Nursery Time at the Cafe

[Becka *Pone*]

They had stopped quickly at the Nursery to set down the cooler and umbrellas and such that they didn't need, and pick up rain slickers for all the young ones, and then the whole group of Kail, Razz, and the little nursery kids made their way to the Cotton Candy Cafe. It was a special treat for the little ones, they didn't often get to come as a group for lack of money, but SunnyD was back in town and Kail was sure she would be getting another paycheck from her soon. Hopefully the last, unless the nursery really needed it.

Trudging in wet, and taking off their rain slickers in the entryway, Kail found some large tables near the back and pointed the kids to them. "One thing each," she said and let them pass around the menus and start deciding on what to get. She tried to keep an eye on them, but her mind was elsewhere, on the "gods" and what sort of trouble they would undoubtably make in Ponyville.


Sherbet looked over the menu, trying to decide between an ice cream sunday and a chocolate malt. The lady at the beach had never given them their ice cream bars, so she thought she might go for the sunday. "What are you getting?" she asked Gumdrop and Sky Feathers.

[spookytale]

Glitterlilly trotted in followed by a very dusty white and pink mare. They both looked a little put out.

The little one bounced up to the table with Kail and huffed and puffed. "I was following you guys..." breath, "I heard a noise in the closet..." she paused to catch her breath some more.

Behind her the mare shook off some more dust from her face and eyes, then a slow pleased smile spread across Strawberry Swirl's whole face when she saw who she was near.

"Yes.... I was whooshed into the closet, which is like winking but works over long distances and it's hard on the stomache, and then I was locked in, obviously some sort of misjudgement on the Sisters' part, but now I'm out of the closet." Swirl paused to think over what she'd just said, then shook her head, and started to giggle.

"Hi guys."

Glitterlilly had meanwhile made herself at home with a menu, squooshed in with some of the other foals.

[Delta]

Gumdrop wandered in with Kail and the nursery crew and sat herself down at a table. At the moment she was buried in a cafe menu, deciding what overly-sweet desert to get.

[Silver Shadow]

Dreamer and Moony followed the nursey group ((I assume Charm would be here too, so Dreamer is here ^-^)) and got a seat nearby. The unicorn was still holding onto Wysteria's cooler, and was looking out the window, her face miserable. Dreamer could tell what was on her mind.

"Chin up Moony." He said smiling weakly and passing a menu over to her. "Wysteria's going to be alright. You know, you could have dropped the cooler off at you appartment-"

"It's that stallion... It's all his fault..." Moony murmured.

"Huh?" The alicorn looked over the menu.

"Nothing... Just talking to myself."

Dreamer shrugged and looked around for where Charm decided to sit.

[silverfall]

"I'm getting a...cocoa...mocha...rainbow...berry float," Sky Feathers said, reading each word carefully from the menu. She was getting much better at reading. "Yes, a cocoa-mocha rainbowberry float."

Razz was standing thoughtfully, looking in the direction of the back pantry where Sky Feathers had been born. Then he turned away and sat down at the table with Kail.

[Whispering Wind]

(STOP! You need to be stamped before you can start RPing! Any further posts will be deleted.)

A stranger entered in silence the café. She sat down by a table, sightly looking around. The purple pony looked majestic and imposing, but uncertain. 'Oh,' she thougt for herself. 'After days of traveling, it´s strange to see that many ponies at once.' A varm smile was spread across her face. She sat there for a wile in silence, before walking over to the desk and ordering some water and something to eat.

[Rose Rebellion]

(hopping from Peri's thread)

The white stallion took the necessary steps to reach the large lot of wet ponies. It looked like the group had been caught off guard, and if he didn't know better, he would've teasingly called them "drowned rats", but in a kind of brotherly love manor. Most foals wouldn't realize the fun in calling them such, so he often just kept the comments to himself.

Easily he spotted Strawberry Swirl, Kailani, and Razz. It'd been a little time since he'd actually been at the nursery, or living at it. With the castle rebuilt, Peri had kept a bit to himself, but was well aware that he missed all the company just a little. "Hey," he said to the whole group, "What brings the lot of you out all at once?"

