A Friendship For a Cold Heart: A Chance to Start Again

Twilight stopped, surprised, and all the others started to look at each other, confused. She composed herself and continued. “Anyway, I think it's better check the tree before we can take it as true. Yours, Princess Celestia.”

Pinkie Pie gasped. “OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH! I HAVE TO THROW A PARTY FOR IT. IT'S GONNA BE A MIX OF WELCOME TO PONYVILLE AND NEWEST ELEMENT BEARER,” she said, shouting.

“A seventh Element of Harmony? How can that be?” Rarity wondered.

“I don't know. But Celestia said we should check the tree to make sure of it,” Twilight remembered.

“It's a shame that now that the princess answered, we're already going back home,” Fluttershy commented.

“Yeah, but we're comin' back tomorrow, right? Then we can check the tree and find it out,” Applejack said.

“Well, we better hurry now. It's getting dark and Snowflake needs to get back home,” Twilight told them. “We can think about that tomorrow.”

When we finally got out of that spooky forest, each pony took took their way home. There was just Twilight, Spike and me, going to the castle. Now that I'm not surrounded by people, I mean, ponies, I feel more comfortable to make her some questions.

“So... what are these Elements of Harmony?” I asked.

“Oh, they are one of the most powerful forces of Equestria. They were found in the Tree of Harmony by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. They used them to defeat villains together, but after some events that led to Luna's banishment, they were forgotten. But a thousand years later, me and my friends found it and used them several times to save Equestria,” she explained.

“Wow, really?”

“Yes. But, unfortunately, we had to give them back to the Tree of Harmony after an incident.”

“But how do you protect Equestria now?” I asked.

“Well, lately our friendship has been enough to make sure everything is alright. Actually, our friendship is what made we be able use the Elements in the first time,” she told me.

“Hmm...” I muttered. When friendship gets in the talking, I get out.

“But what about you? How are your friends?” she asked me.

I hesitated for a moment before replying. “Well... At the moment, I don't have any friend,” I said, in the coldest way I could. I didn't want her to think that it made me sad. I wanted her to know I didn't care at all.

She and Spike looked at each other, concerned.

“You don't?” she asked again.

“No. But I'm okay with that. Really,” I assured.

“But, who you talk to? Who keeps you company?” Spike asked me.

“Actually, no one. But there's no problem. I like to be alone. I'm used to it.” I smiled, trying to confirm what I said.

“But you already had friends, right?” she asked me, looking worried.

“Yes, but... Look, don't get me wrong, prin– I mean, Twilight, but I don't wanna talk about it. Let's say... I don't have very good memories about this subject,” I explained, avoiding eye contact with them.

“Oh, okay then. But if you need help with ‘this subject’ you can ask me, cause... you know: I'm the Princess of Friendship.”

“Thanks, but everything's fine to me,” I said.

Afterwards, we followed to Twilight's castle in silence.

When we got there, Twilight led me to the room where the portal was.

“Well, here we are. I hope you liked our world. You'll come back, won't you?,” she said, smiling.

“Yes. I'll come back tomorrow, after school. But then, again, I'll have to go back before sunset,” I told her.

“Okay. Then we'll see if we can solve this mystery. Anyway, it was nice to have you here with us today. Oh, I almost forgot.” Twilight used her magic to take my necklace out of her bag and put it over my neck. I became an alicorn again. “Goodbye!” she said.

“Bye!” Spike said, waving his claw.

“Goodbye,” I replied, with a smile, and crossed the portal.

And there I was again. No wings, no horn. Unless, no hooves instead of hands, but still. At least, I had my necklace to assure it wasn't just a dream.

Anyway, I had to go back home before my mother even know I had gotten out. Not that I didn't want her to know, but how was I supposed to tell her “Hey mom, I wasn't home because I was visiting an alternative world inhabited by talking ponies”? She would think I was joking.

Well, that would probably be the first thing I kept as a secret from her. I've never done something wrong that I didn't tell her. I always admitted my mistakes. I always did my best to do what's right, what's fair.

I guess that's why people don't like me. They don't seem to care if what they're doing is right or not; they just think if it's gonna bring them some gain. I always tried to correct my friends when I saw they were doing something wrong, but they rarely listened to me. Instead of it, they got mad at me, like it was an absurd telling them they weren't right. I don't understand people. Why is it so hard for them to say they're wrong? Nobody's perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. But I think their pride is too big to let them even think about it.

I decided to forget about that. I didn't like to think about these things, because then I started to think about how my world's situation was bad, that there was a lot of good people being maltreated, while bad people got everything they wanted with their dishonesty, and that hurts me.

I may not like to deal with people, but that doesn't mean I don't want them to be fine. I just wished they could see things like I do. I mean, I know I'm not always right too, but at least I try to be. For my pride, for my honor and also for the other people. I know how much a wrong act can hurt, and I don't want them to go through it too, even if they're the ones who hurt me. I just hope that someday they can see what they did and regret. Not for me, for themselves, and for the people who surrounds them.

But I don't think I'll ever find someone really good. Everybody I know is selfish. They are always with you, until the moment when you're not useful anymore.   I took long to notice that, but since I did, rejection and deception became rare in my life. This is why I'd rather be alone. I protect myself from getting hurt.

Luckily, when I got home, my mother wasn't there yet. When she got there, everything went normal. She didn't ask me if I got out because I hardly ever do, but it didn't feel well hiding something from her. Well, I had to overcome this. By the way, I wasn't doing anything wrong. And even if I told her, she probably wouldn't believe me.

At night, it was time to sleep. Time to prepare myself to face people again. But at least after that, I had somewhere to go to make my day worth. The thing was that now I had to face ponies. As I said before, I don't have any problem with them. I just didn't want to befriend with them and have to face all that I already had gone through again.

But okay, I could do it. I had been avoiding friendship through two years then. Why would this time be different?