With every step Twi took, she found her confidence shrinking. Sure it was exciting, thrilling, and without a doubt sexy, but actually walking up to a group of people wearing nothing but her birthday suit was a situation she never imagined herself in.

An arm wrapped around her, bringing back a little of the confidence Twi had felt earlier. "I'm so proud of you," Rainbow said, kissing her cheek.

"I can't believe I'm doing this," Twi replied weakly.

"It's just like when we went streaking."

"No, I was drunk then."

"Actually..." Rainbow said with a certain expression, the same she always had when she had just been busted with a lie, "you weren't drunk."

"Yes I was, I had like three of those beers!"

"They were... they were non-alcoholic. I wanted you to loosen up a little, but I'd never take advantage of you like that."

"You mean... It was my idea to go streaking?"

"I knew then there was somewhat of an exhibitionist in you. Why do you think I bought you that outfit?" Rainbow said with a sly wink.

Twi’s emotions split between anger and arousal. She was mad at Rainbow for lying to her, for letting her do something like that; however, knowing what she knew now, she found the prospect of doing things like that… so much more arousing. "I don't know if I should kiss you or kick you," Twi said after a lot of contemplation.

Rainbow stopped walking forward and turned Twi to face her. "Why not do both?"

"That does sound like a good idea," Twi replied, smiling. She reached up and planted a kiss on Rainbow's lips.

Rainbow savored the taste of the girl’s lips, the feel of the sun over her entire body, and especially the sensation of having Twi pressed against her. She loved the touch of the wind against her nude skin. Maybe exhibitionists are onto something here? she thought with a smile as they pressed tighter and tighter together.

The girl in her arms pulled away, and, still smiling, kicked Rainbow in the shins.

“Ow,” Rainbow said, the grin on her face never faltering.

“Get over it, you big baby,” Twi said with a laugh as she took Rainbow by the hand and led her down to the beach.

Looking around, she could see another couple off in the distance to her right, a guy and a girl, both laying together in the buff. Off to the left was a third sunbather, this one a heavier guy that she’d have rather not seen nude. There were a few others that had chosen to not partake, but they were keeping to themselves for the most part, or simply didn’t care.

“That looks like a good spot,” Rainbow said as she pointed to a spot just twenty feet off the water.

“Depends if it’s high tide or low tide, if it’s high tide it might be a good spot, but low and we’ll both get soaked when the tide comes in.”

“How would you know if it’s high or low tide?” Rainbow asked.

Twi smiled when she realized that not only had Rainbow paid attention to everything she had said, she actually seemed to be learning something, even if they weren’t exactly making eye contact. Maybe nude tutors would be better than just topless? She resolved to run some tests on that hypothesis when they got back.

“Well, the easiest way would be to simply look at the water lines. if there’s a lot of wet sand, it’s low tide, otherwise it’s high tide, but—”

“But all the sand is wet,” Rainbow said as she looked around. “It must have rained here recently.”

“So, yeah, we won’t know.”

“What’s fun without a little risk?” Rainbow said back with a smile as she placed her bag down and laid out the beach towel. Twi watched her set everything up, and she knew she should be helping, but she just couldn’t help admiring Rainbow’s body.

The girl was a natural athlete, toned and defined. Even at rest, her legs were cut, her muscles easily visible through the skin. Twi sighed at the girl’s butt. She had no butt, not really. Years of working out had taken it from her. Still, Twi loved it all the same. The rainbow lightning bolt tattoos on either cheek simply begged to be licked, to be touched, to be squeezed.

Rainbow seemed to sense the eyes on her posterior, as at that moment she bent down and stretched forward, spreading out the beach towel and giving her girlfriend an intimate view of everything there was to be seen.

Twi felt the urge to simply let go, to step forward, and pleasure everything on Rainbow that there was to please. Of course, Rainbow sensed that too, and moved her body to just the right angle for Twi's view.

The poor girl found her mouth watering at the sight before her. Rainbow’s ass cheeks split her behind ever so nicely, separating her labia and highlighting her slit. Twi found her eyes traveling up Rainbow’s backside, coming to rest of the small little puckered anus of her girlfriend. Something that was just begging to be licked.

She shook her head and kept moving, her eyes trailing up Rainbow’s nicely toned back, admiring the way her muscles seemed to stretch and release all on their own. Even on all fours, Rainbow’s nicely toned stomach was fully visible under her gaze. She paused at the sight of Rainbow’s tits. They were a firm A cup, hugging tightly to her frame. Her nipple struck straight down to the towel Rainbow was laying on.

Rainbow’s hair was in its standard, unkempt form; she kept her bangs short, but her long hair hung down past her shoulders—the green and yellow strands hanging down her left and the rest down her right.

Twi’s eyes met Rainbow’s as she finally made her way to the girl’s face. Rainbow simply winked at her before saying, “Enjoying the show?”

"You wish." Twi blew her a raspberry.

Rainbow flipped over and sat on her butt, she sat up and reached over for the sunscreen she had put down on the side of the towel. “So… you don’t want to apply my suntan lotion for me?”

"Well, I still have to test how well you can hide your moans," Twi winked in a slightly seductive manner.

Rainbow simply smiled. “Heads up,” she said, tossing the bottle to Twi.

Twi went to catch it, but failed... the bottle hit her in the stomach before falling to the ground. “Ouch,” she said before picking up the bottle.

“Sparkles, you suck,” Rainbow said with a laugh as she laid down on her back, smiling the entire time.

"Only on you," Twi purred back, causing Rainbow's smile to grow wider.

Twi walked forward, taking one last look to see who else was around, or within earshot for that matter. She smiled as she saw that this section of the beach was mostly empty. There were only three other couples, a few solitary people close by, but none of them were truly close enough to be of concern. She opened the bottle of lotion and squeezed out a generous amount on her hands before kneeling next to Rainbow. Twi did note with some dismay that the lotion was a little cold.

Rainbow’s smile died as soon as Twi’s hands touched her stomach. “Holy hell, that’s cold.”

“Guess I’ll just have to warm you up,” Twi stated with a smile. “You know the cold is a result of the liquid molecules colliding with each other, when they escape into the air it naturally takes heat with it. The movement of my hands across here...”

“Mmmhmmm…..” Rainbow moaned as Twi pressed her hands across her stomach, her thumbs pushing into her flesh in just the right way to stimulate the muscles underneath.

“Is nothing more than friction across your body, creating heat that warms you up.”

“I love me some friction,” Rainbow said with a satisfied smile on her face.

Check one for nude tutors! Twi thought. She ran her hands in circles across Rainbow’s toned stomach, her fingers working the grooves of Rainbow’s muscles, running along her cut abs, feeling every inch of Rainbow’s smooth skin under her touch.

