Author's Notes:

Fair warning, this chapter contains a very descriptive clop scene. It's not 100% crucial to the rest of the story, but it is a key event nonetheless. If you wish to not read it, you can safely read up to the point marked with line before the parts that get very detailed. The end of it will be marked in the same manner. To those who do wish to read it, enjoy!

As Apple was walking through Ponyville, he thought to himself how this was unusual, seeing as how before he met his new friends, he would just sit at home doing nothing. But, for these past few days, he really felt like he actually had something to do. And, after all, he did like walking around in the snow, even if it was chilling to the bone.

It had been a few days since the party. Socially interacting with other ponies other than his brother was still very hard for him, but he felt that he was getting better at it. The past few days he spent mostly hanging out with Sunny Blitz, usually at the coffee shop. A good hot chocolate is never a bad thing, and Sunny always knew how to make it just right. He would sit at the counter and have a casual chat with Sunny, and Apricot too. Then, from where he sat, he could observe Ponyville’s inhabitants go about their business through the large windows of the establishment. It was one of his new favorite things to do.

But he had no time for pleasantries today. It was getting late, and Pippin had neglected to buy any food, leaving Apple to go out and buy food for himself. Not like buying food was something Pippin would do anyway. He just assumed Apple would go out and buy the food while he sat at home. Apple frowned. He felt a swear, or some sort of angry mumbling would be something one would do right about now.

“Pippin is such a fucking bastard,” he said to himself. There. It already made him feel a little better. Cathartic, or something.

With Hearth’s Warming Eve just around the corner, and with a lot of shops closing earlier to give their employees some time off to spend with their families, Apple had to go to the one store in town that ran full time, all the time: the soup store. It was just a few streets away from his apartment, so it wouldn’t be too long of a walk. He started to sink into some thoughts while he mindlessly walked towards the store. Besides Sunny, he hadn’t actually hung out with his other friends that much. He saw Apricot a bunch, and Melon Drop was also around the coffee shop sometimes, but Scotch and Blue Stroke, who were usually common sights there, had apparently not been in for some time now. Not to mention Ember, who was always working it seemed.

While he was thinking, he barely even noticed that he was almost there. He looked around for the bright white board that hung above the store window. He saw the sign eventually, but his attention was quickly grabbed by a downtrodden blue mare with a coffee cup for a cutie mark, head hung low, slowly trotting across the street. Apple’s heartbeat increased slightly and he ran towards her.

“Hey, Blue! I didn’t think I’d run into you!”

Blue Stroke looked up, “Oh. Hey Apple...”

Apple was confused. This was unlike how Blue normally acted. He was determined to find out what had happened. This was something friends did for each other, right?

“What’s… wrong?” he asked, hoping he said it right.

She sighed. “I got rejected again. That’s the fifth job interview this week that I messed up. You’d think that somepony with my qualifications would find it easy to get some sort of job regardless of where I asked, but no. Nothing I do is any good. It’s all sloppy.”

Apple was unsure how to react to the stream of words. How do you handle such a situation? Change the subject? Attempt to comfort her?

“It can’t be that bad. You’re good at a lot of things!”

Blue looked at him directly. “Like what?”

Apple was panicking, although he didn’t show it. ‘I don’t know you that well!’ he thought. “You’re uh…,” ‘SEXY LOOKING,’ he almost blurted out, “... very smart,” he said, with a hint of uncertainty in his voice that he hoped she didn’t pick up on, but bad luck struck again.

“I mean, sure,” she said with a hint of disapproval. Was this how mares behaved? Perhaps it was a good thing he stayed away from them for as long as he did. He had heard about mare behavior, of course. Pippin might not be the most reliable source, but he was adamant that mares were like a different species. It was like they behaved on another level entirely, according to his brother at least. And from his tone, Apple could tell it was one of those times that Pippin was being genuine about something.

“I mean it,” Apple said. “You graduated with admirably high grades, and from a great university, right? That’s more than I can say. I mean, I graduated but my grades were not something to really write home about… My professor was a total jerk, anyway.”

She chuckled. “Where are you headed, anyway?”

‘Success!’ he thought. ‘She changed the subject by herself! Impending disaster averted!’ “I’m just headed to the soup store. Pippin didn’t bother to buy food. Again. So I have to do it myself. Again.”

“I was just going to get some soup myself. Might just perk me up a bit after being denied a job so many times…” Blue said.

“Yeah, it just might,” Apple agreed, as he followed Blue into the soup store.

Just as they entered, an angry stallion walked out of the entrance. “No soup for you! Come back, one year!” shouted a voice from inside the shop, and most likely the reason for the stallion leaving.

As Apple entered, he saw a mostly clean glass counter with various delicious soups visible to all the visitors. The walls on both sides had benches for any customers who had to wait, but they were more of a common courtesy than anything else, as customers rarely had to stay much longer than it took to place and receive an order. Directly behind the glass counter was the kitchen, visible to any visitor’s eye. An array of shining metal cooking equipment, attended to by serious-looking staff, promised high quality to the consumer. But the sight that demanded the most attention was the stallion directly behind the counter.

He was definitely a bit bigger than the average earth pony stallion. He had an oak colored coat, a short, deep brown mane, very thick eyebrows, and a thick mustache that beamed ‘authority’. His eyes were a deep brown as well. His cutie mark was, quite simply, a soup can. His voice boomed, with a similar accent to Lotus Blossom at the Ponyville Spa. Presumably, they came from the same homeland, but nopony dared to ask him about it. His real name was not even known, but his demeanor had earned him the endearing nickname; ‘The Soup Neighzi’. The only thing you were allowed to do in his soup store was order, stand and receive, and nothing else. There was usually a line leading to the outside, filled with ponies wanting to get great soup, but since it was getting late, it was only Blue and Apple. Apple gulped. The Soup Neighzi could do anything to them, and nopony would ever find out… there were no witnesses around to tell the tale! What if the reason that the soup tasted so great was because there was pony flesh used in it? Apple didn’t even notice when Blue stepped up to the counter until it was too late.

