Our local bar, titled "The Dizzy Weasel", was a place that my friends and I would frequent, mostly for their sake. I wasn't much of a drinker, if one at all, but I did it for them.
The apple-laden froth of my cider held firm against my upper lip as I sat the cup back down on the bar. I licked my lips in satisfaction.
I just had to tell my friend how incredible this cider was!
"Yeah," He said, "I heard they get it some place nearby called 'Sweet Apple Acres'.
"Sweet Apple Acres?" My other friend butted in. "I heard the mare that works there is hot!"
"Couldn't tell you bro. Haven't seen her before." He said.
"Speaking of hot," I felt him bump my arm. "Check out that mare right there!"
Coming into the bar area was a lavender colored pegasus mare. Despite not having such, intrusive, thoughts as those two, I had to admit she was definitely a looker. As she approached the bar, she was headed fairly close to my direction. That's when I remembered; there's an empty seat next to me. Sure enough, that's where she ended up.
Turning back to face my friends, they were staring slack-jawed past me. Turning myself, I watched as the mare flagged down the bartender and ask for a daffodil whiskey.
How bold. I thought to myself.
She must've noticed me looking at her, because she swiveled her head to make eye contact with me.
Shit!
He gave me a warm smile and nodded her once. I tried my best to give her a smile back without my mouth quivering like a shy colt.
Just then, her drink came. The light clink of the glass on the wooden surface was enough of a break in flow to turn back to my friends.
"Dude!" He began.
"Don't you fucking say i-"
"She's totally into you!" He concluded.
I sighed heavily. "Okay, how many times do I have to say? Just because somepony is being friendly, and, you know, NORMAL, doesn't mean they 'Like Me'." I used air quotes to emphasize my point.
He chuckled in response.
"Ahhaha! We're just messin' with you, man."
Minutes later, the conversation had shifted to hoofball. I watch it a few times here or there, but nothing like these two. Spewing statistics, player trades, general news and the such, I sat idly. To be honest, I was only semi-listening. Being so engrossed in their arguments, I merely looked no where in particular, daydreaming about no particular thing.
What did catch my attention though, was the conversation on the other side of me. Swiveling my ear back to get a better listen, I overheard the mare from earlier being chatted up.
"So, what brings you around here, sweetcheeks?" A mystery stallion must've approached her.
"To get a drink. What else do you think?" She said dryly.
"I can bring you back to our table and we can get you plenty of drinks, on us."
"No, I'm okay. I'm capable of paying for myself." I could just hear the smirk on her face.
"Aww, c'mon! What's a gorgeous mare like you doing all alone here?" He asked.
"Minding her business. You should try it sometime." She was definitely a quick-witted one, wasn't she?
"C'mon now. I don't see you with anypony." He said.
"Actually, I am." She quipped. "I'm here with my coltfriend."
She was? I didn't see her come in with anypony...
"Funny, cause I don't see 'em." He matched my thought.
"He's right here." With that, I felt a strong hoof grab my leg and turn me towards her. I stared at her, wide-eyed, unsure of what was happening.
"Really now?" The stallion said, now in my view. "Then how 'bout you give 'em a kiss then, hmm?"
W-wait, WHAT?
She met my eyes much like she did earlier, but with a face of angst rather than kind-heartedness. Without hesitation, she pulled my foreleg to her and presser her lips to mine. Boy, were they soft! The impromptu kiss lasted probably mere seconds, but felt like minutes. I was frozen in place, my mind racing at the events that just unfolded. I also felt a heat rising up my neck into my face, as slight embarrassment set in.
"Really? Like I'm supposed to believe that?" A slight tone of anger started to come out in his voice. "C'mere, let's go." He suddenly grabbed a hold of her arm, attempting to pull her away.
"Excuse me! Let go!" She mare protested. He tugged harder, but she held her place.
I don't know what came over me then, but the adrenaline hit me hard.
"HEY!" I shouted, standing up from my seat simultaneously. "Get your fucking hooves off her. She said no." He turned his threats towards me now.
"Yeah, what the fuck are you gonna do about it?" I saw his body shift, giving proof he was ready to fight.
I stood face to face with him now. He lifted his right hoof for an immediate knock-out blow. Despite my adrenaline, I hadn't enough time to react. I took the hit square on the jaw. A rush of pain hit me immediately, but it wasn't enough to knock me down. He stared at me, surprised.
He grimaced once more, and went for another strike. This time, I parried to the side, his strike moving past me. As he pulled back for another, a gargantuan brown stallion in sunglasses caught his arm.
"Alright, alright, time to go." Since we were regulars here, I knew the bouncer had my back. The bouncer dragged the nameless stallion away from us, assumingly out of the building. He fought to get out of his grasp, but he was too small.
"Ugh, thank you soooo much for getting him away." She said with a sigh of relief.
"No worries. We frequent here, so we see this shit all the time." I pointed to my friends. "If you want to get a mare, you can't treat them like objects, am I right?" I said, scoffing.
"Ugh, tell me about it." She rolled her eyes. "Say," She continued,
"I never caught your name. What was it?" She asked, cocking an eyebrow.
I gave her my name with a smile.
"I'm Lavender Heart." She said. What a lovely name... "It was nice meeting you." She stood up, about to walk away.
"Oh, one more thing...." Lavender Heart craned her neck upward and gave me a gentle kiss on the cheek. I blushed heavier this time. Somehow that soft affection caused more a reaction than the sudden Prenching I got earlier. She placed one of the bar's napkins in front of me. I noticed there was writing on the previously pristine white paper.
I turned in my seat to watch her strut away. Hmm...
I faced the napkin once again, and deciphered the message.
I held the napkin in my hooves for an inordinate amount of time. My friend swiped the napkin from my hooves and read it to himself.
"Ho. Ly. Shit." He turned to the third friend and then back to me. Before I knew it I was in a headlock by him and being congratulated.
"Haha! We knew you could do it!" He rustled my mane for a bit and let me go.
"I guess good things come to those who wait." I said.
"Stop being a smartass." He replied.
We clinked our drinks together and carried on our evening, which eventually faded into night.
What a turn of events...
