The sun was already halfway down and stars began to make themselves visible, as those, who lived in the library were preparing for departure. This night was special. A meteor shower is going to happen soon, and they wanted to reach the hill, near Ponyville, where they're going to watch it in time, so they can also prepare for a little nighttime picnic.

A little dragon was running around the building, grabbing all the things, they wanted to take with them and placing it on a cart. Another one, a levander colored pony was running through her checklist, to make sure not to forget anything. As she was listing the things, she wanted to bring with her, the little assistant packed them onto the cart, making a small pile.

There was a third one too. He was the only human in this world and he was currently looking out of a window, deep in thoughts. From time to time, he just suddenly had the feeling of really missing something from his world. Sometimes his family, well he constantly missed them, but these were stronger than normal, other times, some modern technology, like the internet, or even his job as a software developer, and there were times, when his favorite book, movie, or video games occupied his mind. He mostly read fantasy, and some sci-fi, there were a few from other types as well, but that was negligible. Of course, there were some books with these tags here too, but most of them were written for every age, so no profanity, the fight scenes descriptions were minimal, and almost no mention of intimacy. And of course the happiest endings. There were a few bittersweet, but that was mostly in the 'mature' section, which was usually a little darker, and had some description about wounds, like mentioning bleeding and stuff, also it mentioned more than hugs and pecks.

He was thinking about this currently as well. Beside him, there was the second Daring Do book, which he finished earlier. Since he had a lot of free time and there was no internet, he read. Twilight recommended him to read the series, since she's a big fan of it, though Lacy already learned, that the studious mare would say it about every book. It wasn't a bad story, it had great action scenes, but such the dialogs were so simple and the characters so one dimensional, that he would've said, that if he would've guessed, that Rainbow Dash is the author, but he knew, that the only thing that mare read were the weather schedules, and the letters she got.

"Come on Lacy, we got to go!" Twilight's voice made him turn away from the window and looked at the pony, who was waiting for him, and Spike at the door. He got up and walked over to her. A few seconds later Spike came as well.

"I didn't find the book at its place, Twilight," he told her.

"Really? But then..." she glanced over at the clock on the wall and suddenly changed the subject. "Nevermind, we have to go if we want to arrive in time."

Soon they were walking up to the hill, where ponies already waited for tonight's event, the meteor shower. Twilight still wondered about that book, she wanted to bring with herself, but Spike just suggested, that maybe somepony borrowed it, which was possible, especially if there were other ponies here, who were interested in astronomy.

They all met up at the top of the hill, Spike quickly set up everything, that was needed for a nighttime picnic.

"Wow, Twilight! You're lucky to have such a rad assistant. I wish I had someone to do whatever I told them." Rainbow Dash said as she finished eating an apple.

"Ooh! Ooh! Me! Me! Me! I'll do whatever you want, Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo, who happened to be behind her jumped enthusiastically.

"Oh yeah, pipsqueak? How about taking out the trash?" Of course Rainbow took the opportunity.

"Yes ma'am!" she obligated, then took the remaining of the apple and run off, just as Rarity arrived.

"Do we have Spike to thank again for this amazing spread? Isn't he simply amazing?" she praised the little dragon, who, of course, loved being showered in compliments.

"Oh, come on." after a few seconds of silence, he tried to push it a little. "I said come on."

He got a few more mainly from Pinkie and Rarity gave him a bow tie with many little gems on it.

But then the meteor shower started. Lacy was about to lie down on the ground and enjoy the show in the sky, but he felt something hitting his leg. Looking down, he noticed the little filly, Amber. Her parents decided to bring her too, after all, it wasn't that late. He noticed the parents, who were standing close, smiling at them. Amber raised her forehooves, signaling the man to pick her up. He bent down, grabbed her, then put her on his head, while still holding her sides, to keep her there. It looked like, that was what she wanted because, after some squirming, she lied still and watched the meteors. Lacy noticed that Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were on their sister's back and Scootaloo managed to get on Rainbow's back as well. He smiled, at that, but deep down it just filled his heart with fear and pain, that he might never see his sisters again.

