Tales of a Wandering Soul

Two years later.

I've arrived at a little humble town of Hay Hollow. I've been trying to remember the town names in my mind as I thought they may serve a purpose later. I've been trying to earn what money I can and learning what I can, I'm fifteen years of age and I continue to search for my parents. I had recently bought my satchels again but to afford a Piano would take a miracle even greater than the existence of my Guardian Angel. Equestria must be completely littered with my hoof prints as they were on books, doors, buildings, the road, everywhere.

I've been trying to earn what I can from the Pianos that Cafes and Bars had provided, I even begun renting Pianos from Music Stores to try and make profit, which wasn't very difficult to do compared to pushing a Piano to the playing location. I've been eating more lately and trying to prevent myself from starving, I just couldn't take the starvation anymore so I decided to stay here in Hay Hollow for a while until I start making some bits.

It was a Saturday Night, the wind was blowing warmly to my face and I stand outside of a cafe called "MoonBucks" its neon sign shined brightly. I looked through the windows to see the place was packed and there it was, a Piano on a small stage and no pony seemed to be occupying it. I entered the Cafe, it was a lot warmer on the inside and it smelt of Coffee. It was something I haven't had in a long time. The taste and smell of it was something I had missed so much. Crowds were filling the tables and I hear conversation left and right, stories about the "Mane 6" or about their personal lives. Some of it was even news but it mattered not to me, I didn't pay much attention to it. I make my way to the Piano which had a spot light on it. From here I could see everypony sipping their coffee and eating what snacks the Cafe had served. I played some musical and jazzy tunes to mix in with the sweet taste of Java, ponies whistled, clapped, and even left bits for me on the edge of the Piano as tips.

One hour later.

I continued to play at the Cafe with it's smooth red walls and wooden floor. I've been here for the past hour hungry and playing the Piano until every pony had left. I continued to play until one beautiful mare has emerged from the doors, her mane showed as violet as the ripest of grapes and her coat as pink as the midnight neon signs. Out of the multiples of ponies in the diner she was the only one I had really saw and payed attention to. The tune I was playing seemed mellow and jazzy but I begun to speed up the tempo and little bit and threw extra chords and notes here and there. She looks at me and she's all alone and the only thing to accompany her was her rose red bonnet which help most of her mane. She starts to trot in my direction and my heart began to race. The closer she was the more jumpy the tune began to sound. What seemed like an eternity she finally emerged from the crowd and she was standing in front of me, I had to break silence. "O-oh H-hey there" I sounded really anxious and I could feel my cheeks burning, is this what love feels like? I've forgotten after so many years on the road going through rough times I didn't even know what love felt. My heart started to pound even more and I continued to play and eventually some words began to emerge from her mouth "Hello...um...you...you play really well" "Wh-why thank you!" I was too taken by her to even care about how messy and dirty I looked but then I remember how I didn't look nice enough to really talk to any pony as gorgeous as her "O-oh sorry i-if I look a little dirty I-I'm not from around here" She giggles a little "That's okay...you're not from here are you? What's your name" "Oh uh M-my name is F-Fret Notehooves" my heart began to race at a faster rate and I played nervously but I tried to control myself along with the tunes tempo. "It's nice to meet you..." she took off her bonnet and her violet graciously curled mane emerged and unfurled from the red prison that is her bonnet. "My name is Azure Winterfield..." Azure Winterfield huh... I had room on my bench for another pony to sit and she decided to sit next to me. What a great time for my stomach to growl like a crazy beast. "Oh, you must be hungry. You poor, poor stallion" I guess I wasn't fooling anypony with how dirty I look...but I began to jester her with responses and replies I thought would be funny. She laughed and I laughed and I was having a great time with her and I felt more comfortable around her until eventually for some reason I had asked what I was trying to avoid asking. "Is it alright if this poor stallion can stay with you?" and the way I put it too just makes me want to...Argh...she blushed at me and well, I blushed too but guess what she had said. "Wh-why of course!" she sounded excited and within the next hour I stopped playing and I headed to her place. I earned a good amount of bits and I even earned a bonus. My first love. She lives with her parents and she's around my age judging from her complexion. Her parents were very welcoming. Azure and I took turns talking about me and how I was found. Her parents were fine with me staying. I stayed on the couch downstairs she stayed in her bedroom upstairs. I stayed in town for the next 3 weeks making what I could and I had even begun to date Azure after I had begun telling her stories of my past but not all of it, not the one where I killed the bandit... I took her out to dinners with what I had earned and then I found out what true love was like. Then that one Saturday had came... I had to break it out to her and I couldn't think of any other way to do it easily. "Look Azure...I...I like you and all but, remember my journey? I...I'm sorry but I gotta go..." tears formed in her eyes...the one thing I didn't want to do to her and the only thing that couldn't be avoided. She put her hooves in her face and I caressed her tears and her beautiful long mane. I tried to hold back the tears but my voice began to quake instead. "But, that doesn't mean i'm gonna be gone forever...when I find my parents baby... I swear... I'll come back here in Hay Hollow... and we can be together..." She was also always with me every time I played in front of the public for money and I saved up enough for a gift. She got her hooves out of her face and she embraced me, I put a necklace on her that has a small blue tourmaline jewel in it and behind it was engraved, "Forever with you - Fret Notehooves". Then I whispered in her ear, "Merry Christmas baby..." she was my first love, and I was her first too.