A loud beep, beep, beep, signaled the start of a new day, much to Rainbow and Dash’s extreme displeasure.

Rainbow let out a yawn as she sat upright; she turned off the alarm and stretched her arms above her head, while being careful not to wake Twi. She looked over and couldn’t help but smirk at the sight on the opposite bed.

A cyan pegasus lay curled around a lavender alicorn. The blue wing lay draped delicately yet firmly over the sleeping princess. Twilight’s gentle breathing hefted Dash’s wing with each rise and fall of her chest as the wing wrapped tight around her barrel.

The pegasus raised her head ever so slightly and double-checked Twilight's condition, and she hadn’t moved over the course of the night—her sleeping form just as peaceful as it had been for the last day.

“You know we have to wake her up today,” Rainbow said with a smile as she saw the two sleeping together.

“Why don’t you wake up your mar— girlfriend and leave me to mine,” Dash replied with a smug grin.

“I think I will,” Rainbow whispered as she lightly ran her hands under the blanket and over Twi’s sleeping form. The girl smelt like sex, sweat, and love, everything Rainbow adored. She kissed the back of her head, her lips running over the back of Twi’s ear, lightly blowing against the girl’s skin.

Twi cooed out loud but stayed asleep. Rainbow smiled as she placed her hand on Twi’s star tattoo and started working her fingers around the girl’s bare skin, and her hands soon reached her girlfriend’s delicate flower.

With a grin, Rainbow kept kissing her while working her fingers up and around Twi’s slit while she slept. The girl smiled as she started to play her fingers up and down Twi’s lower lips, teasing her with the promise of entry, but never quite giving it to her.

Twi smiled as she felt the girl’s fingers slowly make entry, she cooed in delight as Rainbow started to work her over.

“You’ve been awake the entire time, huh?” Rainbow asked.

“Maybe,” Twi replied.

“Then why did you...” Rainbow left the question unfinished knowing Twi understood completely.

“Can you think of a better way to wake up?” Twi asked as she turned her head and kissed the girl.

“Maybe I should start waking up early every day?”

“I’d like that, but somehow, I’m not holding my breath,” Twi replied with a chuckle. Then turned to their ‘other’ bed partners. “How’s she doing?”

The pegasus flexed her wing under the sheets. She had missed what Rainbow was actually doing, but she didn’t really need to be told. When it came to Rainbow, there was always one thing on her mind.

To say that Dash was starting to understand that viewpoint would be to say that Pinkie only sort of liked parties. Over the last week, the pegasus had been exposed to more sex than she had known her entire life. It was a taste she simply loved.

With Twilight in her… condition, they had explored those desires in full. However, they hadn’t fooled around since Sunday, and it was now Tuesday. Needless to say, Dash was already starting to get that itch again, and it was a shame her partner was out cold.

The girls had offered her the chance to join in last night, but Dash declined. It didn’t feel right anymore, not without Twilight’s permission. Besides, even if she felt the itch, she wasn’t really in the mood. Her concern for Twilight had been all-consuming in her mind.

“She’s still asleep,” Dash replied after giving her a once-over.

“We should wake her up,” Twi said.

“But… isn’t it better to let her rest?” Dash asked.

“It’s been over a day, she needs to drink, eat, and probably use the restroom too.”

“But she needs her rest,” Dash said.

As the girls and Dash argued back and forth, they were granted one of the best life lessons a person—or pony—could learn: no plan survives contact with the enemy.

Twilight began to rustle under the sheets. First a flutter of wings, then a twitch of her hoof. Slowly, the lavender alicorn opened her eyes and blinked in the morning sunlight. Rainbow saw it first and wrapped her hand around Twi’s mouth.

The girl had been in the middle of a sentence and was taken aback by Rainbow suddenly silencing her. When she glared at Rainbow the taller girl simply directed to the alicorn’s location with her eyes.

Dash noticed it too, “Hey, Twilight,” she said with a grin.

The alicorn opened her muzzle to speak, only for Twi to interrupt after Rainbow took her hand off her mouth. “Don’t speak, Twilight. Let me get you something to drink first.”

The alicorn looked at her and nodded. With her head buzzing, she slowly started to try and sit up on her haunches. Stumbling, Dash wrapped a hoof around her withers, a gentle. “I’ve got you.”

As the alicorn slowly got up with Dash’s help, Rainbow took the cue and moved off the bed. Even though Twi had said that she would get Twilight something to drink, Rainbow was at the end of the bed.

The cold air struck her first, but she fought through it. Rainbow got to her feet and walked around the bed to the fridge. Reaching in, she pulled out a bottle of water, opened it, and handed it to Twi.

Twi took it with a small nod of thanks as she sat up, the sheets of the bed falling off her upper body. Her skin quickly developed goosebumps, but she ignored them for now as she held the head of the bottle to Twilight's muzzle.

Twilight opened her mouth ever so much and let the water bottle enter. Twi took it slow, letting the mare drink only as much as she could without her choking. No one in the room questioned it. Twilight had been asleep for over a day, she could barely stand, much less hold a water bottle by herself. Not even taking into consideration the lack of thumbs.

Even still, some water did spill out around her mouth. Dash quickly wiped it up with a feather as Rainbow sat back down and started to rub Twi’s shoulders, hoping to warm her up a little.

When the bottle was empty, Twi spoke up. “Just nod your head, do you want to eat before you use the restroom?” she asked Twilight.

The mare shook her head no.

“Restroom first?”

The mare nodded her head.

“I’ll take her,” Rainbow said aloud. “We can take a shower while we’re there.”

For the first time in her life, Twi heard Rainbow use those words in that order without any sexual innuendo whatsoever.

As Rainbow moved to get the bag, Twi saw the look on Twilight's face change from one of fatigue to one of distress. The alicorn had been asleep for over a day; while it was needed, it did not help with her basic bodily functions. “Rainbow, you might want to hurry,” Twi said.

“Gotcha!” Rainbow replied as she grabbed the bag and placed it down on the bed.

When she picked up the alicorn, there was a noticeable flinch in her face. “Careful,” Dash complained, “she just woke up. I don’t know about you, but the slightest shake and I’d probably burst if I was in her hooves.”

“Well, sorry. I’m not used to trying to sneak a pony princess around in an emergency,” Rainbow replied rather shortly. “Why can’t she just teleport, again?”

It was as if a light switch had been flipped inside Twilight’s head. Scrunching her nose and causing a wrinkle along her muzzle, she appeared lost in thought before literally disappearing before their very eyes.

Dash gave Rainbow a look as if to say well? Shaking a hoof in the direction of the door, Rainbow got the hint, slung the empty duffle bag over her shoulder, and sprinted out of the room towards the bathroom.

“You think she’ll be alright?” Dash asked.

“I have no idea,” Twi replied as she started to slowly remove the covers, forcing her body to acclimate to the cold.

Rainbow sprinted as fast as she could down the hallway, just in case the alicorn princess teleported directly into the restroom in front of a bunch of the other girls. She rounded the doorway and stopped when she saw a rather… full restroom.

There were at least four girls at the sink, two more chatting, and three closed stalls. From the other room she could hear several showers going, too many to count. In front of all the girls, in the bathroom, Rainbow placed the bag at the side of the room, walked into the center, and dropped to the floor to look under the stalls.

Two of the closed stalls had legs sticking out from under them, one did not.

“Uhh, Rainbow, are you looking for someone?” Misty asked.

“Nope, not at all,” Rainbow said as she got up off the floor.

“Just feel like pressing your boobs against the bathroom floor?”

“Nope, just doing some quick morning exercises,” Rainbow replied as she started to do burpees in the middle of the restroom, in front of the porcelain gods. “Someone’s gotta save your asses when we end up getting more suicides.”

“And you’re not doing it in your room… because?”

“Twi,” Rainbow replied as she finished up her fourth one. “Said to take it outside, she wants to sleep in for a little longer. The bathroom seemed like it’d have the most room.”

Misty just nodded and left the room; she knew it was total bull, but, as far as excuses go, it was actually a good one. Which was amazing considering the source. Rainbow was usually awful at white lies.

When Misty left the room, the other girls went back to doing whatever it was they were here for. Rainbow got up off the floor and leaned against the wall. One of the benefits of exercising in the morning was that it did a great job of warming you up. Something she needed in order to fight off the cold sting of the dorms in the morning.

She watched and listened as several girls arrived and left; however, her main focus stayed on that last stall, the one with no legs sticking out from it. When she heard that one finally flush she smiled and nonchalantly walked over to it. As coyly as she could, Rainbow slid the bag under the stall.

She waited as long as she could before sliding it back out, the extra weight identifying that the alicorn had hopped in. Rainbow picked it up and carefully carried it to the shower.

Despite her attempts at being coy, she didn’t leave the restroom without several strange looks.