The show was spectacular and magical. After placing the now sleeping Amber on her mother's back and saying 'Good Night!' to them, he joined back to the girls and Spike who were drinking punch and eating the snacks they brought.

"Say, Lacy, are the events like these in your world?" the question surprisingly didn't come from Twilight, but Rarity.

"Well... I'm not completely sure. I would say, that probably yes. I know, that usually in august, which is the last month of summer, there are the most shooting stars. I remember, that some days, when I was little, I went out with my family to someplace, where the night sky was completely visible and beautiful and just watched it, hoping to see some shooting stars." he told her. "They're not as easy to notice, like here though, and doesn't last that long. I'm sure we missed a great many."

Soon the last few cookies were devoured by Pinkie.

"Wow! These cookies are delish!" she exclaimed.

"Spike made them." Twilight informed her. "Speaking of, Spike, can you bring us some punch? Spike?" she called him but got no answer.

The little dragon however was already asleep. Rarity and Twilight walked up to him.

"Oh, poor little thing." Rarity said.

"Aww... He's worked himself to the bone." Twilight observed.

" And now the punch has been spiked!" Pinkie said, and everyone laughed at that. Lacy wondered if this has the same meaning as on Earth, but didn't really care about it.

Since Spike was sleeping it became his job to gather the things and pull back them on the cart, which was another backbreaking job for him, since the carts lever wasn't long enough for him to hold it while standing straight, so a little bent down and complaining about his aching back, but he arrived at the library with Twilight, who was carrying her sleeping assistant. She put him into his sleeping basket, while Lacy quickly packed everything from the cart to their place. Then he too went to sleep, while Twilight decided to stay awake to write and study about comets and such.

Morning came too fast for Lacy. Well, technically he just woke up earlier, than usual.

I had such a strange dream... What was it about? Shit! I already forgot! But it was so strange though, I have a feeling about that... Ahh, fuck it! Not the first time and I can't do anything about it.

These thoughts ran through his head as he took care of his morning routine in the bathroom. Then he headed down the stairs. Twilight was probably awake by now, she usually wakes up at sunrise, which Lacy did find a little funny considering who was her teacher. Though knowing her, she might stay awake the whole night, wouldn't be the first time.

As he made the last step on the stairs, something suddenly caught him off guard.

"Hoo." came a voice out of nowhere, startling the man. Then he noticed an owl standing on the edge of a sloping desk.

"Fucking hell!" he shouted in panic.

"What happened?" Twilight came running from down. Apparently, she was still upstairs. Of course, she got the idea immediately. "Ohh, sorry Lacy. This is Owlowiscious. He is my second assistant."

"What? But... how? What happened?"

Twilight explained to him what happened last night, that the wind took her paper and this owl brought it back, then she offered him to stay here with her. After that, only a name was needed, and voila, a new pet/secondary assistant.

After Lazlo mentioned a few things about owls and library cliche, he just kind of accepted this. It was Twilight's home and he was just a guest, or rather a roommate since he'd been staying here quite some weeks now.

"What's his name again?" he asked.

"Owlowiscious."

"Owlicicus... Owlecius... Owli... Ahh fucking hell, I can't pronounce it... Couldn't you choose something easier name?" Lacy complained.

"I don't understand, it's not that hard."

"I told you before, that English isn't my native language, a few years ago, I couldn't pronounce correctly the word 'available'," he explained. "Can I just call him Owly?"

"Hoo." the owl answered him before the mare could say anything.

"I think he won't mind." Twilight smiled.

The morning went on with Lacy reading a book about equestrian history, while Twilight was doing her own thing. The morning went on and Spike was still sleeping. Twilight suggested letting him sleep, he works so hard, that he deserves it.

It was late morning already when they heard Spike waking up and panicking for sleeping in. Twilight was just getting ready to go out, at the same time, she tried to calm down the little dragon, and also told him about the new junior assistant.

