What you call "Ponies" I call "Tuesday"

by Serothi

Chapter 12 : Afterthoughts

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So there we were... in Applejack's bathroom with the rest of her family sleeping just above us. We quietly shifted our positions in the bathroom, putting me closer to the shower, and Harry closer to the sink. Harry ran a bit of cold water and splashed it on his face... somehow...

"Well that was wierder than our moms telling us your mom jokes in public," Harry sighed, staring in the mirror.

"You could say that... jeez, I'm so sticky..." I said, checking to see if there were any towels in the room. There was one on the towel bar next to the shower. "Hey, Harry, I'm gonna take a quick shower to get this punch off me," I said, pulling back the shower curtain (which had apple print on it.) and climbing in.

"Yeah, I meant to ask you, what's with that?" Harry inquired, shaking the water from his coat. "Wait, if you're gonna shower now, at least wait until I leave, the last thing I want to see is you naked, cleaning yourself," Harry turned his head away, shielding his eyes from my direction.

"Harry, news flash, nobody here has been wearing clothes, so you won't see anything you haven't seen all day," I rolled my eyes and pulled the shower curtain between us.

"How do you know, are you a pony?" Harry asked, giving a a sly grin.

"Let's see... four legs... tail... mane... nagging obsession to eat hay, apples, carrots, and assorted vegetation... I dunno, what do you think?" I said, turning the water on. My eyes shot wide open as the water hit me.

"GY-mmmmphhhhhhh!" I said, feeling a hoof being forced into my mouth.

"Shhhhhhh..." Harry hushed me, but I couldn't do anything to push the hoof from my mouth, and the cascading cold water did nothing to help. My eyes darted over to the tempurature control and it was simple, one knob marked "C" for cold water, one "H" for hot water. I reached out and turned the knob for hot water turning the icy cold stream into a lukewarm rain. I sighed, and the hoof in my mouth removed itself.

"We good?" Harry asked.

"I suppose... don't ever stick your hoof in my mouth again, I have no idea where its been." I sighed, and began scrubbing the punch from my coat. This might take awhile, so lets shift the focus to the two mares we were just making awkward scenes with last chapter.

Back to the party...

Pinkie was dashing around, trying to clean up the mess she inadvertently caused while trying to snap David from his spiked punch induced nightmare. Rainbow Dash, wasn't doing much dashing. Instead, she was leaning against the table (now standing upright on its legs like it should be) trying to piece together what had just happened.

"Okay... One minute, I'm walking to the snack table..." Dash mumbled to herself, mentally marking her path her mind. "Then I look to the right... and Pinkie Pie was running at me... I ducked, and the turned the table into a-"

"Hi Dashie, I'm sooooo sorry about earlier, I didn't see you until it was too late but I couldn't stop because Davie drank some punch and fell asleep and stopped breathing and-MMMPH!" Pinkie was not only next to Dash, but was talking in a feverish pace which would be wierd... if you weren't Pinkie Pie that is. She was stopped by her slightly annoyed friend in the classic manner of covering the mouth with her hoof. This time, though, her friend was so hype, when Dash went to cover Pinkie's mouth, her hoof actually went IN her mouth.

"Pinkie, if you want to slow down, that's fine, I'm not going anywhere... yet," Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and slowly withdrew her hoof from her pink friend's mouth. When Dash's hoof was removed, Pinkie took a deep breath and, as calm as she could, told Rainbow Dash about what had happened.

"Well, me and Davie were over here hanging out, when he took a drink of punch and fell asleep-" Pinkie was interrupted by Rainbow Dash right at this point.

"Just one drink? Ha ha ha! What a lightweight!" Rainbow Dash chuckled, which brought an unexpected glare from Pinkie. Dash stopped chuckling, and motioned for her friend to continue.

"Right, anyways, he fell asleep, and someone bumped me into him," PInkie said, taking a deep breath.

"Oh? You sure it was a bump and not something else?" Dashie nudged her friend, who turned to give her friend an innocent, if not concerned look.

"What do you mean, Dashie?" Pinkie said, giving her friend an inquisitive tilt of her head. Dash rolled her eyes and smiled.

"Nothing, I'll tell you later," Rainbow Dash sighed, and patted her friend on the head. "Anyways, you were saying David wasn't breathing, he seemed alright when I caught a glimpse of him, although he did look... stickier than usual..." Dash said, remembering what little she did of the situation.

