Chapter Three – Baking
Pasta loved eating pasta, he always asked Teal to make him pasta all the time.
"Mommy, I wavt pasva!" said Pasta.
"Okay, Pasta, you sure love your name, don't you?" asked Teal.
"Yes!" said Pasta.
"Well, I believe you need to know how to make some pasta when you grow up." said Teal. "It's your favourite food."
"Okav, mommy, teach me." said Pasta.
"When you grow up, though." said Teal. "You might burn yourself if you try cooking some pasta right now."
"Okav, mommy." said Pasta.
ABOUT A YEAR LATER
"Pasta!" shouted Teal to the sleeping Pasta. "Today's baking day!"
"Baking day!" said Pasta with happiness and ran to the kitchen. But he tripped his hooves on Teal's mat and fell.
"Pasta!" screamed Teal in a scare and caught Pasta before he hit the ground.
"Thanks, mommy." said Pasta and followed Teal.
"Here's where I bake your pasta." said Teal, showing the oven.
"Wow, fancy!" said Pasta.
"So, in this icy room, I store food." said Teal. "We'll grab some things we need and go back to the kitchen, you must stay back here, your hooves could freeze."
"Okay, mommy." said Pasta.
Teal got pasta, salt and water from the ice room and went back to Pasta.
"Our first step will be to fill up this pot with water." said Teal.
"Okay, I'm going to pour the water into the pot?" asked Pasta.
"Yes, Pasta." said Teal.
"Okay, mommy." said Pasta and poured all of the water, Teal gave him into the pot.
"Alright, now, we'll start the oven, put some of this coal inside there and it should keep the oven's fire going long." said Teal.
"Okay, mommy." said Pasta, he put about ten pieces of coal into the oven's fuel storage and it started burning.
"Great going, Pasta!" said Teal. "Now, we'll put the pasta inside of the pot once the water becomes hot."
"Ouch!" screamed Pasta.
"Pasta, your hoof burnt!" said Teal. "You mustn't put your hoof in the pot, you need to get a spoon from here and fill up the spoon with the water inside, then you should touch the downside of the spoon to see if the water has become hot."
Pasta did exactly what he said and the water was really hot.
"Alright, know, put all of this pasta into the pot." said Teal.
"Give me the pasta, please mommy." said Pasta.
"Okay, Pasta, it's time you baked your own pasta." said Teal and gave him the pasta.
"Do, I just let go of the pasta when I'm holding it on top of the pot?" asked Pasta.
"Yes, drop it in the water, slowly." said Teal. Pasta did exactly what he said, and he was cooking his name!
"I did it!" said Pasta. "Yay!"
"Congratulations, Pasta!" said Teal. "You're cooking your own name!"
"Yes!" said Pasta and hugged Teal. "You're soft, mommy."
"For you, I'm always soft." said Teal and they both giggled together. "Okay, Pasta. We must take the pot out now, put these gloves on, hold the pot and put it in the drain's area. I'll hold you."
"Okay, mommy, I'll put the pot out." said Pasta. Teal held him and highered him up, Pasta grabbed the pot with gloves on his hooves and put in the drain's area, now, they could get the pasta from the water and eat it.
"That's it!" said Teal. "You've done it!"
Teal hugged Pasta and held him high up, he said this for the first time.
"I love you mommy!" said Pasta.
"And, I love you Pasta!" said Teal. "Come on, let's eat the pasta you made now."
"Okay." said Pasta and sat down on his seat. Teal pulled the cooked pasta out using a fork and put it on plates.
"Time to eat!" said Teal.
"Yay!" said Pasta. "I'm going to eat my own pasta!"
"I know right?" said Teal. "This is the happiest moment of both of our lives!"
Pasta felt something at his flank.
"Pasta!" said Pasta. "Look! Your flank!"
Pasta looked at his flank and saw that his cutie mark was a pair of pasta.
"I've got my cutie mark!" shouted Pasta in huge joy. "Let's enjoy some pasta!"
They ate their pasta and spent the whole day, playing. It was finally bed time for Pasta.
"Pasta, it's bed time." said Teal.
"Okay, mommy, I'm tired anyway." said Pasta.
