Bubbles
An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction
“Hey! It’s time to get up!”
“Tacos?!” you shouted as you jerked awake.
“…”
“What?” you heard Derpy ask. “Er, I made muffins, if you wanted one.”
“Aright,” you groggily slurred before digging your head further into your pillow.
You must have dozed off because before you knew it Derpy was back pounding at your door.
“Hey! Are you getting up anytime soon?”
“Ugh… Yeah!” you say. You snuggling closer to your pillow one last time before getting up. You stumbled out of your bedroom and into the living room. Derpy walked in from the kitchen.
“About time, it’s almost ten,” Derpy said, sitting on the couch.
You make your way to the kitchen to get some coffee and a semi-warm blueberry muffin. You take your food into the living room and sat next to Derpy, who was watching a DVD she brought from her house.
“What’s this?” you ask, taking a big bite out of your muffin.
“Doctor Whooves, now shush,” Derpy said, leaning on the edge of the couch, her eyes glued to the TV screen. You just rolled your eyes and ate your muffin while watching with her. It wasn’t half bad. The muffin and the show.
~~~
You two watched the whole season Derpy had on DVD and you loved it. You could swear there was a series like it on your world but you couldn't think of it at the moment.
“So what’s on the agenda for the rest of today?” you ask, cracking your neck as Derpy put the DVD back in its case.
“Well, I'm going to the park to meet up with Dinky and Mom,” Derpy said, standing up. “You should come.”
“Is Crunch going to be there?”
“He has to work on Sundays, so no.” Derpy said, then asked, “Why do you ask?”
“No particular reason,” you say, standing up. “I'm going to take a shower. Need to use the bathroom?”
“Nah, I’m good.”
“Alright.”
~~~
You let out a big yawn as you stepped out into the outside world. You turned around and locked the door and walked after Derpy. You two were going to catch Dinky and Paint on the way to the park so you two started to walk to it.
“It looks like it's going to rain later today,” you say looking up at the gray clouds in the sky.
“Yup, the newspaper says there is going to be a bad thunder storm around five tonight so we have to make the best of the day as we can.”
“Right, I keep forgetting that the weather is controlled here.”
“Hmm.”
The two of you walked in silence for a little bit till Derpy asked a question.
“What are tacos?”
“Hmm?”
“I heard you say tacos this morning. What are they?”
“Well, they're a Mexican food, they're pretty good.”
“What are they made of? Maybe we could make them for dinner tonight or something.”
“Uh, a tortilla shell, lettuce, tomatoes, beans, sour cream, cheese, hamburger, and other things.”
“Ok, what's hamburger?”
“Hamburger is-” you stopped abruptly when a thought came to you. Probably not a good idea to say it's made up of cows. That might not go over too well. I think I remember her saying that one of her friends was a cow. “Er, never mind. Forget I said anything,” you say, picking up your pace.
“What? No! You can't just do that!” Derpy exclaimed as she ran in front of you and stopped, making you stop. “You can't just avoid my question.”
“Yes I can. Like this. See?” you say with a smile on your face as you walk around Derpy.
“Dammit! What are you hiding?” Derpy asked as she started to walk behind you again.
“It's best you don't know.”
“Why?”
“Because you'll look at me differently.”
“Why?”
“Because it's not common amongst ponies.”
“Why?”
“Are you really doing that?”
“Why?”
“You really are doing that.”
“Why?”
You sigh and face palm making Derpy laugh.
“DERPY!” you both hear and you two start to look around. It doesn't take long to see Dinky running towards you two with Paint following at a slower pace. It took Dinky a few seconds to get to you two and when she did she was completely out of breath. “I... found... you guys,” she said panting heavily between each word with her hands on her knees.
“How are doing kid?” you ask, ruffling her hair.
“I'm good, how are you?”
“Slightly annoyed,” you say glaring at Derpy out of the corner of your eye making her giggle and put on a big smile. “But good all the same,” you finish with a half smile.
“That's good, so what are we doing at the park?”
“Walk the nature trail, play at the playground, maybe some other stuff. What did you bring?” Derpy asked.
“Mom brought a basketball,” Dinky said, looking back at Paint who was almost to you guys.
“You up for some basketball?” Derpy asked you.
“I don't like basketball.”
“What? How can you not like basketball?”
“I just don't like it.”
“Celestia you're weird,” Derpy said, making Dinky giggle. You just roll your eyes.
“We going to the park or not?” Paint asked as she finally made her way to you.
“I agree, let's go,” you say starting to walk to the park.
“What's with him?” Paint asked.
“Oh he's just being a Mr. Grumpypants,” Derpy said making Dinky giggle. You found yourself rolling your eyes but you had a smile on your face time.
~~~
“The park is pretty empty today,” Paint observes as she spun the basketball on a finger.
“It is getting colder and it's going to rain today.”
“True, true. Welp! Let's go play some basketball!” Paint exclaimed as she ran towards the basketball court, Derpy and Dinky
ran after her while you just smiled and walked. You sat on a nearby bench and watched them play for a while, them taking turns shooting hoops. They played HORSE, Around the World, and a few others that you didn't know about. About an hour of watching them play Dinky shot the ball and it bounced off the rim, making it go down the court. You, being the gentleman you are, chase after it and manage to get it before it got off the court, on the other end of the court.
“Hey!” Paint yelled. “You should play with us!”
“Nah, he doesn't play basketball,” Derpy said, then she started to snicker and with a playful smile on her face she said, “I bet he can't even make one basket.”
