Across from me is an empty booth seat. The rooms smell invades my nostrils, filling them with the scent of sugar and vanilla. Pinkie Pie is just wrapping up the recent order by Bulk Biceps to pick up something called 'Protein Packing Pastries'. I just snicker to myself about the name and look out the window at the ponies walking by. Lyra is there, along with a very happy Sweetie Drops. She looks this way and then once she notices me I smile back at her. Her response was to put her hoof up to her eyes and point between them and me. I reply by pointing at both of them and putting a 'V' sign underneath my mouth, licking the air between my fingers. Ms. Drops is very confused by this, and continues onward. I laugh at the situation and look back to see Pinkie Pie sitting there.

Fuck!

I put a hand on my chest and breath slowly.

"You're really good at appearing out of nothing, aren't you Pinkie?" I say while out of breath due to the mini heart attack.

"Yep! I don't really know much about how I do it, but I have been told that same exact thing by all my friends. Kinda weird huh? Oh well, where are we eating!?" Pinkie asks excitedly, bring a map of Ponyville out of no where.

"Well, there's the Hay Burger. I don't mind that place." I say while pointing at it on the map.

"Hmm... I think I'd like to go somewhere else, that place has run it's course for me." Pinkie surprisingly says while looking around at the other places.

A place Pinkie doesn't want to go to. I wonder why, considering I'm sure she worked there.. Or will?

"Oh! I know! How about Cafe Hay?" Pinkie says suddenly, pointing at the restaurant on the map.

"I dunno, seems like a lot of ponies dance on those tables." I say with a sarcastic tone.

"Eh, you're probably right, but isn't that the fun part?" Pinkie replies with a bit of sarcasm as well.

I laugh before getting up and signaling the door to Pinkie Pie. She smiles in a very gentle way and walks out the door. I follow her out, noticing that even the air she passes through smells like sugar.

Scary, she'd make many perfume businesses go out of business on my world.

I walk a bit faster to get next to her and put my hand on her head and scuffle her mane up a bit, only to notice that her mane is now consuming my hand and sucking it in. I pull my hand away and remember to think back to this moment as the main reason I shouldn't touch her hair, it being an obviously sentient being. Pinkie reacts to this by giggling a bit before stopping suddenly. Her tail twitches and she pushes me to the side while a bag of mail from no where falls in between us.

"Wh-what?" I say before looking up and seeing a familiar grey pegasus diving towards us and crashing into the mailbag.

Ouch... I'm glad that Pinkie's 'Pinkie Sense' saved me from being hurt. I'm no cartoon character, I would've gotten hurt.

"Are you okay Ms?...." I ask, wondering what her name actually is.

"My name is Muffin. Muffin Hooves." Muffin replies in her somewhat silly accent.

So the naming in the one-hundredth episode was correct... Weird, but somewhat expected.

"Well, be more careful okay?" Pinkie says with a stern tone.

Muffin looks at Pinkie Pie with her usual wall eyes, but with her face contorted in a strange way. She looks at me and then back at Pinkie before smiling slyly.

"Alright Pinkie. I think I see what's going on here." Muffin says with a wink.

Pinkie Pie shoos her away before turning back towards me with a nervous face. I laugh at the situation and proceed to kneel down in front of her while facing the other way. I nod upwards and look back at her with a smile. In response she grins widely and happily jumps on my back. I stagger a little, forgetting how much ponies weigh and use a small spell to make me stronger for a little while. She points forward with her hoof while resting her head on mine. I oblige and follow her directions, walking a bit faster than before. We arrive at the Cafe and I kneel down again so she can get off. After she does, I stop the spell from draining my magical power. Standing back up, I notice that shes already seated and waving at me. I cant help but be amazed at how quickly she moves around. I walk over to the seat opposite of hers and give her another smile, which she responds in kind. A waiter comes by and explains the menu choices, which mostly involve hay, and leaves us to our thoughts and words.

"Soo.. What did Fluttershy want?" Pinkie asks while hidden behind a giant menu.

