A Parasitic Relationship

Chapter 4: Work Day

I groaned to myself as my body woke from its comatose state. I lifted my tired body and looked at my window. The light filtering through as the sounds of cars and birds were clearly heard even with the window being shut. It was always a strange feeling waking up, to look beside me at the wonderful Changling that I loved dearly, but by now I was used to it. I got out of bed and picked out my shirt and pants I would wear for the day. I chose a simple yellow t-shirt and a pair of black sweat pants because for a day like this it seemed fitting. I looked back at Chrissy to see her grab my pillow and nuzzle herself against it. It was for me, the downright most adorable thing I have ever seen. I let her be and walked in the kitchen to have a normal work breakfast of pop tarts. I swallowed them greedily as I hurried to get my shoes on, making sure I wasn’t late for work.

Once I had my shoes on I rushed downstairs and out of my apartment. When I got out I slowed my run to a walk and began my trip to the Supermarket I worked at. I rushed across the street and entered my workplace. I walked up to the staff room and put on the staff shirt which was mildly irritating due to the fabric poking my soft skin. I stood at the cash register I was designated to and wait for customers to come by.

I received about ten each being mildly different from the rest. Nothing too special but it helps not to have the same type of customer every time. I then walked back to the staff room and retrieved my shirt. I put the staff shirt in my locker and walked out of the store knowing that Chrissy will probably be angry at me for not waking her at the same time I woke. I brushed it off as I knew it was a mild bump in this relationship we were forming. I again rushed across the street and reached my apartment in what seemed to be less time than this morning.

I slowly walked up the stairs slightly tired from the work I did today. The closer I got to my apartment the stronger the smell of pork chops became. I think I puked a bit at that moment as I was tired of having meat constantly. I fumbled for my keys and unlocked my door after a few seconds of narrowly missing the keyhole. I opened the door as the stench of meat became the strongest it’s been for a while. I sighed as I walked up to the second door that I had to enter to get to my apartment. I opened it with ease and stepped up to see Chrysalis in the kitchen preparing supper

“Oh, you’re home. Well I was just making supper for myself but I guess I can share.”

“Okay sure but first are you mad that I didn’t wake you?”

“Not at all, in fact I’m glad I got more beauty sleep. Goddess knows I needed it.”

“Talking about sleep I think I need some right now sorry but I’m going to skip supper. I wasn’t really hunger anyway.”

“Oh! Before you sleep, tell me about your day.” I sighed and sat at the kitchen table.

“Well work was average got a few customers more of them ordinary and the ones who weren’t were actually quite helpful some of them letting me keep the change and others’ being a little edgy. I had a good day I guess. So how about you?’

“I watched some animes and started to get into this show called Doctor Who. The man in there is quite an interesting character and he seems like a cool guy to meet. That is if he was real. After that I had BBQ ribs for lunch and started making phone calls to get you living costs even lower. Let’s just say the guy was wrapped around my finger by the time I hung up.” I gave her a thumbs up, already used to her antics.

“Well I have to sleep so I’m ready for bouncing.” She smiled as my tired feet shuffled on the floor, growing ever closer to my main goal. The bedroom. I opened the door and walked up to my air mattress. I slowly laid myself down and soon I was in dream land once more.

It was strange because I never have been in dream land before so this was all new to me. There were weird sights all over
the place but most of them I could figure out why they were there. The sky glowed a faint green glow, there was a black hole filled moon in the sky as well, and people from my past and present walking on the mint colored grass, every single one of them with the same glow in their eyes as the sky. They were all heading to an exact replica of Chrysalis’ head except 200 times bigger. The mouth hung open and they walked in one by one, letting out a blood curdling as they fell down. Tears started staining my cheeks as I watch all the people I loved die.

I woke up in a cold sweat, my heart racing as I looked beside me at the sleeping form of Chrysalis. Her chest slowly rose and fell as I watched her. My hands started to move on their own accord, softly gliding on her body taking in all that she had.
‘Why was I so accepting of her and why did I love her so damn much.’ I thought to myself as I drifted my hands through her mane, her hair was silky smooth and seem to have little to no tangles in it. I then noticed her eyes begin to flutter open slowly but surely she looked at me a smile on her face. “Well you’re awake earlier than usual.” I smiled back at her as she began to frown. “Were you sweating?”

