Chapter Two

A Reason to Carry On

Personal log, Feb 14, 2017

Well, well, well, it seems to be the alleged Hearts and Hooves day that everypony keeps talking about. Let's note my progress the past few days. First, I lose my dream job, and now, I'm all alone on the most love filled day in existence. I'm depressed. But there's no reason I should mope around feeling sorry for myself all say. Hmm… maybe I'll even meet somepony at Pinka… Pinkame… however you pronounce that names party. Good luck self.

-End of log entry

Hello again. Back for more are ya? Well I guess I should continue with this shit fest I call a story. I awoke that morning around twelve or so feeling a bit better about the tragic interview. Still depressed though so don't worry about that. But a thought came to mind that had never occurred to me before. I hadn't been to a large social event in years. My mind was racing. What if I do something stupid? What if nopony even acknowledges my existence? I guess you could say I was sort of shy. But yeah, I had a good hour to kill and I was starved. So surprisingly, I went down to the market to see what… goods they had. So I grabbed my wallet and began trotting towards the store.

Upon arrival, I was mesmerized by the incredible selection of… fruits and vegies. Well Sky Chaser, what did you expect when you were born into a vegetarian society. Anyways, I was in one of the (estimated six thousand and fifty two) apple stands waiting for, you guessed it, a green apple. When suddenly, something caught my eye. More like somepony. She was this… violet colored unicorn with pink and purple highlights in her mane. She was just standing there, waiting in the peach line. Oh and holy hell she was hot.

"Um… sir?" The nice mare running the stand asked as I gazed upon the purple ponies beauty.

"Oh um… one green apple please!" I said in a hurry.

"That'll be-"

"Here, one bit!" I said handing her the bit. She looked at me angrily before turning around to get the apple. But when she did, I looked back where I saw the purple mare. She was gone. I franticly looked around, trying to see if I could find her again. But she had disappeared.

"Sir, are you okay?" The attendant asked me.

I snapped my head back in her direction and said, "Fine." I took my apple and returned home feeling disappointed. Well I probably don't need to go into detail on how I moped around for the next few hours for the regret of missing my chance to speak with that… aphrodisiac mare was killing me. So I'll just skip to the part where I'm right outside… what's her names house. I arrived at five o'clock sharp. Being fashionably late never really was my thing. Then again, neither was being fashionable at all. Well anyways, As soon as I walked through the door, I was greeted by a seemingly overexcited mare.

"My name's Pinkie Pie, nice to meet you!" she said as she somehow managed to hop in place.

"Likewise, I see you've invited the whole town." I replied.

"Only my friends silly! Oh my gosh, there's more of them! I have to go! Nice meeting you!" said Pinkie Pie as she sped off in the direction of more guests. I just let her be. But since an apple was the only thing I had eaten that day, I decided to go to the refreshments table and get a cup cake or something. And then… the most cliché thing happened. As I approached the table, I accidentally bumped into the violet mare I saw earlier.

"Oh man, I'm sorry!" I said as I eyed a book on the ground that she was previously carrying.

The purple mare rubbed her head before saying, "No, no… it was my fault. I wasn't looking where I was going."

I picked up the book labeled Quantum Magic and held it out to her. "You dropped this?"

"Yeah, thanks." She said as she took it from me.

I was silent for a second before saying, "So, you're just uh… studyin' some magic there… at a party?"

"What, can you think of a better time?"

"Well…" I paused. "You know, I study a lot of magic myself."

"You? A Pegasus? What are you, some kind of scientist?" she asked skeptically yet almost sounded intrigued.

I suddenly felt nervous. I wondered if she was flirting with me. I didn't know how to tell. But then again, I could just have been one of those low life nerds who never went out other than to get to mail. I spoke. "Well… no. I guess I just… find it interesting."

She then began twirling her mane and had a faint smile on her face. I felt like I was getting somewhere. The mare then replied excitedly, "I know! Isn't it just so fascinating!"

I decided to go for it. I would ask her out in the most confident way possible. "Well… maybe we could… have a… I don't know…"

"A study session!" she replied franticly.

"Yeah, one of those." I said accepting type of meeting.

"We could do it at my house! My name's Twilight Sparkle by the way. I live at the Books and Branches Library. Hmm… I guess it's a house. Hmm…" she said as she began pondering to herself.

"Maybe we could do it tomorrow. Say around six o'clock?"

Twilight suddenly leaped back into reality and said, "Oh… yeah, that sounds great!"

"Alright well, I'll see ya around Twilight." I said walking off with my hoof in the air, waving goodbye.

I stayed at the party until about nine; meeting a few ponies that I probably would never see again. As I walked out of the house, my eyes met with Twilights while she was talking to one of her friends. She blushed and let out a little chuckle that she tried to cover with her hoof. I waved to her and began trotting home.