"Thanks." I took the tea from Sweetie Belle, "So...how's business?" I asked taking a sip.
"Dreadful darling, absolutely dreadful. It may seem odd to complain about too much work but-" Rarity moaned, siting on the couch.
I waved my hand at her, "No trust me I get it...why don't you hire some help?" I said setting my ankle on my knee.
"Darling their just isn't anypony qualified! Earthponies and Pegasai have trouble with sewing..."
"Well....I....I might-uh.....how much would you be willing to pay for some help?"
"Oh darling don't worry about-"
"Cause....I might know some people..."
"Oh...well I suppose I could-"
"Two....kinda young, fresh out of school, just promise to pay them fairly and I'll take care of the rest."
"Two? But I don't-"
"I'll make sure you're on our preferred customer list down at the shop and I'll make sure you get my employee discount too....please, they wont stop sending me letters...." She gave me a long hard look, not staring at me so much as staring past me.
"I suppose....who exactly are these two?"
"Uh.....my brother and sister.....my parents have been trying to get them to move out for months, they keep trying to get me to take em....now don't get me wrong their good kids but..." I rolled my wrist, "Their dumb..."
"Oh," She glanced over at Sweetie Belle, "I can understand your frustration,"
"Well....yeah, but let me promise you this, you hire them they can stay with me and they won't cause any trouble....ever...."
"Oh...you're not going to hurt them are you?"
"N-no....no more so than before....I mean I-"
"I understand. I must say you never struck me as a violent person."
"...yeah but you haven't met my family yet...so anyways, what exactly would you have ?"
"...can they sew?"
"No idea... but they'll learn..."
"Hmmm, I suppose they can help with fittings,"
"Listen I'll teach em whatever you want, and I can teach them about fitting shoes, boots, sock, doesn't matter I'll show em." I set the tea down, "So...help me out?"
She paused for a moment, "I suppose...I make no promises they will work out..."
"I'll make them work...and if not...I met this guy who works at the new lumber mill and a little physical labor never hurt anyone, heh...heh....eugh..." I set my head in my hands, "Stupid kids....."
She set her hoof on my shoulder, "I'm sure this will work out....maybe...."
"Oh geez..." I spotted them immediately and gave a sharp whistle, "Over here...." The duo ran over, "You're late...."
"Yeah hi there," Clark said pulling his bag along, "We came as soon as we could..." I could see Carmen pulling at a massive pile of luggage.
I just shook my head, "Carmen you want some help?" I started walking over to the encumbered girl, "Hurph- Well I guess you heard..." I was quickly loaded down with several heavy bags.
Clark's voice cut in, "Huh? Yeah Carmen I meant to ask-"
"Clark didn't know...he thought this was a visit..."
"It's not!?" I saw him march past, my view forced to the floor.
"No you idiot...we're moving here..."
"....What?! Like mom and dad too?"
"Nope...just you and me..."
"WHAT!? I only packed for like...THREE DAYS!"
"CAN YOU TWO SHUT UP AND HELP!?" I yelled slowly drudging forwards with the mass of bags.
"Oh....fine," Clark ran over and pulled a few of the bags off.
"Jesus....you know you didn't have to bring everything you own right?" I shouted at Carmen, "I mean...you can buy new stuff..."
"Yeah well I didn't know if they'd sell what I want, you said this place was run by ponies...speak of which where are they?"
"I don't know...they tend not to hang around the embassy...lets just- eurk....we have....train..." I lurched forward still under a heavy load of crap, "gonna die..."
"Sure... now where are these ponies?" Carmen said strolling past me and out of the embassy, "Oh- they really are ponies...huh...thought that was just a nickname..."
"This place smells like....horses..." Clark said as we walked from the station through Ponyville, "Oh hey chicks!" He walked backwards watching a group of mares walk past.
"Clark don't stare..." Carmen said, instinctively joining in the backwards walk, "Huh...I wonder if they dye their hair.
"Ok first off: mares, and second no they don't....can you two watch where you're going, I don't need you causing trouble right off the bat."
"Hey you're the one who dragged us out here, I was just fine staying home, but Noooo, go visit Corey, he's living on his own, he's a successful business man....and a homo...living in a land of...ponies, freakin weirdo,"
"Can you shut up Clark, Jesus...we're almost there," We hurriedly made it to my house, I handed Clark the key and nudged him forward, "Get the door..." He loudly jammed the key in the lock and pushed it open.
"Huh....neat," Clark burst into my house along with Carmen, leaving me to haul their bags, "So who is this?"
