Lifting a Soul

Chapters

Favor
Good Old Memories
A Kiss
Forget The Past
Guilt and Pleasure
Beautiful Voice
All Aboard
Finally Manehattan
Mare of Liberty
Amica and Mary
Red Rose Petals
Being Compared
Pillow
I'll Comfort You
Shocking Truth
I Can't Take It Anymore
Memories
Time to Check Out
Introduction / Why? [Rewritten]
Going Out
True Friends

Favor

"Oh buck Celestia, somepony is trying to kill me!!!" I yelled as I opened my eyes. I saw Amabel in front of me, trying to put a blanket around me.

"Sorry, didn't mean to wake you up." she said to me with a smile. She looked like she just came out of the bathroom since there is a towel above her head and water is dripping off of her tail.

"Just some reflexes." I said to her while chuckling a bit. "How was the bath?" I sat up.

"It has been a long time since I first used a bathroom again." she scratched her head. "But it feels great and thanks for helping me." she hugged me.

"No problem and you are still wet so you might want to dry yourself up first." I pushed her softly.

"Oh right, I almost forgot." she gave me a sheepish smile. She rushed upstairs to the bedroom. I took a peek at the clock in the kitchen. I sighed as I saw the time.

"No matter how different mares are, it still take them an hour to finish a bath." the time is 4:00 P.M. I went to the kitchen and brought out a tomato sauce and a pack of mushroom out of the small cooler. I placed them on the counter top just beside me. I opened a cabinet above my head and then brought out a pasta pack. "Just gonna make sure this is enough for both of us." I said to myself. I turned on the stove and placed a double boiler with water in it. I started to chop the mushroom with a knife as I waited for the water to boil. After I finished chopping the mushroom, I walked near the stove to check if the water is already boiling. I grabbed the pasta pack and then opened it. I placed the pasta onto the boiler. "Just need to wait again and it will be all set." I said to myself. I walked upstairs to check on Amabel. "You okay there Amabel." I asked as I knock on the door of the bedroom.

"Yes, I'm in here." Amabel replied. I opened the door and saw her sitting at the bed. She was brushing her mane with my brush. "Sorry if I'm using some of your items." she stopped brushing for a moment.

"That's fine and uh... Dinner will be ready soon." I walked closer to her and then sat beside her. "Are you feeling comfortable now?" she nodded. "How should I say this?" I avoided her eyes and then scratched my head.

"Say what?" she turned her head to look at me.

"To say that it might be better if you live here with me." I turned my head a bit so I could see Amabel's reaction. She just looked at me blankly. "Well you could disagree if you want." I gave her a sheepish smile.

"I don't think living here with you will turn out great for you." she said as she laid down the brush beside her.

"Why do you say so?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Well you have to feed me, take care of me, nourish me and-." I cut her words.

"And love you?" I smiled at her. Her face blushed for a few seconds. "I can't believe I just said that to her." I thought to myself.

"Love me?" she raised her eyebrow.

"What I meant to say was to help you." I gave her a sheepish smile. She looked away to avoid my eyes.

"I could stay here with you." she said timidly. "But could I ask a favor?" she tried to look at me slowly.

"What is it?" I moved closer to her.

"Oh wait it is too embarrassing." she looked away again.

"Tell me and I'll try to do it." I wrapped my hoof around her neck.

"Could you uh... Sleep with me?" I froze for a moment.

"Could you make your sentence a bit clear." I moved my ear a bit closer to Amabel's muzzle.

"Could you just um... Sleep with me tonight." again I froze for a moment. "I just miss my love life." she said timidly.

"So I'm going to be like a replacement?" I asked Amabel.

"No." she protested. "I just want you beside me, just in case I need some comforting."

"O.. Oka... Okay then." I said to her with a sheepish smile.

"Thanks." she smiled at me. She suddenly sniffed. "Is there something burning?" I tried to smell something burning.

"Oh Celestia I forgot." I rushed downstairs to the kitchen and quickly turned off the stove. "I hope it is still okay." I chanted as I carefully drain the boiler. Half of the pasta survived. "Looks like I will just have to give you to Amabel." I said to the pasta. I picked out the pasta that can be eaten and then placed it in a plate. I opened the pack of tomato sauce then poured some on top of the pasta. I called Amabel as I finished the final touches on the pasta. Amabel went to the kitchen and gave me a curious face.

"So are we gonna share the pasta?" Amabel asked me.

"It's all yours, I'm just gonna have a sandwich since half of the pasta got burned." I gave her a sheepish smile.

"We could share it." Amabel took a seat near the table.

"No need."

"Come on just share it with me." she grabbed my left hoof. "I couldn't finish this all since you already gave me a sandwich earlier." she gave me a seat beside her. She grabbed two forks on the top of the counter near the sink. She gave me one fork.

"Alright, I'll share it with you." I put a small portion of pasta on my fork and then started to eat it. I watched her eat some pasta. She has some great table manners. I put another small portion of pasta on my fork and then started to put it inside of my mouth. I didn't notice that the pasta was pretty long but I just kept on chewing. I followed the trail of pasta without paying attention to it. It brought me into Amabel's muzzle. I didn't notice it right away that I was kissing Amabel. I quickly backed away and fell onto the floor on my back. I grunted a bit as I tried to sit back up. "Sorry about that I didn't really mean to do it." I scratched my head. I looked at her in the face and she was blushing.

"That's okay I know you didn't mean to." she covered her face with her hoof. I stood up and walked near the sink to grab a glass. I filled the glass with water and then drank it in one gulp. I turned my head around a bit to peek at her. Her face is still blushing and she is still eating the pasta.

"Maybe I should just let her eat the pasta alone." I thought to myself. I went back to the living room and then laid my back down on the couch. "That was embarrassing." I said to myself. I covered my face with my hoof while thinking of the accident I just made. I just waited for time to pass as I try to forget the incident. After hours of waiting, I heard hoofsteps getting close to me. I removed my hoof from my face and saw Amabel standing beside me.

"I thought you were going to sleep beside me?" she asked.

"Oh right, that." I said as I stood up. I took a peek at the clock and saw the time. "6:00 P.M already?" I thought to myself.

"So uh... Is it okay with you to sleep by my side?" her face blushed a bit.

"Sure." I gave her a sheepish smile. I followed her upstairs to the bedroom. "So I'm going to sleep at the left side of the bed." I said to her as I walk to the bed. I laid down on the left side of the bed and then tried to avoid her face. I heard the bed creak as Amabel laid her back down on the right side of the bed.

"I'm really sorry about this."

"No need to be sorry." I said to her without facing her. I closed my eyes and then focused myself on sleeping. I felt a hoof getting wrapped around my belly. I opened my eyes and tried to look behind me. Amabel was already asleep. She was hugging me. "I only wanted to help her, not to be her stallion." I thought to myself. I scratched my head and then tried to focus on sleep again.

Good Old Memories

I woke up earlier than expected since I went to bed at 6:00 P.M. I opened my eyes and then stretched out my front hooves. I tried to get out of the bed but Amabel's front hooves are wrapped around my belly. "How do we do this?" I thought to myself as I try to check how tight Amabel's grip is. "Here we go one... two... three." at the count of three I tried to remove Amabel's hooves off of me.

"Please don't leave me." Amabel cried out as I try to remove her front hooves. I turned around to check if Amabel is already awake. She is still asleep but murmuring words. "I don't want you to leave me." her grip became even more tighter.

"Please pff... stop it." I whispered to her as I get suffocated by her hooves. She opened her eyes followed by a yawn. "Please le- go of me." I said to her.

"Oh sorry." she quickly released her grip on my belly.

"Much better." I gasped for air. "What's with the iron grip?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"I don't know." her face blushed. She covered her face with her hoof.

"And also were you dreaming? Since you were telling me to not to leave you alone while asleep." I removed her hoof on her face.

"It's just a dream." Amabel turned around, trying to avoid my face.

"Just tell me." I put my right hoof on her shoulder. "I know there is something wrong so it maybe the best to tell." she didn't responded. "Looks like I can't force you to tell me." I sighed. I got out of the bed then went to the door of the bedroom. "Just come downstairs to have your breakfast." I said to her without looking back. I went downstairs to the kitchen to make some pancakes for breakfast. I brought out an egg and a milk from the fridge. I grabbed the flour above the fridge carefully. I started to make a pancake batter in a bowl. "What's with Amabel anyway?" I thought to myself as I stir the pancake batter. I opened the stove and then preheated a small frying pan with vegetable oil. After the pan has been preheated, I started to pour some pancake batter in the pan. I made 5 pieces of small pancakes. I put 3 pancakes on one plate and 2 on the other. I set the plates with pancakes at the table. I took a seat near the table while waiting for Amabel to come downstairs. After waiting for five minutes, my patience finally broke down. I went upstairs to the bedroom to check on Amabel. Without knocking I entered the bedroom. Amabel is still laying at the bed while staring at the ceiling. "Amabel are you okay?" I asked as I approached her slowly. She didn't respond. I sat at the bed near her. I waved my left hoof closer to her eyes. She finally snapped out of her trance. "Are you okay Amabel?" I asked her again.

"Yeah I'm okay." she replied.

"Why aren't you coming downstairs yet?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Just got a little distracted." she sat up.

"Well you need to have your breakfast." I stood up. I helped her stand up. "The pancakes got a little cold from waiting for you." I smiled at her. I escorted her downstairs, in to the kitchen. She took a seat near the table. I pushed the plate a little bit closer to her. I grabbed my plate and then took a seat beside her. "So, what has gotten you distracted?" I asked her as I impale my pancake with a fork.

"Just some memories." she replied.

"What kind of memories?" I started to put a proportion of the pancake inside of my mouth.

"Just some good old memories." she smirked.

"Why don't you tell me some?" I put a small proportion of my pancake in my fork and then tried to feed it to Amabel.

"The days when I still live with Samphy." Amabel ate the pancake on my fork.

"Samphy?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"He's the stallion that used to love." she gave a small smile. "I remembered when we used to cuddle in bed." she turned her head at the pancake and then took a bite of it. "The time when he used to make me breakfast before I go to work." Amabel turned her head to look at me. "The time when he used to love me." she moved her face closer to mine, preparing for a kiss. I tried to back my face away from her a bit but she just followed. I started to blush a bit as she moved her muzzle closer to my muzzle. I dropped my fork on the ground.

"Uh... I think I dropped my fork." I said to her.

"Oh uh... Sorry." she moved her face away from mine. I grabbed the fork on the ground. I stood up from the seat and then walked to the sink.

"I think I'm starting to replace his special stallion." I thought to myself as I wash the fork on the sink. After I washed the fork, I went back to my seat. I tried to look at her face but her mane was covering her face a bit. I sighed and then went back on eating the pancake. After Amabel finished eating the pancake, she went to the living room. I put all of the plates back at the sink to wash them. I heard a knocking on the door of my house. I left the kitchen to answer the door. I opened the door and saw my closest friends. Berry, Enigma, Joe and Quick Write.

"Want to join us? We are going to a bar this afternoon." said Berry with a smile on his face.

"Yeah and maybe we could find some mare at the bar who would like to join our Hearth's Warming Eve party." said Joe. Joe is an earth pony and a party animal. He has a yellow fur and a black colored mane and tail. He always wear his favorite eye wear.

"Right Joe, always with the mares." said Quick Write while chuckling. Quick Write is a focused earth pony but can be very wild when he gets drunk. He has a grey colored fur and a black colored mane and tail.

"Write you are ha ha, get it?" said Enigma. Enigma is a pegasus who is always playful to the pony he knows. He has a dark red colored fur and a dark orange colored mane and tail. The five of us except Quick Write laughed.

"Very funny." said Quick Write while giving Enigma a friendly push.

"So Pico, are you in?" Berry asked as he turn his attention to me.

"Sure but let me talk to Amabel first."

"Who's Amabel?" Quick Write, Joe and Enigma asked in unison.

"Just a homeless mare Pico helped." said Berry. Quick Write, Joe and Enigma's jaw dropped. "Is there something I said?" Berry raised his eyebrow.

"Nothing, it is just weird for us to know that Pico is helping a-" Quick Write didn't get to finish his sentence as Joe interrupted him.

"Homeless ma-" I quickly block Joe's muzzle before he could say homeless mare.

"I'll just tell you the story when we get to the bar." I said to them. "So uh... Where should we meet?" I asked them as I remove my hoof on Joe's muzzle.

"At the park." said Berry.

"Okay then, at the park this afternoon." I said to them as I slowly close the door. I sighed after I completely closed the door. I walked towards Amabel and took a seat beside her at the couch. "Amabel, could you do me a favor?" I asked her.

"What is it?" she asked timidly without looking at me.

"Could you watch my house for a day for me?" I wrapped my hoof around her neck.

"Why?" she faced me.

"Just gonna spend sometime with my friends." I smiled at her.

"Sure." she moved her face away from me again.

"Thanks and don't worry, I'll make lunch for you before I leave this afternoon." I hugged her.

"Sure."

A Kiss

"I will just go take a bath." I said to Amabel as I release her from the hug. As I stood up from the couch, I felt my left hoof being grabbed. I turned around and saw Amabel holding on to my left hoof.

"Let me help you take your bath." said Amabel with a smile on her face. I stood frozen, trying to process what she just said. After a few seconds I finally responded.

"Why do you keep asking some weird requests?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"I just want to remember how I give a bath to Samphy." her face blushed a bit.

"Is Samphy a stallion or a foal?" I gave her a sheepish smile.

"Why do you ask?" she tilted her head a bit.

"Because you treat him like a little foal." I chuckled. She suddenly released my hoof. "I was just joking, don't take it too seriously." she didn't respond. "Okay fine, you could help me take a bath." she smiled at me. I just sighed in defeat. I walked upstairs to my bedroom to grab a towel. After that I went back downstairs again to the living room. "Remember, no funny ideas." I said to a smiling Amabel. She nodded and then walked with me into the bathroom. "I can't believe I am letting you do this." I said to her as we enter the shower. She happily turned on the shower. The feeling of warm water running down through me relaxes me a bit. "Just one more thing, what kind of bath do you usually give to Samphy?"

"Just an ordinary bath." she grabbed the shampoo near the sink of the bathroom. She poured a few amount on shampoo on my mane and then started to massage it. "Don't worry, I'm used to this." I have to admit, it is kind of relaxing when somepony massages your mane. After a few seconds, she stopped. "Time for your fur." she grabbed the bottle of shampoo and then started to pour some on my back. I shivered as I felt her front hooves on my back. "Looks like you're not used to this kind of thing." she said to me as she rub my back side.

"That's because I am." I smirked.

"Too bad, you're missing it out." she chuckled. After a minute, I felt her front hooves onto my flanks. I moved my flanks away from her.

"I'll just take it from here." I gave her a sheepish smile.

"You sure?" I nodded. "Samphy liked it when I'm onto his flanks." she smiled.

"What kind of a full grown stallion wants his flanks to be washed like a foal?" I thought to myself.

"Well then I haven't cleaned your neck yet." she moved in front of me. She poured some shampoo on her front hooves and then started to move her hooves up and down carefully on my neck carefully in a slow rhythm. It didn't felt relaxing as I hope it would be, heck it is even more irritating. I just closed my eyes and waited for her to finish. Amabel suddenly stopped and I felt her breath getting closer to my face. I opened my eyes and saw her moving her face closer to mine. Her eyes closed and face blushing. I backed away slowly. I suddenly slipped my hind legs causing me to fell down on the tiles. I fell on my back a bit hard. "Are you okay Pico?" said Amabel with a worried face.

"Don't worry, the monkeys are still dancing in front of Celestia." maybe I hit my head on the tiles a little too hard. I scratched my head as I grunted in pain. Amabel helped me get onto my hooves again. "Thanks for helping me wash myself, I can take it from here now." I pushed her a bit away from me.

"Are you sure?" I simply nodded. "Okay then." she lowered her head and then went out of the bathroom. But before she got out, I walked towards her with a towel.

