Suddenly Starlet

I walked into the living room to find both my parents sitting on the couch and watching TV. I walked up to the couch and sat down, after a while I decided to speak up. “I'm leaving,” this earned a couple looks. There was some surprise and then some sadness, but they settled on surprise.

“you're leaving?” mom finally asked the one question they were thinking.

“yeah, I gotta go,”i looked away from the TV over to my mom.

“Why? Where are you going? How are you going to get there? We can't take you.” she said with finality, she acted like this might deter me.

“I have to go to New York to get this whole mess sorted out, I will find a way to get there. I know you guys are busy.” I watched her confidence deflate a little.

“do you have to go?” she pleaded

“unfortunately, yes. I promise I'll keep in touch though.” I hated to see her sad.

“well I always thought we'd get you out when you were eighteen,” she let out a small laugh.

“yeah, me too,”i walked over to her to comfort her.

“well, then you'll need money,” she moved over to her purse and looked into it. “here,” she held out my debit card, “you'll need this, I'll transfer over a couple hundred.”

“couple hundred? But, isn't that a bit much?” I looked more than a little shocked to be trusted with this much money. In hindsight I should have some money saved up anyway, but I'm bad at saving.

“no, New York is pretty far. And I'm pretty sure you're not gonna take an airplane. I mean, you don't have a way of identification,” I took the debit card and put it in my wallet.

“yeah, I guess your right. I need to find someone that can help me get there...” I sat there for a good ten minutes just thinking over who I could ask. I was fairly certain none of my friends could or wanted to drive the new me all the way across the country to New York just for my own reasons. I was about to give up when I remembered the guy from yesterday, if you ever need anything at all, don't be afraid to ask. Maybe I'd take him up on his offer, or I'd at least ask him. I pulled up my phone and pulled out the same slip of paper from earlier, I input his phone number and the phone dialed.

“hello?” I smiled as I heard the familiar voice.

“hey, remember me? Yeah, well I'm in a bit of a pickle and I was wondering if you could help me. How would you feel about going to New York?” I tried to act as casual as I could, but the truth is that I was pretty excited about going on a road-trip.

“you're serious? Why do you need to get to New York?” he asked after a while.

“I need to figure this thing out with Faust and some of the others.” I am really trying hard not to sound too excited.

He waited for a while, he seemed to be weighing his options. “OK, let me get packed. I need to get my van filled and stuff, when are we leaving?” he actually agreed, I couldn't hold in my excitement.

“oh, thank you so much! I plan on departing as soon as you're ready, I'm all set to go!” I was only a little ashamed that I couldn't contain my excitement.

“OK, I'll be over as soon as I'm ready,” I could hear him chuckling at my outburst.

“see ya soon!” I hung up the phone, I was wearing a really goofy type of grin. I'm going to New York! I thought to myself in glee. Well now I just wait for him, right? That's easier said than done, especially when you're really excited. “now to check my Facebook, let's see if anyone else has contacted me,” I floated my computer over to me. a whole ton of nothing still, oh! Whats this? I looked at one of the messages, the profile pic had a pony on it. This message looked promising, I opened it and I was delighted at what I saw.

“Hello! I have found myself in a similar situation to the one you are in yourself. I seem to have turned into my OC too! I would love to meet up, and possibly work with you! It would be super great!” I read the message over and decided that it would be a splendid idea to go meet her. maybe she can help us get to New York or even just help us figure this out, I got ready to type up a reply.

“Hello to you too! I would love to meet up, I will try to incorporate where you are into my route. Thing is I will need to know where you are in order to get to you! If you could supply this information I will make that my first stop!” I sent out the message. I looked around and found very little else of interest, but there was one other message that intrigued me. I had no way of knowing if it was a pony or not, but it seemed that it was by someone actually concerned about the crisis.

“hello there! I am so sorry to interrupt any of the things you could possibly be doing, but I was just wondering if you had any information at all on the situation with the ponies? That would be super-rific!” I thought about this for a second. at least this person cares about the problem and isn't just fascinated over me being a pony I figured it would do no harm to tell them about the solution I'd worked out.

“hello Anthony, I have no real information on this crisis, but I am led to believe that the solution may lie in getting the elements of harmony together in one spot. Namely New York, I am headed there myself to help in any way possible.” I sent him the message, there were no other people that seemed credible as actually concerned.

I was about to log off when I got an answer back from the other pony, “I am currently in Phoenix AZ. I await your arrival, I can meet you at Harmony Park in Gilbert when you get up here.” I looked the message over and decided that was an acceptable spot to meet up. I was about to reply, but I felt it was unnecessary at the moment. I heard the ding of a notification from the other person I had replied to.

“well, it just so happens that I am the element of laughter. I guess that means I have to head up to New York huh? Mind if I tag along with you? I am in Loveland, Colorado. I live on Ferguson Ct. I'll wait for you if I can hitch a ride. Tell me when you get near so I know when to be home.” I re-read the message, this is great! I can pick up one of the elements, that gets us one element closer to getting them all to New York.

“yes, that's great, I expect it should take us two or three days to get up there. We will have another pony with us. I look forward to meeting you!” I sent the message and shut-down the computer, all I have to do know is wait for Mr.... you know, I don't actually know his name. I'll have to ask him when he gets here. Waiting is hard when you're really excited about going. I felt like someone gave me ten energy drinks mixed with a pound of sugar and told me to sit still. Like no way that was happening, so I got up and checked on all my stuff.

Whenever I have nothing to do and I'm going somewhere, I tend to wander around and just make sure everything is set to go. I just look into all my drawers and rummage around, I spent a good hour doing this. When it rolled around to an hour and a half I heard wheels pulling up into our driveway. My ride was here at last, I picked up my saddlebags and headed over to the living room. It seemed everyone else heard the van too because they all went over to the door, I looked out it to see my good friend.

I turned over to my parents, “well, it seems my ride is here. I'm sorry, but I have to go. I'll be sure to keep in touch, I'll be back after this whole thing blows over.” with that I gave each of my family a hug before turning towards the door. “I'm ready,” I walked out the door towards the man who would drive me to New York; sure I was a little sad to go, but you only get this type of chance once in a lifetime. Besides, I'd be back in no time at all.

As we got into the car a thought occurred to me, “hey, what's your name?” he looked over to me with a smile.

“Ron, my name is Ron.” he held out a fist and I bumped it.

“well then Ron, next stop is Phoenix Arizona; Avante!” this adventure was shaping to be brilliant!