In December of 2017, my friends and I had Christmas Break from school, lasting for two weeks. Though that all changed when I met her, she told me that her name was 'Fluttershy' and that she was lost in this world and it was my job to get her back.
In December of 2017, began the start of Christmas break at my school. Finally, a time of happiness, relaxation from school, and a short period of time where I can play video games all day with my friends.
However, on the first night of Christmas Break, I saw the camera feedback and was confused about what I saw. I went and followed it outside. She told me her name was 'Fluttershy' and that she was lost in a new world and needed to go back to her's. It was up to me to discover and trace back to where Fluttershy came from, how she got here as well as keeping her hidden from my parents, Andrew's gang, and from the government.
Warnings:
- Contains Lots of Swearing At Certain Chapters (Bad Words) - Slightly Talks About Christianity and Other Religions In Certain Chapters
Christmas, it was bitter and a bit cold down here.... Down in the south at Pearland, of course, the cold front came in and made it cold that way. The leaves were on the floor from the Fall, the grass had a blue-green tint to it. The streets were busy as a sales deal has been going on with 'Christmas Shopping' as well as the decorations hung from the ceiling with other people who hung their Christmas Lights to the house. Christmas or the 'Holidays' is here indeed and the good news is.... It is the start of Christmas Break! We just gotta wait for the bell to ring....
'BRINNNGGGG!' The bell rang, students rushed out of their classes and hurry down the hallways and swing open the front doors and unleash about God-knows-how-many-students. In which whom, were ready to walk home, drive their car to their house or wait for their parents to pick them up. "Oh God, finally," I said as the school bell rang throughout the halls. You see there is a neighborhood filled with houses across the street-light from the school on the left side.
It was one of those neighborhoods where the houses, would be a two-story high house with a limited small yard, and a fence to distinguish other people's properties is a wall of bricks it would be about six feet tall.
The loud chatter filled the hallways as students went down the stairs then, look for their friends to get out from the crowded entrance or talked to their friends who were already with them. Some would just stare at their phones and call their parents, but most of the time they would go on their social media.
As for me, I was already outside. Coming from Biology which was my last class before we got out, the classroom would be close to the front doors, it would give me enough time to pack everything then escape the school before it comes into a crowded hell-hole. Luckily, I did escape before it even came crowded.
I wore a suit, it was a white short-sleeve button shirt with a red tie, khaki dress pants, a black blazer and black dress shoes. My Dad told me that he went to a private school when he was a child and he had to wear what I was wearing every Friday. I didn't mind, it was just a suit anyway I guess he just wanted to pass it down to the next generation which was me.
I went and sat down on a bench near the school doors on the left side took off my backpack and grabbed my phone, I would just walk home most of the time. My parents picked me up if we had to go to something important or anything like that. "Yo JC!" A familiar voice called out, I looked up seeing my friend Alex.
Me and Alex go a while back, all the way to Middle School, back when I was in 6th Grade and he was in 7th. We met at detention, yep you heard me detention. I was accused of making a mess in the hallways from a girl who hated me some reason but obviously being 'defenseless' of that, with the teachers not really giving a crap and I just saying stuff like, "I didn't do it." Or, "What do you mean?" I got sent to detention after school and Alex were there too.
I whispered to him how he got here, and he answered that in Spanish he asked, "What does 'Perra' mean in Spanish?" And got sent to here with me.
"Dude, why would you do that?" I whispered to him.
"I-I don't know. Bro, I didn't know what it meant!" I almost started laughing out loud.
"Is that it?" I asked.
"No, when they brought me to the office phone to call my Mom, they asked me for her number. So, I just said some random numbers and a guy just answers the phone. And the only thing I got from the guy was 'Do you want to order a pizza?'"
"Oh my God." I placed my hand over my mouth as Alex and I started laughing quietly.
And from that, it was history. I got his number, he got mine. I and him both had a PlayStation 4 so, we both sent a friend request together and we both spent a lot of good memories together.
Those were some good memories.
"Yo, what's up Alex?" I answered back, as he came downstairs. I placed my phone into my pocket and looked at him as we did our 'handshakes'
"Yo, ready to for Christmas?" I asked.
"Hell yeah I am," He replied back happy that we were off of school for two weeks.
"Hey, um, where Jeremiah, Saquan, and Aaron?" I asked him.
"Oh, they should be here now," We both looked back, seeing the hundreds of students pass out the door. "Do you have it?"
"Have what?" I asked.
"You know... the," He said more quietly.
"Oh, yeah," I looked down. "It's in my backpack."
"Is it loaded?" Alex asked again then looked at me.
"You know it is," I said clearly.
"Okay then, nice," We both looked back to the stairs, yet we waited and couldn't see any of them.
"Actually, you know what? Let's just go." I said turned around and started walking back towards the neighborhood.
"Yeah, we could just make a party and talk to them when we're home." Alex then started walking my way as I looked back at him.
The cars created traffic and with students driving home and a bit students walking home, it was a huge halt in traffic making it difficult for people to walk across the street and for people to drive across the block.
"Wait, come over here!" I told Alex waving my arm as we went to the side of the school. Nobody really went to that side considering there were dumpsters covering the brick wall covering the back of the school and trash bags too.
"Why?" He asked as we jogged toward and behind the dumpster.
"For any 'surprises' that may happen," I said as I took off my backpack and went to the very back pocket of the backpack. Pulling out a 'KWC M712 Broomhandle Full Metal Airsoft Gas Pistol'.
"Holy shit, you actually brought it!" Alex exclaimed as he kept on the look trying to not get caught in the act.
"What? Of course, I did! You told me!" I said quietly.
I took the gun and the magazine loaded it with it already filled metal BBs, the magazine capacity is twenty-two rounds but I placed twenty of them as it had a habit of jamming. I placed the magazine into the gun a cocked back the slide, making it loaded. I placed the gun inside my blazer pocket, and closed the back pocket and started walking back towards the crowd. The thing was that the gun came with an orange tip, in which I took it off making it look like a real firearm.
We walked casually, through the crowd then toward our neighborhood. "You wanna go through the left side?" Alex asked as we were walking.
"What? Through the forest?" I asked. There was a lake and a forest over the fence from my backyard and would be a 'shortcut', and Alex's backyard really didn't connect to the forest considering the 'shortcut' was a concrete path. But there was a little gap between two houses would be open 'connecting' to the forest as a shortcut. My house is about two houses away from the gap, but as for Alex, his house would be a block away from mine in the opposite way making a right leading to a circular dead end, so really not that far.
"Bro, we could go through the forest take the left corner and get into our houses quick," Alex said. There was the 'path' that would lead to our houses in other 'area's. In this neighborhood, and just like many others, there is one street connecting the houses, so something like a 'borough' but not really. And the 'borough' was all street-wise connected and only had one street to enter and exit the 'area'.
"Okay, yeah. We could do that." We started walking to the left on the path. When you turned to the right side would be the long brick fence that would connect to our 'area' all the way to the corner.
On the left side you can still see the street from where the cars would make the traffic, but considering there was a distance between the pathway and the street would be a small 'swamp' area where tall grass can kinda block the view but the path we were taking, the grass around will always be freshly cut, but it was winter. It was dead like, it was frozen in time it would be like being in Galicia in Eastern Europe. There would be some small patches of grass that would be brown, even the edges of the path we were taking was brown too. The wind would blow from time to time causing it to move with it, or to sway and dance with the other fallen leaves and trees.
"Hey, let me ask you a question," I said. "Alright?" Looked at him then walked backward.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"Do you believe in Jesus?" I asked him, it was Christmas and most atheists would just call it, 'Holidays' instead of 'Christmas'.
"What?" He said, stopped then answered. "Yeah, I don't have a problem with Jesus." He said, 's' a bit heavily. He didn't mean to but said it because... well, to be humorous maybe.
"Wait, for real?" I asked again.
"Yeaahhh," He stopped then asked. "Do you have a problem with Jesus?"
"What? No," I said then turned around and again walked forward. "I just wanted to make sure, before you all pissed and go like, 'Shut JC, it's Holidays not, Christmas!'" I said in a more high-pitched voice.
"Oh," He chuckled. "Okay," He chuckled, as so did I.
"Wait, what about Jeremiah and the rest of the others?" I asked and looked at him.
"What about them?" He asked again.
"Do they, believe in Jesus?" I asked him again, he got know them a bit better than I did. As I for once do my homework. While Alex kinda rarely did his.
"I dunno," He said, low enough to be a mumble.
"Okay, then," I said again mumbling. We were getting close to the corner when I remembered what Alex said to me last Friday.
"I hope this works," I whispered to Alex.
"It is going to work," Alex assured me.
"I swear this works," I said a bit louder but not as loud as I did last time.
"It is going to work!" Alex said as loud as I did. "I heard them talk about it last Thursday, and you even bought on Black Friday!"
"It was cool, Alex," I said. "It was from Call of Duty, but an airsoft version from Zombies! That's why I bought it!" I stopped in my tracks before we got close to the corner, that makes a turn into the forest. "Goddamn, it man! It's like smuggling drugs, dude Jesus! It like, I am actually am carrying a firearm and if I get caught I basically get suspended!"
"But, you didn't get caught!" He said it was true. I didn't get caught, the security cameras were at a bad angle making the dumpster we were behind not in view. I mean, there was a back door, no windows would be open to see the view, but I bet nobody would even go outside except the garbage man to pick up the trash.
"Oh my God, I swear man we're crazy!" I said as we started walking down toward the corner and made a turn.
The wind was blowing toward our direction and the wall making the leaves blow in the opposite direction. I looked to my left and saw the lake, and the mini waves it gives to the water. Considering there were a little drop steep 'hill' dug in and a stream that came from it. It was a beautiful sight to see. We walked toward the gap, it was about half of the concrete path I and Alex took it really wasn't that far. The 'gap' was to a brick fence, maybe to protect from the outside wilderness? Maybe but I dunno.
As we were getting closer, 'they' came. "You came to the wrong place JC, you and your dumbass friend Alex," He pointed to Alex as we stopped in our tracks. He and his four of his 'friends' show up, who looked like had come from hell and back. They were all wearing, sweaters, T-shirts, I would guess, jeans, and regular shoes that had some little holes in them.
"So that's why," I quietly whispered to Alex without any movement. Shit, now I'm happy that I actually brought the damn thing.
"What was that JC?" He asked, "Yeah, always like quiet you and your retarded brother," He said with a small smile on his face. This guy was really wise-ass and I hated him for that.
"Leave my brother, outta this you fucking piece of goddam shit," I said as a comeback interrupting him. "God every single fucking time you bring him up!" I looked at the ground shaking my head.
"What was that?" He asked purposely. "What was that tough guy? Say that shit one more time!" He walked back and forth, I looked at him, he had an expression on his face in which I couldn't tell what it was. I took a step back, "That's what I thought, fucki-"
"Shut the hell up!" Alex interrupted him. I looked at him. "Stay back, from us before Santa gives you some coal from the damn stocking,"
"God, man," I said, "Jesus, at least my parents didn't leave me!" I stated as Andrew looked at me with a killer's face making his hands into knuckles. "Yeah, you heard me!" I laughed with the insanity. "The pain that your abusive father has buried and blurred beneath an alcohol-fueled haze!" He started walking toward me as his gang stepping the leaves from the Fall crushing them every step they took. "Yes, the pain of your own memory! You try to share to others so, they can feel the same pain as you do!" He started walking closer, this time a lot faster.
"Shut the fuck up, about that!" He said with his teeth shut mostly and pointed and warned. By this time he was kinda speed-walking.
Fast.
"You loved and you lost, I share the same pain as you do!" I said again with a smile of well. Satisfaction. It was true but he didn't open his eyes to it.
"I said, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!" He shouted at me he was close distance to us too, making it... Scary.
"You brought my brother into this, so I'm not gonna fuck shut up until you do!"
"Damn JC, savage," Alex stated as he also took a step back, but we weren't gonna run.
"So, what you gonna do bitch? You don't scare me!" I looked at him dead-in-the-eye.
By this time he was close and went full charge at us as if he was going to tackle. "YOU FUCKING FAGGOT!" He screamed.
"Ho, ho, ho," I said over his charge, as he went full speed.
He was so close it would be to the point it would be a second before he got to us. My heart started beating fast as well, as I almost started sweating. I then reached for the airsoft gun in my blazer pocket, and pulled it out, took off the safety switch and took the shot. 'BANG'. He was now really close to me now, close enough for blank-point range.
The gun was not loud but noticeable, the slide cocked back as I pulled the trigger.
On the gun, there was a full auto and a semi-auto switch from the side. It must've been on full-auto because when I started took the shot, the BBs sprayed on him, making him fall down. And some steam coming from the gun as well.
Some must of hit him in the face. "God-, shit!" He groaned in agony, as his breathing became heavy in pain and suffering. "I swear to fucking God, JC I-!" He took a deep breath as some drops blood from his face and chest fell to the ground. The blood came from little 'holes' from him.
"Holy, shit JC," Alex said, staring at him.
"Andrew, Andrew, Andrew," I said shaking my head he was trying to take the pain. "Karma is a bitch, isn't it?" I then couched. "A Junior about to flunk! How convenient is that?" I remarked, but when I said 'flunk' I threw my other arm upward, then stood up. Then looked at the four of them, who looked like they were scared. Probably the damage this thing took.
"GET HIM!" Andrew said. As the four slowly walked back, alerted for the next shot.
I then switched it to semi-auto. "Now, I wouldn't do that now would I?" I said as I placed it on my chest then pointed to them.
"YOU FUCKED WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!" Andrew shouted. I turned around the shoot him again in the leg, almost immediately he grabbed his leg. "Oh God.. Fuck," Andrew groaned in pain.
"Man, shut your ass up! You fucked with the wrong people!" Alex said as he kicked him in the gut.
"Ohh," Andrew moaned, now really was injured. "We w-will GET YOU!" He stopped breathing as the pain struck him.
"Merry Christmas you filthy animal," I shot him in the back.
"Fuck," He mumbled again placed his hand on his back.
"Now I really wouldn't listen to him now would I?" I said as an insanity smile came to my face. My heart now was really beating fast, but heavy. "Now leave, before the next shot lands," They froze in place, dramatized seeing Andrew, the type of guy with a 'Don't fuck with him or he will fuck you!' type of person who's on the ground bleeding. I then pointed the gun near their feet and shot the gun.
They got startled and ran, one slipped making the others fall, really just ran over them. They ran each other over, trying to escape as they continued to run along the fence then took the right turn leading toward another side.
A smile came to me as it gave me a euphoric feeling, I was happy, and I laughed. "Holy shit! We did it man!" I said as I gave Alex a high-five.
"Hell yeah! He did." He and I cheered. I took the gun and placed it back into my blazer pocket. As we both went through the gap and went our separate ways. Jogging toward our homes.
"Do you think Aaron is going to believe this?" I shouted/asked him. He was near the block toward his house.
"Nah, we should have video recorded it." He shouted.
I really didn't want to record it, Andrew probably got up and the four others ran really fast out of the area. So either of them knew where we lived. I wanted it to keep it that way.
"Alright then talk to you later!" I said as I ran toward my house, I looked the other way, seeing Alex's hand wave meaning 'Okay' or 'Alright'
I approached my house, the schadenfreude hit me as it was probably the best thing that happened to me this week or probably this year!
Nothing can outweigh it!
My house has Christmas decorations on the cut-grass yard, and Christmas lights on the corners, the roof of the house and on the three trees we had. But most importantly a Nativity Scene on very front with a star above. It was my mom's decision for that.
I started breathing heavy from running as fast as I possibly could. I reached for the house keys in my pocket turned the key and opened the door. My mom's van was in the driveway and I knew she was there, my dad would be coming home soon.
"I'm home!" I yelled over the Christmas music from the radio. My mom thought it would be nice to have Christmas music, it's something different and I really didn't mind it. It was connected to a 'Marshall Stanmore Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Speaker' so really the music coming out would be top quality.
The house was a two-story house, with three bedrooms and four bathrooms. Near the entrance on the right side would be two sofas, a table with the speaker and the radio. And a counter with different glass shelves, just for 'that' section.
In front would be the Family room with a couch and a sofa two shelves from opposite sides with things my Grandfather has collected over the years and some stuff from Hobby Lobby. A glass table, in the center the floor would be carpet instead of the entrance and the kitchen. A flat-screen T.V in the middle and a fan as high as the ceiling with glass windows almost close to the ceiling.
Then upstairs would be another family room with another T.V and a comfortable chair. With a couch on the opposite side of the stairs that you would enter, with a pool table on the far wall and little 'windows' that make it seems like a balcony. And n the opposite side of that on the left side of the stairs on the second floor. Would be a 'Theater' room completely decorated by my Grandfather. And on the right side leading to the corner leading the right would be my brother's room with the faucet and mirror in the same and toilet in each separate rooms. And on the right side of the staircase would be a corridor-like bridge that would take you to my room.
Where the bed headboard would be the wall with windows on that wall. A regular flat-screen T.V. and on the opposite side of it would lead you to the bathroom, then straight ahead from that would be my closet.
And there is another room left of the Theater room, but it's a dark and sad place which would make me believe 'he' would still be there but sadly not anymore... Next to that entrance would be a little 'Bar' with a bar table and shelves with 'drinks' if they were even real...
Anywho, enough of my house tour. I mean's it's not 'that' big, it's not clean all the time. It's just your regular average house.
My mom was cooking the food when I entered, I placed the house keys on the counter, "How's it going, mom?" I asked. As she was making lasagna, she was on her phone texting it looked like as the Lasagna was in the oven.
Met my mother, a smart woman who is a fighter and can sometimes be funny, people tell her she is a good mother. To this day I don't know why but she is a good mom.
"Oh, hey JC. How was school?" She asked.
"Oh fine," I said, placing my backpack on the floor near the couch of the family room. "Probably the best day of my life," I said. Looking up to the sky.
"Oh, why would that be?" She asked, again and looked at me.
"Um, I dunno it just went really," I tried thinking of the words to describe it. "Calm."
"Oh, alright, the dinner should be ready soon," I said I then grabbed my backpack and went upstairs to my room.
I opened the door to see 'Diego'. He went and got up from turning on my PS4. "Diego, what the hell are you doing?!" I asked, I really didn't like him playing even without my permission.
Meet Diego, he is eleven-years-old. He can't even be aware of his obesity and sugar levels.
"I was gonna play games," He replied then grabbed the controller and turned it on.
"Don't play games man, go on the treadmill or something!" I exclaimed as I took the controller away from him.
"Jesus, everybody says that over and over again!" Diego exclaimed. "Like, God don't you have anything else to say?!"
"Because Diego you're close to the borderline of becoming a diabetic! My God, once you pass that shit, you would have to take medicine and take shots! You stupid idiot!" I yelled at him, as he looked angry at me. "Jesus! I tell you over and over again! You DON'T FUCKING LISTEN!!" I exclaimed at him giving my opinion. "Once you realize, you're sorry, then you would have to take medicine and eat certain foods!"
