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// Chapter #2 The tour of the cabin 
// Story: Seasonal Love 
// by GodOfBBQ 
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A short walk later Techie Hoof and Ninroot arrived at Techie's home near the forest. 

"Wow!" said Ninroot with eyes wide open, 

"Yeah built it my self." said Techie then he added, "I prefer working on technology but since the housing here is insane I decided to build my own home, I did get in trouble with Applejack apparently chopping down one of her trees is a big no no so I had to help her around the farm for a while but whatever, I got what I needed from the forest here." He said while pointing towards the woods next to his home. "Well, let me show you around." Said Techie with a smirk, he let her in and showed her around his home, he showed her his work which are various types of tools, mechanical parts, and many different vehicles specifically made for pony kind. He then showed her where her room was and let her get settled in. "Now let me know if you need anything, ok?" Asked Techie, 

"Ok" Ninroot replied, and with that Techie went along with his business and left the mare to herself. 

As Ninroot was unpacking she thought to herself "Wow the ponies here are real nice especially Techie." As she starts to blush she shakes her head and says "No, no I'm here for work and to share the love I have with my plants with the other citizens." It was starting to get late so she set her luggage to the side and went to bed. 

After a few weeks Techie and Ninroot finish their jobs for winter wrap up and finally the season for the wrap up ends and spring begins. A few weeks have passed and Ninroot's business hasn't started "successfully" so shes left with nothing to do but tend to her plants. After a while she noticed that Techie's house was a tad cluttered so she decided she would do Techie a favor and save him the trouble of cleaning up, so while Techie was out getting more supplies for his work she started to clean out his cabin, as she was cleaning she found some usual  things you would find in dirty homes. Old food, cloths, random objects of his like tools, and old photos. But as she continued she found an old photo book that told her his past, the photos showed Techie, who looked about ten or eleven years old, he was with his parents kind of normal for a photo book but as she went on she found pictures that showed only him and his mother he still looked the same age as the photo before but just a little more depressed, after that photo it showed him dressed formally this time without his mother. He looked about fifteen or fourteen. He looked very depressed, in fact he looked even sadder than he did in the second photo.

"I see you found my  photo album" a voice said behind Ninroot, she quickly looked behind her and saw Techie with bags full of tools and food. 

Ninroot then asked quietly "Why do you look so sad in these photos?" 

Techie while stocking up his cupboards with food stopped to answer Ninroot's question"See when I was young I lived in Manehatten with my parents, my dad was always working and my mom well was a stay at home mom, she took care of me the best she could and I was happy with my life..." He paused then said "Until the accident." 

Ninroot asked as she was putting back the photo album "What accident?"

Techie then answered "My dad worked at very top of his building he was a manager of an inventing company, anyways he was a drunk and one day he went to his office after a promotion party, drunk of course and well he fell out of a large window and I'm sure you can guess the rest."

Ninroot with more compassion for Techie said "Oh I'm sorry for your loss, look you don't need to continue if you don't want to."

"No no i-it's fine, you deserve to know" Techie said and continued with "I'm guessing your wondering why my mother isn't in the final picture, well for a while it was just me and her living off of what my dad had earned before he died but my mom needed to get a job to support us I was fifteen at the time and I proposed to work for some money but she told me that I needed to go to school and get a good education. Well my mom got a job and luckily her job was a close and safe one, she worked at a theater and since her job was within walking distance she walked to and from her work, but one night she was mugged and left in an alleyway where she drew her last breath, the mugger strangled her so she didn't..." Techie was choking back tears "Sh-she didn't die a peaceful death."

Ninroot gave Techie a hug and said "I'm so very sorry what you went through, I- I didn't mean to be snooping around."

Teky interrupted her saying "Oh it's fine it was going to come out sometime right heh." He then said "Afterwards I left Manehatten and moved here I didn't want to stay in that town I feared the same fate that struck my parents would happen to me so I moved here. And the reason I build these contraptions is because it's like a tribute to my parents and my fathers business.

Ninroot then asked "So you've been alone this whole time?"

Techie then replied "Yeah but it's not so bad, I don't have to worry about walking in on somepony on the toilet, heh." After chuckling they both spend the rest of the night in the cabin.