Chapter 5: Now the Rest…

“Honey! Your dad and brother are home! Come down for dinner!” My mom called out from the bottom of the staircase.

“Well Fluttershy, I guess it’s time for you to meet my family.” I told her as I turned off the Xbox, in my mind I couldn’t help but to think that this could either go down really well or really bad.

“Okay, can we play later on?” She asked me, I guess she really enjoyed that game.

“Hey son! How was your day?” My dad asked me as I entered the kitchen, I told to Fluttershy to wait until I gave her the queue to walk in.

“It’s been…alright I guess…” I kind of took some time to answer.

“Why would that be?” He asked again.

“Well…mom do you remember what I asked you earlier?” I said turning to face my mom.

“You mean about that pony thing?” She asked as she set some plates on the table.

“Yeah that.”

“What about it?” She asked

“Well… I don’t know how to say this so I’ll do this quick. Fluttershy you can come in now.” This was the moment of truth where I would get a real answer on whether she can stay or well really I don’t have a plan B.

“Um…Hi everypony…” Fluttershy said walking in slowly, causing immediate reactions.

“WHAT THE HECK! PETER WHAT IS THIS?” My mom immediately yelled almost dropping the plate she was holding.

“What do you mean? You said that if she ever ended up here she could stay.” Just what I expected, I looked over at Fluttershy, she seemed frighten but I gave her a reassuring smile before turning back at my parents.

“Yeah but I didn’t think it was real.” She answered still not fully realizing what she was seeing.

“Where have she been sleeping and how long has she been in this house?” Added my dad.

“Well she’s been here since last night and she is sleeping in my bed.” I said staying as firm as possible.

“I want her out.” My mom said, a cold expression on her face, I turned over to look at Fluttershy, she was scared, and felt she was the only one to blame.

“You can’t be serious?” I was surprised to hear my dad say that.

“What do you mean? Holy crap, is that Fluttershy?” I heard my brother say as he approached, he didn’t sound that surprised.

“Yes, and my mom wants her out.” I said turning back to face my mom.

“Just get her out of this house now.” She said a bit more angered.

“And where do you want me to leave her? In an animal shelter? I’m sorry but she is staying here no matter what you say.” I replied, I had this type of behavior, much less towards my parents but this is what had to be done.

“Then where do you think you’re going to have her sleep?” She replied, this was a duel I wasn’t ready to lose.

“Where she has stayed, in my room and in this house.” I pointed in the air to symbolize my room upstairs. My mom stayed quite for a few moments.
“Please let her stay, she has nowhere else to go, just let her stay here at least until they come for her or if I turn 18, then I can move out and bring her with me, she’s not a pet mom, you’ve seen the show, you know very well that she knows how to behave. She has a mind.” I almost started to cry, I didn’t want her to make Fluttershy leave.

“Hey where she go?” My brother said, none of us where looking at Fluttershy so we didn’t noticed her leaving.

“Oh no.” I said noticing the front door was wide open.
“I’ve got to go find her,” I rushed outside to grab my bike, hopefully she wasn’t to far already.

“Peter wait!” I heard my mom callout

“What?” I was scared and angry right now, about Fluttershy staying or not.

“She can stay.” My mom said, a small smile on her face.
“Oh and take this.” She threw her car keys at me, which I managed to grab with one hand.

“You’ll need a way to get her back without a lot of unnecessary people seeing her.” I rushed up to her and hugged her, but now I had to get going.

I stopped near the park, I’ve been looking all over for her, not only on ground but in the sky.
I got out of the car and went to sit down by a bench that was in front of a large tree, I felt sad and started to feel tears rolling down my cheeks. I couldn’t believe she was lost, but there was one thought in my head that I couldn’t get out.
“What if her friends come looking for her? What if they find me and me where she is? I wouldn’t handle the stress of having to tell them that she could be lost or even…dead.”
As that last thought sunk in I felt something wet fall on my head. I looked at the sky in front of my view range and there were only a few clouds, and none that could indicate any rain. So I did what anyone would do and looked up. To my relief I saw a pink mane hanging from a branch, It was Fluttershy, apparently she hadn’t noticed me.
“Fluttershy!” I called out in happiness, whipping the remaining tears from my face, she got frightened, I guess she didn’t expect anyone to find her.
“Fluttershy come down please!” I said again this time making her look down at me, she had a lot of tears flowing from her eyes.

