WAY Out of place

"Can you just sit the fuck down for two seconds!" I wheezed.

Pinkie recoiled and set the package down on the floor gently. She looked at me with dampening eyes. She hung her head low and walked off through the other guests with her mane deflating. I only watched with a tight lipped expression, silently cursing myself for doing that. I sighed and stared at the floor disappointed with myself.

"Well I hope y'er happy. She went t' all the trouble of getting everypony here and that's how ya thank 'er? Twi, I don think he's much a friend ta anypony." Applejack said scowling at me. "Can somepony go find 'er?" She asked looking back to the group.

"I'll do it." Dash said flapping away. She shot me a dirty look over her shoulder and flew over head looking for Pinkie.

The remaining three simply looked at me with their own conflicting emotions about me. Rarity and Fluttershy trotted off. I barely heard Rarity say something. "And I thought he was a nice stallion, I guess I was wrong."

I turned to Twilight who had her own upset expression and wouldn't look at me. Applejack still scowled and shook her head.

I exhaled a few inaudible things to myself and reached for the package. I fiddled around with the brown wrapping paper in my hooves before deciding 'fuck it' and ripped it open with my teeth. Padded together was a tall bottle of white wine and two small glasses. I sighed and gathered it up in the paper, walking off toward the kitchen with it, ignoring all the dirty looks I was receiving. I stepped through the doorway into it and set them down on the counter and walked back out and toward the stairs, going up them toward the Twi's bedroom and walked out onto the balcony. I looked at the last sliver of sunlight descend the horizon and rested my head on the railing. I sighed and closed my eyes thinking. "Why do I always end up just being a total dick?"

"Twilight, can I ask ya how somepony like that could be your friend?" Applejack asked her.

"He's just...been through a lot. I guess since I met him things have been pretty...hectic for him. He's really nice, it's just a little complicated."

"I don see much reason fer him to talk ta Pinkie like that." Applejack snorted. "That's just plain mean."

"He's just been through a lot." Twilight said looking down to her hooves. "He's not very good with new ponies."

"And just what's so bad that he's gone through ta make him like that?" She asked turning to her.

Kian walked through the kitchen and passed by the door to the stairway. Beyond that door was the basement. The door was slightly open and he could here a few quiet sobs come from down there. He eased it open and looked down the dark stairs into the shadows, still hearing the sobs. He took a few quiet steps down them and into the dark basement, looking where they were coming from. He could see a medium sized pink mass curled up near a corner. It sniffled and sobbed softly to itself.

He took a few steps closer to it. "Um, hello."

A head raised up and looked at him with wet eyes. A straight pink mane hung over the face and looked at him with a bit of fear. He could tell by the size and way it was shaped that it must be a mare.

Kian took a few steps closer. "Are you alright?"

"No." She answered.

He took a last few steps and sat down beside her. "What's the matter?" He asked.

"It's nothing." She said laying her head back down.

"I really doubt that." He said patting a hoof on her back.

"He's just a big meanie." She pouted shrugging him off.

"Who?" Kian asked confused.

"That big pony with Twilight's name written on him."

"Ooooh," Kian said with a knowing expression. "My brother can be a bit of a hardass."

"Brother?" She asked raising her head again.

Kian sighed and looked at her sympathetically. "Yeah."

"If you're his brother then you're probably like him." She said looking away from him. "Just a big meanie."

He chuckled at that. "You have no idea how wrong you are."

"So you're not a meanie?" She asked.

"I'm down here trying to make you feel better. Do I look like a meanie to you?"

"No," She said looking back to the floor. "But he didn't either."

"Don't worry about him, he's just rough around the edges." He smiled. "He may seem fine but stuff gets to him like you and me."

She finally sat up and smiled through her long pink mane.

"What's your name?" He asked.

"Pinkie."

He put a foreleg around her shoulder. "Well trust me Pinkie, you'll learn to lo-"

He was cut off by the kiss he received. His eyes widened in shock and his free leg flailed in panic. She kissed hard and pushed against him, knocking him down.

I looked down at the few ponies walking past the library at the late hour. I could see one couple walk close together down the road. I hated myself for all the shit I've done. Now and back then. I felt a particular pang of guilt for lying to Twilight about a lot of things. I needed to clear my head of things. I walked over to the side of the balcony and stepped over the rail and hopped to one of the branches. I shimmied along it to the base and dug my hooves into the trunk of the tree. I moved along and went lower and lower between branches. I hung down from the lowest and dropped the ten feet to the ground with a loud thud. I dusted off my coat and started walking off in a random direction. "I need a drink."