Taco for Your Thoughts?

by Shadow Moonlight

Rating: everyone
Tags: Self Insert, Equestria Girls, Slice of Life, Sonata Dusk, Human, Romance, Second Person
Length: 1215

Life hasn’t been the most pleasing to you in recent times, but fate was fortunate enough to allow a sweet girl to come to cheer you up.

Sonata’s a siren who listens to her heart more than her head. While she’s not always aware of what goes on in the world around her, she does pay attention to people, way more than one usually would. On her way out of her favorite fast-food joint, she finds someone out alone on a bench, seemingly down. With no consciousness to stop her, she tries to cheer them up.

Published 2023-03-31 13:40:00 UTC
Last updated 2023-03-31 13:40:00 UTC

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Hiya! Could I get some tacos, please?

How many? Let’s see…how much do you want, tummy?

She says she wants three.

What to drink? Um…do you guys still have fruit punch here?

You do? Oh, yes, yes! I’ll take that!

Uhh…yeah, that’s all I want.

Okie-dokie! Let me just…mmmm! Come on, money. Come on out, don’t be shy.

Alrighty, here you go!

Huh? Oh, that’s me! Thanks, for realsies! Bye bye!

Tacos, tacos, gotta love tacos…

Hm? Oh, goodness…that person seems kinda lonely…maybe a taco could help!

La la la la~

Hey, there! You mind if I squeeze next to you?

Thanks, I was standing in line for so long, my bum needed to rest.

Ahhh…that’s so much better. Now, I can eat my tacos!

Huh? Oh, yeah they do have those big long chairs I could sit at, but it’s more fun being outside. I get to see more of everything that way!

What do I mean? Uh, well if I was stuck in there, I wouldn’t get to see everything behind the restaurant. There’s so much to see!

Wouldn’t you rather be able to see everything than just see one side?

You don’t know? Oh, well that’s okay! You don’t have to know! I just like having a full view of everything!

You seem kinda sad, are you feeling alright?

You’re depressed? Oh, dear, I’m so sorry to hear that…

Would…would you like a taco?

Of course, I want to! A taco always makes me feel better whenever I get down, so maybe it’ll make you feel better too! Go on, it’s really good, I promise!

Soooooo…what’cha think? Is it good?

It’s okay? Well, okay is better than not okay!

Hm? Why am I so cheerful? Um…I dunno. I just like to be happy!

You wish you could be this happy? Well, what’s stopping you? You can always be happy about something!

You feel that life isn’t giving you the chance to be? Oh…well, how about you give yourself the chance to be?

How? Ooh, that’s easy! I’ll show you! C’mere, stand up with me!

Now, turn allllll the way around…there! Perfect!

See all those trees over there? Those trees have beautiful green leaves, but those don’t have any. They only have a few leaves that somehow survived winter.

The ones with almost no leaves are the ones that gave up. They never moved on and were held back by the leaves they could never let go, but those other ones did, and then they made brand new leaves!

What I mean is, you can choose to let the bad times roll off your back, or you could be held back by them. I used to be one of the trees that never made new leaves, but now I’m the first one that does!

Well, a few years ago, me and my sisters were in a band together, but, uh…okay, this might sound kinda hard to believe, but our singing caused everybody to fight.

Against us? Uh, no, I don’t believe so. I think they liked our singing, but that’s probably because we made them like it.

How? Well, we had these little red necklace thingies that took this weird glowing fart dust from people.

Sorry, for laughing. That’s just what I always saw it as and it gets me rolling every time.

Anyway, whenever this dust appeared, people would start arguing. It’s ‘cause we were, uh…sirens.

Ehhhh, kinda like the ones from The Odyssey. We weren’t girls with birdwings though, we were more like seahorses.

Nope, I’m not making this up. I’m really from another world, for realsies. I know I look like a teenage girl, but I’m over a couple of centuries old. I think it was called Equestria, but me and my sisters were banished here.

Where are they? Well, we lost our necklaces to some high school girls and that kinda broke the band up. I don’t know where they are, but I hope Aria and Adagio are alright.

Well, sort of. I wouldn’t say we always got along well. Aria always made fun of me whenever she could and Adagio was the one leading us, but when we lost our necklaces, we ended up becoming the ones who always fought.

Yeah, so we… separated. For the first couple of months, I felt pretty lonely and scared. I had nobody to go to, nobody to help me, I was all alone. Though, I eventually ran into one of the girls that caused our pendants to break.

I think her name was Pinkie Pie… she saw me kinda like how you are now and wanted to cheer me up. I’ve become really good friends with her, and ever since, I’ve been pretty happy. Probably the most I’ve ever been.

Yeah, I keep in touch with her. Her friends kinda accepted me as part of their group, so that made things even better for me! I just wish Aria and Adagio could think positively too…

Well, if I knew where they were, maybe I could guide them which would be kinda ironic.

Why? Well, in those times I was a bit of a sillyhead. Sunset helped me improve my way of talking, but there’s still a bit of the old me in here. Anyway, I hope you’re still not too down in the dumps. I’ve learned life has some ups and downs, but you can’t go up if you never go down, you know?

You’re feeling better now? Oh, good, I’m so glad! Sometimes all you need is a little tender loving care!

Nobody’s ever taken the time to give that to you? Gosh, I’m so sorry to hear that.

Well, I’ll gladly stick around to help push you back up. I won’t stop at anything until you feel happy again!

Yeah, for realizes! You seem like a really sweet person; a person that doesn’t deserve to be so gloomy! Here, I know what’ll cheer you up!

Mmmm…there we go. A nice friendly hug to warm you up…Pinkie told me this kind of thing makes anybody feel better in an instant. Is it working?

O-Oh, you’re hugging back. Guess that means it is working, isn’t it?

Whoa…you smell so good and you feel pretty warm too…goodness, this might be working a bit too well. Hehehe…

Hey, look at those clouds up there in the sky…

Don’t they look kinda pretty?

N-Not as much as me? F-For realsies?

I-I’m cute? W-Whoa that’s…that’s really sweet. I’ve never been told that before…

Well, most people think I’m annoying or a nuisance when I’m me, but that’s okay. I know not everybody’s gonna like me.

You like me? Hehehe, thanks. I…I like you too, buuuut…let’s start off as buddies first, then maybe…maybe we can become like that someday.

Oh, that reminds me. I’m gonna go meet up with Pinkie and her friends at the mall. You wanna come with me?

Yaay! Awesome! Come on, let’s race each other! Let’s race each other!

Wait? Wait for what?

Oh, I never told you my name? Aw, silly me! I can’t believe I didn’t do that! I’m Sonata! Sonata Dusk! What’s your name?

Ooh, that’s kinda pretty. I like that name. Anywho, the last one to the mall is a rotten egg!