High Light and Cider Smashed were the best of friends. Growing up together in Canterlot, the two young colts found their perspective talents in alchemy while working and living together. Ask anypony in Canterlot, these two were inseparable. Though their careers never truly lined up, they always found time for each other. When it came time to move away, Cider Smashed followed his best friend and his new wife to Ponyville so they could start their lives over and continue to work together. Not all stories have a happy ending though. Years after the tragedy of Cider's death, High Light tells his children the stories they shared.

**This is set many, MANY years after HBH and SMS. This is sort of an experiment story, I will be posting real memories of times spent with my late best friend (slightly modified for pony-words, of course) and the eventual end of our friendship. Bear with me, there will be sad moments but mostly funny happy moments.**

Even the most powerful of healing potions and spells only activate an accelerated regeneration rate instead of the damage simply vanishing, causing extreme amounts of personal energy to be used during the healing. This often results in the imbiber falling unconscious for hours at a time. Owners of Ponyville's own The Tea Spot and part time scientists High Light and Brighten Early do their best to negate these effects with the help of their Pegasus guinea pig friend Wake Vortex.

A raving review of Ponyville's specialty tea shop, The Tea Spot, leads to owners High Light and Brighten Early being swamped all week by Canterlot tourists. Though he was expecting to sleep in as late as possible, High Light finds himself awake incredibly early as Brighten Early does her best to prepare them both for another bustling busy day at the Spot. But isn't their shop closed on Sunday?

An entry written to compete in CategoricalGrant's Fall 2017 CuddleFic Contest!

Also, my first story.