//------------------------------// // Day Two: Ohne Dich, Moy Mir // Story: What Would Really Happen // by Z-A-C //------------------------------// ~Day Two: Ohne Dich, Moy Mir AKA Without You, My World~ "I always wanted to go to another dimension. But, as they say, be careful what you wish for."-Me I slowly opened my eyes. I noticed the white walls and briefly thought that I was at home. The only thing that kept me from holding on to that was the pony monitoring the medical equipment. She glanced over at me and noticed I was awake. "Oh, good morning!" She put on a nervous smile. I gave her a tired deadpan look. "Yeah..." She gave me a strange look and I sighed. "Excuse me for not being all 'sunshine and bright rainbows' but I thought this nightmare was over." She raised an eyebrow at that. "Nightmare? What do you mean?" I looked at her with annoyance. "As much as I would love to have this talk, it's still too early." She shot me her own annoyed look. "Very well, I will go get Miss Sparkle." she turned and faced the door "And the Princess?" "She has better things to do." And she trotted out of the door. I scowled at the ceiling. "Well then." I wonder what I did to make her angry with me? I got up and sat at the edge of the bed. I considered leaving the room and meeting Twilight in the hallway or the lobby, but decided against it. I let out a yawn and got out of bed. I turned towards the window and shielded my eyes from the brightness. "Damn sun! Why couldn't my glasses have come with me?" I stretched and yawned again. I must be in one of the farther away rooms in the hospital. Otherwise it wouldn't take this long for them to get to me. After a few more minutes, Twilight finally walked in. She didn't knock or anything either, just walked in. "Good morning Zane. How are you?" "Tired." "Didn't sleep well?" "Oh, no, I slept fine. It's just too damn early. Where's Dash?" "She's at her job." I simply nodded. When she realized I wasn't going to say anything she continued. "Nurse Redheart said you can leave today. And I'm here to take you back to the library." I thought about that for a little bit. "Am I right to assume that, the only reason I'm released today is because they wouldn't know even if anything was wrong?" She looked uncomfortable and fidgeted slightly. "I thought so." I said in a low voice. "For they know I could have a broken back or something." "But you don't, right?" "Thankfully no, but the point stands. Never did like hospitals..." "Well, good thing you can leave!" "Yeah. I guess you're right." I sighed. "How much paperwork is there?" "None." "None? Really?" "Well, there was some debate about that but they figured you had no way of paying for it. So..." I rolled my eyes. "That explains why that nurse was so unhappy. It's always about the fucking money! I'm sick of this place! Let's get out of here." I said as I stomped out of the doorway. I could hear Twilight follow me, and she soon run in front of me. "Wait! You have to give the gown back." "And I will as soon as I get my things back." We are now back at Twilight's library. I had all of my clothes back and I am sitting on her couch with my eyes closed. I heard hoof beats (or steps) and they suddenly stopped in front of me. Since the table was in front of me I paid it no mind. That was until they started to slowly get closer and closer and closer. I raised eyebrow and spoke. "Yes, I'm awake." I said in an annoyed tone. What followed was what I could describe as a heart attack or something. I don't know but everything in my chest ceased up. I quickly opened my eyes and frantically tried to breath, but no air would enter my lungs. I don't even think my heart was beating either. I got a good look at what did this to me, and saw a pony sized bug like creature. I glared at it and grabbed the bat next to me and swung. I hit it and it flew across the room, I stood up and slowly walked over to it. Half way to it I dropped the bat and took a few more steps before collapsing. I could see it cowering and nursing it's leg. The commotion must have alerted Twilight, because she ran down the stairs. "What happened!?" At this point I could barely move, and everything was starting to go black. The creature moved away as Twilight glared at it. She then flipped me over with her magic. "Hold on! I'm doing a medical scan on you!" But her voice was distant. She must have found what was wrong, because I started to breath