//------------------------------// // Twist’s PMs // Story: Equestrian Fanfiction // by Lise //------------------------------// Hey, squirt, what’s up with Twist? Like, she’s always cheerful and such. When she edits my stuff she fills it with a ton of smartass comments. Don’t get me started how she ridicules every single typo she finds. Like even Jade and Twilight can’t reach her level. I mean she’s leagues ahead in puns and jokes. Anyway, yesterday she got back to editing my Danny Daring Do chapter and she just corrected the mistakes. Not a single joke. I know you went through a lot during that Windigo thing, but when I ask her she says she’s fine. What’s up with that? AwesomePony Hey! :) Err, about that. No one knows for sure, but looks like she had a nasty breakup. Apple Bloom tries talking to her, but only got that Twist wants to be alone for a while. Like it’s really weird. It’s sort of been getting worse and worse the last five weeks. She’s also become more of a shut in. I mean it always bothered her a bit when ponies would make fun of her list, but lately she doesn’t even bother talking. :( YouKnowWho What the hay?! Call her in here! I’ll have a word. I’d do it, but I’m not too used with this aether tech stuff. :/ AwesomePony I can try but it’s up to her to respond. I mean I have already, so now we just wait. Your latest chapters were awesome! I bet A.K. herself would have loved them! That time when Danny and Daring learn that the pyramid actually has five sides and they must find a way to bend sunlight round it to for, the fifth side. That was so cool! How that school is over can I come over and watch you write sometime? Oh, and can I bring Plust with me? I sort of told him you’re like my big sister and... O:) YouKnowWho Trying to impress the colt? I approve :) Sure thing, squirt. Bring him along. Just wait for a few more days, okay? Things are still a bit tense so my patrols have doubled. And that slacker Soarin is still on his Honeymoon. I bet it would take him few weeks for him to get used to flying after he gets back :/ Good on Brush, though. If she had told me what had happened with her ex, I’d have flown to the Crystal Empire and taught that stallion-stealer what’s what! AwesomePony What’s the matter? Twist There you are! Squirt, can you disconnect from this thread? Sorry about this, but I’d like to have a on on one with Twist. See you later this week after work, okay? AwesomePony Sure. Ttyl. YouKnowWho Okay, Twist. Now I know this isn’t easy. Trust me I’ve been there. Hay, I’m still there. I know I may look cool and awesome, but I still feel like my heart is ripped out. You better not tell anypony about this. The trick is not to let the others know what’s going on inside you. What I’m trying to say is that I’m here for advice and support when you need me. I might not be as brainy as Twilight, but I never let a pony down. Okay? AwesomePony I don’t have any colt problems. I broke up with them, not the other way around. Twist Really? Well from what I know you’ve been acting strange for over a month. And don’t tell me you’re not. Just look at the comments you made on my story before and after your pause. It’s like Discord came by and drained all your happy. If he did, I’ll fly to him and give him the thrashing he deserves! I don’t care if he’s reformed! This isn’t like stealing hiccups. I bet if I tell Fluttershy she’ll be mad and have a word with him. AwesomePony It’s my father! Twist It was my father... I’m still not used saying it. He died a few weeks ago. Twist Holy clouds, Twist :( I had no idea... I’ve never actually seen your father. AwesomePony That’s because he’s been in Manehattan for the last ten years. I’d go visit him every summer, sometimes winter a well. The last few years he didn’t want me to go. He has... he had a serious condition. Irreversible. The best the doctors could do is keep him comfortable and try to get him to last longer. And he did. Three full years. I was prepared for this ever since I was a filly, yet it still came too fast. It’s like looking at a bag of candies: you know it’ll get empty eventually, but you always hope there’s one more left. Twist Why didn’t you tell anypony? I know Twilight says that in moments of grief ponies must be alone, but that’s a tone of *yay*! I’ve been there, and not just now. I thought I’d be better alone, but I wasn’t. Trust me you have lots of friends who would be there if you ask. Horseapples, I’d be there for you! AwesomePony I know. And that’s why I don’t want to ask. It like my lisp. I don’t want ponies to be careful around me, I just want them to be my friends. If I say my father’s passed away I’d get a lot of useless sympathy just because. Apple Bloom knows. She promised she wouldn’t tell anypony about it. But you are right. Talking helps. Maybe it’s because I’m writing it here. And you’ve helped a lot. You’ve kept my mind off things with your chapters. That’s helped. Twist Twist, let me give you a piece of advice. The best way to pass through a storm cloud is to fly straight through it. It’ll be rough and you might get your feathers singed, but it beats waiting for it to just pass away. Maybe it would, maybe it would, but if you go right at it you know you can count on yourself.and those you chose to be by your side. AwesomePony Maybe for awesome ponies. Twist Twist, we are all awesome. You just have to let yourself accept being awesome. There’s pain, there’s grief, and there’s heartache. All of them need time to heal. None of them need you to be alone while you do. Okay? AwesomePony I need to get back to studying. I need to fill in my applications by the end of day. See you. Twist Thank you. Twist