Two

“Hey John!” Pinkie called out. Pinkie’s parties are awesome, to say the least. “Are you enjoying the party?”

“Yeah!” I shouted, my arm over Jason’s shoulder, “Even though there’s downright nothing that I can visibly enjoy, I’m still relishing it! Plus I managed to get drunk off iced tea!”

“I know! Isn’t it fun?” Jason said, holding to his own red plastic cup of iced goodness, “When your perception gets so clouded that you can’t really make coherent thoughts and everything turns out funny?” He chuckled, “This is fun!” Pinkie beamed and gave us both a huge hug.

“Hey,” I said, slowly becoming sober again, “I feel that something missing in this party.”

“What?” Jase and Pinks said at the same time. I began to walk towards the small stage in the north corner of the tree house, but it was actually just an elevated part of the tree house as not to interfere with the tree’s branches.

“Jase, come forward.” I said. He did so, as her was sober now.

“What are we gonna do?” He asked. I smirked then said,

“Music.” I plugged my iTouch to a random speak and chose a track. Jason grinned and stepped on the stage as the intro music began to play.

Jason & John

One thing

John

I don’t know why, One thing I don't know why

It doesn’t even matter how hard you try

Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme

To explain in due time

Jason

All I know,

John

Time is a valuable thing

Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings,

Watch it count down to the end of the day,

The clock ticks life away,

Jason

It’s so unreal

John

Didn’t look out below

Watch the time go right out the window

Trying to hold on but didn’t even know

Wasted it all just to

Jason

Watch you go,

John

I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart,

What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when,

Jason

SO CALL ME MAYBE!

The song suddenly stopped and everyone of us looked at Jason like he was a moron. Maybe he is, he did ruin a great party. I smacked him on the head and said, “Jason. You officially ruined a great party. Go and wallow with yourself in shame.” Jason’s head hung low before all of us burst out laughing. It took a while for the laughter to stop but it did, I almost wished for it to never stop, since laughing felt good, but I don’t want to spend my entire life letting air out of my mouth in short bursts that resembles that I was happy, so I was thankful it stopped.

“But seriously though, the party still needs a singer. It needs… me.” I said. I grabbed the iTouch, which had seemingly fell down when Jason said that last part. I tapped another song, this one is dedicated to Twilight. Call me cheesy or something, but I like singing. Shut up.

“This is for you, Twi,” I said then closed my eyes and began to sing, imagining the music video.

John

What day is it? And in what month?

This clock never seemed so alive

I can't keep up and I can't back down

I've been losing so much time

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do

Nothing to lose

And it's you and me and all other people

And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

One of the things that I want to say just aren't coming out right

I'm tripping on words

You've got my head spinning

I don't know where to go from here

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do

Nothing to prove

And it's you and me and all other people

And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

There's something about you now

I can't quite figure out

Everything she does is beautiful

Everything she does is right

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do

Nothing to lose

And it's you and me and all other people

And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

and me and all other people with nothing to do

Nothing to prove

And it's you and me and all other people

And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you

What day is it?

And in what month?

This clock never seemed so alive

I reopened my eyes to see that the people inside the tree house were clapping. Even Jason was clapping. Angie was clapping. Twilight was near tears but was clapping nonetheless. Everyone else was clapping. I nodded and walked down the impromptu stage and approached Twilight. I thought about a funny joke to keep things from getting too sappy. I could already see Rainbow Dash gagging in my peripheral vision.

“Did you cry because of the meaning of the song? Or because you love seeing me close my eyes while gripping and pushing away air?” Twilight chuckled and punched me on the shoulder and then grabbed my shirt and pulled me close.

“I loved it both,” she whispered before kissing me deeply. I heard some cheering in the background but I was too engrossed at kissing Twilight. It was like the first time we kissed although this time it was under a more pleasant condition, and no broken windows were involved.

CRACK!

“God damnit.” I said, pulling back from Twilight. Jason laughed sheepishly as he stared down the broken window.

“I lost grip of the bottle.” He said. I sighed and looked back at Twi.