Rainbow picked the shower stall the farthest away from any of the other active ones and pulled back the privacy curtain. Laying the bag down, she shut the curtain and let the alicorn jump out.

Twilight did so and simply looked up at the girl. Her muzzle didn’t open, and her face betrayed none of her feelings as Rainbow started the shower and gestured for Twilight to follow her inside.

“How are you feeling?” Rainbow asked as the alicorn sat under the waterhead, the shower washing off the day-old smells of sweat, sex, and lust from her mane and coat.

Twilight simply raised her head, slowly, and stared at the girl. Her expression unreadable.

“I… I…” Trying to speak, the alicorn couldn’t form a simple sentence. Looking at Rainbow, her eye began to twitch before her head sank and tears began flowing down her cheeks; and the water of the shower did nothing to hide them.

Rainbow squatted down next to Twilight and wrapped an arm around her withers. She pulled her close and rested Twilight’s head on her chest, pressing her body against Rainbow’s. The tears came earnestly, and the sobbing filled the small cramped shower section they were in.

Any other time, Rainbow might had been worried about getting caught, about someone saying something; and yet, right then and there, she simply didn’t care. She held the alicorn against her bosom and let her cry herself free of tears. If someone said something, she’d just kick their ass later.

Rainbow was never a fan of the mushy stuff. She wasn’t normally all about being the soft and sensitive one, but here? Now? Rainbow didn’t care, not even at the fact that this was a pony from another world crying in her arms. This was her friend, her girlfriend, that was held against her as tears flowed from her eyes. “Let it out,” Rainbow whispered.

Twilight did. She let herself cry and cry, only stopping when her body was unable to make any more tears. Even then, she still held herself against the girl’s chest, letting herself feel the beat of Rainbow’s heart.

Rainbow ran her fingers through Twilight’s mane, wishing she had brought some shampoo and soap for the mare to use when she did so. After her third attempt, she was forced to stop and simply hold the mare’s head with her hand, hoping that might give her some relief to whatever it was she was feeling.

“I messed it up for us, didn’t I?” Twilight asked, her first words since waking.

“What do you mean?” Rainbow replied.

“Dash and I, she… she…”

“She loves you.”

Twilight pulled her head back and looked up at Rainbow. “But I…”

“No buts,” Rainbow said with a smile, “unless you’re talking about the fun ones.”

The alicorn didn’t return the smile.

Rainbow sighed as she ran her hand through her own wet hair. “Let me guess, you’re worried that Dash hates you now, or at least doesn't want to be with you, after your whole ‘heat’ thing?”

Twilight slightly nodded her head.

“Despite her being some sort of element of loyalty? Offering to help you with your heat before this all began, and telling you that she loves you?” Rainbow asked sarcastically.

Twilight nodded again, this time with a lot more hesitance.

Rainbow shrugged her shoulders dismissively which took Twilight completely by surprise. “Maybe you’re right.”

“What?”

“Maybe she does feel taken advantage of, maybe she does want to end it and never talk to you again.”

“Dash wouldn’t‽”

“Who knows? I bet right now she’s sitting in the room hating your guts, calling you names behind your back to Twi, and simply waiting for you to undo your mistake so she can go home and never talk to you again. Probably to tell all your friends too, and make sure they don’t want anything to do with you either.”

Twilight started to cry again. “Why… why are you saying these things? Dash would never—”

“And that’s my point,” Rainbow replied as she wiped a tear from Twilight’s eye. “Dash would never leave you like that, never abandon you, or turn all your friends against you. I know that because she is me.”

Twilight stared up at her, a scowl on her face, as she said, “You mean like how you left Twi?”

Rainbow pulled back like she was visibly struck. However, Twilight wasn’t done. “You left her crying, weeping that you’d never come back. If you are Dash, she’d do the same thing to me.”

“You remember that?”

Twilight nodded.

“I came back.” Rainbow’s words sounded weak, even to her.

“This time,” Twilight said, her voice a whimper.

Rainbow removed her hand from around Twilight and lay her head back against the wall. She took three deep breaths with her eyes closed, letting her words collect in her head. With a frown, she lowered her head into her hands and growled in frustration. Frustration that hid her anguish over her actions. “Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck…” Rainbow couldn’t help but give voice to those very frustrations.

Twilight let her go through the motions without saying a word. She simply pulled away so she was no longer touching Rainbow and waited for her to speak again.

Rainbow didn’t look up when she started talking again. “I’d tell you I was just being stupid, dumb, or a hothead, but we both know that’s just me being me. I can’t defend what I did, given a million opportunities for a million do-overs I would have stayed in each and every one of them. I fucked up, I hurt her in a way I never thought I’d ever hurt her in my life. And the worst part, the absolute worst thing…”—Rainbow raised her head, surprising Twilight with tears in her eyes— “I’ll do it again, probably worse.”

“Why?” Twilight asked, sniffling.

“Because… I don’t know,” Rainbow sobbed. “Twilight, I’m more popular than she is, more liked, and more respected. I have the skills to go far, to go to the very top of what I do, to make more money than Twi is ever likely to see in her life. And yet… I consider my greatest blessing to be the fact that somehow… someway, she loves me.”

“Rainbow…”

“I’m a fucking cunt. I know it, I force her to do things she doesn’t want to do, I drag her places she doesn’t want to go, and force her to deal with my shit on a daily basis.” Rainbow was full on sobbing. “And then… and then I treat her like shit, I leave her.” The words sounded absurd, even to her.

There was a silence in the shower room, the sounds of the other stalls simply disappeared to the two as Rainbow said what she said next.

“She’d be better off with someone else.”

Twilight snapped after hearing those words. She placed her left hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder and stood up on her back legs. Rainbow looked at her, tears falling down her face, expecting Twilight to hug her.

Seconds later, Rainbow saw the alicorn pull back her right hoof, and the crack of hoof on skin echoed off the walls. Pain spiked through Rainbow’s face, her cheek, and her jaw as her face was lit up almost as if it were on fire. “Fuck!” Rainbow yelled as she held her right cheek in her palm.

“Don’t you love her?” Twilight asked through her own tears.

“Of course I do!”

“Then why would you do that to her? Why would you force her to go through life without you?”

“She’d be better off…”

“That may be true on the outside, but on the inside she’d be a wreck. She’d be forced to live every single day without the girl she loved by her side, all because you selfishly thought you were doing the right thing.”

“How can it be selfish to put her needs over my own?”

“Celestia.” Twilight rolled her eyes between tears, “you really are an idiot. You’re not putting her needs over your own, you’re simply trying to avoid responsibility for your actions. You’re trying to get out of having to change, so you don’t have to answer the pain you put her through. Well, there’s no getting out of it. She loves you; she chose you. You can accept that and everything that entails, or run from it like the coward I know you’re not.”

Rainbow looked away from the alicorn, down at the shower floor. The bruise on the side of her head stuck out like a sore thumb. “Why would she even want to stay with me?”

“Because she loves you for who you are. She knows everything you do, and everything you will do, she knows you’ll do dumb things, but she doesn’t care. She’s willing to look past all of that to what she sees inside you.”

“Couldn’t the same be said for you and Dash?” Rainbow asked with a raised eyebrow.

“What?”

“C’mon, Sparkles, tell me you can’t create a list of a hundred dumb things she’s done since you’ve known her?” Rainbow had a smirk plastered across her face as she tried to point out what the alicorn was so obviously missing.

“Well… I…”

“Knowing all that, do you think she’ll change? That just because you’re in a relationship, she’ll somehow be different?”

“Well… no.”

“Yet you still love her?”

“I… I do,” Twilight said as she started to blush.

“Would you ever want her to change?”

“No, of course not.”

Rainbow chuckled, reached up, and wrapped a hand around the alicorn. With a smile, she brought her close. “Maybe we all have our issues.”

“Maybe that’s what it means to be in a relationship? To love and trust in each other, to simply try and do a little better each day, and regardless how bad it gets, never give up trying?”

“I thought Dash was your first relationship?” Rainbow asked with a smile.

“First one I’ve been in, but not the first I’ve observed.”

“How about we make it a challenge? You put your faith in Dash to stay, and I’ll never walk out on Twi again.”

“You want to bet on our relationships?” Twilight asked as she powered up her horn and healed the bruise on the side of Rainbow’s face.

“Yep,” Rainbow said with a smile. There was no need to state the stakes:, The winner got a life of happiness, the loser…

“This is one bet I hope we both win.”

“Me too,” Rainbow replied as she started to pet the alicorn’s stomach. She paused when she felt the rumbling of an empty tummy, “We should get back, you need to eat and I need to get ready for class.”

“Did you bring a towel?”

“Fuck me.”

“I’d rather not, after the other day,” Twilight whispered, but the small sign of a smile still itched her muzzle.

“Did you… did you just make a sex joke?” Rainbow asked, shocked and smiling in equal measure.

