Author's Note: Anyone know where to hide the body of an Elvis impersonator who just wouldn't sing the song you requested? Asking for a friend. But really, what Elvis impersonator doesn't sing Heartbreak Hotel? This guy apparently, but now he doesn't sing anything, kind of like the real Elvis. Oh well right?

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Chapter 26: Happy Hearthswarming Part 2: Team Friends Forever

Dateline: Pie Family Rock Farm, December 24th, Hearthswarming Eve. Precisely 6:32-ish. I was just getting up from my sleep at this point, my room was conveniently placed so that the sun could shine incredibly bright when it rises, because you know what's fun to do during vacation? Rising at 6:32. Just kidding of course.

"Yeesh." I yawned stretching my legs. I couldn't hear a sound coming from the house, I must be the first one up. "Now what? I'm up, nopony else is." Every sleepover anxiety came crawling back, everyone who's had a sleepover can relate can't they? That awkward moment when you wake up at someone else's house first? No? Okayyyy. Suddenly, my door burst open.

"Thought I heard hooves clopping in here! It's about time too! We've been up for hours!" Pinkie said excitedly. Guess I was wrong, not the first time, absolutely not the last.

"Oh have you? You could've woken me up you know." I yawned.

"Thought you'd wanna sleep in." She smiled. Because on the farm, 6:30 is sleeping in.

"Well that was very thoughtful." I nodded. "What's on the agenda today?" I asked.

"It's Hearthswarming Eve silly! That's what!" She said messing up my mane with her hoof.

"That didn't answer my question, this is my first Hearthswarming. A run down would be nice." I said dryly.

"Well, most the traditions don't happen till the evening." She explained. "We have dinner, then we'll do our Hearthswarming dolls, ooh! You get to make yours this year! Then we do the flag finding mission!" It was all coming back to me now, season 5 episode 20 was coming back to me to be exact. But still, I nodded like this was new information to me.

"Neat!" I smiled, unlike my response to her explanation of the traditions, I was being truthful in my enthusiasm, I was really looking forward to this, even the rock soup aspect. You know? Something you can at least say you tried huh?

"But until then, we all spend time together as a happy family!" She smiled.

"A happy family plus one." I pointed to myself.

"Aw Chuck, c'mon, you may feel a bit distanced now, but tonight it'll be like you've been one of the family for years." She smiled reassuringly.

"I'm sure you're right." I said.

"Of course I am!" She winked. "There's more in my noggin that just cotton candy y'know!" She pointed at her head.

"I knew that." I smirked.

"Never underestimate Pinkie." She winked.

"Chuck will make sure of it." I referred to myself in third person as she did. In Equestria is it called third pony?

"Now come on down, there's still some breakfast left for you." She said leading me downstairs.

"Sounds good to me." I grinned As we went down the stairs, when we came to the floor, the house was much alive.

"Good morning Chuck." Maud said to me as I walked into the room.

"Good morning Maud, and a good morning to everypony." I smiled warmly, it was met with smiles from Cloudy and Marble, a sneer from Limestone, but I didn't take it personally, and nothing, sweet F.A from Igneous.

"Igneous?" Cloudy Quartz coughed.

"Hm? Oh, yes, good morning." He murmured barely looking up from his paper.

"I believe what Igneous means to say is 'good morning Chuck, I trust that thine slumber was well.'" Cloudy said for him.

"Nope." He murmured.

"I do hope that thee are hungry, porridge is ready." Cloudy said. "Help thyself to coffee, freshly perked."

"Thank you!" I said pouring myself some coffee and getting some porridge, I sat down at the table and started eating. "Mighty good porridge." I commented.

"Thank you Chuck. Product of an old Pie family recipe." Cloudy told me.

"Bowl full of childhood right there!" Pinkie said before inhaling her bowlful. "Just as good as ever Ma!"

"Thank you dear." She said. Marble sat across the table from Pinkie and I.

"Chuckie! I never got to introduce you to my baby sister by eight minutes! Chuckie, meet Marble, Marble, meet Chuckie." She said.

