For the love of Anon

You wake up to a beam of sunlight hitting your eyes. You try to turn over, but realise you don’t have full control over your body. You go to move your right arm, but find it is completely dead. Your left arm moves, however. You put your hand over your eyes to try to block the sunlight, and at least wait for your eyes to adjust.

Once they do, you then take notice of the beautiful pink pony that’s laying on your chest and right arm, fast asleep. You smile, after remembering what happened last night. You then take a glance around, trying to find the culprit of waking you up. On your right is a window with curtains nearly fully closed, bar a tiny gap which is allowing sunlight through: right onto your face. You just groan as you try to shift up as slowly as possible to escape it. It doesn’t work too well.

The pony on your chest starts to stir. After a minute, she opens those massive orbs, and they're staring straight at you. A smile forms on her lips as she snuggles slightly more into you.

"Morning, beautiful." You say as you reach your left hand up and press the forefinger onto her nose, leaving it there for a couple of seconds before pulling it away, leaving her a bit cross-eyed. Ok, boops now need to last longer. That was beyond adorable.

"Morning." She mumbles into your shirt, making your chest vibrate slightly. That would've probably tickled if you hadn't become immune to it a long time ago.

"Can I please have my arm back? I kinda need it."

She decides to move off your torso and lays down to your right, wrapping her forehooves solely around your right arm. "Just a few more minutes…" She proceeds to rub her face into your torso, breaking eye contact, then sighs outwardly in utter contentment. Welp, looks like you wont be getting that arm back for a while longer.

At least now she's off your torso, you can move yourself to a more comfortable position out of the sunlight. Actually, you may have enough manoeuvrability to pull your right arm out. You start pulling back using your shoulder and pushing with your left arm. It starts to come free a bit, not that you can feel it.

After about five seconds of that, and a whole two inches, Starlight shifts herself up, now hugging you up to your shoulder, and adopts a death-grip on it, completely halting any other movements you tried. Well, it was worth a shot.

You just accept your fate now and relax again, shutting your eyes and seeing if you can't get some more sleep. There wasn’t much point, though. Cos at this point, your heart is now racing from the cuteness of Starlight, and you are still somewhat reeling from the events of yesterday, keeping you wide awake.

You want to take this slow. No rushing things. You may be technically dating this pony now, but you refuse to rush into anything. With that in mind, and thoroughly ingrained, how should you proceed with this, then? You’ve not had a massive amount of experience with relationships, and you don’t want this getting out. At least not yet.

In fact, what time is? You glance at the wall clock to answer your question. Pretty much bang on nine. Well, at least you didn't waste nearly the whole morning like you did yesterday. Maybe you should go out for breakfast? You know of a nice little place right round the corner from the castle. And, at least, judging by the sunlight that woke you up, the storm from yesterday has been 'cleared up'. Man, you don’t think you'll ever get used to that…

You give your arm another tug, trying to pull it loose. Still no luck. You decide you’ve had enough of having one less arm, and decide to take action. You bring your left hand over, and push it between your arm and Starlight's belly, palm-side towards the latter. You then bend your fingers into her belly a bit, then start moving them frantically, effectively tickling her. The effect is nearly instant.

"AHAHAHA!!! NO, PLEASE, STO-HO-HOOOP! AHAHA!!!" She releases your poor arm, resorting to just moving away, trying to get away from your hand. You let her go, of course, since you achieved your goal.

You roll over to sit on the side of the bed, your right arm hanging limply at your side. Starlight lays there, still giggling slightly. You then notice something: she's still wearing the collar you found yesterday. Did she even shower with that thing on last night? Eh, you guess it doesn’t really matter. But it brings an idea to mind.

"Now, that wasn’t very nice, was it, pet? Look what you did to masters poor arm." You say as you move your right shoulder around a bit, causing the limp arm to move slightly. At least you're now regaining feeling in it, but it's cramping up slightly still.

She glances over at you, a slight pout on her face. "I'm sorry, m-master. I won't do it again… Would you like me to come over and kiss it better?"

You can tell she's faking it, because 'A' she stuttered on 'master', and 'B' she had that kind of smile you have on when you're joking with someone. So you just give her a slightly flat stare for a second, then smile slightly and shake your head.

