"--and thats how equestria was founded!" Twilight finished. For the past 2 hours while we waited I had asked Twilight and Sweetiebelle to tell me as much about Equestria as she could. Twilight knew a LOT, but Sweetiebelle only could tell me a few things. Twilight had told me about every celebration from now to Hearth's Warming. I thought it would be boring listening to all the stories I already knew, but they could really tell a story! I didn't learn anything new, but at least now I could guard my words less.

"Finished!~" Rarity sang from the sewing machine. She trotted over to me and magically handed me my new pants. They were blue, and felt like denim, but were soft like a cloud. I put them on and they fit great.

"Thanks Rarity!" I bent down and hugged her. "These are really great!" She hugged me back.

"No problem dear! Anything for my friends!" I released her and stood back up. I slipped the ring in my pocket, but then pulled it back out and squatted down next to Rarity again.

"Now I know you don't want payment, but I wanna give you this to make us even." I said while holding out the little ring.

"Ooooh~ Is that a White diamond?!" She squealed. "I've found so many gems, but White diamonds are so rare around here!" I was a little confused at first, but then I thought back to the show and realized that every gem I'd seen had some sort of color to it.

"Yes, and I want you to have it, I won't be needing it anymore anyway." I said a little ruefully. Luckily, nopony notice my sad tone.

"Oh thank you dear!" She squealed again. "Wherever did you get this?!"

"It was a gift from my grandmother. She told me I'd know when to use it..." Apparently I hadn't. She looked like she was going to give it back after I told her that. "Don't even think about giving it back Rarity, I don't want it." It brings back bad memories... I thought to myself.

"Oh... If you insist dear!" She trotted into another room happily.

"Wait, Rarity!" I yelled. She poked her head around the corner. "Can I stay here until the party starts? I don't want anypony freaking out when they see me. Something tells me that if I show up after they drink a little they might be more able to accept me." Rarity laughed at that.

"Sure darling! Oh dear It's already lunch time!" My stomach growled. I suddenly realized I hadn't eaten (that I know of) in three days! Sometime soon I'm gonna have to sit down and think about everything that way stuff won't suprise me when I finally think about it. "I suppose I'll just whip something up for us!" Rarity then ducked her head back around the corner.

"No Rarity, let me cook!" I shouted after her. She peered around the corner again with a confused look.

"You cook?"

"Yeah I cook! Pretty well if I do say so myself. I studied culinary arts along with Marine Biology just in case I didn't succed with the latter." I stated proudly. What can I say? I'm a man of many talents.

"Superb! Come with me then dearie!" I followed after her as she disappeared around the corner again. Twilight and Sweetiebelle trotted after me. We entered a kitchen and Rarity pointed at a fridge. (I know. Fridge, sewing machine but electricity is never mentioned in the show! Weird huh?) "Use whatever you like. There's not much there though, I'm supposed to go shopping soon." With that she took the ring and entered another room directly across from where we just entered. I walked over to the fridge and opened it. I examined the contents, and Rarity was right, there wasn't much. I found half a jug of milk, a half dozen eggs (I guess it's ok to eat eggs here.), a head of lettuce, 2 tomatoes, and some butter. On the counters there were a bunch of apples, oranges, grapes, and a melon. I began to think. It wasn't exactaly gourmet ingredients, but I could work a few things out. I washed my hands and took out the lettuce and tomatoes. I washed them then cut them up. I threw them in a bowl together and tossed the salad. Then I did the same with a few of each of the fruits and some of the melon and made fruit salad. I then looked upon my creations and saw that they were good, (ha ha, I'm so weird.) but not great. I wanted to do something a little more special. I searched a few cabinets and found some flour and milk chocolates.

Score! I thought to myself. I threw some eggs, milk, and flour together in a bowl and mixed them into a batter. I then buttered a pan and set it on a burner. (Yep. they got stoves too.) I made a few crepes and rolled up some of the chocolate in them. Twilight and Sweetiebelle had been watching me the whole time, and looked confused when they saw the crepes. (Darn me not having the proper key to put an accent over the e!) I then set a table in the middle of the kitchen and placed little bowls of both salads at each spot. I left the crepes on plates on the counter for later. "Rarity! Time to eat!" I yelled at the door she had disappeared behind. She came out and looked at the table.

"Oh what lovely-looking little salads!" She gushed. I rolled my eyes.

"They aren't that great." I said. "I wish I could do more with what I had..."

"Nonsense Sharky, these look yummy!" Twilight exclaimed. We all took a seat and dug into our food. The others looked pleased, but I still wished I could've done more than salad as a main(mane?) course. We all finished off our bowls, and all the girls got seconds. After they finished off the salads I wrapped up what was left of the melon and the lettuce and passed out the crepes. At this point Twilight and Sweetiebelle looked skeptical, but Rarity looked ecstatic!

"Oh la la, prench cuisine! I haven't seen crepes in ages!" She gushed. She lifted it carefully, then ate it quickly. Some how she didn't drop a single crumb the entire time, despite the speed at which she ate. "Scrumptious!" She declared as she finished it off. After seeing Rarity eat hers, the other two girls attacked their crepes with gusto as well.

"Mmmmm, yummy!" Sweetiebelle said.

"Wow Sharky, how do you know how to cook prench food?" Twilight asked. I laughed.

