You step up to Celestia slowly. You can see her eyes scan you hopefully, uncertain of what is to come. When you’re close enough, you place one hand on her far cheek, one on her chest floof, and stretch upward to plant a soft kiss on her cheek, leaving your lips there for a few seconds.

When you return to your previous position, Celestia appears paralyzed. A red blush slowly creeps over her face as she lets out occasional, strained sounds that sound like feminine giggles. When she finally appears to regain her composure, the first thing she does is lean down and kiss you on the nose.

Now it is your turn to get flustered! After processing her response, you plant a kiss on the tip of her ear, which flicks in response. She responds by kissing your ear.

Soon it is nothing but a kissing battle, with chest floofs, cheeks, ears, muzzles, noses, chins, a horn and even a hand all becoming casualties of war. Soon the fighting collapses into laughter, and your find yourself hugging Celestia tightly.

“Kisses are rather nice,” Celestia says. “I had forgotten how wonderful they were. Thank you so much for giving me some.”

“You’re welcome,” you tell her, a warm and fuzzy feeling in your chest. “C-could I come in and cuddle with you tonight?”

“Well,” Celestia pretends to huff, but ends up saying through another fit of giggles, “I don’t usually snuggle after the first date, but I suppose I could make an exception for you.”

You chuckle in response, noticing the lingering redness across Celestia’s cheeks. Following her inside, you halt soon after she does.

“I’m going to take off my dress now. No peeking!”

You turn around silently. Ponies seemed to be naked most of the time, but you were perfectly content to operate by their strange conventions as long as you were a guest in their land. After the shuffling of fabric stops, you turn back around and walk to close the gap with Celestia. “Could I take off your regalia for you?”

Celestia nods sweetly and closes her eyes as you carefully take off her crown and gingerly lift the chest piece up and over her head, attempting to disturb her flowing mane as little as possible.

“You’re pretty good at that,” Celestia comments, lifting you onto her back with her magic and kicking off her metal slippers. “Now, I think it’s time to snuggle.” She leaps onto the bed, with you holding on to her neck tightly.

Proceed to Chapter 11.