the bed, then followed with a small bounce. A sigh came followed with a, "So why did you call me?" I asked him.

"Oh, yeah I called on Alex's cell because he wanted to ask you a question," He said, then waited for me to reply.

"Well, what is it?" I asked him.

"Um, can, uh can we use your gun real quick?" Saquan asked, then followed by a: 

"Yeah, ask him about it." With a small distant voice from the background.

It was Alex who said it.

I got up and looked at my nightstand with a lamp and nothing more. "Aw, sh-" I got up and walked into the bathroom and turned on the lights. My gun wasn't there, Crap I didn't want to go outside to get it where I met Fluttershy. Not with Diego in the house. Shit, I was so focused on Fluttershy that I forgot about my own shit.

"Is, is everything alright JC?" Fluttershy asked as I entered. I heard as she got up and looked at me while I looked for the BB gun.

"Yeah, yeah I'm just looking for uh, for a thing," I said as I looked in the basket, looking for my sweater.

"JC you okay man?" I heard Saquan on the phone. 

"Is he okay?" Alex asked with a humored laugh in the background from the phone.

"Bro, I dunno," Saqaun answered back onto the phone. 

As I kept looking into the basket, with my right hand moving the clothes side to side but with the other arm held the phone. "God," I placed the phone with the back facing up, near the sink, as it made it difficult to make me swiftly look through the basket of dirty clothes, then finally with that out of the way I started to fully search for my BB gun in this pile of dirty clothes.

"JC, what are you looking for?" Fluttershy asked this time closer to me that she was before. "You could just ask me and I can help you get it,"

"JC? JC?" The phone call was still going and I didn't put it on speaker. The volume from the ear-made speaker made it echoed louder near the sink than it was last time. "You still there?"

I couldn't answer, I wanted to open my mouth but I couldn't force myself to talk. 

"Hello?" Fluttershy answered.

"Oh God," I looked back and saw Fluttershy walked up to it.

"JC, is that you?" Saquan asked again. "Hello?" He paused then and said. "Alex, what the hell happened last night? What the fuck did you do?" I looked back at the basket continuing my search. 

"Magic happened," Alex answered Saquan.

"No, JC is looking for...." Fluttershy stopped but I can only visualize her looking at me."Something,"

"Wait who is this?" Saquan asked as he was now really confused.

"Let, let me see the phone," I heard now as Alex took the phone from Saquan.

"Hello?" Alex asked.

"Hello? Is somepony in there?" Fluttershy asked questioned the person from the 'phone'.

"Who is this?" Alex asked again.

"Oh, this, this is Fluttershy," Fluttershy asked the phone. "Are, are you trapped in there?"

I looked and flipped a bundle of clothes upside-down.

The sweater! There it is! I grabbed it and took out the gun. "Oh thank you, God,"

"Fluttershy? What the f-" Alex was cut off by me as I grabbed the phone and basically yelled at it.

"ALEX! How is going...... Buddy?" I asked. "Aw, man... Um,"

"Bro, who was that?" He asked. "Who was... Fluttershy?" He asked again, confused as Saquan was before.

"Wait, what do you mean?" I asked him and pretended that nothing happened.

"Boi, there was a girl talking and her name was Fluttershy," Alex said telling me what he just witnessed from the audio on the phone.

"Dude, you were probably just hallucinating," I said, then attempted to change the subject almost immediately, due to what I said to Fluttershy earlier, 'You a dream?! I thought I was hallucinating!' God, I'm a horrible person. "Why did you call me anyway?"

"Wahf," He made a weird sound then followed by a sigh. "We wanted to come to your house and shoot some cans and see how much damage the BB gun can do,"

"What? Why?" I asked him again, and again. Jesus, I wanted to make this call short. After what happened with Fluttershy talking on the phone. "You saw the thing can do after we did to Andrew,"

"Wait, you guys shot Andrew?!?!" Saquan asked with a worry strike to his heart.

"Yeah, JC lit him up!" Alex said as a joke. "But don't worry, he won't come back to us after what we did to him," Alex assured Saquan, he did a little chuckle. "Fucking asshole," Alex said with a mumbled still loud enough for me to hear, but not for Fluttershy. He went back to me on the phone, "I dunno, why not?" He asked. "It'll be fast, don't worry." He stopped for me to reply to him.

I wanted to say a word but all I got was: "But Flutter-" I dropped the phone. Jesus, there are so many things going through my head. She is real, even my friends can hear her, now my friends are going come to my house. Reality doesn't feel like reality anymore, it feels like a dream. A dream that doesn't exist, a dream that was meant to be forgotten.

I picked up the phone from the floor that made a surprisingly loud 'thud' "Al-Alex, I'll tell you this," I started. "Come over here to my house, and take Saquan, Jeremiah, and Aaron. I- I just want them to see."

"See what?" He asked. I looked at Fluttershy and raised my left bottom eyelid.

"See her," I then hung up on Alex.

"Are they coming to see me? But how?" She asked me, as I walked out to my bedroom turned off the lights and closed the door. I cocked back the gun, with that sweet sound of security.

I wanted to know if she was 'real' more like 'reality-real'. But then again I didn't want it to support that reasoning of the question because I didn't want her to think that she didn't mean anything to me like she said earlier. "Um, uh," I stopped before explaining my reason. "You wanted to go back to your home right?" I asked her, and nodded as I said, "Right?" She looked at me placing her hoof on her muzzle and thought about that statement.

"Yes, I really do, want to go home," She said as she placed her hoof down. "But how will I get home?" She wanted to find out 'how' it could be done, 'how' she could go back. But realistically I dunno.

"Well, uh we'll find a way to get you home. We just need to get all of the help we need." I looked down to see my phone. '10:50' Wow. These fifteen minutes felt like fifteen hours.

"T-thank you for that," She gave me a sheepish smile and took a step back.

"Yeah, you're, you're," I sighed. "Welcome," I grabbed the plate and clean fork walked toward the door.

"I can pick up the plate for you," Fluttershy said as I stopped and looked at her.

"It's okay, I'll do it," I could do so I looked where the plate sat. 'Wow, no crumbs!' I opened the door and closed it and thought of that as I walked down toward the stairs and into the kitchen. I threw away the empty plate and tossed the spoon into the sink. 

Now what? I let my mind flow everywhere, or if anything if I can find a way to let my friends 'accept' Fluttershy. Crap, how the hell do I do it? How the hell can I do that? How will they react? Will they call 911? God, I am slowly turning into a madman. An evil crazy one.

Without thinking I grabbed a cup and poured milk into it. "It's not even Christmas Day, if it was I would be doing it late at night." I was talking about Santa Claus and how families would leave cookies and milk for Santa near the chimney. I said that trying to 'calm' myself again by talking to myself. So the stress wouldn't catch up to me. I knew who the milk was for Fluttershy. Fluttershy. Fluttershy... Does she flutter around but is shy? Jesus, I just want an answer. Any answer to how I am feeling? More or less but why me? Why not anybody else in the whole world? And a My Little Pony character? My body began shivering in fear and in worry. Fuck me. Shit, "Ha," A little laugh came to me as I began walking upstairs into my room. That laugh just came out by accident, as again my sanity is turning against me.