“Order!” The Soup Neighzi said, almost yelling the words.

Blue looked the stallion straight in the eyes. “I need condolence soup! Extra noodles! And a second batch of egg drop soup because my friend likes that.”

Apple gave Blue a weird look. She didn’t say she was ordering for Ember too. He guessed he should have just assumed it, seeing as how they acted around each other.

The Soup Neighzi slowly brought his face closer to Blue’s, leaning over the counter. His face was getting red, like it was about to blow. “Do not tell me how to do job! No soup for you! Come back, one year!” he said, pointing towards the door.

Blue merely turned around and flicked her tail towards the angry soup vendor, with an attitude that confounded Apple, leaving him to make his order. Soup Neighzi quickly snapped his head towards him, “Order!”

Apple thought for a second, “Tomato soup, your finest soup that ponies order when they're down, and egg drop soup. How you normally make it,” he added.

The Soup Neighzi was still staring at Apple as he quickly scribbled down a note and handed it to one of the workers in the kitchen, who, seemingly out of nowhere, pulled out a bag with three containers, the soup names written on them in thick black marker pen.

“Thank you!” Apple quickly bolted out the door, scared his soup would be taken away from him, and glanced back nervously as he exited. He looked down the street and saw Blue already walking away. He couldn’t let her just go home yet, not in that mood. He felt like he still had a job to do and by Celestia, he was going to do it. He never thought the whole friend thing was for him, but he was smart enough to know not to knock it before you try it, as the saying goes. Maybe he could end up liking it. So far it’d been… Alright, he thought. But now was his chance to see a new side of friendships. He never tried to help another pony with their feelings before, so how would he even know if he was good at it or not? He wasn’t doing bad so far, was he? Who was he to judge?

“Hey uh, Blue!” he yelled after her, getting her to stop and turn around. He ran up next to her.

“What’s up Apple?”

“Oh well um, I uh, I just thought you’d want some uh… Company! Yea that,” he said awkwardly. He really meant it when he said he wasn’t good at this thing, at all. He didn’t even have the slightest bit of experience. His awkwardness didn’t help him. ‘Goddesses, you sound like a stuttering idiot’ he thought to himself.

“Oh, sure. I’d like that…” Blue replied quietly.

“Oh really? Great!” Apple said, a bit too loud he realized, causing him to shrink back a bit. “Sorry, I mean that’s good.” Blue laughed in response.

“If you were trying to cheer me up, it worked, a bit. You sir, are a funny little pony,” she said smiling, pointing and nodding her head towards him, laughing a bit again.

“Me? Funny? Pssh, no. Never been told that before in my life. And, wait, who are you calling small?”

“You, silly pony. Have you seen yourself in a mirror recently? You’re not the biggest stallion in town, that’s for sure.”

“Yea, whatever,” he said, a bit annoyed.

“What, something wrong?” Blue asked. Now it seemed to him that she was helping him more than the other way around like he planned.

“Pippin says I’m small too. He exaggerates, just to mess with me, but it still bothers me nonetheless.”

“That’s your brother right?” Blue wondered. She didn’t really know Apple too well considering they rarely ever spoke. She never had a big problem with him though, she thought he was alright, better than a lot of the annoying ponies in this town at least. She too wanted to get to know him better.

“Yea, Pippins my brother. Hate him to be honest. I try to avoid him as much as possible, but he’s still family so… Eh?”

“What’s wrong with him?” Blue asked curiously.

“Wrong with him?” Apple laughed. “What’s right with him?”

“It’s that bad?”

“Yea, er, well, no, not always,” he said, and continued after he saw Blue raising a brow. “He has a job, and I don’t, so it’s not right for me to hate him. He provides all the income in our household right now, because my lazy ass can’t get up to go get a job.” Blue gave a face of realization. “But as a pony? Oh no, I don’t admire him, how can I? I don’t even know how he keeps a job but he manages it somehow.”

“What does he do that’s so bad?” Blue asked, continuing her questions. Blue, having a minor in psychology under her literature-focused major, knew that to understand another pony you have to understand what they are living with, what they deal with everyday. This was probably the best way for her to get to know him better. And the only thing he could probably talk about. His cluelessness could bother her sometimes. It’d be hard to start a conversation with him because he’d either shy away or if you did manage to get him involved he wouldn’t have a damn clue what the hell you were talking about. ‘Goddesses, that can be annoying, can’t it?’ Blue had wondered. She knew this was something he could talk about, and extensively.

“Oh my, there’s too much to even say all at once. I’d have to write a book. I suck at writing books. But uh, yeah well, he’s just a straight asshole for one. An absolute asshole I tell you!” he yelled, stomping his hooves as they walked. “Do you know how many times he’s threatened to kick me out of the house?”

“Uh, a lot?” Blue suggested meagerly, giving him an odd look.

“Damn right a lot! And for what? I was mad at him in the morning for making a lot of noise the night before? Stupid stuff like that. It really… really grinds my gears. I don’t know the last time I’ve seen him come home without being completely smashed or with a mare or two or three or even more sometimes to do who knows what! Either way he always makes a lot of noise and I can almost never get any sleep. And whatever messes he makes, he makes me clean them up. He’ll pull the whole ‘this is my house, and paid with my money’ card every damn time. Treats me like I’m some sort of pony slave or something. I swear if I didn’t rely on him for… everything, then I wouldn’t hesitate a second to get out of there.”

“Wow that sounds like shit. There’s really nothing positive you can say about him?”

“Well, he does at least give me money to use and go out freely as I want. But that’s probably because he just hates the sound of me whining about it.”

“So he’s really just that bad?”

“Yes he’s that bad. I’m pretty sure he’s the only reason I’m still living with him too. The first time I built up enough courage to go out and try for a job, he showed up and botched up the interview by saying a bunch of weird things about me. I don’t know if he was drunk but I suspect he did it literally just so I’d have to keep living with him and he would never have to clean up after his own messes. Sometimes I feel like he makes messes just so he can have the enjoyment of watching me clean them up. If I’m not home, and I try not to be as much as possible, he’ll just let it sit and wait for me to get back to clean it.”