“Just leave me here! I don’t want to bother you anymore.” She got quite as she said that last part.

“Please just come down and go home with me.” I looked around to see if there was anybody else in the park, luckily there wasn’t

“Why? It’s pretty clear that I’m not wanted there.” She said in between sniffs and tears.

“If you weren’t welcomed back, would I’ve have been looking for you?” I asked still waiting foe her to come down but at the same time keeping a lookout for anybody that might become present.

“Well I guess not…” She said looking away in thought.

“Plus if you don’t come back, I don’t think I nor your friends could ever fix that hole in our hearts.” I remembered that from season two. She still looked like she was doubting it.
“Please Fluttershy, come down from there and go back with me, remember my promise” I extended my hand to let her know it was true what I just said.

“I guess you did promise it… Fine, I’ll go back with you” She said, this time finally giving in to my plea, she came down from the tree and I quickly gave her a hug, I was happy she was okay.

“Come let’s go home and play some more.” I said checking one last time to see if anybody was there.

The ride back home was going to take about ten minutes so that gave Fluttershy and I some time to talk.
“So, how is everything going to work out? You know with me and your mom.” Fluttershy asked as I drove through a less crowded street.

“Well I guess normally, you’ll just be like another member of the family.” I responded.

“But, won’t I be a bother towards her?” She asked again

“Look, I’m pretty positive that’ll she’ll see you just as another pet sadly, but with time she’ll learn that you’re nowhere close to being a pet.” I said letting out a small sigh.

“Oh…” She said lowering her head and tilting her ears back.

“Come on don’t be like that, I’m sure everything will be a lot better I promise.” I reassured her as we finally drove up to the garage of my house, I made sure to wait until the door closed so Fluttershy could get out.

“There they are!” My dad said as Fluttershy and I walked inside the house.

“Thank god you’re alright.” My brother said towards Fluttershy

“Thanks…” She responded timidly.
“Where’s my mom?” I asked, she was nowhere to be found, she was probably somewhere ranting about the current situation.

“She’s upstairs in your room.” My dad responded.
‘Oh crap now what is she doing?’ I thought

“Well I guess we better go check out what’s she’s up too.” I said sort of annoyed at the single thought of her doing something as crazy as moving the bed so Fluttershy wouldn’t be able to sleep there.

“Mom, we’re back, what are you doing?” I asked as I opened the door to my room, my mom was there as expected except she wasn’t doing what I was expecting.

“Oh hello, I see that you did find her!” She said smiling at both of us.

“What are you doing?” I asked her.

“Just changing the sheets of the bed she’s going to be sleeping in, I can’t believe you didn’t change them knowing they were all dirty.” She responded, this was totally opposite from what I was expecting.

“Oh…Well thanks.” I said a little shocked to see her not really asking any questions, but knowing her she probably had something in between hands.

“Well I’m going to be downstairs if you need me.” After finishing changing the bed sheets she left, leaving me and Fluttershy in the room.

“Well that went better than expecting…Want to watch a movie?” I asked her turning around to look at her, I didn’t really need a response due to the question causing her to smile, well that’s another thing she likes, movies.

I was about to press the play button when I heard a knocking at my door
“Come in!” I said and in a few seconds I saw my brother’s head pop in from the slightly opened door.
“Hey, um…what are you guys doing?” He asked, I knew what he wanted.

“Watching a movie!” Fluttershy quickly explained
“Want to watch it with us?” She asked my brother before I even had a chance to talk.

“Sure!” His response was quicker than saying the word kumquat.
He spend the rest of the movie asking Fluttershy a lot of questions, it didn’t bother me that he asked her the questions but the fact that he didn’t really let her watch it, but I already had a little surprise for Fluttershy.

“Hey Pamela, think you could do me a little favor?” I texted one of my friends, who was a pegasister and a very good friend of mine.

“Sure what is it?”