“ZZZZZZZZZZZZ”

*Rustle and lamp falling*

“ZZZ-huh”

I woke up and looked around, I couldn’t see anything because I didn’t have my glasses on, but I looked anyway. I hate my special eyes. I think I need a special brand of glasses. I reached over and grabbed my not so special pair of glasses and put them on after I rubbed my eyes.

I looked around the room and when I got to the other side of my bed I almost screamed like a sissy. HOW DID SHE GET IN HERE!? I literally jumped off my bed and my foot caught the blanket and I smacked my face on the floor. Ow, that hurt a lot. Now I can see where RD came from about bad luck. I rolled around on the ground for a minute, holding my entire face with my hands. This amount of pressure to my face is sooooo much worse than the purse or the guard.

After a few minutes I sat up and shook my head.

I got my bearings back and realized what I saw…again. Derpy Hooves was standing next to me and looking at me, well me and a painting on the wall. I don’t know if I could handle her talking to me. Not just because I may die from happiness, but because it might end up in me getting a piano or an anvil dropped on my head.

“Hi Kyle, can I help you get up?” Derpy said to me.

Too late for not talking. I can’t take it; I am going to explode from the amount of things scaring the crap out of me, being too cute, etc. I looked at her and could not really tell if she was serious or not. Now I can continue living here and be happy, or I can get helped by her and possibly get thrown out the window by her clumsiness. I think I will get up myself.

“Thanks Derpy, but I got it” I said as I got up. I got to say her name! Finally! When I was standing I got an idea Run, run from the grey Pegasus. She will kill me. Let’s just say I listened to my thought. I ran out of my apartment as fast as I could. I didn’t even lock the door. Gotta move fast. It’s not that I didn’t like her; it’s just that I was afraid that she was going to give me even more bad luck.

I made it down to the first floor in what Rainbow Dash would say 10 seconds flat. I walked outside and the sun was shining. “I sure like the weather here more than the weather back home.” I began to walk around Ponyville; a lot of the ponies said hi to me, some of them even started small conversations. This is a lot easier than I expected. I thought I would be avoided by them for being what Vinyl calls ‘a big thing’.

I walked to the outskirts of the town and found a pond with a few trees around it. I don’t know why but I feel this will be the spot I hang out from now on. I walked over to a nearby tree and sat down at the base of it. I rested my head on the tree and took a deep breath. Maybe something interesting…AND NOT SCARY will happen now.

I didn’t know how I did it, but I managed to fall asleep. I woke up and it must have gotten a lot warmer because I was sweating. ARGH, it feels like it’s 100 degrees out here! I looked around and then up to the sun. It was in the center of the sky.

I looked over towards Ponyville and saw Applejack, Pinky Pie, and Rainbow Dash were heading towards me. I wonder why they are coming out here. And where are the others? Why do I ask myself so many questions? Oh well, at least I have some company now. I was beginning to feel alone again.

Pinky was the one to make it to me first. She was bouncing up and down in front of me. “Hi Kyle, what are you doing out here all by yourself?” She is so happy! How can I teach myself to be that happy? Maybe I can go on the road as a comedian? No that won’t work; my act would be as dry as burnt toast.

“I’m just sitting out here enjoying the nice day. I was actually going to go cool off in the pond, seeing as it is like 100 degrees out here now.” I said as I got up and stretched. I cracked my back and my face contorted for a moment in pain. AAAARRRGGHH! Why does that always hurt so much. It feels like a lead weight was dropped on my back! I feel old.

“That’s funny because we were coming here to do the same thing.” Pinky said smiling her big, a little creepy smile.
This should be fun. “Ok, since we all had the same idea, let’s play a game. I used to do this back where I came from when I went swimming.” I said as I looked at the three of them.

“I love games! What is it?” Pinky said to me, her smile widening until it looked as if it covered her entire face.

I know you love games, who don’t know that. Well, I guess someone who lived under a rock their entire life wouldn’t. But that’s beside the point. “Well, the game is about seeing who can make the best trick when they jump in the water. It is just something to pass the time, there are 10 rounds in which everypony takes turns to see who wins that round.”

Rainbow Dash swooped down next to me “I’m so in! I am always up for a little competition.”

