//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: The Next Day // Story: Dean's True Life // by Moon_Skritch //------------------------------// Chapter 4 The Next Day ________________________________________________________________________________ I awake in the middle of the night, hearing footsteps in my room. I imagine the worst, someone broke in. I can't see anything, the room is pitch black. I then feel something bump my bed, and climb on it, I tense up, I slowly reach over to the lamp and flick it on. I see a pink pony climbing in the bed, who jumps and yelps slightly and almost falls of the bed, I grab hold of her hoof. "Pinkie? Good lord you scared me..." I say to her. Her face saddens, "Sorry Dean... I was just wanting to sleep in here with you, is that okay?" She asks. I nod and say "Of course it's okay. We are technically married right? Even though... I'm not...a Pegasus anymore..." I sigh. She walks across the bed and hugs me, "I don't care that you aren't a pony anymore, I love you the same way, pony or human, you are still Dean... in here." She points to my heart. I smile, and hug her, "I love you too Pinkie Pie." I say. I pull the covers down to let her in, she climbs under the blankets and snuggles me, I turn off the lamp and put an arm around Pinkie and close my eyes. I hear the sounds of birds chirping, I open my eyes and see Pinkie, still sleeping, holding me. I don't move, I don't want to wake her, after a while she stirs a bit, and her eyes open, she smiles when she sees me. I smile back and say "Morning Pinkie." she smiles, and next thing I know she is kissing me, It catches me off guard and I almost pull away, but I don't, I kiss her back. She pulls away and hugs me, “Good morning.” she says with a cute smile. I forgot how great it was to kiss Pinkie, she still has that taste of sugar cookies. I throw the covers off of us and get up, Pinkie hops off the bed and we walk into the living room, I see the others still asleep, I should make them breakfast, I wonder what I have, I walk into the kitchen and open the fridge, I notice I have a large amount of eggs, I pull out both packs and get started on cooking. After a lot of work, I managed to make twenty-one eggs, and fourteen pieces of toast. I set the plates down with the eggs and toast on them, I pour everybody some apple juice, thank goodness I had some. I put the cups on the table and walk into the living room and look at the clock, ten o'clock. I walk over to each of them and wake them up. Rainbow sniffs the air, "Wow it smells great in here!" she says as we all walk into the dining room. We all take a seat and begin to eat, they seem to like my cooking, even though I'm not great. We all finish about the same time and I clean up. Just then I hear the TV turn on, I quickly bolt out of the kitchen and turn off the TV, I haven't changed the channel and the show is just coming on, I don't want them to see it, it would freak them out. "What was that all about?" Twilight asks. I look around nervously, "Uh, this thing, um, you don't want to see what's on there." I pick up the remote off the floor and put it on top of the TV. “Why not?” Twilight asks. I shake my head, “It shows mostly all the crap that happens in our world.” I say, “Not something you want to see.” Just then the doorbell rings, I run over to it and open it, Alex stands there, he actually came back. “Hey dude! Want to go hang with those girls from the mall again?” I stare at him, “Uh...dude do you remember anything from last night?” I ask him. He shakes his head, “Uh, not really, it's all fuzzy, why?” he says. I open the door more and step aside, he looks in and sees the six standing there, Rainbow immediately saddens when she sees him, she feels really bad that he doesn't remember. “Oh... them... they are still here?” he asks. “I guess I will just go alone then...” he shrugs and starts to walk away, just then we hear “WAIT!” I then feel a whoosh go by me, I cling to the door as Rainbow shoots by, she knocks Alex over and says “Maybe this will help you remember.” She then plants a kiss on his lips. She holds the kiss for a few seconds and she finally gets off of him and flies back in, almost knocking me over. I look over at him and he is just laying there, face blank, I walk over to him, look down and say “You alright?” “Rainbow... I remember now...” he whispers, he gets up slowly and walks past me, he walks inside, I follow him inside and watch him. Rainbow is laying on the couch, trying not to cry, Alex walks over to her, she looks up at him, half scared, he kneels down and hugs her. “I'm sorry Rainbow... for not remembering, how could I forget the best thing that ever happened to me in my life.” He says, tears slowly coming from his eyes. Rainbow puts her hooves around him and hugs back. “I really am sorry Rainbow Dash...” he says. She lets go of him and says “Don't worry Alex, I still love you.” She smiles at him. Alex's face brightens up and he gets up and walks up to me. “Yo man, I'm sorry for being a total jerk to you this whole time about the 'dream', now we both know for sure it is real.” I nod and say “It's cool man, you just didn't remember, it happens.” I pat his shoulder, “Don't worry