//------------------------------// // Chapter 18 // Story: Bubbles // by Multi Personas //------------------------------// Bubbles An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction “Ugh...” you groan as you walk through your front door, dragging your feet. You immediately walk to the couch and fall face first on in. “Meow,” Kat meowed before jumping onto the couch with you. She crawled up to your face and started to rub her face against yours. It's been a week and both Derpy and yourself have asked everyone about the kitten, but nobody knew where it came from. So in the end you two adopted it and named it Kat. Well, Dinky actually named it when she found out you two had a cat. You let out a sigh as you pet her behind the ears. You hear footsteps from down the hall. “Rough day?” Derpy asks as she makes her way to the kitchen. You sit up and stretch out. “Yeah, Vinyl has decided to pick today to move around a very heavy DJ station at her house.” “At her house?” “Yeah, she said that she would pay me a bonus at the end of the month.” “Man, I wish my boss gave me bonuses.” “Psh, not if it means moving heavy ass shit around,” you say, stretching out your very sore arms. You take this time to actually take a look at Derpy. She looked very beautiful. She had just enough makeup that it still kept her natural beauty and made it stand out more. She had curled her hair somewhat so it had a slight bounce in it when she moved. She had on a black blouse that revealed a modest amount of cleavage and a black skirt that went to her knees. “...wow Derpy, you look... great,” is the only thing you can say. Derpy just giggles and blushes. “It's for a date tonight,” she said, fingering her skirt, making it clear that she is nervous. You feel your smile falter slightly at the news that Derpy has a date for tonight. You try not to let it show. “A date huh? What time?” “At 8, which is in,” Derpy checked the wall clock, “about half and hour. I’m so excited!” Derpy couldn't help but giggle. “Oh,” you start to feel sadder and sadder the more she talks about it. “Who is taking you?” “Caramel, he asked me yesterday!” Derpy squeed. “Oh, ok.” “I can't believe it, I haven't gotten asked out since junior high,” Derpy said excitedly. “Oh,” you say through a big yawn. “Dammit. I think I should go to bed.” “I made dinner, if you wanted any.” “Maybe later,” you say, standing up. “Well, have a good time with your date,” you said to Derpy, though you can't say that you really meant those words. You're not too sure as to why. “I will, goodnight.” “Night.” With those parting words you slowly shuffled to your room. You took off your clothes and put on your pajamas, then fell into bed. You didn't go to sleep at first, your mind was too crowded with the fact the Derpy was going out on a date. Though, after about ten minutes you find yourself starting to slip into sleep. ~~~ Your growling stomach woke you from your slumber. You tried to just roll over and ignore it, so you could get back to your dreamless sleep. However, your stomach seemed to be content on keeping you awake. After a few minutes of this you throw off your blanket and get up. Your alarm clock says it's 9:03. Rubbing your face with a hand you push open your door. You walk to the kitchen and open the fridge. You take out the leftovers and inspect them. You start to feel Kat claw at your leg. “Kat, don't,” you say. You move her away with your leg but she comes right back, this time she meow loudly. You look down at her to tell her to stop but the living room light catches your eye. Seeing as how you were half asleep when you walked through it the first time you weren't surprised that you missed it being on. However you are surprised to see Derpy sitting on the couch, her head down. You walk to the living room more than a little confused. “Derpy?” you ask when you get right next to her. She looked up at you and it was clear that she had been crying, her mascara was running a little. She quickly looked away when she saw the expression on your face. “Oh, hey,” she said, turning her head away from you and wiping her eyes. She turned back to you when she was finished and gave you the most fake smile you have ever seen. “Derpy, what's wrong? Why aren't you on your date?” you ask, sitting next to her. You honestly felt concerned for her seeing how she was so excited fro this date. “Oh, well, Caramel didn't show up,” Derpy said, looking at the floor again. You felt your teeth clench as anger started to flow into your mind. Derpy started to shake her head and laugh a fake laugh. “I should have known when he didn't even ask for my address.” Derpy looked like she was on the verge of tears again. Snap.  