//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: How Do We Say Our Goodbyes // Story: Surprise! Surprise! // by Angel Star //------------------------------// Angel Star was sitting quietly in her room contemplating on whether or not she should tell her parents about a very important decision that she was going to make. The light blue unicorn with a dark brown mane, and three yellow stars for a cutie mark finally got up from her bed and headed towards where her mother was since her dad was at work. She walked into one room and was delighted to see a dark blue unicorn mare with a brown mane sitting on a comfortable chair, reading a book. The mare noticed Angel walk in, and she looked at her with her green eyes. "Mom?" Said Angel. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Well of coarse you can sweetie!" Said the mother, her face showing a gentle smile. "What is it?" "I've been thinking about this for a long time now, and after a while I finally want say it." Angel hesitated at first, but finally got the courage to say what she had to say. "Mom, I've decided that I want to move to Ponyville." The mother was shocked by this, but manage to recover from it. "Why!? What makes you want to move away? And why to Ponyville of all places?" "It's not that I hate it here, it's just…I'm a grown mare now. All of my friends have done it, and I've decided that I want to live my own life now. Ponyville was my place of choice, because it's a nice little town where a lot of good ponies live. Plus, a few of my friends live there so I won't be alone when I move over there." Angel was wearing a confident look on her face as she was saying all of that. Angel's mother looked down for a second, and her face showed that she was deep in thought. She looked back up at Angel, unsure what to do next. "Well…" She began. "I'll have to talk to your father about this first, is that alright?" "I don't mind in the slightest!" Exclaimed the mare. "We can wait until he gets home from work, and then we can talk more about this." She said with an excited look on her face, then left the room. "My baby is growing up." It felt like an eternity, but my dad FINALLY came home! I was so excited that I nearly forgot to breath. If I played my cards right, I can get my own house and live in Ponyville! I can't wait! Though I really am going to miss this place, nothings gonna stop me from visiting or writing letters to them whenever I can. I went downstairs and, to my surprise, everyone was down there! I was greeted by the sight of my mother, a pink pegasus mare who was my sister, a white pegasus stallion who was my brother, and a large light brown pegasus stallion who was my father. It was just too perfect! I could tell them all right here, right now which is something that I'm about to do. I approached my parents, and greeted them. "Hey mom! Hey dad! How was your day?" "It was fine, not much happened." Dad said, as he was eating his sandwich. "How was yours?" "Great!" I replied. "But there's something important that I need to tell you all." "Really? What is it?" I looked over to my mom, and she gave me a reassuring look. I've gathered as much courage as I could, looked at my family, then it came out. "I decided that I'm moving to Ponyville." As expected, everyone except mom had shocked looks on their faces. There was then a very, VERY long silence in the room, and my mom finally decided to break the silence. "Uh, honey, how do you feel about this?" "Well, I'm not sure what to say about it." He then brought my brother and sister into it. "What about you two? Do you have anything to say?" "…….Well if she feels like she needs to live on her own, let her then." My sister said. Although, I could of sworn I saw her eyes tearing up. "And you Michael?" "I'm perfectly fine with this, if she wants to go then let her. All birds gotta leave the nest sometimes, right? Though I will miss you sis…" Wow. Thats probably the most words that ever came out of Michael's mouth! He's usually so quiet, and barely says anything. "I'll miss you as well." My sister said, as she hugged me and I hugged her back. "I'll miss you too. All of you!" Darn, I just remembered that my dad didn't get to say anything. Here I am acting like I'm gonna head out the door already, and I didn't even ask of HIS approval yet! What is wrong with me? I turned to him and asked, "Soooooo…can I go?" He was silent for a moment, but then he finally spoke. "Well your no longer a filly anymore, plus your magic outstanding, not to mention that your old enough to live on your own so my answer is….yes. You can go. All of my excitement just bursted out of me, as I ran up to my dad and hugged him like I never did before! "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" He chuckled and said, "Hey, just remember that no matter how big you get, you'll always be our little girl." After I packed my things, said my goodbyes, gave everyone goodbye hugs, and told them that I would write and visit them whenever I could I was off to go to Ponyville. "Well, here goes everything!"