Painting our Life - 6 Colors

   It was a bashing New Years. Not in the bad way, but as in it was bashingly AWESOME! You could say, there's two people, and one's a pony, how do you have fun? Well needless to say, a night of video games, movies and nothing but junk food did the trick. We felt like crap, moping around like lazies on such a holiday, but we couldn't really help ourselves from doing nothing. It sounds completely silly, and a waste of a New Years eve, but neither Dash or I regret it.

   Moving on, it's hard to believe this was Dash's fifth year living with me. It's even harder to believe that she went five years without talking to anyone other than me, excluding Tank II, and he all could really reply with was a "Bark, Bark". Looking back, I do wish I hadn't returned him. But neither Dash or I had the skills to take care of him. And I applaud when we attempted to clean up his buisiness, attempted, which is why I sometimes watch my step when walking across the field to the forest. This isn't much of a subject I'd like to get deeper into though.

   At least once a month, I'd visit our location. The tree in the forest with Dash's name and mine engraved. It wore out once, but I bought a battery powered drill (you won't believe how many batteries that little devil eats) and traced over the carving to make it stronger and last longer. This is where memories are kept. I swear, every time I walk near that tree, I see flashes of my times in the orphanage and the days before I met Dash. I guess it's one of the reasons why it's so important to me. I can see how foolish I was back then, and laugh it off. It cleanses me of any remaining grief.

   I decided to install a swimming pool in the backyard. It costed me a lot, but it wasn't as much as I had paid for the house. The workers took two weeks to build it and check safety, Dash was not very happy she had to stay inside the house and unseen for those two weeks. But once they were gone, I filled up the pool and we went for a swim. This added to the list of things Dash can do while I'm away at work. While television and PS3 are very entertaining, I discovered that Dash would take sports over them any day. I'm not much of an athlete, but over the past months, I tried my best to kick a soccer ball around with her or toss around a baseball. Though I have the equipment, and constantly work out, muscles won't help me in sports as playing them require brains, speed and being able to react quickly. Which I guess is why I've never beaten Dash in a single soccer game. With one woosh, she sneaks past me and scores a goal, leaving me standing there like an idiot.

   I finally did it. I brought Dash concert, to one of her favourite singers. Katy Perry. There was one trick I used to pull this off. It was a cloudy day, for months I wondered if Dash could actually stand on the clouds in our world, since in Equestria, the clouds looked more like pillows instead of moistened mist. She stood on one perfectly, and from the sky, she flew all the way to the Guelph concert hall. I only had to bring one ticket to get in, since Dash could watch from the sky. Due to my lack of knowledge on concerts, I learned it the hard way that they did not offer seats, so I was forced to stand throughout the entire thirty songs. The songs weren't half bad though, Katy Perry is an amazing singer I can give her that, but the lyrics weren't cleverly written. In the middle of one of her songs, I snuck off to buy souvenirs for Dash. A t-shirt with Katy's face and some CD albums. It was the most awkwardest moment of my life when I paid for the merchandise. The cashier chuckled when he held up the pink t-shirt with bright sparkly text spelling Katy Perry and an image of her face. I muttered a quick "It's for a friend," and hightailed it back to my spot before Dash noticed I was missing and before people at the booths started laughing at my purchase. The concert dragged on for ages. Katy didn't just sing, she also talked about her life and how her career started, doubling the time it ate up. But in short, it was a pretty darn good afternoon, even though Dash couldn't be by my side during the concert.

    Dash had shown me all her flying moves she practiced back in Equestria. Out of all of them, I'd have to say the Sonic Rainboom was the most amazing of them all. I was in shock, the blast wave of rainbow almost tore my hair off, and it blew many branches off the trees in the forest. I almost had my head taken off by a branch flying my way, but I was so astonished that it didn't matter. My mouth gaped open as the rainbow spread over the sky. News reports and pictures of it were taken from inside the town of Guelph. I worried for days investigators would come to my house after seeing the Sonic Rainboom on the news, but luckily, no one knocked on my door.

