>"Did you really wanna go out this way, son?"
>You look over to see your Dad, who never came with you to Equestria, because he died before you. 
Yeah.
>His eyes furrow, corners of his mouth pulling down, shaking his head slowly. 
>Then he turns and walks out into a wall, gone. 
>You stare at the empty space for a bit, before looking back up to the ceiling, now laying down fully on the floor. 
>You are floating now in an endless drift of sea, no clouds, but no light. The angels wait for you somewhere, but not here and not now. You are alone in this ocean, the waves crash against you, you're sweating sweating sweating. 
>The living room ceases to exist as you lay there, in that ocean. There's something, creature you don't recognize, it rows to you in an old boat, a round hat decked on it's head. 
>"Well isn't this a fine situation we have here," he whistles, "What are you doing all the way out here then, my good fellow?" 
>"Bit of the blues?"
One way to say it.
>"You put yourself here?"
Yep.
>He laughs, his white beard bobbing, he pulls back with his eyes shut tight and a birds talon on his head. 
>"Wow! I thought I was insane, but here we are! Somepony worse off than myself," he leans forward suddenly, his laugh at a dead stop, "yes, I suppose when we get down to it, it would be swell to not exist wouldn't it?" 
>You shrug, with some effort. 
>He stares down at you, smiling. 
>"I should get going then," he sighs, looking away to somewhere you can't see, "we will meet again, maybe."
>He begins his rowing again, the waves crashing against his little worn boat, setting off somewhere far ahead. 
>"Good luck drowning!"
>He giggles sing songingly. 
>Eventually he's gone. 
>You bob there in that ocean like a rubber duck, buoying, no light but so hot, Summer has always been your least favourite season. 
>With loneliness comes regret, the water-it's flooding into your lungs, memories of everything you ever did wrong come back. Every little thing, all the moments you were stupid, said something cringe. All the stupid shit you did. 
>And, god, fuck, all the things you didn't do. The things you will never ever get to do, the waste of your life. 
>The total waste!
>The water keeps on coming in, you don't try to spit it out anymore, it just comes in all at once, you aren't floating now, you're sinking, your head hurts and you hear white noise so loud in your ears. 
>Your visions gets darker. 
>You'll never see your mom again.
>Failure.
>Stupid. 
>Worthless, fucking idiot. Retard, faggot, fucking piece of shit. In magical ponyland and you...still can't be happy. 
>Your mom would hate you if she were here now. 
>Alone
>D R O W N I N G 
>You can't see anymore, the noise in your ears overwhelms you. 
>Suddenly your sight goes out like a candle snuffed. 
>Then you're gone.
>"Twigh'," Applejack said nervously, "I just don't think we should be up'n bothering him any, I mean he's the...he's the only one of his kind here...don't you think he deserves a little privacy?"
>"Him being the only human in Equestria is exactly why we SHOULD bother him, Applejack!" she sighs, shaking her head. "Don't tell me you aren't the littlest bit curious to see how he's doing..." 
>"Can't say I'm not." Applejack chewed on a piece of hay in her mouth as the two stoof outside of your door. "But he ain't ever been none too kindly to us, Twilight, I think he just wants to be on his own." 
>"Yeah!" Chirped Rainbow Dash, "If the dork wants to be all alone like some weirdo, I say let him!"
>"Rainbow, that's not very nice!" Twilight jerks her head back, ears flatting forward as she looked at Rainbow Dash with incredulity, "How do you think that would make Anonymous feel if he heard you?"
>"I don't care," Rainbow rolls her eyes, "He's just some weird monkey man anyway. This isn't that big of a deal, Twilight, besides I've said waaaay worse things to him."
>"Whuh-Rainbow is that true?"
>"Eeeyup, 'fraid so Twilight," Applejack chuckles, "But that's just how Anonymous gets along with most ponies anyhow. He's always making jokes about himself none too worse than what ol' Rainbow Dash here says anyway."
>"See Twilight? You heard it from Applejack herself, not a big deal. He wants to be alone, lets leave him alone!"
>Twilight paused, biting her lip as she hoofed at the ground, her ears twitching. A few seconds pass before she closes her eyes, sucks in a deep breath through her nose, then gently exhales it back out through her mouth. 
>"No," she ticks her tongue, "No I don't like it. Girls, like it or not we have a responsibility to Anonymous. It's not about privacy or- or liking him for that matter!" She glares at Rainbow Dash, who rolls her eyes. 
>"It's about atleast showing him the common courtesy of checking in and saying 'Oh, hi there Mister-only-human-ever. How are you? I know it's been like four years since you moved in and nopony apparently talks in you but we wanted to say hi and try to make sure you're ok. You know, like how normal ponies do?!' " 
>Applejack and Rainbow Dash both cringe at that, glancing off to anywhere but Twilight and the front of your door.
>Silence. 
>"Fine!" Rainbow yells suddenly, causing Twilight and Applejack to both jump back a bit on instinct. 
>"But why does it have to be *us*?" Rainbow trots in a little closer, tapping Twilight with one of her wings, "How come we gotta throw the welcome committee here...we didn't even do it when the guy just showed up to begin with!"
>"We- we were busy! We had JUST put Discord back in stone!"
>"And?"
>"Got somethin' of a point there, Twilight.."