You stood up quickly, spit out the tooth you cracked from grinding your teeth too hard, and stormed to your room. You probably should be feeling pain for the cracked tooth but you were too mad to care about it. How could Caramel just stand Derpy up like that! You scream inside your head. People who did that to girls like Derpy got you furious. You took a few shaky deep breaths to try to help you calm down. You had to be calm for what you were about to do. You took a few more deep breaths, more even this time. You used a technique you learned from your psychology professor to help you calm down pretty fast, and soon you were ready. But damn your tooth really hurt. You went to you closet and picked out the nicest shirt you had, which was a plain black t-shirt, the nicest pair of pants you owned, the one with no holes, and put them on. You grabbed your shoes and a sock. You spit on your shoes then wiped them as best you could, then put them on. You grabbed your bag of bits, which had quite a lot of bits in it, your set of keys, and a brush. You quickly moved to the bathroom and searched the medicine cabinet for pain killers. You down two pills dry, then attacked your messy mane with the brush as quick as you can. You manage to make a somewhat improvement with your mane, and you step out of the bathroom. The whole process took you about five minutes, the calming down exercise too the most of the five minutes, and Derpy was still sitting on the couch. You pick up your sweater off the hook on the wall and walk to her. “Come on Derpy,” you say. Derpy slowly looks up at you. Seeing you were fully clothed and pulling on your sweater she knew you wanted to go outside. “Nah, I’m fine. I was just about to go to sleep,” Derpy says with a sad smile. “No, you're coming with me,” you in a firm tone. “I'd just rather this day be over,” Derpy said with a sigh. “Well too bad,” you say. You grab her hand and pull her off the couch. “We are doing this one way or another.” Before she has time to complain you pull her outside. You let go of her hand to lock the door behind you. “There,” you say satisfied. You turn back to Derpy who had a look of confusion on her face. “What are you doing?” “We are going to go out on the town and have a good time. Maybe a movie and dinner, something like that,” you say with a smile. Derpy just looks at you with a questionable stare. “You seems a little too happy,” she says. It was true, you aren't normally this happy. “Well, one would be pretty happy if they hadn't had a date since ever,” you say. “So... this is a date?” Derpy asked cautiously. You hold out your hand. “Come with me and find out,” you say with a smile. You see Derpy grow a smile herself and she reached out and you took your hand in hers. “How does a movie sound?” you ask, pulling her to the movie theater on the outskirts of Ponyville. “Sounds wonderful,” Derpy said, her smile growing bigger. “Well then, allons-y!” you couldn't help but say. You were becoming a huge fan of Doctor Whooves. Your outburst made Derpy laugh loudly and her laughing made you laugh. You were sure this would be a good night. ~~~ “So what would you like to see?” you ask Derpy, looking at the movie posters. “Well, the new Daring Do movie is out, can we see it?” “Yeah, sounds fun,” you say. The two of you walk to the ticket booth. “Hello, how can I help you?” the ticket mare asked. She had a bright green mane and light blue fur. “Can we get two tickets for Daring Do and the Temple of Diamonds?” you ask, sliding her the correct amount of bits. “Sure, the movie is just about to start, so you should hurry and grab some seats and snacks,” the mare said in a cheerful tone as she slid two gold tickets to you. “Thanks,” Derpy and you say as you both grab your tickets. You walk down the hall to the movie theaters but stop in front of the movie theater you were suppose to be in. “I was going to get some snacks, what would you like?” you ask Derpy. “Um, anything with chocolate, and a Dr, Pony, please.” “Sure, how about you find some seats,” you suggest. Derpy nods and heads inside. You quickly walk to the snack bar and pick out a couple chocolate bars and get two Dr. Ponys. You walk up to the pony manning the cash register, and pay for the snacks, and also you order a large bucket of popcorn. You manage to make it back to the movie theater. The lights have yet to dim so you saw Derpy well enough. She had chosen seats in the very back where there weren't a lot of ponies. “Thanks,” she said as you handed her her drink and chocolate bars. “Yeah, no problem,” you say as you sit down. The lights dimmed and the movie started. ~~~ “Wow!” Derpy exclaimed as you left the movie theater. “I can't think of how they are even going to try to top that in the next movie!” You laughed at Derpy's attitude. The movie was great and you filled up on