There For You

The sun was shining.

I forced my tired eyes open, rolling over to look at the clock. 10:47. I blinked in confusion. Wasn't I supposed to be in school by now....? I lay there for about ten minutes before I remembered.

Oh. Duh. It's Saturday. Ugh, now I was starting to lose track of time. Joy..... I thought about going back to sleep, but decided it was a lost cause; my room was too brightly lit now to allow any more rest. I stretched, and sat up, shoving my hair out my eyes. I felt like I was about to pass out, but that was normal these days.

The past few weeks, I had been having terrible nightmares that I could never remember when I awoke, but they seemed to prevent me from getting any sleep. Often I would wake up in the middle of the night, thrashing around, with my pillows hurled across the room. As you can probably imagine, school was getting very difficult, since half the time I was just zoned out, trying to stay awake. Two days ago, I had actually fallen asleep in English, but thankfully I was already done all the work.

I momentarily tried to remember last night's episode, but when the word spiders came to mind, I decided I didn't really want to know. I threw my pillows back onto my bed, fixed the blanket, and headed out to the kitchen to grab something to eat. It appeared my mom had made muffins.... when had that happened? Oh, well, they looked good, so I grabbed one and went back to my room.

Once settled in my chair, I opened my laptop, and opened PonyCraft. I logged on to my favourite multiplayer server, and started building. I was currently working on a castle-type base, which I was going to give to Sky and her group when it was done. At the moment, I was still building the wall. I put on my headphones, turned on some music, and got to work.

~

It took ages, but eventually the wall was done. I started to climb down, and a message from Sky flashed up on the screen:

HEY! It's warm enough outside for WATER BALLOONS!

I grinned, and replied:

Hi! Really? :O awesome sauce!

Ya so hurry up and get over here

lol ok I'm on my way

I smiled and quickly yanked a brush through my mane, then hurried up the hill to Sky's house. She was right, it was a really warm day, perfect for a water balloon fight. It was somewhat of a tradition that we had, and it was great.

When I got there, Sky had already filled up several balloons, and was placing them carefully onto the trampoline. I started to call out a greeting, then stopped as an idea formed in my head. I crept quietly over to the pile of balloons, picked up the biggest one I could find, and threw it at Sky as hard as I could.

Nothing happened.

The balloon simply bounced off her back and landed in the grass, unpopped.

"What the hay?" she yelled, turning around to see the balloon, still intact, sitting just a few feet in front of her. Her eyes narrowed, and she looked up to see me, standing there grinning.

"Oh, you are so going to regret that," she growled, stepping forward.

"What? I-it didn't even pop," I said nervously, retreating toward the trampoline.

Sky grinned, picking up the water-filled balloon. She hurled it at me, and I barely managed to dodge it. I turned around and climbed up onto the trampoline, and quickly kicked two more balloons at her. Somehow they still didn't pop, just bounced off and flew back at me. Sky was now on the trampoline as well, and she was holding an untied balloon in her hoof.

"Oh, no," I muttered, backing slowly away. She laughed and threw herself across the trampoline, grabbing my mane to keep me still, and dumped the water over my head. I screamed and struggled to get away; the water was ice-cold. Sky laughed and let me go, and watched in amusement as I did a face-plant right in the pile of water balloons. Thankfully, none of them popped, but it was still really cold.

Getting up, I whipped around and thew a huge balloon at Sky, and this time, it exploded, showering both of us in more freezing water. Sky looked shocked; I burst out laughing.

"Okay, we're even," I said, grinning. She nodded in agreement, and did a frontflip, landing on the pile of balloons.

~

An hour later, we were sitting on an extremely wet trampoline, surrounded by shreds of what used to be water balloons. I was telling her about the base I was building on PonyCraft, and she seemed interested, especially when I talked about the ideas I had for the potions room.

After a while, the topic switched to our favourite mmorpg. We both had really high level characters, and often enjoyed questing together.

"You should help me out on this one really tough quest," Sky said, "I've been stuck on it for ages!"

I smiled, replying, "Okay. Why don't I go home right now, and meet you on there?"

She nodded eagerly, and we parted ways for the moment. When I got home, I hurried to my room to log on to the game. Soon I was in, and we were battling a boss monster. After a fairly intense fight, I went to go edit my home. I was rearranging my virtual furniture when a message from Sky popped up:

CoolP0ny2000: Hey, so, if you could get the Jaguar mount instead of the Lioness, would you be happy with it? :)

In the game, most items cost real money, and we were all too willing to spend it; the mount in question was one of the coolest, in my opinion. Sadly, it was also one of the most expensive, so I had been going for the similar, but cheaper, Lioness. I replied to Sky`s message:

Friendly_Ghost: Um, Yeah. Why do you ask? That was rlly random lol.

CoolP0ny2000: :D

A few seconds later, the "gift" icon popped up on the side of my screen. I clicked it, and the message popped up:

CoolP0ny2000 has sent you a gift!

I grinned and opened the "gift". A 3d image of the Jaguar mount was spinning on the screen, and I grinned as it let out a huge roar, showing off it`s impressive fangs.

Friendly_Ghost: OMG! Thx Sky! :D :D :D :D

CoolP0ny2000: Question no longer random.

Friendly_Ghost:lol

I equipped the mount and spent the next ten minutes just running around the outside of my home, admiring the way my avatar`s colours matched it to perfection.

Friendly_Ghost: Sooo what brought that on? Or am I just that awesome?

CoolP0ny2000: lol you are helping me with my quests!

Friendly_Ghost: So you think that gives you the right to send me awesome stuff?!

I laughed as I sent the message. I was grateful for the awesome mount, but I felt guilty. I couldnt help it; it was like an automatic reaction whenever someone gave me anything. Still, it wasnt like I would send it back.

~

After a couple more hours of questing - with me looking epic, of course, thanks to Sky - another message popped up:

CoolP0ny2000: Hey, want to go skateboarding before it gets too dark?

Friendly_Ghost: Sure :) I can`t stay out too late though, got school tomorrow remember.

CoolP0ny2000: Oh ya that`s right. I forgot you normal ponies have school lol. see you at the bottom of the hill!

I sighed inwardly as I shut down the computer. I wasnt going to try to force Sky to go to school, but sometimes I really missed her. Okay, all the time. She seemed to be crossing my mind a lot these days, at the most random times, like when Im bored in Math class or something. You know, just thinking: How the heck do I figure this out? Then BAM! Sky Storm is stuck in my mind. Whatever. Shes my best friend; its only natural that I`d miss her, right?

I grabbed my skateboard and helmet and hurried out to meet my friend.