Chapter 1: Derpy
May 2, 2015 Wednesday
My life just seems like it's getting worse. I was once a great scientist, I worked on many studies and a few inventions. But then I lost that spark of creativity. The need to do what I do best, science. After that I pretty much quit my job and decided to work at a bar. I hope I can get that spark back but until then I'm working here to pay the bills. The job isn't terrible but it isn't great either. You a get an average pay and some tips from time to time. Of course the job has faults. For example, the bar fights. Random ponies in a drunken rage just get in a fight for no damn reason. And almost every time I get in the middle of it. I haven't gotten injured but it still freaking hurts.
I just wish I could get that spark back, the reason to make the passion. But like I said I'll just wait until I do.
May 5, 2015 Saturday
I lost my job today. Remember that getting in the middle of fights thing? Well normally the bar's crowded on weekends it always is, and with more ponies there's more fights. I get punch a few times drop some drinks and for the most part I just kept it in. But then this one stallion just goes a little too far. I bump into this one pony and I spill a drink on him and he is pissed. And remember the place is crowded so it's impossible not to bump into somepony. The stallion pushes me back on the and someone steps on my freaking nose and bam I snap. I come and punch the shit out of this guy and my boss sees this. I then lock eyes with my boss and I can tell he's pissed.
So instead of my boss rationalizing things he just kicks me out and fires me. Okay, he didn't just kick me out he told that the number one rule is to not get physical with customers. If only I could show him what happened I wouldn't be fired. So I walk down the streets and it starts pouring down raining. And now I'm pissed off I can't take anymore I just try to yell my anger away. But one mare caught me angry and she had an umbrella. She came over to see if I was okay. I looked at her I looked at her for a second to see if I was seeing things right. I noticed that something was wrong with her eyes.
One pupil was up and the other was down. She tried to give me the umbrella and I told her no but she insisted anyways. So I took the umbrella and she was obviously getting poured on but she enjoyed it and said "Ah, refreshing." I decided to take her to my place since it was close. I took her inside and dried her off and thanked her. I even asked for her name. Her name was Derpy, and she lived not too far away and was taking a walk outside. Before she went outside I turned on my radio and heard an announcement. The announcement advised nopony to go outside because due to a weather factory error.
I told her she could stay here for the night since she did give me the umbrella. I only had one bed and light, but no couch, since I sold it to pay for one month’s worth of rent. Although I still had a two person bed , and I know I should've sold the bed and gotten a cheap small bed but there was no reason for a couch and the bed was special. So we had to sleep together and well, when Derpy slept, she looked kinda cute. Now hold on, I didn't do anything to her, I just thought she was kinda cute and nice, wow that just happened. Well I guess I could talk with her tomorrow, I mean she did seem nice, I guess it couldn't hurt.
May 6, 2015 Sunday
So there are a lot of possible job options, most of them one time cleaning jobs. Oh Derpy, well that I... eh heh, that turned out good and bad. I walked with her home and we talked a bit and she's an okay pony. But man did that storm do a lot of damage. A lot of gardens were drowned out, trees were down, and this one house's roof collapsed. And by one house I mean Derpy's house. She looked over the house and she wasn't sad, but she wasn't happy either. Derpy's house was pretty much uninhabitable and it would take at least the insurance companies at best 3 months to fix the house.
I asked her if she had any where to stay and she didn't. Well I didn't know anyone either so I thought maybe she could stay at my place. Wait Derpy can't stay at my place! I have no job, and that means I can't pay rent, so fuck. Well maybe I can get a job. I mean there's plenty of cleaning jobs and Derpy can help pay rent so what the hell. So I told her she could stay at my place for a while, and she agreed. So Derpy took her stuff that wasn't destroyed and came with me. Although I just met her yesterday I could tell things are going to be a lot better from now on.
So I went home with Derpy and she made muffins. Now I don't like muffins but these were good, like really good. Then I thought of something, a way to pay the rent. A bake sale! I told Derpy the idea and she loved it. So she made about 50 more while I setup a table in front of the house and put up a sign. At first there was nothing for a hour but then the storm cleaners came by and bought some. Soon me and Derpy had to start making a lot more due to how much people liked them so much. We soon stopped because it was getting tiresome but it was fun otherwise. It has been a long time since I laughed this hard, and Derpy laughed a lot too.. It's been a long time since I've had fun like this and it was great.
Derpy became my friend that day and she became mine. A wonderful friendship started that day, something I haven't had in a long time. So yeah, pretty much a great day. I wonder what tomorrow will bring us. Maybe tomorrow we should sell more. We did make a lot of bits today, about 94 bits. That's almost a hundred. Minus the money we'll need for the recipe and it comes out to a profit of 72 bits. Minus the rent and we have 32 bits. Wow that’s great-- I only make about 7 bits a week and I just made 32 bits in profit off of making muffins. Well, me and Derpy made a profit so I split the money I so we would both have 16 bits. Wow, that's still great compared to the money I usually make. That's 2 weeks of pay made in one day.
I will definitely do this again, it was fun! I had a great time today, maybe I'll get my spark back. Soon I hope, soon.
May 7, 2015 Monday
Busy, busy day today. Well, Derpy's house isn't the only house that was destroyed. Many others experienced the storm and it left many ponies' houses in ruins until they could be fixed. So, I woke up to a knocking at the door and Derpy was still asleep. I went to answer the door, and it turned out to be the mayor. Apparently she knew about the muffins we made and wanted us to make some for the currently homeless ponies. Now you might be thinking she asked us to volunteer right? Wrong. The mayor upright said that she'd pay me and Derpy for the job. And we didn't even have to buy ingredients, as the Mayor would supply them. I went upstairs and told Derpy and sure enough, she was ready.
So we went to the sugar cube corner and started baking muffins with the help of Pinkie Pie as well. There was a lot of ponies, about 16 families. All of them with houses that were damaged badly or were completely destroyed. The looks on fillies’ faces were saddening until they ate Derpy's muffins, of course. Their faces brightened up once the fillies ate the muffins and made the rather horrible mood bright and hopeful. Of course after that more ponies came by, and some that weren't homeless just bought some. Of course with so many ponies there was chaos in the kitchen. Luckily, the mayor sent some volunteers to help make muffins.
So after it was done the amount of muffins given were 237 and amount of muffins sold were 47. The mayor gave me and Derpy 75 bits which was great, but Derpy didn't accept the money. She just loved making muffins so much that she didn't want to be paid for it. That was extremely nice of Derpy, as she could've bought herself something nice but she didn't take the money because she enjoyed herself and that's all she wanted. Derpy just wanted to have fun, and that was it. Of course I kept my money but I knew I had to make it up to Derpy, so I thought of a idea. Tomorrow I'd take her to dinner, as friends, and just as friends. Well I'm going to bed, as it's been a busy day and I want to get some sleep for tomorrow night, so I'm gonna go to bed early. Well, I'll write in my journal tomorrow, I guess.