Diamond Tiara Makes Breakfast-in-Bed
The light of the rising sun flooded into the Rich manor at the edge of Ponyville, and the sounds of birds chirping and bells ringing outside caused Filthy Rich to stir in his bed. He knew that it was morning, and any other day of the week he would be climbing out of bed and making his way to the kitchen to prepare some breakfast, before getting himself ready for work.
But today was his day off, and so he felt that he was entitled to a lie-in. Pulling the pillow over his head, he groaned as he tried to ignore the sounds of ponies chatting outside. It was times like this that the stallion wished he could use magic, as he really wanted to shut the window without climbing out of bed. Eventually, the noise level died down, and Filthy Rich was able to get back to his relaxing, peaceful lie-in as he felt himself drifting back to sleep once again.
Meanwhile, just outside of Filthy Rich’s bedroom, the floorboards creaked as a small, pink hoof pressed against them. The pony that the hoof was attached to stopped, and waited for a few seconds in silence. After confirming that her presence hadn’t been revealed, she pressed on, slowly creeping past the bedroom door and towards the stairs at the end of the hallway.
Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs, Diamond Tiara breathed a sigh of relief, and then gave herself a pat on the back and a satisfied grin for her accomplishments so far. “Alright, phase one is complete. Now while daddy’s asleep, I’ll surprise him by making the best breakfast he’s ever tasted!”
On her way to the kitchen, Diamond Tiara went over once more in her head the breakfast that she had planned for him. At first she had thought that cereal would suffice, but she then realised that such a simple breakfast could never be considered the ‘best breakfast in all of Equestria’. Also, they were down to their last box of FlimFlam Sugar Bites, and she didn’t want to share it.
So she then thought about what she usually saw her father eat in the mornings. She recalled that sometimes he would have haycon and eggs, and sometimes he would have baked beans and buttered toast. So she decided to just throw all of that together, as well as preparing some coffee on the side.
“Alright, let’s see… There should be some stuff in here…” Diamond Tiara opened up the freezer and pulled open the first drawer. Nothing but ice-cream, ice pops, and a tray of ice cubes. Next drawer down contained a bunch of bags of frozen food, but not what she was looking for. The third drawer had the same result, and by this point Diamond’s hooves were getting cold. The final drawer contained… “Blech!” Diamond gagged as she saw the bags of broccoli and sprouts in the bottom drawer, and immediately closed it up.
“Maybe it’s in the fridge,” she thought to herself as she looked up at the refrigerator door above her. Diamond Tiara grabbed a nearby chair from the kitchen table and used it as a stool to reach the refrigerator door. Opening it, Diamond’s face lit up as she saw the bag of haycon that she was looking for moments earlier. She grabbed it with her mouth and tossed it onto the counter by her side, before going back in to search for the eggs. “A-ha! Got you!”
Grabbing the box of eggs, Diamond thought for a second about how many she should prepare. She remembered that her father usually has two eggs on his plate for breakfast, so she opened the box up and grabbed two eggs from it, putting the rest back into the fridge. Diamond also made sure to grab the tub of butter whilst she was there.
Next up was the beans. Diamond knew that they were kept in a cupboard, but the problem was that she didn’t know which cupboard. Hopping down from her chair, the filly checked the nearest cupboard first. It was filled with plastic tubs and lids and measuring cups and funnels… but no beans.
The next cupboard she found was filled with metal tins, but the shear amount made her groan. “Great. Which one do I want?” She grabbed the nearest tin and checked it. It wasn’t the right one, so she placed it on the floor beside herself. She continued to search through the countless tins that lay before her. Oatdogs, peas, spaghetti… Eventually, she found the one that she was looking for, and smiled as she placed it on the counter, beside the eggs and haycon.
Finally, Diamond grabbed the bag of bread and threw it up onto the counter. She then began to put the tins back into the cupboard, not caring about whether they were in their previous position or not, and then moved on to the next cupboard in the line. She now needed some pans.
Opening the cupboard door Diamond was ecstatic to find what she was looking for. She grabbed two frying pans and one saucepan and balanced them on her back as she made her way back over to the chair she had borrowed, pulling it towards the stove. She hopped up onto it and placed the pans onto the stove. “Right, I guess I’ll start with the haycon strips…”
Picking up the bag, Diamond Tiara opened it up and placed four pieces of haycon inside one of the frying pans. She then placed the empty bag to the side so that she could throw it away later. Next, she picked up one of the two eggs and brought it over to the over frying pan. She lifted it high into the air, and then brought it down quickly… and then gently tapped it against the edge of the frying pan.
