Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 12

Monday

I opened my eyes to the sun shining down directly on me this time. I would smile as I slowly remembered what happened yesterday night, but when I decided to look at where she slept, I saw that the blanket was over me and Midnight Song. She wasn't in the place where I saw her sleep last night. So when my mind finally processed that fact that she was sleeping right next to me, I panicked and fell right out of the bed. The result was me landing hard on the floor and waking up Midnight.

"Are you ok?" She asked, sounding very concerned.

"Wha- Why were you just sleeping next to me?!" I asked her, while trying to stay calm as I could.

"What do yo-" She started, before noticing exactly where she was on the bed.

"Ohmygosh! When did I get over here?" She asked about as surprised as I was.

"You don't know either?" I asked, slowly calming myself down.

"No, did we-" She started to say, but I knew what she was going to say, and my face turned very red. It was about the same color as a tomato.

"Fudge Waffles!" I shouted, seemingly at random.

"What?" She asked, being confused at my random outburst.

"Igottagoseeyouatwork!" I said quickly and ran out of the room, down the stairs, and out of the house. As soon as I was outside I stopped and forced myself to breathe in and out slowly. As the red faded from my face, I started to calm down. I closed my eyes in thought, Ok, recap of what happened... I woke up, saw a mare sleeping next to me, panicked, and now ran out of the house. I can't believe I slept right next to a Mare and a co-worker too! I decided to push my thoughts away so I could go to work. I opened my eyes, calm as I could be, and made my way towards the Radio Station.

I arrived at the station a minute later than when I normally arrive, but it was still early so I could do my work anyways. I entered the radio station and did the daily inspection of the radio equipment. After doing that, I walked to the instrument room to organize it again. It was more of a mess this time but I could still handle it, except that all of the CD players were blocking entrance to the instruments in the back so I had to move them first.

After I finished organizing the Instrument room, which was harder than usual this time, I went to the electronics room. When I entered the room, there was no pony inside of the room. I had it all to myself for now. So the first thing I did was go to a turn table and open it up to look at the circuits inside of it. The whole entire time was me working on as much of the electronics as I could, so I could forget what happened this morning. Every time I remembered, my face would start to turn red until I lightly hit my head against the wall repeatedly until it faded. Why did I fall for that trick...? This morning was so embarrassing to me, but did I really- no I don't want to think about it. I thought to myself, after my mental talk I became extremely focused on my work.

Midnight Song arrived minutes after I made my attempt to settle my thoughts down. We then talked to each other, and Pinkie Promised to not ever tell another pony about what happened. I then took a chance and asked her a question,

"You... were kidding about this morning when you thought we-" I started, but this time, Midnight Song interrupted me.

"Yes, I was kidding, you really should have seen the look on your face when you thought that!" She said with a chuckle. I was really angry at her for kidding about something like that.

"The look on whose face?" A voice asked scaring both Midnight and I so much then I almost jumped. I calmed down when I noticed it was Dusk who was visiting. I wondered why Dusk would want to visit me, until I noticed Rainbow Dash at the door of the room.

"Yeah, she pulled a prank on someone with me... a very funny one too." I said, hoping that whatever higher deity they worshiped here would not have him ask me who it was. By sheer luck, he did not ask.

"Alright then, can you come with me for today though?" He asked me in a calm way.

"What for?" I asked him, being confused about why he would need me.

"Well Rainbow wanted me to help you to learn how to fly, since you’re a Pegasus." He said in a strangely cryptic way. I've got a really bad feeling about this... I thought to myself, but I agreed with him and after telling Midnight of why I needed to go out. She agreed to tell Vinyl about it, after all, I did need to learn how to fly somehow... right?

"You’ve got to be kidding me!" I exclaimed, very worried about how he wanted me to try to fly.

"It was not my idea for this, besides you need to fly sometime." Rainbow said, while making sure she kept on eye on me.

"I am standing at the top of a cliff!" I exclaimed, even more worried than before.

"Yes, but at least you will learn anyways." He said, before walking up to me with the intent to push me.

"Hell no! You are not going to push me off!" I shouted, before doing the most stupid thing I've ever done, jump off the cliff myself. Why the hell did I jump off the cliff myself? I asked myself in my head as I fell. At least he won't push me... but now I think I am going to die! I thought to myself with slowly growing panic. As the ground loomed closer, time seemed to slow around me. I looked around at the slowly passing surroundings until I saw a bird. The bird was flapping its wings in a way that would keep it up in the air. My eyes widened at the sight, and a plan came to my head. Flap your wings; you must somehow flap your wings to slow down! I shouted in my head. I turned back to the ground and closed my eyes, waiting for the ground to hit hard.

After a while and the lack of hitting sold ground, I opened one eye. I saw that I stopped falling, and when my hearing came back, I heard the sound of flapping near me. I opened both eyes and looked around for the source. When I decided to look at my back, I saw that I was flapping my wings. I'm... flying? I thought, being very confused about what I just did. Something in my head was helping me to fly, or at least hover anyways. I smiled and slowly started to lower towards the ground.

As soon as all of my hooves touched the ground, I resisted the urge to try to kiss the ground. I then noticed a certain orange Pegasus walked up to me, looking very impressed.

"Hi Scootaloo," I said to her, and she would keep smiling.