I, being surprised at her directness, attempt to reply in a casual tone. "Nothing much, just had to help her with some animal she was having issues with. Had to spend the night in her garden to watch over it. Problem solved."

Pinkies menu twitches slightly. "Spend the night huh?" she says with a overly calm tone.

Oops.

"In the garden, yes. When I dealt with the animal, I went back to my own bed and slept. Is everything okay Pinkie?" I ask with a bit of concern.

"Yeah! I was just curious is all. Have you decided on what you wante—" Pinkie replies with a more normal tone, before staring off behind me in the middle of her sentence.

I look behind me and see a very colorful pony diving towards us. I roll my eyes and turn back to Pinkie who gives me a shrug and a silly smile. The colorful, annoying and apparently oblivious pony lands next to us while grinning awkwardly.

"Hello Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie Pie says in the most 'Pinkie Pie' tone she could do.

"Well heya there Pinkie.. And, you too I guess." Rainbow replies, not putting any effort into greeting me before whispering VERY loudly to Pinkie Pie. "What are you both doing? Seems kind of weird to be having lunch with this one Pinkie. Oh! Are you pulling a prank on him? Will it be super funny?"

Completely hearing her, I sigh and rest my elbow on the table to support my head. I look at Pinkie with a smile and she looks past Rainbow with one as well, seemingly ignoring her. I put a my other hands pointer finger on my mouth and cast a spell that uses telekinesis to send Rainbow Dash high into the air, but upside down. I wait until I can't see her due to the clouds that are hanging above us, ignoring the shouts she makes the whole time. Releasing the spell and expecting her to come rushing back down, I move closer to Pinkie Pie with my almost too small chair. Now we are almost touching and when she comes down to speak to Pinkie again, she realizes that NOW whatever she says will definitely be heard and scowls at me.

"I don't know what just happened, but you coulda just asked me to leave if you wanted that so badly." Rainbow says bitterly.

"Well, I don't think you got the hint. Pinkie and I are having lunch together, there's a reason you or any'pony' else wasn't involved. Now, go lay in a cloud or something. You're being kind of rude, Rainbow Rash." I say with a playful voice and a shooing motion with my hand.

Rainbow Dash doesn't take this nicely, but seeing Pinkie Pie not lecture me, grumbles and flies away.

"That was... Pretty amazing Devan!" Pinkie replies surprisingly. "I couldn't ever say that, not that I would, but I suppose it WAS kinda rude for her to butt in on this lunch we're having. She's one of my best friends, but sometimes.. Well she can be kinda too much. Know how that feels?"

I nod with another roll of the eyes before replying. "Yeah, you'd be surprised how many friends I've made so far that are 'too much' sometimes."

Pinkie freezes at these words and looks at me with concern, something I haven't seen much in this world. "A-Am... Am I too much sometimes?" she says softly.

Oh jeez.. Those eyes, that voice.. How should I answer this without lying..

"I think everyone has their moments. I'm sure I get annoying or frustrating sometimes, just like you or Twilight or Fluttershy or Rarity. Don't worry though, you're no where near annoying me so far. Maybe you are to others, but to me I've had no issue." I say slowly, almost hesitating.

She smiles and looks down, saying something in a whisper so quiet I could barely make out the words 'That's good'. I rub her back for a second and then move back to my old spot with my chair, or at least try to before Pinkie pulls the chair as I attempt to scoot away. I look back at a nervous Pinkie Pie who smiles at me.

"D-Dash might come back, so maybe it'd be better if you sat n-next to me until we're done." Pinkie says, stammering and seemingly embarrassed.

I shrug, moving back to Pinkie's side and sit down before speaking up. "Alright, now that the Rainbow problem is over with, have you decided?"

"Yep! I think I'll go with a plain and simple Hay Sandwich. What about you?" Pinkie exclaims in her usual excited tone.

"Well... I've been wanting sometime spicy.. So how about this?" I say while pointing at a menu item.

After an exaggerated but typical Pinkie Pie gasp, she replies. "That is the Diablo Hay Sub! The spiciest food sold in Ponyville! Are you truly prepared, for the greatest, most hot sub you have ever had?"

