Title:           [AiE] Anti-social Anon, Ch. 2
Author:          ViralType
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First Edit:      Friday 6th of September 2013 05:50:29 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Friday 6th of September 2013 05:50:29 PM CDT

>speaking of home
>it’s not really yours
>nor is it a home
>a family was nice enough to give you their attic space for a modest sum of bits per month
>it is a roof over your head (literally), and they had some nice cookin’, so you couldn’t complain
>and you also couldn’t burn it down, but your message got through to Pinkie either way, thank god
>you stand a dozen feet away from the house, before deciding to continue onwards, sleep befor ework be damned
>it’s just too nice a night to waste of replenishing your serotonin levels just yet
 
>And so it goes
>from the house you’re staying in, to the mayor’s office, to Rarity’s shop, all the way to the outskirts of town where Fluttershy is and hooking back west
>your legs are slowly tiring by this point
>you weren’t particularly active back in your old life, but you did often walk around for long hours
>on a few, particularly drunk occasions, you walked for three hours straight
>often mumbling and grumbling some very misanthropic, some might say edgy, claims about the world
>now all you have to get drunk on here is Cider
>although you guess you could start your own venture into the world of alcohol
>you need some grapes, or any old fruit, leave it to rot or ‘’ferment’’, squeeze out the juice
>and presto: instant booze
>not as strong as you’d like it, but at least it would add variety
>maybe you could give the Apple family a run for their money
>you’d just need a manager, and a salesman
>thinking about the very logistics of it (price of fruit, price of labour, price of product, gross, taxes...) you end up close to the Treebrary
>not very surprising a light is seen through one of the bottom windows
>Twilight is probably studying something, or is just reading for the fun of it and forgot the time
>maybe she has a book on making alcohol
 
>you step up to the door
>Twilight hasn’t noticed you, otherwise she’d’ve opened it by now, since you passed close by her window
>you inhale deeply and exhale
>OK, you think, just knock, ask her if she has the book, if she doesn’t: no matter, if she does ask her if you can borrow it
>no biggie, simple interaction
>then why are you hyper-ventilating and your palms sweating?
>because you’d rather not make a fool out of yourself
>oh, you can get pissed off easy enough, but simple interaction?
>that’s too much
>which is especially ironic considering you need to ask Ms. Shut-In for something and you fear HER
>or rather, the fool you can make yourself in front of her
>oh come on!
>she’ll understand
>it’s not like she hasn’t spilled her spaghetti in the past
>god’s sake, remember when she tried to tell you her library doors are always open and instead blurted out ‘’buttbrardy’’?
>if anyone should be able to help you stuff your spaghetti back into your pocket in case of spillage it’s Twilight
>OK, inhale once more
>chest out, spine straight
>and—
>the light goes out in your peripheral vision
>she...
>she’s going to bed
 
>w-well, you don’t want to seem like a creeper, knocking this late in the night
>especially when she’s about to go to bed
>yeah, best not to disturb her
>just ask tomorrow
>tomorrow’s good
>you move briskly back to that-house-you’re-staying-in-you-erroneously-call-yours-sometimes
>only to find out that it too has no lights beaming through the windows
>w-well, you don’t want to disturb the nice family’s sleep
>being that much of a burden is really inconsiderate
>especially after they’ve put up with your human-appetite and general awkward person
>you look around, and see only darkened windows
>the only source of illumination being Luna’s Moon
Heh... Luna’s ‘’moon’’
>well, it’s not like there’s monster roaming around in Ponyville
>you opt to somewhere where there are bushes and sleep there
>out of sight, out of mind
>hopefully the dawn will awaken you before anyone finds you there
>you don’t need that in your life