“Uh, hey guys. What’s shaking?” Kyle puts on a cheesy smile.
“Hold up. Kyle? It’s you!” Twilight walks up to him, surprised.
“Yeah I know.” Kyle shyly says.
“It’s just, ever since you quit your job at the school, we all wondered about you. Was, or is everything okay?” Fluttershy steps up to him, asking kindly.
“Was everything okay?” Kyle feels the ‘teary-weary’ come down upon him. “Honestly... no I wasn’t! And I’m still not okay! Everything is bucked!” Kyle sits down on his rear, feeling not the okay, a few tears raining down from his eyes onto the grass.
Seeing their once fellow staff member like this, all six of the girls decide to show an act of sympathy by surrounding him into one big ol’ group hug, comforting him.
After a few minutes of hugging, Kyle wipes his tears from his eyes, speaking up firmly to all of them.
“Aight. I’ll tell you all. The reason I quit was because...”
***
“So you quit because you got your heart broken. By a girl. That you had a crush on. Or still do? All because she told you specifically that she’s moving away.” Twilight summarizes Kyle’s little tale of heartbreak.
“Well geez, if you were that devastated by the whole ‘moving away’ thing, then I understand.” Fluttershy says, empathizing with him.
“Mmhm. Ah completely get it.” Applejack says.
“Thanks guys. You all are truly the best of friends a pony can ask for.” Kyle says to them all, a little more cheery than sad.
“Well yeah. That’s what friends are for,” Rainbow Dash positively states, “You're a good pony.”
“Uh, well I...” Kyle feels completely at a loss for words. Thinking of what he’d just heard. Feeling something inside him that he didn’t think he’d felt before.
That feeling of friendship?
But Kyle has had friends before, right?
There was Ryan from back in Seventh Grade and- wait, no, he was only friends to take advantage of him. And Flash Breeze from Elementary School wouldn’t really count either.
Huh, guess Kyle never really actually had friends (family doesn’t count) before.
Explains why Kyle feels weird after Rainbow calls him their friend.
“Thank you all. I don’t know what to say, or think. I just...” Kyle speaks happily, feeling as happy as ever.
“I guess not telling anypony about my problems only made things even more worse for me. Internally and externally. Instead, I should’ve just told you guys about it. But I didn’t. I just wanted to hide forever.”
“I guess I didn’t think though. What kind of friendship teacher was I if I didn’t tell anypony about my problem right away. I...-“
“Well that was in the past. Next time you have a problem, just come and talk to us. We’ll understand.” Twilight smiles warmly at him.
Right as Kyle is about to speak, something magical happens.
Coming from each of the six girls being a streak of sparkly bright light, all six streaks going over and completely engulfing Kyle into a ball of bright, sparkly magic.
All before a magical explosion happens, once everything clears do all six ponies see that where Kyle once stood is now a blackened scorch mark.
“Wha... where he go?!”
“Uh oh.”
“Woah!”
“Hey wait a minute. Now where’s Twilight?” Applejack questions suspiciously.
“What? I’m right here. Behind you.”