Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 14

Perspective: Midnight Song

Wednesday

The alarm clock started to ring and I tiredly reached over and hit the snooze button. I was tired, but I knew I would be fully awake by the time I finished my daily routine. My roommate Blitz, a deep ocean blue unicorn with a blond mane and tail, was aware of this routine, and knew better than to try to interrupt it by walking into the bathroom while I was taking a shower. As I made my way to the bathroom for my shower, I thought about my co-worker. I really hope he at least decided to follow my advice and sleep in his bed. The thoughts would fade away as I turned on the warm water and stepped into the shower.

A few minutes later, and I walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my mane. Blitz was already up and she looked at me.

"Morning Midnight," She said cheerfully, as usual, with an oxymoron.

"Morning Blitz," I said in a deadpanned tone. We always start the morning off this way, and I was not much of a morning pony (hence the name Midnight). That and her greetings became a bit dull to me over time.

"Another day as usual?" She asked me, I sighed.

"Yeah, just another regular day," I responded in a bored tone.

"Do you think John is asleep by now?" She asked me out of the blue.

"He probably would be awake by now, he's always there first thing in the morning. I would say he is more of a morning pony than I am," I responded with a tired tone, "not really hard to do though."

"Well, would you want to kiss him?" She asked me, while acting innocent.

"No, I thought I told you that already!" I exclaimed angrily, "you and your kissing obsession..." that last part I mumbled to myself.

"Sorry, just thought your view of him changed. guess not," She said, but her mischievous smile said otherwise. I rolled my eyes.

"I'll be going to work now. If you need me you know where to find me," I told her, hoping that she wouldn't try to bug me about anything.

"Okay!" She said with a salute as I walked out of the door.

I made a stop on my way to the radio station at a coffee shop. Looking over the menu, I saw that they had coffees of different flavors. Most of it was different brands of coffee, but one of them looked more special than the other ones. "Yellow sunshine? Is that even a coffee flavor?" I asked myself softly, before deciding to walk in and try it. I walked up to the counter and the cashier looked at me.

"May I help you?" He asked me in a tone that shows he's been working here for a long time.

"Yes, may I try the yellow sunshine coffee?" I asked him, and he looked at me in surprise.

"You’re the first pony today that's asked for that flavor, for that I'll give you a second one for free," He said, I smiled but internally face hoofed. I hoped that this coffee was worth getting, but I would have no reason to drink two cups of it.

"Here you go, two yellow sunshine coffees. That will be four bits," He said after putting two coffee cups on the counter. He knew that I was going to travel so he included something to carry the coffee with, and I paid him the price for the coffee with a one bit tip in thanks.

I walked out of the coffee shop with the coffees on my back, and I started my way towards the radio station for work.

When I got to the radio station, I saw Vinyl outside the doors. I said my usual greeting to her, and she responded with a usual hoof wave before walking into the radio station. I entered in myself and walk towards the electronics room. When I got there, I found a sight that I facehoofed at. John asleep with his head in the book. Guess he ignored my advice yesterday about it. I thought to myself with a small chuckle, before going to him and nudging him gently awake. He lifted his head pretty tiredly, and looked at me. His eyes were all crusty with sand from the Sand Stallion.

"Hmm... what time is it?" He asked, being pretty tired from just waking up.

"Around six in the morning," I said with a frown. He snapped his eyes open fully before jumping up to all of his legs.

"Aw crap!" He said with a surprised but angry tone, before running out of the room to work on the things that he did. I chuckled, Wow, I have never seen a pony run at that speed. I think he would make Rainbow Dash proud... or give her a run for her money. I thought to myself. I then set the coffee cups down on the table and took a small sip out of one. The other I figured would be for John, since I think he could use it this morning.

I was working with a few of the electronics in the room, when John entered back into the room. He was out of breath when he entered, but he was calm enough that he wasn't so visibly panicked. He walked over to the table with the coffee cups on it and sighed.

"Which one is yours?" He asked me, and I pointed out which one it was. He then took his own coffee and took a huge gulp of it, surprising me at how quickly he drank it. After he set it down, he started to work on the broken electronics as well. I noticed that he's not even acting nervous from drinking so much coffee. I shook my head lightly, and went back to work on the speakers.

