Story of the Punk Pony

“Twi… You don’t have to give me your bed.”

Punk’s head was lowered, now being inside Twilight Sparkle’s tree house as she pulled another bed for herself and placed it across from her bed.

“Listen. You just RAN AWAY from your home, siblings, and have to restart. The least I can do is give you my bed for a night. Now sleep Punk, I’ll be going to sleep soon myself,” Twilight’s voice was stern, like a teacher, but calming. She spoke her mind and truth, which Punk could sense. He nodded and crawled into Twilight’s bed, curling up and closing his eyes, almost passing out immediately. Twilight smiled as she and Spike turned off all the lights and locked up their home.

“You sure it’s a good idea to let him stay here, Twi? I trust him but I don’t trust the ponies that may come because of him…”

“Spike, don’t worry so much. I’m almost certain very little will change because of Ponyville having a new guest,” Twilight jumped and snuggled into her blanket, looking over at Spike who didn’t budge from the stairs. “Silly, go to bed also. Tomorrow is a big day.”

“I guess so… Night Twi.”

“Night Spike; night Punk.”

***

First day in Ponyville for Punk. Waking up early from a nightmare, he looked over at Twilight and Spike who were still sound asleep in their beds. He refused to go back to bed, instead walking lightly to the door and leaving the tree house for a better look outside.

“This is home now. Only place I really belong.”

He walked the streets, absorbing the town more completely now. On his visits, he’s only really been at either Twilight’s tree house or a barn in Sweet Apple Acres (without the Apple family’s permission). Taking in the scenery before everypony was awake, he made his way to Sugarcube Corner, remembering that Twilight told him that Pinkie Pie worked there and some of the best sweets in Equestria were sold there.

“I’ll have to definitely come back at some point and try them.”

He began to make his way back to Twilight’s house, his head dropped low, and thinking of his nightmare and the events of the previous day. The thoughts and images plagued his mind, unsure of what is going to happen. Punk knows that Rainbow and Twilight accepted him enough, and he meet Black Veil on accident, but what about other ponies? How would they take to him?

“I just want to… Be myself…”

Finally making it to his temporary home, he entered the tree house and returned back to bed, falling back into a restless sleep for hours.