Fluttershy nervously trotted into town, looking at all of the shops and buildings. Lady Slipper peeked her head out of her saddlebag.
"Now, do you remember to keep your wings hidden? You know what Ponyville ponies will do if they see a pegasus in Ponyville." the little Breezie asked, and Fluttershy nodded. She kept looking down every now and then, even though it was very early in the morning and most ponies were still sleeping.
She trotted into a small photography shop, a shop she knew well. Picture Perfect was the best place in Ponyville to buy photography supplies in Ponyville. And the only place.
"P-piccolo?" Fluttershy stammered as the blue stallion peeked up from underneath the counter. He had been fussing with something, but Fluttershy couldn't tell exactly what.
"Oh, F-Fluttershy, it's you." Piccolo smiled, looking at the cloaked mare. He trotted out from behind the counter and looked at her saddlebag, which was bouncing around furiously.
A little lavender Breezie flew out of the bulging bag, stretching its wings and glaring at Fluttershy. "Ya do realize that ah cain't breath too well in there...." she trailed off, looking at the two ponies smiling and staring at each other like complete idiots. "Stop starin' and jus' buy somethin', girl!"
"O-oh, I didn't mean too..." Fluttershy stammered, both her and Piccolo blushing profusely. Lady Slipper folded her arms and flew over to land on Fluttershy's shoulder.
"So, what brings you here, Fluttershy?" Piccolo asked, trying to be less awkward.
"O-oh, nothing. I just came here to..." Fluttershy searched for the right words. "To be more... social."
"Oh..." Piccolo said and... was that disappointment Fluttershy saw in his eyes? She shook her head to keep herself from staring, and backed up shyly.
"I'd b-better go. I need to... meet other ponies." Fluttershy smiled nervously, turning and allowing Lady Slipper out before herself.
She looked at Piccolo and smiled. Piccolo smiled back, and she knew she'd be back.
She trotted out after her Breezie friend, and trotted to the first building she saw, a little hair salon with a flower design on top.
As she trotted in, she saw lots of mane styling gadgets. Mares chatted underneath hair dryers, ponies got their manes cut, and some ponies were just talking together. This was definitely the social center of town.
"H-hello?" Fluttershy whispered, trying to find the owner of this hectic place. Lady Slipper had to keep flying around to avoid being hit by ponies milling around.
"Oh, hello! I didn't see you there!" a beautiful white mare chirped, trotting over to Fluttershy and putting some oddly familiar red glasses on. Fluttershy backed up slowly as the mare trotted up to her, inspecting her mane. "Hmm... I see, split ends, oh, look at this!" the mare muttered, pulling on Fluttershy's mane and getting uncomfortably close to poor Flutters.
"Umm, it's..." Fluttershy tried to break out, but the salon mare's iron grip wouldn't let her go. She was whisked into a salon chair and no later was the salon maniac cutting at Fluttershy's mane with intense concentration.
"Umm, I don't really want my mane cut, miss..." Fluttershy tried to tell the crazy mane-cutting mare.
"Daffidazey, darlin'. And what do you mean, you don't want your mane cut, everypony does!" the white mare said, pulling sticks out of Fluttershy's tail.
Almost as abruptly as it had began, Daffy whipped her out of the chair and put her in front of a mirror. Luckily, Daffy hasn't removed Flutters' cape, and she shook the mane clippings loose from her.
Her mane was all combed out, and so was her tail. Daffy smiled at Flutters, who simply stood there, staring.
A cyan mare trotted up to Fluttershy, looking at her. "You'd look better if you took that cloak off, darling."
"Oh, no, I couldn't. I'm just gonna go here..." Fluttershy stammered before running out, Lady Slipper rushing behind her.
Fluttershy couldn't let the other ponies see her wings. Most Pegasi stayed on Butterfly Island, and seeing one in Ponyville, she couldn't even think about what they would do to her. She couldn't reveal them. Not yet.