Seeing Yellow

I blacked out. I must of fainted. Out of surprise or just being over-whelmed with emotion, I don't know. I woke up, still on the floor, a blanket over me. Blinking a couple of times to clear my vision, I stood up and looked around. My room seemed pretty much normal. Apart from one thing. A yellow and pink creature, asleep on my bed.

This meme has been dead for years... but my heart exploded, twice. It was just too cute. Fluttershy lay with her head resting against her front legs, her back legs tucked in close to her, her tail wrapped around her and her wings retracted. Every once in a while, her wings would extend and flap for a second, before settling back down. But the cutest thing about her was her breath. She breathed in nice and slow, and exhaled with a little puff out of her mouth. Oh my god the cuteness. There is something about seeing it in real life which makes it more cute than just an animated picture. I couldn't stop thinking, "I need to get out of here before I get a heart attack.". I looked down at the yellow mare, sleeping peacefully on my bed, and couldn't help but smile. I stretched out a hand to touch her, but thought better of it. Even if this was just a mental image, I didn't want to wake her. I slowly exited the room, closing the door quietly behind me.

My brother had returned from the flat. I gave him a hug when I saw him. He explained a couple things to me about what life will be like now. He also said that he was going to live at the flat from here on out. I didn't ask for a reason why; his life was his own. I would stay here for now. It was the only place I had. My brother gathered his things and... just left. Just like that. He didn't say anything else to me. I imagine this whole situation must be too painful for him.

My brother and I... only 6 years ago, he hated me beyond measure. I guess that was my fault. I was an immature little guy when I was young, and I annoyed him constantly. Then, I grew up, and I bridged the gap between us. We were close... closer than my other brothers or sister.

Because my parents no longer could provide income, I had to find a job... fast. I got my sisters old job at Video Ezy the same day. She was one the best employees there, so when I went in and proved I was her brother, I was hired instantly. Probably out of pity for me. The job paid well, but I couldn't help but feel sad every passing moment I was in there. I was told I would start work on Monday. I walked home, thinking about all that had transpired that day. I entered my house to find Fluttershy waiting for me. She was absent-mindedly rubbing her hoof on the floor. I walked up to her, and stretched out my hand. I found to my amazement that I could touch her soft coat. I withdrew my hand quickly though. I didn't want Fluttershy to feel awkward.

"You're real." I said in awe.

"Of course I am." she responded in her quiet voice.

My heart exploded again.

"You must be hungry."

"Umm... no." she said awkwardly.

She trotted into the kitchen and I followed. It was... trashed. Food lay everywhere. Most of the food had small bites in it. I looked at Fluttershy, who was starting to slowly move back from me. I laughed. Just laughed. I couldn't get mad at her. She was a curious little mare. Fluttershy started to laugh with me. Her laugh sounded amazing. Soft and delicate. It nearly made my heart explode.

"I guess you were hungry." I laughed.

"More than anything. But I wasn't sure what I should have. So I had a bit of everything!"

She laughed again and so did I.

"Well, I guess I have to buy some more food. But before that, I have a few questions for you."

I moved to my living room and sat down in one of the multiple chairs in the room.

"Questions? Oh, I don't know..." said a nervous Fluttershy.

"It's only a couple. Trust me. Sit down."

I motioned towards a chair, just opposite to me, separated by a rectangular coffee table. She 'sat' down and looked at me. I had the strange feeling that she could see into my soul.

"Just a couple of things I want to ask you. How did you get to this world? How did you find me? And how did you know that only I could see you? Why didn't you talk to me at all? And why didn't I see you for the past year? Why reveal yourself and talk to me now? And finally, is there an Equestria?" I rattled off these questions without taking more than one breath.

"A couple of questions?!" she yelled at me.

"I'm sorry... but I'm just as curious as you are about the whole situation."

She looked suspiciously at me.

"What was that last question? 'Is there an Equestria?' How do you know about Equestria!?" She realised what she just said, and clamped a hoof over her mouth.

"So there is an Equestria?!" I asked eagerly, leaning forward in my seat.

She shook her head.

"Fluttershy, if there is an Equestria, then what about your friends? Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack. Them! Do they exist?"

Her eyes widened with shock.

"How do you know so much!?" she asked.

"After you have answered my questions, I will answer yours."

She nodded, but still stared at me with a hint of horror in her eyes.

"How did you get to this world?" I asked.

"I don't know. I was trying to feed Angel Bunny, he's my bunny by the way."

"Obvious, due to the name. I already know about him."

I think she was about to ask, 'How do you know?' once more, but she closed her mouth, opened it again, and continued.

"Then I was suddenly here."

"Here? Where exactly?"

"That room with all the pieces of oddly-shaped cloth on the floor."

Oddly-shaped cloth? Oh! Clothes... I hadn't bothered to clean my room for a while and clothes littered the floor. But then it hit me.

"My room?!"

"Yes."

I thought this over. Maybe that dream I had that night, so long ago, wasn't a dream.

"How did you know I could see you?"

"Well, when I appeared in your room, I thought you had something to do with me being there. No one else around seemed to notice me. No matter how much I screamed in their ear."

