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Chapter 7

Three months have passed and it was almost March. Almost the end of the winter and the end of the holiday season, well, for most ponies. For Cherry, Zara, Paisley, and Java, they had a very busy café. Many ponies were sending letters and comments saying that they wanted a winter wrap up special menu. Cherry had been baking more and more ever since she decided that making new menus for the public would be a good idea. Cherry and Java's mother had visited them a month ago. And now she had just left.

Cherry was sitting on the couch after café hours because her mother had just left them after trying to 'help' induce more sales. Mainly, just driving 'non-worthy' customers away and trying to make the pastries taste 'better' and the coffee smell 'sweeter'. Cherry had spend most of her time undoing what her mother did. And it was a lot. This was Cherry's first moment of silence and relaxation in a while.

"Nothing like having a cup of hot chocolate with extra oats and whipped cream to end a wonderful, beautiful-" The door slammed open and Java threw a bunch of letters on the coffee table, "relaxing day" Cherry sighed after taking a sip of her drink.

"Unbelievable. Un-bucking-believable. I'm going to drown in coffee or worse go work with mom before I even let her sell this damn place."

"She did what?"

"She set up a meeting with some real estate pony who thought he was here to sell the place. He was surprised to even see the place completely packed when he did come."

"You have to be kidding me."

"No, I'm not kidding you. I'm dead serious, I even got the card from the bloke." Java handed her sister a small card which had a cursive lettering on it, in print a phone number.

"Well, I know you did the right thing and declined." Cherry said, using her magic to levitate the card and toss it in the bin. Java started to look a bit nervous. She sat down and started to rub her hooves together nervously. Cherry saw this and sighed.

"Don't tell me."

"There's a bigger place we can get and with all the money we're getting we can afford it quite easily."

"Java. We chose this place and it's nice. And now you're saying you want to move?"

"Cherry it's going to be really difficult to house all these ponies that keep coming in. This could solve that."

"And you didn't even think twice about it?"

"Well, no. Bu-"

"But nothing! Mom has been on my flank for the longest time and she has been trying to put us out of business for the longest time. And- wait. Were you feigning anger when you first walked in just so I wouldn't get suspicious if you bought the other building behind my back?"

"N-no. I would never do that."

"Java!"

"See? I knew you were going to object to this. You've always got what you wanted! This building wasn't even my choice, it was yours. It wasn't my choice to bring back Zara and take care of her, I was yours. You've done so much behind my back, and now that I do it, it's wrong? That makes no sense!"

"It makes sense when you are owner of a running establishment and to move now would be a huge hit financially. Java, can't we at least talk about this?"

"Why? So you can try to win and stop me from-"

Knock, knock

"Who is that?" Java asked opening the door. There with his curly mane and scared eyes stood Post. He started shaking when Java opened the door instead of Cherry.

"U-uh...Is Ch-cherry home?"

"What's it to you?"

"W-we are going for an outing."

"C-can you just wait downstairs?" Java asked, she closed the door gently and looked at Cherry with seething anger. "Care to explain?"

"Um...Another real estate pony?"

"Cherry! You have a special somepony and didn't bother to tell me?"

"You never asked and it wasn't your concern to begin with. Now, I'm sorry but I have to go." Using her magic, Cherry swung open the door, stormed out of the room, and slammed the door shut. Java stood there completely speechless.

2 hours later

Paisley and Zara were walking around town and were on their way home.

"That's all the fruits, flour, coffee beans, herbs and spices we need. Alright, I promised a trip to the book store right after...What are you doing" Paisley looked to Zara who was staring at a wall completely plastered in old posters, and pictures. Zara blinked as if she were snapped back to the world as if in a trance.

"Huh?"

Paisley walked over to Zara. "I said, what are you-oh..." That same gaze was looking at a poster of Iron Will posing and the advertisement was for a seminar happening on that day of the 27th of March. Zara sighed and looked to the poster longingly. Paisley looked back to Zara and shook her head, "No."

Zara looked to Paisley confused, "What?"

"I said no. I'm not going to fuel your fantasies and let you go off seeing how your fillyhood crush is. Let's go. I'm sure we don't have time to let these groceries spoil out in the sun."

"Please?"

"No. Let's go." Paisley started walking away. Zara quietly started walking to ward the café but grabbed the poster and ran up to Paisley and caught up to her.

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