The Rough Night
Berry Punch opened her eyes, her head ached like never before. "Urgh" She let out a painful grunt, and decided to get up. When she got up from her bed she felt like the entire world had just been turned upside down. "Aaaugh!" She screamed as she fell to the ground.
Berry Punch had been laying down for a good five minutes when she decided to try to get up again. She slowly placed her hooves underneath her and slowly rose up. Finally, she was on her feet, although, she was a bit wobbly. She tried to take her first step and succesfully did so.
"Why is it so much worse than usual?" Berry Puch asked herself. She knew she had been drinking the night before, but that was completely normal. So, why was her hangover so exaggerated today? "Oh, right. That's why." She had just remebered. She had finally convinced her good friend Cheerilee to go drinking with her. So, naturally, she drank a LOT more than usual. After all, drinking is way more fun when your doing it with your friends, at least that is what she thought.
So now that Berry Punch had figured out why she had such a bad hangover, all she had to do now was get rid of it. The barely functioning pony walked, or rather, staggered out of her room. She had made it this far, but the biggest challange was getting to her. The stairs. "Okay Berry, you can do this." She said, trying to give herself support.
Slowly, VERY slowly, Berry made her way down the stairs. She was more than half way down when she felt it. There was a very sharp pain that went straight through her skull, and it caused her to lose her balance. Luckily she had just put a rug at the bottom of her staircase, otherwise she probably would have put herself into a coma with how hard she hit the ground head first.
"AUGHH" Berry yellped in pain. "What was that? Why did my head hurt so bad all of a sud-" Then she remembered "Oh, right." Berry was never known for being a calm drunk. Instead of just hanging out and having a drink, she chose to go do crazy things, that no other mare would try. And she remembered what crazy thing she tried last night.
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"I'm not so sure Berry, is this really a good idea." Cheerilee asked Berry with a great ammount of concern in her voice.
"Of Courshe it ish. I never shink of anyshing too shtupid." Berry replied, slurring nearly every word she spoke.
"Well, it's just I have a reputation to keep up, what with being a teacher and all."
"And like I Shaid i'ss gon' be fiiine. Lookit me, I've nevuh been put in prishon, and I do fis shtuff all da time."
"I suppose that's true." Cheerilee finally gave in. Although, she still didn't think it was that good of an idea.
When Berry and Cheerilee finally took position at the corner of an allway Berry Punch turned to look at Cheerilee and gave her the details.
"Okay, sho when dis guy comesh up I'll talk to him. While he'sh dishtracted you pull dis rope" Just then, Berry handed Cheerilee a rope that was hanging from something above them. "And then, thuh bucket'll fall down and pour water all over 'im. It'll be hilarioush." Berry was trying her hardest to not bust out laughing, already.
"Okay, but how will I know when to pull it?" Somehow this question caught Berry off guard. Like she wasn't expecting the plan to need to be this elaborate.
"Hmm." Berry placed her hoof under her chin. "Ah-Ha, I go' it. When I'm ready, I'll shtomp muh hooves tree timesh, like dish." And Berry proceeded to stomp her two front hooves three times. "Okay?"
"Okay." Replied Cheerilee.
Cherrilee did not quite understand the humor of what was going to happen, but Berry Punch really wanted to do it, for some reason. Cheerilee would not usually ever do something so irresponsible, but she had a few drinks, although, not nearly as many as Berry, so she was not thinking clearly.
"Okay here he comesh" At that moment Berry ran out of the alleyway and greeted a stallion. Cheerilee could not quite make out what she was talking about, but it seemed like the stallion wasn't enjoying his time with Berry. Just then Cheerilee heard a crash from behind her. She quickly turned around to see what caused the noise, but didn't notice anything there, so she decided to look at Berry Punch again.
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Berry Punch ran up to the stallion as fast as her drunk and wobbly legs could carry her. "Hey, whazzup?" Berry said to the stallion. The stallion was Brown with a slightly darker color of brown for his mane. He could smell all of the alcohol on her breath.
"Ugh, is there something I can help you with?" The stallion replied trying his hardest not to gag while talking.
"Yeah, jus' walk over here a li'l bit and sumfin cool'll happin."
"I'm sorry, but I don't have time for this." The stallion, getting impatient very fast, tried to leave, but Berry grabbed him and tried pulling him over, so that he'd be under the bucket.
"Common, man jus' do dis real quick, it'll be cool, you'll shee." Berry tried pulling him back, but the stallion pushed her off of him.