"You might want to dry yourself up." I wiped her mane softly with a towel. "I'll just get another towel after I finished taking a bath." I smiled at her. She returned my smile with her smile. She went out of the bathroom through the door. I sighed in relief. I closed the door and then went back to the shower. "Looks like she is using me as a replacement." I said to myself as I let the warm water wash away the shampoo on my body. "I would really like to help her forget but I just don't know how." I turned off the shower and then rested my head on the wall for a few seconds. I went out of the bathroom without wiping myself with a towel since there are no towels in the bathroom. I rushed upstairs to go to my bedroom. I brought out another towel inside my cabinet. I wiped myself in front of the mirror. After I finished wiping myself, I grabbed the brush on top of the cabinet. I went back in front of the mirror. "You need to think before this situation gets out of hoof." I said to myself as I brush my mane. I heard a knock on the door of the bedroom.

"Pico are you in there? I have something to tell you." said Amabel at the other side of the door.

"Yeah sure, come in." I said without looking at the door. I heard the door opened and hoofsteps. "What do you want to tell me?" I could see Amabel walking towards me at the reflection of the mirror.

"I just want to apologize about what happened earlier inside the bathroom." she put her right hoof onto my shoulder. I turned my head to look at her.

"You don't need to apologize." I gave her a sheepish smile.

"I know I need to, because I'm using you as a replacement for Samphy!!!" she yelled. My smile slowly faded. I touched her face with my hoof.

"Do I look like Samphy?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"No." a tear fell from her eyes down to her cheeks.

"Well now I know I'm not replacing Samphy." I wiped the tear on her face.

"Then why does my head keep thinking that you are him?"

"You just need some time to realize that I am Pico and not Samphy." I smiled at her. She suddenly move her muzzle closer to mine and then locked me in a kiss. I felt my heart skipped a beat as I felt her tongue explore my mouth. After a few seconds of sudden bliss she finally released from the kiss. A trail of saliva connected my muzzle to her muzzle. I stood frozen for a few seconds before I blinked my eyes. "I don't know what to say." I murmured. Amabel smiled a bit.

"I'm sorry, I just couldn't stop myself." her face blushed.

"Uh... I know."

"Can you forgive me?" her mane covered her face a bit.

"Um... Sure." I removed her mane that is covering her face. She giggled a bit. "Just go take your bath." she nodded. She grabbed the towel behind me and then left the room. "That was a weird experience." I said to myself. I sat on the bed. "I knew this would get out of hand." I sighed and then laid my back down on the bed.

Forget The Past

I galloped through the park, hoping to find Amabel where I first saw her. I stood beside the tree where Berry and I found her. "Amabel, where are you!?" I shouted. Normally, when somepony we know is missing, Enigma is the only one we can count on to find a certain pony since he is a pegasus, but he doesn't know what Amabel looked like so I am left alone to find her. Every inch of the park I scanned just to find her. I wouldn't really care for her since I don't have any connection with her but this time it's different. It's cold outside, it is dark and there might be one of those stallions who takes advantage of weak mares. After I searched the whole park, Amabel was nowhere to be found. I stopped for a moment, trying to catch my breath and resting my worn out hooves. "Where would that mare even go?" I asked myself. I gave up searching for Amabel, but before I could leave the park, I saw her in an alley way between two houses near the park. I approached her slowly and then I stood beside her. I noticed that she looked like she has been crying for an hour and still tears fell down on her eyes. "Are you okay Amabel?" I asked her. She didn't responded. "Hey Ama-" I didn't get to finish my sentence as she suddenly hugged me, crying on my chest.

"Pico." she murmured.

"Tell me what's wrong." I patted her mane. Amabel looked up to me.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to see Samphy thinking that it might help me... But..." she buried her face on my chest again.

"But what?" I moved her head up so she would face me.

"But it was so painful seeing him with another mare inside my own home." she pointed out a house behind her with her hoof.

"Did you talk to him?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"I didn't." she looked down.

"Well then let me talk to him." I walked towards her house but before I could even get out of the alley, Amabel bit my tail and then dragged me back. I almost fell down by how strong she dragged me. I looked back at her. "Why did you do that?" she released my tail.

"I don't want you to talk to him." she stomped her hoof. "I'll talk to him when I have enough strength to do it." I stood frozen for a moment.

"I understand." she smiled. "Lets go home now." she nodded. I wrapped my hoof around her neck as we head back home. After we went inside of the house, I went to the kitchen. "Did you eat the lunch I made you?" I asked her as I open the fridge. "Guess not." I answered my question first before she did. "Sit near the table, I'll feed you." I brought out the salad from the fridge and then took a spoon near the sink. I sat beside Amabel and then laid down the salad in front of us. She reached out her hoof to grab the fork from my hoof but before she could I moved it away from her hoof. "Let me." I said to her with a smile.

"Now you're being like that to me." she blushed.

"Might be better if I'm the one who will take care instead of you taking care of me." I put some salad on the fork and then moved the fork in front of Amabel's muzzle.

"If you say so." she ate the salad on the fork. As she chew the salad, she looked at me in the eye. "I still think it is better if I help you out a bit." she moved her face closer to mine.

"What ar-." I didn't get to finish my sentence because Amabel kissed me. I felt her tongue explore my mouth. I felt myself heating up as Amabel move her tongue inside of my mouth. I pushed Amabel away softly. She broke out of the kiss. "Sorry Amabel, I just couldn't do that to you." I stood up and then walked to the living room. I took a seat at the couch in the living room. "I just couldn't take advantage of her situation." I thought to myself. I peeked at the kitchen to check on Amabel. Her head was down and it looked like tears were flowing down from her eyes. "I should just accept the fact that I am the replacement for Samphy." I sighed. I laid my back down on the couch and then closed my eyes. I tried to erase the guilt I am feeling for her. I suddenly felt my chest getting wet again. I opened my eyes and saw Amabel standing on her knees and crying on my chest.

"I'm really, really sorry about the pain I am giving you." she murmured.

"It's not your fault why you're acting like that." I patted her mane. "Just forget about the past so you wouldn't act like that." I smiled at her. She raised her head and then nodded. "I still just don't know if I'm ready to fit in for your life." I gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Now go to sleep now." she stood up and then went upstairs. "I can't believe I'm doing this just to help her." I said to myself. "I could replace Samphy but I'm still not sure when to." I sighed. "Just think about it tomorrow Pico, you're stressing yourself." I closed my eyes and tried to focus on sleeping.

Guilt and Pleasure

"So you're saying that you will replace Samphy?" Berry asked.

"No." I protested. Me and Berry were just sitting at the bench in the park in this afternoon. Nothing much happened this morning, maybe except Amabel ignored me the whole morning. "I told her to forget the past, not to make a new one with me." I started to hyperventilate.

"You need to chill." Berry rubbed my backside.

"Maybe you're right." I regulated my breathing. I finally calmed down. "Its just, I wanted to help her but I can't even find a solution for her problem." I lowered down my head. "Maybe I should just give up." I sighed. I felt a hoof tap me on the shoulder. I quickly raised my head.

"Excuse me sir, do you know Amabel?" the stallion in front of me asked.

"Yeah, why do you ask?" I replied to him.

"I am Samphy, her old lover." I quickly stood up from the bench. I faced Samphy head to head.

"How could you?" Samphy tilted his head. "How could you hurt Amabel?" I leaned closer to Samphy. "Didn't you know that Amabel is going through a lot of pain because of your carelessness?" Berry held on to my tail.

"If you would kindly let me tell you my story, you would understand our situation clearly." Samphy pushed my face away. I tried to calm myself down.

"Okay then." I sat back to the bench. Samphy sat beside me. "Tell me your story now." I said to him with a smile.

"It all started a year ago, when Amabel and I met each other in a random alley here in Ponyville. I was just a poor earth pony, living in an alley. It was about to rain that time so Amabel let me stay inside her home. Amabel was so nice that she even fed m-." I interrupted Samphy.

"If she was so nice then why did you hurt her?" Samphy stared at me blankly for a few seconds. "Oh yeah, my temper." I started to calm down again.

"As Amabel feed me, I was mesmerized by her beautiful face. I started to compliment on her appearance. After that, she invited me to her bedroom an-." I interrupted Samphy again.

"And had sex? Don't you think that you two are rushing a bit?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Just let me continue." Samphy rolled his eyes. "Anyway, after that night, we fell in love with each other. I was living with her for 3 months and I started to feel a bit worried for living in with her without paying her, so I thought maybe having a job would help. I talked to her boss where she works as a salespony at a mattress store. Her boss was a mare and it tried to seduce me. Amabel saw me with her boss laying down in one of the bed in th-."

"You know you could avoid that right?" I tilted my head a bit.

"Have you been ever seduced by a mare." Samphy raised his eyebrow.

"Please continue your story." I gave him a sheepish smile.

"I tried to talk to Amabel back at her home but she had already left. I searched for her everywhere, but even a trace I didn't find. Where did you find Amabel anyway?"

"At the park. She was offering some services to a stallion just to live."

"What kind of services?" Samphy scratched his head.

"You don't want to know."

"Okay, and also I was hoping if you could get Amabel to talk to me so I could apologize to her." Samphy gave me a sheepish smile.

"I don't think letting her talk to you is the best solution since you already left a big hole inside of her, and when I say hole, I don't mean her private area." I facehoofed myself.

"Just let me talk to her." I rolled my eyes.

"Okay fine." I sighed.

"You sure about this Pico and even if you are, won't it be better if you try to make her happy before you let her face Samphy?" Berry whispered to my ear. I turned my head to look at Berry.

"What do you mean?" I whispered to him.

"I mean, try to make her happy enough so when she faces Samphy, it wouldn't be a trouble."

"Okay fine." I turned my attention back to Samphy. "Would you mind if I let her talk to you after Hearth's Warming Eve?" I asked Samphy.

"I wouldn't since it is only two days to go." Samphy replied.

"Looks like it is settled then?" I offered my hoof to Samphy. Samphy bumped my hoof with his hoof.

"See you after Hearth's Warming Eve." Samphy waved at us as he left the park.

"So what do you have in mind for Amabel?" Berry asked.

"Will just go to Manehattan then try to have some fun which reminds me, do you know any hotel we could move in?" I asked Berry.

"There are a lot of hotels in Manehattan but mostly all of them are built for couples who are searching for privacy." Berry smiled.

"I'll just try to rent two rooms." I sighed. "I just hope it won't cost me a lot of bits."

"Don't worry, it won't." Berry chuckled. We walked back home, almost at 6:00 P.M. Berry and I stood in front of my house. "Remember that the Hearth's Warming Eve party will be held inside of your house." said Berry with a smile on his face.

"I can't believe that you're going to throw a party inside of my house." I scratched my head.

"Well you ain't bringing anything so you're the one who should provide the location." I sighed. I entered inside of my house. I quickly went upstairs to find Amabel. Amabel was just sleeping at my bed. I sat beside Amabel at the bed. I tried to wave my hoof in front of her face, hoping that she would wake up but it didn't. I laid my back down on the bed. I turned my head to face her. She quickly wrapped her hoof around.

"Amabel." I said to her in a low voice. She slowly opened her eyes.

"Oh sorry." said Amabel as she remove her hoof off of me.

"No, it's okay." I placed her hoof back around me. "Listen, we're going to Manehattan tomorrow to have some fun." I said to her with a smile. She just nodded. "Doesn't that make you happy?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"It does." Amabel avoided my eyes.

"I don't see any excitement in your face. There might be something missing." I moved my face closer to her. "There it is." I gave her a kiss on the forehead. Her face quickly blushed.

"What has gotten into you?" she quickly covered her face with her hoof.

"I just want to make you smile." I smiled at her.

"Last night, you said that I shouldn't act like a lover in front of you." she slowly removed her hoof on her face.

"I said that you should stop treating me like Samphy." I nuzzled her.

"Last night, I didn't treat you like Samphy." she moved her face closer to mine. "Last night, I know that I was kissing Pico." I felt my heart skip a beat. "I know that Pico is a great kisser." she smiled at me.

"Well then prove it to me." I gave her a sheepish smile. She slowly move her muzzle closer to my muzzle. In less then a second, our muzzle meet. I felt her tongue, trying to get inside of my mouth. I quickly opened my mouth a bit, letting her tongue inside of me. I let her explore my mouth for a few seconds before I push her tongue back inside of her mouth. I tried to explore her mouth with my tongue. I felt the mix feelings of both guilt and pleasure. I was feeling kind of guilty for making her fall in love with me but then I would have to give her up to Samphy in the next two days. After a minute of tongue fighting, she finally released from the kiss. A trail of saliva connected my muzzle to hers.

"See? I told you that you are a great kisser." she smiled at me.

"Well then you're right." I nuzzled her. "We need to get some sleep now." I wrapped my hoof around her belly. "We're going to Manehattan tomorrow." I smiled at her. I closed my eyes and then tried to focus on sleep.

Beautiful Voice

"Weird, how did I get here?" I asked myself. I'm stranded in a small 16x16 square island with only a tree at the middle of it and surrounded by the ocean. It's like a rubix cube island made out of sands. "Nothing to do here." I laid my back down on the tree. I closed my eyes and then tried to rest. Suddenly, two coconuts fell on my front hooves, but instead of a coconut with a hard shell, it felt more like a soft ball. "What's with these coconuts?" I squeezed the two coconuts together. "Maybe you two are more of a balls than a coconuts." I chuckled as I squeeze the coconuts together. Suddenly out of nowhere, a giant octopus arose from the deep ocean. "What th-." the octopus slapped me with its tentacles on the face. After what it felt like 10 slaps it finally stopped. "Remember octopus, I won't go down without a fight." I grabbed the two coconuts beside me. "Okay, her-." the octopus grabbed me on the belly and then started to drag me down to the ocean. I started to suffocate as the octopus drags me deeper. In a big flash, I ended up on top of Amabel.

"Pico, get off me." Amabel said as she tried to push me. Her face was all red.

"What happened?" I asked her.

"You held on to my flanks and then started squeezing them." I tried to follow where my front hooves ended up, and it did ended up on her flanks. I quickly removed my hooves off of her flanks.

"Oh, sorry." I avoided her eyes.

"Now can you just get off of me?" she tried to push me with a little more force.

"Oops, didn't notice that." I quickly got off her and then stood up. I helped her stand up.

"What were you thinking, holding on to my flanks?" she looked away.

"I was just dreaming." I blushed a bit.

"What kind of dream?" she raised her eyebrow.

"Don't tell her about the soft coconuts." I thought to myself. "I already forgot." I gave her a sheepish smile.

"No need to be shy." Amabel leaned closer to me. "You could just ask for it."

"Remind me that I can." I chuckled. "She must got the attitude from when she was still living alone at the park, and I must had got a new attitude because of her." I thought to myself. "Anyway, it might be better to have an early breakfast since travelling to Manehattan takes a lot of time." she nodded. We went downstairs to the kitchen. I prepared her a simple sandwich with OJ for something to wash it down. "After you finish your breakfast, go take a shower, I'll just gonna go outside." I said to her with a smile. I left her without waiting for her to answer. I went outside and then head straight to Berry's house. I knocked on the door. Berry quickly opened the door.

"Pico, what are you doing here this early?" Berry asked as he rub his right eye with his hoof.

"It's already 7:00 A.M and I just want to remind you about the Hearth's Warming Eve for tomorrow." I said to Berry. "Head inside my house even if I'm not at home yet to prepare for the party, oh and make sure you got a barrel of cider and a gallon of lemon juice."

"What's with the lemon juice?" Berry raised his eyebrow.

"It's for Enigma, make sure Cool Joe doesn't touch the lemon juice, okay?"

"Why won't you let Cool Joe touch the lemon juice?"

"Since Enigma got Cool Joe drunk at the bar, he might want to get his payback." Berry nodded. "Okay then, I'm heading home right now." I waved at Berry as I head back home. I went inside my house and then went straight to the kitchen since I haven't eaten breakfast yet. I prepared a small sandwich just for me. As I munch on the sandwich, I heard Amabel's humming coming from the bathroom, since the bathroom is just close to the living room. I left my sandwich on the table and then moved towards the door of the bathroom. "Nice voice you got there." I said to her through the door.

