Have you ever felt as if you didn't belong in your world? Steven has felt that feeling numerous times. Due to his social awkwardness, he had never really made any friends. Secretly, he was a loyal member of the brony community but stayed a closet brony to avoid public persecution. His parents would never understand his situation with the problems they were having, nor did he think they cared. He frequently wished he could go to a brony convention to make friends who would understand him. Alas, he never acquired the funds to go by himself. It eventually came to the point where he had given up on the world, the brony community, and almost his life itself. He had lost any reason left to live but went to bed hoping beyond all hope that his life would straighten out. That night, under the waning moon, he vanished from his dreadful world, leaving but a single trace behind to mark his disappearance: an empty bed.

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