“Of course not, I am a princess after all,” Twilight replied back in an overly dignified tone, smirking all the while.

“Dash you can stare at the door until you’re blue in the face… well, more blue than usual anyways, but they’ll get back when they get back,” Twi said as she walked back into the room, after which she put her toiletry bag back in the locker, and wrapped herself in the sheet from off her bed.

“Did you see them?” Dash asked.

“No, I’m pretty sure they’re in the shower.”

“Oh…” Dash replied, worried. Then she paused when she saw the girl wrap a sheet around herself. “Why are you doing that?”

“It’s cold,” Twi complained.

“Clothes?” Dash asked.

“They feel strange… I’m hoping the silk clothes Rarity is sending will help.”

“When did you talk to Rarity?”

“Yesterday, before I got home from class. Walking around in that outfit all day was… embarrassing,” Twi said.

“You didn’t enjoy it?”

“Well… I never said that. But I really can’t do that every day. Around the dorm is fine, heck, nothing is fine nowadays, and I generally have Rainbow to keep me warm, but outside… I’m going to get into trouble if I keep pushing it.”

“What are you going to wear today then?” Dash asked.

“Well… that’s a good question.” Twi stated as she got up and went to Rainbow’s locker. Pulling it open she started to look around for something that might work. She sighed as she did so; yesterday had taught her that none of her clothes felt right. Not even her new ones. They all fitted her, just as well as ever, but they simply itched everywhere they touched her skin. They felt restrictive, unbearably so. “Speaking of plans, what are you going to do when Twilight gets back?” Twi asked, hoping to distract herself as she pulled out a pair of sweatpants to try on.

“Well, I’m not sure. I’m trying to figure out something to show Twilight that I actually do care, but I… I don’t know what to do.” Dash crossed her forelegs and leaned forward to lay down on the bed, resting her chin on her legs. “I’m just afraid I’m going to push all the wrong buttons. I know I can be brash, self-centered, and maybe even the tiniest bit arrogant, but it’s who I am. I’m trying to change, like Rainbow. But knowing Twilight, she’s going to be overthinking everything and somehow blame herself. I just… I want her to know that everything will be alright, that everything we just went through isn’t a problem.”

Twi sighed as she pulled the sweatpants off, for they were beyond itchy. “Dash, don’t you think she knows that you’re brash, self-centered, and arrogant?”

“Well… probably.”

“And yet she still loves you... She fell in love with you, didn’t she?”

“Yeah.” The blush on her cyan cheeks was impossible to miss.

“So why do you want to change the gi—mare she fell in love with?”

“‘Cause she deserves better.”

“But she wants to be with you.”

“Well… yeah but…”

Twi smiled as she walked over to the bed and lightly stroked the side of the pegasus’s head. “She’s a princess right?” she asked, Dash just nodded. “She’s smart, beautiful, gorgeous, and rich?” Again Dash nodded. “So don’t you think she knows what she wants?”

“Well yeah, but I mean, I just want to…”

“You want to be better for her?”

“Yeah.”

“And that’s admirable. You should try and be better for her. But… be a better you, no one else. After all, you’re the one she wants.”

“So don’t change who I am?”

“Exactly,” Twi said as she went back to give the clothes a second look over, “she loves you, why do you think she’d want you to change?”

“Is that how you deal with Rainbow?” Dash asked.

Twi sighed. “I love her to death, but…”

“But she left.”

“Yes.”

“She didn’t mean to.” It sounded weak, even to Dash.

“I know…”

“She loves you…”

“I know…”

“But it still hurts?”

“Heartbreaking.”

Dash gulped. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s not your fault,” Twi said in a whisper.

“Isn’t it? Aren’t we the same?”

“Well… yes, but no.”

“What?”

“You’re the same person, Dash, but you’re also not the same. Just because she does something doesn’t mean you have to or will.”

“This is making my head hurt.”

Twi giggled a little as she found an piece of clothing that might work: It was a large, oversized Wonderbolt sleep-shirt, one that would go down to her knees. “Yeah, I agree with you there. The point is that you can be your own mare, and you can learn from her mistakes, as she can learn from yours.”

“But I mean… Am I going to hurt Twilight too?”

“I can’t answer that.”

“Why not?”

“Because I just can’t. You’re going to say and do stupid stuff, and you’re going to piss Twilight off at times, and most likely hurt her, that’s for sure. But she knows all of this already. Just like you know she’s going to nag you and make you do things you don’t want to do. Things you don’t think are cool, and will embarrass you at times in front of others.”

“That suc—”

“And you’ll both be better for it.”

“Okay, you’re confusing me again.”

Twi chuckled again. “What can I say, it’s confusing. Look, the point is this: Just don’t stop trying; don’t give up, no matter how hard it gets. That’s all you need to do.”

“And she’ll know how I feel just from that?”

“Yep, just by showing her that you’re trying. Do what Rainbow does for me. Do things for her that you’d normally never do, things you both know you hate, and when you do, don’t pretend like you’re enjoying it. Show her that she means so much to you, and that you’ll be miserable just because it’ll bring a smile on her face, wear frilly dresses, or—”

“Or go to a namby-pamby restaurant and have romantic meals,” Dash added, sarcastically.

“That’s…” Twi said as she slid the overshirt on, “not a bad idea.”

“I was being sarcastic,” Dash said as she looked up at her.

Twi ran her thumb and index finger over her chin. “If you could, would you?”

“For Twilight? Of course.”

“What if I could arrange something like that?”

“How are we going to get into a human restuarant?”

“Well, it won’t be a restaurant, but it’ll be someplace she’ll like more,” Twi said as she noticed the Smarty Pants doll in the corner of the room. With a smile, she picked it up and put it into her bag.

“Well… I mean, sure, I’d do that for Twilight. No sweat.”

“I’ll arrange everything for tonight, don’t let her know though.”

Dash looked unsure about this, but then shook it off. If it’s for Twilight. “How does that feel anyway?” she asked, gesturing a hoof to the shirt Twi was wearing.

“It still itches my shoulders and chest, but overall it’s not too bad. I think it’ll work for today at least.”

“You’re not going to trip on it are you?” Dash asked as she watched the girl walk back and forth along the room, it almost came down to her shins.

“Nah,” Twi said with a laugh, “although you’re sweet for caring.” She leaned down and kissed the pegasus on the forehead.

Then they snapped to the doorway when they heard it open. Rainbow ran in, a bag carried in her arms, and water dripping down her very soaked body. She shut the door as she said. “Fuck me, that’s cold.”

Dash laughed. “Forgot your towel, again?”

Rainbow looked at the two of them, her eyes paused as she saw what Twi was wearing. In a flash, she placed the bag on the floor, picked the girl up, and dropped her playfully on the bed. “Rainbow what are you—” Twi’s question was answered as the wet girl tried to crawl into her over-sized shirt. “Ahh, you’re soaked!”

“You’ll warm me up, right?” Rainbow asked with a grin.

Twi lay her head back and laughed.

Dash smiled as she jumped off the bed, heading toward the bag, grabbing the zipper with her mouth, she pulled it open, letting the wet alicorn jump out.

Twilight gave her a look of thanks before pausing, remembering that she was worried about Dash’s reaction.

Dash smiled and then frowned as Twilight quickly looked away. The alicorn walked over to Rainbow’s locker, opened it with her magic, and pulled out a towel. Dash frowned and looked back to the other two on the bed. Rainbow had pulled her head out of Twi’s shirt and was kissing her on the bed. Something Twi was enjoying a lot.

Frowning, she turned back to Twilight. The mare was facing away from her, as her magic was running a towel over her head, trying to dry it.

Twilight frowned as she heard the two in the bed giggling and laughing. Rainbow and her words were playing over and over again in her head, but when she saw Dash, she just couldn’t face that right now. Why am I so weak? she asked herself.

Her mental berating came to an end when she felt a hoof tap her on the side of the shoulder. She sighed and closed her eyes before turning around.

“Dash, I—”

Her words were cut off when the pegasus planted her lips right on Twilight’s. Her eyes widened in shock as she felt the pegasus place more and more of her weight on her. The surprise of the kiss caused Twilight to lean back, first to her haunches, then she fell over backwards, but the pegasus didn’t let go. She adjusted her position so she was right over the alicorn, her lips never leaving Twilight’s, her body dropping down on top of the alicorn’s.

To Twilight, it was the equivalent of finding out—beyond a shadow of a doubt—that a sincerely held belief was flat out wrong. She didn’t know why she believed Dash would hate her, blame her, or worse, she just did. This… this was that belief turned upside down on its head.

When Dash finally did pull back, she gave Twilight her cock-sure smile and said, “Hi.”

Twilight was left dumbfounded with her lips pressed out as the kiss ended. It took her a moment to realize that Dash had pulled away and spoken to her. “Umm… hi?”

