Your Human and You: I think, Therefore I Am

My peaceful slumber was disturbed by the rustling of curtains and the morning sun's rays attacking my eyelids. No offence to Princess Celestia but I'm not the type of person who wants the sun to greet me before I'm ready. My sudden reemergence to the land of the living brought forth my complaint against the one who woke me. "Mmmoooooommm!" I wined as I raised an arm to protect my defenseless  eyes.

A  gentle giggle came from the same direction of the light. Taking another step to defend myself I turned my body away from the light baring window. "Sorry sweetie but if you want to go to the park you need to get up now." Furry lips pressed themselves against my furless cheek. "I need to head back down to help your father with the pancakes, down take to long getting up." A few moments later the door closes.

I was fully awake and ready to get up by the 'want to go to the park' part but squeezing in a few more seconds of laying in a comfortable  bed couldn't hurt. Now with mom gone I rose from the bed and stepped on to the cool wooden floor.  There wasn't much to my room. Just a bed a desk and a dresser. It wasn't that I didn't want a personalized room it was because technically this was the guest room.

To the world outside I was a human pet, a low intelligent being. One that should sleep in a cage or at the bottom of their master's bed; not a room to themselves. My family doesn't look at me like that, they treated me like one of their own. Although we needed to be careful when we had over night visitors or out of town family members staying the night.

Reaching the dresser I opened up one of the drawers and took out the only piece of clothing I decided to wear that day, my shorts. I would go nude like every other creature here but I just felt uncomfortable with the cool spring breeze brushing against my loins, Summer is a much better season.  Done with that I leave the room and down the stairs heading to the kitchen.

Reaching the end of the stairs I hear voices coming from my destination"Why do we have to go to the park, we went there two days ago." The voice belongs to my youngest brother, Sweeper. He's completely white from head to hoof. The only other color on him is his red eyes.

My father, Fitness Factory. A buff dusty yellow stallion with a short black mane answered. "Because going to the park is one of the few things your brother is allowed to do."

"Yea Sweeps, we get to do what we want all the time. It just happen to be that whenever we can do something bro wants it doubles as a family outing. Like feeding two birds with one worm." The second pony to speak in my defense is my other brother, Shining Badge.  He's grey with a reddish brown mane. His eyes are sky blue just like dad. Though I'm technically the oldest he takes that spot whenever my family has to deal with everypony who doesn't know our secret.

When I didn't hear anypony else speaking I decided it was time to enter the kitchen. Sweeper and Badge were sitting at the kitchen table in the middle of the room. Mom was holding three plates, one in a foreleg, one by her teeth and the last one was on her head. Yea she's talented like that. My mom's name is Rosebud. Her fur is mostly light tan. I say mostly because she white fur on the tips of her forelegs and her muzzle. She also has a beautiful wheat colored mane.  Dad was at the oven scraping pancakes off the frying pan an onto one of the three plates. It only took her a moment to notice that I was in the doorway. Although she couldn't say anything without dropping the plate  her red eyes brighten, smiling at me in their own way. I smiled back before joining my brothers at the table.

FREEDOM!!!! Freedom to run, freedom to play, Freedom to take a shit anywhere you want. That's exactly why I like the park. I still need to act like a dumb human but besides that everything's great.

"I'm gonna catch you." It's Badge. He's chasing me as I run. He thinks he can catch me. He's mistaken. Listening carefully I wait till the sound of hooves thumbing on the ground come close. It's a rhythmic beat that is easy to follow. It is also a tell-tale sign as to what he is going to do. There is a break in the rhythm, Badge is about to leap. I jump to the left in time to she badge's fuzzy grey body leap pass me. Badge tries to readjust himself so he can go straight after me when he lands. Unfortunately for him he misjudges his landing and ends up tumbling on the ground. If it hadn't been for the years of training I would have smiled, and thanks to the same training I kept myself from laughing when he finally got up and spit out a small clump of grass and dirt. "NOW YOUR GOING TO GET IT." he roared with mock anger. The chase continues.

Our mother watches us play while dad talks to another stallion holding a poodle on a leash. My brother being the party pooper he usual is when we are at the park is just leaning up against a tree not to far from our parents. His pout face on max. I secretly roll my eyes, he seriously needs lighten up more and stop being such a germaphobe. His talent, depicted as a golden dustpan is to keep things clean. It's good that he found his talent but that doesn't mean he has to be anal about everything that hasn't been washed, scrubbed, or hosed down.