Lacy heard him talking with him, he was upstairs at that time, still with the book in his hands. He paused his reading when he heard Spike talking with the owl. The dragon then left the library.

"Looks like, I'm gonna have to make lunch..." he murmured to himself and got up to prepare the meal.

After lunch, the girls came over since Twilight told them about her new pet when she was out.

"Oh, what a fantastical, flufflicious feathery little friend! I'm hooked!" Pinkie exclaimed and everyone laughed at the little joke.

"Well, he almost hooked my heart out of its place this morning," Lacy commented, which too earned a few giggles.

"He's just wonderful," Fluttershy said, which wasn't a surprise since it was probably her general opinion about animals.

"He's just wonderful," Spike, who was sitting in the window with a book in his claws said in a mocking tone. He probably didn't mean to say it so loud, because upon noticing the confused stares, everyone gave him, he quickly changed his tone. "Uh, yes. Wonderful. He's quite... the charmer."

"And Owlowiscious is just such a star I just had to make this little bow for you." Rarity gave the owl an identical bow with gems, Spike received from her yesterday. Spike was further angered upon noticing this, he went back inside, slamming the window close. Now everyone was sure, that there was some problem with him.

"What's he all saddle sore about?" Applejack asked.

"He's probably just jealous of Owlowiscious." Rainbow pointed at the bird.

"Maybe Spike feels threatened or worried that Owlowiscious will replace him?" Fluttershy spoke.

"Replace him? Hah! That's crazy! Spike knows he can't be replaced." Twilight dismissed their worries.

"Well, he didn't act like jealous, when I arrived..." Lacy mentioned. "I'm gonna ask him later when he cooled down a little. He seemed pretty angry."

After the others went home, Twilight and Lacy went back into the library, with Owlowiscios on the mare's back. Spike was making his way downstairs, murmuring angrily.

Twilight went to a desk, which had an open book on it, but looked around, searching for something else.

“Hey, Spike! Can you fetch me that book called Two-headed Myth—” she started, but the young dragon cut into her word.

“...Mythological Mysteries! I know where it is.” he ran to a ladder, which even had a few books packed on the top of it, to reach even higher. Lacy, however, saw, that by the time he was halfway up, the owl already got the book and fly back to Twilight.

“Thanks, Owlowiscious. Hey, Spike, no worries. Owlowiscious flew up and got the book for me. Oh, and gee! I guess I need Ferrets of Fairyland too.” Twilight informed him, but again the bird was already on it. Turned out, that book was one in the rack on top of the ladder and by taking it out, the others, with the dragon on top of them fell on the ground. Lacy tried to catch him, but was too far away and reacted too slowly. Poor fella landed on the hard books.

He angrily stormed back to the bedroom.

“He should be more careful,” Twilight commented.

“I think this one was Owlys fault, as he took a book he was standing on.” Lacy gave his insight.

“I’m sure it was an accident,” Twilight said and looked at Owlowiscious.

“Hoo.” the newest resident defended himself.

“See. He didn’t mean it.” Twilight confirmed, though Lacy just raised his eyebrows.

He decided that it was time to speak with Spike. He went up and knocked on Twilight’s bedroom door. Then knocked again, when he the dragon didn’t say anything. Then a third time too, but ran out of patience and slowly opened the door. Spike was sitting in his sleeping basket, reading a comic book. He looked up angrily, but when he noticed the human, his expression turned back to a more neutral one.

“Oh, Lacy. It’s just you,” he said, then put down the comic book. “What do you need?” he asked, though he knew, what the human wanted.

“I think we need to talk,” Lacy said, which earned a sigh from the dragon. “You clearly have some issue with our new resident,” he observed.

“You noticed huh? Can’t you see? He’s here to take MY job. I am the number one assistant! I’m supposed to help Twilight out whatever she needs! But ever since that owl appeared last night, he did everything I was supposed to! Soon Twilight will realize, that I’m not needed anymore and she will send me off. I have to prevent this! I need to prove that I am the better assistant and I deserve to be number one! But it seems, that bird did everything better today than me.” he told him.