I opened the door and saw Fluttershy sitting on the bed, I don't blame her for doing anything, not when you are in a different world and can't even go outside. "I brought some milk," I walked and offer it to her. She accepted it and with her two hooves, she drank the whole thing. This time I didn't stare but 'looked' as she did it. 



You know this brought me some flashbacks too, my grandfather from my mother's side grew up poor. He slept most of the time due to the lack of energy from the food he had because again he was poor and dropped out of third grade. Things became better when he was in his teenage years but it was a harsh reality for him when he was a child. Sometimes when I eat he would look at me as I would do it. Placing his chin on his palm to support it from falling down. I somewhat did notice but thought of it as nothing, but when a conversation sparked up this topic with my mother she just simply said. "You know he does do that to get rid of his memories when he was young. He didn't have that much food, he slept a lot and the first time he ate chocolate was when he found it in a trash bin with the cover still wrapped around it."

"Damn that's hard," I said as of during that time, I was helping her cleaning up the house.

"Yeah, so think about that when you eat ok?" She waited for my confirmation.

"Yeah alright, I will," I said resuming to the cleanup.



That's me right now, looking at Fluttershy as she drinks her milk made me kinda resemble my grandfather right now. He is still alive with my grandmother, so there is nothing to that subject. He is happy now and that's what counts in life.

"Thanks," Fluttershy emptied the cup and 'hoofed' it to me. 

"You're welcome," I said as I looking into the cup. "Do you need anymore?" My body was still shaking with fear. 

"No, thank you so much with that," She looked down. "I- I don't know what I will do if I didn't meet you." She said then raised her head and smiled at me. I returned the smile back and did the same thing  I went down and placed the cup in the sink and turned off the radio coming from the speaker. With that, I returned to my room and waited for the gang to show up.



'DING-DONG!!!'

It has been another fifteen minutes since the phone call. "I got it!" Diego said as I heard his bedroom door swung open.

"Oh no," I got up from my bed that I was lying on and rushed out of my bedroom door "Fluttershy stay here and don't exit this door okay?" I asked her, she nodded and with that, I swung open the door. "DIEGO don't!" I exclaimed, he stopped in his tracks. He was halfway down the stairs and looked at me with a confused face.

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Yeah, yeah, it's my friends," I said as I closed the door of my room and walked down toward the front door. And past by him and got closer to the front door.

"Why did you invite them?" He asked again, I stopped in my own tracks like he did. I then moved my head to the side, instead of looking directly at him.

"So, we could tie up a few knots, that's about it." It took a moment for him to reply.

"Well, alright," He walked back into his room and closed the door.

During those fifteen minutes of waiting, I gassed up my BB gun and loaded it. It didn't even feel that long, and during most of that time, I and Fluttershy were mostly quiet and just breathed. She just saw me gas up my BB gun, loaded it up and nothing more and placed it on the nightstand and placed my phone into my pocket. Without asking a question or saying anything.

'DING-DONG!!!' The doorbell rang again.

"Coming!" I yelled and opened the door with a cold breeze hitting my body like a brick, I recoiled a little. I was greeted by Alex, Aaron, and Saquan.

"Hey wassup JC?" Alex said he was in the middle with Aaron in the left side and Saquan in the right.

"Oh, hey. How's it going, guys?" I asked them and moved to the side so they can enter. They were wearing jackets, pants, and nothing more than regular clothing.

"Nothing much, you?" Aaron asked me, he looked around the house as he did so.

Now my body was really shivering, I tried to make it stop but it didn't really work, I just pulled it off as nothing. "Well, it's Christmas Break so thank God I could sleep now," I said, then walked up the stairs. I looked back and saw them as they just saw me walk up,"You guys can come up you know," 

"Oh, yeah," They all said and soon followed. Every step I took my heart beat faster and my body shook milder and some sweat started to come.

"JC, you okay man? You look nervous," Saquan asked me he was behind Alex, who in which he was behind Aaron.

Alex scoffed. "Because of that Fluttershy call," My heart dropped so bad I could feel it inside me. Now I was really nervous. "What was that all about anyway?" He asked me. 

"Uhm, hgumh," My mouth made weird sounds, not even a word can come out. I sighed so I can restart my sentence again. I took a deep breath in, "You're question will be answered shortly." I said and opened the door to the 'Office Room'. They walked into the room, I looked at the monitor and desk. "Make yourselves at home fellas," I said pointing my hand to the circular wooden table and chairs. "Where's Jeremiah at, man?" I asked them. 

"Oh, He should be here right now," Aaron paused to sit into the chairs. "He had to do something with his mom,"

'DING-DONG!!!' The doorbell rang.

"Alright thanks," I said fast to him, "I got it, Diego!" I called out, I hear a muffled voice.

"Ok!" He replied with.

I fast walked down the stairs, opened the door and met Jeremiah who seemed to admire the decorations in our front yard. "Hey, how's it going JC?" He asked me.

"I'm ok, really," I said then looked up the stairs. "How about you?" I asked him.

"I'm doing good, I'm doing good," He answered back as he entered the door.

"Come in, there was a reason why I called you guys," I said in the process and walked up the stairs with Jeremiah behind me.

"What did you call us for?" He asked me, and took the turn into the Office Room and entered it while I stood by the entrance. He took a seat down as the rest of the others did.

Here it goes, shit is about to go down. This is it, this is the end. It definitely feels like the end and it does feel like it, it's going to go downhill fast. I closed the door, turned and walked toward the table and placed my both hands on the table the edge of the table. I looked at them as they waited for me on their phones, and just stared and breathed, I could only do the same. How the hell do I start this conversation?

"So JC?" Aaron asked me.

"What, what is it?" I asked him, I wanted to build up my confidence before informing them about the yellow pegasus in my room.

"Dude, remember that show 'Noggin'?" He asked me, he was on his phone but he looked up and waited for my response.

"Oh yeah, haha that's my childhood. Jesus, dude it's. God, I loved that channel when I was young." Jesus when it was Moose and Zee instead of commercials they would teach kids lessons about whatever it may be. "Yeah, haha I was just thinking about it last night." I thought of something to bring back the memories from back then, it's Christmas so I thought it wouldn't hurt to sing a song from Noggin during Christmas time.
"Well, I made my list and I checked twice. With only one thing it's rather precise. Listen closely, please lend me your ear. I only want a candy cane this year." A smile and came to my face as I started laughing, Aaron did the same thing too. "God, after all these years I still know the lyrics!" I can tell that the same type of nostalgia was hitting them too.

"Damn, I remember I watched 'Blue's Clues' when I was little," Alex said giving a chuckle. "Ha, wow we had one hell of a childhood," A smile came to his face as the thought entered his head.

"All of you watched that when you were little?!" Jeremiah sat next to Aaron and looked down into his phone. Aaron must have been on YouTube since Jeremiah was looking down with a confused face he must've been familiar with the two characters.

"Yeah!" Alex, Aaron and I said to him. Of course, we saw that when we were little when it was no agony, fear, or depression it was the happiest days of our youth.

He scoffed, "Wow,"

"Yeah, I remember being really simple as a kid. But later our parents are going to tell us to get a job, and file our taxes, and pay our taxes, and understand taxes..." Aaron said as his voice trailed off.

We all chuckled at his statement.

"But anyway, guys..." I got in a more serious tone. "There's something I wanted to tell you since... I dunno last night?" I tried carefully explained to them. 

