THE VALENTINE MIX UP

 

By Cherry Sweet

Sweet Berry had always loved cooking. She loved watching things mix and match and turn out to be something delicious to eat. When she was little she would watch her mother stir and taste and pour. Sweet Berry loved to help and grew up knowing all the basic rules of cooking.

 

One happy winter morning, Sweet Berry trotted out of her warm home, wearing a green scarf. She was on her way to the market to pick up on a few things. This was her list:

 

Shopping List

 

-Butter

-Jam

-Sugar

-Bread

-Milk

-Honey

-Cake mix

 

She read her list over then tucked it into her scarf and started strolling to ‘The Ponyland Market’ In a few days it would be Valentines Day and she wanted to talk to her friends about it during a yummy cake.

 

Once there she went up and down the rows of canned goods or fresh yummy fruit. She grabbed all her needs then saw a can (in a tiny corner that she had a strange feeling about, as if she was the only one who could see it or something) of something called ‘Magic Love Cake Dust.’ It showed a beautiful cake with some sort of glitter on it. Then it showed hearts around it. A pony was happily munching it.

Hmm, thought Sweet Berry. I’ll give it a go! Tossing the plastic can into the basket she didn’t realize it rained dust over all her other food…

 

She trotted home, eager to bake a cake and eat it with her friends. When she arrived into her sweet wooden cottage with its pink curtains and cute bed and armchair, she carefully put her goods away in the sunny kitchen in the next door. She started to bake a pink cake in the shape of a flower, adding a bit of the dust to it, but she didn’t realize she forgot to read the packet properly…

 

A few hours later, Ivy, Petal Blossom and Morning Glory arrived. They all gobbled the cake down and talked a bit about Valentines Day. All the time Sweet Berry was thinking of Proud Hoof, (in her opinion) the cutest boy pony on earth, and how she would love to spend Valentines Day with him. Then they said bye to each other and headed to the door.  They waved then walked out. That night, Sweet Berry tossed and turned. She suddenly had the desire to see Proud Hoof. Little did she know he had the desire to see her too!

 

What had happened is Sweet Berry had sprinkled the magic dust onto the cake and since it was a love dust, who ever she thought about at the time would fall in love with her. Only Ivy, out of the other ponies had too, been thinking about one of the boys in Ponyland. Clever Clover to be exact.

 

The next day was amazing. Proud Hoof worshiped the ground Sweet Berry walked on! He invited her to everything there was to invite and Sweet Berry had a marvelous time, until she got home and read the packet of Magic Love Dust through again. She was going to bake another cake, but as she read it her eyes grew in horror. The Magic Love Dust made boys the ponies had crushes on, go crazily in love with them! Sweet Berry was hurt. She had thought Proud Hoof really liked it. But it was just because of the dust! She didn’t know what to do!

 

Over the few days Proud Hoof got extremely annoying. She didn’t like him nearly as much anymore! One day when Proud Hoof was trying to get Sweet Berry to go out with him AGAIN she galloped to her house, and read the packet again and again. Suddenly she spied a small piece of writing saying:

 

The victim of the dust can only be freed when the pony that used the dust falls in love with another person!

 

Sweet Berry ran to Ivy’s house and talked to her about Clever Clover. They agreed to switch boys. They both flirted with the other pony and the boys were obviously losing their medicine. Ivy was particularly lucky! Soon enough both boys were out of their spell but now, Clever Clover was in love with Sweet Berry and Proud Hoof with Ivy! The 2 couples got married with Dainty Dove and just because of each other, realized that…opposites attract!

 

THE END!

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