5:00 a.m.

Today was the day. Me and Sparky would find this "Dr. Blue Star" in the adjacent Everfree Forest so that we could help her and her family find a new home in Ponyville. I woke up early because I wasn't able to sleep properly. I did get 6 hours of sleep, but it's not enough. I went downstairs to heat up some pancakes for breakfast.

"Blue Star, Blue Star," the words echoed in my mind. I just can't stop thinking about it. Is Blue Star really homeless? If so, why did her outfit look as if she ain't homeless at all? Or is it a cover-up?

It was still dark outside, but I know that Princess Celestia would raise the sun later anyway. So I put my pancakes inside the microwave and set it for one minute. After that, I opened the door to breathe the pure oxygen from outside. The cold breeze hit my face like a fist. It was chilly for mildly warm weather set to hit us later in the afternoon. Then I closed the door, just as the microwave finished. I took out my pancakes and sat on the table.

"Should I heat some for Sparky too?" I wondered. "After all, we're gonna have a big day today."

I got up and got some more pancakes to heat up for Sparky once he wakes up. I did the same process I did earlier, heating up the pancakes in the microwave and then wait for it. And just as I got them out, I heard footsteps from upstairs. It was Sparky, who was still tired.

"Wakey-wakey!" I mocked him, saying the same thing he said to me yesterday. "Get a taste of your own medicine."

"Ha, ha, very funny," he said.

"Anyways, I'm heating you up some breakfast," I said. "Can't go adventuring with an empty stomach, eh?"

"Classic Saturn," he said as he shook his head.

"I heard that!" I yelled.

We both took a seat as I placed Sparky's pancakes on his spot on the table.

"Hm. Not bad," he said when he took his first bite.

"Are you being sarcastic?" I asked. I didn't think he was serious the first time.

"No! The flavor on this is at least tastable." He took another bite.

I was confused. Did he finally have a change of taste or something?

"Anyways, about that Dr. Star," I began, "I think..."

Sparky put his pancake down. "You're going?"

I sighed. "Yes. But don't get too excited about it —"

He ran over to me and hugged me. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! I knew you wouldn't let me down!"

"I'm only doing this because I have pity for you," I explained.

Sparky pushed that aside. "I don't care. All I care is that you're with me, little bro!"

"Bro"? What kind of word is that?

"Let's get ready!" He ran up the stairs in a rush.

"Wait, aren't you gonna finish your pancakes?" I asked. But he was long gone already. "Ugh, nevermind."

6:00 a.m.

We were both dressed and ready. I put all the food in the fridge, in case she would visit. Sparky was already waiting for me at the front door. He really wanted to help, does he?

"Come on, Saturn!" he called me.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," I said.

I came down the stairs, looking rushed, but definitely ready to start the day. "Ready to start, I guess?"

"You bet I would!" So he opened the door.

The morning sun shone across our eyes. It seemed like Princess Celestia was finally rising the Sun.

"Day 3 of us in Ponyville!" Sparky said.

"2 days not counting our first arrival," I suggested.

"Whatever!" he ignored.

We closed the door and left to the Everfree Forest, not knowing what the dangers might lurk inside.

6:15 a.m.

The Everfree Forest was dark, and eerie. The twigs and leaves lowered down on us as we kept going forward. There was no turning back now. We were already deep into the forest, and I especially didn't want to let Sparky down.

"Jeez," I exclaimed, "this forest is so thick!"

"Thick trees can't stop me," Sparky said. Oh boy, he's in his adventure mode, something he's always had since he was a colt. "I'm Speedy Sparky! Not Scaredy Sparky. And I'm not just the mighty one. I'm also the one with a hearty!"

"Hearty"? What? Of all the things he could've said, it was "hearty". Is he now trying to become a poet writer or something? There was too much rhyme and alliteration there. There's no way he's becoming a poet writer when he gets older. I don't think rhymes work like that!

"There it is!" he pointed out. I looked.

There on the other side of the bushes, was a small, wooden, poorly-made cottage. I looked so dumbfounded when I saw that.

"Wha —? What kind of house is that?" I exclaimed in disgust.