"LOOK OUT" Badge's yells, snapping me out of my thoughts. I turned my head to see him looking back at me in horror. He stayed in my sights for all of three seconds, then I ran into something, something very solid. Whatever it was caused me to trip and fall head first into the ground. The rest of my body decided to go a  bit father then my head resulting in me doing a flip while during a face plant. I landed on my back, painfully. A little disoriented and spotting a headache  I rolled onto my stomach and looked to see what I ran into. I froze, my blood ran cold and my pupils shrunk.. A few feet away was a furry creature. A pony to be exact.

This was bad, really really bad. It wouldn't matter if I ran into the pony by accident. My family could still be sued and who knows what could happen to me if the victim wanted to take action against me directly. I caught my brother giving me a worried glance before turning his attention to the pony.

My own attention was drawn to the pony hearing it groaning, or should I say hearing her groan. Furthermore if the famine sounding groan didn't convince me the pony was female, my brother calling out "Miss are you okay?" surely did. To my relief the mare begins to rise. I however, did the opposite. I made myself as flat as possible on the ground. It's something my parents told me to do if I ever got into trouble. Most humans don't show acknowledgement of doing something wrong. We don't know why, they just don't. Because of this, my family came up with a way to show that I do. Most expressions to tell ponies I'm sorry can't be done.  So instead of giving everypony the sulking 'I did wrong face' that dogs are able to do I have to settle with another type of gesture. Which is to make myself as small and harmless as possible.

My brother reaches the mare and helps her to her hooves. He even brushes unseen dirt off her coat all the while spitting out apologizes and explaining that it wasn't my fault. I, not being able to go up to her and apologize myself I opt to make note of her features. She was an Earth pony just like the rest of my family. Her two-tone auburn mane stands out against her midnight blue coat. Her eyes were the color of deep emeralds. All in all she was a gorgeous pony. There was one other thing that stood out, her Cutie Mark. At first it looked like a human had placed a muddy hand on her flank but that thought was thrown out when I noticed a image on top of the handprint. It's U shape made it unmistakably a horseshoe.

The movement of the mare forced me to put my thought to the back of my mind and focus on what was happening. The mare was coming toward me with my brother following behind. "I'm truly sorry Miss, I was just playing with him and he didn't see you." Badge explained. I could visibly see sweat roll down the his face.

The mare stopped and turned her head to my brother. "It's okay ok. I'm more worried about him the me Mr-" The mare calmly spoke with a honey like voice.

"Badge, Shining Badge. But...uh just call me Badge."

"Well Badge I did notice the two of you playing before so if anypony is at fault it's me. I should have been more aware of my surroundings. Now let me how your human is doing." The mare turned her head forward and took one step closer to me, then...she just stared. "What? What is he doing" she raised a brow.

"How that...that's what he does when he thinks he did something wrong." Badge answered quickly using the explanation our parents hammered into him and Sweeper word for word.

What happened next surprised me. The mare's eyes widen as she gasped with excitement. "OH MY GOSH REALLY? It's very rare for humans to have that level of understanding. It's believed that humans like that have greater intelligence then the rest of their species   and you got one as a pet." She grabbed my brother and dragged him closer to her with only a few inches of space between their muzzles. "You Must Tell Me Everything About Him."

"O-okay...um what was your name again."

The mare jerked her head back. Her cheeks glowed a crimson color.

"Oh sorry." The mare closed her eyes and took a breath to claim down. Once she was done with that she opened her eyes and smiled. "My name is Humana, it's a pleasure to meet you."

My brother smiled back. "So...ah what do you want to know." He asked nervously. He was no doubt afraid that that he would mess up and give something away about me not being a normal human pet. I got up from my spot of the ground and nuzzled his neck. Badge glanced down at me. I chirped, which got more of a reaction from Humana who stomped the ground like a giddy filly. Badge, however knew that I was actually trying to comfort him. He smiled at me before returning his attention back to Humana.

Breaking out of her glee phase Humana rose a hoof to her chin. "Oh right, my first question." She tapped her hoof against her chin for a moment before stopping. A huge smile spread across her face. "His name, best place to start is with the name."

Badge returned the smile and proudly said "His name is Luke."