"Silly pony." You mutter. "Well, personally I would like to get up and get ready for the day, whatever we're gonna do today. In fact, when I come out of the bathroom, I've got a suggestion. Do you mind if I use it? Oh, and also a sponge?"

"Sure, there's a spare sponge in the cupboard under the sink. I'll just wait here, I guess. Awake, seeing as somepony disturbed me." She looked directly at you as she said that last part. You simply smiled at the cute display, then nodded and turned to go into the bathroom.

Seeing as you only had one pair of clothes while here (you should go back home to change before you do anything else today), you decided having a shower this morning would be kind of pointless, seeing as you'd just be putting dirty clothes back on. You just had a simple wash instead. It took you all of five minutes.

"So what was your suggestion, then?" Starlight asks as you step out of the bathroom, wearing exactly what you went in with.

"I was gonna ask if you wanted to go to that one café just around the corner for breakfast, then spend the rest of the day out and about doing stuff? We can decide what in due course." You say while putting on your clothes from yesterday, which were just laying on the floor where you dropped them last night.

"That sounds nice, I'd like that. Saves either one of us preparing something as well. I guess I'll go get ready now you're done in there." She just gets up off the bed and walks into the bathroom. Not without brushing against your leg as you're in the middle of balancing on one leg trying to put your trousers on, making you wobble. She giggles at that.

Fifteen minutes later finds you two walking down towards the castle's main doors.

"Oh, uh, hold up." You say as you reach for the door handle. "Two things. First, can we stop by my place first so I can change my clothes? I'd rather do it sooner than later." Smile and nod as reply. "Secondly, this." You reach a hand out and poke at her collar which she was still wearing.

Blush returns. Adorable.

"O-oh, yea. I forgot about that. I'd rather not be seen around with it on yet. Do you mind?" She turns her head, presenting the strap of the collar. You reach out to undo it, taking it and putting it in your pocket.

"Wait, yet? What do you mean, yet?" you ask curiously.

Blushing intensifies. "Uhh… don’t worry, lets just go have breakfast." She turns around and uses magic to open the doors and just walks out, her ears laid back against her head.

"Ooook then." You follow her out, shutting the doors behind you, then jogging a bit to catch up with her as she walks towards your place.

For about a minute there's an awkward silence, and you just walk along fiddling with the key in your pocket. You wonder whether you’ve had any visitors whole you were gone. Or, rather, one specific visitor.

"When's Twilight due back? In fact, what day even is it today?" you say out of both genuine curiosity and to make conversation.

"She's due back tomorrow, around lunchtime. And it's Thursday today… I think."

Ever since you arrived in horseland you haven't been very good at keeping track of the days. Especially seeing as you don’t do anything routine on a day to day basis. You should probably look into finding a job, instead on relying on doing things for Twilight and her 'paying' you, even though she does give you enough money for essentials and the like. It still doesn’t sit right with you. It would be a lot easier if you actually went out and made friends with other ponies in this town.

"Kay." Is all you decide to say. The attempt a conversation failed. Oh well, you'll try again when you think of something. Well after you come out of your house, which is right in front of you now. As you approach the door, you whip out your key to unlock it. When you turn the key, nothing happens. Your frown a bit, then push the door in. It swings right open.

"Fucking Pinkie…" You sigh. Starlight just stands there, giggling slightly.

"I told you not to underestimate her, Anon. if she wants in, she WILL get in, no matter what."

You rub the bridge of your nose with a forefinger and thumb. You then proceed to chuck the now useless key through the open door, and it lands with a slight clatter on the floor. This isn't gonna be fun when I next see her…

"Although I kinda suspected this would happen anyway, it still annoys me that all that work I put into this door was wasted. I think I would rather she broke through the window." You now walk in through the doorway, kicking the door a bit to open it fully, and walk up the stairs to your bedroom. At least the rest of your house seems fine. You want to know how she managed to break through the lock on your door… without even leaving a dent, or any sign of forced entry. Could she have a key too?

As you strip and get re-dressed into another set of clothes, underwear and socks an all, something dawns on you. You kick yourself internally for not realising

"Fuck! How could I be so stupid! I bought that lock from the blacksmith. The only blacksmith in town! That’s the only place that sells them, seeing as there's like no need for locks in this place! She probably went there and got the blacksmith to make her a duplicate key, or something to that effect. She's friends with like everyone in this town. And it's not like they'd suspect her to break into my house with it. Even if so, they'd just assume she was throwing a party or whatever. Fuck!"