Twi knew then the wetness developing on her legs had nothing to do with being on the beach.

“Oh fuck, Twi,” Rainbow said again as the small girl opened the bottle of lotion and dumped some on each of her tits in turn.

“Well, the human nipples are, extra sensitive,” Twi said in her best sexy voice. “So they’ll...”

“They’ll feel the loss of heat that much more?” Rainbow asked as Twi’s fingers started to lightly play over her nipples.

Twi seemed pleased by the answer and her fingers stopped, before continuing and starting to slowly twirl and pinch Rainbow’s nipples, causing her to hiss in bliss. Twi was merciless, the continued ministrations causing Rainbow’s nipples to be as hard as they could be.

“You think that was all?” Twi asked with a smile.

Rainbow gulped as Twi encompassed her tits and rubbed the lotion in, switching between soft rubbing and hard squeezing. She loved the feeling of Rainbow’s firm tits in her hands; she didn’t care that they were smaller than hers. She still loved and enjoyed it.

Rainbow closed her eyes as Twi groped and squeezed her two mounds of flesh. Normally, her thoughts would have drifted to one of her many, many fantasies, but, right now, at this moment, she didn’t need a single one. She was lying on a beach on the pacific coast, with the girl she loved more than anything else, both of them as nude as the day they were born.

Needless to say, fantasy had nothing on reality.

“Rainbow, you’re not falling asleep on me, are you?” Twi asked in a whisper to Rainbow’s ears.

“No, this just feels like a dream, Twi,” Rainbow smiled.

“Maybe we should test that theory,” Twi said with an evil smile as she pinched both nipples and twisted them.

“Ahh, Twi!” Rainbow moaned, but managed to stifle it on her tongue. “That’s cheating!”

“Well, it’s not cheating. I’m just… creative, like you were.” Twi smirked and continued her deliciously evil work.

“Well, next time, be a little more gentle,” Rainbow said under her breath. She kept her eyes open this time, not trusting the girl to play fair. Twi just smiled and sat up on her knees. She moved forward and started on Rainbow’s stomach

“What are you up to?” Rainbow asked.

“What, don’t like me on top for a change?” Twi asked.

Rainbow sat up, only for a hand to push her back down. “Na ha, I’m running this show,” Twi said with a smile.

“As the princess wishes,” Rainbow reluctantly replied, lying back down.

“Mmh, I could really get used to this,” Twi said as she rubbed all over Rainbow’s body, causing her to shiver at the touch.

Twi squeezed out more sunscreen on her hands and rubbed them together. Her hands moved to Rainbow’s chest, and they rubbed circles across the bare, tanned skin. She lightly ran her fingers along the girl’s collarbone, letting the tips of her fingers stray as they wished.

Rainbow quickly figured out what sort of game Twi was playing. Every time she moved her hands forward, their nipples would lightly touch. When she pulled back, Twi would make sure to grind her ass ever so softly along her groin. It was fucking hot and driving her wild with desire, all at once.

“Na ah Rainbow,” Twi said when she saw the girl’s hands starting to move. “This is your turn.”

Rainbow sighed but kept her hands on the blanket while Twi kept up the work. She was as thorough on this as she was on everything else; regularly changing location, Twi ensured every area of her neck, shoulders, and eventually, head was properly covered.

When she got to the girl’s temples, Rainbow's mouth cheated a little. Rainbow reached out and caught one of Twi’s nipples with her lips, lightly suckling on it while Twi kept rubbing lotion on her forehead.

“Look who couldn’t wait,” Twi said with a smile, but notably, didn’t move away either. Rather, she kept up her impromptu massage of Rainbow's temples, even moving to the top of her ears just for good measure.

Rainbow clung on Twi’s tit. She could stand some torture, but she couldn’t stand that Twi was left unsatisfied while she got the best treatment ever. Lightly sucking, she enjoyed Twi’s tit, drawing the occasional hiss and moan from Twi, but the small girl never lost her composure.

“You know that I can’t continue down there if you keep doing that?” Twi asked, pointing at Rainbow’s lightly dripping snatch.

“Wmmth itsss,’ Rainbow muttered, not letting go.

“What was that?”

“Wmmth, itsss.”

“One more time?”

“I said it’s worth it,’ Rainbow said, then realized her mistake.

Twi pulled back with a laugh, “Don’t worry Rainbow, I’ll just have to make it up to you.”

“Ahh man,” Rainbow mumbled as Twi got off her.

Twi moved to the side of the girl’s legs—opening up the bottle again—she let out a long line of lotion from the tip of the girl’s toes, all the way up her leg, around the top edge of her slit, and back down the other leg. “We may not have enough lotion,” Twi said with a laugh.

“There’s three more bottles in the bag,” Rainbow replied.

“You really did plan this out.”

“What can I say, I had… motivation,” Rainbow laughed.

Taking each foot one at a time, Twi ran her fingers over Rainbow’s toes, rubbing and massaging each one in turn. She thought about giving Rainbow a breakdown of the skeletal system but decided against it. Sure Rainbow might learn this way, but it would ruin the moment for her.

She continued her way over the ankles, her ministrations slowly rising further and further up Rainbow’s leg. Every inch she came closer to Rainbow’s wanting slit, and the girl whimpered a bit louder the closer Twi got. It was clear that she yearned the touch, but she wouldn’t get it like she thought. Twi had her own plans for that.

Twi continued up the legs and around Rainbow’s inner thigh, going slower and slower with the shrinking distance to Rainbow’s wet slit. The girl was now practically begging for it, but Twi just rubbed the outline, never even letting one finger come too close.

She’s so cute when she whimpers, Twi thought with an evil smile, as her fingers traced up Rainbow's leg for the third pass, only to stop on her inner thighs.

Much to Rainbow’s disappointment, when she was absolutely sure that Twi had no place else to get, Twi’s fingers proved her wrong. The girl adjusted her position to between Rainbow’s legs, after which she started to massage the sides of her butt, rubbing the lotion along her tattoos in small circular motions.

“You’re really going to keep me hanging huh?” Rainbow asked. The massage felt nice, but she was way past warmed up.

“Depends,” Twi said.

“On what?”

“How nice you are,” Twi purred, letting one finger lightly tease Rainbow’s labia.

“Mhhh, that’s mean!” Rainbow moaned.

“Well, if that’s mean, I guess I’ll just have to stop then,” Twi replied, her fingers moving away from the pot of gold.

“Well… it’s not that mean…” Rainbow mumbled.

