Chris's dreams

Part 7

While we were walking to Mr and Mrs Cake’s house, Cheerilee tried to make small talk with me. “So Chris, I’d like to ask you something if that's okay with you?”

“Um yeah sure, go ahead; I guess everyone seems to be asking me things today anyway.” I put my hands behind my head letting out a sigh.

Looking back at me Cheerilee smiled and asked “Well I have a few things I’d like to ask like, how long have you been in Ponyville?”

I shrugged “Not that long really, just two days and I’ve liked every day so far.” I let out a laugh just think about what I’d done over the last two days.

She looked back at me with a confused face. “Hey what’s so funny?”

“Oh... oh sorry it's nothing, just thinking of something.” I coughed and looked at her. “Is there anything else you wanted to ask me?”

“Hmm… well I don't want to keep boring you with questions so I’ll just stop asking I guess.” She continued to walk along, every once in a while looking back to see if I was still following her. I began to look around hoping to see something that would catch my eye. I looked over and saw some other ponies at what I guess was a market where they bought food and what not. I looked in the crowd hoping to see Twilight. I did see Rarity though with what I guess was a baby dragon; or I thought it was.

“Hey um, Cheerilee?” I asked.

“Yes?” She looked over at me.

“Do you think we can go over there for a bit? I need to talk to someone… if that's okay with you.” I said.

She sighed a bit. “Fine, if you can't wait I guess we can go over there.”

We started to walk towards the big crowd of ponies. “HEY RARITY!” I bellowed at the crowd, hoping to catch her attention.

Rarity looked around with a confused look on her face. I yelled at her again; “RARITY OVER HERE!” I waved my arms around hoping to catch her eye.

She finally spotted me and began making her way over to me along with that dragon thing. “Why hello there Chris, how have you been today?” She said.

I smiled at her and looked back at Cheerilee. “Well I'm going out with Miss Cheerilee… can I ask who this is following you?” I pointed at the dragon.

“Oh I'm sorry, Chris this is Spike, Spike this is Chris.” She said introducing both of us.

His reptilian eyes opened wide. “So you are the Chris that Rarity and Twi have been talking about!” He said.

‘Oh god, don't tell me he knows too...’ I thought and looked down at him. “Umm yeah, I guess I am; why, does it matter?” I asked.

He jumped onto Rarity's back trying to get eye to eye with me. “Don't play dumb with me Chris! I know what happened with you and Rarity.” He said angrily and jumped off of her.

I looked at Rarity with a surprised face. “Um Rarity, can I talk to you in private for a second?”

“Oh sure; Spike dear? I’ll be right back, just wait for me here.” She said and he sat down on the ground with his arms crossed.

“Fine! I’ll wait here then.” He said furiously.

I guided Rarity to an alley where no one else could see us. “Okay I don't even want to know how Spike found out!” I shouted. “But how the hell did he find out?!”

She sighed and looked at the ground ashamed “He… he must have heard me talking with Twilight and I guess-” She stopped mid-sentence, realizing what she had just said.

“You… you told Twilight about what happened between me and you?!” I gasped.

She nodded her head. “I'm so sorry dear! She wanted to know why you never came over and I just HAD to tell her what happened.” She apologized.

I slammed my head against the wall and looked back at her. “How... how much did you tell her?”

“I never said a lot; I told her what you are good at and what you can improve on. That's it.” She said smiling and patted my back with her hoof.

“Oh well- HEY WAIT A SEC! What do you mean improve on?” I looked at her with frustration on my face.

She laughed “Well dear, to tell you the truth you could have been better; not to be nasty or anything but you do need to improve on some things.” She remarked.

“Like what?!” I folded my arms and waited for a response from her.

“Well I’ll just say that you need to know how to please another pony I guess is the best I can put it. It felt like you could have done better. But I did enjoy it!” She giggled and moved closer. “Come on now Chris; I don't want to keep talking about it and I think we have some ponies waiting for us.”

She walked out of the alley leaving me. I slumped to the ground, my back resting on the cold wall of a house. “Oh god, I hope Twi doesn’t think of me as the kind of person who just sleeps around with everyone!” I slammed the back of my head against the wall.

Cheerilee walked into the alley way “Are you okay Chris? You look upset.”

“No… no I'm fine.” I stood back up, walked over to her and took a few deep breaths. “So are you ready to get going? I'm done here.” I asked. She nodded her head and started to head towards our previous destination.

We finally made it to some strange building that looked like it was made out of cake or something like that. “Well we have arrived!” Cheerilee announced. “Like I said, we will only be here for two hours; no more, no less.” She smiled and walked inside.

‘This is going to be a long two hours for me.’ I thought sullenly and walked inside after her.

“Chris, over here.” She waved her hoof towards a table for two. I took a seat and she went to the one opposite me.

“Okay so what now?” I asked as she sat down. I started leaning back in the chair while trying to keep my balance.

“Hey! Don't lean in the chair, you are going to fall!” I heard a voice from behind me. I stopped leaning and looked over my shoulder.

“Sorry…” I apologized.

The pony who had spoken walked over to us. “Hello Cheerilee, and who might you be?” She looked at me waiting for me to say my name.

“Oh sorry, my name is Chris.” I went back to leaning my chair back.

She sighed and looked back at Cheerilee who said “Hello Mrs Cake, Chris and I are on a… err… “date” and we are just looking for something to eat.”

I looked at Cheerilee. “Hey now wait a sec- oh whatever.” I stopped myself mid-sentence before I said something stupid.

“Well I'm sorry but Mr Cake and Pinkie Pie aren’t here to help me, so it's just me making everything and in all honesty I can't do a lot without help.” She went round the back of the counter and brought out some cupcakes. “Here, you can have these; this is all I have that’s already made.” She placed the cupcakes on the table in front of us. “Pinkie Pie made them so I don't know if they are good or not.” She walked back into the kitchen.

Once she had gone I said “I'm not really hungry, I mean I'm here because of you.”

Cheerilee looked at me looking a little sad. “I'm sorry for bringing you here; I just want to spend some time with you. You seem like a nice… person. I guess that's what you are called.”

“Okay Cheerilee let me say this; I'm an easy person to get along with. You don't need to take me out to get something to eat or anything, that won't help. I’ll tell you that right now. If you want to spend time with me fine I don't mind, I like talking to other ponies. I want to know everypony in town.”

She smiled. “Well if you put it like that. Do you want to get out of here and head over to my house and do something there?”

‘Oh god.’ I knew where this was going. ‘Why does this keep happening to me?’ I thought. “I guess... but I can't right now, I really, really need to talk to Twi; so maybe later today or tomorrow?” I said.

She nodded her head and smiled. “Okay then, please take your time, I can wait.”

I got up from my seat and I walked to the door. “Well this was fun Cheerilee but I really need to talk to Twi so I’ll talk to you later.” I waved goodbye and headed over to Twilight's place.