An unexpected visit

Before Rarity can start on making you a new set of clothes there was one thing she has to do. It is something that makes you feel a little uncomfortable. She has to take your measurements, which means you have to take off your clothes, for the most part.

"Do I really have to take off my clothes?" You ask her, feeling rather awkward.

"Well yes darling. How else am I supposed to get your measurements? It's not like I can see through your clothes." Rarity says with a sigh of irritation. You have been at this for the past ten minutes and she's losing her patience.

"Okay, fine. But as long as I can keep my shorts on." You reply with the same irritation as you start to strip off your clothes.

"Shorts? What are shorts? Don't tell me you're wearing clothes underneath your clothes." She seems sincerely shocked as you take off your pants to reveal your boxer shorts to her.

"My goodness, doesn't it get warm with so much fabric over your body?!" Rarity just looked at you with big surprised eyes after you had stripped down to nothing but your rather well-fitting shorts.

"So, can I keep 'm on or do I have to take these of too. I'd rather not though." You say feeling awkward and feeling embarrassment coming up.

"I guess this will do. It won't interfere with my measuring tapes and you don't have to feel embarrassed by anything."

"Wait. How did you know I was feeling embarrassed?" Now feeling even more embarrassed.

"It's written all over your face darling. You may be a different species but it seems you have the exact same quirks as us ponies do." She says with a little giggle, probably just to tease you. This just makes you sigh as she starts wrapping your body with her measuring tapes using her magic.

After about a minute you start to feel like a mummy, being wrapped up in so much tape that it gets hard to breathe.

"Uhm... Rarity are you almost done, 'cuz it's getting pretty hard to breath like this." You grunt out and immediately feel the tapes being loosened a bit.

"Almost there, just need to measure your arm's length properly. You do realise that it is a difficult task to make clothes for a different species, especially for one of your size." She says while noting down the final lengths she needs before she can begin with actually making his clothes.

"Okay, I'm all done. If you want to put your clothes back on you may, but I think you should take a shower first and wash your clothes before you do that. If you just take your time than I might be finished with your first set when you're done." Rarity points to a door to the back of her boutique.

"Go through that door and then the first door on the right is the bathroom. There are clean towels and if you need anything else just ask." She walks back to through the reception room and makes her way into her project chamber, where she makes all the clothing for her customers.

You walk through the door at the back of the boutique and then the first door to your right. The room you walk into is absolutely massive. It is probably the most luxurious bathroom you've ever seen. To the right of the room is a very large bathtub, more of a small pool than a tub. On the left is what you guess the shower area.

You open the semitransparent doors to see that there is no shower head. There is however a roof with holes in it. 'So this is how a pony showers.' You think to yourself. You put your clothes on the floor outside of the shower cabin and you twist the water knobs, carefully adjusting them to the right temperature.

After having soaked yourself under the shower and thoroughly scrubbed yourself to get rid of all the grit and sweat from the past few weeks you decide that when you walk out of the shower you don't want to look like an elderly. You twist the knobs in the opposite direction and give a little sigh feeling relieved that you're finally clean again.

You walk out of the shower cabin and pick up one of the towels laying on a little neatly folded pile near the door. After you dried yourself and having put the towel around your waist, you carefully walk out the bathroom to get to Rarity as soon as possible.

As you enter the reception area though, there is a mare sitting on one of the couches. She turns her head towards the sound of the opening door and just stares at you. You want to go back through the door, but you also want to get to Rarity for your clothes, which she said she would have finished by now.

Not a moment too soon the door to her work area opens and she walks out with a costume floating behind her in her magical grasp, only to stop in her tracks as her eyes dart between you and her customer. After a second or so she regains her composure and walk over to the turquoise mare.

"Here you are miss Heartstrings." She says to the mare, startling her and pulling her out of her daze.

"Huh? What? Oh, right. Thank you. I guess I'll be going then." Heartstrings replies awkwardly before quickly making her way out of the boutique.

"Excuse me for that. I had totally forgotten that she was going to be here today to pick up her order." Rarity starts.

"Your clothing is also coming along nicely. I just need to get a few more stitches into the top half of your set and you're good to go." You look at her as she beckons you to follow her to her working area.

"Could I maybe try out what you've already finished, then I could maybe also get rid of this towel." You say with a sheepish smile on your face.

"But of course darling. I also took the liberty of trying to make on of those, what you call it, 'shorts'." Rarity walks to the far end of the room to retrieve what she's currently made for you. She walks back to you with a victorious smile beaming with the message 'I DID IT! IT WORKED!', which kind of scares you a little.

She floats the garments in front of you and you quickly pluck them from her grasp, as you walk toward the corner of the room where there is a conveniently placed curtain hanging from the ceiling. You pull the curtain in front of you as you drop the towel you were still holding around your waist, and try on the new pair of white boxer shorts.

