Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 13

Just another Tuesday

I woke up at the same time that I would usually wake up by the sunlight. I got out of the bed and looked around the room. Ever since I got a new home, courtesy of Midnight Song, I had a new place to sleep. I smiled once again, and felt a strange giddiness wash over me for a moment. I used to feel this way when I was preparing to do something interesting during the day. This day is the day where I go and work for the rest of the day, no breaks or anything! I thought to myself with pride. I made my way to the front door and walked outside into the early morning. I had my destination: the radio station.

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When I arrived at the radio station, I immediately got to work. I did my usual inspection of the radio equipment, organized both the instrument and electronic room, and started to repair a few of the speakers and turn tables. I worked with a bit of joy, but as I worked, it slowly faded away. It would be gone when it was the morning. When Midnight Song arrived, I was pretty much back to my normal self. I looked at her for a moment, and nodded. When she walked towards a speaker, I turned back to my work again. I only nodded to show her that I noticed her and that I would stay out of her way for today. At least, that's what I hoped that was the message she got.

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It was in the afternoon, and I was working with Midnight on removing a speaker that was stuck to the ceiling (how, I will never know), when I felt like someone was trying to jump me. I decided to follow that instinct and ducked, and saw Pinkie Pie fly over my head. She was surprised that she missed me, and hit the speaker. That resulted in her falling with the speaker, and I quickly moved to catch the speaker with my hooves and Pinkie Pie on my back. After succeeding in doing so, I set the speaker down carefully and Pinkie Pie climbed off of my back.

"Next time, don't ever try to jump me," I said to Pinkie Pie in a very annoyed tone.

"Wow! How did you learn to move that fast?" Pinkie said, completely ignoring my warning.

"Experience mostly, and a good amount of time avoiding dart traps and punches," I explained to her in a flat tone.

"You must have really been in a few bar fights to move like that," Midnight complemented in a worried tone.

"Well, I was defending myself or others. Now why are you here Pinkie?" I said, completely changing the subject.

"I wanted to visit you and-" She started to say, but then I covered her mouth quickly.

"Oops, almost broke my Pinkie Promise!" she exclaimed suddenly.

"What Pinkie Promise?" I asked, being confused about what she would Pinkie Promise about.

"Nothing," She said quickly, and I sighed.

"At least your still okay," I said with a small groan, Pinkie just smiled vary widely.

After my work hours ended, I stayed later to work overtime, to Midnight's surprise. So she decided to do the exact same thing, to my surprise. Why would she do this? Does she... no, she's just a friend of mine, nothing more... Right? I thought to myself, and went straight back to work. I didn't dwell on the question because I oddly enjoyed her company while working. It makes my life seem less horrible with her around.

I worked for about an hour past the time when I would usually leave. I just finished putting a speaker back together, when I noticed a large blue pony walk into the room. I would half smile when I remembered her as Luna.

"Need something from me?" I asked her in a curious tone.

"No, I only just wanted to talk with you," She said in a worriedly.

"You sound worried, how come?" I asked, being curious about what could possibly make her concerned.

"We have seen thy past," She said in what I could assume was an ancient language, sorta like the old English language. I figured that she was older than she looks.

"Yeah, it is never pretty for me to remember, also, why do you speak like that?" I said, reminding her of the year in a polite way.

"Sorry, I am still learning to speak more modern," She said with a slight blush and avoiding my question.

"Don't worry, you’re at least learning," I told her in an attempt to encourage her.

"Thank you, now the reason I am here is because Celestia wanted me to give you this," She said, and handed me a very thick book that said, The History of Equestria. I marveled at how thick the book was, but I decided to take it.

"I wasn't aware history books were that thick," I said in a light tone.

"Celestia thought that you could probably use this to study more about our land," She said, while I picked it up with difficulty.

"Alright, Send my... Regards to Celestia, your highness," I said, before walking to the middle of the room and setting the thick book down with a thud. Midnight would bow to the princess as she leaves the room.

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"So, that's how this country... land... place was made..." I said to myself. I was reading for the rest of the day, since nothing else was broken.

"You're really going to read that whole thing?" Midnight asked me in surprise.

"Yep," I said simply.

"But it will take you all night to read it," She said in a very worried tone.

"I've stayed up late reading stuff thicker than this, I think I can read this book from cover to cover before the day ends," I said with a confident smirk, but in reality I was worried about how big the book was.

"Alright, make sure you don't fall asleep in the station, like Vinyl, then." She told me, and walked to her home. I sighed after she left the room.

"Time to make due on this," I said to myself and started to read through the thick history book.

About an hour later, I was only halfway through the entire thing. The moon shined through the window, and I was trying my hardest to stay awake.

"Must... stay... awake..." I said to myself, but I couldn't stop myself from yawning. My eyes started to droop closed, but I shook myself awake again. It was hard, but I was determined to read through the entire book.

My fight with sleepiness ended when the time became Midnight, and my head would land right in the book with my eyes closed. My dreams were visions of the past, and some of the events were not exactly as it said in the history book I was reading. Then I noticed a pony that looked similar to me. That pony however, had a light brown mane instead of a dark brown mane. He also had no weapon on him; all he had was his shield. The shield was made out of metal, but it shined like silver, and upon the center of the shield, was the mark of a sun.