"Yeah, and?" He shoved me back, I wanted to punch that 'pig' in the face but I didn't. "I don't have a problem with that!"
"Then what the hell would mom cook? Diego, for fuck's sakes man! It shows a reflection on mom and dad!" I then stopped to catch my breath. "Why do you think mom and dad tell us different shit then, huh? So in the future, we can take care of ourselves!"
"You two better not be fighting!" My mom yelled from the kitchen.
"We're not mom! We're debating!" I looked back and yelled out, I placed my palm curved just to fit the side of my mouth.
"About what?!"
"Ummm, whether or not if..." I tried thinking of another word. "Santa Claus is real!" I said, with my sense of humor.
"JC!" My mom called out.
"Yes?"
"What is it really about?!" She asked.
"About if we should get a bunker just in case of World War Three!" It sounded reasonable, Diego was paranoid about that crap he talked about buying this bunker with oxygen and electricity. He was also germophobia as well making it more annoying when we went inside his room.
"Get the fuck outta my room Diego," I said as I shoved him out of my room. And closed the door.
The PlayStation music played as I changed to just shorts the undershirt I was wearing the suit as I placed everything inside the closet and drawer.
"Aw, God," I lied on the bed staring at the ceiling. Took my phone and, well went on YouTube, waited for my mom to call.
"JC the food is ready!" I went down ate and drank a Coke. Then went back upstairs and started to play video games. You know, Call of Duty, Star Wars: Battlefront, Grand Theft Auto personally, as we all play that game almost all the time. Make parodies and sometimes crack a few jokes. We would be in a party with Saquan, Aaron, Jeremiah, and Sky.
And Sky also, but she has no microphone.
We would play until we got tired and would go to bed, mostly late at night. We would go to bed sometime around eleven-thirty if it's right after school. I would get tired and sleep the same time as they would. Really, that would be the lifestyle for us really not too important.
My dad would come home around six o' clock or eight if he hits the gym. He would usually come home around the time, he goes to the gym all the time, it's Christmas and nobody would go outside due to the cold. Really nobody would go outside at all and would just drink hot chocolate, or get cookies or whatever the case may be.
"No, you didn't," Aaron said. He said it in a serious tone in his voice.
Aaron was a good friend of mine, I met him by Nathiq, who introduced him to the others as well. Aaron is cool, he is dark-skinned as well as Alex and Nathiq. Not too dark but, it is well fitted in them. Aaron was like anyone of us who would try to make 'sense' of it. He was straight about that and would be good at lots of games too. He is fourteen years old, as old as I am.
"Oh shit, you guys got him?" Jeremiah asked us. We were in a chat 'party' in video games where you would have a headset and a microphone and talk to your friends by speaking into the microphone.
Jeremiah was an African-American who found himself to be in our little group. I met him because of Nathiq, but before Alex met me, he knew Nathiq for about a month. Jeremiah was one of those guys, who would be 'annoying' according to Alex. Jeremiah and Nathiq go way back when they were just kids that's how long they knew each other. Nathiq met Aaron about two years ago and obviously, Jeremiah and Aaron have been good friends ever since. Even though, he is the youngest and is twelve years old.
"But, how the hell did you guys jump on Andrew?" Saquan asked us too with Jeremiah.
Saquan actually knew Alex before Nathiq, I and the rest of the others. He met Alex a while back about three years ago, Alex introduced me to him about a year ago, to be honest, and the others Nathiq, Jeremiah, and Aaron. He is not dark skinned like me and is more 'light-completed'. He is the same age as Alex, fifteen but slightly younger than him.
"Yo man, ask JC he shot him!" Alex tried to prove his point.
"It's true, man I did shot him," I said in response to Alex.
"How?" Aaron asked us, he didn't believe us even Saquan and Jeremiah.
"Remember when I got my pistol?" I asked them.
"Yeah," Aaron replied.
"Well, I had the pistol in my backpack all day then took it out and placed it in my pocket during dismissal," I said with clarity.
"Bro!" Jeremiah exclaimed. "You gonna get suspended from school JC!"
"Yeah I know, but I didn't. Did I?" I asked Jeremiah.
"Jesus, that's crazy," Saquan added. "I mean JC, why the hell would you do that?"
"Bro, it's not my fault!" I exclaimed.
"Yeah, it is," Saquan replied.
"Dude, remember the bar fight incidence?" I asked him. All of us knew what it was, we decided to it the 'bar fight' because it started like a bar fight.
"Oh my God," Alex started laughing, he knew what it was. He watched the whole thing so did Saquan. But Jeremiah and Aaron were someplace else during that time. "Bro...."
"Yo Alex get 'The Entertainer' playing in the background, it's gonna fit right in." The song I was mentioning was 'The Entertainer' by Scott Joplin. "Then suddenly a fight breaks out and everyone is beating the living daylights out of each other,"
"I know right?" Alex said. He didn't ask it was more of a way of communicating, and I think it goes for everyone.
"Do, do do do do do," I started mimicking the song with my voice. I sang it as the memory started playing in my head, I remember the conversation word for word.
I remember as the books fell. "Hey, listen, man," I saw as the guy shoved Andrew who 'accidentally' knocked down his books. "I had of your shit, get the fuck out of you fucking dick," This took place in the hallway, where it would be somewhat crowded with students trying to go to their next class after the bell rang to signal them to leave and to be on time.
"You shut your stupid ass up, you little fuck. And cry yourself to sleep." Andrew replied with a comeback.
"Fuck you, leave him alone," His friend backed him up. He was defending his friend who was gonna run for Student Council as the president, he needed some help to achieve his goal. There would be propaganda saying some stuff that I would just ignore. "Come on Gilbert, let's go," His name wasn't 'Gilbert', it was 'Gabriel' it was a nickname given to him.
"Shithead, you leave Andrew alone." One of the members of his gang told him to back him up. "Go fuck yourself, you asshole." Again and back, more and more gathered up as for I was on the wall in the hallway. I was sitting as the whole thing played out.
It was more like Andrew and his gang versus Gabriel and his friends, then the impossible happened as a 'circle' surrounded Gabriel and Andrew. With students spectating or standing up for their 'leader'.
"Get out of here and get lost," Gabriel said as he looked at him. "Like your life is right now,"
"You think, this is a fucking joke? Because I'm looking at one right now," Andrew insulted Gabriel.
Gabriel looked down as his friends looked at him, by now the bell rang and teachers were wondering where most of their students were at.
"Here let me show you a joke," Gabriel or Andrew for God-knows-what punched each other as each other's gangs and followers jumped on Gabriel's and Andrew's followers. Then just like a bar fight, everyone got in, using what they can to beat each other up.
I took off running to Gabriel's direction in order to escape but when I did and on my journey, I was close getting trampled I saw as Alex and Saquan met me. "Jesus, what the hell happened back there?" Saquan asked.
"A riot," I answered back. You wanna join in?"
"No, let's not," Alex said as we backed up and escaped out the halls before security came and broke it up.
This happened in Early October, and really for all of the 'information' I've gathered. What happened the next day is that Andrew grew to power with his followers and Gabriel grew to power with his own followers. After that, there have been rumors and theories on who started the fight. Making everyone go the 'extreme' rights.
Each of them would wear red or green, for that was the both Andrew and Gabriel wore that day. Andrew was red and Gabriel was green and after that, it was like the Russian Civil War. It got so bad that every day, students would wear red or green to represent what they support and in during lunch they would sit opposite sides of each other.
I would like it was like the Russian Civil War, in order to not confuse myself I would just imagine Gabriel's army to be the anti-communist 'White Army' and Andrew's followers to the 'Bolsheviks' because well, they wear red to it seemed appropriate to say that.
It died down in Mid-November but it kind of still goes on.
"Wow, that shit was crazy," I said as I finished singing a small part of 'The Entertainer'.
"Damn, fam," Jeremiah would say 'fam' as for 'family', I dunno why though. It confused me, to be honest, but from time to time I have gotten used to it. "He's gonna kill you now,"
"Yeah, I know," I replied. I looked down from the T.V and stared at the floor. A feeling got to me as worrying came and sank down in me. He is gonna kill me when he has the chance. "I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, I can feel it," I mumbled to the floor unaware of the microphone.
"What?" Aaron asked, of my mumbling.
"Oh never mind, just ignore it," I replied back as I looked up toward my T.V.
"Oh ok," Aaron replied back.
"Actually, I'm gonna be right back. Give me a second." I took off my headset and placed it next to me on my bed. I thought eating some popcorn could best suit me. It wasn't stressed eating but more like eating a snack than getting on weight like Diego.
I got up and walked to my door and opened it. It was night time, I don't know what time it was but it must be early. It's always like that in winter, the days are shorter and the nights are longer. The music from the radio was turned off, as well as the sound of snoring. I went downstairs and walked toward the microwave and checked the time. '10:35' It read on the microwave I went back to where the snoring came from and found out it was from my mom in which she was on the couch with a T.V remote controller on her hand. "Where the hell is dad at?" I asked myself by accident. I walked back to the microwave then right next to it was the pantry. I opened the door and grabbed a box of popcorn then grabbed a small bag inside the box. I placed it back and took it with me and closed the door.
I opened the plastic bag around the paper bag and threw it away. I opened the door to the microwave and tossed the bag in and closed the door. I pressed the time for how long the popcorn was gonna be, '2:00' I pressed started and just let my thoughts come in.
'He's gonna kill you now,' I can hear Jeremiah in my head. I can imagine myself staring at the floor and just daydream letting my thoughts, wisdom, and my worrying flow through. It happens when I have the chance but I would just find it weird to stare at something.
I suddenly hear the door open, and I looked to see who it was.
It was my dad, who looked like he came from the gym. "Que pa ho, JC?" He asked in Spanish, we don't tend to speak Spanish but he uses it every now and then. Hell, that wasn't even Spanish he grew up in 'the hood' apparently and lived there until we bought the house. He would use 'slang' Spanish as so he did when he was young.
"Oh hey pops," I said as he placed his gym bag on the counter. "How's it going?"
"Oh, it's good. Work is the same thing, went to the gym just right now." He said as he threw away something and opened the door to the pantry. "Take out the trash too,"
The trash would be in the pantry, I haven't even noticed the trash being full. I would just wait for my parents to tell me or to notice when it's full. "Ok, I'll take it out right now,"
The beep came up on the microwave, alerting me it was finished. I quickly opened the door and closed the door. "Oh yeah, mom is sleeping so I would stay quiet."
"Where is she at?"
"On the couch," I replied as I walked to the pantry and grabbed the trash bag, closed it and took it out of the bin.
"Oh yeah, also turn on the security cameras, I don't want anybody stealing our Christmas decorations" He ordered as he looked at me. I looked at him back with a 'Really?' typeface.
"JC, come on it's been two months," He said as I paused on my walking. "We talked through this already,"
"Yeah, I know," I continued to walk out of the door through the compact laundry room then a door that led to the garage, and past that was the trash bin. I press the button to open the garage door and after that short period of time I walked to the trash bin opened it and threw it in. The only light would come would be from our Christmas decorations and from the street lights that would have an 'orange' tint to it.
I started walking back as the temperature must have dropped, I started shivering in my undershirt and shorts. "God it's so cold," I walked out toward the button and pressed it closing the garage door. I walked into the kitchen as my dad was still setting in. "Alright, I'm back now," I mumbled again not trying to wake my mom up.
I grabbed a new trash bag and replaced it into the bin, I closed the door to the pantry.
I walked toward the microwave opened the door and grabbed the popcorn bag, I then started to walk up the stairs. I let out a loud sigh as I made it to the top. Then walked toward the direction of the door next to the 'Theater Room'.
I slowly opened the door as I turned the nob and gently pushed the door open.
This place used to be a bedroom but they changed that, as for now this room was more of an 'Office Room'.
It had a circular wooden table in the middle with chairs and a mini desk and a printer next to it. On the desk was the computer that connected to the security cameras.
I placed the popcorn bag on the wooden table as I turned the switch to turn on the cameras. "God this room," I said as the light only came from the computer. It took a few minutes to get it running, but it wasn't that long.
There are four cameras we have for our 'security'. The camera that would broadcast the front of the house notably the front yard, the backyard but the camera was high enough to see over the brick wall that leads to the forest, and the both sides of the house that would only show the ground from an aerial view. It became a problem with the neighbor's privacy so we just did that and it solved the problem real quick.
There was some static on the cameras but it was no big deal, it was clear enough in order to see what is going on. The time read '10:43' on the now split screen computer. I thought of enjoying myself and just watch cameras for a few minutes.
I got up and grabbed my popcorn opened and just let myself free. I must have daydreamed during that time but it was relaxing. I would just think about my problems during this time, 'YOU FUCKED WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!' I can hear Andrew shout in pain and hatred for me. I must've thought of that for a long time.
I checked the clock on the computer, '10:45' Oh never mind it only has been two minutes.
I was about to get up and go to my room, I checked the cameras again to make sure the coast was clear before anybody would blame it on me. I checked the both sides then, the front yard then the back.
Something was off in the backyard camera.
"What is that?" I said out loud as for now the popcorn bag was practically empty. It was a creature, I know that but it looked.... Different. It looked like a horse but really different, the tail was too long to be a horse and the mane was as long as well. Actually, it was too small to be a horse and it was intelligent too. A pony?! I got closer to the screen, the thing walked slowly and fragile. But there was something on its sides, it looked like it was apart of the creature, but then again the static so it really didn't help. It just slowly took a step up and over, and lowered it's head down as if it was, scared?
I backed up as I let that sink in my head. "That's not normal", I said to myself as I looked back to the cameras. The creature just took a few steps and not really getting out of view of the camera. "What the fuck?" I mumbled as I asked myself. I would see those shows about 'aliens' from the History Channel, and really those people who 'discover' get interviewed and get on T.V....
Wait, they get on T.V. this could be real footage of an alien. It's not even fake it's real. "Oh my God," I said as I ran down the stairs to the pantry threw away the popcorn went to the sink to wash and dry my hands from the grease. I then went to my room went to my phone that was on the bed charging, I check the battery percentage '87%'. I took off the charger and ran toward the computer screen-backyard camera and took a picture without the flash. "Oh shit," After it captured the picture and ran toward back to my room. "Yo...." I then stopped and wore my headphones, wondering who I can trust to come and investigate the 'creature'.
"Hey, what's up JC?" Jeremiah asked.
"Uh, um," I couldn't speak, my heart was beating fast and I was almost close to sweating. "Is uh," God, the words wouldn't come out of my mouth. "Alex there?" I asked them in a cracked down voice.
"What?" Jeremiah asked again.
"Is- is Alex there?!" I asked again this time faster than I did previously.
"Uh, yeah he is but I think he's doing something right now," Jeremiah confirmed as I had to process that thought.
"Shit, that piece of," I needed him pretty bad by now. I needed 'back up' so just in case anything goes bad Alex can be there.
"Jeremiah, what is he doing?"
"Um, he told me that he had to microwave some ramen noodles, for JJ," He said. JJ was his little brother, I really didn't pay attention to him. He is in 7th Grade for all of I know.
"Ah, fuck," I mumbled. "Yo Jeremiah," I asked one last time.
"Yeah?"
"If I don't come back, wear a tuxedo to my funeral okay?" I asked him.
"Wait, what?" He asked again under my sentence.
"Wear a tuxedo to my funeral if I don't come back alright?" I said slowly but fast as I thought of the creature by now would have been gone.
"Okay, fam," He said after I heard it.
I placed my headphones down and grabbed my phone, and went to my 'Contacts' and scrolled to 'Alex' and called him.
'BRRRING' 'BRRRING' 'BRRRIING'
"Hello?" Alex answered the phone.
"Alex, meet me at the back of my house okay?" I said.
"What? Why?" He asked.
"Dude, just do it right now and hurry right now!" I exclaimed.
"But bro I gotta make some ramen noodles for JJ," He excused.
"Just tell him to make his own ramen noodles," I said to Alex.
"HEY JJ!" He called out from the phone calling JJ.
"What?" I heard from the background as he called for him.
"I have to go with JC to someplace! He told me to tell you to make your own ramen noodles!" Alex answered with clarity as he got back to the phone. "I'm back now,"
"Alex, hurry as fast as you can and be there right away okay?" I asked him as my heart started to beat faster than usual.
"Alright, alright I will." He said.
"Alright, bye," I said fast as I hung up.
I went to my closet and just got a sweater with a hoodie, it had a zipper in the middle so it made it easier to wear on and take off. I went to my drawer closing the doors behind me, grabbed and changed into my clean pair of jeans. I put on my shoes and tied them. And put on my belt on my jeans then finally took my phone. I grabbed my BB gun and placed it in my sweater pocket.
I went through my text messages and sent the photo of the creature I just so recently took. I went downstairs and looked at the kitchen, my dad was gone he probably was taking a shower maybe. I then walked forward to the couch to greet my sleeping mother. "Okay, she is still here," I mumbled. I went to the back door and opened it, went outside and quietly closed the door.
The cold still remained the same temperature as it was before. The sweater provided some warmth but it was decent enough. I mean I have another jacket it was made for temperatures like this but, I didn't even think about it as the hype and excitement caught up to me. I ran toward the brick wall that connected to the 'shortcut' Alex and I would take and leaped and climbed over.
Once I did went over, I went and landed on the ground. "Ugh," I grunted in intense pain. It was dark and I landed right but once I did hit the ground, I fell on my knees. "Jesus, I didn't expect that," The cold can make the simplest pain, sting hard as it somehow makes the human body more fragile. "Now, I gotta wait for Alex," I said as I trembled up and on the ground and just waited for Alex.
"Jesus, my hand are freezing," I said as I shivered in the cold. My ears felt a little pain as well and my face felt colder than my body even with my hands almost the same temperature as my face.
It has been a while so I thought of calling him by now, actually, that would be a good idea. I went into my pockets and pulled out my phone and called Alex.
'DONG DING DING DING, DING DONG' I jumped as I heard it. 'DONG DING DING DING, DING DONG' It was the standard Apple ringtone, that came with the phone upon purchase. I jumped, it jumpscared me.
"Oh shit," I heard in a familiar voice.
"Jesus, Alex!" I exclaimed. "You gave me a freaking heart attack!"
"Wait, JC?" He asked me he ended rejected the call ending the ringtone.
"Yeah, it's me," I said as I moved towards him.
"Alright, why did you call me?" He asked me.
"Look at your phone," I said as I pointed toward the phone. "Look at the picture I sent you," I waited for him as he scrolled through his phone and looked at the image.
"What the hell?" He examined closer to get a better view.
"It's a picture of a video," I said to him, he looked at it closer but couldn't really comprehend it.
"What the hell is that?" He asked.