"How do you do?" I asked. My question was met with a small smile and a nod.

"Don't mind her, she's a little shy, but what she means to say is 'I'm fantastic! Thanks for asking!'." Pinkie said for her, she simply nodded.

"Pleased to meet you." I smiled.

"Mmhmm." She said shyly.

"Limestone, you and Chuckie were never properly introduced, Limestone, Chuckie! Chuckie, Limestone!" Pinkie introduced us.

"I'm great. Conversation over." She said to me.

"Alrighty then." I said awkwardly.

"You've already met Maud, Ma, and Pa, so there! Now you know everypony!" Pinkie smiled.

"Glad to." I nodded.

"We're happy to have you here Chuck. As you can see I'm absolutely ecstatic." Maud said.

"Glad to know you feel that way despite our, how shall we say, rocky start?" I quipped.

"Ha. Another rock joke." Maud replied.

"Lame." Limestone groaned. She wasn't wrong, it was pretty lame. "At least now I can kinda see why you were into this colt. You always enjoyed terrible jokes." She said to Pinkie.

"That is one hundred percent all she saw in me. It's true." I said with a bit of sarcasm.

"More than that!" Pinkie interjected.

"Please. I don't need or want to know any more about why who fell for who." Limestone gagged.

"Suit yourself then!" Pinkie smiled sipping her coffee.

"So, what are you reading about... Sir?" I asked.

"Tho shalt refer to me as Sir." I don't think he heard me.

"Igneous, he did." Cloudy said.

"Ah, Well then." He said. "I am reading the editorials."

"He likes to read about what's ruining Equestria this week, it's always something new." Maud said.

"Ah, I never took you for a 'Viva La Resistance' type of stallion." I said. He looked at me angrily.

"Resistance!?" He said angrily. "I abhor revolutionaries!"

"So do I!" I said. Do I really? I don't know, I've never met many resistance fighters.

"Ah. I see." His mood went back to a more calm setting.

"So much in common!" Pinkie said trying to help the conversation. There was a long pause, Igneous suddenly stood up.

"The days wasting. It may be Hearthswarming Eve, but there is still work to be done." He said.

"That's Pa! Ain't no labor like an honest day's labor!" Pinkie said. "I've got a great idea! Why don't you bring Chuck with you Pa?" He turned and eyed me.

"Hm. Strong looking legs, perhaps. Chuck, hath thee experience with manual labor?" He asked reluctantly.

"I sure do!" I said, I used to do a lot of manual labor with my grandfather, who was a lot like Igneous in some ways, but he liked me.

"Very well. Care to join me?" He sighed. I glanced at Pinkie, she really thought it was a good idea, I could tell Igneous didn't, but maybe I could prove myself with some honest work.

"I do care to." I smiled getting up.

"Wonderful." He said to himself as we went for the door.

"Five bits says we find Chuck with a pickaxe through his head in fifteen minutes." Limestone said. Pinkie turned to her and gasped.

"Limestone Pie!" Cloudy scolded.

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Out in the quarry

"Doth thou know how to use a pickaxe?" He asked.

"Yes indeed." I nodded.

"Good. Take this." He handed me a pickaxe.

"Alrighty, what are we doing?" I asked.

"We mine from here, then we take our yield up to the farmland." He motioned up the the house. "From there, we plant the crystals into the soil, by Summer they will triple in size." He explained. In a world of talking ponies I couldn't really have a say in what's realistic or not, so I simply nodded at his explanation.

"Alrighty!" I said picking up the pickaxe.

"And one rule that I forgot to mention, talking stays at a minimum."

"I can live with that." I nodded as we got to work.

We worked pretty well together for a few minutes, I had a feeling that he definitely didn't expect me to be as good a laborer as I turned out to be. I'm pretty sure once I even saw him smile, which wasn't something I thought I'd see. After about 15 minutes of work, I swung into the quarry just as any other time, but this time, a rack formed, have you ever watched the Ice Age movies? The first on specifically, where the squirrel thing sticks his acorn in the ice and a crack starts? Well, that's what happened here. I watched the crack grow up the cliff side, one large chunk of rock sticking out in particular started trembling. Igneous was oblivious to all this, I have no idea how though. Suddenly, the piece of rock became unattached to the cliff and started to fall. Igneous was tossing some of his yield into the cart, I could see if I didn't act fast, I'd have an accidental murder on my hooves.