again. "What....was....that?" "You were hit with a paralysis spell." "And the thing that cast it on me?" "A changeling. That just so happens to not have very good control of her magic." She sighed. "Sorry about that." I just lay there, trying not to pay attention to my burning chest. I shook my head and she went to go get the "changeling". I could hear their conversation in the other room. "Go out there and apologize!" "B-but he scared me! It was an accident!" "That doesn't matter, you could have killed him! Now go! Don't make me tell the princess that you non-reformable!" The changeling make a noise at that, and slowly walked into room where I was. As much as I'm pissed at it, it is slightly refreshing to see something that's not all bright and colorful. But still, fuck that thing. It looked at me with those freaky eyes, and slowly walked towards me. I glared at it, which made it flinch but Twilight nudged it and got it going again. I sat up as soon as it was in front of me. "I-I'm really sorry." It voice had a feminine touch to it, and now that it was closer I could tell her voice had a buzz to it as well. Beat it! It almost killed us! No! Let's hear HER out. She seems sincere. She looked back at Twilight, who urged her to continue. "I um... I acted without thinking. I didn't mean to hurt you..." Kill it kill it kill it KILL IT!! NO! Zane, don't do anything rash!! Think! But I didn't. I grabbed the changeling by the neck and began to strangle her. The look of fear and agony on her face was beautiful but made my feel like I was doing something horrible. But I couldn't stop. The changeling started gasping for air and I felt a single tear run down my face. I wasn't seeing red any longer and I had to stop, lest I end her life. "Twilight, I can't stop this. Help! I don't want to kill her." Twilight didn't even wait a nano second. I was on the other side of the room before I even realized I had moved. I could hear coughing and whimpering from the other side. I felt two things: Relief, because she was alive. And fear, because of the consequences. I guess I'll find out. Twilight stormed up to me like I don't know what. Either I was seeing things, or her mane was on fire. I would have backed up if I wasn't in so much pain right now. "ZANE! I cannot believe you!" She shouted mere inches from my face. "She tried apologize and you try to KILL HER!!" "Twilight I-" "NO! I don't care who or what you are, but that's not how things work here!" She stamped on the floor to emphasize her words. "You two aren't to be around each other unless I'm supervising. I don't need you killing each other. Am I understood!" "Yes." I squeaked out. "Good." She calmed down a little. "Now, Aura go back to your room while I write the Princess a letter." 'Aura" nodded and left. "Zane, stay here. Do. Not. Move." I nodded as well and continued to lay on the floor. Twilight stomped off to somewhere and I was left alone. Well save for the owl in the room but I don't think he counts. "I'm a twenty year old guy, and I'm afraid of a purple talking pony." I shook my head at the thought. "Sheesh." I sighed. "So, first things on the mental check list is to explain to Twilight, and possibly the Princess, how (some) humans are and try to apologize to Aura." I rubbed my eyes. "How am I going to do this?" ~Ten Minutes Later~ "Sometimes, I see things differently. Like one day there were two of me in the mirror. Shit was trippy."-Me. I don't know what brought it on, but I started to get really negative and down on myself. Maybe it was the situation or something but yeah, not good. I have seen Twilight since then, but I was avoiding her. She had a hurt look on her face but I couldn't stare at her too long. The one time I did, her face started to contort and form into a monster's face. Don't tell my parents... It went away after I blinked but ever since then I've been increasingly distant towards her. And considering it's only been about two hours, that's saying a lot. Poor Aura though. She's gotten worse, she already looks like a monster to me. I haven't been violent towards her or anything. I would just literally run away to a different room. According to Twilight, she was just trying apologize again. I couldn't look at her that time either. "I should stop avoiding it." Yes you should. "What's the worst that could happen?" They could turn on you and arrest you. "No, they would have by now if that was the case." I sighed. "Why