"I have no idea," I said to him. He looked at it closer again then placed the phone back into his pocket. "So, what do you think?"
"Bro, that shit is crazy. I mean why do you wanna 'catch' this thing?" He asked me as it was probably the most bizarre thing we had seen for a long time.
"Uh, well, first of all, we can get famous. We can get on T.V it's on my 'bucket list'." I finished and waited for him to reply anything back.
"Dafuq?" He asked, with a confused face.
"Alright, look we can get popular man! Being on T.V! We can get interviewed and get on History Channel you know on those shows about 'aliens' T.V has always been on my bucket list, for quite some time now!" I tried to prove my point.
"Okay, let's just get this done, I'm a little cold and I'm tired." He said as he took off into the cold night.
"Cold?" I asked him. "It's fucking freezing out here! It's Antartica!" I walked closely by him and had my hand on the BB gun.
"Bro, I was made to survive both in Antartica and the desert," He asked as he lightly shivered. "Even my mom told me."
"Okay, just... Whatever,"
We kept walking toward the way the 'creature' walked, we tried to step on any sort of way where the leaves on the ground wouldn't be crushed when we step on them. We kept walking forward, around the lake. The way Andrew's goons went. "You think Andrew's 'friends' are here?" Alex asked.
I chuckled at the thought, "No, they wouldn't survive in these temperatures," The light wind made me shiver in my sweater. "No, not these,"
"Yeah, but what happens if he jumps us?" He asked. "And they are trying to get revenge?"
"You see this?" I pulled back the slide of the BB gun and loaded it.
"Did you even reloaded it?" He asked me, fear ran down my heart.
"Uh, yeah I did after I ate," I lied to him, I didn't even get a chance to load the damn thing. "Besides, you saw what this thing did to Andrew! He was bleeding out!"
"He's gonna sue your ass for that bro!" He said, as we kept walking down the trail then the 'trail' would end up taking a right turn.
"We tried, didn't work," I remember that time when we tried to sue him.
He scoffed, "Yeah, I remember," The lake has an odd looking upside-down, horizontally flipped sided 'L' shape where our house is located we are on the 'long' side as the 'L' would take a sharp turn to the right. I grabbed my phone with my other hand and turned on my flashlight as we walked.
The flashlight revealed 'footprints' but not really. It was a path of crushed leaves and twigs that almost look broken. "Oh my God," Alex quoted as he stopped in his tracks. "We are hunting down something that is real."
"What do you mean? I sent you a picture of it!" I said as I too stopped with him.
"I thought you photoshopped it!" He exclaimed.
"What? I don't have those type of skills!" I exclaimed at him. "And it's not Andrew! Look at the twigs, they're not even broken!"
"Shit, I hope it's worth it," He said as he lowered his pace, carefully watching his step.
"Yeah, I hope." We continued following the 'footsteps' along the path, the footsteps went to almost around the lake in the same path as it is. We took a left turn but on that side was a street close by. We then took another turn to the left again. We were at the 'bottom' of the 'L' shape lake. The lake was called 'Lake Erin'.
We continued to follow to 'footsteps' we were about 1/3 of the way down. "God, how far is it?" I asked myself.
"Jesus, I have been home eating some ramen noodles," He stopped to warmly breathe lightly on his hands, I stopped with him. We heard a sound of crunching leaves in the quiet night, it seemed to be coming in the distance.
"Oh, shit get down!" I was crouching, Alex did the same. "You hear that?" I turned off the flashlight and placed my phone into my pocket.
"Hear wha-" 'DONG DING DING DING, DING DONG' I jumped, it made me fall down.
"Oof," I said as Alex took out his phone out of his pocket. "Jesus, you and your freaking ringtone!"
He chuckled. "It's Sky,"
Sky was his 'girlfriend'. She was pretty reasonable I would guess. She used to be Nathiq's girlfriend, she fell for Alex after about four months being with him. She broke up with Nathiq and in her definition would find Nathiq 'annoying'. Nathiq ever since hated her for that and Sky hated him. She is fourteen and really I don't know about Alex's thoughts about her. He never had any sexual thoughts about that, to be honest. More like romanic thoughts.
"Hello?" He whispered. "Oh hey, Sky," He paused. "No, no, no I was just hanging out with JC," He probably answered. "Oh, because we're doing something," He looked at me then at the ground. "That's about it," He stopped letting Sky talk. "Wait, really?" He asked. "But your mom..." He stopped, then chuckled. "How much wine?" He asked on the phone.
'Oh God, I don't like where this is going...' I thought.
"Alright, alright I'll be there soon!" He stopped. "Yeah, see you there, bye," He looked at me, with more of a happy face.
"What was it about?" I asked him.
"She invited me to her house, finally I've been waiting!" He answered, with a smile.
"When?"
"Right now! Her mom drank too much wine and passed out in the kitchen!" He said as he got up, I just stayed crouching. "I gotta go right now..."
"What? No, come on it will be real quick," I looked back at the position of the 'creature' we were tracking. I then heard running from behind me. I checked and saw Alex took off.
"Sorry!" He said as he almost 'yelled' back. He disappeared into the night darkness and was gone.
"Shit, fuck me," I said as I looked back to the direction we were originally going. I sighed, "Crap,"
I got up and 'walked forward' slowly, keeping my head down for stealth. The closer I got to the 'sound' the closer my heart beated, and a little sweat would come. 'SNAP' I heard as more snaps followed. "Shit," I grabbed my BB pistol and held it tight. Does it even work in the cold? I then stopped and crouched, sneaking to the alien. I started to make out what it was. My heart sank deep as I looked forward and eyes adjusted toward the dark night.
And just like I said, the thing walked slow, every step would be every five seconds. I cocked back my BB pistol slowly as I took a step. My breathing slowed and my legs started trembling. I got closer then I could 'feel' the twigs break, I looked for any type of cover.
A tree! I ran toward it, getting closer. "It's nothing, it's just a forest," I heard a soft-high pitched voice enter my ears. My heart sang, as now I was basically, shivering with fear. That voice was in my head, right?
"What the fuck?' I mumbled quietly. I then peaked to see what it was.
It was clearer now, it was a horse for sure but it was small to be one, 'A pony'. I thought of as it was walking. 'All this time I was chasing a pony!' I went back to my original position of taking over. 'That can't be true!' I peaked again as I saw those 'things' from the sides. I would have to guess that the 'pony' was wearing a saddle. As the things from the side were to be a saddle flag, stirrup iron, and a knee roll. I looked at the back of the pony, it looked flat without anything on it.
Besides this thing was way too intelligent to be a pony. Would have any human-like behavior or feelings, it wasn't a pony in my head even if it was one.
My mind went back and forth over again. I tried to think of an explanation, nope. Nothing. No theories came to my head, it's like something that shouldn't even exist. I then got my again to my position, I looked at my gun. 'Should I shoot it?' The thought ran through my head, 'No, I don't want to kill it,' I took out my phone, '10:59' I have been chasing this thing for a few minutes now. I 'unlocked' and opened my phone and was greeted with the camera app still running. 'Oh my God, I could snap a picture of it,' I looked back the 'pony', the thing was in a pace and walked further away. I wanted to snap a picture but it was now too far. I looked around for any cover.
I looked toward my left direction and saw the steep 'sinkhole' the lake was in. The lake was in a lower ground level than we were so it would be a little steep 'hill' but the trees grew and rock standstill on the steep angle. I looked and examined it, it would provide some cover, and I could get closer than just coming from behind.
But over debating whether I should take off or really go home I took off toward the steep angle.
As I ran toward the steep angle and 'jumped' into there, I tried to ignore the pain coming from my feet and ankles too. "Mrrp," I grunted as I nearly fell into the lake, it was like gravel. One pebble and the whole thing becomes an avalanche. 'Oh God," It would have sucked if I fell and got hypothermia, luckily I didn't. I continued to walk until I got closer toward the origin of the sound of leaves getting crushed.
'Crush' It sounded like it was right directly above me, "Fuck me," I took out my phone and got the camera ready. I placed my BB pistol into my pocket, though it would be too impossible to take a picture and loaded with a firearm to get a clear photo.
I turned the flash on and was practically ready to get up and take the picture. I was about to jump and take the picture but then again my head said 'no' out of fear. I wanted to but after two times of preparing to jump on the trail the pony was on and my head canceling it. I basically did that 'Fuck it,' thing and jumped onto the road.
My heart beated fast and I was practically trembling and a little sweaty. I pressed the button in the dark night turning the light on, but when someone takes a flash picture it turns on the light for a little amount of time it will turn off then turn on, and turn off again in a fast amount of time. Once I did press it, the light flashed a color of yellow and pink.
The pony I just jumped on, had yellow hair and a pink tail and mane. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" I heard the pony scream as I litterally jumped back and screamed in fear.
"AAAAHHHHHAHAHA!!" I screamed it sounded like a cracked-down scream filled with fear. You could actually hear the fear inside of me. The camera took the picture but the light moved when it probably did representing a blurry yellow and pink picture.
But when I did jump back it was enough to kill my balance and made me fall into the steep-angled ground.
I only closed my eyes when it I hit the ground and bumped and hit some rocks on the way down. "Oh sh-" I banged my leg into a tree making the pain sky-rocket to insanely painful. "AAH!" I fell into a deep rocky ground and landed on my side making me 'turn' as to spread the fast movement instead of focusing it in one spot. I then finally rested on my back. My gun separated out of my pocket and was an arm's reach to get it. "O-," I kinda expected to fall into the lake, I didn't even know about this.
I was cut off by heavy coughing and aching in my body. "UGFFFF," I coughed out then stopped once it ended. "Oh God, I'm so stupid," I said as I grabbed my gun without looking.
I then heard a twig snap. 'BANG' It was then followed by a sound similar to hot metal touching water, it was a sluggish sound. I was out of gas for the BB to come out. "Oh Goddamn it!" I voice-cracked-exaggerated and placed the gun by my side, I raised my head and looked for the phone by the screen.
Found it. The screen was still on and a bright.
It was a little distance from my foot. I moved my body, instead of my leg which probably had a bruise by now. I grabbed my phone using my foot then, similar to a sit-up, I moved my torso and reached my phone with my hands. I was shivering badly now, from fear and the cold. I looked at the picture.
Yep. Just as I predicted it, a blurred image of yellow and pink. I turned off my phone and did a very small toss in front of me. "Goddamn it!" I said as my voice cracked. I had that feeling of crying, probably from the pain and how the image wasn't a blur.
I almost would have died.
As I felt like crying from pain, I just simply did just that. I placed my right arm as a 'pillow' and grabbed my left arm tight toward me to get warm. I just cried and cried little loudly.
'THUD!' I fastly grabbed my phone and gun and place it into my pockets. I then moved back toward past where I landed and hit a rock wall. And went into the same position like I did before, but this time I had my right arm do the same as my right arm.
This is it, this is how I die.
I cried harder than what I so did before. "I'm-," The voice stopped.
'Oh shit,'I thought. 'It's some paranormal shit I just messed with!' I tried to let that sink it. 'This is how I die.'
I stabilized my crying as tears fell from my eyes. "I didn't mean to make you cry," I heard the same voice as I did. "I'm sorry,"
I now felt warm breathing on my leg, as 'footsteps' got closer to my ears. That only made me shake and cry harder. "I'm gonna die," I whispered as the last ward I wanted to say.
"I wasn't gonna hurt you," I heard the voice come straight above me, I still shook my body as the fear had taken over me. My breathing became complicated as I shook, I didn't have asthma but I probably had a panic attack. "There, there I won't hurt you," I felt like I was getting petted as a cold thing moved from my shoulder to my waist. "Sometimes I get scared and shy too," The feeling, it felt weird and relaxing? I felt warm air hit my neck helped me stop shivering, and shaking a little. "I could have sworn I heard you speak," I moved my right arm landing on the cold rock, I moved my finger feeling hair curl up at the tip of it.
"Wha-" My voice went dry and cold, Pearland doesn't get like this. Not in a long shot, I mean they said a cold front came in and so it did but it was strange. "I d-did," I said as my heart sank. Surely I would have been killed by now right?
"Oh, it's okay you're in safe hooves," The voice said, it sounds more like a girl was talking but I really didn't know.
"Hooves?" I asked.
"Sorry, I keep on thinking that. I don't know I got here but," The voice stopped in what it was thinking, the 'petting' stopped as well. Oh God, it is a pony, a talking one.
"It's-" I stopped to think of a way start the conversation. "What's your name?"
"It's Flutter-," It had a small pause to it. "Shy," This time the 'Shy' part was more of a whisper it was quiet and it was loud enough to be a whisper.
"Fluttershy...." I whispered as I placed my hands over the pain from my leg. "Fluttershy," The words from 'Fluttershy' were gentle, almost calm.
"Yeah?" She asked. I grabbed my phone and turned it on, "What is that?" I turned the brightness all the way up and showed it to 'Fluttershy'.
My heart sank as I saw her. I guess it would be a 'her'.
She looked like a pony from 'My Little Pony', she can't be real! Right? It's just my head right? If she was a hallucination then it would come to the knowledge I know from the show, right? "F-Fluttershy?" I asked as I turned off the phone. Her eyes were some light blue-green color and her sides were wings.
"Yeah?" She asked me.
"Name me one of your friends," I said to her.
"Well, um, let's see...." There was a short little pause. "I have a close friend named Rainbow Dash," She answered.
I would have guessed that she would be rainbow nothing else right? "What does she look like?"
"Just like me," I felt a strong breeze of cold air hit me making shiver again, it was probably from her wings.
"Sorry, again, wha- what's your name?" She asked me.
"JC," I said to her.
"JC, wow I never thought of that," She complimented about my name.
I just laid on the cold ground, my heart slowed down on its beating and I stopped being awarely cautious about that, it was obvious that she wasn't going to kill me. I moved my arms and stretched my leg, I felt some pain as I did.
I had trouble whether or not a pony is real, out of all of the things I like, I am hallucinating a pony.... "Is this real?" I asked myself to find whether if it was. God, I am going crazy, I feel like I'm breaking from something. Something I care of, but don't have time too care for it. I mean I thought My Little Pony only cared about friendship and would say, "YAY! FRIENDSHIP!!" and would have tea-parties and would run to a stranger fearlessly and would say, "HOORAY!!! FRIENDSHIP!!!!" But this pony didn't.
She was scared of me and kinda jumped like I did. But she saw me cry out my pain and sorrow. She petted me, so I can feel safe. That's something I didn't even expect.
"I don't know if you're real," Fluttershy said to me, "I don't know if any of this is," She stopped, I felt a small breeze of wind she probably shivered as I felt some hair and some of her hooves touch me. She was smarter than what I thought she was. She knows danger, fear, sadness, shyness and sometimes gets scared too.
I got up in a sitting position, God it was dark. The moon was just barely a crescent and set down hours ago. I grabbed my phone again and turned down the brightness that had to make my eyes squinted. "You're not a pon-" She took a few steps back, I felt some liquid from my head. I dunno if it was sweat or blood. I turned on the flashlight and moved the light to my hands.
They had dirt over with some scratches of blood and sweat. I moved to flashlight toward Fluttershy slowly revealing her hooves. "You not a human, but a pony." I chuckled.
"I always knew Lyra knew about this but I never thought they were real!" She took a few steps back, I moved the flashlight up a bit revealing her wings, mane, and tail. Even a sign at the flank of her's.
I tried to sink that in, I felt some, it looked like she was now frighted of me. "I'm not gonna hurt, you didn't harm me" I tried to say the words in my head as they circled around me. "Why did you do that instead of running away?"
She looked at me and sat down. I moved the flashlight to my face so she would see me, I would imagine myself having red eyes from crying, a blood mark and a face covered with dirt. I moved my hand to attempt to shake it off. She saw something in me that made her stay, I could already tell that. "I saw you cry and I wanted to help you," She pointed a hoof at me as I turned off the flashlight. "I thought you were an animal, and I didn't see you in the light." She stopped and I heard some hoof-steps walk closer to me. "I good with animals, that's what it shows here on my Cutie Mark," She stopped and sat down next to me. Again, I felt breathing of warm air hit my arm.
"Oh, o-okay," I didn't know what to say. Usually, when I had a bruise I would just wait until the pain was gone. After, I don't feel it no more I would get up and do whatever came to mind next. I didn't feel the pain no more, I mean I still did but not as intense as it first did. "Alright, I'm gonna..." I got up to a crawl position then used whatever rock grips I could to support myself to get up.
"No, please let me help you," She got up and assisted my arm I felt as she used her wings to help me. "Sorry, I'm not a strong flyer,"
"Wow," I said of. "You could fly?" I asked her, I never thought a literal pony had wings. I mean I know pegasus did, but I thought it was fantasy.
"Of course I can! You see?" She pointed toward her wings as they flapped, they didn't flap too fast or too slow. It looked like it was at the right momentum.
"Wow, that's.... crazy," I said to her, she aided me up the hill and helped me walk back toward my house.
"Where do you live?" Fluttershy asked we were quiet most of the time. We were about halfway through.
"Not that far, we're close," I said, she walked by me and was close to me, she was maybe about... four feet tall.
"Oh well, I want to ask you something. When I scared you, was anypony with you?" She asked me as I stopped. She must have thought I had no friends and was lonely. Since, I was the one who found her.
"Uh, yeah but he bailed out on me. He went to visit his girlfriend," I said and looked at her.
"Oh," She looked at the floor. "I see," She continued to walk and I followed her. We continued until I saw the brick wall that could connect to my house. I stopped and looked at the wall, "I live over this wall,"
"How do you get over?" She asked as she flew above the ground.
"I- I don't kn- shit," I mumbled.
"What?" She asked me, I don't think she even knew curse words.
"Um, ugh never mind," I said and looked at her. I looked up and 'attempted to climb the wall'. Fluttershy used her flying capabilities to help me, she must have been a weak flyer though. As she had no effect to help me.
"Can't you just walked around to your house?" She asked me.
"No, I'm already weak and cold," I basically used all of my muscles and 'leaped' over the wall. "Crap!" I fell on the other side with a loud 'THUD' I landed on my side as the pain hitted me again. "God..."
"Are- are you okay?" She asked me for my own good of taking care of myself.
"No, I'm not," I answered back. She was scared by how I answered.
"Why not?" She asked again this time, went and laid in front of my vision.
"I- I don't know..." I got up, weakly and stood. "Fluttershy, listen," I stopped to catch my breath. "Fly up to that window okay?" I pointed to a window that was on a roof platform. It was easier to see Fluttershy, as her eyes reflected the porch light and some of her body.
"Why?" Fluttershy asked me, wondering why she would have to do that.
"Fluttershy, I," I stopped wondering, that my parents could see Fluttershy or question why I am acting strange around them. "There, there are some bad people out there waiting for something like you to happen," I pointed toward her as she looked confused. "Don't worry, I'll tell you tomorrow," I said. Crap now somehow, I have to find a way to keep her in my house.
