You enjoy dreams from the feeling of control it brings to the molding of your own adventure. You could've stayed in bed all day with no consequences. Except that you had to clear some things with Rose, you didn't completely think she wasn't cute, because she was. It's just weird that a friend would think of you that way. You looked towards your bed side table and glance at the clock to see it was 8:00 A.M. You decide it was time to get up and find a job because with the money you have it won't take a genius to find out that you're a prince.

Getting up from the bed, you make your way to the bathroom. Before anything can get started, you hear a loud rumbling, you look outside your window to see a herd of cows starting to run parallel to the town. Okay now you were really confused.

'Does this al ways happen in this town.' You thought to yourself. You make your way to the shower and washed all of yesterday's stink and grime away. Finished with that, you walk over to the sink and brush your teeth. A clean mouth is a happy mouth your mother would use to say. You didn't believe her the first time and when you had a toothache, you promised that you would brush, you still do to this day.

After putting on clean clothes you walk downstairs and out the door. You hear a lot of cheering in the center of town. Curious, you walked towards the commotion.

"What's going on here?" You asked Pinkie

"Oh you should've seen it, there was a stampede of cows running towards Ponyville, but Applejack came to the rescue and stopped those cows from causing a huge ruckus." Pinkie stated happily

"That's cool." You said shrugging

"Cool? It's more than cool, its awesome!" Rainbow exclaimed

"Alright it's awesome." You mimicked

"What's with you?" Rainbow asked

"I'm tired and got woken up earlier then I should've." You tell her

"Oh! Do you need a pick me up Dante?" Pinkie asked energetically

"If you have coffee that would be great." You say to Pinkie.  As you blinked you then see pinkie holding a cup of what appears to be coffee.

"Wait how did you-" you were then cut off by rainbow hand on your mouth, looking at her, she just shook her head and mouthed 'don't question it.' You shrugged and drank the coffee, you haven't tasted coffee this great since you were in the castle.

"Do you like it?" Pinkie asked anticipating your reply.

"It's good thanks pinks." She flashed a toothy grin and disappeared

"Okay what's up with pinkie?" You asked Rainbow

"I dunno, but let me give you a little advice, don't question the things she does, your head will hurt a lot less and when she talks to somepony called the audience just don't pay any attention." She said

"Alrighty then, anything happening today?" You asked

"Not really, the rest of us are going to plan the celebration for AJ, so not much today."

"Okay then, give me a holler if you need help with anything." You stated as you walked away from Rainbow and made your way towards Rose's flower shop.  You needed to clear some things with her.

Walking towards your destination, you see Rose picking and placing flowers around the outside and inside of her shop.

"Hey there Rose." You said

"Oh hey Dante, are you excited for the Gala cause I am, it's gonna be so much fun." She said happily

You had to tell her that it wasn't a date, you needed to tell her that you did it as a friendly gesture. But she looked so happy, you couldn't bare to break her heart.

"Hey what's up are you feeling ok?" Rose asked with concern

"Uh of course, just um... needed to tell you that I'm excited too. I mean I get to go with a friend." You say with a fake smile.  you couldn't bring yourself to tell her it wasn't a date, you didn't want her to feel upset at your actions.

"Hmm, okay, hey could you help me with a few things in the shop?  I'll pay you." She asked

"Oh sure." You proceed to carry a variety of tools and flower pots to different places around the shop. Sometimes, in the corner of your eye, you'd see Rose look at you with a blush, she seemed to be watching you. Occasionally she'd bite her lip, you knew something was up.

"Alright Rose, what's up with you, I know something's wrong." You finally voice

"Nothing's wrong Dante, just uh-" You then hear your name being shouted from outside.  You see Rainbow waving you over. You sigh and leave the shop except a few bits richer.

"What do you need Rainbow?" You asked

"Come on, Pinkie and I need your help planning where to put the decorations for AJ's party."

"Isn't pinkie like the party expert in this town? she doesn't need my help." You state.

"I know, but Pinkie asked to get you and you don't want to deny Pinkie when she asks."

"What's the worst that could happen, she'll turn psychopathic and kill me." You joked

"No she'll use her puppy dog eyes and that's a fate you don't want." You gulped afraid of 'the eyes' as you called it. You remember all those years in the palace when you refused to do something. Cadence would use 'the eyes' and make you accept whatever she said, after that Twilight started using the same trick. You always hated 'the eyes'.

