*Twilight's Castle Guest Bedroom Jake first person POV*
Today was the day. I had been in Ponyville for several weeks now. I'd made some friends, and some enemies, and I'd even gotten a job. I now worked at the Ponyville Post Office, I sorted through all of the letters and gave the ones that needed to be delivered to Derpy. She was one of the reasons I took the job, I wanted to work somewhere I had a friend. I had considered joining the town guard, but they required specific training specifications, and my alien training as a cop didn't count towards it. I wasn't interested in going through hard training all over again to work for an inferior police force, so I took the job as postal assistant.
But today was special, today was a day that I was actually a little worried about. You see today was the day Pinkie Pie had set up my 'Welcome to Ponyville Party' yyyyyyyaaaaaaayyyyyyy....... I really don't like going to parties especially with people I didn't know very well. But I had finally given in and agreed to go to the party. Oh boy.
*Ponyville street a few hours later*
Well I'm glad to say that I'm pretty much caught up on the lifestyles of the ponies. I know all about their cutie marks, what ponies eat, their 'magic'. Yeah I don't really believe these ponies have magic. They definitely have some kind of power, but I don't think it's really magic, I just think that's what they choose to call it.
But back to business I was given the day off from work today since Pinkie Pie was throwing me a party. Right now Pinkie Pie was leading me over to Sugar Cube Corner where the party was taking place. I have no idea how the entire population of Ponyville managed to fit in Sugar Cube Corner, but I'm not going to question it. As we got closer to Sugar Cube Corner I started to hear music blasting. You know your basic party sounding music, thing is I didn't really like that kind of music. Oh well.
We went inside and ponies all cheered my name. Great I'm the center of attention just what I always wanted. Sorry for sounding so negative but I'm genuinely quite shy so being in the center of attention like this is uncomfortable for me. Let's just get this over with.
The party started and I pretty much stayed to myself in the corner where I wouldn't be noticed. I didn't like dancing or singing when there were people watching in situations like these. I talked with my friends like Twilight and Fluttershy, and even some ponies I didn't know too well, don't get me wrong, I just let them come to me. I was happy to see Zecora again though, I talked with her for a long time.
Next came the cake, okay this part I actually enjoyed, the cake was delicious, and so were the rest of the treats for that matter. Thankfully Pinkie made sure that none of the treats had hay, grass, or flowers in the treats except for a few which were for ponies only.
After treats came probably my least favorite part of the party. Pinkie had gotten the idea that I should give some kind of a speech to all the ponies in Ponyville about my life before I wound up in Equestria. Well let's get this over with.
I stepped up onto the podium Pinkie had prepared for me. I felt very awkward being in front of so many people but I know if I panic or run off stage I'll just embarrass myself more, so I keep my cool. Now how should I start this? I should probably get them laughing first, but how? Maybe I could try something I'd say back on Earth.
"Good-evening ladies and gentlemen." The ponies looked at each other clearly not understanding what I meant by that. "Sorry I forgot for a moment that I was on a world of ponies, how exactly do you ponies say it?"
A few chuckled at me not knowing something so obvious and several of them called out "Fillies and gentlecolts!" That confused me "But there's hardly even any kids in the audience." This time several ponies started laughing 'phew.' "Anyway Pinkie Pie wanted me to come up here and tell you all about myself. So if my life is boring please go blame Pinkie instead of me since I wouldn't be up here if it wasn't for her."
Lots of Ponies started laughing again, I even saw Pinkie Pie laughed which is good since I thought I might have offended her. 'Alright enough joking around.' "Now if there are any ponies here that don't want to stay here and hear my story, you have my permission to leave." To my surprise several ponies actually did get up and leave. However when I looked I realized most of these ponies were the ponies in town that hated me, for one reason or another. Still I figured they would've stayed just for the sake of the party. That still left a lot of ponies for me to talk to. "Well okay allow me to begin. My life back on Earth probably wasn't all that different from the lives of some of you. I had been born to my parents Martha, and Seth Darrison. I went to school like many other kids, and I got really good grades. That's pretty much how my life went for the most part, I went to school took jobs, learned about life, and eventually made it to college. I majored in writing, and computer animations, not that you would know what that means." This brought a chuckle from some of the ponies.
"Anyway once I graduated I felt like I should do something different from what I majored in, so I looked around and eventually became a law enforcement officer. I stayed an officer for four years until I met someone who changed my life. My future wife Clara Lewis." Some of the ponies did that annoying 'aaawwww' sound and I rolled my eyes. "I met Clara on one of my days off and we hit it off great. I found myself wanting to see her more and more, and eventually I decided to retire from the police force, so I could spend more time with her. Well that and for another reason that I will not disclose now."
"She had gone into computer animation as well and I decided to try and apply for the same job. I took some refresher courses in computer animation, and applied for the company Clara worked at. With my experience and Clara to vouch for me I made it in quite easily. After working on several projects, and seeing how much people enjoyed them I realized my love for providing people with entertainment."
"Eventually Clara and I decided to get married, and a small formal wedding was arranged for us." Another aaawwww erupted from the crowd. "Three years after we were married Clara became pregnant, and we had our first child. A girl whom we named Lucy. Clara decided to quit her job in order to stay home and take care of Lucy. I remember asking her if she was sure she wanted to do that, and she replied to me "I am willing to give up the job I love to take care of the child I love.""
"I didn't argue with that, in fact I considered quitting my job as well, but she convinced me not too. "Please I know how much this means to you. You should stay and do your job, you enjoyed it far more than I did, you belong there. Besides someone needs to work and pay the bills." So I went back to work and things continued like this for four years. That was when Clara became pregnant again this time with a boy. She was pregnant with him for ten months, and we named him Peter."
"From there things went on as normal for five years. That was the day when a mysterious portal appeared behind me and brought me to Equestria. I miss my family terribly, but someday God-willing I will find a way back to them." The crowd clapped and cheered for my story, which confused me. Why would they be cheering for someone like me? I hadn't done anything, I just told them the story of my life before I ended up in Equestria, why would they applaud me for that? I didn't get it. "Are there any questions any-pony wants to ask me?" A little yellow filly in the front row raised her hoof "Yes."
"How is it that you had two jobs? Wouldn't your cutie mark tell you what you were meant to do?"
Apparently she doesn't know that humans don't get cutie marks. "Actually humans don't get cutie marks."
To my surprise this raised even more questions, a grey stallion in the crowd called out "Then how do humans discover what they're supposed to do in life?"
"Well we humans pretty much just decide for ourselves what we want to do?"
"Really?"
"Yes really."
You can probably guess but the questions went on for a while, most of them weren't even about me or my story. The questions finally came to a stop when Pinkie declared it was time for party games.
The party continued on a little after that, but eventually came to an end. I said good-bye to Pinkie, Derpy, Zecora, Rainbow, AJ, Fluttershy, Twilight, Lyra, Big Mac, and more before heading back to Twilight's Castle for the night.
Okay I guess the party wasn't that bad it's just I really don't like going to parties and I doubt that's going to change anytime soon.