It's a perfect fit. Not too small and not too big. And what surprised you most is that it doesn't clamp around your groin. It's the best set of underpants you've ever had, as far as you can remember. Next you put on the pants. As with the shorts, it's a perfect fit. You walk around a little, still with bare chest but that doesn't really bother you, and the trousers just seem to move along with you, not getting caught on anything.

You walk back from behind the curtain toward Rarity to show how good of a job she did.

"Oh my. You look absolutely stunning with those pants on." She says before you can even make a comment on it. "Here put these on as well." She hands over a very neat looking black vest and a white t-shirt. It looks pretty good with the blue denim-y trousers she made for you.

"These clothes are your 'casual' clothes so to say. I'm now going to work on your formal attire. This will take a bit longer than what you are wearing now, so I suggest you head back to Twilight and come back later to pick it up. This will require a lot of my concentration and I do not need anyone to disturb me." She seems a bit hostile when she ends the sentence, but then again she also seems like the person, erm pony, to be dedicated to her job.

After a short walk through town you reach Twilight's library. The walks through town seem to have gotten less awkward which makes you feel relieved. The ponies still stare at you when you pass by, but at least they don't bolt away when you get too close.

You knock on the door and wait for a few moments.

"Come in. You know that it is a 'public' library right. So you don't have to knock before you come in." Twilight says as you step through the door frame.

"But it is still your home as well, and I don't want to be rude and just barge in without giving you a little heads-up." You reply bluntly.

You walk over to the one chair in the room, probably the only chair in the town, and take a seat placing your right leg over your left.

"I like your clothes. Rarity really did a good job again." Twilight says with a wide smile, eyeing you from top to bottom. You think you see her linger just a little too long around the waist though.

"Okay... You done?" You ask her, feeling annoyed and awkward. "So what do I do now? You're not allowed to use magic on me, I'm not able to use my magic and you've already shown me around town. So now what?" You try to think of something to do just as you get a book shoved in your hands.

The book's title was 'Helping the community: a reference guide'.

"Seriously?! You want me to help you?" You ask Twilight surprised by her suggestion.

"Yes I do. You don't have a job, yet. But you have one thing that nopony has." She started as she then looks at your hands. "Those tentacle-y hooves of yours could really come in handy for certain jobs." She states, still eyeing your hands.

"These things." You hold up your hands and flex them a few times. "Are called 'hands', not hooves, and I can imagine how they could come in handy for ponies who can't use magic." You now look over to Twilight's horn.

"I don't know how much you think of magic, but it's really difficult for unicorns to do delicate tasks, unless you're specialised in that sort of stuff, like doctor Feel-good." You give her a nod of understanding before she can try to lecture you again.

"Do you have any jobs for me in mind then?" You ask as you stand up and walk around a little bit, letting your gaze fall over a few books without actually reading their covers.

"I don't know exactly how nimble your hands are but if I would take a guess then you could maybe help the carpenter. You could also ask Rarity if you could help her, but I think she's more of a pony who likes to work by herself. Maybe you could..." She continues to give suggestions for work but nothing seems to spark your interests.

After about ten minutes she had named almost all jobs available.

"There's one more thing you could maybe do, although I don't think you'd really like it. It's more of a mare's thing. Anyway, if you want you can ask the twins Aloe and Lotus if you could work at their local spa." She finished with a sheepish smile.

"I don't know how well you can use your hands, but I think it would make for an interesting massage at the least." Twilight was now blushing through her purple coat, her eyes darting from side to side and avoiding your gaze.

You can't remember how to really do a massage, hell you barely remember anything from earth, just that that's where you came from. But massaging sounds much more appealing to you than screwing any loose nuts and bolts at construction sites. You decide that you'll try the massaging first before moving on to something else if it doesn't work out.

After Twilight gave you the directions to the spa and having walked around for almost and hour before you dared ask anypony where the spa was, you finally find it. Turns out it is only a ten minute walk from the library, but you just never noticed it before.

You open the door which causes a little bell to ring, and you enter, taking care not to hit your head. You walk up to the counter to find a blue pony with a pink mane and tail.

"Good day, how may I he-..." She stops mid sentence, looking at you with wide eyes from top to bottom. After a minute or so she regains her composure and starts again.

"E-excuse me for that. H-how may I help you?" She stutters, obviously nervous toward the alien standing in front of her.

"Hi, I'm looking for a job and Twilight said that you might have something for me?" The blue pony walks around the counter to stand right in front of you. Looking at you with an inspecting eye she gasped when she notices your hands. She quickly grabs one with her hooves, which feels very soft and fluffy, and starts carefully pulling at your fingers.

"How interesting..." She starts mumbling to herself, as she continues to look and touch your hands.

