Strawberry and I walked side-by-side into town. Once inside, we got stares from a good amount of ponies. I glanced around, it was nothing new for me. I glanced down at her just to see that her ears were lowered and she was looking around nervously. I bumped her softly and she looked up at me.
“You okay?” I asked her, staring down at her and she looked up. She bit her lip and her eyes fell to the ground.
“Kind of... I'm not really used to ponies staring at me like this...”
I nodded. “Fuck 'em.”
“What?!” She stopped and stared up at me, her eyes wide as plates.
I shrugged. “Ponies stare cause they're trying to figure something out. They're curious and if they see something they don't like they make a lot of noise. Trust me.” Strawberry started walking again. I turned on my heel and walked backwards, staring down at her still with a small smile. “And if they're gonna judge and talk shit, then fuck 'em.”
Strawberry giggled and her ears perked forward again. “I get it...” She poked my thigh.“You didn't have to swear though!” I blew a raspberry at her and turned around when she caught up to me.
“Of course I had to.” I smirked at her. “I have my methods of getting attention.”
“Oh yeah? How?”
“This one time when I went to Canterlot to see princess Celestia, I stole one of their new chariots and crashed it through a window right into their throne room.” I chuckled at the memory. Strawberry looked absolutely horrified.
“Wh-what! Why?!”
I raised a finger. “One: I could.” I raised a second finger. “Two: I wanted to.”
Strawberry stared at me silently for a few seconds, as if questioning my very existance. She shook her head and giggled. “I would've liked to see that!”
We continued our walk until we reached what looked like a small diner. Strawberry walked forward to the counter, turning around and staring back at me. I put my hands in my pockets and stopped beside her. My eyes scanned over the menu until I saw... Saw...
The fuck?
“They have fish here?” I exclaimed, making a few other patrons stare at me. Strawberry's ears lowered again when she noticed the stares. I glanced down at her with a smirk.
“F-fuck 'em...” She whispered, looking up at me with a small smile.
Atta girl.
Fluttershy turned away and walked slowly away from Twilight, attempting to go home and leave the eccentric unicorn to herself. A pull on her tail made her stop. She turned around and saw that Twilight was staring at her, holding her tail with her magic.
“Where are you going?” Twilight scolded, pulling her friend back to her. Fluttershy's hooves dug into the ground and small trenches formed.
“Home! I don't want to do science anymore!”
“But we're nearly done! Look! They're sitting down to eat right now!” Twilight cast a spell and a quill, some parchment and an inkwell appeared next to her. Dipping the quill in the inkwell, she hovered it over the parchment to take notes. Fluttershy rolled her eyes and looked back to the human.
He received a plate and did a happy wiggle before he dug in, stuffing his face. Strawberry was staring at him, looking terrified before she shook her head and levitated her sandwich and took a small bite. Fluttershy's stomach rumbled.
Yes. Yeeees. So good!
“Are you always this happy to get food?” Strawberry asked, staring at me with a small blush.
“Only if it's meat or if I'm just really hungry.” I shot back, taking another bite. “Only meat I've eaten before this was a steak in Canterlot.” She nodded in reply as she looked around.
“Is that your friends over there again?” She pointed to the side. I turned my head and lo and behold, there was Twilight and Fluttershy staring at me and Strawberry. Fluttershy shrunk back and Twilight waved awkwardly. I pinched the bridge of my nose and sighed.
“Can't even get five minutes...” I grumbled, focusing back on my food. “Twilight's a good girl. She's very bad at taking hints, though...”
We resumed eating, talking about this and that and whatever we could think of. When both were done, I stood up and walked over to the counter.
“Food's on me.” I said, fishing up a couple of bits from my pocket and gave them to the pony behind it. With that done, Strawberry and I left the restaurant and walked through town. I had my hands stuffed in my pockets. “Want to head into the park?” I jerked my head in the direction of it. She nodded and we made our way over.
We walked past a statue of Celestia. I giggled.
“What?” Strawberry asked, staring up at me with a questioning stare.
“Oh it's nothing, it's just that statue...” I had to cover my mouth to silence my laughing. “First time I was here, I climbed up on it, jumped up and down and shouted 'hi ho Sunbutt' and broke the horn clean off...”
Strawberry giggled and shook her head. We went back to silence. It wasn't an awkward silence, it was just that nothing else needed to be said. We were just enjoying each others company at this point. We walked over to a hill with a tree on it. I sat down on the grass, leaning back toward the trunk of the tree. Strawberry sat down next to me.
“Quite the view, huh?” I finally said. The hill was fairly big so we could see out over the town. I saw my house, Twilight's library, Rarity's boutique and the Sugarcube Corner.
“Yeah...” Strawberry shuffled closer to me. I rolled my eyes and lifted my right arm. She stared at me with a small blush before she scooted even closer. I rested my arm on her back and she shivered before she leaned toward me. The sun started to set. She closed her eyes and sighed. I did the same and tilted my head back to the tree. “Th-this is nice...” She murmured. I nodded.
We sat there at that exact spot for what felt like hours but in reality, only an hour passed. Eventually we started walking back to her house. When we arrived, I opened the gate for her and let her pass.
“I'm gonna head home, it's getting kinda late...” Her face fell for a split second before she smiled and nodded.
“Sure, um...” She walked toward me. I looked down at her. She scraped her hoof in the dirt for a few seconds, her ears flat to her head before she looked up at me.
Before I could react, she jumped up and leaned toward me. I looked down in mild surprise and when I did, she pressed her lips to mine. We held it for a few seconds and eventually it deepened. After a few more seconds of tonsil hockey, she seperated and had a very bright blush that stood out on her white coat. She stumbled back and nearly tripped on her hooves. She stammered and walked backwards very quickly to the door to her house.
“I-I-I'll see y-you s-soon, J-Jay!” She opened the door with her magic.
“Yeah, I'll see you around...” I waved my goodbyes as she went inside and closed the door behind her, leaving me alone.
I began the trek back to my home, not caring that I wasn't walking in a hurry. I jammed my hands back in my pockets. My cheeks were burning a little but I ignored it. Eventually I made it home, tapping the code to the gate.
I stopped.
“You're not fuckin' sneaky, Twilight.”
I heard a surprised gasp and a pop of a teleportation spell and she was gone. I walked inside and beelined to the bathroom, staring at myself in the mirror before I splashed some water on my face and went to the master bedroom.
I took off my shirt and laid down on top of the covers, resting my hands beneath my head. I stared at the ceiling, my eyes flicking from spot to spot before I sighed and closed them.
'Looks like things just got interesting...'
-Third person switch-
“Are you sure that this result is the final one?” Princess Celestia asked the unicorn standing beside her.
“I'm positive, princess.” The unicorn lit up her magic and retrieved a stack of papers. “We did all the tests we could with the limited information that we have on dimensional doorways.” She hoofed through the papers before levitating an envelope.
“This envelope holds our conclusion on the humans chances to go home.”
Celestia took it in her own magic and opened it, bringing out the paper. Her eyes scanned it and her eyebrows furrowed. Nodding, she turned to a guard that was standing in the doorway.
“We will go to Ponyville tomorrow to tell Jay the news.”