This got you chuckling, and your chuckling attracted the attention of Derpy.
“What's so funny?”
Instead of answering her, you just readied a shot and once you had it all lined up you took the shot.
Swish.
Derpy just looked dumbfound at what just happened.
“W-w-what?” she ask, just staring at the bouncing ball. You started to walk towards her and once you got close enough you patted her on the back.
“It's not that I suck, I just don't like to play,” you say with a big smile, then walk back to your bench.
“I'm done,” Derpy said, walking to sit next to you. Paint just started to laugh.
“Can we go walk the nature trail now?” Dinky ask panting a little.
“I think that is a good idea,” Paint said, “what about you two?”
“I could go for a hike,” you say. Derpy just nods her head.
“Good, lets go!” Paint said, scooping up the basketball and taking off to the start of the nature trail, Dinky right behind her. You look at Derpy who was looking at you and with a nod of your heads you both stand up and walk after Paint and Dinky.
~~~
“How long is this damn thing?” Derpy complained as she got to the top of the big rock hill that the nature trail went over.
“I can't be too much longer,” you say. You wipe the sweat off your brow and look down the rest of the trail, which went around a small bend. Paint and Dinky ran ahead leaving you alone with Derpy. “Come on.”
It wasn't hard to walk it, it was just so long that it was pretty taxing. Derpy started to walk next to you, hunched over with her tongue hanging out of her mouth. You're sure it would have looked adorable if she wasn't panting like a dog. You walked with your head down so you wouldn't trip over any roots or rocks, so you weren't prepared for what came next.
“AAAAHHHH!” Derpy screamed and she started to run into you, clutching at your sweater. The sudden movement made you backpedal and you tripped over a root that you had taken extra care not to trip over.
“Shit!” you yelled as you fell. Right on a rock. “Oh fuck!” you shrieked as the rock jammed into your back.
“Shitshitshitshitshitshit,” Derpy kept repeating as she buried her head into your chest and clutched at your sweating with a death grip.
“Derpy? What's wrong?” you ask as you pull the rock out from under you.
“Is it gone?” she asked.
“Is what gone?”
“The... snake!” Derpy hissed the word.
“...the what?”
“The fucking snake!”
“Um, Derpy? It's too cold for snakes to be out.”
“What?” Derpy asked tilting her head up.
“It's too cold, snakes are probably hibernating now or something,” you say.
“Oh,” Derpy said before getting off of you. “Sorry. I’m just deathly afraid of snakes.”
“It's fine,” you say holding out your hand. Derpy grabs your hand and pulls you off the ground. “Let's go, I’m sure Paint and Dinky are waiting for us.”
~~~
Paint had taken you out for lunch then you all had hung out for a while after that. It was 4:38 when you went home. You went home alone because Derpy had gotten an emergency call from the post office and she had to go in and help sort out the problem. You stopped by the movie store and returned the movies that you had rented and you rented three more movies. One was a horror movie that looked good, one was an action movie which you got to see how they did action movies without guns and cars, the last one was a comedy that you though Derpy might like. It had started to rain when you were leaving the movie store so you ran home.
You tossed the movies on the couch and went to your room to change into your pajamas. You grabbed a towel and put it on the couch so you could toss it to Derpy when she came back in. The storm was pretty bad but with nothing else to do you put in the horror movie and started it.
It wasn't until halfway through the second movie that Derpy came home. You tossed her the towel when you made sure that she could catch it.
“Thanks,” Derpy said as she wiped her face. She clutched her sweater tighter and quickly walked past you. You though nothing of it until you heard, “MEOW!” Derpy stopped in her tracks.
“Um, Derpy? Did you just meow?” you asked.
“Um-” Derpy started but she was cut off.
“MEOW!”
You raised an eyebrow and stand up. You walk over to her and turn her around. She had an innocent smile on her face and you looked down at her chest and saw movement. You just stared at it for a few seconds. You were slightly aware you were staring at Derpy's breasts. They weren't too bad.
“...Derpy? Do you have a cat?” you asked.
“Well I couldn't just leave her out there to drown or something,” Derpy said pulling a black and white stripped kitten from under her sweater. “Can we keep her? Please? I can take care of her myself I swear!”
“Derpy, she might belong to someone.” This made Derpy very sad.
“B-but...”
It truly broke your heart to see Derpy like this so you quickly came up with a solution.
“Look, we will put up posters around town tomorrow and if nobody claims her, we can keep her.”
“Really?”
“Yeah I could do with a pet,” You say with a half smile while petting the kitten behind the ears.
“Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!” Derpy exclaimed, suddenly hugging you. She quickly let go of you when she realized she was still wet. “Sorry!”
“It's fine, why don't you go get in a dry change of clothes?”
“Right!” Derpy exclaimed then she excitedly ran to her room. You went to the kitchen and fixed something up for the kitten. Derpy returned and set the kitten down so she could eat. Once the kitten was fed Derpy, the kitten, and yourself went to the living room to watch the last movie. Derpy must have been very tired because halfway through the movie she fell asleep on your shoulder. You didn't want to wake her so you just left her and began to pet the kitten in your lap, who was purring rather loudly.
After the movie was over you picked Derpy up and took her to her room and laid her down. You yourself went to your room, it was still early but you yourself was tired. The kitten decided to sleep with you and had laid next to your head. You gave her a quick scratch behind her ears, making her purr. You fell asleep rather quickly and with a smile on your face. Something you've noticed that you have been doing rather a lot lately.