My Big Human Brother

Chapter 4: Reunions...

I yawn as I wake up, sunshine slowly getting over the hills. I get up and walk down the stairs and trot into the bathroom. Will is up apparently, because I see him brushing his teeth in the doorway, humming a tune to himself.

"Mornin' big brother," I say as I get out my tooth brush.

"Mornin' lil' sis," Will says cheerfully. I start scrubbing my teeth as WIll continues. "I woke up early 'cause some mailmare was beating the door down. I opened it and she said that there was some mail for the Apple family. You got a letter saying something about a family reunion or something," he says. I spit out the toothpaste and stare at him wide eyed.

"What?" I ask. Will shrugs.

"Family reunion," he says nonchalantly. I sped toward the dining room to see Granny Smith packing a bunch of pies in the oven. "What's going on?" Will asks from the bathroom, washing his face.

"We need to start setting up the reunion! I didn't even think it was gonna be this early!" I yell, dragging some tables towards the door.

"Hold on now, you guys are acting like it's today," Will says calmly.

"What day is it!?" Granny asks. Will squints at the calendar beside him.

"It's the twenty fifth of June," he says. I gasped.

"They were supposed to tell us at least yesterday!" I say furiously.

"Well, the mailmare said that there was some sort of problem at the mail post, something about a weird spirit pony," Will says. I groan and face-hoof. I hear a knock on the door, and I rush over to it.

"Hello?" I ask. I open the door to see a yellow bat-pony with red eyes and a brown mane. He wears headphones with the colors red, orange, and yellow around his neck. He looks inside the house and sees Will. He mutters something and smiles.

"Sorry, wrong house, and building," he answered. He looks in a random direction and says, "Sorry, I'm not in this one," and leaves. I sigh as I shut the door. I am not in the mood for surprise guests. Especially that weird one. He seemed pretty strange though.

The day of the reunion is today, and I think I have everything planned. I am not gonna make history repeat itself, and made sure everything is actually fun. I've got bobbin' for apples, apple toss, apple eating contest, apple pie eating contest, the apple-related-works! I honestly don't think I'll figure out why my family likes apples so much. Then again, I like them a lot too. Heck, Will loves apples as well! It'll be no wonder why Will joined the family. I waved as many of my family members trot through the front gate.

"Applebloom! Is that you?!" I hear a familiar voice ask. I turned around to see Babs Seed galloping towards me, wide smiling. We wrap our hooves around each other, giggling excitedly. I turned to Will to see if he's got everything covered. He looks at Babs and nods, smiling. We run off together talking about how our lives are going. Will sighs and turns to the reunion and groans to himself. Then, an orange mare came galloping at him.

"Excuse me sir! Are you lookin' to buy some of our apples?" She asked. Will shook his head.

"Nah, I'm in charge of some of the festivities," Will says. The mare sighs.

"Trustin' some random stranger," she muttered.

"Excuse me, I am no famly stranger here!" Will exclaims a little angrily.

"You ain't no pony boy!" She yells back. I heard the commotion and sped towards the verbal fight to see my sister and brother fighting. Verbally speaking anyway. I went over to grab Will, while apparently Big Mac went over to grab Applejack.

"I'm guessin' Applejack didn't change any huh?" I ask.

"Eenope," he said. I sighed.

Everyone' calmed down enough, and I introduce Will to everyone. Applejack squints at Will.

"Tell me Willm, do you like apples?" She asked. Will shakes his head.

"I don't like them, I love them!" He exclaimed. Applejacks nods slowly.

"Alright, how do you like the Apple Family?" She asked.

"It's the only thing that's better than everything else, even apples!" He said. Applejack nods

"Alright, I trust ya, I can see why Applebloom wants you as her brother!" She says, noogying Will's head.

"Thanks!" He replied cheerfully. Big Mac kind of stares at him in thought, and I grew nervous before he smiles.

"Eeyup," he says. Everyone gathers around as we all shared how everything was going. Thank goodness most of them said fine. When it came to Applejack's turn, everyone was quiet. They wanted to know especially about how an apple so used to the farm is adjusting to the city. Applejack was getting nervous when everyone had quiet down.

"Um, well the city's fine I guess, but the apples are selling at the speed of a bull! As soon as a couple of ponies tasted some apples, they grew by the number everyday! I even saw Babs come and buy a couple, saying she's still not used to them," she said, grinning at Babs' blush. I giggled a little and stopped when it was my turn.

"Well, everything's going fine, surprisingly. It was even better when me and Granny Smith took Will in! He's always working hard, giving a few jokes, and he even fixed our water shoot! Wait, where is Will?" I ask, looking for my brother. As soon as I heard a clatter of buckets, I knew whwere he was. We all turn our heads to see Will, bucket on his head, wandering around. "Did I mention he can be clumsy at times?" I ask. Will takes off his bucket-helmet, and smiles at everyone.

"Hi, my name's Will, nice to meet ya'll!" He said, waving. He takes his seat beside me, smiling brightly as everyone almost instantly accepts him. I sighed with relief. I was really worried about whether or not he'd be accepted.

"Hey Will, where did you come from?" Applejack asks. Will frowns.

"I hate to disappoint ya'll, but I don't want to talk about that," he said firmly. Applejack frowns, and smiles shyly.

"We aint gonna judge ya sugarcube, we just wanted to know, I'm sure everyone wants to," she said.

"... All right, well, I was from Trottingham, fresh off the train," he said. Everyone gasped. "I know it seems like a long way and it also may be confusing why I don't have a nammy pammy accent, but I had some trouble over there," he said. We all waited for him to continue before realizing he won't. We all dug into our food on the table. Apples are everywhere in the food from pies, candy, custards even! It was all delicious none the less. We all finished up and we ended it all off with our hugs goodbye. Big Mac comes up to Will, and smiles slightly.

"I don't usually talk, but you're alright in my book partner. You better be a great big brother," he said. I think that's the most talking he's ever done to someone he almost never met! He nods his head in respect as Will wishes him safe travels. I hope Will likes them, and I hope they like him. I'm just so glad it's over now, hope they don't call another reunion anytime soon!