Two days later, early in the morning, we packed our stuff, left the house, and headed for the road back home.
My family was still unaware of my relationship with Fluttershy, I wished I could have gave her a better goodbye, we had to keep things down in order to keep it a secret. If it was for me, I'd tell my family, there was nothing wrong at all. I just kept the appereance for her.
Now she was gone, and I would never see her again, the chapter was closed, done, finished; I had to move on.
But not just right now, first, I'd have my period of mourning a lost love, and then move on. It was supposed to be easy, I've done it many times before. But I just wished there wasn't the need to.
Life lost so much colors after their departing.
"You okay son?" my dad asked in the car during the trip.
"Hm?" I innocently replied, but it was obvious that I was crying. "Yeah, I just need some time, like everyone does." I said while rubbing my tears off my face.
We stopped at a gas station to refuel both the car and our stomachs. There was no speaking in all the trip, and the silence between us felt so very tense. I guess it's what happens when you are the kind of family that has lunch and dinner while watching television.
The next part of the trip was a little more easygoing, dad finally turned on the radio and tuned in his favorite talk program. It wasn't long until they reached a topic which piked the interest in all four of us.
"There have been reports about strange activity in a massive thunderstorm around two months ago, scientifics believed that one particular lighting fell somewhere near a residential area in Buenos Aires. It is believed that this particular lighting had a different energy emitting from it," We all looked at each other worried, dad turned up the volume to hear better. "The path of the lighting has been traced and it was revealed that it actually fell in a house's yard, there are however no complaints about it by the residents of the house," the host continued.
"Pardon me, but I believe one can not make any complaint against mother nature." a second voice in the radio said, which unleashed a laugh in the studio.
"You're right man, but it is still kinda strange that the people living there didn't say a word." the host added, and continued. "We hace sent a reporter to investigate..."
Dad turned off the radio before the host could finish the sentence.
"I just hope those guys don't do any exhaustive investigation." I said "Otherwise we're screwed."
"But why are they giving the information right now? Shouldn't they have done it earlier? Bunch of ninnies." dad said.
"Change to a music station dear." my mom finished.
30 minutes before arriving, my mom called home. Since my grandmother was taking care of the house, she should answer, but there was no response. So then mom called to grandma's instead, grandpa should be there by then, but when he answered, he just said that grandma was in ours.
"She might be taking a nap, don't fret mom." my brother said.
"Maybe, but even while on a nap she answers the phone." mom pointed.
"I'm with her on this one, everytime I call grandma during her nap, she still answers." I said.
"Well, we'll see it soon." dad finished.
When we arrived, we were glad that there was no reporter on sight yet. The pets quickly jumped off the car and into the house, and were deperately trying to open the door from the garage to get to the kitchen. Once dad turned off the car, mom proceeded to open the door and let all the animals inside.
"Momma, we're home!" she said.
There was no response, and as she entered, I did so too just behind her.
"Look, she's on the sofa in the dining room." I pointed. We approached her, and tried to wake her up, but she was deeply asleep.
"It's like she fainted or something." my mom said.
"Nothing too far from reality..." a serene voice came from behind us, making us jump with fright.
"What the hell was that?!" mom shouted without turning.
When I turned around, I saw the last thing I thought would be even possible, just like when the girls showed up in our yard the very first time.
"Mom, you're not going to believe this..." I said.
"What happened?! We heard you... WAAH!" dad just came in, Leonard following close by, and got interrupted after seeing what I was seeing.
The girls have appeared again in our house, but there was something else accompanying them, or somepony. It was taller than them, white, and looked a bit more "royal" than the other six.
"Will this ever end?!" my dad exclaimed.
By a reflex action, I bowed to the new being in my house.
"What the hell are you doing?" my dad asked.
"Can't you see that I'm bowing to her?" I answered without rising myself.
"But dude, I'm not doing it , and I still know her." my brother said.
"Wait-wait-wait. Care to tell me who the hell is she?" mom asked.
"I think I'll reply to this one." the incomer said addressing me "My name is Princess Celestia, governor of Equestria, pleased to meet you all." she said.