"Igneous! Look out!" I called lunging forward to knock him out of the way, mere seconds after I tackled him to the ground, the large piece of rock crushed the cart with a loud crash.

"What in Celestia's name just happened!?" He said getting up to examine the scene.

"It was my fault sir, I was just mining like you said when all of a sudden a giant crack merged." I said.

"Thou must hath mined into a fault line." He said.

"I'm sorry about the cart." I said.

"Surely thou doth not think this hath not happened before?" He said. "There are plenty of other carts up the hill. Go and fetch another." He instructed.

"I will." I nodded running up the path to get another cart, when I returned with the cart a good portion of the piece that had fallen had been chipped away at.

"Thank you." He said. "I no longer hath need for thine services." He told me in a kind of suppressed form of anger.

"Are you sure?" I asked.

"I am certain." He said. "Enough trouble hath been cause by thou already." I could hear him mutter.

"Oh, well, okay then." I said, pretending not to hear the last part. "Thank you sir." I said resigning back to the farm house.

"How did it go?" Pinkie asked me when I walked inside.

"Not wonderfully." I said.

"How so?" She asked.

"Well, I almost killed your father to start." I said. "Accidentally of course."

"How did that happen?" She asked.

"I picked into a fault line." I said.

"Oh no..." She said. "I'm sure he knew it was an accident." She said.

"Maybe, he seemed pretty angry with me when I came back with a new cart." I explained. "To think I was pretty sure all was well until that happened."

"A near death experience can do things to a pony." She advised. "Don't take it too personally."

"Thanks." I said. "What are you up to?" I asked.

"Just about to help Ma and Marble decorate the house." She said.

"Sounds fun, I'm sure there isn't a risk of death in that job." I said.

"What did I tell you?" She asked.

"To stop dwelling on when I mess up?" I replied.

"Exactly." She smiled. "He's okay right?" She asked.

"Of course he is. I did get him out of the way." I said. "Real heroic like too, you should have seen it."

"Alright alright, save it for later Mr. Hero." She chuckled.

"Okay okay." I smirked a little at the nickname.

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Later that day

After a couple hours of letting the fact I almost committed murder settle down inside me, I was ready to make myself visible to the family again. The house by this point was completely decorated as festive as any other house I've ever seen, lights strewn about, a Hearthswarming tree set up in the living room, even a small scale village carved from stone on a large shelf. I smiled looking at it, it reminded me of the village my grandmother would set up around Christmas time.

"Hey you!" A voice suddenly said behind me, startling me. I turned and saw Pinkie Pie.

"Geez." I said catching my breath. "Almost gave me a heart attack."

"No way!" She said. "If I did you'd be on the floor yelling in pain!" She explained. I looked at her for a moment, I chuckled with laughter and nodded.

"You've got a point." I chuckled.

"Lookin' at the little village?" She asked.

"Sure am." I said. "Looks real nice." I said.

"That village has been passed on for generations!" She explained. "Hoof carved by great-great granny Pie!"

"Wonderful craftsmanship." I remarked. "I just got caught up in looking at it, reminded me of a village like this my grandma would set up around the holidays." I said.

"Really?" Pinkie asked. "No kidding! I had no clue we shared so many traditions!"

"The village was more our family specifically, but a fun coincidence yours does it too." I smiled.

"Any other traditions you'd celebrate?" She asked.

"Well, The day after Christmas, which was the holiday I celebrated, a whole lot of my relatives would get together and we'd have brunch, there'd be lots of food, folks would play guitar, of course I'd always be out with my cousins having snowball fights or exploring the old abandoned barn on our homestead." I said recounting my old Boxing Day tradition.