am I such an idiot?" You're not. He kind of is, actually "But I do wonder if she told Celestia. How much trouble would I be in then?" Alot "Nice see you two agree on something." I said flatly. "I guess I should stop procrastinating." I got up from my seat and started to look for Twilight. She would most likely be in her room or maybe she's out? I went upstairs and knocked on her bedroom door and didn't get a response. "Maybe she is out. Hmm..." I went back downstairs and checked the basement. She wasn't there either. "Spike! Are you here?!" I heard Twilight's door open and Spike appeared at the top of the stairs. "Yes?" "I didn't wake you up, did I?" "Yeah, but I was just taking a nap." He shrugged. "What do you need?" "I was wondering where Twilight is." "Oh. She in her room, studying." He said matter of factly I raised an eyebrow. "For what?" "Well nothing really. At least I don't think so." He scratched the back of his head. "She gets like that sometimes" "I see." I shook my head. "Well when you can, tell her I want to talk to her and Aura." "Got it!" He turned around but I stopped him. "Do you guys have anything to eat, I'm getting kinda hungry." "Just check the kitchen." "O...kay?" And he went back into Twilight's room. I went and found the kitchen. It was just my luck that Aura was in there. I stopped in the middle of the door way and she froze as well. We stared at each other for what felt like hours. She gave a nervous smile, which showed off her fangs and I began to back up slowly. You're a coward! How will you talk to her if you cant be in the same room!? He had a point. "H-hi?" Said Aura. I stopped and looked at her. She was eating a sandwich. I shook my head and slowly walked forward. "She wouldn't like us talking without her here." She looked down at her plate. "Yeah... You're probably right." "Unfortunately." I sighed. I looked in the fridge but couldn't find anything. I didn't want to look through the cabinets, so I just sat at the table. And looked out of the window. I could see Aura was watching me closely out of the corner of my eye. I couldn't blame her, I would do the same thing. Not long after that Twilight walked into the room. She had the look of annoyance at seeing Aura and I in the same room without her knowing, but got over it. She looked between the two of us, but settled on me. "Spike said you wanted to talk?" "Yeah. I think I'm ready to apologize." "Excellent! Aura?" "M-me too." Twilight nodded and looked at me. I got up and turned to Aura. "I'm not good with things like this but, uh, I shouldn't went after you like that. It's just that everything came flooding back to me. I'm confused as to how I got here and that added to the anger towards you, and threw me over the edge. I'm sorry Aura. I really am." "I'm sorry as well." She said, looking me straight in the eye. "I got startled and didn't take the effects that the spell would have on you into account. I'm sorry, I didn't mean for that to happen." She got out of her seat. She fidgeted and looked up at me. I knelt down to see what she wanted and she wrapped her fore legs around me. Confused, I put my arms around her with a weird look on my face. Her (what is it called? Oh right) chitin felt weird. Hard but not like a rock. Warm as well, which threw me off, but I didn't let it show. The embrace broke and I stood up, subconsciously wiping my hand on my clothes. "I know," She looked at the ground. "My chitin must feel weird to you." "Huh?" I looked at her and realized what I was doing. "Oh, no, no it's not you. That's just something I do after shaking hands with someone or something, it's nothing personal." She nodded, but I feel that she didn't believe me. I looked at Twilight. "Did you tell the Princess?" "I did." She nodded. I slowly closed my eyes. "Shit. And?" "She wanted me to handle it. And I think it went well." She then looked at me sternly. "But, I want you to explain why you acted like that." Great. Don't stress it. You did this to yourself. "Well um. Hmm... I really don't know how to, to be honest." I was being half honest. I really didn't know how to and I didn't want to. But I knew she wouldn't let it go. She had that universal look of 'you better talk.' "Well like I told her. All of the confusion added with the anger made me lash out." "I don't think your telling me everything, but I guess it will do." Aura flew up to my eye level. "Actually, I think I know what the other