It's Princess Twilight Sparkle's birthday, and the human Eric Reed is part of a big birthday party for her. However, he earlier received some very hard news, has a heavy heart, but he tries to put on a happy face for Twilight. Eric doesn't want to ruin the birthday of who he thinks of as an Equestrian big sister, so he plans to tell Twilight what happened the next day.

However, it will be difficult for him to pretend to be happy the whole day, when he's anything but happy on the inside. Starlight Glimmer knew it, and she tries to get him to change his mind, and don't keep waiting to tell Twilight what's wrong. Because he needed her now.

This story takes place after the events of my "A Giant Adventure to Equestria" story, and it has a couple of spoilers about what happens at the end of it. It's not required to read it first to understand this story, other than to learn more on the backstory of the human OC character Eric Reed, but here's the link to it, if you want to check it out.
A Giant Adventure to Equestria