I woke up still experiencing the same problem I had gone to sleep with. Luckily I had decided to pull my pants down before sleeping. I noticed my bed was abnormally comfortable. It was warmer and softer at my back, which didn't make much sense since I was laying on my side. Not only that, but there was a warm wind on my neck. I turned my head to see what was the cause of the comfort.

"Twilight?" I asked. The beautiful lavender unicorn was cuddled up to my back. She appeared to be awake and blowing on my neck intentionally. When I said her name, her eyes fluttered lazily and she looked up at me.

"Oh good, you woke up!" She mumbled happily with a little wiggle that brought her closer to me.

"Yeah, what're you doing in my bed?" I muttered back groggily. "I thought sleeping together was bad."

"Well, obviously sleeping together in front of Spike would be bad, but I figured cuddling couldn't hurt." She explained easily.

"Well then why haven't we been doing this all night?"

"We almost have. The thought occurred to me a few minutes after we seperated actually. When I crawled into your bed though, you were already asleep! You sure fall asleep fast, don't you?"

"Heh, I didn't always. Back on my planet I used to take anywhere from half an hour to an hour to fall asleep." I started to turn over, and I saw a puzzled expression on Twilight's face. "Something wrong?" She shook her head quickly.

"No no, nothing's wrong, I just keep forgetting you came from another planet." She explained. I tossed her a sarcastic smirk.

"Really? You forget the one-of-a-kind alien came from another planet?"

"Well... I'm just so used to you being here now. It feels like... you were meant to be here. Like life wouldn't be the same without you here."

"Heh, how sweet." I mumbled as I rolled my eyes. She was just flattering me I figured. She rubbed her hoof against my arm softly.

"I mean it. I couldn't bear to not have you here, with us. Seriously." She re-stated firmly. I didn't really respond, still not quite fully accepting her words. She huffed a bit. "Sharky, would you at least roll over and look at me normally?" She pleaded. I started to roll around to face her properly, when a certain part of my anatomy smacked into her side. Both of our faces became very red very fast.

"Err... Heh heh, sorry." I cleared my throat nervously, but instead of doing the same thing, Twilight gave me a sly smile.

"Oh, worked up, huh? Is that because of me?" Twilight started swaying her hips gently, causing it to bounce a bit.

"Y-yes, please stop..." My words were a bit harsher than I meant them to be, seeing as how I was practically hissing. Twilight slowed to a stop right away.

"Right, Spike. Darn... Well, I'm hungry anyway. You want some breakfast?" Twilight started sliding off my bed.

"Uhh, sure. Could you gimme a minute though? I need to... calm down."

"Sure, no problem." Twilight giggled as she started trotting away from the bed. I found myself staring at her backside as she left, but quickly forced myself to look away. Doing that wouldn't have helped my problem. I heard the door close behind Twilight right as I started trying to clear my head. I was usually very good at ridding myself of any sort of bad thought, but my thoughts about Twilight were surprisingly hard to get rid of. Then I heard Spike yawning across the room. That helped fix my problem pretty quickly, so I slid my pants back up.

"Hey Spike."

*Yawn* "Hey Sharky. Good morning. How'd you sleep?"

"Not as well as I'd have liked." I slid out of bed to stretch.

"Why? Didn't sleep enough or something?"

"Actually, I slept a lot more than I wanted."

"How's that bad then?"

"Uhh... I'll explain later. Hey, in the spirit of subject change, Twilight went to make breakfast. Wanna see what she's making?"

"Actually... I'm still really tired... I think I'm gonna try to go back to sleep for awhile." Spike rolled over a bit in his little bed which left his back towards me. I shrugged and started walking towards the door to the living room.

"Suit yourself. Sleep well little dude." With that, I left the room and gently closed the door behind me. I took a cautious step backwards... and promptly fell down the stairs.

*bam* *smack* *thump* *whack* *moo* *crash* *pow* *crack*

"What was that?!" Twilight called from the kitchen. I was laying flat on the ground at the base of the stairs, more stunned than actually hurt. I heard her hooves tapping against the floor as she ran to me.

"Fine. I'm fine." I uttered dully, still surprised. Twilight was checking all over me, lifing my arms and such to check for injuries I supposed.

"Are you hurt?! Where'd you get hit?"

"Twilight, I said I'm fine!" I sat up abrubtly, halting her efforts to keeps searching me for non-existant injuries. "I've taken hits from monsters over ten times my size. I think falling down stairs won't damage me." Twilight seemed to back off just a bit. Well, as far as searching me went. She still remained close as she could.

"Why did you just fall down the stairs?" She asked with concern. "I thought you were more agile than that."

"I uhhh... I forgot that I have long legs and you guys have short ledges."

"Explain?"

"I tried to step backwards away from the door and I stepped all the way back to the stairs on accident." Twilight looked at me with utter disbelief.

"... You... fell."

