Caramel finds love in an unexpected place, after his longtime Marefriend cheats on him.
Caramel had a lot of things, love, happiness, a nice job until his world was wrecked by one big secret. Scared and alone after running away from his home, Caramel finds Big Macintosh, A Stallion who just wants to talk to and befriend Caramel. Little does Caramel know this friendship will blossom into something so much greater.
A Dab Of Forbidden Caramel Chapter 1: Revisiting The Past
Caramel approached the shabby looking house, he wasn't even sure if you could call it a house anymore due to the cobwebs, graffiti and the broken glass all over the place. He fumbled with the gate in front of the house, because he had forgotten the key, probably back in Canterlot with his old things. “Just great, now i'm going to have to break the gate.” He rambled on. The tan colt was used to talking to himself ever since that day... He bucked the gate door open, making note of is handy-work he continued his trip towards the house, dragging his expensive leather suitcase on the cobblestone sidewalk in front of the house. He arrived at the large maple door of the house, passing the giant statue of Princess Celestia that stood on his porch. “Been a while hasn't it Celestia?” he joked to the rock form of his Princess. He took out his large set of rusty keys to belonged to the house and put them in the lock, he waited a while before turning them like he was expecting something to stop him from entering the house. But eventually nothing did and he turned the key and opened the door. His hoofsteps resounded loudly throughout the old house as he walked into the kitchen. He fumbled with the light switch, and set his things on the table. He pulled his suitcase into the master bedroom and threw it onto the perfectly made, dusty bed. The tan colt went up the the dusty dresser and pulled out some of the drawers and began unpacking his stuff, after he had finished he pulled the sheets off the bed and threw them in the wash, luckily there was still some detergent to clean them with. Tired from the journey back the young stallion walked over to his bare mattress and plopped his body on top of it. He began to think back to what had caused all of this... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It was a year back, god I was so stupid then thinking I could trust that.. that.. mare..I was almost high off the holiday spirit as it was close to Hearth's Warming, I was such a fool then. I had work delivering packages for the holiday rush otherwise I would be home cuddling... with her...I had just a few packages left but I decided to check in on her in “our house”. She thought I would be out all day. I walked up to the gate as I always did but I knew something was wrong, I turned the key on the gate, I guess she didn't hear it screech. I walked up to the door like I always did, and it turned the handle it was unlocked. It was never unlocked but I figured she just left it unlocked for when I got home. Nothing in my life could prepare me for what happened next, I saw on the steps right in front of the door two scarfs laid carelessly on the floor only I had my scarf with me. I walked up those steps almost know what I was going to see: My marefriend in bed with some.. some other mare! She saw me look at her with disgust and got up. “ Caramel I'm so so sorry” I left without a word making sure to let her know that she was to leave the house. I slammed the door on the way out, I angrily took a pebble from our yard and chucked it at the bedroom window, it shattered on impact. Then I just took off running not caring where my hooves would take me, I just ran. I didn't take notice to the “Now Leaving Ponyville” sign that I had passed or that I hadn't any money or place to stay. I stopped to lean against a tree to give myself some time to catch my breath. It was only then that I began to cry.
“W-W-Why d-d-d-did s-s-sh-she?” I kept repeating, I was certain that no one was there to hear my cries and sobs.
“Why did she wut?” I jumped at the deep and sudden voice. I tried to wipe my eyes.
“Oh nothing I'm just stupid...”
“Filly Problems?” He sat down next to me. “Th' names Big Macintosh and it seems ya could use somepony ta talk to right about now” I looked at the big stallion with those handsome green eyes, I could spend the day just gazing into them.
“The na-name's Caramel, and yeah, ever had a fillyfriend before?”
“Eenope ah couldn' help ya there but ya could talk 'bout it” The red colt replied. I smiled
“I wouldn't want to bother you with my problems” He pulled out a handkerchief and handed it too me
“Ah've got time, 'sides if ah was cryin ah'd want somepony ta talk ta. So what happened?” I told him about the whole ordeal and he gave the occasional Eeyup and Eenope even shed a tear when I told him about when I found her with another mare. “That there is ah mighty big waste o' love, ah fer one don't get why ponies cheat it just ain't right. Eenope, I can't stand it.”
“I don't either, well it was nice talking to you, it helped clear my head. Sadly I don't think i'll be seeing you around I'm off to Canterlot to make a fresh start.”
“You'll have ta come back an' visit me sometime” he chuckled lightly
“I'll try to do just that” With that I was off, I walked to the nearest train station that wasn't in Ponyville and bummed the ride off my friend who works as the conductor on the train. I rode to Canterlot got off and walked to my parents' house, it was time to see them again. They assaulted me with questions and barraged me with worried looks, taking me in but only for the month until I found a job and a new place. It turns out every city needs a deliverypony, and the pay was good enough to afford a new place close to the Royal Castle.
Eleven Months Later, one day I was delivering some AppleJack Daniels to a bar close to my Apartment, and having a nice friendly talk with the bartender when a big red stallion approached me. “Been ah while hasn't it Caramel?”
“Ah am deliverin apples fer ah party, somthin bout mah sister's friend's brother gettin married ta ah princess but aint attendin. Ah am not one for parties are you?” I took a seat next to him.
“I don't like wedding parties for some reason but I love holidays, and that little mishap I had before I left Ponyville I'm sure you remember it, spoiled my Hearth's Warming. Shame, it's my favorite holiday.” He wrapped a hoof around me.
