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// Zen Believes Me 
// Story: Newtown Ponies 
// by COMPLETELY DONE 
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Newtown Ponies

On my way home, I was wondering, What is life like for Vinyl Scratch or even Octavia, maybe Neon Lights has it easier than I do! When the bus stopped, I hit my head against the seat in front of me. “You okay?” Starr asked.


“Mm-hmm” I said, pulling my horn out of the seat. I trotted out while Zen waited for me at the door of the bus. “I just wish I had a normal life!” I commented. Zen gave me a you-think-you-have-it-hard look.


“Okay then, Ms. Abnormal, what is your next move with Speed? Trip and land on his back?” Zen retorted. I rolled my eyes and trotted a little faster than her flying. Zen was always a slow flyer because of her zen attitude, always saving her energy. “I was just being funny!” She said with a little chuckle. I just pitifully chuckled along and I smashed in the gate.


“Maybe it would be bright if I use my magic.” I said. When I got inside, I galloped to my room and tossed my saddlebag onto my desktop chair, climbed up to my bunk and cried. “I wish I didn’t goof up in front of Speed! He’s practically known all around freakin’ Equestria!” I shouted. Mother knocked on the door and asked politely.


“May I come in, Glitty?”. Mother always calls me Glitty. 


“Yes, mommy,” I said like a little 9 year old, like Sweetie Belle even. She climbed up on my bunk, with my clipboard and pen, and started to grade some papers from her class. Even though they’re preschoolers.


“What’s wrong, I heard you shout, and who’s this ‘Speed’ Zen keeps on telling me about?” Mother asks. My eyes shot open, I gave her a cheesy smile and said.


“Uh...erm… he’s… um…” I stuttered on purpose. She gave me a come-on-and-tell-me-already look. I slipped a sigh.


“Honey, just spit it out!” Mother said playfully. I looked her in the eyes, and said.


“He’s somepony I have a crush on…” I say. Mother’s face totally lit up like the birthday card Zen and I got from our friend Ginger Snapp in Manehatten last year. She grinned and opened her mouth to say cheerfully.


“My Glitty has her first crush!”. I giggled and glanced at her.


“Mommy, I’m in 5th grade, and I came a little too late in the school year, I’m making good grades, and summer starts in a couple weeks!” I giggly complained. She just laughed and asked if I wanted to help grade some coloring sheets. They were very impressive, like they used ABC mouse when the foals were like 2 years old.


At about 10:15 p.m., I just start to climb into bed, Tigre` snuggled on the corner of my bed and purred. I just grinned and started to drift off to sleep. I could hear my Father in the living room, watching Sleepy Hollow on TV. Zen was snoring, and Hootlie’s hootlings where tucked under her wings. I started to have a nice dream for once.


I was in Canterlot, in the palace. I remember seeing a crown and Princess Celestia said “I now would like to say that since you defeated the army, saved your friends, and found love, learning so much about foalhood,you’ve done well as a young student, Glitter Church. I now would like to claim you as a pr-” Celestia was cut off to the sound of my alarm clock. I was a little ticked off because that was the shortest-of-the-short dream. Zen, for once, didn’t move a muscle, she just grunted and turned off the alarm. I saw that her tail was hanging out of the bed, I use magic to drag her lazy flank out of bed and into the kitchen to make breakfast-in-bed for Mother and Father. 


“Alright already Miss get-my-sister-out-of-bed-to-make-breakfast!” Zen muffled because her mouth was against the floor. I just snickered, rolled my eyes playfully, and got the cereal and berries. Zen just glared at me as I poured the cereal, “Now, I know you’re keeping something from me… just tell me already!” Zen lightly shouted. I glanced at her and lied.


“What are you talking about? Hehe.”. Zen couldn’t believe her own twin sister was lying to her. Her face got puffy and she was about to yell at me, but I acted fast.


I quickly covered her muzzle with my hoof, wrapped my arms around her head so she wouldn’t see that I was taking her outside to yell, and teleported in the driveway. “Okay...now!” I whispered to myself.


“JUST TELL ME WHY YOU ARE TRYING TO AVOID TELLING ME ABOUT WHO YOU’RE TRYING TO HUNT DOWN!!!” She yelled. No other voice was heard, other than her echoes anyway. I quickly teleported us back inside. “Whoa! Did you just teleport us?!” She quietly shouted once more. I nodded and she just sat there, arms folded and against her chest, glaring at me.

“Why bother? You’ll think I’m 3 moons short of Venus!” I said. She just glanced at the floor, then back at me, a sigh slipped from her white and black-tipped muzzle.


“I believed you since you told me that Crystal was a changeling, I just didn’t want to let you think that I knew it all along.” She confessed. My jaw practically dropped to the floor. She believed me this WHOLE TIME?! I thought.


“Wait, let me get this straight, you’ve believed that Crystal was evil this whole time, and didn’t even bother to tell me?” I asked. I knew I was crisp clear in the voice, but Zen acted as if she didn’t understand a single word.


“Erm...yeah, I got nothin’ to argue about there…” Zen admitted.


After we delivered breakfast to Mother and Father, I threw on my watch and saddlebag, and beat Zen to the bus stop, again. She didn’t care, as I said. “Can you just tell me why you didn’t tell me?”.


As if I said a tongue twister 1,000 times without messing up, she just stared at me, I tried telepathically asking, but she refused to say why. That is, until we were at school.