"Hey, don't go too angry mode now," Sparky said to me. "This was probably the best they could do. Maybe they just didn't have enough bits."

Then, out of one of the trees, came Dr. Blue Star. She was picking up some flowers from a garden nearby.

"Wow," I said to myself. "No wonder she was walking towards the forest last night."

"What was that?" asked Sparky.

"Nothing," I lied.

As we were about to move, Sparky accidentally stepped on a branch, which made a loud noise.

Blue was surprised when she heard it. "Who's there?!"

She was approaching the bush that we were hiding in. We were doomed at that time.

"Hello?" She opened one of the bushes, revealing us. "Ah! What are you doing here?!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down," I said. "We're not here to invade you!"

"Yeah!" said Sparky. "We're here because of a letter that you might've written at an old house."

"Old house?" She didn't know what we were talking about, but after a second, she now knew. "Oh!"

This was a bad idea from the start. I knew we shouldn't have come here.

"Wait," she stopped. "Aren't you two the ones I met yesterday?"

"Yeah," I said slowly.

"No way!" she exclaimed. "You two are the new owners of our old house?!"

"Yes." Maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all. But I still have my doubts.

Then, we heard a door opening from the house. It was Blue's father.

"Blue?!" he called. "Where are you?"

"Coming, father!" she answered. Then she looked to us. "Come on. I want to introduce you to my family."

We agreed to go with her.

Blue's father then saw Blue with us. "Blue, get back from them!"

"No!" she bellowed. "These are the two unicorns that saved my job yesterday."

"Really?" he asked.

"Yes, sir," I said hesitantly.

"Well," he began, "it's nice that you helped my daughter, or else we would still be staying here."

"Still staying here?" I questioned.

"Thanks to you saving my tail back there, I'm finally getting paid some bits, enough for us to purchase a small cottage back in Ponyville!" she explained. "Thank you!"

"No problem," Sparky said.

I'm glad we helped her yesterday and got the house we have right now. Because we probably wouldn't be having this wonderful meeting at this very moment.

"Anyways, you two look exhausted from all this exploring," Blue's father said to us. "You both want anything to eat?"

"Umm, no thanks," I said.

"Actually, yes, sir!" Sparky said.

Blue's father was confused on which choice we were split on.

"Well, anyhow, come inside. You shouldn't have to stay out here," he offered.

"Thanks, sir!" Sparky said.

I rolled my eyes as we all entered the house.

The handmade house by Blue's family didn't look too bad inside, though it still looked a little poor around. Blue's mother was there too. She was surprised when she met us.

"Oh my goodness!" she cried. "You two must be the stallions Blue told us about! Saturn and Sparky, right?"

"Yes, we are!" Sparky told her.

"Well, it's nice to have guests here for once," she said. "It's been awhile since we've had some in our old house. Speaking of our old house, how did you find us here?"

It was pretty obvious. I explained to her how we got here.

"By letter?" she asked. "My my, Blue never told us about that when we got kicked out."

Blue smiled at her. "You're welcome!"

Blue's father came in and cleared his throat. "Well," he interrupted, "I've got some cauliflower for us to eat later. How about we keep talking to get to know each other better? I'll start." He sat down. "So, Saturn and Sparky, what are you two doing here in Ponyville? We've never seen you here before."

"Ha! It's a really long story!" Sparky said. "Me and my little brother just wanted to live our own lives, after we've lived with our parents in Manehattan our whole lives. Until two days ago, when we finally moved out."

"Yep," I said. "Our travel here was quite a fun ride. Here in Ponyville so far, it's quite decent."

"Decent? Why decent?" asked Blue.

"Well," I began, "we met with some big bully from long ago that threatened to attack us."

"Oh my!" she exclaimed. "That's terrible!"

"You can say that again," Sparky said.

Now Blue's father began his talk. "Now it's my turn. I was reading a newspaper I had, which said that there would be a meteor shower projected to fly by Ponyville tomorrow. I was wondering if I could invite you when we go see it."

Sparky looked at me.

"I guess you can," I told him.

Sparky stood up. "Shooting stars? I promised my BBF that we'd see the shooting stars once we get here!"

