Sweets and laughs

CH 2.

Vaudeville was awaken by the smell of Flapjacks, springing up from the couch he falls off the side becoming ensnared by the blankets falling with a thud on the floor.

"ouch…" he groan painfully.

He wiggles himself free from his trap, dusting himself off as he face the kitchen finding Sweetheart pouring batter into a hot pan. She passes the bowl to a pair of peach face love birds who put the bowl down in the sink before finding their place on a stand in the corner of the kitchen waiting patiently to help her. Finding that she had not notice him yet he combs through his slick black mane tilting his hat up slightly, taking out a small spray bottle spritzing the mint-smelling vapors into his mouth making himself look presentable before strolling up to her.

"Good morning babe! watcha cookin'?" he asks leaning his shoulder on her fridge beside her taking in the smell of fresh flapjacks cooking. Sweetheart let out a warm smile flipping the flapjack in the air skillfully landing it on top of a large stack of them.

"Good morning Vaudeville….I trust you like thee flapjack?" she said, brushing away flour from her pink floral apron.

"Love them like my mama!" he replies cheerfully. She stifles out a giggle passing him a plate of flapjacks.

"then please enjoy them"

"Gladly" he said taking them to the table he bangs his hoof against the plate launching the flapjacks into the air like a catapult, with his mouth open the flapjacks falls into his mouth making his face become like a chipmunk filling his cheeks with nuts, with just a few chews he swallows the cakes with ease, letting out a loud satisfying burp following with taking a handkerchief in his hoof wiping his lips non-chanlatly.

"My…you are a very hungry pony" She remarks, sitting down on the table next to him as she began to eat her flapjack.

"Hungry as a horse!" he corrects with a wide smile, she let out another giggle. He let out a contended sigh putting his hoof under his chin; she had a wonderful laugh something that he had never heard in his whole career. Her laugh was like honey and silk streaming through his ears; her laugh told him everything about her, being a pony that is gentle, kind and knows good, clean humor.

"Vaudeville?...Monsieur Vaudeville?"

"huh? What?" he says shaking his head, Sweetheart tilts her head at him making him chuckle nervously.

"uh y-yeah Sweetheart?"

"You did'it hear me?"

"oh sorry, seems the hamster had stop running its wheel" he chuckles hitting his head slightly. She let out a smile.

"Well, I was asking of, what is your plan for bringing me business in my sweets shop?"

"Don't worry about a thing, babe, old Vaudeville is on the case! don't worry your pretty little head Darlin'…" he grins taking a cigar in his mouth.

"oh thank you, I am very excited, with you here I know everything will be just wonderful!" she said joyfully.

"Then let's get started!"

Sweetheart flips the sign of her store to open, opening her doors to let ponies in as she claps her hooves enthusiastically as she places herself behind the counter. Vaudeville stares at her dreamily as he makes his way in front of the store. He tilts his hat forward, puffing up his chest.

"All right, Vaudeville" he starts cracking his hooves "You got a dame to impress, now show her what youse got!" He takes out a megaphone from behind placing it over his mouth taking a breath he shouts.

"Come one, come all! To the fabulous shop that is heaven on earth all the chocolate you can eat, all the candy you can grab in your hooves!" He caught a few ponies stopping in their tracks trying to see what was all of the commotion soon a crowd began to gather in front of him, taking the chance, Vaudeville disposes the megaphone and got on top of a lone soap box.

"All right folks, may I present the comedy genius himself, me! Vaudeville! Here preforming for you today in the fabulous Sweet shop of Sweetheart and let's start with a few cracks and giggles!" he bounces off of the box looping his arm to a colt.

"You sir, you seem like a sight for sore eyes what's yer secret?"

"I-I uh….just born with it?"

"Well do me a favor will ya? Get as far away from me as possible!" he laughs, causing the crowd to laugh along with him, so the crowd began to expand with more and more ponies coming in, and soon enough many ponies and families came inside Sweetheart's shop buying up all of her sweets.