I had no idea who Clark was talking about, my view still obstructed by the massive load of bags, "Ya know...maybe you help me, maybe I answer..." Someone quickly took a few bags from me, "Thank you...find an empty room and settle in," I managed to straiten out my back, revealing a confused looking Vinyl, "Oh....right...Vinyl these are-"
"I don't care....why are they invading? I was...in the middle of something..." My siblings rushed past her and into the hall.
"Eugh...anyways, brother," I pointed to Clark, then quickly to Carmen, "and Carmen, they'll be staying with us...that's ok right?" I asked setting their bags down in the entry.
She lifted her glasses and rolled her eyes before giving a hard nod and letting her glasses slam against her muzzle, "Fine...screws up my plan for tomorrow night....unless you can get rid of them for a few hours..."
"Uh....well....oh hey wait! You wouldn't mind If I set those two up in the loft in the club...I mean...since you always spend the night,"
"Hmmm," Her tail swished side to side frantically, "Depends, let's see if you can convince me, bed room, now" She said with a smirk, turning and bumping into Clark, "Whoa sorry dude," She walked off.
Clark looked stunned, "Dude.....they uh....wow....they- her- she should start wearing panties or something..."
"....oh dear god...you little...she's my girlfriend you prick!" I rushed over to him, "I catch you staring at her again I will toss you out on your ass!"
"Corey calm down....not like I haven't seen pus-" I gave him a quick tap to the gut, hitting his diaphragm, "-urgh.....ow....I saw..pussy," He managed to squeak out as he collapsed to the floor, "Ass...hole..." His breathing ragged from the hit.
"....Ya know....I didn't miss you....still a little pervert, just like when I left..." I walked off to find Vinyl.
I walked into the nearest bedroom, I could hear Carmen talking to someone, "-you could just.." Carmen was sitting on my bed with Vinyl sitting on the floor between her legs, softly running her fingers through Vinyls mane, "Oh...hi!" Vinyl seemed to be slightly agitated but accepted the unwanted attention.
"So....you're parents like C names?" Vinyl asked exhaling rather harshly.
"Heh...yeah, hey Carmen...you mind not doing that..." She had started mindlessly twirling Vinyls mane around her finger.
"Huh, oh! Sorry...it's really soft," She pulled her hands to her lap, "Sorry...."
"Uh huh....you mind.." I gestured for her to leave. She gave a quick nod and stood, "Take Clark and go check out the town," She went out the door and started laughing, "Heh...must have found Clark...anyways, are you ok?" I asked taking a seat on the bed and pulling Vinyl up.
"It's all stuck...." She moaned trying to close her hooves on the twirled hairs, "Corey..." She turned her head away from me, "Fix it."
"Ha!" I started trying to straiten the frayed hairs, "so, what's it gonna be, living here or-"
"Like I said you still need to convince me..."
"This doesn't count?" I managed to straiten out the few twirls.
"You know what I mean...." She turned towards me and looked me over, "go take the pills I keep in the blue bottle...you look tired..."
"right now?"
"Yes"
"...but...the-"
"Corey...."
I stood up almost bouncing her off the bed, "...fine...the blue bottle?"
"Yep, take one and get ready, in the hall~" She yelled as I got into the bathroom.
"The hall!? It's almost like you want them to find us..."
"I love the tension~"
"Oh geez...I guess...my brother might actually try to watch though...."
"Really?!"
I found the pills and took one. "Yep, he's still going through that awkward teenage: want to fuck everything stage...creepy little pervert..."
"...How old are they?!"
"...Seventeen and nineteen..." I said stepping into the hall with Vinyl muzzle to gut with me.
"Really? That's...their young."
"Yeah....that's why, A: I didn't tell you, and B: It took so long...I sent the letter back in February."
"It's May!" She said tugging at my belt.
"Like I said....it took a while," I unhooked my belt and picked her up, letting her straddle my midsection.
"Huh weird...so you ready?"
"....not really..,"
"Geez, you're acting like this is a punishment: it's for the loft, it's for the loft, it's for the loft." She said pumping her foreleg mockingly, "You should be begging me for this!"
"....but....it's like this every night...I get tired..."
"Oh man up....also saddle up..." She laughed and started nipping my neck.
"How are you so bad at being seductive?"
She pushed off my chest, "Oh shut up saddles are kinky!"
"Their really not..."
She gave a quick growl before leaning forward and locking lips with me. Thing quickly devolved into what it always does, "Tell me saddles aren't kinky now..."
