Stories are gonna be coming out a little slower, lots o' work to be done elsewhere. Hope you guys enjoy this next installment of A Simple Wish. Feel free to leave a review yelling at me for what I'm doing wrong, right, etc. or just feel free to PM me and say "Hi".
Pinkie bolted out of the door while yelling out loud a long list of things she was going to need for the party.
"Well looks like yer gonna have yer night full with Pinkie's party." Applejack announced, she almost sounded disappointed, and for some reason I could relate. But I've never really ever had a party thrown for me before, back when I was a kid, my foster parents never really paid that much attention to me, let alone throw a party for me on my birthday. There was no way I was missing this, I owed it to myself.
"So what do we do until then?" I asked her while cleaning up the empty pie tin off of the ground.
"Well we still have to finish shopping and all of that." Applejack replied as she started walking out the door. I followed her outside, and she there was a box of cupcakes sitting on the cart. I walked back under the harness and AJ threw the strap over my shoulders and we headed more towards the center of town. Once we got there she unstrapped me and we went from shop to shop, conversing with all the shop keepers, doing business, and loading everything onto the cart. And ultimately, onto my back.
What was a quick 20 minute trip into town, took us nearly an hour to get back to Sweet Apple Acres. AJ didn't exactly help, she just walked in front of me the whole time, and I did have to admit that time went by a little quicker when I had something to look at. Did I just say that? I really need to stop this, I'm human, I can't be attracted to a pony, regardless if I'm one now.
When we arrived back at her farm, Applejack and I unloaded all the food, a few craft materials for "Granny Smith," and some school supplies for someone named Applebloom.
"Whew!" sighed Applejack as she took off her straw hat and wiped her forehead and replaced her hat. "Would you care for some Equestrian Famous Apple Family Apple Cider?"
I wasn't one to refuse an offer so I gladly accepted. We walked into the house and as I reached to open the door for her, being the gentleman that I am, the door swung open and an elderly green pony with soft red eyes, a white mane and tail. I looked down to see a smaller pony, off whitish and yellow in color with a soft red colored mane with a big pink bow, and the same red colored tail. Her eyes were almost peach in color.
"Hiya!" the little pony exclaimed, the older pony just sort of closed her eyes and smiled while saying "Oh why hello there youngster!"
Applejack took over "Spark these are my little sister Applebloom and my Granny Smith. Granny, Applebloom, this is Spark." She said pointing to me. "My older brother, Big Mac, is probably out in the fields working, you can meet him later."
I looked over them again and noticed that Granny Smith had an apple for a cutie mark. I guess their whole family was apple-centric. I looked down to see that Applebloom didn't have a cutie mark though. "So it looks like you and I are in the same boat huh Applebloom?" I pointed back to my bare flank.
She gasped quite loudly and practically started cheering "So you haven't found your cutie mark either? You should come with me and the cutie mark crusaders and we can all find our cutie marks together!" I looked over to Applejack for confirmation and she quickly shook her head.
"Uh no thanks, I'll take a rain check on that." I tried to say without sounding like I was blowing her off.
"Oh alrighty, another time then?" She said with a glint in her eye "Sure, why not?" Applejack just sort of smiled while trying to hold back a laugh. This wasn't going to be good.
"Well, we'll see ya'll later, Pinkie is throwing a party to welcome Spark to town an I promised her I'd have him back before the sun went down." I looked up and saw the sun beginning to set. Man, that's a sight you don't get back in New York, those big skyscrapers just get in the way. But out on Coney Island, that was something else. "Well we better get going then." I said quietly while trying to tear myself away from the sights. "I'll see you two around." I waved goodbye and Applejack and I headed back into town.
About halfway back I tried to strike up a conversation "You know I never got that Equestrian-Famous apple cider you promised." She just smiled and blushed while saying "I'm sure you'll be tasting something just as sweet tonight." Does she mean what I think she means? I felt my face growing hot so I just looked straight ahead and we walked in silence until we reached Sugar Cube Corner.
I walked in behind AJ and as soon as I cleared the doorway I was greeted with another pie, this time cherry. I licked my face and tasted it, "Mmm, good job Pinkie, this is just as good as that banana cream pie." I used my hoof to wipe the pie out of my eyes and when I could finally see, I saw about 40 ponies all around me.
"SURPRISE!" They all yelled in unison. Overhead a banner read 'Welcome to Ponyville Spark'
"Wow there are a lot of ponies in here." I stated in awe
"Well no duh, Mr. obvious pants!" I knew that voice. I turned and say Pinkie standing there with 4 other ponies. I got a good look at Pinkie for the first time She was a light dull pink pony with wild intense pink hair and mane. She had sapphire blue eyes and a cutie mark that looked like 3 balloons.
Applejack took me over and began introducing me to the other 4 ponies. First up was Fluttershy, a yellow pegasus with a long flowing pink mane and tail, light blue eyes, and her cutie mark was some pink butterflies. She was pretty timid at first meeting me, but as we talked a bit she warmed up quickly.
Next was Rarity, a pure white Unicorn, yes I know what I said, UNICORN, she had a royal purple mane and tail, deep blue eyes, and 3 diamonds for a cutie mark. She seemed snobbish at first, but when she started offering to make me clothes at a huge discount, that first impression vanished.
Then came Twilight Sparkle, a purple unicorn, yes another one, with a dark purple, almost black, mane and tail. She had pink and purple streaks running through them, she had a pink star for a cutie mark. She was obviously the bookworm of the group and seemed a little unconfident, but was nice to talk to nonetheless.
Finally came Rainbow Dash, a light blue pegasus with a shaggy rainbow mane and tail, deep pink eyes, and a cloud and rainbow lightning bolt for a cutie mark. She came off pretty obviously as the most direct of the group. She seemed to take a liking to me pretty quickly. I mean really liking me, it was pretty uncomfortable actually. Applejack was giving me funny looks the whole time. I don't know much about girls, even less about female ponies, so I didn't realize anything else was going on.
A few hours later the party was winding down and I was feeling pretty tired, so I brought it up to Applejack.
"Hey Apple? Any chance I could find a place to crash?"
Her face lit up "Well sure if you want you can sleep-"
She didn't get a chance to finish, Rainbow Dash came out of nowhere and interrupted Applejack.
"Spark can stay at my place!" she announced to everyone at the party. The other girls except AJ accepted. Applejack started to say "But he was gonna stay with-" but again she was cut off "No, no I insist! Plus I can show him around tomorrow morning." I looked back at Applejack and she seemed really upset. So I went over to her.
"Don't worry about it Apple, I'll see you tomorrow." Then I did something that even surprised me. I leaned in and kissed her lightly on the cheek. When I pulled away we were both blushing furiously.
"C'mon Spark! Time to fly!" coaxed Rainbow Dash waving from the door.
"I'll see you tomorrow okay?" I told AJ
"Okay…" She smiled weakly, still blushing
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