"Sounds like an Apple Family reunion!" Pinkie said. "But y'know, with a creepy abandoned barn instead of a standing, non creepy one!"

"I never said it was creepy." It was. "We had a good time though." I concluded.

"Miss it?" She asked.

"Yeah, a little." I admitted. "But, I like to imagine all the great things in my life I have now were an even trade."

"Aww Chuckie... You always know the right thing to say." She blushed.

"I have a knack for that." I smirked, then I glanced up. "You know, there's another tradition that I haven't told you about."

"What's that?" She asked.

"Well, back on Earth, it was customary that when two met under the mistletoe, they shared a kiss." I said.

"Well..." She said glancing up. "It would be rude to disrespect tradition, your world or not."

"Happy Hearthswarming." I said giving her a kiss.

"Merry Christmas." She smiled giving me a kiss back.

"I surely do not hope that I am interrupting anything." Cloudy said as she walked in.

"Surely you are not." I replied trying to speak in an amish esque voice.

"Close. But just talk like yourself." Pinkie whispered to me.

"10-4." I nodded.

"I happened to hear there was an accident in the quarry." Cloudy said.

"Yeah..." I started. "Sorry about that, nopony got hurt though!"

"I know that. Accidents happen. I just wanted to tell thou not to worry." She said.

"Thank you." I said. At this point the incident had blown over in my head, but confirmation from somepony else that it was okay was nice admittedly.

"Igneous however, does not forgive as easily." She said.

"What a breaking news report." I thought to myself.

"He'll come around Ma! He knows it would just an accident!" Pinkie brushed her words off. "Chuckie would never hurt a fly! Except for that fly family he sat on once... but he didn't do that on purpose!"

"You didn't have to share that part." I murmured.

"Perhaps." Cloudy said.

"Am I the only one who thinks everythings gonna be fine?" Pinkie asked.

"What?" I asked. "No way, I totally think it'll be fine." I said.

"Honesty would be fitting quality to look for in your next coltfriend." I could hear Limestone mutter. The one thing I miss about having hands is being able to flip people off.

"I am being honest." I said. "Don't worry hon, it'll be fine." I reassured Pinkie.

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Later on

After Igneous came in from the quarry, he and Cloudy began to talk alone in their room.

"Surely I do understand thine sentiments toward the colt. But he isn't all bad." Cloudy told him.

"Correct, he could have destroyed the wagon and killed me." He said.

"For Celestia's sake..." She groaned. "It was an accident!"

"Accidents are acts of incompetence!" He growled.

"Surely thou art the most cantankerous old stone as ever born!" She sighed.

"Cloudy, listen." He sighed. "I want to like Chalk, I do." He said.

"Chuck dear." She said.

"Whatever." He said. "The point is, he just seems so... Mediocre." Cloudy just looked at him.

"So?" She asked. "Thee is Pinkamena's special somepony, not thine."

"If it were up to me, Thee wouldst be nopony's special somepony!" He said.

"But it is not, is it Igneous?" She asked rhetorically. He sighed feeling frustrated.

"Happy Hearthswarming indeed." He muttered.

"Thou art in no position to act in such a manner, perhaps if thou were more kind to Pinkamena's choice..." She began.

"More kind? I didn't nearly kill Pinkamena's choice!" He said.

"It was an accident!" She groaned once more.

"Fine." He said angrily. "On the condition that any time I am with that colt is within fifteen minute increments, I will be more kind." Cloudy paused for a moment.

"If that is what it is going to take to have a peaceful Hearthswarming, I'll take it." She agreed.

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Even later on

I can testify to very few things in my life, one of them being that rock soup isn't as bad as you'd think. Once you get passed the fact that your teeth will hurt incredibly bad after trying to bite the rock. I guess you're just supposed to let the broth lube the rock down your throat. Biting the rock was a mistake I only made once by the way, because like my grandmother used to say: "Bite a rock once, shame on you. Bite a rock twice..." I'm sorry, I really thought I could come up with something there. But now that dinner was all over, it was time to start the evening traditions. First up, Hearthswarming dolls.

