Teaching Fluttershy

Chapter 2: Breakfast

There was a loud knocking on my door that quickly made me wake up. I checked my clock first and saw that is was already 8:30. I noticed Fluttershy was facing away from the door, which was great, because that way I could just put a pillow over her face so it would be covered up and not visible through the door.

“Who is it?” I asked before opening up the door, making sure that Fluttershy’s face wasn’t visible.

“Your mom. Anyways I’m off to work. See you later honey.” She said, just about to head downstairs.

“Wait.” I said leaving my room but shutting the door just in case.

“What is it?” She asked, stopping at the middle of the stairs and looking up at me.

“Are my dad and brother here?” I asked, looking down the hallway towards the direction of my brother’s room.

“No they left about half an hour ago, why?” She asked now continuing her way down the stairs.

“Nothing, just wanted to make sure if I was gonna be alone to do some stuff.” I tried to sound convincing and not as if I was hiding something.

“What kind of stuff?” Her tone changed a little like if she wanted to know the truth.

“Um…Just some cooking and stuff, you know the usual stuff I do when I’m alone.” I tried not to make eye contact, as this could end up in a misunderstood statement.

“Hmm… Okay but just clean up the kitchen when you’re done okay?” She said as she opened the front door and looking for her car keys.

“Yeah, no problem, see you later.” I said as I backed up to my room, hopefully Fluttershy hasn’t woken up yet. Once I heard my mom leave, I then proceeded to enter my room thankfully Fluttershy was still asleep. “Dang, she sure is heavily sleeper.” I took the pillow of her face so she wouldn’t get hot, Seeing as I still had time I decided to take a bath, I walked over to my closet and got some clothes and left the room, this time I didn’t close the door, just in case Fluttershy got up and wanted to get something or wanted to look for me.

As I turned on the water in the shower I couldn’t stop thinking about how I was going to hide Fluttershy from my parents, I mean they know who she is, heck they watch the cartoon with me sometimes so that’s no big deal but they just see her as an animal and not like a thinking being, so the problem isn’t them finding her, the problem is whether she’ll stay or not.
All this bothered me greatly and I couldn’t stop thinking about it as I took a bath, I’d come up with solutions but would quickly find a downside for it.

Finally I was done with my bath, so I dressed thankfully I brought clothes with me and left towards my room.
As I got closer I could hear Fluttershy humming a tune, this of course indicated me that she had woken up.

“Good morning Fluttershy, have a good night’s sleep?” I asked walking in to the room, I found her making the beds, which was great, I mean I was going to do them but her help is appreciated.

“Oh! Good morning I didn’t hear you coming… I made the beds, I hope you don’t mind…” she answered timidly.

“No problem. I was going to do them but thanks for the help.” I threw in a smile so she wouldn’t be scared or anything.

“Oh okay then…Um could you tell me where the bathroom is? I would love to take a bath… I mean if that’s alright with you.” Good so ponies also take baths in the morning like humans.

“Um sure no problem, follow me.” I did a hand gesture signaling for her to follow, I took her to the bathroom down the hallway, the one where I had taken my bath a few minutes before.

“Okay here it is, I’m not sure how showers work in Equestria but this knob is for the cold water and this one is for the hot water.” I gave her a small tutorial on how to turn on the water and what knobs are for the different temperatures.

“Oh don’t worry I know how they work…” She said, she talked in a rather low voice but since there wasn’t much noise I could still hear her.

“Okay, I’m going downstairs to make some breakfast, if you need anything just shout, ok?” I asked before leaving the bathroom.

“Okay.” She answered, it didn’t sound like she had anything else to say so I left the room, closing the door behind me.

“Hm… What should I make?” It was rather hard thinking of something suitable for a human and pony to eat. “I could make eggs and bacon…wait they don’t eat bacon.” I kept looking through the refrigerator but still couldn’t come up with anything.
“Let see… Here we go!” I was searching in the food cabinets and found some pancake mix. “I’m sure ponies eat pancakes, I mean they eat cupcakes, cake, muffins and all that, who says they can’t eat this?” I hurried to get the batter ready and get the pan hot.
After a few minutes I had about a dozen done, I decided to make a few more, I was about to pour in the batter for the next one when I heard a rather low voice coming from upstairs.
I walked up the stairs and knocked on the bathroom door. “Fluttershy were you calling me?”