“Oh, so you like this now?” Twi asked, her hands moving back around, the thumbs of each hand moving to either side of Rainbow’s lips, rhythmically pushing inward to rub her inner walls against each other.

“Yeah… like that.”

Twi smiled as she picked up the pace—her thumbs adding more and more pressure with each and every pass. Her other fingers worked the sides of Rainbow’s groin, all the way to her legs.

Twi was a patient hunter, but she knew she wouldn’t have to wait long. With each push, Rainbow’s slit grew more and more wet. With each pull, her clit was revealed that much more. Save for the one rub, she hadn’t touched anything really pleasurable yet. Not yet anyway.

After a minute’s passing, there was more than enough liquid lining Rainbow’s slit: Her clit was fully visible and throbbing from Twi’s ministrations. With one final look around the beach, to ensure there was no one close by, and a quick, devilish smile to Rainbow, Twi stuck out her tongue and licked from the bottom of Rainbow’s slit, all the way to her clit.

“Oh, Twi!”

It was the first real moan Rainbow let out, and Twi grinned upon hearing it, twirling her tongue quickly around Rainbow’s clit, electing more and more from her. Twi gave up any pretense of applying sunscreen; she stuck her middle and index finger of her right hand directly into Rainbow’s slit, forcing her to bite her tongue, lest she yell out in pleasure.

All the while, Twi never stopped suckling on the little nub of pleasure. She ran her tongue in small circles around Rainbow’s clit, and, soon she felt a hand on the back of her head, trying to push her further in.

She smiled, for that meant it would be only seconds until Rainbow came. With her free hand, Twi soaked her index finger in Rainbow’s juices, and plunged it right in the girl’s anus.

Rainbow screamed loud and clear as she let a loose wave of cum. Twi smiled as she felt it spray on her neck and chest. Her lips never left Rainbow’s clit, all the while the girl bucked and squirmed underneath her.

It was over all too soon, Rainbow paused and simply lay back on the towel, a look of contentment on her face as she stared up into Twi’s eyes. “That was… that was….”

“Amazing?” Twi asked, rubbing her new ‘lotion’ into her chest.

“Yeah, that…”

Twi smiled and rubbed her hands across Rainbow’s slit one last time, just to ensure there was a nice layer of sunblock there.

Of all the places to get burned, that was not one she wanted.

“Your turn?” Rainbow asked.

“Nope, you need to turn over,” Twi replied.

“Really?” Rainbow pouted.

“I don’t want that fine ass burning on me.”

“I want a promise,” Rainbow said suddenly.

“What?”

“We go swimming later, and, in that nice water, your pussy is mine,” Rainbow grinned as she turned on her stomach.

Twi smiled once more as she dumped out a large amount of lotion on Rainbow’s back and ass. With her hands she started to rub her fingers into each and every major muscle group on Rainbow’s back, her fingers drifting where they may.

“You still haven’t promised, egghead.”

“That’s because I don’t need to promise. You know that you can do what you want with my pussy and same goes for me and yours,” Twi said softly.

“Still, I’d like to hear you say it.”

Twi moved her hands up from Rainbow’s ass and ran them along her spine. She softly ran the tips of her fingers along the girl’s shoulder blades, pushing in with just the right amount of force to earn a muffled moan of pleasure from the girl. When she got to the top of her shoulders, Twi leaned in and softly whispered in Rainbow’s ear.

“My pussy is yours when we go swimming.”

“Emmmm….” Rainbow mumbled with a relaxed smile on her face as Twi moved back down. She didn’t know why, but there was something about hearing such words from the egghead that always drove her wild. Her mind started to imagine all the fun things she was going to do to the promised pussy. All the while, Twi kept up the lotion-massage on the girl’s back.

Unfortunately, for Rainbow, as Twi lacked the strength for anything deep, her massage was more of the relaxing variety—something that made the girl drift off into a quick nap.

“Sweet dreams, Rainbow,” Twi said, smiling, as she finished applying sunscreen and looked down at the girl’s back. She looked so peaceful just sleeping there, and one could almost forget how much of a pain in the ass she could be when awake.

Almost.

“Of course, this does mean I’ll have to apply my own suntan lotion,” Twi groaned in frustration, not at all pleased by the thought of a lotion massage all by herself.

“So what we need to find is something that carries enough residual, native magic that I can extract the resonant frequency of this dimension's magic. Then I can converlute it with the Equestrian resonant frequency and broadcast it through the Between for Celestia to find.”

“What?” Dash asked, completely lost.

“Weren’t you paying attention?” Twilight said back, annoyed.

“Something about residual shocks that make you feel better?”

Twilight paused in flight and turned to face Dash. Her left eye twitched as she stared at her, mouth agape. “Rainbow Dash I… I… I don’t even know what to say to that.”

Dash simply chuckled to herself. “Twilight, don’t explain it, just tell me what we need to do. That’s it.”

“I just need to check each of the statues one at a time.”

Dash flew closer and booped Twilight on the nose with a hoof. “There, was that so hard?” she asked with a smile.

Twilight blushed at the contact. “No, I guess not, but don’t you want to…”

“Nope, don’t want to know how it works, just what to do.”

The alicorn laughed. “You’re one of a kind, Dash.”

“Well, I think there’s two of me now,” Dash replied back, smiling. “Oh, there’s a group of those ugly heads right there!” Dash pointed down and to the right of where they flew.

Twilight snorted and was about to tell Dash that they weren’t just ‘ugly heads’, but the pegasus had already shot off in that direction, leaving it up to her to quickly follow.

The pegasus found a group of fifteen heads, all in a row. She landed on the tallest one before looking up at Twilight. “Hey, you coming slowpoke?”

“Dash, keep it down, and watch your speed,” Twilight hissed, “we don’t want to be spotted and that contrail is easy to see.”

“Yeah, yeah, just relax. It’s not like anyone’s around, we’re totally fine,” Dash replied, just before Twilight crashed into her and pulled her into the nearby trees.

It was just in time.

“I swear, there was something in the air!” a human female voice shouted.

“Twilight, what the buc…” Dash tried to say, only to be stopped by a hoof covering her mouth.

“Eh, no comprendo,” a deeper voice answered and then two humans entered their sight.

One of them was a tall woman in a bikini, seemingly stressed, and the human that followed her was a smaller man with big stomach and a weird, green-grey uniform.

“Comisaria de policia. No comprendo.” The uniformed man gestured to the woman who cried out.

“Not even the police can talk proper English here, what is with this country?” she yelled.

As they walked away, Twilight removed her hoof from Dash’s mouth. “That was too close.”

“Where were they hiding?” Dash asked, shocked she missed them.

