Agoraphobia in Equestria - Tired   >Your parents have long since stopped calling you. >You have no friends that you can actually call 'friends.' >Your savings account is running on close to empty, and you have no way to replenish it. >Your apartment rent is two months behind and the owners keep calling your cell. >You have long since stopped playing for a phone. >But your appartment is clean. >The walls are a stark white, free of streaks and seem to glow. >Your carpet is vacuumed and clean. >Your sheets are washed and free from disgusting sweat spots. >Your clothes are neatly folded and tucked away inside plastic bags to keep the nonexistent dust off them. >You have Agoraphobia and Germophobia. >Your waking hours are spent cleaning, and your sleeping hours are spent dreaming of cleaning. >At this point in time you live to clean. >You consider your teeth to be one of your best qualities. >Free of cavities and pearly white. >You attribute this to a strict regiment of brushing 16 times per day. >When you clean, you usually brush your teeth. >When you aren't brushing your teeth you are usually rinsing your mouth with mouthwash, or chewing sugar-free gum. >Your favorite pants have, at a minimum, four sealed tooth brushes and a tube of Colgate for emergencies. >You thought you were ready for anything. >Knew that your small one room apartment could withstand any germ invasion. >What happened to you, you had no plan for. >You went to sleep one night after trying out a new cleaner. >You had high hopes for this cleaner, as it smelled like a hospital and a pine forest at the same time. >In your dreams you were brushing your teeth on the 76th of 139, the perfect amount of brushes for each tooth, of your first upper lateral bicuspid, when you woke up. >Something was not right, the way the bristles scraped against your bicuspid was wrong. >You reached out and felt for your tooth brush. >This was an emergency, you HAD to brush your first upper lateral bicuspid. >Your breath caught in your throat as your hand grasped at air. >You knew there was a tooth brush there before you went to bed. >You placed it there as you closed your eyes, within easy Reach. >Your eyes have not adjusted to the darkness of your room. >Your room. >You never let your room get this drafty. >Drafty rooms were just a giant petri dish for bacteria. >You Reach for your covers to pull them up over your head, hoping to end this nightmare. >Your hands only grasp at air. >Your breath, still caught in your throat, catches again. >Your scramble about, Reach-ing, grasping and feeling about for your sheets. >They are not there. >Your eyes are starting to adjust to the dim light of your room. >Or what you thought was your room. >You can faintly make out what appears to be a... tree? In the distance. >Your breath bursts past the barrier you had inadvertently made and sucks in. >An ear piercing scream escapes your lips. "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?" >You scream into the night. >You can faintly make out the lights of a near by town flickering into life. >Some of them seemed to be colored faintly, hardly discernible to eyes not as trained as yours to spot dirt. >You continue to scream as you take in your surroundings. >You are in, what appears to be, a forest. "WHAT KIND'VE NIGHTMARE IS THIS? HOLY SHIT IT WON'T END." >You don't know why you are still screaming, but you can't stop. >Bacteria. >That single thought silences you. >You shut your mouth, lips compressing into a tight line as you collect all the spittle you are able to and forcefully reject it from your body. >You know that small attempt won't save your teeth. >Water. >You need to brush your teeth. >Now. >Luckily you are still wearing your freshly laundered clothes. >You found that sleeping in clothes saves time and, so long as they are freshly laundered, saves you just enough time to brush your teeth, twice, upon waking. >You stand up, your legs finding a strength you never knew. >You had to get to that town and find some form of clean sink for you to brush your teeth in. >You don't remember moving from your standing position, but you are now halfway to the town, sprinting as fast as your legs will carry you. >You are fast approaching a house. >You don't stop as you Reach the door. >Your super-germophobe strength careening you through the door and into the small sitting room beyond it. >Filth. >Filth and garbage EVERYWHERE. >Without another thought you turn from the room and leap through the doorway, leaving the house without a third thought. >Was that a maya blue colored pony with a mane of periwinkle streaked with blue sitting on a cushion in the corner? >Fuck no it wasn't. >You sprint further into the town, searching for the cleanest house. >Most of the houses look slightly dirty, unacceptable to your advanced germ senses. >You see it. >It's like a glimmering chapel of clean amidst an ocean of filth. >Above its door it boasts a picture resembling a pony on a pole from a carousel. >Your super-germophobe strength knocks over this door without a thought and you rush through the building. >Noticing many pony shaped mannequins. >You remember this picture from somewhere. >You give no fucks as you attempt to find the bathroom, knocking down door after door. >In one room there appears to be a, slightly scared, slightly awake pony, pure white skin and a mane of royal purple boasting a horn above her forehead. >You give no fucks, it's a dream after all.... >Right? >You shake your head and move on to the next room. >This room contains an equally scared pony, white of body with a purple and pink fluffy mane, again boasting a horn. >You, again, give no fucks. >Moving on towards the next room. >Upon kicking down the door you see a spotless, gleaming bathroom fit for a germophobe of your caliber. >You like to think yourself above casual germophobes. >This bathroom rivals your own. >Only it is bigger and more spacious, with a large bath and gleaming white porcelain sink. >You tunnel vision in on the sink and sprint forwards. >Hands clutching the sides of the sink you rip one of your spare toothbrush's out of your cargo pockets. >Carefully peeling away the plastic wrapper, taking care to assure it can be used again. >You are quite desperate to even consider using the tooth brush's case as a storing device. >Pulling out the tube of Colgate, you place the perfect amount on the brush. >You let out a sigh as you finally Reach your first upper lateral bicuspid. >The feeling of the bristles against your tooth is almost more than you can handle. >You are so engrossed in brushing your teeth you don't even notice the two p0nies staring at you. >Their sleepy eyes wide, shock plain across their faces. >You finish brush 139 on your first upper lateral bicuspid with a sigh. >It's okay. >You made it. >The nightmare was just that, a nightmare. >You turn on your heel and start towards the door. >That's when you see them. >Rarity and Sweetie Belle. >Two p0nies from MLP. >You are so shocked you stop in your tracks, left foot floating in the air. >You don't even have time to think of a response as Rarity screams. >Sweetie Belle joins in. >Together their voices force you to your knees. >Your hands clutching your ears. "Please stop! I-I don't know where to begin, just please, PLEASE, stop. >They two p0nies stop and your hands fall to your sides. "Th-thank you. I am...." >Your name. >You think back. >You can remember everything about your old life. >Parents. >Friends. >Everything. >Your name brings up a blank. >You slowly come to the realization that you may no longer remember who you are. >Probably something to do with that new cleaner you bought. >A chemical reaction creating this hallucination. "Call me Anonymous for now, I can't seem to remember my name." >Rarity faints, Sweetie Belle simple stares. "Hello?" >You see Sweetie Belle's horn glow slightly as your vision fades to black.