Spike's Friend

Spike woke up an hour early (he was still nervous about today). He took a shower, brushed his teeth and made his way towards the cafeteria. He walked by Roberts room and saw him brushing his mane. Robert had on another shirt. It said Nerdvana. Spike decided to greet him.

"Morning Robert!"

Robert jumped. He didn't  see Spike thru his mirror.

"Morning Spike, uh...have a seat on my bed, I might be here a while trying to get of these zits"

Spike couldn't help but laugh at his misfortune.

"Laugh know, you wait till you hit puberty."

They both erupted with laughter.

While Robert was tending to his zits, Spike looked around at some of his personal stuff. He saw some rock band shirts, a comb, deodorant, a pack of cigarettes, and two pictures on his nightstand.

One photo was Robert (clearly younger) with a dog. Another one was an older Robert posing with two other ponies.

"I see you notice my photo's."

Spike nearly jumped as Robert did when he surprised him.

"The first one is me and my dog, Flossie. And the other one is me (of course) with John my ex-friend, and Robin my ex-girlfriend. They were the one's I caught having sex."

"Oh....sorry." Spike said quietly.

"It's okay man.

He put the photo's down and hopped off the bed.

"You ready for breakfast?", Spike said.

"Yep, lets heave off."

They made their way to the cafeteria, and had themselves a big breakfast. After eating, they played checkers until the nurse told them to head to the rec. room. They headed to the room with the rest of the patients. They waited until Dr. Flash came in. He began to tell them what to do.

"Alright patients, in a few seconds I will open the door and you will see your friends and family, please note, that their visit is temporary, they will leave at six o'clock. We have games and food in the corner."

The clock struck eleven.

"Alright visiting hours are no-"

Before the doctor could finish, something flew open the door. Whatever it was it flew passed the doctor, nurses, patients and Robert so fast it knocked out of their chairs. Spike was then was lifted in the air by the object, who turned out to be Rainbow Dash.

"OH MY GOD SPIKE, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I MISSED YOU!!!!"

Rainbow Dash then proceeded to lower Spike to the ground and apologized  to the ponies she knocked down when she busted thru the door. Spike then saw the rest of his friends walk thru the door.

"Howdy sugar cube, how yer feeling today?" Said Applejack.

"I'm fine AJ."

"Oh my god Spike you should see this cake I made you, I wanted to cupcakes or doughnuts or pie or custards or..." Pinkie continued for another minute before Rainbow smack her on the head.

Fluttershy hugged Spiked and said: "I hope your okay Spike."

Rarity followed, by giving him a hug and a scarf.

"I made this especially for you darling, I hope you like it."

"Thanks Rarity I love it."

After greeting his friends, he looked to the one person he wanted to see the most, Twilight.

She walked towards him and after a moment of silence, she gave him the biggest hug she ever gave him. He felt something fall down on his back, it was tears. Spike not only felt sad, but guilty for putting her in a bad situation.

"Sp..spike, I'm so sor..sorry. I should've known that yo..your sui...sui...su..."

Twilight couldn't even finish the sentence. She bursted out with tears. Before he knew the whole group started to cry, including Spike himself.

The group started to settled down. They didn't want to cause a scene. After wiping away their tears, the girls sat around the table. Spike decided to talk first.

"What's been happening out in the world?"

Applejack decided to answer first.

"Well, the cutie mark crusaders parachuted off the clock tower, almost broke their legs in the process."

Spike and the girls busted out with laughter. Rarity was next.

"I just finished designing this falls fashion collection, it's simply marvelous if I do say so myself."

Spike could see Dash rolling her eyes. Fluttershy spoke next.

"Me and Rainbow Dash helped a bunch of geese fly south for the winter, their leader accidentally hurt his wing, so me and Dash lead them."

Spike had to ask, "Is he okay?"

Rainbow spoke up.

"Yeah he's fine, he'll join his group next week. Trust me, he's a fighter."

Pinkie hopped up in down screaming: "My Turn, My Turn!",

"Me and Twilight have been planning a p-"

Twilight shushed Pinkie before she could finish. Spike knew what they were planning, he wasn't stupid. They were planning a party for his return. Nonetheless he was glad they would do that for him.

"Enough about us, how are things here?", Applejack said

Spike the said: "Well, I made a new friend."

Everypony at the table jumped up with excitement, clearly they wanted to know more.

"YOU MADE A FRIEND!!? OMG WHO IS HE? OR IS IT HER? ARE YOU GUYS HAVING FUN? WHY IS HE HERE? OR IS IT SHE? DID HE OR SH-"

Pinkie shouted so loud, that the whole hospital could've heard her.

