//------------------------------// // Chapter III: Present Day Life // Story: Friendship Happens Ever So Often // by shimmer_rose_006 //------------------------------// Years passed for the two and their friendship grew along with them. They got through elementary school and most of middle school pretty smoothly. Now as teens, they are not only more sociable, but they also were friends with the newest princess, Twilight Sparkle. You all know the story of Twilight so lets not get into that. Trottinging along one day, Shimmer Rose was talking with her pegasus friend, Autumn Leaf and her cousin, Dizty Doo. Ditzy was a few years older however. Anyway, she was talking about how Minehammer had bought her own house and lived on her own now. Shimmer knew how having a house to yourself can get overwhelming, considering the size of her manor. Ditzy said she had to go and meet somepony so Autumn and Shimmer said bye and she galloped away. "I wonder what that was about...." Autumn said. He was a big fan of mystery books so his statement didn't come as a surprise. Shimmer gave a small laugh to it. "She keeps on going to meet a stallion named Time Turner or Ditzy's nickname for him, the Doctor. Crazy right? I think they are romantically involved somehow. But that's just me." That made Autumn stop dead and do a face hoof right then and there, in the middle of Town Square. Shimmer and Autumn both laughed this time and heard from a nearby cafe somepony say, "Aw what an adorable couple. Young ponies these days." Hearing that made them stop laughing and start blushing from ear to ear. Out of sheer imbarassment, the turned and flew off in different directions. Lets just say that they didn't talk to eachother in public very often after that. Spying Minehammer out of the corner of her eye, Shimmer slowed down and went over to her. "Hey, Minehammer! What's up? Oh! Another question...how's Thorin? Hearing that question made her not want to awnser it. She had developed a slight crush in her old friend from foalhood over the years. Last week, he had been hurt helping out with building a tool shed. The shed collapsed onto him, giving him a broken back hoof and a lot of bruises. Mine was the first one to visit him in the Ponyville Hospital. Till that day it had only been HER that visited him. She blushed and muttered that he was fine. Sensing some red still in her cheeks from the statement, Shimmer just said " Why don't we go visit him. Its summer so there is nothing to do right now." Mine nodded and the headed of for the hospital. Shimmer wasn't kidding when she talked about it being summer; the Summer Sun Celebration had just happened that morning and it was already really hot. A good 89 degrees f. As they arrived, the attendant remembered Mine and greeted her wirh a "good morning miss" and a "have fun at the celebration?". Apparently word had gone around that the two had journeyedto Canterlot to watch it. Minehammer didn't visit her mom though. As they walked up to Thorin's room, Minehammer explained that he is happy with any visiter after Shimmer had self-held doubt aboit coming. She laughed seeing it was Shimmer's idea in the first place. Opening the door, Minehammer asked "and how's our favorite stallion today?" as if she was a nurse. Thorin chuckled happily at the question. "Fine, I thought I was YOUR favorite stallion?" he joked. More blush found it's way onto her cheeks as Thorin tried to flirt with her. Shimmer stiffled a laugh, trying not to be rude. Their attempt at flirting with eachother always ended adorkably with Mine giving an awkward laugh and dashing off. This time however, they seemed to work it out fine. "Well......I'm gonna leave you two alone for a while" Shimmer told the two and flew out of the room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As the days went on for them, life got easier and they started to actually enjoy it. Thorin got out of the hospital a few days after their visiting and he gave Minehammer a shot. As for Shimmer Rose, her sister from Cloudsdale, Velvet Spring, came for a visit. She had moved back to Cloudsdale when Shimmer was still in Manehattan. Ditzy adopted a little unicorn filly and named her Dinky Doo. The group; Shimmer, Autumn, Minehammer, and Thorin, were still curious to who the father would be in that situation. As for Autumn and Shimmer...well, there isn't much to say here. They pretty much got out of the awkward stage and did become a couple in the end. Twilight had hired Shimmer as Royal Bookkeeper and Autumn as the Captain of the Ponyville guard. All in all, there life is pretty good for now but you honestly never know what will happen in the world of Equestria!!!