thing is." Twilight tilted her head and I gave her a hard stare. "He's lonely." I nodded with an annoyed look on my face. Twilight tapped her hoof to her chin. "Confusion, loneliness would be enough, but add anger to it..." She nodded. "I think that explains it. For the most part." "I don't like to be read so easily." I gave Aura an annoyed look, but patted her on the head. "But thank you. I think." She flew back down to the floor. She left and I sat down. "Oh my god." I groaned. "I hate this shit." "Yeah. That's another thing we have to talk about." I raised an eye brow. "Ponies really don't like cursing. Can you try to tone it down?" "Oh, right sorry. I wasn't aware." "It's fine. You didn't know before now. Spike said you were hungry?" "Yeah a little bit. I can go without lunch though." "Oh no, I couldn't have that." She seemed to think for a bit. "I know! How about I take you on a tour of the town? We could get something to eat then." I shrugged. "Sounds good to me." "When shall we get going?" "Whenever really. I would like some new clothes though." She gasped. "I know just the place!" "You have human clothes here?" "Not yet." "Okay?" "Follow me!" And she almost ran out of the door. This will be fun. I hope. ~Five Minutes Later~ "I'm not as shy as I used to be. I'm just silent, always have been. Don't mistake that unkindness."-Me Instead of taking me directly to get more clothes, Twilight decided to give me the tour now. Which was fine and all. It just threw me off a tad. To my surprise, Ponyville was just like a village on earth. Except for, you know, obvious reasons. And the buildings were smaller. But that should be expected. While walking through town, I saw a music store and made a mental note to visit it sometime. Twilight was silently and happily leading me, and I had nothing to talk about. So far, this was a boring walk. I thought struck me out of nowhere. 'I wonder if some of my stuff came with me?' I thought. 'I'll ask Twilight.' "Hey Twilight?" I said. "You were the one that found me, right?" "Yep, why?" She said without stopping. "I was wondering if you found anything that might belong to me." She stopped and turned around. "Actually yes. I found a strange rectangular device." I nodded. "That would be my iPod. Was it broken?" "It has a small crack in it, but other then that, it seemed fine." I gave a sigh of relief. "Good. Where is it?" "In my room." "Was that what you were studying? Spike didn't say." She nodded. "Yes." She turned around and continued walking. "I was trying to figure out how it worked." "As long as you don't take it apart." I shrugged. She gave a nervous chuckle and my face fell. "You did, didn't you?" "Maybe a little..." She glanced over and saw me glaring at her. "B-but I put it together! And it works!" "It had better." I said in a harsh tone. The walk turned silent. But with this new information about my iPod, I started to wonder if they had electricity. I would ask Ms. Genius here, but I was kinda mad at her at the moment. After a couple of more minutes, I got tired of the silence and started to sing in very low volume. I saw Twilight's ears twitch. She suddenly stopped. "You know Germane?" The question caught me off guard. "If you mean German, then no. I only know certain words because of a band I like. Like zwitter. That's a German word." Her face turned red, and I laughed. "Yes. Well," She cleared her throat. "Could you sing that song again?" She began moving again. "I'm...not really a good singer..." I said, following her. Obviously, idiot. "Oh come on. You don't have to sing it loudly, just loud enough where I can hear you." I sighed. "Fine. But consider yourself lucky. I normally wouldn't do this." I took a deep breath. "I only remember the chorus." "That's fine." I nodded and began to sing again: "Ohne dich kann ich nicht sein, Ohne dich. Mit dir bin ich auch allein, Ohne dich. Ohne dich zähl ich die Stunden, ohne dich. Mit dir stehen die Sekunden, Lohnen nicht." She tapped her chin, and after a few seconds, put on a sad expression. "I wonder what would make somepony want to write a song like that?" I shrugged. "I don't know." "I mean the first line is kind of sweet, but the the second line..." "Mind translating?" "Well, ohne dich means 'without you'." I rolled my eyes. "I know that much. I meant translate the whole chorus, not word for word." "Oh, okay: "Without you I cannot be, Without you. With you I am alone too, Without