My New Equestrian Life

After everything that happened of what you read in that last chapter, I went to go find a job somewhere so I can make myself useful & earn some bits. But before I do, I had remembered something that Celestia had told me! ”I’d like you to write a letter to me when you’ve learned a lesson in friendship.”

So what I did first was head back to Fluttershy’s cottage, more like flew back, now that I know how to fly, to write a letter to Celestia, & probably get a different shirt on finally.

So once I got there, I went up to the room that I’m staying in, & sorted through all my clothes & put them in proper places. Shirts, pants, boxers, & socks in drawers. Jackets, coats, & hoodies in the closet, obvious places for obvious stuff. After that, I took off the two, almost three, day-old hoodie, & put on a hoodie that looks like an upgrade from the one I took off.

Then I went & got a paper & pencil & wrote Celestia that letter she’ll want to see. In the letter, I wrote:

Dear Princess Celestia,

Today I learned that when it comes to asking someone about a certain thing, in particular, you should stop & think about what to do first before acting. Because if you don’t, you might hurt somepony elses feelings, even if it’s your friend. Because they’d be really hurt about it from the misunderstanding. So as a friend, you should always consider a friend's feelings before you act, that way nobody's feelings are hurt.

Sincerely, Xavier

Once I finished writing, there was a knock on the door moment later as I was looking for an envelope. I opened the door to find Spike there.

“Hey Spike,” I say to him. “How’s your day going? Anything you need?”

“Hey, Xavier. It’s going well. I’m stopping by to get this to you & tell you that Rarity forgot to put it back in one of your boxes of shirts & whatnot when modifying them,” he replied as he handed me a clothes bag with a shirt in it.

I thanked him for the update & went to go back to looking for an envelope. But as I closed the door, Spike asked, “What do you have there? A letter?”

“Yeah,” I answered. “Letter for Celestia about my recent lesson in friendship.”

“OOOHHHHHH!” Spike exclaimed. “I almost forgot. That’s another thing I needed to tell you. Letters to Celestia don’t get sent by envelope,” Spike explained. “They get sent by my dragon flame.”

Lifting an eyebrow, I ask “They do?”

“Yeah. Like this,” he said as I handed him the letter.

He rolled it up like a scroll & then blew a small jet of green fire (Green Fire! --- That’s a cool fire color)
on it as the ashes blew away as if they were teleporting.

“That’s pretty cool. Especially your green fire, that’s an AWESOME fire color right there!” I reply.

He smiles. “Thanks.”

“You’re welcome. Anyways, I gotta go find a job & make myself useful,” I reply back.

“You could try Apple Acres,” Spike suggested. “From the size of the place, the Apple Family could always use an extra set of helping hands.”

“Alright,” I reply. “I’ll give it a try. See ya.”

“See ya,” Spike replies back.

With that, I took to the skies again as Spike headed back to town to get back to his errands, I presume.

When I got there, she seemed to be running some sort of obstacle course with what looked like her little sister that she told me about.

“Probably practicing for the SisterHooves Social Event later in the month that I read about in the newspaper earlier today,” I thought in my head.

I landed at the end of the course & waited for them to finish.

In a few minutes, I heard Applejack’s heavy panting as she said to her sister, “Great run, Applebloom! Jus’ a few seconds faster than the last one. Just a few more weeks o’ practice an’ we’ll be ready for that there SisterHooves Social that's comin’ up in a few weeks.”

She looked up & saw me standing near them. “Hey there, Xavier!” Applejack exclaims. “How ya’ doin’ this fine evenin’?”

“Pretty good,” I tell her. “This must be Applebloom, the little sister you told me about.”

“Yup,” Applejack replies. This here’s Applebloom.”

I smile & shake hands as I introduced myself. “Hi. Nice to meet you Applebloom.”

Applebloom smiles back & returns the greeting. “Howdy! So you’re the human Ah’ve heard about, & mah sisters new friend. Applejack told me a lot about you, Xavier.”

I blushed a little bit when she said that. “What things did she tell you?” I ask.

I kinda slightly regretted asking that, because she started naming numerous things that make me the kind of person I am.

“She told me that you’re: Funny, a great tenor, very trustworthy, respectful, have all the qualities of a good citizen, artistic, often mysterious & unpredictable, really clever, ----” “Yeesh,” I thought. “How much about me did AJ tell her sister!?” “----- & that, with help from Twilight, you’re the only human to ever have wings,” she finally finishes.

I then look at Applejack with an irritated grin. “Applejack,” I reply. “How much about me did you tell yappy-yapperton here exactly?” (Comedian reference there. If anyone recognizes it, give your response in the comments section.)

“Uhmmm,” she starts to blush. “A lot o’ good things, maybe?” She questions herself.

“I see,” I reply, taking a deep breath. “Anyways, I’m trying to figure out what to do for a job, & Spike suggested to try Apple Acres. So I came here to see if you need a hand with anything.”

