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#Post#: 976--------------------------------------------------
A Slow Day
By: Lickety Split Date: January 31, 2014, 8:50 am
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It was a slow afternoon in Lickety's shop, an impressively well
maintained and well stocked wonderland of confectionary, the
large, colourful sign at the entrance, marking it as: Lickety's
Split's Sweets and Treats.
Lickety was lazing behind the counter of her lolly-shop, snoring
faintly. Her long, poofy, red and white mane fell over her eyes,
blocking her face from view as she leaned back on her seat,
leaning up against the wall behind her. She was snoring cutely,
letting out tiny puffs and drawing in little gasps of air, each
one pulling or pushing the tuft of hair that hung near her
mouth, making it swing in the otherwise still air like a
pendulum.
From somewhere behind the counter, a gramophone filled the huge,
candy-filled shop with quiet music. A happy tune, and something
about lollipops could be heard, but not much else, the
mint-green mare having turned the volume down in order to
facilitate her afternoon nap.
#Post#: 1028--------------------------------------------------
Re: A Slow Day
By: SoundWrecker Date: February 2, 2014, 1:43 pm
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A small distance outside the confectionary store, amidst the
bustle of the busy street, a lone blue stallion had slowly come
to a halt, the sign catching the corner of his eye. 'Lickety's
Sweets & Treats'. Sound Wrecker recalled all the times since
first noticing the store that he'd wanted to pay a visit, and
how every time he'd instead simply walked past it. As big as his
sweet tooth was, it was always uncomfortable going into stores,
such as this one, and browsing the shelves, when you could
practically feel the shopkeeper's un-trusting eyes on you the
whole time...
Luckily, as far as Sound Wrecker could see, as he took a few
steps closer to look through the window, the keeper in question
seemed to be sleeping. 'I have time to kill,' he thought,
'perhaps if I'm careful not to wake her, I could take my time to
choose a snack for the train journey, and wake her up in order
to pay?'
Deciding the plan to be a good one, Sound Wrecker made his way
into Lickety's Sweets & Treats, the shelves stocked to bursting
point with all sorts of delicacies Sound Wrecker was sure nopony
would have ever heard of, a joyful look of wonder on his face.
As he scanned the available confectionary, Sound Wrecker's ears
picked up the song playing quietly from the gramophone. He
didn't notice himself humming along.
#Post#: 1054--------------------------------------------------
Re: A Slow Day
By: Lickety Split Date: February 4, 2014, 5:32 am
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At the sound of the door being pushed open, Lickety stirred a
little, turning to face the other way, still snoring sweetly,
her peppermint mane blowing back and forth in the sugar-scented
breeze created by her snoring.
Gradually, though, as the blue stallion walked around the
otherwise empty shop, the chubby young mare behind the counter,
slowly opened a single hot-pink eye, and as she trained it on
the messy-maned young stallion who wandered her shop, a smile
slowly appeared on her face, although she didn't give any other
indication that she was awake, wondering what her visitor was up
to, and why he seemed to be moving quietly deliberately.
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Re: A Slow Day
By: SoundWrecker Date: February 4, 2014, 4:04 pm
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Sound Wrecker took his time to pick from the figuratively
infinite selection, whilst keeping one eye on a nearby clock.
His train had been cancelled, and the next one due was in an
hour. He wanted to be at the station ten minutes prior to that.
No rush, but that didn't mean he should spend fifty minutes in a
candy store just to kill the time...
Eventually deciding on a small selection of various
confectioneries, he made his way to the counter, where the
shopkeeper still appeared to be sleeping. Now, all he had to
do... was just... wake her up, pay and leave...
Yup...
Wake up the sleeping shopkeeper... Who might be pretty cheesed
off at being woken up...
Well, that wasn't going to happen. Nothing else for it. Taking a
deep breath, he slowly reached out, in attempts to gently brush
the mare's red-and-white mane. The new plan was to trigger some
form of instinct reaction, similar to scratching an itch or
swatting a fly, to give the illusion that she woke up of her own
accord...
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Re: A Slow Day
By: Lickety Split Date: February 5, 2014, 9:12 am
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As Lickety watched the blue stallion finish gathering up the
sweets he was going to purchase, and then approach the counter
as if to wake her, she had to stifle a tiny giggle, but kept her
eyes closed, deciding that she felt like pranking her visitor.