“I think right there.” Twilight pointed to the edge of a small road where the uniformed man entered a green car and drove away, leaving the woman to walk.

“Sorry, I think I just missed them then.”

“Sorry?” Twilight’s eye twitched. “How about you just try to be a bit more careful?”

“Hey, it was an accident alright!”

“It’s always just an accident with you, Dash!” Twilight snapped before shutting her muzzle quickly with her hooves.

“Oh, yeah? Like you and the CUBE!” Dash replied venomously.

“Really? I do one accident per YEAR while you used to crash into my library and now my castle once a DAY. If I ever felt like it, I could fill the castle with scrolls listing your mistakes!” Twilight really lost it.

“I screw up and knock over some dusty old books, you screw up and get us trapped in another freaking world, who’s the bigger screw up, Sparkles, me or you?”

“Oh shut up, Dash!” Twilight shouted.

“Or what, egghead?” Dash growled and approached her.

She didn’t come very close as she was enveloped and raised by Twilight’s magic, trapped and held completely still.

“Let me down!” Dash yelled.

“Be quiet or they’ll come back!” Twilight scolded her.

“I don’t bucking care! It’s always the same with you, egghead. Always following the rules, always doing what she should, not what she could. Do you even know what fun means? I do, you don’t!”

“That’s not true!” Twilight muttered.

“Oh? So what was that back in the room? Once things got just a little bit fun, a little spontaneous, you snapped and accused me!” Dash said in a huff.

“You penetrated me without my permission!”

“You ASKED me to show you how to clop! Hello! We have wings, feathers! I was showing you what I do! You know, like you asked me too!” Dash yelled.

“I was just surprised, that’s all!”

“You're surprised by something that might be fun, what a shock. That’s your problem, Twilight, if it’s not written down in triplicate and submitted three days in advance, you won’t do it.”

“I’m not that bad!”

“Yes you are. The only time you ever do anything spontaneous is if Celestia herself tells you to; otherwise, it’s just rules this, organization that, and checklist that. Celestia, how could I ever think I loved you?”

Twilight froze. “What… what did you just say?”

The magic aura around Dash popped as she fell to the ground, hard. Standing to her hooves, she got up, her mind still not processing what her muzzle had said. “I said you're nothing more than an organized brat.”

“T-The other thing,” Twilight said, her own voice betraying her.

“You’re hearing things, egghead.” Dash simply shrugged it off as she made a beeline back to the heads.

A magical aura pulled her tail, yanking her back to Twilight. “Dash, do you love me?”

“What?” Dash asked. Her face betrayed her true emotions far better than her tone did.

“Answer the question,” Twilight said before adding, “please.”

“No, that’s a ridiculous question.”

“It’s only ridiculous if you’re trying to avoid it,” Twilight said.

Dash paused, her cheeks going red as she sat back on her haunches and pouted. She glanced up from Twilight’s hooves to her face and back, not knowing what to say. It was then she saw her out. “Twilight… I… I need a drink.”

The pegasus bolted at full speed along the base of the forest floor. She didn’t even hear Twilight screaming after her, voice full of pain and sadness.

“Dash…” Twilight said again as she watched her friend leave at speed, her colorful rainbow contrail fading in her wake. She was already beyond her line of sight and Twilight had raced her enough to know that if Dash didn’t want to be caught, she wouldn’t be. Not by anypony other than Pinkie that is.

“Dash… why’d you have to go and say that?” Twilight mumbled to herself as she turned back to the stone statues. It took her a full minute to realize that she had stained her front hooves with her own tears.

“Jesus that’s cold!” Rainbow screamed as she woke up to the lapping waves washing over her body. The swishing of the water pulled back, just as the next wave hit the beach. True to the girl’s last name, she was already on her feet and the next wave only splashed her ankles.

Laughter greeted her actions.

Rainbow simply looked over and glared at Twi. The small girl held a book in her hand and their bag over her other arm, still just as nude as when Rainbow fell asleep.

“Think that’s funny, huh, egghead?” Rainbow asked with a grin.

“Proper application of humor delivered at the right time. That would qualify as a joke, and since there was no harm done, I found it funny,” Twi repeated, verbatim, Twilight’s words at her being pantsed.

“Proper application of humor huh?” Rainbow asked, then looked down at the water on the beach and smiled.

“Rainbow, don’t… Rainbow. Rainbow!” Twi screamed as Rainbow bent down and started to splash her with the ocean water. “If you get my book wet, you can play with your own pussy, I swear to that!”

There were exactly three threats Twi could make that could get Rainbow to stop doing something, and that was definitely one of them. She paused, stood straight up, and chuckled as she realized something. “You know this means we won’t have a towel, right?”

“Sometimes sacrifices have to be made; you taught me that,” Twi replied with a smile as she walked away from the water. Once they were far enough away from the shoreline to avoid risk of their supplies getting wet, she placed down the bag and opened it, sliding her book into it. “Thank you, by the way, for packing the book. It was… unexpected to say the least.”

“Anything for my egghead,” Rainbow smiled. She took one last look at the beach towel as the waves started to carry it out to sea. Rainbow let it go, it wouldn’t serve a single purpose now, and packing it would just get everything else they had wet.

A pair of arms wrapped around her midriff as Twi hugged her from the back. She felt the girl’s stiff nipples press against her back, along with her breath upon her neck, her skin rubbing along her ass. “Someone up for a swim?” Twi asked in her sexiest voice. “I do believe I have a promise to keep.”

Rainbow smiled brightly at that. “You can’t imagine how much I’m looking forward to this.”

At that, Twi let her go, running her fingers along Rainbow’s bare shoulders and across her chin before departing. She winked once and then started to wade out into the water, shivering ever so slightly from the cold water.

Rainbow watched with a grin as the girl went out to sea. As soon as the water was deep enough, Twi dove in and started to swim. Turning on her back she called out, “This is cold, you gonna come warm me up?”

Rainbow didn’t reply with words, she simply waded out herself, a smile on her face as she followed the girl. Although, as soon as she got far enough in, her nonchalant attitude did a one-eighty. Twi screamed in excitement as she saw Rainbow dive in and start swimming to her at full speed, like a shark after its prey.

Twi was one victim that would not be taken without a fight. She started kicking as fast as she could in a desperate attempt to put distance between the two. For ten, twenty, thirty, sixty seconds she powered into the water, trying to do whatever she could to delay the inevitable.

After a minute passed, her arms started to get tired. She should’ve caught me by now.

The thought caused her to stop swimming and look around, they weren’t even that far off the beach. “Rainbow?” she called out, seeing nothing but the island and water all around her.