"Really!?" Carmen yelled in my ear as we walked, "All to ourselves!?"
"Yes...it's small but it should be enough for the two of you,"
"...two bedrooms?" Clark asked joining us in a sort of V, one of them at each side.
"It's two bed one bath and a living room slash kitchen," We hurried towards the club.
"Huh...how thick are the walls? Cause I need to know..." Clark asked overtaking the group.
"For what, all the girls you bring home, or just your private time..." Carmen said as he stopped dead.
"Dah- I- you- urghhh!"
We reached the club, "Heheh good one...here it is, up the stairs," There was a small staircase on the outside of the club.
Clark run up and put his hands on one of the clubs windows, "Literally on top of a club!? Sick...gonna get some serious pus-"
"Say it and you sleep outside..." I pushed up into the loft with the two in tow, "This is it...I'll drop your stuff off later, be ready on Monday, I'll show you where you'll be working,"
"Work!? I don't work!" Clark said as I hurried down the stairs.
"You do now...punk...just get ready to unpack, Oh yeah before I forget...I hope like sewing..."
"Sewing?"
"Sewing, what exactly will we be doing?" Carmen said hanging out the front door.
"....making socks..." I yelled up from the bottom of the stairs, "Maybe Rarity will let you design your own..."
"Rarity..." I pushed into the boutique, Sweetie and Rarity was standing in the entry room, "Oh hey-"
"OH MY GOD! It's adorable!" Carmen ran in and pulled Sweetie Belle against her chest, "Just the cutest thing!" She walked out of view.
"Corey....are these?"
"Yes...your new employees!" I said in a mock singsong voice.
"Yo, sup?" Clark said pushing into the boutique.
"...Charming....their-"
"Clark and Carmen."
"Oh....your parents liked-"
"Heard it...." I grunted.
"Corey you seem..."
"Agitated? Yeah....a little," I took a step back out of the boutique, "You two Listen to her or I will send you back home in a box...GOT IT!?....Good...later Rarity" I closed the boutique door, leaving Rarity to sort them out.
"WAIT DON'T" Rarity cried out as Sweetie started screaming.
"Haha..ha......ha....I did a bad thing.....I'll make it up to her. Until then; Taco time! Vinyl likes tacos right?" I flipped through the content of my pockets, pulling a few bits out, "Man...I freakin love tacos..." I walked away from the increasingly loud scene I caused, "What does Vinyl usually get...something spicy..."
Carmen
"I don't know....maybe a lavender?" I flipped through a book of color swatches, "Hmmm, maybe purple? You could even go with black and white banding." A series of clip clops resounded in the hall.
"Ms?" I looked behind me towards the mare Corey left us with, "Oh...what are you doing,"
"Hi," She walked next to me, "Just thinking...maybe a blue..." I pressed the swatch against the little one's leg, "Yeah a pale blue would work, maybe a gradient...A brighter blue at the top, tapering down to a pale blue grey. What do you think?" I turned to the grown mare, she looked shocked, "...I..I uh, art classes..."
She shook her head wildly and stepped closer, "Maybe a nice Prussian blue leading into steel blue...but I'd stick with lavender to complement her mane,"
"Uh...Rarity-" The little one eeked out.
"Hush Sweetie," She took the swatches and flipped through them, "Mauve or orchid with lavender...swirled or banded, maybe even vertical stripes with a pink band at the top,"
"Yeah that would be nice, thigh or knee? I'm thinking thigh high,"
"Thigh would work, but..."
"Rarity-"
"Sweetie please...hmm, thigh with vertical stripes, or gradient for knee...you wouldn't know how to use a sewing machine would you?" She asked turning to me, her hair billowing to the side.
I gave a smug smile, "As a matter of fact I do, only useful thing they taught us in home ec," I said turning slightly bitter towards the end, "Anyways...did you want me to make her a pair?"
"Excuse me? Oh...not for her, well...maybe, but we she's not a client," She turned towards the door, "Come along,"
"Wait! Let me down first!" The little one yelped, I quickly turned around and set her on the floor.
"Sorry...you were very helpful." I said trying to be motherly, she gave me a quick frown before scampering off, "Well...that's ok...I did kinda grab her," I ignored it and hurried to find the grown mare. I ended up finding her in a small room off to the side, "Ah there you are Ms..."
"Rarity darling, My name is Rarity, and you're Carmen yes?"
"Yep,"
"Ah good, I'm glad to see you're not Clark..."
"Ha...no, where is Clark anyways?"