"Oh yeah sorry about last night," Alex said, point out a hand. "Sky called me," 

"Oh yeah, what a great friend you are!" I said with sarcasm. "What the hell did you do with Sky anyway?" The rest of the others looked at him.

"Bro, It was awesome!" He gave out his answer. "We talked, watched YouTube, played Star Wars: Battlefront. It was nice!" He said to me, while the rest of the others gave him a confused look instead of Saquan.

"Jesus..." I mumbled.

"Damn, I Alex didn't you were hitting her up!" Jeremiah jokingly said to Alex. "Damn, fam it must've of gotten wet behind the scenes," 

"What? No, I'm not," He explained. "We were just hanging out, you know?" He looked at Jeremiah as he did so. In which Jeremiah was still laughing.

Alex had a more 'really?!' type of facial expression on him. That was another moment to be saved in our memories together. I'm sort of the reason why all of us a united in a first place.

"Ok, but really I'm actually being serious right now, I could've died because of you Alex," All of them stopped and heard of the announcement of how Alex basically abandoned me. "And Jeremiah could have worn a tuxedo to my funeral for all if I know," Alex faced Jeremiah in a confused look.

"You were going to wear a tuxedo to JC's funeral?" Alex asked Jeremiah.

"Uh, I-" He stopped to think for his response. "I mean I could," He said slowly and awkwardly.

"Ok then, Alex, um how do I- how do I say this?" I walked back and forth of the room side to side. "Um, so when you left I met this person..." He got interested in what I was talking about as he placed his arms on the table, most of the time he crossed his arms. "And this 'person' isn't the person you think it is to be okay? Just, just bear with me," 

"Okay...." He said real smooth like Saquan did to me on the phone call. "Who was it?"

"It's a, 'she' and well, first of all, she is shy," I said to him, the rest of the others looked confused.

"What?" Saquan asked me, as it seemed Aaron and Jeremiah were thinking the same thing.

"Okay, just hear me out. Before I show her to you guys I just want you to remain calm okay? No matter how bad it gets."

"I mean what does she like?" Alex asked me, that was a good question.

"Uhm," I tried to search for the correct words, then I thought of my 'research' on the phone last night. "Animals," I said to him as it kind of 'cleared' an image of what I was talking about.

"JC is it your-," Alex was cut off by the sound of a synthesizer.

'To ten million fireflies. I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes. I got misty eyes as they said farewell'

A brief moment of silence came to us as those words came out of a speaker. I knew that song, it was Fireflies. "Wait, who's playing that?" I asked my friends.

"Haha, it's me sorry," Aaron as he looked down at his phone and cut off the music. "I thought of it as the right time, I mean she likes animals right? So then she'll love this song,"

"JC is she your girlfriend?" Alex asked me, about the person I was describing.

Two things came to my head, my fear, and Fluttershy. "Oh fuck no, man fuck that shit," I instantaneously answered. "God, man remember what happened to Jonathan?" I asked him. We all knew what happened, supposedly he was cheating on her girlfriend over another girl for about two months, but slowly as she learned and eventually found out she dumped him and with her second girlfriend founding out soon after she dumped him too. In desperation and in an attempt to get one of them back he was sexually touching his second girlfriend to try to win her heart, I guess. It didn't work, and soon news broke out in school.

And holy shit, I don't even think his mother would love him after the shit he done to them. Saquan was hooked up with a love of his own, but lots of girls don't really care for their boyfriends, all they want is their respect and attention.

"Haha, oh my God. Yo, that's why I'm scared to get a girl!" Alex said as I mentioned Jonathan. "Yo, they want their respect and attention,"

"Yeah, same here," But Fluttershy? She was different than all of the other females that exist today. She seemed more, I dunno 'kindly'? She never wanted confirmation of respect when I met her but instead treated me with respect as she aided me to my house. My God, something is different about her I just want to know what it was. "But anyway, I'm going to get her...." I got myself to face the door. One step at a time. "I swear to God if you say any shit, you guys are dead got me?" 

"Alright...." They looked at me as I exited and closed the door. I walked into my room and meet Fluttershy as she lied on the bed, facing outside to the sunny outdoors. Yesterday, it was more cloudy outside as it didn't rain but more or less the clouds took over the sky when Alex and I got out of school. "Hey, Fluttershy," She looked at me with her green-blue eyes.

"Oh hi JC," She then looked at the bed below her then to me, "Are, are your friends here?" She asked me.

My body began to shiver in fear, "Yeah, yeah they are," I stopped, so I can be slow I knew deep down she was getting homesick, I knew that feeling too and I help to calm her. Deep down I knew from the start that she wouldn't survive if it wasn't for me. "Don't worry, they'll help you so that you can go back to your world. I'll make sure of it,"

"Yeah, but what happens if they don't want to me help me?" She asked as she looked at me, but didn't move the rest of her body. "What if they don't accept me? You're a...." She tried to search for the words to describe me, of what species I was I suppose.

"A human," I answered.

"Yes, but I'm a pegasus. What if they, um don't like me?" She asked me as well herself, I didn't know how to respond to her questions but I just want my friends to help me, and Fluttershy, and not to really force them to.

"Well, then I, uh," I began to think what to say next. "I'll, uh find a way to make them see you as the same way I see you." I pointed to her with my palms. It was the best answer I can give so far. If I had more time then, it could have come out a little better but it'll have to do for now.

"Well, how, how do you see me as?" She asked me, she wanted an answer. As I looked at her, I can feel myself going on my knees for that. For an answer. Fluttershy is different, she somewhat understood me for how I cried helplessly with the pain on my leg. And I knew that if it was a hostile alien, my death could have been silenced and just like that gone and forgotten. That's why I cried, I had a 'Wow, this is it. My life is over, after fourteen years it'll be gone in a snap.'

"Look," I answered, well fuck. I hope no 'drama' would go down or any type of negotiation. I walked and placed both of my hands on the bed, "I'm trying the best I can right now, to get all of the help we need. I don't know if I can, I don't know if it's worth the pain to know they would deny me for help but I know deep inside they are just like me." I was shivering bad, I had fear inside me. "I don't have the courage to show them to you, I don't know how they'll react but I know they will understand why I asked them for help okay?" I got my body to lay down and tried to calm myself. There was already things on my mind, that would be the extremely horrific for Fluttershy and me, to go through. "It's going to be okay, it's going to be okay," I assured her, with my 'little' speech.

"Th-thank you," She said quietly. "For doing the best you can to help me, go back to Equestria."

"Is that what your world is called?" I asked her, I heard the word 'Equestria' before but with a different meaning.

"It is called that." She said, as for I got up and looked at my BB gun with filled gas. I took it, just in case when it goes to extreme measures. In a good way. I got to my feet and saw Fluttershy as she gave me a warm smile.

"You-you're welcome, um for that just right now," I gave the smile back and felt as my heart beat faster than it ever did before. "Come on, let's go and meet my friends....." I said, as I approached and opened the door Fluttershy hopped out the bed and walked closer to me.

I checked for my surroundings so that we were clear of anybody spotting Fluttershy on the little bridge we were at before walking through. "Okay, we're good," I walked across the 'bridge' and came close to the Office Room door. I prayed Diego didn't open his door to his room to expose Fluttershy but right now he seems like he is not going to at any moment. "Okay, Fluttershy.  Just act calm, and try to get to know everyone alright?" I asked her.

