Sprout Gets A Large Supreme Pizza

Sprout felt the butterflies start to fly around in his stomach as Hitch smiled at his answer, and stepped aside to invite him inside.

"Pizza from our usual place sound good?" Hitch asked as Sprout wiped his hooves on the mat just inside the door.

"That sounds great," the red stallion replied, as he stepped into the living room. He plopped himself down on the couch, trying to make himself at home as he heard Hitch pick up the phone and place an order with their favorite pizza joint just down the block. He and Hitch were pretty much regulars there, and the sheriff had to emphasize that they were at his house and not at the precinct.

After placing the order and hanging up the phone, Hitch came over to the living room and found Sprout lounging on the couch.

"Comfy?" Hitch asked. Sprout nodded as Hitch went over to the end table and switched on his big screen TV.

"Figured we'd do a little bit of a surprise tonight," Hitch told him, reaching into a plastic bag and came out with a plastic disc case, tossing it gently over to Sprout. The stallion caught it face side down, and turned it over, his eyes immediately widening.

"Harry Trotter and the Horserer's Stone? This isn't out for another week! Where did you get this?" Sprout asked, astounded at what had landed in his hooves.

"Well, maybe I know a pony who knows a pony who does inventory at one of the movie places downtown. I paid in full, he won't be able to put it in the system until next Friday, but I wanted to do something special for tonight."

Sprout's gaze fell to the disc case again as he swallowed a small lump in his throat. Straight-as-an-arrow Hitch bent the rules for this first 'date' movie.

"So, what would you like to drink?" Hitch asked as Sprout set the case down on the coffee table.

"Coke would be great, thanks."

Hitch returned to the kitchen to get their drinks, and returned a couple minutes later and set the glasses down on the coasters he had set out before Sprout's arrival. He then picked up the case, opened it up, and popped the disc into his DVD player's tray, before walking around the coffee table and joined his deputy on the couch as the main menu on the disc faded in, and he reached forward and hit the play button on the remote.

They were barely ten minutes into the movie when they heard the doorbell ring. Hitch paused the film, and got up to answer the door, coming back thirty seconds later with a pizza box, sliding it down onto the coffee table.

"And dinner is served," he announced, lifting the lid off, and Sprout's mouth began to water at the steaming, large supreme pizza resting in the box. Onions, olives, green and red peppers, and diced tomatoes, all atop melted, bubbly cheese and a rich red sauce. While the pizza continued to sit with the rising steam, Hitch went to go get a couple plates and set them on either side of the box, then sat down and resumed the movie.

Sprout wasn't keen on burning his tongue or the roof of his mouth on his first date, so he let the pizza sit for about five minutes, then when he finally brought the slice up to his mouth and took a bite, it was the best, gooiest bite of pizza he had ever had. The two of them ate slowly, most of their attention on the film that nopony else in Maretime Bay would have for another week. The two of them split the pizza down the middle, having four slices each. When he was done with his half, and having sipped the last remaining puddle of soda in his glass, Sprout took a quiet breath, then sat back on the couch, slowly leaning over against Hitch as the movie entered its final scenes.

"You don't think now that magic is back, that there will end up being any unicorns like Voldemare, do you?" Sprout asked,

Hitch chuckled.

"No, I don't think so. It does make me wonder if they'll put together a school like this to learn about magic all over again, though."

As the credits rolled, Sprout gave a stretch.

"I heard they just finished filming Harry Trotter and the Stable of Secrets. Want to go see that in a few months?" Sprout asked.

"Sure thing, but honestly, I'm thinking of what I want to do now. What do you say we take our dishes to the kitchen, then take ourselves to the bedroom?"