“I can’t wait; this is going to be so much fun!” Pinky replied after RD. I know you will have fun; you would have fun watching grass grow if you could sit and watch it long enough.

“Ah shucks, Ah guess Ah’ll play along” Applejack said after a moment of thinking.

“Good then it’s settled. I guess I will go first.” I took a running start and ran to a rock that was at the edge of the pond. I took a jump off the rock and thrust my body forward, doing a front-flip in the air. I landed in the water and it felt great. I came back above the surface after a moment. Well, seeing as I haven’t done a front-flip in a while since I hit my head on the backboard of the diving board at school (Not a fun experience mind you) I think I did pretty well.

“Heads up” Applejack said as she took her turn next. She galloped full speed to the same rock that I jumped from. She jumped much higher than I did and did a 180 front flip and landed next to me in the water. Show off, I can do tricks like that too, if I felt like it (I couldn’t).

“My turn!!!” Pinky said as she took a running start towards the rock. She jumped before the rock and used her front hooves to push off the rock to give her momentum. She launched into the air and did a two front flips before landing in the water. “That was fun” She said as she broke the surface of the water.

“Where’s Rainbow Dash? It’s her turn now” I asked Applejack. She better not have left to go fall asleep in a tree somewhere, because that would so not be 20% cooler of her. I looked around but could not see her anywhere.

“Ah’d take cover if ah were you” Applejack said as she covered her head with her hooves. Wait, hold on a minute. I remember this from somewhere. I think I saw this in an episode once.

“AHHHHHHHHH!” I heard then as I was pondering what I could have heard that reference before. I looked up into the air and wish I hadn’t. What is that blue thing hurtling down at the pond at like 300 miles per hour. Oh wait it’s RD...(Brain turning on (Scanning complete) RAINBOW DASH!

“HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF LORD!” I yelled before I covered my head with my arms. I looked through a hole in my arms at the cyan Pegasus that was barreling at the pond. She reminds me of the Mack truck that killed me. Funny how two completely different things can spark a horrid memory from just a little similarity.

I watched as she got to only about 100 feet away from the pond water and then do three consecutive front flips before she hit the water. ARGH! Why does everything have to one up me? I feel like Mario without any lives left. She broke the surface a moment later and flipped her mane out of her face. “How was that for cool?”

“Ok, that was amazing, but it’s my turn again and I am going to step it up a little.” So you want to showboat ay RD? Fine, I can do better tricks. Ding Ding Ding! Round Two Begin!

I swam over to the edge of the pond and got out. I walked over to the tree I fell asleep under and began to climb it. I made it to the highest branch that could support my weight and stood there. I looked down at them and said “One small step for tricks, one giant leap for my self-confidence.”

They must have found that line funny because Rainbow started to laugh and almost choke on water, while AJ gave a chuckle herself. HO HUM, I guess I am the comedian. Well here we go.

I turned around and jumped off the branch backwards. For my self-confidence! I flipped by entire body in a reverse somersault. I hope you like a backflip. I finished my flip and went into a cannonball and landed into the water, creating a large wave of water that hit the three ponies. I came up for air a few moments later. “Ok, I give up, I can’t do anymore, my back hurts after that one. I forfeit.”

“Ah thought that one was pretty good myself” Applejack said to me.

“Yeah, I liked it” Pinky said to me next.

“It needs to be about 20% cooler, other than that it was good” Rainbow Dash said to me.

She said the line! I got her to say the line. AWWWWW YYEEEAAAHHH! On a little side note ouch, that comment was a little too strong. I feel like I was just hit in the nose by that guard again. Well, I can’t win all of the crowd’s hearts. “I’ll work on it just for you RD.”

We all must have given up the game because we just swam there for the rest of the time we were there. We traded stories from when we were younger. We all laughed at them and had a great time. They particularly found it funny when I told them that I fell down a flight of stairs when I was only 2 years old.

I can sense that you’re laughing and stop it. It’s not funny, my mom and grandmother almost had simultaneous heart attacks. I was ok, but it still isn’t funny. It made it so my shoulders could pop out of socket on will.

We continued to trade stories while we swam. It was nice not having to do anything awkward for a change. We spent the rest of the day there doing just that.

I did not get home until really late, but when I finally did get into my room I fell on the bed and was instantly overcome by sleep.

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