After waking up the next day I went back to my store with Luna. I hadn't insisted she come along for my daily dribble of a job, she just sort of followed me. Today wasn't as cold as yesterday , but was still cold enough to allow the snow to remain. When we arrived at my store after a silent walk I found that I hadn't been robbed. Which is, of course, good.

The doors were unlocked and my trusty little red sigh read "Open". I sat behind the mahogany counter and doodled on the edge of some petition I was suppose to ask ponies to sign. Something about an old tree that's going to be cut down. Luna sat beside me and flipped through a small book about recent history. She had chosen one that covered history over the last one thousand years. Customers had started pool in; by about nine in the morning there were nearly sixty ponies inside (Hey, its a big store). Most were surprised to see the Princess, but being lost in her book she'd dismiss them with a wave and half-hearted "Hello" or "Good morning". Then they'd give me a curious facial expression and sometime, the stallions at least, would let off a chuckle as they walked away.

Luna barely raises her head from the book as she asks. "What is with all the strange chuckles and laughs?"

I look to my right and smile at her as she barely makes eye contact with me "Just some ponies using their imaginations."

Luna shrugs and dives back into her book. I smile and go back into mine.

Luna looks up from her book again. "Psst!"

I look up from my book and look at her. "What?"

"I said 'PSST!'" Luna says. "Next time one of the customers gives us a chuckle and a strange look, we should kiss. Like....really really kiss."

I laugh and nod. "Yeah, you know what...lets do that. It should be funny."

It took a little while before another customer approached us. I was deep in reading when it happened. I was on the chapter of my book were the butler wakes up next to his previously living employer while clutching a bloody hammer. Suddenly I heard a 'Good Morning' from Luna then some chuckling as I felt my head get jerked away from the book and a tongue thrust into my mouth. I close my eyes and move my tongue around with the one in my mouth. I opened one eye and look to my left at he shocked customer and laugh into Luna's mouth.

She laughs back into mine. Then we open our eyes fully, meet eyes and laugh. The kiss is broken the instant we start laughing. After a few minutes we stopped laughing and simply set down our books and cuddled up against each other behind the counter. We resumed reading now physically closer. The butler panics and tries to revive the long dead ex-employer. A customer approaches the counter and she asks. "Can you do that again?"

Luna and I look up with our eyes like giant white dinner plates.

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Many hours after that awkward moment we had retreated to my home above the store at closing time and sat at my small wooden dinner table. I had prepared us two salads for dinner, Luna had brewed up some hay-shakes and added a teeny-weeny amount of rum, I assumed she figured I wouldn't notice. However, while she was adding it I happen to look over from my work at the salad bowl. I didn't bother to say anything and just smiled to myself at the time.

Now with my salad and rum and hay shake in front of me I look across the table at the beautiful princess who decided to sleep with me just the night before. "I hope you're fine with a salad that lacks tomatoes, I hate the ruddy things and don't keep any in my home."

"You hate tomatoes? As do I!" Luna exclaimed a bright smile coming about on her face. "W- I mean, I was quite pleased to see you didn't add any." She stabbed a bit of ranch covered salad with her silver-salad fork and looked up at me. "I assumed you were out of those ugly little red weeds." Luna shoveled a fork-full of salad into her mouth and got a bit of ranch on her lips without noticing.

I grin at Luna as I chew on some ranch covered lettuce and croutons from my plate. As I swallow I prepare to speak, after wiping my face I've prepared what I am going to say. "Luna, your very cute with a little ranch on your lips." I say with a polite and joyful smile.

"Wha-oh my!" She near-shouts as she levitates a napkin to her lips and wipes them vigorously. "Thank you, dear." She said with a bright smile towards me. She quickly drops the smile in exchange for a mundane half-smile half-frown.

"No problem." I say at first not noticing the new look of troubling thought. Once I took notice I frown as I being to accumulate thoughts of my own, wondering about her thoughts. Thoughts within thoughts? No, wait: thoughts ABOUT thoughts. Quite odd, but nonetheless my thoughts were of her thoughts. "Something on your mind?" I ask with a slight frown playing along my lips. I look down at my plate of salad and scoop more of the salad onto my fork. I move the fork up, it covered with lettuces, ranch, and many other things, to my mouth and dumped the contents onto my tongue.

"I'm.......aroused." Luna says with a quizzical look about her.

Author's Note

Sorry this took so long.
:P
-Omega