“We’re fine,” Applejack explains. “We can handle things here on our own, but if we do need some extra help in case one o’ us is sick or injured, we’ll come to get ya.”

“Alright, see you two later,” I said as I was about to head off before I heard an old granny-type voice call out.

“Hey Applejack, Applebloom! Who’re ya two talking to out there!?”

“Just mah friend Xavier, Granny Smith!” Applejack yells back. “Wanna come out to meet him before he leaves!?”

“Sure! Ah’ll be out there in a sec!” the voice of Granny Smith answers as she came out running to where we are.

“Howdy there, Xavier,” she introduces herself, shaking my hand. “Ah’m Granny Smith(You’re gonna have to picture the elderly age of the image of her in your head.). Applejack told us a lot ‘bout you.”

“I’m sure she did,” I reply, making another irritated grin as I look back over at her. “She also told me about you. And from what I heard, you’re still as fit as a teen, despite your age. That’s quite something.”

(I’m gonna skip the rest of the conversation since I’m getting bored trying to come up with them.)

“Anyways, I better get going,” I tell them. “It’s almost noon, & I gotta find myself some lunch. See you all later.”

“Bye, Xavier,” they reply back in almost complete unison.

I went back to Fluttershy’s to grab myself a quick lunch before heading into town to find a job. When I got there, I already found Fluttershy there, feeding the animals their lunches.

Right away as I entered the cottage as if she read my mind or something, she looked up at me & said, “Hi, Xavier. Your lunch is on the kitchen table if you’re hungry.”

Surprised by her statement, I was gonna ask her how she knew that I'd come back to get lunch. But then I realized, it doesn’t take a genius, nor several geniuses, to figure out that anyone would back home around noon to get lunch, so I thanked her for having it ready for me for when I arrived.

My lunch was two simple pb&j’s, a glass of OJ, & a cheese stick. Nice & easy lunch, just like my style.

Once I finished, I asked Fluttershy if she could use some help feeding the animals.

“That’d be nice,” she replies happily, then explains what I could do. “Could you fill the chicken feeder to the fill line, please? The chickens get cranky if they don’t get their lunch in time. You’ll find the bag of chicken feed in the closet with the other animal food. It’ll literally say ‘chicken feed’ on the label. The closet should be in the kitchen by the back door.”

Nodding in reply, I went to the closet & grabbed the chicken feed, went out to the chicken coop, & filled the feeder to the fill line.

Then I went inside & helped Fluttershy with the rest of her work until she was done.

“There we go,” says Fluttershy. “We’re all done feeding the animals. Thank you a lot for the help, Xavier.”

“You’re welcome, Fluttershy,” I replied, then asked: “Oh, by the way. Besides flying, is there any info about wing care that I need to know?”

Fluttershy thought about it for a moment or two, then answered with a question: “Have you preened your feathers lately? Do you know how to?”

In response, I told her that I haven’t & that I’ll need to be taught how to. I asked her if she could show me how.

She sat me down on the couch & explained everything she knew about preening. From proper feather shape to the concept of how it sometimes needs the help from another pegasus.

After telling me what to do as she showed me how to do it, I preened every feather on both wings that I could get, using my teeth as instructed. As I preened, I had felt a similar, ‘pleasuring’ feeling.

“Holy shit!” I exclaimed in my head. “This feels almost as ‘pleasureing’ when I masturbate, but slightly different, if not better.”

Once I finished, there were still some feathers I couldn’t reach. Fluttershy noticed as well as she had me lay down on the couch so she could help me get the rest.

When she started on the preening, the ‘pleasuring’ feeling had greatly intensified. As she preened my hard-to-reach feathers, I accidentally let out an audible satisfied moan.

The moment I accidentally moaned, Fluttershy had stopped, which really made me worry.

“Oh God,” I thought worriedly. “I seriously hope that she’s not thinking what I think she’s thinking.”

Manning up the guts to look, I lifted up my head & turned around to see Fluttershy’s reaction towards my moan of ‘pleasure’.

Once I could see her face, she didn’t seem to look displeased, surprised, or worried herself. But instead, she seemed to be blushing as she faintly smiled in the most bashful way possible.

She looked so fucking adorable, I thought my heart was literally gonna blow from a major overdose of cuteness.

“Oops,” she said quietly. “I guess I forgot to tell you that wings can be... ‘sensitive’. Touch them just right, & they can cause an ‘arousal’. Sorry.”

“It’s alright, Fluttershy,” I reassure her. “You don’t have to apologize. Everyone makes mistakes.”

Widening her smile, she thanked me for being understanding & resumed preening, & taking her time to make sure it’s done right.

“Man,” I thought as Fluttershy preened away. “I’m gonna have a major hard by the time Flutters is done preening my hard-to-reach feathers.”

