Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 11

Sunday

This morning was diffrent somehow when I got up, it felt... warmer than normal. As I got up, I felt something slide off of me. After getting out of bed I looked at the object, it was a blanket. I did a double take when my mind registered that it was a blanket. I remembered I didn't go to sleep with a blanket on me, I didn't even have one anyways. I looked closer at the blanket and noticed that it was a color of dark blue and had music notes upon it. I felt like I know this from somewhere, but I shook my head. I decided to head to work and do my job as I normally as I did for the past two days. As I walked down the steps, I had to avoid stepping on that step that I made a hole in. I'll need to get that step fixed sometime, someone could get hurt. Me. I thought. Sighing when I reached the bottom floor, I made my way out of the building to head to the radio station once more.

I arived at the radio station at the same time as I would usualy do, and entered into the building. As I walked past the electronics room, I stopped and looked into the room. There was an unusual sight: Midnight Song was asleep in the electronics room. I looked at the scene in confusion, before shaking my head and heading to the radio room to make the inspection of the radio equipment. When I got there however, I noticed that the equipment already had marks of them being recently inspected. It takes a trained eye to see the marks, and I have been experienced in looking for the marks. I was confused on who would possibly inspect the equipment at this time of the day. Until I remembered that there were other pony's besides me who could do the same thing, and one of them was asleep in the electronics room. I decided to investigate the instrument room since I couldn't do anything else in the radio room. When I got there, I was glad to see that I still could do something. The instrument room was in a disordered mess, but it still had retained some traces of my organizing. I sighed and then smiled at what I needed to do. So I went through the task of organizing the entire room as I normaly do.

After I finished organizing the room, I looked around before heading back to the electronics room. On the way there, I saw Octavia walking the opposite way I was.

"Octavia, fancy seeing you again," I said politely with a smile.

"And you as well, Midnight Song wanted me to inform you that she did a few of the things that you would normaly do, such as organizing the electronics and inspecting the radio equipment." She said to me poilitely.

"Really? At least she left me the job of organizing the instrument room, I would hate to have nothing to do," I said jokingly.

"She normaly never does things like this for any of our previous employee's however..." She said with a frown.

"I... don't know why she would do this either, but I want to know something, do you know why she so happens to act harshly towards Stallions?" I asked.

"I cannot say why... I actualy don't know myself, neither does Vinyl. The only pony she told the reason to is her roommate," She told me calmly.

"Alright, thank you for at least giving me a lead about this though, and don't tell Midnight I asked you," I said before continuing on to the electronics room. If I ever see Dawn again, then I can ask her who Midnight's roommate is. I thought to myself. I smiled at the plan I made, and went into the electronics room to wake up Midnight Song for work.

After Waking Midnight up, I worked with her to fix more of the electronics in the room, and the occasional ceiling when a peice of it comes loose. The whole time while I worked, I was trying very hard to not look at Midnight. However I would get a glimpse of her and I notice certain details about her: Her mane's beauty, her graceful movements, her- I need to stop this now, before my narration turns into something that would only complement her! I tried my best to remain focused on my work, but no matter how hard I tried, I always had my thoughts randomly return to her. I then slammed my screwdriver to the floor out of annoyance.

"Something wrong?" She asked me in a surprised tone, then repeated the question in a more annoyed tone, "Something wrong?"

"I can't seem to focus on my work now..." I muttered to myself.

"Something distracting you?" She asked me with a bit of concern.

"No, more like someone, I can't stop thinking about her," I responded with a bit of annoyance and a quick glance in her direction.

"Is it your wife?" She asked me with a mock frown.

"Yes, I mean no, I mean... Gah!" I studdered to her amusement.

"Who are you really thinking about?" She asked, getting closer to me.

"No one you would know!" I shouted, causing her to back up.

"Oh really, tell me who it is then," She said, trying to figure out who I was distracted by.

"Well... Someone did something nice to me this morning... I had... a blanket over me," I said in a very uncertain way.

"Really? Why would you care about that? It is just a blanket after all," She said in a voice that was close to taunting.

"Yes, but I know that I didn't sleep in a bed with a blanket on it though. I actualy didn't have anything over me at all, so of course I was suspicious," I said with a frown, now thinking out loud more than talking to her.

"Someone told me that you sleep with a friend, is this true?" She asked me.

"I don't sleep with anyone, I actualy sleep in an entirely diffrent house," I said with a questioning look.

"Would this house happened to be abandoned?" She asked in a way that evenI couldn't tell what she was thinking of.

"Yes, but how did you even know about that anyways?" I asked, suprised. I saw her look suprised and she turned away for a quick moment. I couldn't see her face but she turned back looking very mad.

"Somepony told me about it!" She near shouted at me. I sighed with a small groan.

"Figures, they do tell other ponies, at least they would leave me alone anyways..." I said to myself.

"So it is true then?" She asked me curiously.

"Yeah, it is true. The only reason I live in that house is because it's closer to the radio station anyways," I deadpanned. I turned to continue working and ended the conversation there before it went further.

