"I just... I just can't keep lying to you. If you want to leave me now... I understand... and I deserve it. I'm... I'm so sorry, Anon."

You open your mouth to speak. Then close it. You move across the room, back to the couch where she sits, refusing to make eye contact with her. She closes her eyes and braces for impact as you loom over her. You kneel down silently, inspecting the features of her face.

Opening your arms, you bring the mare close to your chest, and hold her in your embrace. She gasps, her eyes opening as you look down on her.

"I love you too, Red."

You feel her body begin to tremble in your arms as she buries her face into your chest. The shirt you wear becomes damp as you hold her tightly.

"It's okay... It's okay," you whisper softly in her ear. "It's all over now. I forgive you. Don't worry about it anymore."

"What if something bad happens?" she chokes. "Who knows what could happen next?"

"It doesn't matter what happens next," you say to her. "We'll get through it. Together."

She sniffs, wiping her eyes with a hoof as she looks back up to you, her expression pained, but joyous. The sort of happy pain when something you could have never believed in a thousand years finally came to be.

"I don't deserve somepony like you," she whispers.

"I could say the same thing," you reply, reaching your hand up to wipe a tear from the tip of her nose.

She smiles, her wide blue eyes beaming up at you. You reach a hand up and tuck a lock of her pink hair behind an ear.

"I just- I don't," she says, as dawning comprehension begins to overwhelm her. "What if she gets mad? What if things-"

You place a finger to her lips.

"You talk too much," you say.

Then, you replace the finger on her lips with your mouth. You feel Redheart shudder, then her eyes close. Tingles form on the back of your palms as you hold your hand on the back of her mane. You feel the smooth contours of her lips mix with the cherry taste of her kiss. Your tongue pushes through her lips easily to connect with hers. Her body pulls closer to you as your heartbeat quickens. A light moan emanates from her lips as the kiss becomes faster and more passionate.

Then, she pulls away, gasping, her cheeks flush red. Her eyes ease down, bringing a new sensuality to her expression. She stands up, grabs your hand with a hoof, and silently pulls you upstairs.

Entering a door on the left, you find yourself in a small bedroom and she closes the door behind you. You smile as you turn around and lift the pony into your arms with ease. Her lips lock onto yours as she wraps her hooves around your body, clinging to you. You support her with one arm around her back, and the other holding around her buttocks as you move to the bed. Reaching her destination, you climb on top and let her fall to the bed gracefully. She spreads herself out widely, smiling to you, inviting you.

"Say it again," she says quietly.

"I love you, Red," you say.

"I love you too, Anon," she says gently.

You lean into her, pressing your lips against her mouth once more.

Then, you hear a squeak from the closet.

Raising your head quickly, Redheart stares at the closet with you. A tense moment passes as you move in-between the closet and Redheart.

From between the tiny cracks of the white doors, you see a set of cyan eyes.

Then. Three. Quiet. Knocks.

Your hair stands on end.

Fluttershy leaps out of the closet, standing proudly.

"Is exhibitionism your fetish, Anon?" she asks, smiling widely.

You pause, and the room goes silent. You look back to Redheart, her jaw on the floor. Then, you look back to Fluttershy.

Rising to your feet, you grab the yellow pegasus by the scruff of her back, like a mother cat would a kitten and lift her into the air. She kicks her hooves around and flaps her wings futilely as you move to the bedroom window. She pauses as you open the window and raise her up to eye level.

"I-I'll take that as a no?" she asks innocently.

"Go. Home. Fluttershy."

"W-what about polyamorous relationships?"

You groan and toss the pegasus out the window. Slamming it shut, you turn back to Redheart. She looks on at you in mild shock.

"Did you just throw her out of a second story window?" she asks.

"She's a pegasus," you reply.

Fluttershy lays in a heap on the ground, knocked out, dreaming of Anon's huge hot monkey di-

"I'm sure she'll be fine."

You walk back to the bed and sit beside her.

"That was a bit of a mood-killer, huh?" she asks.

"Yeah," you mutter, trying to hide your massive erection. "It doesn't feel the same."

She moves the covers and fluffs a pillow behind her head as she lays in bed, her eyes fixed on you.

"Well?" she asks. "Coming to bed?"

"Oh? OH!" you say, realizing her invitation.

Tossing your shirt in a corner and kicking off your shoes, you crawl under the covers and pull her close to you.

You're way too big for the bed and there's hardily enough covers, but that isn't what matters. Fluttershy is probably going to restart her guesses again tomorrow, but that isn't what matters. What matters, right now. Is that in this tiny corner of the world, things are fine. Things are happy. And if you had to close this chapter of your story and never return to it, for fear of ruining one fantastic thing that you have going right now. Let the book gather dust, you say.

Because you have Redheart, and she has you. And that is all that matters.

Author's Notes:

Votes

Forgive: 81
Abandon: 5

Holy shit you guys. That wasn't even a fucking competition. You guys must really like Redheart.

To commemorate the event, the plot is going to end in the direction of keeping Redheart as your marefriend. You asked for it. But I'll have a Second Person Clopfic with Redheart on my "future stories" list. Or something.

That said. I think it's time we step away from Redheart. What I originally wanted as a great way to do fetishes like "Cuck" or "Cheating" got out of hand pretty quickly. So here's a bit of closure, and an official note of going back to the basics. If she appears any more in this story, it'll be for the need of an emotionally attached partner for a fetish guess. We can't lose sight that this is Fluttershy's story.

Normal, non-continuous, non-Redheart Fluttershorts will continue TOMORROW.