"Loooootuusss! I heard someone come in, what does she want?" You hear someone, or somepony, shout from a hallway past the counter. Lotus doesn't react as she's still too distracted by your hands.

"Lotus?" You hear and you look down the hallway to see a mare eerily similar to the one standing in front of you. They are similar in each way except that the colours are inverted. Lotus being blue with a pink mane and the mare in the hallway who was now trotting towards you, was pink with a blue mane. They even had the same hair-, or mane-, style.

"Hi, my name is Aloe. Are you new in town? I haven't seen you before." Aloe says as she was now standing next to Lotus.

"Don't mind my sister, she can get a little weird at times." She adds before she also sees my hands. Five minutes later and they're both still holding my hands and talking to each other in some kind of Scandinavian language. This is not getting you anywhere.

"You girls done?" You ask them, pulling them from their trance.

"Oh sorry, excuse us." Aloe says as she and her sister finally let go of your hands.

"So you said you're looking for a job?" Lotus now asks, still eyeing your hands. "Do you know how to give a proper massage?"

"I'm not really sure. I haven't tried it since I've arrived here and lost most of my memory, so I don't know." You reply looking at the two mares who were now walking toward the hallway.

"Only one way to find out." Aloe says as she beckons you to follow them and giving a little wink.

They lead you to an unoccupied room with a three massage tables. Lotus gets up onto the furthest one and lies face-down on it.

"You are now going to give Lotus a massage, and I will watch. If you do a good job we might employ you, we're short on staff since late anyway." Aloe says while motioning toward Lotus, urging you to start massaging.

You walk over to Lotus and stand next to the table. 'Now what?' You think before you move to the other side of the table. You look around the room to see lots of oils and lotions on shelves against the walls.

"Do I need to use a lotion or oil before I start?" You ask the sisters.

"Oh my, already asking questions. Yes, the first thing we do here is ask the client, in this case Lotus, if she wants an oil or a lotion. If she does then ask which one." Aloe explains before getting a bottle of oil.

"Lotus likes this one, saves you the trouble of finding it." *Wink* Aloe hands you the bottle of oil.

You pop off the lid and smell it. It smells like cherry blossom, only a hundred times stronger then natural. You quickly pull your nose away from the bottle and pour some of the oil onto your hand. After you hand the bottle back to Aloe you walk to the other side of the table, again.

Carefully you place your hands on Lotus' shoulder area, immediately feeling the tension of her muscles underneath your fingers and palm. You slowly move your hands down and to the side, assessing the problem areas in her shoulders. It feels vaguely familiar to be doing this, and you actually enjoy it.

After having felt where the knots are you gently start pressing between her shoulders, just beside the shoulder blades. You feel some of the tension leave and Lotus gives a little sigh of satisfaction. You press a little harder with you index- and middle fingers to get rid of the more underlying tension.

After making sure you had removed all the tension from one area you move on to the next, Lotus sighing and even groaning at certain points while she relaxed more and more. After a good forty-five minutes you got rid of all tension in Lotus' back, leaving her sound asleep on the table.

"Wow, you are good with those hooves of yours." Aloe says while chuckling at her sleeping sister. "I think that Lotus would agree on me hiring you. If you follow me please than we can do everything by the book." You follow her back to the counter, leaving Lotus to sleep on the massage table.

"You'll be paid per customer, not per hour." Aloe starts. "Any tips the customers leave are for you to keep and depending on which treatment they want you will be paid different amounts. Understood?"

"Yea, sure. I'm just glad I've finally gotten a job." You reply with obvious glee. You feel really glad you're now able to make some money for yourself, and not having to depend on Twilight or her friends.

"Okay, so if you'll just sign on these three forms we should be in good shape." Aloe smiles at you while holding out the forms.

After carefully having read the forms and seen al the rules and regulations you sign them. You even make a decent amount of money per customer. Ten bits for a twenty minute massage ranging up to three hundred bits for the full 'special' treatment.

You return the forms to the pink mare and thank her for giving you the job. You walk toward the door to head back to Twilight to tell the news.

"I'll see you tomorrow at twelve sharp. Don't be late." Aloe managed to say before you were out of earshot.

AN:

Hey guys,

I know that this has already been exploited to it's fullest, but seriously, being the only being with (almost) the same brainpower, with fingers. I think that massaging is one of the first things one would do.

So I hope y'all like it, and now that you can take care of yourself you might even get a place for yourself. But that'll be later on in the story.

First though, you still need to meet the goddesses of the sun and moon and princesses of Equestria, Celestia and Luna. Expect that to be in the next chapter or after that.

Hope you're all enjoying my story.

Please leave a comment if you have questions, I will answer to my fullest capacity.

Yours Faithfully,

Porqupine Static

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