“Now I’ve met some pretty shit ponies in my life, but nopony has ever been that bad to me. You’re brother takes the shittiest cake. But, at least you have us now, right? There’s nothing he can do about that, now is there?”

“Well actually, I’ve barely talked to him about any of you. I fear if I say too much he’ll get interested and want to come in to ruin it for me.”

“That’s understandable I guess. We should do something about that. There has to be something you can do, right?”

“No, not really. Nothing I haven’t already tried. He’s too ignorant to listen to anypony besides himself.” Apple stopped in his tracks, prompting Blue to stop as well. “This is my place, I better get going, probably some mess I have to fix,” he gestured towards the door.

“You know what, why don’t you come home with me tonight? Get away from Pippin for a night.”

“Uh, I don’t think I could do that, and don’t you live in Ember’s house?” he wondered.

“Well yea, but she won’t mind. She doesn’t need that entire house to herself.”

“You sure?” he asked wearily.

“Yes, now come on.” Apple still looked unsure. “Our soup is getting cold, hurry up.” He still was wary. All of a sudden there was a random yell elicited from inside the apartment, sounding a lot like a mare having quite a good time.

“Alright, fine,” Apple said as he walked after Blue yet again. “It’s just up the road right?”

“Yea, a bit more towards the edge of town. Not too far.” Just then a sudden gust of cold wind blew through the street, chilling each of them to the bone. Both Blue and Apple were shaking as they walked. “Sweet Celestia’s sunny ass it’s cold!” Blue exclaimed. Apple gave the expression an odd look before just shrugging it off.

“Yea… It is. Not like we can do anything about that…” They both continued to walk in silence for a few moments before Blue spoke up.

“We could uh… We could huddle together,” Blue suggested. Apple gave her a cautious look like he thought it could be dangerous. “For warmth. You know, body heat?” Blue said.

“Right, right, sure whatever,” he said dismissively. Blue gave him a large smile as she leaped against him, now moving parallel to each other as they walked to keep warm.

“Oh my, I didn’t know you two were a thing!” a voice said from behind them. They both turned to see Melon Drop walking behind them. Why was she there? Neither of them knew, but she was.

“Us? A thing?” they each said in unison, followed by a short laugh.

“Yea, I mean look at you two, huddling up and such,” she responded. She was serious. She actually thought they were a thing. ‘That was ludicrous, right’, they both thought. There’s no possible way they could become ‘a thing.’

“For warmth!” Blue retorted.

“Yea yea sure, whatever you say blue butt. But I see what’s going on here. You can’t fool me!” she said humorously, pointing at each of them.

“Nopony is fooling anypony here Melon, trust me,” Blue said convincingly.

“Umm, yea, what she said,” Apple tried to assist, not helping very much. Just then, as Apple took a step forward across the snowy ground, his hoof struck a patch of ice, and he immediately wobbled all about. Apple, being the clumsy pony that he was, couldn’t help but thrash around in an attempt to balance himself. He reached out to grab the nearest support he could. As soon as he grabbed it, he fell over, but instead of his support helping him get back up, it fell with him to the ground. Melon, watching it all go down, ended up looking at Blue, Apple’s support, on the ground flipped upside down, and Apple atop her.

“Uh huh, yea, sure, not a couple, not at all. Whatever. See you later love birds.” And with that Melon turned and trotted off towards her home, a smirk on her face. Apple and Blue looked at each other sheepishly, giving each other awkward grins. All of a sudden they both at the same began getting off of each other.

“So sorry about that, I slipped,” Apple apologized.

“Don’t be, your body was warm. It felt, nice,” Blue replied.

“Oh... okay.” He didn’t know what to say. “But sorry anyways.” They continued their walk home, back in their side by side walking position for warmth, and made sure that Melon was not behind them anymore. Just then Apple remembered the whole reason he followed Blue in the first place. He was supposed to be trying to help her with her problem. What a great friend he was, just forgetting about a friends serious problems. “I just remembered, I was meaning to ask you about this whole job hunt of yours, try and help you and such.” Immediately, Blue’s head dropped towards the ground and she closed her eyes for a few seconds.

“Right… That…”

“If you don’t want to talk about it that’s alright. I just thought you might like some comforting. I’d be willing to do anything if it meant helping you.”

“No you’re right. I can’t put this off. I can’t lie, it’s had me down quite a bit. I could use a bit of comfort.”

“So what’s the problem then? Why can’t you seem to get a job? You’re a smart pony, we all know that.”

“Well, at first I wasn’t taking the whole job thing too seriously, so I went into the first interview completely drunk…”

Apple’s eyes grew wide. “What?! Really?” Blue nodded. “What did you do?”

“I don’t know for sure but I think I ended up sticking my ass in the stallion's face and telling him to… Kiss it or eat it or some shit like that. Luna damn me! What was I thinking going into a job interview drunk like that!”

“Well… I can’t tell you that. Only you can. What was that job for?”

“Bank assistant…” Blue answered solemnly. Apple gasped.

“Y-you stuck your uh… Butt, in a bank presidents face?” he asked. Blue nodded slowly. “Just how drunk were you?”

“A full bottle of Wild Pegasus and three shots of straight liquor…”

“Dear Celestia! That’s not healthy, you know that right?”

“Yea, I know. But I was treating my job search as a joke at the time and I thought it would have been funny to blow it off like that. The last four interviews all just went poorly in general all around. I gave stupid answers or did stupid things, simple as that. So here I am now a week later, jobless. I’ve practically run out of any good choices anymore. I don’t want some low-class, low-paying job, I have a degree for a reason. Now it would only be a temporary job, but still, I have expectations to meet.”

“Don’t worry about it, you’ll get one eventually.”

“I doubt it. I suck at getting a job like I suck at everything else, go figure.”

“Blue, you don’t suck, no more than me at least.”

“No, I do, in every way. Trust me.”

“How?”