“Where were we?” I said before kissing her again.

“So, how was the party?” Pinkie asked. I was sitting down on the couch with Spike again.

“Fun,” I said simply. I was technically true, I had fun. Most of it was nonsensical, iced-tea-induce fun, but it was still fun. I laid back the comfortable couch as sighed. I knew that one day, all of them, Twilight, Shiny, Spike, the others ‘cept Jason and Angie, are going to disappear. They are going to go back to Equestria and live their tiny simple lives. I’ll get back to school with Jase and Angie and forget that this ever happened. Forget that I had a purple unicorn turned human for a girlfriend. All good things never last. This is a dream that I will soon wake up from. I will wake up to the horrible expanse called ‘reality’, where time travel, multicolored unicorns, pegasi and cartoon like ponies never existed. There was no Twiligh Sparkle, there was no party, there was no kiss, all that’s left is me. What’s the risk of building relationships to beings that you know will disappear at any second. But can it? Can you make the good things last? Can you beat the odds and be your love forever? Questions like these plagued my mind as I lied back on the couch.

“Bro,” Brain said.

What?

“You know that it’s not impossible to be with Twilight.”

I know.

“Then why are you so depressed?”

Because I’m worried that if they do go back to Equestria, Twilight will be crushed. And besides, you should know that already, you’re my fucking subconscious!”

“I know. But think of the alternative. You’re going to be a successful computer engineer, even if Twilight did go back, you’re going to be rich and have babies and then you die. But before you die, your last words would be, ‘Well, I’d made a waste of my entire goddamned life but at least I had a purple unicorn turned human named Twilight Sparkle as a girlfriend at junior high.’”

Brain, did you just rip off a line from ‘Paper Town by John Green?

“In fact I did. Deal with it.” I sighed.

I still don’t know, I thought, then was promptly smacked at the back of my head by an alternate personality.

“Dude. You are going to be with Twilight. You’re gonna carpe that fucking diem. And if a motherfucking lawnmower and motherfucking fly, you’re gonna be with motherfucking Twilight fucking Sparkle.”

If you put it that way, wait. Did you just say that a lawnmower can fly?

“Dude. Don’t make me link you to a gif.”

Then do it!

"Here.”

“Well shit. Fine.” I realized I said that last part out loud. But thankfully, no one seemed to notice. I got off the couch and went to the bathroom. After I took a bath and brushed my teeth, I climbed the stairs to my room. Once I opened the door, I saw Twilight on my chair, reading something on my laptop.

“So Twi,” I said as I closed the door, this seemed to startled her, “Find anything good on my laptop?”

“Oh just your diaries.” She said. “You seemed to enjoy our last date did you?”

“Yeah, you can say that.” I flopped down the bed and made myself comfortable. “And you really need some clothes.” Twilight was still wearing her school uniform, as were the other still wearing their clothes when they first got here. “You know what? Let’s go shopping tomorrow.”

“Really?” She looked surprised, “What about the expenses?”