The sounds of the cashier ringing with each sale, was music to their ears. As Vaudeville brought in the customers there were a few ponies in the crowd who were not laughing, and was not amuse with the pony bringing in business.

"Whatcha' think Frost?" said one of the colts, a unicorn, he was slimmer than the other two wearing a thin stripe suit, having a curly red mane as he wore a fedora on top. The other two were wearing the same suit and hat, one of the colts lit a cigar, putting it in between his lips. The pale colt puffs out a cloud of smoke giving out a scowl as Vaudeville cracks out another joke.

"I don't like that guy, he annoys me…..and so does his jokes" He replies.

"I got an idea" said the last colt with a grin flapping his wings slightly, gaining the attention of the other two. "Why not pay them a little "visit"?"

"What do have in mind, Flown?" ask the slim colt. Frost hits him over the head making him lose his fedora. "Hey!" he yells as he dust off his hat.

"You know what he means, you idiot…he means to wreck their shop….remember the boss wants the shop back" he says with a low voice. "And the few ways we can do it is by scarin' them off or making sure that filly doesn't make payment, now come on Savey once the crowd leaves, we arrive…"

"you know I love that plan, Frost" Savey replies with a smile.

Sweetheart turn her sign to close, closing her doors and locking them for the night she is coming close to her goal of paying off the rent, if she pays off this month she will own the store for herself something that she knew that she might get. She was suddenly spun around by Vaudeville who takes both of her hooves to his as he smiles widly at her.

"Well Babe? was I right? Or was I right?" he says spinning her again following with a dip, she let out a laugh as he brings her back up to him.

"Oh Vaudeville….thank you, you have brought more business to my petite shop then I ever imagine, I would have to work all night to make even more sweets" she inquires.

"Why work when you can be celebratin'?...let's open up a bottle of apple cider and have a drink"

"Vaudeville…." She smiles blushing slightly. "Such a tease you are" she says pushing him away slightly.

"Only when teasing other ponies, doll-face" he winks. "What do ya say?"

"I will be delighted to join you for a glass" Vaudeville put out his arm to her making her loop her arm into his; they both make their way upstairs he leads her toward the couch setting her down as he brings out a bottle of apple cider and two glasses putting them down on the coffee table in front of them. He passes her the bubbling cider as he raises his glass.

"To your wonderful sweets and yer shop as well" he said, as they both tap their glasses together before taking the drinks to their mouths.

"Vaudeville, I can't thank you enough for helping me" she began, putting her empty glass on the table.

"I can think a few things" he smirks wiggling his eyebrows at her, she let out a laugh brushing away her pink mane.

"Come on babe…." he starts as he swiftly puts his head on her lap making her blush, he press his lips together making a duck face. "What about a whittle kiss for yer Vaudeville?"

"oh no, no no" she laughs, pushing him away gently. He shrugs sitting up.

"You can't blame a pony for tryin'…" he says nudging her slightly, but deep down he was a little bit disappointed, as if she read his mind she leans in giving him a small peck on the cheek making him turn to a shade of red with steam whistling out of his ears. Sweetheart pulls away letting out a warm smile as she walks towards her room.

"Good night, Vaudeville" she says gently, closing the door behind her. He let out a contended sigh falling on the couch. He could really get use to this place. It wasen't long until he was in a deep sleep snoring loudly on the couch laying out sprawled out like a limp doll. Sweetheart silently opens her door careful from not wanting to wake him up. She had an underwhelming desire to eat something sweet, with a white robe wrapped around her she gently tip-hoof her way down stairs, she was ready to grab a slice of cake until she heard voices in her shop, she stops at the bottom of the stairs to see three intruders rummaging around in her shop.

"Hurry up, we need to finish this up before the filly wakes up" says a gruff voice.

"stop being such a worrier, Frost" said another pony, a Pegasus, a familiar ding rings through her ears, she looks around the corner to see the Pegasus taking her bits placing them in his saddle bag. "And help me take some of this cash"

"Isn't stealin' wrong?" said the slim unicorn only to get slap in the head by the Pegasus.

"You idiot" he mutters.

