Heh. Couldn't wait to make a second chapter.
Pinkie sat on the train, bored out of her mind. Maybe she should've taken a few books with her, or maybe a board game. But she had been so caught up in the rush of leaving her friends and finding her crush that she hadn't really thought about that.
She decided to get up and walk around. Maybe she'd find a friend to talk too, or maybe there was an entertainment part of the train.
The pink mare got up and walked to the next room. It was another room fillied with ponies, no surprise there. She knew that the last two carts were for food, so she decided to go there.
As she walked past all the ponies, one particular mare caught her eye. But it wasn't a mare, it was a griffon.
"Hiya, Gilda!"
The once-former-bully lifted her head up from the comic book, which was Return of the Mane-iac Part 2 of the Power Ponies series, and smiled. "Hey, Pinkie! What's up?"
Pinkie smiled, glad to see Gilda so much more cheery than her last two encounters. "Nothing much. What are you doing all the way out here?"
Gilda laughed. "I heard that Dash got into the Wonderbolts, so I wanted to see her perform. She's in Tall Tale, right?"
Pinkie nodded. "She should be."
Gilda nodded back and put her comic book into her suitcase and stood up. "Do ya wanna get some food?"
"Yeah, sure! I haven't eaten all day!" Pinkie cheered.
Gilda looked at the clock on the wall. "But it's only, like, 10:30."
Pinkie shook her head up and down energetically. "Exactly! I skipped breakfast! And breakfast is the most important meal of the day!"
The brown griffon laughed. "Well, then, it's on me."
The two walked into the next train cart, which was a mini-restaurant, and a host was there to greet them. He brought them to their seats.
"A waiter will be with you shortly." He said.
"Thank you!" Pinkie chimed.
As the two looked over the menu, Gilda continue the conversation.
"So, why are you out here? Shouldn't you be in Ponyville with your friends?... Besides Dash, I mean."
Pinkie's face fell quickly. She sat in silence for a second before answering the griffon's question. "... Well..., we've been kind of... growing apart lately... There's only two of them still there now..."
Gilda frowned. "Whaddaya mean?"
"Well, about a month ago, my friend Rarity had to leave because she wasn't making enough money. She had another boutique in Canterlot, but... She had to move there, and she can't come back until she's back to earning enough bits."
Gilda's face fell, too.
"Then, Rainbow left to go perform, and she has to go on tour for five months, so she wont be back for a long while... Then, Twilight left for Canterlot too, because there had been a threat started to linger around Equestria, and Canterlot needed every princess except for Princess Cadence, because she can't be put in too much danger at the moment."
"Why not?" Gilda asked.
Pinkie's bubbly, quirky attitude returned. "You haven't heard?!"
Gilda shook her head.
"Princess Cadence is pregnant!"
Gilda smiled. "Oh! Well, that makes more sense now... Good for her!"
Pinkie nodded energetically. "Yeah! I was the first to find out before my friends, and I had to keep it a secret from Twilight, who is the sister of Cadence's husband Shining Armor, for like forever!"
Gilda chuckled.
"Well, not really forever. Just for two days. But still! It was sooo hard!"
"Well, glad you did." Gilda smiled.
A waiter came over and levitated a notepad and a feather. "May I take your order?"
Gilda nodded. "I'll have the snails and seafood salad.
Pinkie's expression turned confused as she looked over the menu. "That's an item?"
Gilda nodded and laughed. "It's on the griffon part of the menu."
Pinkie nodded, but paused. "There's a griffon part of the menu?"
The waiter coughed. "Oh...! I'll have a green salad, please."
The waiter quickly scribbled down both orders and headed off.
"So, if you left because your friends left, why did you leave? Surely you had a reason." Gilda asked, placing her menu to the side as Pinkie did the same.
Pinkie nodded. "I do!" She blushed a little before continuing. "... Well, you see, I have this crush..."
Gilda laughed. "Oh, I see! Little Pinkie's got a crush!" Gilda laughed, jumping out of her seat and leaning over the table to give the mare a noogie. Pinkie laughed and her face turned bright red as she tried to stop the griffon's claws from noogie-ing her. She pushed her away and Gilda bounced back into her seat with a smug grin.
Pinkie laughed. "I do, okay? And I'm... I'm going to go find him.. He likes to travel over Equestria to throw parties, and I heard he's in Vanhoover at the moment. So, I'm heading to Vanhoover!"
Gilda giggled. "Don't worry. Nothin' wrong with having a crush. I've had one too, in the past."
Pinkie gasped. "Who?"
Gilda blushed. "I'd... I'd rather not say."
Pinkie shook her head wildly. "Nu-uh! Tell me! Tell me! I really wanna know! I have to know!"
The griffon shook her head and covered her eyes with her claw. "Fine. But don't hold anything against me."
"I won't!" Pinkie chimed.
Gilda looked from side to side before whispering into Pinkie's ear. "D-Dash..."
Pinkie gasped. "REALLY?!"
Gilda nodded, her cheeks red. "Yeah... Back at flight camp I started to... Um... Like Dashie, and it eventually grew to a crush... Then she left and it diminished back to friendship."
The pink mare bounced in hre seat. "I had no idea you're a fillyfooler!"
Gilda covered Pinkie's mouth with her claw. "Don't say that out loud!"
Pinkie gave an apologetic smile. "Why not?"
Gilda blushed. "I-I don't really want a lot of people knowing, you know?"
Pinkie shook her head. "Not really. But hey, I'll respect your privacy!"
The waiter came over a minute later, with two dishes; A salad with snails and fish in it, and then a plain salad.
"That'll be thirty two bits."
Gilda handed the waiter the money and dove into her salad face first. Pinkie burst out laughing.
Gilda looked up and stopped. She rose and dabbed her napkin to her mouth. "Hehe... Sorry. That's how I eat back at home."
Pinkie smiled. "It's fine. I like to eat like that sometimes too!"
And with that, she dove into her salad.
...
Pinkie waved Gilda off and went back onto her own train cart. She was about to sit in her seat when she found a colt sitting there already.
"Uh, hey! Why are you in my seat?!" Pinkie asked politely.
The colt jumped and looked at her. He had a light orange coat and a brown mane along with green eyes. He looked tired and afraid and beat; He was messy and alone.
"O-Oh.. Sorry m-ma'am... I'll get out.."
Pinkie smiled. "Oh, it's okay! I wasn't in my seat, so I can see why you thought it was empty!" SHe eyed him suspiciously. "Why are you alone?"
The colt looked nervous. "O-Oh, I'm headed to Vanhoover... My brother's there... I'm meeting him there..."
Pinkie smiled again. "Okie-dokie! Good luck finding your brother!" The colt smiled and turned to leave when Pinkie touched his shoulder.
"Here, have a few bits. You look like you need them..."
The colt took it hesitantly, but smiled and turned to leave.
Pinkie sat in her seat and fell asleep, dreaming of her crush, who she was getting closer to.
Okay, so it's a little short, but it'll get better. Maybe. I dunno. Welp, anyway, remember to tell me what you think and spread the news about me! Bya!