In an attempt to take my mind off how good it feels, I start off a friendly conversation.

“So what’re your plans for today, Fluttershy?” I ask, hoping to get the conversation going.

“Oh. Just the usual,” she replies through a mouthful of feathers. “Spending a majority of the day tending the animals. But when there are no animals to tend to, I look for something to do whether it’s with my friends, or by myself. What about you? What are your plans for the day?”

“I’m gonna go, --- {moans} ---, into town & find, --- {groans} ---, a job & make myself useful, --- {moans} ---, so I’m not a liability for you,” I manage to answer her question through moans.

“Oh, I went into town earlier today to get some animal food that I ran out of,” Fluttershy explains. “And I saw that Roseluck was having some trouble trying to run her flower shop. She seemed really busy. You could probably help her out with her shop so she’s not the only one running her store.”

Thinking about what she said & taking it into consideration, I told her that I’ll probably go try there next.

When Fluttershy finished about forty-five minutes later, I got up, stretched my wings, & thanked her for her help before I went I went to the door.

But before I could even take two steps forward, I had a strange feeling that somepony might’ve overheard my moans before they could even knock, & are now probably hiding in a nearby bush.

I told Fluttershy, who was curious about why I was just staring at the door, of my suspicion & went to open the door & yelled out: “Alright, I know you’re there! You’re in that bush over by the fence. There’s no need to keep hiding. I know you overheard the moans.”

A few moments later after I finished speaking, the bush that I mentioned had rustled a whole lot, proving my intuition correct as Pinkie Pie came out, face looking like she had been majorly weirded out(even for her), holding her pet Gummy in her left arm.

In sync with Fluttershy, who watched the situation unfold, she asked how I knew where she was.

“Intuition,” I reply, answering their question.

“Hmm. Interesting,” Pinkie Pie replies on her own, then asks another question. “Oh, uh, by the way. The moaning I heard, was it what I thought it....?” she asked as she made a ’gesture’ with her hands.

“OH NO NO!!! GOD NO!! IT WAS NOT!” I exclaim in disgust. “Flutters was just helping me preen my wings.”

“Oh. Okay,” replied Pinkie Pie. “Anyways. I was just stopping by to pick up some more alligator food. I ran out of it at home.”

“Oh, of course. I forgot that you were coming by to get it. I'll go get it,” Fluttershy responds, then rushes back inside and comes back out a moment later with the alligator food, & gives it to Pinkie. “Here you go.”

“Thanks. See you guys later!” Pinkie replies as she bounces off, literally.

Then I turn to Fluttershy and say, “Well. I better get going in order to get that job. See you later, Fluttershy. Might be back at around supper time.”

In Ponyville, I asked around for where Roselucks flower shop might be, surprisingly enough, I got a decent answer with the first time asking. So I went over to where the pony's directions led me, where I found Roseluck.

I went up to her and introduced myself like I would at a job interview. “Hi, my name’s Xavier. And I’m interested in applying for a job. Do you have any applications?”

“Nice to meet you, Xavier. I’m Roseluck, and yes, I do,” she replied as she went to get one & brought it over to me. “Here you go, Xavier. Thank you for stopping by for an application.”

“You’re welcome, and thank you for your time,” I replied as she told me your welcome as I left her store with the application.

Back at the cottage, I filled out the application with the information that any other application requires. Highest education achieved, references(stopped to ask a few friends if they’re okay with me putting them down as references), age, hours available to work, et cetera. Once I had finished, I heard another knocking at the door. Going to answer it, I opened the door to find Rarity standing there.

"Hey, Rarity. How's your day? You need something?" I ask her.

"Hello, Xavier. It's going great. I'm just wondering if you got my message from Spike?" She replied.

" Yeah. I did, " I tell her.

"Okay. That's all I want to know. See you later then, Xavier," she says as she starts to walk off, but is soon surprised to see that I am also walking off with her as I shut the door behind me.

"Oh, so you have something to do at the moment?" She asks.

"Yeah," I answer her. " I'm just going to bring this job application back to Roseluck's flower shop. "

"Ah, I see. You know I'm also looking for someone to help me with my little fashion business. You could apply if you want to, I'm always looking for some extra help," Rarity explained to me.

"You know, if I don't get the job right away, I'll come over by your place to see what you need extra help with," I respond with a smile.

"That would be lovely," she replies with a giggle. "I guess I'll see you later at my place. "

"Yeah. I guess so," I respond.

"Okay. See you then," she quickly gives me a little peck on the cheek right before I flew off, catching me off guard.

I temporarily lost control of my flight pattern as my mind had just gone into a daze from what had just happened.

I remained dazed for a few more moments before I snapped out of it.

"Gee, I didn't realize that she had felt that way for me as a friend. I wonder if any of the others feel the same way? Guess I'll just have to find out within time."