"yawn" I tried to get up from the couch, but was stopped from a little yellow bundle of cuteness snuggling up to me. I could hear her little snoring. 'That's just adorable.' I began to stroke her light pink mane. A smile came on her face. Her eyes slowly came open. "Good morning. Sorry if I woke you." I kissed her forehead. "How did you sleep?"

"I slept great!' I continued to pet my girlfriend. She let out a quiet sigh. "I don't mind that you woke me up. I have to feed my animals anyway, but that can wait." She moved her head to nuzzle my neck.

"That-haha-tickles!" I tried to calm down, but then I felt a slight pain in my back. "Ow. Something is wrong with my back." I shifted and my wings sprung out from under me. After I realized what that meant. "Oh..." Fluttershy giggled.

"Looks like there's something wrong with your wings." She said sarcastically. This did not end my embarrassment. I tried to move them, but I had no luck. 'Dang, this is embarrassing.' "Let me help you." She got off the couch and motioned me to follow her. As soon as I was standing she went to my side and pushed lightly on my wings. They slowly were going down, but as long as soon as they were at my back they sprung up. 'Man, this is embarrassing.' I hung my head in embarrassment. 'Wait... Why is it embarrassing? They're just wings, but this feels somehow...awkward.' I was lost in thought that I missed what Fluttershy was saying.

"I'm sorry. What did you say?" I said. She nodded.

"I said that your wings don't look like they are going to budge." 'No kidding.' "You will just have to wait for them to relax on their own." She looked at the clock. "We are seeing Rainbow Dash to get you started on flying."

"Oh. That sounds like fun...Wait did you say flying?" I gulped. My legs started to shake.

"What's wrong?" She came closer to me.

"I-I am terrified of h-heights. I can barely go up your stairs without freaking out." I started to hyper-ventilate. "W-Why would I need to f-fly?" Fluttershy made me sit down on the couch again.

"Shhh...It will be okay. Rainbow is the best flyer in all of Equestria, and I'll make sure she doesn't push you to hard off a cliff." She quietly said into my ear. She rubbed her hoof on the back of my head.

"Wait, there's going to be a cliff involved!?" I yelled. I was freaking out bad.

"I was just kidding Jesse. Nopony is going to push you off a cliff. The worst that would happen is she pushes you off a table." She said as she placed a hoof on my shoulder. "If it helps I'm also scared of heights, but only if it is really high up. I promise you that you will be fine." She tried to reassure me, but it did little to nothing. I began to shake some more. Fluttershy saw this and wrapped me in a hug. She stopped me from rocking back and forth. "Shush...You'll be okay. I promise."

"O-Okay...I trust you." I was still scared, but her voice calmed me a little. 'Oh my God! How the heck am I so post to fly? I don't even know how to move my wings.' Fluttershy went to the kitchen and grabbed two apples. She passed me one, but I refused to eat it. "I'm not hungry right now." Truth be told I felt like I was going to throw up.

My wings finally folded back onto my sides. We were on our way to what Fluttershy told me as "Rainbow's place." She stayed close to me as we walk through Ponyville. Ponies noticed us and waved, and some of the guy ponies where giving me winks. 'I guess Fluttershy is high on the market.' I thought. Fluttershy paid no attention to anything, but me and the road ahead of us. She still smelled of roses and wind was blowing her hair...er...mane in the wind. When I would glance at her her hair looked like a flowing river of light pink. I never noticed how much shorter she is compared to me. The top of her head barely made it to my nose.

"We're almost there." She softly said. Her voice is barely audible with all the noise of ponies going around. I saw a huge cloud that resembled a building.

"Let me guess...She's up there?" I joked. Fluttershy nodded and flew up to the odd cloud formation. In only seconds a blur of multiple colors stopped right in front of me. "Whoa!" I flinched when my brain caught up with her speed. She was flying around me in a circle. She seemed to be scanning me. "What are you doing?"

"I'm checking your physique. I need to see how well your body is built. Flying takes more work the less in shape you are." She finished her inspection. "Looks like you are about average. You seem to have more fat in some areas than I would like, but we can work around that." She pulled out my wing. "Wing span seems to be normal. Try to flap your wings." I stood there for a minute. "What's wrong? Get to it."

"I uhh...don't know how to move my wings..." I murmured with my head down. Rainbow Dash put her hoof to her face.