"Now, you don't know how to carve I take it?" Maud asked me.

"Negatory." I shook my head.

"Well, let me show you." She said helping me with the pick and mallet. "Like this, now, you have an odd mane, so that might be difficult." She said as if I wasn't already aware.

"Thanks, I think I've got it." I said picking away, eventually I was able to make a pretty decent representation of myself from stone, if only my real figure was chiseled from stone. I'm a man of the night, a real ladies delight, see my figure was chiseled from stone... What a good song.

"Lookin' good Chuckie!" Pinkie encouraged me as I finished up the small carving.

"Thanks hon. Not too bad a representation if I do say so myself, though I think I'm not quite as thin as the sculpture suggests." I smirk.

"Eh, gives me something to snuggle with." She said, keep in mind, I'm not like John Candy or Drake and Josh era Josh Peck, I'm more Parks and Rec era Chris Pratt or kind of like Seth Rogen. But enough about my size, back to the story.

"You definitely did good for your first try." Maud told me. "Your eyebrows look more like dents in your head, but that can happen."

"You're just missin' one thing!" Pinkie said picking up the tools, she then took a chip out of one of the figures shoulders. "That's for all those mornings when you're a big mister grumpy pants!" She then began imitating the few, I stress few, times I've been kind of grumpy in the morning.

"Blah blah blah, I need coffee, I hate everything! Where's the coffee! Blah blah blah!" She said in a mock angry voice. I chuckled at her portrayal of me.

"Alright, alright, that's enough." I said. "I doubt I ever said 'I hate everything'." I added.

"I've seen the look in your eyes those mornings, colder than a glacier!" She shivered.

"That's a bit of an overstatement." I said.

"I have never overstated a single thing in the history of the planet!" She said, proving my point.

"Uh huh. Okay hon." I chuckled.

"We can talk about this later." She smiled. "Time to set it up with everypony else's!" She said. I soon realized I had zilch to be proud of looking at the other's carvings.

"Damn." I said in amazement at the sculptures.

"That's what years of practice will do." Cloudy said in response to my amazement. "Except for Igneous, thee's very first Hearthswarming carving was perfect."

"It is true, I have always had a knack for carvings." He admitted.

"Neat!" I said admiring his work.

"Indeed." He nodded.

"Wish I was good at carving, instead all I'm good at is craving, and that's how I got this!" I stood on my hind legs and shook my stomach. My physical comedy made Pinkie laugh, but that was about it.

"Ha!" She laughed. "Get it? Because craving is close to carving!?" She laughed more.

"Alright alright." I said. "It wasn't that funny."

"That we can agree on." I heard Igneous mumble.

"Now that that's all wrapped up, time for the flag finding mission!" Pinkie sang.

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Outside

Alright! Time for the teams! Limestone will be the judge, I'll stick with Marble, that's team one! Maud can be with Ma, team two! which just leave two more..." Pinkie looked at Igneous and I. "Then, Chuckie and Pa! Team Best Friends Forever!" She smiled. Oh boy, I've never wanted to ask someone what the hell they were thinking more than right then and there.

"Cloudy. fifteen minute rule..." Igneous said with wide eyes to his wife.

"Perfect selections Pinkamena." Cloudy nodded in approval with an almost sly smile.

"Looks like it's you and me sir!" I said.

"Mhm." He said in a disgruntled fashion. "Perfect."

"Nothing is perfect need I remind you." I said. "But my company is as close as it gets." I quipped.

"Now I wish that rock killed me." He groaned. At least I was trying to make the best of the situation.

"Off to a terrific start." I sighed to myself. Here we go I guess.

So I had a bit more on an advantage than Applejack and her family had in season 5, I knew I was looking for a picture instead of a real rock. Maybe finding it would help me prove myself to not be the pony equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer or Charles Manson in Igneous' eyes, I don't know, at this point any idea is a good one.

"Oh there's no rock like this rock, Find it 'cuz we're on the clock." I hummed looking around.

"What art thou singing?" Igneous asked.