you. Without you I count the hours, without you. With you the seconds stand still, They aren't worth it." "Yeah, I see what you mean." I shrugged. "But, you know." I looked around. "So anyway, where are we going?" She stopped and looked around. "Well, that's on of the roads to Sweet Apple Acres," she pointed to the right. She then pointed left. "And over there is the market place. And ahead of us is Sugar Cube Corner." Really? "It looks like it's made of ginger bread..." "Well it is a bakery." "Yeah. Makes a lot of sense." I said sarcastically. "Well, I guess we could go there for a snack." "Well..." I raised an eye brow. "What?" "Maybe we shouldn't go there yet." "Why not?" I asked slowly. "My friend Pinkie Pie works there. She's a bit...hyper." I nodded. "I see. What do you suggest?" "Well, I don't know about you but I suggest a party!!" Said a voice from behind us. Making us both jump about ten feet in the air. And then the owner of the voice gasped. "Twilight! Who's your friend!? No no whats your friend!?" She then bounced to me. "I haven't seen you around, and that must mean that you're new in town!" "Well um..." "Wait." Twilight interrupted. "Pinkie, I saw you in that mob yesterday." "Yep!" "Surely you saw him then?" "Nope!" That confused me. It seemed like every pony in town was there. "I was behind some mean ponies. They didn't let me go in front of them! And when the crowd went away, you were gone." I guess that made sense. "Why didn't you check the hospital?" "You went to the hospital!?!?" Twilight groaned in frustration. "Never mind, I'll explain it later. We were on our way to Sugar Cube Corner. Care to join us?" "Okie doki loki!" She is a strange one, that's for sure. I did have to wonder why she was smiling a lot though. But even back on Earth, there are people like that. Twilight must have noticed that I was feeling uncomfortable, because she took the liberty of explaining everything to Pinkie. However little that may be. "...And that's all I know at the moment. He won't tell me anything." 'Well you really haven't asked.' "Silly Twilight, you need to ask him first!" I stopped in my tracks and looked at her. Twilight did the same. "H-how did you know I haven't asked him yet?" She then shook her head. "Never mind." She looked back at me. "Don't worry, it's just Pinkie being Pinkie." "Uh huh, sure. If you say so..." I said, as I continued to walk with them. I think I had a friend like Pinkie once. I can't really remember though... We walked into the bakery, and some ponies stared at me. Twilight gave them a stern glance and they all went back to what they were doing. We walked up to the counter, Twilight ordered a cupcake and so did Pinkie. And I saw several things that looked good. Cookies, brownies, slices of pie and cake. God damn they looked delicious. And then I realized I don't have any money. Well I do but I don't think they'd accept U.S. dollars. Inwardly cursing, I turned around and sat down at the table Twilight and Pinkie were at. "Why didn't you get anything?" Asked Pinkie. "I don't have any money..." Twilight look at me. "I could buy-" I stopped her. "You're already going to buy me lunch, I don't want you spending money on me anymore that you have to." "But it's no trouble really." I thought about it and sighed. "If you really insist I guess...I don't care what you get me." She nodded and went to the counter, leaving Pinkie and I alone together. She was staring at me without saying a word, which was unnerving. Until, "Gee, you really don't talk much do you? Well that's okay! I can talk for the both of us!" I shook my head. "Oh! That could work too! I ask a question and you nod and shake your head!" I shrugged. "Okay! Do you like parties?" I shook my head. "No? Not even a little bit?" That required a vocal answer. "It really depends on the type of party. If it's a small party then it's fine, but I hate huge parties." "Okie doki loki Zane. I think I can work with that." She gasped. "I'll invite all of my friends! Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack! Maybe a couple others?" "I'm sure you'll figure it out." How did she know my name? Twillight must have told her. Speaking of Twilight, she came back to the table. She got me a chocolate chip cookie. She sat it in front of me and sat next to Pinkie. "What are we doing after this?" I asked. "I think we should go see Rarity next, and then we find something to eat." "Sounds good to me, I suppose." I finished the cookie and asked if they were ready to go. Pinkie said she was on her break and had to get back to work. Twilight said she wanted to sit for awhile. I didn't mind all that much I hope she didn't expect a long conversation. ~Twenty Minutes Later~ "I don't have a good quote for this one..."