"You're telling me.  Even after I got over the shock, it still took a good 10 minutes to convince me that they weren't trying to attack me.  After that I started to hang out with them all more often."  Button hunched forward a bit and dropped his voice lower.  Though not quite a whisper, it still took some effort to hear what he was saying.  He fidgeted with his hooves nervously as he spoke.  "I didn't really have too many friends, so it was nice to have other ponies I could hang out with and have fun around, though it ended up that Sweetie and I became a bit closer than the rest."  He leaned back again, assuming a more relaxed posture again.  "We both loved a good story and enjoyed all types of music, so we often ran into each other at the library or in the music store.  Even though she didn't have her cutie mark at the time, I could tell after hearing her sing for the first time that she was going to have a career in music.  If she wasn't singing, she would have either been writing lyrics, composing melodies, playing an instrument, or some combination of those things."