Pretty faces hide dark secrets

Christo woke up to somepony poking his chest.

"Wake up sleepy head." Pinkie said in her cheery tone.

"Five more minutes" he grumbled, turning over. He then felt the train lurch to a stop. He sat bolt upright, surprising pinkie and making her squeal. He noticed that they had stopped and were in front of a train station. As the doors opened and the other ponies started to exit the train, Christo stayed behind. The ponies turned to him as he shouldered his saddlebag.

"Come on partner," applejack said turning to him. Christo felt uncomfortable but followed. He joins the group of mares as they walked out of the train. As they walked, the crowd parted for them. Christo felt like every pony in the crowd was looking at him. He just hid further in his hood. As he walked he heard pinkie scream out to the crowd.

"Hey every pony, meet Christo." She said yanking his hood down and letting his long gray mane fall down his shoulders. Christo, shy as he was around crowds, ran throughout the mob of ponies to get away from their eyes. As he ran through the crowd he heard the mares calling his name and following him. He thought he had gotten away from them when rainbow dash flew out of no where and tackled him.

"I got him guys!" He heard her yell with his face in the dirt. He heard the other ponies walk up to him. He felt Rainbowdash get up off of him. Christ pushed his face up off of the dust and sneezed. He then turned around to a few very concerned mares and a sad looking pinkie.

"Why did you run off there sugar cube?" Applejack asked with a concerned look on her face.

"I, I get shy around crowds. I have bad memories of them as a colt." Christ said sadly looking at the ground.

"It's okay," fluttershy said draping a wing over his shoulder. "We can get over our fears together." She said in a determined voice. Christo gave her a warm smile. Okay.

After that fiasco, the mares gave Christo a tour of the town.

"So this is twilights house. Doesn't surprise me she lives in a library. Do you think she would mind if I crashed for a little while while I wait for them to finish my house." Christo said.

"No I don't think she would mind." Rainbowdash said. Christo let a smile crease his face as a plan came to his mind.

"Pinkie, your the party pony in this town right." Christo said.

"Ya, why do you have a party idea." She said suddenly getting excited at the prospect of a party.

It had been a long week and twilight was glad to be home. She pulled her beys out and inserted them into the lock to find it was open. She found that odd but dismissed it quickly. She came in and set her saddle bags on the ground. She flipped on the lights and to her surprise her house was filled with ponies from all over town.

"SUPRISE!" They all yelled at once. Twilight noticed there was a banner hung up that said "welcome home."

"Hey twilight, someone came into town the other day and wants to meet you." Rarity said as she led her over to the rest of her friends. The mares parted to reveal a white stallion with a white and black horn and a long grey mane. Twilight recognized who it was immediately and walked up to him and slapped him right across his face.

"Twilight," the mares said in unison.

"I probably deserved that one," he said.

"You've got a lot of nerve Christo, looking for me after what you did to me and breezhopper." Twilight said.

"C'mon sunshine, you know it wasn't supposed to turn out like that." Christo said shrugging.

"What happened, who's breezhopper." Pinkie asked with her head tilted sideways.

"Oh twilight hasn't told you yet. Alright. Breezhopper was a stallion, a bit taller than myself. Anyway twilight got all lovey doves over him but didn't have the guts to tell him. So I did it for her." Christo said as innocently as he could.

"And you ruined my chances with him!" Twilight said slapping him again. Christo now had a steady stream of blood coming from his nose and was stumbling around on his hooves.

"Good to see you to sunshine." He said and hugged her. She slapped him again and Christo blacked out. That pony had a bit more force behind her blows he thought as he swam through the sea of blackness.