"Hey John, so how was it?" She asked me seriously.

"Well, I may not have flown anywhere, but at least I think I can do that again." I said, with a bit of doubt in my head.

"Well, despite the method that was used to help you learn, I would say you did good for just learning." She complemented, and in response I flapped my wings once to make sure I have the ability to move my wings become stuck in my head. It will probably come to me naturally later however.

"Great, so now what?" I asked Scootaloo.

"Now, we just need to teach you how to fly for real." She said with confidence. Strangely enough, the confidence reminded me of someone.

"Can I ask you something first," I asked her.

"Sure, what is it?" She replied.

"Do you happen to know of someone named Morning?" I asked with a bit of curiosity for if he was here. I then saw her confident manner disappear; instead it was replaced by a sad look.

"Yes... he was my husband," She said sadly.

"Was?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, He died though..." She said, tears slowly coming to her eyes as she remembered the time she heard the news.

"Oh my god... erm... goddess, I'm so sorry to hear that." I said, sounding surprised and sad at the same time.

"At least the one who killed him got what was coming to him..." A voice from my right said.

"I'm glad to hear that Dusk, Anyone who kills a brother of an old friend does not deserve to remain free." I said, with a frown.

"Yes... in fact I only knew because I saw it in a dream, but I couldn't do anything." He said sadly. I know the feeling, because I had to go through something similar to that, only it wasn't a dream, it was reality turning my life into a living hell.

"I see... so how can I learn to fly?" I asked, changing the subject to something more cheerful than the current one. I almost cursed myself for not coming to this world earlier, but I knew that I couldn't have saved him anyways, even if I was there right next to him.

"All I need to do is control my flight path and flap my wings? That sounds easy." I said, after Scootaloo gave me a very detailed lesson about how to fly. I may not do any of the tricks that she mentioned yet, but I'll try them when I become more experienced. I smiled and decided to try it out. I opened my wings and started to flap them and I felt my hooves leave the ground. I could see that Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were proud to see me fly for the first time, and I started to go higher. After I reached a good height, I started to move forwards. I smiled as I flew forwards, I felt so free now...so happy. That feeling ended when I got distracted by pinkie pie zooming past me in the air. I lost control of my wings and started to fall towards a building that had a carousel on the roof. Oh crap... I thought to myself, before I crashed through the roof. I missed the carousel, so I didn't hurt myself badly.

What I did do was crash through a room and knock over a bunch of mannequins and cloth. Some of the cloth fell upon me, and I was very dazed from the crash. When I heard a lady like shriek, I shook myself out of the daze and some of the cloth to see Rarity looking directly at me, I swear that if she wasn't white already I would have seen her face pale. I was still a bit dizzy but I could still be able to see straight. The only thing that was going through my mind at the moment was how much pain I was in from crashing through a roof. My mind then suddenly changed from the pain, to why Rarity was here. When I looked around, it became very clear about the reason. I just crashed into Rarity's house didn't I...? I thought to myself. I grumbled to myself as I got up, and saw Rarity pull up a couch and faint upon it. Uhh... what? I thought in confusion, but it didn't last long when I saw a purple reptile walk into the room.

"Hey Rarity I got the-" It started to say, but then noticed the room having a hole in the roof.

"What just happened here?" it asked, putting down the basket of gemstones, I could tell he was trying hard to not eat one.

"Erm... Sorry for crashing through her roof?" I said, with a sheepish grin. The purple lizard looked me in a very serious way. I decided to make a quick exit, stage left through the window before the lizard could say anything else.

I was very tired by the time I got to my house. I ran all the way there, not even stopping for anything. Oh man, first pony's now lizards in different colors... I think this world just decided to have me think I've gone crazy, and I would if I didn't confirm that it was real. I thought to myself, before sighing and heading into my house. I walked up the steps, stepping on yet another bad step and nearly getting my leg stuck in it. I got to my bed room, only to find that the bed was missing. Instead, there was a note where the bed once was. I walked up to it and read the note to myself,

Dear John,

Sorry, but I think you should actually sleep somewhere that is not abandoned, I've already found a place for you but it's up to you if you want it or not. I wouldn't care if you don't take it, but I would recommend that you do. The way to get there is below.

- Midnight Song

(P.S. Don't tell anypony that I helped you, ok?)

I smiled and picked up the note and folded it, before hiding the note in my mane. I was surprised that Midnight actually decided that I should actually get a home, weather I like it or not. I decided that I had nothing better to do and followed the note's directions to the new place where I would sleep.

When I got to the end of the directions, I was looking at the house in awe. How did she know that yellow is my favorite color? I thought, as I gazed upon a two floor yellow house. The key also hung right next to the front door. It also had a string around it, so I could carry it with me. I smiled and took the key to unlock my new home.

Inside was barely furnished, except with a brown couch and a small brown table next to it. I figured she thought I would furnish it later, but I liked the simplicity of the house already. I also was too tired to try to think of what furniture to get, so I walked upstairs and found my bedroom easily. It oddly looked almost the same as the abandoned house's bedroom, except with the walls being plain wood and the bed actually having sheets upon them. The sheets were a white color and the bed also was below a window. I was tired to look around anymore, so I just flopped upon the bed and made sure that the sun would awaken me as before. I didn't even bother to go under the sheets, and I closed my eyes to sleep once more.