"Strawberry Jam"

          Well, looks like I made it

          On the other side of the train car window, the Apple family farm passes by. The ground is almost covered by a blanket of the shadows of apple trees in the moon's chilling beams. As the farm scene peels away, it is replaced by the town of Ponyville, which is almost a perfect image of a ghost town with the only movement being leaves in the night's crisp wind.

          As the train car pulled to a stop, I disembarked onto a very nostalgic stacion.

          Oh dear have I forgotten to introduce myself? Well, my name is Tart, Linzer Tart and I used to live in Appleoosa before the "accident".... You know what? Let's talk about something else. I used to be a baker in Appleoosa at my dad's old confectionery. Sadly since I am trying to lay low, I thought it would be a good idea to go stay with my second cousin, Pinkie.

          As I was walking out of the station, I bumped into somepony and being the cluts that I was, I fell right on my back. I didn't get a good look at who I bumped into, all I know was that she, yes she, was wearing a black... robe? She then took off before I got up.

          She did have a nice flank though, even if she was kind of weird.

           What?!

            So as I was walking down the market street of Ponyville, and I looked at some of the shops. Most of them were barred up or looted. There were some flower shops, restaurants, and a quill and sofa shop..... wait what? There was also a boutique that looked open, maybe I'll check it out later.

          So as I'm trying to find this place my second cousin lives and I think owns, I might as well tell you more about myself correct?

          Well I actually was born and raised here in Ponyville until I was three, then I moved to Appleoosa with my parents and lived there till now, you know after the "accident". I'm still not prepared to tell you about that yet. I can tell you though that it wasn't the first time I did something like that but that's all I'm telling you.

        Actually now that I think of it, I do need some place to stay for the night

"Need help stranger?"

      came a small voice from behind me that I swear to Celestia's behind almost gave me a heart attack

  I turned around to see a small filly smiling up at me, she had a yellow mane, purpleish, grey coat, and two small, blue, watchful eyes that I couldn't tell if they held curiosity of sadness.

"My name's Dinky what's yours?"

          I looked at her in confusion and said

"Ah well no, eh, maybe and my name is Tart."

          She just looked at me again with those little eyes and said

"You need someplace to stay, right?"

         I looked at her, appalled

"Wait... who, what, where?!"

        She started walking away

"Come on, it get 's pretty bad out here at this time of night. Wouldn't want to get yourself hurt, right?"

      I started chasing after her yelling

'Wait! Wait up! Where are we going?"

      She just looked back at me with a smile way too happy for my situation.

" A house not too far from here that you can stay in!"

      It took about a hour or two before we got to a pretty nice house, well at least it was nice compared to the other houses.

     The filly stopped and pointed a hoof at the house.

"You can stay here for the night"

      I just stared at the house in awe

"Wow I mean you have been so nice to me, I don't know how to thank-"

      She was gone

      I just sat there and thought to myself:

WT Buck!?

      That was my first day back in Ponyville.