Chapter 12: Recovery
"Ugh." I woke up in a hospital bed, but I don't know how I got here. I sat up on my bed and saw Twilight and her friends, standing there with friendly smiles. Why? Flutterbat and I ate Applejack's apples and I tried to protect Flutterbat, so why are they smiling? Why aren't Applejack and Rainbow Dash attacking me? "Shin... I... I'm sorry." Applejack said, apologetically. "F-For what?" I asked, weakly. "For smackin' ya all those times, a-ah was jus' mad, and I'm sorry." Applejack answered with honesty in her voice. Makes sense, she is the Element of Honesty. But what doesn't make sense is why everypony is actually being friendly with me after all that's happened.
But I'll just have to wait to ask a ton of questions.
"Shin, there's somepony that wants to see you." Twilight stated. Fluttershy came from behind everypony else as they cleared a path to my hospital bed. "Hello, Shin." Fluttershy said. "Flutter... bat?" I asked. "No. It's Fluttershy." Fluttershy answered. "I'm back to normal." I sat there, slack-jawed by what I heard. Flutterbat CAN'T be gone. She can't be! "It's the truth." Fluttershy stated. "But..." I started to speak, "...You still love me, right?" Fluttershy's mood changed from kind to serious. "Shin, the mare you loved wasn't me. It was Flutterbat. Somepony who was never meant to exist." Part of me is still in shock, but I was still be able to respond, "But I-" "Shin." Fluttershy stopped me and spoke, "Flutterbat wasn't real, and... you're just going to have to accept the fact that... she's gone."
"..." Silence flooded the room.
Suddenly, I broke down crying, the mare that I loved, more than anything else in Equestria...
...Was gone forever.
And I knew I was never going to see her again.
I couldn't stop crying. Not even for a second.
"I think Shin needs to be alone right now." Twilight suggested. Everypony else nodded in agreement and began to leave the room, but Rainbow Dash stayed for a moment and put her right forehoof to the top of my head and started rubbing it. "Hey, um, sorry about, well, ya know, everything I did to you." I looked up and saw the guilt on her face. She really is sorry. "It... It's ok. *sniff* I-I understand." I sobbed as I spoke. "...I'll see ya later." She left the room after that.
I cried for a good ten minutes until the nurse came in, "Shin, there's somepony that wants to see you." I pulled my hooves away from my face to look at the nurse, "W-Who is it?" She looked out in the hallway, "I don't know, she never said her name." I went from sad to curious, "She?" Then all of a sudden, a unicorn mare walked in the room, it was Floral Allure. "Floral?!" I said, completely surprised. "I'll leave you two alone." The nurse exited the room into the hallway. Floral pulled up a chair with her magic and sat close to my bed. "Hey." I said, as kind as she can be. I looked down at my hooves, "What do you want?" Floral put her hoof to mine, "I just wanted to see my favorite stallion." She answered, her voice changing from kind to sweet. "Yeah, right." I replied with sadness in my voice. I continued to speak, "Why are you even talking to me?" Floral looked confused, "I-I don't know-" "Don't pretend that you don't know!" I interrupted, angrily, "I'm a freak, remember!? You should hate me! You should be knocking me silly!..." I half-yelled, but I wasn't finished, "...And yet," I looked down at my hooves again, "You still think of me as a friend." I returned my gaze to Floral, "I don't understand you." I finally finished speaking my mind, something that I could never do. She put her hoof from my hoof to my face, "Abandoning you... was a mistake." I looked as if I was about to die from shock, I couldn't believe what she said, and the part that surprised me the most...
She said that with complete and total honesty.
"You... you mean it?" I asked. She got up from her chair and took a couple of steps back. "Cross my heart, and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." she replied as she crossed an X on her chest with her hoof, fluttered both her hooves and put one of her hooves in front of her eye. I was really confused when she did that, but I tried to process what she was doing, she walked up to me and said, "It's something Pinkie Pie taught me." Now it made perfect sense. Before I knew it, she brought her muzzle closer to mine and soon our lips met. I may have met a mare who understood me, but now...
I met a mare who accepted me.
"Yes!" An unknown whisper came from the door, it was a crack open and we saw six mares in the hallway. Twilight and her friends were spying on us. The door quickly slammed shut and Floral and I shared another kiss. I finally have something that I thought that I would never get.
I have found "True Happiness".