Suddenly Starlet

We were cruising down the highway when Ron decided to speak up, “so, why Phoenix?” he questioned. I really hope he's OK with picking up some more ponies.

“well, we have someone were going to meet, and more than likely take with us to New York. I hope you don't mind,” I looked over to him.

He shook his head, “no, not at all. The more the merrier,” he looked over and flashed me a grin before turning his head back to the road. “so where we picking up our guest?” he asked without taking his eyes of the road again.

“we are to meet her at Harmony Park in Gilbert” I thought back to the message she had sent me, “we need to contact her when we get close.”

he nodded, “got it, well it'll be about three and a half hours before we get there. And it's still early, so we should be able to get farther than that at that rate. Do you know anywhere up farther?” he looked over and I just nodded to show him I heard. I thought, do I know anywhere farther up?

“actually I do. My grandma lives in Cameron Arizona, we could pick up my friend and continue on up to Flagstaff for dinner. After dinner we can continue on to Cameron and stop by my Grandma's house. I'm sure she'll let us stay at her place.” I turned to see Ron smiling and slowly nodding.

“OK, you can remember that, and I'll focus on driving.” he laughed and I joined with him. After we had settled down more I turned to the window, we had a good three hours until we got to our first stop I pulled out my tablet and turned on my music, I started to jam out and pulled open one of my game apps. I closed it after multiple failed attempt at playing with hooves, I finally settled on reading.

I looked through my books, there were a bunch I hadn't read. I mostly hadn't read them because I had put off reading them until the right time. Right now is a good a time as any so I opened up the first book. It was titled “dream psychology psychoanalysis for beginners” by Sigmund Freud. I wasn't as big a bookworm as twilight sparkle, but I had my moments. I had downloaded this and multiple other books like it one day and hadn't gotten around to reading them. I was truly interested in them, but I had gotten too caught up in other things to actually read them.

I started to read the book and found it to be quite interesting, but after some time in silence Ron spoke up. “what'cha doing?” he looked over to me and I snapped out of my intensive reading.

“oh, just catching up on some reading,” I returned to my book only to be peeled away again.

“what'cha reading?” he smiled as I sighed and looked over to him.

“Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners,” I stared at him as I saw him take his eyes of the road for a second to look at me, he turned back to the road.

“Seriously?” he looked genuinely shocked.

“Seriously,” I turned back to my book, I read for a couple more seconds before my beautiful silence was demolished.

“why are you reading that?” he finally asked.

“because I find it interesting,” I continued to read, but it seemed it was not meant to be as he interrupted yet again.

“aren't you like 15 or something?” he asked.

“never ask a lady her age” I said stubbornly, he raised an eyebrow at me.

“if I recall correctly...” I stopped him with an icy glare. He happened to look over and see it, that shut him up.

“i wouldn't go there if I were you. I know what you were going to say, and I'm warning you not to mention it,” I hissed icily, I let my voice go back to just annoyed. “besides, what does it matter what age I am. I can read what I want, no matter my age,” I turned back to my book and finally got the silence I wanted.

“I guess so, just seemed odd that you would be interested in that. I bet you had really good grades in school, right?” he finally asked after a while. I just sighed, it was an OK question.

“to be honest, not really. People always looked to me for answers and expected me to know stuff. I did know it, but I didn't care. If they asked I would help them, but I didn't have good work ethic. I had a lot of missing assignments, and I currently still do. I will turn them in, but at my own pace.” I looked over to him to see a look of thoughtfulness.

“i see, so you're just lazy?” he turned to me and saw that he probably shouldn't have said lazy. I glared at him hard, “sorry, so you weren't lazy?” he apologized.

“not lazy. Unmotivated,” I turned back to my book, “huge difference.”

“right, right. So I'm guessing you want to be a Psychologist?” he asked.

“not exactly. Either that or an Author. There was a while I wanted to be a psychic,” I looked up from my book, “but alas, I have no mystical mind-reading powers.” I paused as that thought hit me. “aww, I don't have mystical mind-powers...” seems like I got an aspect of my OC wrong. I wonder what else about her is wrong? Maybe she isn't a dimension hopping re-incarnating trans-dimensional healer, that would explain why I haven't just disappeared into the void space by now.