"Is that so?" asked Blue's father. "Well, you came at the right time."

"We sure did," Sparky said.

I made a faintly visible smile. I liked seeing both of us making new friends, especially in Ponyville. Here's some more context: we usually never talk to a lot of ponies, and since we get busy on our own projects, we've had a lack of communication with others. But that was from the past. Now that we're finally in Ponyville, we had to throw away our old, poor selves into the trash and replace them with new and improved versions of ourselves.

"Wow!" Blue cried. "You two really care for each other, do you?"

"Yeah," Sparky told her. "And nothing's gonna break out relationship apart! Even when we have our bickerings."

By the time Sparky finished his response, the cauliflower Blue's father was heating up was done. He went into his kitchen to get it, while the rest of us kept talking.

"So," Blue's mother asked us, "did you have any plans during your first visit in Ponyville?"

"Oh..." I wasn't sure how to explain this, since our first visit here in Ponyville wasn't the best. "Yeah, it wasn't really the best we've had."

"How come?" she asked.

"Well, the bully I told you encountered us for the first time in a long time that day, and your old house looked so broken on the inside."

Blue and her mother felt pity for us.

"Sorry about that," Blue said. "I'm not sure how long it's been since we left, so we didn't know that happened."

"But on the other hand," Sparky then began explaining, "we got to meet not one, but two bearers of the Elements of Harmony: Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie."

"No way! Them?!" Blue asked. "I've never met one up close! How were they?"

"They were nice," I answered. "But Pinkie kept asking us for a welcome party, which we didn't agree with at first, but thought about it."

"That welcome party would've been nice to come to," she said. "Meeting new friends, more socializing, you know!"

"Maybe you're right, girl," I agreed. "The next time we see her, I'll tell her we're ready."

Blue's father came back from the kitchen and gave us our cauliflower. "Alright, eat up. We have a lot of work to do if we want a new house. And Saturn and Sparky, thank you for visiting us. You're welcome here anytime. That is, until we have our new house."

"You're welcome!" Sparky and I said.

7:15 a.m.

Our second breakfast with the Stars was quite nice to have breakfast with. I even like their personalities, but I still didn't feel comfortable around Blue. I'll also start calling Blue's parents Mr. and Mrs. Star from now on.

"Once again, stallions, thank you for having the time to come here, even if it was early in the morning," Mrs. Star said. "We appreciate it!"

"You're welcome," Sparky answered.

"Anyways," I interrupted, "it's about time we go now."

"Why?" Blue asked.

"We just have to."

Sparky was confused. "Wait, Saturn—"

I took Sparky from his seat and walked out the front door. "It was nice seeing you all. Hope we can meet again!" But before we could go out, Sparky grabbed onto me.

"Hold on," he said to me. "Let me say this to Blue."

Sparky ran over to Blue and said a few words I could hear.

"Will you be my friend?"

Blue was shocked by this. "Oh my gosh, absolutely! Yes, I'd like to be friends with you and Saturn!"

My jaw dropped immediately. I can't believe we were friends with someone else! Looks like Sparky really did change himself, did he?

"Uhh," he stuttered. "Well, thank you for saying this! Now we can go! Goodbye!" And he pushed himself and I out the door.

"What the heck was that?" I asked Sparky.

"I wanted to ask her if we wanna be friends," he answered. "She said yes."

"I think we could've done that for next time," I said. "I mean, come on, we've just met her properly."

"True, but she still looked kinda nice."

Whatever. Blue and us are friends now, so let's just put this thing behind us and head back to Ponyville. I've had enough this morning. Not the full day, but you know.

11:00 a.m.

Sparky and I decided to go for another walk today to meet more ponies (except for that). And we met Pinkie Pie. Jeez, how does she keep finding us?

"Hey, you two!" she said excitedly. "So have you finally decided?"

"Decided on what?" I asked.

"The party," she replied.

"Yep. We're going to have it." Now it's finally done. She won't keep asking us for a party.

"Fantastic! When will you have it set?" she questioned. There was a schedule.

