Chapter 4: Home time

Cherilee apologised to Snips again as he collected his school bag and quickly ran out of the classroom.

“I will see you all tomorrow,” She cheered happily to the rest of the class as they stampeded out of the front door.

She waited until the door slammed shut before burying her face into her hooves, how could she be so stupid as to let her anger get the better of her, she needed a vacation or something “I haven’t gone to a club in years” she thought to herself.

Sighing loudly she collected her things before leaving the school herself and heading home “I need a nice lay down and a hot chocolate” she paced home staring at the floor sadly the entire way.

As she walked in she did her normal regime of cleaning herself and preparing for tomorrow, she then wrapped up in a clean fluffy dressing gown and curled up in her chair with a large mug of hot chocolate.

“Ah finally some time alone” she sighed happily.

DING DONG

“And there it goes” she grunted as she pushed herself out of her chair and walked slowly to the door, she didn’t have a door bell so that could only mean one thing...

She opened the door and she was greeted by confetti and a smiling pink pony “Hi Cherilee!” Pinkie cheered.

“Oh hello pinkie what a surprise” Cherilee could never escape children “who’s birthday is it today?”

“It’s Colgate’s birthday and you’ve been invited!” Pinkie screamed in delight as she passed her a golden envelope.

Cherilee put on her saddest face she could muster “oh I would love to go but I have to get so much ready for the children tomorrow, could you save me some cake?”

“Okie doki loki!” Pinkie smiled as she began to bounce away “in a few more years the cake twins will be at your school won’t that be great?”

“I can’t wait!” Cherilee lied as she waved goodbye to Pinkie and as soon as she was out of earshot she muttered to herself “but I would prefer to get on Princess Celestia’s bad side and get sent to the moon for a thousand years first”

She crawled back into her chair and grasped her drink tightly “I would give anything for a few days alone… well maybe not alone but with somepony more mature… like Cheese” Cherilee rested her head back “His jokes are supposed to be bad though”

Cherilee took a sip of her drink a relaxed as her worries dropped like her eyelids as she fell asleep, but was rudely awoken again by a hard knock at the door “Oh feathers who is it now?”

She took a deep breath before answering the door “Oh hello Applejack” she smiled to the fellow earth pony that actually did a hard job around here.

“Greetin’s Miss Cherilee” Applejack tipped her hat “I just popped by on mah way home from deliverin some apples to tell ya that Applebloom and her friends won’t be attending school until next Monday”

Cherilee barely managed to cover up her smile “Oh how unfortunate why can’t they make it?”

Applejack shrugged “I don’t know she just said somethin about campin” She smiled again “Don’t ya worry I’ll make sure she attends for the rest of the year”

“That is good to hear” Cherilee refrained from slapping the element of honesty across the face for making that promise but instead waved gently “Thank you for letting me know and I will see you around”

Applejack turned and began to trot back up the path “See ya Cherilee!”

The tired teacher barely managed to miss the door as she stuck her head out again “OH Applejack!”

“Yes sugarcube?” She turned her head over.

“Could you say hi to Big Mac for me?” She concealed her blush behind another fake smile “oh and umm… Granny Smith”

Applejack tipped her hat again “Will do See ya later”

“Hopefully not” Cherilee gagged as she thought of being called sugarcube by Applejack “Does she want to eat me or something?”

Cherilee had to give the three blank flanks some credit, they made her life slightly less boring during the holidays like during hearts and hooves day, she originally thought that Big Mac was just a dumb brute but she was gladly mistaken.

She sank back into her chair as she caressed the side of her mug “Oh how I wouldn’t mind being Big Mac’s sugarcube” she then remembered she might see Applebloom and the other children more often “Well only for one night I guess”