I sit on a chair in the middle of Carousel Boutique with my elbows on my knees and my hands in my hair. The smell of fresh fabric is currently in the air. “Maybe this was a bad idea,” I say, my hands muffling my words as I tap my foot nervously. Rainbow had dragged me inside to get Rarity's help.
“Rarity is the best pony I know that can help you with your pony problem,” Dash responds fling from the stars towards me. She lands and sits down next to me. “She should be down in a second,” Like the devil itself decided to answer, Rarity came walking down right at that moment. My heart speeds up as my mind starts to fry itself.
"I really don't want to do this,"
“Sorry for keeping you waiting, darlings, but I had to finish a letter to one of my shops. Apparently having a cat clothing line might be a bad idea,” Rarity says, scratching her chin in thought.
“It’s ok Rarity,” Dash says, standing up. “We are here to ask you for help with...” Before Dash could finish her sentence, Rarity interrupts her.
“Oh my gosh! Are you two together!?” Rarity yells excitedly. I face balm as I try and hid my embarrassed face. “No, Rarity, he needs help with getting a mare,” Dash explains. Rarity looks disappointed unit a smile starts forming on her lips. Rarity's eyes light up like the sun as a light bulb goes off in her head. I hide my face back into my hands.
“Darling, you should have asked sooner!” Rarity says, squealing like a little filly. “So, who is it?”
“It’s Fluttershy,” I say, mumbling it into my hands that still cover my red face from embarrassment.
“You have to speak up. I can’t help you unless you tell me who it is? Every Mare has a different style they like,”
“It’s Fluttershy!” I yell, slamming my fists into my legs as I look up at Rarit. Rarity stands there, slightly baffled, and I think slightly impressed. “Sorry, I didn't mean to...”
Rarity cuts me off as her smile widens even more than before. “Of course! Why didn’t I see this before!" She hoof palms herself. "You two would be adorable together! I mean Fluttershy has been...” Dash gives Rarity a wicked glare as she bushes her head towards me in a fashion that says, "Focuse!". Rarity chuckled awkwardly before saying, "I mean we should get to work right now," She starts to walk back and forth between the walls of the room, almost at a fast trot. “We could make a date for you two.. No, that would scare por Flutters, expressly for the first impression of love...” Rarity mumbles ideas to herself.
“Rarity, I came here to ask how to tell her I love her. I don’t want to go on a date..” I look to the ground as a small smile creeps on my face. “Not yet,” The idea of going on the perfect date with the sweet but shy little pony makes me feel warm inside.
“Oh! Of course,” Rarity yells, snapping me out of my thoughts. She scratches her chin as she keeps walking. She stayed deep in thought for a while until she starts mumbling again. I look over at Dash who was leaning back and looking up at the ceiling with her hoofs propping her up. She seemed to be deep in thought.
"I can't imagine what's she going throw," I think to myself. "Is she doing this for me, or for her sanity?" Rarity stops in front of me and Dash and proclaims to me proudly,
“You should just ask her. She doesn't like people hiding something, but she also doesn't like upfront confrontation… that might be a problem,” Rarity goes back to thinking.
"Besides, I've already tried that," I say, resting my chin on my hand. "It didn't work out very well,"
"Of course darling, I'll think of something to help you," Rarity reassures me.
“Maybe he could give her something?” Dash interjects into our conversation.
“Something small and nice, and not too expensive. Fluttershy would love something simple,” Rarity bounces the idea off of Dash, turning to face her friend. Rarity's smile had started to get bigger as Dash smiles back at her.
“I think I know exactly what to give her then,” I say, instantly getting an idea. The two mares look at me like they forgot I was in the room.
“What is it?” Dash asks, tilting her head to the side.
“Something so simple even I can’t mess it up,” The two stare at me, urging me to tell them. "Technically I could, but me and Fluttershy have done it enough nether of us would be akward,"
“Come on, spill it,” Rarity says as the two take a few steps closer to me. Making me very uncomfortable at the suden closeness.
I lean down and whisper into their ears two simple words. “A hug,” Rarity’s eyes lit up almost instantly while Dash backed up confused.
“Sweetie, it’s perfect! She’ll be more comfortable when you tell her,” Rarity excitedly shouts.
“What’s so great about a hug?” Dash asks as Rarity turns to Dash.
“Rainbow, it’s perfect for little Fluttershy, she’s uncomfortable in conversations, but a hug could get her at ease. Especially if you ask first and had a small conversation before you tell her,” Rarity explains to a very confused Dash.
“Ooohhh...” Rainbow dash says, realisation dawning on her face. “Well, what are you waiting for, go get her!”
“I’ll try,” I say standing up.
“Come on, be more confident then that, say I can do it!” Dash says, flying up into the air with her hoof in the air like a fist pump. I smile at the silly little phrase, but I go ahead and yell it.
“I can do it!” I strut confidently over to the door as the two mares cheer me on. I feel unstable, I feel like I can do anything.
I will tell her my fellings I think as I reach for the doorknob, but before I can open the door, the door opens itself, smacking me in the face. I push the door closed as I rub my face and turn to see who just walked in. Pinkie was jumping up and down with notes in her mouth and a smile on her face as usual.
“Rainbow, Rarity, I have an invitation to a party at the lake today!” Pinkie says, handing them the notes. The two mares looking confused at Pinkie as they take the notes. Shen then turns around to look up at me with a smile. “You’re the main event of the party Brogan.” She says, jumping up and handing me a note.
