Harsh Beginings

When I woke up in the morning I found out Rainbow Dash had already woken up, cause well, she left a note,

Loaf I had an errand to run in Cloudsdale, see later today

~ Rainbow Dash
I didn’t mind, since I didn’t have my interview until 3’o clock I decided to go walk around town square, maybe buy some stuff I need.
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I couldn’t stop thinking about her, I knew she moved here to Ponyville, but, was I really willing to look for her? What if she forgot about me? I mean she is 2 years older than me, know that I think about it, maybe she’ll know where he lives, we were always the best friends since we were little. But since collage we haven’t seen each other, we did kind of take our own roads but to at least see a familiar face wouldn’t do me any harm, I didn’t know if to ask the other ponies for her but I didn’t also know if she still likes being called by her nickname anymore, but my mind was set, I would ask everypony if they knew her by asking them if any of the 2 names rang a bell.

“Um… excuse me.” I decided to start by asking to mares that were at a fruit stand.

“Yes, what can we help you with? Responded one of them

“Yes, um do any of you know a pony named Ditzy?”

“Ditzy huh? It rings a bell but I can’t quite remember.” Responded the other pony

“Well she might also be known as Derpy,”

“OH! Derpy, yeah she’s our friends, yeah we hang out a lot but we don’t know where she can be, but I know somepony who can know.”

“Really? That would be great if you could tell me who he is and where I can find him.” I felt so excited; maybe this pony can also know something about Whooves.

“Yeah he’s a doctor at the clinic, his name is Whooves, well Dr.Whooves, he is a really long time friend of his.”
“Thanks, I’ll go see him right away.” I responded as I trotted away quickly to the clinic to talk to him, I couldn’t believe he also moved here, I mean I know she did since she graduated first and told us she was coming here but I thought Whooves had stayed in Canterlot, I was so excited, know I had some friends to talk to again beside my new ones I made thanks to Dash.
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Loaf slowly walked up to the nurse who was attending the patients at the front desk.
“Hello Sir what can we help you with?” asked the nurse from behind the counter.

“Yeah, hello, um... I’m wondering if Dr.Whooves was here?” I shyly asked hoping she I wouldn’t have mistaken the clinic.

“Well he is currently attending a patient, if you don’t mind waiting, he is about to take his launch break.”

“Um… yeah I guess I’ll wait for him than.”

“Very well then. If you would like to take a seat while you wait for him.”

“Sure, no problem.” I said as I took a seat next to a mare and her son.

“Mommy is the shot going to hurt?” asked the young filly as her turned over to see his mom who was reading a magazine

“Well you’ve had some before and didn’t hurt you, so now that you’re a big boy im pretty sure it won’t.” Replied the mother as she smiled to the filly who had a terrified expression on his face
I usually never get sick or anything, most likely because of the fact that I don’t like doctors, clinics or hospitals; I’ve always been terrified of them, the feel of sadness and the amounts of blood that I imagine for some reason, this fear is sort of what made me more immune to a lot of stuff, I managed to develop some pretty good antibodies to stay as far away from all this places as possible. Finally the little pony and his mother went in to the doctor’s office; I picked up the magazine she was reading since I noticed an interesting article about dating in the cover I imagined this would help me out a bit since beside Rainbow, I hadn’t had a marefriend since middle school and now that I think about it, that’s when I started to isolate myself.
After a few minutes the mare and her son left the doctor’s office.

“Okay Mrs.Roseluck just make sure he keeps taking his medicine and everything should be fine” said the doctor as he closed the office door behind him

“Thank you doctor.” Said the lady as she trotted out the clinic

“Loaf? Is that you?” Asked Whooves as he looked at me from the other side of the waiting room, he sort of had an accent which I had gained too over the years of hearing him talking.

“Yes Whooves, it’s me mate I’m living here in Ponyville” I replied as I stood up to go hug him, we always did everything together we were like the 3 musketeer, but after all of us graduated we fell apart, since Ditzy was the oldest she was the first to abandon us.
“Um I’m sort of going on my launch break, do you want to tag along?” he asked as he took of his coat to not get it dirty. I hadn’t had breakfast yet so I accepted and we both trotted out the clinic to go to a restaurant, he would be the one to choose since I didn’t know any, finally we settled for one that was close to the clinic and Sugercube Corner
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“So…What made you move here?” He asked me as he took a sip from his coffee

“Main reason being that I needed a new start, but there are a lot other reasons why I needed to leave Canterlot…” I answered as I looked away to see all the ponies

“Is it because of him?” He asked making me turn around at him as if he said it to get my attention; he just made me remember a lot of bad memories

“Yes” I replied quietly as I looked down to the table shedding a tear.

“So… How has your family been?” he asked me realizing I was about to break into tears

“Fine I guess… haven’t seen them in years, mainly due to the fact that I don’t like to fly anymore and my sister, haven’t heard from her in a while…” I didn’t really feel like talking about any of that, it just made me sad to think about them, after what had happened.

“So is your sister still in the Wonderbolts? Why don’t you go visit her? You can’t just give up flying your whole life, you’re a Pegasus you’re going to have to fly again one day!” he knew I didn’t really talk to my parents anymore cause they felt disappointed so he only asked me about Spitfire.

“I can send her a letter, I don’t really have a good reason to fly, just to see how she’s doing doesn’t really count as one.” I hated having to think about flying, I haven’t done it in years, why start now?
“It’s not the same, one day you’re going to have to go to Cloudsdale to visit her or for any other business that you might have up there.”