"Just let me take a shower peacefully." Amabel called out.

"Oh come on, your voice is great."

"I could have been a singer if I have a great voice, and besides, that was just humming."

"Well then, mind humming something for me?" I went inside the bathroom.

"Don't you have to prepare for something?" Amabel opened the curtains that is covering her.

"Well, I still have time to listen to you." I walked towards her. "Just one song would be okay." I leaned closer to her. I turned off the shower.

"Just one?" I nodded. "Okay then." Amabel started to hum a soft tone. I moved my face closer to her and gave her a kiss. She started to moan inside of my mouth. I quickly released from the kiss. "I said humming, not moaning." I said to her.

"It's hard for me in a situation like that."

"Fine, I'll try not to do it hard." I rolled my eyes. She started to hum again. I moved my muzzle closer to her muzzle. I locked her in a kiss. She closed her eyes as she hummed inside of my mouth. I try not to let my instincts get the best of me as I let her hum a tone. After a minute of Amabel humming inside of my mouth, I didn't had enough willpower to resist. I started to explore her mouth with my tongue. Her humming slowly became moaning. As seconds pass, her moaning became louder. I quickly moved my muzzle away from her. A trail of saliva connected my muzzle to her muzzle. Her face was red and she was breathing heavily. "That was a nice song." I licked my lips.

"You didn't even let me finish it."

"I don't need to hear the whole song, as long as I heard your voice." I smiled at her. "Now continue your shower." I turned on the shower again and then left her at the bathroom. I went back to the kitchen and took a seat near the table. "Good thing that the 5 second-rule doesn't apply to a food on a clean plate." I picked up my sandwich and then started to munch on it.

All Aboard

"You need to rethink this decision." I thought to myself. "What if this plan goes horribly wrong, and if it does, what should I do?" I buried my face on the table. "Maybe even Celestia couldn't find a solution for this." I scratched my head. I felt a hoof on my shoulder. I raised my head and quickly turned around.

"You can use the bathroom now." said Amabel with a big smile on her face. I just simply nodded. She left me in the kitchen and went upstairs. I sighed as I stood up from the chair in the kitchen and went to the bathroom. I turned on the shower and let the water wash me. I grabbed the shampoo on the floor and then started to pour some on my mane. As I wash my mane, I felt a sudden guilt inside of me. I suddenly thought of a vision of what might happen if I continue Berry's plan, and if it does happen, Amabel and Samphy's life is not all that is gonna be ruined.

"Why did I agree to you, Berry?" I said to myself. After I finished washing my mane, I now moved on the my body. As I wash my body, I tried to forget about the events that may happen after I show Amabel to Samphy. I turned off the shower after I finished washing myself. I laid my back down on the wall and then tried to think of an excuse to discontinue about our plans when we go to Manehattan. "Looks like there is no escape to this situation." I sighed. I tried to grab a towel on the towel holder, but there are no towels. "Is this how fate gonna repay me? No towels." I head out of the bathroom, not caring even if I get the floors wet. I rushed upstairs to my bedroom. I opened the door without even knocking. Amabel was sitting at the bed while brushing her mane when I got inside. "Hey uh... Can I have your towel?" I said to Amabel.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to give you a towel." Amabel replied with a sheepish smile. She reached out her right hoof with the towel. I walked towards her to get the towel, I grabbed the towel off her hoof. "I'll try to apologize by brushing your mane for you." Amabel smiled at me.

"If it makes you happy." I patted her mane with my wet hoof.

"I just brushed that." she removed my hoof off her mane. I dried myself up with the towel while also making my mane messy as possible. After I finished drying myself up, I laid my belly on the bed and rested my chin on Amabel's lap.

"Make sure you brush my mane right." I said to her without looking up.

"Don't worry, I know this." she said to me. I closed my eyes as I let Amabel brush my mane.

"Hey Amabel." I called to her.

"What's it?"

"What would you do if you saw Samphy again?" I felt the brush stop.

"I don't know, but if he ever try to beg for me, I wouldn't care."

"Why not?" Amabel suddenly flipped me over.

"Because I already have somepony else." she lowered her head and then gave me a short kiss. As she raise her head back up again, I saw a smile on her face. I flipped myself over again.

"You really do huh?" I said to her timidly.

"Of course I do." she continued brushing my mane. After a minute, she moved on to my tail.

"You said my mane not my tail."

"Oh come on, it is just the same, just let me brush it for you."

"What if I don't let you?"

"Too bad." she pressed down on my back with her free hoof.

"That ain't gonna work on me." I gave her lap a soft bite. She suddenly pushed my head off of her lap which caused to me fall down off the bed. "Why did you do that?" I said to her as I tried to stand on my hooves again.

"You know how sensitive I am, right?" she gave me a sheepish smile.

"Actually, I don't know." I went back on the bed. I pushed her down on the chest. I crawled up to her. "Let me find out." I lowered my head down to her face. "I know this isn't gonna help but I can't help it." I thought to myself. I locked her muzzle in a kiss. She close her eyes as I kiss her. I pushed my tongue inside of her mouth. I moved my tongue inside of her mouth in a circular motion. After 10 seconds, I slowly withdraw my muzzle away from hers. I could see her tongue trying to reach my muzzle. I slowly moved on to her neck, trying not to get her eyes open. I gave her neck a small lick which caused her to moan and shiver. I planted some kisses on her neck. I felt her hooves getting wrapped around my head, trying to push me on to her neck. I quickly raised my head up away from her. "Sorry, we still have a train to catch." I said to her. She opened her eyes and gave a disappointed face.

"Come on, we still have a lot of time." she tried to drag me down with her front hooves.

"Sorry, we don't." I gave her a sheepish smile. She just sighed and then removed her hooves off of me. I went downstairs to the living room. I checked my saddle on the couch to see if I got anything. I don't really need to pack clothes because ponies usually don't wear clothes. After I have done checking my saddle, I saw Amabel going downstairs. There was some kiss marks left on and it made me chuckle. We went out of the house and made sure it was locked. We went to Berry's house and gave his door a knock. Berry quickly answered the door. "Here is the key to my house, make sure you don't dirty it up." I said to Berry as I gave him the key.

"Don't worry, I won't." said Berry. "Have fun in Manehattan, you too Amabel." Berry smiled at us. Amabel smiled at Berry. As we leave Berry's home, we waved back at him. We went on the train station and got us two tickets for Manehattan. We boarded the train. Amabel took a seat beside me.

"Lay your head down first, it is gonna be a long ride." I said to Amabel. Amabel rested her head on my shoulder.

"We are now leaving Ponyville, take a seat everypony!!!" yelled by the conductor. The train started to move. I wrapped my hoof around Amabel.

"Lets just hope that nothing goes wrong." I thought to myself.

Finally Manehattan

"Oh buck, an earthquake!!!" I suddenly yelled as I awaken from sleep. I looked around and noticed that I was still inside the train. "Must have dozed off." I thought to myself. I peeked out of the window beside me. "Train must be going down a rocky path, that must be the reason I yelled that there is an earthquake." I chuckled. I glanced at my other side and saw Amabel. Amabel is still resting her head on my shoulder, and probably asleep. I wrapped my hoof around her. "There, wouldn't want you to fall off my shoulder as we pass the rocky path." I said to her quietly, trying not to wake her up. After the train has passed the rocky path, I slowly raised my hoof off of her. I heard her grunt in disapproval even though she is asleep. "Fine, if you don't want me to remove my hoof." I placed my hoof around her again. After five more minutes, Amabel finally woke up.

"Where am I?" Amabel asked as she raised her head up.

"We're still inside the train." I removed my hoof off of her.

"How long, and are we there yet?" Amabel rubbed her eyes.

"I don't know,and I'm sure we're almost there, just rest for a moment." she nodded. She laid her back on the seat and rested her head on my lap. "That's not what I meant." I rolled my eyes.

"There's no bed in here right?" Amabel gave me a sheepish smile. After a few minutes the train slowly stopped at the train station in Manehattan.

"Amabel, we're here." I said to her. I looked down to her and noticed that she is fast asleep. "Amabel?" I rubbed her belly softly. It made her giggle a bit. "Just wake up already." I sighed. The conductor walked towards us.

"I hope I'm not disturbing the married couple, but the train has already arrived its destination." said by the conductor.

"You got it all wrong." I said to the conductor. "You see we're not-." I looked down to Amabel. Amabel's eyes were open, and it seems like there was tear a forming on it. I turned my attention back to the conductor. "We're still couple." I gave the conductor a sheepish smile.

"Sorry if I were mistaken but please, the train has already arrived." I simply nodded. I looked down to Amabel again.

"Come on Amabel." I said to Amabel. I helped her stood up on the floor. I grabbed my saddle and then checked if there might be something I left before Amabel and I left the train. "Have you ever been in Manehattan before?" I asked her as we walk out of the train station.

"I have, once." Amabel replied.

"Does it include Samphy in it?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Not really." Amabel gave me a sheepish smile. I just rolled my eyes. We finally reached the hotel where we are supposed to stay for a night. The hotel isn't really as exclusive as like the hotel me and my friends stayed when we went to Los Pegasus, now that hotel was too extravagant. We walked towards the hotel reception counter. "Can we rent two rooms?" I asked the pony who was handling the hotel receptions.

"Sorry, you two can only share one room since this hotel is filled up because it is Hearth's Warming Eve." the pony replied. I sighed at the answer of the pony.

"Okay then, one room for a day."

"A day will cost you 8 bits." I reached for my saddle and then brought out 8 bits.

"Here." I handed my bits to the pony.

"Room 16 in the second floor." the pony smiled at us. We walked to our room after the pony gave us the key to our room. I opened the room and saw that it was just like a small house. The living room was just in front of us, the bathroom is near the kitchen which is also near the living room and there was a door beside me which is probably the bedroom. I opened the door beside me and saw that the bedroom only has a single bed made for two ponies. Amabel walked slowly to the bed and then laid her back on it.

"Come on Amabel, we are not in Manehattan to just lay our back on the bed." I said to Amabel.

"Just let me rest for a bit, my back hurts." Amabel replied.

"How can you have fun if you only lay yourself on the bed?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Well, you can have the ride of your life on me." Amabel gave me a sheepish smile.

"Oh come on, I have big plans for you." I walked towards her.

"I still don't wanna."

"Stop acting like a foal already."

"Just let me rest."

"Don't make me beg." Amabel turned around. "That's it, I'm begging." I stand on my knees. "Come on Amabel." I turned her face towards me. "Please..." I gave her the best sad face I could ever make.

"Okay, fine." she stood up on the floor. "Since you went through all that trouble just for me." she reached her hoof towards me and helped me stood up.

"Of course, I would do that just for you." I said to her with a smile. "Or atleast, because Berry suggested." I thought to myself. We went out of our room and out of the hotel. "Don't worry, you're going to have so much fun, just wait and see." I said to her as we walk down the sidewalk.

Mare of Liberty

"Where are we going and why do we have to go to Manehattan just for it?" Amabel asked as we walk down the sidewalk.

"Manehattan has one of the greatest attractions here in Equestria." I said to her. After walking for a minute, we arrived at a local coffee shop called 'Steerbucks'. "We're just gonna stop here for a moment since I needed to buy some coffee to wake myself up." we went inside of the shop. We walked towards the counter and got greeted by a mare unicorn who is handling the counter.

"What would you like?" the mare.

"Two Steerbucks Double shot energy coffee drink." I said to the mare with a smile. I turned my head to Amabel. "Do you want to buy something?" I asked Amabel.

"Let me pick." Amabel replied. Amabel gazed on the menu on top of the counter. "I'll have a..." she raised her head slowly. "Cinnamon Roll and a Caffè Mocha." Amabel said to the mare in front of her. The mare nodded and then left the counter.

"Have you ever been in Steerbucks before?" I asked Amabel.

"I have, and if you are gonna ask if it is Samphy related, then the answer is no." I chuckled at Amabel's answer. The mare returned, while levitating a tray with the food we ordered.

"That will be sixteen bits." the mare said as she levitated the paper bag at the counter. I opened my saddle and brought out sixteen bits. I gave the mare the sixteen bits. "Thank you for choosing Steerbucks." I balanced the tray on my head. I laid down the tray in one of the tables inside of the shop. Amabel and I took a seat near the table.

"Here is your Cinnamon Roll." I gave Amabel her Cinnamon Roll. I took one of the energy drinks and placed it inside of my saddle. I opened the other one and took a sip. I noticed how cute Amabel looks like while eating the Cinnamon Roll. "How's the Cinnamon Roll?" Amabel moved the Cinnamon Roll away from her muzzle a bit.

"Still taste the same as the last time I bought some in Starbucks." Amabel said to me with a smile. I saw some bread bits near Amabel's muzzle.

"You got something on your face." I took a tissue on the tissue dispenser in front of us. "Here let me." I wiped Amabel's muzzle with the tissue. I heard two ponies whispering behind me.

"What a cute couple." whispered by the pony behind me.

"I hope I can find a stallion that will care for me too." the other pony whispered. I just sighed after I finished removing some bread bits on Amabel's muzzle. I grabbed my coffee and then resumed drinking it. I placed the can at the table after I drank the whole can.

"After you're done eating, we will be heading to the Mare of Liberty." I said to Amabel. Amabel nodded as she munch on the Cinnamon Roll. After Amabel finished eating, we walked out of the shop and then walked down the sidewalk.

"Hey Pico." Amabel asked.

"What?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Can I hold on to your front leg?" Amabel gave a sheepish smile.

"You do know that it is hard to walk on three legs right?" I showed her what I look while walking on three legs.

"It fits you appearance perfectly." I quickly brought down my right leg.

"That kinda hurts me."

"Just let me hold on to you." Amabel moved closer to me.

"I can't believe I am letting you do this to me." I reached out my left front leg. Amabel quickly hold on to my right front leg.

"You told me that you want me to have fun, well, this is fun." Amabel smiled at me. After walking for minutes with only three legs, we finally reached the Mare of Liberty. We walked inside the elevator in the Mare of Liberty. The elevator was a bit crowded so I was pressed against Amabel for a minute. After the elevator reached the top, I quickly removed Amabel's grip on my right front leg and then rushed outside of the elevator. I gasped for a lot of air. After I got some air back, I noticed that I was at the edge of the crown of the Mare of Liberty, and if it weren't for the bar that is in front of me, I would have fallen of the crown. I slowly walked away from the edge and then started to shake. I was startled by Amabel as soon as she put a hoof on my shoulder. "Is there anything wrong?" Amabel raised an eyebrow.

"As much as I hate to say it but, I'm afraid of heights." I tried to stop my body from shaking but it ain't working.

"Then why did you brought me here if you are afraid of heights?" Amabel wrapped her hoof around my neck. "Don't worry, I'll be here for you." Amabel smiled at me. Amabel pushed me slowly to the edge of the floor.

"I know that you will always be here with me, but this is not helping." I closed my eyes and then tried to back away.

"Just look at me in the eye." I slowly opened my eyes and saw Amabel's beautiful blue eyes. "Just focus on my eyes." I nodded. Amabel walked me slowly to the edge. "Now, try to admire the view just beside you." Amabel turned my head. As soon as I saw the view, my body stopped shaking. "It isn't really that scary, right?" I turned my head to look at Amabel.

"I know it isn't scary, it's because... I'm just not used to it, ever since I was a colt, I've always been afraid of heights." I gave Amabel a sheepish smile.

"Well, at least now you're not." Amabel smiled at me. I noticed that Amabel was slowly moving her face closer to mine. I slowly moved my face closer to her without have a double thoughts. Before my muzzle could meet hers, a bright flash startled us. We both yelped as a random pegasus photographer took a photo of us.

"Would you two like to have a picture?" the pegasus asked.

"Oh uh... Sure, how much?" I replied to the pegasus.

"Three bits."

"Sure."

