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// Oh Hi There. 
// Story: How I fell in love with Caramel and things that happened afterwards. 
// by The Dude 
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And a very long day it was. Very.

After Mac left our usual business day began to unfold. Which consists of Trips and I talking about inappropriate things while we ring up the occasional customer. But today not a lot of people were coming in, so after Mac left the store was kind of a ghost town besides Trips and I. So we pretty just kept talking about whatever was relevant or important.

"Eh, I could never really get into Doctor Whooves, just wasn't my thing."

Important things.

I nodded my head,"I watched the first couple seasons of the revival. After that I just wasn't interested anymore. Although I can't deny that the 10th doctor was super hot." I said.

"You mean the dude with spikey hair?" Trips said,"Oh celestia you are so gay."

"Bi-sexual silly buns." I corrected in the most comically feminine voice I could muster.

"Sure." He said. He then picked up a pencil that was laying on the counter and dropped it behind him. "Ooops." He said, turning around and bending over in front of me.

While it's usually not my job to rate my close friends butt, it's not really hard to do when there's barely any butt there. Trips behind was rather sad, a big boney reminder of what could be there.

I scoffed as he picked up the pencil and set it back on the counter, grinning from ear to ear. But our shenanigans would have to wait as we both heard the bell over the door ring. And pleasantly it was somepony who didn't come often, but when she came it was a pretty nice visit. It was always nice to see Twilight Sparkle, or what she's called now, Princess Twilight Sparkle.

Pretty much everypony knows about our new Alicorn princess. And after her big discovery and celebration, she decided to keep on living here in Ponyville. After a little while a lot of the hype died down and we all kinda got used to her being a princess. And it's been a little while since I saw her, back when she was just Twilight Sparkle.

She awkwardly trotted in the store and and began looking around. I creepily watched her browse for music for about ten minutes, since there was really nothing else to do. I awkwardly looked over to Trips to see what he was going to make of all this. Like always, Trips seemed very uninterested in the Royalty in our store and more interested in mumbling to himself.

Finally Twilight came up to the counter laying down two records. "Hi Twilight."

"Uh...hey High Note. How've you been?" She said. I guess even her new god status hasn't relieved any of her natural social awkwardness.

"Been good. How've you been?" I asked stupidly.

"Um...been... pretty good. Got wings now." She said.

"I can see that." To end this uncomfortable transaction I picked up the two records Twilight layed on the counter. "Alright an MC Frontalot album, and the new Bibio." The fun thing about working here was finding out the music everypony was into. Big mac is big into hard punk, Colgate is into smooth jazz, and Twilight in particular is mostly into Electronic and Nerdcore. Two music styles perfectly suited to the type of Pony who would rather read books then go outside.

"All righty then, that'll be 50 bits." She quickly pulled out a coin purse and emptied most of it onto the counter. After a quick couple seconds of counting I said,"All right then, take care." she grabbed both of her records and quickly walked out of the store.

"Well that was.....odd." I said.

"Duh of course it was. She's a princess now, she must feel awkward all the time. She's practically a comic book character, of course it's gonna be weird for her buying a record."

I nodded my head, it made sense but it doesn't mean I'm not gonna miss when she would come in and buy some stuff while we had a quick chat. But whatever, the day still isn't over.

After that we didn't a lot of customers. Some ponies came in and browsed, somepony came in and bought a Radiohead album, not sure which since they all kind of suck. But nothing really special after that.

Around 1 o clock I felt my stomach finally digest the breakfast I had that morning and demand me for more. So I decided I was going to pop out and get something for lunch while Trips watched the store.

"Do you want anything?" I asked.

Trips was downing the final beer in the fridge when I asked him this. Once he was done drinking and wiping his lips he yelled, "More booze!!!".

I groaned. I didn't like that he drank so much, but when he was sober all he would do his complain about the lack of booze. "Fine,anything in particular?".

"Get me a thing of wine and put it in the freezer. I wanna have a wine lolly like in Black Books."

"Fine." And with that I closed the door and headed out to get some lunch.

If you've never been, know that Ponyville is a really great place. Everypony who lives here is nice and caring, Something I assume Trips probably hates about this place. But anyway, today in particular was a nice, bright sunny day, like everyday but particularly nice and sunny.

There's a small little sandwich shop, a little to the left of Sugarcube Corner. So after you fill your belly with food, you can later fill it with sugary food. But I wasn't in the mood for cupcakes or silly antics from an infamous pink pony, just a sandwich.

The restaurant in particular was called "Dough Bros. Sandwiches", a place I visit sometimes during the week. Usually I go back to my apartment and make something, but I was too lazy to do that today so I'll go get food by people who make it for a living.

I walked through the door and heard a familiar "Ting-a-ling" above me. The place was pretty simple, a counter there, a condiment bar there, and a couple of tables if you didn't want to go outside. There were only a couple of ponies in line so I stepped in.

I stood in line for about five minutes, during that time thinking about what I was gonna be thinking about while waiting in this line. By the time I settled on panda bears I noticed all the ponies in front of me were gone. I quickly trotted up to the counter with an awkward smile up to a slightly annoyed sandwich artisan.

"What do you want?" He asked.

"I'll take a hay sandwich please."

"Alright that will be three bits." I payed for the sandwich and walked away to wait for my order.

"ORDER FOR CARAMEL!"

The name reminded me of some dark chocolate with caramel inside it. Reminder, get dark chocolate.

But as I was walking back I saw somepony get up from their seat and trot towards the counter. He had caramel fur and nice cute light brown hair. He was absolutely stunning, His hair style and smile made me.....feel rather weird.

As soon as I felt my cheeks get red hot I put my head down and began to walking faster. As soon as I took a seat I looked back to see him walk out the door with a bag of food in his mouth.

I need to eat something.





I walked back into the shop. "Hey trips, I have your wine."

Suddenly he appeared from behind the counter,"Already got ya covered." he said, slurring his words with a bottle of liquor.

"Uh okay..." I walked over to him and stupidly handed him the bottle."

"Perfect." He then slammed the bottle of wine against the wall, shattering it into pieces and spilling wine all over our floor.

Long day.