"O-okay," She said, I could feel she had a sense of doubt of my friends acting 'kindly' to Fluttershy, but at the same time, I knew this was wrong but good. About that fact that if she was real and my mind wasn't hallucinating or the fact that she wanted to go home, God I feel like I committed a sin right now, or murder.

"Okay, here we go," I cracked open the door slowly, I heard some of my friends start to quiet down as the door opened. I poked my head through the door as for Fluttershy was on opposite side getting covered by the door itself. "Aaaayyy, what's sup everybody....?" I said weirdly.

They all quieted down when I said that, again I didn't know how to start the conversation so, I waited for one of them to say something while Fluttershy was probably nervous to meet my friends. "So, JC where's your 'girlfriend' bro?" Alex asked me in the same tone of voice that Saquan talked when he was on the phone with me earlier.

"Yeah, come on JC," Jeremiah said, supporting Alex. Most of them were leaning on the chairs and kept their arms crossed. I don't know if Fluttershy heard about that 'girlfriend' part, I mean just think about that. You in love with a pony...

"Alright, then I guess I have too," I said that last part with a desperate tone, looked down at the door and saw Fluttershy having a worried look, "Alright Fluttershy," I whispered. "Don't be scared and if they say anything bad to you, then just... ignore it okay?" 

"I'll- I'll try to do my best," She said with a nervous tick in her voice. I slowly opened up the door and she moved back so the door wouldn't get in her way. I thought of opening the door slowly just show the whole thing to my friends and it wouldn't jumpstart it and it wouldn't be a surprise.

"JC, is it even a pet?" Aaron asked, in curiosity of how I looked down.

'Oh my...' I thought to myself as he said that. Fluttershy isn't my pet, she is a pony. With her own personality and everything, it would be weird for her to be my pet.

"Ha, imagine if it..." Saquan was cut off by my rage I had with their impatience I guess. I looked down and swung open the door all the way with all of them watching as it did. 

And as it did it revealed a four-foot yellow, pink-haired pegasus with a cutie mark that had a cyan butterfly body with pink wings. She cowered at the left of me and halfway spread out her wings, with saddening nervous aqua-eyes and some of her mane and hair touching the ground almost. "H-" She stopped in her sentence as I looked up to all of my friends who were in which in shock. As if they just had Vietnam flashbacks.

They all said different things before stopping their last sentences. "OH MY FUCKING GOD!" Said Saquan.

"CALL THE CDC!" Said Aaron.

"HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK!?" Jeremiah said.

"JC GET THE GODDAMN GUN AND THE THING TO HELL!" Alex said while the rest of them said it at the same time making it a dramatic scene. maybe I should have opened the door a little slower than what I should have. But Alex's sentence was the last one making me reply to that one quickly.

I grabbed the BB gun and pointed it near Alex and shot it. The BB seemed to hit the wall, that's about it. "Jesus, Alex I'm not gonna shoot Fluttershy!" I exclaimed to him. Why would I harm a creature as kind and as gentle as Fluttershy? Meanwhile, for Fluttershy, she was more I dunno scared of Alex, Aaron, Jeremiah, and Saquan. She never saw humans, I was the only one she saw so far. 

"You, you were going to shoot me?" In all of the commotion, she backed up from me in fear of me.

"No, I wasn't going to," I looked at Alex, with him had a shocked facial expression on him. "And I'll never will Fluttershy."

"So... so wait that was Fluttershy?!" Aaron asked and pointed to Fluttershy in surprise. Wow, all of this that's happening right now is real. I just wanted proof if she was real. This is now the reality that I now face and made my friends in it too. 

"Yeah, that's Fluttershy," I answered back. Fluttershy sat on the floor crossing her forearms and covering her right eye with her mane.

"Um, J-J-JC," Jeremiah said after stuttering a little, wow you can actually hear the fear in his voice. "Can we talk to you real fast?" He asked me, I didn't know what he would say but whatever it was. It's going to be about Fluttershy.

"Oh sure, just go ahead..." I felt my face red up with heat a little. They know the show, they know it's for little girls but I know deep inside whatever we were going to talk about was deeper than that.

"No, n-o in uh," Jeremiah was too nervous to talk. He looked at Saquan and tilted his head toward me and Fluttershy with a 'bail me out' face.

"In private JC without the pony...." He said calmly but made sure he said it slowly so it wouldn't be a 'jump' I would guess.

"Okay, then," I looked at Fluttershy, she had a worried look on her face. "Um, wait in my room for me, I'll be back in a bit," I said.

"Ummm, JC," She said in a whisper. "I- I don't think they would help me," Fluttershy said in a soft voice. I shivered at the thought of that. 

"Don't worry I'll somehow convince them, I hope I do so," I will probably do anything for Fluttershy whatever the cost may be. "Go to my room and close the door, don't come out until I tell you. Please." She nodded and walked out of the door then flew to my room as she flapped her wings and closed the door.

I closed the door too the one for the Office Room and looked at my friends. "Guys, what in the fuck was that? I told you guys to not say any shit, but never fucking mind about that." I stopped to catch my breath and continued to look at them I then sighed. "God....." I threw my hands up in the air.

"Oh guys, I'm gonna start beef," Jeremiah moved his position from his chair. "It was a joke... Ha yeet!!" He said as 'we' (Yes including me) started laughing. Even after that it just made the situation even more awkard than it had should been.

"Oh shit he already has his backup plan," Saquan added with the rest of the others laughing at that too. But even after a few seconds reality kicked in for the rest of them.

"JC what the hell was that?" Alex started, now I can feel things are going south. "I mean bro! What the hell happened last night?!" He asked me to crack the truth.

"Yeah! Nobody finds a pony like that!" Aaron said as he backed up Alex. "It's a pony from 'My Little Pony!' Jesus JC!! MY LITTLE FUCKING PONY!!!" He started to freak out as soon as he his reality started to become surreal in a collapsed sequence what could have been a hallucination. "I bet they say 'Hooray FRIENDSHIP!!!' And go around people giving hugs and solving problems!" 

"Fact," Alex said.

"And if they met ISIS they go around trying to make friends while getting shot not even knowing that they are getting killed!" Aaron continued, with his speech so that I can know the reality that I now face. "It's like Care Bears they look at the problem, find the problem, solve the problem...." He added as his voice trailed off.

"What the fuck are you thinking Aaron?!" I replied. "She is self-aware that she is the only pon-," That didn't come out right like I thought so in my head. "Pegasus," I corrected, I know they were other ponies and not like Fluttershy was, but real ponies in the real world. "She is absolutely terrified and you guys only made it worse!" 

"But why did help her? It's stupid!" Saquan exclaimed, to hell the rest of the others are. 

"It's not stupid, if it was then I wouldn't help her then," I explained. "You might think that but I don't,"

"Fam, this is like... Mr. Ed!" Jeremiah exclaimed as well. We all looked at him, with confused facial expressions. It looked like to me, all of us never heard it.

"What?" Aaron asked.

"You know....  A horse is a horse, of course, of course..." He stopped in what seemed of what to be a theme song. "You know Mr. Ed? The talking horse!?"