"Yeah."

"... Sharky, the most competent warrior in the Equestrian ranks, fell downstairs because he has long legs." Twilight's face shifted with a few supressed giggles.

"Hey, gimme a break. I just woke up. Although, while we're on the subject of me falling down the stairs, did you hear a 'moo'?"

"What?" Twilight blinked blankly.

"When I was falling, did you hear a 'moo'?" I said again. Twilight continued to stare.

"Are... are you sure you're ok?"

"Nevermind then. Well, what're you making for breakfast?" My sudden subject change didn't seem to make Twilight any less uneasy.

"Really Sharky, are you ok?"

"I'm fine. Honest. I am hungry though, so what's for breakfast?" I stood up and started heading towards the kitchen. Twilight followed dutifully.

"I'm making some cheese omlets. Does that sound good?"

"It sounds great." I inhaled deeply as I walked into the kitchen, catching the scent of cooking eggs. Over cooking eggs. As in starting to burn.

"Oh shoot!" Twilight ran to the stove and started levitating a spatula to flip the eggs before they burned. Finally it was my turn to suppress a laugh as I watched her struggle with breakfast. She managed to save the omlets from becoming burnt egg husks though. "Whew."

"Good save."

"Hmph." She puffed haughtily, as if I was making fun of her.

"No really. Good job." Twilight filled the two omlets with various shredded cheeses she had piled up next to the stove and put them back in the pan to melt the cheese. She didn't respond. "So, I enjoyed our date last night. How'd you like it?"

"Oh, it was great..." Twilight assured unenthusiastically.

"You don't sound too thrilled with it..."

"Well, it just didn't end the way I wanted." She admitted.

"Yeah, me either. Not that we could have done anything about it, Spike does need to sleep here after all."

"True, true."

"In fact, I think it'd be pretty hard for us to do anything like that anyway. I'm hoping on getting Unity over here a lot more often, and that won't help."

"Of course, it's good for you to spend time with your son, and I certainly don't want to interfere with that... but there has to be some way we can do it..."

"Eh. It's not a big deal, don't stress over it." It seemed to me like Twilight might be trying to do this before she was ready for some reason. I wasn't quite sure she had thought this all through. Twilight dropped the magically suspended spatula and turned to me.

"It is a big deal! How could you just blow it off like that?! It's only the pinnacle of affections between two ponies!"

"Well, actually that depends on the context..."

"Well the way I mean to do it is! Sharky, I've got a week to show you just how much I love you. Six days, actually. I want to do this, why do you keep pushing it off or making it seem like no big deal except in rare moments like last night?" She started pouting woundedly after she finished her tiny rant. I took a deep breath to explain what I was thinking about the whole thing.

"Well... Twi... To be honest, I'm not sure you've thought this all the way through. You've seemed to be really almost rushing into it. I mean, last night I let one head do my thinking for me when I normally use the one on my shoulders, and I almost went with it. I mean, have you really though about it?" I explained truthfully. Twilight turned, levitated the omlets onto plates, then turned back again.

"Pregnancy: Unlikely considering our species gap, but I've prepared protection nontheless. Disease: I'm not an issue in that, and I doubt you are either, due to your thick-headed and chaste nature. It's possible that the dragoness was, but seeing as how dragons have superb immunities to disease, it's also highly unlikely. Emotional attachment: Sure, if we do it and don't end up together, I'll be sad... but I'll feel better knowing I gave it my all." Twilight answered easily.

"... Clearly I was wrong." I admitted after a lengthy stunned pause. "You really have thought this out, huh? Damn, you hate your V-card, don'tcha?"

"Yes, of course I did! What'd you expect? Me to just run into this like a young filly in heat?"

"Well no, but I wasn't sure you had really put thought into it."

"Well, are you sure now?"

"Uhhh... Yeah, I guess I am."

"Then will you please stop resisting me at every turn on the matter? I mean, last night being the exception, I feel like you try to push me away or brush me off at every single attempt I make!" Twilight levitated the two plates over to the table and placed on in front of me.

"I promise, that's not what I'm trying to do. The last thing I would want to do is push any of you away... Maybe that's why I'm so difficult. I think maybe... maybe I'm scared that getting too close to one of you would get rid of all the others. I mean, I know I'm gonna have to pick one of you eventually, but I'd rather not just have that happen because all the others left."

"So... you think that having s-- Ehm, doing that, will scare off all the others?"

"Yeah. By the way, Spike is asleep. Your words are safe."

"Oh, ok. Wasn't sure if he was on his way down still. Well, if that's the problem, there's only one thing we can do." Twilight gave me a small smile.

"What?"

"We've gotta ask the others if it's ok!"

"... You want to gather three other mares that like me... and ask them if they mind if we have sex."

"Eeyup, that about sums it up."

"Well, this is bound to be interesting." I mumbled as I turned to eat what may have been my last meal.