I sniggered at this. Fluttershy's scream was cute, but most likely no one could hear it, even if they could hear her. I remembered back to that one MLP episode where Fluttershy became a model. That scream was the best bit of that episode. It sounded like a creaky door opening.

"When you looked straight at me at school, I knew you could see me." continued Fluttershy.

"Why didn't you talk to me? Wait- I know. You were scared weren't you?"

She nodded. "Meeting new ponies... It's scary."

"You have been here for 3 years, Fluttershy. 3 years."

"I know that."

"Scared for all that time of me?"

"Yes."

"I haven't seen you for a whole year Fluttershy. Care to elaborate?"

She grinned like Pinkie Pie.
"You just weren't looking hard enough."

She did have a mischievous side. I rolled my eyes and continued.

"So, after being scared of meeting new ponies... uh... people, why reveal yourself now?"

"Because of what had happened to you. Losing your family."

"How do you know about that?"

"I was outside your house at the time you got that message. I heard the entire thing. So I felt like you needed some help."

"You were right."

"I flew in through an open window and followed the sounds of crying. That's when I found you. You looked at me, fell on the ground, then you stopped moving. You were still breathing, so I grabbed a blanket for you and slept on your bed."

I barely had time to process all of this before Fluttershy struck back.

"Now it is time for me to ask you some questions. How you know my name? And my other friends? How do you know of Equestria? And I don't even know your name!"

"How rude of me to not tell you my name."

I told her my name.

"That's a nice name." she said.

"Not as nice as Fluttershy." I replied.

She blushed, but then instantly went back on the attack.

"That doesn't answer my question. How do you know so much?"

For the first time since I had started talking to her, I was scared. How would she take this news?

"Well!?" she asked, tapping her hoof on the armrest of the chair.

I couldn't tell her. But I have to someday. So, lets make it now.

"All your questions can be answered with one thing."

"Yes?"

"Stay here for a second."

I moved to my room and grabbed my laptop and returned to where Fluttershy was still patiently sitting. I set my laptop down on the coffee table and turned it on.

"Come here."

Fluttershy flew over to me and rested herself comfortably on the armrest of the chair. Good thing it was soft. The first thing she saw was my desktop background. One I haven't changed for years.

"Is that?-" she began.

"It's you and Rainbow Dash."

The desktop background was of Fluttershy sleeping, similar to the way I saw her before. Part of her mouth was pressed up again Rainbow Dash's tail, who was sleeping with her head on Fluttershy's back. It was a cute background. I loved it. Before Fluttershy could ask any questions about the picture, I went to my video folder, where I had all the seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic stored. In HD as well.

"Fluttershy, this might be tough to hear."

"I think I'll be okay." she said sternly.

"Fine. Fluttershy. You are supposed to be a fictional character from a kids show."

Fluttershy didn't speak. She just gazed at me with a weird look in her eye.

"What?" she said.

"Just look."

I started to play the show for her. All of the seasons. All the episodes. After we had finished, she looked scared.

"Everything that happened in the show also happened in Equestria!"

"What?" Now it was my turn to look scared. That was no coincidence.

"All of it! Every single bit."

I was confused. Did Hasbro have some sort of connection with Equestria? Absurd thought... but still.. possible. I looked more closely at Fluttershy. She seemed pretty confused about everything right now. I decided on something.

"Fluttershy, I'll tell you more about my world, but I think we should get some sleep."

Fluttershy yawned, and my heart exploded again. Cute? Very.

"Yeah, I agree. Where am I going to sleep then?"

"You seemed to like my bed very much."

Fluttershy giggled. "Yeah, but I think you should have it tonight."

I thought for a moment then got an idea. I went up to my room and pulled the mattress off it and moved it to the other side of the room.. I placed the blankets, pillows and whatnot on the mattress. Then I got a spare mattress, pillows, blankets and whatnot and placed that where the mattress used to be on my bed. I cleaned up my room as best I could within a few seconds. I had a guest in the house after all. Fluttershy trotted in and I motioned to the mattress that I had pulled to the side.

"For now." I declared. "You may stay with me in my room."

Fluttershy trotted over to the mattress and jumped up and down experimentally on it.

"Comfy." she said. She got under the covers, and I did the same in my own bed. Nothing else was said. I closed my eyes, wanting sleep.

"Goodnight." called a soft voice from the outside of my room.

"Night." I replied, and I sank into more dreams.

The next few days I spent with Fluttershy were basically spent telling her more about my world. I covered a lot in a few days. I spent a lot of time on the fact that lots of things were different in our worlds. For example, the sun or the moon didn't need to be raised using god ponies. The weather controlled itself and a lot of other key differences. We didn't get a lot of time together for these lessons. I would have had longer lessons with her but I wasn't allowed time off from work or time off from university. So I packed our lessons full of information and they mostly began near the evenings when I could get home. However, I started this lesson in the afternoon, due to me finally having no work today.

