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// A New Experience 
// Story: The Start Of A New Beginning 
// by Shysoldier94 
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Before you read this story, I want to say that this is based upon an actual event that occurred in my younger years. Not everything is going to be exactly what happened because some of it I just couldn't remember due to me being about 6 or 7 years old. 


I was just a little colt back then. No more than seven years of age. My family didn’t have much, but we made everything work out to get by. I had 4 brothers at the time and including my parents and me, which made 7 of us. We all lived in a very cramped apartment room with only 2 bedrooms. My brothers and I shared one room which was very small and cramped. And then my parents had the other room. There was a tiny kitchen along with a laundry room the size of a closet. And then there was the living room with a couch and an old TV. 
I was too young to remember much but I do remember getting out of bed one night and overhearing my parents talking about moving back to the town I was born in: Greenville.

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My brothers woke up on a Saturday morning to watch our favorite television show. I was the first one to always wake up. I’ve always woke up early due to always getting ready for school it so the routine pretty much stuck. I sat on the couch and waited for my brothers to come into the living room so we could watch it together.
Slowly, they made their way in and turned on the television. We watched and laughed and had ourselves a good time. It was after the show ended, my parents walked in.
“Boys, me and your father had been talking,” my mother began, “And we are going to move to Greenville in two weeks.”
We were all surprised at what she said. And I was the first to speak. “But momma what about all my friends? They’re gonna miss me and I’m gonna miss them.”
“Shifty think about it this way son, you have other friends that are waiting to meet you back in Greenville.” It was true. I never had thought about it. And it would be good to be able to make many new friends.
“But how are we going to get there?” My eldest brother said. “We’re not pegasi so we can’t fly there and we’re not unicorns so we can’t use our magic teleport there.”
“We’re going to rent a carriage. It’s a long way there but we can do it.” My mother exclaimed.
“But for now, we’re going to spend these last 2 weeks packing up all our things. You’re still going to be going to school so you can spend as much time as you can with your friends before the move.
This was going to be so exciting! We were going to move back to where I was born and then I’m going to make so many new friends!

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The last two weeks went by very slow. I was happy for that because I felt I had more time to spend with my friends before I said goodbye. On my last day of school, my whole class created a banner for me and a big card with all their names on it. The banner said ‘We Will Miss You Shifty! Good Luck in Your New Home!’ What made that day special was my whole class went outside to our school banner and took a class picture. They later had the picture printed and put it in an envelope with the card. By the time the school day ended, everyone said their goodbyes. It hurt to say goodbye to all my friends. Tears started to fill my eyes as everyone surrounded me and wrapped their hooves around me in a long embrace. I never wanted it to end but it had to. My parents waited outside to pick me up. As we left, I waved goodbye to everyone as they did the same.
We arrived at home a few minutes later. This was the last evening we would spend in this tiny apartment and early in the morning, we would leave to the road to our new home. We ate dinner that night on the floor considering it was already packed up in our moving carriage. It was a few minutes before we were going to bed early, my parents showed us a picture of the new house we were moving into. 
“See my little colts. This is the new house we’re going to live in.” My mother said to us with a smile. It was beautiful. The grass was green and cut neatly. The outside was white and had a tan roof. We were all so excited we decided to get some sleep before we headed out. My family slept on the floor in our room while I slept in the living room by myself. It was very early in the morning when my youngest brother woke me up.
“Shifty! Shifty!” He whispered.
“Huh?” I said, waking up. “Why’d you wake me up?”
“Momma and Dad are gone! They’re not here!”
I slowly got up and walked to our room. I turned on the light and saw them, my parents and other brothers all asleep on the floor curled up in blankets.
“Sprint they’re right there. You just had a bad dream. Go back and get some sleep.” He nodded and went back to his sleeping back. I walked back to my place in the living room, fell down into my blankets, and fell fast asleep.

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My parents woke me up very early the next morning. It was still dark out as I tried to get up. 
“Come on Shifty wake up.” My Dad said gently lifting me up. “It’s time for us to hit the road. You can sleep in the carriage. I moaned sleapishly as we all gathered the rest of our stuff and got ready to head out to the moving carriage.
We locked the door to the apartment and all gathered into the carriage. As we pulled away, my brothers and I waived and said, “Bye bye old home.” And that’s when I fell back asleep.
I woke up when Celestia’s sun was straight ahead in the sky. According to my parents, I was asleep for a good 7 hours. 
“But don’t worry. You didn’t miss miss any of the sights.” My father said. He told us that when we’re half way there, there’s a big bridge that we have to cross. At hearing that, my brothers and I cheered. We never had the chance to travel because we didn’t have enough bits left after paying bills and all sorts of stuff like that. So this move was an extraordinary experience. The travel there was supposed to take four days. So we only stopped when we had to use the bathroom or get snacks. The only time we ate was at dinner time which was a good thing we had snacks during the day!
The best part about this trip, our Grandma was coming with us! I called her Meemaw and she didn’t seem to mind. She wasn’t moving there with us I was sad about that because then she’ll be so far away. But she was going to stay with us for a few weeks to help us get settled in. But after that she’ll have to go back to Ponyville. The thought of Ponyville made me a little sad. We grew up there and had many friends. Now they’re all left behind. But I told myself again that this is a new adventure and a bigger step to a better life.