candy and popcorn, so your stomach wasn't growling anymore. “It was pretty good, wasn't it?” “Good?” Derpy looked at you like you were crazy. “It was more than good, it was the best movie ever!” Again you laugh and shake your head. You feel Derpy grab your hand again and you look over. “So, where to next?” “Well,” you start, looking up at the night sky. It was cloudy and it was blocking out the moon. “It's a good night for a walk through the park, how about it?” “Sounds fun,” Derpy said. You both started to walk to the park but you stopped when you felt Derpy shiver. “You cold?” you stupidly ask. She had on a shirt and a skirt, of course she would be cold. She began to shake her head but you already started to take off your sweater. Once you got it off you handed it to Derpy who seems a little reluctant to take it, but she took it still. “Thanks,” she said as she slipped it on. It was too big for her as the sleeves completely hid her hands and the waist of the sweater came down to mid thigh on her. You couldn't help but think of how cute she looked in it. “Well, come on then,” she says, taking your hand once again. It took the two of you about ten minutes to make it across town to the park. “Are you sure you're ok?” Derpy asked you for what seemed like the thousandth time. “Yes Derpy, I could handle the cold when I had no fur, I think I can hand more now that I do have fur,” you say with a chuckle. Truth be told the slight breeze in the air was making you a little chilled but you didn't show it. “Well, alright,” Derpy said. The two of you walked through the park entrance and you walked on the path through the empty park, making small talk, mostly taking in the hidden beauty of the park at night. You kept sneaking glances at Derpy along with the scenery. “Oh, wow,” Derpy said, looking at a pond. The pond was reflecting the lamps the lined the sides of the path into what almost looked like bright white fireflies in the mostly calm waters and it looked absolutely breathtaking. You began to pull Derpy closer to sit on the bench that sat in front of the small pond. You both sat in silence for a little while, just looking at the pond and the trees around it. “You know,” Derpy started, breaking the comfortable silence, “most ponies don't even think about me more than being a clumsy mailmare with messed up eyes,” you look at her and she looks at you. “Yet you became my best friend, got an apartment with me, got a cat with me, then went out on a date with me. Why?” you sit in silence as you think of your answer. “Well... to be honest, I don't have too much of a clue. I suppose one of the reasons I became your friend was you accepted me as what I am. Once I started to get to know you better and better, I found out that you were one of the coolest ponies there was. I don't care if you have 'messed up' eyes, it's what's on the inside that counts, not the outside,” you finish with a big smile. “...” “Celestia that was corny as hell,” Derpy said, giggling. “Yeah, I’m not one for words like that,” you say, rubbing the back of your neck sheepishly. “Well, I’ll take it,” Derpy said. She rested her head on your shoulder. You started to rub your thumb over the back of her hand, you were still holding hands, and smile. After a few minutes you felt Derpy lift her head off your shoulder so you looked over at her. She was looking at you with half-lidded eyes and a smile on her face. What you did next was completely on instinct. You took your other hand and ran your thumb over Derpy's cheek. You leaned forwards and Derpy met you halfway. It wasn't a brief kiss and it wasn't an intense kiss, but it was a gentle kiss, much like a first kiss always was, but it held a sort of spark with it also, filling you with a new found energy. After a few seconds you both broke the kiss and you both had rather dopy smiles on your faces. Derpy squeezed your hand tighter and scooted closer to you and rested her head on your shoulder again. She let out a content sigh as she did. The rest of the night was a little bit of a blur. You remember Derpy and you getting colder so you both went back to your apartment. It was a short walk and you and Derpy held hands the entire walk there, walking very close to each other. Back in the apartment you both immediately went to your rooms, claiming tiredness. You and Derpy shared a good night kiss before you went to bed. Even as you now lay in bed you can still taste Derpy on your lips. She tasted a little like muffins and cherries. It was an odd taste but it was still pleasant. As great as this evening went you still were kept up by something that came to your thoughts as you undressed. You still had to get back to your world, and you're sure Derpy couldn't come. If she wanted to go with you anyway.