-Me We are now at the clothing shop, and Rarity has agree to outfit me with some new clothes. After freaking out....for an hour.....and a half. She even threw her cat at me! But Twilight caught it. Thank god for that. Lesson here is: Always let Twilight go first. Lesson learned. So, after that initial breakdown, I am now stood on a pedestal. This is one of the most boring things I have done in my life. And we just started! It could be because she was nervous, or maybe she was being careful? Either way I wanted this to be over. "Now that I have the measurements out of the way, what colors and fabrics do you want?" "Denim for the pants, if you have it. And maybe cotton for the shirt." I thought about that for a second. "I don't know actually." I shrugged. "Something that wont shrink." She nodded and wrote it down. "Mmhmm, now for the color." "Blue for the pants and black for the shirt." She looked at me with concern. "Black? What ever for? Are you feeling okay?" I raised an eyebrow. "I feel fine. Why do you ask?" "Black isn't....how should I put this?" She tapped her chin. "Well, frankly It isn't a good color..." "Black is a negative color. The color of depression, sadness, pain, evil, and death. Right, Miss Rarity?" I looked out of the window. "Well...yes." She said cautiously. "It is for those reasons that it is my favorite color." I slowly and creepily turned my head and looked at her "I want black." She backed up a bit. "Uh....okay..." After about an hour or so of standing still, fitting, and refitting, she was finally done. "There we go Darling, you can move now. Though I am still not sure why you wanted....black." I moved around a bit to get used to the fabric.'Feels kinda different' I thought. "When you've seen what I have, you'll understand." I sighed and shook my head as the awful memory tried to surface. "Thanks Rarity." I pulled out my wallet and gave her two dollars. "Here's some currency from the country I come from. I don't think it's any good here but, think of it as a gift." "I can't accept this." "Why not?" I asked still holding the money out. "This was a favor. I can not and will not accept money for simply helping somepony out." "Not even as a gift? I see the generosity you've shown me, don't deny me returning the favor." She grabbed in her magic and looked at it. "Well it is quite unique." "See? Once in a life time opportunity." I smiled. "Thank you oh so much." "Not a problem." Just then an idea struck me. "Hey, do you have any fabric paint?" She blinked a couple times. "I think so? Why do you ask?" "Why else?" Her eyes widened in realization. "I see, what colors do you want?" "Just red would be fine." "Any bit of color would be an improvement. I will back momentarily." I chuckled as she left. 'She really doesn't like black.' I thought. Having that memory flash in my head made me think of home. "I wonder if I'm dead there." I thought out loud. "Or I'm in a coma and this is just a world my mind made to cope with it..." I sighed. "Might never find out." "Find out what mister?" I heard from my right. Slightly startled, I looked over to see a filly walking down the stairs that Rarity went up. "Are you looking for your cutie mark?" I scanned my brain for what a "cutie mark" is. I thought back to when Twilight was telling me about this place. 'That's right. The mark on their flanks when they find what they're good at' "No, no. I don't think I can get one of those." I chuckled. "I was just wondering if I could get home." "Are you lost?" "Well, you could say that." Knowing what the next question might be, I spoke before her. "But while I'm figuring everything out, I'm staying with Twilight." She smiled. "It was nice meeting you, but I have some crusading to do! Bye!" And she walked out of the door. I just waved. 