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// Story: The New Pony 
// by Arctic Wave 
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	I'm Mon Ami. I'm hated everywhere. No friends. I've chosen to move to Ponyville to be happy and meet new ponies. This is where my adventure begins, and where it might end.

"Thank you," I said to the airballoon pony.

"Yep. Noo problem," she says happily.

I then leave the air-balloon area and start flying around the new town. Thinking that if I meet another pony, other than the air-balloon pony, I would have some friends. That was when I accidentally bumped into a very handsome unicorn.

"Oh my Celestia, I'm so sorry," I say nervously.

"No. I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention," he said apologetically helping me pick up my stuff. "I'm Taboo. I see you're new to Ponyville. Do you need a place to stay?"

"Uhhh. Yes. I do. But I'm staying with the pony at the library," I explain, leaving. "Uhh. Thank you. Bye."

As I'm walking towards the library, I remembered that I didn't give him my name. I open the door, and look around. Books. Just books. Nothing but books.

"Hello?" I ask. Hoping to get a response.

"What! Who's there!" some pony shouts. "Oh it's you. I'm Musa. Welcome to Ponyville."

"Oh hi. I'm Mon Ami. Uh... French for "my friend"," I say.

"Hi. Uh. Let me show you to your room," Musa tells me as I walk behind her. "This is where you will be staying, so make yourself at home."

"Ummm. Thanks," I whisper.

I start walking around the room which is quite a nice size, and am planning out where I will put my things. I start unpacking but get done early but I only had books to unpack so it was just a couple minutes. I go to my bed and make it. The covers have hearts on them that look like my cutie mark. Nothing special really. I get up on my bed with a nice thick book, which was about 2 hooves thick by the way. I'm about a quarter of the way through, when I hear a knock on my door.

"Come in," I say, with my muzzle literally in the book. So close that I could almost smell it.

"Uhh. Hey. Mona? Can I call you that? Uhh, O.K.. Some pony wants to see you. He says that his name is Taboo. Zebra unicorn mix. Can I send him up?" Musa asks me.

"Yeah. Wait, Taboo?!" I whisper with a scratchy voice.

"Uh, yah. You know him?" Musa asks me again.

"Yes. I bumped into him earlier today. It was awkward. I didn't even know him and now I guess he thinks we're friends. Oh well. I'll be here," I say blandly.

I go back to my book as she leaves the room. A couple minutes later, she comes back with Taboo. He says hi to me but I'm too involved with the book that I didn't say hi back. Then he tilts his head to the right and just stares at me as I look out the corner of my eye. HE JUST STARES AT ME! Like a creep! After a minute of staring, he lays down by me on my bed, without an invite. As he breathes out, I breathe in and smell his mint smelling mouth odor. I nearly fall off the bed when he hugs me. That was when I feel a big lump with something hard in it. It felt like a book.

"Is there a book in you're satchel?" I ask him.

"Uh yeah. You dropped it when we bumped into each other. You hurried off so fast that I couldn't give it back. You didn't even give me your name," Says Taboo looking at me like I'm a filly.

"Yeah sorry 'bout that. It's Mon Ami. Two words. But you can call me Mona," I say looking down shyly.

"Mona? What's wrong? Something is bothering you. I can sense those things. It's kind of a curse with my name Taboo and all," Taboo jokes.

I laugh at that. Normally I'm just a pony that is always blue, but he makes me happy out of all the ponies that have tried over the years.

"Thanks," I say still giggling. "I don't really know any pony that can pop jokes like that about themselves. They mostly just ignore me because I'm the "dweeb" that every pony hates."

"I don't think you're a dweeb. I think you're beautiful," he compliments.

After that I just stare at him blankly. He looks back with a meaningful smile. Like deep deep down it's true.

"Uh, I gotta go help Musa. She has a book sale going on later today and I need to hand out the flyers. Uh, you can let yourself out if you want to go, or stay as long as you want. Ummm. Bye," I say, speed walking out of my room.

3 hours later, he was looking at my books and was making a mental note of them I guess. he took ten minutes just to leave after that and I walked him out.

"That was fun," he said out of nowhere. "What are you doing tomorrow?"

"Uhh. Just staying in my room and reading all the books in the library until I finish with the door locked. So yeah that's actually it," I explain.

"Do you want to go to Sugar Cube Corner with me? Pinkie Pie is having a party for your arrival. She explained to me the hunch she had about you," He said.