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It was a warm sunny day in the town of Lucella, Zizzy was calling a familiar someone asking them an important question.
“Hey finally you picked up, ok so I need a favor from you.”
“Umm yeah sure what’s up?”, said Pony, he didn’t know what she was going to say.
Usually he does but this time he can’t.
“So I have a fencing session going on today, and I can’t be there obviously to watch Zee and Zuzy for the day. Can you babysit them until I get back home?”
“Oh sure I can do that plus I have nothing going on today anyway.”
“Um, Pony it will be a while are you sure?”
“Of course I can, even though your sisters can be a handful.”
Zizzy laughed. “Ok thank you, you can come whenever you’re ready.”
“Alright.”
Zizzy hung up.
Pony thought to himself, well of course he can do it, he did it before but he was younger himself so he had his dad’s help.
“This will be fine.” He got ready and grabbed his keys and went out the door.
Once he arrived he knocked on the door, “It’s open Pony.”
Before he could barely walk into the house, Zizzy ran to him hugging him and giving him a kiss on the cheek.
“Hey Pony, I haven’t seen you in a long time. Sorry if that was much.”
“Yeah hey sorry the diner been busy so I’ve been working a lot.”
“Also I thought we were supposed to be on the low with the kissing and affection?”
“Okay Pony if you don’t want my love then just say that.”, Zizzy said jokingly.
The thing was Zizzy and Pony are doing this “friends with benefits” thing, where they show affection towards each other but still have a self conscious about it.
“No Ziz it’s not like that, I just thought that’s what you said.”
Zizzy said with a whisper, “I was drunk, Pony”. “But any who we spoke enough about us, so the rules and expectations I usually do are on the fridge, on a piece of paper of course.
“It has their bedtime and everything on it.”
“And I already told them after breakfast that you’re babysitting them, sorry if you wanted that to be a surprise, I already knew it.
“Yeah that sucks but it’s fine, I’ll live.”
“Ok so survive and have fun, see you.”
Pony opened the front door for her, “See you later Ziz.”
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Zuzy came rushing down the stairs, “Hi Pony it’s good to see you again after in a long time.”, she said sternly.
“Hey and okay sorry I haven’t been showing my face work lately been busy for me.”
“Well at least you’re back, Zizzy been inviting her fencing students over and they suck, especially the guys."
“Wow, so where is Zee?”
“Well that’s the thing, me and her are playing hide and go seek.”
“Really, you guys want to play now?”, said Pony kind of being worn out.
“Yes and plus you owe us for your absence.”
Pony thought to himself, “Man she can be really manipulative, just like her big sis.”
“Okay so, go ahead and hide I’m only counting until 25.”
“That’s fair.”
“1.2.3.4-… 25”
After Pony got done counting, the house was dead silent. “Come out, come out wherever you are."
Zee was hiding behind her wardrobe in their bedroom. (Zee and Zuzy’s)
While, Zuzy who likes to be difficult, she hides in the garage.
Pony looked in the kitchen first for the two daredevils, then he left because of course no one was here.
He went to Zizzy's room to check there no one again.
"Damn, these kids are good at this", said Pony kind of nervous.
Then before he started to doubt, he heard some noise from the garage.
Zuzy made some noise to taunt him, hinting that he sucks at being the seeker.
Pony finally went into the garage and saw a piece of a hair strand around some boxes.
When he moved to boxes out of the way, he saw just that piece of hair not a zebra. "Huh I could've swore I saw someone." While he was distracted by the hair, Zuzy passed him and ran quietly out the door.
"Ok girls I give up, you win."
"Yay!", 'We won Zee now you need to give us something for not being found."
"Great, now what do you request?"
"Well, I prefer some candy and I'm pretty sure Zee wants the same, am I right Zee?", said Zuzy as she looked at Zee nodding her head yes. "Does Zizzy have some here already, because I don't feel like going to the store for 2.99 candy."
"Grumpy, she has candy here in the kitchen cabinet, but it's too high for us the reach up there." "Did you just call me grumpy?"
"Yes, now while you do that me and Zee will set up a tea party". Pony thought to himself, "Great another little tea party, well this should be fun, wait should I get sugar.?"
Pony walked up the stairs and then realized, "Wait damn it Pony, not a real tea party."
After a while of confusion, Pony went the stairs into Zee and Zuzy's room and saw a play set with toys and dolls everyone, in seats for the tea party.
"Took you long enough, what were you doing getting real tea?", said Zuzy sarcastically.
Zee snickered at her comment. "Well excuse me miss sassy, well I got the candy so let's start shall we.", Pony said jeering her.
Everyone had different cups due to their favorite color; Pony knew this and got a pink sparkly cup. "Um I demand a change of my cup, it's pink my favorite color is yellow."
"Oh sorry about that, don't worry it won't happen again.", saying Zuzy has she switches the color cups from pink to yellow.
Better not, Pony was thirsty for his invisible tea. "Hope it's extra sweet tea too.", Pony thought.
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After the tea party, Pony was making them dinner, Zizzy's famous grass recipe. "Is it almost ready?", asked Zuzy with adorable eyes.
"Yea in just a min-, why are you doing those eyes?"
"I need to convince you to tell me something." "Like what Zuzy?", said Pony kind of concerned.
"I heard how jealous you got when I mention Zizzy bringing home guys from her fencing class."
"It's none of my business to discover what she does behind closed doors."