She couldn’t help it. She didn’t want to use too much force in fear that the egg may fly everywhere and stain her coat. She groaned and looked at the egg in complete annoyance for a moment, before a brilliant idea popped into her mind. Picking up the second egg in her mouth, Diamond jumped down from the chair and walked some distance away from the stove. Aiming carefully, Diamond reared up onto her hind legs, pulled her left foreleg holding the first egg back, and threw the egg at the frying pan.
It landed inside, and Diamond let out a small cheer of delight, spitting the second egg out and into her hoof. “Alright! One down, one to go!” She reared up, pulled her foreleg back, and threw the second egg at the frying pan… missing it entirely and causing the egg to fly into the wall. “Oops… Oh well, I’m sure daddy will be okay with just one egg.”
Walking back to the stove, Diamond Tiara jumped up onto the chair and looked into the frying pan with the egg in it. She slowly and carefully removed the two halves of the shell that had been cracked open, leaving only a few bits and pieces in the pan with the yolk. “Now let’s see… Where’s the can opener?”
Diamond looked around and caught sight of the drawer where all of the cutlery was kept. She reached over and opened it, finding the can opener lying inside. She opened up the tin and emptied its contents into the saucepan. She tossed the can to the side and placed the can opener down. “Now, how do I turn this thing on?”
After studying for the stove for a few moments, she found a few dials with what seemed to be flame symbols and circles showing which corner of the stove they relate to. Below them was a button labelled ‘IGNITE’. Turning the dials, she heard a whistling sound coming from the stove, and then lowered her hoof to push the button at the bottom. Flames shot up beneath the pans, startling the filly for a second, and she then smiled contently as she turned to the toaster.
Diamond placed three slices of bread into the toaster and popped them down. “That’s simple enough. Now to make the coffee.”
Diamond grabbed the kettle and brought it over to the sink, knocking over a small tub of wooden spoon and other implements on the way. She opened the lid and poured some water into it. When it was nearly full, she shut off the tap and brought the kettle back over to its stand, turning it on and watching as the water inside began to heat up.
“… What’s that smell?” Diamond asked herself as she caught the scent of something burning behind her. “NO!” she screamed as she turned to look, but sighed with relief when she found that it wasn’t the food burning, but one of the wooden spoons that she had knocked down earlier. “Wait, that’s not good either!”
Diamond quickly reached over to grab the spoon, but immediately pulled her hoof away when she felt the heat of the flames on her hoof. “Oh, I know!” Diamond jumped up onto the counter and reached up towards a small red box on the wall labelled ‘FIRE BLANKET’. She grabbed the blanket and threw it onto the spoon. She relaxed and moved the now-extinguished spoon away, before returning to the kettle, which was now finished boiling the water inside of it.
She grabbed a small spoon from the cutlery drawer and grabbed the small pot labelled ‘coffee’. She opened it up and scooped up some of the powder inside. “Is that enough? Hmmm… I guess another spoonful couldn’t hurt.” She added two more spoonfuls to the mug she had picked out, and then grabbed the kettle and poured the water inside, a little too quickly. “OW!” Diamond screamed and dropped the kettle as she felt the hot water pour onto her hoof. “Owowowowowowowow!”
Diamond ran to the sink as fast as she could and placed her hoof under the tap, before running the cold water. She sighed and looked over at the kettle with a sad look in her eyes. “Guess I’ll have to do that again…” Her ears perked up as she heard the sound of sizzling, and she looked over to the stove to see smoke or steam rising from the pans.
“Ah! StopstopstopSTOP!” Diamond rushed over to the stove and turned all of the dials so that they were off. She then caught the scent of something burning and remembered that her father had complained about their toaster being broken, and not popping up until it was given a little nudge. “Oh, come on!”
Rushing over to the device, Diamond Tiara reached over and pressed the switch to pop the toast up. As she did so, some water droplets from her still-wet hoof fell into the electrical appliance and caused it to short-circuit. Smoke began to rise out of it, but Diamond ignored it in favour of saving the all-important breakfast that she had prepared for her father.
