Lost: More Than Just A Friend...

I woke up the next morning to the smell of coffee. I found Lyra fast asleep, with her arms around me. Her face was buried in my chest and tear stains were under her eyes. My chest felt wet, probably from the tear stains.

*Must of had bad dream* I thought to myself. I got up, breaking the embrace, and found Fang sleeping on the floor. I grabbed a tissue and dried my shirt before looking out the window. I couldn't believe my eyes. The whole town was flooded, about three feet deep. I headed for downstairs and found the door was closed shut, glued down with superglue and boards nailed into the walls and door. The windows, however, were completely fine. There was a small leak coming from the doors, but it only stretched out about one foot away from the door.

I looked inside the kitchen and found Vinyl sleeping on the countertop and Octavia half asleep laying her head down on the table. There were hot glue guns, hammers, boards, and a whole lot of nails sitting in the edge of the room. That explains the coffee. I turned back around to the front door when I heard something. It sounded like something was swimming. I headed for the windows, looking outside. I quickly noticed something, however. The water seemed to be disappearing. The flood was being, drained. I looked to the left side of the window, since it seemed like that was where the water was headed for. I ran upstairs and looked out the window at the end of the hall, since it was facing the same direction the water was headed for.

I saw some ponies, obviously unicorns since stuff was floating in the air, moving the water into a canyon of some sort. The water quickly disappeared into the crevice, and the town wasn't flooded anymore. The ground was still very muddy, however. At least the flood was gone. I went back to the room to go and get Fang. When I entered the room, I found Lyra had woken up and was laying on her back, hooves behind her head, and staring at the ceiling.

When she saw me, she sat upright and hopped off the bed. "Oh, hey."

It seemed like something was bothering her from they way she said it. "Anything wrong?"

She stared at me in confusion for a second. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, it's just from the way you said 'Oh, hey' and the fact that you cried in my chest last night."

She froze. "I-I......I cried in your chest last night?"

"Yup...What else wet would have gotten there while you had buried your face in my chest. There were tear stains under your eyes, so I would've imagined that you had a bad dream last night." I said with a slight smile.

Her cheeks started turning to a rosy red color.

"Hey, no need to be embarrassed."

She winced and her face was now a bright red. "I'm not embarrassed!"

"Then why are you sweating and your face turning red?"

She shook her head and yelled at me. "Knock it off!

I stopped teasing her and changed the subject. "Sorry. Still, is anything wrong?"

Lyra rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah...but can we talk about it somewhere private? It's kind of big. I mean REALLY big. Well maybe not that big but-"

"I get it, I get it. Let's hurry up and leave. I'm sure Bon Bon is wondering where you have been?"

Her eyes shot open as she gasped. "I FORGOT ALL ABOUT BON BON!!! C'MON, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?! LET'S GO!!!"

She levitated me, Fang, and my belt with katana and hurriedly ran out the door, carrying us along. Fang was still sleeping. And me? I was upside down during the whole run across Ponyville.

When we had gotten to her house, she kicked the door open and threw me and Fang on the couch. She just threw my katana blade and belt to the side.

She screamed at the top of her lungs.

"BONBONI'MHOMEWHEREAREYOUAREYOUALRIGHTWHATHAPPENEDWHILEIWASGONEINEEDYOURCOMPANYPLEASECOMEHERERIGHTNOW-Mmmmphmhphmmph."

Bon Bon had placed a hoof over Lyra's mouth before she could continue babbling on about who knows what. "Lyra...slow down. I can't understand a thing that you are saying! Now..I'm going to remove my hoof from your mouth and you are going to explain to me what had happened, calmly."

Lyra slowly nodded her head. As the cream colored pony removed her hoof, Lyra took in a deep breath. "Okay, so since there was a huge storm I had to spend the night at a friends house but then there was an argument and the night became crazy but then everything calmed down and Roe got to learn about them a bit more and then when it was time to go to sleep I asked Roe if I could sleep with him because I can't go to sleep alone but when I went to sleep I had a bah, wheeze, I had a bad dream where you me Roe and Fang were in the Everfree forest and we got lost and were being stalked by Timberwolves the mutated ones and we had been attacked by them and got separated and I was chased into a dark scary cave and i saw the Timberwolves transform into scary demon-like monsters that attacked me and we all died and that is my dream that is the worst dream I have ever had and I think it might mean something scary is going to happen so from now on we should never ever EVER enter the Everfree forest agaiahhhhhn, huff, huff, huff, huff."

She fell down onto her belly, trying to catch her breath. Bon Bon walked up to Lyra and helped lift her up. "I've got this. You can go home now or do whatever, I can handle her alone."

I hesitated. "A-are you sure you don't need any help? I could-"

"It's fine. I got this! You dont have to help. I'll tell you when she gets better, she just needs to cool off for a little bit."

She carried the mint green unicorn upstairs. I grabbed my katana and left, still confused on why I wanted to help. *She said she could do it alone, and I normally let others do things by themselves if they say that they don't need any help, but only if they really don't, so why did I want to help? Is it because I-......no....I couldn't......could I? Do I really like her? Now that I think about it....I kind of do. That explains why I felt like we were more than just friends last night. I really like her...........wait a minute.........I like Lyra? I've only known her for three days, and I truly like her? Fluttershy was just a childish crush, but I truly like Lyra.....*

I pondered over the thought for a few more moments. I actually, truly like Lyra Heartstrings. A mare that I had met only three days ago, I like. Not a childish crush or anything like that, this is real. How can I tell her how I feel. Would it seem strange? Would she be happy? Would she get freaked out? I started to worry about how I would be able to tell Lyra for a few more moments until I heard a familiar voice call out to me.

"Hey, Roe! Whatchya doin?" I looked to my right. Spike was calling for me.

I tried to ignore him and continue walking along. I reached Ponyville park and decided to just sit under a tree with Fang next to me. Thinking I had lost Spike so I could think for a while longer, I heard him right beside me.

"Hey, everything okay? It was like you ignored me back there, what gives? Roe? Everything alri-"

"I like Lyra." I cupped my hands over my mouth. I didn't want to tell anyone how I felt for the mare, yet here I was telling Spike. I thought he would laugh at me for liking a mare, because a human and a mare going out would seem very weird. But he didn't laugh, he didn't freak out. He just sat there, staring at me.

I put my hands down, my face turning very red. "I bet you're going to laugh at me for liking a mare, aren't you."

"No. I like a mare too. Rarity. But most would think a dragon and a mare going out would be just as weird as a human and mare. I understand."

My face returned to it's normal peach color. Spike liking Rarity is obviously just a crush he has on her, but I didn't say anything about it.

I looked around a bit, then looked back at Spike. "Don't. Tell. ANYONE..."

He crossed his heart and said, "You have my word!"