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// Shower of hate 
// Story: Tangled 
// by Pathious 
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Charlie did as he was told; then again no one was man enough to actually argue with her. Pantene was one scary mare. She was very beautiful, her beauty tainted by her own hatred for about everything. She hated other companies on the same street she was on. Back in the beginning of her career she was accused of stealing from other companies several times. The mare was like a firecracker, its best you don’t hold it to close when it explodes.  When Pantene was a young mare she had stolen many credit cards from her mother and used that money to swindle her way to where she is now. She was a very devious mare that had quite the sheet of paper for misdemeanors and felonies.

Pantene had met Charlie in a very strange way.  Charlie used to work for a company on the same street Pantene had established her factory. He worked for a company that made sprays for the working stallion so they wouldn’t stink to bad. He was the one who had caught her stealing serval smells that she later used in her Stallions shampoo. Charlie could have turned her in but he didn’t he was overly attracted to her instead, eventually finding himself under the steaming roof of her factory. Charlie had remained her husband for about six years now. Nopony knows how anypony could stand her for so long. She was so controlling. He swears it’s mostly because she means so much good and is deeply kind at heart.

Pantene was getting ready to close up for today; she had a very long day today and frankly couldn’t wait to get home for once. She normally would rather live in the factory than live at home but she had no real choice. The factory didn’t have a bed so she had to go home. She knew bad thunderstorms were due tonight as well so she wanted to hurry home. Upon arrival she was in for heartbreak. Charlie was drunk and waiting for her to get home.

“What are you doing in my house?” Charlie said as he was blocking the door.

“Our house Charlie, it’s our house.” She tried to move past him but was blocked. 

“We are done Pan, we are done, I can’t take you narcissistic attitude~!” Charlie said as he was closing the door on her and their relationship. His words hit her hard and tears were immediately filling her eyes her makeup mixing with her tears. 

“n-no you can’t just throw me out like this w-where will I go?~!” she said as she still frantically tried to get inside. Charlie shoved her back as thunder crashed outside and rain splashed against the windows of the building.

“You have contacts pan, you don’t need me now get out of here~!” He slammed the door right on her; the door didn’t open after that final shut.
The truth was she had nowhere to go, she was a popular pony but had no true friends. So there she sat at the nearest bus stop. The rain drenching her and covering her tears as she cried. Pantene had done nothing but push her family away to get where she was. She had no parents to go to.
“W-what did I do?” Pantene kept questioning herself. “Oh I’m sure he’s found some hussy as it is.” She sniffled as the cold rain made her shiver. The factory might end up being a nice place to sleep for the night. Pan stood up slowly as she was continuously losing her own heat to the rain that relentlessly fell upon her. Pantene was mostly confused, she had never felt heartbreak before, it was making her very cold inside. Charlie was the only one who once thought she was good. That she was a sweet and loveable pony. Her past coming back to haunt her like her filly days in school, back then she was nothing but a loser with too many unlikely ideas. Now she was a heartbroken business mare with no home. She soon reached her factory as the rain and thunder continued. She shakily unlocked the door to enter her lively hood. The one thing she had left to flaunt. Her business that was all she felt she had left. “Oh if only I was the drinker, I would have a nice bottle of whiskey at my desk.” Pantene said to herself as lighting flashed outside casting her shaking shadow against the nearby walls. Pan looked at the articles on the table. Tomorrow her secretary would place the new one on her desk and she would read them. If she was in any mood to read that is. Pantene was to aching to think of doing anything else but cry.

“Mam what are you doing here?” The voice of her secretary sounded from the entrance of her office. Pan had forgotten she had asked her to stay and finish the paperwork after she had left. Pan looked up at her secretary with bloodshot eyes from all the crying she had done.

“I am here for my own reasons dear, please do go back to your office and work on that paperwork.” Pan said as she looked to the floor a tear drop caressing her cheek before it fell to the floor.

“Not to be disrespectful am but May you please call me by name after hours?”  Matter said as she walked over to her boss.

“I don’t feel it matters what I preach. I lost my husband tonight. Apparently he couldn’t take me anymore. Society is always right. When they deem you something like unlovable they are right Matter. Remember that.” Pantene said as she remembered the article about her wedding. The author had stated let’s see how long this lasts.

“Pan I can tell you’re upset, now I see why. Would you like me to get you some coffee?” Matter asked as she patted Pantene on the back. Pantene sniffled which allowed a smell to enter her nostrils. The vat she wanted emptied today was still reeking of that smell. Did they ever empty it? Pan stood up and looked out the office window to see the glowing vat still full of the fluid that reeked like noponies business.

“Matter please do me one favor, once the rains tops go get me my papers so I can read the newest articles. I have some employees to write up and fire.” Pan said in a hostile tone of voice. She was very upset and didn’t want her now ex-husband to be part of her business. After all what did he ever do for her here? He helped keep chemicals under control but that was about it. Pan had no idea what some chemicals do when the sit in a vat long enough. For instance the vat she wanted emptied wasn’t legal to sell. It had been sitting there for so long that it could be toxic. Plus she had no idea what was sin it, the ponies hadn’t made the list they were supposed to make for every experimental vat.

“Is there anything else you would like mam.” Matter purred as she took off her glasses. Pan looked at Matter and shook her head.

“Matter, you have done so much yet so little. I couldn’t ask you of much of anything right now.” Pantene said as she smiled at her secretary. She watched then as her secretary went to go get the new articles. What was written on them made Pan very angry.

“Now pan it could be worse.” Matter said as she was now reading over it.

“He went to the press and now I’m being accused of stealing.” Pantene said as she slammed her head on the desk. “He is leaking the things I did into the press, he wants to ruin not just my life but my lively hood.”