Author's Note

I am SUPERRRR sorry for the long delay! School, boxing classes and procrastination got the better of me!!
I also wrote this in a haste so I apologize if it's shorter than the one before!! I promise to make longer chapters if you guys want that-
Please feel free for feedback with this information in mind!!

I'm curious...

Xavier McMuffins sat on the bench of his picnic table. There was a plate of milk and a sandwich on top of the table before him. It was his favorite every time. It was like a revelation each time he found it, though; it was his favorite part about the journey near Ponyville.

Because it was a long walk to the table, and a simple reward was food. That was enough for him. So when he took his first bite, it tasted equally as tantalizing as the other dozen times he had taken a bite, but it didn’t stop him from thinking about things.

Thinking wasn’t unusual for him, but it wasn’t something he took his time to really focus on. He just did what he did and didn’t bat an eye. This time, however, was rare, for he took the opportune moment to focus on what he thought about.

“I wonder what Ponyville is up to today!...”

“Maybe Sugarcube Corner has good muffins…”

“Oh! What if Rainbow Dash comes here and gives me a muffin!”

The usual thoughts he conjured up. Nothing too interesting about it, at least from his perspective. Today was a strange one, though. He always had the goal of going to Ponyville one day, but he never went, even though it was so close to him.

“Hmm…” He stared into the distance where Ponyville was; it seemed small compared to him. He could smush Ponyville with his hoof at this distance.

“But mommy and daddy say not to go…” He slurred out with a rising pitch.

Xavier had an interesting thought. It might get him in trouble! But curiosity doesn’t always kill the cat. Xavier had never seen anything beyond the picnic table and his home. Ponyville was a mythological city full of wonders and utopia from all the stories he read before bed.

Xavier was taught to never leave messes, though! Therefore, he cleaned up after himself and ate his food fully before hopping off the bench and landing on his hooves. Xavier stepped closer to Ponyville, but it didn’t move any closer.

“But mommy says to always follow the rules! No being a bad boy!” He repeated to himself with a raspy pout.

“But I wanna go to Ponyville!” He craned his head to the sight of the buildings.

The path caught his eye, the one that went all the way back to his house, a place he was very familiar with. He had never broken the rules before, had he? For what it’s worth, Ponyville did contain the Mane 6.

A group of ponies that he idolized because they were so awesome. He would’ve asked mom and dad if he could go to Ponyville, but they probably would’ve said no again. They are also way too far to simply walk. Xavier had to make a decision himself.

“Umm…” His head kept pulling left and right between two places. His thoughts started to get jumbled and jangled.

“What do I do?!?...”

“If I go by myself, mommy and daddy will be mad at me…”

“Will mommy and daddy be mad at me?..”

“I really want to go!”

“But I gotta follow the rules…”

And so on. Xavier couldn’t grasp a single thought because they went too fast for him to process.

“Ohh…” He whimpered under the pressure. One way or another, he had to make a choice.

He would’ve gone back to eating his sandwich had he not eaten the whole thing. He took step after step, after step, and so on.

Though it was slow at first, it sped up as he realized that there was no going back after “breaking the rules.” It took a while, but Ponyville seemed to come closer into view! It was starting to get a lot bigger than what he thought it was, which amazed him.

It was until he looked back at the distance that his table seemed small in comparison to his hoof. He continued and eventually made his way into Ponyville.