"Okay, I'll- I'll see you there." She answered as she flew up to the window and looked at me.
"Oh God," I looked down and walked towards the back door. I opened it and closed it in. The warm air hitted me like a brick and comforted me. I heard no snoring or anything in my house, it was quiet and I bet my parents were sleeping. Also to the lights were off completely, so it was dark in the house. I checked the time on my phone, '11:30' Jesus, I've been outside for almost an hour. I walked up the stairs and saw a silhouette of a pegasus pony waiting by the window. I walked toward it, "Jesus, I'm stupid." I unlocked and opened the window for her.
"Thanks, is- is this the place where you live?" She asked, she landed on the floor and explored the house.
"Yeah, it is," I looked at Diego's room which looked dark. He was probably sleeping, the guy had a habit of sleeping early. "Fluttershy," I called to her, I looked back at the window I closed and locked it.
Fluttershy looked at me. "Yes?" She asked.
"Stay there real quick, I gotta do something," I walked to the security cameras and turned them off. I walked back toward Fluttershy. "Over here, this is where I sleep," I opened my door and the light came in. I was relieved to be in my room now. I looked at the T.V as the whole group left the party. I turned off my PS4 and looked at Fluttershy finally revealing what she looked like.
And just like I said, her hair was yellow with a pink mane, and tail. And her eyes were more of a light green look, and her Cutie Mark representing three butterflies with a blue body and pink wings. "Wow, this is where you sleep?" She looked at the T.V. "What is that anyway?" She asked me, curious about this place.
"Something, that you stare at ruining your life, each second that you do," I looked down and took off my shoes.
"How?" She wanted to know, how it did ruin somebody's life. I was still in shock about how I met this pony. It still didn't sink in.
I sighed. "Well, I-" I tried to use an example to her so she can understand it. "Just," I desperately tried to talk the words out. "You, you don't want to know," I sat on my bed and took off my shoes I then got up from my bed and walked toward the bathroom. "I'm gonna take a shower real quick, I'll be right back." I turned on the light to the restroom and was about to close the door.
"Can- can I take a shower too?" I peaked through the door and saw Fluttershy slightly blushing by the question. "Please don't ask."
"S-sure, you could." I nodded as I closed the door.
As usual, I took off my clothes, placed my phone on the counter near the sink and turned the hot water on and jumped right in heating my body up right away. I would usually think whatever comes to my head. I would think about life, more like, 'What will I do with my life?' because most women out there would probably think of us beating our meats or some shit like that when we take long showers. Nevertheless, we don't and just wonder why we are here with life, the universe, and everything.
No, the answer is not forty-two.
When the warm water hit me, it murked brown in dirt and in mix of red of blood. It appeared for a brief few seconds but it was gone. I looked at my leg, it showed a red outline to where I hit it. Nothing more.
Why am I hallucinating a pony? Why? Why not something else that reminded me of my childhood? Like Noggin. When Moose A. Moose and Zee would come on T.V.? I can feel a smile on my face as I thought of that. She is different, in her own way. I surprised she acts like she was a normal person, and that she knows what she is doing. She can take care of herself, and really didn't harm me or run away. Why I wonder, about this pony from My Little Pony.
Anyway, after scrubbing and all of that I took a towel and dried myself. I wrapped the towel around me grabbed my phone and walked outside to my bedroom. Fluttershy was looking around on the bed, she was confused as I was. "I'm done," I wrapped it hard around me being careful not to drop it.
"Oh thank Goodness, I was waiting to take one!" She sounded excited as she got down from the bed and walked toward the shower.
"Do-, you know how a shower work right?" I asked her, I wanted to make sure she knew how to operated one. "You know for showering?" I was more open to her. The thought of my head still rambled with it.
"Of course, you just turn the knob adjust the temperature to the way you like it, and have soap to scrub until you are clean, then dry yourself with a towel," She stopped then looked into the bathroom, "There is a towel in there right?" She asked as she entered, she looked up seeing a towel. "Oh nevermind," She closed the door as I placed on my boxers.
I got on the right side of the bed and moved the sheets revealing my charger, the clothes I had earlier with the suit I threw away into a basket of dirty clothes my mother handed me a while back. I moved the towel on a chair that was across the bed. I turned it on my phone, with the first thing that comes to mind.
Who is Fluttershy?
I went on Google and simply just typed 'Fluttershy' on the text, after hitting the search button it revealed. 'My Little Pony character' she was a female pegasus. Her residence was 'Outside of Ponyville, in a cottage near the Everfree Forest, Cloudsdale' and her occupation was, 'Animal caretaker, Pony Tones singer (part-time)' I looked at the bottom, 'Played by: Andrea Libman'
What the fuck is life now? I placed my head on my pillow. And looked at my phone, how could a pony from a cartoon show be this real?! I'm starting to lose my shit right now! My sanity!
I took a deep breath, then typed on Google 'is it okay to have hallucinations' I pressed enter and tapped on the first link. I read it, basically, it showed that there is a 'visual hallucination' where I see things that aren't real. And even hear this 'auditory hallucination' where you hear things. But the thing is that I don't know if Fluttershy in the show sounds like that. It's like trying a needle in a haystack but you burned the haystack, revealing the needle. "Ugh," I sighed and looked at my left to my nightstand. I turned off my phone and charged it, I placed it near the lamp.
It had a radio-like alarm and a lamp with my charger connected at the back. It was long enough to reach to the bed.
I got up and turned off the light, to my room and turned on the lamp. It showed a little touch to the room now as it wasn't as bright as before. "God, is this real?" I asked myself. I pulled up the sheets to get myself warm.
But maybe, just maybe this could be all over by tomorrow. And when Alex asks me if I caught it I would just say something like 'It was a dog,' Or some excuse to weigh off my shoulders.
I looked at the bathroom and heard running water, still going on. Then it became silent, as the last water hit the floor. "This can't be real, this can't be real," I said as I heard humming. It sounds like 'Silent Night' but it was hard to make out.
I saw as the knob to the door turned revealing Fluttershy with a towel wrapped up on her hair. "Are you okay?" Fluttershy asked me.
I had this 'worry' face on me. "Yeah, I am," I said as she took the towel from her hoof. She went back and placed the towel back up. She turned off the light to the room and closed the door.
"Whe-where do I sleep at?" She asked me.
"Oh, you could, um sleep on that side of the bed," I pointed to the opposite side of the bed I was on.
"Thank you, I've never thought somepony like you would do that for me," She got up on the bed and laid on it.
She grabbed the sheets as I felt it rubbing against my skin, 'That's not me,' I thought of.
"May you please turn the light o-off?" She asked me, my heart was beating fast and already I was sleeping with a pony.
A talking pony.
"Oh yeah-yeah-yeah, sure," I grabbed the chain and pulled it down.
"Well, goodnight JC thank you for having me in your home," I looked at her as she said that. My body shivered in fear still, but with joy.
"Goodnight Flutt-tershy," I said as I felt her warm breath hit me.
I was drifting in darkness, it swayed and rocked me to sleep. Carrying me like a little baby swaying in a motion to where I can't describe it. It was a wonderful feeling, a feeling I can't ever get. It was warm, nothing can harm me. My heartfelt different like a new bloodstream entered me not in a bad way but perhaps a good way. I felt something warm, something soft. I pulled it closer but every time I did it was harder for me to get a hold of.
'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know'
I slowly opened my eyes to the 'alarm' it was an alarm that connected to a radio and would play that song as an 'alarm'.
'Where the treetops glisten and children listen. To hear sleigh bells in the snow'
I looked at the clock as it read, '10:00 AM' I set it as an alarm so I really didn't want to spend my whole day sleeping. I then got up to a sitting position and looked at my right direction.
"AAAHHUGH!" I jumped, from my bed and chocked as if it was more of a 'jump-scare' when really I didn't mean to do it on purpose. I landed on the ground on my bed, taking some of the blankets in the process. I held to her foreleg that was warm and soft with her hair or fur, I was bringing it closer to me to 'cuddle' with I guess.
She was still there and woke up.
She yawned, stretching at the same time. She saw me as I got up, I was on my knees carrying the sheets on my both hands as I held it close to my mouth so she wouldn't see the scared face I had.
"Wait, a minute," The yellow pegasus said. "Oh, Celestia! I thought it was only a dream!" She exclaimed as she raised both of her hooves up to her head.
"You a dream?! I thought I was hallucinating!" I exclaimed, she placed her hooves on her head and shook in fear. And buried her head in the mattress. "Oh God, this is real. You're real, this can't be a dream! Not a hallucination or a..." My mouth couldn't get out the words I needed to finish my sentence. My heart started to beat faster knowing it she was real the whole time. "Oh, Scheiße," I spoke in German, I knew some German mostly because I was interested in it. I threw the covers that slowly fell on the shaking pegasus.
"How, how will I get home?" The yellow pegasus pony asked herself. Meanwhile, I got on the bed and went under the covers from the cold ground. I looked toward my right and saw a lump sticking out of the covers.
"Fluttershy right?" I asked her name, I looked at the ceiling of the room. I heard a sound of the blanket rubbing against the pony as she moved the covers from her. "God, I don't know why this is happening to me,"
"Don't worry, here I- I'll just go," She got off the bed and walked toward the door then placed her hoof on the doorknob. I got up to a sitting position almost immediately.
"NO!" She looked back at me with worried eyes. "Please, don't go," I stopped to catch my breath. "Please," I said in a gentle voice.
"But I don't really mean anything to you," She said as she hid some parts of her face behind her mane. "I- I know that,"
"Well, you-," I looked at her as she stood there. The shadow from her mane made it hard to distinguish what type of facial expression she made. "Remember what I said last night? That's, that's what I'm talking about," I dropped my back to the bed letting gravity do its thing and landed my head on the pillow, "People are insane, if you were fake I would have forgotten about all this, but you are still here in our gloom, dark, insane, hatred world. If 'they' saw you 'they' would take you away to some other place and would get tested on or whatever," I said as I shivered in fear of the thought of anybody seeing her, but as it did the song 'White Christmas' was still playing in the background due to the alarm.
'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. With every Christmas card I write'
"Where is the music coming from?" She asked pointing to the 'alarm' as I looked toward my left and saw the alarm still playing its song. She wanted to change the subject because of that thought of being away from home, and the worry of how she can get there. I don't blame her for that.
"A radio," I answered. "It plays songs twenty-four-seven." I thought changing the subject was a good idea instead of the whole 'Fluttershy is going to leave,' scenario as well.
There was something deep inside me that wanted to keep her instead of kicking her out of the house. I have no idea what that feeling was, my heart felt like it had some pain. Pain to keep her with me.
"What type of music?" She asked again. I thought of the question. I really didn't want to expose nowadays music to her as most of them are trash. The 'Golden Age of Music' was more like 2009 - 2011for me. As it played one of the biggest hits ever.
"Well, right now it's Christmas," I said. "So it plays Christmas music during the season."
"Christmas?" She asked again.
"Yeah, you know...." I had a sharp worry in my heart. "I mean, you know, well do you have a holiday where people hang up ornaments, trees in their homes and sing 'Christmas' carols?" I stopped still, she was near the door. "It's the dead of winter and no animals are here, they are hibernating."
"Well, we do have 'Hearth's Warming Eve'." She said.
"What's that?" I asked.
"Um, everything that is happening right now." She said, then looked at me. "It was Hearth's Warming Eve before I came here."
"Then how did you get here?" I asked again.
"Oh, well I don't know. That's the question, I don't know how I got here," She answered back. She walked closer to me as I got up. I put on a T-shirt and some shorts.
"Okay," I stopped as she got on the bed and sat near the corner, I stood and leaned against a wall. "So if you are here and if you want to find a way home, we will try to find a way out to get you into your world."
"Really, I mean but for me?" She asked as she pointed her hoof at herself. "I thought you thought of me as a hallucination, that's why you didn't really care about me," She looked down as her stomach growled as she finished her sentence. "Sorry, I'm just hungry." She got off the bed and walked towards the door.
"No! Don't do it!" I exclaimed as she looked at me and had a hoof at the door once again.
"I'm not gonna leave, I was just going to get food," She said as she lowered her hoof.
"I don't want anybody calling the government or anybody bad that might take you away," I said as I walked toward the door and had a hand on the knob tight, so nobody can get inside or outside. "I'll get the food for you,"
"The- the government?" She asked it looked like she was more concerned about the U.S.A government instead of food for her to eat. "What is that?" She had a scared face, as she leaned back in fear.
"Well, it's a rule, to be honest, like a rule of power," I said and looked at her. "You must have one, right?" I asked, she looked at me, then looked down.
"We do have two princesses," She said sheepishly with a little smile.
I scoffed, then felt as my own stomach growled and wanted food, "Of course," I mumbled, it's a little girl's show what did I expect? But then again, there was something inside me that felt like meeting her was more of a 'miracle' than a curse or huge mistake. How can a pony make me feel that? "Well, I'm gonna go and get some breakfast," I said as I placed my hand on the knob. "And hide when someone comes okay?" I wanted to get her confirmation.
"Okay, I'll stay here.... alone," She sat looked at the ground as she grabbed her mane closer to her face as I looked at her.
"Ok, I'll be back," I said as I swung open the door and closed it behind me. I walked down the stairs again hearing the radio play, 'The Christmas Waltz'. I let that song sink in my head, "Maybe it should be my new ringtone," I walked toward the kitchen and saw Diego and mom sit on the table having a good breakfast.
"Oh good morning JC," My mom called out, I went to the sink turned it on and washed my face to wake myself up some more. "How does it feel to be out of school?" She asked.
"Thank God, Jesus," I said as I turned off the sink, grabbed a towel and dried my face. "I can finally sleep, and rest," I placed the towel back. I then looked at the counter.
Pancakes, my mother made pancakes this morning.
"How many do you want?" Mom got up to the counter I was next to.
"Two please," My mother didn't spoil me, she never wanted to do that in the first place, she gave me that 'Tough Love' thing so I did lots of things by myself. I grabbed a fork from the drawer below the counter and grabbed the two pancakes my mom gave me on a paper plate. I walked toward the table to eat, which had milk and syrup there already, as always I poured the syrup and ate the pancakes. I also got up to get a cup of milk.
"Remember JC we got nine more days until Christmas," Diego reminded me, To be honest, he is a cool guy but God he just doesn't listen.
"Oh shit really?" I asked holding the fork ready to take another bite.
"Uh-huh," He said in a 'yes' hum.
"Wow," I took a bite of the pancake while thinking of the surreal thought of Fluttershy upstairs. As I did, I wanted to take my time in order to process what is happening through my mind. "That's crazy,"
"Well, it's that time of the year again," Diego took a bite almost finishing his plate.
"No dur, Diego God, everywhere you go to it's either going to play some Christmas music or it's gonna be decorated in Christmas decorations," I said, then again taking a bite of pancakes. I could feel myself starting to break off, more of a daydream thought of Fluttershy. A pony, a talking pony upstairs in my room. What has my life become?
I continued to eat until there were no more pancakes, during that time the conversation was more about Christmas and by the time I was almost done Diego had already fled. "DIEGO!" I called out as by now he hurried upstairs.
"WHAT?" He asked back.
"Don't go into my room okay?" I lowered my voice I knew that he can hear me now since I got his attention.
"Why not?"
"Just don't do it, man, it's better off, like that," I said in a more serious tone.
"Okay, I wasn't going to anyway." He said as I looked at the 'bridge' and heard a door close. "Ah, thank God," He went into his room. My mind couldn't take it anymore, I got up with my empty paper plate and threw it in the trash. I looked back and found mom having a purse in her hand walking past me toward the laundry room. "Where are you going to?" I asked.
"To volunteer at a church," She said as she looked back at me.
"Oh for the poor or what?" I asked.
"Yeah, something like that I'm going to just help them and package up some toys for them, you know how the family can't afford to buy their kids toys and food," She said as she got on her phone. "Even after Hurricane Harvey," We weren't affected by the hurricane. There were sewer drains and the water would just enter into them and never come back up to the surface.
"Well, where's dad at?" That man would get up early in the morning always, he would go to work and hit the gym too. Oh, wait a minute, "Oh never mind! Never mind!" I said fast before mom could say anything about how in common sense my dad was at work, "Well, take care mom see you later,"
"Alright well bye," She said to me as she went out the door.
"Bye," The door closed and I heard the sound of an engine starting and the sound of the garage opening and closing.
"Annnd, she was gone, God," I said as the sound went away. My mother was a cool mom she was funny and straight. But she liked volunteering for others it was her own act of kindness. "Well, crap I'm stuck with a pony, my mind is crazy. Diego is in the house, Fuck." I took a moment to breathe, "And I'm talking to myself,"
I would just do that and talk to myself as it helped me through of what's going on. It can help me express my words and thoughts. Anyway, I grabbed a paper plate from the table and picked up the syrup, I grabbed the two pancakes and placed it on the plate then covered the pancakes with syrup, not that much though I didn't know how much syrup Fluttershy favored over, then finally I grabbed a fork. "I think that's enough," I said as I 'speed' walked upstairs and into my room.
I slowly opened the door without making it creak, and barely took a step. I looked down at my footing then looked up and still right there was Fluttershy. She was looking out the window as she must have opened it, her mane blew with the wind from outside and she looked to see our world. She grabbed her mane and buried her face in it, "How in Celestia could I get home?" I didn't want to get mad at her to open the window but then again I let that anger go away.
I felt myself getting weird, almost. Different, I must have been blushing as she closed the window then looked at me in which I was in a frozen position and looked at her with a dumbfounded look. My heart dropped, "Hiiiiii, Fluttershy," What the hell was that? My mouth wanted to stay frozen but I forced it to move. "I brought some breakfast,"
She looked at me with the same 'type' of blush as before. "Oh, thank you JC I c-couldn't thank you enough for it," I looked around to set the plate at, my mind was going insane.
"Uh, where do you want me to place the plate at?" I asked her, I kept my eyes on the floor to avoid some eye contact. I dunno I guess I was afraid of her, or embarrassed.
"On the floor is fine," She pointed to the floor as I kneeled down to set the syrup and the plate. I got up as she hopped out of the bed and sat next to the plate.
I watched as she started eating it without the fork entirely. I kept watching not focusing on my surroundings and sat-fell on my bed. She ate it like a normal person would, to be honest, I expected her to leave crumbs everywhere. As I did I just stared at her as she ate it 'That couldn't be me eating the pancakes, I'm already full. It just can't.' I thought of that as she looked up to me. At that very second, I quickly turned my head to the ceiling to show that I was just minding my own business.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to-" She understood what I did, but I quickly cut her out.
"No, no. Fluttershy, you didn't do anything wrong," I said to hopefully convince her that I wasn't staring at her eating. "I mean you-"
The sound of Big Band music started playing. I looked at that direction, it was my ringtone. I always had a fascination with old music instead of new. It was, in my opinion, way better than how 'bad' nowadays music sounded.