“Come on, Spike! She won’t send you away. Besides, you weren’t like this, when I offered to help her and you out. What’s the difference?” he asked.

“Well, you won’t stay here forever. I mean, eventually, you will go back to where you came from, but that’s not the case with the owl.” Spike pointed out, which Lacy found clever thinking. The little dragon was smart.

“Right, that’s true, but... hmm...” Lacy was thinking hard to think something to say. “What about your magical fire? You send her letters to the princess with those. I doubt Owly could copy it,” he told him, hoping he won’t come up with anything to counter it.

“It’s Twilight, we’re talking about. I’m sure, she could come up with something.” Spike shared his pessimistic opinion.

“Don’t be like that! She cares about you!” he tried some cliche lines to raise his mood. He groaned in his head. He wasn’t really good with this stuff.

“Shoot!” came Twilight’s voice from her study, which was one floor below the bedroom level. Lacy turned towards the door for a moment, but when he turned back to the dragon, he noticed, that he disappeared, probably run down to see, what’s the issue.

By the time, Lacy arrived down, Twilight was out on the balcony shouting to Spike, who ran out. After seeing, that it’s pointless, Twilight went back.

“So?” she asked the human the moment, she noticed him.

“He’s jealous,” Lacy stated. He wanted to tell her more, but the owl interrupted them when he gave one of his own feathers to Twilight to write with. She must’ve asked him, then noticed Spike leaving and tried to stop him.

“Thank you, Owlowiscious!” she thanked him, then returned to her work, completely forgetting about what Lacy wanted to tell her. The man just sighed and went to grab a book and lie down on a sofa.

Half an hour later they heard Spike arriving back, running up to the study.

“Spike to the rescue!” he yelled, presenting a small feather while panting heavily.

“Oh, Spike. I was calling out for you, that you didn’t have to run anywhere because Owlowiscious was so kind and offered me one of his feathers to write with,” she informed him, which only fueled more Spike's anger.

The little dragon started to climb up the stairs, but stopped after a few steps and sit down on it.

“That’s just great! Perfect! Then I guess, I’m gonna do my other chores, or did Owlowiscious already finished with them too?” he tried to sound angry, but was failing at it when he let out a big yawn.

“Oh, don’t worry Spike, there are still quite some left. Oh, and Lacy!” she turned to the man, who already put down the book and was listening to their conversation, ever since Spike returned. “Could you make dinner tonight? Thanks!” not waiting for an answer, she returned her attention to whatever she was working on, only to hear snoring sounds. Apparently, Spike tired himself out too much in his unnecessary quill hunting, that he fell asleep on the stairs.

“Poor thing,” Twilight commented as she watched the snoring dragon. “It’s so good, that you are here to help out Owlowiscious.” the mare turned to the owl. “He will come around. He’s a good little guy.”

Lazlo meanwhile started to set the table. He wasn’t in the mood to work much for dinner, so he thought, that a cold meal will do, so he put some bread, vegetable, and fruit on the table and the plates. After he finished, he went back to tell the others, that they can come to eat.

“Oh, you found the Astronomical Astronomer's Almanac to All Things Astronomy!” he heard Twilight saying. “I totally forgot to check this book. Thanks, Owlowiscious!” Lacy remembered, that there was a book, Twilight wanted to bring along to the meteor shower, but Spike said that it was not in its place. “What the...?” just as Twilight came into the man’s view, he noticed, that the book was open and floating by Twilight’s magic, but its inside was burned to ashes. It didn’t need much time for him to guess what happened to the book and the same applied to Twilight as she was furiously making her way to the snoring dragon.

Dropping the book in front of him jerked him awake.

“Spike. What is this? You said this book was missing. Well, Owlowiscious found it right where it belongs, but like this. How did it get this way?” she asked him while looking angry.

“Uh... Well, um... You see, I... I just didn't wanna disappoint you and, uh... Have you ever seen a dragon sneeze?” Spike shuttered, trying to answer in a way, that won’t make her angrier.

