Equestria's New Comedian
Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Something definitely there
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I tried for about 20 minutes to think of something for the opener for this chapter, but I've got nothing.
Sugarcube corner
"Mail call!" Mr. Cake announced one morning. Mrs. Cake and Pinkie gathered around him, I didn't expect anything so I stayed on the couch.
"Ooh! What is it this time?" Pinkie asked.
"Well, let's see... Mrs. Cake, here's a letter from your friend Vanilla Twist... Pinkie, I'm assuming I can place this jury duty summons with the rest of them? Oh! Chuck! Looks like there's one for you!" He said. I looked up curiously.
"Really?" I asked getting off the couch.
"Yep, says it's from Barstool Collins of Manehatten." He said.
"Great!" I took the letter and opened it up. "Says he'll be here to discuss my starter set for opening my bar this afternoon!"
"Oh that's great!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"Sure is, I should be able to open soon!" I said.
"Ooooh! You know what that means?" Pinkie asked.
"I don't know, what does it mean?" I pretended not to know.
"A 'Grand opening' party!" Pinkie exclaimed hugging me, I smiled.
"I can't wait hon." I said. I was excited for what she had in store, and I was also excited to finally get my bar up and running.
My Tavern, about a half hour later
"Counter clean-up, counter clean-up..." I hummed to myself in the style of the song Winter Wrap-up. I was really hoping Quibble would've at least kept the place clean while I was away, but there was this spot on the counter that was definitely there even before I left! and over the time it sat it dried up on the counter. So that's just great. Suddenly Cheese walks into the bar.
"Hey Cheese! How's it going?" I ask. He says nothing and slaps me hard in the face.
"That was from Quibble." He said.
"Why did he tell you to do that?" I asked. "Why couldn't he just do it himself?" I knew why he wanted to anyway, Discord filled me in on everything, sounded like a blast.
"Well, he didn't really tell me, I read it in his journal! Except I didn't know at first it was his journal, I just thought it was a sad, sad hoof-written book." Cheese said.
"Oh really huh?" I groaned rubbing my face. He has an impressive swing I must say. "How was that thing up in Baltimare?" I ask.
"Spectacular!" He exclaimed. "It was a beautiful wedding! But let me tell you, those ponies ate like you wouldn't believe!"
"Trust me, I believe." I happened to be known for gluttony being a big one on my 'seven deadly sins' list.
"Whaddya doing here anyway?" He asked.
"I own this place. What are you doing here?" I ask.
"Well I just wanted to stop by and say 'hi.' and I tried the Sugarcube corner because you live there but Pinkie told me I'd find you here and well, here I am." He said.
"Well that's interesting." I said. "If you're still wondering why I'm here I'm just getting ready, my supplier to be is coming down to make a business deal. I should be opening soon if all goes well." I explain.
"Oh cool!" He exclaimed. "What do you want me to do?" He asked.
"Huh?" I arched my eyebrow.
"To help out!" He said.
"Oh... Well honestly I don't really need much help with this, it's really just looking over the size, possible patron base so as not to overstock. I mean if you want I suppose.. Wait, what were you thinking?" I asked.
"A host!" He said.
"Are you asking for a job?" I asked.
"Well I guess when you put it that way... Yes I was definitely asking for a job." He nodded.
"Well, I could use the help... I don't see why not." I said. "Put 'er there." I extended my hoof to shake his. He took it, he took it hard. He shook harder and faster than anyone that I've ever met.
"I just need really flexible hours, and days off without notice." He grinned.
"You're lucky you came to me with that pitch, I don't think anypony else would've hired you with that." I said wiping at the counter.
"When do I start?" He asked.
"Barstool will be here in a couple hours." I said.
"Oooooohhhh about that, I think I need that time off for a personal reflection day." He said. I looked at him with a blank stare.
"Don't expect pay for the day then." I grinned slightly.
"That is a sacrifice I am willing to make." He said with a hoof to his chest. "See ya!" He bolted out the door.
"Alrighty then." I said with a bit of a laugh.
A couple hours later
After wiping away at that same spot for quite some time I finally got it. But that wasn't why I changed the scene or anything.
"There!" I said feeling fulfilled seeing the stain had vanished. Suddenly I heard a knock on the door.
"C'mon in!" I welcome whoever was behind the door. A unicorn pony a little shorter than me but heavier walked in, he had an orange puffy mane and beard with a gray flat cap not too unlike the one I used to wear back on Earth.