“Don’t worry. Mom and Dad have like a… fuckton of money on their bank account. And they left their credit card when they left for Boston, saying that I need it more than them. And they had never been so right in their parenting life. Tomorrow, you gon get new clothes. Tell the others.” Twilight nodded and I went to sleep. The next morning, I woke up to find Twilight on my arms. She was still asleep so I lied back down. After a few minutes, she began to stir awake.
“Good morning, sunshine. Or Twilight.” Twilight chuckled, embracing me tighter. I could feel her breath on my neck. I could smell her hair, Blueberries. I thought to myself I could feel our skin rubbing together as we shifted our bodies to get comfortable. I could my heart beating so rapidly and some fluttering in my stomach. We smiled as we gazed into each other’s eyes, fierce violet met blood red. It was an unusual combination, but it didn’t matter, we couldn’t see our own eyes when staring at another. We lied down in silence for a while before I stood up and pulled her pulled of the bed. We hugged one last time before I went to the shower. After I was done, I changed my clothes and bunked with Spike with our usual spot. After an hour, everyone was downstairs. I nodded and called Jason and Angie.
“Uggghhhhhh,” Jason gurgled when he answered.
“Bro, we’re going to the mall. You wanna come?” More gurgles.
“Seriously, when I say we roadtrip, we gun go roadtripping. Come. Over.”
“That’s what she said last night.” He chuckled.
“Dude. Hurry up!”
“Fine, geez. Way to make my headache worse, asshat.” He then hung up. A few minutes later, he showed up with Angie in tow. I nodded and a minute after that, we are on the road in my Ford Everest. I was driving, Twilight was beside me, the SSS and AJ behind me, Jason, Pinkie, Angie, Rarity and Dash behind them. Fluttershy stayed at home. She said that she was too scared and there wasn’t any room. I said that she could stay on my lap but Twilight elbowed and glared at me, so it didn’t work out. After an hour or so, we arrived at the mall. The mall was a ridiculously high building. Over 15 floors high, it was like a hotel. It was star shaped hence its name, “Star Mall”. First off, I know that it’s ridiculous, second, I didn’t name the thing, so stop complaining. Once we entered, we wandered around a bit, window shopping and stuff. I got Twilight a jade necklace with gold trims. It had a dragon emblazoned on its front and its price was a whopping 400 bucks. Jason got a stuffed animal for Fluttershy back home, but I argued that we share the price, so we can tell that it’s from both of us. I then got Rarity a few dresses and one nightgown. All in all, it cost my parents about 1K dollars. I forced Rarity to pick the cheap ones, since she was picking stuff that cost about $5K, which was a ridiculous for a dress. I backed it up by saying “Your dresses are better,” to which she agreed. Jason got Dash a new hoodie, this time it was black one with red arrows running down the arms and through the hood, like from Avatar. AJ got a simple dress and new denim pants. Pinkie picked a flowing pink dress. I got Fluttershy a butter colored shirt. I bought myself a cloak, which was enough to cover my face and reach up to my lower thighs. Next time I’m buying some throwing knives and build myself a hidden blade and I’d be an impromptu Assassin. Shining Amor and Silver both got a white shirt with a blue eagle design on the front. Spike asked for the set that I told to him yesterday. It was a black leather vest, a purple shirt underneath and cargo pants, and lastly, an eyepatch. Now he looked like a pirate, while I looked like an Assassin, it was a nice contrast. Twilight got a button up shirt and a purple skirt. She also tied her hair into a
Then we hit the Cafeteria. This is where most of the restaurants are, so we headed there once we paid all of our clothes. We agreed to eat on KFC, well, it was just me and Jason and Angie which did the agreeing. We took a seat, ate some chicken. Good thing Flutters didn’t come, first thing she’s faint, next, she might attack everyone in the room. Next minute later, we wear on the road again. Everything was quite except from the constant hum of the vehicle and the occasional passing car.
“Yo John,” Jason said, “Let’s hit the beach!” This seemed to gather the all of the car’s passengers. They all voiced their approvals which enough for me to pull a one eighty while in a car and headed for the Whitetail Beach. Five minutes later, we’re on the beach. The Whitetail is incredibly, ridiculously and jaw-droppingly beautiful. The sand is so pure that I first though it was powered milk. Coconut trees littered the shoreline. The orange sun providing a wonderful backdrop when it was reflected off the crystal clear waters. I noticed that there aren’t any people on the beach, so the beach is technically ours, temporarily.
“Oh my gosh!” Pinkie shouted in the background. “This is sooo very beautiful! John! Let’s swim!”
“I don’t know how to swim.” I said.
“Okie dokie lokie!” She pranced off before diving into the water. She was still wearing her old clothes so I didn’t stop her. Spike approached me from behind.
“Pinkie doesn’t bother to stop being weird, huh?” I said.
“Nah, Pinkie will be Pinkie. She can be annoying sometimes, but you’ll get used to it.” Spike said, sitting down on the white sand. Everything looked so… serene. Like… there’s nothing in the world that could ruin this moment. I stood as I gazed at the beach, with Pinkie and the others but Spike and me playing in the crystal clear waters, having the time of their lives.
“Go dude,” Spike said after a while. I looked at him, confused, “Go join them, I know that you want to.”
“Nah, I think I’ll pass. I’ve never been the one for playing in the water.” Spike stared at me with a mix of intensity and confusion.
“Fine,” I said after a while, “I’ll go.” I said and started walking towards the shoreline. I was quietly splashing water with my feet (I had taken my shoes off sometime before going off the SUV) when I was hit was a splash of water. I looked up to see Twilight smirking, hands glowing, levitating a bucket.
“So this how it turns out, huh?” I said, staring at her with a cold expression.
“Yup,” she smirked.
“After all I’ve done for you?” I forced a voice crack in the middle of my sentence.
“I’m sorry,” she cooed, “but there’s two invisible beings on my two shoulders. One is a minotaur and is saying ‘Twilight, control your urges and continue playing with the water,’ but the other one is pegasus and is saying ‘DO IT! DO IT TWILIGHT! DO IT! SPLASH HIM WITH WATER! NOW! NOWNOWNOWNOW!”
“I assume the Pegasus is Rainbow Dash.” Twilight giggled but the Pegasus in question looked at me confused, only to be splashed by Pinkie Pie. Dash laughed and resume splashing. I was splashed again by water. I wiped the water off of my face and glared at Twilight, whose smirked turn into a full grin.
“FACE MY WRATH TWILIGHT SPARKLE!” I shouted before tackling her to the water. I was pushed off by magic and thrown 5 feet further down the sea. I shook my head and tried to get the water from entering my nose. I wiped the water from my eyes and saw that Dash and Pinkie are beside me, playing their own game. I grabbed Dash’s shirt and pulled her down. She lost her balance and fell in the water. I then made my way towards Twilight again. I saw her bucket floating towards me. I smirked and grabbed it. I dipped it into the water and splashed Twilight, who wasn’t looking at me. She turned towards me with a creepy expression, and summoned a giant wave towards me.
“NO!” Rarity screamed and dove infront of me. No, not dove into the water, she appeared infront of me and her own hands glowed. The wave then exploded into a dozen water particles.
“YEAH!” I screamed, “I GOT A UNICORN WITH ME MOTHERFUCKER!” Twilight’s mouth stood agape for a moment before closing again and her hands glowed. The water surface glowed and formed a magic circle. A tentacle then shot out of the circle and lashed towards us.

