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// Day 4 
// Story: C.S. Pie 
// by DecadantHandshake 
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	I made arrangements with Aaren for him to watch over the body with Jiggles. I would watch the body at night.
Pinkie and I met up at around noon, she was so happy. Her excitement over spend a day with her sister was practically bubbling out of her. I took her to my hotel room so she could take this news in peace. It was time for her to hear about dad.
"Oooh! What do you wanna do first? We can go see my friends! We can go-"
"Actually Pinkie... There's something I need to tell you about..." She calmed down, sensing sorrow in my voice.
"What's wrong?"
"It's... It's about daddy." She was silent. "He's... dead." There was a drawn out pause as Pinkie just sat there taking it in. Finally, she spoke. Her voice quivered.
"Why?" I took a deep breath.
"He won the lottery and... died of a heart attack from excitement." The silence was pregnant. She held a neutral face for quite a time, but it broke. We sat in my room. My ugly, poorly decorated room.  She cried, I just sat there holding my eyes shut I could feel my tears building up, but they just sat there. Long after she had stopped crying, we were just sitting there, holding one another. 
"Want to go eat cupcakes?"
"Nuh Uh." She said. What would Maud say? I wondered. I couldn't think of anything to say to comfort her, so I just sat there with her.
"Will he be having a funeral?"
"Were putting all the lottery money towards it. Daddy deserves the best." We were silent for a little longer.
"When will it be?"
"A couple weeks. We're still getting it all organized. It only happened a few days ago." She asked an odd question this time.
"Why are you still working?"
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you, like, take a grieving break when family dies?"
"I can't do that. We need the money to keep us running."
"But... you get paid when your on that kind of break..." Thats... Thats absolutely right! I should be on break right now, my sisters need me with them.
"Well, I'm glad I didn't. I can take you home with me. The forensics team will arrive in Ponyville soon, and then we can have this all wrapped up. You and I will come home. I know the others will be happy to see you. Maud especially." She sniffled.
"Well, I can't come home yet, I need to be around for the next episode, but after that then yeah, I can come." Don't... Question... It...
We had spent a long time there. Then Pinkie took me to meet one of her friends. Twilight Sparkle, the one conducting the experiment with that odd creature. I asked her to deliver my apology to him, I told her how I felt about my behavior. She told me he can be a very forgiving... Odd, she called him a 'forgiving pony'. Well, she gave me good wishes, and then Pinkie took me to sugar cube corner. She had a cupcake. I had bread. The day went by then with a sort of air about it that made conversation feel awkward and forced. The silence was much better, we didn't need to talk. When the time came, the sun was already lowered and I had to go guard the body. By now, I think most ponies had figured we were guarding the body, and knew to stay out of the area. I guess our strategy hadn't turned out as we had hoped.
I gave Pinkie a long hug and left to go to my position. The two stallions looked absolutely drained of energy, and I was feeling the same way. I gave them both a quiet nod and they went off to their hotel rooms. I stayed in that alleyway all night, thinking about Pinkie and how she was holding up. The emotional drain from that talk was too much, I just passed out at somewhere around midnight. I slept in that alley all night.