FINALLY....! After taking so many orders, after serving so many customers, Sweet Hearts can finally close! Tough Love and I have worked our hooves off to satisfy every customer that came to the bakery! I was so tired that I couldn't even feel my poor hooves. I laid my head against the break room table to rest. The day was in the late-afternoon right now and the parade was still going on.
"Good job today, Diane. You were a great help today and I couldn't have done it without you." Tough Love looked winded, but she wasn't nearly tired as I was. She is such a pro....
"Alright, I know you're really tired, but we got to close the bakery and head home. We can't keep them waiting too long." Tough Love left the break room to begin closing up shop. I was so tired that I couldn't even feel my hooves. After taking nearly ten minutes to get back on my hooves, I joined Tough Love on the way back. We could see some of the parade floats and giant balloons pass by the city. I even saw one dedicated to Princess Luna.
"Sorry we couldn't take the day off to enjoy the parade. I need the money for something." Even though my hooves were aching, what she said caught my attention.
"What do you need the money for...? Is it important?" I ignored the pain in my hooves.
"Sorry Diane, but I'm not telling. It's a secret." Tough Love winked at me and all that did was confuse me. But I decided to not be nosey. We finally made it home and I was so hungry. We stepped inside and Miss Jubilee waiting for us at the stairs.
"Welcome back, you two~! How did it go?!" I was too tired to answer Miss Jubilee's question....
"It went really well. Diane and I cleaned up. I....even saved up enough for....that." I quickly noticed Tough Love sounding...almost afraid. I was confused.
Miss Jubilee gave a tense look on her face, "Did you now? And you honestly think he'll keep his word?" I don't know what's going on, but something tells me that Tough Love was in trouble of some kind.
"He has to...." Tough Love then left us and went upstairs.
"Miss Jubilee, what's wrong with Tough Love? Does it have something to do with the money...?" I know I shouldn't be snooping into other ponies' business, but I felt that I had to know.
Miss Jubilee sighed, "I promised not to say anything, but I think I should tell you and Bitter Sweet about it. Day and Charm won't understand...." She looked troubled. I can't even imagine what Tough Love was going through. Suddenly, we then heard the sound of shattering glass and we both ran up the stairs immediately. We then saw Day run up the stairs, looking like she was about to cry her eyes out. We looked over to the kitchen to see a few broken plates on the floor with Bitter Sweet and Charm trying to clean it up.
"What happened here?! Why did Day run up the stairs like that?!" Miss Jubilee sounded upset. I frightened me. We then noticed Charm shivering when Miss Jubilee asked her question.
"Miss Jubilee, please listen. It wasn't Charm's fault. Just help us clean this up and I'll explain what happened." We then got rid of the broken shards of the plates and sat down in the living room to hear what Bitter Sweet had to say. I saw how frightened Charm was. What ever happened must have been horrible for both Charm and Day.
"Alright, this is what happened.... I came home after my day at the office and then I see you, Miss Jubilee, making dinner. You saw Diane and Tough Love arrive at the building and decided to welcome them home. After you left, Day and Charm were both looking at the food you made and decided to set up the table. I wasn't listening at the time because I was looking over some papers listing the appointments I have with some ponies over the next few weeks. And that is when Day dropped all those plates and ran up the stairs. And you know the rest...." Bitter Sweet looked lie he regrets not listening to what was going on and should done something about it.
"I didn't mean to upset her...really! I was just helping Day with the plates and stuff and I was telling her about a new comic book one of my friends showed me!" Even now he's still talking about comic books....
"What was this comic book called? What was it about?" We all wanted to know the answer to Miss Jubilee's question.
"I think it was called...uh...'Power Ponies and the Treats of White Day'. It was about this Pegasus who gave all these treats and stuff to the city, but it was all a trap! Yeah, that's it!" After Charm described the comic he mentioned, Miss Jubilee was froze up. This cannot be good....
"Oh no.... Oh no, this is so bad...!" Miss Jubilee suddenly became antsy.
"Miss Jubilee, what's going on?" I became even more worried for Day when I asked that question.
"White Day is the name of Day's mother...." Just from that alone, the entire room became 50 degrees colder. We all knew that this was really bad.
"Oh geez, I blew it...! I made Day upset! I'm a bad guy...!" Charm began to panic after realizing how bad things got. I then grabbed a hold of him, hoping to calm him down.
"It's okay, Charm...! I'm sure we can fix this!" I tried to assure Charm that it would be fine, but even I was panicking a little.
"Miss Jubilee, who is this White Day exactly? Do you know her?" Even I needed to know the answer to Bitter Sweet's question. Maybe we can find a way to help Day.
Miss Jubilee then gave a calming sigh, "Yes, I do. White Day and I were good friends when we were young. Then she married a kind stallion from Canterlot named Top Notch and they had Day a year afterwards. But sadly, they both died when Day was very young.... But worse, Day knew about what happened and she still remembers it clearly. I took Day in soon after because I was such close friends with her parents. I wish ignorance is a luxury she has right now...." Suddenly, my heart sank hard. I can't even imagine how Day feels right now. It's as sad as Bitter Sweet's past.
"Can you tell us what happened...?" Bitter Sweet might be able to help Day better than all of us combined since he's a doctor.
"Sorry, but I don't know all the details. I wasn't there at the time and Day refuses to tell me anything. You will have to ask Day for the full story. That might be impossible...." Miss Jubilee became very sad. I'm not sure how, but I knew this was going to be painful for all of us.