"Was that what you saw when you were little?" Alex asked him confused as ever before. It looked like Jeremiah had a small thing for horses.

"Well, you-," He choked for a second, "Yeah!" He said nervously, he regretted saying that. "Yeah fam, my grandparents let me watch that when I was little," He explained in his previous sentence.

"You watched talking horses?!" I asked.

"What?!"He said in his embarrassment. "I bet you slept with the pony!!!" He exclaimed as he pointed to me. 

I blushed a little red and shook in nervousness, shit I did because I thought she was just a fantasy. But oh my God, did he guess? How the hell would he know about it? "Yeah and?" 

"Oh my God...." Alex mumbled. "Alright JC, how about you take her  and go to the magical land of 'My Little Pony'..." He said waving his hands across the air in a circular tone of what might seemed to be a rainbow.

"How?" I asked him.

"I dunno just find a way and do it. I bet she has 'magic'," He said and continued in air quotes with his fingers. "It's a pony I mean," Alex looked at Saquan so he can get bailed out I suppose. "Saquan tell me the worse thing that can happen to a pony." 

Saquan stood quietly for a moment. "Mr. Hands," He simply replied.

"Ka!" A sound of a collapsed chuckle only came out of me. It sounded like a scoff than a chuckle.

"Oh shit, you know that?!" Jeremiah asked Saquan.

"Yeah! Of, course Jeremiah everyone knows that!!" Aaron said to Jeremiah.

Oh God, I know what Mr. Hands was. Jesus... Just thinking about it makes me cringe inside, and Fluttershy? Oh God no, okay next time I'll just be careful I guess. But she never did anything wrong to me. Or anything. "Oh God, ya sick..." I scoffed once again. I wanted to laugh but the thought of Fluttershy was still on my mind making sounds of collapsed laughs.

She was kind and treated me with respect.

"Damn, Saquan I didn't mean that," Alex restated. 

"Yes, you did!" Saquan said back.

"Guys, isn't kinda weird how we are talking about porn?" Aaron asked us.

"Yeah, it's a fucking shit show," I said. "About having sex with a pony? Oh God, just think about that...." I said, already the sexual thoughts came to me. 'No, that's not gonna happen' I thought I mean it's not that hard to ignore it.

All of us stood a little quiet, just breathing after that Alex broke the silence. "JC, are you still with the pony?" He asked me.

"Okay, first of all, it's not 'pony' it's Fluttershy. Second of all, yes there is nothing that can change my mind, Alex Jesus Christ," I said dumbfounded proudly rubbing my right hand against my hair.

"But why? At school, we don't you to walk around talking about My Little Pony." He directly said. "We're trying to make you change your mind so that you won't get killed by Andrew and if the school knows about Fluttershy. Even after the fight everybody is gonna kill you, bro."

"The whole school is not gonna know it's only us! Ah, who gives a shit about Andrew? I am free it's the key that doesn't matter what people think of me." 

Alex scoffed a little. "You're still using that?" He asked me.

"Yep, I will never change that," I replied to his question.

"Wow," Aaron said.

I thought by now I would repeat the question, so they can know why they were here in the first place. "Guys, all I am asking is that can all of you help me getting Fluttershy home?" I said pointing my right finger to the floor.

"No." They basically all replied.

"It's Fluttershy, JC! You know what!" Saquan said with a small little pause. "I'm out!" Saquan said as he got up out of his chair.

"Same here," Alex assured as he and the rest of the others did too.

"Jesus, guys I don't want help, I need help!" I walked backward toward the door and blocked it. "How am I gonna do it by myself?! Huh?!" I asked them.

"I dunno just call the cops!" Aaron said. They were preparing to get up and waltz on out of the house.

"Damn Aaron you really wanna start World War Three don't ya?" I asked him, he didn't look like he wanted to start an argument. "Fine then! I'll just tell her that some assholes were not kind enough to help me get her back home!" I threw my arms up into the air and walked toward the door. I glanced at them with a disappointed look then looked back at the door.

"Dammit," I opened it and from there on the floor was a yellow pegasus.

I was greeted by Fluttershy. Who had a scared-surprised like-face sitting down listening to the conversation. She was extremely close to the door and seemed to press her ear near it. I heard as the others seemed to quickly sit back down in their respective chairs, they were eager to get out. But it seemed fear stopped them from doing so.

Shit, now I wonder what she heard from that debate. "Hello, everypony..." She said with a nervous smile. "I heard some yelling and I went to see what was...." Her voice came quieter as she saw me. "Happening..."

"Wait, you heard didn't you?" I asked Fluttershy. She backed up a little as she did. "Yeah, I know same here," I said I read the expression on her face. More of a 'No I didn't hear' or 'I know you tried'.

"Uhh..." Alex said kinda awkwardly about leaving the house. He was still scared or felt more surreal about his reality with Fluttershy.

I didn't want to force them to help me, calling the cops was a bad idea and the CDC. Who knows what will happen to Fluttershy... They will probably dissect her throat to see how she talks and will mutate animals to do the same and will unlock animals the ability to talk. Something similar to Disney films.

I needed them to stay there and somehow or someway convince them to help me with my problem or Fluttershy's problem of going home. Fluttershy seemed to be my only motivation for me to keep going, with her sad eyes and her kindness to me it was like she was the reason for me to try even when it became hard. 'Damn it I have to do it,'

I needed a good reason for my friends to help me, hell if they are even my 'friends' anymore. Besides Fluttershy seemed too nervous to talk to me or reason. "Fluttershy, I'll be back in a second," I said.

"Um, JC please I know you tried it's okay," She assured me, already know there was no try of doing so. She placed her hoof on my leg comforting me in my defeat. She gave me a smile burying it against her sadness and worry of the loss of hope.

"Sorry," I kinda whispered the same thing as she did a moment ago. "Don't worry, Fluttershy there's one more thing I can do,"

"What is it?" She asked.

"Don't worry about that, just, please don't listen," I said and wanted her to go back to my room and simply wait for me. I didn't want her to think me as some type of monster or whatever. I didn't want her to fear me because I was the only reason protecting her in the first place. 

Fluttershy nodded and flew back to the door, she looked at me with so tensed eyes of worry. That's it, I had to do something. I closed the door and leaned my back toward the door.

"Guys..." Ah, shit what the hell am I doing? 

"What?" Saquan asked. He stopped and asked me, with a short movement of throwing his arms up. I was surprised he was still sitting in the chair he wanted to get up again but was scared and still shocked of Fluttershy. He was too scared to even look at her or stare.

"Here, we'll uh," I didn't know what to say. I wanted to say something but I didn't know what to say. Words are like a blender and you pick the words that are needed for the sentence, but this time I didn't know what to pick. But whatever it is I needed to do it for Fluttershy. "I'll- I'll pay you guys for it," I said. Well crap, I didn't want to say that, all I had was a hundred and twenty dollars in my wallet and some loose change in a ziplock bag from saving it up from cutting the grass, finding it from the ground or getting it given from my Grandparents.

"Oh really?!" Alex asked.

"Yeah, I'll uh..." I took out my phone from my pocket. Got the total amount of money in my wallet and divided it by four. For Alex, Saquan, Aaron, and Jeremiah not from me. My only 'reward' was to get Fluttershy's wish to come true.