“Rainbow!” Twi called again, doing a double take, and then a triple.

“Rainbow, not funny!”

“Rainbow, I’m heading back in!” Twi growled, knowing this was some joke and started swimming back to the shore, only for something to grab her leg and pull her under the water. “Ahg…!”

Seconds later both girls broke the surface, one furious and one laughing. “Rainbow! That’s not funny!”

“What you’d say: Jokes are the proper application of humor delivered at the right time. That would qualify as a joke, and since there was no harm done, I found it funny.”

“Please, it was horrible humor that I knew was coming!”

“Oh lighten up, egghead, it was all in good fun.”

Twi splashed an armful of water on Rainbow's smug face.

“Okay, okay, I’m sorry!” Rainbow raised her hands in defence and came closer, kissing Twi softly. “Any chance to make it up to you?” she asked seductively.

“Well, that depends on you,” Twi stated. “How’s your finger trick?”

“You’ll never have anything better,” Rainbow grinned.

Twi wrapped her hands around Rainbow’s neck. Half of her wanted to strangle the life out of the girl, and the other half wanted to kiss her and make love to her. This time, just like a hundred others, she went with the latter. Being in a relationship with her this long, Twi knew she just had to let the stupid comments and reckless actions slide, for she knew of the unbound love in Rainbow’s heart, the part of her that only Twi ever saw. It was that part of her that made Twi fall in love with the girl in the first place, and that’s what was truly important.

Rainbow slipped her arms around the lumbar region of Twi’s back. Together the two kissed again, their feet kicking in tandem in the water, their mouths connecting, their tongues greeting each other like long lost friends. Her right hand started to move down. She lightly ran her fingers along Twi’s ass, her fingers rubbing in small circles around the flesh.

“Rainbow, no teasing, please,” Twi said with a smile as they broke the kiss.

“Aww, why?”

“If you don’t tease me, I’ll fulfill one of the dirty wishes from your list,” Twi whispered.

“Oh, oh, the threesome?” Rainbow asked excited. She already had a certain… mare in mind.

“Yes, and you can choose with whom,” Twi smiled softly.

“Deal,” Rainbow replied, resting her forehead on Twi’s. Twi glanced up with just her eyes, staring directly into the magenta of Rainbow’s irses. With the water reflecting the sunlight in a way that pool water never could, Rainbow’s eyes seemed to shimmer with an inner light all of their own. She could get lost in those eyes.

Rainbow smiled softly and kissed her again, perfectly in time with her finger as it slipped between her girlfriend’s legs, slowly massaging her thighs. She had no intention of teasing her, but some short foreplay was always welcomed, she knew that.

With one hand still on Twi’s ass, she lightly ran her fingers up the girl’s thigh, brushing the tips of them across the girl’s slit, lightly tapping each finger almost as if she were lightly knocking for permission to enter.

Twi closed her eyes, her mouth forming a slight moan and a smile at the contact with the girl’s fingers. Rainbow kissed her again, her tongue foreshadowing what was about to happen under the sea.

The deeper Rainbow’s tongue slipped into Twi’s mouth, the stronger her fingers went to work, until one finally pushed in, slowly invading Twi’s love canal and eliciting a small, stifled moan from the smaller girl.

Rainbow ran her thumb along Twi’s innermost walls. Her finger ran small circles, as if testing the elasticity of Twi’s opening. Their mouths broke apart, each of them smiling at the other’s actions. For her part, Twi simply kept herself swimming, doing her best to keep her legs spread for Rainbow to do whatever she wanted.

Rainbow saw this and grinned. To get Twi in such a willing state was generally rare. There was something about the last few days, something that flipped a switch in the girl, some mix of having a pony version of each of them around and Twi’s newly found exhibitionist streak.

Whatever it was, Rainbow loved it, but that was always the case when it came to the girl literally on her fingers. She turned her hand around, pulling her thumb out and running the tips of her index, ring, and middle finger straight up Twi’s slit.

“Ahh, I thought we agreed no teasing,” Twi said.

“Just a little foreplay,” Rainbow replied. “Something to get the engine running.”

“What do you think I was doing before the tide came in?”

Rainbow paused at that. “Really?”

Twi nodded. “You fell asleep and all I had was a book and your sexy ass to stare at.”

“The book didn’t keep you busy?” Rainbow grinned.

“Rainbow!” Twi feigned offence, “I’ve read it like twelve times.”

“Oh, so still kinda new.”

Twi splashed her again, earning giggles from both of them.

Rainbow used this opportunity to sink her head back under the water. Twi just sighed before saying, “Rainbow if you pull me under the water again I’m going to…” she trailed off, eyes wide as she felt Rainbow's tongue start to lick her slit.

She only got three good licks before Rainbow came up for air. Twi watched as Rainbow’s head broke the water. The top of her head broke the surface first, then, as if in slow motion, the rest followed. First her forehead, then her eyes, then her mouth, the latter of which came up smiling at her.

“Have you been feeling okay? Tastes a bit salty,” Rainbow said with a smile.

“Rainbow!” Twi replied, splashing water in her girlfriend’s face again.

Rainbow simply placed a fingertip on Twi’s chin. Twi expected her to kiss again, but she didn’t. Rainbow swam around her, running her finger along Twi’s jawbone as she swam behind her.

Rainbow pressed her chest against Twi’s back, her left arm wrapped around the girl’s midriff as her right lightly cupped one free breast. “Are you enjoying yourself, egghead?” Rainbow whispered her question in the girl’s ear.

“Mhmm,” Twi replied, enjoying the feeling of having her tits played with.

“I bet you never saw this coming, you, ass nude, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.”

“When it comes to you, Rainbow, I’ve learned to just go with the flow,” Twi replied as she reached around and kissed her again.

“And I’ve learned to plan some things out,” Rainbow replied back as her hands went lower, finding the tip of Twi’s slit, her fingers starting to tease entry. “Like this.” She pulled back to where they were both floating on their backs, with Twi’s chest sticking out of the water, and their legs kicking both below and above the sea level.

“Rainbow, what are you…” Twi trailed off when she felt a finger make entry.

Rainbow held the girl tighter, kicking more intensely as Twi cooed in pleasure at the feeling. Smiling, Rainbow added a second finger to the mix, grinding the tips against the inside of Twi’s walls, running her thumb along the tip of Twi’s slit.

Her perseverance paid off: Soon she felt a little nub starting to poke out from its hood. Twi definitely warmed herself up before this.

“Mhh, you are a naughty girl, Twi,” Rainbow cooed as she softly circled her thumb around Twi’s clit and teased her inner walls with more soft touches.