"Welcome!" I say. "I assume your Barstool?" I asked.
"Aye, that be me!" He said, he had a very heavy Irish accent. "What's the craic?"
"I'm doing quite well." I reply. "Come, we can talk in my office."
"I'd rather do it out here thank you." He said while looking around the place. "Like what you've got going on here, who's your decorator?" He asked.
"Well, most of the furniture came with the place when I got it, course it had to be completely repaired and cleaned, I had a friend of mine help me out with that." I explained.
"Very interesting.." He said examining the bar, suddenly, Pinkie came bouncing in.
"Hiya Chuckie!" She exclaimed. Startling both me and Barstool. "I was talking to Cheese and he said you gave him a job! And I just wanted to say that was really nice of you and-" She stopped suddenly. "Who's this?" She asked motioning to Barstool.
"Pinkie, hon, this is Barstool, we talked about him earlier?" I said.
"Oh hi!" She jumped up and ran up to him. "I'm Pinkie Pie! It's so great to meet you!" She said with a big grin. Barstool smiled nervously.
"Top o' the... uh... mornin' to ya." He said shyly. "Who might this be?" Barstool asked me.
"Ah, Barstool, this is my marefriend, Pinkie Pie, Pinkie, this is Barstool." I say introducing the two.
"Oh lookie here, you've got a lady friend huh?" Barstool chuckled to me.
"I sure do." I smiled wrapping one of my front legs around Pinkie. "We're still early on, but something's definitely there." I smile at her giving her a kiss. Barstool smiled at the two of us.
"Young love. Sure is sweet." He smiled. "Now, what do you say we get back to business?"
"Couldn't agree more." I said.
Later
"Well that's the last of the details." Barstool said. "I'll have your supplies sent to you first thing tomorrow mornin'."
"That's wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Here you go." I gave him a pouch all that was left of the business loan. "Should cover it. Feel free to come back whenever you want."
"I just may." He smiled. "Feel free to drop by whenever your up to Manehatten!"
"We will!" Pinkie said for me.
"I'll see you around." I said as he left. "Well what do you think of that? I've got my own little business." I asked Pinkie. She wrapped me in a big hug.
"Good job Chuckie." She said.
"Thanks hon." I hugged her back. "It's still pretty early in the afternoon, what do you say to a nice lunch?"
"Sounds like a plan!" She exclaimed.
Lunchtime
"So tell me about yourself." Pinkie said as we were eating.
"What?" I cocked my head. "I don't follow, you know me."
"Tell me about you before you came to Ponyville!" She said.
"What do you wanna know?" I asked sipping on my drink.
"I dunno, just tell me about when you were a colt!" She said.
"Well, first of all.." I chuckled a bit. "We called our young ones children, or kids. Let's see... My childhood..." I said. "Well, I had a mom and a dad, and two siblings, an older brother and a sister... They were real cards..." I muttered. "When I was around 8 my parents separated and my dad remarried, and I got 4 new step-siblings. Who were all better than me in just about every single way. I know, imagine that, right?" I quipped. "I'm sorry, you asked about my childhood, not my family."
"That's okay!" She said. "I just wanna know some more about you!"
"Well, when I was young, my dad would tell stories, often based on other stories, about big robots from space, or toys that came to life, and he was quite good at it. I like to imagine that I got it from him, but I don't know. Oh! I did a lot of acting in musical theater when I was a teenager, and I was quite well at too, I specialized in comic relief."
"I can see that!" She giggled.
"I also used to draw, I would entertain my friends with little comics I'd draw, oh! And impressions." I said.
"You'd draw?" She asked.
"Of course! I loved to draw, ever since I was really young it was a gift I had, along with entertaining, but of course that ones a given." I motioned to my cutie mark.
"Would you entertain pon- uhhh.. People from your world?" She asked.
"Well, yeah I'd entertain my friends with voices and jokes, and I tried to do it when I grew up, but I never really found my place doing it." I said. She could tell thinking about it made me feel sad, she walked over to me and gave me a hug.
"You found a place in my heart." She said.
"And you found one in mine." I smiled hugging back.
"I'll have to tell you a few more stories some time." I said.
"Why not one right now?" She asked.
"I don't see the harm in that." I said thinking up a story from when I was younger.
