- >Running down the walkways, you could hear your hoofs on the wooden plaform.
- >You were going to be late, and on your first day too.
- >You had taken a job as a foalsitter since you needed a little extra money, and had nothing going on tonight.
- >Hopefully at least Jasmine was there by now.
- >Turning down a corner, you can see the house.
- >Slowing down you pace, you jog up to the house.
- >Stopping in front of the door, you brush yourself and knock on the door.
- >Hearing the door knob turn, the door opens to reveal a small colt.
- "Hello, I'm Night Watch, and I'm your foalsitter."
- >Looking past him, you look inside his house to see if Jasmine or his parents were inside.
- >Kneeling next to him, you tousle his hair.
- "Where are your parents?"
- >"They left after you took so long to get here."
- >Turning around, the colt walks into his house.
- >Following him, he walks over to the counter, where he takes a piece of paper.
- >Walking up to you, he hands it to you.
- >"I'm supposed to give this to you. Ivy is in the other room, doing her homework, and my name is Nook."
- >Walking over to the fridge, Nook looks inside and take a juice box.
- >Heading over to the kitchen table, he sits down and begins coloring on paper with crayons.
- >Going over to sit next to him, you set the paper down on the table.
- >Reading over it, it's the usual foalsitting stuff, like put them to bed by nine, and don't lt them eat too much candy, things like that.
- >Hearing a door open down the hall, you turn in your chair to face it.
- >Looking down the hall, you see a little filly emerge from what you supposed was her room.
- >This must have been Ivy.
- >Noticing you, Ivy walks over to the table a puts her front hooves on it and looks at Nook.
- >"Why didn't you tell me the foalsitter was here?"
- >Shrugging the little bat pony goes back to coloring.
- >Hearing a knock on the door, you turn to get out of your chair.
- >That must have been Jasmine.
- >Noticing Ivy already, heading to the door, you stop and sit back down.
- >Inviting Jasmine in, Ivy goes back down to her room.
- "What took you so long to get here? You're thirty minutes late."
- >Taking off her coat, Jasmien walks up to you and sets in on the chair next to you.
- >"Sorry, I was dealing with a stallion that keeps annoying me."
- >Jasmine sometimes mentioned a stallion that annoys her, but you've never been able to ask her about it.
- "Oh, what's he like? Is he cute?"
- >Walking over to the fridge, Jasmine looks inside.
- >"I don't know, kind of. But he's very annoying and stamers a lot around me."
- >Turning to you, Nook interrupts your conversation.
- >"I'm hungry."
- >Oh yeah, you were supposed to make them dinner for them.
- >Walking over next to Jasmine, you look into the fridge with her, but don't find much.
- >Maybe you could make them pasta.
- >Heading over to the pantry, you open it and find a bag of noodles.
- >Pouiring its contents into a pot, you fill it with water and put on the oven.
- >Leaning against the counter, you continue your conversation with Jasmine.
- "Well, maybe he's just nervous. He might like you. You should go on a date with him."
- >"Oh, no way that's happening."
- >Turning to face her, you rest your hooves on the counter.
- "Why not? You even said yourself he was kinda cute."
- >Standing up straight, Jasmine points over to the pot of noodles.
- >"Why not? Because he's exactly like that pot right there."
- >Not understanding what she means, you walk up next to her.
- "What's that supposed to mean?"
- >Sighing, Jasmine throws her forelegs into the air.
- >"He's fucking full of spaghetti!"
- >Hearing a gasp, you turn over to the hallway, to see Ivy with her mouth open.
- >Looking back to the table, you see Nook with wide eyes.
- >"What does 'fuck' mean?"
- >Oh shit.
- >"Um it doesn't mean anything!"
- >Turning to Jasmine, you smack her.
- "Don't put things like that in their heads!"
- >Walking over to Nook, you sit next to him and call Ivy over.
- "Kids, 'fuck' is a very bad word, and Jasmine should not have used it."
- >Turning to Jasmine, you shoot her a sharp gaze like you were going to pummel her face in.
- "Jasmine, say you're sorry."
- >Looking surprised, Jasmine slowly walks up next to you.
- >"Uh... I'm... sorry?"