It must be some sub for her to freak out like that... Meh, can't be any more spicy than some of the middle eastern food I've had back in my world.

I nod and lift my menu towards the sky. "I will conquer this sub!" I yell with confidence.

Pinkie Pie snickers and then the waiter shows up.

"What would you like to eat Sir and Madam?" says the somewhat prissy like pony.

"I would like the Hay Sandwich and he would like the Diablo Hay Sub!" says Pinkie, full of energy.

"Well then, I'll be back with your orders soon!" the waiter replies, with some conviction behind his words.

After a moment or two of nothing, Pinkie speaks up. "So... How's your trips to Canterlot been? OH! And your magic? I see you've gotten a bit better at it! Anything new you can do huhhhh?

I smile and point at the left side of my waist. She turns her head slightly and looks down to see me lifting my cloak a bit to show a sword. Pinkie's eyes widen and light up.

"IS THAT A.... sword?" she begins to say before quieting her voice.

That's not even the magical part silly Pinkie.

I nod and then point specifically at the gems going along it. I run my finger over each one as well, as Pinkie is hypnotized by their look. I give a command to the tip fragment and it floats over to the table, morphing into a plate with the gem on the underside. Pinkie feels the plate and smiles with amazement.

"That's really, really, REALLY awesome! You have a magical item! Those are expensive, at least the good ones. I should know, I'm a gypsy on the side." Pinkie says while inspecting it closely.

So that gypsy thing is real? Damn, bronies got it right that time.

"How much did it cost? Must've been a ton of bits..." PInkie says while still staring at the plate.

"Well, I'll just keep that a secret. But let's just say it wasn't cheap." I reply while recalling the tip piece back and covering it back up.

"Devan, you've got to come over to my gypsy wagon! I'd LOVEEE to show you my enchanted items! I only have a few, and none of them are like that, but it'd be awesome to compare them!" Pinkie says while shaking my arm vigorously with her two front hooves excitedly.

I mean it WOULD be interesting to see what other magical items Pinkie has hidden away. Maybe I could even find one she wouldn't mind me buying from her or something.

"Alright, sure. But here comes our food, so lets eat first and then we can head out." I answer while beaming.

Pinkie's eyes shine even more than before as the food is laid down on the table. She then turns to her food and digs into it. I look at my sub and see something familiar in it, and laugh softly.

I hope that is the spiciest horseradish in the universes, or it's not going to be anything to me.

Taking a bite of the sub, I do feel the familiar sting of horseradish. Unfortunately for them it's nothing compared to the real wasabi and multitudes of peppers I've had in my lifetime. After finishing the sub easily, Pinkie just stares at me in horror.

"You.. ate the whole thing that quickly?" Pinkie says after gasping yet again.

"Back where I'm from, we had much hotter foods than this. It was pretty good though!" I say before sucking off the remaining juices on my fingers.

Pinkie just stares at me for a moment and then giggles before responding. "You keep surprising me Devan. I haven't met many ponies like you! Kinda nice to meet another weirdo like me."

Pinkie looks off into the distance at the having a conversation nearby before continuing. "A lot of others think I'm too wacky or crazy to be normal. They think it's all an act, something I do to make everyone laugh. Well, they're half right! And half wrong. I do sometimes, just so they know I'm okay. I feel nice being near you, being able to be myself."

Her pink mane gets a little straighter before she looks at me and it puffs up again.

She is alone. Completely. I mean I'm sure the other girls make her happy and feel liked. But she hasn't gone far enough with them to know they accept her all the way. I can't hurry that up, which is sad. I have to watch her suffer until then... But I can at least help.

"Well, I think your real self is refreshing and enjoyable. It reminds me of where I used to be. You make me happy, showing your true self to me. I'm glad that you trust me that much. I hope that you'll eventually start to trust the others... It may take you time. I'm confident that they will accept you too." I reply, putting my hand on her cheek and smiling at her.

A blink later I feel her mouth on mine.

Author's Note

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