"Alrighty then, let's go." You responded quickly

You and Rainbow made your way to sugar cube corner. The place where Pinkie lives, works, and plans most of her parties, there you enter to see all of your acquaintances. Except for Applejack, you don't know where she is nor do you care.

"So what exactly did you need me for?" You asked Pinkie

She smiled and said. "Well I need some help with some decorations and I need somepony to carry them."

"Uh Pinkie, I don't wanna burst your bubble or anything, but isn't the celebration scheduled for next week." You tell her

You see her turn sad and her mane straightens out.  You look at everyone else who just looks at you with some surprise.

"What Dante is saying is that you need some time to plan then, he'll help you with decorations." Twilight said saving your ass

"Really you'll help me plan and decorate." Pinkie said looking at you with 'the eyes.'

"Sure Pinks I'll help you." Her mane then turned back to its bouncy and original color. She then wrapped you in the tightest hug.

"Thank you so much, Dante." She stated.  After hours of planning and mindless chatter, you were tired and felt like you needed some sleep.

It was about 6:00 that night when you got home.  You entered the library to see spike organizing books into three different shelves and Twilight reading a book on something you couldn't see the title on.

"Thank you Twilight for torturing me with Pinkie." You said siting down on the couch

She turned her attention from her book to you and said. "Oh come on Dante, it probably wasn't that bad." Twilight said getting up and grabbing two bottles of water. She tossed one to you.

"Not that bad, she kept talking about ponies I didn't even know and rambled on about stupid things.  Twi how can you stand her." You took a sip of your water and laid down on the couch.

You felt something hit your head you opened your eyes to see that Twilight threw a book at you.

"What the hell Twi!" You shouted

"Hey, don't talk about my friends like that. Look I know you hate ponies that talk too much, but you gotta understand that everyone can't be like you." She said picking up the book and setting it aside. You sighed and sat up.

"Ugh you're right, maybe I just need to take some time to understand her." you amitted.

"Anyway, why didn't you just leave, you could've done that to avoid the whole thing." Spike asked

"Well, I think she's kinda cute and she used 'the eyes' on me." You whispered the last thing.

"Wow, man you gotta conquer your fears." said Spike shaking his head

"Whatever." You then get up and head to your bathroom and showered, taking off the stink of the day. You entered your bedroom and laid down on the bed, quickly falling asleep.

You wake up in a bright room with the same table and chairs in your bedroom, However, in one of the chairs you see Luna waiting.  You quickly move to join her at the table.

"Hello Dante, how are you today?" She asked

"Well, I have to say it was annoyingly long." You said sighing

"Why's that?" Sh e asked

"Well, let's just say that my day was full of pink."

"Ah, the element of laughter, Pinkie Pie, I believe. "

"Yes, she annoyingly happy." You tell her rolling your eyes

"Oh is that right. Well maybe you should try to befriend her, just because she annoys you, doesn't mean you should be rude to her." Luna said giving you an annoyed stare.

"Yeah you're right, because the first time I arrived here, I longed for a friend. Thanks Luna, for the advice."

"You're welcome nephew." She then leans over and hugs you and you return it greatly. Silently you return to the real world, the sun was just beginning to rising and knowing that you feel refreshed when you sit up and stretched, it was great.

A week later

You looked on from the bench in the park where you were sitting.  From here you could tell that everypony was setting up for the celebration, they seemed happy with their work. You got up from the bench and walked over to your acquaintances.

"Hey girls, so everything set up?" You asked

"Yuppers! Now we just need everypony, including Applejack, to arrive.  This is so exciting!" Pinkie exclaimed

"Alrighty then, you seem to have everything in order."

"Of course we have everything in order." Rarity commented

You then noticed that ponies started arriving, among them you notice one of your friends, Vinyl.  Quickly saying goodbye to the both of them, you make your way over to her.

"Hey there Vinyl." you say in greetings, she lifts up her head and you see that she has on her purple tinted glasses and greets you.

"Hey there Dante, haven't seen you in a long time." She said as you both walked towards the st age.

"Well, I've been busy trying to clear things up with Rose and helping Twilight's friends." You tell her. She then gives you a frown.

"Really Dante, Do you absolutely think they aren't your friends?" Vinyl asks.

"Of course they aren't my friends, I don't even know them." You reply.

"Well, you don't know me, Derpy, Rose, Octy, or Lyra that much and we're friends. You gotta stop keeping yourself in a bubble and explore some more ponies." She said smiling, you look at her with a grin trying to keep yourself from laughing.

