Pony was in a deep slumber when she heard someone knock on her door this morning, so in curiosity, she got up, and opened the door.
To her surprise it was Vesta.
The large woman looked at Pony with a huge smirk on her face and she only chuckled.
"Today is the Harvest Festival and I thought you would like to join us today. Since the both of us grow crops and all. Marlin and Celia were just getting ready for the festival, we have it every year at the bar," Vesta explained as she couldn't stop chuckling.
Pony only nodded and Vesta guided Pony back to her place.
Vesta unlocked the door as both women walked into the house and saw Marlin gathering some crops by the kitchen.
"Marlin, Pony is going to help us with the harvesting," Vesta stated and she walked up to Marlin.
"Cool," Marlin muttered with no excitement in his voice.
Pony walked by them and she saw an enormous amount of crops on the counter.
The rancher couldn't believe her eyes; she was jealous of them; jealous of how they were able to grow so much more crops than her.
"Well, I'm sure Celia is preparing everything upstairs, I'll go help you," Vesta told them as she walked up the stairs.
Marlin started to cut up some tomatoes with a huge knife and he avoided all eye contact with Pony.
Pony just watched him cut while she had no expression on her face.
Her blank eyes just stared at him and she suddenly noticed how muscular he was.
He suddenly saw from the corner of his eye that she was staring at him.
"Um," he mumbled awkwardly as he looked away quickly and then said harshly, "are you just going to stand there all day or are you going to help me?"
Pony only shrugged and Marlin scowled.
He handed her a huge cutting knife and she held it.
Marlin continued to cut; however, he just saw Pony standing there and staring at the knife.
He felt like growling at her and he sighed, "Just come over here already."
Pony walked over to him by the counter and he grabbed her wrist that was holding the knife.
"You cut like this," he told her as he started to gently move Pony's hand up and down to chop up the tomatoes.
She felt the coldness of his hand wrapped around hers and it brought a shiver to her spine.
"I know how to cut," Pony whispered as her voice grew dark.
"Then you should start cutting already," Marlin muttered to her irritated.
"I know."
This girl was confusing Marlin and he only sighed.
"Then why are you just standing there?"
"Calculating," Pony told him in her monotone voice.
He was now even more confused and he wondered if she was just toying with him.
Within a few seconds, Pony started to chop up all of the crops quickly and neatly.
Marlin couldn't believe his eyes as he saw what she was doing.
To him it seemed as if she was a professional chef or she just was used to cutting things…
There was a basket on the table and Pony quickly put all of the chopped up crops into the basket gently.
Marlin's jaw only dropped to see how fast she was able to accomplish this simple task.
Whenever he did this every year, it took him about an hour to finally complete everything, and this only took her about ten minutes.
Pony turned to Marlin with no emotion on her face and said, "Now what?"
Marlin's sweat dropped, "Uh…"
Pony cocked her head to the side innocently and awaited his next instruction.
"Guess I'll go tell Vesta," Marlin muttered as turned around to Pony and he suddenly tripped on this crack on the floor.
Within in a matter of seconds, Marlin lips pressed onto hers, and Pony only raised an eye brow.
His lips were so moist and were cold like the artic snow. She felt some of his saliva go into her mouth and her eyes seemed lifeless. Their lips wouldn't move and Marlin was too shocked to even think.
Pony felt absolutely nothing.
They both stood there with their lips locked for about five seconds and Marlin had finally pulled away.
His face was now extremely neon red and he couldn't believe how calm Pony seemed.
For a few moments it was both silent, and Marlin refused to look into her eyes.
Suddenly, Pony ran out of the house.
She didn't know where her legs were taking her nor didn't know why she fled.
Her body was controlling her and she didn't know why she was acting this way.
The kiss seemed like nothing; however, her heart was aching for some odd reason and she felt like she betrayed someone.
Pony reminded herself that it was only an accident and that it was just a kiss.
Just a kiss…
The young rancher sprinted into the spring and stood there staring into her reflection.
She didn't know why her heart was aching.
She didn't know why tears formed out of her eyes.
She didn't know why she was acting this way.
She didn't know why she felt so…guilty…
Suddenly, Marlin came running into the spring, and saw Pony standing there.
He walked up to her with caution and then noticed that she was crying.
Am I really that bad of a kisser? Marlin questioned himself and he walked up to her.
"Sorry that happened," he whispered quietly.
She looked at him with her sad eyes and wiped away her tears.
Pony shook her head which gestured that it was okay.
He sighed, "Pony, it was all an accident."
Pony nodded and he indicated that she already knew.
"L-Let's not talk about this again," Marlin stuttered awkwardly as he felt his cheeks turn red.
She nodded again and he didn't know what else to say.
"Do you want to still go to the festival?" Marlin questioned with hope in his voice.
Pony only shrugged.
"Well, I understand if you don't go. But thanks for helping anyways," Marlin said with a sigh and he put his hands in his pockets.
The brunette shook her head and grinned, "I'll come."
An hour later, Vesta, Celia, Marlin, Pony, Ruby, and Griffin were all celebrating the festival in the Blue Bar.
Vesta and Ruby had made all kinds of dishes with the crops that Pony and Marlin had chopped up.
As Marlin was eating his salad, he couldn't keep his eyes off Pony for some reason, and he didn't know why he was staring at her.
Pony had a bowl of salad in front of her; however, it seemed that her mind was wondering else where and Marlin couldn't tell what she was feeling.
He was still surprised that she still talked to them after they kissed by accident, did he really only like her as a friend?
I…I think I like her, Marlin thought to himself and he started to eat more of his salad.
Celia was watching Marlin stare at Pony from the corner of her eye, and she didn't like what she was seeing.
After the Harvest Festival was over, Pony headed back to her ranch, and she was now brushing her horse Paul again.
It seemed like she couldn't stop thinking about the kiss and her mind was preoccupied.
Her horse seemed to notice her weird behavior and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Pony caught her horse's gaze and shrugged, "Paul, sorry."
When Pony had finished all of her ranch chores, she headed over to the spring again, and she saw Phantom Skye approach her.
He walked up to her, "What's up, beautiful? Hehe."
Pony shrugged.
The chicken must have done something horrible to her! Skye thought enraged as he clenched his fists.
"What's wrong?" He questioned.
She shrugged once more.
Skye raised an eyebrow suspiciously, "Pony, you want to talk about it?"
Pony shook her head.
Skye put his hand on her shoulder and said in a soft tone, "Well… I'm always here for you."
Pony turned around and whispered shyly, "I know…"
She didn't know why, but she couldn't look at him, and her heart started to ache again.
"You sure you don't want to talk about it?" Skye questioned her again.
Pony turned around and nodded.
To Skye, her eyes looked so innocent and scared.
Okay, I'm so roasting that dreadful chicken for hurting my precious Pony! Skye thought angrily and he tried to cover up the scowl on his face.
"Can I ask you one question though, lovely?"
She nodded.
"Is it about the chicken?"
She shook her head.
"Oh."
Drat! Now I can't roast it! Skye thought as he rolled his eyes.
"Someone kissed me."
"What?"
Author Note: Oh, wow, cliff hanger.
I told you this chapter would be spicy! Well, not really…
…
Sorry if you didn't like the Marlin fluff, but I needed to add it in this story.
Looks like Skye's evil plan about roasting the chicken shall be left aside for now. xD
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