“Uh… I-It’s not that burned. I think I can save it.” With a confident smile, Diamond reached over to the cutlery drawer and grabbed a butter knife.
Filthy Rich looked up at his bedroom ceiling with a confused look on his face. He could have sworn he was just in Canterlot castle, kissing the hoof of Princess Celestia as she prepared the spell to turn his daughter into an Alicorn Princess, with bags of money and jewels floating all around him. And then the money burst into flames, and he could smell everything burning… and then he was here.
“Oh. A dream.” With a disappointed sigh, Filthy Rich rolled to his side and closed his eyes again. Not even two seconds later, he heard a knocking at his door. ‘Who’s that? Sweetheart shouldn’t be back from the hospital until much later.’
He heard the knocking again, and became genuinely curious. “Honey?” he asked, a little worried about the possibility that a robber – albeit a polite one – had come to strip him of his assets.
“It’s me, daddy.”
Filthy Rich let out a heavy breath of relief at hearing his daughter’s voice. “You can come in, Princess.” The door opened, and in walked the pink filly… carrying a tray on her back. “Diamond? What’s all that you’re carrying?”
“Don’t you know what day it is today?” Diamond asked as she approached the bed.
“… Sunday?”
Diamond rolled her eyes and placed the tray in front of her father. On the tray was a plate containing black haycon strips, three pieces of butter with slices of toast beneath them, a burned egg with shell fragments in it, and some bean that were barely fitting on there. Beside the plate was a mug of very dark coffee that clearly hadn’t been stirred enough, and was close to spilling over the rim.
“It’s Father’s Day, so I made you breakfast in bed!” Diamond announced in a proud tone, smiling as she sat at the foot of her father’s bed and looked him in the eyes.
Filthy Rich was taken aback by this, and took a moment to form a response. “Oh.” He knew that that wasn’t good enough, so he tried again. “Oh, Diamond. That’s… You made all of this? By yourself?”
“What, you thought I couldn’t handle it?” Diamond asked with an accusing stare.
“No, no! Not at all! I’m just thrilled that you would go through all the trouble to make me such a…” Filthy Rich gulped as he looked down at the mostly-burned breakfast. “…Delicious looking breakfast.”
“Well, you’re the most awesome dad in the whole world, and Miss Cheerilee says that making your dad a breakfast on Father’s Day is a good way to show him how much you love him.”
Filthy Rich smiled at his daughter’s words and reached a hoof forward to give her a light hug. She tried to back away, as he predicted, but he could tell that she was smiling on the inside.
“Come on! Eat it, before it gets cold!”
Filthy Rich looked down at the breakfast lying before him once more. ‘If I try to lift the coffee mug up in my drowsy state, I’ll probably end up burning myself… I’d better start with the food. Just… not the egg.’
Picking up the fork and knife provided for him, the stallion cut a small piece of one of the haycon strips and brought it to his mouth. His eyes began to water, and he had to keep himself from cringing as he felt the charred food practically crumbling in his mouth.
“Well?” Diamond asked.
Filthy Rich hesitated for a moment, before swallowing and then forcing a smile. “It’s… great,” he said, hoping that his daughter would buy it. “Thank you, for this… lovely meal.”
“Yes!” Diamond Tiara cheered with a hoof pump. “Okay, now eat the rest!”
“… Uh… wouldn’t you rather… go play in your room or something?”
Diamond Tiara shook her head. “I made a bet with Silver Spoon that I could make the best breakfast-in-bed you’ve ever tasted, so you have to eat the whole thing! And I’m gonna make sure you don’t miss any!”
Filthy Rich let out a light chuckle as he looked back down at his food. “Y-You don’t say…” With a gulp, he picked up a slice of toast and brought it to his mouth. ‘Thank Celestia my wife is a nurse.’
As he bit into the burned toast, he tasted something similar to the haycon strip moments earlier, and it made him cringe. But this was quickly overridden by a warm feeling on his chest, and he looked down to see his daughter nuzzling against him.
“I love you, daddy,” she said quietly.
Filthy Rich smiled and wrapped a hoof around his daughter. “I love you too, Princess.”
Author's Note
Thanks to Mudpony for pointing out some errors ^_^