"No rock like this rock?" I asked. "Eh, just something I came up with on the spot, I do that a lot." What he does not know is that it's a parody of something that is far too inappropriate for the T rating of this story, but hey, what he doesn't know can't hurt him.

"Interesting." He simply said. Deep down he started to realize that with traits like that, while I may not be his idea of a stallion you bring home to dad, I did suit his daughter well.

"So what kinda rock are we on the hunt for?" I asked, mostly to make conversation, don't tell her family I said this, Maud especially, but all rocks look the same to me.

"Mylonite." He replied.

"Outta sight, mylonite. Got it." I nodded. After a little while longer of searching, Igneous actually spoke up first.

"What about Pinkamena did thou take romantic interest in?" He asked.

"What drew me to her?" I asked. "Well, I mean, an easier question would be what didn't! First day I met her she showed more kindness to me than most folks ever gave me over years of knowing them, she even took me in since I had no other place to live, she made me happy when I never considered myself all that happy at all, and after all that, I don't know, I guess we clicked."

"Guess?" He asked.

"I can't explain how it happened." I said shrugging my shoulders. "I was drawn to her, who knows what drew her to me, then we became, well, an item."

"I see." He said.

"How about you and your wife, Cloudy?" I asked.

"Pairing stone." He said. "The pairing stone decreed 'thou shalt love each other' and thus, it became so." He explained. And I thought my world's arranged marriages were odd.

"Romantic." I said. "Hey, what's mylonite look like anyway?"

"Mylonite is fine grained, often gray." He told me.

"Kinda like this?" I asked holding up a drawing of what he described.

"Exactly." He said impatiently, all of a sudden his eyes widened. "Egad lad!" He exclaimed.

"Nice poetry." I said.

"Thou hast found the hidden stone!" He said excitedly.

"I did? Neato!" I said happily.

"Come lad, to Holder's Boulder!" He said snatching the paper and leading me on enthusiastically. Well this took an interesting turn, I thought finding it might help, but this is nuts.

"Limestone!" He called as we approached her. "I've found it!" What!? My jaw dropped and I cocked my eyebrow.

"Congratulations." She said unenthusiastically. "Team one and two! Get back here!" She called loudly.

"What is it?" Pinkie asked happily as the teams approached the boulder.

"This year's winner, I am proud to announce." Limestone said. "Is team 3, but mostly Dad." Excuse me!?

"Woo hoo! Way to go Pa!" Pinkie cheered. Igneous grinned almost slyly at me.

"Good work Igneous." Cloudy applauded him. "And Chuck, of course."

"But mostly me." He boasted. Oh I know what this is, Sheriff Woody Syndrome.

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Sheriff Woody Syndrome: Sheriff Woody Syndrome, or SWS, derives from acting immaturely and competitively towards a newcomer in over to regain or keep favor in the eyes of your peers. Name for SWS derives from the character Sheriff Woody, who acted in such a manner in Pixar's 1995 film "Toy Story" starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. This absolutely sound and scientific fact is taken from Chuck's Big Book of Syndromes Based on Pop-Culture.

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Definitely that going on here. I've seen it a million times before, part of me was flattered albeit to be the Buzz Lightyear in someone's case of SWS, but at the same time rather angered by his actions.

"Excuse me sir, but I believe you're slightly mistaken." I whispered to him.

"Hush thine lips, Potsie." He whispered back. Potsie? Wow.

"Dad will raise the flag upon the highest point tomorrow morning." Maud said. "And now, onto gift hiding."

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After I hid my gift I simply strolled around the farm land, taking a stroll helped with the disbelief and resentment I felt toward's Igneous' actions. I mean come on, I get not liking somepony, you know how many people disliked me on Earth? I was fine with it, but spiting me like that just to look like a hero is just rude. Suddenly, I saw somepony familiar in the distance, it was Pinkie, finally somepony who liked me.

"Pinkie!" I called running over, as I ran, suddenly I was hit by what felt like a fluffy pink rocket, I guess she saw me too.