The story
"What the hell did you do?" Ross exclaimed. We were rooming on a school trip in a relatively nice hotel in Quebec the french part of Canada, just me and a couple of, well I'll call them acquaintances, and of course my childhood best friend, who's wedding I mentioned earlier on, and what happened was the toilet kind of, blew up a little, and this three to four star hotel room was getting flooded with toilet water.
"Hey. Screw you pal. None of this is my fault! This is circumstance! Somebody up there is schadenfreuding the hell out of this moment right now! And you bitching isn't helping a bit!" I gritted my teeth.
"Well, we have to do something!" Kenny said feeling neurotic.
"Everyone, grab a pillow." I said concocting a plan. "They're hotel pillows, they've seen more semen than a navy submarine, this won't be the worst thing to happen to them." I said tossing a pillow at the crease between the door and the floor to try and stop water from seeping through.
"That's disgusting." Ross groaned at my analogy.
"They've seen more creamy white goo than a smore, is that better princess!?" I growled. "Kenny! try and get water from the toilet into the bathtub, Ross, keep doing what I'm doing, I'm gonna call for maintenance." I said picking up the hotel phone.
"Allo?" The person who answered asked.
"Um... Uh... Bonjour, nous avons un... Ummm probleme dans notre chambre..." I mumbled trying to speak French.
"You can speak English." he said to me. Oh thank God.
"We have a flooding problem in our room!" I cried out.
"We will have maintenance up right away.' He said.
"Thank you!" I said hanging up.
"What are we gonna do!?" Kenny said. "We're going to be paying this off till we're 40!"
"I'm not paying off a single penny!" Ross whined. Ohhhh man.
"Ross! Shut up!" Kenny yelled.
Now at this point, you should know there was one other person in our room. But this person had been sleeping through all of this.
"Could you guys quiet down? I'm trying to sleep." Tyler said. We all looked at him angrily.
"Have you been asleep this whole time!?" I yelled at him.
"Yeah... What's going on?" He asked sitting up.
"Look at the floor!" Kenny growled.
"Oh geez guys, what happened?" He said. Now two people in the room were pissing me off.
"The rooms flooded!" I yelled flailing my arms like Kermit the Frog. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Come in!" I said frantically.
"Maintenance." The worker said. "What is the problem?"
"The toilet." Kenny said. "Pretty sure it's the valve."
"Yes it is." He said looking at the toilet.
To make a long story short, the worker found the problem, it had nothing to do with us though! We were moved to a nicer room free of charge too, ever since then Kenny and I looked at the story fondly and laugh, and Ross always groans when it's brought up. and Tyler doesn't remember.
After the story
"Wow! That's crazy!" She said.
"Yeah, I know." I said laughing about it. "I'll tell you a few more another time." I said.
That night
After the day had passed, Pinkie and I were relaxing together on the couch looking out the window at the stars. Neither of us had said a word in a little while. Suddenly Pinkie spoke up.
"Remember when you were talking to Barstool earlier?" She asked.
"Yeah." I said.
"What did you mean when you said 'something is definitely there'?" She asked.
"Well..." I said. "I can see that we're definitely headed somewhere." I said stroking her shoulder.
"Where?" She asked.
"Now normally I'd say it's about the journey, not the destination." I began. "But I have a feeling we're gonna be together for a long, long time." I said.
"Awww, Chuckie, I love you." She said.
"I love you too." I said kissing her forehead.
Me: Well I met someone who touched my soul
And made my world brand new
There's part of me, a place inside, that now belong to you...
The love we've found
The love we've found
We carry with us, so we're never quite alone.
Pinkie and I: The love we've found
The love we've found
The sweetest dream that we have ever known,
The love we've found
The love we've found
We carry with us, so we're never quite alone.
"Goodnight Pinkie." I said giving her a hug.
"Goodnight Chuckie." She replied.
"See you in the morning." I said.
"I can't wait." She smiled.
The next morning
As I opened up my bar the next morning, I saw that the back door was unlocked, at first I was worried that somepony had broken in, but then I saw a big pile of barrels in the storage room.
"He delivered already? Great!" I exclaimed. Walking out to the main room, I saw a note on the counter. It was from Barstool.
"I wish you luck with your business..." It said. "I'll make sure to stop by and visit. I also wish you luck with your marefriend, you two seem to be good together, love in a precious thing. Make sure to cherish it for all your days. -Barstool." I finished.
"What a nice guy.." I said. I took his letter and pinned it to a board in my office. "I will." I said reading the last sentence again.
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Song used
"When love is found." Written by: Paul Williams