It equaled to thirty dollars. "I'll pay you guys uh, thirty bucks for it." 

"Bro, you already know I have a thousand!" Alex exclaimed. The sad part about that is that it is true. He actually has a thousand, well a thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. He said that after using JJ's bike on his way back home because he had to do a favor for JJ, he found it behind a line of stores while riding his bike. All of a sudden he found a trail of money scattered and after following it he saw this black trash bag out of place, it didn't look like trash. So he opened it and saw nothing but stacks of ones, fives, tens, fifties dollars wrapped in rubber bands. Because of the thing Alex bought that required a backpack he immediately and quickly deposited the cash into the backpack and went home as fast as he could.

The whole day he counted to see how much was it, he also lost count about two or three times. He didn't buy anything yet but he plans so in the future.

"Yeah, but I mean..." Jeremiah was going to say something. I knew what he was going to say, he wanted Call of Duty: World War II. I don't know why Saquan had it but I and Alex were more Star Wars fans and we both brought Star Wars: Battlefront II that came out just recently. 

Just forget the micro-transactions part. "Yeah, Jeremiah. It'll be like Heists in GTA, you know I'll get zero percent of the take and you guys can just take twenty-five percent of the take! It's just easy as that!" 

Wow, so this is what it feels like to be hopeless, with nobody caring enough to do something about it but does it for the money. I didn't want to force them but I can feel more desperate with each ticking second. "No JC we're good," Saquan said as he started walking then followed by Alex. "Alex has enough money and we don't need it,"

"Jesus! Just do it for me! Please! I mean, God, please. Just for me!" I begged them.

"Sorry, but no," Aaron replied.

"Sorry?! Shut up man, you're not sorry about anything!" I exclaimed at him. 

"What?! No, I'm saying I feel sorry for you!" He said back.

"Why?!" I asked back again.

"Because you're the one with the pony." He had a short pause. "Wait... what's- uh... what her name again?!" He looked at the others.

"Fluttershy," Jeremiah answered. He looked down with unappealing eyes but still kept the conversation going.

There's no point of convincing them, I alredy lost my hope, my help and now it was only me. "I- I am going to go now and get her so we can get a plan. While you idiots go if you want, I give up already," I threw my hands up in the air and walked toward the door and opened it. At the same time, I quickly heard a door close that sounded like it was coming from my room.

It was Fluttershy. She wanted to know what we talked about inside, but really the only thing I did was to fail to convince my friends and to help Fluttershy... I did what I didn't want to do. 

To fail her, something inside me wanted me to prevent that and wanted to make me feel bad about that too it was a sad-depressed feeling that I never wanted to get again. She knows that I failed her, I think.

I walked toward my door, but before I can even do that I 'slowly' walked toward taking my time so I can hear what my friends had to say.

"I'm getting outta here," Saquan said. "That's crazy." 

"Yeah, same here, I'm not gonna get into that again," Alex said.

"Me too," A chuckle came from Aaron. "Why would he even help her?" That was a good question, Aaron asked. Why would I help her? Well, it's because I know that feeling from being away from home, it's a bad feeling or it's just because I'm a caring person or whatever. Something inside me tells me something that I can't explain.

"JC is weird I guess," Jeremiah added.

"Ha, yeah I got better stuff to do anyway," Saquan said. I heard the chairs move as I visualized them getting up from their chairs. 

"Like what?" Aaron asked Saquan.

"Boring stuff," Saquan answered.

"What? You have your girlfriend!" Aaron exclaimed to Saquan.

"Yeah, but she's on vacation!" He answered.

Aaron scoffed. "Since when?" He asked.

"Since last night," Saquan answered. 

Man, this was a bad mistake. A stupid one too, I can't do this by myself. Maybe Fluttershy's 'friends' will find a way back right? I don't have many options for this, all of it is a gamble of a lifetime. Ha, I'm lost.

Lost all the way to Voyager 1.

Those guys can just jump off a bridge if they want to I don't care. I'm chasing a myth, a dream that nobody can believe.

One day, Fluttershy one day. I don't even know what to believe in anymore it's like my whole life was just a whole lie or something.

I walked toward the door preparing myself for the worst to come, I can do nothing but to sit around hopelessly as trying to wander around for an idea.

I knocked the door then creaked it open preparing to meet a fear I didn't want to happen. "Um, I'm back now from talking to those guys," I said, with my hands with some of my body sweating from fear. And my body was shaking a little from that fear as well. I poked my head then pushed the door letting it swing open gently. I didn't see her. "Oh, crap where is she?" I looked at the windows first, as the sunlight illuminated the room. "Oh God no," I shook my head then ran as fast to the windows as possible then looked through it to see any yellow or pink instead of the Sun.

I didn't want her to run or 'fly' away from my room, to never see her again. All of the windows were all closed with the curtains showing no signs of movement. Maybe she flew away then closed the windows so I wouldn't know. Oh God, I shook my head hard to get these ideas off of my head. 

So many things were going through my mind, first of how I would speak to her and tell her how I failed to convince my friends and 'predict' how the conversation would go and now secondly how she disappeared. I sighed then took a breath, I then looked back at the T.V reflecting the light and my shadow. I looked toward the right of it and saw the bathroom door.

Ha, of course. So much shit is going on, my head isn't even thinking straight. Like I said, I'm lost all the way to whatever I am at right now. I walked toward the bathroom door and opened it, turning on the light in the process. 

Empty, I scanned the room. No sign of her, shit this is bad. I looked at the floor and leaned both of my hands on the casing of the door. I looked at the closet door in front of me and quickly jumped to open it. I didn't even bother to turn on the lights because the lights from the bathroom would obviously spot a yellow pegasus.

Just then again in the room, empty. "Ah, shit where is she?!" I asked myself in a tone of a worried fear. I exhaled with bursts of short breaths. I closed the door and turned around toward the restroom door. "Shit, this not good," I said to myself and walked to look in the mirror with my sorry face.. I sighed, "Dammit," I whispered. I looked at the mirror and studied my face expression of defeat and sorrow. I felt guilty, of saying so wrong things about her like with Mr. Hands. She probably hates me now, she would wish for me to be thrown away to any pile of trash. I chuckled at the thought of that. I'm ready to go and to lie down on my bed daydreaming or my conscience debating over that fact that someone couldn't trust me. 

I looked at the sink with my hands gripping the edge of the sink, I looked at the mirror again and took a deep breath once more. At the bottom left side corner of the mirror, I saw some movement behind the shower curtain. Of course, I could I missed an obvious place of hiding? I turned around and walked towards it and threw open the curtains.

And there in the bathtub, it was Fluttershy. I chuckled with relief, "Ah thank God," I looked up at the ceiling and whispered loud enough for Fluttershy to hear. "I've been looking for you," I looked down and told her.

She was lying down on the cold bathtub floor and looked up at me. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to worry you," She said as she got up on all fours. 

"Why were you hiding anyways?" I asked her.

"Don't you remember that you told me to hide her when somepony comes?" She asked me.

How could I be so stupid? I now remember that I told her to hide. "Yeah, I remember now," I answered with a relieved tone. "Just, just.." I had to think of what I had to say next and the only thing that came out of my mouth was to admit. "You had there in the bathroom so I wouldn't get mad at you for eavesdropping, right?" I asked Fluttershy so that she can admit what she did. I heard that door shut and I knew it was her.