"Ugh! I guess we'll have to start from square one. Many foals can move there wing a little while after birth." She began to explain. "Since you never grew up with wings I'll have go into more...Just think it as another part of your body. Just imagine moving it." I tried to do as instructed. I thought really hard on my wings. Slowly they started to lift from my sides. "There you go. Now try to move them up and down." I slowly moved my wings. They tried to go back to my sided, but I forcing them to continue. They were now moving very slowly, but they were moving. I saw Fluttershy with a big, "I'm so proud of you." grin. I moved my attention back to my wings so I don't get distracted. "Good. Now try to move them faster and faster, but do it slowly. We don't want you to have a cramp." My wings were now gaining speed. Little by little the got faster. I began to feel myself getting pulled up.I looked down to see my front hooves were slightly off the ground. I gasped and my wing retracted. I fell face first into the dirt. I jumped to my hooves.

"Wow! I did it! I started to fly!" I was so excited and so was fluttershy.

"I'm so proud of you Jesse." Fluttershy run to me and wrapped her hooves around me. "If you keep this up you will get all your hooves off the ground in no time." Fluttershy saw Rainbow looking at us with a questioning expression. She immediately let me go, and she was blushing like crazy. Rainbow walked up to me. Her nose was almost pressing on mine.

"Fluttershy doesn't hug just anypony..." She squinted her eyes. "Something is going on between you two..." She smirked. "You two got the hots for each other.

"Umm...Yes Dashie. Jesse is my s-special somepony." Fluttershy squeaked out.

"Baa-haha!" The Rainbow Pegasus laughed. "What, ha!, are you serious?" She continued until she saw the seriousness in my face, and Fluttershy hiding behind her hair. "You are aren't you?"

"Uhhh. Yeah. We are now dating." I said in all seriousness. "Is there a problem with that?" Rainbow Dash did a double take between me and Shy.

"No. I just never thought that Flutters would ever have the guts to date somepony." She smirked and nudged Fluttershy's shoulder. "You must have the hots for this guy then. I guess I could see it. He is slightly cute." She went back to inspecting me. I felt my face going red this time knowing she is checking me out.

"Wow...This is the first time any girl really noticed me. Except for my friend Derpy, but she is more interested with that weird inventor guy." I said.

"Are you talking about Derpy Hooves and Time Turner?" The Rainbow mare asked.

"You know those guys too?" I said with a little surprise in my voice.

"Uhh...Yeah. There right over there." She pointed to a grey pegasus sitting next to a brown stallion at a table. "They probably aren't the same as the ones you know back home." Rainbow said.

"Oh right....home..." I hung my head down and sighed. "I don't think I will ever be able to go back there."

"Hey cheer up buddy. You will find a way back eventually. Twilight knows what she is doing, even if she is an egghead." Rainbow said trying to cheer me up. Fluttershy walked up to me and placed her wing over my back.

"Rainbow Dash is right. I'm sure Twilight is working very hard on the portal."

*MEANWHILE AT THE CASTLE*

Twilight was searching through all her books in her castle as well as some Celestia lent her about the castle. She had bags over her eyes and her hair was unkempt. "This is not good Spike. I can't find anything on how to fix the portal." Her little assistant was bringing her some tea to calm her nerves.

"Why can't he just live here? By what I've heard he is getting used to being here." The little purple dragon asked. Twilight sighed.

"You remember when we went trough the portal?"

"Yeah. We met counter parts of our friends. What about it?"

"Well...If my hypothesis is correct. That would mean that everypony would have a counterpart. Even him..."

*ALL THE WAY IN FILLYDELPHIA*

A blue pegasas was opening his potion shop. He had a dark green mane with a light blue lightning streak going through the middle. He also was wearing a top hat with a white band going around it. He turned the closed sign to open and breathed in the morning air.

"Another day of selling my potions. A stallions work is never done..." He walked to behind the cash register, waiting for anypony to walk in with a order. His store had a big sign that read "Jesse's Potions" in big letters, and in small letters below it said "You ask. We deliver!".

*BACK TO THE MAIN STORY*

I huff and puffed after trying to fly again. This time I made all my hooves get off the ground by one inch. I couldn't stay up for long. I landed back down and tried to catch my breath. "Stupid. pant Asthma. pant"

"You were doing great Jesse!" Fluttershy cheered quietly. Rainbow Dash looked a little smug.

"You are improving faster than Scootaloo. I'll give you that, but you will need to be able to stay off the ground for more than five seconds." She snickered. I tried to laugh with her, but I started to cough. I finally caught my breath and asked.

"How come I can run for a while and be fine, but when I try to fly I feel like I am going to suffocate?"

