Produce and Ice Cubes

"So when can I start helping you?" Derpy asked while jumping in Don's hand. "I don't know, soon. I'll tell you when you can." He said while placing the Pegasus back on the desk. "Ok, Mister...uh..." Derpy struggled. "Oh, I forgot, I know your name but you don't know mine, I'm Donovan, Donovan Lacson, the most mediocre student here on Earth."

"Don...O...Ven..." Derpy slowly said trying to pronounce his name right. she repeated it a couple of times with different phonetic pronunciations before Don intervened. "Okay, don't hurt yourself trying to say my name. Just, call me Don." Derpy looked up, "Okay, Mister Don!" she said. Don smiled, "Just Don please, there's no need to be formal. I don't call you Miss Derpy do I?" Derpy let out a sheepish smile, "Okay Mist- uh, I mean, Don."

"So now that that's out of the way the next question is, what do you eat?" Don asked while getting up. "I know you're something like a horse so I'm guessing hay is a big part of your diet, but since I don't exactly have access to that, well, not unless I go out into the country and raid a farm." he said while going into a pondering pose. He quickly shook his head and came back to the conversation at hand. "Please tell me you eat something other than hay?"

"Of course I do!" she said, "I eat fruits, vegetables, cupcakes, cake, but my most favorite thing to eat," she said while staring off into space, "are muffins..." she finished losing herself into a daydream. Don was relieved and perplexed at the same time, at least he didn't have to raid a farm, but how was he supposed to get her out of this little daydream coma. He brought himself to her eye level. "Uh, hello?" he said while poking Derpy.

Derpy snapped back to into reality. "Huh? What happened?" she asked looking around. Don shook his head, "I don't know, you just said 'Muffins' then you went-" he was cut short. "Muffins..." Derpy said dreamily and went right back into her daydream. " SON OF A..."

Derpy suddenly realized she was no longer in Don's room. She looked around and noticed a huge room and directly to her left and noticed a stove. "Wow, you've got a really big kitchen Don." She began to walk across the counter still looking around in awe. "This is really- WHOA!" she screamed as she fell into the sink. Don turned around, "Derpy, what are you doing?"

The Pegasus flew up, "Heh, I...might have fallen into the sink." she said while giving a sheepish smile and rubbing the back of her head. "Please be careful, next thing you know you'll be crashing into-" there was a loud clatter of pans falling to the floor. "...Dishes..." Don finished while face-palming.

He sighed and went to go pick up the assorted pots and pans that feel. "Oops," Derpy said, "Let me help!" she flew over and began to grab one of the pans with her hooves. "I don't think that's necess-OW WHAT THE HELL?" Don yelled as a pan fell onto his head. Derpy put on a guilty grin "Oops, sorry, the pan was heavier than I thought." Another thought hit her and she had a huge smile, "Does this mean I get to help you now?"

Before Don knew what was going on, Derpy tore into the freezer and pulled out a single ice cube, flew back to Don and shoved it in his face. "THATS COLD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Don yelled falling over. "Hold still! This is supposed to make the swelling go down!" Derpy insisted. "I got hit in the back of my head! Not my face!" Don nearly yelled. "I said to hold still didn't I?"

The two sat in silence at the kitchen table as they both snacked on fruit, the silent ambiance was broken when Derpy decided to speak up. "Wow, these are the biggest grapes I've ever seen!" Derpy said grabbing a single grape with both of her hooves. Don sighed, "If someone would've told me I'd be having fruit snack time with a Pegasus last week, I would've thought they were on drugs or something."

He looked at Derpy who had a content smile on her face as she bit into the grape, "I still don't even know if you're real or not, even though you just shoved an ice cube in my face..." he stopped for a moment. "Wait, how DID you know where the ice cubes were?" He asked looking at Derpy.

Derpy looked up at Don with grape juice smeared all over her face. "Huh, How did I know?" she set the grape down and scratched her head. "I don't know, I just guessed." She returned to eating the grape. "Your explanations are wonderful." Don said while face-palming, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "How's the fruit?" Derpy set the grape down again, "It's good, but it's not as good next to the fruit where I'm from." Don raised an eyebrow, "Oh really? Why's that?" Derpy pondered for a minute, "I don't know, I guess it just doesn't taste as sweet."

"Well, I don't think it gets any better than that I'm afraid, so you're gonna have to make do with that. At least until I can get some baby carrots or something." He grabbed a paper towel. "Here, wipe your face, for a Pegasus, you sure eat messy." He said tearing off a piece and handing it to her. "And you gotta get me a muffin!" Derpy said slightly muffled under the paper towel.

Don sighed, "Yeah I'll get you a muffin. Little extortionist." he mumbled. "Yay Muffin!" Derpy yelled. She began flying in circles chanting "I'm getting a muffin" in a sing-song voice. "Okay, Okay, don't get too excited. Although I don't need to go to the store anytime soon." Derpy stopped. "Oh..." she said looking down.

"Oh Don't worry, it's not like it's gonna take forever for me to go somewhere. I'm pretty sure we're bound to need something soon." He said quickly. Before Derpy could reply the door opened. "Hey Don, I'm home early from work!" Don quickly stood up and panicked.

"Mom, What are you doing home so early?"