I looked at my phone as it read, 'Incoming Call: Alex'. Alex was calling me, but for what? I looked and swiped it to answer the call, I then looked at Fluttershy. Who then continued to eat her pancakes.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Hey, JC, I see how it is," I heard a familiar voice into the phone. I tried to think of who said it.
"Is, is, is this JJ?" I asked into the phone, I didn't mean to stutter but again a lot was going through my mind one part about Fluttershy and one part about what's happening right now. God, I know this voice but it's on the tip of my tongue.
"No, no this is far from JJ," It said smoothly, and more like I was going to get hunted. I looked at Fluttershy as she looked up towards me, with a mouthful of pancakes and some crumbs falling onto the plate. I don't wanna get hunted, and my death to be silenced, from whoever the hell this is.
"Who the hell is this and what the hell do you want?" I asked into the phone.
"Oh ok, I see how it is in Slasher," The voice said, I knew he was talking about. He was talking about the game-mode in Grand Theft Auto. I knew who talking on the phone.
"Saquan, is that you?" I asked. He was good on that game-mode. He was the hunter, we were the hunted almost always in every match.
"Hahaha, yeah it's me," He laughed into the phone. "I just wanted to see if you recognized my voice." He said with humor. A huge sigh of relief came over me.
"Jesus, you gave me a freaking heart attack," I said then lied down on the bed, then followed with a small bounce. A sigh came followed with a, "So why did you call me?" I asked him.
"Oh, yeah I called on Alex's cell because he wanted to ask you a question," He said, then waited for me to reply.
"Well, what is it?" I asked him.
"Um, can, uh can we use your gun real quick?" Saquan asked, then followed by a:
"Yeah, ask him about it." With a small distant voice from the background.
It was Alex who said it.
I got up and looked at my nightstand with a lamp and nothing more. "Aw, sh-" I got up and walked into the bathroom and turned on the lights. My gun wasn't there, Crap I didn't want to go outside to get it where I met Fluttershy. Not with Diego in the house. Shit, I was so focused on Fluttershy that I forgot about my own shit.
"Is, is everything alright JC?" Fluttershy asked as I entered. I heard as she got up and looked at me while I looked for the BB gun.
"Yeah, yeah I'm just looking for uh, for a thing," I said as I looked in the basket, looking for my sweater.
"JC you okay man?" I heard Saquan on the phone.
"Is he okay?" Alex asked with a humored laugh in the background from the phone.
"Bro, I dunno," Saqaun answered back onto the phone.
As I kept looking into the basket, with my right hand moving the clothes side to side but with the other arm held the phone. "God," I placed the phone with the back facing up, near the sink, as it made it difficult to make me swiftly look through the basket of dirty clothes, then finally with that out of the way I started to fully search for my BB gun in this pile of dirty clothes.
"JC, what are you looking for?" Fluttershy asked this time closer to me that she was before. "You could just ask me and I can help you get it,"
"JC? JC?" The phone call was still going and I didn't put it on speaker. The volume from the ear-made speaker made it echoed louder near the sink than it was last time. "You still there?"
I couldn't answer, I wanted to open my mouth but I couldn't force myself to talk.
"Hello?" Fluttershy answered.
"Oh God," I looked back and saw Fluttershy walked up to it.
"JC, is that you?" Saquan asked again. "Hello?" He paused then and said. "Alex, what the hell happened last night? What the fuck did you do?" I looked back at the basket continuing my search.
"Magic happened," Alex answered Saquan.
"No, JC is looking for...." Fluttershy stopped but I can only visualize her looking at me."Something,"
"Wait who is this?" Saquan asked as he was now really confused.
"Let, let me see the phone," I heard now as Alex took the phone from Saquan.
"Hello?" Alex asked.
"Hello? Is somepony in there?" Fluttershy asked questioned the person from the 'phone'.
"Who is this?" Alex asked again.
"Oh, this, this is Fluttershy," Fluttershy asked the phone. "Are, are you trapped in there?"
I looked and flipped a bundle of clothes upside-down.
The sweater! There it is! I grabbed it and took out the gun. "Oh thank you, God,"
"Fluttershy? What the f-" Alex was cut off by me as I grabbed the phone and basically yelled at it.
"ALEX! How is going...... Buddy?" I asked. "Aw, man... Um,"
"Bro, who was that?" He asked. "Who was... Fluttershy?" He asked again, confused as Saquan was before.
"Wait, what do you mean?" I asked him and pretended that nothing happened.
"Boi, there was a girl talking and her name was Fluttershy," Alex said telling me what he just witnessed from the audio on the phone.
"Dude, you were probably just hallucinating," I said, then attempted to change the subject almost immediately, due to what I said to Fluttershy earlier, 'You a dream?! I thought I was hallucinating!' God, I'm a horrible person. "Why did you call me anyway?"
"Wahf," He made a weird sound then followed by a sigh. "We wanted to come to your house and shoot some cans and see how much damage the BB gun can do,"
"What? Why?" I asked him again, and again. Jesus, I wanted to make this call short. After what happened with Fluttershy talking on the phone. "You saw the thing can do after we did to Andrew,"
"Wait, you guys shot Andrew?!?!" Saquan asked with a worry strike to his heart.
"Yeah, JC lit him up!" Alex said as a joke. "But don't worry, he won't come back to us after what we did to him," Alex assured Saquan, he did a little chuckle. "Fucking asshole," Alex said with a mumbled still loud enough for me to hear, but not for Fluttershy. He went back to me on the phone, "I dunno, why not?" He asked. "It'll be fast, don't worry." He stopped for me to reply to him.
I wanted to say a word but all I got was: "But Flutter-" I dropped the phone. Jesus, there are so many things going through my head. She is real, even my friends can hear her, now my friends are going come to my house. Reality doesn't feel like reality anymore, it feels like a dream. A dream that doesn't exist, a dream that was meant to be forgotten.
I picked up the phone from the floor that made a surprisingly loud 'thud' "Al-Alex, I'll tell you this," I started. "Come over here to my house, and take Saquan, Jeremiah, and Aaron. I- I just want them to see."
"See what?" He asked. I looked at Fluttershy and raised my left bottom eyelid.
"See her," I then hung up on Alex.
"Are they coming to see me? But how?" She asked me, as I walked out to my bedroom turned off the lights and closed the door. I cocked back the gun, with that sweet sound of security.
I wanted to know if she was 'real' more like 'reality-real'. But then again I didn't want it to support that reasoning of the question because I didn't want her to think that she didn't mean anything to me like she said earlier. "Um, uh," I stopped before explaining my reason. "You wanted to go back to your home right?" I asked her, and nodded as I said, "Right?" She looked at me placing her hoof on her muzzle and thought about that statement.
"Yes, I really do, want to go home," She said as she placed her hoof down. "But how will I get home?" She wanted to find out 'how' it could be done, 'how' she could go back. But realistically I dunno.
"Well, uh we'll find a way to get you home. We just need to get all of the help we need." I looked down to see my phone. '10:50' Wow. These fifteen minutes felt like fifteen hours.
"T-thank you for that," She gave me a sheepish smile and took a step back.
"Yeah, you're, you're," I sighed. "Welcome," I grabbed the plate and clean fork walked toward the door.
"I can pick up the plate for you," Fluttershy said as I stopped and looked at her.
"It's okay, I'll do it," I could do so I looked where the plate sat. 'Wow, no crumbs!' I opened the door and closed it and thought of that as I walked down toward the stairs and into the kitchen. I threw away the empty plate and tossed the spoon into the sink.
Now what? I let my mind flow everywhere, or if anything if I can find a way to let my friends 'accept' Fluttershy. Crap, how the hell do I do it? How the hell can I do that? How will they react? Will they call 911? God, I am slowly turning into a madman. An evil crazy one.
Without thinking I grabbed a cup and poured milk into it. "It's not even Christmas Day, if it was I would be doing it late at night." I was talking about Santa Claus and how families would leave cookies and milk for Santa near the chimney. I said that trying to 'calm' myself again by talking to myself. So the stress wouldn't catch up to me. I knew who the milk was for Fluttershy. Fluttershy. Fluttershy... Does she flutter around but is shy? Jesus, I just want an answer. Any answer to how I am feeling? More or less but why me? Why not anybody else in the whole world? And a My Little Pony character? My body began shivering in fear and in worry. Fuck me. Shit, "Ha," A little laugh came to me as I began walking upstairs into my room. That laugh just came out by accident, as again my sanity is turning against me.
I opened the door and saw Fluttershy sitting on the bed, I don't blame her for doing anything, not when you are in a different world and can't even go outside. "I brought some milk," I walked and offer it to her. She accepted it and with her two hooves, she drank the whole thing. This time I didn't stare but 'looked' as she did it.
You know this brought me some flashbacks too, my grandfather from my mother's side grew up poor. He slept most of the time due to the lack of energy from the food he had because again he was poor and dropped out of third grade. Things became better when he was in his teenage years but it was a harsh reality for him when he was a child. Sometimes when I eat he would look at me as I would do it. Placing his chin on his palm to support it from falling down. I somewhat did notice but thought of it as nothing, but when a conversation sparked up this topic with my mother she just simply said. "You know he does do that to get rid of his memories when he was young. He didn't have that much food, he slept a lot and the first time he ate chocolate was when he found it in a trash bin with the cover still wrapped around it."
"Damn that's hard," I said as of during that time, I was helping her cleaning up the house.
"Yeah, so think about that when you eat ok?" She waited for my confirmation.
"Yeah alright, I will," I said resuming to the cleanup.
That's me right now, looking at Fluttershy as she drinks her milk made me kinda resemble my grandfather right now. He is still alive with my grandmother, so there is nothing to that subject. He is happy now and that's what counts in life.
"Thanks," Fluttershy emptied the cup and 'hoofed' it to me.
"You're welcome," I said as I looking into the cup. "Do you need anymore?" My body was still shaking with fear.
"No, thank you so much with that," She looked down. "I- I don't know what I will do if I didn't meet you." She said then raised her head and smiled at me. I returned the smile back and did the same thing I went down and placed the cup in the sink and turned off the radio coming from the speaker. With that, I returned to my room and waited for the gang to show up.
'DING-DONG!!!'
It has been another fifteen minutes since the phone call. "I got it!" Diego said as I heard his bedroom door swung open.
"Oh no," I got up from my bed that I was lying on and rushed out of my bedroom door "Fluttershy stay here and don't exit this door okay?" I asked her, she nodded and with that, I swung open the door. "DIEGO don't!" I exclaimed, he stopped in his tracks. He was halfway down the stairs and looked at me with a confused face.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
"Yeah, yeah, it's my friends," I said as I closed the door of my room and walked down toward the front door. And past by him and got closer to the front door.
"Why did you invite them?" He asked again, I stopped in my own tracks like he did. I then moved my head to the side, instead of looking directly at him.
"So, we could tie up a few knots, that's about it." It took a moment for him to reply.
"Well, alright," He walked back into his room and closed the door.
During those fifteen minutes of waiting, I gassed up my BB gun and loaded it. It didn't even feel that long, and during most of that time, I and Fluttershy were mostly quiet and just breathed. She just saw me gas up my BB gun, loaded it up and nothing more and placed it on the nightstand and placed my phone into my pocket. Without asking a question or saying anything.
'DING-DONG!!!' The doorbell rang again.
"Coming!" I yelled and opened the door with a cold breeze hitting my body like a brick, I recoiled a little. I was greeted by Alex, Aaron, and Saquan.
"Hey wassup JC?" Alex said he was in the middle with Aaron in the left side and Saquan in the right.
"Oh, hey. How's it going, guys?" I asked them and moved to the side so they can enter. They were wearing jackets, pants, and nothing more than regular clothing.
"Nothing much, you?" Aaron asked me, he looked around the house as he did so.
Now my body was really shivering, I tried to make it stop but it didn't really work, I just pulled it off as nothing. "Well, it's Christmas Break so thank God I could sleep now," I said, then walked up the stairs. I looked back and saw them as they just saw me walk up,"You guys can come up you know,"
"Oh, yeah," They all said and soon followed. Every step I took my heart beat faster and my body shook milder and some sweat started to come.
"JC, you okay man? You look nervous," Saquan asked me he was behind Alex, who in which he was behind Aaron.
Alex scoffed. "Because of that Fluttershy call," My heart dropped so bad I could feel it inside me. Now I was really nervous. "What was that all about anyway?" He asked me.
"Uhm, hgumh," My mouth made weird sounds, not even a word can come out. I sighed so I can restart my sentence again. I took a deep breath in, "You're question will be answered shortly." I said and opened the door to the 'Office Room'. They walked into the room, I looked at the monitor and desk. "Make yourselves at home fellas," I said pointing my hand to the circular wooden table and chairs. "Where's Jeremiah at, man?" I asked them.
"Oh, He should be here right now," Aaron paused to sit into the chairs. "He had to do something with his mom,"
'DING-DONG!!!' The doorbell rang.
"Alright thanks," I said fast to him, "I got it, Diego!" I called out, I hear a muffled voice.
"Ok!" He replied with.
I fast walked down the stairs, opened the door and met Jeremiah who seemed to admire the decorations in our front yard. "Hey, how's it going JC?" He asked me.
"I'm ok, really," I said then looked up the stairs. "How about you?" I asked him.
"I'm doing good, I'm doing good," He answered back as he entered the door.
"Come in, there was a reason why I called you guys," I said in the process and walked up the stairs with Jeremiah behind me.
"What did you call us for?" He asked me, and took the turn into the Office Room and entered it while I stood by the entrance. He took a seat down as the rest of the others did.
Here it goes, shit is about to go down. This is it, this is the end. It definitely feels like the end and it does feel like it, it's going to go downhill fast. I closed the door, turned and walked toward the table and placed my both hands on the table the edge of the table. I looked at them as they waited for me on their phones, and just stared and breathed, I could only do the same. How the hell do I start this conversation?
"So JC?" Aaron asked me.
"What, what is it?" I asked him, I wanted to build up my confidence before informing them about the yellow pegasus in my room.
"Dude, remember that show 'Noggin'?" He asked me, he was on his phone but he looked up and waited for my response.
"Oh yeah, haha that's my childhood. Jesus, dude it's. God, I loved that channel when I was young." Jesus when it was Moose and Zee instead of commercials they would teach kids lessons about whatever it may be. "Yeah, haha I was just thinking about it last night." I thought of something to bring back the memories from back then, it's Christmas so I thought it wouldn't hurt to sing a song from Noggin during Christmas time.
"Well, I made my list and I checked twice. With only one thing it's rather precise. Listen closely, please lend me your ear. I only want a candy cane this year." A smile and came to my face as I started laughing, Aaron did the same thing too. "God, after all these years I still know the lyrics!" I can tell that the same type of nostalgia was hitting them too.
"Damn, I remember I watched 'Blue's Clues' when I was little," Alex said giving a chuckle. "Ha, wow we had one hell of a childhood," A smile came to his face as the thought entered his head.
"All of you watched that when you were little?!" Jeremiah sat next to Aaron and looked down into his phone. Aaron must have been on YouTube since Jeremiah was looking down with a confused face he must've been familiar with the two characters.
"Yeah!" Alex, Aaron and I said to him. Of course, we saw that when we were little when it was no agony, fear, or depression it was the happiest days of our youth.
He scoffed, "Wow,"
"Yeah, I remember being really simple as a kid. But later our parents are going to tell us to get a job, and file our taxes, and pay our taxes, and understand taxes..." Aaron said as his voice trailed off.
We all chuckled at his statement.
"But anyway, guys..." I got in a more serious tone. "There's something I wanted to tell you since... I dunno last night?" I tried carefully explained to them.
"Oh yeah sorry about last night," Alex said, point out a hand. "Sky called me,"
"Oh yeah, what a great friend you are!" I said with sarcasm. "What the hell did you do with Sky anyway?" The rest of the others looked at him.
"Bro, It was awesome!" He gave out his answer. "We talked, watched YouTube, played Star Wars: Battlefront. It was nice!" He said to me, while the rest of the others gave him a confused look instead of Saquan.
"Jesus..." I mumbled.
"Damn, I Alex didn't you were hitting her up!" Jeremiah jokingly said to Alex. "Damn, fam it must've of gotten wet behind the scenes,"
"What? No, I'm not," He explained. "We were just hanging out, you know?" He looked at Jeremiah as he did so. In which Jeremiah was still laughing.
Alex had a more 'really?!' type of facial expression on him. That was another moment to be saved in our memories together. I'm sort of the reason why all of us a united in a first place.
"Ok, but really I'm actually being serious right now, I could've died because of you Alex," All of them stopped and heard of the announcement of how Alex basically abandoned me. "And Jeremiah could have worn a tuxedo to my funeral for all if I know," Alex faced Jeremiah in a confused look.
"You were going to wear a tuxedo to JC's funeral?" Alex asked Jeremiah.
"Uh, I-" He stopped to think for his response. "I mean I could," He said slowly and awkwardly.
"Ok then, Alex, um how do I- how do I say this?" I walked back and forth of the room side to side. "Um, so when you left I met this person..." He got interested in what I was talking about as he placed his arms on the table, most of the time he crossed his arms. "And this 'person' isn't the person you think it is to be okay? Just, just bear with me,"
"Okay...." He said real smooth like Saquan did to me on the phone call. "Who was it?"
"It's a, 'she' and well, first of all, she is shy," I said to him, the rest of the others looked confused.
"What?" Saquan asked me, as it seemed Aaron and Jeremiah were thinking the same thing.
"Okay, just hear me out. Before I show her to you guys I just want you to remain calm okay? No matter how bad it gets."
"I mean what does she like?" Alex asked me, that was a good question.
"Uhm," I tried to search for the correct words, then I thought of my 'research' on the phone last night. "Animals," I said to him as it kind of 'cleared' an image of what I was talking about.
"JC is it your-," Alex was cut off by the sound of a synthesizer.
'To ten million fireflies. I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes. I got misty eyes as they said farewell'
A brief moment of silence came to us as those words came out of a speaker. I knew that song, it was Fireflies. "Wait, who's playing that?" I asked my friends.
"Haha, it's me sorry," Aaron as he looked down at his phone and cut off the music. "I thought of it as the right time, I mean she likes animals right? So then she'll love this song,"
"JC is she your girlfriend?" Alex asked me, about the person I was describing.
Two things came to my head, my fear, and Fluttershy. "Oh fuck no, man fuck that shit," I instantaneously answered. "God, man remember what happened to Jonathan?" I asked him. We all knew what happened, supposedly he was cheating on her girlfriend over another girl for about two months, but slowly as she learned and eventually found out she dumped him and with her second girlfriend founding out soon after she dumped him too. In desperation and in an attempt to get one of them back he was sexually touching his second girlfriend to try to win her heart, I guess. It didn't work, and soon news broke out in school.