>"No she doesn't!" Twilight turns to look at the orange pony, her sorceress eyes gleaming in the Summer light, "We...look, I admit I..we all could've thrown him a welcome party like we did for me when I first showed up but..." 
>"He didn't even want one, dude, he told us that, remember?" Rainbow backs up a bit now, looking behind herself. "Besides you didn't answer my actual question, how come it's gotta be US that does it?" 
>"Because Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity couldn't come," 
>"You mean they didn't want to come." 
>"No! They said they couldn't!"
>Rainbow narrows an eyebrow, Applejack just whistles, looking away like she wasn't hearing the conversation she was. 
>"We could have LIIIIITERALLY anypony else come and do this, why's it gotta be us, Twilight? Just ask Mayor Mare or something."
>"Ooohh, or..or..or Zecora!"
>"Zecora?" That got Applejacks attention, looking at the pegasus again, tilting her head as she spoke, "Now why in the hay would Zecora of all ponies wanna go and check up on Anonymous?" 
>"Because she's a Zebra! She probably likes weird stuff like him-"
>"Woah nelly-"
>"Rainbow!" Twilight hisses, "You can't just say stuff like that!"
>"Well it's not like I'm wrong."
>"Yes! Yes it is like you're wrong," Twilight says, leering forward, "we can't just make wild speculations on ponies based off what species they are!"
>Rainbow just rolled her eyes again, trotting back a little more at a time. 
>"Oh no you don't," Twilight scolded, shaking her head furiously, "come back here! Don't- I can literally see what you're doing!"
>"Whaaaaat? What am I doing...I'm not..uhm...just..just look away for a second!"
>Twilight narrows her eyes, Rainbow glowers back, Applejack just sighs and shakes her head. 
>Eventually the pegasus breaks and trots back closer to her two friends again with a groan. 
>"I still don't think we need to do this," Rainbow states plainly, "it's not even our job to do this kinda stuff."
>"Well..maybe not, but we still should." 
>"Why?"
>"Twilight," Applejack spoke gently, with a voice like butter left to soften on a counter, "why?"
>"Oh not you too Applejack...Rainbow Dash I can understand but not you too."
>"Twilight, y'know me. I'm a simple pony, I ain't one for nothing fancy nor am I the kind to up'n cause trouble no how. Y'know I already got my misgivings on this whole dang thing, but..." 
>She spits out the hay in her mouth, coming close to Twilight she nuzzles the side of her cheek, before pulling back, her brows knitted together and pulled up ever so slightly. 
>"Why does it gotta be us?" 
>"Applejack I already told.."
>"But you didn't, girl, y'know that." 
>Twilight looks down at a patch of dying grass under her hoof, before looking back up to the orange pony. 
>"Why's it gotta be us, Twi'? Anypony else can do this, Rainbow is right. So why's it gotta be us?" 
>Twilight looks at her, silent, cicadas sing. It seems just a little hotter as the three stand there under that summer sun. 
>"Because..."
>Twilight fumbles, looking for an answer, before her head droops down.
>"I don't know."
>"Oh thank Celestia," Rainbow yells, "Can we go home now? Please?"
>"Hush up, Rainbow."
>"I thought you were on my team!"
>"I ain't on nopony's team," She spits out, "I'm just making sense of the situation before I make a decision." 
>"I may not know why it has to be us," both ponies turned their heads to face Twilight as she spoke, "but it just does." 
>"Now you're starting to sound like Pinkie Pie, Twilight."
>Applejack narrowed her eyes, considering what she'd been told. 
>"And that's how you really feel?"
>"Yeah," Twilight nodded, "I just feel like it needs to be us." 
>"Alright," Applejack stretched her fore legs, smiling as they cracked pleasantly, "Whooo I tell you what, I've been needing to do that for a while now!" She chuckled. 
>"Lets go on in then, Twi."
>"Oh, what!"
>Twilight stuck her tongue out at Rainbow Dash, giggling. 
>"Whatever," she groaned, "just don't blame me when he's a weirdo like always."
>With that, Twilight knocks on the door.
>"Mister Anonymous?" Twilight called out to you, her hoof knocking at your front door. 
>"I don't know if you remember me, Uhm, I'm Twilight Sparkle! I run the library in town.....I came to check up on you?" She chuckles, her ears twitching. 
>"I know it's been a while but I...well, me and some friends wanted to come and.."
>Twilight stops.
>"Hey, do you...smell something girls?"
>"...Mr Anonymous...?" Twilight called. 
>"Everything alright in there, um, there's-there's a bit of a smell..." 
>"Twilight," Applejack's ears stood on alert, "move out of the way." 
>"Oh...but.."
>"Now, Twilight."
>Twilight barely got a step back before two powerful orange battering rams collided with your Front door, sending it all the way to the back of your living room. 
>"Applejack!"
>"Awesome!"
>Applejack ignored the two, trotting inside quick, careful, the other two behind her. 
>"It was not Awesome Rainbow-"
>"Oh pony feathers," Applejack gasped, her ears swinging backwards, body trembling, , her head swiveled as far to the side as it could without breaking, "Twilight!"
>"What? What..oh...oh no.."
>"Get some-"
>"The hay happened here?!" 
>"Get some Towels- get them NOW."