After a few quick steps you find yourself in front of your kitchens sink and with a few quick
twist, after depositing the bowl within it's gray stone body, you open the taps so semi hot
water pours from the polished brass faucet, steam rising as the sink fills slightly. Grabbing
the bottle of dish soap with a free hand you give the ever damping sponge that lay at the
bottom of your sink with a fair and even coating of dish soap. But as you go to pull the
sponge from your sink to work in the soap a little nudge against your left arm catch's your
attention.
"Can I's help clean Mr, Salads home?" Luna asks softly, her hoof pointing towards the bowl.
"Well........ ok, since you ask nicely I guess you can help." You sigh, picking up the yellow
oval from the bottom of the sink. "Would you like me to make the sponge nice and soapy
for you?"
"Yes pwease. Make the scwub scwub bubbly." Luna exclaimed with soft shout.
You can't help but wear a grin on your face as you worked the soap into the sponge to make
the suds you needed to clean with. It was a simple task, just involving moving your fingers
back and forth along the sponge, but as simple as this task was all the while Luna sat in great
anticipation, bouncing up and down slightly as she watched. After several seconds of kneading
the soap into the sponge you decide the sponge is sufficiently lathered. You withdraw the suddys
yellow oval from the depths of its soapstone home and gently deposit it into Luna's tiny hooves,
her eye's brimming with excitement as you do.
"Now are you ready to clean Mr, Salads home?"
"Mmmh huh." Luna nods excitedly.
"I'll hold the bowl for you so you can get Mr, Salads home nice and clean ok."
Luna gives another nod and, in a quick shuffle, scoots to the edge of the sink, sponge held
tightly in her hooves.
"Prepare your self gwime, Wuna has come to dispel you." Luna shouts, as she push's the
sponge into the bowl, a playful grin painted upon her muzzle.
Her first swipe is swift and short, wiping away small bits of carrot as she pulled the sponge
across the inside of the bowl. In quick succession she repeated this movement several time,
adding a spin or a shake to the movement of the sponge along its path.
"You enjoying yourself there Luna?" You ask, as she moved to clean the outside of the bowl,
satisfied with the interior.
"Yup..... but."
"But?"
"Could you move your......um."
"Thumb Luna. It's called a thumb."
"Ooooh. Can you move your thumb pwease? I have to cwean that spot."
"Oh of course Luna." You chuckle, moving your digit out of the scrubbing filly's way.
"Thank you....and dones." Luna sigh's happily as she runs the sponge over the space where
your thumb currently held, nodding in approval at her own hoof work.
"Looks good to me Luna." You nod, giving the bowl a rinse then placing it into the plastic
drying rack that sat in the other side of your sink. "Now I can go set up your bed." You say
pulling a towel from a nearby drawer.
Then as if on cue, while you were drying your hands, a yawn escaped Luna's mouth, her
eyes tiredly fluttering for a moment.
"And looks like not a moment to soon."
"But I'm not tired."
"Oh really. your not in the least bit?"
"Well maybe just a wittle." Luna mumbled as a another yawn escaped her muzzle.
"Come on let's get you ready for bed." You sigh, lifting Luna up from the counter and once
again placing her upon your hip.
Quickly you make your way back to your kitchens entrance, finding the previously open
western style swinging doors now firmly shut. Finding your foot a easier option, with a
slight kick, you push your kitchens doors open, leaving a slight scuff on the navy blue
frames as you quickly step through.
"Now where, oh where should Luna's bed go." You halfway hum as you step into your
homes den, now looking for a good place for a yawning pony's bed.
"Can it be on the big blue mountain?" Luna asks softly, as a yawn echos from her indigo
muzzle.
"Ummm what's big blue mountain?"
"Wook to your wight."
"Oh the couch."
"Yes, big blue mountain."
"Ok so where would Luna like her bed to be on the big blue mountain?" You ask with a
sigh, taking a couple of quick steps toward your royal blue sofa.
"At the summit."
"Ha ha ha oh all right then, at the summit it is." You chuckle, lifting Luna from your hip and
polping her down onto the plush blue cushions of your sofa. "You just wait here and I'll go
get you some supplies for your base camp."
"Mmmh, I'll hold outpost Wuna till you return." Luna nodded affirmatively.
"Watch for bumbles."
"Ok........wait what's a bumble?" She questioned as you strode quickly away from 'big blue
mountain' and back into the hall where your blankets still laid scattered upon the floor.
"Well think of a big, white furred creature with big sharp teeth and claws."
"Oh."
"And they live a the summits of big snowy mountains." You grunt, as you lift the cumbersome
pile of blankets from your hallways floor.
"Oh.....ummm are any of those on big blue mountain?"
"Well I don't know. I never went looking for them."
