Servitude

My first social event with Blueblood occured over a period where Equestrian Holidays were frequent. The Harvestoon Festival was a time where the people celebrate their fruitful harvests; these were done in large parties at homes in the country side. This evening, we were on Sweet Apple Acres and we were greeted by one named Applejack, her blond hair was in a braid and she had her little sister reaffirming names to amoe sure everyone was there and none were missed.

"Prince Blueblood I see your plus one is Nocturn - I assume this young woman is Nocturn?"

"She is" - Wait a moment he has me as his 'plus one'? I am just a servant girl! I almost jumped when I heard a rapid voice from behind me and arms embracing me in a hug. "Nocturn...meet Pinkie Pie." I tried to utter a greeting but couldn't because my lungs were collapsing. She finally let go and I met her other friends as they ran up to keep Pinkie Pie from suffocating me. Blueblood laughed as his introduction was so abrupt and short and I was completely shocked. "Sorry Nocturne, Pinkie asked me to hold off until the last second."

I uttered out that I was fine, once we were alone again I had to ask the question. "Why did you have me as your plus one? I'm just a personal servant."

"Only during official business, this is just a social event held by friends. My friends such as Big Mac who the fellow walking towards us. The guys joke about me being gay since I hadn't had girl-friend before."

The one named Big Mac joined us followed by a couple of other young men. One with dual tone blue known as Shining Armor spoke, "I see you have girl friend now!" Big Mac spoke and he was huge.

"Glad you could make it, ma'am I'd like to welcome you to my family farm." I gave my appreciation and the last one named Zephyr Breeze nodded a greeting and began to speak.

"Nocturne was it? Did Blueblood tell you about the dance off after the barn raising? My partner and I will best the both of you!"

Blueblood spoke up in a mirthful tone, "Isn't your partner that chick from Bridle-Wood? Izzy was her name right?"

"Yes it is"

"I wager that Nocturne is gonna out dance Izzy!" I recalled my collection of dances that I knew and none would fit this country party....maybe I had just the dance number!

The funny thing about this event was that I assumed that Sweet Apple Acres was a plantation and this wad a formal event. Everything was making since now as Blueblood wore more casual attire and joined in on the farm and country folk games and failing miserably from what I could observe. Bluebook had me wear a a dress that fit the surroundings we were in and he actually got his own food and drink and treated me like a date! Fleur and the other girls treated me like an equal, and They had me into a pie baking contest and Fleur I could tell struggled like the other rich girls but had fun. The girl named Pinkie Pie was labeled as the judge and I set my pie into a large stone oven and watched the pue cook.

Fleur Des Lis chatted and I had to ask her the thing that was on my mind. "Why am I being g treated like an equal here?"

"It is because while we're here we're among friends and the like; however, if this was a high class Canterlot or some major city you would then be expected to act as a servant. Basically the way I see it...you're gonna be treated like a younger sister that my brother, sister and I can boss around."

I interjected that I was just a few days younger than their younger sister Sassy Sadddles. We both however rushed to get the pies out of the stone ovens before they burned. Fleur leaned in and whispered that her pie looked like something that had died a few weeks ago. Glancing at it I stifled a laugh....she was right!

The Barn raising began and I got a personal kick of watching Blueblood trying to use a hammer! The poor guy had terrible aim, Big Mac and Shining Armor being the strongest brought the boards over while Zephyr Breeze and Blueblood nailed the wall together. It took about an hour for the barn to be finished and I met Izzy and Zipp again, and Pipp and Rarity were using the newest technology of our day - aside from gunpowder and guns becoming a main stream weapon was a device called a camera; that also used gunpowder to somehow capture an image of what the camera was aimed at.

The dancing began and I awkwardly danced with Blueblood, what made it awkward was being a lower calls servant and I was dancing with nobility. That dance competition thing after we had dinner was scheduled to commence. As couples paired up I told Blueblood about the dances I knew.

"Well Nocturne I am familiar with all of those dances since my father has been a ambassador to those nations."

"Blueblood my lord....I'll do my best to help you win this contest."

"I'm doing it just for the fun - come on we need to get ourselves hydrated!"y master yanked over to a table and he grabbed us a pair of mugs filled with a sweet Apple cider. I still was in shock from when we arrive at this apple orchard! He had me as a plus one. The dancing had begun and Shining Armor struggled to keep his pace up with the energetic Izzy, Big Mac had a girl friend who was attractive and she glared daggers at me...the reason was she was trying to signal me that we were gonna be competing. The men lined up on one side of the new barn while we women did so on the other side and the contest began. Applejack and Rainbow Dash I noticed were throughout the day a subtle item

Blueblood and I won the dance contest but it was a close win as we had Fleur-de-lis and Zephyr Breeze on our heals. Fleur-de-lis and Blueblood had the wagon brought up by our driver and we made our good byes. On the way home I had dozed off in the cool autumn breeze and woke up when we got home; I was embarrassed and apologetic for falling asleep on my master. Fleur-de-lis snickered as Blueblood ended up carrying me up two flights of stairs to get me to bed. Last the I recall was him mumbling about how cute I was or something like that.