"Hey! Get off of me!" Berry punch was able to keep her balance, but only after fumbling with her front hooves.
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When Cheerilee looked back she could see that the stallion was still there, but he looked really mad. But, she also noticed that Berry Punch had just stomped her hooves. Sure, it was more than three times, but Cheerilee just figured Berry was too drunk to remember how many times she had to stomp her hooves. So Cheerilee decided to pull the string as hard as she could. Unfortunately, she pulled a little too hard. When she pulled the rope broke at one point and the bucket flew down from above Berry and smashed her right on top of her head.
"Woah! Berry! Are you alright?!" Cheerilee yelled as she hurried over to Berry Punch.
"S'alright, m'fine." Berry replied barely concious.
"Okay, I think we've had our fair share of pranks for tonight. I'm taking you home." Berry would have protested against this, but she was already passed out.
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"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what happened last night." Berry was still on the floor at the bottom of her stairs. She got up and walked towards her kitchen. "Okay the best way to get rid of a hangover. Is drinking some more!" Berry reached for her wine cabinet and pulled out one of her favorites. She then proceeded to get a glass and she poured herself some wine. She grabbed the glass and held it up to her mouth, but then something strange happened. She did not feel like drinking.
After thinking harder about how many shenanigans she had gotten herself into recently, she wondered if it was worth it. She then placed the glass down and picked up the wine bottle instead. She placed it into her mouth and walked back upstairs. This time she was stable enough to get up the stairs without any problem.
She arrived in her room and placed her wine down on her bed. She then started to walk back and forth across from the bed. "Okay, pro's and cons. Pro, being drunk is fun. Con, the morning after being drunk is not fun. Pro, getting drunk is a good way to meet new ponies. Con, I get so drunk that I don't even remember what the ponies that I met looked like." After naming a few more pro's and cons Berry stared at the wine bottle.
"Sigh* Okay, I think I'll try to stop drinking. At least for a little while." Berry had made her decision. No longer would she be known as "That drunk pony" or "The craziest party animal in Poniville", next to Pinkie Pie. Now she'll be known as "That Pony that was able to quit drinking" She'll be an inspiration to all alcoholics everywhere.
Berry let out a big breath, she felt good about her decision. She felt like it was a chance to start over, a chance to make new friends and new memories. She then grabbed her favorite wine bottle and threw it in the trash in the corner of her room. Doing that alone felt great, like a big burden was lifted off her shoulders.
"Alright today's gonna be a beautiful day!!" But just then Berry's happiness was put to a halt when she felt the earth rumble. "Waahh!" She felt onto her side. After a few seconds she felt like the shaking would never stop, so she decided to investigate what the cause was. She stumbled over to her window and opened her shudders and could not believe what she saw.
She did not want to believe what was happening, but it was right there in front of her. Outside was a little yellow filly with a red mane that had a bow in it, chasing her now moving house. But that filly wasn't what scared Berry so much it's what was causing her house to move. There, in front of her house was a big red Stallion with an orange mane hopping up and down. He had a rope around his neck and that rope went from his neck all the way around Berry's house. The red stallion was pulling her house.
The little filly ran up to the stallion and grabbed him around the neck, but he coninued to hop up and down without a problem. It was then that two other fillies popped out of a hole and yelled at the other filly to move away. "He'll git to her, he's too strong!" Yelled the little yellow filly. Then, as the stallion continued to hop up and down the rope finally snapped making Berry's house stop moving.
"Let him GOO! Yelled one of the fillies that was in the hole. Then the yellow filly hopped off of the stallions neck.
"Shmoopy DOO!!" Yelled the stallion. he kept hopping until he was cut off by falling into the hole that the other two fillies had popped out from.
Berry had no idea what she had just seen. But, she had enough of it. She did not how she was going to get her house back to it's usual place. With that, Berry closed the shutters, she looked at her trash can, took out the wine bottle and started drinking it straight from the bottle. "I don't care about the cons!! This towns to crazy to be sober in!!"
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Author's note - I have no idea where this came from, I was just sitting in from of my computer when I thought 'Heh, it'd be funny if after Berry Punch had JUST decided to quit drinking Big Mac started pulling her house and make her start drinking again.' And I've been wanting to write a fic for awhile now, but never got around to it. This is my very first fic, so it probably has over a thousand errors, but I tried my best. I hope you enjoyed it! And if somehow you weren't sure yet. Yes, this story is based off of Hearts and Hooves day.