Chapter 2: A Glass Of Milk
Aurora was resting her head on the table she was sitting on, once a while she lifted her head to drink the milk Arfur always made for her. She was tired, she usually doesn't have this many clients asking her to unsour the sour piñatas that were destroying their gardens, about 10 gardeners came to her today. To say the least, unsouring piñatas can be exhausting after a while.
"What's the matter Aurora? You're not having a good day today? You usually are so happy and jumpy." said Arfur as he cleaned one of the empty glasses that used to be filled with milk. "No it's not that I'm having a bad day...I'm just tired after all the work I had to do today, all the running around, all the unsouring! Ugh...I had 10 gardeners come to me, one of them was very but very inpatient which got on my nerves." muttered Aurora as she took another lingering sip from the glass filled with milk. "Ah yes. I know how exhausting that can be. Today I don't have my costumers as you can see." said Arfur as he looked at Aurora with smile on his face, and he was right, there weren't any people in the Inn except for Aurora and a Diggerling who just so happen to fall asleep on the table in the corner.
"Yeah. I noticed...why? Your Inn is usually filled with people!" exaggerated Aurora as she looked at Arfur with her eyes wide open, Arfur just chuckled. "I don't know myself, but that doesn't matter since game night will begin in about few minutes and then we are going to have some company." smiled Arfur as he finally finished washing the empty glass of milk. Aurora looked at him confused and tilted her head, "Game night? What's that?" asked Aurora as she scratched her head. "You don't know what game night is? I thought you knew young lady! Game night is basically were everyone in the Inn plays all sorts of games like throwing darts, playing card game and all that kind of stuff. It usually starts at 10 pm and ends at 2 am." explained Arfur as he looked at Aurora who looked at the clock, it was just 10 pm, when Aurora saw this she almost fell out of the chair. "I didn't know it was that late! Oh no!" panicked Aurora, Arfur calmed her down, "Wow, wow there don't worry! It's not like nothing bad will happen. Relax, you deserve to have fun and relax after a day of hard work!" laughed Arfur as he walked up to Aurora and pat her back.
Just then someone entered the Inn, it was Bart and Sparcticus. "We apologise Arfur if we are late old pal." said Bart as he took off his hat for a moment and put it back on, "We had an unpleasant quick encounter with Pester. He did ran off when I threatened him that I will knock his teeth out if he tries something stupid." explained Sparcticus as he fixed his mask a bit. Aurora looked at both of them, when she saw Bart she softly blushed and tried to hide her face in embarrassment but thankfully Bart didn't notice.
Bart noticed Aurora was with Arfur, "Hello Aurora! Fancy meeting you here! I suppose you're going to join us for game night are you?" asked Bart as put his hands on his hands. Aurora was sweating, and her cheeks were bright red, "H-hi Bart, I will be join you for g-game night." she stuttered, clearly she was embarrassed since she couldn't control her stuttering, she always stutters around Bart as she feels her heart pounding very quickly every time he talks to her. She felts this for him for a while now. "So gentleman and Aurora, shall we begin?" asked Arfur as he looked at both Bart and Sparcticus, the both men nodded as they all sat at the table where Arfur and Aurora were sitting at, and it just so happens that Bart sat next to her which made her sweat even more, 'Calm down Aurora, stop thinking about him and concentrate.' thought Aurora as she sighed and smiled.
Surprisingly Aurora succeeded at having a great time since she didn't stutter around Bart at all every time he would talk to her since she was having too much fun to be nervous. Currently Aurora and Sparcticus, Bart and Arfur were all playing poker and the round seemed very tense. After about 1p minutes, "Ha! I win!" exclaimed Aurora as she laughed in triumph, Bart and Arfur chuckled at her reaction, even Sparcticus managed to smile a bit. "That was a good round guys!" said Aurora, "It sure was!- Oh! Will you look at that, it's almost 2 am. Shall we all have a glass of milk before we end this game night?" asked Arfur, everyone on the table nodded in agreement and with that Arfur poured milk in four glasses, one of the glasses of milk was for him of course. "It's a shame all of us weren't here for game night tonight." Said Bart as he drank his milk, Aurora sighed finally she didn't feel that stressed talking to Bart at last, "How so? I thought it's only you, Sparcticus and Arfur." Said Aurora as she raised a brow at Bart and took finished drinking her milk too. "Who? Dastardos of course! Sure he may seem bad and nasty but he really isn't that awful as others make him to be, he's decent to talk to." explained and Sparcticus and Arfur both nodded in agreement. "Yes, him destroying ill piñatas sucks but he isn't that bad once you get used to his dark humor and occasional snarky comments." added Sparcticus. "I had to ban him for few game nights after he missed the target and threw all the darts at my mask, I know it was an accident but still, he could've ruined my mask." Said Arfur as he crossed his arms and huffed. Aurora fell silent, whenever someone mentioned the name Dastardos she would suddenly feel this nasty feeling inside her gut, she held a grudge against him after what he did to Frostwind's upper muzzle. "Alright so this concludes tonight's game night right?" asked Arfur as he clapped his hands. Aurora, Bart and Sparcticus nodded and stood up from their seats, everyone said goodbye to Arfur before they walked out of the Inn.
Since Aurora and Sparcticus both live in Piñarctic they decided that they will walk back to their homes together, they spoke to each other before since they live close to each other and Aurora usually talks to him when she can't be bothered to walk down to the main village. But before Aurora and Sparcticus started walking back to their homes, "Hey! Aurora!" shouted Bart as he ran up to her. "Tonight's game night was fun! You should come more often. Also if you want to talk to me sometimes don't hesitate to go to my caravan, I'll probably be there. See ya!" said Bart as he pat Aurora's back. Aurora's face was red, Sparcticus looked at her and raised his brow, "What's wrong with you?" he asked her, "It's nothing...it's just...I really like Bart...I can't stop thinking about him sometimes." she explained as she sighed, "Oh I see...do you want to discuss this as we walk back home?" asked Sparcticus. "Yeah, I'd actually feel better if I do talk about this with you." Smiled Aurora up at him, "I experienced the same feelings as you Aurora, I used to be like that around Sahari but look now, me and her are a couple." he said as he looked down at Aurora who chuckled, "You sure are, and you two are a cute couple!" she laughed as they started to walk back, "Oh hush you!" said Sparcticus as he blushed a bit and chuckled afterwards.
