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// Chapter 1: Six Months 
// Story: Life in Ponyville-book 2: Forever Love 
// by SeaBreeze173 
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Life in Ponyville book 2: Forever Love by SeaBreeze173
Chapter 1

The past six months had been the best months of Sea Breeze’s life. Six months since her family had moved to Ponyville. Six months since she had reunited with her foalhood best friend, Princess Twilight Sparkle. Six months since she had met the love of her life. Six months since her father and dog began plotting for her love’s demise. Sea didn’t know how her life could get any better.
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Cough cough cough
Aaaaaaa-CHOOO! 

“Ugh,” the light grey mare reached for the tissue box beside her bed. “I hate being sick.” 
Sea Breeze sneezed again, her loyal dog, Angus, snuggling closer to her as he tried to comfort his mistress. The dog perked up when the bedroom door opened, revealing Sea’s coltfriend, Thunder Bolt, balancing a tray on his back.
“Go away. This is your fault,” Sea wheezed. The mild cold Bolt had gotten a week before spread to Sea. The young pegasus didn’t get sick often, but if she ever had the misfortune of getting sick, it was always horrible. For her and the ponies that encountered her. 
“Technically, it’s your fault. You never would have caught it if you hadn’t kissed me,” Bolt replied, setting the tray on the bedside table. It held a bowl of vegetable soup, a mug of honey tea and a bottle of cough medicine. The colt then looked towards the dog at his marefriend’s side. “What’s wrong with Noodles here? He hasn’t tried to kill me yet,”
“Isn’t that a good thing?” Sea sipped some of the broth from her spoon. 
“I guess. It just makes me uneasy seeing him like this. It’s as if he’s waiting for the right moment to attack,” Bolt responded, laughing nervously. Sea laughed as well, but it turned into a hard painful sounding cough. She continued to cough, Bolt gently patting her on the back. Sea finally got her breath and collapsed back into her pillows.
“You really don’t take sickness that well, do ya, babe?” 
“Shut. Up.” Sea grumbled, glaring at the brown pegasus.  
~~~
After a week of sniffling, coughing and feeling horrible, Sea finally got over her cold. Angus was grateful that his mistress could finally go outside. Being stuck in a bedroom with a sick and grumpy mare was not fun for the black and white beast. 

“Good morning, Mom, Daddy,” Sea Breeze trotted happily into the kitchen of her home, Angus close behind. The kitchen was like nothing Sea had ever seen before. Her mother, Amethyst Rose, always wanted a gourmet kitchen and after nineteen years of marriage to the love of her life, Bass Tempo, she finally had it. The kitchen had a double everything. Two stoves, two ovens, two sinks, two dish washers, and two refrigerators, both of which were almost always empty due to Sea’s brother’s constant eating from being a young teenage colt. The walls were a light creamy white. In the center was a large island with bar stools along one side. Amethyst sat at the island each night, looking around and counting all the cabinets, which totaled at fifty-one. It was like a dream come true for the white pegasus.

“Good morning, Pal,” Bass Tempo replied, smiling brightly at his eldest daughter. He was sat on one of the bar stools, sipping on what was more than likely his fourth cup of coffee. Sea went up to her father and gave him a tight hug. “What was that for?” Bass asked as Sea gave an equally tight hug to her mother, who was fixing a breakfast of scrambled eggs, hay bacon and waffles. 
“No reason, Daddy. Just want ya to know how much I love ya!” Sea replied happily, trotting over to Angus’ food bin and scooping out a few cups of the dry kibble. She would add some of the scrambled eggs after Amethyst finished cooking them.
“Okay then. I have no problem with that,” Bass went back to drinking his coffee and reading the newspaper he held in his magic. 
~~~
Once breakfast was over, Sea took Angus outside to play with him for a few minutes. It was the middle of summer and the weather pegasi had taken it to heart. It was hot, hot, hot. 
“Hey Sea Breeze!” Phoenix, one of Sea’s friends, shouted as she and Sweet Heart, another friend, landed a few feet away. Seeing Sweetie, Angus took off towards her in hopes of a treat, as the kind pegasus always had a biscuit just for him.
“Hey girls!” Sea smiled, flying the rest of the way to her friends. Angus was thanking Sweetie for his treat by licking her over and over on her face, the pink pegasus laughing as the dog’s wet tongue went over her fur. 
“Geez, Heart, didja smear peanut butter on ya face?” Phoenix looked at her friend, totally grossed out. 
“Lighten up Nixie,” Sweet Heart giggled as Sea pulled her enthusiastic pet away. Phoenix shook her head, turning to Sea Breeze.
“Anyway, Heart, Moonie and I were wondering if you wanted to go the spa with us. Moonie is already there,”
“I’d love to! Just let me put Angus up.” 

