I went to bed happy, that I was able to entertain at least one person, and that I enjoyed it as well, but my dreams weren’t that good. In my dream, I was at my house. I found it weird, and went to check if anyone else was here. I checked on the third floor, and found no one. I checked the second floor, and found no one. When I went downstairs, I saw Puppet sitting at the table.

“Johnny, there you are.” He said with a smile on his face. “Sit down.” He pointed at the chair at the other end of the table. I sat down in it, and he said, “Great.” Then he turned serious, and said, “Now tell me what this is.” He slid a book over my way. I looked at it, and it was my journal. “Open it. To the page the bookmark is in.” he said. I did, and guess what page it was? One-hundred and eighty two. My eyes widened. “Summarize what the page is about.” he said.

I looked up at him and said, “Say that again.”

“You heard me. Summarize the page.”

“We don’t have to do this.”

“Yes we do. Summarize it.”

“But-”

“SUMMARIZE IT!”

“ALRIGHT! I WILL!” I looked down at the page.

“It’s mainly me talking about how I feelings for you.”

“Let’s be honest here, do you think I have emotions?”

“Yes. You’ve told me before.”

“Alright, so I do, but they’re not for you. You seriously think I would like you?”

“Maybe.”

“Well guess what? I don’t, and I never will. You must be an idiot if you think I would like you.”

I started getting nervous and breathing heavily, before I realized something. “Wait, Puppet would never act like this. You’re just a figment of my imagination!”

“That’s true, but you already know what he’ll say.”

“I don’t know what he’ll say, though.”

“That’s also true, and you never will know. You’re too afraid of asking him.”

“No I’m not.”

“Alright, then when are you going to ask him?”

I didn’t have an answer for that one.

“Face it. You’re afraid of rejection. You never will ask him. You know what he’ll say.”

“No I don’t.”

“Yes you do.”

“How about you just leave?” I said getting up and walking out of the kitchen.

“What did you say? Say it again, I dare you!”

“I said LEAVE!!!” I yelled at him.

When I did that, everything disappeared. It was just a white void.

‘What happened?’ I thought. ‘Luna’s coming. No, I don’t want to deal with anyone else, I need to wake up. Maybe if I concentrate hard enough, I’ll wake up.’

I stood there, trying to clear my mind. As I was doing that, something tapped my shoulder. I got scared, and fell back.

As soon as I hit the ground, I sat up. I was in the room I was sleeping in for the night at the Crystal Empire. I was breathing heavily again and sweating. 'Calm down, it's over.' I didn’t have anything to do, so I stared out the window, trying to think of anything but the nightmare I just had, but I couldn’t. ‘What do I do now?’ I looked at the clock that was in the room. 12:00. ‘It’s going to be a long night. Maybe I can listen to some music to calm myself down.’ I got out my CD player and my headphones and put on “King For A Day”. Somehow, my crown stayed on while I was asleep.

At some point, I felt a hoof on my shoulder. I freaked out because it surprised me.

“Shh, it’s alright.” Luna said. “Don’t worry, it’s just me.” I calmed down when I realized who it was. “Are you alright?”

“Y-yeah, I’m fine. Wait, how did you even find me?”

“I just asked all of the rulers if they knew where you were.”

“Oh.”

“So, you know why I’m here, right?”

“Yeah, because of the nightmare I had.”

“You know he wouldn’t treat you like that, right?”

“I know, but Cadence and I were talking earlier, and I guess the thought just got to my head.”

“What were you two talking about?”

“Well, we were talking about how bad I got rejected by Delilah, and I said something along the lines of ‘Well I hope I don’t get rejected, or at least not as bad as I did with Delilah.’”

“How long have you known… known…”

“Puppet?”

“Yeah, that’s the name.”

“I’ve known him for about two years, I would say.”

“Would you say he’s nice?”

“Yes.”

“So then, if he’s nice like you say, he wouldn’t reject you like Delilah did.”

“I guess so.”

“If you still feel worried, there’s only one thing to do: tell him how you feel.”

“At some point, I will.”

There’s a pause before Luna asks, “What’s with the crown?”

“It was for a song. Ask Cadence about it at some point.”

“Alright. Have a good night.”

“You too!”

She disappeared in a flash, leaving me by myself to think one thing: her fur is really, really soft.

Author's Note

Will Johnny ask out his crush? Find out next time on- crap, wrong thing, sorry. Stay tuned in for chapter 20 to see if Johnny asks out Puppet.