Dash leaned down, her muzzle moving to the side of Twilight’s. With a whisper, she spoke directly into her ear, “I love you, Twilight. Whatever dumb stuff I do, whatever stupid words come out of my mouth, please, always remember that.” Before Dash pulled back, she nuzzled her one more time.

Twilight looked up in shock as Dash pulled back; there was a tear falling from her eye. Twilight reached up and placed a hoof on Dash’s shoulder. “Dash I—”

“You don’t have to say anything, Twilight,” Dash replied. “Know that I’m going to say and do stupid stuff, stuff that might hurt you, but I’ll never leave you. I’ll always stay by your side, as long as you want me there.”

Twilight started crying again as she reached up and wrapped the pegasus in a hug, one she never wanted to let go of. “Promise?” she asked with tears falling freely down her face.

“It’s the only promise that’s ever meant a damn to me,” Dash whispered through her own sobs.

“I’m sorry to interrupt this here, but we have to go to class again today, Rainbow,” Twi whispered as the girl cuddled into her and the sweater threatened to fall asleep.

“Ahh, man, can’t we skip?” Rainbow asked as she playfully tried to hide in Twi’s shirt. However, even with its huge size, there was no way she would fit with Twi.

“No, Rainbow, we can’t,” Twi said playfully, “now get out of there before you rip it.”

“Gotta save that for tonight,” Rainbow replied with a wink as she crawled out of the shirt. Twi groaned when Rainbow put pressure on her stomach. “Sorry.”

Twi shook it off. “It’s fine, but now the shirt is wet,” she said, looking down at several, obvious wet spots on the shirt.

“It’ll dry,” Rainbow replied as she walked over to the two ponies. “What do you two want to do while we’re gone?” she asked with a playful wink.

“Besides the obvious?” Dash asked with a smile, earning a blush from Twilight.

“God, I love me,” Rainbow replied with a grin as she ran her hand through Dash’s mane.

“I think I know something they might like,” Twi said as she got up and went to her locker. “You know, for before, or after.”

Rainbow looked over as Twi went into her locker and pulled out the TV and her DVD collection. “Sorry about this,” Rainbow said to her pony self.

Dash whispered back. “Sometimes you do things you don’t want to do because it makes them happy.”

Rainbow pulled back, surprised. “You know, you’re right.”

“Ah ha, found it,” Twi said with a smile as she popped her head out of her locker with a DVD held up proudly.

Rainbow took one look at it and sighed. “Not that one…”

“What? I thought you liked this movie?” Twi asked.

“No, I liked that you liked it,” Rainbow corrected, “there’s a difference.”

“I think Twilight will like The Notebook.”

“You’re probably right about that one,” Rainbow replied with a smile, one that became a frown when the alicorn’s stomach started growling. “Hey, Twi, mind fixing her something to eat while I get dressed?”

“Sure,” Twi said with a smile as she placed the movie down on the bed and moved around to the fridge. She started pulling out a healthy amount of flowers and bread for the alicorn, realizing that she hadn’t eaten in over a day.

“Dash will need something to eat too,” Rainbow said as she slid a blue shirt over her head.

“Twilight first,” Dash replied.

“Of course,” Twi said with a smile, fully expecting such a reply.

Twilight wasn’t the type of mare to simply sit back and let others do all the work while she did nothing. The mare flapped her wings and flew over to Twi. “I got it,” Twi stated.

“I know, I’ll make Dash’s though,” Twilight replied.

Rainbow slid on a pair of blue track shorts as she smiled at the pegasus. “We’re pretty lucky, you know that?”

Dash looked over to the bed and didn’t say a word; she simply nodded her head. Rainbow watched the two versions of her girlfriend make breakfast. At the most opportune moment, she leaned down and whispered, “Hey, look, this movie is gonna suck, and you’re gonna to hate it.”

Dash’s ears fell back against her head as she heard those words.

“But just endure it; don’t spit out smart remarks, or any of that bullshit. If it gets too painful, just watch Twilight. Trust me, it’s worth it in the end.”

“Don’t pretend I like it, but don’t ruin it for her?” Dash asked.

“Exactly. You’re there to be there for her, not to watch the movie.”

Dash thought about this as Rainbow reached into her closet for a pair of socks and her shoes. She quickly put them on and grabbed her bag.

“What about your breakfast?” Dash asked.

“We’ll grab something on the way to class,” Twi said with a smile as she moved Twilight’s plate to the bed. Twilight turned around and with a smile that lit up the room, levitated Dash’s plate right next to hers.

Dash found herself grinning like an idiot as she saw how happy Twilight was over making her food. It’s almost like she’s just happy to do something nice for me.

The pegasus's smile became a chuckle as she realized that was exactly the case. Twilight’s grin, that adorkable egghead’s smile, was simply because she was doing something nice for her… marefriend.

“For me.”

“What was that, Dash?” Twi asked as she walked around the bed and went to get her own socks and shoes on.

“Oh, nothing,” Dash replied as she shook her head clear and flapped her wings. With two flaps, she landed on the bed, right next to the lavender alicorn who wrapped a wing around her as she ate.

“Twilight and Dash, fucking on a cloud, L-I-C-K-I-N—Oww...” Rainbow rubbed the back of her head.

Twi rubbed her hand. “You really can’t help yourself, can you?”

“No, not really,” Rainbow said in a downcast tone as she stared to look down at the floor.

It was a look that was interrupted when Twi grabbed her by the chin and pressed their lips together. When they pulled apart, Rainbow was smiling again. “Never change, Rainbow.”

“Now who’s all sappy,” Dash teased her other self as she saw the two girls break apart.

“Oh, your ass is mine,” Rainbow said with a growl.

Twi pulled her back. “You deserved it and you know it.”

Rainbow shrugged. “Yeah yeah.”

Twi smiled once more before turning back and moving the TV cart out into the room. It’s normal location wouldn’t work because of how the beds were arranged, but she found a nice spot right, at the edge of her locker and wall. “How’s that?” she asked.

“Works for me,” Twilight said between mouthfulls of flowers.

“Ha, she’s got your eating habits too,” Rainbow snickered.

“Oh, shut up,” Twi said with a laugh as she grabbed her school bag and her girlfriend. “We’ll be back around five, but I do have my work study from six to eight today.”

“The one at the library?” Twilight asked.

“Yep.”

“Can you believe it’s only been a week since they’ve came into our lives?” Rainbow asked as she threw her bag over her back and wrapped her arm around the small girl in a protective/loving gesture.

Twi shook her head as they walked out of the door. “No, not really.”

Dash tossed a glance over at Twilight. Only been a week. She couldn’t help but think that it seemed so short, but had this been a few days ago it would have seemed like forever. So much had changed since Twilight had become significant part of her life. They had even began to forget about getting home all together.

That’s when a rogue thought hit her: it was so strange, and so unfamiliar to the pegasus; something she never would have thought in a million years before this… this week.

Wherever you are, that is my home.

She blinked, twice, and then a third time. It was so strange, so sudden, so unexpected, and yet… it felt right.

Twilight glanced at the pegasus as she got lost in her thoughts. The look on her face said she was miles away. Taking a hoof, she booped Dash on the muzzle. “Equestria to Dash. Hello?”

Dash shook her head clear and, rather than reply, simply nuzzled the alicorn, causing Twilight to pull back in surprise. “What’s gotten into you?” Twilight asked.

“Just… happy, I guess,” Dash replied.

“Okay,” Twilight said sheepishly as she looked down at the sandwich again. She had already eaten her first one and was well on the way to her second.

“You want to start the movie?” Dash asked.

“We don’t have to, I mean, I saw that Rainbow didn’t like it.”

“Yeah, but Twi said she did,” Dash countered. “So let’s give it a shot.”

“Dash…” Twilight looked over at the pegasus, “if you’re not gonna like it, we don’t have to.”

Dash didn’t say anything. She simply sat up and grabbed the DVD case with her mouth and flew it over to the TV. Opening the case proved somewhat tricky, but she eventually got it. Gently placing the DVD in the player, she pressed play before jumping back to Twilight and snuggling up to her side, draping her in her wing. “Won’t know until we try, will we?” she asked with a smile.

Twi and Rainbow stood in the doorway. Rainbow’s jaw dropped to the floor as she watched the scene unfold in front of her. Twi’s eyes almost glimmered as she took in just how adorable the two ponies were being. Tugging on Rainbow’s arm she gestured towards the open door, leading the taller girl from the room. “I think these two could use some time to relax, just the two of them,” she whispered. Rainbow only nodded, gently closing the door behind them.

Twilight’s wings fluttered at her sides as Dash draped her wing over the alicorn’s back. Her chest felt warm as she leaned in and nuzzled gently against Dash’s cheek before pulling back, though still snuggling her barrel closer to her marefriend’s. As the movie started, she let out a content sigh. Could this get any better?