And holy shit, I don't even think his mother would love him after the shit he done to them. Saquan was hooked up with a love of his own, but lots of girls don't really care for their boyfriends, all they want is their respect and attention.
"Haha, oh my God. Yo, that's why I'm scared to get a girl!" Alex said as I mentioned Jonathan. "Yo, they want their respect and attention,"
"Yeah, same here," But Fluttershy? She was different than all of the other females that exist today. She seemed more, I dunno 'kindly'? She never wanted confirmation of respect when I met her but instead treated me with respect as she aided me to my house. My God, something is different about her I just want to know what it was. "But anyway, I'm going to get her...." I got myself to face the door. One step at a time. "I swear to God if you say any shit, you guys are dead got me?"
"Alright...." They looked at me as I exited and closed the door. I walked into my room and meet Fluttershy as she lied on the bed, facing outside to the sunny outdoors. Yesterday, it was more cloudy outside as it didn't rain but more or less the clouds took over the sky when Alex and I got out of school. "Hey, Fluttershy," She looked at me with her green-blue eyes.
"Oh hi JC," She then looked at the bed below her then to me, "Are, are your friends here?" She asked me.
My body began to shiver in fear, "Yeah, yeah they are," I stopped, so I can be slow I knew deep down she was getting homesick, I knew that feeling too and I help to calm her. Deep down I knew from the start that she wouldn't survive if it wasn't for me. "Don't worry, they'll help you so that you can go back to your world. I'll make sure of it,"
"Yeah, but what happens if they don't want to me help me?" She asked as she looked at me, but didn't move the rest of her body. "What if they don't accept me? You're a...." She tried to search for the words to describe me, of what species I was I suppose.
"A human," I answered.
"Yes, but I'm a pegasus. What if they, um don't like me?" She asked me as well herself, I didn't know how to respond to her questions but I just want my friends to help me, and Fluttershy, and not to really force them to.
"Well, then I, uh," I began to think what to say next. "I'll, uh find a way to make them see you as the same way I see you." I pointed to her with my palms. It was the best answer I can give so far. If I had more time then, it could have come out a little better but it'll have to do for now.
"Well, how, how do you see me as?" She asked me, she wanted an answer. As I looked at her, I can feel myself going on my knees for that. For an answer. Fluttershy is different, she somewhat understood me for how I cried helplessly with the pain on my leg. And I knew that if it was a hostile alien, my death could have been silenced and just like that gone and forgotten. That's why I cried, I had a 'Wow, this is it. My life is over, after fourteen years it'll be gone in a snap.'
"Look," I answered, well fuck. I hope no 'drama' would go down or any type of negotiation. I walked and placed both of my hands on the bed, "I'm trying the best I can right now, to get all of the help we need. I don't know if I can, I don't know if it's worth the pain to know they would deny me for help but I know deep inside they are just like me." I was shivering bad, I had fear inside me. "I don't have the courage to show them to you, I don't know how they'll react but I know they will understand why I asked them for help okay?" I got my body to lay down and tried to calm myself. There was already things on my mind, that would be the extremely horrific for Fluttershy and me, to go through. "It's going to be okay, it's going to be okay," I assured her, with my 'little' speech.
"Th-thank you," She said quietly. "For doing the best you can to help me, go back to Equestria."
"Is that what your world is called?" I asked her, I heard the word 'Equestria' before but with a different meaning.
"It is called that." She said, as for I got up and looked at my BB gun with filled gas. I took it, just in case when it goes to extreme measures. In a good way. I got to my feet and saw Fluttershy as she gave me a warm smile.
"You-you're welcome, um for that just right now," I gave the smile back and felt as my heart beat faster than it ever did before. "Come on, let's go and meet my friends....." I said, as I approached and opened the door Fluttershy hopped out the bed and walked closer to me.
I checked for my surroundings so that we were clear of anybody spotting Fluttershy on the little bridge we were at before walking through. "Okay, we're good," I walked across the 'bridge' and came close to the Office Room door. I prayed Diego didn't open his door to his room to expose Fluttershy but right now he seems like he is not going to at any moment. "Okay, Fluttershy. Just act calm, and try to get to know everyone alright?" I asked her.
"O-okay," She said, I could feel she had a sense of doubt of my friends acting 'kindly' to Fluttershy, but at the same time, I knew this was wrong but good. About that fact that if she was real and my mind wasn't hallucinating or the fact that she wanted to go home, God I feel like I committed a sin right now, or murder.
"Okay, here we go," I cracked open the door slowly, I heard some of my friends start to quiet down as the door opened. I poked my head through the door as for Fluttershy was on opposite side getting covered by the door itself. "Aaaayyy, what's sup everybody....?" I said weirdly.
They all quieted down when I said that, again I didn't know how to start the conversation so, I waited for one of them to say something while Fluttershy was probably nervous to meet my friends. "So, JC where's your 'girlfriend' bro?" Alex asked me in the same tone of voice that Saquan talked when he was on the phone with me earlier.
"Yeah, come on JC," Jeremiah said, supporting Alex. Most of them were leaning on the chairs and kept their arms crossed. I don't know if Fluttershy heard about that 'girlfriend' part, I mean just think about that. You in love with a pony...
"Alright, then I guess I have too," I said that last part with a desperate tone, looked down at the door and saw Fluttershy having a worried look, "Alright Fluttershy," I whispered. "Don't be scared and if they say anything bad to you, then just... ignore it okay?"
"I'll- I'll try to do my best," She said with a nervous tick in her voice. I slowly opened up the door and she moved back so the door wouldn't get in her way. I thought of opening the door slowly just show the whole thing to my friends and it wouldn't jumpstart it and it wouldn't be a surprise.
"JC, is it even a pet?" Aaron asked, in curiosity of how I looked down.
'Oh my...' I thought to myself as he said that. Fluttershy isn't my pet, she is a pony. With her own personality and everything, it would be weird for her to be my pet.
"Ha, imagine if it..." Saquan was cut off by my rage I had with their impatience I guess. I looked down and swung open the door all the way with all of them watching as it did.
And as it did it revealed a four-foot yellow, pink-haired pegasus with a cutie mark that had a cyan butterfly body with pink wings. She cowered at the left of me and halfway spread out her wings, with saddening nervous aqua-eyes and some of her mane and hair touching the ground almost. "H-" She stopped in her sentence as I looked up to all of my friends who were in which in shock. As if they just had Vietnam flashbacks.
They all said different things before stopping their last sentences. "OH MY FUCKING GOD!" Said Saquan.
"CALL THE CDC!" Said Aaron.
"HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK!?" Jeremiah said.
"JC GET THE GODDAMN GUN AND THE THING TO HELL!" Alex said while the rest of them said it at the same time making it a dramatic scene. maybe I should have opened the door a little slower than what I should have. But Alex's sentence was the last one making me reply to that one quickly.
I grabbed the BB gun and pointed it near Alex and shot it. The BB seemed to hit the wall, that's about it. "Jesus, Alex I'm not gonna shoot Fluttershy!" I exclaimed to him. Why would I harm a creature as kind and as gentle as Fluttershy? Meanwhile, for Fluttershy, she was more I dunno scared of Alex, Aaron, Jeremiah, and Saquan. She never saw humans, I was the only one she saw so far.
"You, you were going to shoot me?" In all of the commotion, she backed up from me in fear of me.
"No, I wasn't going to," I looked at Alex, with him had a shocked facial expression on him. "And I'll never will Fluttershy."
"So... so wait that was Fluttershy?!" Aaron asked and pointed to Fluttershy in surprise. Wow, all of this that's happening right now is real. I just wanted proof if she was real. This is now the reality that I now face and made my friends in it too.
"Yeah, that's Fluttershy," I answered back. Fluttershy sat on the floor crossing her forearms and covering her right eye with her mane.
"Um, J-J-JC," Jeremiah said after stuttering a little, wow you can actually hear the fear in his voice. "Can we talk to you real fast?" He asked me, I didn't know what he would say but whatever it was. It's going to be about Fluttershy.
"Oh sure, just go ahead..." I felt my face red up with heat a little. They know the show, they know it's for little girls but I know deep inside whatever we were going to talk about was deeper than that.
"No, n-o in uh," Jeremiah was too nervous to talk. He looked at Saquan and tilted his head toward me and Fluttershy with a 'bail me out' face.
"In private JC without the pony...." He said calmly but made sure he said it slowly so it wouldn't be a 'jump' I would guess.
"Okay, then," I looked at Fluttershy, she had a worried look on her face. "Um, wait in my room for me, I'll be back in a bit," I said.
"Ummm, JC," She said in a whisper. "I- I don't think they would help me," Fluttershy said in a soft voice. I shivered at the thought of that.
"Don't worry I'll somehow convince them, I hope I do so," I will probably do anything for Fluttershy whatever the cost may be. "Go to my room and close the door, don't come out until I tell you. Please." She nodded and walked out of the door then flew to my room as she flapped her wings and closed the door.
I closed the door too the one for the Office Room and looked at my friends. "Guys, what in the fuck was that? I told you guys to not say any shit, but never fucking mind about that." I stopped to catch my breath and continued to look at them I then sighed. "God....." I threw my hands up in the air.
"Oh guys, I'm gonna start beef," Jeremiah moved his position from his chair. "It was a joke... Ha yeet!!" He said as 'we' (Yes including me) started laughing. Even after that it just made the situation even more awkard than it had should been.
"Oh shit he already has his backup plan," Saquan added with the rest of the others laughing at that too. But even after a few seconds reality kicked in for the rest of them.
"JC what the hell was that?" Alex started, now I can feel things are going south. "I mean bro! What the hell happened last night?!" He asked me to crack the truth.
"Yeah! Nobody finds a pony like that!" Aaron said as he backed up Alex. "It's a pony from 'My Little Pony!' Jesus JC!! MY LITTLE FUCKING PONY!!!" He started to freak out as soon as he his reality started to become surreal in a collapsed sequence what could have been a hallucination. "I bet they say 'Hooray FRIENDSHIP!!!' And go around people giving hugs and solving problems!"
"Fact," Alex said.
"And if they met ISIS they go around trying to make friends while getting shot not even knowing that they are getting killed!" Aaron continued, with his speech so that I can know the reality that I now face. "It's like Care Bears they look at the problem, find the problem, solve the problem...." He added as his voice trailed off.
"What the fuck are you thinking Aaron?!" I replied. "She is self-aware that she is the only pon-," That didn't come out right like I thought so in my head. "Pegasus," I corrected, I know they were other ponies and not like Fluttershy was, but real ponies in the real world. "She is absolutely terrified and you guys only made it worse!"
"But why did help her? It's stupid!" Saquan exclaimed, to hell the rest of the others are.
"It's not stupid, if it was then I wouldn't help her then," I explained. "You might think that but I don't,"
"Fam, this is like... Mr. Ed!" Jeremiah exclaimed as well. We all looked at him, with confused facial expressions. It looked like to me, all of us never heard it.
"What?" Aaron asked.
"You know.... A horse is a horse, of course, of course..." He stopped in what seemed of what to be a theme song. "You know Mr. Ed? The talking horse!?"
"Was that what you saw when you were little?" Alex asked him confused as ever before. It looked like Jeremiah had a small thing for horses.
"Well, you-," He choked for a second, "Yeah!" He said nervously, he regretted saying that. "Yeah fam, my grandparents let me watch that when I was little," He explained in his previous sentence.
"You watched talking horses?!" I asked.
"What?!"He said in his embarrassment. "I bet you slept with the pony!!!" He exclaimed as he pointed to me.
I blushed a little red and shook in nervousness, shit I did because I thought she was just a fantasy. But oh my God, did he guess? How the hell would he know about it? "Yeah and?"
"Oh my God...." Alex mumbled. "Alright JC, how about you take her and go to the magical land of 'My Little Pony'..." He said waving his hands across the air in a circular tone of what might seemed to be a rainbow.
"How?" I asked him.
"I dunno just find a way and do it. I bet she has 'magic'," He said and continued in air quotes with his fingers. "It's a pony I mean," Alex looked at Saquan so he can get bailed out I suppose. "Saquan tell me the worse thing that can happen to a pony."
Saquan stood quietly for a moment. "Mr. Hands," He simply replied.
"Ka!" A sound of a collapsed chuckle only came out of me. It sounded like a scoff than a chuckle.
"Oh shit, you know that?!" Jeremiah asked Saquan.
"Yeah! Of, course Jeremiah everyone knows that!!" Aaron said to Jeremiah.
Oh God, I know what Mr. Hands was. Jesus... Just thinking about it makes me cringe inside, and Fluttershy? Oh God no, okay next time I'll just be careful I guess. But she never did anything wrong to me. Or anything. "Oh God, ya sick..." I scoffed once again. I wanted to laugh but the thought of Fluttershy was still on my mind making sounds of collapsed laughs.
She was kind and treated me with respect.
"Damn, Saquan I didn't mean that," Alex restated.
"Yes, you did!" Saquan said back.
"Guys, isn't kinda weird how we are talking about porn?" Aaron asked us.
"Yeah, it's a fucking shit show," I said. "About having sex with a pony? Oh God, just think about that...." I said, already the sexual thoughts came to me. 'No, that's not gonna happen' I thought I mean it's not that hard to ignore it.
All of us stood a little quiet, just breathing after that Alex broke the silence. "JC, are you still with the pony?" He asked me.
"Okay, first of all, it's not 'pony' it's Fluttershy. Second of all, yes there is nothing that can change my mind, Alex Jesus Christ," I said dumbfounded proudly rubbing my right hand against my hair.
"But why? At school, we don't you to walk around talking about My Little Pony." He directly said. "We're trying to make you change your mind so that you won't get killed by Andrew and if the school knows about Fluttershy. Even after the fight everybody is gonna kill you, bro."
"The whole school is not gonna know it's only us! Ah, who gives a shit about Andrew? I am free it's the key that doesn't matter what people think of me."
Alex scoffed a little. "You're still using that?" He asked me.
"Yep, I will never change that," I replied to his question.
"Wow," Aaron said.
I thought by now I would repeat the question, so they can know why they were here in the first place. "Guys, all I am asking is that can all of you help me getting Fluttershy home?" I said pointing my right finger to the floor.
"No." They basically all replied.
"It's Fluttershy, JC! You know what!" Saquan said with a small little pause. "I'm out!" Saquan said as he got up out of his chair.
"Same here," Alex assured as he and the rest of the others did too.
"Jesus, guys I don't want help, I need help!" I walked backward toward the door and blocked it. "How am I gonna do it by myself?! Huh?!" I asked them.
"I dunno just call the cops!" Aaron said. They were preparing to get up and waltz on out of the house.
"Damn Aaron you really wanna start World War Three don't ya?" I asked him, he didn't look like he wanted to start an argument. "Fine then! I'll just tell her that some assholes were not kind enough to help me get her back home!" I threw my arms up into the air and walked toward the door. I glanced at them with a disappointed look then looked back at the door.
"Dammit," I opened it and from there on the floor was a yellow pegasus.
I was greeted by Fluttershy. Who had a scared-surprised like-face sitting down listening to the conversation. She was extremely close to the door and seemed to press her ear near it. I heard as the others seemed to quickly sit back down in their respective chairs, they were eager to get out. But it seemed fear stopped them from doing so.
Shit, now I wonder what she heard from that debate. "Hello, everypony..." She said with a nervous smile. "I heard some yelling and I went to see what was...." Her voice came quieter as she saw me. "Happening..."
"Wait, you heard didn't you?" I asked Fluttershy. She backed up a little as she did. "Yeah, I know same here," I said I read the expression on her face. More of a 'No I didn't hear' or 'I know you tried'.
"Uhh..." Alex said kinda awkwardly about leaving the house. He was still scared or felt more surreal about his reality with Fluttershy.
I didn't want to force them to help me, calling the cops was a bad idea and the CDC. Who knows what will happen to Fluttershy... They will probably dissect her throat to see how she talks and will mutate animals to do the same and will unlock animals the ability to talk. Something similar to Disney films.
I needed them to stay there and somehow or someway convince them to help me with my problem or Fluttershy's problem of going home. Fluttershy seemed to be my only motivation for me to keep going, with her sad eyes and her kindness to me it was like she was the reason for me to try even when it became hard. 'Damn it I have to do it,'
I needed a good reason for my friends to help me, hell if they are even my 'friends' anymore. Besides Fluttershy seemed too nervous to talk to me or reason. "Fluttershy, I'll be back in a second," I said.
"Um, JC please I know you tried it's okay," She assured me, already know there was no try of doing so. She placed her hoof on my leg comforting me in my defeat. She gave me a smile burying it against her sadness and worry of the loss of hope.
"Sorry," I kinda whispered the same thing as she did a moment ago. "Don't worry, Fluttershy there's one more thing I can do,"
"What is it?" She asked.
"Don't worry about that, just, please don't listen," I said and wanted her to go back to my room and simply wait for me. I didn't want her to think me as some type of monster or whatever. I didn't want her to fear me because I was the only reason protecting her in the first place.
Fluttershy nodded and flew back to the door, she looked at me with so tensed eyes of worry. That's it, I had to do something. I closed the door and leaned my back toward the door.
"Guys..." Ah, shit what the hell am I doing?
"What?" Saquan asked. He stopped and asked me, with a short movement of throwing his arms up. I was surprised he was still sitting in the chair he wanted to get up again but was scared and still shocked of Fluttershy. He was too scared to even look at her or stare.
"Here, we'll uh," I didn't know what to say. I wanted to say something but I didn't know what to say. Words are like a blender and you pick the words that are needed for the sentence, but this time I didn't know what to pick. But whatever it is I needed to do it for Fluttershy. "I'll- I'll pay you guys for it," I said. Well crap, I didn't want to say that, all I had was a hundred and twenty dollars in my wallet and some loose change in a ziplock bag from saving it up from cutting the grass, finding it from the ground or getting it given from my Grandparents.
"Oh really?!" Alex asked.
"Yeah, I'll uh..." I took out my phone from my pocket. Got the total amount of money in my wallet and divided it by four. For Alex, Saquan, Aaron, and Jeremiah not from me. My only 'reward' was to get Fluttershy's wish to come true.
It equaled to thirty dollars. "I'll pay you guys uh, thirty bucks for it."
"Bro, you already know I have a thousand!" Alex exclaimed. The sad part about that is that it is true. He actually has a thousand, well a thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. He said that after using JJ's bike on his way back home because he had to do a favor for JJ, he found it behind a line of stores while riding his bike. All of a sudden he found a trail of money scattered and after following it he saw this black trash bag out of place, it didn't look like trash. So he opened it and saw nothing but stacks of ones, fives, tens, fifties dollars wrapped in rubber bands. Because of the thing Alex bought that required a backpack he immediately and quickly deposited the cash into the backpack and went home as fast as he could.
