//------------------------------// // Peary's Change // Story: The Rotten Pear // by Catrina37 //------------------------------// Chapter 5: Peary's Change “The next day, Posy and the foals packed up their things and moved back to Ponyville. Before they left, Peary showed a look of sadness at me, like he was still crying. Same went with Pear Blossom. Big Bosc, on the other hand, gave me the cold shoulder when he left...” Posy packed the last of their stuff onto their wagon and trotted into it with their foals in tow. With a wave of her hoof forward, she gave the signal for the cart pony to go. Peary cried and shedded tears as he saw his father from the cart one last time, thinking he will never be part of the family business. Pear Blossom turned away from her father in silence, and though it was never shown, she too was going to miss him. Big Bosc just harshly turned away from his father and never looked back. **** The flashback ends temporarily when Applejack spoke up. "Hold up!" Applejack said, "Now I remember! You were the neighbors mom visited when you came to Ponyville. I remember us having tea together when I was the cake twins age." "Nice of you to remember our tea parties, Applejack.” Posy said. "But why didn't any of you, Mom, or Dad tell us we were related to ya?" "It was your mother's wish. She didn't want to risk you meeting Grand Pear and going through the same pain she felt when she was disowned." "Considering what I was like in my youth, it was for the best," Grand Pear glumly agreed. "What happened next, Grand Pear?" Megan asked. Grand Pear continued, "As the years went by...” **** “...I went back to work on my pear jam production. I continued making my special jam in order to make ends meet for Posy and the foals. Besides, my business was all I got left. Red Bosc and Pear Spice, my niece and nephew, were there to help me run and manage things. Business never felt so good." Grand Pear is in Vanhoover, selling his pear jam at a stand just like he did in Ponyville. He’s giving away one of his jars to a customer, who happily paid five bits for it and took the jar without a second thought. The customer left Grand Pear’s stand, leaving him to look on with happiness at the joy the pony had on getting the jam. **** "Meanwhile, I already started up my flower-growing business,” Posy narrated, “My shop may not be a big business, but it was good for the family. Pear Blossom enjoyed growing and arranging flowers, while Big Bosc enjoyed planting seeds and soiling them. Peary Bits, however, stayed out of the flower business and focused more on making pear butter...” The time was 3:00 in the afternoon, and Peary was in the kitchen making his own pear butter like the time he shared some with his dad. With a dip of his hoof, he tasted the prepared jam, and knew right away that it was ready. Unknown to him however, not even after the door made an opening sound, Big Bosc came into the kitchen. At first, he was only coming in to grab a snack from all the hard work he did today, but then... He noticed what Peary was up to! Making pear jam! He gritted his teeth at the thought of Peary taking part in the pear business, because to him, it was the same business that his father chose over his big sister. He walked up to Peary while the latter wasn’t looking, and bucked the jar of pear butter out of his hooves, causing the jar to fall on the floor and break. He barely knew what hit him until he saw Big Bosc standing in front of him. "No pear products allowed in this house, Peary!" Big Bosc yelled. As if someone had just taken away something precious to him, Peary cries because of what his older brother did and said to him. He cried until his mom came in a saw the scene. She glared at Big Bosc when she trotted in. "Big Bosc? What happened?" Posy demanded to know. “Nothing of your concern.” Big Bosc bitterly replied. "I was making pear butter when Big Bosc took the jar full of it and broke it!" Peary answered for him with a sob. Posy gave Big Bosc the stare to no effect on the stubborn pony. "I don't want any trace of that jerk in this house! Peary is forbidden from making anything involving pears!” Big bosc shouted. Peary stopped crying and contorted his face into anger. He bucked his brother in the face and ran upstairs while his brother rubbed the pain away from his snout. "OW! That little twerp!" "You deserved it after the way you treated him!" Posy yelled, "Now clean up this mess you made while I go talk to him!" Big Bosc growled when his mother left. “That was the start of Peary's Change,” Posy narrated, “but not for the better.”