Flaring blur, that’s my name, an earth pony. And this is my story.
Flaring blur, that’s my name, an earth pony. And this is my story.
I lived in Ponyville for a month at this point, with my unicorn brother Plaid Studs.
I liked the place, quiet, and the ponies are friendly, I have made acquaintances with the neighbors and they were pretty nice.
I liked to take strolls through the village, since we had no TV in the house, I could do other things (I love watching television, sometimes I watched too much though). I was rather intrigued at how many mares were in here, I could rarely find a colt or stallion, well, it could be easy to find a partner I thought to myself.
If I wasn’t so shy at the time.
I could talk to anypony, that wasn’t a problem, but asking somepony out, it would take me a while (if not forever) to gather the courage. My brother didn’t have that problem, he didn't even try. He always said that he wouldn’t find anypony that would like him, but deep inside I think he rather wants to have his time alone, than to spend it with anypony else for life (or some months at least).
I had marefriends before, but none of them lasted more than half-year (one didn’t even make it to one week). So I decided to have some time alone too; if I was destined to fail every relationship, better stay off that.
Wandering through the town, lost in thought with my life, love and past, I stumbled into somepony. Well, I actually crashed into that somepony.
Getting up I helped the other pony do the same.
"Sorry there, I was lost in thought, are you okay?"
"Oh yeah yeah I’m okay!" The pony said, a pink mare.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah I’m fine!" She looked at me a moment "I’ve never seen you before."
"Um, I’m Flaring Blur, I’m new here."
"Your name is… Flaring Blur?"
"Call me Flare, it’s too long otherwi..."
"AWESOME A NEW PONY!" I couldn’t believe the energy in this mare, even after crashing with me "I have to sing everypony new in town a song!"
"Uh what?" it was getting a little weird but she started to sing anyway:
“You told me and assured, your name is Flaring Blur; be my friend and don’t be shy, oh and my name is Pinkie Pie!”
I was surprised at the energy of this pony (again), there were some in my primary school, but none as active as this mare was (and she had to have an older age).
"Wow how did you do that?"
"Years of meeting new ponies and befriending them the next instant" She said with a big smile and almost no pause.
Well, she could be the first friend I would have in the town, and by the looks of it, it wouldn’t take long to make more since she said she did friends almost the same way for years.
"Ok sure, I’ll be your friend" I said almost laughing.
"Yay! I shall throw you a party!"
"A party?" the situation was getting weirder by the minute.
"Yeah! I throw parties for newcomers many times, that way you can make more friends right away and talk to them, and you can meet them again some other time and…"
"Okay okay I know about that!" I interrupted her, she had a too darn high-pitched voice.
"Oh OK, so come by around 6 PM, party starts then!"
"Um, where?" She pointed a hoof to a place that looked eatable at first sight.
"Sugarcube Corner, every party is hosted there! Well, except some that are in the whole village or some special places, like this one time…"
"Tell me about that later, I have to go home to tell my brother about this and prepare."
"YOU HAVE A BROTHER?! I have to make a better party then!" And then she ran off, leaving a trail of smoke.
I went back home around 3 PM, still processing the acts happened the past few minutes, well a party will raise my mood up a bit I thought to myself.
When I arrived home and told my brother about the party, he went indifferent about the idea.
"You wanna come?"
"I don’t know, I don’t like party music and dancing." He said.
"So? Don’t dance, just chat with others."
"You also know I don’t start conversations."
"They will approach you and start, you won’t even be able to take the initiative, eventually one will talk to you, just don’t be too honest."
"But I can’t help being honest."
"You are TOO honest, just be honest in a normal amount."
"You know I can’t do that."
"*sigh* Okay fine, have it your way."
It was a pain in the flank to reason with my brother, anypony would think he is weird, he is, but he doesn’t care, he likes his life as it is. He befriends those who he thinks are worth, and those who he thinks are not, are potential enemies.
I did some of my unfinished work, and prepared for the party.