"Where is it" Pumpkin Cake asked herself as she pulled stuff out from under her bed. Various toys sent flying haphazardly across the room. She tore the room apart while her twin brother, Pound Cake, was out playing with his friends.

He had tons of friends.

Pumpkin had friends too, at least that's what she told others… and herself. In actuality all her ‘friends’ where just her stuffed animals. She did all the kinds of things with them that one would do with friends. They went for walks, had tea parties, had parties with them and Pinkie. But her favorite one was her little purple dragon. She'd gotten it at a fair in the Crystal empire for knocking over all the cans at one of the games. The tag said it's name was Spike, and she'd loved it ever since, and had taken good care of it, until her brother took it so he could play a game with his friends and use it as the monster. He'd left it somewhere in the house, and she couldn't find it.

The only place left to search was the dinning area where the customers ate. Pumpkin ran downstairs, hoping to find it but stopped when she saw what was at the counter talking to her mother. It was Spike, the real one, The little purple dragon who ran the library in the castle.

"That will be twelve bits please" Mrs. Cake said, Spike was fishing out the appropriate amount when he saw Pumpkin from the corner of his eye, turning his head to look at her.

"Oh, hi Pumpkin" he said, smiling cheerfully. "It's been a while since I've seen you." Pumpkin jumped back out of view, hiding behind the counter. "Oh dear, was it something I said?" Spike asked Mrs. Cake.

"No, she's just nervous around others," Mrs.Cake said as she took the bits and Spike went to wait on his order. Cup Cake turned and went to find her daughter, who was peaking out to see if Spike had gone. "You know—" her mom said "—If you want to make friends, you should try talking to others." her piece said, she went to bake Spikes order. Pumpkin mumbled a response under her breath.

"I have friends, I just lost one…” Pumpkin poked her head out from around the counter and saw Spike sitting at one of the tables, reading a really long piece of paper and talking to himself.

"Its re-shelving day," she heard him say, She took a deep breath and walked out from the counter and quickly ran and hid behind a table. She heard her mother call his order and Spike went to get it,

"What’s a re-shelving day?" She wondered aloud as she watched him take his bag of goodies. Wanting to know, but not wanting to have to talk to him, she waited for him to leave, and decided to follow him. "Mom I’m going out for a bit," she called.

"Try and make some friends," her mother replied as Pumpkin left and started her journey to discover what a re-shelving day was. Spike was pretty easy to follow. It was raining slightly, so not too many ponies were out, she saw her brother and his friends playing in the mud. Most of the usual market stands stands where closed too. As Pumpkin followed Spike, she saw he was heading for the library.

"Is it a library thing?" she wondered as she saw him enter the castle. Pumpkin slowly made her way up the steps, and using her magic she phased through the doors so as to not attract Spike’s attention. She saw him walking to a side room she guessed was the library, so she followed him and when she entered the room…

The library was huge, it had so many books. She gasped, then shoved her hoof in her mouth and looked to see if Spike had seen her. She almost forgot she was supposed to be hiding.Thankfully, he had his back turned and seemed to reading his list again. He then proceed to walk to one of the shelves and started taking books off of them, and putting them on a table where a big book was sitting. She just stood there and watched as he kept doing this.

She was wondering if this was the re-shelving day when it happened, Spike was grabbing a book and pulled it out, only for several others to be pulled out with it and tumble down on him. Before any of the other books could hit him, Pumpkin used her magic to push them all away from him.

Spike looked at them in surprise, then turned on the spot. He saw the little orange filly as they looked at each other for a second, before Pumpkin jumped behind a desk and covered her face with her hooves.

"I'm sorry!" She squeaked in embarrassment. "I wanted to know what a re-shelving day was, and I followed you here, please don't be mad!"

"Mad?" Spike asked, now leaning on the table she was hiding behind. "It’s hard to be mad at somepony who just saved you from getting smacked in the face by a bunch of heavy books."

Pumpkin took her hooves of her face and used them to pull herself over the table just enough to see Spike.

"So you’re not mad?" she asked, and to her surprise, he just laughed.

"Hahaha! Pumpkin I'm honored that you chose me of all the ponies in this town to spy on, otherwise I might be missing a tooth right now." After he stopped chuckling, he wiped his eye and said. "Re-shelving day is the day I take all the books off their shelves and put them back in order."

"Order?" Pumpkin asked with a curious tilt of her head. "Why wouldn't they be in order?"

"When the Library is open, ponies are touching and moving books all day. As well as when somepony checks one out. This is also the day I put the returned ones back on the shelves, and resort any misplaced books." There was a moment of silence, then Pumpkin surprised Spike when she asked…

"C-Can I help?"

"Help?" he asked, repeating what she said to make sure he heard her right.

"Yeah, I'm a unicorn after all, so wouldn't it go faster if I helped you by putting them back?"

Spike smiled at her enthusiasm. "My dear friend I would be honored if you would help me," he said as he got up. Pumpkin was shocked when the realization hit her.

"You’re my friend!" she said out loud causing Spike to turn back.

"Hm?" It was his turn to tilt his head now.

"You’re my friend… you’re my first friend."