I grabbed it to see a very quick and crude writing of an invitation with a very bad map to the lake she was talking about.
“It’s a party celebrating your three month anniversary of being here!” Pinkie say, jumping over to the door and opening it.
“Pinkie!” I say, moving before I get hit by the door again. She stops in mid air and looks back at me.
“What is it?” She drops back onto the ground.
“When is the party?” I ask.
“It’s in an hour, most of our friends are already heading there now,” Pinkie says, happily hopping away.
“And she’s just telling us now?” I ask, turning to look at the other two in the room.
“She does that a lot,” Rarity says, placing the invitation on the table with her magic.
“This will be perfect,” Rainbow says. “You can ask her while we are at the party,”
“That does sound like a good idea,” I say, walking out of the building. “I need to get ready first,”
Me and Fluttershy walk through the forest towards the lake they had found me at. I had changed into a blue and red swimming trunk with yellow flowers that Rarity made for me. I also had a blue shirt with white stripes meant for swimming.
Fluttershy was looking at everything else but me as we walked. She seemed to be nervous about something. I asked earlier. She just said she didn't like parties. I don't believe it, but I didn't want to push her more than she wanted to tell me. We finally come into a clearing where the rest of our friends are at. It was a big clearing with a pretty big lake. I never got to see the lake, mostly because I was too busy trying to make a live-in Ponyvill. Twilight was sitting at the edge of the lake with Pinkie pie doing a backstroke in front of her while spitting water out of her mouth like a fountain. Dash is on top of the cliff that overlooks the lake. She runs and jumps off the end while curling into a ball.
“Garagramo!” Dash yells as she lands in the lake with a big splash. Socking Twilight and Rarity, who had just sat down next to Twilight. Rainbow pops back out of the water, spitting some up like a water fountain. Her main was now stuck against the side of her neck and to the top of her forehead.
“Rainbow, could you refrain from splashing me,” Rarity says, drying her hair off with her magic. "I just put on my swimming makeup and I don't want it to get ruined,"
“Really Rarity," Dash rollers her eyes as she rolls onto her back. "That’s no fun,” Dash says, doing a backstroke while passing Rarity.
Rarity rolls her eyes as Applejack yells, "Yeha!" while running by Rarity and Twilight, running right into the water, splashing some on to Rarity. Me and Fluttershy walk over to the group. Pinkie is the first to notice our arrival. She smiles and waves at us excitedly.
“Hello Fluttershy! Hi Brogan!” We stop next to Rarity and Twilight as the two look up at me and over at Fluttershy.
“It’s good to see you could come,” Twilight says.
“Honestly, I had nothing else better to do,” I say, slowly walking into the water. The water feels cold against my bare feet, but also feels nice. I remember the sensation when I was first brought here. The cold, the heat, the freezing cold water. I shake my head as water is splashed onto my body. I shake off the water as a cold breeze makes me shiver. I look over to see Dash getting ready to splash me again. I smile and run deeper into the cold water.
I hit my hand against the water, creating a big wave that hits Dash in the face. She spits out the water out of her mouth while she rolls onto her back laughing. Pinkie swims over, joining in the splashing contest.
Pinkie somehow jumps up on the surface of the water and canon balls back in, splashing both me and Dash. Me and Dash look at eachother with determination and node. Pinkie come up from the water as we splash her. Pinkie rolls onto her back and starts kicking at us. Dash does the same as I use my hands to splash them.
I dive under the water and swim underneath Pinkie Pie. I pop back up and cuddle her like a baby in my arms. She screams and laughs as I dunk her into the lake. Dash starts splashing me. I turn my face away so I don't get water in my mouth.
I look over at the edge of the lake to see Fluttershy sitting next to Twilight while Rarity lays back, sun bathing. I feel a warm body press against my back as water stops being splashed at me. I turned my head around to see Rainbow on my back like a kid does to piggy back.
She leans her head next to my ear and whispers to me. “You should go over there and tell her,” She then jumps off my back, back flipping, then diving into the water as I fall to my knees from the force of her push.
“Here goes nothing,” I think to myself as I walk over to the group of three mares.
“So how is everyone been doing?” Rarity asks as I sit down next to Fluttershy.
“Other than a hiccup earlier, I’ve been good,” Twilight responds, smiling over at me. I smile back at her, knowing what she means.
“I've been fine,” Fluttershy responds sweetly.
“I’ve been a little ruff, but I think I’ve finally got the hang of it,” I responded, flicking my wrist as I whisper "Uisce." Water splashes Dash and Pinkie. They both look at Applejack, who points at me. We all get a good laugh out of it before they return to playing.
"It's good to see you are improving in using magic," Twilight says, looking over at me. "That could come in handy one day," I chuckle at the use of a human term.
“So, Brogan, I heard you had something to say?” Rarity says, looking over at me. Twilight and Fluttershy look up at me confusingly. It then dawns on Twilight as her smile widens.
“All right, time to ask,” I think as I take a deep breath in, before I can say anything a loud crack from the forest rings out into the opening. Everyone freezes for a few seconds as we all turn to see where the noise came from.
I stand up, taking a step towards the bush that the noise is coming from. Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy stand up while the other three look over at us in confusion. They then turn their head to see what we where all looking at. For the first time, I have been here, I was shocked, amazed, angered, and saddened by what I saw.
Stepping out of the bush was a tall thin man that had moby brown hair that was poorly cut and with bright white skin. He has stubbles growing on his chin and is wearing a red coat a green shirt with blue army geans. “Madra damba!” The man yells, kicking the bush in anger.