“Thanks for the soup mother!”
“Yeah it was fantastic as it always is!”
Mint and Charm said with gratitude. They finished washing their dishes and made their way out into the living room, happy and stuff.
“When do you think Santa Pony is coming?”
“I dunno but hopefully it’s later today, but I doubt it since it’s not Hearth Warming yet!”
The fillies sat down, wondering what to do next, maybe go outside and play with the snow or kick ball? Or tag, lots of things to keep a filly entertained. Their mother and father had an idea what they could do. It’s a chore, they might like cleaning them?
“Girls I have something for you to do, it involves a chore though, remember how you helped decorated the living room?”
The fillies smiled and replied with a yes. A tiny bit excited after they heard the word chore.
“Well the attic can use that too, we would also like a tree to be set up there after of course it’s perfectly dusted, the attic doesn’t have to be perfectly clean, because it’s an attic. Do you want to decorate the attic?”
The mother asked the filles with a smile on her face.
“And you don’t have to worry about falling because I’m behind you when you both are going up the ladder to make sure you don’t fall and when you’re ready to come back down, just yell for me.”
The father made sure the filles wasn’t going to get hurt, well as long as he’s around that is. Mint didn’t want to but after being constantly bugged by Charm to do it, she accepted.
“Fine Charm, I go up there with you to help you decorate the attic...”
“That’s the spirit girls, no go with your father!”
The girls fallowed their Dad into the hallway and then up the attic after he opened it. When they got up in the attic, it was very dark and the fillies was reconsidering their choice until a bright light appeared, shinning the room with boxes and dust, in the boxes was Hearth Warm Eve ornaments and decorations. The girls cough from the dust. The father opened the window to the right. It has a screen and was small, the fillies can’t fall out it.
“There you go girls. Make sure to have fun and get along.”
The father said climbing back down the ladder and leaving it open as a reminder the fillies are up in the attic and so he can hear them call for him. They turned to the rest of the attic, looking at each other with ideas after they done cleaning. They already spotted the duster on the dusty wooden table, two of them in fact, so this was already planned.
“Come on Mint, let’s start dusting so we can get to the fun part!”
Charm ran towards the table with the two dusters on it grabbing them and them, turning around with a smile and another one in her hoof for Mint to take. Mint sighed with annoyance, but reluctantly walked towards Charm and grabbed the duster from her.
“That’s the spirit! Let’s start with this table!”
Charm took her duster, and started to dust the wooden circle shape table, lots of dust was coming off of the table, making Mint cough. How could Charm not cough from that amount of dust? Probably because she didn’t pay attention to it and didn’t inhale it in. Mint smirked.
“Oh no you don’t, you’re not leaving me in the dust, literally.”
Mint started dusting the table with Charm, both doing it from side to side, eventually meeting each other dusters in the middle, they both giggled and circled the table, dusting it completely off, the fillies then split up around the room dusting off the stands and dressers, then the boxes around the room with Hearth Warming Eve supplies and decorations. The fillies met up again in the middle with smiles as they looked around the attic.
“Well, I think we’re done.”
“Yes with dusting but not with sweeping, that dust had to go somewhere, I get the broom!”
“Then I’ll get the dustpan.”
Charm grabbed the dustpan, Mint grabbed the broom and started sweeping, sweeping the attic from one side to the other, making sure not to hit or trip over the ornaments.
“Make sure not to miss underneath the bed up here and dresser.”
“Don’t worry I didn’t, I just wanted to clean the floor first!”
Charm started sweeping from underneath the bed, hitting what felt like a case, she was curious, so she swept it from underneath the bed, Mint was curious when she saw it, she took the dustpan and dumped the dust into the trashcan, then made her way back to the suit case, Charm already picked it up and put it on the bed, blowing it off away from the bed, then viewing the name: “Old Memories.” The fillies opened it and saw many photos of what looks like them when they were babies.
“Awe look at you Charm, holding your yellow blanket tightly in your small crib!”
“Oh yeah, look at you sleeping in your crib in your diaper!”
The fillies adored the suit case photos, leaving it there and sweeping the rest of the room, then after they empty the dust pan, they went back to the suit case and stared at more picture before putting the suit case back under the bed cleaned off and closed tightly so their parents wouldn’t find out they stared at the photos, although that probably wouldn’t matter to them.