Luna was shaking lightly as you waddled back into the room, the heavy pile of blankets making
it awkward to walk at any decent speed or manner but still you managed to make your way back
across the room, arriving back in front of the big blue mountain. You hadn't really meant to scare
her but as you went to set down the mass of blankets you saw what damage you'd done.
"Hey don't worry I won't those bumbles get you." You sigh, placing a hand lightly on her trembling
head. "I'll even sit outside your camp and stand guard."
"You will?"
"Of course, now come on lets set up this base camp."
The next several minutes where spent, quite happily, constructing as Luna put it outpost Wuna.
Which involved several blankets, a few strands of Christmas lights, a chair, some pvc pipe from
your garage, and three cushions. Two were used to make up the main wall of said outpost and
the third, which had come from your recliner, was being placed to help hold up the pvc which
made up the roof of the fort.
"Ok this walls secure Luna. No bumbles will be getting through here." You sigh contently, as you
patted the cushion to make sure the wall was holding. "Need any help on your end Luna?"
"Murph murh."
"What was that Luna?" You ask, as you make your way around to what seems to be the front
of Luna's couch fort. "I can't hear you when your inside silly."
"Sowwy." Luna mumbles as she pokes her head out what you can only assume is the forts
doorway. "Umm, no evewy things a go."
"Well that's good and I think we made pretty good time it being only eight-thirty.
"Now what?"
"Well for starters you should get set up in there so you can get some shut eye."
"Ok, but can you turn the lights on? I what to see them go bwinky bwink."
"Well ok,since it might get dark in there I guess, hold on though I'll have to move a few things
around."
"Like what?" Luna asks as you make your way to the forts main wall.
"Well mostly my SNes and my PlayStation."
"SNes? PwayStation?"
"Ok you see those two gray box's by that big black one?"
"Yeah."
"Well the one with the two purple rectangles is the Super Nintendo and the one next to it
with the fan is the PlayStation." You reply, as you take the end of a green cord and start
paying out slack.
"What do they do?"
"Well if you give me a few seconds I'll show you."
"Ok."
With a sufficient amount of cord in your hand, you make your way over to a table that sat at the
other end of the room, game stations along with your TV perched atop it. It was difficult at first,
on account of all the PlayStation games being stacked twenty high and being pretty much stacked
right in your way, you still managed to find some room to run the chord to the outlet, it clicking
slightly as it contacted the outlet protector plate.
"Oooooh pwetty." Luna cooed as light twinkled from within her fort.
"Like the lights huh?"
"Uh huh."
"Well then let me show you what these box's do." You say as you fiddle with the PlayStation's
open game tray, making sure the disk was secure.
With a quick flick of your systems game tray it closed, it making a satisfying ca-chunk noise as it
did, the systems power button doing the same as you moved your finger from the PlayStation to
the TV also pushing on its own power button. Then grabbing controller you made your why back
pass fort Wuna and took a seat on the one of the still open cushions of your sofa, the screen of
your television crackling to life just as the words Whoopee Camp bounced across it. Then the
music kicked on followed shortly by a camera panning shot a top a grassy hill where a pink haired
boy came charging up and to proceeded to sniff the air as if in search of something. Then raising
his arm, following his nose, his outstretched index finger fell upon a dark brown boar which
proceeded to squeal in fear as the two took off in a dash, the pink haired boy taking several lunges
during the course of the chase only to miss several time then to miss again but this time to bite
down into a rock to only have his canines to crumble.
"Why'd he do that?" Luna asked, a little dumbfounded at what she was watching.
"He's trying to catch the pig."
"So he bit a wock?"
"No he did that cause he thought he had the boar and missed."
"Oh. Well why doesn't he ask the boaw to stop?"
"I don't know. Maybe he doesn't speak boar."
Then the opening came to a end as more words bounced down from the screen. With a quick move
of your thumb you moved the little flashing arrow, with the aid of a few quick taps on the direction
button, down to the start icon.
"And away we go." You half shout, clicking the X button as a glint of light filled the room and new
music started to play as the pink haired boy came into view again.
Several minutes ticked by and slowly you fell into your grove and with in a few minutes you where
jumping over a house when a nudge at your side made you jump a little.
"Yes Luna?" You ask, pausing the game so you could give her your full attention.
"Umm do you think you could pway this again tomorrow?" Luna asked, her eyes fluttering heavily
as she began to drift off to sleep.
"Of course and if you'd like I could teach you to play too if you want."
"I would wike that." Luna yawned, resting her head on your outstretched leg.
"Good night Luna." You say softly as she began to drift off to sleep.
"Good night daddy." She say's with a final yawn, as sleep took hold of her and a smile feel across
your face.
"Oh Luna I never would of thought my day would have turned out like this. My only hope is that
tomorrows even better." You sighed, clicking off the paused screen and, being very quiet, went
back to playing your game, your smile never fading as you played through the night, thinking
how the day all started and how you met this wonderful filly laying in the snow.
Fin.