As I worked on another speaker, I saw a pony walk into the room. I did not get a chance to see who the pony was as I was too focused on getting the speaker's circuitry correct again. The pony did not walk towards me, instead the pony would walk towards John. I heard him turn to her and ask her who she was.

"Oh my name is Blitz, can I ask you something?" I heard her say. I figured Blitz would want to talk to John, so I decided to try to listen in.

"My name is John," He said with a bit of confusion in his voice.

"I know your name, Midnight told me about you," She said cheerfully.

"You're her roommate? That would answer that question then," He said with a flat tone.

"Yep, can I ask you something?" She asked him again with a more curious tone.

"Fine, what is it?" He asked, sounding bored.

"Do you like Midnight Song?" She asked, acting innocent and ignoring me all together. The only response she got is silence. I turned around from my speaker to see John blushing a bit.

"Are you making him embarrassed Blitz?" I asked her annoyed, but I was surprised other ponies could make him embarrassed.

"Blooming breakers of a pirate ship!" John said randomly. We both looked at him in confusion. He then glared at Blitz, "Never ask me that again!" John angrily said to her.

"Ask him about what?" I asked, acting like I never heard the conversation earlier.

"Oh I was asking John about his feelings for you," Blitz said before John, which resulted in his face turning even redder, making his face look orange.

"And what did he say?" I asked her, being curious if he said something I didn't hear.

"Oh I think he said something about you-" Blitz started to say, before John tackled her quickly. I glared at him in anger, since I don't like ponies tackling my roommate.

"I was talking about your mane and how great it looked today!" He said quickly to me, before getting off Blitz.

"Really? I thought you were talking about-" Blitz started to say, but he charged out of the room in a speed that would really impress Pinkie Pie. I knew of the elements from the newspapers, but I never actually got a chance to meet them properly, Except Pinkie Pie, she was our resident party goer in town.

"So, what were you two talking about actually?" I asked my roommate as we walked back to our home.

"He was mostly saying complements about you, but most of them were speaking fondly of you, but when I asked him about his feelings towards you, he would turn red in the face and try to change the subject," She said with a smile.

"Ah, I thought I was the only one who could embarrass him like that," I said with a small chuckle.

"In my opinion, I would think that he likes you," she said, chuckling with me as well.

"Everypony likes me in this town," I said with a small smile to let her know I was joking.

"I'm serious, I think John must really like you," She said, sounding serious for once.

"Why do you think that?" I asked her with a small glare, warning her to be careful about her words.

"Well, he does not try to force himself upon you like you said other Stallions would do; he speaks fondly of you instead of trying to stay away from you; he bears working with you, how I have no clue; his reaction was of surprise when you were "accidently" next to him, and the fact that asking him if he likes you can make him embarrassed," She said, naming a quick list of reasons.

"Wait, how did you figure out I slept with John? I thought we agreed to never tell anypony," I said with growing anger.

"Oh, I was looking for you when you were out a couple of days ago time. Took me a while but Dawn told me that I should try looking in the abandoned house. When I got there, I entered in and walked up to the bedroom where I saw you and John sleeping. You did actually cuddle up to him in your sleep, but I thought you knew what you were doing," She said with a simple tone. I couldn't even try to hide my blush from what she said.

"Did I really do that?" I asked her. Ugh... I must have been drunk or something...

"Yeah, it actually inspired me to spend the night with Dawn," She responded simply.

"Are you implying that John actually loves me, rather than likes me?" I asked her carefully.

"Yeah, and I think you feel the same way," She said with a smile, she was always trying to get me to be with somepony but I refused her every time.

"You know how I feel about Stallions," I said in an attempt to remind her.

"Well, one of you has to tell the other or both of you will regret not telling," She said with a small frown. I glared at her harshly, and she ignored it like usual. Why would she do this to me... again? I mean, just because John has feelings for me, doesn't like royalty, and dislikes making... I stopped walking suddenly as I stopped my thoughts. Blitz turned to me in concern.

Oh Celestia, is she right about the fact that I am falling for him? I thought worriedly, but I slowly started walking again.

"Are you okay?" She asked me out of concern as we neared our home.

