A Life With Ponies

I lead the ponies inside, my mind still racing. How were they here? Why did they arrive in my backyard? All of these questions constantly play on repeat in my mind. I lead them to the living room, where they hop onto the biggest couch, and I sit in the smallest one, allowing me a face-to face view of the Mane 6. They really are 2D, and even have those little lines outlining their bodies from the show. It looks like that My Little Dashie movie.... the one made by... some dude.

“So... We have about five minutes before my family gets home, so-”

Twilight interrupts me.

“YOURHOUSELOOKSWEIRD,DOESITRUNONMAGIC,ISHOULDTELLCELESTIAABOUTTHISDOYOUHAVEFOODDOYOUEVENNEEDTOEAT-”

“Twilight!” I yell.

“What?”

“I. Need. To. Hide. You.”

“Why?”

“Because my family won’t take kindly to six technicolor ponies from another world laying dea-” I’m interrupted again, but this time by Rarity, who gingerly hops off the couch, her mane never leaving it’s fixed position, and walks up to me.

“Darling, you must allow me to study your clothing! Old and smelly, is that how you creatures dress here?” I swear, if she wasn’t my favorite pony, or was, when I was a Brony, I would have punched her in the face then and there. But, she doesn’t know how humans are, or anything about this universe, for that matter, but the accidental insult still stung.

“Uh... no, thank you.” I say. She looks to me, and then walks back over to the couch and takes her seat in between Applejack and Fluttershy. “Now... We have about...” I glance at my IPod and check the time. “Two minutes before my family get home. Get in the closet.”

“What?!” All six ponies yell in union.

“Get in the closet! I need some time to think!” I say, and grab Twilight by a hoof and sling her over my shoulder.

“H-Hey! Put me down!” Twilight yelled, her horn glowing, powering up a magical blast.

“Calm down, I’m only bringing you to my room.”

“Put. Me. Down!”

I kick my bedroom door open, and place Twilight on my bed. “Stay here. I’m not gonna hurt you, I just need you to hide until I can tell my family what’s going on.” I walk out of my room, and promptly get a hoof to the face from Rainbow Dash, knocking me down to the ground, allowing her to take the opportunity to pin me down to the ground. That’s when Applejack and Pinkie grab my arms, while Rarity uses her magic to pin my legs.

“I’m not gonna hurt you!” I try to convince them.

“How do we know that?” Rainbow accuses.

“I let you into my home! You would have frozen to death!”

Suddenly, my mouth freezes as Twilight walks into my field of vision. “Girls, let him go. I’ve read his mind, he had no intention of hurting us.” Twilight says. Rainbow looks at Applejack with a suspicious look, but back off of me. Rarity’s magic goes away, allowing me to move my legs. Pinkie and Applejack get off my arms, and Twilight unfreezes my mouth. “I’m sorry, Jeramy-”

“JD.”

“Huh?”

“That’s what I prefer to be called. JD, if you don’t mind.” I grumble, and slowly get up. “Thanks for saving me, though. But did you really need to freeze my mouth?”

“Only way to make sure your words didn’t interfere with your thoughts.”

“You didn’t really read my mind, did you?”

Twilight hesitates. “N-no, I didn’t really. I just knew you didn’t want to hurt me.”

“So, what was the whole ‘Put me down!’ thing?”

“Pft. Tell me you wouldn’t want to be put down after some weird creature grabs you and slings you over it’s shoulders.”

I can't help but laugh at that. "True. Now, round up your friends and get them into my room. We have seconds left." I turn towards the windows lining the front wall that allow a view of the driveway, and to my horror, I see my Dad’s car. And even worse, it holds my Step-Mom, my grandma, and my siblings. I am so dead.

“Twilight, get your friends to my room, please.” My stomach tightens up as my parents step out of the car and let my siblings out. They always keep the back doors locked ever since Zack opened one of the doors in traffic on a highway. They’re walking towards the front door now, and in the corner of my eye, I can see the Mane 6 rush into my room and take hiding places under the bed or in the closet.

Like that’s gonna work.

I hear the locks tumble inside the door, and the creak as the old wood slides open for the first time in hours. “JD? We’re home!” I hear Anna, my Step-Mom, say as she is the first to emerge from the door, just as Twilight forces my bedroom door shut with her magic. “JD- oh, there you are. Why’d you slam your door?” She asks as her eyes land on me.

“Uh... M-more problems at school.” It’s not a lie. I would have slammed my door, if not for my current situation. Anna places her purse on the couch and walks over to me.

“Is that a black eye?”

“Uh....” Crap, I forgot. The ponies had beaten me up. I didn’t even feel one of them punch my eye...

(Now that my family’s come into play here, let me clear something up: I’m called JD, not only because it stands for my first two names, Jeramy David, but because I’m named after my father. We call me JD to avoid confusion.)

“Jeramy! It’s happened again!”

My heart sinks. Now she’s worried about me, and all for nothing. I’m gonna have to tell her in the next few minutes, but... I’m gonna try and hold that off. “Anna... I’m fine. It’s only a black eye.”

“Which you’ve come home with every other month.”

Ouch.

I sigh. “I’m fine. I’ll go... get some steak, or whatever and hold it up to my eye, or something, but I’m fine.”

I walk past her and two the fridge, and open it up.

No steak.

Okay, so far, it’s been twenty minutes and no one has gone in my room. That’s good, for me, anyways. The ponies are probably still stuck with all of the dirt clothes and dishes under my bed and in my closet.

Oops.

I walk in my room, and see that the ponies are sitting on the floor examining my Xbox and Wii. they hear me open the door, and look at me. “Are we allowed to come out now?” Fluttershy asks me. She hid behind her bubblegum-pink mane as she asked, and was slightly crouched down, making sure to be as close to Rainbow Dash as possible.

I swear, it was the cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

I sigh. “J-just... follow me.”

I motion for the ponies to follow me, with Applejack being the first to do so. I walk out of the room, the ponies following, and step into the living room to find everyone sitting in chairs and couches watching Face Off. “Uh... Hi.” I say. My Dad looks at me.

“JD, we’re trying to watch TV. If you want, you can get out your chair and-” He stops when Fluttershy peeks out from behind me, and immediately recoiled back behind me. My Dad’s face turns to one of complete shock, and everyone else turns to me, and each and everyone of my family members see at least one of the Mane 6.

I get the initial reaction I expected. Confusion, fear, among other things.

“GUYS!!! It’s okay!!!” I yell. My family stops trying to get as far away from the Mane 6 as possible, but the looks of confusion still remain. “Now... You’re probably wondering how they got here... I have no idea.”

“How,” Dustyn speaks up. “do you have no idea how they ended up here?!”

“I was outside-” I hear Zack gasp, which earns him a glare from me, “-when I was blinded by a white light. When I woke up, the ponies were there. Right by the tree.” I explain. I look around at their faces, still confused, but less so after my explanation.

“Now... Let’s introduce ourselves, shall we?”