“I just do, okay?”

“You’re not going to change your mind, are you?” Blue shook her head. “Alright fine, think what you want, but just know that I, and all of our friends don’t think you suck. Don’t forget that.”

“Sure, whatever.” They were nearing Ember’s house towards the edge of town.

“You’re sure Ember won’t mind me being here?” Apple asked.

“Yes I’m sure, she won’t mind a bit. As long as we don’t break anything or wake her up.”

“She’s asleep?”

“Yea, don’t worry about it, she sleeps like a rock. We’ll be fine,” Blue said as she opened the door with her magic.

“You know you didn’t have to do this for me. I would have been fine just dealing with Pippin.”

“I know,” Blue said, closing the door, “but to be honest, I was being a bit selfish when I asked you to come with me.”

“Selfish? How?”

“I kind of wanted somepony to be with. I needed somepony to talk to and I wanted you to follow me so I didn’t have to feel alone. Talking to ponies takes my mind off things. Sorry, you can go home if you’d like. It wasn’t right of me to do that.”

“What, no! No it’s fine. I’m more than happy to be helping you. I know I’m not very good at it, but it feels good to be trying.”

“Oh, you’re not bad, you’re fine really,” Blue said trying to console him.

“Really?” he asked hopefully.

“Okay, you’re still a pretty weird dude,” she said bluntly.

“Oh…”

“No, don’t feel bad! It’s in a good way. I like that. It makes you interesting to talk to, just some added entertainment.” Apple didn’t look convinced. Blue sighed before continuing, “Look, you made me laugh. That might not seem like anything special, but you’re the first to do so in a few days actually. Just by being around you I’ve felt a little better to be completely honest.”

“You… You really mean that?”

“Yes, of course I do. I may be a bunch of pretty bad things and can be called a bunch of pretty shit things, but a liar is not one of them. I know what everypony always says about you, I know how you feel a bit excluded from the group sometimes because we treat you differently, but really, I think I can easily say I like you more than most of them. You’re simple, calm, and while I may not show it, like, at all, I like that about you. You’re probably the only one that I would feel comfortable talking about my problems with because, as somepony who has plenty of their own, you would never judge me. The best ponies to talk about your problems to are not the ponies that have some doctor's degree, no, it’s the ones that feel the same way you do, because they can talk to you in a way that no doctor ever can, because they understand it personally instead of having learned about it from some damn book. They know the best ways to help each other, even if they don’t know how to help themselves,” Blue said as she sat down and immediately began eating her soup, placing Ember’s in the fridge for tomorrow.

“Wow, that… That actually made me feel better,” Apple said as he sat down across from her.

“Okay, good, because now it’s your turn,” she said, taking a big gulp from her soup. Blue was pretty hungry and the soup was really hitting the spot.

“My turn? To do what?”

“To make me feel better. So far all I’ve done is help you.” Blue took another large gulp of her soup, already almost done. It was some pretty damn good soup. Watching this blue pony stuff her whole snout in a bowl of soup was kind of making Apple lose his appetite. He was more of a mannerly type and watching this in front of him made Apple cringe just a little bit. He was thinking about saying something about how she had a spoon, but decided against it. When Blue pulled her head up from inside the paper bowl, the bowl instead stuck to her snout as she raised up, covering her face.

“That soup,” Blue started, sounding muffled as she gripped the bowl in two hooves, “was really fucking good,” she said as the bowl came off with a pop. Apple was giving her one of the most revolting looks. “What?”

“I take it you liked the soup?”

“Liked it? Pssh. I wish I could bath in that shit! I can just imagine it now, feeling all of that brothy goodness… All over my body… Everywhere.” Blue had on her face what was probably the weirdest smile Apple had ever seen. Actually, he thought he had seen it before. It was the face Pippin got when he was talking to the mares in town that he called ‘hot’.

“Riiight…” Apple said awkwardly. “Interesting.”

“Oh shit, I’m being weird again, sorry, I know that makes you uncomfortable.” That was an understatement to Apple. “Luna damn it! I suck at being a good friend, look at you, I probably just ruined your night just by saying that weird shit. I’m sorry…” Apple felt bad. By not allowing somepony to be who they are he just made them feel awful and he felt it was his fault. There they were, two awkward ponies, both sitting, thinking to themselves that they each were a bad friend and they each had hurt the others feelings. Apple, being the one who had more control of his emotions, pulled himself out of the mental hole and became the bigger pony for once. He wasn’t going to fail this time. He was going to help Blue, no matter what it took. She needed him right now. He might not be the best for the job but right now he was the only thing she had.

“Oh come on, it wasn’t that bad. It was actually kind of funny.” Sometimes ponies have to lie. “It wasn’t that weird. You just… Got a soup bowl stuck on your snout…”

“It wasn’t too weird?” Blue asked solemnly.

“It was… Weird, yes, but come on, look who you’re talking to right now. I’m the king of weird, sort of.”

“That… Kind of helps I guess.”

“Alright look, I know you’ve been feeling pretty down recently. That’s really the only reason I followed you, I want to make you feel better. I want to be the best kind of friend I can be. I will help you in any way I know how. Just say it, and if I can, I’ll do it. As long as it would make me a better friend and make you feel better.” Blue sat for a minute, quietly thinking as she watched Apple eat his soup slowly. She thought of all the strategies and ways she knew to make a pony feel better. There was a lot of things Apple could do for her and she knew that, but there was one thing that she had in mind. She knew how the saying went, ‘you never really know a pony, until you’ve seen all sides of them.’ To her narrow-mind, that only had one meaning...

“How ‘bout we uh… You come sit on the couch with me?”

“Will that make you feel better?”

“Yea, it will,” she assured him before turning away, “if this works the way I hope it does…” she said under her breath to herself. They both got up from the table, now done with their soup, and walked toward the kitchen door. Blue levitated the paper bowls into the trash as they exited. Apple climbed up on the couch all the way on the left end, facing the television. Blue crawled up next to him, sitting only inches away. It was a bit close for Apple’s liking but he was adamant to push through it for Blue’s sake.

