August13
I woke up when I felt Meghan moving around, but I really didn't want to get out of bed 'cause I was still exhausted.
She ran her fingers across my wing and I could feel her probing at bent feathers, so I stretched my wing out on her lap and she started preening it for me, and I closed my eyes and I didn't really sleep but I wasn't really awake either.
I only vaguely remember Meghan getting out of bed and moving over to my right side so she could get that wing, so it was a little weird when I really woke up enough to notice. By then she'd finished with my wings and was running a curry brush over my coat even though I hadn't taken a shower yet.
When she leaned over me, I bent around and kissed her tummy and she told me to sit still until I was done being groomed. I wanted to, 'cause it felt good, but I didn't want to 'cause I wanted to kiss and nuzzle her. She said I was being too squirmy, and I stuck my tongue out at her then licked her cheek.
She put down the brush and tackled me, then got me rolled on my back and ran her hand along my belly and I submitted pretty quickly.
We cuddled up in bed after we'd both worn each other out, and by the time we finally got up for a shower it was almost noon, and we were both hungry, too.
So I turned on the shower and let it get warm and even though we were both hungry we stayed in until the water started to get cold, and after she'd turned off the water I told her to get out first so that I could shake myself off and she said that she didn't mind if I did while she was still in the shower.
Since I was facing the front, I don't think that I splashed too much on her. And she said it wasn't fair that people couldn't do that because it would make getting dried off a lot quicker. I told her that maybe if she practiced she could.
I helped dry her off, and then I said that I was going to make breakfast for us, and she asked me what I was going to make, and I said that it was a surprise, and then she asked if it was pancakes and scrambled eggs.
I said that I hadn't planned on making scrambled eggs and how did she guess I was going to make pancakes. She said that she'd seen all the pancakes in the electric icebox that all had one bite out of them and that she'd wondered why but while she was brushing me she'd realized that I had been tasting them.
Then she said that just reheating them would be a good breakfast, and while they were warming up in the oven we could make scrambled eggs and I guess that would have been smarter but I wanted to cook, 'cause I was proud of myself for figuring it out without any help. So I got out the dishes and started mixing the batter and she asked if chefs in restaurants held the stirring spoon in their mouth.
I guess they did—I hadn't ever been in a restaurant kitchen, but at the tavern that was how Zucche Fritte always stirred the stew, and how she served it, too.
Meghan said that she'd really like to see a pony kitchen. She said that was the kind of thing that nobody ever talked about in any of the movies of Equestria that they showed on Earth. There were sometimes pictures on the internet, but you had to guess how the ponies were using the appliances in the kitchen.
I didn't know about other kitchens, but I told her that one time a ship captain I'd never seen before had tried to go into the kitchen to get his food. 'Cause my weather team had come in after him and Zucche had brought us food first and I guess he'd been mad about that. He was a jerk, though, that's why, and anyway our meal had been ready for us already 'cause we always ate dinner at the tavern after our Moon's-day patrol. He got whacked in the muzzle with a spoon before he had even made it all the way in and chased right back out of there.
I don't think that tavern cooks like having guests in their kitchens.
Meghan was laughing after I told her about that and I said that we'd never seen him in town after that happened. Zucche told me later that she'd heard that he normally sailed to Baltimare and she thought that maybe that was how ponies in Baltimare behaved.
She said that cooks on Earth were like that, too. Not friends like us but cooks who worked in actual restaurants.
I'd learned from my last time cooking and none of the pancakes got burned and they all looked like they were cooked all the way through. Meghan rinsed out the mixing bowl so I could use it to mix up the eggs, and she said that I ought to put the pancakes in the oven to keep them warm. And I didn't have to clean out the frying pan before scrambling the eggs in it.
She said that I was halfway to learning how to make omelets too and I'd never even thought about cooking my own omelet but now I wanted to.
We had to share a plate 'cause one of them had my experimental pancakes on it and the other one had all the new pancakes and I had to use another one to put the scrambled eggs on so that they wouldn't burn.
Meghan liked how the maple flavor was cooked right into the pancakes, and she ate the first one plain and then I got out the jar of Nutella and we each had a second pancake with Nutella on it and they were even better that way.
We talked about what we wanted to do for the weekend, and I said that I wanted to ride the horses again, and we decided since it was already kind of late today we could do that tomorrow, and today we'd just have a lazy day.
Well, we stayed lazy watching the birds in the papasan and talking for a little while until someone knocked on my door and Meghan said that I shouldn't answer it but I thought that I ought to. So I got up and flew around the apartment to see who it was, and it was Trinity and Lindy and Caleb. I told them to wait where they were and I'd be right back.
So I told Meghan and said that they wanted to go Pokemon hunting before dinner, and we decided that we would go with them but she had to put on clothes first. I flew back and talked to them while Meghan was getting dressed, and then she came downstairs and out the front door and we went hunting.
They found a bunch of Pokemons, but nothing new, and then when we got back to their house Caleb asked if we wanted to play some basketball with them. I'd never played before, but the concept was pretty simple: throw the ball through the hoop. Just because it seemed simple didn't make it simple, though, and I was not a very good basketball player.
We played a game called 'horse' (and Caleb snickered when he named it) which was where we each had to try and make a basket from five different spots. So we took turns like that, and Caleb and Trinity were pretty good and the rest of us weren't. Lindy said it wasn't fair being beaten by her little sister, which I thought was kind of mean since she was beating me.
We played a second time and this time the winner of the last game—which was Caleb—got to choose where the first shot was taken from, and then after that you had to throw from wherever the last person had made their shot from.
So when it was my turn, and since I was going to lose anyway, I picked up the ball and flew up above the hoop and just dropped it straight down and said that was where everyone had to throw from. And Caleb thought that was cheating but Lindy said she thought it was fair and threw him the ball and told him to try.