"Probably tomorrow or so," I answered. I am absolutely not going to have the party happen tonight. It's way too early for that to happen.

"Okay, where do you two live?" she asked us.

"Right by the outskirts of Ponyville," I said. "Specifically, by the big river."

Pinkie was finished with a schedule by the time we said that. "Alright! You're all set! See ya!"

"Goodbye," Sparky and I said as we left.

When we got out, Sparky said a few things to me.

"What made you so accepting of her now?" he asked.

"I dunno," I replied. "Probably a change of heart, I guess."

He chuckled. "I hope so."

5:00 p.m.

Sparky went out to explore the rest of Ponyville, while I stayed to clean up the house. Then I heard the doorbell ring. Who could that be? I wondered. So I opened the door, and to my surprise, it was Dr. Blue Star. Her smile was brightly gleaming.

"Um, hello," she said. "Is Sparky here?"

"No, why?" I asked.

"I want to thank the both of you," she answered.

Why could she be here to thank us? We literally did nothing this morning when we went to her so-called "house". So I asked her, "Why thank us?"

She exhaled. "I'm finally getting a proper home."

I gasped. "What?! How? We literally did nothing but chatter and eat this morning!"

She laughed. "You really don't know, do you?"

"No, I don't." I didn't know anything about what she was saying.

"Well," she now began to explain, "after you visited us this morning, I knew I wanted to make sure I'm the perfect friend for the two of you. You know, like, not messy and stuff. So to reach that goal, I worked hard and hard at my job, impressing everybody, even my boss. And now that he's impressed, he's finally giving me a paycheck!"

I was shocked. I didn't know what to say. But I did know that Sparky would've been real proud of her. "Well, congratulations! You deserved that paycheck to begin with."

She blushed, but not in a romantic way (Yuck!). "You think that?"

"I think that," I said. "I believe Sparky would've been real proud of you. Wait 'til I tell him the news."

To my surprise, she ran to me and gave me a hug. I smiled, just as Sparky got back from his exploration, just in time to see the good news.

"What's going on here?" he asked.

"Oh, Sparks!" I called. "You're just in time to see that Dr. Blue Star has finally gotten a new home in Ponyville!"

"Wait a minute, are you serious?" he questioned.

"Yeah, Sparky!" Blue answered. "I now have a new home thanks to you!"

Sparky stood there for a few seconds before he joined us in our group hug.

"I'm so proud of you, Blue," he said happily.

"Thank you... Saturn and Sparky."

We ended our probably minute-long hug and before Blue left, Sparky asked her something.

"Hey, Blue!" he called.

"Hm?" she answered.

"You want to join us for our house party tomorrow?"

Of course he was gonna ask that.

"Sure I do!" Blue said. "Anyways, see you later!"

"Bye!" Sparky and I said before we closed the door.

10:15 p.m.

I decided to check our mailbox for any letters, and one of them came from Pinkie Pie. "Wait, Pinkie Pie?" I said as I closed the mailbox door and went inside. Sparky was there, reading a book.

"Sparks," I called, "one of our letters is from Pinkie Pie."

"Pinkie Pie?" he said. "How could she be sending letters to us right now?"

"There's only one way to find out." I opened the envelope, and inside were some decorations for the party, and a notice saying that she'll be coming to our house tomorrow afternoon.

"Oh, right!" I exclaimed. "I told her our location."

"Well," Sparky said, "prepare for the biggest party in our new lives in Ponyville."

"True that," I replied.

I put the envelope down and went upstairs to go to sleep. "I'm exhausted," I yawned. "You coming up?"

"Later," Sparky said. "I still have to finish my book. I'm only like, five pages away from the end of the chapter."

"Okay," I said as I went upstairs and into the bedroom.

I brushed my teeth and laid down on my bed. There, from that point on, I still kept thinking about Blue. I never thought she was lying, but how could we be so sure that she's finally not homeless anymore? Those thoughts stood in my brain as I shut my eyes and went to sleep, as the stars twinkled over Ponyville, and into our bedroom.

Author's Note

I'm cutting this chapter short because there ain't anything else to tell here other than Blue's announcement and the decision of the party.