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// Pinkie Pie's Reality 
// Story: Pinkie Pie's Reality 
// by LillysUnicorns 
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Pinkie Pie solemnly began to pack away her belongings at Sugarcube Corner. She got up and walked towards her window. She crossed both her hooves on the window sill and rested her head on her forearms.
"I sure am going to miss everypony, Gummy," Pinkie Pie said woefully.
Pinkie was never this depressed. She was always so eccentric and optimistic, but she just wasn't feeling herself today. She knew things would never be the same after she left.
"They've all taught me so much. Because of them, I'm a better pony, Gummy. They're all my best friends and I can't help but feel a little bit down."
Pinkie's ears drooped. She stood back up and walked back over to her belongings. She continued to pack them until she came across a picture of all six of them posing together. She knew she could always come back and visit them, but it wouldn't be the same as seeing them everyday.
Pinkie stared at Gummy and said, "I don't know how I'll be able to go even a day without them. Remember how much I missed Rainbow Dash when she went to the Wonderbolts Academy? I won't even last twenty minutes!"
Gummy stared back at her and blinked with his left eye slightly behind.
"I wish I could stay, Gummy, but mom and dad said they needed me back on the old rock farm."
After an hour, Pinkie finally finished packing up her belongings. She reminisced on each belonging, for everything she owned had a memory attached to it. Even things as inhuman as her punch bowl held memories. It reminded her of the great parties she had had with her friends in Ponyville.
"If there's one thing I'm going to miss in Ponyville, it's the parties. Being with my friends and having good times is what life's all about! I think I'm going to go completely crazy back home at the rock farm. There aren't any good parties at an old desolate rock farm. Just lonely parties of one," Pinkie Pie sighed to herself.
Pinkie walked outside. She wanted to see Ponyville as a whole before she left. She loved to see the townsponies coming and going, and she loved seeing them grow a little bit each day, but most of all, she loved making them happy. Pinkie Pie's whole reason for being was to make people smile. She didn't know what she'd do once they were all gone.
Later that night, she and her friends had one last get together before Pinkie's bittersweet departure. What made it so bittersweet was the knowing that things would never be the same. Pinkie Pie wanted so desperately to stay with her friends, but she knew her parents were getting older. She couldn't just refuse to help them. She knew that there was no other way.
"Guys, you know I don't actually want to leave, right?" Pinkie unsurely questioned.
"Don't worry, sugarcube. We know you don't mean no hard feelings," Applejack reassured.
Pinkie Pie looked up and gave Applejack a slight smile and said, "It's just that I feel really bad for just leaving like this. I feel like I'm abandoning the Elements of Harmony and everything else I have here."
"Don't worry Pinkie. We know you'll come visit, and when you do, everything will be the same. Elements of Harmony and all," Twilight said in a comforting voice.
"I really am going to miss you guys you know. You all are like my second family or something! You're all like my sisters," Pinkie Pie said.
"Oh, Pinkie Pie, promise you won't forget us once you depart," Rarity pleaded solemnly.
"How could she forget us, Rarity? I mean, we are her best friends. Right, Pinkie Pie?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Well, of course you guys are my best friends! I would never forget any of you, Rarity. Don't even worry! I'll write to you guys every single day! Or I'll come visit you guys in a hot air balloon or something. Remember when we came in a hot air balloon to the Wonderbolts Academy, Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie recalled.
Rainbow Dash gave her slightly tom-boyish chuckle and added, "How could I forget?"
The sun was beginning to set. They were at their normal picnic spot which always gave them nostalgic memories of when they first became friends.
"Fluttershy, darling, you are being so quiet? What ever could be the matter?" Rarity questioned.
Fluttershy whimpered. She was on the verge of tears and was in no condition to answer Rarity's question.
Twilight glared at Rarity and said, "Rarity, don't be so insensitive. It's pretty obvious what's wrong."
Tears began to roll down Fluttershy's face. She wiped them, then said, "I'm really going to miss you, Pinkie."
Applejack began to tear up as well. "Aw, shoot. Lookie here. Y'all are gonna make me cry too."
Without saying another word, they all leaned in for a group hug. They were all crying (even though Rainbow Dash wouldn't admit to it).
After several minutes of a group hug, Twilight finally ended it by saying, "Well, Pinkie Pie. It's getting dark out. You'd better go ahead and start heading for the rock farm."
Pinkie Pie sighed and said "Yeah, I guess you're right, Twilight."
"We sure are going to miss you, sugarcube," Applejack said.
They all said the rest of their goodbyes and Pinkie Pie left with Gummy and her bags for the old rock farm. Pinkie Pie was beginning to disappear into the peachy gold sunset when all of the sudden, Twilight yelled, "Wait! Pinkie Pie!"
Pinkie Pie turned around and came back. "Yes, Twilight?" she asked.
"There's just one more thing I wanted to say," Twilight told her.
"What is it?" Pinkie Pie asked, puzzled.
Twilight leaned in towards Pinkie Pie and whispered, "Wake up."
"What are you talking about, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie replied. She looked frightened and bewildered.
Almost instantaneously, everyone else started chanting, "Wake up, wake up, wake up."
They were crowding in around Pinkie Pie, then all of the sudden, they began to fade away. Their voices faded into a woman's. It was Pinkie's mother, begging for her to come out of her coma.
Pinkie's eyes fluttered and then opened wide. She awoke in a hospital room. She was no longer a pink pony from Equestria. She was now a 15 year old girl from New York.
"Mom?" Pinkie asked.
Pinkie's mother stood there speechless for a moment. "Pinkamena? You're awake!"
Pinkie's mother smiled and began to cry tears of joy. Pinkie began to remember the real world as Ponyville became just a foggy memory that would soon fade. Pinkamena looked around the hospital room. It was colorless and gloomy. She lie in her bed with a green crocheted alligator doll that she remembered naming Gummy.
"Oh, Pinkamena Diane. I've missed you so much," said Pinkie's mom as she leaned over and gave her a tight hug.
Pinkie had completely forgotten Ponyville by the time her mom leaned over to hug her. She truly did no longer have her friends from Ponyville.
Reality became all she had.