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// The Jar, The Spoon, and The Princess 
// Story: A Man and his Ponies 
// by Tower of 0 
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	Justin plopped right down om to one of the outside chairs that was placed behind his home with a jar in his hand and a spoon held in his lips. He unscrewed the jar's lid right off and set it on his lap before removing the spoon from his lips and breathing a sigh of relief. It had been a few weeks since his little Manehattan pirate experience, so it was nice to him that he finally got time to relax and run his shoppe like usual.

Although, ideas for new flavor blends got inspired by the events. That wasn't his focus though, his was set on the night sky. Eyes scanning each star and even the moon as he sat in a t-shirt and fleece pajama bottoms he brought back from his world that one time. He spooned a nice glob of peanut butter in his mouth and started to 'chew' on it for a good five minutes before gulping it down.

A hum soon followed his swallow, "Luna really outdid herself tonight." He commented, unaware of the presence behind him.

"Why thank you, we usually take pride in our work." A rather regal voice piped up from behind.

Justin screamed out shortly, jumping up out of his chair and immediately launching a glob of peanut butter from his spoon to the intruder. Little too late as he realized just who had stopped by for a visit. A splat on their cheek with a now big splotch of creamy nutty butter. Justin gasped and quickly scrambled over to the pony.

"Princess Luna! I'm so sorry!" Justin seemed to stumble over everything in his way as he tried to wipe the peanut butter from her cheek. "You just snuck up on me and I reacted and-"

He was cut off by a hoof being tapped against his lips. "We understand, although it should be our fault for sneaking up on a creature such as yourself."

Justin then took a step back and his face contorted to one of curiosity. "Then... why are you here?"

"Well, we were performing our usual spell to make sure that most of our ponies were asleep and well at it when we sensed that a rather young presence wasn't sleeping well.. or at all." Luna replied.

"Oh... well.. would you like to take a seat then? Since I may know who you're talking about." Justin waved his hand over to a chair on the other side of the table.

Luna put on a small smile and nodded at his hospitality. Her covered hooves made their noises as he strolled right over to the chair and climbing into it. She merely watched as the human before covered the jar as he whistled a strange tune. Four tones that altered between high, low, and even volume.

A small brown filly slowly came walking out of the shadows with her ears back and looking at the human with a worried look. Once the filly was in arm's length of the creature, she was quickly scooped up onto his lap and nestled into his arms. Luna merely watched as the filly let out a relaxed sigh and closed her eyes.

"Is she yours?" Luna asked as she looked up at him.

"Huh?" Justin looked to the princess then looked down to Fudge. "Oh, Fudge? Well.. not biologically, but I treat her as if she was mine anyway."

"So, she is yours then?" Luna asked as her hooves were placed on the table, one over the other.

Justin looked down and nodded with a smile. "Yeah, I guess she is." He gave fudge a light stroke of the mane and looked back to the Princess.

"So.." Luna started, only for the human to pick up.

"Justin."

"Justin.. how have you been sleeping lately?" Luna curiously asked.

"Just fine actually, tonight's just a little harder." Justin replied with a grin.

"Is something on your mind?"

"Eh, just something's been bugging at me for a while and I think I may just do something about it tomorrow." Justin looked to Fudge.

"We see... we like to thank you for letting us stay for a bit but we have to go now. Royal duties need to be attended to." Luna stated as she got up.

"Awwww.. wish you could stay longer, but i understand." Justin got up also, having the filly gently held to his chest with one arm. "Oh, and Luna..."

"Yes?"

"Feel free to stop by my ice cream shoppe here in town sometime." Justin said with a grin.

Luna shyly smiled now and started to fly away, waving to the human as she did. Justin waved back with a smaller smile now before heading back inside. He headed off to one of the bed rooms and tucked Fudge in before he found his way to the living room. Cracking his knuckles and grinned, gathering up items and beginning to work.