The brunette rancher was sleeping peacefully in her bed, until someone hit her with a pillow repeatedly, and Pony groaned as she refused to open her eyes.

"Get up," the voice shrieks into her ear and Pony opened her violet eyes to see her friend name Clair was clutching the pillow.

Pony rubbed her head as she sat up in her bed and looked at Clair with no emotion in her on her face.

"You overslept!" Clair exclaimed as Pony's eyes widened extremely and the brunette rushed out of bed.

"Hey I made you breakfast by the way-"

Before Clair could even finish her sentence, Pony was already out the door and started to tend to her ranch work.

Clair only sighed as she adjusted her hands onto her hips.

After Pony had finished with all of her ranch chores, she wiped off some sweat from her forehead, and walked back into her house.

Pony saw that Clair was sitting down at her table and Pony sat down at the table as well.

"You look full of life," Clair muttered sarcastically.

Pony just nodded tiredly and yawned.

"Pony, guess what? Kai and I have been going out for awhile now and its been going so great! I wonder if Kai is interested in marriage… But Gray keeps flirting with me, but Kai is so overprotective!" Clair told her friend while looking down at the floor with a smile on her face as her cheeks grown pink.

Pony nodded and mumbled, "That's great."

"So what about you and Skye?" Clair questioned as she widened her eyes and Pony just blinked obliviously.

"What about him?"

"Do you like him?" Clair questioned while rolling her eyes, preparing to yell at Pony for when she would say no.

"Yes," Pony told her in a monotone tone.

Clair's eyes widened in shock as she stuttered happily, "What? Really? More than a friend?"

Pony nodded.

The blonde haired girl squealed as she stood up while she started to jump up and down.

"That's great! It took you long enough," Clair laughed and Pony smiled.

The two girls continued to talk for hours and Pony had told Clair everything that has happened, even about Lumina.

"You're kidding! Nami shaved her head?"

Pony nodded while sighing.

"So, wait, you told Skye about the pictures?" Clair asked her with a frown.

Pony nodded and sighed.

"And he hung up on you on the phone?"

Pony nodded again and she felt her eyes trembling.

"And he hasn't talked to you since?"

"Well, its only been a day," Pony mumbled as she clarified that for Clair.

"I'm sure he'll talk to you soon," Clair assured and grinned at her friend.

Pony nodded and whispered, "Clair, thanks."

"Yeah, I got to go back to Mineral Town early today, Kai wants to show me something. I'll call you tomorrow or something, okay Pony?" Clair told her as she stood up and walked towards the door.

Pony nodded and said, "Thanks for everything, bye."

Clair nodded as she exited out of the house and Pony looked at her phone with a frown on her face.

It suddenly started to ring, which made Pony's body jump, and Pony timidly picked up the phone and said, "Hello?"

"Pony, its Skye…"

His voice seemed different. Seemed so depressed and full of anguish. Pony was frightened about what he was going to say, she wondered if he was frustrated, stressed or depressed. Maybe it was even all three of those or even more…

"I can't see you anymore."

Pony felt her heart stop and felt her eyes widened extremely. Her eyes trembled, growing watery in a matter of seconds. It suddenly became harder for her to breath as her body tensed and began to shook.

"W-Why?" Pony stuttered nervously.

"I don't want to put such a lovely maiden in danger. I could never forgive myself," he told her in a soft tone and it seemed as if he was about to cry.

"I won't get in trouble! My friend says half of the village doesn't care if were friends! Please don't throw our friendship away," Pony cried into the phone and Skye started to hear her sob.

"Please don't do this, Pony."

"We can work something out! I promise! Please, my birthday is coming up, and every year my birthday has been so dreadful. But this time, I-I thought it would be different because I would have you there by my side, and I would actually know what true happiness is! Please Skye! P-Please don't do this," she told him while sobbing and that was the most he had ever heard her speak to him.

"Okay beautiful, just please don't cry… I won't leave you," he whispered in the most sincere voice he could muster and Pony calmed down.

"Please don't lie…" she whispered as she sniffed.

"I'm won't. We can still see each other, but, just please be careful is all I ask. I got to go now, beautiful."

With that, he hung up the phone.

Author Note: Sorry for all of these short chapters and sorry that this chapter was kind of crappy…

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