I had just got around to Fanfictions when her stomach growled. She blushed, and I told her I'd be back in a second. I went down to the kitchen and quickly prepared a meal for her. I couldn't of been gone more than 5 minutes. When I got back, she stared at me with anger and confusion of her face.
“Explain this!” she shouted angrily.
She pointed her hoof at the screen. LibreOffice was open. I looked at the first few lines and knew what she was talking about. It was my FlutterDash Fanfic, Polar Opposites. Though all my Fanfictions were online, I kept a copy for myself on my computer. It wasn't a bad fic, but neither was it good, and I was thinking of re-writing it. I then realised why she was angry. She must of read it when I was out getting her food. She must of went on my computer and looked at my FanFic folder on my desktop and found Polar Opposites. I let out a slow exhale. At least it was a romance, and not my upcoming Fluttershy deathfic. That would have been awkward.

“I was about to explain all this to you, but then you got hungry. I made you some food.”
I passed the plate to her, and she started eating, but she still never took her eyes off me.
“Well... Fanfictions...They are stories created by fans of the original work, and they use characters and settings from that work, sometimes using their own characters and settings, and creating their own story with it. My Little Pony obviously fits in this category. Fanfictions can be about anything. They are only limited to the authors imagination. I've been writing Fanfictions for a while. What you just read was one of my early works. Polar Opposites. A romantic MLP fic.”
“Just explain why you made this story!”
I sighed. “Fanfiction writers often put characters in romantic relationships. This is called shipping. Polar Opposites is a FlutterDash fic, a romance between you and Rainbow Dash. In shipping, the author states the relationship, either by saying a mixture of the 2 characters names, FlutterDash is one of these, or by saying Character 1 x Character 2, FluttershyxRainbow Dash is an example of this. I wanted to do this, so I wrote Polar Opposites.”
“But why me and Rainbow?”
That took a while. I didn't know exactly why everyone liked Fluttershy with Rainbow Dash. But I came with an answer I thought was okay.
“It's cute. Having 2 characters that people like in a romantic relationship is just cute. I can't explain any more than that, I'm sorry.”
Fluttershy blushed and looked down.
“I thought your story was... okay.” she managed to quietly mutter.
I laughed. “You remind me of my friend when I told him about my story. He didn't want to read it at first. I successfully managed to peak his interest in my story, and he finally read it. Now he likes it. It's funny what stories can do to people.”

After this talk, Fluttershy decided to have a fly around outside for a while. I told her to be careful as she flew away. I worried about her. Constantly. I tried to do something... anything while I waited for her to return. But I found my mind, blank. Usually it was buzzing with information and ideas. But, now... nothing. I realised... Fluttershy has become an integral part of my life now, even though she has only talked to me for a few days. She was living in my house, she was eating my food, she listened to me talk. All these things and more proved that Fluttershy was now in my life. To stay? That would be determined by the passage of time.

It was only a few minutes later when an ecstatic Fluttershy returned. She asked me to follow her. I did, very confused. She flew overhead as I followed her on the ground. After going through some trees and up a hill, I saw Fluttershy in front of me. She was standing next to a single tree, separated from the others. She sat down and lent back on the tree. I walked over to her, and did the same to her right. She had found an amazing spot. The scenery was amazing. I could see my home town and everything around it. We basically a had 360 degree view. It was amazing. The sun was going down and the sky started to turn orange. I looked at Fluttershy and suddenly had an idea. I pulled out my camera. Fluttershy stared at it and then at me.

“What's that?”
“I told you about this. It's a camera.”
She flew up into the tree.
“Uh, um...” she spoke nervously.
“What?” I asked.
“Well um... I don't what my picture taken.”
I laughed, but quickly stopped.
“Come on Fluttershy.” I lowered my voice to a soothing tone. “Just one picture. It'll be fine.”
She slowly descended back down to the earth. I put my arm around her and smiled. She blushed and smiled as well. It was a cute, nervous smile. I held up my camera, and took a picture. I had a look at it. There was me, smiling broadly, arm around a yellow pony who had a nervous smile on her face. We were both leaning back on a tree, bathed in a slight orange glow. I was never any good at taking pictures, but this picture seemed perfect. I had this picture developed later. I decided that this picture, I would carry around with me wherever I went. I showed the picture to Fluttershy and turned off my camera, and we lent back on that tree together for hours.

A few weeks passed, and Fluttershy had asked for her own room. There were plenty of spare bedrooms in my house now, so I told her to take her pick. She picked the room right next to mine. My 2 little brothers' old room. After a few days of moving into her own room, Fluttrshy had really started to become comfortable around me and living in this world. We grew close after a few months. Very close. Closer than family. I started to think of her as my sister. I felt protective of her. However, there was something wrong with Fluttershy, and there was nothing I could do. She couldn't communicate with animals any more, like she could do in Equestria. In the 3 years separating her coming here and her talking to me finally, she realised that couldn't speak with wildlife any more. Bringing this memory back to the surface made her sad. It took a while, but I cheered her up, but I couldn't help but think of ways to help her. She couldn't do what it was her destiny to do. I wanted to help so badly, but what could I do? I can't magic her to be seen by wildlife, right? Time passed, and we were both happy. We were having fun together. I was loving it. Not only was I completely happy, my depression forgotten, I was happy with Fluttershy. And that was amazing. I was having the best time of my life.

Then, I had the worst time of my life...