“Holy shit! Tentacle rape! AHHHHH! Rarity, you’re on your own now. I hope you enjoy it!” I dove into the water and swam towards Pinkie Pie and Dash.

“GUISE!” I shouted. They turned towards me in confusion. I pointed towards Rarity, “Tentacle rape!” Rainbow Dash giggled.

“I always knew she likes that kind of stuff.” She said. Rarity was entangled in a mass of green tentacles. They weren’t actually raping her, like I expected. They were just holding her in place. Twilight then summoned a wave towards the tentacles and they disappeared, dropping Rare into the water. I looked behind them and saw Spike talking to AJ. I smiled a little before being dunked into the water. I brought my head up and saw Rarity’s hands glowing.

“THAT’S NOT FAIR!” I shouted. Twilight and Rarity just laughed before their hands both glowed. “RARITY! YOU TRAITOR!” I said, but I was laughing. I was dragged across the water surface and came face-to-face with the two unicorns.

“Got any last words?” Twilight said, water dripping off of her purple hair.

“Hey, you started this!” I said.

“That’s your last words?” She asked.

“No, this is,” I turned to Rarity, “We’ll bang okay?” I said before being thrown 50 feet into the air.

“I REGRET NOTHING!”

“That was fun!” Pinkie shouted in the back of the Everest.

“I couldn’t agree more,” I said. We were all still soaking wet from the unexpected ‘Fun at Whitetail’, well… except AJ and Spike. Luckily I had left my phone at the car or else, Mom would be furious over at Boston because her son wouldn’t answer her calls because he was splashed by sea water by a purple headed girl who has access to freaky magic powers, which was coincidentally his girlfriend so I hope that would pass if it had come to that. Fortunately, it hadn’t, so I was wondering why I had said it in the first place. Anyway, my phone began to ring on car’s dashboard. I grabbed it and answered.