She couldn't stand by as they began to take all of her profits away and switches on her light switch exposing the intruders to her, they all jump seeing the lights turn on to be confronted by the owner of the shop catching them red handed.

"Zut alore'!" she shouts "Get out! Thieves! Thieves! What do you think you are doing in my store?" she yells finding her window broken through by a brick, the way the ponies went through. The slim pony smiles nervously.

"uh….Tax collecting?" only to be slapped again by the Pegasus. "Would you stop that, you mook!"

"We got bigger problems now, you numbskull" the earth pony replies biting his cigar.

"Drop all of me bits now!" she shouts at the Pegasus who had his bags full of her profits. He grins mischievously at her.

"I don't think so, miss Sweets…boys, let's wreck the place" suddenly the earth pony bucks at a her counter shatter the wood in half, she let out a horrified gasp only for the slim pony to buck at her shelves full of candy jars making them all shatter in the floor in a loud crash.

"No! stop this at once!" she shouts running up to them only to be stop by the Pegasus grabbing her arm. She began to struggle against him.

"Let me go this instant!"

"Sure thing girlie" he smirks pushing her backwards losing her balance. She expended to fall on the floor but instead was caught by Vaudeville who came down to see what was disturbing him from his sleep. He glares down at the Pegasus who threw Sweetheart as he gently puts her behind him.

"Youse know that it's rude to hit girls" he says with his eyes narrow. Flown smirks as the other two came to his side.

"Yeah and what is a comedian going to do?" Flown mocks, Vaudeville let out a smile taking off his bowler hat.

"Your right, what am I supposed to do? Say…. what is in my hat?" he said facing the bottom of the hat to him, he leans in.

"I don't see-!" A red punching glove springs out of his hat hitting Flown in the face sending him through Sweetheart's door, spilling all of the bits inside the shop. Flown let out a groan seeing stars above his head. The other two face Vaudeville, to get it from what he had done to Flown, to have Cuban cigars shove into their mouths. Vaudeville loop his arms around their shoulders with a smile.

"Sit back fellas, relax and have a smoke" he lit their cigars making them puff out the smoke happily. "I hear they are the bomb" he lets go of the unsuspecting colts making his way towards Sweetheart taking her a few steps back away from them as they heard from a distance the cigars sizzling until an explosion erupted from the cigars sending the colts flying out of the shop landing beside their fallen comrade.

"Now that's what I call making an exit" Vaudeville smirks. The three colts stumbles up to their hooves running away from the shop, going out in the distance. Vaudeville wipes his hooves turning back to Sweetheart who was on ground picking up some of her gold bits in the destruction of her shop. He frowns going to her side finding her let out a sigh dropping the coins.

"My shop…." She whispers "My petite…it will take all of these bits and the ones I have saving to replace all of my sweets and everything broken"

"don't worry Sweetheart" he says gently tilting her head up to him. "I promise everything will be all right, I bring in more ponies for ya tomorrow"

"But I won't have a shop for them to buy in, it will take at least a week to replace everything and another to bake the sweets to fill them!" she cries turning her eyes to a smash chocolate cake. "I would never reach rent…."

"Hey now, it ain't the end yet!...you can still bake sweets can ya?"

"well…yes but-!"

"Butts are for sitting" he argues. "Take your sweets into town; you bring your shop to the ponies it's the perfect way to get business"

"I…I suppose that would work"

"See! Then no problem….you can make it, you can have your shop and I am going to help youse, I promise"

She wraps her hooves around his neck pulling him into a hug, making him blush at her.

"Thank you, Vaudeville….what will I ever do without you?" she smiles. He let out a chuckle.

"Aw shucks, Sweets…you will probably still do fine" he replies brushing her mane behind her ear, She let out a faint blush looking down as he strokes her mane gently before bringing her up to her hooves. "Come on, you need some sleep and in the morning and I promise everything will be all right"

He would have never expected that he will be mistaken.

I DO NOT OWN MY LITTLE PONY

I DO NOT OWN THE CHARECTORS VAUDEVILLE AND SWEETHEART

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