Dash figured out really quickly that yes, it could be better. They could be watching a much better movie for starters.

Ten minutes into the movie and she was already rolling her eyes. A Duke whatshisface was telling the story to another patient in the hospital, which then took the story back in time to the forties, quite a while back—or at least that’s what Twilight told her—where it introduced a new character by the name of Noah, who wanted to buck this other character, and, rather than just doing it, he asked her out for a summer of romantic crap that seemed like a huge waste of time.

Dash closed her eyes and sighed as they started to run into a house. She had bit her tongue so much by this point she was worried that she might bite it off. However, every time she had almost said something, she glanced at Twilight.

The alicorn looked smitten by the story. The wonder on her face was simply too cute to look at for Dash. She smiled and settled back down, getting ready for the long haul.

That’s when the two characters started making out. The woman, Allie, asked Noah to buck her.

Dash’s interest was peaked.

Ahh yeah, finally getting to the good part!

As things built up and the characters started to undress, Noah taking off his shirt, Allie striped down to her underwear; suddenly, Noah’s ‘so called’ friend, Fin, broke in.

“OH COME THE BUCK ON!” Dash shouted.

“Dash!” Twilight said with a pleading look.

“Sorry…” Dash grumbled.

Fin informed the couple that Allie’s parents called the cops, who were even now out looking for her.

And that couldn’t wait ten minutes, because?

After that, Dash zoned out for a while, her mind removed itself from the movie altogether and started to think about new tricks she could try, new flight maneuvers she wanted to show Twilight, and some rather… erotic ideas about fucking on clouds out in the open. In her fantasies, Twilight’s moans were carrying all over of Ponyville as Dash ate her out, her crown barely hanging on as she threw her head back and screamed in pleasure, neither pony caring if someone flew up to check on them or not.

Needless to say, fantasies of flying quickly took a backseat.

A loud scream pulled her out of her fantasy.

As she opened her eyes there was a slight display of blood, a heavily injured soldier dizzily walking over the screen before breaking down onto the ground.

“Those wars are cruel,” Twilight mumbled under her breath and Dash pulled her closer with a wing.

Dash took another look at the TV as she saw Fin get killed. “I think that could be said for all wars.” The brash mare was more than used to charging head first into danger, but face to face with death… that was something else entirely.

The scene changed to a hospital setting, showing white hallways sometimes covered with blood, and a lot of wounded soldiers waiting on gurnees for their treatment. Allie was there, treating the wounded and meeting with an officer.

“What, didn’t she want to be with the other guy?” Dash asked, confused.

“Remember, they can’t be together because of her parents? They want her to be with someone more in her class.”

“Her class? She’s a human, isn’t she?”

“Yea, but she comes from a wealthy family.”

“So?”

“So they don’t want her to marry someone that’s beneath their level.”

“Oh, buck that.”

“That’s important to some.”

“Why? I mean if you love someone, shouldn't that be enough? Why does dumb things like class have to get in the way?”

“I don’t know, Dash…” Twilight said, looking off in the distance.

“I mean… would you ever let something like that get in the way?” Dash asked.

“What do you mean?” Twilight replied.

“Well… I mean… when we get back, what if Shining doesn’t approve, or your parents? Or our friends, or for that matter… Celestia?”

“Why wouldn’t they…”

“I’m just saying, what if? I mean, I know what I’d do, but what would you do?”

“Oh? What would you do?” Twilight asked teasingly.

“I’d tell them to get over it or to buck off. I love Twilight Sparkle. If they don’t like it, that’s their problem.”

“You really would? What if it was Spitfire, and she told you that you can’t be a Wonderbolt and be with me?”

Dash paused. “Oh…”

“If she made you choose, citing some rule about not being able to, what would you do?”

Dash opened her mouth and then shut it again. She repeated this process three different times, each time about to say something and then stopping before it left her muzzle.

“I don’t mean to put you on the spot, Dash, you don’t have to ans—”

A wing in front of her face stopped her. “Twilight, I’d pick you.”

Twilight paused. “Dash?”

Dash pulled her wing back. “I think that’s always been true, though. Even if I had some big Wonderbolt performance and you needed my help, I’d have ditched the performance to go help you. Now? Now that’s just been magnified ten-fold if they told me some dumb law about a Wonderbolt not being able to date a princess, well I’d go buck Celestia in the head for starters, but if afterwards she said there’s just no way to change it, I’d rather… I’d rather spend my time with you.”

“You mean it?” Twilight said with a blush.

“I do,” Dash replied.

Twilight leaned closer to her and kissed her on the lips. Dash found herself melting into the kiss, her heart starting to beat a mile a minute; and her forehooves felt like they were trying to hold up a ton, but it was a weight she would not shrink from. During that kiss, she realized what truly mattered in life: It wasn’t some applause, or some big trophy, it was having somepony there, somepony that truly loved her, somepony that she truly loved.

When Twilight pulled back, she looked down and blushed.

“Besides, I think… I know… while joining the Wonderbolts was my dream, you’re my new dream now, Twilight.”

Twilight powered up her horn and lifted up the remote. With a click of the button, she turned off the TV.

“Twilight?” Dash asked.

“I think I’d rather do something else,” Twilight said with a blush, “I mean if yo—”

Dash interrupted her with a kiss. Her lips were pressed right up against the alicorn’s, stopping her from even asking. When she pulled back, there was a cock-sure smile on her face. “You know you never have to ask.”

“Great! Let’s get some studying done! Go get some flashcards from Twi’s locker!” Twilight said with a grin as she rubbed her two front hooves together excitedly.

Dash paused and asked, “What?”

“I’m kidding,” Twilight said with a smile.

“The egghead… just… got… me…”

Twilight smiled as she got up to her hooves and walked around the pegasus. While still a little sore from her time in heat, that had been more physical than emotional. This… this was emotional. Hearing Dash open up like that, hearing her expose that side of herself, it made Twilight long for the mare. It made her want to touch her, to feel her, to be pleasured by her, and to give her pleasure in return.

Twilight whispered the next thing into Dash’s ear, “It won’t be the only thing I get.”

Both of Dash’s wings poofed back uncontrollably, giving Twilight quite the view to admire: A pretty excited pegasus.

“Mmhmm, somepony is excited,” Twilight whispered, continuing her rounds. “The last few times were needed, but today… today I want to feel you, to love you and feel my heart while you make love to me.” Dash shuddered as her wings trailed over her fur, but Twilight wasn't done yet. "No toys, no rutting. Only our lips, tongues, wings and my horn," she said, causing Dash to lock her lips into a kiss before gently forcing her down the bed.

Twilight forced Dash slowly onto her back, never breaking the kiss until they both wanted more. After that, she started to trail small pecks and kisses down her muzzle, adding a lick every now and then. Every action was accompanied by some approving cooes from the pegasus.

Dash considered taking the lead, forcing herself on top of the alicorn. She wanted to. Celestia knew she wanted to, but she didn’t. This wasn’t Twilight wanting to repay some sort of debt, at least Dash didn’t feel like it was. Rather, this was Twilight wanting to pleasure her, to give her a gift of love.

That thought made her stop and hold herself still. She let Twilight take the lead and do whatever she wanted, knowing that she simply wanted to do it because she loved Dash.

That wasn’t to say Dash was simply a stiff, as, when Twilight moved back up to kiss her again, the pegasus beat her to it. She flexed her stomach and leaned up, licking the side of the alicorn’s face. “Dash,” Twilight said with a playful smirk.

Dash paused and stared at her, thinking of a hundred different things to say that would be cool and radical, even at this moment. Before she opened her mouth, Rainbow’s words came back to her mind: In front of your girlfriend, being uncool, is being cool.

As such, she said what she truly wanted to say, what her heart wanted her to say, not what her mind wanted. “I love you, Twilight.”

“I love you too,” the alicorn whispered back before returning the lick with equal feelings.

Dash spread her hind legs and wings, almost in an offering to the alicorn. She was presenting herself in the most vulnerable position she could, offering up everything she was, everything she had, all for Twilight.

Twilight blushed a little when she saw it. A week ago, heck, five days ago and the sight of her friend presenting herself in such a way would have made her teleport miles away, too overcome with embarrassment to even give her a second look. Now... now she saw it as the true sign of trust… of love it was. It was heartening to the alicorn.

She stuck her nose near the pegasus’s stomach and slowly brought it up to her muzzle. Twilight smelt Dash. She wanted everything. Everything she could take in of the pegasus.

“Twilight?” Dash asked, perplexed.

“You smell like morning dew,” Twilight replied with a smile.

“Not sweat and sex?” the pegasus asked with a small chuckle.