“I've seen a dragon lie. I'm very disappointed in you, Spike,” she said as she trotted to the kitchen.

Lacy was still standing there, debating with himself whether to butt in this conflict they seem to have, or not. The situation seemed somewhat familiar with what he has done with his family, only on a much smaller scale. However it was also something, that doesn’t really concern him. Ever since he got here, he tried to be more of an observer and be as passive as he could. Of course, it wasn’t always possible and also sometimes he just couldn’t stop himself, just like not so long ago, when he tried to speak with the dragon but was interrupted, though then it didn’t seem as severe as it did become. There were several reasons for this, for example, he still lacked a lot of knowledge, that was considered common here, the weeks he spent here simply aren’t enough to learn what the ponies learned over years. Another thing was the different mentality, which was common here, something, that he was happy to experience but still alien. And of course, with it came the most obvious part, that it wasn’t his world. He shouldn’t even be here, so while sharing information was something, he was okay with, mostly due to he depended on them to get him home, he didn’t want to meddle with their personal lives more than necessary.

In the end, he decided to try not to get involved in their personal conflict.

Dinner went quietly, then every continued on with their things. Spike went to bed immediately, Twilight continued reading, Owlowiscious was beside her, in case she needed something, Lacy cleaned up the kitchen.

The next day was pretty normal, until the afternoon. Twilight, Lacy with Owlowiscious went to Fluttershy, she invited everyone and their pets to a tea party. Spike was invited too, but he didn’t want to come. At first Lacy declined too, but Twilight convinced him, that Fluttershy would be very sad if he’d say no to her invitation.

It turned out, his presence was mostly unnecessary. Fluttershy thanked him for coming, though a little more timidly than she did to the others, but it didn’t bother the man. For the most part of this get-together, the girls talked with each other about what they did recently and talked about girl things, almost completely ignoring their male companion. A few times they tried to bring him into their conversation, mostly Pinkie, but he couldn’t add much to it, mostly some dry joke and comments about female stereotypes, which earned a few angry glares and some male stereotypes, but he just laughed at them and confirmed, that most of them were actually true for many males. So in the end, he mostly played with Winona, because he loves dogs, and kinda avoided Opal, because he dislikes cats. The other animals weren’t that playful towards him. Angel didn’t like him for some reason, Gummy was cute, but even without teeth, his jaw is strong and Owly was mostly resting, given his nocturnal nature, he had to sleep in the daytime.

“So I was invited to be a distraction for the pets, so they won’t bother you?” he asked Twilight as they were on their way home.

“No!” Twilight said immediately. “It’s just... I thought you could talk more with my friends, but it didn’t work out.”

“And what made you think, bringing me to some girls hangout will be a good opportunity for that? Besides, I sometimes hang out with the others, well except Applejack, but that doesn’t matter. And I go to that chess club too.”

“That is true, but I just want you to be there with me when I meet with my friends. I learn so much about friendship from them and you too.” the mare told him, as they reached the entrance of the library.

Opening the door a rather interesting sight welcomed them. In the middle of the library, there was a toy mouse that has seen better days, some reds stains on and around it. Spike was also there, wearing a black cape and hat walking backward towards their direction while pulling and dropping feathers from a pillow and laughing like some cliche villain. The man and the mare both watched him with raised eyebrows, the little dragon seemingly not noticed that they've entered the building.

Well, that was the case until he walking into Twilight. Turning to them, Lacy noticed, that he even wore a fake mustache. His eyes went wide for a moment, but quickly trow away his get-up and started acting horrified.

“That poor little field mouse! Torn to pieces! It must have been Owlowiscious! You know, since owls eat, you know, mice. What a terrible, terrible bird! He must be punished! Right?” he spoke, but his attempt was futile, after all, he was caught in the act.

“Spike! I don't know what upsets me more. That you deliberately tried to set up Owlowiscious, or that you actually thought this pathetic attempt would work!” Twilight said, her voice was filled with disappointment but there was a hint of sadness as well.

