"Are you sure he'll be here Harry?" Celestia asked, looking up at the old ship-building yard with a worried look in her eyes "This place is very dangerous"

"Yeah, this is the place the two of us would go to hang out whenever one of us had a rough day, we'd stop by a convenience store and pick up some candy, a few drinks and we'd bring something like a DS or PSP and play Pokemon or Yugioh games and just battle or duel each other until it was time to go home... I'm positive he's here" Harry's eyes scanned around the old building until he spotted Peter sitting in the rafters of the buildings with his board in one hand and his phone in another.

"Pete!" he called up to him. There was a long delay before Peter shouted back down to them.

"What?"

"We came to see if you're alright" Twilight responded.

"I already said that I'm fine" Peter sighed "I left so you guys could have fun again without me there to ruin it"

"C'mon Pete, just come down here and talk to us" Harry said, slowing down on the last few words. He looked around the wide room, seeing only loose chains and nothing more as a means to get to the area Peter was.

"Pete... how did you get up there?" Harry asked.

"Skated up the ramp, jumped at the last second and grabbed onto the girders" Peter said, pointing at the location where the ships would be built that Peter often used as a makeshift skate-pit.

"Then what?" Harry asked "The girder doesn't go all the way up there"

"Used the nuts and bolts in the walls to climb" Peter answered.

"Dude they have like an inch of finger space on them" Harry stated "There's no way you used those" Peter sighed loudly, stuffing his phone into his pocket and hooking one wheel of his board through a belt loop on his jeans before he lowered himself down to a hanging position on the girder.

"Jesus Peter, what the hell are you doing?!" Harry yelled.

"Coming down" Peter said coldly. He dropped down several feet, his fingertips grabbing hold of a loose ridge of the wall and his foot hitting against one of the bolts in the wall, the metal piece supporting his weight. Harry's hands clenched down by his sides as Peter shifted his weight to one hand, lowering his other to another piece of loose panelling before dropping all of his weight onto that one.

That was a mistake.

The panel made a loud tearing noise as it was torn away from the wall.

"Pete!" Harry hollered as he saw his friend throw himself away from the wall, his arm stretching out and grabbing hold of one of the chains hanging from the ceiling. He swung wildly for a brief second, coming close enough to the other side of the building to place his feet onto it before he used his centre of gravity to slow himself down until he simply hung from the chain.

"Well... that was exciting" Peter laughed, relaxing his grip and sliding down the twenty foot chain and into the pit, causing him to disappear from sight momentarily.

"Holy fuck man, never do that again" Harry said, his heart pounding in his chest.

"Are you OK Peter?" Celestia asked "Nothing sprained or snapped?"

"Nope-" Peter said as his hand slapped down onto the edge of the pit "I'm all good" He hoisted himself up and sat cross-legged on the edge of the pit with a grin on his face, taking his board off his belt and placing it next to him.

"What did you say you wanted?" he asked.

"We, uh, came to see if you were OK is all" Twilight shrugged.

"What happened to Luna and Cadance?" Peter asked, resting his elbows on his knees.

"They went home" Harry answered "Luna wanted to go right away and Cadance offered to drive her back"

"Fair enough, I'm kinda glad you didn't bring Luna along to be honest" Peter said, looking up at the roof.

"Peter, I know Luna can be hard to deal with but I'm sure the two of you will get along better as you get used to one another" Celestia said.

"That's not how friendship works Princess, you don't become friends when you get used to someone, you become friends when you like to be around someone" Peter said "You get used to the dumb habits and rituals they have, you don't get used to the fact that you don't like them"

"I'm sure if you just gave her a chance-" Celestia began only to have Peter cut her off.

"No Princess, I gave her a chance when we first met, I stuck out my hand in friendship and she spat in my face" Peter said irritably "I know I'm only fifteen and I don't know everything about myself but I know what I'm... no second chances, that's the kind of man I am, as far as I'm concerned its not through lack of trying that Luna and I don't get along"

"Peter, I understand where you're coming from but I'm afraid you're judging Luna based on a select few minutes together" Celestia said, a very unhappy look on her face "I'm positive that if you two simply sat down and talked to each other then you'd have a much better chance of getting along"

"I can sum up why that's not going to work in a sentence Princess: no amount of pushing, shoving or careful adjustment is going to make two jigsaw pieces that don't fit, go together" Celestia looked at Peter with bright purple eyes before lowering her head.

"If you're sure..." she sighed.

"Positive" Peter nodded "I apologize for what happened today at the cafe, I know that it was my fault, but the next time you all have Luna there, wherever you are, just make sure that I'm not" Next Chapter: Purposeful Alienation Estimated time remaining: 10 Hours, 21 Minutes