"Now you two move closer to each other." the pegasus prepared his camera. Amabel and I moved closer to each other. "Okay on three... One... Two... Three..." before the camera flashes, Amabel kissed me on the cheeks. "Lets just wait for the picture to clear out." the pegasus grabbed the picture that came out of the bottom of the camera. "Here it is." the pegasus gave me two photos. "The first one is free since tomorrow is Hearth's Warming Eve." said by the pegasus with a smile.

"Thanks." I said to the pegasus as I brought out three bits from my saddle. "Happy advanced Hearth's Warming Eve." I gave the pegasus three bits. The pegasus nodded and then left.

"Let me see." said Amabel as she grabbed one of the picture. After the pictures have cleared out, the first one was when Amabel and I were about to kiss, the second one was when Amabel suddenly kissed me. "That went well." said Amabel while chuckling.

"It would have been better if you didn't suddenly kissed me on the cheeks." I said to her.

"Oh come on, you're cute while you're blushing, just look at your blushing cheeks." Amabel pointed the picture with her hoof.

"You're cute too when you blush."

"What did you say?" Amabel raised an eyebrow at me.

"I said, you're cu-." the pony behind me suddenly bumped me, causing me to move my muzzle closer to Amabel which ended with a kiss. I quickly backed away, moving away from Amabel's now blushing face. "Uh... I said you're cuter when you blush." I gave Amabel a sheepish smile. Amabel touched her muzzle with her hoof.

"Thanks? I guess." said Amabel timidly.

"Maybe we should go to our next destination?" Amabel nodded. I placed the photos inside of my saddle as we waited for the elevator. After we have gotten inside the elevator, it was filled up by ponies in less than five seconds. Again, we were compressed to each other at the back of the elevator. "Hey Amabel." I said to Amabel timidly. "Don't you think it is kind of embarrassing to kiss one another in a place where there are many ponies?"

"Why don't we find out." Amabel met my muzzle with her muzzle. My mind went blank for a second before I realized that Amabel was now exploring my tongue inside of the elevator filled with ponies. I quickly pushed her tongue out of my mouth with my tongue and then started exploring her mouth. I could hear her soft moans inside of my mouth. After a minute, I didn't notice that the elevator was already empty and there was a crowd of ponies outside of the elevator, waiting for us to come out. I quickly released from the kiss.

"Sorry everypony, just got a little bit excited." I said to the crowd as I walk through them while grabbing Amabel with me. After we got out of the Mare of Liberty, I released Amabel's hoof slowly. "It is embarrassing." I said to her.

"But it's fun." Amabel said to me with a smile. I sighed as I roll my eyes.

"Lets just go to the amusement park." I reached out my right front leg. Amabel held on to it as we walk down the sidewalk.

Amica and Mary

As Amabel and I walk down the sidewalk, I could feel a crowd following us. "Looks like we caught some attention." I thought to myself. I glanced over my shoulder as I walk. I saw two mares following us. I moved my muzzle closer to Amabel's ear. "I think those two mares behind us are following us." I whispered to Amabel. Amabel glanced over her shoulder and then stopped. She turned around to face the two mares. She scanned the unicorn and the pegasus mare.

"Is that you Amica and Mary?" she muttered.

"I told you she was Amabel." the unicorn said to the pegasus beside her.

"It has been a long time Amabel." the pegasus said to Amabel with a smile. Amabel hugged the unicorn and the pegasus.

"I missed you girls, so much." said Amabel as she hug the two mares tightly.

"Um... Who are they Amabel?" I asked Amabel. Amabel released from the hug and then faced me.

"These are my two best friends." Amabel dragged me closer to them. "This is Amica." Amabel pointed the pegasus with a whute fur and a violet colored mane and tail. "And this is Mary." Amabel pointed the unicorn with a yellow fur and an orange colored mane and tail.

"Uh... Hi." I waved at the two mare with a sheepish smile on my face.

"Are you Amabel's new coltfriend?" Amica asked. I raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh, Amabel didn't tell you about her old coltfriend?"

"Oh uh, Amabel told me, it is just that-." I gazed at Amabel. I sudden thought of what might be the outcome if I told them that Amabel is not my marefriend. "What I meant to say was yes." I dragged Amabel beside me and then wrapped my hoof around her neck. "I am his coltfriend." I smiled at Amabel. Amabel's face blushed. "Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck." I thought to myself.

"Well, we hope that you would take care of Amabel the right way, unlike the last time." Mary said.

"I can't believe that Samphy could even do that to Amabel." Amica raised her voice.

"Samphy didn't mean to cheat on Amabel, he ju-." I was stopped by the curious look on the three mares faces. "What I meant to say was, why don't you two come along with us so that you could catch up with Amabel." I gave them a sheepish smile. The two mares nodded slowly. I turned my head to Amabel.

"Right..." said Amabel with eyebrow raised.

"Oh, no need, it would be better for the both of you if we stay out of your way." Amica said. Amica faced Mary. Mary nodded.

"If you two are sure." I said to the both of them. "Why don't the both of you come to our Hearth's Warming Eve party so you two could have time to talk to Amabel? And I bet Berry and Enigma would love to meet the both of you." I smiled at the two mares.

"Sure, where is it gonna be held?" Mary asked.

"At my house, on Ponyville, Amabel and I will be leaving Manehattan tomorrow morning, you two could come along." I replied.

"Sorry, we can't, but you could just meet us at the Ponyville train station at 5:00 P.M." Mary smiled at us.

"Okay then, meet you at the Ponyville train station tomorrow in the afternoon." I shook hands with the two mares.

"See you both tomorrow." they both said in unison as they walk away. We waved at the two mare, walking away. I faced Amabel.

"How long was the last time you saw your friends?" I asked Amabel.

"Seven months." Amabel replied without facing me.

"Well, now that's done, we should now go to the amusement park." I wrapped my hoof around Amabel's neck.

"Hey Pico." I raised an eyebrow at her. "Is it true that you are my coltfriend?"

"Uh..." I felt my self sweating. "Think Pico, think." I thought to myself. "Yes..." I said to her with a sheepish smile. Amabel faced me and then gave me a smile.

"Okay then, lets go to the amusement park." Amabel grabbed on to my right front leg. I nodded.

"How could I escape this after Hearth's Warming Eve?" I said timidly to myself.

"What did you say?"

"I said that we should head to the amusement park because I think it is already at four." I scratched my head with my other hoof. Amabel nodded. We turned around and then walked down the sidewalk like a couple. "Not a couple." I thought to myself.

Red Rose Petals

"So this is the amusement park I am talking about." I said to Amabel as we enter the amusement park. "Since tomorrow is Hearth's Warming Eve, the park would usually give out free rides."

"So that's why you brought me here, so you don't have to spend much bits." Amabel said while chuckling a bit.

"Oh come on, it is fun when you go to an amusement park, besides, if I don't want to spend much bits then why do I have to buy a train ticket, rent a hotel room just to get you here?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Okay you win." Amabel rolled her eyes. We walked towards the line for the roller coaster.

"Every summer, we go to Manehattan just for a deep in a water slide and to hang out in one of the local bars here, but sometimes we go to this amusement park."

"Must be really fun." After waiting in the line for about a minute or so, we finally got a chance to ride the roller coaster. The roller coaster has seven carts, so we took the fifth one.

"Everypony please hold on to the safety bar in front of you so we could avoid some accidents!" the who is standing in a booth yelled. The pony pulled a lever. The ride started to move slowly.

"This is gonna be good." I said to myself. I rested my front hooves on the safety bar. I turned to look at Amabel to make sure that she was holding on to the safety bar. Her front hooves were placed on her lap. "Hey you should hold on to those safety bars." I said to her.

"What?" Amabel asked.

"Here." I grabbed Amabel's front hooves. "Hold on to this bar." I placed her hooves on the safety bar. I turned my head in front of me and noticed that the roller coaster was already at the top. "Here it goes." I licked my lips as I wait for the roller coaster to descend. As soon as the roller coaster went downwards, Amabel's hoof accidentaly knocked me on the face causing me to black out for a moment. I grunted as I raise my head slowly. "Where am I?" I scratched my head. I looked around and saw that I was still seating in the roller coaster. I quickly turned beside me and saw Amabel.

"Uh... Sorry if I knocked you out when the roller coaster started to go down the rail." Amabel said with a sheepish smile.

"That's okay, I really need some naps anyway." I gave her a small grin.

"Sir, are you okay?" the employee asked.

"Yeah, sure." I replied to him as I tried to get off the seats. Amabel followed me out of the ride. "So, how long was I out?" I asked her as I open my saddle.

"five minutes to be exact, the employees even have to wait for you to wake up before they let anypony ride the coaster." Amabel rubbed my cheeks. "Looks like I really hit you a bit too hard."

"I've faced something worse than that." I brought out the coffee I bought from Steerbucks. "I'm getting sleepy a bit, maybe one coffee is still ain't enough to keep me awake." I started to drink the can of coffee in one gulp. "Lets just find another ride to ride." I walked towards a garbage bin. "It looks like it is almost 5:00 P.M." I looked up the sky after I've thrown my garbage down the bin.

"Okay, maybe you slept a little longer then five minutes." Amabel held on to my right front leg. I scanned my surrounding, trying to find some rides that couldn't turn out so badly for me. I saw a ring toss, but with weirder prizes not far from us.

"How about a ring toss?" Amabel nodded. We walked towards the ring toss booth.

"Step right up for a game of ring toss!" an earth pony yelled. "Only a bit for three rings, then you could win this rare drink." the pony pointed a wine with a picture cover of rose petals.

"That's weird, I haven't seen anything like that before." I thought to myself. "What's the name of the drink?" I asked the pony.

"It is called 'Red Rose Petals', it will give special effect on stallions who would ever drink it." the pony explained. "Would you like to win it?"

"Sure." I handed the pony my one bit. He gave me three rings. "Maybe I'm not as good as Berry when it comes to this, but it is worth a shot." I thought to myself. I grabbed a ring with my mouth. "Okay, just get shoot the ring in the pole." I positioned myself as I prepare to throw the ring. "One... Two... Three..." at the count of three, I threw the ring hard and it went over the pole.

"Looks like you did it a bit to hard." the pony said.

"Two more." I said to myself. I grabbed another ring and then positioned myself. "One... Two... Three..." I threw the ring but this time, It went backwards and hit Amabel in the head. "Oh... Sorry." I said to Amabel with a sheepish smile. Amabel scratched her head while grunting. I returned my focus on the ring toss. I grabbed the final ring and then positioned myself. "One... T-." Amabel slapped me hard in the flanks. I jumped out of shock and then threw my last ring. In a lucky but weird way, I won the game.

"Ain't you a lucky stallion." the pony said.

"Um... thank you Amabel?" I scratched my flanks. Amabel gave me a smile.

"Here is your prize." the pony gave me the wine. I quickly placed it inside of my saddle.

"Wait till I get to taste that wine." I said to myself.

"So, what is next?" Amabel asked.

"How about a ride at the Teacups?" I said to her with a smile. Amabel nodded as she grabbed on to my right front leg. We walked towards the ride called 'Teacups'. We quickly moved in line. After a minute, we took a seat in one of the teacups. "So, One... Two... Thr- waaa!!!" Amabel quickly spun the table which rotates the teacups. Amabel laughed so hard as she spins the table. "Hey, slow d- pfff..." Amabel's mane got in my mouth. I tried to push her mane away from my face, but it isn't turning out so well. "Sl-pfff slow down." I finally got her mane away from my face. Amabel quickly stopped the table from spinning. My head rocked down on the table which ended with a THUD. "Why do I always receive pain?" I asked myself.

"Are you okay?" Amabel raised my head up.

"For a pony who got knocked unconscious in a roller coaster, got slapped in the flanks and hit his head in a table, then I am okay." I replied to her.

"Why don't we just ride a Ferris wheel so it wouldn't be pretty much painful to you?" Amabel suggested.

"Maybe falling of a Ferris wheel isn't pretty much painful." I said to her with a smile.

"Oh come on, stop jesting." Amabel bumped my shoulder with her hoof softly. I laughed a bit. Amabel bumped my shoulder again with a little more force. I laughed louder now. Amabel bumped my face hard instead of my shoulder. My head bent backwards a bit. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to." I still laughed even though I really felt like committing a suicide. I twisted my head a bit, hearing a few cracks on my neck.

"How about the Ferris wheel then?" I gave her a fake smile. We left the ride and then head straight to the Ferris wheel. The Ferris wheel isn't pretty much filled up since most ponies like to ride something better, or they just don't want to ride something without another pony beside them. We head inside in one of the capsules of the Ferris wheel. The Ferris wheel started to rotate slowly. Amabel sat in front of me. I tried to avoid looking at her by looking out of the window. It was really quite until our capsule finally went on top.

"Are you mad?" Amabel asked timidly. I turned to look at her.

"I'm not."

"Then why are you avoiding my gaze?" Amabel raised her eyebrows.

"It's just that I don't want you to see my face when I'm in pain." I covered my face with my hoof.

"Why wouldn't you want me to see your face when you're in pain?"

"Because, I don't want you to see you worrying about me!!!" I yelled at her. A tear started to form on Amabel's eyes. "Sorry, I didn't mean to, I just... I just need a drink." I quickly brought out the wine that I won and then started to remove the cap. I took a sip without caring of what might be the effect. I tasted a bit of cherry mixed with grape juice. I felt a little dizzy all of a sudden, and my body started to shake. I quickly placed the wine back into my saddle.

"What's wrong with you?" Amabel moved beside me.

"I think... I think... I need you." I placed my hoof under Amabel's chin.

"What are you doi-." I quickly pressed my muzzle against Amabel's muzzle, As soon as Amabel's muzzle opened a bit, I quickly inserted my tongue in. The pleasure doubled or maybe even tripled as I lap on her tongue. I could hear her moaning getting louder. I pressed her shoulder against the seat. After a few seconds, her tongue started to push my tongue back inside of my mouth. She removed my hoof off of her shoulder. She released from the kiss. I was left breathing heavily, tongue hanging out of my mouth. "What has gotten in to you?"

"I, I, I, I don't know." I placed my hoof on my forehead. I felt myself heating up. "Can I, I, I ask you something?" I tried to contain myself from shaking.

"What is it?"

"Come closer." Amabel followed what I said. "Move your face closer to mine." Amabel nodded and then slowly moved her face. "Sorry about what's going to happen to you next."

"What!?" I quickly pushed her down the seat. Amabel is now laying on her back. "He- ah..." Amabel shivered as I placed my hooves on her flanks.

"Remember that it is not my intention to do this to you, it is the effects of the drink." I went on top of her. I moved my head closer to her and then dived down for a kiss. I pressed my muzzle down on her muzzle. I forced my tongue inside of her mouth. I felt her tongue putting up a fight with mine, I could even hear her moans. After a few seconds, instead of fighting my tongue, Amabel began to suck it. I couldn't contain myself right about now, good thing the capsule we are riding finally opened, the bad new is that three ponies saw us. I slowly looked up to them. "Sorry, it is um... Effects of a potion." I said to the ponies who are just staring at me blankly. I quickly got off of Amabel. I helped Amabel stood up from the seat. We walked out of the Ferris wheel. I turned to look at Amabel. She was now blushing a bit, and also drooling. "I can't believe that drink made me do that to her." I thought to myself. "Listen... Uh... Sorry about what happened." I said to Amabel timidly.

"Sure." she replied without looking at me. I looked at the sky above me and saw the moon above us.

"Better not be watching us Luna." I said to myself. I returned my gaze back to Amabel. "Maybe we should go back to the apartment." Amabel nodded, still avoiding my eyes, We walked down the sidewalk without talking. The only thing that broke the silence is the pony that greeted us when we got inside of the hotel. We went up to our room. After we got inside I quickly sat on the couch. "You sleep on the bed, I'll sleep on the couch." I said to her as I facehoofed myself.

"Well... Um... Good night." Amabel went inside the bedroom. I scratched my head, thinking how embarrassing the things that I have done. I opened my saddle and brought out the wine. I removed the cover of the wine. At the back of the cover, there was an introduction as well as an instruction written.