"What's wrong?" She asked

"Just your last sentence 'explore some ponies.'" You then started laughing your ass off.

"Oh, shut up you perv!" You controlled your laughter to see vinyl glaring at you.

"Alright alright, I'm done, anyway where's Octavia?" You found out that Vinyl and Octavia were roommates.

"Hmm, oh, still at the house, she freaked out about the mess I made in kitchen." You couldn't even imagine how they became roommates from what they told you, apparently they met when they were fillies and became instant best friends.

"I still can't believe that you two became instant best friends.  But hey, crazier things have happened."

"Like you and Twilight becoming friends." She retorted

"Yeah like me and Twi becoming friends." You said agreeing.  She chuckled and said

"You really need more friends besides the five of us." Vinyl said

"Yeah I know, get new friends, do something with your life, blah, blah, blah, and all that crap.  When did you get so preachy?"  You acquisitioned.

"Oh shut up." She said giving you a light pun ch. You give her another chuckle and you see Octavia approach you two.

"Hey there Octy." Vinyl says.  Octavia turns to give her a glare.

"Did you really have to leave the kitchen in such a mess when you left? Couldn't you at least clean up after yourself." Octavia argued, she didn't even notice you standing there.

"Oh relax Octavia it was only a small mess, it wasn't that big." Vinyl said shrugging

"There's no way I can talk to you with you trying to shrug your way out of the conversation."  Octavia said sighing.

"Uh girls could you argue about this later, I really need your help with something." You said going into the conversation

"Sorry about that, Octy gets mad every once in a while. Anyway what's your problem?" Vinyl asked

"Fine we'll talk about your habits later. Now what is it that you need help with Dante." Octavia asked

"Well, ya know how Rose has been acting odd?" You asked

"Yes." They said in unison

"When I told her if she wanted to go to the grand galloping gala with me.  She thought of it as a date and walked off before I could say anything." You tell them. They had confused looks then turned to laughing grins.

"Oh goddess. That is hilarious, looks like Rose has a crush on you." Vinyl stated laughing her ass off.

"Oh my, I didn't think that you two were that close." Octavia said

"Ugh whatever, I don't even know why I told you two." You then heard Twilight call out to the whole crowd of ponies. She was holding a stack of notes in her hand.

Everypony started talking all at once wondering where Applejack was. You didn't care, you just wanted to get through the day a nd tell Rose that you didn't want a relationship, but every time you tried you couldn't deal with the burden of making her sad.

"Hello everypony, today we honor a pony who is always there when you need a hand-" Twilight was then interrupted by Rainbow.

"And Applejack's going to help with a cool new flying tricks and its gonna be so cool." Rainbow seemed pretty excited by the whole thing.

"As I was saying, Applejack is a very helpful pony ready to help anypony in need-" Twilight was once again interrupted by Pinkie Pie

"And I get to run sugar cube corner." She exclaimed

"What does that have to do with Applejack?" Twilight asked. Pinkie thought for a few seconds before saying

"Oh and Applejack is gonna help me make some treats free samples for everypony!" Pinkie shouted the whole crowd cheered.

"Okay, anypony else?" Twilight asked annoyed by their interruptions.

"Oh, hate to interrupt but, Applejack's helping me take a bunny census to meet the new born bunnies." Fluttershy said softly

As Twilight was about to continue see turned to see the mayor.

"Ugh never mind!" Twilight said, tossing up her notes and then stomped of the stage.

"Anyway, please come out, Applejack." A curtain was pulled to reveal no one.

Until you heard a southern voice from behind everypony.

"I'm here everypony, don't worry." Applejack said stumbling towards the stage.

"Wow um thank you everypony, I'm so glad to be accepting this award." Applejack said looking at the trophy.

"I sure do look funny." She then looked at the trophy wooing at it.  Pinkie doing the same.  Applejack then left the stage awkwardly dragging her trophy.

"Well that was different." You commented aloud. You then walked over to Twilight who was in a deep state of thought.

"Uh Twilight, hellooo, anypony home." You said waving your hand back and forth.

"Oh sorry about that Dante I was just thinking of AJ. I'm a little worried about her."

"Really why?" You asked

"She seems to be really tired, I'm going to go talk to her." She said starting to walk away from you. Deciding that you don't have anything else to do, you decide to go with her. Next Chapter: 3.Applebuck part 2 remastered Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 47 Minutes