My Little Family

I was at the grocery store getting food and products to survive for the week. I was going down an aisle and turning into the next one when I got hit with something. I fell back, and before I could react, there was a gun pointed at me.

“Don’t move.” the figure growled.

“Delilah?” I said in shock.

“Johnny!” she gasped. She put her gun away and helped me up. Delilah was one of my classmates when I went to school.

“What are you doing here?”

“I should be asking you the same thing.”

“I just didn’t leave when everyone else did.”

“Same. You want to hang out?”

“Sure, I just want to finish shopping and introduce you to some people.”

“Alright.”

We finished our shopping, and we went to my house. I introduce her to Puppet and Chrysi, and she became good friends with them. We went to her place, and we talked about life and memories. We walked around town and just had fun. That night, before I went to bed, I looked for my journal, but couldn’t find it. I asked Puppet and Chrysi, but they didn’t have it.

We hung out the next day, and Puppet, Chrysi, Delilah, and I played Uno, and we got really competitive. We both had Dairy Queen for lunch and then went to the skating rink and talked some more. I started to feel nervous around Puppet and Delilah

Puppet, Chrysi, and I were playing Uno, unfortunately, Delilah was doing something. While we were playing, Twilight came in.

“Hey Johnny, can I talk to you?” she asked.

“Sure. What’s up?”

“Can we talk about this in private?”

“Sure. You guys can keep playing.” I said, putting my cards into my pocket.

We walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table.

“What did you want to talk about?”

“So I found your notebook.”

“You did? Where did you…” I paused, realizing why she wanted to talk to me. “...No, you didn’t.”

“I may have looked through it. Do you remember what you wrote on page one hundred and eighty-two?”

I stood up. “You did what?!”

“Johnny-”

“No, I… I, ugh!” I stormed up the stairs into my room. I sat against the door and locked it so she couldn't come in.

“Johnny, please listen.” She begged, muffled by the door.

“I don’t want to talk right now.” I said, which was true. Half of me was mad that she invaded my privacy, but the other half was scared of what she wanted to say. Who knows what ponies beliefs are on gay and bisexual people.

“Please.” There was a pause before Twilight said, “Listen, I’m not mad or upset. I just want to talk.”

I still didn't respond.

"If you don't want to talk to me, that's fine, but at least listen. I... took your journal when we came over on the first of September. I wanted to make sure that you weren't depressed or suicidal."

I don't blame her. Seeing someone like me, someone who has a lot of energy just become sad and unmotivated just like that, I would have thought they were depressed and or suicidal as well.

"I looked through it and I found what you wrote on page 182. I'm sorry that I invaded your privacy. It wasn't right of me. But, I hope you know that I won't think of you any differently because you're gay. That's why you don't want to talk, right?"

"...Partially." I grumbled.

"Could you please open this door? I’d like to talk to you face to face. It's kind of awkward talking to you while facing the door."

I chuckled and said, "Yeah sure." I got up and unlocked the door. I opened it, and she leapt in for a hug.

"I'm sorry if I made you upset."

"It's not really you that made me upset, it's what could've been said. I didn't know if you would be mad or disgusted by me."

"Why would you think that?"

"There are people in my world that if they found out that someone wasn't straight, even if it was their own family, they would disown them."

"Well, I would never do that. So you have nothing to worry about."

"T-thanks." My eyes started to water.

"No problem."

We hugged for a minute, before I let go and asked, "Would you like to play Uno with us?"

"I've got some stuff to do, sorry."

"It's okay. How about we have a game night sometime soon?"

"We can do that."

"Alright. I should probably go back down and continue playing with Chrysi and Puppet."

"Alright. Oh, yeah. We're going to be going to the Crystal Empire in two days. Have a good day, Johnny!"

"You too, Twilight!"