A Happy Birthday [PTFG]


                                            1.
                                            
                                                >"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear... uh... Happy birthday to you!"

                                            2.
                                            
                                                >This is not exactly how you planned spending your birthday, but you're not complaining.

                                            3.
                                            
                                                >The incident was well over six months ago, you're used to things as they are now

                                            4.
                                            
                                                >But your twentieth birthday is too unlike all the others

                                            5.
                                            
                                                >Namely because everypon- EVERYONE you know is pastel and hooved

                                            6.
                                            
                                                >Your dad and brother are here, and your mom bothered to drop by

                                            7.
                                            
                                                >Your only two friends are here too

                                            8.
                                            
                                                >You wish you could remember what their names were

                                            9.
                                            
                                                >You wish you could remember what their faces looked like

                                            10.
                                            
                                                >But that's not what you're all here for

                                            11.
                                            
                                                >The time for lamenting what you can't remember has long past

                                            12.
                                            
                                                >It's time for cake and balloons, fun and friends

                                            13.
                                            
                                                >You are a cyan-furred blue-maned unicorn

                                            14.
                                            
                                                >And you are happier than you've ever been

                                            15.
                                            
                                                >Sure, your own name escapes everypony

                                            16.
                                            
                                                >But that doesn't matter when you're setting up the monopoly board

                                            17.
                                            
                                                >Even when your feathered friend blows over the board when he goes bankrupt, you can't help but laugh

                                            18.
                                            
                                                >Funny, you'd've chewed his flan- ASS out this time last year

                                            19.
                                            
                                                >"Why don't we watch a movie?" Your little brother suggests

                                            20.
                                            
                                                >Hm, still sounds awkward in your head, you should all just choose names or something already

                                            21.
                                            
                                                "Sounds great, I'll put on something."

                                            22.
                                            
                                                >Even your voice sounds happier than you ever remember it being

                                            23.
                                            
                                                >Looking to the shelf of movies, you lock your eyes on the best of the bunch: Blazing Saddles

                                            24.
                                            
                                                >"Good choice uh... birthday pony!" your earth friend responds

                                            25.
                                            
                                                >Seems he didn't notice his mistake

                                            26.
                                            
                                                >Oh well

                                            27.
                                            
                                                >Movie time

                                            28.
                                            
                                                >You laugh with everyp- everyone else, something you're glad you get to see

                                            29.
                                            
                                                >Earth friend never smiled, and your mom was never without her scowl

                                            30.
                                            
                                                >Now they're smiling like they've never known anything else

                                            31.
                                            
                                                >Yeah, this kinda is the best birthday ever

                                            32.
                                            
                                                >Maybe it's time to let go of that little voice that keeps telling you the truths you don't remember