Have your wife ever avoided you since you are slow in bed?

Then have no fear, because this drink is the solution.

Just have a glass then all of your problems in bed are gone.

The effects will run out anytime so be careful.

"Special effects my flanks." I said to myself. I laid the bottle at the floor. I rested my back on the couch and then closed my eyes. "This has been the most embarrassing day of my entire life."

Being Compared

After waking up from what probably the most peaceful night I have ever felt, I felt my throat becoming itchy. "My throat... Where's the glass of water?" I said in a raspy voice. I reached out my hoof on my right side, hoping that there is a glass of water placed beside me. As soon as I felt a glass-like texture, I quickly grabbed it and then took a long gulp. "Why does this water taste different?" I thought to myself. I opened my eyes slowly and saw that I was drinking in a wine bottle. I threw the bottle away from my face and then started to spit out some of the wine I drank. I felt myself heating up again, just like last night. "Why does this keep happening?" I felt myself shaking furiously. I quickly ran to the bathroom, which was not far away from me. I went inside and then quickly locked the door. "Just contain yourself inside Pico and then everything will turn out okay." I said to myself. I rested my back on the wall and then gave out a sigh of relief.

"Pico are you in there, I heard some hoovesteps running to the bathroom?" Amabel asked as she knocked on the door.

"Ye-yes, I'm in here."

"Okay then, and could you please get out of the bathroom, I really need to use it now."

"Uh-uh, sure." I stood in front of the door, preparing for what I am about to do. "Okay it is all about timing." I said to myself. "One... Two... Three..." at the count of three, I quickly unlocked the door, went behind Amabel, pushed her inside of the bathroom and then closed the door. I sighed as I held on to the knob of the door.

"Hey, what's with that about!?" Amabel yelled as she tried to open the door.

"Er... Nothing, just got a little bit hype." I replied to her as I keep the door closed.

"That doesn't sound like a reason." she tried to open the door with a little more force.

"Just stop asking for a reason and then use the bathroom already."

"Okay, fine." she finally stopped. I slowly removed my hooves off of the door knob. I backed away from the door and then back to the living room. I picked the wine bottle up from the floor and then gave it a mean look.

"You don't really look special to me." I said to the bottle. "Well at least your effects on me are slowly fading away." I moved the bottle closer to my snout and then gave it a sniff. It smelled like grapes and cherry. "At least you have a nice smell." I continued to sniff on the bottle. The front door suddenly opened causing me to jump out of shock. I threw the bottle in mid air out of shock. The mouth of the bottle landed on my muzzle. I felt the wine pouring down my throat. I finished the whole bottle before throwing it away from me. The bottle landed in front of the mare in a maid outfit. The mare gave the bottle a curious look. After a few seconds she looked up to me.

"Oh um... Excuse me sir, I would like to inform you that the whole day has ended." The mare said with a smile. I slowly walked towards the mare without giving out any noises or sounds. "Er... Excuse me sir, but would you like to move a bit away from me?" I didn't respond to her question. I moved my face closer to her. "What are you planning to do?" The mare backed away a bit. I placed my hoof on her chin and then pulled her face closer to me. "Sorry sir, but I mu-." I pulled the mare in for a kiss without having any double thoughts. The wine blocked my thoughts, and all I could ever think of was pleasure. As I move my tongue inside of her mouth, her magenta eyes were looking at me like it was asking for more. I patted her red colored mane. I could hear her, moaning inside of my mouth. I suddenly heard a door being opened.

"Pico..." I heard Amabel's voice behind me. I slowly released from the kiss and then turned around. I saw Amabel staring at me with a shocked expression.

"So-sorry mam, I mu-must leave." the mare said as she left us in our room. I stood frozen for a few moments before Amabel released another words.

"What were you doing?"

"I uh... It is the." I quickly searched for the wine bottle. "It's because of..." I finally found the wine bottle and then quickly brought it in front of Amabel. "It is because of this."

"You kissed an employee of this hotel because of a bottle?" Amabel raised her eyebrows.

"No, what I meant was it is because of this wine."

"I just don't get you."

"Fine, if you don't get me then I just give up." I facehoofed myself. "Besides, we need to go back to Ponyville." I quickly grabbed my saddle near the couch and then went outside without waiting for her. As I walk down to the lobby, I noticed that some of the employees in the hotel was staring at me. "This isn't as fun as I hope it would be." I said to myself. I waited for Amabel outside of the hotel. It took a whole minute before Amabel finally went outside. "What took you so long?" I asked her with an angry expression.

"You don't need to ask that." I sighed.

"Fine, I won't ask and I won't even care." I turned my back on her and then walked down the sidewalk. Amabel was 10 meters away from me as we walk down the sidewalk. We were like that until we finally reached the train station. We went inside the train and then took a seat, but instead of Amabel sitting beside me, she was sitting in front of me.

"The train is now moving!!!" the conductor yelled. I gazed at the window as I tried to remember how I got myself into this kind of situation.

"It is all my fault anyway, why would I even blame it on Amabel?" I thought to myself. I moved my eyes a bit so I could get a small view on her. She was watching the view on the window. Her face was showing a sad expression. "Listen Amab-." Amabel raised her hoof in front of my face before I could finish my sentence.

"I know, it is all my fault, I'll leave you alone when we get to Ponyville." Amabel replied without looking at me. "Maybe you're just the same as Samphy."

"You know that I hate it when I'm being compared to Samphy, right?" I raised an eyebrow at her. She didn't respond to my question. "Looks like it is gonna be a quiet trip then." I said to myself.

Pillow

I sighed as I admired the scenery on the window as the train moves. The flat lands, the mountains in sight, the earth ponies planting some wheats. All of those things calmed me down, but then I remembered that I'm still facing a big problem no matter how the scenery looks. I turned my head to look at Amabel. Amabel was past asleep, her head facing down, eyes closed and she is drooling a bit. "Note to self, never ever help a homeless pony with a scarred past." I said to myself. I returned my gaze back at the window. The train started to move towards the rocky path. I smirked at the sleeping Amabel. "Like what I have just said, I won't be helping any homeless pony with a scarred past." I said quietly. As soon as the train began to cross the path, Amabel's head started to bang up and down. "Wouldn't it be dangerous if you bob your head up and down violently?" I thought to myself. "Nah, not my problem." I laid my back down on the seats. I covered my eyes with my hoof and then shook my head a bit,

"Pico..." Amabel muttered. I removed my hoof off of my eyes and then turned to look at Amabel. She is still past asleep, still banging her head.

"Not this again." I looked away from her and then covered my ears. I suddenly heard a thud on the floor after the train shook. I turned around slowly and saw Amabel standing on her knees on the floor, and she was still asleep. "Now this is just impossible." I sat up and then tried to lift her up. I laid her back down on her seat again. I sighed after I laid her down on the seat. I heard another loud thud. Amabel is laying on her back and still asleep. "This is just getting sad." I muttered. I picked her up and then took a seat. I laid her back down and then rested her head on my lap. Amabel gave out a sigh of relief. "Don't get too cocky, when this train passes the rocky path, you're off of me." I quickly gazed out of the window. "Wait, the train already has already passed the path?" I tried to remove her off of my lap, but her hooves are already wrapped around on my waist. "Just tell me if you have a mental disorder because as I recall, you are trying to ignore me just minutes ago and now you're trying to stick to me like a metal and a magnet?" Amabel replied with a snort. "Now I'm just talking to a sleeping pony." I facehoofed myself.

"Pico... Pico... Pico..." Amabel chanted. I raised an eyebrow at her as her voice became louder and louder. "Pico... Pi-Pillow..." Amabel tightened her grip. I felt myself, getting suffocated by her iron grip.

"I-I yield, I yield..." I tapped on Amabel's hooves. After a few more seconds of suffocation, Amabel's grip started to loosen. "Finally..." I said to myself as I gasp for air. "How could a stallion survive this kind of torture?" I thought to myself. "Maybe you're just an angel, sent by the heavens to retrieve my soul?" I admired Amabel's face. I removed her mane away from her eyes as I watch the sleeping Amabel. After a few seconds I snapped out of my trance. "What are you even thinking Pico?" I gave myself a soft slap in the face. "Well this angel is gonna go back to heaven tomorrow." I said to myself. Amabel suddenly opened her eyes.

"What do you mean?" I stared at Amabel for a few seconds before getting startled and then pushing her off of my lap. "Ahhh!!!" Amabel fell on the floor.

"Oh, you startled me." I helped her stood up. "Wait, you're awake all along?" I raised an eyebrow at her as soon as she got back onto her hooves.

"I thought you noticed." She took a seat in front of me. "Now what did you say about an angel going back to the heavens?" Amabel raised her eyebrow.

"Er... Nothing, and why are you now talking to me when you tried to ignore me just minutes ago?" I crossed my front hooves.

"You know that I have a mental disorder, and I just don't want to talk to you when yo-." I cut off her words.

"Wait, you have a mental disorder?" I leaned closer to her.

"Wait, I thought you knew?"

"Well I don't, and is there anything else that I might know about you?" I sat beside her.

"Do you know how I got a mental disorder?" I shook my head. "It happened after I left Samphy. I went drinking at a local bar. Amica and Mary tried to stop me, but my foolishness took over me."

"You know you don't have to do al-." Amabel blocked my muzzle.

"Just listen to my story okay?" I nodded, Amabel removed her hoof on my muzzle. " Anyway, I even payed a stallion for a night just to patch the emptiness I am feeling that time. After that night, I noticed that I was sleeping in another house with another stallion."

"You really are weird."

"And you can't even pay attention to a story of a pony without complaining about it."

"Hey, it's not my fault I'm impatient." I looked away from her.

"Wait, you're impatient?" I nodded without looking at her. "Doesn't seem like you're an impatient stallion."

"You should have seen me when I was still a little colt." I whispered.

"Well, I would like to." Amabel smiled at me.

"I'll tell you some of my stories when we return at my house." I grinned at her.

"Okay then." Amabel nodded.

I'll Comfort You

After walking down the street for only a minute, I felt like all of my energy has been drained, even though I only sat on the bench of the train the whole morning. "Thank Celestia, I'm finally back at my own house." I muttered as I opened the door of my house. "Home swe-." I trailed off as soon as I saw how messy my home was. Empty canned drinks at the coffee table, couch stained with drinks and some chairs at the kitchen has been brought to the living room. I saw all of my friends in front of me, staring at me blankly.

"Looks like Pico went home earlier than expected." said Berry as he walked up to me with a sheepish smile. "So..." Berry rolled his eyes. "How was the trip?"

"Did you bought something for us?" Cool Joe asked as he jumped out behind my friends, causing his sunglasses to bounce of a bit, showing a bit of his eyes. I have never seen Cool Joe's eyes before, heck, I even tried to lift his sunglasses up when he was sleeping after our last Heart's Warming Eve party, but I still didn't get to see what his eye color is. Must be classified. Now back to the story. I could see Cool Joe's face with a hint of pride on it. All of us gazed at Cool Joe. "I guess not..." Cool Joe slowly backed away with a sheepish smile. I returned my gaze back to Berry.

"I thought I told you to prepare my house for the Heart's Warming Eve party?" I asked Berry.

"Well I told Cool Joe, Quick Write and Enigma that you will be gone for a whole day, and Cool Joe here." Berry pointed to Cool Joe as he reasoned with me. Enigma and Quick Write moved aside to show the hiding Cool Joe behind them. "Thought that it might be a great opportunity for a party."

"This isn't really helping me." I facehoofed myself. Amabel walked up beside me, pushing Berry out of the way.

"You've been standing at the door for a half a minute, what's the problem?" Amabel asked.

"Just some friendly problems." I replied as I rubbed my temples in a circular motion, hoping that the headache that I suddenly felt would go away. Amabel faced my friends.

"Oh, you must be Pico's friends." Amabel smiled at my friends. All of my friends, except Berry, jaws dropped. Amabel tilted her head. "Is there something I said?" Amabel raised her eyebrows.

"They're always like that when they see new things in there eyes." I smirked.

"So they haven't seen a mare yet?" Amabel chuckled.

"What I meant to say was, that they haven't seen me with a mare. Except the time when they took a photo of me with my mother on our graduation day." I walked towards my friends. "Excuse me guys, I'm guessing that Berry told you I am gone for a whole day but didn't told you who I am going with." the three of them nodded. I glanced over my shoulder to look at Berry. Berry just gave me a sheepish smile. I returned my gaze back to my three friends in front of me. "I'll tell you all about it after I have rested, since It has been a long day."

"Don't you mean, a long night?" Berry asked, accompanied by a small chuckling. I glanced over my shoulder again to look at Berry.

"Don't think that I would be forgetting about this." I warned him. Berry nodded with a grin on his face. I pushed my friends on to my sides because they are blocking the stairs. Hearing the stairs creak as I walk upstairs gave me a bit of a headache, which slowed me down. After that I finally went inside of my bedroom, walked slowly towards the bed and then threw myself on the bed. I felt so relaxed, planting my face on the sweet, soft bed. I suddenly heard several knocks on the door. "Come in!" I yelled without even bothering to lift my head up. I heard the door open and some hoovesteps moving towards me. I glanced slowly behind me and saw Amabel.

"Don't worry about your friends Pico, they said that they will clean it up." Amabel said with a smile.

"If only you know my friends." I said in my thoughts.

Meanwhile downstairs

"Okay, okay... Here it goes." Berry said as he prepared himself to throw the can into the bin, which Enigma is raising up in mid air. "And then he shoots." Berry threw the can and it went inside of the bin.

"Goal!!!" Cool Joe and Enigma yelled in unison.

"Not bad..." Quick Write muttered. "Now watch this." Quick Write picked up a can on top of the coffee table and then distanced himself away from the bin. "One... Two... Three..." at the count of three, Quick Write threw the can and hit Enigma on the head, which caused Enigma to fall on the floor. "That was a nice shot." Quick Write gave a sheepish smile.

"Looks like you should stick back to those pencils." Cool Joe said while chuckling.

"I meant to hit Enigma's head." Quick Write protested.

"Yeah well whatever dude." Cool Joe walked towards Enigma. "Looks like you hit him pretty hard." Cool Joe poked the spot where the can hit the now sleeping Enigma.

Back upstairs

"I guess so, but I knew they would clean it up." Amabel said as she sat on the bed beside me. "You told me that you're gonna show me some of your pictures when you were still a colt." Amabel scratched my backside.

"Just let me rest for a bit, I'm still tired." I muttered, still not raising my head up.

"Oh come on, you didn't let me rest on Manehattan. So it is time for you to repay me." Amabel pushed me off the bed. I fell down on the floor onto my backside with a loud thud.

"Okay fine." I stood up. Amabel smiled at me. "Just go get the picture above my cabinet." I pointed the cabinet. She nodded and then trotted towards it. I laid my back down onto the bed again. I sighed for a moment, trying to get some air. After a few seconds, Amabel returned with an album. "Lay your back down beside me." Amabel passed me the book as she tried to make herself feel comfortable beside me. I gave the book a blow to remove some of the dust. "You ready?"

"Sure." I opened the album. On the first page revealed some pictures of me when I was still a foal. "You're so cute when you were still a foal." Amabel cooed. She took her time on analyzing the pictures before moving onto the next page. A certain picture quickly captures her attention. "Who is this?" she pointed a picture of me with a colt beside me. A colt with green eyes, green mane and tail, with a brown colored fur.

"That's my brother." I murmured.

"What's his name?" Amabel grabbed the album and then scanned through the pages, hoping to see more pictures of him.

"I don't know." I grabbed the album away from Amabel and then flipped it back to the second page. "I have never asked my mother what his name is. When I was still a colt, I got separated away from my brother." I touched the picture of me with my brother, smiling in front of the camera.

"What happened?"