The combination of the cold water lapping over her tits, Rainbow’s breasts pressed against her back, and the feeling of those magical fingers working around and around in her slit caused Twi to slacken. She let Rainbow and the water carry her, drowning her in an ocean of new experiences she had never even considered opening herself up to before now.

“Already giving up, Twi?” Rainbow asked as she softly fingered her girlfriend. “I really thought you would need longer before relaxing.”

“Just… putting my trust in you, Rainbow,” Twi replied as she lightly turned her head to face Rainbow. Her lips puckered out in offering for the girl. It was an offer she did not need two of. Rainbow closed the distance between their lips, kissing her as she continued her finger work.

Rainbow pulled her head back, still smiling as she added another digit to Twi’s slit. The girl writhed a bit, but made no move to pull away. She wanted this as much as Rainbow did. With her right hand, she lightly trapped Twi’s nipple between her thumb and index finger, rolling it back and forth as her left continued to move in and out of Twi’s pussy.

“Rainbow,” Twi cooed, “more!”

“As the princess commands,” Rainbow replied with a smirk..

Twi felt Rainbow pick up her speed, her fingers moving faster and faster in and out, pumping her for all her worth. Rainbow’s right hand squeezed her breast, massaging the flesh as if it were a lump of clay.

“Rainbow!” Twi screamed this time, so close to the edge she could taste it.

Only one more thing…

Rainbow knew how she wanted to end this and the point she had to reach. Flexing her fingers more, she reached deeper, finding Twi’s g-spot in mere moments. Her plunging fingers and precise stimulation drove Twi past the breaking point faster than she expected.

When the girl’s abs contracted, Rainbow’s right hand flew down from Twi’s tit and started to viciously rub her clit for all it was worth. Twi almost shot out of the water, and her struggles caused Rainbow to struggle to keep them from dunking under.

Even despite her athleticism, Rainbow was unable to keep her head from going under. The task would have been hard on a good day. Still, it was a small price to pay to feel the girl in her hands writhing and moaning at her touch. Twi bit her tongue so as not to cry out; her natural instincts to scream in pleasure would not serve her well here.

Still, an “Oh Fuck!” did manage to escape her lips.

Rainbow had to stop when her own body reminded her that she needed to breathe. With a mental sigh, she removed her hands from around the girl and pushed up, breaking the surface of the water with a loud gasp of breath.

Breath that was stolen from her when Twi immediately planted her lips on Rainbow’s. Twi’s tongue immediately dominated Rainbow’s mouth, pressing Rainbow’s tongue to her cheek and staking its claim. When she let her go, both girls’ faces were beet-red. Twi from cumming in the ocean, Rainbow from not having breathed the whole time she was cumming.

“You enjoy yourself?” Rainbow asked.

Twi just nodded, unable to talk.

“I did too,” Rainbow said with a smile, one that faded as she looked around the beach. She had no idea how long they had been out there, but there were a few more people than when they left. “Uhh, Twi?”

Twi looked around, blushing, and noticed that the number of people had doubled, two of which were looking their way, no doubt enjoying the show.

What Twi said next surprised even her. “Well, let’s go back, I think it’s your turn to apply sunscreen to me.”

“Twi?” Rainbow asked.

The girl just smiled and winked before swimming back to the shoreline. Rainbow followed closely behind her.

The two left the water like it was the most natural thing in the world, strutting out almost as if they were ponies that spent their whole lives nude. For Twi, it was a thrill, as it was something new she was learning about her own body, her own needs. For Rainbow, it was just one more sexual act she could do with Twi.

While they were getting more than their fair share of looks, neither girl really minded. Rainbow smiled when she felt a hand wrap around the small of her back, the fingers lightly dangling over her tattoo.

Rainbow led them up the beach to where the bag was left.

“What are we going to sit on?” Twi asked.

An idea came to Rainbow; she reached into her bag and pulled out the white tee she wore that day. Twi watched in horror as she bit into the fabric and tore it, ripping it in half.

“Rainbow, what are you doing?”

Rainbow ignored the question; she lay her torn shirt on the ground and spread it out then, taking Twi by the hand, she gestured for her to sit on the shirt. “For you, my princess.”

Twi blushed as she moved to sit down on the improvised towel. “But… you’re not going to have anything to wear when we leave.”

“I’ll just wear my sports bra, it covers enough,” Rainbow said back with a smile.

“But what are you going to sit on?” Twi asked.

In response, Rainbow just plopped down right in the sand, and she even wiggled her butt around to make sure it was getting in every area it could reach. “No need to worry about that anymore,” she said with a smile.

“Rainbow…” Twi replied, facepalming.

“Now lay down, I don’t want you getting burned.”

“It’s probably too late for that. While I was applying your sunscreen, I didn’t have any on. I am kinda pale after all.”

“Not after this weekend,” Rainbow replied back as her favorite egghead sat down on the beach, then held her knees up to her chest, looking at something afar.

Rainbow looked too, seeing three guys staring in their direction. She turned back to Twi. “Let ‘em look. As long as they don’t touch, I don’t really care.”

“Easy for you to say.” Even with everything she had done the last few days, she was still unused to being the center of attention.

“Relax, just shut your eyes and lose yourself to my touch.”

“No sex stuff, the beach is kinda filling up.”

“Fine, but I am putting sunscreen everywhere,” Rainbow replied back, sternly. “Then you gotta do me.”

“Do you,” Twi said with a laugh.

“And people say I’m the immature one,” Rainbow replied with a laugh. “Now shut up, close your eyes, and let the master get to work.”

Twi did as she was instructed; she laid on her back and closed her eyes, feeling very self-conscious about being nude on a crowded beach, full of mostly non-nude beach goers.

That feeling quickly went away as Rainbow’s hands made contact with her stomach. She didn’t cheat, that is to say she didn’t open her eyes, rather, Twi simply felt everything Rainbow did.

Twi shivered as two cold hands touched her. “Don’t worry, there’ll be enough friction soon to warm you up,” Rainbow whispered into her ear as she started to rub her hands up and down Twi’s stomach.

The hands began to move up, pushing inward against her; they massaged her muscles before moving back down, just above her groin and pushing upward again, making Twi sigh as she felt the pressure against her, kneading her ab muscles in just the right way.

Rainbow applied a line of sunscreen right across the top of Twi’s chest. She used three fingers on each hand and started to massage the sunblock into the skin, pushing inward right below her collarbone and working her way outward to Twi’s shoulders. When she reached the end, Rainbow moved back inward, hitting each area twice with just the right amount of pressure.

A moan left Twi’s lips when Rainbow’s hands started to work down; however, she was surprised when Rainbow stayed between her tits, simply massaging the sunblock into the skin over her chest bone and avoiding the soft flesh to the sides.