“Sup Mom!” I said, one hand on the phone, one hand on the wheel.

“John,” she said in her stern voice. The voice that she uses when scolding me and my older brother back in the days, “Why didn’t you answer my calls last night?”

“Uhh, I was in a party.” OH SHIT! NOT THAT!

“Really? Who were you with?” I thought up of an excuse. A quick glance in the rear view, I saw Jase and Angie. An idea then shot through my head.

“Jason, Angie, Josh and Scarf. Ya know, my old friends.” I said. Josh and Scarf are my classmates back in my highschool days. Josh was that easy to get along kid but sometimes has random bouts of crazy. I believe he is prone to mood swings. Scarf was that kid who wears a scarf on his left arm all the time. Like, all the fucking time. First, he used a bandana, but some girl mistook it for a scarf and the name stuck to him ever since.

“Hooking up with your old friends, I see?”

“Mom, that ‘hooking up’ phrase that means dating, and that is not what we did at the party. And besides, there’s a lot of words to substitute for it, like ‘hanging out’ and just plain ‘being-with-your-fucking-friends’. Mom?” I looked at the screen and saw that she hung up on me.

“You… You… You pregnant female dog! A bitch! That’s what you are! God damnit, why you hung up on me? It took me a while to –” I then realized I was saying that out loud and every passenger on Everest is looking at me.

“What?” I said innocently, and they all shrugged and returned to what they were doing.

“So how about we go on a roadtrip,” Jason said, “Like uhh, from Orlando to New York?”

“Are you fucking serious?” I said, “that’s like a twenty three hour drive. It’s December 27 and my parents can come home any minute. And we can’t leave Fluttershy alone in the house!”

“We can take the minivan,” Angie said. She was talking about mom’s minivan. It was scratch free and was polished daily to a shine. There’s no way they would lend me that. And besides, they wouldn’t even let me on a roadtrip without a destination other than brothels and shit.

“I’ll talk to mom. When do we leave?” I can’t believe I was making a plan on this roadtrip. But, it would actually give Twilight and the others a chance to visit New York. And it could be fun.

“Tonight?”

“Cool.” I said and grabbed the phone on the dash. I looked for Mom’s number and dialed it.

“John?” Her voice said, “What happened?” She sounded worried. She always assumes this when I was the one to call and not her.

“Hey mom! Everything’s fine here, I just wanted to ask if I could take the minivan on a roadtrip with my friends.”

“Sure.” She said.

“What? T-that easy?”

“Yes. If you would get the chance to be with your friends, it’s okay. Just, don’t scratch it. What’s your destination anyway?” I was silent for a why, thinking of any possible location on New York. Then, a random location popped in to my head.

“Agloe, New York.” I said.

“W-what? Why would you want to go there?” She sounded suddenly nervous.

“I read about that place when I was young. I wanted to see if its real.” Agloe, for those is a fictional place on a map that became real. It was technically a copyright trap. But in 1950, if I am correct, someone actually built a building called the Agloe General Store, making it a real place.

“Okay, but be careful out there.” I was lying when I wanted to see Agloe. Seriously, there was nothing to see there other than a broken down barn for a general store. We were going to Las Vegas, where mom cannot visit us. Just kidding, were going to visit all the famous sights and shit in there, also to give Twilight a little more than just a boring old house and tree house.

“Okay mom. See ya in New Year.” I said and she hung up. I resumed driving.

“So,” Angie said, “What did she say?”

“She said that I could take the minivan.” I heard Jason and her both yelled, “Yes!” in the background. “But this roadtrip is about getting the girls to see the world other than being confined in a boring old house.”

“That’s okay.” Angie said, “Oh my god, I can’t wait until tonight!” She began rambling about the things she’ll do once we get to New York. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure if I want to go to the Big Apple. I drove around the corner and towards our house. I parked the car and all of us exited.