After putting an upset pooch inside the house, Sea and her friends took flight towards the Ponyville Day Spa. Moon Glow was waiting outside the spa and smiled when her friends came into sight. 
“Finally! I was wondering when you girls would show,” the unicorn exclaimed. “C’mon, let’s go inside and get pampered!” The girls squealed in agreement and filed into the building. At the desk stood Lotus Blossom, a blue earth pony with a pink mane and tail. 
“Hi Lotus! Four usuals, please,” Moon Glow requested. Lotus Blossom smiled and led the four friends to the back where they met up with her twin sister, Aloe, who was basically Lotus with her colors switched. 
Aloe led the fillies to the mud baths and the four carefully got in. 
“Ah, this is the life,” Phoenix sighed. Sea Breeze glanced at her usually tom-coltish friend. 
“When met you I never took you as a girl who liked to be pampered,” 
“Hey, just because I like to get down and dirty with the guys, doesn’t mean that I don’t like being girly either,” Phoenix grinned, her eyes closed. 
“What ever you say, Nixie,” Sea smirked. 

The friends spent several hours at the spa, talking about girl things and having fun. Moon Glow and Sweet Heart got their hooves done, but Sea and Phoenix voted against it. Sea was not fond of having her hooves being touched and Phoenix knew that hers wouldn’t last long before being chipped and rough once more. 
Sea bid goodbye to her friends outside of the spa and flew home to spend some time with her pet. When they lived in Vanhoover, Sea spent every waking moment with her dog. Now that they were in Ponyville and Sea had made several friends, Angus spent most days with Bass and Amethyst or the annoying fillies known as Daisy Juniper, Sweetie Bell, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. Angus was grateful for the days that his mistress made time for him. They seemed to be getting fewer and fewer. 

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The giant black and white dog sat begrudgingly as the four fillies put crowns, scarves, tu-tus and hats on him. At the sound of the front door opening, he immediately shook off the current hat they had on his head and went bounding to the foyer. 
“Hi, Angusssuah—what in the name of Celestia happened to you?” Sea lifted a brow. Angus sat down on his haunches, gazing up to his owner with the saddest eyes he could make. He still had on the pink tu-tu and a fluffy pink boa, a clip-on ear ring hanging off his left ear. He also had the remains of what looked like glittery pink lip gloss on his snout. 
“And what’s that on your paws?” Sea bent down to take a closer look. “Hoof polish? PINK HOOF POLISH?!? GIRLS!!” 
After spending nearly an hour getting the hoof polish off her dog’s paws and attempting to wash the lip gloss off his snout, Sea finally finished and let the grumpy canine out of the bathroom. He ran downstairs and went out through the doggie door in the kitchen, hoping to get away from the torture he had been put through. 
Sea, with Juniper close behind, continuously spouting of her apologies, came into the kitchen a few minutes later. The rest of the Crusaders had left already for their homes
“It’s fine, June. It was actually a little funny seeing him like that,” Sea smiled down at her little sister. 
“He was so good!” Junie squeaked. Sea nodded as she picked up Angus’ food dish and began to prepare his supper. 
“Breezey?” Juniper hopped up on a chair and sat down. 
“Yeah, kid?” Sea opened the door to call Angus in. The dog trotted in and went to his food dish beside the island in the middle of the kitchen. 
“Well, you know the music festival that’s going to be here in three weeks?” Sea nodded.
“Uh-huh. Isn’t Daddy and the band going to be some of the entertainment?” 
“Uh-huh! There’s also going to be a singing competition,” Juniper grinned brightly.
“That’s cool. Are you going to enter?” Sea knew how her sister loved to sing. The ten year old actually had quite a good voice. 
“Yeah. I was wondering if you would like to compete with me.” Sea froze at that, her eyes going to pinpricks. She shook her head, saying,
“I don’t know—”
“I already signed us up,” Junie cut in. Sea gaped at her sister. 
“YOU WHAT?!”