“So uh… What we gonna do on the couch? Watch a movie?”

“Oh, we’re not watching a movie,” she replied in a sly tone.

“Are we… Talking about something?”

“Not really, no,” Blue replied again, though this time she had managed to inch a bit closer to Apple and turn a little towards him without him even noticing.

“Hmm. Are we… Gonna play a game?” he asked innocently.

“I guess you could say that,” Blue replied much less innocently.

“Ooh, I like games! What kind of game are we playing? Mind games? A board game?” Blue almost laughed at his cluelessness, but managed to hold it back and keep a calm composure.

“A physical game…” Blue was now turned completely towards Apple, a lecherous look in her eyes. Apple took notice of her new position on the couch.

“Oh I don’t know… I’m not very good at physical sports…” Blue began reaching a hoof towards his chest. “And I’m especially bad at wrestling...”

“You might surprise yourself Apple…” she laid her hoof on his chest softly, causing him to shiver a little. He really was not used to being touched by other ponies. He usually avoided all physical contact with others.

“No I-I uh, I-I’m uh, I mean it when I say, I’m really bad, absolutely horrible, the worst,” he struggled to say as he stuttered. He had absolutely no clue what Blue was trying to do right now but he really didn’t like wrestling.

“Mhmm,” Blue murmured, disregarding what he said. She slowly began to apply pressure to his chest with her hoof at the same time as she began leaning forward towards him. Slowly he was pushed back, ever so slightly. Blue had always wanted this, a lot. Right now, she needed it, she really needed that something. She didn’t like to admit it to anypony, but she had never even gotten close to getting intimate with ponies before. If this went the way she wanted, this would be her first.

“I-I know I said I’d do anything, but does it have to be a physical game?” Blue did not respond and instead continued to push Apple back. His hooves that had been firmly planted in front of him in the usual pony sitting position, were beginning to rise up off of the couch more and more as he got pushed back. All the while Blue was staring intently into his face with those same lecherous eyes. Now was the time for Blue to see Apple’s other side. She almost felt bad trying to do this to him but she was confident he would thank her for it later. Now all she had to do was push him back just a bit further and he’d be all hers. It was time for her to dive into this. Honestly, Blue was nervous, this was her first time after all. She had no idea what to expect from an actual stallion. Blue had never felt another stallion like that, in any way, or in any places. This truly was new territory for both of them. ‘Here goes nothing…’

Blue pushed Apple completely backwards so that he fell onto his back on the edge of the couch, exposing his underside to Blue. Apple yelped a bit as he tumbled back, but remained relatively calm. ‘What the hell is she doing?’ he wondered. Blue had not moved her gaze away from his face just yet, and Apple could swear she hadn’t blinked the whole time she had been giving him this such weird look. Nopony had ever looked at him like that before. “What kind of game is this?” Apple asked. Blue had scooted herself over Apple’s toppled body so she was above him, now looking down.

“You’ll see alright. I’ll go first, and you just let me do the work. Then we’ll go from there, alright?”

“What’s the purpose of this game exactly?”

“To make both of us feel a hell of a lot better. Just go with it and don’t argue. You’ll thank me later.”

“But-”

“Remember, you said you’d do anything. This is anything.”

“But what is ‘this’?” Apple questioned. Blue did not answer this time and instead moved her face towards him, ending up along his neck, her nose just barely touching. Blue’s body was now resting entirely atop his, despite the fact that they were the same size. This was way too close for comfort for Apple but Blue was right, he had to do this for her. He was going to remain positive and optimistic, no matter how hard that might be for him.

Blue finally went in and dug her snout right into the side of his neck, nuzzling him furiously. Apple just sat there and did as she said. ‘Let me do all the work.’ So be it. Suddenly Blue opened her mouth and put a considerable part of Apple’s shoulder in it, nibbling all over. A shudder ran through Apple’s body. As weird as it was to him; it felt really good. It gave him a feeling he didn’t remember the last time he ever felt. He couldn’t put a name to it though, but he felt his insides churning and his body moving in unfamiliar ways.

Slowly, inch by inch, Blue worked her way around his body, moving mostly in the desired down direction. More and more Apple was getting this weird feeling inside of him and right now he didn’t know if he liked it. He was almost tempted to tell her to stop whatever this was. Blue had made it down to his stomach, covered in less fur than most other parts of his body. Blue starting licking him furiously all around, coating his stomach in her saliva. Again, Apple shuddered in surprise to this new found feeling inside of him. He was staring down at Blue, now below his head on his half upright body as she worked all over him. ‘What a weird game’ he thought to himself, ‘fascinating, she must be using some kind of magic to make me feel like this. She has to be. I've never felt like this before.’ Apple closed his eyes and turned his face upwards as he decided he was just going to try and sit back and enjoy this weird belly licking while it lasted. She was probably almost done anyways, then he’d have to lick her stomach and all that weird stuff. Whatever, he might as well just get it over with. He noticed Blue stopped licking but did not look or even open his eyes to see why.

Blue was ready. She was ready for what she’d been waiting for. She’d taken long enough teasing him, it was time to get serious. Blue stopped her licking and raised her head a bit above him. Now, it was time. She was gonna see just how much ‘stallion’ this weird little pony really had on him. Blue had no idea what to expect at all. She had no gauge or idea just exactly how much she was supposed to be looking at. She didn’t know the normal sizes and such, but when Blue finally brought herself lower and feasted her eyes upon her prize, she was… Amazed to say the least. She didn’t know how to judge Apple, but from the porn and such she had seen before, as far as she knew, Apple was pretty big, ‘And erect’ she noted. Knowing Apple to be who he was, she was actually expecting to be moderately let down, but this? This was no let down, Blue was pleased, quite a bit. Apple as a pony may have been kind of small but this made up for it in her mind. He was massive, or at least the biggest she’d seen. ‘They do always say the shy ones have something big to hide don’t they?’ she muttered to herself quietly. ‘Apple here… Had a lot to hide it seems.’ Blue didn’t know how to start, and she knew Apple could not guide her. Apple wasn’t even looking, she noted, even better actually; it will surprise him.