"Aren't you just a little concerned of what goes on."
Pony does get really jealous easily, especially when he sees guys that look cooler and was stronger than him. He had pool noodle arms and those guys had six-packs, but he noticed Zizzy just push them away. Why was a beautiful woman like her so interested in a loser like him.
"So, tell me, I mean you're here 24/7.", then Pony realized he sounded like a jerk and a jealous douche.
"Wait sorry I didn't mean to use that tone with you."
"None taken."
"Well, we can discuss it at the dinner table, here I'll take these.", said Zuzy as she took the dishes to the table.
Well, that was a shock for Pony to her hear talk so proper and like a lady.
Zizzy is all ever Pony wanted in a woman.
"So we are now at the table so let's discuss.", Pony said but Zee looked confused she didn't know what was going on.
"Zizzy is only interested in you Pony, trust us we know." "We scanned through her diary the other day and saw little love letters she meant to give you, but she said it was too bad and corny."
That Pony a little better, but they still needed to eat their food, so they chatted a while and Pony learned a lot about them.
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The time was 8:45 PM and it was time for bed for the twins, and after a while for him to.
Zuzy stopped Pony dead in his tracks before he crashed on the couch.
"Today was fun Pony, I'll miss you and Zee thinks the same."
"You'll miss me?", "I'm not going anywhere.. I promise I won't vanish on you three again."
Zuzy smiled at his comment, "Oh and by the way Zizzy will probably prefer if you took her bed instead."
"Oh really?", Pony chuckled.
"Well I'm come upstairs to tuck you guys in, and I'll be in her room if you two need anything."
"Okay you better hurry Zee was almost falling asleep when I was up there."
"Alright I will", said Pony has he was getting up from the couch to tuck the sleepy twins in.
Usually, Zizzy does the tucking in even if she is gone at the moment, she'll find the time to do it when she's been absent.
Pony tucked the girls in, and as soon he was headed to leave. Zee pointed to a little note on her drawer.
Pony went over to read the note, the note was a love letter from Zizzy, but it was a draft. Pony took this note into Zizzy's room.
He sat on her bed and read it, but after a while he fell asleep on her bed. Under no covers just on top of it.
30 minutes later, the front door opened as Zizzy walked through, placing her key on the countertop. She noticed it was quiet in the house assuming everyone was fast asleep. So, she went upstairs into Zee and Zuzy's room seeing them already tucked in and fast asleep. She smiled at the sight and went into her room to see Pony laded out across her bed, with a piece of paper.
She picked up the paper and then realized that it was her old love letter from 2015 when she was 14. (The present year is 2019).
"Omg how did he find this?", "Did Zee or Zuzy give him this?". "This is private!"
Zizzy brushed off the idea and went into her bathroom and slipped off her uniform. There she ran her bath water, extra bubbles of course and removed her lacey black bra and panties. There she sat into the water washing her body and thinking about the letter Pony was received.
She hasn't written letters to him at all and she if attempted to, they never get sent. After her bath, she wrapped herself into a towel and went into her room and picked out something to sleep in.
As she turned around Pony was wide awake looking at her with low sleepy eyes. "Oh Pony hey, did I awake you?"
"No you're good I'm fine.", said Pony with a sleepy voice.
Pony laid back down, and Zizzy put on her clothes and laid beside Pony. "Hey are you okay? You seem distracted."
"Do you invite guys over here?", said Pony abruptly. "I'm sorry?", Zizzy said stun by the question. "Well Zuzy told me you do for your practice sessions."
"So you already know?, "You just want to make it sound like a big deal."
"I mean it is a big deal", said Pony looking away from her. "You're jealous, I can see that but there's nothing to worry about."
"And then you're bringing these guys around Zee and Zuzy, you can't trust them."
"Pony just stop, first of all we are NOT dating so stop being so jealous for the wrong reasons, second of all I don't bring them around Zee and Zuzy I have private sessions with them."
Then Zizzy said something that she would regret, "If you don't like it, you can just vanish again."
Pony paused for a second and got up fast and spoke, "Ok then."
Pony went downstairs in a flash and Zizzy followed behind him quickly. "Wait Pony sorry I didn't mean it", then Pony slammed the front door, hurt by her comment.
Zizzy then sat at the steps, forming tears in her eyes. Why did she say that? Why would she just let him leave?
Too late to think about that now, she went upstairs into her bedroom and fell asleep with that thought still on her mind.
Pony drove home and went upstairs into to his to find a note left by his father. "Huh, what's this?", said Pony curious.
The note read, "Hey Pony if you're reading this it means I'm at the diner picking up a shift and won't be home until tomorrow. Take care while I'm gone and don't grab any beers those are for me!", stated Peter.
Pony smiled at the note, still kind of hurt from Zizzy's statement. Then he heard his phone ding, opening it he saw Zizzy had texted him.
He read the text, then shutting off his phone putting it on do not disturb. Getting ready to sleep he saw his phone light up with messages from her then he decided to reply.
Text Messages:
"Pony please don't be mad at me I'm sorry :( "
"It's fine Zizzy just get some rest."
"No it's not fine, I always say the wrong stuff at a bad time."
"Don't stress about this Ziz, love you."
"Ok but come over tomorrow we need to discuss this in person."
"Yes ma'am."
"Love you too :) "
After that they both fell asleep with determination to fix their mistakes tomorrow. ❁