"What is prench? This is French food ladies." Twilight thought for a moment.

"Maybe french for you is prench for us?" She suggested.

"Makes about as much sense as everything else here... Anyway, it's really a simple recipe, and I learned it in french class while in high school." They all nodded in understanding.

"So you speak prench too?" Rarity asked.

"Oui, je parle... Prancais?"(Yes, I speak...Prench?) Rarity squealed a little.

"Fantastic darling! I've been getting some orders from some canadian ponies that don't speak english for forever! Would you mind translating for me?"

"Not at all! It would be my pleasure. Where are the documents?" Rarity led me to the room she had vanished into earlier. Twilight and Sweetiebelle were still following me. When we got into the room, I saw that it was full of file cabinets. She looked into a file marked "Prench Orders" and levitated a few of the papers to me. I spent the next three hours translating the orders for Rarity. At about an hour in Sweetiebelle went to play with her friends. I had been worried it would be significantly different from what I knew, but it was almost the exact same! After I finished the translations we heard a knock at the door. I stayed where I was, but Rarity left the room to answer the door. Somehow during my translating Twilight and Rarity had managed to sit on either side of me in the same chair, so when she left my side felt very cold. I stroked Twilight's mane absentmindedly as we waited for Rarity to come back.

"Oh hi Rarity... Is Sharky still here? I wanted to talk to him. If he doesn't mind that is...." Came a small voice for the front door.

"Fluttershy!" I yelled happily. I stood up and walked towards the door, which caused Twilight to fall over because I wasn't supporting her any more.

"Whoa!" She yelped as she fell over. I shot her an apologetic look and continued towards Fluttershy's voice.

"Hi Fluttershy!" I came around the corner and greeted the little yellow pegasus. "What did you want to talk about?"

"Oh...um...You know about the New Year's party...Right?" She asked.

"Yeah, Rarity just explained it a little while ago."

"Oh good...Well I was wondering...Would you maybe go with me? If you don't mind that is...It's just that you're the only other animal lover I've met, and I wanted to get to know you better..." She said just above a whisper.

"I don't see why not!" I said with a grin. Then a very angry sounding voice from behind me.

"Because you're going with me already! That's why not!" Wow. She looked PISSED.

"Am I only allowed to go with one friend?" I asked sincerely. Twilight seemed to calm down.

"Well no, I just kinda thought--"

"Then it's settled!" I proclaimed. "The three of us can go together!" Fluttershy lit up.

"Yay!" (OHMYGOSH SHE SAID IT!) Twilight didn't look as excited as Fluttershy, but she didn't complain.

"Well, as long as we're taking multiple friends, can I tag along too?" Asked Rarity. I smiled.

"Of course, The more the merrier!" Rarity smiled warmly at me, but Twilight was giving me a death stare,

"What's wrong Twilight?" I asked. She turned her head and muttered.

"Nothing..."

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We all just chatted at the boutique for a while to pass time. Rarity was full of questions about fashion in my world and my acting career. (which I tried to tell her I wasn't very good, but she didn't believe me either.) Fluttershy and I talked about animals for a long time too. Twilight was sitting next to me fumming for a while, but she joined in the conversation eventually. Sweetiebelle came home, valiantly attempting to stay awake, but she fell asleep within a few minutes. I carried her up to her bed and tucked her in. After that we waited until about 11 o' clock to leave for the party. When we showed up at the town square, it looked like I had been right. The ponies weren't hammered, but they had drank enough to keep staring to a minimum. Except for this one mint green unicorn who was pointing at me and doing a victory dance. I'm pretty sure she was drunk as sokka after drinking the cactus juice. (It'll be fun seeing how many people get that refrence.) We made our way through the crowd to the punch bowl. We all had a few cups of it, but it just tasted like apple soda to me. The girls however, were becoming tipsy rather quickly.

"He-hey Fluttershy. Y'know yer my best pal right?" Rarity said drunkenly.

"Teehee... yeah Rarity. You're my best friend too..." Fluttershy seemed a lot less timid while tipsy.

"Hey Ssssharky..." Twilight slurred. "I never got ta say thanks for carrying me today..." I waited for her to continue.

".....And?" Twilight looked confused for a second. Then she remmbered.

"Oh yeah, Thaankss... You have nice pants..." She was rubbing the leg of my pants with one hoof.

"Y-yer right Twilight, I did a good job..." Rarity was now rubbing my leg too.

"I-I wanna feeeel!" Fluttershy said as she joined them. My face was getting very red. I jumped out of their reach.

"G-girls! What are you doing?!" I shouted. They all seemed oblivious to my reaction.

"We were just sayin we like yer pants Sharky." Twilight said. I tried to calm down.

It's not like they're even attracted to you Sharky, calm down! I thought to myself. I corraled the girls and we made our way to a nice little cliff overlooking part of the town. It was only like 40 feet tall and a minute away from the square, so we could still hear the party. We all sat down and looked at the night sky. The countdown started behind us.

"5..."

"Heey Sharkyyy...?" Twilight slurred.

"4..."

"Yes Twilight?" I answered.

"3..."

"I gotta tell you somethin'."

"2..."

"Fire away."

"1..." At the chant of one Twilight suddenly lurched forward and fell off the cliff.