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Unicorn's Kiss

by ChappyHooves

Chapter 1: Prologue

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Prologue

-Fillydelphia the morning after

Ditty Hooves woke up with a massive throbbing in his head. Celestia's sun was glaring through the curtains of his hotel room. Ditty felt a lurch in his stomach and with a jolt of urgency he bolted from his bed to the bathroom and straight to the toilet.

He knelt before the porcelain and heaved the contents of his stomach. Between the first and second wave of vomit the only thought that went through his mind was 'here I am again.'

Ditty flushed and laid his head on the edge of the tub next to the toilet.

'What happened last night?' His still spinning head railed. 'What time is it? Why does this keep happening to me?'

He reached over to the faucet of the bath tub and turned it on. He then forced down gulps of water cold water from the tap.

He leaned over the toilet again and puked. This time the water made it burn a little less but it still felt awful. He spit a couple of times and went back to the faucet to drank again.

He went back and forth between drinking and vomiting for the next few minutes, a hangover ritual he learned in college. By the fifth round he saw it was more water he was spitting up rather than sick. He slowed down on his gulps, now taking time for his stomach to settle a bit before he swallowed again.

The process mildly calmed the immediate sick feeling in his stomach, but now he now felt terribly weak and his head was still in pain. He reached over and turned the bathtub faucet to hot and laid there on the floor as the room slowly started to fill with steam.

Ditty started taking in deep breaths, gathering his thoughts as he hoped the vapors of the steam would ease the pounding in his head.

'Easy Ditty.' He thought to himself. 'You know where you are, Hotel Fillydelphia. You sing at the lounge and waiter for the kitchen. You've been working here for two years, last night was your last night working here. Hearth's Warming Eve right?'

His thoughts started to collect as his legs still shaky pulled him up to the sink to look at himself in the mirror.

A purple unicorn with dark brown eyes and a dishwater blond mane looked back at him. On his back flank was his cutie mark, a microphone with three stars around it. The expression in his eyes was hauntingly familiar, the look scared Ditty.

"Oh Celestia! I drank straight gin last night again didn't I?" He said out loud to himself.

'Certainly tastes like it. That and red wine.' The voice in his head seem to reply.

He kneeled over the pot again, this time it was just a gag. He sat back on his haunches and started massaging his temples with his hooves.

'Ok. So I was singing at the lounge last night.' He continued to think. 'Hearth's Warming Celebration? Yeah, the set was holiday tunes. There was a group of good looking mares at the bar, remember? Yeah.'

Suddenly Ditty had a flash in his memory of a familiar fuchsia and pink earth pony.

"Arrgggg!" The pain in his head increased as if his mind was protesting any more attempts in anything that required it’s focus.

"This needs to stop. This isn't right. I have a problem!" He said looking back at himself disgusted with the stallion looking back at him in the mirror.

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK

The sound did not come from his head but the door to the room.

Ditty stumbled out of the bathroom and opened the door. Benny his piano player, a cobalt earth pony, stood in the doorway holding in his arm a bathrobe and a large serving pot of coffee. Next to him on the ground was a clean stack of towels and white box similar to one you would get from a bakery.

"Ditty you party stallion! How's the hangover?" Benny chuckled throwing the bathrobe over his friend's withers.

Ditty let out a groan.

"Not so loud Benny."

Benny not missing a beat reached in to the pocket of the bathrobe with his mouth and pulled out a pair of sunglasses. In one flip of his head he unfolded them and put them on Ditty's face.

"Ok." He said quieter. "Let's get you sobered up. I want to hear the details of last night."

Benny put his free hoof around Ditty and walked him back inside the room.

Next Chapter: Chapter 1: The new music teacher Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 21 Minutes
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