Clark
"Man....I can't believe it....this place is gay as hell!" I said trying to find an exit, "Come on, I'm not- AH HA! I found a door and pushed outside, "Perfect! There is no way I-" I was caught off guard by a streak of teal darting through the sky, "The hell?" The streak did a corkscrew before barely missing another grey blur, before spinning erratically and tumbling to the ground, "Whoa ho ho shit!" I started running towards the crash, "That was fucking awesome!" I reached a small field just outside of the town proper, there was a dazed teal mare sitting in the field, her head wobbling left and right, "Whoa man, hey! You alright!"
I reached her just as she was shaking off the daze, "Where did that mailmare go!?" She stood up and started looking around, spotting the grey streak a few yards out, "There you are!" She leaned in, extending her wings. There was a quick twitch before her right wing shot back to her side, "OW! What the!?" She started trying to extend her wing, her face scrunching up in pain, "Oh you jerk!" She yelled at the diminishing grey speck, "Get back here!" She tried to run after her, giving up a few seconds later, "Who lets that mare fly!?" She turned and finally noticed me, "And what do you want!?"
"Hey...shut up...you're the one who crashed!"
"What?"
"I saw you crash, what happened?"
She looked back to where the other steak disappeared, "Mailmare cut me off, I know who it was too! That weirdo with the funky eyes!"
"...well...that sucks..."
"Your damn right it does!" She brushed past me.
"Hey watch it."
"You watch it, you should be glad I touched you!"
"And why's that!? All I've seen you do was crash like a ditz, not very impressive!"
"Hey screw you!" I popped her wings out only for her injured one to pull back, "Ow...And you think your better!? You cant even fly!"
"Well looks like neither can you!"
She got flustered, "Well I- I can still outrun you, two legged weirdo!"
"Oh sure you can, I bet you'd trip on nothing!"
"Wanna-" Her wings shot out again, "OW!" Her voice more shrill than before.
"Whoa there....you ok?" I took a step forward.
"Hey back off, I don't need your help..." She slowly tried to extend her wing, it caught half way and pulled against her, "MAILMARE!!" She yelled shaking her hoof, "I will find you!"
"Oh calm down...it was probably your fault!"
"Was not, I was one of the best flyers in the wonderbolts academy!"
"Was"
"...you're a jerk.."
"And you have a vagina, we all have problems!" This caught her off guard.
"...w-what?"
"Nothing...come on, I think this town has a hospital or something." I started off back into town.
"Why would I go anywhere with you?"
"Because...because shut up...now come on." She rolled her eyes but eventually started following me, "That's right...swag"
"Huh?"
"Nothing..."
"Weirdo,"
"Ditz..."
"Jerk,"
"Bitch!"
"Jackass!"
"C-cunt!"
"Cocksucker!"
"...shut up..."
"You first!"
"No you!"
"You shut up!"
"Look just shut up....I think we're lost..." I said stopping in an alley, "Shit...come on, we'll find it!"
"I could probably find it faster without you..."
"Shut up...just follow me!"
"Idiot..."
"Bitch..."
"You already said that..."
"Shut up!"
Carmen
I finished the seam and pulled the sock right again, "Alright, here," I handed Rarity the new sock, it was a simple solid white with two red stripes at the top.
"Hmm, the patterns are strait, seam is good, lets see how it fits," She lifted a hoof and slid it on, "Hmm, a bit lose...but I am rather slender...I should call Applejack or Pinkie Pie..."
"...was...was that a jab?"
"A jab? Oh! Oh no...they are just more...robust, than most..."
"Liar..."
"..."
"Knew it...anyways should I remake it?"
"No darling, this should be fine...Do you think you could fill out orders and help fit ponies?"
"Sure! I mean...I'll figure it out!"
"Hmm...Corey said he would teach you about hooves...why don't we go visit him."
"Uh...ok, man...Corey was never this popular back home...he was a nerd back home..." She gave me an odd look before leading me outside.
Clark
"Well, this is it..." The giant red plus gave it away, "Well...go,"
"I will!"
"Then do it!"
"I shall!"
"THEN GO!"
"YOU GO!"
"I'm not the one who hurt themselves!"
"Really I couldn't tell by your ugly face!"
"You're ugly!....no you're not..."
"Huh?!"
"I said shut up...now go!"
She narrowed her eyes at me, "...this isn't over...weirdo..." She walked inside the hospital.
"...she wants the D hardcore." I walked off a smug smile growing on my face, "Swag,"
