There was a loud knock on the door and a voice called from outside, which brought me, very abruptly, back to reality. In the deepest voice I could muster at the time I called back downstairs, "Who is it?"
The voice called back, "Syx, it's Bashscript! Are you alright? I heard a scream."
"Oh Celestia, why?" I thought to myself as I put my face in my hooves. "This can't be happening. None of the guys can know about this. They'll ridicule me forever."
"Don't worry! I'm fine! Please pay no attention to the pony screaming in the bathroom." I called back, hoping he would be reassured and go on with his business. It didn't work.
"Syx, I know there's something going on in there. You can trust me! Just tell me what's wrong." Bash called back.
I sighed, knowing that I would have to at least leave the bathroom to get him to go away. Reluctantly, I picked myself up and walked downstairs to the front door. I looked through the peephole to see a stallion with a blue mane and fair-colored coat sitting outside on my porch, looking expectantly at the door over his glasses. I had no idea how I was going to get him to leave. Bash wasn't like the other guys. He wouldn't get fooled by just any story. I put my ear to the door.
"Ok, no offense or anything, I know you're just being a good friend, but what do I have to say to get you to go away?" I asked a little panicky.
"I told you, just tell me the truth about what's going on." Bash replied through the door.
"The thing is, if I told you the truth, you'd never believe me. You'd think I was just losing my mind." I said back.
"Oh come on. What happened? Did you get turned into a mare or something?"
Silence.
"Uhhh... uh... ummmm..." I stuttered, my eyes wide and mouth agape. My mind was racing with questions. "Was it just a lucky guess? Does he actually know what happened? Was that clock always 5 minutes ahead?" I needed to figure out what to do, but Bash wasn't stupid. By now he had to be a little suspicious of his "lucky guess".
"Uhhh... Syx...?" Bash called through the door again. By this point it was clear he wasn't going to leave so I made up my mind.
"Ok. I'll tell you what's wrong, but I have two conditions. One: I'm not going outside to tell you. You're coming in here. Two: You are not to tell another living or undead soul about this or I swear to Celestia, you will regret it. Comprende?
There was a moment of awkward silence before he replied, "Ok, I'll abide by your conditions. So, could you open the door? Mayhaps?"
I took a deep breath as I reached my hoof up to the doorknob and turned. As I slowly opened the door, I backed up behind it so that I was almost hiding behind it. As Bash walked in, I closed the door behind him and came out from behind it. When the door clicked into the frame again, Bash turned around and looked at me, with a rather confused look on his face.
"Oh, sorry... I didn't know Syx had a sister. I could've sworn I just heard him. Do you know where he is?" Bash asked, rather seriously.
It took all of my strength not to facehoof just then.
I sighed, and in my higher pitched voice, I tried to explain, "No, Bash. It's me. It's Syx String. I don't know how to explain this without sounding insane, but long story short, I went to bed a stallion, and woke up a mare." I gestured to my body to emphasize my point and looked back at him with a stupid grin on my face that, hopefully, said, "I know it's got to be the weirdest thing you've ever heard, but it's true."
Bash took a second to look me up and down with a really confused look on his face. I could understand how this would be a lot for him to process, but I had to believe that he would trust me. I really had no other options.
"Ok, so, let me get this straight. You went to bed a stallion, woke up as a mare, and I'm guessing you don't want anypony to know about this, because this is actually pretty hilarious..." he said with a giggle.
"Focus!" I snapped.
"Ok, ok." he continued, "So, you find this to be embarrassing. Are you planning to go outside at all, or are you just going to stay in your house until it goes away. I mean, it's not like this is the common cold here, you have to do something about this."
As much as I hated to admit it, he was right. "But what am I supposed to do if somepony recognizes me and starts asking questions? I can't face the rest of the guys like this." I reminded him.
"Well, I thought you were Syx's sister at first, so just use that as a cover until you figure out how to reverse this. It might just work" Bash suggested.
It actually wasn't a half bad idea, but I was never a very good liar, or actor for that matter. "Alright fine, but I'm gonna need you to help me out today. I can't handle questions right now, and if people see me they're going to be asking a lot of them." I bargained.
"Ok, fine, I'll just abandon whatever plans I had today to help you with your problem." he said sarcastically.
"Great, thanks. I really appreciate it." I said pouncing on the opportunity. He gave me this look like, "You owe me." as I started laughing at how much of a turd I was being. Well, at least my personality hadn't changed at all.
With all of that figured out, we decided to take a walk outside, just to see how many ponies would actually stop and ask about me. Turns out, nopony seemed all that phased by a new face in the crowd. I didn't gather much attention, and only a couple of colts crashed their scooters staring at me. Everything was going rather smoothly until I felt a tap on my shoulder.
"Hi! My name's Pinkie Pie. I could tell you're new here, because I've never seen you before, and I know everypony in Ponyville. So when I saw you were new here, I figured you must not have a whole lot of friends, and if you don't have a whole lot of friends you must be lonely, and if you're lonely I figured I'd introduce myself and become you're new BEST FRIEND EVEEEEEEEEER!!"
I didn't even have time to blink in the time it took her to say all of that. "Actually..." I tried to say before Bash cut in.
"Actually, Pinkie. She's not really new here. This is Syx String's sister. Syx got called out of town for business reasons and he asked his sister here to look after his house while he was gone. She's been here before, but she hasn't really left Syx's house much." Bash said.
Pinkie looked like she was buying it at first. "Wait, I thought Syx was still in school."
Bash and I started sweating a bit. "Yeah, that's what I meant. He's out of town on a school functioned field trip." Bash said, trying to cover our flanks.
"Hmm... Okie dokie lokie. Sounds good to me. Although, that still doesn't explain how I don't even know your name yet."
My heart jumped into my throat and I started sweating even more. My cover name! How could we have forgotten to discuss that! My secret was out now.
"My name...? Uhh... my name." My breathing started getting a bit heavier. "Y-y-you want to know what my name is. Umm... uhh... my... my name..."
"G-STRING!! HER NAME IS G-STRING!!!" Bash blurted out.
Pinkie tilted her head to one side and looked at us like we were aliens. Of all the names he could've chosen... I took a huge sigh as I caught my breath.
"But I go by Gigi!" I said quickly, then proceeded to give Bash a subtle death stare. Fortunately Pinkie didn't seem to notice.
"Wow, that's a funny name. Hahaha. Well, whether you're new here or not, I've never seen you here before, so that means you've never been to one of my parties!"
Oh Celestia... this is all I needed. "I'm sorry, Pinkie, that sounds like fun, but we kind of have urgen-"
"Oh, come on! My treat! Don't worry, you'll have the best time of your life!" Pinkie reassured me.
And without hesitation, she grabbed both mine and Bash's front hooves and dragged us towards Sugarcube Corner.