"Your legs have more stamina than your wings. You have to learn to control your breathing and stay calm. If you force yourself to fly you will be tired in no time." She looked at the clock in the middle of town. "You seem to have had enough training for one day. You can go and relax. Next week we can work on gliding."

"Thank you." I walked with Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash left to go sleep on a cloud. "How can they do that?!' I thought. "What do you want to do now?" I asked. She began to look around.

"You want to get something to eat?" She asked. "I know a good fast food play around here." She kicked the ground.

"Sure. That's fine with me...Wait Fluttershy..." I stopped her because of one crucial detail. "I don't have any money." I put my head down.

"Oh. That's okay. I have plenty." She offered.

"That is sweet Fluttershy, but I can't accept your offer. I just wouldn't feel right." I said.

"But it is no trouble really." She explained, but I still refused. "How about I pay for it this time, and when you get a job you can pay next time." She said.

"I guess that could work. I never had a job before. I don't even know what I would be good at." I smiled sheepishly.

"Well..." She looked at the weird tattoo thing on my backside. "I don't think there are any jobs that would involve video games, but maybe Twilight can help you with that tomorrow." 'That's right. I am seeing her friend Twilight tomorrow to do something.' I thought.

"I guess I'll except your offer then." She smiled after I said that.

We went to some place called the Hayberger. It was nice. Some ponies were staring at us. Some ponies walked up to us and asked if we were on a date. Fluttershy kept stammering, but I told them yes for her. We ate our meals and we were on our way home....'Home... A place I probably won't get back to.' I looked at the yellow mare beside me and smiled. 'Maybe that isn't such a bad thing.'

I got ready to head to my room, but Fluttershy stopped me again.

"You can still sleep in my room if you want...I mean you don't have to! I w-was just wondering." She had a little blush on her face.

"Uhh...Maybe another time Fluttershy." I walked past her after giving her a goodnight kiss. Her fur tickled a little.

"Oh...Okay..." She murmured, and went off to her room.

I woke up to the sound of thunder.I looked out the window and saw rain hitting against the glass. 'Dang, that is a nasty storm out there.' I thought. I heard my door creek. I sat up trying to make out what made the noise. Lightning struck and the room illuminated for a moment. I saw a blurred out yellow spot. "Fluttershy?" I asked. "What are you doing?" She walked up to me and I could bearlly make out her face. I thought I saw some tear streakes in her fur. "Fluttershy?.." She slowly looked up at me with watery eyes.

"I couldn't sleep...I'm scared of lightning..." She wiped her tears away with her hoof. "I was wondering if you could tuck me in, and keep me safe." She looked at me with puppy dog eyes.

"What about Angle bunny?"

"You mean Angel?..He doesn't want me bothering him." She frowns. 'Man her rabbits a dick.' I thought. "He says my fears are stupid." She started to cry again. I moved my hoof to her tear soaked cheek, and pulled her in close. She got the message and tilted her head to the side. Our lips met. Her soft fur still tickled my lips, but not enough to make me start laughing. We parted and I gave her a loving smile.

"It's okay. Your fears are not stupid. You saw me today. I was a wreck, but you help calm my nerves. So I am going to return the favor." I lifted my covers and tried to make room.

"Your bed is too small for me to fit." She was right. It was only a twin size, and I already took up 2/3 of it. "We could go to my room. I have a queen size bed...If you are okay with that..." She said. 'Man, this girls just keeps wanting me to go sleep with her....No not like that!' I told my head. 'Bad thoughts. Why would I even do that? She is a pony...I am, or was, a human. I can't feel that way towards her this early right.' I continued to talk to myself. I noticed that Fluttershy was waiting for an answer. 'Come on think of something!'

"Uhh. Sure." 'Great work dude...' Her face lit up. "But no funny business. I said I wanted to take things slow." She nodded and motioned me to follow her. I got out of bed and I followed her to the room right next to mine. When I walked in I saw a small lamp, a desk with several peaces of paper on it with the names and pictures of all her animals, and a queen sized bed with a night stand on the left side. She got in and I slowly walked my way towards her. I tuck myself in next to her and laid my arm over her. She then caught me by surprise by turning around and snuggling into my chest. I didn't know what to do so I gust wrapped her in my hooves. She let out a contempt sigh and slowly we were slowly difting into sleep when she muttered something.

"I love you..." I shot my eyes open to see a smile on her face witch made my heart melt.

"I-I love you t-too..." I stuttered and went back to sleep with those words circling around my head 'I love you.'

Author's Notes:

Sorry this took so long. I have had a lot of school projects, and was not in the mood to write. only about 2 or 3 more chapters to go.