Having lived in the nursery during the reconstruction of the castle, Peri half felt obligated to pitch in for the meal the would apparently be bought for the youngsters. It didn't happen often, so the actor didn't mind in spending some on them, as it was just a little bit compared to what he saved up to help his mom out.

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(con from Ponyville)

Coon Skin darted in doors to the first building she was near by. The storm had come on rather quickly and had taken her entirely by surprise. The thief managed to elude soaking herself, not that it wasn't entirely unwelcome with the humidity lately. However, the rain did make her somewhat sour. D*mn, my tent's going to be soaked through! As well as my sleeping bag. Guess I'll have to bunk up with Candy for tonight.

Having gotten a couple bucks out of the pickpocket event earlier that day, Coon was felt pretty good about taking up an order. She turned away from the door to lay golden eyes upon Kailani. Instantly her face lit up in a delightfully devious, and flirtatious grin. "Princess! Since when did you have so many foals running about? You sly mare, you.," she spoke teasingly to the peg and approaching her.

[spookytale]

Swirl smiled at Peri, now somewhat settled if not seated, undusty, and recovering from her recent encounter with the closet. "It's good to be back. Glitterlilly pulled me here, I thought there was an emergency and I guess it was an ice cream emergency."

Glitterlilly gave the slightest of waves to Peri, she was apparently devoting her attention to trying to decide which treat was the largest. Swirl didn't know which would hurt Glitterlilly worse - her pride if an adult pointed out she was too little to eat that much, or her stomach if she actually tried.

She flicked her ears towards Coon, looked just long enough to realize Kail was the intended mark, then shot her glance towards Kail. She deftly moved herself in between any approachers and her friend, while failing to conceal a look the clearly said what the huh?!?!.

[silverfall]

"Hello, hello, hello," Razz said cheerfully. "We've just come up from the beach. Big storm coming in..." He paused a moment. "Huh, you know. We could have had Silverfall chase the storm off. Too bad she wasn't with us today." He jumped on to happier thoughts. "We're stuck a while, but at least we've got good things to keep us occupied. Anyone wanna play chocolate chip checkers? I could go get the board." He was looking over at the side table to see if there were any spare boards left. He'd have to get the cookies at the counter, of course.

[Becka *Pone*]

Kail had been leaning over Sherbet's shoulder looking at the menu when she heard a familiar voice and looked up. "Swirl!" She squealed like a child and jumped up out of the chair (which was very difficult, as she had seated herself in the middle of a large booth) almost bowling Strawberry Swirl over with a hug, complete with wings. "Rainbows I missed you!" she gave another quick hug before finally letting go of the Sister and backing up, bumping into the table and turning slightly to make sure she didn't harm anything.

"Did they send you back for good?" She meant of course the Sisters. "Are you going to stay?" She couldn't wait for a reply and instead gave Swirl another hug.

The sea green peg was so excited about the return of her best friend in Ponyville (with the exception of Razz of course, but you couldn't exactally have "girl talk" with Razz - especially when half of it was about him...) she barely registered Periwinkle's entrance. She grabbed his hoof and pulled him over, "Look Peri! Its Swirl!" Sherbet Explosion couldn't have made a wider grin.

Speaking of the little orange Explosion, she gave a wide smile herself at the site of Swirl. After Kail practically jumped over her head of course. "Hi Swirl!"

And as if two old friends weren't enough, another voice pulled Kail once again from her thoughts.

"Princess! Since when did you have so many foals running about? You sly mare, you.,"

Giving a bright smile (although not nearly as bright as the one she gave Swirl), Kail turned to the "stallion". Swirl began to block the way, but Kail put a hoof on her shoulder and nodded - this one was safe. "Hey Coon!" She blushed a little, "they aren't mine - I run the new nursery with Razzaroo and hopefully Swirl again." Another quick smile at the white mare. "Why I haven't seen you since...." since they had both been captured by the Dark Rainbow, but she didn't voice that, "how are you?"


Sherbet's attention left all the new company as Razz mentioned Chocolate Chip Checkers. "Oh yes! Me! I wanna play!"

