The store clerk of a bakery shop can lead a very uneventful life. Fluttershy and Big Mac left after a few minutes of talking to Pinkie and left her to her daily routine. The store never got a lot of business, only on weekends or national holidays. When those happen at the same time, man, was it hectic. But today was neither. Only the regulars would show up. Bon-Bon would come in and order a cupcake, make a little small talk. Derpy would come in and order a batch of muffins and do much of the same thing.
The only interesting thing of the day would be listening to what Derpy would say. She would usually talk about this stallion she had been hanging out with. When Pinkie asked what his name was, Derpy would only say he was called "The Doctor". That wasn't even a name. Did this pony even have a name? And if so, did Derpy just not know about it? Was this pony even real? Or was he just a figment of Derpy's imagination? She did talk about very far-fecthed things. Pinkie really began to get worried about Derpy, she would go missing for months at a time. The only up-side was that she would get the mail a bit faster. But Derpy seemed happy, so she let it slide.
So here she was. Going through the motions of her day. Over the past few months, something felt empty deep within the magenta pony. Now, she knew what it was. Every night, Rainbow would come over, spend the night, and then leave. She didn't know if it was love yet or if the hormones were just getting to her, but either way, she wanted to be with that pony. And she wanted everypony else to know, but Rainbow had already laid the ground rules or "nopony finds out we've been sleeping together, especially our friends". It got so bad that during some days, when there was no business what so-ever, Pinkie started to see everything in a different shade of blue. Though, she still can't decide if that's because she wanted to be with Rainbow, or because of the ever occasional sugar high she would get working in a bakery and all. But the point still stood in her mind. She missed Rainbow and wanted to be with her.
There was just something about Rainbow that made Pinkie feel safe. She had opened up to the blue pegasus more than any other pony in Equestria. To most ponies, Pinkie was a bit shrouded in mystery. Even though, she threw parties on a regular basis and she knew pretty much every pony in town. Nopony closely knew Pinkie. Not even her friends know what goes on when the party ends. Only Rainbow knew. Rainbow knew nearly everything there was to know. She even knew about her only other fillyfooling experience when she was a teenager with a white pegasus named surprised. Pinkie then remember where exactly her thoughts were being put, and decided to stop reminiscing.
The bell on the door of Sugarcube Corner broke her deep thought as a familiar grey pegasus trotted into the lobby. Her usual wall eyed expression brought a grin to Pinkie's face, as it did most days.
"Hey, Pinkie" greeted the grey mail-mare
"Hiya, Derpy. How's it going?" exclaimed Pinkie.
"Fine. The Doctor's finally back from his trip so we can finally spend some time together"
"Is that so?" a disbelieving smirk grew on the pink mare's face. "Where was his trip to this time?"
"Ummm... Manehattan. There was a dilemma with the Empmare State Building."
"The Empmare State Building?"
"Yes"
"As in, the tallest tower in all of Equestria?"
"Yes"
"What does the Doctor exactly to do for a living?"
"He... Umm... works on clocks."
"And that occupation earned him a trip to fix a 'dilemma' in the Empmare State Building?"
"Yes"
"Alright. Seems legit. Wait, are you and the Doctor, how do I put this lightly, going steady?" a ping of excitement rang through Pinkie's voice.
"I guess you could say that." Derpy stated in a long sigh.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I like him, and he like's me, but he's never around, and he's kind of hard to understand sometimes."
"Why, is he foreign or something?"
Derpy quickly darted her wall eyes left, right, then back at Pinkie, "Sort of"
"Sort of?"
"Well, he has an accent. That's not hard to understand. It's just that he talks, really, really fast."
Pinkie began to laugh, "Now I know how most of my friends feel"
Derpy joined in Pinkie's chuckling. "Yeah, you talk fast a lot too. You should meet him sometime, he's a real fun pony."
"Alright. I'll try to meet him sometime. But you still haven't answered my question, Derpy. Are you going out with the Doctor? Or, if you want an easier question. Do you like the Doctor?"
"First one, I'm not entirely sure. But this second one, Oh, Celestia, YES!" Derpy began to hop up and down in excitement. "He's so sweet and charming, and funny. And he's like the sexiest stallion in the universe"
Pinkie began to laugh again "Alrighty then. Hey, that rhymed"
"What?"
"Nevermind."
"Okay. Well, what about you, Pinkie? Anypony you're interested in?"
Pinkie stepped back a little bit from the question, but then smiled, then blushed. "Well, there is one pony I've got my eye on?"
"What's his name?"
"I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because it's top secret"
"Are you sure?"
"Posititoochle"
"Okay" Derpy back away from the counter and began to trot out of the store, "Well, I'll catch you later, Pinkie."
"Seeya later." Pinkie waved until the grey pegasus was far out of sight.
Pinkie then melted back into the counter, and stared distantly out into Main Street. She then fired up out of her slump with quick a quick realization.
"SHE DIDN"T BUY ANYTHING!"