"After I finally had a brain to think, I always asked my mother if she knows where my father and my brother is. All she replied to me was that they had been in a horrible accident as they rode a carriage." a tear started to form on my eyes. "After what she had told me, I studied hard to show that even without my father... I could... I could..." I tried to hold my tears from falling off of my eyes. "To show ponies that I could stand on my own hooves without any father." I couldn't hold my tears that time anymore, so streams of tears ran down to my cheeks. "I didn't care about my brother as much as my father. All I ever asked that time was what kind of father was he, and surely he replies with the word good, caring and a nice stallion."

"Then your father must be a really nice stallion then." Amabel wiped my tears away.

"No, you're wrong." Amabel raised her eyebrow. "Before my mother passed away, that time is after I have graduated college. She told me the true story about the lost of my father and my brother. She told me that my father left me with my mother after they have fought about my father, sleeping with another mare. My father took my brother with him, and then left us. Before I could even ask my mother what my brother's name was... She... She... She pas-passed out." I gave Amabel the album and then covered my face with my front hooves. She laid the book beside her and then she comforted me.

"Don't be sad. Without this happening, you could have not reached this far." she whispered to my ears. I removed my front hooves away from my face and then stared into her eyes. I quickly gave Amabel a kiss, and it was the deepest one I could ever give to her. I know now that she is the one who could make me happy, the one who would comfort me. I placed my front hooves behind her neck. I forced my tongue inside of her mouth, trying to explore her mouth deeper. I felt the pain in my heart, slowly fading away. I needed all the comfort that I could get from her. After a minute of tongue fighting, we both released from the kiss. A trail of saliva connected from my muzzle to her muzzle.

"I want to forget about my pain." I whispered to her.

"I'll take care of it." Amabel nuzzled me and then flipped the blanket over, covering both of us. Hiding our next actions to the eyes of the world, specially the readers.

Shocking Truth

"That was... Amazing..." I whispered as I twitched a bit. I was on top of Amabel. I was Breathing heavily, body covered in sweat and probably not a virgin anymore. I felt a bit dizzy after pumping my private part into her private part, if you know what I mean.

"Not bad for a... Stallion." Amabel replied with a weird grin on her face.

"Well... It is my first time though." I chuckled as I got off on top of her. I laid down beside her on the bed, and then wiped the sweat off of my face.

"Then it is an honor for me, since I was your first." Amabel smirked. I gazed back at Amabel. Her mane covering a bit of her still bushing face.

"Well not for me because I am your second, or maybe even third, remember when you told that you paid a stallion just for a night?" I rolled my eyes.

"I was just joking, but besides, yours was better." I sighed at what she just said. "Don't believe me?"

"Why would I believe you? No need to be shy, telling me that Samphy was the best one you had." I jested.

"Well you do look a bit like him, so it kind of made it better for me." Amabel chuckled.

"Oh come on, I don't look like him." I protested.

"How can you tell if you don't even know what he looks like?" Amabel raised her eyebrow with a grin on her face.

"Just a guess, but I know that I don't look like him." my face blushed a bit.

"Anyway, if you say that Samphy is better... Then why not prove that you are better than him?" Amabel placed her hoof on my chest.

"Later, and besides, you still haven't seen the whole photo album yet." I removed her mane that is blocking her eyes. Amabel let out a disapproving grunt, but I didn't mind. I picked up the photo album on the floor. Our actions might have caused the album to fall on the floor. "So let's start on the second page again." I flipped out the pages onto the second page. "So this is me and my broth-," I was cut off by Amabel.

"Are you sad yet?" I gave Amabel a confused look.

"Anyway, my mother always told me that I looked more like her and my brother looked more like my father. But still, I couldn't tell if my brother looked like my father since I don't have any pictures of my father here." I gave Amabel a sheepish smile. "So this is me now when I was a colt." I pointed a picture of me with a mare standing beside me, giving a warm smile in front of the camera.

"Is she your mother?" Amabel asked as she pointed the mare on the picture. The mare with a white fur and black mane and tail. I simply nodded. "You really do look a bit like her." Amabel smiled at me. I moved on to the next page.

"This is my old kindergarten class picture." I pointed a picture of me, standing at the right side with a bunch of colts and fillies. The only thing awkward in the picture is that all of the students in the picture are happy, except for me, who is just standing there while giving out a confused look. "This are my old classmates, and this is berry." I pointed a familiar earth pony, standing at the left side. "Now let's mo-." I was cut off by Amabel, again.

"Wait, what section where you in Ponyville kindergarten?" Amabel asked as she pointed a filly, standing near our teacher.

"Section blueberry, why do you ask?"

"Because I am here in the picture." my jaw dropped as soon as I saw Amabel when she was still a filly.

"Does that mean we're classmates in kindergarten?" Amabel nodded. "Does that mean you also insulted me when I was still in kindergarten?" I leaned closer to Amabel.

"What!? Of course not." Amabel gave out a shock expression.

"Oh really?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"Well... I did left a note at the table of a familiar colt." Amabel looked away while bumping her fore hooves together.

"What does the note say?"

"I-I... For-forgot!" Amabel yelled.

"Come on, tell me already." I placed my fore hooves on her shoulders.

"Okay, it is written in the note that you are a weird colt!" Amabel covered her face with her fore hooves and then closed her eyes. I just stared blankly at Amabel. She peeked out a bit, just enough to get a view of my face. After a few seconds a broke the silence.

"That's harsh." I muttered. I slowly removed my hooves off of Amabel's shoulders.

"We were still young that time, there is no need to be angry just because of that." Amabel gave out a sheepish smile.

"How could I not be angry? If it weren't for ponies like you, I would have made a lot of friends!" I yelled in frustration. I finally lost my temper. "You're one of those ponies that influence the others so that you could ruin somepony else's life!" Amabel's smile, slowly turned into a frown. I tried to calm myself down. "I just couldn't take it anymore." I laid the album down and then stood up. I walked towards the door and then twisted the knob. Berry fell in front of me as soon as the door opened. "What are you doing here?" I asked Berry. Berry stood up on his hooves and then faced me.

"I was going to tell you that we finished cleaning your living room." said Berry. "But it looks like I came in just in a wrong time." Berry backed away slowly. "I overheard you saying that you wanted more friends then just us, I guess that we should be now leaving." Berry walked downstairs.

"Hey wait!" I yelled as I watched Berry head downstairs. I gazed back at Amabel. "See what you've done? I lost my friend Berry because of you!" I again yelled at Amabel. Amabel finally lost her patience. She stood up from the bed and then ran past me. She rushed downstairs. It took a few seconds before I realized what I have just done. "This isn't what I've wanted." I quickly ran downstairs, hoping to find Amabel and my friends at the living room, but all I saw was an empty room. "Oh no." I said to myself as my heart started to pound. I quickly went towards the door and then opened it. I was shocked by the presence of Samphy.

"Oh sorry, didn't mean to scare you but, I just couldn't wait for tomorrow." Samphy said with a sheepish smile. "So what's with the hurry?"

"Amabel, she ran away." I replied.

"She did what!?" Samphy jumped out of shock. "What happened?"

"I kind of yelled at her because of my temper." my head dropped

"You really did get the temper of our father." Samphy whispered. I slowly raised my head in confusion.

"What did you say?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Since we're in a big situation, might as well tell you something." Samphy leaned closer to me. "I'm your brother." my jaws dropped. I didn't noticed that he looked like my brother on the photo album. The green mane and tail, the green eyes and the brown fur. "I know that it is shocking but it is true. From the first time I saw you, I knew that you were my brother. I saw the face of our mother when I saw you."

"Bu-but how could this be? How could you be my brother?"

"I'll tell you when after we find Amabel." I nodded. We rushed away from my house, in search for Amabel.

I Can't Take It Anymore

"Don't you think that it will be better if you talk to your friends to help you?" Samphy asked as we galloped to the park.

"I don't think they'll help me. I kind of hurt their feelings." I replied. I felt the cold wind as the sun slowly set. "The sun is slowly setting, what time is it anyway?" I thought to myself. As soon as we reached the park, Samphy err... I mean my brother and I searched for Amabel.

"Meet me at the entrance of the park if Amabel isn't in the park." Samphy instructed me. I nodded as we split up.

"Okay, where could Amabel possibly go?" I said to myself. My hooves were shaking in frustration as I think of the places where I could find Amabel. "Right, the first place where I found Amabel." I felt a bit of hope. I quickly rushed towards the spot where I first found Amabel, but sadly, she wasn't there. "Amabel must knew that I was going to search her here first." I saw two ponies, sitting at the bench near where I found Amabel. I quickly trotted towards them. "Um... Excuse me?" I asked the two mares. The mare with a lyre cutiemark raised her eyebrow at me. "Have you seen a mare with a brown fur and a darker brown colored mane and tail?"

"Sorry mister, but I haven't seen her." the mare replied. She turned to her friend who were sitting beside her. "Hey Bon Bon, have you seen any mares with a brown fur and a darker brown colored mane and tail passing by?" the other mare shook her head.

"Thanks for the information." I replied to the two mares. "Where could she even go?" I thought to myself as I left the two mares. I scanned the other parts of the park, but still no luck on finding Amabel. I went back where I should meet Samphy if I couldn't find Amabel. I saw Samphy standing at the entrance of the park. "Have you found her yet?" I asked Samphy.

"No, I think we should really ask your friends for help now." Samphy suggested. I just nodded since I don't have any other choices. We quickly galloped towards Berry's house.

"Please forgive me Berry." I whispered as soon as I saw Berry's house. I knocked at the door of Berry's house as hard as I could. In just a few seconds Berry answered the door.

"Oh, its you." Berry said with a disappointed face.

"I know you are angry at me but I really need your help on finding Amabel." I said to Berry.

"Why don't you ask your other friends to help you?" Berry closed the door, but Samphy held the door open.

"Please Berry, help my brother." Samphy asked politely.

"Brother?" Berry raised his eyebrow.

"Yes, he is my brother." Berry's jaw dropped."Just help us find Amabel," Samphy begged.

"I'm sorry, Samphy is it? But I just don't want to." Berry closed the door in front of us.

"I told you he wouldn't help me, even the others will just say the same." I murmured. "It's no use, why would I even bother? It went so well, but at the end, it went downhill."

"Don't give up brother, I'll always help you." Samphy patted me. "Go back inside your home and I'll find Amabel for you." Samphy walked away from me, but I grabbed him on the tail before he could leave me.

"I wanted to ask you something first?"

"Sure, ask away." Samphy replied with a smile.

"How did we get separated?" Samphy stared at me blankly. "I just wanted to know."

"Well it's hard." Samphy scratched his head. "When you were still a foal, I always watch mother and father fight each other. I would always carry you away from them when they are fighting. You were always crying when you hear the angry voices of mother and father, so that is why I carry you inside of my room and then tuck you to sleep. After a few months of mother and father fighting, they finally decided that they should get separated. Father brought me with him to Manehattan. But father couldn't bare the pain of not seeing you and mother, so he would always drink at a bar in Manehattan. After another year, we moved to Ponyville for our father's new job, but it didn't end so well. He couldn't carry all of the problems on his own, so he committed suicide, and then-." I cut his words.

"Our father committed suicide?" Samphy nodded. "So you were left alone?" Samphy nodded again. "Then it must be hard for you to live on your own?" a tear formed on my eye. I felt a sudden guilt in my heart, thinking that some of it was my fault.

"Yes it is brother, but Amabel changed my life. I didn't mean to hurt her."

"Me too, but it just slipped away."

"I know you didn't mean to." Samphy wiped the single tear on my eye. "Don't worry, I'll find Amabel. Now rest inside of your home. I know you are feeling a lot of problems right about now." Samphy smiled at me. Samphy galloped throughout Ponyville in search for Amabel. I went inside of my house, with a hole left in my heart. Left inside of my house, speechless after knowing how much pain Samphy, my long lost brother felt.

"I just couldn't take this anymore." I said to myself. "Our father committed suicide because he couldn't face the problems?" those words clang in my head. "Looks like I'm going to meet you now father." I chuckled like a deranged pony. I rushed upstairs and then grabbed a long towel. I went back downstairs and then head to the kitchen. I stood on the table to tie the end of the towel at a lamp shade. I wrapped the towel around my neck and then gave it a secure knot. "I'm coming father." I kicked the table away. I felt myself getting strangled, each passing moments I became breathless. In just a few seconds, I finally passed on. "Father." my final words.

Memories

They say that your whole life flashes before your eyes when you are about to die. Well for me, it's weird because it only flashed after I died.

I woke up, back aching and thoughts spinning. I opened my eyes and then looked around. "Wait a minute." I whispered to myself as I scanned my surroundings. "Is this my old school when I was in kindergarten?" I thought to myself. The bell suddenly rang, and it made me jump onto my hooves. I noticed that I was in front of the school door. Fillies and colt rushed towards me. "Watch out!!!" I yelled as I reached out my fore hooves, trying to stop the rushing students. I was shocked as the crowd went through me. I glanced over my shoulder, and saw that the students had already gotten inside the school.

"Looks like it is time to go back to the classroom." a familiar voice caught my attention, and made me turn around. I saw Berry, but smaller than his usual size, or maybe he turned back into a colt. walking beside him is... Another me, but younger. In short... A colt version of me.

"What the buck!?"

"Yeah, sometimes I just don't want to go to school anymore." the other me muttered as they went through me and then head inside the building.

"This is just getting weird." I followed them inside. I didn't bother opening the door since, I went through it. I watched mini me or the other me walk towards my seat, but before he could reach it, time suddenly slowed down. "Hey, what's happening?" I saw mini me walk past a familiar filly. "Is that?" a sudden name flashed inside of my head. "Amabel!" a filly with brown fur and darker brown for the mane and the tail. The time flowed back to normal. I walked towards Amabel, as curiosity took over me.

"Are you sure this will work?" Amabel asked a filly behind her.

"Of course it will." the filly replied with a smile.

"Okay class, who would like to answer this question?" the teacher asked as she underlined a simple three plus six question on the blackboard. "Okay, Pico." I turned around and saw that mini me was raising his hoof. The whole class except for Amabel and Berry, grunted in disapproval. Mini me stood up from his seat, and then walked towards the blackboard.

"Now Amabel." the filly whispered. I saw Amabel placed a weird note at the top of my desk.

"This must be the note she was talking about." I murmured as I tried to pick up the note. I tried to grab it but it just went through my hoof. "Damn it." I gazed back at Amabel.

"You sure writing in the paper that he is weird will tell him that he is cute?" Amabel asked the filly again. The filly simply nodded. I suddenly remembered that I got angry at Amabel because she told me that she placed a note at the top of my desk saying that I am weird.

"I misunderstood her." I said to myself as I watched Amabel who was gazing at mini me.

"Thanks Pico, you can now take your seat." the teacher said as mini me went back to his seat. I saw mini me, picking up the note at the top of his desk. After a few seconds of him, just staring at the note. He crumpled the note and then buried his head on the desk.

"I don't think it worked." Amabel muttered. The filly that she was talking just raised her shoulders. I gazed back to mini me and saw Berry, who was sitting beside him, rubbed his back.

"What's wrong?" Berry asked mini me.

"Nothing." As soon as mini me replied, the whole world around me started to crack.

"Hey, what's going on?" I said as I took a step backward. "What's happening?" I took another step backward but then ended up falling into a deep dark abyss. I screamed in fear as I fell into what it seemed like an endless pit. In just ten seconds, I fell onto my rumps, but it isn't pretty much painful unlike the time when I fell down at the stairs, inside of my own house. I scratched my flanks, trying to ease the pain on my rumps. I looked around and saw nothing but darkness. "What kind of hellish nightmare is this?" I stood up on my hooves and then suddenly, the place started to get illuminated. I was standing at the cafeteria in the school where I went grade one.

"Ha ha ha, losers." a sudden voice called out. I saw another me again, still a little colt with Berry by his side, also a little colt. Standing in front of them was a group of colts.

"Stop calling us losers." mini me protested. A colt who is a bit larger than mini me and Berry took a step forward.

"What are you gonna do about it, losers?" the colt asked.

"Why you." mini me tried to tackle the colt. But Berry grabbed him in the tail. "Let go of me Berry." the colt in front of him laughed.