"Oh right, so he wasn't breathing, so I went and got some punch, and dumped it on him." Pinkie said, imitating her mad dash back and fourth between the table and where David was when he was sleeping. "But he didn't wake up, so I tried finding something that had more water to dump on him, and the closest thing was the bowl of punch, which got launched and dropped on him, waking him up."

Rainbow Dash just nodded and rubbed the back of her head.

"So, how was your night, Dashie? Meet any cute stallions?" Pinkie Pie leaned in close to her friend.

"I... what?" Rainbow Dash was taken aback by the question. Pinkie's smile widened just a bit.

"Ohhhhh... so there is one, isn't there?" Pinkie slyly remarked, nudging her friend suggestively.

"Wait, no, it's not like that!" Rainbow Dash tried to explain the situation to her friend, who politely listened in, but kept that sly smirk on her face during the whole bit. Pinkie giggled as Rainbow Dash finished her story, and reassured her that all was well. Rainbow Dash didn't quite agree with her friend, but relaxed some, and the two began discussing the rest of the party.

[center[bBack at the Farm House]]"I didn't even think it was possible..." I sighed, my right eye twitching slightly.

"I know, she didn't hit me or anything!" Harry exclaimed in a hushed tone.

"No, I mean I didn't think it was possible that it took you so long to find Applejack," I rolled my eyes. I had stopped my shower after getting the punch out of my coat, and was toweling off when Harry told me about his kiss with Rainbow Dash.

"I mean, she didn't really respond, but we split up right after," Harry said, panic starting to show in his voice. I finished drying my mane and moved over to him, placing a hoof on his shoulder.

"Harry, relax, things happen and while I don't know how you... accidentally lock lips, there isn't anything that can change it," I replied, trying to calm him down. It had some effect, but he was still a bit... jumpy, shall we say? "Right, anyways, we should probably get out of here, before something... happens..."

Harry wasted no time and moved to the door, opening it and stepping aside. "After you, mon ami." I shook my head and started making my way to and through the door. I got halfway out before running into something... hard...

"Ow, he-" I said, getting a clearer look at what looked like a horse-shaped battle tank. "Ohhhh..... hey... am... am I in your way?"

"Eeyup." was the response. I felt my eyes start to twitch and, very carefully, I maneuvered out of the small space. I took deep breath before hearing Harry run into the same problem I did. He said something I didn't quite catch, but made his way towards me.

"Hey, David, did you see that guy back there? he was huge!" Harry exclaimed. I heard a quiet chuckle coming from behind me and I whirled around.

"Hehe, met Big Mac' did ya?" a smug Applejack asked.

"Ye-"

"Is that his name? How did he get so big? He's not gonna beat us up, is he?"

Applejack stared blankly at Harry before snapping out of it.

"Uhh... no, he isn't gonna do nothin' like that, an' as far as I know, he's always been that big. Could be all th' farm work he does." Applejack said, giving us a straight-faced nod. Harry glanced nervously over his shoulder.

"Hum, right, well it's getting pretty late" I said, looking at Harry who glanced at me, smiled, and then turned to look at the farm mare in front of us.

"Yeah, I think we should get you back to Rarity," Applejack stated and proceeded to lead us out of the farm house and back towards the barn, where all but a few of the party goers were already on there way home. Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, and Vinyl Scratch were waiting for us outside. Once we met up with them, we were introduced more formally to Vinyl, the DJ.

Nothing much was said as she left shortly after, something about another gig and a 5 hour flight. I dunno. Afterwards though, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie decided to head home, leaving Harry, Rarity, and myself there.

"Ahem, right, well gentlemen, shall we proceed home?" Rarity asked, but didn't wait for an answer. Harry didn't waste a second before trailing her. I smirked, and gave a quick look around before taking after the others. Whatever waits us tomorrow is sure to be crazy.


Author's Note

Alrighty guys, here's the skinny on this.

I believe we all don't want to wait for individual chapters to come along, seeing as this one took the better part of a few months due to laziness on my part. Instead of chapters, I'll just do whole short stories. Also, might change the POV on them, while it was fun doing it this way, it gets pretty hard sorting the ideas out on paper.

I apologize for the extreme laziness and procrastination on my part, and do remind you that I have work in the morning. so please keep the nighttime raids on my house between the hours of 6pm-10pm. Thank you.

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