I stopped running and I put my back to the wall, still panting with beads of sweat running down my face. I looked around the corner to see if the creature that had been set loose after me and my friends was still after me. Nothing.
Still panting I sat down in the musky alleyway to try and catch my breath. I wiped the sweat from my ruffled brow, still thinking about what had happened. Up until about maybe a year ago, I would've never thought that anything that has happened would've ever happened. I mean any of it. Some of the thoughts of the past year came into my head. I sort-of drifted for a minute, and then my mind reminded me this is no time for that. I just needed to get to a safer place first.
I looked around the corner once more to make sure that the creature wasn't near me. Still nothing. I left the alleyway in a full sprint, heading for my small home. It was outside the main city so I figured it would be safe from any of this army that was not allowed in my world. As I was running I heard one of those things say "I think I heard something over here." So I dove down into the grass next to the road and activated my cloak. The things which I still had no idea what they were simply walked past without noticing me. My heart still racing, I stood up with my cloak still on and looked down at the battery meter. It showed that I still had quite a lot of life left, so I decided that for my safety to leave it on.
I continued down the road safely and silently for about an hour, until I ended up at my house. I looked at the front door for a moment. My home. My thoughts sprawled out in my head for a moment seeing as how I haven't been here for about four months. I snapped back to reality and pulled the key out of my pocket. I stuck the key into the lock and twisted it. I heard the tumblers, and the lock itself moving. It made me calm down at least partially. I quickly forced myself through the threshold, almost slamming the door behind me. I deactivated the cloak and quickly dropped all of my supplies on the long-forgotten-looking tan couch.
I walked through the house slowly letting all of the memories come back to me. I decided first to go to where the memories from the past year began. My room. This is also where most of the best memories happened. I couldn't help but smile as the memories started playing in my head.
1 YEAR AGO
MARCH 4, 2012
MARK'S HOUSE
"Come on man! Do it!" my closest friend Luke begged with a puppy dog expression on his face. "No man! I'm not gonna do it. You're not going to convince me to be a clopper. You already 'converted' me into a brony. I'm not going to jerk it to fictional cartoon ponies." I almost couldn't hold back a laugh at the last sentence, as I searched the internet for some funny meme pictures of MLP on my laptop. "It's not as wrong as you think." Luke said with disappointed and defeated look on his face. "Oh really?" I asked with strong disbelief in my voice. "It's already bad enough being ridiculed by my other friends, and some of my family for being a brony, but now you're telling me that it's not wrong to want to fuck one of the ponies? One of the fictional cartoon ponies that although could be considered at least partially human because of their personalities, but it's just not right." Luke had a shocked look on his face, which quickly turned into a look of…of… I don't even know. It was just a very weird look. "Whatever man." Luke said as he went back to looking at rule 34 of MLP on his iPod. "Oh no! Get out! You're going to do that in here!" I gave Luke a commanding look. "Oh all right. If I can't, can we at least watch the new episode? I didn't get to see it yesterday.
I thought on the idea for a moment, and then I shrugged "Alright. I guess I didn't get to see it either, but I did record it." A hopeful look came over Luke's face, as I brought up the episode on my DVR. "Putting Your Hoof Down?" I asked. "Hmm... I wonder." Luke looked at me with a questioning look on his face. "Wonder what?" I shook my head. "Nothing… It's nothing." I said worriedly as I started the episode.
The moment the episode started my suspicions were confirmed. The moment I heard Fluttershy's voice say "Lunchtime!" I knew my suspicions were right. "I knew it!" I almost yelled. Luke almost jumped out of his seat. "Damn dude! What is it? What did you know?" He looked at me as if I was insane. "This episodes about Fluttershy." I almost "squeed" at the thought. "So what?" the tables turned as I gave him a 'are you nuts?' look. "Dude you know she's my favorite one!"
We watched the episode in almost total silence, except for some parts either when Fulttershy got pushed around, when pinkie pie trolled two ponies and Fluttershy went nuts. The episode ended, and I almost clapped. Luke stood up, stretched, looked up at my clock, and said "Well man it's been fun, but I gotta get home." I then looked at my clock. 11:00 "Oh shit man! Are you sure your mom won't care about you being out this late?" I asked worriedly. "Naw man. It's cool; she knows where I'm at so it's no biggie." Luke said as he walked out the door to my room. "Alright see ya later man!" I yelled down to him.
After Luke left I decided to get some reading in. I typed in '.net' and the home page popped up on my computer. I clicked on the little 'search' button and typed in the name to my favorite fanfic of all time. "Living the Dream". It's about a guy who dies in the 2012 apocalypse and gets a choice to go to Heaven, Hell, or a world of their choice… And what world would he choose? Equestria of course!
I got about 20 chapters in and looked up at the clock. 1:46 Damn! Not again! I had stayed up too late by reading this story again. Curse you FanFiction! I yawned loudly after the thought exited my head. I stood up, took off my jeans, and my shirt, and slip on some sleeping shorts. I yawned again as I took off my Rainbow Dash cutie mark medallion, and placed it on my TV stand. I turned on my fan on medium and climbed into my bed.
I shut my eyes and quickly faded into a deep sleep. That's when dreams started…
