//------------------------------// // 1st Hour: Happy // Story: Pinkie Pie Spends Time in a Waiting Room // by Blizi //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie hopped to the counter full of her usual amount of joy and happiness, and as usual the clerk at the counter was as most ponies were to Pinkie. But something was quite off to Pinkie about her, like as if she had some form of grudge towards her for something. "Good Evening, Miss Pinkie Pie? Is that truly your name because it sounds and you seem to scatterbrained to be a professional baker? Please explain to me why I should allow you to take a number and wait the time for your "shipment"." The clerk sounded very, very rude to Pinkie; but she didn't want to yell or try to seem rude back the clerk even though she was to her. So she tried to calm down and made herself seem more focused and slightly suave to the clerk in the tone of her voice. "I'm sorry, but yes that is my name and I need those boxes of cupcake batters for my job at Sugar--" She lost her tone and calmness when she saw the number on the ticker next to the clerk, it read: Number 236. Then began to panic about the time she'll be in here. "Oh please please please~ I need that batter to make some ultra tasty rainbow-tastic cupcakes for my friends for our party because Rainbow Dash got allowed into the Wonderbolts Reserves!" The clerk rolled her eyes at Pinkie and then told her to take a number from the deposit box, it read 264; as Pinkie read this she began to sweat and she gulped quite hard that the clerk heard it and snickered lightly to herself. Pinkie shook her head fast and brushed off the fact she heard the clerk snicker to herself, Pinkie sat herself down on the couch and began the time for her to wait. As she sat down, she knew this was going to be a long while just to pick up this shipment of cupcakes just for a party. She started to think about what her choices were the best in her favor for this to happen. But she smacked herself back into reality so she could focus onto what her task was right now, to get the batter, to get the mix for Rainbow, to help celebrate her party! Then Pinkie heard heard the first two numbers tick away, she realized that she will be here for a long time. Her mind began to wonder all over the place so she started to do cart-wheels around the waiting room to waste time so she could have less time to wait. Another number ticked down, Pinkie knew that if she kept trying to pass time she would be done here much faster to the point where she will have more time to make super duper extra special cupcakes for the party. But as she thought of this little thing she noticed, someone else walked in and went to repair the number ticker; so it went dark for a while. Pinkie saw this and panicked in complete horror because seeing this made her scared, she wouldn't know what number it would be on. As the clock passed the first hour, things would be much more of a pain for her to deal with.