Lovely Roses

"Oh, hello there Mr. Dandelion." Iron said as he walked through his garden of foliage. Iron was an Earth Pony, he could not fly nor use magic, but being an Earth Pony builds muscles in the hooves. Iron was a very kind and truthful pony, but also very shy. His coat was this very light grey while his mane shimmered with deep blue and cyan. Iron loved flowers, more than anything in Equestria. His most favorite flower was the rose. He loved how it's funnel-shaped structure was covered in crimson red color. Often he would cut himself from the thorns on the stem of the rose by accident, but he didn't care. He tended to his garden everyday, watering it, planting replacement seeds for when some of his flowers died, giving them lots of sunlight. One morning, he came into his garden and found that his favorite rose was dying. Iron knew he had to buy a new one, but he didn't want to. He loved that rose.

The following day he went back to his garden, tending to his flowers, and oh so desperately trying to help his rose back to health, but to no avail. "What to do, what to do, what to do?!" He said to himself. " I don't want to buy a new rose, I like this one just fine! Why do you have to die little rose? Why!?" Iron was sad about his precious flower, but he knew the day would come sooner or later when it would die. He sank his head down in sadness. "Oh well, I guess this is goodbye rose." He said as he left his garden. iron went into his house to get his coin purse. As he got it he left the house and locked the door, then started trotting towards the Ponyville Flower Shop.

As he trotted down the dirt path, he passed by Sugarcube Corner, and who else but Pinkie Pie was standing over the roof singing another one of her cheerful songs in a chorus with everypony. Iron smiled and kept walking toward the flower shop. It was a few blocks away but he liked the exercise it gave him. As he arrived in front of the shop, he saw his two friends Snow Frost and  Rough Ride. Both were Pegasi and always hung out together. "Hey Iron!" Snow Frost said as she landed on the path followed by Rough Ride. "So what are you up to today? Me and Frost were just over at the Cafe. We came over to only say Hi and then we were going to go back. Wanna come?" Rough said. "Yeah wanna come?!" Snow Frost was always this excited. You could even say she could be Pinkie Pie if she were a Pegasus. "Uhm thanks but no thanks, I got some errands to do. and some flowers to tend to afterwards." Iron said with glee. "Dude, you LOVE that garden don't you?" "Well duh, Ride, its like, his favorite thing in his life!" " Well.. anyway, if you change your mind you know where we'll be." Rough Ride said as he flew off towards the Cafe with Snow Frost behind him. "See ya later Iron!" She said as they flew off. "See ya guys." Iron said as he turned back to the shop. He took a deep breath, and entered.