//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: The Sleep Over // Story: Dreams Really Do Come True! // by Dyno8man //------------------------------// Saturday 8:20 PM I heard some of the other people there start whispering to each other, and some others still just staring at me. I didn’t know any of them personally; I know them from school, though. So, now I am staring at my friend, Jacky, as he does the same to me. I can only imagine what kind of thoughts are going through his head right now. [Jacky Cam] Krystal said she’d be back in a few minutes to go pick someone up. In the meantime, I decided to join in on the fun going on upstairs. Krystal had a lot of cool stuff, like an Xbox One, Playstation 4, heck, even a Wii U! She had, like, the latest of every game system generation, and a billion games for them! What is she? A millionaire? How does her family afford all of this?! I am so jealous… So, I head back upstairs, where everyone is gathered around 4 players, fighting against each other in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. I could have sworn that I saw some money on the table for betting. I would have said that that wasn’t a good idea, but I didn’t want to spoil the mood. Three of those people playing, I didn’t know, but the other person was Krystal’s brother, Rod. His name is Rodrick, but we call him Rod for short. He’s about 16 years old, and I can tell that by the way he’s playing the game, he is a pro gamer. Sure enough, about 3 minutes later, Rod won, and the three other people traded spots with the other people waiting, and the person who bet on Rod took the money, which was about 8 dollars. There were about 8 other people here, including me. So that’s about 9 people total, soon to be 10 once Krystal gets back with one more person. I turned the Wii U on over in the corner, and I sat on the nearby couch. I called over the other people who just lost, and asked them if they wanted to play the Wii U with me. They, thankfully, accepted, and walked over to the couch I was sitting on, and tried to sit as close to me as possible, as to be able to see the gamepad. Thank god Krystal also had Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U. That’s my favorite game of all time! Aside from Hyrule Warriors… So I started up the game, and everyone grabbed a controller. There were about 6 controllers: 3 normal Wiimotes with nunchuks and classic remote extensions, 2 Wii U Pro Controllers, and one gamepad, which was the one I was using. After about a minute, we started playing 5-minute game sessions of normal smash. About two games passed by, and I won one, and someone else won the other playing as Pacman, when Krystal and her parents finally arrived with the last person! I decided to wait upstairs so that I could be surprised, since she was most likely going to announce the person as if s/he were a celebrity. She walked up the stairs, and stopped at the top. “Alright, everybody. Tonight, we have sort of a special guest sleeping here. I’d like for you all to meet…” I called it! I knew she was going to announce the person! So, let’s see who this person it now, shall we? “Reece!” She stepped to the side to allow the person to walk up. Um, am I hearing things, or did she just say ‘Reece’? Reece is here?! Yes! It’s about time someone else I knew came! Reece is one of my greatest friends, so he and I are really close. But who I saw, or rather what I saw, wasn’t Reece. Instead, a light orange-furred pony, with its hair all done, and a pink bow in its hair, walked up to the top of the stairs. I was about to ask Krystal if this was some sort of joke, but then I noticed the pony’s eyes. They were the same color as Reece’s eyes. And, I could see all of Reece’s energy in them. The ability to start joking around, and make everyone’s day. His overall craziness. I noticed that it started staring right at me, with the same shocked look in its eyes that Reece has in his. Then, something unpredictable happened. “J-Jacky?!” The pony cried out at me. It knows my name?! It can talk?! Is that really Reece? It sounds nothing like him, though. It sounded like a girl pony. What are they called…mares? And the way she said it. The tone in its voice. It sounded…just like Reece! If that is him, HOW IN THE WORLD IS HE A PONY SUDDENLY?! Or rather, how in the world is SHE a pony suddenly?! How in the world is he a she suddenly?! “Reece?!” I exclaim back at him. After that, we just kinda stare at each other for a while. A million thoughts and questions are flying through my mind right now. Like, I can’t even explain them. This is just too, too, TOO crazy for my mind to comprehend! Well, then again, this is Reece we’re talking about…or, at least I think this is Reece standing right in front of me, in the body of a mare. Krystal walks back downstairs to give us some privacy. I’m pretty sure that’s why. Either that, or she went to get refreshments for us. One thing’s for sure: Things just got VERY awkward VERY fast! [Reece Cam] I think we stared at each other for about a good two minutes before Krystal walked downstairs for some unknown reason. I then get a worried face as I look at him. “I’m...I’m sorry, Jacky. I’m sorry you had to see me like this. I didn’t think you’d be here…” “So it is him!” I hear him whisper to himself. I decide not to reply to that, and