//------------------------------// // Ch. 5: Day 2: Pt.1 // Story: CKF // by Doctoroctagonapus21 //------------------------------// Fluorescence woke up from a dreamless sleep and laid, zombie-like in her bed. Her mind registered the patting of the rain on the window pane, the warmth of her blanket, and the sight of the ceiling. Yet it took a few minutes for her first thought to come to light: "An unfamiliar ceiling..." She slowly sat up and looked at the nightstand to her right. On this nightstand was her necklace, which she picked up and stared at for several minutes. As she stared into the green glowing gem memories of her past slowly filtered back into her mind, driving her to tears, before she slammed the necklace back down on the nightstand and went into the bathroom to get ready for the day.
As she looked out the glass doors at the pouring rain, Kylie sighed, she had hoped to go outside for lunch that day. Before long, she heard the office door opening and closing. Turning around, Kylie saw her aunt looking incredibly tired and her mane looking messier than ever. "Auntie? You alright?" Kylie asked. "Yeah." Cassie replied as she she walked past her niece. "Couldn't sleep so I decided to get some work done. I'll see you later, I have some ponies to go talk to." "But Auntie..." "Not now..." Cassie said as she steps outside and gets soaked by the rain. Cassie growled and stepped back inside to see Kylie walking down the stairs holding a towel and brush. Fluorescence made her way downstairs and was met with the sight of a still wet Cassie getting her mane brushed by the little pink filly she had just met yesterday. She let out a small snicker as she bade them good morning. "Good morning to you too." Cassie stated calmly. "Apparently, it's raining pretty hard today." "You don't say? Well, got anything for me to do?" "Anything to do? I gave you three days to get settled in. I hope you realize that you're not getting payed until after tomorrow." "Well, time flies when you're having fun." "Well then," Cassie began, "Kody's in the dining room having his breakfast. Go ask him to train you. That ought to provide plenty of fun." "I'm sure it would." Fluorescence said as she walks into the dining room. "Yeah, don't get any ideas." As Fluorescence walked into the dining room, she saw that Kody had face-planted into his stack of pancakes which were covered in syrup. She giggled as she gets a wet rag and pokes him. Kody suddenly woke with a start. "I DON'T WANT TO WEAR A BOW! ..." He turned to Fluorescence, his face and part of his mane covered in bits of pancake and syrup. "Don't do that..." Fluorescence giggled as she set the rag on the table. "Sorry. I just thought you might want to clean up a bit." "Is there something on my face?" "You could say that..." Kody turned to his now broken breakfast. "Oh. Thanks, Flo." he said as he cleaned off his face. "Flo?" "Nickname for you that Boxer came up with." "Well that was nice of him." Flo said. "May I ask why exactly you were using your breakfast as a pillow?" "Well, I was up all night playing hide-and-seek with the little pink ninja." "... WHAT?!" Fluorescence said with a look of shock and slight disgust. "Kylie was pretty adamant about not going to bed so I spent most of the night trying to find her. I swear, it's like she knows this place better than any of us." "Oh." Kody asked confused, "What did you think I meant?" "Never mind. Doesn't matter. By the way, Cassie sent me to you for more training." "I see. Well, perhaps we should start with dealing with customers. From what Sylvia told me, you did a pretty good job, but just to be on the safe side..." Fluorescence agreed and they quickly got started. "Now, pretend I'm a hungry customer and I'm having trouble deciding what to order." Kody explained. Fluorescence began speaking in an incredibly elegant way. Every word seemed to flow together into a smooth sentence as if it were somepony else speaking. "Our sandwiches are made with the freshest bread and only the finest hoofpicked flowers. In addition,I would recommend a simple little salad sprinkled with sunflower seeds. As for the drink, while it may seem like something just for breakfast, a glass of orange juice compliments the meal quite nicely." "Nicely done." Kody said after a few seconds of amazement. "You do this often?" "Act? You could say that... You should see me with a mask..." "Are you any good at baking?" "Sort of..." "How about some cookies then?" Fluorescence then began going about the task of making cookies. She looked around for all the things she needed, trying to remember what goes into cookies. She remembered chocolate chips, milk, eggs, flour and sugar. After a few minutes she managed to gather up all the ingredients as well as the tools. She knew this wasn't going to end well. "Okay... Eggs." She looked around her pile of ingredients for the eggs, and dumped the whole dozen in the bowl, shells and all. "So far so good. Next we need... milk I think." she says as she pours in a whole bottle. "Now, sugar." The nearby bag of sugar was half empty in seconds. "And now for the chocolate chips." She poured in as many chocolate chips as she could until the rest of the bowl was full. "Stir it together." Fluorescence grabbed a spoon and began stirring everything together, getting the dough all over the counter. "And now we put it on a sheet and bake it..." It wasn't long before Kody smelled smoke and rushed into the kitchen where black was billowing out of the oven with a purple glow standing right next to it. He quickly turned off the oven and pulled out the pan covered in piles of black, crusty mass. "Sorry." Fluorescence said sheepishly. "I was trying to make chocolate..." Kody carefully examines the black masses. "... chip." "Okay... cooking's not exactly your strong suit." Kody said out loud. "I'll stay out of the kitchen." she says as she walks back into the dining room.