There'll be time to question how much I've miscalculated the background of my OC later, right now we have a place to get to. Besides, how would I even prove any of what I said? Well I guess I could prove the re-incarnating part wrong by dying, but if I am wrong; I kind of don't want to die, so that's a no. I turned back to my book and continued to read, the silence carried on for a while more before Ron spoke up again.

“I'm gonna pull over for gas, you can go use the restroom if you have too.” truth was I did have to go. I looked out the window to see that we were in a well-sized city, we pulled up to a nearby gas station.

“where are we?” I asked, I looked around for any signs.

“Tuscon” came the reply, well that would explain why it looked so nice. Or at least it looked nicer than some other small towns in Arizona. I walked into the gas station as Ron began to pump some gas into the van. I finished up and walked out of the restroom, I saw Ron paying for the gas at the counter. I turned to the drinks and floated out a cherry lemonade, I then picked up some gummy worms and headed up to the counter. I gasped a little as I saw there was a pony behind the counter, I can't believe I didn't see him before.

He turned to me and I saw he was just as surprised, “oh, look another,” I placed my stuff on the counter. “quite the appetite, but some good tastes.”

“it's not all for now, but thank you” I said, he looked a little confused as I spoke.

“what the hay is that crazy mare talking about?”

“oh, I was just saying that it's not all for now. You were saying something about my appetite? And my tastes? So I was just responding,” I looked at him as his eyes grew wide.

“I didn't say any of that.” I was about to say something but what I noticed stopped me in my tracks. He hadn't moved his mouth, yet I heard him clear as day. I looked back at him with eyes just as wide. I tried to just smile, But it just came out awkward.

“oops, my bad.” I blushed a little as I pulled out my debit card, I swiped it and paid for my stuff. I grabbed the bag and made for the door.

“she's pretty cute,” I heard from behind me as i reached the door. I blushed furiously and ran over to the car. I slammed the door as I felt the heat rising in my cheeks, I wasn't sure what I was more concerned about. On one hoof, I had cool mind powers. On the other hoof, they only worked sometimes. I was forced out of my thoughts as I heard Ron, he was trying to talk to me.

“hey, you okay?” I jumped and blushed even harder. I was sure my cheeks would catch on fire anytime now with all this blushing.

“I-I'm fine,” I stammered, he saw my blush and laughed.

“So, do you find a fancy for the stallion behind the counter?” he laughed.

“N-no, but apparently he finds a fancy for me...” I muttered. I hadn't really thought I said it loud enough for him to hear, but he had heard and he started to laugh a little more.

“and what makes you so sure?” he asked.

“I heard him...” I turned to Ron and he was laughing so hard he couldn't breath.

“He hit on you?” he asked between fits of laughter.

“Not exactly...” I watched as Ron calmed down.

“No? Well then what did he do?” Ron was curious now.

“He called me cute...” I mumbled.

“That's kind of what hitting on someone is!” he exclaimed and almost broke into laughter again, but I interrupted him.

“He didn't say it to me, he thought it.” I deadpanned. This earned me a few looks from Ron, he was obviously skeptical.

“And how do you know what he was thinking?” he asked, he wasn't laughing now.

“Cause I could hear it,” I looked at Ron and he looked at me.

“Oh, that's a good one!” he started laughing but stopped as he saw my look, “You're serious?” I just nodded and he just looked at me. “well, can you hear what I'm thinking?”

“No but I know you think I'm crazy,” I sighed as I turned away from Ron.

Ron stared at me a while before turning on the car, he pulled away from the gas station in silence. We drove on in silence for a couple miles before he spoke to me again. “So, what did he say?” he asked after a while.

“Not much, just something about my appetite and good tastes. Then he thought I was crazy. And as I was leaving he thought I was cute.” I turned away from the window and looked at Ron as he just nodded his head.

“So you can read his mind, but not mine?” he looked over to me and I just nodded. “well okay then, you have mind powers. But only on some people? How exactly does that work?”

I just shrugged, “I dunno, but I'm gonna go back to reading,” I turned away from Ron and he left me to my reading. He was obviously trying to think out the thought reading thing, I just continued my reading. We fell into silence as we continued our journey, we didn't have anything to say.