“Well, that too…” Twilight said with a smile as she kissed her again. Dash held up a hoof and ran it through Twilight’s mane, enjoying the feel of it in a way she had never truly appreciated before. It was simply… Twilight.

“I can’t understand how I lived all this time without having you by my side. Now I just can’t stop, not that I want to,” Dash said dreamily while playing with the bi-coloured strand in Twilight’s mane.

Twilight lightly kissed her again, and again after that. In little pecks, she worked her way down Dash’s muzzle, to her neck. “I know… I don’t think I’d last a day right now without knowing your touch.”

“Is that your way of asking me to move in?” Dash asked with a grin.

Twilight pulled back. “What… I… I mean… I didn't mean it like that… but I…”

Dash laughed. “Relax egghead, one way or another, I doubt we’re sleeping in separate beds from now on.”

Twilight looked at her for several seconds before smiling. “If we do that, I’m moving in at your place. Truth be told, the Castle may be where I live, but it never really felt like home. I miss the Oaks way too much.”

Dash placed her front hooves on Twilight’s. “This is my home, this right here.”

“When did you get so sappy?” Twilight asked, touched by the gesture.

“I blame it on these two nerdy little eggheads I know.”

“Two?”

“Yeah, you and your human self.”

Twilight chucked a little. “Well, at least I can say I know three Rainbow Dashs now. That’s three times the awesome, so I win.”

“Nah, I still win. After all, there’s one thing more awesome than that.”

“Oh, what’s that?”

“Being your marefriend.”

Twilight didn’t really process the information and blinked several times. As the words registered in her mind, she closed the gap forcefully, surprising the pegasus.

Dash almost gasped in surprise when she felt the weight of the alicorn press against her. That option was taken away when Twilight forcefully pressed their lips together—her tongue darting out with surprising speed right into the pegasus’s mouth. For the first time in her life, Dash flat out surrendered to another pony. After all, there was no reason to fight, for she had already won.

Twilight felt Dash. She ran her forehooves up and under Dash’s, seeking to touch her everywhere. Her body lay completely on the pegasus’s, simply trying to be closer to her, as close as possible for two different ponies. Her tongue tasted the pegasus, running along the inside of Dash’s mouth, seeking out its opposite.

Dash wrapped her wing around the alicorn, bringing her into a tight, heated cocoon while they kissed. Meanwhile, Twilight ran her hooves up and down the pegasus’s side. They broke apart only when the need for air overtook them—when the small amount of air they could take in from their noses failed to meet the demand. When Twilight pulled back, Dash saw something that worried her. “Twilight,” she started, wiping a tear from the alicorn’s eye. “I—”

“Don’t say a word Dash, you’ve… you’ve already said more than I could ever want, and you’ve done more than I ever deserved. You’re… you’re—”

“You’re the mare I love.” Dash didn’t complete Twilight’s sentence, not directly anyway. She merely said what they were both thinking about the other.

Another tear fell from the alicorn’s eye. She couldn’t speak, so she just nodded in agreement at Dash’s words. The pegasus pulled her wings back, letting the coolness of the room return to their bodies. Neither could truly say how long they had been in that wing cocoon, but it was warmer than the dorm room.

Drawing power from her horn, Twilight grinned sheepishly at the pegasus and concentrated on her muscles, the same ones she had just finished rubbing with her own hooves. Dash raised her head up and cooed in delight as the alicorn’s magic began playing over her stiff muscles, rubbing her shoulder joints and legs in all the right ways. Twilight remembered the pegasus’s words, about not liking anyone touching her hooves, and stayed away from there.

As Dash enjoyed her massage, Twilight started to work her way down the pegasus’s stomach. She already knew that Dash had sensitive nipples, and that was something she wanted to explore more of.

Twilight soon reached her destination and gave the place a little lick, trying to force Dash’s nipples to stick through her coat more. Her actions were rewarded with a loud moan and gasp as the pegasus was assaulted with double pleasure.

Dash smiled and cooed even more as she felt Twilight’s tongue continue to work over her teats, and she managed to look down between licks, and saw that the alicorn’s eyes never removed themselves from her face. She wanted to see the results of her ministrations, to know that her actions were appreciated by the mare.

They were. Oh Celestia, they were.

Dash felt her chest rise and fall by itself. Her back arched ever so slightly and she could feel her wings start to stiffen. How is she doing this without even touching me between my legs yet? The thought perturbed the pegasus as she felt more turned on now then at the end of some of her clopping sessions, and Twilight hadn’t even started on her marehood.

That question went unanswered as Twilight moved her front hooves around Dash’s rear hooves. With care, she positioned the pegasus’s hind legs on her shoulders as she started to rub her cutie marks while continuing to lick her teats.

Much to her surprise, Dash felt her marehood start to contract and relax. Her vagina started to squeeze, looking for something that wasn’t there, and her mouth cried out in pleasure as her first orgasm overtook her.

Twilight paused in surprise as she felt a small splash of liquid hit her chest. She moved up from Dash’s teats and stared down, seeing the real prize starting to leak marecum.

When Dash finished riding the small wave of pleasure, she opened her eyes and asked, “Okay, what spell was that? ‘Cause that was radical.”

“The only spell I was using was massaging your muscles.”

“My... pussy muscles?”

“No, Dash, not at all,” Twilight smiled.

Dash grinned. “Well, if that wasn’t a pussy-massage, call me eager for more of your massages.”

Twilight blushed before kissing the inside of the pegasus legs. “I’d love to.”

Dash looked lovingly as Twilight grinned at her. To Dash, Twilight’s smile could light up the room in a way that would put the sun to shame. However, what really surprised her was when Twilight moved back down. “You know already…”

“I know,” Twilight replied, “but I made a little bit of a mess, it wouldn’t be right to not clean up after myself, would it?”

Dash could only nod in agreement when she felt the alicorn’s tongue on the side of her thighs. Twilight softly, slowly, licked the pegasus’s fur clean. She purposely started on Dash’s left leg, then her right, then moved up and licked every area but Dash’s marehood.

The process was agonizingly slow for the pegasus. She simply wanted to feel Twilight’s tongue press against her, to feel her reach into her as far as she could, and have a mind-blowingly amazing orgasm. However, with each and every lick of Twilight’s tongue, with every sensation, with every hint, tease of the joy that was to come, Dash felt herself that much more turned on, that much more pleasured.

It was driving her mad with both pleasure and desire. Just when she was about to say something, just when she was about to cry out her need, to beg the alicorn to stop teasing her, Dash felt the first lick across her lower lips.

The first lick was like the smallest hint of a drop on her fire; the second lick soothed her flames; the third drove her lust to new heights as she was pleasured by the mare she loved so much; and the fourth lick broke through her mind. “Oh, Twilight!” she moaned in bliss.

Remembering Twi’s words: ‘Don’t give her a moment’s respite’, Twilight continued to lick, her tongue playing across her marefriend’s vulva. She nuzzled the top of it with her nose, coaxing Dash’s clit out from under it’s hood. At the end of each lick, Twilight lingered just for a second over the sensitive bud of pure, amazing pleasure.

Dash felt her flanks lift up even further as her body naturally tried to thrust back against Twilight’s muzzle. Twilight took this as a sign and, using her larger bulk to her advantage, lifted Dash’s hips off the bed to allow herself better access.

It was then she forced her tongue into the pegasus. It was the first time she had ever been inside of another pony, much less a mare, and it felt fantastic.

There was no need to say that it was heaven for Dash. She cooed as Twilight’s tongue slowly wiggled its way in, sounds that more and more evolved into desperate moans and bucking hips, trying to get the appendage as deep as possible.

Twilight responded to the desire with exactly what Dash wanted. In truth, she wanted it as well. Every time her tongue would lick out, she’d taste that much more of her marefriend, each time it came back in, it’d be accompanied by more and more of her lover’s juices. She was so enthralled by the taste that she didn’t even notice when Dash started to scream her name into the room.

“Twilight!” Dash yelled as she felt her second orgasm overtake her in as many minutes.

Whereas last time Dash came, it was a small spirit of juices that landed on Twilight’s chest. This time it was more of a fluid, one in which Twilight was in more than the right position to enjoy. She caught Dash’s cum in her muzzle, suckling down as much as she could as she continued to lick at the never ending reserve that was her marefriend’s pussy.

Dash squirmed, moaned, and simply enjoyed the overwhelming sensations of being pleasured by someone that she truly loved, of being in the tender loving care of a mare that meant everything to her. Her pleasure was like a raging flood, washing away everything else, everything that didn’t matter, leaving on it, the pleasure brought about by the mare she loved the most in the world.

Twilight let her rear hooves down and smiled at the result. Below her was a very happy, very satisfied pegasus. One that was panting, sweating, and breathing heavily with orgasmic induced joy. However, she wasn’t quite done with her.