“What I had a bad dream that’s it.” Chrysalis looked at me, her eyes filled with concern. She wiped her hoof across my face, the tears going on her hoof.

“How bad?”

“Not that bad, just memories of the past.”

“What was it about?”

“Well a combination of your influence and some of my own. They were walking into a big head of you and dying. It was kind of creepy.” She rested her head on my chest and let out a yawn. “So I wanted to ask you a question, if it’s okay with you.” She nodded as I continued. “Why are you so crazy about meat, I mean I can understand wanting to have some from time to time but not every day.”

“Oh it’s because we changelings are omnivores by nature but we were forced to eat a pony diet. So it’s kind of a paradise here with all this meat.” I nodded my head.

“Ya but don’t forget your an omnivore so that means you have to eat other things then meat.” Chrysalis pouted at me and crossed her hooves.

“Don’t pop tarts count?”

“No they don’t. I learned that after two months of trying that method.” She huffed and lied back down.

“Can’t you stay here with me for tonight?” I got up and looked at my clock.

“I’m sorry but if I don’t work that means no more meat or housing or anything what so ever and we wouldn’t want to be homeless would we?” She slowly nodded in agreement. “Now I will be gone for a few hours but you don’t have to stay up for me.” I took my bar shirt out of my dresser and slipped it on. Now since it was a T-shirt it was much more comfortable to wear. I slipped on my shoes and headed to the bar. It was a mere 5 minutes later and I was a little earlier for work but I started anyway. I saw a man who I could tell wasn’t holding his liquor too well from what I could see he wore a white sweater and looked over his fifties but was very physically active. I knew that because he carried himself that way. He bumped into another drunken man and soon they were yelling at each other about their spilled drinks. I walked over to them and stood in between them.

“Hey get out of my way I need to teach this guy a lesson.” His speech was slightly slurred but still comprehensible.

“Now listen both of you break it up or I will have to force both of you out of this bar. Just go back to the bartender and order new drinks. With this you both can avoid getting your faces damaged to kingdom come and waking up on the street.” They mumbled agreeing at my statement. They slowly inched their way to the bar and sat at opposite sides to avoid each other. The next two to start brawling weren’t as lucky though as one got a broken nose and the other sprained his wrist. They were kicked out of the bar and by the sounds outside were probably brawling outside. I stood at my station as the next few hours were slow. Once my shift was done I quickly got out and ran home knowing that if I didn’t sleep soon I would be totally miserable tomorrow meaning work would be a pain.

I opened both of my doors to have Chrysalis rush at me. “Guess what I got us.”

“I honestly don’t know Chrysalis, please tell me.” She grabbed my hand with her teeth and pulled me into the bedroom. My mouth dropped agape.

“Is that a 40 inch flat screen TV, a new PS3, and Xbox 360?” She quickly nodded.

“Yep and guess how much I bought them for?”

“Please tell me you didn’t pay full price.”

“Oh come on Tyler you know I never pay fully for anything. Actually I bought this all for 300 dollars.” I kissed her full on the lips as she made a clicking noise in her throat that I never heard before. I relinquished her lips and she looked at me dreamily. “Wow I never knew you would be so happy, maybe I should do this more often.” She giggled as I looked at her in envy of her bargaining skills.

“Hey wait I never asked you this but how did you learn how to use all these devices so quick? I mean you shouldn’t be that fast of a learner.”

“Oh it’s again one of my species little gifts. If I brush up against a person or pony I can get the knowledge they have about the world and the skills they possess. So I learned from you how to use this entire species technology so it made my life way easier.” I opened my mouth but Chrysalis put her hoof on my mouth. “Don’t worry I didn’t pry in your memories. It’s too much information to absorb.” I started up the PS3 and installed all the things that I wanted. I then downloaded all my games from my PSN account and put them on my new PS3. While that was going in the background I took out borderlands 2 and saw that there were two controllers instead of my one. “I bought that so we can play together.” I created her an account so that we could play together. We started split-screen and played for about 2 hours. During our playing together Chrysalis howled in laughter as she took down bandits and other monsters. Once that was over I laid besides Chrysalis thinking about the day, what I saw and who I was laying beside. I had a girlfriend gamer which was pretty fucking sweet in its own right but I also had a girl who cared for me and would love me longer than any other person ever would.

“I love you mom. I love you dad.” I fell asleep, tears stinging my eyes.