The whole day he counted to see how much was it, he also lost count about two or three times. He didn't buy anything yet but he plans so in the future.
"Yeah, but I mean..." Jeremiah was going to say something. I knew what he was going to say, he wanted Call of Duty: World War II. I don't know why Saquan had it but I and Alex were more Star Wars fans and we both brought Star Wars: Battlefront II that came out just recently.
Just forget the micro-transactions part. "Yeah, Jeremiah. It'll be like Heists in GTA, you know I'll get zero percent of the take and you guys can just take twenty-five percent of the take! It's just easy as that!"
Wow, so this is what it feels like to be hopeless, with nobody caring enough to do something about it but does it for the money. I didn't want to force them but I can feel more desperate with each ticking second. "No JC we're good," Saquan said as he started walking then followed by Alex. "Alex has enough money and we don't need it,"
"Jesus! Just do it for me! Please! I mean, God, please. Just for me!" I begged them.
"Sorry, but no," Aaron replied.
"Sorry?! Shut up man, you're not sorry about anything!" I exclaimed at him.
"What?! No, I'm saying I feel sorry for you!" He said back.
"Why?!" I asked back again.
"Because you're the one with the pony." He had a short pause. "Wait... what's- uh... what her name again?!" He looked at the others.
"Fluttershy," Jeremiah answered. He looked down with unappealing eyes but still kept the conversation going.
There's no point of convincing them, I alredy lost my hope, my help and now it was only me. "I- I am going to go now and get her so we can get a plan. While you idiots go if you want, I give up already," I threw my hands up in the air and walked toward the door and opened it. At the same time, I quickly heard a door close that sounded like it was coming from my room.
It was Fluttershy. She wanted to know what we talked about inside, but really the only thing I did was to fail to convince my friends and to help Fluttershy... I did what I didn't want to do.
To fail her, something inside me wanted me to prevent that and wanted to make me feel bad about that too it was a sad-depressed feeling that I never wanted to get again. She knows that I failed her, I think.
I walked toward my door, but before I can even do that I 'slowly' walked toward taking my time so I can hear what my friends had to say.
"Yeah, same here, I'm not gonna get into that again," Alex said.
"Me too," A chuckle came from Aaron. "Why would he even help her?" That was a good question, Aaron asked. Why would I help her? Well, it's because I know that feeling from being away from home, it's a bad feeling or it's just because I'm a caring person or whatever. Something inside me tells me something that I can't explain.
"JC is weird I guess," Jeremiah added.
"Ha, yeah I got better stuff to do anyway," Saquan said. I heard the chairs move as I visualized them getting up from their chairs.
"Like what?" Aaron asked Saquan.
"Boring stuff," Saquan answered.
"What? You have your girlfriend!" Aaron exclaimed to Saquan.
"Yeah, but she's on vacation!" He answered.
Aaron scoffed. "Since when?" He asked.
"Since last night," Saquan answered.
Man, this was a bad mistake. A stupid one too, I can't do this by myself. Maybe Fluttershy's 'friends' will find a way back right? I don't have many options for this, all of it is a gamble of a lifetime. Ha, I'm lost.
Lost all the way to Voyager 1.
Those guys can just jump off a bridge if they want to I don't care. I'm chasing a myth, a dream that nobody can believe.
One day, Fluttershy one day. I don't even know what to believe in anymore it's like my whole life was just a whole lie or something.
I walked toward the door preparing myself for the worst to come, I can do nothing but to sit around hopelessly as trying to wander around for an idea.
I knocked the door then creaked it open preparing to meet a fear I didn't want to happen. "Um, I'm back now from talking to those guys," I said, with my hands with some of my body sweating from fear. And my body was shaking a little from that fear as well. I poked my head then pushed the door letting it swing open gently. I didn't see her. "Oh, crap where is she?" I looked at the windows first, as the sunlight illuminated the room. "Oh God no," I shook my head then ran as fast to the windows as possible then looked through it to see any yellow or pink instead of the Sun.
I didn't want her to run or 'fly' away from my room, to never see her again. All of the windows were all closed with the curtains showing no signs of movement. Maybe she flew away then closed the windows so I wouldn't know. Oh God, I shook my head hard to get these ideas off of my head.
So many things were going through my mind, first of how I would speak to her and tell her how I failed to convince my friends and 'predict' how the conversation would go and now secondly how she disappeared. I sighed then took a breath, I then looked back at the T.V reflecting the light and my shadow. I looked toward the right of it and saw the bathroom door.
Ha, of course. So much shit is going on, my head isn't even thinking straight. Like I said, I'm lost all the way to whatever I am at right now. I walked toward the bathroom door and opened it, turning on the light in the process.
Empty, I scanned the room. No sign of her, shit this is bad. I looked at the floor and leaned both of my hands on the casing of the door. I looked at the closet door in front of me and quickly jumped to open it. I didn't even bother to turn on the lights because the lights from the bathroom would obviously spot a yellow pegasus.
Just then again in the room, empty. "Ah, shit where is she?!" I asked myself in a tone of a worried fear. I exhaled with bursts of short breaths. I closed the door and turned around toward the restroom door. "Shit, this not good," I said to myself and walked to look in the mirror with my sorry face.. I sighed, "Dammit," I whispered. I looked at the mirror and studied my face expression of defeat and sorrow. I felt guilty, of saying so wrong things about her like with Mr. Hands. She probably hates me now, she would wish for me to be thrown away to any pile of trash. I chuckled at the thought of that. I'm ready to go and to lie down on my bed daydreaming or my conscience debating over that fact that someone couldn't trust me.
I looked at the sink with my hands gripping the edge of the sink, I looked at the mirror again and took a deep breath once more. At the bottom left side corner of the mirror, I saw some movement behind the shower curtain. Of course, I could I missed an obvious place of hiding? I turned around and walked towards it and threw open the curtains.
And there in the bathtub, it was Fluttershy. I chuckled with relief, "Ah thank God," I looked up at the ceiling and whispered loud enough for Fluttershy to hear. "I've been looking for you," I looked down and told her.
She was lying down on the cold bathtub floor and looked up at me. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to worry you," She said as she got up on all fours.
"Why were you hiding anyways?" I asked her.
"Don't you remember that you told me to hide her when somepony comes?" She asked me.
How could I be so stupid? I now remember that I told her to hide. "Yeah, I remember now," I answered with a relieved tone. "Just, just.." I had to think of what I had to say next and the only thing that came out of my mouth was to admit. "You had there in the bathroom so I wouldn't get mad at you for eavesdropping, right?" I asked Fluttershy so that she can admit what she did. I heard that door shut and I knew it was her.
"Um, no that wouldn't be me," She answered.
I had an 'Oh really?' type of face on me after she said that. She had a nervous smile, "Okay, maybe it was me... But inside you...." I knew what she meant, about of how we thought of her. She probably thought we were going to turn it on with her. "Said that, I..." She was too nervous to talk about it.
"Fluttershy we were just joking or talking about some things, that's about it. I promise." I assured her. She hoisted herself out of the bathtub and into the floor.
"JC, were you really going to do all of those things?" She asked me raising a hoof toward her in danger. A pain of guilt came and rushed into my bloodstream. I felt bad for even talking about it or bringing the subject up. "No, and I promise I never would in my life," I knew how she felt, scared as perverts surround her.
"I'm sorry, I just keep thinking I'm in danger. But I feel that I'm not as scared as before." She replied sadly and gracefully. I knew she did that to keep from getting yelled at.
I chuckled. "I wouldn't get mad at you, you know," I said. I mean really? Who would get pissed at Fluttershy? She was so kind and innocent.
"Really?" She asked again.
I chuckled again. "Yeah, why would I get angry?" I asked as a rhetorical question.
She looked down and thought about it, "Wow, I wouldn't expect somepony like you to get angry at me!" She said surprised at what I just said. "Not after one night,"
"You'll be surprised how I can..." I trailed off searching for words. "Handle things... yeah I think that's how you say it," I said.
She smiled, I smiled back.
"Let's go so we could find a way to get into your world," I said, tilted my head toward the door for a second. She hoisted herself out of the bathtub and into the floor.
"Alright," She trotted out of the door.
She understood and nodded as she walked out of the bathroom door. I followed after her turning off the lights and closing the door. I can still hear my friends at a distance talking about something but it was too 'faint' to make out the words. I walked toward the door and leaned beside it so Fluttershy can go before I can.
Instead of that she cowered a little and was on high alert. I took note of this, "You okay?" I asked her.
"JC," She asked me. "What are we going to do now?"
"Plan what I can do to get you back home," I answered.
"But your friends..." She placed a hoof on my leg with a worried look.
I shook my head, "Nah, they didn't want to help us." I answered.
"Oh... I understand," She replied back, filled with sorrow that they rejected me and her.
"Fluttershy, look it wasn't your fault, it's theirs. They're not ready, but I was when you or I found you." I said, she seemed to understand, and for a second letting some of her hope go.
"Thank you, JC, for having me as your friend!" She said cheerfully with a smile, I smiled back as she did. I guess it made me happy to see her happy.
I wanted to hear through the door to see what they were talking about before letting ourselves in, "No, I wasn't," Jeremiah said.
"Well, do you want to go to Best Buy and buy some games?" Saquan asked Jeremiah.
"Yeah, with Alex's money," Aaron replied with a chuckle of laughter.
"Oh hell no! I'm not going to give you my money!" Alex said to them all.
Wow, it's like Fluttershy (and I) was forgotten out of the picture.
"Wait, wait, wait," Aaron said making the others stop in silence. "What are we still doing in JC's house?" Aaron asked.
"Oh yeah, let's go..." Alex said.
"What? No! What if the Fluttershy is still out there, huh?" Jeremiah asked him. "That thing makes me feel... weird and embarrassed..."
"What bro? You're scared of a little pony?!" Alex asked Jeremiah.
"Alex, I think you are too." He replied back.
"Yeah, it kinda does scare me," Saquan said.
"Why?" Alex asked.
"Alex, I dunno about you man... But I think this is bizarre." Saquan explained. "I feel so weird when we talk about My Little Pony... " He stopped for a quick second. "JC, this man..."
It all came back to me, I had to open the door. And if they stay I could care less, it's like my only goal is Fluttershy.
I reached out and opened it, and at the same time, I opened the door as Alex did. From there we were standing face to face with each other and the rest behind him as they all quieted down.
"Oh, hey how's it going?" I asked first.
"It's going good," He answered, I saw as his eyes trailed off to the right of me spotting Fluttershy. "Yeah, anyway we're going to go," He said, he placed his arm to move me gently before all of my friends can leave the room.
Slowly, Jeremiah, Saquan, then Aaron walked out of the room, silent due to Fluttershy's presence. They walked downstairs and into ground level.
I sighed. "Come on, let's go," I grabbed the door handle and signaled Fluttershy to come inside. "We gotta a world to find."
She had a sad-frown face to her due to her embarrassment but she smiled as she knew she had me. She walked into the room. She hoisted herself up and sat where Jeremiah was sitting at. I closed the door and sat on the opposite side of the table.
"Okay, so I dunno how to start this but, um we're going to get through it so..." My voice trailed off, I was trying to think and talk at the same time. "Do you remember how you got here?" I asked.
She looked up and thought about it for a second, "Um, JC I don't know how I got here," She answered.
"Well, what's the... earliest memory that you know when you got here?" I asked again.
"Um, I remember that I woke up in the forest," She said. "I remember that I looked around and tried to find out what happened to me. I saw this... metal tower..." Well, that was easy to figure enough, I kinda would figure that she came from the forest. On the way she looked at the brick walls and street lights she probably thought she was in a new civilization. However, one thing did shock me.
"You saw a metal tower in the forest?" I exaggerated with humor and pointed toward the forest.
"I did see one," She reassured me with that.
"What else did you see?" I asked.
"I saw a lake, and the place was soggy, with no animals around..." She looked in my direction as she said those things in her mind. I tried to reconstruct the thought of 'Why the hell would there be a radio tower in the middle of the forest?'. "And it was started to become sunset, so I flew wherever I could in the toward the east. Then it was scary especially at night with nopony to be around of. Then I saw these brick walls, but I didn't know they were then I looked around the lake to try to find somepony then..." She looked at me with a confused face as if as she was reliving the whole damn thing again.
"You found me..." I said as I finished her sentence.
"Oh, and thank Goodness you found me!" She said relieved. "I can't even imagine what happens if I were in the wrong hooves!"
"Yeah, I know. Thank God I actually did," I said.
"How bad did you hurt yourself?" She asked me.
"Oh um," I looked at my leg, reached down and placed a finger and moved over it. Like I was reflecting on that injury. "It's getting better, thanks for helping me to my house." It kinda was, I had a slight light bruise that was noticeable if someone looked down toward my leg.
"Oh, um but sorry that I made you cry," Fluttershy knew that last night, I truly showed my fear of going to get killed.
"I thought you were going to kill me," I explained. "I was bruised, and I really couldn't move. My gun was my only thing for defense and I ran out of gas for the gun to work," I continued, she looked at me as she was interested in the story. "Then I thought, 'Wow, this is it. This is how it happened, this is how JC died.'" She seemed to understand why I did though and she looked happy for it.
"It's alright, I understand," She gave me a warm smile, and again I returned the smile back to her.
"Alright, well um... let me get the whiteboard, so we can plan our things," I said as I got up from my chair and went to the closet of the Office Room. I walked and opened it up, and switched on the light as the closet held office supplies.
It had whatever people would have at the office. Markers, pencils, pens, Expo Dry Erase Markers Chisel Tipped, dry board erasers, documents, papers just in case if we ran out for the printer... The list goes on. I pulled out a Mobile Dry Erase Board with an Aluminum Frame it was small enough it fit the closet. It was a simple medium one when it came to size and was great to write notes on when it came to school.
Anyhow, I pulled and rotated it so it can face Fluttershy. I thought about this whiteboard so we can dot down our ideas and any notes we may have for each other. "Is that a chalkboard?" The pegasus asked.
"No, well kinda. It's a whiteboard... A portable one that rotates." I explained as she got the basic definition of it. "You know it's kinda like a..." I didn't know what to say so I just said I what came to my head. "Whiteboard."
She giggled. "I know you what mean,"
"Yeah, so..." I walked back to the closet and bent down grabbing a handle to a desktop drawer and pulled out from the very bottem a complete set of Expo Dry Erase Markers. That came in different colors orange, brown, dark red, purple, sky blue, light brown, bright red, light green, green, blue, red and the simple black. I would've gotten one that was already open but there wasn't. I searched and also grabbed an eraser for the whiteboard. I turned closed the desktop drawer, turned around and switched off the lights and closed the door. While all holding the Expo Markers with one hand and using the other for closing the door. "Alright, we gotta think about this..." I said walking toward the door ripped open the container of markers and grabbed a black marker. "What did you find differences between our world and Equestria?" I asked her it has gotten me curious enough that I kinda wanted to know the between her world and ours. I went toward the same chair I saw sitting in and sat down.
"Well, in Equestria there are pegasi, unicorns and Earth ponies," Fluttershy started. "It is a beautiful place with animals and magic, and with two princesses that control the Sun and the Moon,"
"They control the Sun and the Moon?" I asked I remember her talking about this a bit earlier but I didn't know when. "How?"
"Oh, by magic," She stated.
"Magic? They- they use magic to control the Sun and the Moon?" I asked again, it seemed so surreal that two princesses would control the Sun and the Moon and how large they are. To begin with I don't even know if the 'Sun' was as big as our Sun and the 'Moon' was as big as ours.
"Yes of course they do, they rise the Sun and the Moon and lower it every day," She said, assuring me with her 'magical dreams'. As she was saying those things she looked up and demonstrated with her hoof to the 'Sun and the Moon' and rising it up and waving it back down on the opposite side with setting it back down as she remeber he world. I can feel she missed being at home. "Their names are Princess Celestia and Princess Luna,"
Man, I feel like an idiot. Like 'Why am I here down at this level?'. Should I even enjoy her description of Equestria? I would be cringing but I never did. I should've been cringing when I first met her, and now as I listen to two princesses rising a ball of hot flaming gas and a ball of white powdery-gunpowder like substance. "Uh huh, right,"
"You- you don't have two princesses here do you?" She asked me pointing a hoof at me.
"No, no we don't. The Sun and the Moon sets down by the Earth's rotation," I explained to her. "We don't have magic, we don't have ponies," I kept saying. "We don't have... what you think we have," I stopped for a second. "By the way Earth is what we call this planet," I added.
"Well, there is something more in your world than mine," She started by a sheepish smile and by raising her hoof.
"What is it?" I asked.
"It's that here on 'Earth' it seems more..." She shivered at the thought of what she had. "Realistic," She looked out of the window with the covers slightly open illuminating the sunlight into the room.
"What do you mean?" I asked her with a confused face.
"It's that the shadows and the lighting are so much more real," She explained pointing toward the sunlight coming from the windows.
'Well, yeah obviously it's much more realistic here.' I thought to myself. 'It's a cartoon show it doesn't have 'that' much lighting details to simulate real life.' "Wow, um who'd ever thought," That was the only thing that came out of me.
"I know it's so different here," She replied.
"Well, that's reality for you," I explained. "I mean is it bad that it's hyperrealistic?" I asked.
"Um," She thought. "No, I never thought this world could be any different than mine,"
I nodded in agreement, listening to her words as she describes this place. "Okay, I can see Earth is different than Equestria," I got up from my sitting place an wrote on the board a line with on the top saying 'Differences' then wrote, 'Equestria and Earth are different by shaders,' "Alright, what else?" I thought to myself and Fluttershy.
"That magic isn't real here?"She thought out loud. "....Then how will I get home?" She thought in worrying.
Alright, then I wrote 'Magic isn't real' "Look, I'm trying to think about that Fluttershy," Man, 'Fluttershy' was unique name now that I thought about it. "But you know, I'm still thinking about what to do I'll- We'll go to where you woke up into the forest and see what we can find okay?" I waited for her understanding.
"JC..." She started. "You're going to do that all for me?" She asked.
"Yeah," I simply replied. "We are going to find a way to bring you home during this Christmas break," I said. "You'll be home for Hearth's Warming. You can count on me, it'll have snow, mistletoe and presents under the tree,"
"Oh, that would be wonderful!" She said as she smiled closing her eyes thinking about her friends and 'Hearth's Warming Eve'.
I can't believe it now. I'm still processing what is going on in my brain, and what happened. I'm with a cartoon character from a girl's television show that I don't watch but make fun of. And yet again, here I am with Fluttershy a pegasus who is 'shy' I guess and can't wait to go home. To be honest, I was actually surprised by her IQ level of knowing the danger of being in a new place, and about all of the things, we said she understood. Like Mr. fucking Hands... Jesus, I feel like an idiot or something I wished regretted saying.