The alicorn remembered everything they had all done for her during her heat, and while she wasn’t interested in giving them ‘payback’; Twilight still wanted to show them all how much it meant to her that they helped her the way they did. And nopony or human had done more for her than what Dash had.

With a grin, she sat back on her haunches and carefully levitated the pegasus up over to her. Letting Dash’s head rest on her chest, Twilight spread her left wing and lightly started to run the feather tip down Dash’s stomach. She was mindful of overstimulation—something Twi’s book said might be more painful than pleasurable—but still wanted Dash to know that she was there when the pegasus came to.

Dash licked her lips and cooed slightly in the alicorn’s hooves. As she opened her eyes, she looked up into the loving face of Twilight, her Twilight. “Mmhm, who taught you all that?” she asked with a grin.

“Been reading Twi’s notes,” Twilight said with a smile.

“When?”

“Before I went into heat, when you were taking your nap when we finished writing the questions,” Twilight said.

“You read the whole book then?”

“No, just the basics. It’s very… thorough. Although, I will have to start on my own, after all, we do have feathers.” As Twilight said the last word, she lightly ran the tip of her feather over Dash’s still protruding clit.

A shiver passed through the pegasus’s body at the touch of the light feather across her still sensitive marehood. She cooed in delight, something Twilight smiled about as she moved the feather up to Dash’s sensitive teats. “Not to say I’ll have to change too much, your nipples are just as sensitive as Rainbow’s.”

Dash smiled as she realized where this was going, not to be outdone, she added, “Yeah, maybe I’ll write on about that horn of yours.”

“A book by Rainbow Dash,” Twilight said with a chill up her spine at the thought. “I have a funny feeling your editors might up and quit if you tried that.”

“Maybe you could… gosmacallit,”

“Ghostwrite it?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah, that.”

“So you want me to write a book, about pleasuring my own horn, for you?”

“We’ll have to take extensive notes.” Dash said, smiling.

“I think we will… first things first though, my book about you. How you respond to certain… stimuli.”

Dash cooed out loud when Twilight’s feather passed back over her nipples. “Mmhm, you’ve always been a quick learner.”

“We should extend the lesson, huh?” Dash breathed heavily, trying to unfold her wing, just to be stopped by Twilight.

“This is about us, but this round is about me making love to you. You will get your turn, but leave this to me.”

Dash did something she never thought she’d ever do: She let herself be taken over by the alicorn.

Her hooves relaxed and she closed her eyes, concentrating only on the feelings of Twilight’s feathers running across her fur, along with the alicorn’s breathing, blowing softly against her neck, and the feeling of her breathing in and out, and her chest pressing against Dash’s back.

If it hadn’t been so damn erotic, Dash could have fallen asleep right then and there. As it stood, the heat coming from the alicorn was perfect: The feeling of her feathers moving up and down Dash’s barrel was like a light, playful, erotic tickling that hit every spot on her body right when it was most needed.

She did cheat once though. Dash squinted through her closed eyelids and glanced up, seeing Twilight’s horn powered up, So… she is using magic. The pegasus thought with a grin. That’s not to say she minded it. To the contrary, if it felt this good, she wanted more of it.

Her mouth fell open when Twilight tilted her wingtip ever so slightly and started to tease entry into Dash’s marehood. Dash opened her hind legs as much as she could, encouraging her lover to do as she wished.

Despite her lessons and notes, actually getting the feather in from the angle she was at proved far more tricky than Twilight expected. Near the end she had almost given up, thinking she was doing more to annoy the pegasus than anything else.

Twilight only continued when Dash opened her eyes and kissed her on the side of her muzzle. “You’re cute when you’re flustered.”

“Starting to get sappy on me again?” Twilight replied with a grin.

“Stays between me and you,” Dash replied. “Twilight, I’m serious about that.”

“Of course,” Twilight said. “Everything we do is just between us. We don’t have to tell anypony if you don’t want to.”

Dash looked confused. “I mean just about the sappyness. I want to hang a banner over Ponyville about us being together!”

“Dash!”

“We can update it every time we have sex too.”

“That… that would be a lot then,” Twilight whispered sheepishly.

Dash opened her muzzle, but paused while she realized something. “Did you just suggest that we buck a lot?”

Twilight blushed furiously. “You know, I actually meant that… no I mean… you know that—” she was shut up by a kiss and once they broke, she smiled at Dash. “What I tried to say is, yes, I would love to.”

Dash felt her heart do a hundred sonic rainbooms in her chest. She kissed Twilight again, and again. Soon she couldn’t take it anymore and took charge, every part of her wanted to show Twilight how much she meant to her, how much she loved her. Dash caught her lips one more time and forced her backwards, making the alicorn fall onto her back as she pressed her own body against her friends.

Twilight figured out what Dash was trying to do and put a stop to it, encasing the mare in magic, she lifted her off herself. “Oh no, this is about you, not me.”

“But…”

“Oh, there’s only one butt I care about right now,” Twilight said with a smile as she lay the pegasus back down on the bed, her stomach face up, her flank pointed Twilight’s direction. “And it’s all mine.”

Twilight stood to her full height and flexed both wings. Standing over the pegasus, she was imposing, her wingspan far larger than Dash’s. However, the look on her face spoke nothing but love.

Dash quickly figured out why Twilight wanted this new position, in this manner, her wings would have far easier access to her pussy. As she begun, the alicorn nuzzled Dash’s marehood with her nose—coaxing her labia ever so slightly to allow for easier access. She then moved her wingtip up to her mouth, as to lightly suckle the primary feather.

Dash cleared her throat right before Twilight started. “What’s wrong?”

“Want me to do that?” Dash asked with a grin.

Twilight paused as she looked down at her wingtip. In a way, it was somewhat like preening, something you only let another do if you were in a close, loving relationship with someone. She smiled as she realized that her and Dash now counted as just that. Letting Dash suckle on her feather, letting her preen her wings, those were all things she could do now.

Twilight responded by holding her wingtip to Dash’s mouth. The pegasus lightly licked the length of the primary feather with her tongue, letting it trail up the length in a far more erotic than functional manner. Twilight cooed upon the gentle licking, coos that turned into quiet moans as the pegasus started to suckle on it.

Dash twirled the primary around in her muzzle, making sure that her tongue pleased every single inch of it. It was an action that was highly approved by the alicorn, not wanting it to stop too soon.

It was stopped as soon as Twilight took the feather back, but only to move it teasingly close to her marehood, hovering just above the pegasus’s most sensitive area. Dash waited for more, but nothing happened. Questioningly looking at Twilight, the alicorn just smiled. And that was exactly what she waited for.

Twilight gently pushed her primary forward, touching Dash’s marehood with soft care, eliciting indecipherable mumbles from the cyan mare. For Dash, it was just like when Twilight stuck her tongue in, and yet nothing like it. The feather lacked the girth, the thickness, the warmth of the appendage, but it made up for that in length and softness.

She knew from experience that soon the feather would be worthless, her own juices would soon coat the sides and remove the tickling feeling she now felt on the inside of her marehood, but until then, she enjoyed it for all it was worth.

Twilight smiled and thrust with her wingtip, she pushed in, as far as she could go, until Dash’s own biology stopped her. Then she softly pulled out, all the while keeping her horn lit and a certain waterproofing spell going on her wingtip.

When the edges of the feather crossed over Dash’s g-spot, the pegasus almost lost it. She had never ever felt that before, not in any of her own clopping sessions. It was like a million times a million tiny little hooves softly teasing her, caressing her.

“Oh, Twilight!” The mare called out to the heavens.

Twilight smiled as she started to force her wingtip back in. In and out, in and out it went, her movements more focused on the sensations of the feather than pounding into her. Already Twilight was starting to consider new uses for some of the spells she knew, and in the back of her mind, she was starting to reconsider ones she had thought of as impossible when she was just a unicorn.

The alicorn smiled at Dash as she poured more magic into her primary, basically charging it with her energy. Dash felt the feather pulse and slightly growing warmer, only adding to her pleasure ten-fold. But Twilight wasn’t done yet.

She increased her speed and continued her magic, filling the pegasus more, way more than should’ve been possible. As she added a last burst of her energy, the dam holding Dash broke. The pegasus cried out, and for the third time that session, came at the hooves of the mare she so loved. The feeling of the alicorn’s spell across her g-spot had just been too much for the mare.

Twilight pulled her feather out just in time to save it from being squished by the pegasus’s rapidly contracting and expanding walls. She watched as fresh fluids poured from the mare, something the alicorn was more than happy to help herself to.

Dash didn’t consciously recognize Twilight’s ministrations, but her body did. It drove her to new heights, to new levels of enjoyment that she had never known possible. Forcing her body to give up the last of its strength as she rode out an ocean of pleasure, all by the hooves of the pony she loved the most.