(GAH! What are you people trying to do to me )

[Delta]

Gumdrop had no clue how to play checkers, let alone with chocolate chips, so she decided to sit back and watch. Purple sat on her lap, purring softly. Gumdrop picked her up and put her aside as she dawdled over to Kail.

She tugged on the green peg's leg. "Can I have a Chocolate milkshake please?" She said politely. "I've been extra good this week." She added, beaming up to her.

[Lilith]

Bellaluna had followed slightly after Sky Feathers but was soon sitting with her and Gumdrop. She reached out to pat Purple as she saw the kitten was not to far away, and her puppy was hanging around close by. It seemed he was very curious of the cat, perhaps her puppy had made a friend?
Bella glanced towards where Kail was and smiled. She wasn't sure if she was allowed something, after all, she didn't stay at the nursery like most of the others.
Alas, Bella hadn't heard from Sweet Berry in ages, and was wondering where the mare had dissapeared to. Was she even searching for Bella? The filly shrugged the thought off and bounced in her seat.

[spookytale]

Swirl beamed happily, but quickly realized that Kail had others to talk to. They could catch up later at the nursery, and as long as tea and cookies were involved they probably could stay up the whole night chatting. Besides, she had a nice surprise for Kail at the nursery. Swirl hadn't wasted her time with The Sisters away....

She gave her friend a quick pony hug, then took a couple steps back.

She looked over at Coon, still unsure about the pony. But if Kail was happy to see the rugged pony...

"Hi, I'm Strawberry Swirl - Kail mentioned that, I think." Swirl giggled - it was nice to be back! Now, to give Kail some space before her head imploded from trying to talk to everyone at once...

"I'm going to start trying to get orders settled, ok?" Swirl practically skipped off, hugging each of the nursery residents, and many others.

[Rose Rebellion]

(ooc: >< blasted brother and his idiocy and stupid blaring horrible taste in music. I can barely think, my apologies if my post is messed up)

"They aren't yours? Well, they all have your beauty and grace that I just couldn't help but mistaken them for yours. Such big girls...," she winked at the orange foal, being the first one to spot and offer the compliment to. She knew that all the young girls would love hearing compliments as such. Coon had dealt with a younger sister after all.

Coon's golden eyes twinkled at how happy Kail had been to see her. Coon enjoyed that, a lot. She didn't stay long in many places when she was on the move, though it would seem Ponyville was an exception. She had friends here, and lovely mares to flirt with. Ah, it was good to see the peg again!

"Yeah, I've been doing good. I had to do a little traveling last fall, but for the most part I've been keeping myself busy.," she summed up in the easiest and less detailed of ways, "I've met someone. We've been seeing each other since about the holidays. I'm thinking she might be the one." A gentle, endearing smile that seemed unusual for her crossed her face. For a brief moment she reflected on Stokely. She was in no way like the classy and elegant mare, Fox Trot that Coon loved so dearly before. However, Coon loved Stokely in a much different way. "I'm taking her up to meet the folks soon."

"Ah, well, enough about me!," she chuckled in her deep husky voice, "I'm glad to hear that you're so excited about all these critters you got here. But, my dear Princess, what happened to Miss Sunny D?"

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Kail's abrupt catching of Peri Winkle's hoof caught him entirely off guard. He spun around, almost tripped, but steady himself before a possible spill. Dusting himself off as if he had, however, Peri turned back to see Swirl. Sure enough, Kail was right, not that he doubted her.

With a smile and a nod he gave the white mare a friendly hug. "Oh, it's good to see you back in town, Sister. I'm sure you had an enjoyable time away? How was your holidays?," he said, trying to play catch up. Peri couldn't say he was a very tight friend with the sister, but on an acquaintance level they were pretty good.

[Angel624]

(cont. from the beach)
Mainsail, Twinkle Twirl and Baby Sea Spray followed the others into the Cafe. Baby Sea Spray sat down with Gumdrop. "Boy, I hope we don't have to be stuck in here all night." She said to her.


Twinkle Twirl smiled. "Chocolate Chip Checkers sounds like fun! Can I play?"