When the Laughter Stops

Pinkie woke up in a white room. She immediately figured out that she was in the hospital.

Pinkie quickly began to try to stand when suddenly she was being pushed gently back onto the bed.

“Sugar cube, you're in the hospital, you're gunna have to just lay here till the doctor comes”

Apple Jack gently told Pinkie.

Pinkie lay back into the pillows, squinting at the bright lights. There was a table full of cards and flowers in one corner of the room and the other side of the room was taken up by large pieces of  machinery and several monitors that Pinkie noticed then were connected to her.

She turned her eyes to the small window: it was dark outside, Princess Luna had not risen the moon tonight and there where hardly any stars.

“....How long have I been here?”

Pinkie Pie croaked, her mouth was dry and her throat felt as if she had swallowed stinging nettles mixed with Equestria's hottest chilly sauce.

“ About 4 months now Pinkie Pie”

Apple Jack told the pink pony through tears.

“We where all scared.... scared ya.... wouldn't make it”

Pinkie gasped reaching out to Apple Jack,who wrapped her hooves around pinkie and the two friends wept. Happy and sad all at once.

When they finally let go of each other Pinkie summed up the courage and asked Apple Jack:

“What's wrong with me?”

At this moment a nurse pony with a cutie mark shaped like a red cross trotted in. She smiled at Pinkie Pie and looked into her eyes,she took her pulse and her temperature and wrote some notes. She looked puzzled.

“We took several tests during the time you where in a coma state. All came back clear and from the tests I have just taken, everything is completely normal....We have no idea what caused this, as things are looking normal I believe you should be fine to go home within 3 days. We need to keep you in for observation, but I don't think we will ever find the cause of this.”

Apple Jack thanked the nurse and turned to Pinkie.

“ We've all bin' visitin' you everyday. I’m so glad you're okay sugar cube. No pony could cope without you.”

Pinkie Pie smiled she was glad her friends were there for her.

But something was troubling her.

Pinkie's headache was coming back, the same as last time.

Pinkie carried on smiling. She didn't want Apple Jack to worry, she knew she could really tell somepony, but despite what a lot of pony's thought, Pinkie never EVER wanted to be a bother to any pony and for the sake of others smiling faces, she would always be fine.

No pony would have to know, she would be fine. Pinkie would be out of hospital in 3 days and then she would make every pony smile and laugh and a stupid headache wasn't going to stop her.

She promised herself.