Rainbow, again, had to smack her on the head to make her stop.

Fluttershy spoke up: "So who's your friend?"

Spike pointed to the lonely pony sitting at one of the tables alone.

Fluttershy's started to blush.

"He's cute."

The girls started oooing Fluttershy.

Her face turned even pinker.

"What's his name, Spike?", Twilight said.

"His name is Robert, he's been helping me around the hospital. He's really nice"

"Why's he over there by himself?"

Applejack said.

"I guess he waiting for a visitor....but it looks like no one's coming."

Applejack then said: "Well lets invite him over."

Spike agreed, he walked over to Roberts table, and invited him over.

"I don't know Spike...I feel like I'll be a burden."

"No you won't. My friends are dying to meet you."

Robert agreed. He walked with Spike to his table. Robert was nervous, he sure looked liked it. He started sweating, Spike chuckled at poor Roberts misfortune again.

"Howdy there partner! I'm Applejack. That there's Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, -an-"

Before she could finish, Fluttershy spoke up. Which is rare for her, considering she's.....shy.

"I...Im...Fluttershy." Her face was red. "She must really like Robert", thought Spike.

"Nice to meet you all, Spike told me all about you guys."

"Spike told you about us?" Twilight asked.

"Oh hell yeah."

The girls gasped. They never liked  it when anypony used foul language.

"Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone. But yeah, he told me about you girls. Like you owning a boutique, you having a farm, you and your crazy parties, you and your cool magic abilities, you with your daredevil antics, and you and your gift with animals."

Fluttershy giggled.

"You know, I have a dog named Flossie, I'm sure you'll like her.

"I'm sure I'd like her too." Fluttershy responded.

Rainbow started to make kissing noises, but the group ignored her.

"Why are you here?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I guess you can I had a very bad day."

Spike and the girls chuckled.

"Yeah, mom caught me making out with my girlfriend, called me some names, and discovered my girlfriend cheated on me. So...yeah."

The girls looked sad, except for Fluttershy, who looked happy to know that Robert was single.

"Sorry man" Rainbow Dash said.

"It's okay. Hey, why don't we play some board games?"

The whole group cheered: YEAH!!!

They played ton's of games including one of Spike's favorite, 'Tre!'

Before anypony knew it, I was already six.

"Alright everypony, visiting hours are know over. Say goodbye to the pony you're visiting and make your way to the exit." Dr. Hooves shouted.

Spike gave each one a hug. When he hugged Applejack, he asked her to thank Big Mac. AJ nodded in agreement.

"Thank you for looking after Spikey, Robert ", Rarity said politely.

"Anytime. Now before you girls leave, I want a hug from each one of you."

The girls agreed. After hugging most of the girls, he got to Fluttershy last. When he gave her a hug, she fainted. Robert panicked, thinking he may have hurt her. Rainbow rushed over to pick her up.

"Don't worry Robert, she'll be fine."

"Oh...okay, apologize for me will ya?

"We can do that." Said Pinkie.

The girls made there way to the exit with Rainbow carrying Fluttershy on her back.

"Goodbye Spike, we'll see you later." Twilight said.

Spike said his goodbye and so did Robert.

After leaving the rec. room, Spike and Robert made their way back to their rooms.

"Well, today's been fun. Eh, Spike?"

"Yeah."

Spiked turned to Robert and noticed a tear fall down his face.

"What's wrong?", Spike said.

Robert quickly wiped the tear off his cheek.

"Nothing....it's just.... I've been here for almost a month now, and on every visitation day, I always think that my mom would come to visit. I imagine she'd come, tell me she's sorry for all the abuse, and we finally hug it out. But life's not a movie.

Spike patted Robert on the back.

"Thanks kid...for everything."

Spike blushed a little. He felt proud for helping his friend out.

They finally made it to Robert's room.

"Well, I'm turning in early. Night Spike." Robert said

Spike in return said his good night.

Before Spike could turn around the corner to his room, Robert spoke up.

"Hey Spike. Can I ask a question?"

"Sure", Spike replied.

"Fluttershy........is she dating anyone?"

Spike smiled. He didn't know Robert liked her.

"Uh......not that I know of. Why do you ask?"

"Oh, nothing."

Robert blushed a little before poking his head back into his room.

After Spike made his way towards his bed. A thought occurred him. If Robert does ask out Fluttershy, will Robert be too busy for him?