about it dude.” He smiles, I smile back. “So what do we do now?” I ask looking at Twilight. “Well this world is, interesting, I would like to stay here a little longer and learn more about it, if that's okay with you Dean.” she says, the others agreeing. “I'm not sure if you want to know about our world...it's so corrupt.” “It doesn't matter, it still would be nice to know about this world.” Twilight says. “Uh, I don't know if you should go out there like that, people will begin to really wonder why a group of candy colored ponies is walking around, conversing with two human.” “Do you know anything that you can use as a cover?” I ask Twilight. “Well I can try a spell that can possibly change us into humans, temporarily. Is everypony okay if we do that?” she asks the others, they all nod, and her horn glows. Alex and I step back as we watch them morph. The spell begins working and we watch them as they change in front of our eyes, the light becomes blindingly bright then it dims, and there lay the six as human, I notice that they still have the hair style and Cutie Marks. They stand up hesitantly, trying to gain balance, and I say, “Whoa... forgot about that...” they look at me, Twilight says “What's wrong? Did it not work?” I shake my head, “No no, its not that, its just, well...your naked.” I say to them, they shrug, “So what, we normally don't wear clothes anyway.” Applejack says. “Well in our world we have to, people don't want to see other peoples business... hang on I might have some extra clothes, I don't know if they will fit you. But we can try.” I run to my closet and grab random sweaters and pants, I quickly run back in there and give the clothes to them, before Alex has a nosebleed. They put on the clothes and look at each other, amazingly the clothes fit them pretty well. “Hey, where did my wings go?” Rainbow asks looking behind her, “Darn it, now I can't fly anymore.” she crosses her arms. “M-Mine are gone too...” Fluttershy says shyly. “I guess when you're a human you don't get to have wings and horns. So that means you can't do magic or fly.” I say, stating the obvious. I look at the clock, jeez, wow it's four o'clock already. Time sure does fly. “Do you want to see yourself?” I ask them, “Yeah!” they all say in unison, which makes them laugh. I wave for them to follow me down the hall and into the bathroom, they start to walk, but they almost fall, they aren't used to two legs, they gain their balance and finally they get good at it. We all walk in the bathroom and they look at themselves. “Wow, being a human sure is different!” Pinkie says smiling in the mirror. I walk out and let them do their thing, grooming and such. I walk back in the living room and Alex is still standing there. “Nosebleed much did you?” I say with a goofy grin, he looks at me and says “Shut up. It was awesome.” “You're right it was pretty sweet...” I say and laugh. The girls walk back in the room and Twilight says “So what do we need to learn about first?” I shrug, “Whatever you want I guess, just be careful, you might not like what you find. Like I have said... our world is corrupt.” “Well where do humans mostly congregate?” Twilight asks. “The shopping mall I guess, at least that's where teenagers hang out mostly.” Alex says. I nod in agreement. “So let's go!” Pinkie says joyfully. I look over at Pinkie and smile, she raises her arms in the moment of joy, and I notice something, the wedding bracelet. I immediately look at my wrist, it's not there, I start to freak out a bit, I don't notice that everyone started looking at me. Out of typical human nature, I reach in my pockets, empty... I look at my arm once more, like it would magically appear or something, still nothing. Just then I hear Pinkie giggle, I look up at her and she says “Looking for this? I meant to give it to you earlier but I didn't get the chance.” She leans down and pulls up her pants leg and I see the bracelet on her ankle, I don't know how I didn't notice it earlier, or at all for that matter. She takes it off and hands it to me. I put it on my arm, it's a little big, but I don't care, I walk up closer to her and hug her, “Thank you so much Pinkie.” I say. She hugs me back, I can smell her hair, which is still poofy, it smells the same, cotton candy. We pull apart and she smiles, “So shall we go?” I ask everyone. Everybody nods and we walk outside, I think we will buy them better clothes, so they don't have to wear my stupid clothes. I lock the door behind us. It's still a bit cold out here, they don't seem bothered by it though, I guess the sweaters are thick enough, that's good. I look at Alex's small car, “There is no way we are fitting in that thing, we got lucky when they were ponies, but they are bigger now, we have to take two vehicles.” I say, I look at my small simple car, it's not really a pretty sight, but it gets me from Point A to Point B if need be. “We can half it up, 4 people per car.” Alex suggests. I nod. We split the six up, Rainbow, Rarity, and Applejack, go with Alex. Pinkie, Twilight, and Fluttershy go with me. I roll down my window, and yell out “See you at the mall!” Alex nods and we head out to the mall. Hopefully all goes well... (end of Chapter Four)