She came to an indeterminate amount of time later, tired, exhausted, and satisfied. The first thing Dash noticed was the soft, warm coat she was leaning against. She didn’t even have to look to see that she was back in Twilight’s hooves, and if she were being truthful, there was no place she’d rather be.

“Welcome back,” Twilight said with a smile.

“That was… that was…” Dash tried to find the words.

“Speechless?” Twilight asked with a grin.

“You left me that way,” the pegasus said, her head starting to droop further into the lavender coat.

Twilight smiled as she put down Twi’s book and wrapped a hoof around the pegasus. Dash’s own hoof quickly found it and brought it into her chest. “Go to sleep, Dash, I’ll be here when you wake up.”

“Promise?” Dash asked as her heavy eyelids were pulled down by gravity.

“Pinkie promise. You can sleep in my hooves.”

“No place I’d rather be,” Dash said as she drifted off into wonderful dreams.

Twilight kissed the top of Dash’s forehead as she picked the book back up in her magic. As much as she had never pictured herself reading a book on sex, with a marefriend like Dash, the alicorn found she couldn’t put it down.

Hmm… let’s see what’s on page twenty five… She thought with a grin as she flipped the page to the more ‘advanced stuff’ Twi had told her about. What she saw initially frightened her, although the more she read about it, the more excited about it she became.

Dash awoke to the sounds of the door opening up and two humans walking in, talking loudly. “I can’t believe she got it done so quickly!” Twi was practically beaming.

“Really? It is Rarity after all,” Rainbow said with a grunt as she walked in behind the small girl. The cause of her discomfort was soon obvious: She was carrying a large box in her hands, albeit it was more awkward than heavy. Twilight could see that it was almost full with whatever was inside. “I just can’t believe she flew her assistant out overnight to hand deliver it.”

Twi smiled as she saw the two ponies. “Did you two have a fun day?”

Dash yawned loudly, stretched her forehooves, and managed to hit Twilight in the shoulder in the process.

“Oww.”

“Oh, sorry,” Dash replied as she got up from off the alicorn’s lap. When she blinked her eyes clear, she saw where she slept, and the book Twilight had been reading while she was out. However, her eyes only came to a stop on Twilight’s face, she simply looked… cute.

“Yeah, I’d say we had a fun day,” Dash replied with a smile as Rainbow dropped the box on the bed with a huff.

“Think you ordered enough clothes?” Rainbow asked, sarcastically.

Twi gestured to the sleep shirt she was still wearing, her one and only article of clothing on other than her shoes. “As much as I… enjoy this, it’s not practical, Rainbow.”

“Ugh, and there is my egghead again, ruining all the fun,” Rainbow said with a smile.

“Oh, who said we can’t have fun?” Twi whispered back, kissing her on the cheek as she did so. “I did give Rarity some… ideas for designs I wanted.”

“Oh, I know,” Rainbow replied nonchalantly.

Twi paused. “Wait… what? How do you know?”

“I called Rarity myself last night after practice, and she told me everything about your order.”

“Why’d you call Rarity?”

“Because you’re right, you did need some clothes you can wear other than sleepshirts and that club getup.”

That took Twi by surprise. “You… really?”

Rainbow chuckled. “C’mon, Twi, I may be in the all-natural camp, but even I know there has to be some limits. This is America after all, land of the stuck-up prudes.”

“Rainbow… that’s so—”

“That being said—”

“And here’s the other shoe,” Twi said, laughing shortly afterward.

“I did make a few last minute changes to your order.”

“Rainbow…”

“Something that’s more… open, like you’re used to.”

“Rainbow… what did you do?”

“Let’s just say Rarity fainted twice when I was talking to her about it.”

“Then how’d you get her to agree to it?”

“I had to promise to model her new line next summer…” Rainbow replied as she looked down at the floor.

Twi laughed. “You’re one of a kind, Rainbow.”

“Hey!” Dash said.

“Two of a kind,” Twi corrected.

“Better,” Dash stated as Twilight kissed her on the cheek.

“Okay, let’s see what we got here!”

“Excited?” Rainbow asked with a grin as she grabbed a box cutter from her locker and moved over to the box.

“Somewhat,” Twi admitted. It was true, she was apprehensive, nervous, somewhat pissed that Rainbow would do this behind her back, and… rather excited.

Carefully, Rainbow cut open the box and opened it up, she smiled as she pulled out the first article of clothing. Somehow—like always—Rarity managed to exceed her client’s expectations while giving them her own flair.

The first piece she pulled out was a lavender top, completely woven out of silk with two soft straps to ensure it wouldn’t fall off her shoulders. Just from looking, Twi knew that it was expertly made and just the tiniest bit see through, but still enough to cover. The second piece was a small skirt, matching the top completely. To say it was short would’ve been an understatement, but it fit snuggly to the top and Rainbow was more than sure, that Twi would look smashing in it.

While Rainbow was appreciating what the clothes wouldn’t cover, Twi’s eyes fell upon the embroidered star designs on the shirt and skirt. On the shirt, right in the dead center, where the stomach would be, was a large pink six-pointed star, in direct matching of what her tattoo looked like. On the skirt, the same star could be seen on the left side, and Rainbows lightning bolt was on the right.

“Oh, wow…” Twilight said in shock as she saw the clothes.

Rainbow had a shit-eating grin as she held it up for every human and pony to see. However, while their eyes were on this piece, she was looking at the next one.

“But… isn’t that going to itch?” Dash asked. She liked the clothes as much as Twilight did—although she’d deny it if asked—but she didn’t know if it would solve the problem.

In way of response, Rainbow simply held the shirt closer to the pegasus. Dash lightly touched it with a hoof; the contact was exquisitely smooth and cool to the touch, blowing in the small breeze that filled the room.

If Twi thought that outfit looked amazing, what Rainbow held up next shattered her universe: Gingerly, Rainbow placed the outfit on the bed, and pulled out a ankle-length purple dress. Twi’s eyes went wide when she saw it. The dress was made out of the same material as the top and skirt. This one was held up by a strap that went around the neck. Two lengths of the silk material went straight down the front and criss-crossed over the midsection. It flowed down into a dress that covered the legs with the exception of a waist high slit that ran from the waist to the bottom of the dress.

“I… I want to try that on…” Twi stated, the dress held as much fabric in it as the shirt did, but somehow managed to look far more refined than the top ever could.

Rainbow nodded in agreement as Twi slid the sleep shirt she had been wearing off and reached for the fabric. As soon as she touched it, it was like a smooth layer of cream covering her skin, flowing like water over her nerves. She knew it was silk, but at the same time it was more than that; it was a material that Rarity custom designed just for these clothes. It felt both amazing and exciting.

Rainbow, Dash, and Twilight watched as she slid one leg into it at a time. With care, almost as if she were handling a newborn baby instead of a new dress, Twi slid it up her waist. She then bent down and raised the strap over her head, carefully placing each breast under the material meant to cover them.

Rainbow said nothing as Twi went to her locker and opened the door. She looked at herself in the full-length mirror on the inside of her locker door.

Phenomenal didn’t even cover it. The dress flowed off her in waves, feeling more like a second skin than any sort of clothing she had ever worn in her entire life. Her eyes stared at her reflection, taking in the dark blue star designs laced throughout the purple material. Her eyes followed the dress up to the waist—the entire side of her leg fully revealed to the naked eye as she moved up and up the length of the dress.

As much as the dress covered her legs, it didn’t cover the same amount. She could see both legs through the thin fabric, the contours of her thighs and hips fully visible throughout. Only the smallest amount of cloth covered her groin and crack of her buttocks, but that only added to just how sexy the dress felt.

The two cloths that went up her chest were almost completely see-through. Twi could make out the curvature of her breasts and areolas right through the fabric. However, it was as if it didn’t matter. That fact only made it more, not less. Almost as if the dress wouldn’t have been complete without it.

“Twi… you look…” Dash started to say.

“Amazing,” Twi finished. In the back of her mind, Twi knew she was wearing an outfit that would rule the red carpet to any award show ever. She couldn’t even begin to process how much a dress like this would cost, not that she’d ever think about selling it. This was Rarity at her best, and it showed.

She did a little spin, admiring the backless nature of the dress, how it was cut low enough just to give the slightest hint at the crack of her ass, how her skin seemed to glow just by being in it, as if simply wearing such a dress made the rest of her radiate. It came to no surprise that the fabric didn’t irritate her skin; it was as if her skin breathed the dress.

It was at once rapturous and refined. Decadent and highbrow. One would be forgiven for being both enraptured and offended. It was the perfect balance, something that only a true artist with a needle and thread could ever hope to make. It was the sort of dress a princess might wear.

“There’s still a lot more in the package,” Rainbow whistled with a glance into it.

“What is it?” Twi asked with a raised eyebrow.

Rainbow pulled two more pieces from the package out, leaving everyone silent. That is, until Dash spoke up.

“Holy buck…”