Blue positioned her head above his already quite, but not entirely erect, large stallionhood. He really did have a lot of stallion on his small body now didn’t he? She didn’t know what to do exactly, so she was just going to have to dive right in and do it. ‘Here goes nothing,’ she said to herself again, with a side nod of her head. Without even a little tease or lick like she knew many ponies would do, she practically did as she said and dove right in. Immediately she inserted Apple’s most intimate and sensitive part into her mouth but not all the way just yet. Apple’s eyes shot open and his head snapped forward as he moaned. He saw Blue’s head between his legs. In her mouth was just the tip of his member, and she was moving her tongue all around it like a lollipop. Apple couldn’t help but moan in ecstasy as she did so. It was only then that he realized just how big it was. He had never seen it like that before… Was this the weird feeling and movement he was having? It felt, indescribable, but amazing to him nonetheless. He, as much as Blue, was amazed to see just how big his member had gotten and it somehow was pleasing him to see Blue over-top it, actually comparing it to the size of her head below him. It was just short of the size of a filly’s foreleg, and almost just as thick. He realized what she was doing now obviously, but did not fully understand it just yet. He was just gonna let it play out. Every touch of Blue’s tongue on his member sent shivers of ecstasy through his spine. He had never felt this good before, and he liked it. He just couldn’t shake the fact of how weird this was.

“Goddesses, who knew you were so fucking big,” she said, taking her mouth off of him for a bit, before immediately going back on. She was having almost as much fun as he was and could tell she was already starting to feel really wet herself, but that could wait. Blue slowly began moving her head down, taking in more and more of Apple inside her mouth. Apple saw more of himself disappear inside Blue, now about halfway down his huge shaft, and as she did so he saw it twitch and swell a bit more inside her, making the already large thing a tiny bit harder to handle, but Blue was managing. The feeling for him was immensely pleasurable. Blue, seeing he was liking it, instead of going down, twisted her head around it, covering all sides, eliciting a great moan from Apple above her. His member had swelled to what they thought was maximum size and Blue knew there was no way she was going to get any farther down without choking herself, so she stopped just past half way.

Apple looked down again as he saw Blue retreating from his sizable stallionhood. “Why are you stopping? Whatever you were doing felt great…”

“First off…” Blue said, panting and out of breath, “I was sucking your dick... It’s called a blowjob, you’re welcome. Second of all, you aren’t the only one that gets to have all the fun.” Apple had heard of one of those before from Pippin, one time he said he got one from four mares all at the same time. So this is what Pippin had meant when he was telling Apple about blowjobs… Apple shuddered at the thought of seeing his brother doing… This. He avoided looking at pony’s privates, especially other stallions, but the image in his head of four mares around his brothers own shaft gave him the chills. Unfortunately he couldn’t say he hadn’t seen his brother’s dick a few times...

“So I-I’m doing good so far?” Apple asked.

“You haven’t really done anything yet. Your dick on the other hand… Who knew somepony like you would be so… Big.”

“Is that a bad thing?” he asked, looking down and poking his erect member, watching it wobble around. From where Blue was sitting, leaning forward towards him, it was leaning against her chest.

“A bad thing! Goddesses no, that’s amazing! More for me. I’m just as new to this as you are but they say the bigger the better most of the time. And you, you sir… Are bigger than almost any stallion I’ve ever seen, that’s for sure,” she said, giving it her own poke.

“I thought you said you’ve never done this before?”

“Porn magazines dude, I’m sure your brother has some.”

“He does, never opened one, never wanted to.”

“You don’t need to, you have the real thing right here baby,” Blue said with a huge grin as she began leaning forward towards his face. The more she leaned forwards, the more her body pushed his penis in between both of their chests, pinning it between them. Blue almost shuddered at the thought of having that massive thing rubbing all over her body. Now, all the way back on top of Apple, Blue went right in for the kiss, surprising Apple. His eyes went wide as soon as Blue made contact, muzzle to muzzle. She had to use her tongue to force his mouth open but as soon as she did he was into it as much as she was, kissing her right back. Apple didn’t even notice it yet, but Blue’s wet marehood, currently grinding on Apple, was dripping all over his chest. When they both released for air there was a look of shock on each of their faces, staring at each other intently. Immediately, Apple, not Blue, dived right back at her this time. They both were gasping and moaning as they embraced each other so intimately. They finally released each other and gasped for another extended amount of time.

“So, what now?” Apple asked though gasping breaths.

“You had your fun, now it’s time for you…” she took a long drag of air to catch her breath, “to return the favor…”

“What do you mean by that? I don’t know what to do.”

“Don’t worry, it’s easy.” Blue scooted forward on top of Apple, feeling his huge member rubbing her underside below her as she moved. Her chest was covering his head as she continued to lay down. As she raised up, Blue was forward enough that his head was directly below her own. They were each staring into each other's eyes. Apple still didn’t even notice how almost his entire chest was wet now, soaked in a mixture of light sweat and mostly Blue’s sexual secretions.

“What’s this, what are you doing?” Apple asked. Blue facehoofed and scooted forward even more, her underside now sitting atop his neck and pressing against the underside of his head.

“Ugh, look down!” Apple did as requested and found himself face to face with the most private part of a mare. He’d never really seen it like this before, he’d barely seen it at all in fact. Tails always covered this region, and whenever they weren’t he would look away. There was no looking away from this one though, it was almost literally in his face. ‘Are they always this wet?’ he asked mentally. He didn’t know how, but by seeing this he felt his out-of-sight member swell yet another time. Apple was turned on, and attracted to the sight, in a way he had never been before. He had never looked at mares, or stallions mind you, in that way. But right now, looking at Blue’s… ‘Vagina?’ he tried to recall. He missed school the day when they gave all the colts and fillies this lesson. His parents had never given him the talk either. It was a wonder how Pippin turned out the way he did. “What are you waiting for? My wet pussy scares you or something? Afraid a big pussy like this is too much for you?” ‘That’s what they call it? A pussy?’ he wondered.

