"Ooowwwww. My head." Muttered the pink mare.
Somehow despite waking like this rather often Pacific Glow was not spared the pain of hangovers. More often than not a good night out resulted in a bad next morning but despite this inconvineance she still found the evenings worth it in the end. Cracking an eye open she gazed aroung the room she inhabited or more accurately the left side of the room she inhabited as she was still too sleepy to be bothered to move her head about. One thing that was instantly clear was that she was not in her own room. "That's unusual. I guess I'll have to rely on the report of the homes owner to find out what had hapened." She closed her eye's again bit's and peices would likely come back to her as she woke up more. Then she jolted awake.
"Wait I'm in another ponies bed? Oh Goddesses what did I do!"
Taking another more frantic glance around the room now with both eye's showed her some pecular sights. This must have been the first studio apartment she had seen that wasn't in any sense of the word cramped. There were five bookshelves a couch a coffee table with an old desktop and an armchair. That was it. No pictures no posters not even a rug graced the floor nothing to tie the room together! This was the blandest apartment the pink pony had ever seen.
Who in equestria goes to clubs but doesn't so much as have a phonograph player in their own home? Crap focus Glowy! Please tell me I didin't screw somepony!
She was pulled from her thoughts by the sound of a whistling kettle shortly followed by a hiss of pain and profanity.
"Bloody Tartarus! Cerberus take this damn kettle and smelt it down into scrap!"
Glowy quickly rolled over to face the source of the noise and saw a slightly plump yellow stalion with orange mane sucking on his hoof to alleviate the pain from the burn. He hadn't seemed to notice she was awake yet and instead was glaring at the iron device like he wished it could feel pain. Her mystery host proceeded to lift the pot and poor the boiling water into a coffee press before turning back to a pan and grabbing a spatula which was used to flip an egg on toast.
"Good morning." Said a slightly nervious Pacific as she climbed out off of the bed.
The pudgy stallion turned around the spatula still in his mouth.
"Gofd morming yerf serlf." He mumbled around the cooking utensil.
"So your the grumpy morning type then?" She asked as she glanced around more awake but still confused.
He placed the spatula down on the counter after flipping the egg on toast again before speeking.
"I'm not grumpy in the morning I'm-"
"Could have fooled me." Said the mare.
"I was saying I'm grumpy in general." He frowned at being interupted.
"Oh lighten up. Oh and by the way whatever is in that pot is burning."
"What? Oh son of a-!"
Before he had finnished his own sentance that no doubt would have ended in profanity he grabbed the pot by the handle and placed it on a small pot holder acting as a makeshift heat pad. Glancing down at whatever was inside his ear's drooped and he frowned. Glowy by now had made her way to the couch and was sitting on it watching with amusment feeling a bit more relaxed.
"Damn it, Damn it DAMN IT! Damnit it all to Tartarus that pourage wasn't cheep!"
Begrudgingly he spooned some of the burnt yet still edible goop into a bowl before pulling out a plate from the cupboard and flipping the toast and egg onto it. Grabbing the edge of the plate in his teeth he made his way over to the coffee table accross from the couch and set it down in front of his 'House guest'. Once done he grabbed the bowl of burnt pourage in a similar fashion before sitting down in the arm chair to eat.
"By the way miss Glow it's not good morning it's good afternoon."
The mare was looking curiously at her egg on toast when he spoke making her look up at him.
"Oh what time is it then?"
"3:32 PM now please eat your egg in a basket so I can do the dishes."
"Why are you so grumpy? You slept with me and now your all upset?" She said in a raised and irritated voice.
The yellow pony choked on his burnt porrage before coughing violently for half a minute.
"What? No! I slept on the couch because you drank too much and I couldn't leave you in the bar overnight!"
"You had me drunk in your bed and didn't sleep with me?"
"NO!"
Oh thank the mercifull goddessess! She thought internally relieved. Then on a more sour note she thought Wait so I'm not good enough for him? Who does this guy think he is! Wait no this is good for Luna's sake Glowy stay focused and find out what happened!
Glancing back at the stalion she saw him noticably frowning at his food.
"So...nothing happened?"
"No."
"Promise?"
"What are you so worried about? Your the one who was drunk and high in a club and your worried about sleeping with somepony? You were practicly wearing a I'm easy billboard around your neck!"
"I'M NOT A SLUT!" Yelled the mare.
The stallion recoiled slightly shaking his head to snap out of it. He was about to retort back with a rude comment like 'could have fooled me' or 'that's not the message I got' but closed his mouth when he saw her looking at the ground and a few small water stains on his carpet floor.
"Shit."
Standing up he made his way over to the crying mare before sitting down in front of her. He looked back and fourth a few times trying to figure out what to do when a small sob came out from her and he said the only thing that came to mind.
"I'm sorry Glowy." It was wrong of me to say that."
The mare sniffled for a few moments before sitting down again on the couch and speaking.
"You're a jerk."
"Ya I get that a lot."
"I bet."
The stallion opened his mouth than closed it then did it again before speaking.
"Your egg is going to get cold if you don't hurry up and eat it. I'll call a cab when your done."
With that he walked back over to his bowl of burnt goop and proceeded to dump the remainder into a trash bin before placing the bowl in his sink. Glowy took a bite of the egg in a basket and finding it perfectly cooked finnished the thing in three more large bites. Looking back over at the yellow pony she spoke again.
"What's your name?"