"Um, no that wouldn't be me," She answered.

I had an 'Oh really?' type of face on me after she said that. She had a nervous smile, "Okay, maybe it was me... But inside you...." I knew what she meant, about of how we thought of her. She probably thought we were going to turn it on with her. "Said that, I..." She was too nervous to talk about it.

"Fluttershy we were just joking or talking about some things, that's about it. I promise." I assured her. She hoisted herself out of the bathtub and into the floor.

"JC, were you really going to do all of those things?" She asked me raising a hoof toward her in danger. A pain of guilt came and rushed into my bloodstream. I felt bad for even talking about it or bringing the subject up. "No, and I promise I never would in my life," I knew how she felt, scared as perverts surround her.

"I'm sorry, I just keep thinking I'm in danger. But I feel that I'm not as scared as before." She replied sadly and gracefully. I knew she did that to keep from getting yelled at.

I chuckled. "I wouldn't get mad at you, you know," I said. I mean really? Who would get pissed at Fluttershy? She was so kind and innocent.

"Really?" She asked again.

I chuckled again. "Yeah, why would I get angry?" I asked as a rhetorical question.

She looked down and thought about it, "Wow, I wouldn't expect somepony like you to get angry at me!" She said surprised at what I just said. "Not after one night,"

"You'll be surprised how I can..." I trailed off searching for words. "Handle things... yeah I think that's how you say it," I said.

She smiled, I smiled back.

"Let's go so we could find a way to get into your world," I said, tilted my head toward the door for a second. She hoisted herself out of the bathtub and into the floor.

"Alright," She trotted out of the door.

She understood and nodded as she walked out of the bathroom door. I followed after her turning off the lights and closing the door. I can still hear my friends at a distance talking about something but it was too 'faint' to make out the words. I walked toward the door and leaned beside it so Fluttershy can go before I can. 

Instead of that she cowered a little and was on high alert. I took note of this, "You okay?" I asked her. 

"JC," She asked me. "What are we going to do now?"

"Plan what I can do to get you back home," I answered.

"But your friends..." She placed a hoof on my leg with a worried look.

I shook my head, "Nah, they didn't want to help us." I answered.

"Oh... I understand," She replied back, filled with sorrow that they rejected me and her.

"Fluttershy, look it wasn't your fault, it's theirs. They're not ready, but I was when you or I found you." I said, she seemed to understand, and for a second letting some of her hope go.

"Thank you, JC, for having me as your friend!" She said cheerfully with a smile, I smiled back as she did. I guess it made me happy to see her happy.

I wanted to hear through the door to see what they were talking about before letting ourselves in, "No, I wasn't," Jeremiah said.

"Well, do you want to go to Best Buy and buy some games?" Saquan asked Jeremiah.

"Yeah, with Alex's money," Aaron replied with a chuckle of laughter.

"Oh hell no! I'm not going to give you my money!" Alex said to them all.

Wow, it's like Fluttershy (and I) was forgotten out of the picture.

"Wait, wait, wait," Aaron said making the others stop in silence. "What are we still doing in JC's house?" Aaron asked.

"Oh yeah, let's go..." Alex said.

"What? No! What if the Fluttershy is still out there, huh?" Jeremiah asked him. "That thing makes me feel... weird and embarrassed..."

"What bro? You're scared of a little pony?!" Alex asked Jeremiah.

"Alex, I think you are too." He replied back.

"Yeah, it kinda does scare me," Saquan said.

"Why?" Alex asked.

"Alex, I dunno about you man... But I think this is bizarre." Saquan explained. "I feel so weird when we talk about My Little Pony... " He stopped for a quick second. "JC, this man..."

It all came back to me, I had to open the door. And if they stay I could care less, it's like my only goal is Fluttershy.

I reached out and opened it, and at the same time, I opened the door as Alex did. From there we were standing face to face with each other and the rest behind him as they all quieted down.

"Oh, hey how's it going?" I asked first.

"It's going good," He answered, I saw as his eyes trailed off to the right of me spotting Fluttershy. "Yeah, anyway we're going to go," He said, he placed his arm to move me gently before all of my friends can leave the room.

Slowly, Jeremiah, Saquan, then Aaron walked out of the room, silent due to Fluttershy's presence. They walked downstairs and into ground level.

I sighed. "Come on, let's go," I grabbed the door handle and signaled Fluttershy to come inside. "We gotta a world to find."

She had a sad-frown face to her due to her embarrassment but she smiled as she knew she had me. She walked into the room. She hoisted herself up and sat where Jeremiah was sitting at. I closed the door and sat on the opposite side of the table.

"Okay, so I dunno how to start this but, um we're going to get through it so..." My voice trailed off, I was trying to think and talk at the same time. "Do you remember how you got here?" I asked.

She looked up and thought about it for a second, "Um, JC I don't know how I got here," She answered.

"Well, what's the... earliest memory that you know when you got here?" I asked again.

"Um, I remember that I woke up in the forest," She said. "I remember that I looked around and tried to find out what happened to me. I saw this... metal tower..." Well, that was easy to figure enough, I kinda would figure that she came from the forest. On the way she looked at the brick walls and street lights she probably thought she was in a new civilization. However, one thing did shock me.

"You saw a metal tower in the forest?" I exaggerated with humor and pointed toward the forest.

"I did see one," She reassured me with that.

"What else did you see?" I asked.

"I saw a lake, and the place was soggy, with no animals around..." She looked in my direction as she said those things in her mind. I tried to reconstruct the thought of 'Why the hell would there be a radio tower in the middle of the forest?'. "And it was started to become sunset, so I flew wherever I could in the toward the east. Then it was scary especially at night with nopony to be around of. Then I saw these brick walls, but I didn't know they were then I looked around the lake to try to find somepony then..." She looked at me with a confused face as if as she was reliving the whole damn thing again.

"You found me..." I said as I finished her sentence.

"Oh, and thank Goodness you found me!" She said relieved. "I can't even imagine what happens if I were in the wrong hooves!"

"Yeah, I know. Thank God I actually did," I said.

"How bad did you hurt yourself?" She asked me.

"Oh um," I looked at my leg, reached down and placed a finger and moved over it. Like I was reflecting on that injury. "It's getting better, thanks for helping me to my house." It kinda was, I had a slight light bruise that was noticeable if someone looked down toward my leg.

"Oh, um but sorry that I made you cry," Fluttershy knew that last night, I truly showed my fear of going to get killed.

"I thought you were going to kill me," I explained. "I was bruised, and I really couldn't move. My gun was my only thing for defense and I ran out of gas for the gun to work," I continued, she looked at me as she was interested in the story. "Then I thought, 'Wow, this is it. This is how it happened, this is how JC died.'" She seemed to understand why I did though and she looked happy for it.

"It's alright, I understand," She gave me a warm smile, and again I returned the smile back to her. 

"Alright, well um... let me get the whiteboard, so we can plan our things," I said as I got up from my chair and went to the closet of the Office Room. I walked and opened it up, and switched on the light as the closet held office supplies.

It had whatever people would have at the office. Markers, pencils, pens, Expo Dry Erase Markers Chisel Tipped, dry board erasers, documents, papers just in case if we ran out for the printer... The list goes on. I pulled out a Mobile Dry Erase Board with an  Aluminum Frame it was small enough it fit the closet. It was a simple medium one when it came to size and was great to write notes on when it came to school.

