A Dab Of Forbidden Caramel
Chapter 2: Cleaning Up
I jumped. “How did you know where I was?”
“Ah am deliverin apples fer ah party, somthin bout mah sister's friend's brother gettin married ta ah princess but aint attendin. Ah am not one for parties are you?” I took a seat next to him.
“I don't like wedding parties for some reason but I love holidays, and that little mishap I had before I left Ponyville I'm sure you remember it, spoiled my Hearth's Warming. Shame, it's my favorite holiday.” He wrapped a hoof around me.
"Yah gonna start cryin?" He teased. I shrugged his hoof off of me.
"It's a shame that it's almost Hearth's Warming again, I'll be left alone this holiday" Tears begin to well up In my eyes, and I frantically tried to blink them away, no use. Tears began to flow from my eyes, Mac rushes a hoof to my eyes and back around me.
"Hey now, why don' yah come back ta ponyville and spend Hearth's Warming with me? ya know as friends? Ah generally keep ta myself so ah don' have many friends." I try to contain my tears, but my efforts are useless as I just seem to keep crying. I realize that i'm in a bar.. in public.. and somehow contain the loud sobbing that occurs when I cry. "Or maybe it's something else" I think, but I quickly brush those thoughts away as i've got to maintain focus and not wail very loudly.. I could just lock myself in my apartment and cry later.
"Y-y-yeah.. s-s-sure, s-sounds n-n-nice" I barely manage. I bury my face into the closest thing, which happens to be... Big Mac's chest. But he doesn't seem to mind.. "that's because.." the nagging voice in my head teases. My sobbing seems to subside after a good while, my face buried in his coat the whole time. He notices this and hugs me. I look up at his bright smiling face, with that amazing blond mane, and those wonderful emerald green eyes.
"Ya okay?" His voice sounds so warm and inviting.
"Should be yeah, Thanks." I reach my hoof up to wipe away the remaining tears.. that didn't get absorbed in his coat, which is all wet and smothered.. thanks to me. "Sorry about that by the way.." I gesture my hoof to his chest.
"Don' worry about it, so you still wan' ta come back ta ponyville?" He releases me from the hug, I feel strangely cold without him pressed against me.. "You know why that is" I try to block that stupid nagging voice out, but it seems to intensify and command all my thoughts no matter how hard I try to ignore it. "Hello, Caramel.." I just barely snapped out of my thoughts to muster a reply.
"Yeah sure I'll go, sorry spaced out" I shrug it off with a laugh. I get the bartender's attention and order some of the AppleJack Daniels I had delivered. I received my drink and payed the bartender. "You want a drink? I'll pay."
"Eh.. fine, jus' ah small drink" I ordered another, and took a sip of mine. I payed the Bartender and got him a drink.
"So how long you in town for?" I asked.
"Jus' fer today, got to head home tomorrow." He took a sip of his drink, and kept talking. "So what have ya been up ta this past year?"
"Nothing much, I got a job as a deliverypony, just like I had in ponyville. What have you been up to?" I downed the rest of my drink.
"Jus' regular farm work, the harvest season is always the worst. But I don' mind ah hard day's work, makes me feel accomplished and such." He finished his drink as well. "Well I had better get going and get some sleep fer the train ride tomorrow. See ya around Caramel"
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The knocking at the door took Caramel from his thoughts. "Oh buck, Mac said he'd be here a 7" He glanced at the clock on the wall, it read 7:05. The stallion quickly rushed to the door and turned the door knob, but the door was stuck. "No no no.. not now please.." The colt tried again and pulled really really hard, but the door wouldn't budge. "Just hold on a moment" He yelled. He rushed to a window about two feet from the door and opened it. "Sorry the door is stuck.. could you give it a buck?"
"Eeyup, stand back" The red stallion quickly bucked the door open. "Oh he is so strong.." The annoying thoughts were back. Caramel greeted Big Mac and closed the door, surprisingly nothing was broken.
"Thanks for coming, I still haven't unpacked.. and we've got a lot of work ahead of us if we want to clean this house.."
"Yer mighty welcome, ah don' mind helping ah friend out, where should we start?" The tan colt looked around quizzically.
"Um.. we could.. um... Start in the Library?" He motions over to a room filled with shelves and books.
"Alrighty, do ya have cleaning supplies?" Caramel walks over to a closet, and looks in it.
"Let's see here.. I've got a duster... and a broom.." He takes the items out of the closet, and hands them to Big Mac.
"Do ya have like a smock or something?" Caramel looks around.
"Yeah but it's too small for you... maybe" He walks off to go look for something. He comes back with a full Maids outfit "This is all I've got sorry.."
"It's fine, ah'll wear it." He nods his head, and takes the outfit. "Where is your bathroom?"
"Up the stairs and to your left, hurry up will you?"
"Ah'll try my best." He heads up the stairs and into the bathroom. Caramel quickly rushes back to where he found the maid's outfit and hides the rest of the clothes that were supposedly nonexistent. "You did that on purpose~" Big Mac uncomfortably walks down the stairs, Caramel hears this and turns around. "Lord is he always this sexy?" He blushes but lightly enough so his coat conceals this. "Can we er.. get ta the cleanin?" The red stallion was blushing immensely, visible even through his red coat.
"Y-yeah sure.. just follow me to the Library" The brown haired colt trots over to the Library followed closely by the red maid. "So um.. I suppose just dust this place off and remove the cobwebs?"
"Eenope, we're goin' ta cut the grass, paint the walls.." the stallion went on but Caramel didn't catch it he was too busy being lost in those eyes, gazing at the perfect blond mane, admiring those well toned muscles. "Caramel... Caramel?"
"wha? Erm.. yeah? sorry"
"I was saying we should get started.." The tan colt's tummy let out a huge grumble.
"Can we eat first?" Caramel dashes to the fridge, opens it, and sighs because there is not a scrap in sight. "Problem.. I don't have any food here"
"We can go out to eat, I'll pay"