Candy Love

"My Celestia!" Bon Bon moaned, "I'm bored...if only something exciting could happen." she then sighed. "And where the heck is Lyra, she's meant to be helping me today."

She shrugged and went with opening her candy store to begin her usual daily business in ponyville.

Since Twilight's castle was created, the town gained a huge level of attention from all lifeforms in Equestria. Whilst tourists come and go to see the castle and the town itself, life in Ponyville had remained the same as it had always been. However today, things were about to be turned upside down.

Outside town, Lyra Heartstrings was on yet another one of her failed attempts to discover something new in the Everfree Forest in the hope she'll find something else besides the usual creatures.

"There's going to be a human in Equestria today!" she declared, "I'm sure of it this time."

This was the tenth time she attempted this ever since she got into the habit of believing in other lifeforms on other planets, thanks to one of Twilight's lectures about astronomy which Bon Bon did not approve.

Lyra walked deeper into the forest as usual and for the moment, nothing happened and it was all quiet.

"Hmm, perhaps a little too quiet."

Suddenly, she heard a roar followed by a scream coming from afar.

"No...I will n-n-not be scared this t-t-t-time." she shivered as she trotted deeper to where it came from.

She then came across something she had always wanted to see...there was a human running down the forest pathway towards her, before looking behind the human to see a hydra-looking monster stomping away and catching up with the poor human.

Lyra gasped, "This...cannot be good." she commented.

"ARGH! GET THE MONSTER AWAY FROM ME!" the human shouted at the top of his lungs.

The human tripped up and fell forwards, hitting the ground hard before looking back at the hydra closing in. It appeared that he was going to be the monster's lunch for the day until Lyra plucked up the courage and quickly dashed towards the human and tried valiantly to pick him up and place him on her back.

"Ugh! This human is...ugh, a bit...heavy, but we'll ugh...make it out of here alive!" Lyra groaned as she finally got him on her back and began galloping out of the forest as quick as she could.

She then jumped over a loose log and the hydra failed to notice the log and ended up tripping on it and stumbled backwards before falling to the ground, then noticing the heads were tangled up.

Lyra looked back and breathed a sigh of relief as she and the human finally exited the forest and were now a walk away from the town. By then, the human had finally caught his breath and regained his focus.

"Ugh...is the monster gone?" he asked worryingly as he got off Lyra's back, "Woah, where did you come from?"

"From Ponyville, duh." Lyra remarked.

"Ponyville?" he pondered before gasping, "Oh don't tell me I've died and gone to heaven!"

"Excuse me, but I am not that attractive."

"Not you, it was an expression for saying that I must be in Equestria."

"Ohhh, why didn't you say so, human?"

"Just...forget about it." the human sighed.

"Ummm, sure. I'm Lyra Heartstrings, human and who are you?"

"Well believe it or not, I already know about this world." he boasted, "But you can call me...Steve."

"Steve? That's a pretty name." she then yelled and jumped in total delight by surprise.

"What the...steady on Lyra, I'm just a human." Steve exclaimed.

"Exactly!" she replied happily, "I was so caught up with the hydra issue that I forgot to be all excited to finally see a human! Now nopony will say I'm crazy ever again."

"Umm, I don't think we should go to that length just yet. You only just saved me from being inside a hydra's digestive system, which I thank you for by the way."

"Don't mention it."

"And besides, I am aware that you love humans, but what about the other ponies, what will they think of me?"

"Oh don't worry about them, they're don't mean much ever since Twilight got herself a castle."

"I see, but still...can you take me somewhere to eat, I'm vanished after all that running."

"So much for not wanting to have attention by other ponies."

"Oh, you have a better idea?"

"Yeah! Walk with me to my shared home with Bon Bon, we'll have something made for you."

"Okay...thanks."

Lyra and Steve walked into Ponyville and whilst a few ponies did catch a glimpse of him, they didn't take much notice to make a deal out of it, since Lyra was with him. They arrived at a big house and Lyra walked in first and Steve followed. To his surprise, the house was more than tall enough for him to stand straight.

"Well, it lacks technology, but it's a good home for a pony world." Steve complimented back-handedly.

"Umm....thank you?" Lyra asked who was confused. "Lunch will be ready shortly."

"Cheers."

Steve found a sofa to sit on and got himself comfortable as he began to relax and feel better after his eventful ordeal earlier.

Meanwhile, back at Bon Bon's stall, business was running slow as ever until one of the flower ponies came towards her.

"Hey Bon Bon, did you see a huge gorilla walking by?" Rose asked her.

"A gorilla?" Bon Bon asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Yeah, it was walking on two hooves and I think it was with your room friend Lyra."

"What?!"

Bon Bon slammed her hooves on the stall which made Rose jump back.

"I know, I couldn't believe it, but a few other ponies saw it." Rose added.

"No, no, no, not the gorilla. I just can't believe Lyra forgot to help me today..." Bon Bon sighed, "...this human as Lyra likes to call it better be worth missing her promise to me!"

"Wait, so it's a human that Lyra keeps on dreaming about?"