"Chuckie! Glad I ran into you! I feel like it's been forever since we were together!" She said happily.

"It's been an hour and a half." I said. "Which is only forty five seconds shy of forever, so close." I smirked.

"Smarty Pants." She smirked.

"You know you love me." I replied.

"Guilty as charged." She kissed me. I kissed her back and sighed.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"Your dad still dislikes me." I said.

"How? He seemed happy when you two won!" She said.

"Wanna know who found it?" I asked. "Me. He grabbed it from me and claimed he found it." Her resting face went to a big grin with nervous eyes.

"What!? That's ridiculous!" She stammered.

"I'm being serious." I said. Her mane suddenly deflated for a second as her face dropped.

"I know. Pa, well... He get's kind of jealous." She explained.

"Kind of? I thought things were going along great, then this happens!" I said.

"Chuck, it isn't your fault." She told me.

"Yeah, it is." I said. "I'm not good enough for him." I said sadly.

"Now you listen to me Gary Murray!" She said slapping me across the face. "You are too good enough! Chuck, I love you! And in the end, isn't that what really matters?" She asked. My face lifted a little, she still hasn't got my real name right.

"You've got a point." I said starting to smile a little.

"Tell you what, why don't I talk to him?" She asked.

"Maybe that's a good idea." I said.

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Three hours later

"Things got real crazy on the Pie family rock farm this evening when proprietor Igneous Rock snapped after accusations of jealousy." A handsome newspony said in his studio. "We now go live to Chuck Marley."

"It's Murphy actually." I said as I appeared on the air.

"Whatever, Chuck, what can you tell us about the incident that took place?"

"Well..." I began. "After a rock finding mission Igneous claimed to win the beans were spilled to the rest of the family I actually found it, things got a little out of hand so to speak, a family feud sort of arose, and well to make a long story short, I'm the only one alive."

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"That's not what's going to happen!" Pinkie told me back in reality.

"I know, but it sounded funny." I said.

"Besides, if that were the case, it'd be me as the only one alive." She winked. You know? That's probably true.

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Inside

"How dare thou accuse me of such slander!?" Igneous yelled. Oh no.

"Dear, hold on." Cloudy said trying to calm him down. "Why not a little tea? Tea and the paper?"

"Not now dear." He growled.

"Pa, hold on a second." Pinkie pleaded to him.

"This colt has been nothing but a pain since he arrived!" He pointed at me in anger. Oh no, I've seen this in the movies, my limbs, head and body are about to be scattered across the homestead.

"He has not!" Pinkie said.

"With all due respect, sir..." I started.

"Quiet!" He hollered.

"Why do you hate him so much!?" Pinkie asked.

"An easier question would be what I do not hate about thee!" He yelled. Ouch.

"There's no need to be mean!" She replied.

"There was no need for that colt to nearly kill me!" He exclaimed.

"It was an accident Igneous!" Cloudy yelled.

"Enough!" I hollered, everypony quieted down after I spoke up.

"I'm sorry, okay!? I'm sorry, that I'm not a big manual worker, I'm sorry that I sell booze, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I tried to get you to like me when ultimately I guess I'm just that unlikable a fella huh!?" I exclaimed. "I'm sorry I ruined Hearthswarming Eve for you all, I never meant to be such a hassle. You don't have to worry about me ruining anything else, I'll be on my way. I'm sorry." I said angrily heading for the door.

"Says sorry to much, must be Canternadian." Limestone said.

"That's because I am!" I called back before shutting the door.

There was a long, long silence after that door shut. Nopony knew what to do or say, nopony was happy, it definitely didn't feel like Hearthswarming Eve anymore, Pinkie was on the verge of tears, Cloudy was angry with Igneous, Marble was extremely uncomfortable, Limestone was just angry about me being Canternadian, damn Canternadians. And Maud, well, Maud was extremely upset, or happy, you can't tell really.

"Goodnight everypony. Happy Hearthswarming Eve." Igneous sighed retiring to his room.

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What a cliffhanger! Isn't that crazy! What's gonna happen next? We'll just have to find out.