“What am I supposed to do?” he asked sheepishly, still staring dumbfounded into her marehood.

“I don’t know, pleasure me!” she said, sounding almost commanding.

“How am I supposed to do that?” he asked, his face still locked on her privates, practically speaking into it.

“I don’t fucking know! You think I’ve fiddled around with other mares? Just do what I did to you, but instead of me putting your dick in my mouth, you put your mouth in my fucking wet pussy.”

“In there?”

“Yes in there! Eat that shit out! Goddesses hurry, talking to you almost turned me off completely!”

“Oh, ok.” Apple, no longer wanting to make Blue wait and anger her anymore, decided to dive right in head first, literally. Apple buried his snout into her, and dared open his mouth. Blue, while moaning in pleasure, gripped his head and pulled him on harder. Apple was all in now, the whole front of his snout soaked in Blue’s juices. Experimenting, Apple, while buried deep in Blue, stuck his tongue out and licked along the lengths of Blue’s lips, from bottom to top. Blue once again, shuddered in pleasure, telling Apple he was doing right. He continued to work with his tongue, going in and around Blue’s marehood, covering as much as he could, all the while Apple’s muzzle was being drenched in Blue’s juices. Apple couldn’t help but get some in his mouth as it dripped, but did not object. Blue continued to moan in pleasure as Apple went on, and could feel herself getting close. She didn’t want to blow just yet. Blue pulled herself back, and looked down at Apple. Blue couldn’t help but laugh a little as she saw his entire snout sopping wet, drenched in the white fluids of her pussy. That was a lot considering she hadn’t even climaxed. Apple gave her a sheepish grin, well aware of his embarrassing circumstance. He tried to lick off as much as he could. “Are we done?”

“Not quite. Neither of us climaxed yet.”

“What’s that?”

“You’ll see.” When Blue turned around to look at his stallionhood sticking straight up behind her, she couldn’t believe it. “Holy shit dude, I think it got a little bigger. I didn’t even know a stallion could get this turned on.”

“I did what? Something good?”

“Your dick is absolutely fucking massive, that’s a good thing, and that’s all you need to worry about right now. Because right now, we're about to use that baby!” Now, Blue knew what she was about to do, and she knew what it meant. Blue didn’t want to have to use a condom, she actually wanted to feel him inside of her. She knew that’s how you could get pregnant, but she had these magic pills she knew she could just take afterwards so she wasn’t worried, in fact, she was more excited then ever. Using her magic, she lifted herself just barely off of Apple, and moved herself back. She felt the tip of his shaft rub against her underside and the anticipation only grew. Now successfully below him, she could really get the full good look at his truly great penis.

“Oh, are you going to do that mouth thing again?”

“Shh, better.” Blue stood on all fours on the couch and took a few steps until once again over Apple. She had to make sure she was lined up just right for this, didn’t want to miss on her first try. Apple still had no idea what she was doing.

“Are we gonna kiss again?” This time Blue did not answer back at all and instead wiggled her ass around a bit in excitement. This was the moment she had been waiting for, and Apple too, though he didn’t know what he was about to get. Blue placed her forehooves on Apple’s chest and began lowering herself on her hind legs just barely. She could now feel his tip poking her lips below. Slowly she guided herself and let just the very top of Apple slip within her. Apple had not gotten a very good idea of just what exactly Blue’s pussy was besides a place of great pleasure, as his tongue had not given him a good idea of what it was like. He was already moaning a bit along with Blue but was completely unaware of what she was about to do. Blue, confirming he was in right, began to count down from five in her head, preparing her to take in Apple’s sizable dick. ‘5,4,3...2...1…’

Blue let her hips drop and plunged Apple’s penis deep within her pussy. Blue yelped, and Apple groaned, throwing his head back.

“Oh, sweet Celestia’s sunny flanks!” Blue yelled in pleasure. She had managed to get pretty far down on Apple, but not quite all the way. She wriggled around, taking in more and more of him. Already both of them were bordering closely to their climaxes. Apple was currently in a world of pleasure he had never known existed, and he didn’t want it to stop. Blue felt much the same. Blue was actually concerned she would end up hurting herself if she attempted to take in the rest of Apple’s penis but in her trance of ecstasy and untold sexual pleasure she paid no mind to that. The feeling of Apple inside her was like nothing she had ever felt before, and never thought she would feel. Blue felt like the luckiest mare in the world right now to have somepony like Apple with her. She didn’t know if there was anypony else in Equestria she could have gotten to have sex with her, much less go as far as she had gone. Blue also didn’t know if she could have been any luckier to have found a stallion packing as much as Apple was. And to think, she thought the vibrator Ember snuck in her was good. That was nothing compared to this. Blue reveled in the thought that there was actually another pony inside her, fucking her! She threw her hips back and forth again, taking yet another inch of the penis inside her. The feeling of every single inch of length within her, rubbing her inner walls was indescribable. With a little more effort Blue successfully forced herself downwards again. She had finally managed to envelop all of Apple’s dick deep within her, reaching his base. All of Apple’s extremity disappeared completely within Blue’s sopping wet pussy. Blue was well aware of the jolt of pain the drop gave her insides, but the pleasure received made up for it by a long shot. Every single inch of space inside her pussy was absolutely filled by his massive dick.

Neither had reached climax amazingly, especially for two ponies who were virgins. Apple didn’t know it was coming either, he was too busy throwing his head back and moaning to pay attention to the great buildup of pressure within him, within Blue. Blue, placing more pressure on Apple’s chest with her forehooves, was able to use her hind ones to push herself up. Once raised back up, all but the top of Apple still inside her, she suddenly let her forehooves drop from his chest, causing her entire body to drop, once again taking in all of Apple at once. Both ponies let out a small yelp in surprise. Blue’s chest, no longer supported by her forehooves, was lying across Apple. She grinded her chest up and down the length of his, causing his dick to go farther in and out of her. Apple raised his head to meet Blue’s, now right below him. Without hesitation each of the ponies locked their mouths together in an intimate embrace. Apple was finally starting to get it. He knew exactly what both of them wanted. Without being told, Apple began to buck his own hips below him, thrusting into Blue atop him, still kissing. Catching Blue by surprise, she yanked her head back from their kiss in surprise. “Holy fuck!” she yelled. “Oh fuck, oh fuck, Luna fuck!” she continued to yell, repeating her ‘oh fuck’ with every thrust of Apple’s hips.