"Hang on a second, care to tell me how a princess is a governor?" dad insisted.
"It's from a kid's show, queens are taken for tyrants." I replied.
"And thus they put princesses instead." Leonard added "Didn't it cross your mind the reason that Disney's female protagonists are tagged as 'princess'?"
"Well... no."
"Figured as much."
"W-what brings you here princess?" I asked, getting up.
"Well, I thought that it would be impolite to not thank you for taking care of my subjects for the time they were here."
"Okay, you're welcome, you may leave now." mom said hurriedly.
"Mom show some respect can you?" I said.
"But what do you want me to do?!" she answered "I had to put up for more than a month with these... these..."
"Ponies?" Applejack helped.
"Yea let's go with that. Anyway, I finally hoped that we weren't going to go through this again, and look! We are being invaded again!" she shouted.
"Please, we don't mean any intrusion." Twilight stepped in "She just wanted to thank you all, just like we did before we left. It's her custom."
"Actually, I haven't gone here just to thank them Twilight." Celestia added.
"Oh great, what now?" my dad said.
Celestia turned around, and ushered one of her subjects to approach us. She didn't move at first out of fright, but in the end she moved forward.
"Fluttershy!" I thought "Please, not that, anything but that!"
"Now Fluttershy, point him out for me." Celestia whispered near her, and Fluttershy pointed a hoof at me "Please, come." the princess said.
Worried and nervous as I was, I approached the two of them, sweating like a false witness (as they say in Buenos Aires).
"I want to specially thank you for taking care of my little ponies. For making their stay much more bearable." Celestia said.
"Specially thank him!? For crying out loud, I WAS the one providing the food, and my husband providing the money for it!" my mom shouted angry, she had her reasons.
"Princess, she is correct, she was the one responsible for the survival of your subjects. If there's someone you should thank, it's her and my dad." I said.
"I am already aware of that, do not worry, I have a gift for them too." the alicorn pointed "But there is another matter more important here." She stopped for some seconds, making sure everyone was paying her attention "I believe you two deserve a proper goodbye." she told me while pointing Fluttershy.
"Erm, why those two? Can you explain me son?" dad asked to the princess, and to me respectively.
"Erm, well... I kinda... had a crush on Fluttershy while I believed she was just a cartoon." I confessed.
All my family had their eyes wide open in surprise, and bewilderment.
"Oh my god, man don't tell me..." my brother guessed.
"Yes Leon, I'm in love with her now. And guess what, it's mutual." I replied.
My mom then fell to the floor, unconscious. I couldn't blame her, it was still something beyond belief. Leonard probably wanted to puke or something, because he went to the bathroom holding his mouth shut. As for my dad, he looked at me with something one could call "dissapointment".
"I knew you had strange tastes son, but THIS?" he said.
"Dad, it's okay. I'm not doing anything wrong." I tried to convince him.
"Nothing wrong? Tell me something, are you sure you haven't got shit for brains?" he asked angry, as a reply he received a gasp from all the ponies except the princess, "What is it with you now, don't you know what swearing is?"
"We do know sir." Rarity intervened "But it is such a foul chatter, that we prefer to stay in a language suitable for everypony."
My father could not believe what he just heard, he started to laugh nervously at the sentence Rarity made.
"Oh this is freaking fan-tastic! So swearing isn't allowed, but getting turned on by other species is way too acceptable, right? Right?" he scoffed. "COME ON, AM I THE ONLY ONE WITH HIS SENSES ON PLACE?!"
"Dad! Calm yourself down, you're not thinking clearly!" I said.
"Ohh yeah look who's talking!" my brother jumped when he returned.
I was offended, but I couldn't blame them, they had their points, but I had mine's too. What to do? As I was thinking this, Rainbow approached me and Fluttershy from behind.
"Umm, you guys can go somewhere else." she whispered "I'm sure the princess can handle this."
"Do you think it's a good idea Rainbow?" Fluttershy finally spoke.
"You got a better one?"
"Let's go Fluttershy, we'll deal with this in a while." I said.