"You two really are losers." the colt pushed mini me in the forehead, causing him to fall down. "See ya, losers." the group left. I walked towards mini me, but then again, the time slowed down. I saw filly Amabel again, walking towards mini me. And in front of mini me, a familiar colt reached out his hoof, helping mini me stood up on his hooves. The time went back to normal, Amabel stopped behind what it seems like Enigma, but the colt version of him.

"You alright?" Enigma asked mini me as he helped him stood up.

"Yeah." mini me replied.

"Sorry about my friends, they're just like that." Enigma rolled his eyes. "Anyway I'm Enigma." Enigma offered his hoof.

"Um... My name is Pico." mini me bumped his hoof with Enigma's.

"My name is Berry." Berry said as he bumped his hoof with Enigma's.

"And again, sorry about my friends. I wouldn't mind being friends with you two?" Berry gave a sheepish smile.

"Sure, why not?" Berry and mini me said in unison. Again, the world started to crumble. Floors were shaking, the background seemed to be slowly fading. The floor started to crack. The floor beneath me separated. I fell in again, at the dark abyss. Again I screamed, while also hoping that this nightmare would end. Another ten seconds I fell on my rumps again.

"What kind of nightmare couldn't afford a throw pillow?" I said to myself as I stood up on my hooves again. "Wait, how could it be a nightmare if it isn't painful for the victim?" I thought to myself. "Nah, anyway, where am I now?" I noticed the room getting lightened up by the lights on the ceiling. After a few seconds, the room was now well lit, and I noticed that I was standing at our school gym when I was in high school.

"Okay students, today we are going to play dodge-balls!!!" a stallion yelled, ending the sentence with a loud whistle, which he has, tied around his neck. I saw mini me again, but this time he is a bit big now, maybe at the age of a young stallion now. Beside him was Enigma and Berry who is also a bit bigger than the last time I saw them. "I'm going to separate you class, into two teams." the stallion whistled again, and automatically the students separated into two groups, but Berry, Enigma and other me didn't separated from each other. "On your marks, get set." balls started to appear as the stallion whistled.

"Okay, keep your eyes straight guys." Enigma whispered to Berry and other me. Berry and other me nodded, but then all of a sudden, other me got hit by a dodge ball on the face. Time suddenly slowed down.

"Why at a bad timing?" I whispered as I watch other me, slowly falling down, with a weird expression on his face. As other me slowly falls down, I saw Amabel outside of the door of the gym. I quickly galloped towards her, passing through anything that blocks me. As soon as I reached her, time finally went back to normal.

"Don't you think that somepony should be helping Pico stand up?" Amabel asked as she peeked through the small windows of the door.

"Don't you think that you should be finding somepony else instead of Pico?" a mare beside her replied. She looks like the filly from the first time I saw Amabel as a filly.

"Why should I?" Amabel raised her eyebrow as she faced her friend.

"There are a lot of stallions who are better than him."

"I don't think I have a valid reason for me, not liking him." Amabel blushed a bit.

"Him being a cry foal." Amabel gave her friend a confused look. "Sometimes you just don't get me." the mare rolled her eyes.

"And sometimes you don't get me." Amabel gazed at the other me for the last time before she left.

"Does that mean Amabel already knew me before I found her?" I thought to myself. My surroundings started to get dim. "Another one eh?" As my whole field of vision went dark, few spotlights appeared. "Where am I this time?" I noticed that I was at the streets of Ponyville. It felt like it is still 5:45 P.M, since sun was still rising, but almost setting. I heard a couple of voices behind me, which made me turn around. I saw myself again, which is now a full grown stallion, carrying him was Berry and Cool Joe. I knew that I have already met Quick Write that time, since I saw Enigma dragging Quick Write who's body is now wrapped with masking tape.

"I knew you shouldn't have forced Pico to drink, now we're stuck dragging him from the bar, back to his house." Cool Joe complained.

"You're telling me that we should haven't forced Pico to drink?" Enigma asked.

"Uh... Yeah."

"How about Quick Write getting drunk? It looks like I'm dragging a mummified pony that came from the museum."

"I still don't get how Quick Write manages to get himself wrapped with masking tape." Berry murmured.

"Wait till morning, we'll try to ask. But still, I think somepony's gonna lose his fur." Enigma said accompanied by some small chuckles. Time suddenly slowed down, as Amabel walked past the other me. I then walked towards her. Time went back to normal after Amabel walked past the other me who is sleeping.

"I told you that you shouldn't have wasted your time on him." a mare muttered beside Amabel. The same mare who I encountered with Amabel back near the gym.

"How could you say that I wasted my time on him? I didn't even get to talk to him all of my life." Amabel replied.

"There are a lot of stallions asking for you to come with them at the prom last college, but you rejected them." her friend exaggerated.

"I'm not really sure about them, they look kind of reckless." Amabel looked away from her friend.

"Oh come on, you just saw a drunk Pico, how could you say that he isn't reckless if he is really drunk?" Amabel gazed back to her friend.

"If you think Pico is reckless, than fine, he is reckless. Happy now?" Amabel raised her voice.

"I'm just saying what is the best for you." her friend said in a calm voice. "Just forget about him, for your entire life, you never stopped forcing yourself into Pico's life."

"You just don't understand me." Amabel lowered her head. I tried to place my hoof on her shoulder, but it just went through. I watched her slowly walking away from me, gaining distance between me and her. All I could do now was wait for the nightmare to pass, and it did. The world around me is slowly getting consumed by darkness. In just a flash, I noticed that I was laying down on a bed. There was some sort of beating coming from my right side. I turned to look at my right side and then saw a heart rate monitor. I noticed that there was an oxygen mask attached to my snout down to my muzzle.

"Where am I?" I asked myself. I turned to my left side and saw my four friends, or used to be friends, sleeping at a bench long enough for them all to fit. "Berry." I murmured. Berry twitched a bit, before opening his eyes. As soon as he saw me, he gave me a smile. He then stood and then walked towards me.

"Thank Celestia you're awake." said Berry.

"What happened?"

"You hanged yourself in the kitchen, trying to kill yourself. Good thing I went inside of your house, I was getting worried that you weren't answering the door when I knocked. I thought that you were out of your house, trying to search for Amabel. But I wanted to make sure. You were dead that time, but good thing that doctors in this hospital are experts. I mean can you believe it? The only thing we know is that you were dead, but after just a whole day, they told us that you were still breathing."

"Wow,,, I owe you my life, and also to the ponies who are working here."

"Don't mention it, and also, you're going to need to replace your small chandelier in the kitchen." Berry gave me a sheepish smile.

"Then that is the first thing I'm gonna do after I recover."

"How about Amabel?"

"Amabel!!!" I suddenly yelled.

"Yeah, Amabel."

"What?" I gave Berry a confused look. "What I meant to say was that while I was unconscious, I saw Amabel in my old memories. The first time I met you and the others. I didn't know that she knew me all this time."

"Did the chandelier hit your head when it broke down?" Berry raised his eyebrow.

"I don't know, but the important thing right now is that where is Amabel?"

"She was with your brother, bringing her to a psychiatrist."

"That's good to know."

"Yeah, you should probably rest now." I just nodded. Berry sat back down on the bench.

"That was weird." I said to myself one last time.

Time to Check Out

"I hate it when I get fabric burns." I said to myself as I scratched my irritated neck. I shifted my head my head a bit, trying to get my irritated neck to feel a little bit comfortable. A sudden curiosity hit my head. "How long was I out anyway?" I thought to myself. "Maybe I should ask Berry?" I gazed at Berry. "Hey Berry." I called out to Berry who is sleeping on the bench beside my three other friends.

"Huh... Wha?" Berry snorted as he slowly opened his eyes.

"Sorry to disturb you, but I need to ask you something?"

"Sure uh... I guess..." Berry raised his shoulder, still unsure of his decision.

"How long was I asleep?"

"I think..." Berry's eyes narrowed as he tries to search for his answer. "For a whole day..."

"You sure?"

"Well Heart's Warming Eve is already over. Too bad we didn't get to celebrate." Berry scratched his head.

"Yeah. me and my temper. Also, Samphy told me something about getting my temper from my father."

"Well it is good to know, at least you knew something that you got from your father."

"I don't even know if I'm happy that I got something from my father, or get mad that it is because of him I have a short temper." I rolled my eyes.

"If I were you, I would stop looking at the negative sides and then try to be positive." I sighed at what he said to me.

"Yeah I'll try, also, I think I need to go see a psychiatrist." I lowered my head, thinking that maybe I really need to go to psychiatrist, even though I don't want to.

"Yeah, you do that. Is there anything else you want to ask?" Berry raised his eyebrow.

"None." Berry nodded is head as he tried to go back to sleep. Another question suddenly pops up on my head. "Wait, Berry..." Berry opened his eyes again, accompanied by an irritated grunt.

"Where did you find Amabel?"

"I think your brother told me something about trying to search for her at the train station." Berry placed a hoof under his chin. "I tried to follow him on finding Amabel, but he told me to stay with you so somepony could keep an eye on you."

"Well at least I know that she is with my brother." I sighed in relief. "Also, when did Samphy brought Amabel to a psychiatrist?"

"I don't know, all I know is that after Samphy found Amabel, he told me about bringing her to a psychiatrist. It was almost getting dark that time yest-." Berry didn't get to finish her sentence as I interrupted him.

"What time is it now?" I hesitated.

"There is a clock there." Berry pointed the clock, mounted on the wall at my right side. I gazed at the clock and saw that the time was at 1:23 P.M.

"How long am I gonna get confined in the hospital?"

"I guess you could check out of the hospital now, since you are already awake."

"Good, could you talk to one of the nurses here and tell them that the patient in this room needs to check out of the hospital." I gave Berry a sheepish smile.

"uh sure,,, I guess..." Berry stood up lifelessly on his hooves, and then head towards the door. He opened the door and then exited the room, closing the door with his hind leg.

"Thank Celestia, I could finally get out of the hospital." I gazed at my three other sleeping friends. "I guess I should probably wake them up." I took a deep breath and then gave a long sigh.

Introduction / Why? [Rewritten]

I was just walking through the park with my friend Queens Berry, but I call him Berry. He is one of my three best friends but I often hang out with him. He is the most talkative earth pony I have ever met. He has a dark green fur, a light green mane and a dyed blue tail. My name is Pico. I'm an earth pony who likes to spend time with my friends. I have a black colored mane and tail. I have a white colored fur and my cutiemark is a pi. We were just discussing about our party for the upcoming Hearth's Warming Eve since it is just weeks away. "It would be fun to have a lot of tough cider in the party." I said to Berry.

"It would be also fun if there would be some mare at the party." he replied.

"I'm not really used to that kind of party, all I want is a normal get together."

"Whatever Pico but I know Joe will like it." he punched me in the shoulder softly.

"How about Enigma and Quick Write?" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Every stallion likes to have a mare in a party." he chuckled.

"Except for me." I gave him a friendly push. As we walk through the park I saw a mare earth pony living in a box just beside the tree. The tree was not too far on our left side.

"Don't you think it is a bit sad to see homeless pony especially when Heart's Warming Eve is about to come?" I pointed out the mare on our left side.

"It is sad." we stopped for a moment.

"Maybe I should help her out and besides it is starting to get cold." I opened my saddle and then brought out my scarf. I tied the scarf around my neck. I tried to fix my mane so I won't make a bad impression on the mare.

"Don't you think it would be a trouble?" Berry raised his eyebrow at me. I turned my head to look at Berry.

"Not really." I replied to him with a small chuckle. I walked towards the mare while Berry followed me. I stood in front of the mare who is laying down inside a box.

"What would you like?" the mare asked me with a smile but I could still see the sadness in her face. She has a brown fur and darker brown color for the mane and tail. She had a beautiful blue eyes. Her cutiemark is a heart. She pointed out a cardboard just beside her. 5 bits for a hoofjob, 10 bits for full time and 20 bits for everything.

"20 bits for everything." I said to the mare. I opened my saddle and brought out 20 bits. As I handed my bits Berry grabbed my hoof.

"I thought you were going to help her?" Berry asked with a curious face.

"I am, just trust me." I said to Berry. I handed my bits to the mare. "Come with me to my home." I said to the mare. Me and Berry walked out of the park with the mare. Berry moved his muzzle closer to my ear as we walk.

"Are you sure about this?" Berry whispered to my ears. I just nodded without looking at him. I turned my attention to the mare.

"So what's your name?" I asked the mare with a smile.

"It's Amabel." the mare replied timidly. She looked away from eyes. She tried to hide her face with her mane. I moved her mane that is blocking her face.

"There, much better." I said to her. We finally reached my home. My home isn't really that big. It has a small living room, kitchen, bathroom and a bedroom.

"See you whenever." I said to Berry. Berry waved back at me as he walk towards his house just near mine.

"Good luck in whatever you are about to do!" he yelled as he head inside his house. We were neighbors and my three other friends Enigma, Joe and Quick Write are just a block away. I turned my attention back to Amabel. "Welcome to my home and I know my house isn't really that big." I said to her as I open the door to my house. We went inside of my house. I laid down my saddle on the couch. "Make yourself at home." I pointed the couch to her. She sat at the couch. I went to the kitchen and then grabbed a glass of water and a lettuce and tomato sandwich. I went back to the living room and then handed the sandwich to Amabel. "You must be hungry." I said to her.

"You don't need to." she pushed the sandwich a bit.

"I know you really need it and besides I paid you 20 bits to do everything so I want you to eat the sandwich." I said to her in a playful way. She sighed then took a bite of a sandwich. I moved my saddle a bit so I could sit beside her. I watched her eat the sandwich. After she finished eating the sandwich I gave her a glass of water. "Hope you don't mind if I ask you a question." she just nodded. "How did you ended up at the park?" she almost choked as she heard my question. "Oh sorry." I rubbed her back as she cough. She moved the glass away from her face.

"Is it okay if I don't answer your question?" she asked as she tried to hide her face with her mane again.

"Well I really want to know but sure." I smiled at her.

"Thanks." she smiled at me. I moved her mane that is blocking her amazing blue eyes. She blushed a bit. "So uh... What do you want me to do since you have me for a night?" she raised an eyebrow.

"Nothing," I said to her. "I just want you to make yourself feel at home." I patted her mane.

"Are you sure?" she backed her head a bit to avoid my hoof. "Nothing that involves pleasuring you?"

"Nothing, you could just take your bath and try to go to sleep inside my bedroom and if you are thinking about me raping you when I said just sleep inside my bed then you are wrong." I chuckled.

"Where are you going to sleep." she glanced at the clock just near the counter at the kitchen. " And besides it's still 3:00 P.M." she protested.

"At the couch and I know it is still early but you might need some sleep." I walked to the stairs. "Just make yourself feel comfortable and try to rest yourself up." I went to my bedroom. I grabbed towel and toothbrush inside my cabinet. I turned around to exit the bedroom but I saw Amabel in front of me.

"Why are you doing this to me? You only met me just minutes ago." she raised her eyebrow

"Why are you offering services to some stallions who you don't even know?" her face turned red. "I just want to help you because I can't handle seeing somepony struggling." I walked towards her. "Have you ever tried seeing a fellow pony living like a rat and you know you are the only one who could help it?" she avoided my eyes. "Well have you?" I moved her face with my hoof so she could see me eye to eye.

"I have." she moved her head away again. "I have already felt that." she removed my hoof away from her face. "I met a poor stallion who is trying to work hard just to survive." a tear dropped on her eyes. "I fell in love with that stallion so I tried to introduce myself to him." she wiped the tear on her eyes. "We have lived a great life together for a year." I patted her mane. "I loved him, feed him, nourish him and gave him all that he ever wanted." I wrapped my hoof around her neck to comfort her. "But one day after he had claimed all that he ever wanted, he tried to find another mare for his life and it made my heart ache." I felt the pain her words are expressing.

"I should have not insulted her if I knew she had a crazy life." I thought to myself.