"Yah gonna start cryin?" He teased. I shrugged his hoof off of me.
"It's a shame that it's almost Hearth's Warming again, I'll be left alone this holiday" Tears begin to well up In my eyes, and I frantically tried to blink them away, no use. Tears began to flow from my eyes, Mac rushes a hoof to my eyes and back around me.
"Hey now, why don' yah come back ta ponyville and spend Hearth's Warming with me? ya know as friends? Ah generally keep ta myself so ah don' have many friends." I try to contain my tears, but my efforts are useless as I just seem to keep crying. I realize that i'm in a bar.. in public.. and somehow contain the loud sobbing that occurs when I cry. "Or maybe it's something else" I think, but I quickly brush those thoughts away as i've got to maintain focus and not wail very loudly.. I could just lock myself in my apartment and cry later.
"Y-y-yeah.. s-s-sure, s-sounds n-n-nice" I barely manage. I bury my face into the closest thing, which happens to be... Big Mac's chest. But he doesn't seem to mind.. "that's because.." the nagging voice in my head teases. My sobbing seems to subside after a good while, my face buried in his coat the whole time. He notices this and hugs me. I look up at his bright smiling face, with that amazing blond mane, and those wonderful emerald green eyes.
"Ya okay?" His voice sounds so warm and inviting.
"Should be yeah, Thanks." I reach my hoof up to wipe away the remaining tears.. that didn't get absorbed in his coat, which is all wet and smothered.. thanks to me. "Sorry about that by the way.." I gesture my hoof to his chest.
"Don' worry about it, so you still wan' ta come back ta ponyville?" He releases me from the hug, I feel strangely cold without him pressed against me.. "You know why that is" I try to block that stupid nagging voice out, but it seems to intensify and command all my thoughts no matter how hard I try to ignore it. "Hello, Caramel.." I just barely snapped out of my thoughts to muster a reply.
"Yeah sure I'll go, sorry spaced out" I shrug it off with a laugh. I get the bartender's attention and order some of the AppleJack Daniels I had delivered. I received my drink and payed the bartender. "You want a drink? I'll pay."
"Eh.. fine, jus' ah small drink" I ordered another, and took a sip of mine. I payed the Bartender and got him a drink.
"So how long you in town for?" I asked.
"Jus' fer today, got to head home tomorrow." He took a sip of his drink, and kept talking. "So what have ya been up ta this past year?"
"Nothing much, I got a job as a deliverypony, just like I had in ponyville. What have you been up to?" I downed the rest of my drink.
"Jus' regular farm work, the harvest season is always the worst. But I don' mind ah hard day's work, makes me feel accomplished and such." He finished his drink as well. "Well I had better get going and get some sleep fer the train ride tomorrow. See ya around Caramel"
The knocking at the door took Caramel from his thoughts. "Oh buck, Mac said he'd be here a 7" He glanced at the clock on the wall, it read 7:05. The stallion quickly rushed to the door and turned the door knob, but the door was stuck. "No no no.. not now please.." The colt tried again and pulled really really hard, but the door wouldn't budge. "Just hold on a moment" He yelled. He rushed to a window about two feet from the door and opened it. "Sorry the door is stuck.. could you give it a buck?"
"Eeyup, stand back" The red stallion quickly bucked the door open. "Oh he is so strong.." The annoying thoughts were back. Caramel greeted Big Mac and closed the door, surprisingly nothing was broken.
"Thanks for coming, I still haven't unpacked.. and we've got a lot of work ahead of us if we want to clean this house.."
"Yer mighty welcome, ah don' mind helping ah friend out, where should we start?" The tan colt looked around quizzically.
"Um.. we could.. um... Start in the Library?" He motions over to a room filled with shelves and books.
"Alrighty, do ya have cleaning supplies?" Caramel walks over to a closet, and looks in it.
"Let's see here.. I've got a duster... and a broom.." He takes the items out of the closet, and hands them to Big Mac.
"Do ya have like a smock or something?" Caramel looks around.
"Yeah but it's too small for you... maybe" He walks off to go look for something. He comes back with a full Maids outfit "This is all I've got sorry.."
"It's fine, ah'll wear it." He nods his head, and takes the outfit. "Where is your bathroom?"
"Up the stairs and to your left, hurry up will you?"
"Ah'll try my best." He heads up the stairs and into the bathroom. Caramel quickly rushes back to where he found the maid's outfit and hides the rest of the clothes that were supposedly nonexistent. "You did that on purpose~" Big Mac uncomfortably walks down the stairs, Caramel hears this and turns around. "Lord is he always this sexy?" He blushes but lightly enough so his coat conceals this. "Can we er.. get ta the cleanin?" The red stallion was blushing immensely, visible even through his red coat.
"Y-yeah sure.. just follow me to the Library" The brown haired colt trots over to the Library followed closely by the red maid. "So um.. I suppose just dust this place off and remove the cobwebs?"
"Eenope, we're goin' ta cut the grass, paint the walls.." the stallion went on but Caramel didn't catch it he was too busy being lost in those eyes, gazing at the perfect blond mane, admiring those well toned muscles. "Caramel... Caramel?"
"wha? Erm.. yeah? sorry"
"I was saying we should get started.." The tan colt's tummy let out a huge grumble.
"Can we eat first?" Caramel dashes to the fridge, opens it, and sighs because there is not a scrap in sight. "Problem.. I don't have any food here"