'Crusading? Surely not.' No, it had to be a game. "There! What do you think?" Rarity had gotten back with the paint a few minutes ago, and I just finished painting my new shirt. "Hmm...well, it's better than plain black." "What? You don't like it?" "It's not that, darling. I am merely trying to figure out why you chose something that resembles a pie chart." "Pie chart? What the...? It's a peace sign! What are you talking about?" I knew she wouldn't know what is was, but I had to mess with her. Damn richies. At least she's nice. I put the peace sign on the upper left of the shirt. Right above where a pocket would be. "I didn't mean to offend." I laughed. "Naw, you're good. I was just kiddin'." I looked around and noticed a lack of the purple one. "Where did Twilight go?" "You don't remember?" "Not really. If she told me, then I guess I spaced out." She shook her head and rolled her eyes. "She said she was going to look for a restaurant you might like." "Oh. That's nice of her." Great, now for idle conversation... I tried to think about things to talk about. "So... I met your...sister." "Oh?" She raised her eyebrow. "I didn't even know she was here! She didn't give you any trouble, did she?" I shook my head. "No, she didn't. We said, what? Like four, five words? And then she went out 'crusading'." She had an almost defeated look on her face. "Oh, I do hope she keeps out of trouble." "I'm sure she'll be fine." There was a pause. I looked around for a bit, waiting for her to say something else. She didn't say anything else, so I felt that I had to. Thankfully I just thought of something. "So what is 'crusading'? In my world it probably has a different meaning." "They are just looking for their special talent. They gave it a nickname is all." She stated. "What does it mean in your world?" Shit. How to dodge this question. As if on cue, Twilight walked in. "Hello! Sorry I stepped out, but I think I found a good place to eat." "Cool. Mind if we get going?" "Not at all! Thanks Rarity." "N-not a problem Dear. Bye!" We both walked out of the store. Twilight happily leading me. "I hope everything between the two of you blew over." "Oh yeah, everything went fine." She smiled. "Good! It's just over here." "Can't wait. I'm starving!" ~A Few Minutes Later~ "Sometimes, I just don’t want to talk about my problems. Must people don’t want to hear them anyway..."-Me "The Daisy Chain?" I asked. We just arrive at the restaurant she hyped me up for. "Yes." She nodded. "It's fairly new. I thought this was a good opportunity to check it out." "Oookay. Am I right too assume that its going mostly vegetarian?" "Yes," She tilted her head. "Why wouldn't it be." "Well then.... I might be hungry later." We walked into the restaurant. It was pretty much what you would expect. Which was slightly surprising, considering it look kinda like a T.G.I. Friday's. Twilight walked up to the waitress station. "Hello, table for two?" She asked with a hint of nervousness in her voice. "Yes please." Twilight happily replied. The waitress asked us to follow her and we did. I was looking around at all of the random shit that was strewn across the walls. I shook my head and rolled my eyes. 'Why do they do that' I wondered. She showed us our table and said some one would be with us shortly, and handed us two menus. We both nodded in response and started to look at said menus. I looked at the drinks and sighed. Apple juice, some weird fuckin' juice drink, and two other drinks that didn't sound good. Dammit. I flipped the menus and looked at the food. And guess what! There's a salad, here's a salad, everywhere's a freakin' salad. Or at least that's what it seemed like. Everything had lettuce in it, and if it didn't, it was fucking daffodils or, well, daisies. Like this! "What the fuck is a Daisy Milkshake!?" I thought out loud. Shit. "Zane! Language!" Twilight scolded. "S-sorry." I hid behind my menu. I heard a set of hooves hesitantly walk up to the table. "T-the Daisy Milkshake is our f-famous milk s-shake." She said. She took a deep, calming breath. "My name's Sunflower, I'll be your waitress today." Sun flower? Really? "Are you ready to order?" "No, not yet. Actually you can skip me. I'm not hungry anymore..." I handed her my menu. "Zane-?" Twilight tried to ask but I stopped her. "Um...okay then? I'll have the..." I stopped paying attention. I guess thought's of home invaded my head. Or it could be a mood swing? No idea, but what ever. "Are...are you feeling okay?" "Yeah why?" "Well, you were going on about how hungry you were, and all of a sudden you're not hungry. What going on?" She looked at me with concern plain on her face. "Nothing looked good." I said as I looked away from her. "Not even a drink?" I just shook my head. "I don't