The nice cool air was pleasant to walk in. the grasshoppers in the grass were chirping and you could catch the occasional firefly in the light of the nearly set sun. We walked on the small dirt road that we made by constantly walking this way over time. I look over to my friend who is walking along side me. Her pure white coat reflecting all the small rays of light that hit her. She looked like an angle with her graceful movement. She notices that I’m staring at her and turns to look into my eyes. I’m swallowed up by the blue ocean of her eyes. We stare for a little while and I’m the first to break away. I start to star at the ground watching my hoofs keep walking along. It was my idea to come here tonight because I wanted to have the best place to tell her something.

“So…” she attempts to start a conversation. “Nice weather tonight.”

I look up at the clear sky. Some of the stars are coming out now with small little twinkles in the sky.

“Yes it is nice out.” I hollowly say. And the conversation ends there.

We continue to walk in silence for the rest of the time. We both could sense that there was a little tension in the air. When we make it to our spot the sun has set and the sky is a black canvas with stars poking holes into the universe. Our spot in a nice soft patch of moss that is surrounded by some bushes. We lay down next to each other and star at the night sky. I think of how I want to tell her the news.

“Bolt, I need to tell you something.” I hesitantly force out.

“Sure! What is it? You can tell me anything.” She says while staring at me.

I take in a deep breath. Cause I know that what I’m about to say might change our friendship. I look into her eyes again and hold it there. I want this moment to last forever.

“Well? What is it?” she says interrupting the moment.

“I… I’m…” I take a deep breath. “I’m going to Magiannulus magic school.”

Silence… that is my answer. I can’t tell what her facial expression is now cause that last bit of light is gone. The silence continues further for another minute but to me that seems like it’s been an eternity. I see the dull white mass in front of me moves and before I know what’s happening I have two hoofs around my neck hugging me.

“Trixie that’s amazing!” she says happily. But I know she is fighting her sadness. The magic school is far away and only unicorns are allowed to be around there. So we would see each other at all except for the couple occasions that I can come home to visit.

“But you have to promise me that every time you visit you are stronger, OK?” she forces out with a small choke. She then buries her face into my neck and I then feel my neck getting a little damp. She couldn’t hold back any more. I feel her body begin to tremble as wave after wave of sobs come from her. I begin to start crying as well now. The two of us just sit there crying for a couple of minutes.

“I promise I will be stronger each time you see me.” I finally force out. I pull her away and look her in the face. Though I can’t really make it out I can still see her blue eyes. Which are now like a disturbed pond rather than a beautiful lake?

“In fact I will be the greatest there ever was!” I exclaim forcing a smile. I hate seeing her sad. It’s the worst thing that I’ve ever seen. So I wait and hope that my pathetic attempt to cheer her up works. Luckily I think it does.

“Well then I’ll be sure to be the best flyer there is in all of Equestria!” she says trying to be strong for me, but mostly for herself.

“Umm. When do you leave then?” she says much more quietly.

“I leave next week and then I’ll be gone for about two months.” I whisper to her.

“Oh...” was her response.

We continued to sit there for a couple more minutes. Or maybe it was hours. I don’t know how long but it was too long for that kind of silence. Luckily though Bolt broke the silence.

“What are we doing? You’re going to a really nice school. Why are why sad about this? Come on we both should be happy!” and with that she jumped up and flew into the air. “Watch I’ll even show you my new move I’ve been trying!” she yelled down to me. Even though it was dark out I could still faintly see her. With her majestic body and form she flew up and up and then stopped. She then began to fall straight down picking up more and more speed as she went. I gasped thinking if she hits the ground she will die. I leap to my feet and I’m about to yell when she opens her wings and pulls away right before she hit the ground. I collapse to the ground so happy that she is still alive, but I’m also angry that she tried to do something so reckless. When she flew back and landed I leapt forward and hugged her yelling.

“Don’t you ever scare me like that again?”

She said she was sorry and promised to warn me if she was going to do something dangerous like that again. We then spent the rest of the night sitting next to each other staring at the stars. When the big orange sun began to peak its head out from the horizon we began to walk back home. Back to our small town were class was everything. We walked as far as we could till we had to part ways. I lived in the ‘civilized’ part of town and she lived in the ‘ghetto’ part as my parents put it. Or at least how my father put it. My mother was much more kind hearted.

“Well I guess this will be the last time I see you for a couple of months huh?” Bolt sadly asked.

“Ya, but we could still try to right to each other.” I say hopefully.

“OK! Sure we can right to each other every week.”

Well that perked her up thankfully. We both then give each other a long hug. Neither of us wanted to leave. We both wanted to just stay where we were forever. But because that we both had to be getting home. Me mostly because of my dad. We both exchanged our goodbyes and went our separate ways. It was now morning and my father was not going to be happy to see me not in bed…