You slam your feet into your shoes, bending the back in slightly as you do. It was at that moment you glance onto your bed, and notice a note sitting on it. Well, at least you found out what she did here while you were gone. You walk over and snatch the note up, unfolding it. It reads as follows:

"Nonny! It's you're bestest friend Pinkie! Seeing as you wouldn’t answer your door when I knocked earlier I took the liberty of unlocking your door for you, and wrote this note out for you. I don’t know why someone was so silly as to put a lock on your door! I'm still trying to figure it out myself. But anyway, I have a special party planned for your birthday! It starts at two tomorrow afternoon at sugarcube corner. I've also taken the liberty of inviting everypony myself, and I know you're just gonna love it! I look forward to seeing you there, and don’t be late!

You're best friend Pinkie Pie!"

Your face goes pale. She's throwing you a party. Tomorrow afternoon. And she's invited a metric fuckton of ponies. You start going dizzy.

"Are you alright up here Anon? I heard you cursing and talking really loudly, and thought something was wrong." Starlight approaches your doorway, and then notices you standing there holding the note to your side, stock still. She probably doesn’t understand why your face is paler though.

"Anon? are you alright?" she moves to your side, and reaches a hoof up and touches the hand not holding the note. You hold the other hand with the note out, essentially telling her to take it. She does, with magic.

She looks over it, with a seemingly neutral expression on her face. When she gets to the end, she smiles a bit. "it's alright, Anon. Pinkie's parties are usually fun, and you'd have a great time there. At least she didn't guess when your actual birthday is, right?"

You blink a few times, clearing your head a bit to stop it spinning.

"Yea, I guess you're right there. But really? Tomorrow? And that’s when Twilight gets back too. I'd much rather spend my afternoon with her, helping out and talking at stuff, than go to a party, regardless of what it's for. Also, I'm allergic to parties. Unless they involve heavy drinking."

"Well, from what you told me of this 'alcohol' on earth, that could seriously harm you. This party will be really light hearted, and Pinkie always makes them super fun. I doubt she'd do anything too brash that would hurt your feelings or anything like that."

"I also think I'm I'll tomorrow. I have an appointment with the front-end of the train Twilight's returning on. Look, Starlight. I absolutely hate parties. I'm not the kind of guy that enjoys anything of that nature. Maybe when I was a kid, but certainly not now."

"I didn't really like the thought of parties either when Twilight gave me a chance to make friends, and I met Pinkie Pie. I grew to enjoy them for what they are: harmless fun, and a chance to meet other ponies. Although it took me quite a long time to do the latter well. Either way, I'll be there with you, so you don’t need to worry."

"Thanks, Starlight. I appreciate the thought." You pause for a second "Out of interest, what would happen if we don’t turn up?"

You see Starlight shudder. That’s not good. "You, uh, don’t want to know. It's… not pleasant. I know from experience." A shudder runs through you as well. Just the thought of what that crazy pony could is capable of makes you nervous.

"Alright then." You sigh in defeat. "I'll go, but on one condition." Starlight looks up at you expectantly. "No more than ten ponies. I'm not gonna be the centre of attention for the whole town. It'll be bad enough with only ten."

She smiles warmly up at you. "I'll request that Pinkie only invite ponies you know and are comfortable around."

"Thanks. It means a lot to me." You crouch down and wrap her in a hug. You still weren't happy about needing to go a stupid party that was almost literally made for five year-olds, but at least Starlight was there to help you. And you were trying to better yourself, after all. This could help at least a bit. Or it'll just piss you off and you'll sit in a corner for the entire party, contemplating where you went wrong in life or petting Starlight if she's with you, contemplating where you went right in life to have a friend like her. Or rather, 'girlfriend' like her, as it is now. Your heart still quickens a bit when you think of her as that.

You break the hug, then dump the note on your bedside table, and walk out the door. Starlight obviously right behind you. You walk out your front door, wait for Starlight, then close the door, without locking it behind you. Maybe you should look into getting a reinforced vault door with a ten-digit passcode. Then you think there'd be no point as Pinkie would just break through the window to get in. Or guess the code first time.

You then set off for the café that’s just round the corner, looking forward to your breakfast with your new girlfriend.