“Yes so if I bothered you but could you bring me a towel please? I mean if it isn’t a problem of course.” She said from the other side of the door.

“Yeah no problem, I’ll be right back.” I walked over to a room in the hallway, that’s where we kept all the towels and some blankets; I grabbed 2 just in case.

“Here you go.” I said knocking on the door.

“Um…well the door is open and I’m still inside the tub…” I heard her answering, this made me feel rather uncomfortable, I was a bit timid with females and even though she is just a pony I still feel rather weird on the fact that she is after all a girl.

I walked in trying not to look at her just in case. “Here, I put them on towel rack.”

“Oh, ok thank you.” She responded, moving away the shower curtain and reaching out to grab the towel.

“Once you’re done, come downstairs, I made some breakfast.” I said quickly leaving the bath room, trying to avoid any eye contact.

“Okay, I’ll be done in minute…” she said, with that said I went back to the kitchen to finish the last pancakes and to quickly make the eggs.

I was just about finish when I heard Fluttershy coming down the stairs.

“Oh it smells good, what did you make.” Fluttershy said as she walked into the kitchen.

“Well I made pancakes and scrambled eggs, I hope you like them, if not I’ll make you something else.” I said putting the batch of eggs on the table.

“Yes I like it, don’t worry I’ll eat them, no need to over work.” She said taking a seat on the table, which had two plates with a fork next to each one.

“Well, everything is ready you can start eating.” I sat down on the other end from where Fluttershy was.”

“Mm. This tastes wonderful.” She said taking in a piece of her pancake.

“Oh yeah I forgot.” I quickly got up and went to the fridge; I forgot to grab the maple syrup.

“Here, put some of this on it’ll taste better.” Once again I forgot weather or not they had this in Equestria but I let it pass. “So, there are some questions I want to ask you and I’m sure there are some you want to ask me, you can go first no problem.”

“Well, there is one thing, well actually two things.” She said putting down her fork.

“Ask away.” I said prompting her to ask the question

“Well, how do you know me and my friends and why are you being so nice to me?” She asked, looking over at me.

“Well…You see, here in this world you and your friends are what we call a cartoon, and this cartoons are a series of moving pictures, and well your cartoon is a favorite of mine and many other people that go by the community name of “bronies” and well the reason that I’m so nice to you is because your my favorite pony out of the six of your friends.” As I said that last part she instantly blushed.

“Another reason being is that this world is very different to Equestria.”

“What do you mean?” She asked

“You see this world isn’t exactly filled with the friendliest people, in fact most of the time some country is in war with another. Also there are a lot of mean people in this world that if they were to get their hands on you they would do horrible things, they would sell you to scientist who would study you, they would most probably open you up, they would probably show you off as some kind of attraction, and maybe even worst things and no I’m not saying this to scare you I’m saying it cause that’s how things go in this world.” I looked over at her, she had a frighten look on her face. “Don’t worry Fluttershy, as long as you’re here I won’t let anybody take you away or let them do anything to you.” I extended my hand and placed it on top of her hoof so she would feel safe.

“Thank you, Peter.” She said, it sounded like she was really scared

“No problem, there is only one thing I want to ask you.” I answered taking my hand back to my side of the table.

“What is it?” She asked.

“How did you get here? Like what happened, or what was the last thing you were doing before you were teleported here?” I asked, I needed to know, this really intrigued me.

“Well…um….um I was, I was taking care of my animals when all of a sudden there was this light that dazed me and all of a sudden I ended up in here.” She seemed to have taken some time to answer but that was okay, I doubt she could tell a lie.

“Hm, that sounds strange but whatever the reason I’m sure the other girls went to seek aid from the princess.” I said before finishing up my breakfast.

“Yeah I hope…” She said, she had also finished her breakfast at this point.

“Well I’m going to wash the dishes and then I can show you the cartoon of you and your friends.” I said picking up the empty plates and heading over to the faucet.

“Oh yes please, I’m rather intrigued about this cartoon. Do you want me to help you wash the dishes.”

“Don’t worry I’ll be done in a jiffy, if you want go sit in the couch, I’ll be right there to tell you more about “your” cartoon.” I pointed towards the living room where the couch was, I wasn’t sure how to approach the whole cartoon thing and how to explain the TV to her, there are a lot of thing I’m going to have to teach and explain to her, I just hope nobody comes over today.