"Yes...and now I'm sure she won't shut up about it for as long as it's here. But either way, not much is happening for my business today so I shouldn't be disappointed at her."

"Well, take care. I hope the human is nice."

Rose then trotted back to her flower store whilst Bon Bon closed up her store earlier and walked back to her home with a displeased expression.

Back inside, Steve was eating away with the lunch Lyra had made for him at the dining table. After he was done, the front door opened wildly and Bon Bon came walking in still with her same expression on.

"LYRA!" she called loudly.

"Oh hi Bon Bon." Lyra replied as she looked at her, "What's with the long face?"

"Ugh! I told you to stop telling that joke, it's not funny!"

"Aww come on, Bons, it always is to me."

"Anyways, that's not what I'm here for. I had to close my stall earlier than today as first of all, you didn't show up to help me as promised and secondly, I heard that you brought a human into our home!"

"Yeah, isn't that amazing? Finally, I will no longer be called crazy!"

"Grrrr!"

"Aww cheer up Bons..." Lyra walked over and tried to comfort her "Sorry I wasn't there for you, but I was just so convinced that we would have a human in our world someday and it happened today!"

Bon Bon sighed in slight anger.

"Where is this human?" she asked more calmly.

"He's in the dining room, you should go and say hi to him."

"Fine...whatever!"

Bon Bon walked into the dining room and saw Steve and tried to put on a smile.

"Hi there, human. I'm Bon Bon, Lyra's friend." she greeted him.

"Hiya Bon Bon, I'm Steve." he replied as he held out his hand.

They shook hoof and hand.

"Hmm, he's not too bad actually, he seems like a nice human." she thought in her mind.

"So why not get to know each other while I head out." Lyra suggested as she grabbed her harp with her magic.

"Oh, where are you going?" Steve asked.

"I've gotta head to the filly school, I'm in a music group as part of the school play, I'll see you both later."

Lyra then trotted out the front door and closed it behind her.

"So Lyra found you, did she?" Bon Bon asked.

"Yeah, I was being chased by a hydra-looking monster." he giggled nervously, thinking back to earlier.

"Well, whilst I haven't seen it myself, I will believe it for a moment but I'm still not pleased with Lyra today."

"Oh I'm sure she didn't mean to break her promise, but if you look at it in hindsight, if it wasn't for her, I would be digested in a monster's stomach right now."

Bon Bon facehoofed.

"Thank you for the wonderful image, Steve. Now I shall have trouble sleeping tonight."

"Sorry..."

"Never mind...so tell me, how did you get here?"

"Well it's a very long story and most of it's really boring and soooo clichéd."

"I can wait for as long as you need to tell me, I closed for my candy store for the day anyway."

"Okay, it all began when I was one of the many test subjects for a dream teleportation experiment. It was a new process for humans to create and made a dream become a real life part of the human world and for a while, it seemed to work in small dreams."

Bon Bon's pupil's in her eyes shrank at the thought.

"However, when the science team behind it got to my turn, it all went horribly wrong, the system on the teleportation went off the grid and the dream I was making failed to stop." Steve added, "Then the next minute, I was blanked out and then woke up in the forest to find myself here."

"That doesn't sound clichéd." Bon Bon protested.

"Well once you read a few stories like this one, everything will look like a cliché."

Unaware of what he said, Steve had just made a fourth wall reference.

"Hmm, maybe you're right." Bon Bon then cleared her throat. "So how long do you think you'll be staying here, if this is a dream to you?"

"Actually, I don't believe I can get back to my human world." he replied sadly, "What I went through could've nearly killed me and that would've been the end of it."

Bon Bon moved her head down slightly.

"Ohhh, that was stupid for me to ask, forgive me."

"I already have."

"Anyways, I suppose you and Lyra will start dating in the future and be her one and only true lover."

"Actually...no."

"Huh?"

"From the way I see it, Lyra may just be a friend to me and nothing more."

"Are you serious?"

Steve then got out of the chair and walked over to the living room window.

"I never joke about love....not since my last relationship, but that's not for here."

"Oh...it's alright. Well in that case, I could make up a spare room for you in our house if you want."

Steve turned around to Bon Bon.

"Really? You would do that for a human like me?" he asked.

"Of course, you seem like a real nice person, Steve. I would definitely like to get along with you."

Bon Bon then walked up the stairs.

"I'll get a bed made for you so you can sleep well tonight."

"Wow...thank you. Deep down, you're a wonderful mare and so welcoming."

Bon Bon blushed slightly at his high praise as she walked upstairs and got a spare room made for him.

"Wow, Steve is a really nice guy." Bon Bon thought as she began making his bed, "He has some reservations on a few issues, but very open to many discussions."

Although, the one thing on her mind was about Lyra. What would she make of the fact that Steve only sees her as a friend and if there's a hint of a possibility, could Bon Bon be attracted to him, despite the different appearances between each other?

Bon Bon didn't let that phase her, for the moment she was glad to have someone else to talk to besides Lyra for once.