just wait for him to say something else. “No, it’s okay. It’s actually kinda my fault. I should have called and asked you if you got invited, so that if you did, and I told you that I did, you’d be able to prepare to tell me. And I don’t mind seeing you like this. As long as I know it’s you.” He told me. I smiled a bit. “Thanks…” He shrugged. “Hey, what are friends for?” I could have sworn I heard some of the girls there saw “Aww” as he said that, but I did see Rod roll his eyes, and go back to playing his game. What’s up with him? Anyway, I look behind Jacky to see almost everyone else here looking at me. I shoo them away. “Alright, people. Go back to doing what you were doing. Nothing to see here!” Some of them frowned, and all of them went back to either the Xbox One, or the Wii U. I look back at Jacky. “So…I guess this is going to be quite a long night…” “Yep.” He says blankly at me. “Wanna go sit down for a while, and have me explain this to you?” “Yep.” I lead him to a nearby table in the room, and he sits on the chair. As for me, I can either sit on the floor, and have to look up at him, or I can jump up onto the chair, and look like an idiot doing it. I choose to jump onto the chair. At least I won’t have to look up at him while I speak. “So…I’m a girl now, In case you couldn’t tell…” I told him, blushing a bit. “Yep, I figured that. Your voice gave it away.” “All I really know about this is that I woke up like this. I have no idea why this happened, or how this happened, or how it’s even possible. Or, even why it’s possible.” I tell him, and he just nods his head slowly. “And before you say it, I know that stuff like this doesn’t just happen.” I tell him, knowing that he’d say “Stuff like this doesn’t just happen”. “Say what?” He asked. Huh. I guess not. “Oh. Well, never mind, then.” “No, please tell me!” He whined. I sighed, and smiled. “I thought you were going to say ‘Stuff like this doesn’t just happen’, and just in case you did, I said that I know that stuff like this doesn’t happen.” “Well, stuff like this really doesn’t-“ “I know!” I shot back at him. I had a feeling he was going to say that. I laughed after I said that. I’m still getting used to my new voice, and I think I sound really funny when I shout like that. I get my serious face back on. “Look, what I’m thinking about right now is just getting back over there with the others. I’m tired of just sitting here in silent awkwardness. How about it? Wanna go back over?” I ask him, and he simply nods. So, we get up out of our chairs, and as we walk back over to the others, Krystal walks back up the stairs with two glasses of fruit punch. I noticed this, and I licked my lips. I could really use a drink right about now anyway. “Hey, Krystal. Whose are those?” I ask her. “Oh, there you are. Here you two go!” She says giddily, as she hands the two of us our drinks of fruit punch that we never even asked for. Yeah, sometimes, she can be a real sweetheart. *cough cough* Er, I mean, sh-she can be really nice to us at times! Yeah! Th-That’s what I meant! Jacky gladly takes his glass, and Krystal looks at me, almost forgetting what I am now. She makes her sorry face. “Oh, right! Sorry! I forgot you can’t hold it…” “No, it’s okay. I got it.” I spread out my right wing, and she just looks at me, confused. “What? You just now noticed that I had wings?” “Yeah. They look really cool, though. Have you learned how to fly yet?” She asks me. She’s actually the first to say that I look cool with wings. See? She can be really sweet at times. “Uh, yeah. You think I’d be given wings, and not learn how to fly? Yes I can fly, and it’s really fun.” I quiet down after I realize that not everyone can fly. Well, practically no one can, but still. “Oh, that’s cool! Sometimes, I wish I could fly. But I’m sure it has its downsides.” Yeah, she’s right. It does have its downsides sometimes, but I decide not to say anything, and just nod. “So…I’d like my drink now.” I say, smiling. “Oh, right!” She says, and I start laughing. I get stopped, though. “But wait. How are you going to hold it?” She asks me, and I simply flap my right wing, which was still spread out. “You’re going to hold it with your wing?” She asks me. I nod. “I’ve done this before at my place, so you won’t have to worry.” She holds it out for me to grab. “Careful, it’s cold.” I look her in the eyes. “I have feathers. I’m pretty sure that’ll help with the cold.” She looks at my wings, dumbfounded. “Oh, right. Sorry. I guess I’ve got some researching to do on Pegasus anatomy.” “Yes, you do.” I say, chuckling and grabbing the cold beverage with my wing. I lift myself up on the chair with my forelegs to give me a little more height so I could place the glass on the table. I drop back down to the ground, and I look at Krystal, who was still watching me. “See? I’ve got my ways.” “And all within 20 hours…” I heard her mutter to herself. I walk back over to Jacky, who was sitting on the couch, watching the others own each other on Super Smash Bros. Someone brought out another TV, so they hooked the Wii U up to it, so now we’ve got the Xbox One, and the Wii U going on two separate screens. This night just got better…in a way. I jumped up onto the couch, and sat next to him, and we just kinda sat there in silence for a while, until he brought up a subject that I immediately