Rainbow’s fingers worked their way under each breast, lightly touching the underside, but never the soft mounds themselves. Twi felt a growing sense of frustration building in her. It was like coming to a stop at a stoplight but never actually fully stopping, just slowly, slowly, slowly inching forward. Yet worse… much, much worse. She wanted Rainbow’s fingers.

But those desires went unfulfilled. The hands never touched her breasts, never went to her more erogenous zones. Rainbow simply added sunblock, but doing so aroused Twi so much more. She wanted everything, but she only received soft brushes on chaste areas. The hands rubbing over her skin teased her while at the same time not doing it.

Twi’s frustration grew more and more pronounced as Rainbow picked up her right arm and started applying the lotion. She handled it with the touch of a lover, caressing every muscle and massaging every joint before moving onto the left. It was, at once, relaxing and incredibly frustrating to the poor girl that Rainbow would pick this moment to display such control over her libido.

When a shadow fell over her, Twi peeked out, staring directly into Rainbow’s magenta eyes as she leaned forward and started massaging the sides of Twi’s neck. “You know my tits can burn too, right?”

“Close your eyes and let me do my duty as your girlfriend,” Rainbow said and continued her work, still avoiding her ‘special parts’.

Reluctantly, Twi did just that. She closed her eyes and let Rainbow get back to work. The athlete worked with the experience of someone that knew her body, that knew what felt good and just how much pressure to place on each joint to incite the most pleasure. Rainbow started to lightly rub Twi’s temples, massaging right next to each eye in small circles that caused the girl to coo in response.

She finished her second layer of sunscreen and smiled at the sight before her. Twi’s upper torso was fully covered, well, save for the two more obvious spots she had skipped on purpose. All good things, Rainbow thought. She left Twi’s upper body with a smile and a kiss before moving down to her legs.

Twi growled silently as Rainbow moved lower, leaving her tits unprotected. Yet, she had the slight hope that her girlfriend would start the fun down between her legs, something she doubted more and more as Rainbow started to gently cover her legs with the sunblock, avoiding her inner thighs entirely.

Rainbow lightly ran her hands over Twi’s outer thighs, rubbing her fingers in small circles, and limiting her pressure to only where she wanted to apply it.

It felt amazing to Twi, and while she was sure that with how deep Rainbow was applying pressure she wouldn’t be able to walk right for a while, she also knew her legs would feel phenomenal for the next few days.

“You gotta do this more often,” Twi said as she let out a sigh.

“All you gotta do is ask,” Rainbow replied with a smile.

“Okay, I’m asking you to do this to me every day,” Twi said jokingly, with a teasing look in her eyes.

Rainbow paused on her left foot, scooted back up to the girl’s head, and planted a kiss on her lips in the form of a response. “If you’re laying like this, call it a deal.”

“I’ll do more than lay here if you shut up and finish me,” Twi replied with a smug smile.

“As you wish, my princess,” Rainbow giggled and continued her ministrations.

The girl finished with Twi’s legs, leaving only her inner thighs, groin, and breasts left to cover.

Just as Twi lost all hopes that Rainbow would continue with the most important parts, she caught her breath when she felt a healthy amount of sunblock cover her nipples. “Ahh…” she almost screamed, if not for a hand that was placed over her mouth.

“Shh, we are in public after all,” Rainbow said in a teasing tone.

LIke you’d really care, Twi thought.

Rainbow started on the left breast, rubbing the sunblock around in small circles, starting at the nipples and working around and around. She paid as much attention to them as she did everything else.

And that was exactly Twi’s problem, she expected Rainbow to be a lot more demanding, a lot more rough, and a lot more fun when she got here. Instead, she treated each mound as if they were nothing more than an arm or leg.

While she did enjoy the girl’s treatment, in the end it just left her that much more flustered.

“Flip,” Rainbow said.

“But…” Twi started to say.

“I’ll get to it, flip over,” Rainbow replied.

You’re doing this on purpose, Twi thought with a frown as she did as Rainbow ordered.

On her back, Twi rested her head on her arms while Rainbow went to work. The athlete skimped on nothing, paying just as much care, applying just as much skill, and being just as thorough as she was on the girl’s front.

Yet Twi didn’t enjoy any of it, she simply frowned and looked forward, not even caring about the looks they were getting from other beach-goers.

“Your neck’s kinda tense, Twi,” Rainbow said as she started rubbing the base of it.

“Are you going to stop teasing me anytime soon?” Twi deadpanned back.

“Well…” Rainbow said aloud, then leaned down to whisper the next part in her ear, “I guess it has been long enough, though you may hate me after.”

“What are y-” Twi’s eyes went wide as she felt a fresh amount of sunscreen squirted out between her ass-cheeks.

“That will draw some looks for sure,” Rainbow said with a laugh.

Twi buried her face in Rainbow’s shirt, doing her best to scream out her frustration into the sand. Rainbow had done this, all of this, just to get her motor running again, just to get her this flustered, and she had fallen for it.

For her part, Rainbow just smiled. With her left hand she kept massaging Twi’s upper and lower back, as to keep up appearances that all they were doing was applying sunblock. Her right hand was somewhere far more nefarious.

Rainbow ran her hand along the inner globes of Twi’s nice ass. She moved up and down Twi’s inner thighs, her fingers teasing each hole the girl had, lightly toying, playing with her.

“What are you doing?” Twi asked between breaths.

Rainbow replied with a smile and a shrug, “I guess I can tell you, egghead. I want to bring you as close to the edge as I can manage, just to stop till the night. Once we find a nice cheap, sleazy hotel, I’m going to fuck your brains out.”

“If you do that, I will fuck your brains out, Rainbow, and not only that—”

“I really want to see that,” Rainbow said, interrupting Twi as her fingers wandered further, slightly teasing Twi’s ass.

“I’ll shove that egg up your ass for a whole day!” Twi finished, growling her anger out.

“Oh, so it’ll feel like this?” Rainbow asked as her middle finger made entry into Twi’s back door.

Twi’s breath caught in her throat, “Yes… like that.”

“Mmmhh, that’s a tempting offer,” Rainbow said with a smile. “But I’m sure I can top that.”

Twi wanted to ask her how, but the question stopped right in her throat. She felt Rainbow’s middle finger go deeper while another gently teased between her labia before penetrating, but only a few inches.

Rainbow smiled as she felt just how wet the girl was getting, “This’ll never do at all, you’re going to need more sunblock. After all, we don’t want our favorite kitty getting burnt, now do we?” At that she pulled both hands back, dumped a large amount of sunscreen into her right, and moved it back down.