Well, he did run and jump, but he didn't get very high off the ground and he bounced the ball off the board and not into the hoop, and I flew off after it and caught it on its second bounce.
Trinity asked if she could ride on my back and if I could fly her up to the hoop. I didn't think I could because her legs would be over my wings, but I said that I could carry her in my forehooves. If I'd thought about it more, I probably wouldn't have offered.
She was heavier than she looked and I really strained to get her up there, but I managed and she dropped the ball through the hoop and everyone agreed that that counted as a point.
We might have kept playing longer but Jeff called them in for dinner, and he said that he could make more if we wanted something, and that was really nice of him. We said that we already had dinner plans but thanked him anyways, and went back to my apartment.
Well, we hadn't really had dinner plans at all, and so Meghan said that we could take the bus to Meijer and get some groceries so that she could teach me how to make my own omelets.
So I got on my saddlebags and we walked to the bus stop, and before too long a bus came along and picked us up, and took us out to the Meijer that I liked, and then we walked around deciding what vegetables should go in it, and what kind of cheese. She said that I ought to get some mushrooms, too, but they didn't keep for very long, so we'd have to eat them quickly.
And she also showed me that there were eggs in little cartons that were already unshelled and mixed, and so I could pour them right into the pan without having to do anything. I liked that idea, 'cause breaking the eggshell isn't that hard but not getting it in the eggs is.
We also went down the aisles of kitchen tools, because she said that she wanted a pizza-cutter since nobody in her house had one. And it was kind of intimidating looking at all the different tools and I had no idea what most of them were for, so she explained them to me and got her pizza-cutter and then after we'd paid for the food we had to sit outside until the bus came to get us. This bus was completely empty when we got on 'cause Meijer was its last stop, so everybody who had ridden it out got off, and we got to pick the seats that we wanted. I liked the ones in the very front 'cause that was the best view of the road.
Meghan pointed to the sign in front of the movie theater as we went by and said that there was a new movie called Pete's Dragon that she wanted to see. She said it was about a boy who got lost in the woods and made friends with a dragon. I asked her if it was a real dragon in the movie 'cause the last movie with a dragon had been all animated drawings and not real at all. She said that it was probably CG, and then she asked if Equestrian dragons really looked like the one in the movie.
Since I hadn't seen the movie, or very many dragons, I didn't know.
We were both hungry by the time we got back to my apartment, and went right to make the omelets. Meghan was a little bit upset that I didn't have a cutting board or a sharp knife and I said that the blade on my glaive was pretty sharp. She said she'd keep that in mind for when she needed to go medieval on the vegetables but the butter knife I had would work well enough.
I hadn't ever thought I'd need a knife for the kitchen, which was why I didn't have one.
She didn't let me start on the eggs until all the vegetables were chopped up, and then she showed me how big I needed to make the flame and how I could tell if the pan was the right temperature by putting a couple of drops of water on it and watching them dance around. And then she had me put in the eggs and told me how to push the cooked eggs gently to the center so that the raw egg could get to the pan and be cooked.
Then when it was almost done, it was time to put in the vegetables and cheese, and fold it in half. I didn't do so well and tore it but she said that the cheese would melt and hold it together.
I didn't need as much coaching when I made the second one, 'cause I'd learned a lot from the first. I still didn't get it folded right, though, and it also sort of stuck to the pan when I went to get it out and a corner came off of it.
It wasn't as good as some of the other ones I'd had, but it was really good for a first try, I thought, and so did Meghan. She said that she'd make a chef out of me, and I said wouldn't it be funny to be the only pegasus in my village who could cook.
Once we'd cleaned up the kitchen we went down to the little park between the roads and sat on the grass and we talked some more about my home. She said it was a shame that I hadn't brought any pictures of it with me. I guess I'd never thought that people would be all that interested in that kind of thing, and anyway we didn't have a lot of pictures. It wasn't like on Earth where everybody had a pocket telephone and you could take so many pictures of everything. We'd heard that sometimes humans take pictures of their food even, although I'd never seen anybody do that so maybe it wasn't really true.
It was nice sitting in the park and just relaxing outside. It was pretty peaceful, too. We saw a couple of joggers go by and a woman who was walking her dog, and a few cars drove past but not all that many. And I pointed to the trees where there had been a Pokemon once and Meghan said she thought that a lot of times they kept showing up in the same places but at different times so maybe there was one there right now and we couldn't see it because neither of our pocket telephones would show Pokemons.
Then she asked if we had any invisible creatures in Equestria, or things like ghosts and I said that I didn't think so and that I'd never seen one which she thought was really funny.
I wouldn't have minded staying outside all night, but Meghan said she was getting a little bit chilly now that the sun was going down and anyways we weren't supposed to sit outside all night. So we went back to my apartment and I helped her get undressed for bed. She said that I ought to wear clothes sometime so that we could both undress each other because that would be a lot of fun, and I didn't really want to get clothes 'cause I'd tried Gusty's on and hadn't liked them all that much. I said that she'd helped me take my flight vest off a bunch of times and she said that didn't count.
So I sat down on the bed and put her shirt on and it was still warm from her wearing it and I asked if it counted now and she said I was so cute she had to take a picture of me.
She had me get into bed still wearing her shirt and said that she'd take it off me later, and then stuck her hand under it and started petting me and it felt different because I was wearing clothes, and since we were both enjoying it she didn't take the shirt off at all, which kind of put me at a disadvantage because I couldn't use my wings for anything and so I kind of felt trapped.
I don't know why, but that made the sex even more fun, and afterwards I didn't want her to take it off. She said I was being silly, but I didn't care if I was.