“Well, I guess we should start to decorate the room and light it up right?”
Mint was still remembering the photos, she was day dreaming. Charm bumped a hoof against he chest, waking her from her day dreaming.
“Huh?”
“Want to help decorate, because you were day dream.”
“Yeah, sorry, what should we start on first?”
“I think the tree, we should start on the tree over here and add light to it first to see better.”
Mint agreed, both fillies walked over to the tree and spotted a box of lights in it. Charm grabbed a bunch of green cord and multi color lights out of the box. Mint used her head and pushed the box to the tree up in the attic. Charm laughed, guess that would be more easy. She walked over to the tree and started putting them up, making sure not to miss a single spot on the branches, Mint started putting the yellow bright lights on from the bottom of the tree, working her way to the top, the fillies used their teeth to put the lights on, making sure not to bite too hard. They met up in the middle where they almost bumped each other in the nose, the stared at each other and laughing, before their attention turned to the window that let them see a strong breeze outside.
“Must be cold outside.”
“Yeah if the breeze is that strong.”
Mint told Charm. The blue earth pony said with fear Charm might want to go outside and play, that would mean she would be bugged to death too and she ain’t going out in that cold weather. The fillies continued to decorate the tree, grabbing the nut crackers out and putting them on it, there was 10 so this was enough to go around the entre tree 1 time, the tree was about 2 and a half hooves tall. Charm ran under the bed and grabbed the red circle rug with white balls at the end of the circumference.
“Can you lift the tree a little please mint?”
Mint sighed with annoyance and did what Charm asked, pulling the tree towards her, the rug was nearly under but not in the middle of the tree legs.
“Can you do it again Mint but front the side across from you?”
Mint rolled her eyes to the back of her head, walking over to the side across from her and pulling the tree, the tree was in perfect center with the rug. Charm looked around, thinking what else she could do for the tree. She saw a box in the corner to the left, she saw multi color bulbs. She walked over to it and pushed the box over with her head, Mint smirked. Seems like Charm is learning after all.
“How you girls doing up there!?”
Their father asked with concern in his voice. The fillies replied fine, they were working on the tree. The father smiled and walked back to the living room.
“Let’s put the bulbs onto the tree and then let’s take a break Charm.”
Charm smiled. She wasn’t tired but Mint is right, she would like to sit down, preferably on the bed up in the attic. The fillies set up the bulbs, putting green plastic hooks through them. The fillies counted the amount of bulbs. There was 18 green bulbs, 18 blue bulbs, 16 golden bulbs, and 20 red bulbs. They finished decorating the tree.
“Alright, Charm I’m sitting down.”
Mint was about to sit down onto the wooden plank floor.
“Wait, what about the bed, let’s sit down on that.”
Mint was annoyed Charm was trying to make her stand a little longer but she’s right. The floor is too dusty even after being sweeped. The fillies walked over to the bed and sat down, their legs dangling before laying down.
“Hope you’re not tied Charm.”
“Nope!”
Charm lied, she was tired and she knew Mint was too. The fillies ended up falling asleep. The father wanted to check up on the fillies after awhile due to not hearing the hoof steps he once heard. He climbed up the latter and turned his head to the left. Seeing the fillies asleep, he ain’t going to wake them up, instead, he made sure the windows was shut and grabbed a blanket from the box that was clean. He put it on the both of them before staring at their faces. They are such good fillies. The father smiled before walking towards the latter and climbing back down it, walking to the living room next to his wife the fillies fell asleep.
“So how’s the girl progress?”
The mother asked with a smile.
“They did a pretty good job a dusting, the floor needs a dusting so I probably do that after they leave the attic, looks like they attempted to dust the floor but must a few spots.”
“Well ain’t it about time they left the attic?”
“Well... They ended up falling asleep on the bed, so I made sure the windows was shut and they were covered up with a blanket big enough for the two of them.”
The mother walked over and gave the husband a smooch on his left face check.
“You’re such a good father. Guess we should go to bed to, since the living room is well decorated enough.”
The husband let out a fake yawn.
“Yeah you’re right.”
“That yawn was fake and you know it.”
The wife giggled, before they both walked to their room and went to bed. The lights was off, but the night lights and decorative lights was still on just in case the fillies wake up and aren’t scared.