“John,” Jason approached me after the girls had entered the house via garage door, “Do you love Twilight?”

“Uhh yeah? Why you ask?”

“All I’m saying that if you two got together and they disappear like… back to Equestria, just remember that we’re here for you, me and Angelika.”

“Thanks bro,” I held my fist out. He smiled and met it with his own. “C’mon. Let’s go inside.” Jason and I made our way into the house and saw Spike and Rarity talking. I approached them.

“Hey Spike, Rarity.” I nodded to them. “How do you like your new clothes?”

“Thanks man!” Spike said, “This actually looks good on me!”

“He’s right, John. The clothes you picked for him suits him better. And I swear he looks more handsome than I remember him.” Spike blushed and looked away. I rolled my eyes.

“Yeah. Right. Well, I’ll get out of your hair now. I need to see Twilight.”

“Is there something wrong, John?”

“Oh nothing, really. I just wanna talk to someone, and I figured that she’s the one I want. To talk to, I mean.”

“Man, are you really that ashamed of Twi? Or you’re just scared?” Spike said.

“The second one, actually. Although with an entirely different reason other than she killing me.”

“Okay, then. Good luck!” He patted me on the shoulder.

“Wish that I don’t need it.”

I found Twilight staring at the orange sky. She was in my room with her hands on the windowsill, as if she was thinking something important, or personal, or both. I decided to fuck with her and slowly advanced on her, hands on the ready.

“I know what you’re doing, John.” She said, turning to face me.

“Damnit.” I said, plopping down on the bed. “You okay?”

“Why did you ask?”

“Well, I only see people do that when something’s wrong.” I shrugged.

“Do what? Stare at the horizon?”

“Yeah.”

“Well,” she said, sitting down next to me, “there’s some things I was thinking about.”

“Like what?”

“What will happen if we went back into Equestria? And what will happen between,” she put her finger on my chest, “you,” she put her hand on her chest, over her heart, “me?” I knew I was going to have this conversation sometime in the future, and I wasn’t even half prepared when Twi asked me that.

“Twi, I… I don’t know.” I let my head dropped down glumly. “I… I’m wasn’t… I wasn’t prepared to have this conversation. I…” I clutched my head, “I don’t know.” My voice was unnaturally soft and was cracking here and there. I was never depressed and confused like this before.

“It’s okay…” Twilight said, putting her hands in my face. I noticed that she was crying, “It’s okay. I won’t leave you.”

“But Twi, it’s inevitable. You don’t belong here, and one day, when you wake up, you see the hole in your roof. You’ll see your friends and your brother lying down on the floor of your house. Twi, you can’t avoid it… and if you keep avoiding it, it’ll hurt more.” I could feel tears at the back of my eyes.

“John,” Twilight’s voice was suddenly stern, “I won’t leave you. Pinkie promise. And if I do leave, I’ll cast the spell again. I want to be here, with you, and no space-time rift will stop me.” My heart was beating so fast right now that I can’t tell if it was because of what she said or the thought of a world without her.

“But—” I was cut off by Twilight pitting her finger on my lips.

“No buts. No excuses.” She was smiling despite herself. “I will be with you no matter what.” She hugged me tight and buried her head on my shoulders. “I love you.” She whispered into my head. I didn’t answer, I just sat there, the will to hug her back drowned in my thoughts. Now I think about it, I think I was more susceptible to mood swings than Josh.

“I think I’m okay now.” I said after a while. She pulled back and smiled. I smiled too, genuinely FYI.

“C’mon!” Twilight said, jumping off the bed. “They probably think we’re doing that right now. C’mon.”

“Yeah probably,” I scratched the back of my head. “Sorry for that anyways,”

“What? That’s normal.” She shrugged.

“Twilight,”

“Huh?”

“I love you too.” She just grinned and went outside the room. I rolled my eyes and followed her down.

Author's Note

Short chapter sorry. Couldn't go more than that.

Wait, what is this?. Another story? No. It's just something that this story inspired me to do. :3