“Don’t scream, Sparkles,” Rainbow said as she applied the lotion directly over Twi’s clit, soaking her nethers in the cold cream.

Twi took Rainbow’s warning to heart; she bit down on her arm, almost enough to pierce the skin as her fire was quashed by the cold liquid that Rainbow threw on it.

Unfortunately, that liquid proved to be gasoline. Rainbow liberally applied the lotion all over Twi’s rear, leaving a very healthy amount over her pussy, ass, and thighs. She then started the arduous but fun task of rubbing it into her skin.

Twi started counting back from one hundred as soon as Rainbow’s fingers returned to her holes. She bit her tongue and squeezed her eyes closed, anything she could think of in a desperate bid to stop from calling out, from completely letting go, and possibly getting them arrested for lewd behaviour.

Rainbow’s fingers moved on autopilot, massaging, rubbing, and entering as they wished. She made sure that every possible area of the girl was hit, so much so that Twi wouldn’t get burned if she spent the rest of the day doing a handstand with her legs split wide. However, while her fingers worked the girl over, her eyes were focused on Twi’s face. Waiting for that last moment, that moment when the girl was about to fall over the cliff, when nothing would hold back her orgasm.

At that moment, that ‘oh so critical time’ when she was right on the edge, Rainbow stopped all her actions, causing Twi to glare at her.

“I told you what would happen,” Rainbow said with a smile and a shrug.

“Your… ass... is so mine,” Twi growled her frustration.

Rainbow just shrugged and passed her the bottle of lotion. With a shit-eating smile, she said, “Remember, we are in public,” and then proceeded to lay down on the sand.

“And you think I would care?” Twi asked.

“Twi, this may be a nude beach, but we can’t do too much fun stuff or we might get taken in by the police,” Rainbow replied. “But, hell, I’ve heard of worse reasons to go to jail, your call.”

Twi growled, in her head she was howling with frustration, rage, and anger, but outside she simply took several deep breaths before smiling. It was a smile that would’ve make the grinch do a doubletake. “Tonight, you're going to pay.”

“Mhh, can’t wait,” Rainbow whispered with a grin as Twi popped open the lotion bottle Rainbow handed her.

Twilight was searching for the pegasus for over an hour. She checked behind every cloud in the sky, always hoping to find Dash just behind the next one. She eventually had to give that up. Wherever Dash had run off to, it wasn’t in the sky.

Twilight looked down and saw a clearing in the woods, a perfect spot to teleport too. Powering up her horn she teleported down.

Dash, where’d you go? She started looking around again. The forest was mostly free of humans, and she only had to avoid the occasional large group of them and any animals that might be able to sneak up on her. Both tasks were made easy by the use of her magic.

After ten minutes on the ground, she heard the sound of a rushing stream. Maybe she really did just want a drink? Twilight thought, then immediately dismissed that idea. Dash ran because of what she had said, not because she was thirsty.

“Although, she could still be thirsty,” Twilight said to herself as she started off in that direction.

The sound led her to a small clearing in the forest. From just a look, Twilight knew this was probably a popular watering hole with the local wildlife. Wildlife that could not talk, that is. The lack of magic in the world seemed to affect everything, not just the humans.

Her heart sank when she saw that the clearing was mostly empty, and there was no sign of the pegasus, only a large rock.

And a pebble being tossed out into the water… Twilight saw a pebble skip along the water from the other side of the rock. Her detection spells told her exactly who it was.

Dash!

Maybe I should just teleport to her? No, she doesn’t need that right now.

Twilight sighed and walked over to the mare, loud enough that she was sure that Dash would hear her, but not so loud to attract the attention of everything within the forest. When she rounded the bend, she saw the pegasus sulking against the side of the rock. “Hey,” Twilight said.

“What do you want?” Dash asked, her voice unhappy.

“To talk.”

“That’s what you do best, isn’t it? Just talk about everything.”

“Well if you don’t talk about something, it never changes. And it certainly never improves.”

“There’s no need to talk about something that will never change, that can’t improve,” Dash replied.

Twilight cocked her head. “How do you know that?”

“Because I used, what did you call it? Logic, yeah, that’s it.”

“Maybe I can help you sort it out, maybe there is hope with your problem,” Twilight started, just to be stopped by Dash.

“In case you missed this part, you are my problem, egghead!”

“Because I use checklists?” Twilight asked, knowing that wasn’t it, but wanting to keep her talking.

“NO!” Dash shouted, “Stop playing dumb!”

Twilight sat down on her flank. “Is this about you and me becoming a couple like our human selves? We already said we didn’t have to be like them. Just because they’re in a relationship, doesn’t mean that has to be our destiny too.”

“So you think it’s because of them? Newsflash, egghead, feelings aren’t something you can control, didn’t your books teach you that?” Dash growled.

“I… I know,” Twilight said, unwilling and unable to look Dash in the eye.

“Then stop this act. Things can’t be changed, so why are we talking about this? Let’s just forget about it, egghead.” Dash lowered her head with a sigh, ears folding back upon her skull.

“Because problems don’t just magically go away by ignoring them, Dash. Yours… or mine,” she said the last two words softly.

“What do you even know about that? Talking about it won’t help, so stop it.”

“Dash…”

“Shut up! Shut the buck up! You aren’t making this any easier for me,” Dash scowled, clenching her teeth.

“Dash…”

“No.”

“What do you feel for me, Dash?” Twilight asked.

“Why do you care?” Dash shot back, a tear falling from her eye.

“Because you’re my friend!”

Dash snorted. “Great, I’m friends with the Princess of Friendship! Stop the bucking presses! You don’t seem to get it, that’s the problem.”

“I think I know what’s going on,” Twilight said with a smile before getting up, slowly approaching the pegasus.

“No, you don’t.” Dash looked up, her eyes widening in surprise as Twilight closed the distance between them. “What are you doing?”

“Showing you that I care, that I know what is going on.”

“What?”

“Every single time you did ‘physical things’ with Twi, every single time my heart clenched, I felt sick and awful and jealous.” Twilight started, a tear of her own falling down. “When you showed me… how to take care of myself, I snapped. Not because I hated you, but because of what I felt, and I was afraid.”

“What in Tartarus are you trying to say, Twilight?”

Twilight smiled and leaned in, wiping Dash’s tears away with a wing. “You’re not alone. I might not understand what I feel, but I think I feel it too.”

Dash looked up at her with wide eyes. She felt Twilight’s soft feathers on her cheek, Twilight’s breathing on her muzzle. At exactly that time, she did the only thing her mind could come up with.

She leaned in and kissed Twilight.