"Let's have some sleep." said Teal. She put Pasta in bed and told him his favourite bedtime story. He immediately slept. Then Teal sat on her bed and thought about Pasta, how he would leave her when she told him the truth about his parents. She felt sad, she went outside and into Stab's room. "Hey, Stab."
Stab hadn't fallen asleep yet, so he looked at Teal when she called his name.
"Hey, Teal." said Stab. "What happened? You look sad."
"I'm sad for Pasta." said Teal. "He's such a fine foal, and he doesn't have his parents."
"Don't worry, Pasta will be fine, as long as he is with you, he'll always be fine." said Stab.
"But one day, we will all be dead, who will Pasta be with then?" asked Teal.
Stab wrapped his hoof around Teal.
"He is a very intelligent foal, I know he can figure his way out of any barrier that comes in his way." said Stab. "He is the best foal in the world, full of a world and love."
"I think you're right." said Teal. She went closer to Stab's face, closer and fully close. She opened her lips and closed them on Stab's. He returned the kiss, they both stood lovely for a moment, and then they parted. "I love you, Stab."
"And, I love you, Teal." said Stab. "When do we announce we're not siblings?"
"When the time comes." said Teal. "For now, we still don't have anything to worry about."
"Alright, Teal." said Stab. "Have a good night, Pasta too."
"I forgot to tell you something." said Teal. "Pasta made his own name for the very first time."
"Really?" asked Stab. "He made his own pasta?"
"I taught him how to do it, and he did it, pitch-perfect without any issues." said Teal.
"He really can do anything." said Stab.
"He's the best foal ever, when he grows up, he'll be the best stallion ever." said Teal.
"Yes, and we will always be watching over him from up there when our time comes." said Stab.
"I know." said Teal. "Goodnight."
"Bye, Teal." said Stab.
She left and went back to her room.
"What's going to happen to Pasta?" thought Teal.
THE NEXT MORNING
"Pasta, Pasta..." said Teal at Pasta's bedside. "It's time to wake up, I made you a really nice breakfast."
"Mommy, I have something in my stomach." said Pasta.
"You mean you have a stomachache?" asked Teal.
"Yes." said Pasta while holding his stomach.
"It couldn't be the pasta you made and ate yesterday, I didn't get a stomachache from it." said Teal. "But what could it be? I'm going to ask Stab to come over and have a look at you, wait here Pasta."
"Okay, mommy." said Pasta.
Teal went to Stab's room and called his name.
"Stab!" said Teal. "Pasta has a stomachache. Can you come take a look at him? I don't understand much about these kinds of things."
"Okay, Teal." said Stab. "Let's go."
Teal and Stab went to Teal's room and they went to Pasta's bed.
"Pasta, Teal told me you had a stomachache." said Stab.
"Yes." said Pasta.
"Now, I'm going to take a look at you, okay?" said Stab.
"Okay." said Pasta.
Stab put his ear on Pasta's stomach and heard a lot of rendering.
"Oh my, what's all this rendering going on in your stomach?" said Stab. "It seems like you've eaten a lot yesterday."
"But he ate the same amount of pasta I ate, then he ate some meat and bread for dinner." said Teal. "What else has he eaten?"
"I, kinda ate all of the other pasta." said Pasta.
"You did what?" said Teal.
"I'm sorry." said Pasta.
"Oh, little Pasta, eating that much of pasta will block your stomach while it's trying to render what you ate." said Stab. "You mustn't eat that much."
"Okay." said Pasta.
"I gotta go now, I have to guard the halls." said Stab.
"Bye, Stab." said Teal and with that, Stab left. "Well, Pasta. Seems like you've eaten a lot. You shouldn't do the same next time, okay?"
"Okay, mommy." said Pasta.
"Alright, Pasta, you need to rest for now and not eat anything until your stomach has completely rendered all of the food you ate, then you can eat again." said Teal.
Pasta put his head on his pillow and closed his eyes, he then started snoring.
"Well, looks like this is what Stab told me what happened when this happened to me, I snored." thought Teal.
"I hope you get well soon, Pasta." said Teal quietly.
This was chapter three of "Long Life"