The work day ended, and as I started to walk out of the room, when Midnight stopped me midway to the door.

"Can I ask you something else?" She asked in an attempt to look curious.

"Fine, but I won't always garentee an answer for you however," I said in annoyance.

"Do you have somepony who you don't like, but you can't stop thinking about that pony?" She asked me. You have no idea how close you are to my problem. I said in my head. I frowned and answered her.

"Yes, but I don't think you would be able to guess who she is," I said as calmly, and annoyed as I could.

"Would you want to do anything for that pony?" She asked me to my surprise and fluttering her beautiful, beautiful... ey--Okay, this is outrageous!

"I would, Once she stops hurting herself with lies about herself." I said, and walked right out without saying anything else.

As I walked back to the abandoned house that I call home, I heard someone call my name. I looked around and found the white unicorn motioning for me to come over.

"You need something from me Dawn?" I asked, being annoyed at being stopped by somepony I barely knew.

"I wanted to ask you something, A certain pony I know said that you seem to be suffering from your past," She said in a calm way. I did a soft growl,'will they ever learn to not ask me about my past already... I thought angerly.

"Fine, I can say it is true, my past always haunts me and I know for a fact that I cannot escape it. I never could escape it because I always eventualy get reminded of it later on," I said, trying hard to keep my deadpanned look. I also added softly, "I never had a reason to stay happy anymore."

"Why do you think that you cannot escape your past?" She asked me. I looked at her with an angry, but sad glare.

"Why the hell do you care... No one would ever care without their reasons," I said in anger.

"Because-" She started to say, but I lifted a hoof to stop her.

"Dawn, I appreciate your concen and wanting to help me. But I can tell you this, not even a princess can help me. At least, not anymore," I said and I turned away from her and walked away. She said nothing else as I walked towards the place where I sleep.

When I entered into the house that I called "home", I felt safe enough to reveal myself as what I truly felt like. My deadpanned look slowly melted and my tears fell off my face to hit the wooden floor. I continued to let my tears fall as I walked back up the stairs to the bedroom, where I would sleep again. When I entered the room, I became angry and punched a wall of the bedroom hard enough that I would hurt myself with it. I held back my punch enough to not bleed on the wall or punch through it. My punch however didn't help at all, and I slowly slid my hoof down the wall to the floor. I was very angry of what I couldn't do. I closed the door before walking to the bed, I acted strong because I did not want to show that I couldn't even handle my own past. I didn't want to let others see that I was suffering because of it. I eventualy went to the bed and sat down upon it, I continued to let my tears fall onto the bed. I then heard someone open the door and I did not look up.

"Get the hell out of here," I said in a weak threat.

"Is that how you usually treat co-workers?" I heard a familar voice ask.

"What the hell do you want Midnight?" I said in a mix between anger, surprise, and sadness.

"Nothing... are you crying?" She asked me with real concern in her voice for once.

"Why the hell would you care, I'm nothing but a freaking punching bag to you," I responded, more tears falling from my eyes.

"I never used you as a punching bag," She said soothingly and took a few steps closer, it only served to infuriate me.

"Then why the hell did you follow me? So you could get me to admit something to you?" I asked out of anger, but I still could not stop myself from crying.

"I'm suprised that you can actualy cry," She said in a very weak taunt. I lost my anger and looked back down.

"Leave me alone..." I said, hoping that she would get the hint that I didn't want to talk to her. She however walked up to me and put a hoof on me.

"You hide something that you don't want to show others... perhaps you do know more than I would dream of knowing," She said in a voice equaling my sadness.

"I noticed..." I said in a very sad tone, I layed my head down upon the cold mattress that was being soaked with my tears.

"So did I, but I thought you were hiding something like you were royalty or something," She admited to me.

"I was never royalty... Never will be... My life was a peice of crap, so to hell with those who are royal. Having nothing to do because they even get their arses wiped for them," I said with a sad smile, and she chuckled.

"I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like royalty, you should hear about what happened at the last Gala," She said.

"Perhaps another day, but since your here. It's getting late, so do you want to sleep here?" I offered to her in a show of rare generocity.

"I was going to ask the same thing actualy, would you mind if we shared the mattress?" She asked.

"Yes, I don't want you having a problem with trying to find a place where you can sleep on the floor. I'll give you the bed," I said, and as I got off of the bed she put a hoof on my side.

"Have problems with sharing a bed with another Mare?" She asked me with a small smile. I was silent before I layed down exactly where the sunlight would shine on me in the morning.

"Fine... you can at least sleep there, but don't try to make this a habit," I said with a teasing tone.

"I can't make it a habit because my roommate would panic if I did this so much," She said with a smile.

"Goodnight Midnight," I said and I layed down on the bed. I closed my eyes, but before I went to sleep, I thought of one last thing. I'm glad that I was dead wrong when I told Dawn about nothing being able to help me... Maybe she can finaly help me to heal from the past. I smiled at the thought, and then slowed my breathing down enough to go into a deep sleep.