I was awakened by a hoof poking my nose, causing me to punch myself in the face and fall out of my bed, and onto the floor.
"Waaaa!" I jumped into a fighting position to see Red standing beside me, a smirk on his face.
“Hey!”, I called at Red, watching as he fell over laughing.
“Well, at least I know how to wake you up,” Red said as he calmed down from his fit of laughter.
“Why’d you wake me up anyway?” I inquired, my voice sounding grumpier than I had expected it to be.
“Well, I figured I’d get to know my room-mate for the first time this year,” Red said simply, as if it justified the rude awakening.
“Sounds like a plan, but you could’ve at least woken me up more...gently,” I rubbed my face where I had punched myself.
“Sorry Scoots,” Red paused for a moment and unfurled his very familiar, very large wings, “Wanna go up into the clouds and just hang out?”
I tossed the idea around in my head for a moment before I looked out of the window. The sky was dark and Luna’s moon shone brightly against through the night, reflecting off surfaces and casting shadows everywhere.
“Sounds like fun! Let’s go, I can’t stay out too late though, since I have my first day of class tomorrow,” I said as I face Red again.
“Let’s go!” Red flew out of our dorm room door and I quickly followed.
The two of us flew into the lobby and in my haste, I flew right into Postal, knocking the both of us into a nearby set of chairs.
Red stopped when he heard the sheer noise of the collision, and flew back to help Postal and I up off of the floor. Postal held his head with a hoof and started to smile,
“Well, looks like you made it on time,” he laughed and held his head.
“Made it on time?” Red sounded confused.
“Crap, sorry, I had plans with Postal,”I gestured to the now-recovered Postal.
“Nice to meet you, sir!” Postal shook Red’s hoof politely.
“Nice to meet you too,” Red followed Postal’s lead.
“Well, what should we do now?” Red asked, looking from me to Postal and back.
“We could all just hang out,” Postal suggested.
“I guess that sounds good,” Red seemed sad that we wouldn’t be able to fly into the clouds.
“So, where do you guys want to go?” Postal asked as he fixed the chairs around the group.
“Can you teleport?” I questioned him, taking account of his unicorn horn.
“Yeah, I had to be able to do it for quick mail delivery back in Las Pegasus,” Postal replied.
“Can you take us all to the square in FillyDelphia?” I asked excitedly.
“Yeah, grab my hoof,” he extended a hoof to both Red and I.
As we grabbed his hooves, I felt a strange feeling come over me for a split second as his magical energy engulfed us both. All of a sudden, we were in an alley right off of the square of FillyDelphia.
“Whoa!” Red landed on the ground beside Postal and I, struggling to comprehend what just happened
“That was awesome!” I hugged Postal.
“No problem, I love it when I get to do that,” Postal said as the three of us walked onto the busy street.
“So where are we going?” Red asked as we turned off onto the street where Drizzle’s restaurant was located.
“I know this little diner over here,” I said as the lights from the front of the diner started to show.
“I think Pixel told me something about this place and about somepony named Drizzle,” Red said as we neared the restaurant.
“Then he probably did,” the three of us stopped to see if we could see Drizzle through the window.
We saw something very different though, we saw Peachy and Endings sitting at a table for two, kissing. Drizzle was avoiding looking at them but was still making an attempt to keep working.
“Howdy everypony!” I said as I popped through the door, startling everypony in the diner.
Peachy and Endings jumped out of their chairs and blushed, Drizzle sighed in relief that he wasn’t a third wheel anymore, Red and Postal walked in behind me. and the restaurant calmed back down as the ponies inside returned to normal.
“Hey Scoots, what’s up?” drizzle said as the five of us sat at the counter; Peachy and Endings on the end, then Red, then Postal and I.
“I brought some friends to show them the diner,” I said, Drizzle smiled.
“Did you like it that much?” Drizzle asked, delighted as he brought Peachy and Endings their sweets.
“I guess I did, so...what’s up?” i asked as i looked at a menu.
“Not much really, I’ve just been getting loads of mail from the school, I’ll be in the advanced culinary class next year! They loved my samples!” Drizzle fluttered.
“You deserved it!” Endings said, wide eyed after her first bite.
We all laughed for a while before Red, Postal, and I decided what we were ordering.
“I’ll have the Deluxe Daisy Special,” Red said as his stomach growled like a ravenous Diamond Dog.
“Postal?” Drizzle questioned as he looked towards him cheerfully.
“I’ll take the Veggie Burger with hay fries,” Postal said, as he set his menu down.
“And you, beautiful?” Drizzle questioned me so seriously that Red and Postal didn’t know how to react, so they just dropped their jaws. I could detect a certain miasma emanating from Red, like gears clicking into place. I’d wonder about that later though.
“I’ll have what Postal ordered,”I said, covering my face with a menu to hide my smile and blush.
“Well, I’ll be back with your orders in a few minutes,” Drizzle said as he hopped into the kitchen.
Endings and Peachy chatted and Red and Postal were having a conversation and I wasn't a third wheel, but a fifth wheel now. I trotted back to the kitchen to find Drizzle to see if he could talk.
I slowly peered into the kitchen to see Drizzle putting together the sandwiches and getting some of the fruits out for what Peachy ordered.
“Come on in, I’m almost done anyway,” Drizzle said as he noticed my observations.
“So, what’s it like to work at this place?” I questioned him.
“It’s a lot of fun, usually a lot of ponies come through here and I have to move fast, but it’s been slow lately with the senior class leaving,” Drizzle said as he put all of the meals on a tray.
“Cool, I’ll get out of your way so you can get them their meals,”