Blue couldn’t hold it anymore, the pressure was too great. She was going to cum and give Apple a real surprise. With every thrust of Apple’s penis into her depths, a wet squishing sound resounded around them, again and again. Apple continued to thrust, every time feeling better than the last one. He was convinced the longer they went the better it would feel. He was ready to go till morning if that was the case, and maybe even more. He didn’t want this to ever stop. The pressure he felt in his penis was still growing gradually, each time causing it to swell a little more. Blue was really starting to have a hard time handling Apple. He was fucking her raw and he didn’t even know. Blue was almost tempted to tell him to slow it down. It still felt like the best thing ever regardless. Good thing Blue was about to end it before he ended up hurting her.

Suddenly Apple felt Blue’s pussy tighten around his penis. As if the fit was already not tight enough before, he felt he was now fitting into something two sizes too small. Blue launched herself back up on her forehooves, upright again, eyes clenched shut in ecstasy. Her flood gates had opened and she was letting it all out now. Over and over her vagina was releasing torrents of cum all over Apple’s dick inside her. With something that large within her it was almost hard for her juices to escape around it but the sheer amount she released was too much to hold and it quickly began pouring out of her pussy all over Apple’s lower body. Meanwhile, Apple was still lost in a world of pleasure, and Blue’s release only helped to heighten it. He was struggling to continue his thrusting, but continued anyways, much to the pleasure of both ponies involved. The pleasure build up had reached its peak, and it was only a matter of time before it was all released. As somepony who had never felt the pleasure of a release, Apple had a lot inside him, and he was about to unload it all into Blue, unbeknownst to him.

Blue felt his member pulse greatly inside her and she knew what was coming. Apple’s last test of sexual capabilities. So far he was A+. Now all Blue had to see was the rest of what Apple’s dick had to offer. Before either of them knew it, Apple blew his top. Apple howled in ecstasy as he started his great release, and Blue did much the same as she felt every little space inside her get filled to the brim with cum. Having already climaxed, Blue had another thing she wanted to do. Without warning, Blue yanked herself upwards, pulling Apple’s penis completely out of her in the process. Immediately she jumped backwards, getting in position as fast as she could. Blue didn’t wait even a fraction of a second to put her mouth back around the explosive cock below her, taking in even more than she had earlier, without fear. Apple didn’t stop his grand release just yet. There was quite a lot inside him to be released in the first place. It didn’t take long at all for the thick meaty shaft in Blue’s mouth to fill her up completely. Blue couldn’t lie, she was loving it. The taste of both Apple’s seed and his penis in her mouth was like nothing she had ever tasted before, and she would swear by Luna, it was the best thing she had ever tasted, but maybe that was just her currently sexually controlled mind talking. She wondered if every stallion tasted like this. Apple was relentless as he continued to fill Blue’s mouth more and more. She could swallow over and over but just another burst would fill it back up. As far as she knew, no stallion should ever have even close to this much cum inside them. She attributed it to the fact that this was somepony who had never even masturbated before. As Apple’s dick finally started slowing down she just stopped trying to swallow the fountain’s juices and let it drip and slosh out of her mouth.

Now that it was over, Apple was able to get a good look at what he had just done. Raising his head and looking down towards where Blue’s head rested next to his already deflating member, the sad reality that it was over had begun dawning over him and his mind was getting kicked back to its usual gear. Looking down at the scene below him, the first thing he saw in the dim light was Blue’s face, smiling. Much of her face, and all the area around her mouth was dripping in the white sticky fluid he had just released. Blue’s situation was almost comical as she plopped her face down into his exposed inner leg with a slosh sound. Apple was already quite relaxed but Blue was panting heavily into his leg in which her hidden face was burrowed. She was exhausted, and her head was resting face down between his left hind leg and his member. Apple looked around her and saw that everything else around them was coated with their fluids. Much of the couch around his penis in a surprisingly large vicinity was covered in the white stuff. His dick looked like it might as well have been dipped in the it. And all around his dick, his stomach, inner thighs, and tail were covered in cum just the same, including both Blue and the part she was laying on, face down in his matted fur.

“Uh, Blue?”

“Huh? Yea? What?” she said as she popped up from her face down position, looking like somepony who had just run a marathon drunk, mouth still slightly dripping. Apple didn’t know why, but all of a sudden he found staring into her vibrant green eyes, in great contrast to everything else in the room, to be very pleasing.

“Uh, what… What now?” he wondered. “Do we have to clean up this mess now?”

“No… No…” she mumbled pitifully. She began pulling herself forward slowly, up next to Apple instead of on top of him this time. She felt like she was about to pass out. Everything they just did wore her out completely. She wished she could have kept going longer but this was only her first time. Maybe she’d get better at it eventually. “Let’s just… Let’s just… Just rest.” Blue’s head collapsed against the couch and she wrapped her hooves around Apple. He returned the embrace and they were now two ponies wrapped up together, both them and the couch drenched in sexual fluids, wrapped up in each other’s hooves. Apple was finally understanding everything, or starting to.

“Is this what love is?” he asked.

“Huh?” she questioned, not quite sure she heard him right.

“Do you love me?” he rephrased. Blue took a second to answer.

“I love your monstrous fucking penis, that’s what I love…” she said in a lecherous tone that sounded like the farthest thing from a sober mare.

“Oh…” he said disappointingly. Neither talked for over a minute.

“And you…” she said finally, with a small kiss afterwards. Neither said another word for the rest of the night before they fell asleep in each other’s embrace.