“Owly was with us at Fluttershy’s tea party the whole time...” Lazlo told Spike, motioning towards the owl, who was sitting on Twilight’s back. The dragon let out an ‘Oh’ and looked at the man sheepishly.

“You've let your jealousy get the best of you, Spike. I am truly disappointed. This is not the Spike I know and love.” Twilight said, before walking towards the stairs and disappeared as she walked to the upper levels.

“She... She doesn't love me anymore.” Lacy, who stayed at the library part of the building heard the little dragon speaking to himself quietly. “Maybe it’s best if I leave. She doesn’t want me here anymore...”

Lazlo thought about what to do. It seemed like it was some kind of family issue, after all, Spike was hatched by Twilight, but they were more like siblings than mother and son if he wanted to use a term for family. And if this was a family problem he shouldn’t really intervene. And yet there was that feeling to go to the little dragon and talk with him, help him to understand, what he does is wrong, and the whole thing is just a misunderstanding. He finally decided what to do, when he noticed, that Spike was walking towards the door with a small package on the end of a stick.

He stopped him before he reached the entrance door, putting a hand on his shoulder, pulling him back a little.

“Come on, Spike! Don’t be like this. Let’s talk about it, okay?” he told him, but the dragon seemed lost and probably felt, that it’ll be a pointless conversation, but he thought, that Lazlo didn’t hate him, so he nodded and they both sat down on the sofa. “Tell me what happened.” Even if he knew what was this all about, he wanted to hear his side.

“I accidentally burned that book, when I sneezed while it was in my claws, but I didn’t mean to. And then there is this owl, who just came from nowhere and wants to take my job and Twilight lets him and he even sets me up and now Twilight doesn’t love me anymore,” he told Lacy as his eyes became watery.

Lazlo rubbed his head with his right hand a little, trying to work out a good way to help him and to understand completely what’s happening here.

I’m not the best in these situations, given that I rarely successes in solving a family conflict, even as small as my half-sisters’ arguing over a toy. But Spike’s quite smart and more mature, so this conversation has a higher success rate than my previous ones.

“Alright. Let’s slice this conflict into two parts. The accident with the book and Owly. Let’s start with the book. Simple question, why didn’t you tell Twilight about this?”

“I didn’t want her to know, that her number one assistant made a horrible mistake and destroyed a book. She treasures every one of them in this library, or her personal collection, or actually any other, so if she would’ve learned that I destroyed one, then she would’ve been very mad and disappointed in me.” Spike explained.

“Well, you couldn’t have to hide it forever, she would’ve noticed it eventually.” Lacy reasoned. “But that’s not the point. My grandfather taught me, that you must take responsibility for your actions and decisions because that is one of the key factors of determining that person’s value. If you do something, even by accident, you must accept the consequences and take responsibility. If you would’ve told Twilight, I’m sure, she would’ve understood. Probably would’ve been a little mad about it, but she would’ve forgiven you.” he spoke.

“How can you be so sure? You only know her for what? A few weeks? Plus you are from a different world, with so much now knowledge, that she wouldn’t mind if you destroy this whole place as long as you teach her new stuff.”

“So ever since you’ve been her assistant, you never damaged a book before? Or anything else, she valued?” Lazlo continued reasoning. “Plus if I did the math, then probably she did too.” that earned a confused look from the dragon. “Firebreathing dragon plus paper and wood equals burning sometimes. Do you think she would let you live here if she doesn’t trust and loves you? Do you think she would send you away for an accident, that was basically granted to happen eventually?”

Spike had to admit, that Lazlo had a point in this case. He nodded signing, that he understands his point. Now it was time to move to the other issue.

“Alright. So, the other thing is Owly. I can’t say for sure, why did she want to keep him, she just told me, that she offered him to stay here and he accepted and helps her out when she studies.” Lazlo told him, what Spike probably already knew.

“He’s after my job! To be Twilights number one assistant!” Spike said confidently.

“But why?” Lacy asked, Spike only reacted with a ‘huh?’ “The first rule of accusation is adding a reason why would someone do the thing they’re accused of.”