Anyhow, I pulled and rotated it so it can face Fluttershy. I thought about this whiteboard so we can dot down our ideas and any notes we may have for each other. "Is that a chalkboard?" The pegasus asked.

"No, well kinda. It's a whiteboard... A portable one that rotates." I explained as she got the basic definition of it. "You know it's kinda like a..." I didn't know what to say so I just said I what came to my head. "Whiteboard." 

She giggled. "I know you what mean,"

"Yeah, so..." I walked back to the closet and bent down grabbing a handle to a desktop drawer and pulled out from the very bottem a complete set of Expo Dry Erase Markers. That came in different colors orange, brown, dark red, purple, sky blue, light brown, bright red, light green, green, blue, red and the simple black. I would've gotten one that was already open but there wasn't. I searched and also grabbed an eraser for the whiteboard. I turned closed the desktop drawer, turned around and switched off the lights and closed the door. While all holding the Expo Markers with one hand and using the other for closing the door. "Alright, we gotta think about this..." I said walking toward the door ripped open the container of markers and grabbed a black marker. "What did you find differences between our world and Equestria?" I asked her it has gotten me curious enough that I kinda wanted to know the between her world and ours. I went toward the same chair I saw sitting in and sat down.

"Well, in Equestria there are pegasi, unicorns and Earth ponies," Fluttershy started. "It is a beautiful place with animals and magic, and with two princesses that control the Sun and the Moon,"

"They control the Sun and the Moon?" I asked I remember her talking about this a bit earlier but I didn't know when. "How?"

"Oh, by magic," She stated.

"Magic? They- they use magic to control the Sun and the Moon?" I asked again, it seemed so surreal that two princesses would control the Sun and the Moon and how large they are. To begin with I don't even know if the 'Sun' was as big as our Sun and the 'Moon' was as big as ours.

"Yes of course they do, they rise the Sun and the Moon and lower it every day," She said, assuring me with her 'magical dreams'.  As she was saying those things she looked up and demonstrated with her hoof to the 'Sun and the Moon' and rising it up and waving it back down on the opposite side with setting it back down as she remeber he world. I can feel she missed being at home. "Their names are Princess Celestia and Princess Luna,"

Man, I feel like an idiot. Like 'Why am I here down at this level?'. Should I even enjoy her description of Equestria? I would be cringing but I never did. I should've been cringing when I first met her, and now as I listen to two princesses rising a ball of hot flaming gas and a ball of white powdery-gunpowder like substance. "Uh huh, right,"

"You- you don't have two princesses here do you?" She asked me pointing a hoof at me.

"No, no we don't. The Sun and the Moon sets down by the Earth's rotation," I explained to her. "We don't have magic, we don't have ponies," I kept saying. "We don't have... what you think we have," I stopped for a second. "By the way Earth is what we call this planet," I added.

"Well, there is something more in your world than mine," She started by a sheepish smile and by raising her hoof.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's that here on 'Earth' it seems more..." She shivered at the thought of what she had. "Realistic," She looked out of the window with the covers slightly open illuminating the sunlight into the room.

"What do you mean?" I asked her with a confused face.

"It's that the shadows and the lighting are so much more real," She explained pointing toward the sunlight coming from the windows.

'Well, yeah obviously it's much more realistic here.' I thought to myself. 'It's a cartoon show it doesn't have 'that' much lighting details to simulate real life.' "Wow, um who'd ever thought," That was the only thing that came out of me.

"I know it's so different here," She replied.

"Well, that's reality for you," I explained. "I mean is it bad that it's hyperrealistic?" I asked.

"Um," She thought. "No, I never thought this world could be any different than mine,"

I nodded in agreement, listening to her words as she describes this place. "Okay, I can see Earth is different than Equestria," I got up from my sitting place an wrote on the board a line with on the top saying 'Differences' then wrote, 'Equestria and Earth are different by shaders,' "Alright, what else?" I thought to myself and Fluttershy.

"That magic isn't real here?"She thought out loud. "....Then how will I get home?" She thought in worrying.

Alright, then I wrote 'Magic isn't real' "Look, I'm trying to think about that Fluttershy," Man, 'Fluttershy' was unique name now that I thought about it. "But you know, I'm still thinking about what to do I'll- We'll go to where you woke up into the forest and see what we can find okay?" I waited for her understanding.

"JC..." She started. "You're going to do that all for me?" She asked.

"Yeah," I simply replied. "We are going to find a way to bring you home during this Christmas break," I said. "You'll be home for Hearth's Warming. You can count on me, it'll have snow, mistletoe and presents under the tree,"

"Oh, that would be wonderful!" She said as she smiled closing her eyes thinking about her friends and 'Hearth's Warming Eve'.

I can't believe it now. I'm still processing what is going on in my brain, and what happened. I'm with a cartoon character from a girl's television show that I don't watch but make fun of. And yet again, here I am with Fluttershy a pegasus who is 'shy' I guess and can't wait to go home. To be honest, I was actually surprised by her IQ level of knowing the danger of being in a new place, and about all of the things, we said she understood. Like Mr. fucking Hands... Jesus, I feel like an idiot or something I wished regretted saying.

I chuckled at the thought of being with friends, I probably lost all of my closest friends today because of a person who just wants to go home. They're probably calling me 'Gay' or 'a faggot' or a 'homosexual' in reality I'm none of those things. Jesus, I'll probably kill myself right now, oh God kill me now. "Yeah, I mean there's nothing left to lose so... yeah," I wrote on the board trying to gather all of my thoughts. I wrote the things we talked about, 'Fluttershy woke up in forest' 'Forest has an abandoned metal tower' 'Nobody goes into the forest' Then a huge question mark  in the middle of the board as if all of those things that I wrote weren't answered.

Not quite yet.

"Oh my, I never thought it was so many questions," She said finally opening up toward all of the surreal events leading up to here.

"Yeah, but why though, why is there an abandoned radio tower there?" I said and thought, brainstorming as I go along. "Something must've happened to let that happen," I said.

"Me too JC," She replied. "I don't know what even happened," She got up to her seat and looked up toward the board next to me.

I chuckled and laughed. "Of course you don't know, you just got here," I looked at her as I did say that, she smiled too at that thought. We both looked up at the board at the same time to think of what to do before taking action. "Wait, Fluttershy," I said looking at her.

She looked up at me, "What is it?" She asked.

"You remember where you woke up at, right?" I asked her.

She giggled slightly, "Of course I do, it was a nightmare last evening," 

"Yeah, of course, it was," I said, agreeing with her. "Com' on let's go and see what we can find," I said tilting my head toward the door.

Fluttershy's face brightened with a smile as she walked up next to me. "Do you think we'll find anything there?" She asked.

"Yeah, I think there's gotta be some reason why you ended you there and nowhere else!" I answered, by the way Fluttershy's expression was she seemed to nod with my reason. "Yeah, let's just go to the forest but let me change first," She understood.

"Okay, I'll wait outside of your room," We both walked up toward the door, and as a gentleman (I guess) I opened the door for her so she can get out first. 

"Wait, you're going to the forest with her?!"

"Com' on we don't have time for this,"