“I stopped having reasons to fly or go to Cloudsdale 9 years ago, that’s the reason why I stayed in Canterlot to study instead of moving with my family back to Cloudsdale” I said with a slightly angry tone, he couldn’t get it thru his head that I didn’t want to fly or go back ever no exceptions.

“Fine, well have you met anypony else? Have you even visited Ditzy?” He couldn’t stop asking but I don’t blame him, 5 years without knowing anything about me, they wanted to make sure I hadn’t killed myself.

“There is a some ponies I met a few days ago, one of them is my marefriend already and about Ditzy-“ I didn’t finish talking before being abrupt by Whooves.
“Wait! You have a marefriend?” I didn’t know why he was so shocked by the news

“Yeah, why so shocked?”

“Why? Because of what happened 14 years ago that’s why, I don’t want you to fall into a great depression again, we wouldn’t stand seeing you in that state again.”

“Whooves, that was a long time ago, I was careless and foolish, I didn’t know what to do, now things are different.”

“But how many marefriends have you had since that happened.”

“Not counting what almost happened in collage if that was even considered a relationship, 1 not counting Rainbow Dash.”
“WAIT! You’re going out with Rainbow Dash?!” he was so shocked and I didn’t know why

“Yeah what’s so bad about that?”

“Do you not know? She is one of the ponies who saved Equestria twice in the last few years.”

“So you’re saying she famous?” I was dumbfounded I didn’t know anything about recent Equestria history

“Yeah, she hasn’t told you?”

“Well we started going out yesterday night, well anyways I’ll ask her later the reason I needed to see you, beside from catching up to everything, I need to know where Ditzy lives I kinda need to be somewhere right now” I need him to tell me, it was almost time for my interview at Sugercube Corner.

“Well she lives near the Carousel Boutique, house number 1117.” He answered quickly since he too had to get back to the clinic.

“Okay thanks, I’ll go visit you again another day.”

“Okay, I’ll be expecting you, and please do me a favor, talk to your sister, at least get her to come visit you.”

“Sure will, don’t worry.” I quickly took of to get to Sugercube Corner for my interview
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Loaf walked into Sugercube Corner slowly inspecting the area as he walked up to the counter.

“Hello?” I asked to see if anybody was there, I got no respond so I decided to ask out for Pinkie Pie, who was going to interview me, at least that’s what Twilight told me, I couldn’t quite remember.
“HELLO? PINKIE PIE?” I heard some noise come from what I assumed to be the kitchen so I decided to go see if she was in there.

“Pinkie Pie?” I slowly walked up to a table from which behind it could be seen a pink and puffy tail.

“Um… excuse me?”

“Ahh” screamed Pinkie Pie who was picking up some flour she had dropped on the floor

“Sorry!! Didn’t mean to scare you!!”

“Wait, are you? Yeah its you!!!” I started saying as she jump in front of me

“You must be Loaf, Dash told me you were coming!!”

“But I thought Twilight was supposed to come talk to you?” I was sort of lost when she said Twilight wasn’t the one that had told her about the job

“She did but Rainbow stopped by in the morning to make sure that I knew that you knew you were coming!” she seem to speak real fast but I could still understand her
“So you ready to get started?”

“Um… yeah just tell me what I have to do and I’ll do it” I was hoping it would be something easy but not too much, I needed this job so badly

“We’ll all you have to do is bake one of this 3 recipes and something else, whatever you want!” she then laid out 3 pieces of paper, I decided to go with the chocolate and vanilla cake and for the other dessert I would make some chocolate volcanoes, my specialty and something my sister really liked. She started telling me how she got her cutie mark and stuff, one would never guess her family owns a rock farm yet again that would explain why she’s always smiling, I imagine it would so dull that one simple smile would be enough to cheer somepony up, I also stopped every once in a while to make some questions but none of them of great interest, just good enough to the conversation going, she also kept talking about her friends which thankfully gave me some more info on them, especially about Rainbow Dash. Finally after about 3 hours I had everything done and ready for her to taste.

“So? How is it?” I asked hoping I hadn’t messed up neither of the recipes

“MM… this is good!” she said as she devoured all the cake and chocolate volcanoes.

“So…. Please tell me what you think.” I was eager to know the answer

“I think… You’re going to do well here! Congratulations Loaf! You got the job!” she said as she clapped to me

“Are you serious? Thank you so much Pinkie!” I rushed over to her and gave her a big hug, now I had truly started over, no more getting hoofed in the face in that darn bowling alley.

“See you tomorrow at 8 in the morning Loaf!” shouted Pinkie as I rushed home to wait for Dash to arrive
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When I got home I really had nothing to do but wait for Dash so I decided to watch TV, after surfing all the channels I decided to watch the Ponyville news channel, after a few minutes I remembered what Whooves had told me about my sister and that’s when all the memories started coming back to me, not only about how I decided to stop flying but the many reason of why I took all decision to stop flying and going back to Cloudsdale, I realized I had isolated myself many years but that didn’t keep me from committing mistakes. I had just realized that I couldn’t live with this guilt any longer, If I truly wanted to start over again, I would have to confess all my errors and my life story to somepony, and that pony had to be Dash, she needs to know everything about me before we go any further.
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“Loaf! I’m back from Cloudsdale!” Shouted Dash as she knocked on the door

“Come in!”

“Sorry I didn’t tell you personally but it was really urgent and I knew you would understand” she explained sounding kind of worried I wouldn’t believe her

“No problem, I knew you come back it’s just that…” I could tell this wasn’t going to be easy already

“Is there something wrong Loaf, did you get the job?” she asked with a more concerned tone in her voice

“Yeah I got the job, it’s just that… We need to talk about some stuff”