“Maybe he didn’t at first, but liked here and wanted to stay, and what better way be there than to be the Number One Assistant?” Spike reasoned.

“Be a creature from a different world, I think Twilight wouldn’t want to let me leave until she knows everything about me and my kind, maybe not even after it.” Lazlo joked a little, both of them chuckled. “But seriously, I admit, that your reasoning does make some sense. But do you really think, that Twilight would send you away, or give your job to anyone else?”

“Never!” a female voice was heard before Spike could’ve answered. They saw Twilight standing on the lowest step on the stairs. “I would never send you away Spike!” She trotted to them and quickly hugged the little dragon. “Why did you think, I’d replace you for burning a book?”

“But you were so angry, and said you don’t love me anymore,” Spike said sadly.

“I was angry, because you lied to me about it, and I didn’t say, I don’t love you anymore, I said, you didn’t act like the Spike I know and love.” she smiled. “But I have to apologize as well. I didn’t pay attention to your feelings and was insensitive. I should’ve paid more attention to you.”

“I’m sorry too, Twilight. I just didn’t want to disappoint you. And I know that you always want everything to be perfect.” Spike told her.

“We all make mistakes, Spike,” Twilight said. “Even I. The important thing is, that we learn from them. Not just from our mistakes, but from others too. I think both of us learned something today. How about you write this week’s report to the Princess? Oh, and I think, you have to talk with Owlowiscious as well. I asked and he’s okay with being the secondary assistant.”

Spike smiled and gave one more hug to Twilight before running upstairs to write the letter. The mare turned to the human and sat down beside him, putting one of her forehoofs on his shoulder.

“Thank you! I wanted to talk with him and came back down, but heard, that you were already in a conversation, so I decided to listen.” She silently observed him for a moment. He was still staring at his feet, just like this whole time, while Twilight and Spike spoke to each other. “You spoke from experience.” she didn’t ask this. She knew it was true.

“We are all afraid, that we are not needed to anyone anymore.” He looked her in the eyes. “When I accepted the offer from the company I’m working for, I knew that it was time to let my family know of this. I knew that they will be angry for lying to them for over a year, but there wasn’t anything else I could do. They were angry at me, really angry. My mother still is, but with the others, I made up. But at that time... none of them wanted to see me for a while. I was depressed for a while. I tried to concentrate on my workplace, but since the first three months were trial period, which means, that either I or the company can break up the contract and don’t even have to give a reason. So there was some paranoia too. After all, if they fire me, there is no guarantee, that I will find another job fast enough, so I won’t earn money. There won’t be any family member, who I can turn to, because at that time, I thought, that they won’t want to see or hear me ever again. My friends helped a lot actually, reminding me, that they’re still with me, but that was only after two or three weeks. Of course, in time, most of my relatives forgave me, and things returned back to normal, well almost. While the situation was different, but the feeling, Spike was having was the same. And I didn’t want him to experience it, especially at such a young age.” He finished his tale.

He felt something soft touching his cheek, which was actually Twilight nuzzling him.

“I’m glad that things got better for you,” she said then gave him a playful smile. “And just so you know, I don’t want you to stay, because of the knowledge you share with me, but because you are my friend, and I don’t want to say goodbye forever to you,” she told him, by the end wearing a sad smile. “But I won’t make you stay here if they find a way to send you home.”

“I’ve become quite fond of Equestria and its inhabitants,” Lacy admitted then put his arm around Twilight, pulling her a little closer. “And it will be hard to say goodbye for me too.”

Author's Note

Another chapter! Yay! It’s such a good feeling when I saw as the number of readers rises, as well as the likes, even the dislikes because the rate of them gives me feedback, just like the comments. So I thank you all, even if I’m a lazy ass and don’t write to most of them, thanking them ‘personally’, but what did you expect from someone, who’s the one chapter each month kind of writer...

Anyway, we are close to the end of season one (and I know, that I didn’t write the whole season) which is kind of the prologue part of this story, at least I see it that way right now, but I think you will get, what I mean, when I finally write those chapters.