tried to dismiss. “So…have you heard of the book/movie called The Outsiders?” Jacky asked me. I replied, with a hastened tone in my voice. “Yes, and I already know where you’re going with this.” The Outsiders was my favorite book. It was even made into a movie, which I enjoyed very much. The main character’s name was “Ponyboy”, and I had a feeling that Jacky wanted to call me that very much. Jacky laughed. “Sooo…can I?” I roll my eyes, and grin. “Go for it.” He smiles, and clears his throat. Instead of just calling me Ponyboy, he straight up does an impression of one of them. I don’t know who it was, but I’m just gonna say it might have been Soda Pop. “Ey, yo, Ponyboy! How ya doin’?” I burst out laughing, and he does the same. I try to calm down just enough so I could get something through my laughing. “I can’t believe you just did that!” “It was bad wasn’t it?” He said, still smiling from his silly moment. I nodded. “Yeah, pretty bad, but in a good way.” A few minutes pass, and I’ve calmed down now. I get to thinking, and I frown at the thought. Jacky looks over at me. “Hey, is there something wrong?” He asked me. I look back up at him. “Yeah. I just realized that I can’t play games anymore.” He has a confused look on his face. “You mean video games, right?” I nod. He slowly shakes his head. “Damn, that must suck. I mean, I certainly wouldn’t be able to handle playing no games. I can’t even imagine how you’ll fare.” I look back down, and sulk slightly. “Yeah, but I’m sure I’ll be able to cope. I’m sure there’s some way.” I look back up at him. “I mean, if I can hold a cup with my wings, who’s to say that I can’t hold a game controller with my wings?” I ask him. He just looks at me with a confused look again. “Wait, you can hold things with your wings?!” He asks, sounding slightly shocked. “Well, yeah, but only cups so far. You’d think that I’d be given new things, such as these wings, and not experiment with them?” I ask him. After a while, I hear him snickering. “What’s so funny?” I ask him, sounding curious, and frustrated at the same time. “Just what, exactly, do you mean by ‘experiment’?” He says, laughing a little. I thought about what he said for a while, and I get a cold feeling in my body as I find out what he meant. I push him, but, to no avail, he didn’t budge. “Jacky! You have a sick mind!” “Hey, if you get what I mean, then so do you.” “Oh, shut up!” He laughs a bit again, and I break out a small grin. We sit there in silence a bit longer, and I decide to get up, and get a closer look at the game being played on the Xbox One. I sit between two people: a guy, and a girl. The guy looks back at me, but then looks back at the screen, rolling his eyes. The girl, however, looks at me for a moment also, but she turns to the people not playing the Xbox. “Does anyone want to take my place?” One of the people playing the Wii U speaks up. “Oh, I will! Jacky, can you take my place?” He asks him. “Sure!” Jacky replies. Jacky goes up to that guy’s spot, and takes the controller for him, and the other guy (sorry, I don’t know his name) walks up to the girl who had asked him to take her place. He, of course, takes her place by taking the controller from her, and sitting in her spot. The girl gets up, and signals me over to where she was going. She sits in the same spot that Jacky was sitting in, and I sit next to her, right back where I was a minute ago. She looks at me for a while, and I look at her, feeling really awkward. Then, she finally says something. “So…you’re a…” “Yep.” I reply back. She asks another question. “And you can…” “Yep.” I reply back again. She asks me, yet another question. “Then, you must be…” “No, I am not from the show...” I tell her. “My name is Reece.” She whines a bit. “Aww, it would have been cooler if you were from the show.” “Yeah, well I’m not.” I say. “Yeah, I know. You already said that.” She says, giggling a bit. She seems nice. “You can call me Ashley.” “Ashley…that’s a nice name.” I compliment her. “Thank you! And might I say your name is also nice.” She compliments me back. “Thanks.” “So…heh, I’ll bet you’ve already gotten this from everyone else, but you just look too cute for me not to say it!” “Yep. You’re right, I have heard that, and way too many times today, too.” I say, chuckling. “Well, it’s true! I mean, have you seen yourself in the mirror at all?” “Yes, I have, and I’ll admit it, I guess I do look kinda cute…” I say, blushing. “Kinda cute??” “Okay…really cute…” “Really cute??” She’s pushing me… “Oh, come on! What do you want from me?!” I say, and we both start laughing. “Look, I’m not one of those people who judge themselves on their looks. I mean, sure it’s okay for me to think that I’m kinda cute, but saying stuff like ‘OMG, I look FABULOUS’ just isn’t me.” After I did that impression, Ashley bursts out laughing, and I let out a chuckle. After we settle down, Ashley gets her serious face back on. “Um…I hope you don’t mind if we move on to more serious, and personal matters now?” She asks me. “Oh, sure. Like, what do you mean by ‘personal’?” I’m a bit curious as to what she meant. “Oh, I mean I’d like to know about your life.” She replies. “Oh. Okay, then. But, fair warning, things might get awkward in here.” “I’m ready.” “Alright then. Ask away!” Thus, “The Awkward Question Show” begins. Until Chapter 9…