"Lemon Tart."
"Thank you for breakfast and letting me use your bed Lemon Tart."
"MMhhmm."
"Is that all your going to say? MMhhmm?"
"I wasn't planning on saying anything else no."
"You're very strange."
"I get that almost as often as the jerk accusation...So what were you on last night?"
"Nothing!"
"Ya and I'm prince Blue Blood."
"It's none of your buisness."
"It was Joy wasn't it?"
"What? N-n-nooo what makes you say that?"
"Let's see. The pacifier, the teeth grinding and the blatant flirting in contrast to your behavior this morning are dead give aways."
The mares ears drooped in shame.
"Word of advice. If you don't want to wake up in a stalions bed the morning after get off that stuff. It will only make it easer for regretable things to happen."
"I don't think what I do is any of your buisness!"
"No it isn't but that doesn't change facts."
"Goddessess you're a jerk!"
"Yep."
There were a few moment's of somewhat awkward silence before a grumble from the mares stomach broke it. Her cheeks flushed and Lemon spoke without turning away from the dishes.
"There's milk in the mini fridge and a box of Honey & Oats in the cabinent."
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An hour later saw a less hung over Glowy waiting at the bus station with Lemon Tart. He was waiting for the bus so he could do a quick bit of grochery shopping before work and Glowy was waiting for the bus so she could go home. Lemon had offered to call a cab but she had refused thinking she should be polite and give her host some company before leaving. The slightly plump stallion to her right was stairing straight ahead while tapping his rear left hoof impatiently as they waited.
"Soooo..." Started Glowy.
"So what?"
"Umm..."
"You don't need to make conversation. In case you hadn't noticed I'm not very good at it."
"Ya..."
They stared ahead.
"Thank you though."
"You already said so back at the apartment."
"Well I can say it again if I want to."
"Why?"
"Because...I can?"
"Well you're welcome."
Silence again.
"Is the bus always so slow?"
"You could have got a cab."
"I know!"
"Why didn't you then?"
"Because I thought the least I could do was give you some company while you waited for the bus."
"Why would you want to? I'm basicly the living embodyment of unpleasant."
"No your not."
He gave her a questioning raised eyebrow glance.
"Well your friends must not think your unpleasant."
"I don't have any friends."
"Huh?"
"I don't have any friends."
"Everypony has friends!"
"I'm not everpony."
To prove the point he pulled out his phone and pushed his contacts button. Their were two contacts. One said mom and the other said CPPP.
"Holy crap you don't have any friends." Said the mare staring dumbfounded.
"Nope."
"Why?"
"I like my privacy."
"Don't you ever get board or lonely?"
"Not really."
"Everypony needs at least one friend!"
The two of them paused before Pacific had an Idea.
"What's your phone number?"
"665-876-9900 why?"
Seconds later his phone rang.
"Add me to your contacts."
"Why?"
"Because I'm going to be your first friend!"
"Uhhhhhhh..."
"Their I've added you to mine now we can call each other when we want to hang out!"
"Uhhhh..."
"Oh look the buss is here!"
A few seconds later the buss parked, opened it's doors and the pink mare climbed in. Lemon followed shortly after a confused look on his face as he sat down on one of the seats.
What just happened? He thought.
"So what are some of your hobbies?"
It was only then that he noticed he had sat down next to Glowy.
"What do you like to do? I like dancing and singing, listening to music Oh and I love scary movies! So what do you like to do?"
"Well I can bake and I read I like music too."
"Oh what kinds of music?"
"Pretty much all of it."
"Ok then so the first time we hang out maybe we could go to a music performance or something?"
"Ya. Sure."
"Well don't get excited all at once." She laughed lightly.
The bus came to a stop at the down town area and the doors opened up while the four stallions up front pulling it caught their breath and drank from bottles of water.
"Well this is my stop." Said Lemon as he quickly climbed from his seat eager to depart.
"Alright well I'll see you around Lemon Tart!"
Shortly after the bus started moving again and a more pleasant and over all happier Pacific Glow watched the city go by through her window. She was looking at one of the sky scrapers when her phone gave it's text alert noise.
"Hey Glowy what's going on girl? Sorry I'm texting so late but that mare last night wore me out!"
She giigled at the message.
"It's ok I'm just now on my way home."
Holy crap you slept at somepony's house! What was he like? Is he cute? Oh how big was he?
Blushing deeply at the message Glowy typed back franticly.
"No no no no nothing like that! I passed out and he gave me a place to sleep! Nothing happened were just friends!"
"You're kidding."
"Nope I made a new friend that's all."
"*Sigh* :(.
"Not all of us want to party like you Azure."
";D I'm just having fun untill I find the right one is all. It would be a crime not to share this flank with the world before settling down!
You couldn't settle down if you life depended on it and you know it.
"So is he at least cute?"
"In his own sort of way I guess. But were just friends I don't think he's even had a marefriend before. He doesn't really seem very social.
"Maybe you could be his first! ;).
Azure Stop it!
"Glowy and-What's his name?
Lemon Tart.
"Hmmm I can't really work with that. Oh somepony's waking up I got to go can't send her home without a proper goodbye can I? ;) TTYL.
Giving a relieved sigh Pacific went back to watching the city and thinking.
"Azure is totaly nuts! But she's still a good friend. I wonder how her and Lemon will get along? Oh oh oh! Maybe she can come with us when we hang out! Then all three of us can have fun togeather!"