- >That'll have to work.
- >Looking over at the stove, you remember the spaghetti.
- "Time for spaghetti!"
- >This was probably the best thing you could do to change the subject.
- >Putting globs of spaghetti onto four plates, you bring them over to the table with the help of Jasmine.
- >Sitting around the table, you all start eating.
- "So, Ivy, Nook, why don't you tell us a bit about yourselves?"
- >Looking at Nook, he's stuffing his face with spaghetti.
- >Turning to Ivy, you raise an eyebrow.
- >"There's not really much to tell, we live here with our parents, and we go to school."
- "Hm... Would you like to hear about us?"
- >Swallowing her spaghetti, Ivy looks up at you.
- >"Sure, it's better than sitting here in silence."
- "Well, I'm in the royal guard, and Jasmine here mooches off of her parents."
- >Looking at you, Jasmine hits you.
- >"I do not!"
- >Stopping for a minute, Nook looks over to you.
- >"Did you say the royal guard?"
- "Why yes, I did."
- >Putting his front hooves on the table, Nook climbs onto the table, also managing to step in his own spaghetti as he scrambles over to you.
- >"What'sitlikepleasetellmeIlovetheroyalguardandIwanttobeonewhenIgrowupbecuasethey'resocoooooolandIwannafightbadguysjustlikeyouguys!"
- >Trying to get some breathing room, you push him back a bit.
- "Calm down, it's not all that great, just guarding the castle."
- >Settling down, Nook goes and sits back in his chair and continues eating the same spaghetti he stepped on.
- >After dinner, it was eight o'clock, and an hour until you had to put them to bed.
- >Maybe you all could play a board game?
- >Calling the others back into the room, you set the box on top of the table.
- "I thought we could all play this to pass the time."
- >Climbing onto a chair, Nook, reads the name on the box out loud.
- >"Ponopoly... What's that?"
- "It's a fun board game. Come on, let's play.
- >Sitting down, you begin to unbox the game.
- >Five minutes later.
- >Throwing the board into the air, Ivy turns towards Nook.
- >"You cheated!"
- >"No you!"
- >"Oh, now you're saying I cheated!"
- >"Yeah!
- >"Oh, yeah?"
- >"Yeah!"
- >Sensing there might be a fight coming soon, you believe now would be the best time to put the children to bed.
- "I think it's time for bed now."
- >Looking back at you the little bat ponies talk at the same time.
- >"But we don't want to!!!"
- >Sitting in their chair, they fold their arms and don't budge.
- >Turning towards Jasmine, you motion for her to get Nook.
- >Walking over to Ivy, you pick her up and slowly carry her to her room.
- >Slowly walking to her room, you look back and see Jasmine carrying Nook into his room.
- >Opening Ivy's door, you walk over to her bed and set her on it after pulling back the sheets.
- "I know it's a little early, but it's better to go to bed early, so you can wake up earlier the next morning."
- >"I'd rather sleep through the morning."
- >Laughing, you turn around.
- >This foalsitting thing isn't as hard as you thought.
- >Looking towards the doorway, you see Nook enter the room, and he's holding something.
- >Is he holding a rock?
- >BAM!
- >Falling on the floor, you rub your head.
- >Did he just throw that rock at you!?
- >Standing up you can feel a large bump forming on your forehead.
- "What the hay was that for!?"
- >"Nook! You knew that wouldn't be enough!"
- >Turning around to face Ivy, you see her holding wooden bat.
- "Wait, what's going on!?"
- >Raising the bat above her head, Ivy hits you on your head before you can react.
- >Falling onto the floor again, you feel yourself losing consciousness.
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- >Fluttering open, your eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.
- >What happened, and where are you?
- >Looking around, you appear to be in a dark room.
- >Night Watch seems to be in a chair next to you.
- "Hey, Night Watch."
- >Nothing.
- >Trying to move, you find yourself bound by rope.
- >So how'd you get here?
- >Last thing you remember is trying to put Nook to sleep, and then...
- >He hit you with his lamp.
- >Well that solves that mystery.
- >Hearing hoofsteps, you look up to see Nook and Ivy walking towards you.
- >These little brats put you here.
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