Life of Conmane

     I trotted into town dirty and beaten. Having walked all the way there after being attacking by somepony I thought was fairly trustworthy I looked shifty and shy. I passed an orchard that grew more apples than I had ever seen. " welcome to sweet apple acres, ya here to buy somethin'?" The country voice came from seemingly nowhere as I jumped and got into a fighting stance, ready for whomever was talking to me. " woah there stranger, y'all are shadier than a black cat in the dark. Hows about we calm down and talk.." I finally saw her and realized I wasn't in any immediate danger. She was an orange mare with a yellow mane and three bright red apples for her cutie mark along with light green eyes that looked strangely honest. She had a brown ranch hat on and a red ribbon tied around her tail and mane.

     "Who are you?" I questioned still holding my protective stance.

      "The names Applejack, what would yours happen to be?" I slowly moved from my protective stance to a regular standing position and stood there a little observing my surroundings. Eventually I gained enough of a feeling of safety to respond.

     "My names Conmane" I spoke briskly and shyly, trying not to look to scared. "Can you point me towards the nearest bench?" I asked almost instinctively, the words felt like they came from somepony else and not me.

     "That's a mighty strange question but it would be thataway". She raised a hoof and pointed it down the road.

     "Thanks and sorry for being suspicious of you" I yelled as I went full gallop down the road eager to find a place to sit done and sleep.

     After a few minutes I was in the middle of town with a single bench calling my name near the library. I shuffled over to the bench and lied ontop it, it was very uncomfortable and though my back two hooves dangled off the side, I soon found myself drifting into the void of sleep. My dreams were filled with nightmares of my mothers death and my fathers depression, along with the thought of Tommy finding and ending me. "NO, NO, NOOOOOOOO..." I woke up yelling eyes shot wide open in fear. It was sundown and to my surprise there was a strange mare sitting in front of the bench investigating me. " w-who are you?" I asked, the events of my nightmares still fresh in mind. " hi I'm Lyra Heartstrings, your name is..." She paused to allow me to answer. She was a unicorn with a light greyish cyan mane with bright white highlights. Her eyes an incredible shade of gamboge along with her light aquamarine coat made her look stunning to the point of my mouth hanging open.

     "Your jaw is hanging open, here let me help you" her beautiful golden magic glowed around my jaw as she magically closed it. "Why on earth are you sleeping on a bench? There's plenty of hotels here in Ponyville and they are all relatively cheap". Her frame was petite but not fragile and her cutie mark was of a yellow lyre and I once again found my jaw hanging open. I quickly closed it this time and replied.

     "I have no money and nowhere to go, leave me be" I felt strange around her, almost like some unknown force was pushing me ever so closer to her.

     "Well if ya can't find a hotel hows about you stay with me and Bon Bon for a while. You can pay rent and stay as long as you need, deal?" The offer surprised me like a random present from nowhere, I didn't know what to really say other than "Sure". The look in her eyes was that of sheer joy and surprise as if she expected me to say no.

     "That's great! Here come with me". Her horn flows again as I was lifted off the bench and she walked away at a slow pace until I got on my hooves and caught up, at that point she was trotting steadily.

I was following her through various streets and alleyways until we came to a seemingly random house. There was nothing special about it, just a regular white 2 story house that was fairly wide along with flowers in the front.

     "Well here we are, my super special house with my BFF Bon Bon." The door swung open with a glow of golden magic and inside was well, incredible. It was a large living room that was too clean to be true and a kitchen across from the front entrance that connected right along the living room in a spectacular fusion of kitchen and living room. "Your room will be upstairs to the right, only breakfast and dinner will be served by yours truly while lunch is on you to scrounge for. Any questions or concerns?" Once again my eyes drifted to her amazing figure and it took me a few seconds to realize I was staring and I looked to a random painting blushing and said.

     "Who's Bon Bon?" She walked beside me and spoke softly saying.

      "Bon Bon's my best friend, we've been friends since we were just fillies and we do everything together, or at least used to..." I glanced at her face and noticed she had small tears crawling down her face and hitting the floor.

      "Ever since she met that jerk of a stallion Iron Hoof she hasn't ever come home or even swung by for a hello. It's been weeks since I last heard of her and I'm thinking she's ditched me..."

      She broke into soft sobs and I felt myself instinctively inching closer and closer until I had put a hoof around her and said" maybe she's been busy with stuff, for all you know she could be planning a special surprise for you"

      "or for Iron Hoof"

      "If you two are as close as you say, all will be well"

      "I don't even know why I'm telling a stranger I've barely met these things"

     Suddenly I felt like I was about to make a rash decision and to my thoughts I was correct. I had leaned in and kissed the grieving unicorn in the lips, such sudden actions were something I didn't normally do. Albeit I had kissed plenty of mares to get my way with various scams none had ever felt nearly as pleasurable as this. Whatever was making this time different I didn't want it to go away. We held the embrace for a while until Lyra broke the kiss and whispered

      "Now I know why when I saw you sleeping on that bench I stopped and watched you for a few minutes" the tears had ceased running and her eyes went from depressed to hopeful.

     "I'll go to bed now since I'm probably gonna be spending all of tomorrow looking for a job" I sighed wanting to kiss her more but knowing it wasn't exactly proper to make out with strangers who's houses you are staying at. But before I could turn around and head to what was my room and leaned in and kissed me again, this time it was me who was somewhat surprised but still accepted it. We held the kiss for what seemed like centuries before she broke it again.

      "I've had nightmares about as bad as the one you probably had on the bench ever since Bon Bon told me she was gonna stay with Iron Hoof, I know we just barely met and it's probably really weird for me to ask but will you keep me company?" I hadn't needed to consider it very long before I decided.

       "just this once, I would definitely feel more comfortable if you kept me company as well, but seeing as how we barely met I think this should only happen tonight and then wait for a while. Deal?" She leaned for a quick kiss and responded "deal" we walked over to her fairly large bed and she got on one side I got on the other. I lied there wondering if I would ever consider leaving and a little voice in my head shouted never as I descended into blissful slumber...