think you're being honest with me." I furrowed my eyebrows. "Can we please drop it? We don't need a replay of what happened when I first got here do we?" I said calmly. I glanced at her and she looked shock I would threaten her like that. I sighed and looked at the ceiling. "Sorry...I went overboard there..." She didn't give a proper response. Yep, I definitely shouldn't have said that... The walk back to the library was a quiet one. Even though I apologized a few times, she didn't seem to care. We walk into the door and she cast a spell. "What is wrong with you! You scare our waitress, pretty much everypony in the restaurant, and threaten me!" "I said I was sorry!" "Sorry doesn't cut it. You went over the line and-" "I acknowledge that!!" She stopped and looked at me, scared. "I was apologizing for both things, you stupid unicorn!" "There's no reason for name calling!" "I wasn't name calling!" "What the hay is wrong with you!!" "FINE!!" I shouted. She scooted back a couple of feet. "You want to know what's wrong with me? I miss home! Can you blame me for acting out of sorts?" I waited for her to say anything, but she didn't. "It normally isn't this big a deal, but I could be dead dammit!" I sighed. "Do you know what happened before I came here?" She shook her head. "I was hit by an S.U.V.!" She gave me a weird look. "I'll tell you later." I then sighed. "And like Aura said, I'm lonely. But that was before I came here." I walked over to the couch. Twilight walked over to me and sat down. "I know all that doesn't really excuse me, but..." I trailed off. "No, it doesn't excuse you from anything. But I understand." I looked over at her. She was smiling. "You shouldn't bottle everything up inside, Zane. It isn't healthy." "I know it isn't. It's just my way of dealing with things, you know?" She nodded her head. "Yes but you need to find another way." She then seemed to be thinking about something. "You haven't told me about your world yet." Mild subject change at best... "You don't want to hear about it. At least not today." "If it's a 'long story' then I've got time." I sighed. I hate when people do that. "Okay." She pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill. "The planet I'm from is called Earth. The country I'm from is the United States of America." She wrote that down. "What state are you from?" "Indiana. As for the town, I'm not saying." "Okay?" She wrote that down. "What is your government like?" I laughed. "Oh sorry, I really don't want to get into that." She gave me a puzzled look. "Trust me on this." I spent a good amount of time telling her little odd facts about Earth, while she was writing everything down. After maybe an hour, she set the parchment down. "Thank you." "No problem." I shrugged. "Hey, now that that's out of the way, wanna listen to some human music?" "I don't know. It's getting kinda late." I looked outside, and then at my watch. It was only nine at night. "Maybe one or two songs?" She rolled her eyes playfully. "Fine. I'll go get it." She went up stairs. I tried to think of a song. It had to be a relaxing song, to calm everything down. Problem is I don't have many relaxing songs... She returned with it and hovered it over to me. I took it and looked it over. She wasn't kidding when she said she fixed it. The supposed crack was gone and everything. It was even charged! "Sweet! Thanks. Now, to listen too?" I searched the music library. "Hmm... I'm not sure." Maybe Seether? I looked through their songs and settle on Plastic Man. "Here we go. It's a little sad but I find it relaxing." I pressed play After it was over, she looked at me. "Well..." "Yes?" "I'm conflicted. The song sounds sad, but the message is more or less positive. Well to a certain point at least." I nodded. "I felt the same when I first it." I searched for another song. One maybe a little better. "Ah, this a good one." I chose Tiptoe by Imagine Dragons. "This one's more upbeat." I pressed play and closed my eyes. After the song ended she nodded. "I like that better than the other one." I chuckled. "I thought so. If you ever want to listen to another one, just let me know." "Oh I definitely will." She looked at the clock on the wall. "Well it's nine o' seven. I'm going to bed." "Oh okay. See you tomorrow." "Good night." And she headed up stairs. I laid down on the couch and closed my eyes. I had my music going but it might not help. I have a lot to think about tonight.