   During the dog days of summer, I would see Dash hanging around the air conditioner often listening to her iPod. I usually ask her if she would like to go outside or do something more productive, but she just makes up some excuse saying "It's too hot." And you know what? She's right, from the puddles of sweat she often leaves around, I can tell that furcoat must be a real drag to carry around during the summer. I even felt it once, she denied that she was melting inside that thing but the furcoat told a different story, it was soaked, in sweat. The swimming pool would heat up quickly, I ended up installing a cooler, one that filtered the water to make it cold. Of course, it felt like heaven the first time but Dash and I soon found ourselves moping around the living room instead of swimming in the freezing water. And we weren't crazy enough to turn it off and let the water boil us like shrimp in a pot. This is the reason we began to dread summer more and more each year, as we can't go vacationing (risks her being seen) and the place we're cooped up in is like a roast house, even with AC.

   Around the time of Halloween, Dash was heartbroken she couldn't leave out in the open. Although I feel bad, I allowed her leave the house to play pranks on the residents of Guelph. I watched from the car as she pulled thunder clouds out into the clear night sky and using them to scare the trick or treating children. It was a funny scene, the way the kids jumped, bur what made it more amusing was some of the adults supervising the children jumped higher than the younger had. She requested a bag of dollar store quality fake spiders a week before Halloween. I had no idea before what she was going to use them for. But I suddenly realized it after a fake spider dropped onto the roof of my car from a cloud overhead. Only seconds after, I heard a teenager scream and pull at her hair, flailing the toy bugs around. Her boyfriend scanned the area, in search of kids he could pin the blame on and have their parents chew them out, to his disappointed, he wasn't able to play as the hero who set things right and gain a kiss from his girlfriend. The couple slunked off, and I enjoyed the rest of the night watching kids throw the fake spiders that Dash had dropped earlier at each other.

   God damn, the years been passing so quickly. Usually, I'd just wait for my days to slowly pass, but with Dash here to keep me company and out of my folly, the time flies. We'd be shooting zombies that lurk in the PS3 early in the morning and before I know it, eight hours pass. Unfortunately, this doesn't apply when I work my shifts at Roy's Five Star Restuarant.

   A perfect life does not exist. There'll always be bumps along the way. I was devastated, Dash had kept a secret from me. One that could've endangered her to harm. She's been hanging around with another human. Human boy. He's about 10 years old, I caught her feeding him cookies in the livng room when I got home from work. She didn't make eye contact with me. The look in her eyes, oh it pains me, I just couldn't say yes when she asked if I'm going to forbid her from playing with him. The boy's name is Jakob, and from what I've squeezed out from him, his dad just drops him off in the morning near my house and he walks over to see Dash. He says she's a great friend, but his eyes stare through me, as if he didn't mean it. Dash and I haven't been very close lately. I feel like shit, I'm horrible for being selfish, and wanting to keep her to myself. She says the boy keeps her company while I'm at work. I asked her if she could stop inviting him over, an argument followed, and we stopped talking to each other for a while. She ended up apologizing, but this wasn't something I expected. It's all so sudden for her to just go and keep a secret. She and I agreed she wouldn't reveal herself. No. This shouldn't be happening. Nothing good will come out of this, but for the time being, I will let it slip. Dash can continue to "hang out" with Jakob. But she'll need to let go soon enough.

   It's almost like we're two complete strangers now. It pains us both to make eye contact. I wish the kid would just leave. I wish she wasn't mad at me. I wish I could set things all right, back to the way they were before the kid came in and disrupted our bond. When the boy asked me what my name was, I answered with "I'm the boogeyman who'll eat you tonight", at that moment, I felt Dash's eyes stare straight through me from behind. She trotted past and flashed me a glare, screaming shut up. The boy was scared, and had ran into a closet to hide. I sighed and escaped to my room, where I cried out my hatred for the kid, letting a pillow soak in the sound so Dash wouldn't here. When I looked into the mirror, I saw someone I didn't think I would ever become, I'm a jerk, and I don't feel a tad bad. That night, I went to sleep as a person, and woke up an empty shell, trying my best to ignore the boy and Dash each time I saw them together. This isn't the trail I wanted my life to walk down, and as I looked up the the shining stars of night, I could only hoped for better days.