Lyra was doing a little bit of computer work to make sure that all the returned books were showed as returned on the library website. It was glitching out on her a little bit, it would not return Rarity's last check out titled Fashion Couture. Don't ask, I'm not good with making clever/catchy names. Eventually she gave up when a little white female unicorn walked up to the front desk.
"Oh hello Sweetie Belle." Lyra said, it was her most favorite customer, if customer were the word.
"Hi Lyra. How are you doing?"
"Good. Oh, TWO books! Are you sure you can read this many in a week?" Sweetie Belle was secretly a very slow reader, had anyone else said this, they'd get a mouth full of magic, literally. She knew Lyra would never say this to be mean though, so she gets our free.
"Yeah, oh hey, whats this?"
"Oh, its a baby monitor, just got it a week or so back."
"A baby monitor? So you have a baby?"
"Yes."
"COOL, can I see it?"
"Sure. Follow me." Lyra went up to Sweetie Belle then led her over to her room. "Right in here." Lyra said as she opened the door. "But be quiet, I just put her down for a nap an hour ago." she said lowering her voice.
The two unicorns went up ti the crib and looked at the baby.
"Shes so cute, whats her name?" Sweetie asked quietly.
"Her name is Viola."
"Do you think we could babysit her sometime?"
"We?"
"Me, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom."
"I don't know."
"You'd be helping us earn our cutie marks."
"Well, I guess, I could always listen in on you with the baby monitor and come if you need help."
"GREAT, we work at 5 bits an hour per pony per crusader and we will start in half an hour." then the excited little pony darted out of the room and Lyra heard the soft jingle of the bell on the door.
Lyra looked at Viola's sleeping body. She went over to her end of the baby monitor and turned up the mic on it. She doesn't want them making secret plans in there right? Then she went back to the front desk. Exactly half an hour after she said so, Sweetie Belle returned with the rest of the CMC. When I say exactly, I mean EXACTLY. Not even a millionth of a second off. Not a millionth of a billionth of a TRILLIONTH of a second. Ok, so maybe it wasn't perfectly exactly half an hour.
"Hello Lyra, we're here to start babysitting." Sweetie Belle looked up at the cyan mare and smiled.
"Ok, you know where she is, if you have any questions just ask through the baby monitor."
"Ok, will do." the white unicorn said as she led her friends to Lyra's room to take care of Viola.
Everything was going well that day. Nopony tried to steal a book, there were no problems with customers, again, that doesn't seem right, WHATS THE WORD? The CMC never asked any questions, they seemed to take care of Viola very well, every time Lyra took a break to check on them, they were taking better care of the baby than she did. Nothing was wrong, it couldn't get much more perfect. It was well until something on the baby monitor scared away lots of ponies from the library.
"Hey no fair, I want to be in!" Apple Bloom complained
"Oh relax, you'll be in next time." Scootaloo said.
"Yeah Apple Bloom. Besides, you've had more turns than either of us!" Sweetie Belle said.
"But I love doing it!" Apple Bloom complained some more.
"Shut up!" Scootaloo said. "Now lets start Sweetie."
"Ahhh. Ahhhh, ahh, AHHHH. Oh my god. AHHH." Sweetie Belle practically screamed.
"What are you girls doing in there?" Lyra asked through the baby monitor.
"Just moving some furniture." Apple Bloom responded after a few seconds nervously.
Lyra got up and went into the room. She froze in the doorway after opening it.
"What the heck?" Lyra asked hypothetically.
"I told you we were moving furniture." Apple Bloom said.
"But you said you love doing it. This makes no sense." she said looking at the misplaced furniture.
"Well, we think that we might be ponies who help other ponies move and that will be our cutie marks, and we just LOVE earning out cutie marks."
"What was the 'ahh ahh' thing though?"
"These chairs are heavier than you think." Sweetie Belle said sitting on a chair sweating.
"So, you, ok you know what, just don't make any noises that can be taken disturbingly please."
"Ok."
"And PLEASE take care of Viola!"
"Ohh her name is Viola?" Scootaloo asked. "I thought her name was Violin. I was thinking that is such a stupid name!"
Lyra facehoofed then left the room and went back to her job after grabbing a glass of water. Could this day get any weirder? After about 6 hours after they started, the CMC went up to Lyra at the front desk.
"Hey Lyra." Apple Bloom said. "We're done today, so we are gonna go back home."
"All right. Oh here is your pay." Lyra said as she used magic to take 180 bits from her purse and gave 60 to each crusader.
"WOW, this job gets a lot of money, we should keep it!" Scootaloo said staring at her newly earned currency in awe.
"Yeah but it was a bit boring." Sweetie Belle said as she put her money in a satchel she happened to have.
Then the three left, but right before the door closed and Lyra couldn't hear them anymore, two things were said.
"Hey, we should go play spin the bottle!" Scootaloo said.
"YEAH" the other two shouted in unison.
I should probably tell their parents or sisters. Lyra thought to herself. Ehh whatever. Then Lyra started a sudoku puzzle in her sudoku book she bought to pass the time in work. Wait, I wonder if they did anything to Viola? Then Lyra put the book and and bolted to her room and checked on the blue filly. She was ok, just sleeping, not dead, right? Lyra checked her baby over more. Yes, just sleeping. Those girls did good, Viola's belly felt full, she was sound asleep, and had an obviously new diaper on. One thing was for sure, Lyra was not going to hire them again. Not after that little lesbian sounding scare. But seriously, moving furniture? Who does that in someone else's home?