"I lost everything to him." I wiped the tears that is now flowing through her eyes. "My home, money, job and even my life." she suddenly hugged me. I dropped the toothbrush and the towel as I felt her hug. "Now you know I ended up living like a rat." she looked up to me.

"I didn't know that a worthless stallion could do that to a mare." I said to her. "Just forget about what happened in the past." I smiled at her. "I'll try stick by your side." her eyes widened.

"Sorry but I couldn't take advantage of you." she released me from the hug.

"Don't worry because you aren't taking advantage of me." I hugged her. "Now just go take your bath and try to rest up." she nodded and wiped the tears in her eyes. I released her from the hug and then picked up the towel and the toothbrush. I gave her the towel and the toothbrush and then she left the bedroom. My ears fell down as soon as she got out of my sight. "I feel sorry about her." I said to myself. "Don't worry Amabel because I'll try to make you happy." I walked downstairs to the couch. I moved the saddle out of the couch and then laid my back. I removed my scarf from my neck. "Maybe I'm the one who needs to rest up." I said to myself as I close my eyes and try to take a nap.

Going Out

As I lay my back down on the bed, I tried to process the events that has just happened. "Being used as a replacement?" I thought to myself. "Maybe I should just get her to talk to a psychiatrist?" I muttered. "Or maybe I shoud just get her to see Samphy?" I sighed in frustration. "Come on Pico think, you wouldn't want to wake up every morning in bed next to her." I scratched my head as I think of anymore ideas I could come up with. "Maybe I could ask Berry, Joe, Enigma and Quick Write for help?" I sat up. "That's it, I'm gonna ask them for help instead of grinding my head just to come up with a simple solution." I stood up. I went downstairs to the living room. "Berry told me to meet them at the park this afternoon." I looked at the clock inside the kitchen. "Still have time to cook Amabel some lunch before I leave." I quickly gathered some fresh torn leaf lettuce, a green onion, a jar mayonnaise, a bottle of cider vinegar and a pepper shaker. I just mixed the torn leaf lettuce, the green onion in a bowl and then dazzled it with some pepper, mayonnaise and some cider. As I mix the bowl, I felt something wet being wrapped around my neck. I turned around and saw Amabel breathing on my neck with her eyes closed. I sweated a bit from what I am witnessing. "Not this again." I thought to myself. "So Amabel, mind telling me what you are doing?" I asked her.

"Nothing Samphy." she replied.

"Again with Samphy." I thought to myself. "Amabel, you might want to open your eyes." I said to her in a calm voice. she slowly opened her eyes and then stood frozen. "Can you remove your hoof off of my neck now?" I raised an eyebrow at her. She quickly removed her hoof around my neck. "Thanks, now go to the bedroom and then dry yourself up." I said to her with a smile.

"O-oh yes, sorry for disturbing you." she said with sheepish smile. She went out of the kitchen.

"She is getting weirder and weirder as time pass." I said to myself. After I finished mixing the bowl, I covered the bowl with tin foil and then placed it in the fridge. I sighed as I close the fridge. I wiped the sweat on my head. I went upstairs to tell Amabel that I am about to leave. I knocked on the door of the bedroom. "Amabel, I'm leaving now, don't let any strangers inside the house okay?" I said through the door.

"Sure." she replied.

"And your lunch is inside the fridge." I said before I went back downstairs. I walked towards the couch and then grabbed my saddle. I checked what's inside my saddle first before I left my house. I galloped through the park, trying to search for my friends. I found my friends waiting at the bench near a tree. "Hey guys!!!" I yelled as I walk towards them. It looked like I got their attention.

"What took you so long?" Berry asked.

"Just some house issues." I replied as I gasp from air after running through the park.

"Or maybe some mare issues." said Enigma while chuckling.

"You always know what to say." I said to Enigma. "Where are we going anyway?" I asked them.

"We already told you, we are going to a local bar." said Quick Write.

"Then why are you coming Enigma, I thought you don't like alcohol?" I raised an eyebrow at Enigma.

"I'm just gonna have a normal drink." he replied.

"Don't worry Pico, I know Enigma can handle some glass of OJ." said Cool Joe. All of us except for Enigma, laughed.

"I'm just avoiding it for the better of my health." said Enigma with a proud look on his face.

"Sure, lets just go to where you guys are talking about." I said to them. They all nodded and then started to walk out of the park. I followed them where the bar they are talking about is. As we walk our way to the bar, Quick Write moved a bit closer to me.

"So... How's the mare?" Quick Write asked.

"Oh yeah, she's getting weirder by the minute." I replied to him.

"What kind of weird?" Quick Write raised his eyebrow.

"Well she's using me as a replacement for Samphy?" they all stopped walking for a moment.

"Who's Samphy?" they all asked in unison.

"Just a stallion she used to love." I said to them. They continued walking.

"Well then you're in a big trouble." said Quick Write with a small grin on his face.

"Why do you say so?" I asked him as I move closer to him.

"Mares act differently towards a stallion, specially when there is something wrong with them." he replied.

"In short, Ding!!!." said Cool Joe as he bumped into me. I pushed Cool Joe away from me a bit.

'Well then, any pointer on how I could avoid this situation?" I asked them. They didn't respond. "So much for asking all of you for help." I thought to myself. After a few more seconds of walking, we finally reached the club. It is just at the end of Ponyville at the left side. It isn't really that big nor small for a club, maybe that's why I still haven't noticed the club. We entered the club. The club isn't really that much crowded so it is easier for us to move, unlike those other times when we used to go to Manehattan just to party. Berry and his ideas.

"So, this is the place I wa-." Berry didn't get to finish his sentence as Cool Joe ran towards the dance floor.

"Woo, let's party!!!" yelled Cool Joe as he danced at the middle of the dance floor.

"So like I was saying, this is the place I was talking about." said Berry with a smile on his face.

"Might as well get a beer for us and a lemon juice for Enigma." I said to them as I walk towards the bartender. I heard Berry and Quick Write chuckle. "Three mugs of beer for us and a lemon juice for my friend." I said to the bartender as I pointed my hoof towards Enigma. The bartender nodded.

"Ha ha, wait till all of you have kidney problems." said Enigma. "Nah just joking, that joke keeps getting funnier and funnier by the time you say it." Enigma smiled. The four of us took a seat.

"So Pico, you might want to tell us what is the latest news inside of your home?" Berry asked with a mocking smile.

"Oh you know, the mare I helped has a sad past." I replied. The bartender handed us our drinks.

"What's her story?" Berry asked as he grab his mug of beer.

"She lost her life to a stallion she loved." I examined my drink.

"Wow that's harsh." said Quick Write.

"Tell me about it." I said to Quick Write.

"And speaking of stallions, check out Cool Joe." said Berry as he pointed Cool Joe who was hitting on a two familliar pegasus, Cloudchaser and Flitter.

"Watch this." said Enigma. Enigma walked towards Cool Joe. "Hey four eyes." Cool Joe turned around. "I heard Quick Write say something like you won't last in a drinking contest." said Enigma with a mocking smile on his face. Cool Joe was starting to get irritated. "He also said some that if you were gonna challenge him, it will be Quick." Enigma laughed. Cool Joe walked towards Quick Write who was busy drinking a mug of beer.

"Hey Quick Write." said Cool Joe. Quick Write turned around. "How about a drinking contest?" Cool Joe raised his eyebrow.

"Sure, why not?" said Quick Write. "Hey mister bartender, 10 mugs of the highest alcohol beer in here." the bartender nodded and then laid down 10 mugs of beer at the table in front of them.

"This will be entertaining." said Enigma with a smile on his face. A few ponies surrounded us to watch Cool Joe and Quick Write in a drinking contest.

"Okay then, lets start." said Cool Joe. They both grabbed a mug of beer and then started to drink it in one gulp. After two more mugs they passed out on the table.

"I knew it would be entertaining." said Enigma while chuckling.

"Since you're the one who taught of this idea, then you're the one who's gonna carry them both down their home." said Berry.

"Oh come on." Enigma protested.

"Hey guys, I'm not drunk yet." said Cool Joe as he slowly raise his head from the table. Enigma moved closer to Cool Joe.

"How many hooves am I holding up?" asked Enigma as he raised his right hoof in front of Cool Joe.

"69." Cool Joe said proudly.

"Wow you're right." said Enigma while clapping. "Now for your reward." Enigma pushed Cool Joe softly on his nose which caused Cool Joe's head to lay down on the table again. "Yup, he's not drunk." said Enigma. We spend 3 hours at the bar, having fun while Quick Write and Cool Joe slept on the table. We left the bar at 6:00 P.M. I carried Cool Joe while Enigma carried Quick Write out of the bar. We walked home, a bit drunk except for Enigma who didn't drink and Quick Write and Cool Joe who were really drunk. After we reached my home, Berry carried Cool Joe to his house while Enigma carried Quick Write to his house. I went inside of the house barely able to stand up anymore after carrying a stallion on my back. I laid my back down on the couch without bothering to remove my saddle.

"Amabel, are you there!?" I yelled. She didn't responded. I quickly stood up from the couch and then ran upstairs. I opened the door to the bedroom. Amabel was no where to be found inside the bedroom. I ran back downstairs. I dropped my saddle on the couch and then galloped my way out of my house. "Where would you go Amabel?" I said to myself as I run through Ponyville, in search for Amabel.

True Friends

"This train is just taking too long." Amabel muttered. "Hey Pico?" I raised an eyebrow at her. "Why don't you tell me some of your stories, just to pass the time." Amabel gave me a sheepish smile.

"Why not wait till we get home?" I replied to her.

"Oh come on, it is just for the time to pass." Amabel gave me a sad expression. I looked away from her. "Please..." Amabel placed her hoof under my chin.

"It might spoil the story for you if I tell you." I removed her hoof under my chin.

"I don't care if it may spoil the story for me, just one story about you would be enough." Amabel rested her head on my lap. I gazed back at Amabel.

"One story is enough for you?" Amabel nodded. "I doubt that." I smirked.

"Come on Pico, do it for the sake of the ponies inside of this train." Amabel pouted. "Just for the sake of the ponies inside of this train."

"How can I save a bunch of ponies inside of this train by just telling a boring story of about myself?" I looked towards the window.

"How do I even know if your story is boring if you haven't yet tell it to me yet?" I sighed.

"Okay fine, you can stop reasoning with me now, I'll tell you some stories about my life." I gazed at her. "Now, what stories about me would you like to know?"

"Some of the most embarrassing moments of your life." Amabel chuckled.

"Do you want to hear a story about me or not?"

"Okay mister temper guy, I'm thinking." Amabel rolled her eyes. "Lets see... Uh... Mmm... Aha!" Amabel suddenly raised her hoof, almost hitting me on the snout. "How about your first love life." Amabel grinned at me.

"Sorry, don't have a love life." I chuckled.

"Oh come on, I'm sure you had one." Amabel protested.

"I'm one hundred percent not lying." I raised my right hoof and then crossed my heart using my left hoof.

"Okay then... Another topic... Another topic..." Amabel licked her lips. "If you don't have a love life, might at least have some friends right?" I nodded. "Okay then, tell me how did you met your friends."

"Sure, I'll probably start off with my friend Berry, although telling you this kind of stories would be better if I have my photo album."

"Nah, no need."

"Okay, so I met Berry when I was just an elementary student, a kindergarten to be precise. As you can see that my cutiemark is a Pi, which is related to math, I guess you know what my special talent is." Amabel nodded. "Some of my classmates thought that I was a stallion being turned back into a colt so I could steal all the grades in math, since my intelligence in math is higher than theirs, but come on, it is just a simple one plus one questions." Amabel chuckled. "I was bullied by my classmates, they thought that bullying me would make me drop out of school."

"Wow, that was harsh."

"I know right?" I grinned at Amabel. "Anyways, they always put a paper on my back which has a note written on it that says "don't be friends with this colt", and guess what?"

"What?"

"My classmates are stupid enough to follow what was written on the note." I chuckled. "So I don't have any friends when I was in kindergarten, until one pony talked to me, and his name was Queens Berry."

"The one who blessed us before we left Ponyville right?" I nodded.

"He was also bullied because of his name, who even cares if a pony's name has a word Queens in it? I know I don't. So we, two colts was always bullied by the other ponies. Being humiliated, avoided by the other ponies and always being rejected when we tried to join our classmates on playing games."

"It looks like you have a rough childhood?" Amabel rubbed my cheeks.

"It isn't that bad, because I passed kindergarten and made a lot of friends."

"How many?" Amabel raised her eyebrow.

"Five." I gave Amabel a sheepish smile.

"Well at least you have some friends." Amabel smiled at me.

"Yes and now, I'm going to tell you how I met Enigma. I'll show you a picture of all of my friends when we return back home." Amabel nodded. "In grade one, Berry and I were still classmates and we're still being avoided by the other students, unlike Enigma who is very, very friendly, but a bit mischievous." I smirked. "The only thing that is bothering me is that a pegasus is studying in our school instead of studying in Cloudsdale. So Enigma became friends with us blah, blah, blah, he lost some of his friends because of us blah, blah, blah, but he didn't care because I think he said something about true friends never leave each other behind."

"He seems like a nice guy."

"He is, and now let us move on to Cool Joe." I bended my neck a bit. I heard some bones cracking on my neck as I bend my neck, probably because my head has been idle for five minutes. "We first saw Cool Joe when we were in high school sophomores. We were playing dodge balls the time I saw Cool Joe. I was pretty much sensitive to pain that time so I was afraid of playing dodge ba-." Amabel placed her hoof on my muzzle.

"You are sensitive to pain?" I nodded. Amabel punched me in the shoulder. I removed her hoof away from my muzzle.

"Why did you just punched me on the shoulder?"

"To see if you are sensitive to pain."

"I said that I was sensitive to pain when I was still young." I rolled my eyes. "Anyways, as I fought Cool Joe in dodge ball, his throws looks pretty painful when it hits you, and guess what?" Amabel sighed.

"What?"

"It is pretty painful." I chuckled. "After getting knocked out on the floor of the gym, I became a laughing stock in front of everypony. I curled up like a little foal that time, but then Cool Joe walked up to me and then helped me stood up on my hooves-."

"And then you said that you curled up like a little foal." Amabel chuckled. I flipped Amabel onto her belly. "Hey wait what a-Ahhh!!!" I bit Amabel's right ear softly and then gave it a small lick.

"And you thought that being hit by a dodge ball with a lot of force isn't painful." I chuckled.

"Did I said anything about getting bitten in the ears is painful?" Amabel blushed. She flipped herself over onto her backside.

"Anyway, after Cool Joe escorted me to the nurses office, he apologized to me about him hitting me with a ball too hard, so we became friends after that. Now it is time for Quick Write. The four of us met Quick Write when we were in college. I have never seen a pony being so serious in his study, until I met Quick Write of course. He does hang out with us, but sometimes he brings his studies with him, since he is still a college. After we graduated college, we celebrated at my house in Ponyville. I never knew how weird Quick Write can be, until I saw him getting drunk." I rolled my eyes.

"So... What did he do?"

"I don't know what he just did, but in the morning, after the party, we saw him sleeping at the ceiling."

"How?"

"He got taped to the ceiling." Amabel and I chuckled. "And now you know how I met my five unusual everyday best friends." I smiled at her.

"Wow, you might have an embarrassing past-." I cut off her words.

"Don't remind me about it." Amabel nodded.

"But still, you have great friends like then."

"Yeah, It is because of them I reached many things." The train suddenly stopped. Amabel and I almost fell off of our seats.

"We are now in Ponyville!!!" the conductor yelled.

"Finally." Amabel muttered.

"I guess telling a story, really passes the time." I said to myself. Amabel moved her head away from my lap and then stood up. I also stood up. Amabel and I got out of the train. We head out of the train station and then into the streets.

"Your stories ain't boring after all." Amabel said to me as we walk down the streets.

"Specially the story when I spent a whole day with a mare in Manehattan." I whispered.

"What did you say?" Amabel raised her eyebrow.

"Nothing." I quickly looked away.

"Yep, that is what I heard. Nothing."