I chuckled at the thought of being with friends, I probably lost all of my closest friends today because of a person who just wants to go home. They're probably calling me 'Gay' or 'a faggot' or a 'homosexual' in reality I'm none of those things. Jesus, I'll probably kill myself right now, oh God kill me now. "Yeah, I mean there's nothing left to lose so... yeah," I wrote on the board trying to gather all of my thoughts. I wrote the things we talked about, 'Fluttershy woke up in forest' 'Forest has an abandoned metal tower' 'Nobody goes into the forest' Then a huge question mark in the middle of the board as if all of those things that I wrote weren't answered.
Not quite yet.
"Oh my, I never thought it was so many questions," She said finally opening up toward all of the surreal events leading up to here.
"Yeah, but why though, why is there an abandoned radio tower there?" I said and thought, brainstorming as I go along. "Something must've happened to let that happen," I said.
"Me too JC," She replied. "I don't know what even happened," She got up to her seat and looked up toward the board next to me.
I chuckled and laughed. "Of course you don't know, you just got here," I looked at her as I did say that, she smiled too at that thought. We both looked up at the board at the same time to think of what to do before taking action. "Wait, Fluttershy," I said looking at her.
She looked up at me, "What is it?" She asked.
"You remember where you woke up at, right?" I asked her.
She giggled slightly, "Of course I do, it was a nightmare last evening,"
"Yeah, of course, it was," I said, agreeing with her. "Com' on let's go and see what we can find," I said tilting my head toward the door.
Fluttershy's face brightened with a smile as she walked up next to me. "Do you think we'll find anything there?" She asked.
"Yeah, I think there's gotta be some reason why you ended you there and nowhere else!" I answered, by the way Fluttershy's expression was she seemed to nod with my reason. "Yeah, let's just go to the forest but let me change first," She understood.
"Okay, I'll wait outside of your room," We both walked up toward the door, and as a gentleman (I guess) I opened the door for her so she can get out first.
How do, how do I begin? The forest has been there for as long as I remember. I even remember asking my mom if she remembered if it has been there since she was born and she said, "Yeah, it has." Ever since the 1980s when my mom was a teenager, the forest had remained there. The radio tower was there, but you know less decayed than it was before.
It got me so curious that I remember in the Summer of 2016, Jeremiah and I went to the 'explore' the forest. I think we wanted to it was because nobody really did enter the forest. Except for the people who go out and hide in the forest to smoke, drink, skip school, drugs etc... Again, this was during the Summer when it is hot, humid, sweaty, and that only made it worse was that it was in the afternoon when we decided to set out to adventure into the mysterious place.
"Are you sure nobody enters?" Jeremiah asked. We were a year younger than what we were today. This was during early to mid-June so really sleeping in and staying up playing video games were starting to be a thing.
"Uh, yeah I'm positive," I answered, again we were a house down of the shortcut toward the left into the forest. Saquan, Alex, and Aaron really didn't care for this type of stuff. Jeremiah only joined because of a 'Why not?' I'm pretty sure he had nothing better to do and just wanted to get away from his little brother or family.
"Alright, but if we see somebody smoking or some shit like that," He started pointing his right thumb to the back of us. "I'm running," Jeremiah joked, I chuckled as I saw him towards the left of me.
"Yeah, but I don't really think anybody is gonna be here," I replied. "Hell, I don't even know why anyone would be there in the first place," This was true I don't know why anybody would visit here in the first place, the only reasons could be if two people were playing catch and a person did an overthrow and it went over the brick fence, making one of them having to run to receive it. Or someone having to get pecan wood or any wood to burn during winter would have to go out and fetch some.
He sighed, "Yeah, but if it happens we're gonna have to make a run of the ages," I looked at him then looked into the forest, followed by a sigh.
"And let me guess," I stopped to make a joke. "You want to stay alive to see the Olympics in Brazil, huh?"
"Wait, how did you know?" He asked tilting his head in the process.
"Um, oh I dunno... because the Olympics happen every four years?" I guessed-answered to him. "I mean, four years ago was what...?" I did the math in my head, using my hand to scratch it. "2012," I answered. "Yeah, the Summer Olympics in 2012,"
"Wow, has it been that long?" He asked.
"Yeah, it has been," I answered and looked at the trees with grass and other things.
The place looked beautiful, the ferns, grass, flowers, and the trees as they swayed and the leaves on the ground painted with green and brown of course, with Lake Eric on the right side of it all reflecting the light from the Sun.
"Don't worry, I'll tell you if that happens," I said. As I tilted my head toward what seemed to be a trail into the forest. I stood for a long time, looking down one as far as I could.
To where it bent, twisted and turned in the undergrowth. "Okay, let's just get this done before Alex, and them wants us to get online," We knew for a fact they would want to get us online so they can get their comedy entertainment.
"Let's just hurry it up, real fast," I said and began to walk. There were two paths that took almost slightly left and right turn, undecided I asked Jeremiah, "Wait, which way do we go?" I turned back to see him for his answer.
"I dunno, um whichever you want," He answered with his undecided matter.
"Alright, okay let's just go um..." I looked at the left side of the trail. "That way," I pointed toward the direction and soon took off walking stepping into a gravel-like trail with leaves and other twigs and branches in the way.
"Okay," Jeremiah replied. He stepped on the leaves with a crunch not purposely, but soon the sound of two teenage boys walking can be heard.
We started to walk with a question in mind, we really didn't know what we were doing, however, one thing that did concern us was getting lost again we could use our phones for a compass app and find the way toward the East. Other than that we walked and looked around, in what seemed to be the Hundred Acre Woods from Winnie the Pooh. I don't know how exactly how big it was but it was kinda big, Google Maps really kinda did answer my question using satellite images.
"Look a stream!" Jeremiah exclaimed and pointed with his right arm. I looked toward my right and saw a stream of blue clear stream of water, with a small waterfall carried by small pebbles. By now we were a little into the forest where we couldn't see our houses anymore and was covered by trees and plants. Followed by the sound of bird calls, crickets, and other mother nature has to hold.
"Oh my God, dude this is cool!" I said and walked closer to it, crouched down and stared at the water movement, moving along the small river it had created. I placed my hands in front of me to keep hold of my balance. In it was small organisms with green moss on the ground, but the only thing I could figure out in that stream was tadpoles.
"I didn't know there a stream in the forest," Jeremiah said, looking around at his surroundings. At me, he saw my reflection and as I saw his I stood up right beside him. "Looks so bliss,"
"Yeah, and I think we're the only ones who discovered this place first," I replied dusting off my hands from the ground for support to keep me up.
"Do you wanna keep on going?" He asked.
"What do you mean? Like, going into the forest?" I asked about what he meant in his question.
He nodded and looked at me. "Uh, yeah sure, why?" I asked again.
"Oh, because you know... Alex is gonna bug us about getting online and Saquan is going to tell us to get online..." He tilted his head toward his left and right side when he made his points of view about Alex and Saquan.
"Yeah, I know you told me already..." I repeated his knowledge of Alex annoying us to get online. "Let's just um, explore for a bit then we'll return back," I said, about the plan I was waiting for his facial expression if he agreed with me. "Sounds good?" I asked him.
"Yeah, sounds alright," He said we then ran or walked around wandering just having fun, moving around with it being much quieter than it was at home. It was better than it was with my mom shouting our names to come to eat dinner.
"Man, it so quiet," I said to Jeremiah, ever since we had left the stream a couple minutes ago.
"I know right?!" Jeremiah said to his own excitement, as far as I can tell he seemed to be enjoying himself I can only smile at his enthusiasm. "It's so much better,"
To come to think about it, I don't we were looking at our phones, maybe because we would have to use our Mobile Data to surf the web and secondly we don't have to WiFi to connect to.
During that time in 2016 we started to meet each other, remember I kinda meet Saquan a year ago and so the others. I started to talk to more of Alex's friends and the friends that Nathiq showed me. We were just almost starting off, with our teenage years I guess for me, Jeremiah and Aaron. We were starting to bond and get to know each other better. I remember when we celebrated our first holidays together.
"So Jeremiah, what would you in your spare time?" I asked him again I wanted to get to know him more.
"Oh me? Uh... Play basketball, play 2k, play video games... Go to Aaron's house every once in a while," He stopped talking as he walked moving deeper into the forest with me avoiding bumping into the trees as he went along. "And you? What do you do?"
"Uh, oh I dunno my uncle picks me up to take me to the movies to see my grandparents, go to see my little cousin, uh, play video games obviously, play baseball at a baseball park..."
"Do you play for your school?" He asked me, during this time I was at another school. Transitioning from 7th Grade to 8th Grade. "Nah, I don't," I answered placing my hands into my pockets sighing, looking at the ground as we continued to walk.
"Why not?" He asked again in his confusion.
"I just don't have the time for it, I guess," That wasn't true. In reality, I was failing during that time but I got my grades up before I could flunk the grade.
"Oh okay," He replied, the tone of his voice sounded like he was turned down by the answer.
We were quiet for about a minute or so. I don't know why I guess it was suspicious that we were in a place where we shouldn't be. I don't know why they haven't built more houses and make room for other properties, it remained a question to us it seemed. "Wait, Jeremiah has the forest ever gotten to you?" I asked him, as an out of nowhere question type of deal.
"What do you mean?" He asked me.
"What I mean is that did..." I thought what I was going to say to him. "Have you ever thought about the forest like, has it ever crossed your mind?" To be honest, I didn't know if it was only me who thought about the forest, and I guess I didn't want to feel different about it.
"Yeah, sometimes," He said, looking back then continuing forward. "I don't know why though," A sigh of relief came to me as it did.
"Yeah same here, it's like so weird to have a forest next to a suburb neighborhood," I chuckled or scoffed. I looked at Jeremiah as we continued deeper.
"Wait, do you know why nobody visits this place?" I wanted to know if he knew the answer I've been questioning myself.
"No, I don't know why they do," He answered, he went off stepping over a bump of a root sticking out of the grass.
By now we were starting to sweat, the heat was horrible without the shade. Again, we were located in the woods, therefore, the shade helped us cool off from that heat, but it was still hot. "You know what I shoulda brought some water with me," I said.
"Yeah, I know right?!" He replied and sat down to relax his body on a large rock located on the right side of a tree. He wiped off the sweat from his forehead and sighed.
"You alright?" I asked him and wanted to make sure he was good in his self-being.
"Yeah, but it's hot as f," He said as he got up to his feet.
"Do you want to go back?" I asked him, he seemed to agree with me.
"No," He answered.
"Wait, what? You don't want to go back?!" I asked him, he took off and I followed behind him.
"Nah, fam I'm fine,"
"You sure because you know... I don't want ya to... you know..." My words quickly trailed off as I searched for the correct words to say. "Pass out," Passing out was all I can think of so far other than that.
"Nah, I'm fine just needed a break," He replied.
"Alright," I said in agreement tilting my head in the process.
We continued to walk on the ground and pass the hundreds of trees and other things. Every once in a while we would see a tree that had fallen with the trunk of the tree in place and the huge beam of wood next to it with fungus-like mushrooms growing on top of it. "Jesus, what happened here?"
"A tree fell down," He responded. "Damn..."
It showed no interest to us and we just continued to go down our paths of nowhere just following as we continue along, there was nothing to be said about many things in the forest. I thought more of a hike or nature walk, but it didn't really seem like it would be one.
"So, Jeremiah, " I wanted to start a conversation and stop with the awkward silence. "So, how was your school year?" I asked him. "You know in 5th Grade?" I looked at him as he turned his head toward me.
"Loved hated it, it's school," He answered. "One thing I hate about it that the teachers get mad at you!" He exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"The teachers get mad at you easily because you're talking to your friend like asking for a pencil then bam! You're sent to the principal office!" He exclaimed furthermore. "JC are you a bad kid at school?" He asked me.
For his convenience, I wanted to say no because I wasn't but no to get him angrier than he was I replied. "Yeah kinda,"
"Then they talk to you about discipline and things like that." He continued. "They act like as if you killed somebody!"
I laughed at Jeremiah's statement. "Yeah, they do they actually do-haha!" It was true on what he said. He smiled at his joke and continued.
"Then they think you're talking back smack about them because you only asked you're friend for a pencil!"
"Did you actually get sent to the principal's office because you just asked for a pencil?" I asked him there must be something that made him bring this up.
"Yesss-a!" He exaggerated. "I actually did and it was so stupid!" He continued to walk through the forest dodging the trees and tall plants. "The only reason why I actually went to the principal's office was because that I was 'talking in class' for the past three days."
I chuckled. "Damn bro, that teacher must've hated you," I remarked on his. "Got sent to the principal's office because of a pencil."
"I think he did hate me," Jeremiah continued. "For a stupid pencil,"
"Hey I had my bad experiences in 7th Grade," I said.
"Like what?" He asked.
"Oh- um, I dunno," I thought about the past school year. "There was a dog lost in the school that belonged to nobody so some volunteers decided to wash the dog so before class started I climbed up the restroom window to take a look at the dog,"
"Why?" Jeremiah asked. "Who would do that?"
"Dude, it was a huge crowd. I couldn't get a good look at it,"
"Oh, wow okay, continue,"
"Okay, yeah so anyway, I climbed up a restroom window to get a good look at the dog and a teacher caught me and I got a detention." I finished up my story and looked at Jeremiah. He was in confusion as far as I could tell as he kept moving his head toward me and in front of him so that he wouldn't bump any trees. "What?"
"That's it?" He asked.
"Yeah," I answered.
"Well, at least it wasn't as stupid as asking a friend for a pencil." He remarked. I laughed.
"Cheer up man, at least it's over," I said.
"Yep, at least it's over," He quoted.
We continued to explore the beautiful scenery, it was just us getting lost in the green-land of plants. But the only downfall of this trip was the heat, the heat was unbearable. Damn, now if I think about it we should have gone to the store and just window shop,"
Jeremiah stopped and look at me, oh God he's probably gonna get pissed at me for coming here in the first place. "Damn, we should have but I don't have any money to buy a game," He replied.
I chuckled, "Jesus, I only have sixty dollars that's about it, to be honest," That was the only type of money that I had during that time from my birthday and Christmas. Only $60 was the average amount of a video game of any type or else we could have gone to the arcade with nothing but quarters and play some 1980s video games like Pac-Man or Galaga.
"It's alright, it's better because it's so calm..." Jeremiah's voice trailed off by the sounds of our breathing. It was like he heard something.
"Yeah, the only thing we need is some hunters, and hope is not hunting season," I said with my dry humor.
Jeremiah laughed. "Yeah, but no hunters come to this forest though,"
"Yeah, I guess," I said.
"Same here now all I'm wondering is how this place came to be," I started. "I'm starting to wonder why not much people come here, you know? It's been here since my mom was a teenager! And that was like..." I thought of her age and tried to think when or which decade it was when she was in her teenage years. "30 years ago!" I finally answered. "In the 1980s!"
"Damn that was a long time ago," He replied. "I don't even think my mom is that old,"
I would think due to this information Jeremiah gave me, her mom would probably be a 90s teen. I really don't know but the way he said it did. "Yeah, but she soon will be," I replied followed by a sigh. "Man..."
"What?" Jeremiah asked.
"Jeremiah do you think there is a reason there is a forest in here?! Like, why it is so out of place and is surrounded by other neighborhoods?" I asked him, looked down at the soft ground to rest my legs.
"And that long boring road next to the highway?" He added, he leaned against a thin tree on the other side of where I was sitting, next to the grass ferns and such things.
"Yeah, I mean there's gotta be a reason why this place exists right?" I asked him, I wanted to know what he thought about the whole idea of it.
"Well, isn't there a reason for anything?" He looked at me with his question, handheld toward me.
"Uh, yeah I guess," I replied, I kept looking down at the soft brown dirt, and the green natural uncut grass.
"Then there's a reason for it to exist," He said in an obvious voice. "Damn, I thought you knew that already," He leaned down and grabbed a twig to mess with to snap it's small branches or pick off the dead leaves. "Like that shooting in the nightclub in Orlando,"
"Crazy motherfucker," I replied. "So, why was there a reason for that anyways?" I asked him, confused. Why do things happen without an explanation of reason?
"I dunno," He replied. "He's just crazy," He looked at me with a frustrated face. A face of trying to reason with such disbelief and things. "Maybe he had a bad life, I dunno,"
"A reason for anything to happen, huh?" I asked him, he nodded. One thing I didn't know that could happen was that he gave me some advice that I should have known. "So why the hell did we come this the Hundred Acer Woods then?"
"I dunno because we just wanted to do it," He answered, still messing around with the twig.
"So there's a good reason for things to happen... alright," I thought. "So wait, if I did something really stupid like an idiot then there's a reason for it right?" I asked him to see if he knew where I was going at.
"Yeah, I'm sure," He said, dropping the empty twig and looked toward his right direction, pulling out his phone to check the time.
"Alright," I said in agreement tilting my head in the process. "Just remember Jeremiah if I do something really stupid, or do some dumb shit like... whatever. Just remember that I did it for a reason okay?" I asked him for his reply.
"Okay, I'll remember," He replied, placing his phone back in his pocket then, using his short sleeve to wipe the sweat from his forehead. I took note of this, he was hot and so was I.
"I think it's best that we head back to our houses," I said, getting up from my position.
"Do you even know where it's at?" He asked in a serious almost worried tone.
"Yeah, of course, it's located ahhhh... Ah shit, um," My head went blank, I really didn't know where which direction we came from.
"Oh my God," Jeremiah looked at me. "You waste-man," He said frustrated his voice went from calm to angry. "You actually didn't know where we came from!" He exclaimed.
"Oh I'm sorry, do you know which direction we came from?!" I asked him in a sarcastic matter. "Freakin' dude don't expect me where we went!" In reality how we got 'lost' was because we didn't go down one straight path. We made up our own paths, and God knows what. We went to curves or maybe circles, losing our direction.
"Okay, if I had to guess then we went..." I thought of our walks and our paths thinking what we saw. "This way," I pointed toward the direction of where we came from or at least I hope.
"Alright," Jeremiah sighed. "I thought we were lost for a second," He started to go towards the direction to where I pointed to. "Remember about the hunting season," He said as we started taking off in a jog, joking about if we made a move or anything hunters would think we would be deer. Even the thought of it seemed unlikely.
"Uh-huh, whatever," I said as I saw a yellow butterfly flutter its wing in front of us going from right to left.
We only 'explored' for about an hour and a half and that's about it. We went back with our legs starting to get tired, sweaty and hot then headed home and simply started playing video games on the PlayStation 4 and taking a good shower of course.
It was alright I guess while it lasted, with Mother Nature with her toll on life itself, and animals moving, doing it natural way in its natural habitats. The animals moved and played with each other, with that one butterfly moving along with the gentle wind it can glide on being good with the animals it meets.
Wait, a minute I already met that butterfly who is good with animals.