"Yes, I'll be just fine," I responded to her, but I was unsure if I will ever be just fine. Just who is John, and why did he show up out of the blue? I wondered to myself. I decided that I should try to learn more about John tomorrow while I was working with him. For the rest of the day I just wanted to relax.

When night came, I was actually restless this time. I never was restless like this at night, as I would be going to sleep. Tonight was different, because I couldn't sleep because of all of the thoughts I had about what happened today. I paced back and forth softly, because Blitz was sleeping in her bed and I didn't want to wake her. I was trying to put together John's reactions with what she told me on the way back home. This makes no sense, but if I compare the two, then Blitz must be telling me the truth. My thought would suddenly be interrupted by a soft knock on the front door. I wondered who would be knocking at this time of the night, and went to open it. When I opened the door, I saw John was just standing there.

"What... how did you-" I started to say but John lifted one hoof.

"Dawn told me, I wanted to apologize for tackling your roommate. I was so embarrassed that I couldn't think clearly," He said. I could tell that he was sincere about it because he looked just a bit sad while saying it.

"So you came all the way here to apologize?" I asked him in confusion.

"Yes, I mean no, I mean..." He said, before sighing.

"Are you okay?" I asked him, being very concerned about the way he was acting.

"No... I'm not, because I think I might be driving myself crazy over thinking about a certain per- pony," He said in a sad tone.

"Would you tell me who this pony is? I think I can help you with it," I offered to him.

"Alright... I'll come clean about this then, it's..." He said before saying something softly at the end.

"I'm sorry, could you say that again?" I asked him, but he said it softly again.

"I can't help you if-" I started to say but then he looked at me.

"It's you okay!" He said in a worried tone. I wanted to say something, but I was too shocked to say anything. He then looked at me sadly, "I know you think I'm not kind, but that's only because of the way I lived my life, there was no other way I could see. That was all until I met you, and you showed me myself and how harsh I really acted," He explained to me.

"What do you mean?" I asked him.

"I mean that... that I am glad that you can help me, but I can't help but fall for you," He said with tears in his eyes. He's... admitting to me that he loves me? I wondered but then I saw him sadly turn his head.

"I'm sorry, but if you don't want me around anymore, then I'll-" He started to say, but I wanted to tell him something first.

"Wait, I'm surprised that you could openly tell me this, but I want to tell you something," I said calmly. He turned to me and looked at me with those brown eyes.

"And what would that be? To tell me to leave?" He said very strongly.

"No, I have to admit this as well but... you are not the only pony who felt that way," I said to him, as I gazed into his eyes.

"Get to the point, please," He said, before looking away from me.

"You came here to admit you loved me, and were afraid I wouldn't say the same?" I asked him, trying to put off saying it for just a little while longer.

"Yes..." He said simply.

"Well, I have to say I have thoughts of a pony who I helped at work. I normally hate Stallions after what one almost did to me, but because of my co-worker, I've slowly changed my views on them," I said, trying to keep myself from crying in front of him.

"I see... So I guess you are saying you feel the same way?" He said, saying what I was going to say next.

"Yes, you may be a bit weird, but I do have feelings as well, I've tried to hide them for as long as I could because I was afraid, afraid of it happening again," I said, and he turned back to me.

"I can promise you this, I will never do that, what ever it was, to you and if I have too, I would protect you from the dangers of it, even if it means that I have to sacrifice myself to do so," he said to me.

"Would you really do that?" I asked him, I wanted to be sure he was not trying to lie to me and break my heart. He gazed directly at my eyes.

"I will do it over and over again if I had to," He said to me in way that I could tell that he was serious about it. I looked at him in surprise that he was actually serious.

"You really are not kidding... are you," I said in a state of shock.

"I'm not the one who would ever kid about something like that," He said to me in an annoyed tone. Not annoyed at me, but just annoyed in general. I would have smiled because I was so happy that both of us are not going to try to betray each other, or at least, I hoped that we wouldn't.

"I shouldn't be keeping you up all night, so I'll just be-" He started to say, but I walked up to him and hugged him before he could say anything else. He was surprised at first, before slowly returning the hug back to me as well. The moon was full tonight, and we both found something that we both did not expect to find again.

Perhaps love will always find a way to heal certain ponies who have been broken by it.