The other side of the Mirror Pool

"Okay, so what the fuck are we going to do," I asked Tyler. We just got back from the mirror pool with our unexpected guest. "I mean it's a fucking multicolor pony, I can't take care of it when you're at college, I can barely take care of myself!"

"Calm down, for the time being, you'll have to take care of it, we'll tell mom, dad, Riley and Serenity, and maybe they'll figure out what to do," he told me. I stared at the sleeping horse that was on the couch in the other room. "First we should figure out its gender."

"I think it's a girl."

"Okay, what do horses eat?"

"Pony, and hay and stuff, I'll leave that one up to mom, as I could barely take care of a dog for a day."

"Really, damn, you really aren't an animal person."

"You don't say."

"Okay, when does mom get off work?"

"At 2," I told him. He looked at the oven clock to check what time it was.

"We have 45 minutes to wait until mom gets off work, so until then go online and try and find information on horses," he told me whilst walking past me into the living room and sitting down on the floor and staring at the pony. I turned around walked towards the stairs. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to go take a nap," I told him while walking up the stairs. "Wake me up in an hour or whenever mom gets home."

I walked into my room and threw myself on my bed, the warmth of the blankets and the softness of the mattress pulled me into a deep sleep.

I woke up when I heard the garage door open. I rolled over and checked the time on my alarm clock. 3:13. I uttered nothing to myself and crawled out of my bed. I shambled to my door and wandered downstairs and started preparing my excuse as to why we have a pink pony in the house.

"Mom's home," Tyler called over to me. He was sitting across from the pony, drinking a bottle of Dr. Pepper.

"Yeah, I heard that," I responded as I walked into the kitchen and headed for the garage door. I grabbed the handle as soon as my mother came in. Following her was my other brother, Riley, and my sister, Serenity. I closed the door only to get stopped by my dad. I finally closed the garage door and slammed my head into the refrigerator. I followed my family and stopped when they finally realized the pony on the couch.

"Tyler, Jackson, why the fuck is there a horse on my couch," my dad asked me and my brother. My mother was staring at the pony with a gaping mouth, Serenity and Riley stared at it like it was an early Christmas.

"Well dad, me and Jackson went to the grove I found a few weeks ago and when we went we found the pony," Tyler told them. "I said we couldn't just leave it there so I brought it home."

"Okay, that's fine and all, but how is it pink," Riley asked. "And how is its hair so fluffy like that?"

"I don't know how it's coat color is pink or how it's mane is so puffy," I told him. "All we know, or at least guess, is that it's a girl and that it's a horse at all."

"Why aren't you sure of the gender," my mother asked.

"No genitals," Tyler said.

"How is that anatomically possible, it has to have reproductive organs," my mother said. She looked as lost as the rest of us, even though she was the one that knew the most about animals. My mother was a vet, and she knew more about animals than anyone else in this town. "What's with the tattoo on its flank?"

"I don't know, and before you ask any more questions that aren't obvious, I don't know those ones either," I told her.

"Jackson, it's moving," Tyler called to me.

"Wait, what, know," I asked while walking up next to him. The pony was starting to wake up. "Guys back up."

"Yeah, we don't know if this thing is dangerous," Tyler told them, to which the rest of my family moved back into the kitchen. The pony groggily looked up and noticed us and sprang to attention. It backed into the corner of the room and switching between me and Tyler. "Hey, calm down, we're not going to hurt you."

"Where am I," the pony asked. I patted Tyler on the back and walked away from the entire ordeal. Tyler grabbed my shirt collar and pulled me back to him. "Where am I and who are you?"

"Okay, why the fuck is thing talking," I asked Tyler, just barely louder than a whisper. "It's a god damn horse, not a robot."

"I don't know, but maybe we should answer its questions," he told me, I wanted to smack him as hard as I could, but I didn't as I knew he was right. "You're in my parent's house, in downtown Denver, Colorado, I'm Tyler and this is my brother Jackson, know who are you?"

"My name is Pinkie Pie," she told us her name, and this visibly calmed her down. "How did I get here?"

"I brought you here from this little, secluded lake," Tyler told her. "What were you doing there?"

"I was brought there by my friends," she told us with a tear coming to her eye. I looked from the pony back to my brother, both seeming very nervous about this entire conversation.

"What do you mean brought here by your friends," Tyler asked.

"I was sent through the mirror pool back on my world," she told us.

"Hey, I know this is cool and all but I'm going to make dinner," Serenity called from the kitchen. "Ask the pony what it can eat."

"How are you cool with this," I ask her, nearly shouting. "I mean how can you be so calm about this entire ordeal to a point where you just accepted the pony without a second thought?"

"Easy, it's because I know who that pony is," she told me. "Her name is Pinkie Pie, the element of laughter, Equestria is her home planet, cutie mark ass tattoo, hell even friends with a few princesses."

"When were you going to tell us this," I asked her.

"I don't know," she told me.

"ENOUGH WITH THE VAGUE ANSWERS," I yelled. I ran upstairs and slammed my head into my door a couple times before passing back out on the ground.