Sure, it was a little mean, but she'd be sure to make it up to
him afterwards.
The moment Wrecker leaned in to brush her peppermint mane,
Lickety lunged forwards from her spot, placing herself eye to
eye with the young blue stallion, and, grinning gleefully,
shouted: "SUPRISE!!" at the top of her lungs, her bright pink
eyes twinkling with good, albeit childish, humour.
#Post#: 1113--------------------------------------------------
Re: A Slow Day
By: SoundWrecker Date: February 6, 2014, 1:31 pm
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In a split-second of blind panic, as the mare jumped out and
yelled straight into his face, Sound Wrecker took a giant leap
backward, letting out a strange almost-yelping sound, and he
slumped to the floor, visibly shaking in fear, his hooves over
his eyes. Most of his selected candies, previously placed in
neat lines by the cash register, had now scattered
miscellaneously across the counter.
Sometimes, Sound Wrecker did not understand other ponies's
senses of humour... This mare had a huge smile on her face after
pulling that stunt. That was not in the slightest bit funny.
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Re: A Slow Day
By: Lickety Split Date: February 6, 2014, 8:33 pm
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Watching the young stallion's terrified reaction, Lickety
paused, tilting her head to one side, as her smile shifted
quickly to a confused frown.
After watching the poor stallion shiver for a little bit on the
floor, the chubby peppermint-maned mare leapt over her counter
in a display of surprising agility, leaning down to poke the
blue stallion curiously, whilst her horn glowed a bright pink,
and began to sweep the lollies on the counter into a paper bag,
which then floated into her hooves.
"You okay, Mister? Didn't mean to scare you so bad.. I just saw
you sneaking around, and thought it'd be funny.. Or, didn't
really think, to be honest.." Lickety inquired, voice quiet and
apologetic, as she poked his hoof again, trying to get him to
lift his hooves away from his face so she could see if he was
okay.
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Re: A Slow Day
By: SoundWrecker Date: February 8, 2014, 7:47 am
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Slowly, a hoof lifted from the face of the still-trembling young
stallion, and a single, Kelly-green eye came into view. The
pupil made rapid, twitching movements, as Sound looked around
the room, from the counter, to the mare, to the clock on the
wall, to the paper bag of the sweets that had been cleared up.
Clambering to his feet, he remained silent for some time. He
didn't know what was supposed to happen from here. Frankly, he
was prepared for her to jump out at him again. Eventually,
however, he decided to respond to the mare's initial question to
his well-being.
"...Wh-...Y-Yeah... I'm o-okay... Y-You just... s-scared the
living heck... o-out of m-me... just th-then..." His eyes were
fixed to the floor to the immediate left of whom he spoke with.
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Re: A Slow Day
By: Lickety Split Date: February 9, 2014, 7:47 pm
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Lickety frowned a little at his response, although she Was glad
he was unharmed. As he spoke, her mouth (normally more suited to
wide smiles) curled into a small frown of apology and
embarrassment.
"Once again, really sorry about that, Mister. I wouldn't have
done it if I'd known it would upset you so bad.." The pale green
mare offered, as she levitated the bag of sweets into the poor
young stallion's hooves, making it clear she was offering them
in apology.
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Re: A Slow Day
By: SoundWrecker Date: February 12, 2014, 5:46 pm
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Sound's eyes picked up from the floor, as he caught sight of the
bag of confectioneries. The shopkeeper seemed genuine enough in
her apology. Heck, it wasn't uncommon for more lively ponies to
play light-hearted tricks like that on him without knowing how
differently than others he'd react.
His eyes still fixed to the sweets, he attempted to put the
mare's mind at ease, answering quicker than before. "...I-It's
fine... I-I'm okay, r-really..." It occured to him why she might
be showing concern, and he added, "...I-I always t-talk...
l-like this, it's just a-a... s-silly little vocal t-tic..." It
didn't concern her that said tic was induced by nerves. She'd
think he was lying, and Sound Wrecker didn't want to leave
Canterlot with the possibility that somepony thought she really
messed him up.
Changing the subject back to the mare's business, he brought
attention back to the bag in his hooves. "...S-So, uhh... h-how
much for th-the... f-for all this...?"
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