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// Family and Foal - part 1 
// Story: Crystal Delicacy 
// by Skarsnik 
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Ruby Moon was getting back from her trip to the local market. Loun insisted on cooking their meals and since she was the one handling all the money related business she was the one to made the groceries.
She entered from the back door. Upon reaching the stairs that led to the living area of the shop, she could hear a familiar music playing and Loun singing along

I'd been had, I was sad and blue. 
But you made me feel. 
Yeah, you made me feel. 
Shiny and new

She rushed through the stair and when she reach the main area she stumbled on Loun with an apron dusting one bookshelf. But Ruby could not hold her laughter when the stallion reached the refrain of the song:

Hoo, Like a virgin. 
Touched for the very first time. 
Like a virgin…

He stopped and his eyes opened wide seeing the mare laughing at him “What?”

“NNoth- Nothing”, Ruby tried to recover from her fit, but she failed “Like a virgin, bwahahahah.”

Loun rolled his eyes and took the saddlebag from the mare back and walked in the kitchen to sort everything out. Well it was his initial plan before being grabbed by Ruby and in one move from the mare, he ended on top of her.

“Such a straightforward virgin colt.” she said, her goofy face had made place for a small grin, while running a hind leg against the stallion flank.

Loun watched the saddlebag that had landed in a corner in the room, splitting his content on the floor, but his face get caught by two hooves and his mouth was brought to the lips of the mare.

“What a naughty little filly.” he replied after breaking the kiss, then he moved his way on the mare neck.

“Taking the lead today” Ruby purred, enjoying the ministration on her neck. She get a glimpse of the stallion underbelly and smiled “Were you already thinking of me?”

Before the stallion could lower his hips on the mare the bell ringed indicating someone at the back of the shop. Loun frozen, Ruby groaned “Don’t even dare stop.” But the bell ringed again, she pushed Loun out of her and groaned again “Fine, fine.”

Stomping on the stair, Ruby did not even put her vendor smile face when she opened the back door. Her eyes felt on a smiling pink earth pony mare, on her left was a pegasus colt, on her right a filly and on top of the head of the mare a small filly. Ruby could also clearly see her prominent belly sign of the promise of another foal. She quickly closed the door.

Ruby Moon massaged her forehead with a hoof. They already had a lot to do today. The attack of the cockatrices made her realise than they needed to sell something that had the potential to make a more constant influx of money than the commission for crystal figurine. Yesterday they received their orders of board games, wargame and such (bought with the insurance money). Spending time with a relative was very low on the list of thing she wanted to do this weekend.

Obviously the knock on the door and the bell ringing again make it clear that her sister had a different plan. Ruby took a breath to calm herself before opening the door again. But instead of greeting the mare the looked at the colt, her sister first foal.

“Hey Dary, visiting Canterlot with your harem?”

The colt blushed and Ruby could see the result of her sentence, the small frown on her sister that was the mirror image of the one her mother had toward her when she did something wrong.

“Ruby! This is not appropriate language for foals to hear!”

The green filly asked her mother “What is a harem?” but received for response a hush from the pink mare.

“We have a tiresome train rise. You can at least offer some hospitality to your family, Ruby?”

Ruby sighed internally and move out from the door “Don’t mind the cardboard, we just received a big order.”

“We?” inquired the pink mare while she watched carefully the colt and filly. The colt had his eyes full of curiosity, fascinated by the workbench with crystal block and figurine in various state of completion. “Don’t touch that.” said his mother when he put a hoof on a figurine that was laying on the floor.

“Alright, it’s upstair” Ruby hurried the mare and her charge in the stairs. As much as she liked to tease her very prude sister, she was not adamant to meet her family. She genuinely likes her nephews since foals were merely innocent. But she did not really want to see her mother and sister. 

Both of them showed no support when she chose to become a Royal Guard and she could not stand her mother anymore. Also Ruby did not want to have a speech on how her new life was so much better than the life of a Guard.

“Good morning, Mme,” said Loun when they reached the living room extending a hoof toward the mare.

“Loun, This is my sister, Pearl Lilly and her foals.” Ruby introduced