Friends

CHAPTER 4: GUESTS

"More?"

Azekahh didn't seem mad, nor worried, but he didn't seem happy, either.

"Well, yeah. I mean, one of them is homeless, and the other one needs a place to stay so Fluttershy can nurse his leg."

"Oh, geez. Well... I have just enough rooms, I suppose... Fine. But only if they can act under my rules."

"Which is?" I said.

"No gambling-"

Ace piped in. "Dammit."

Azekahh gave him an interesting look, but continued talking.

"As I was saying, no gambling, no... sexual intercourse, no staying up past midnight. Got it?"

Nix jumped in. "Considering I have a broken leg, and none of us are gay, I don't think any sex is gunna happen."

Fluttershy backed up a tad bit and blushed, but no one seemed to notice.

Then, Octavia decided to be a bitch. "Well, Derpy is taken."

Everypony looked at her with quizzical looks, and she nodded her head towards me. Then everypony looked at me until their brains decided to stop buffering and they got what they were saying.

Immediately, Nix and Ace said "Ooooohhhhhh!" and gave two big, playful grins. As much as those two ponies seemed different, they were at the same time so alike.

Aze facehoofed.

"Luna dammit, Octavia." I said.

She grinned. She owed me for this. Big time.

Then Azekahh continued. "Ace, follow me. I'll show you to your room."

"Sure, I guess."

Then, the living room was only me, Nix, Octavia, and Fluttershy. There was a long pause. Then I broke the silence.

"I haven't used my wings in years. I'm gunna try hovering."

Fluttershy looked at me instantly, and trotted over hurriedly.

"First, let me check them. Just to make sure you can..."

"OK, thanks Fluttershy!"

She let out a little squee. She was nervous, probably because there were a few strangers all around her.

"Now, let me just stretch this... and then this... OK, this wing is ready."

Then she stopped...

"Your cutie mark... what... does it stand for? Not to be nosy or anything..."

My cutie mark was simply nothing but a blue spiral.

"Confusion," I replied. "I've been confused most of my life."

"Oh..." She then proceeded to stretch out the other wing.

"OK... you're good, you can try to fly now... If you want, that is..."

I started unfolding my wings, showing the cutie mark to the world. I usually kept the cutie mark hidden, as I didn't like it. But I felt... comfortable. I felt comfortable with the ponies surrounding me. I started flapping my wings. And then my hooves let the floor fall away.

Then came along Derpy. She flew into the room with a confused and hurried look on her face. Might I say, the living room is fairly small. This meant that she was probably gunna hit me. And she did.

We toppled to the ground, which luckily for us, was carpeted, and not a long fall, and Derpy scrambled up. I stopped her before she hurt herself just trying to fly out the doorway. "What's wrong?"

"I need to deliver this package, quick!"'

"To?"

"19 Everfree Street!"

"OK... Did you hurt yourself in the crash?"

She tried getting up, and flapping her wings, but quickly started squealed in pain and fell.

"Meh!... Oh, no... I can't make the delivery now..." The expression of sadness on her face was too much.

So I decided to use my wings for something. "I'll make the delivery. Where is 19 Everfree Street?

She looked a bit shocked. "What?? But... I dunno... I don't wanna put the pressure on you..."

"Don't worry, it's my fault for trying to fly in here and getting in your way." I picked up the package carefully.

"Well... OK. It's on the right of Chocolate Gardens."

"Ok. Fluttershy, am I good to go?" She nodded in approval. "OK, cya guys later."

They all said bye, including Derpy, who had a worried expression on her face. With that, I walked outside and started flapping my wings. I started to hover, then I suddenly rocketed into the sky. My speed suprised me quite a lot. I then leveled off and looked down. I could see all of Ponyville, from Rainbow Dash's house to Twilight's library. Or was it not her library? I couldn't remember, I was just too overwhelmed with everything else. Then I thought of something. What if I went to see Twilight later? I've always wanted to meed her, plus I wanted to get some books anyways. But that was for another time. Right now, I had to deliver this package. I turned towards the general direction of Chocolate Gardens and took off, being as careful as I could with the package.

I eventually got to Chocolate Gardens. By that time I was tired, so I had slowed down. I eventually stopped right over Chocolate Gardens, panting. I looked to the right of it to see a lone house. It was a beautiful white house, with flowers everywhere. So I flew just a bit to the right, but apparently I was so tired, I couldn't even feel the tiredness itself. And that of course, was no good. And when I figured that out, I immediately fell.

The instance I woke up, I knew something was wrong. I was in a room, on a bed, with white walls and a few scattered entities of furniture. It reminded me a lot of my room in Azekahh's house. Was everything that had happened recently only been a dream? But then a light pink pony with a smiley face for a cutie mark walked in. She looked as gentle as Fluttershy.

She spoke in a calm, loving tone. "Hi. How are you?"

"Uh... Good... I guess... Who are you?

"My name is Rose."

"Oh... I'm Core... Where am I?"

"19 Everfree Street."

Then I suddenly came to a realization about something. "OH MY CELESTIA! What happened to the package?!"

She chuckled. "Don't worry, it landed in my flowers... They weren't damaged either," she said with a grin.

"Oh... Ok... Good..." I sighed with relief. I was still tired.

"Well, you might want to get to sleep now. You still look exhausted."

"Sure... Good night..."

"Good night..." As she walked out, I noticed that she had a look of... Affection, was it? No, it couldn't be. But as she closed the door with a loving smile and a twinkle in her eye, I started to think otherwise.