Adagio Dazzle was having a very good Saturday. Fluttershy had collected her from her house earlier in the day for breakfast. After that, they had enjoyed some pet play time with Jubilee out in the garden. Fluttershy had entertained her kitten and Mr. Waddle, when her neighbour had inevitably shown up. Once they had concluded the play outside, when the heat of the summer sun was just about unbearable, Fluttershy had taken Adagio inside for some lunch.

Following the food, came Fluttershy’s post lunch nap. The dominant teenager was chosing to use Adagio’s lap as her bed instead of allowing her kitten to sleep in the pet bed, because that would have resulted in Fluttershy being alone on the couch. While Fluttershy slept soundly with her head on her thick thighs, Adagio was enjoying watching Muckraker's trashy talk show on a colour HD TV for a change, and she was getting into the 'debates' on the screen.

Everything was right in the ex-siren’s world. She had her favourite show on a decent TV, a half-empty bag of crisps that she had been snacking on and a large bottle of chilled water by her side, and her hand absent mindedly caressing her girlfriend’s pink hair. She wished her phone had a camera function on it, and then she wished she knew how to do a ‘selfie’, because she was sure, as they were both nude on the couch, that they looked quite cute.

However, as time ticked slowly on, everything soon started to be very ‘not right’.

It started, half way through the hour long TV show when, after drinking three quarters of the bottle of water, Adagio started to get a familiar, unwelcome, cramp in her gut that signified that her full bladder was biting her in the ass. “Aaaaaah…not now!” she gasped as she squeezed her thighs together under Fluttershy’s head.

Unfortunately, her bladder would not be denied. Time went by and her gut cramped and clenched all the more. After twenty minutes of this utter torture, Adagio really, really needed to use the bathroom. “Hnnnng...Sh-Shy...” she groaned and nudged Fluttershy’s shoulder, which just resulted in the happily sleeping teenager snuggling into her ‘bed’, which meant her head pushed deep into Adagio's pudgy distended belly.

“Aaaaaahn…b-by the oceans...” Adagio moaned in pain, her bladder felt like it was on fire from holding in what felt like an ocean’s worth of pee. Try as she might to ignore the sensations, Adagio felt a little trickle start to leak out of her urethra and she panicked, picking up the empty crisp packet. “Shy!” she hissed in the way that was loud but not loud at the same time.

In her sleep, Fluttershy mumbled, oblivious to Adagio’s torment, “N-Not in the house, Mr. Stuffens…”

Adagio searched desperately for a way to wake her girlfriend up, but the more she hesitated, the more her bladder felt like a dam about to burst. Left with what she thought was no other choice, she looked at the empty crisp packet in her hand. “Fuck...” she blew up the packet and she held it over her head. “I'm so sorry...”

Adagio burst the inflated crisp packet.

Literally a split second later, Fluttershy showed off hitherto unknown athletic skills that even she didn’t know she possessed as, startled awake, she moved from horizontal on Adagio's lap on the couch to under the coffee table. “Ooooh thank god!” now freed of the obstruction holding her down, Adagio tried to get up, but she was considerably slower, as she had her hand clamped to her pussy.

Under the coffee table, Fluttershy cowered in fear, unsure if what she heard was a gunshot, and she reached out and grabbed Adagio's ankle so she wasn't a standing target. Adagio, now in Fluttershy’s iron hard grip, shimmied her ankle in an attempt to get free. “Shy let go, I really need to pee!”

As Fluttershy was about to take Adagio down to the floor, she loosened her grip. “Did you fart that loud?” she asked, still under the percieved protection of the coffee table. That was when she saw the crisp packet in her girlfriend’s hand.

“Um...no, not exactly,” Adagio dropped the crisp packet and clapped her other hand over her leaking crotch, “I'll explain when I get back!” as soon as she said that, she started doing the universal pee dance, both hands still in place.

“Litterbox now!”

“Uh huh!” without a backwards glance, Adagio scampered to the bathroom where, even though she was not currently being Jubilee, she got in the bathtub and, almost immediately, and with the gentlest of pushes, she pissed. And pissed. A very happy sigh spread over her face now that the pressure on her tortured bladder was released

Cautiously, now she was sure there was no threat to her life, Fluttershy crawled out from under the coffee table, an embarrassed blush on her face. She picked up the crisp bag and, when she did, she noticed it had two holes and just like that, it came together in her head. A sinister smile replaced her blush as she made her way to the bathroom. “Fuck...oooooh fuuuuuck I needed that...” Adagio was so relieved that she had her head resting on the side of the tub as her waste drained away.

Still bearing the sinister smile, Fluttershy entered the bathroom with the offending crisp bag in hand. “Good thing I saved you some time by not getting dressed after our earlier play,” she said coldly, before checking that the pooper scooper wasn't needed. “Clean up, I have a new game to play.”

“Hey, I ah, I’m sorry about that,” Adagio pointed to the bag like it was evidence that was damning her in court, “I tried to wake you.”

Fluttershy raised her eyebrow. “Did you try kitten noises?”

“Um...no?” Adagio blushed as she turned and washed her hands under the bath taps and rinsed out the bath she was knelt in.

“Maybe just roll me off your lap?”

“I um...” Adagio stammered, for the coldness in Fluttershy’s voice sent unwelcome shivers up and down her spine. “I didn't think of that!” stepping out of the bath, she closed the gap between her and her girlfriend, her hands up in apology. “I'm sorry, I was desperate! I was about to pee on you!”

Fluttershy however did not lift her hands. She left the attempt at a hug hanging in the air. “Urine is a sterile solution,” she kept the icy cold tone in her voice, “And if cleaned properly, will not stain. But no, you thought a bomb would be a good idea instead.”

“It woke Rainbow up!” Adagio said in her defense, though she realised, with the furrowing of Fluttershy’s eyebrows and the darkening of her gaze, that she had said the wrong thing. Her blush deepened and she looked at the floor, shuffling her feet together. “I wasn't really thinking, babe, I'm sorry.”

The frostiness in Fluttershy’s gaze could have cut through a bank vault. “You did that to Rainbow? How high did she jump?”

“It was a few lessons ago now,” Adagio sniggered and laughed, though she stopped quickly when she realised that was the wrong thing to do. “It was really funny, she hit the ceiling and landed in a martial arts pose, all hi ya!” she demonstrated said pose, again to no amusement from her very bemused girlfriend.

“In case you missed it,” Fluttershy’s voice dripped acid sarcasm with every syllable, “I'm the yellow one, not the blue one.”

“Like I said, I panicked,” Adagio tentatively touched Fluttershy's shoulders, though the teenager remained still as a statue, “Um, my bad?”

“If you peed on the couch, I would have punished you. If you rolled me off onto the floor, I would have laughed and still punished you.” Fluttershy stared daggers into Adagio’s very soul, “You thought it wise to set off a small nuclear device near my head, so I'm going to punish you. None of those punishments would have been the same.”

Gulping, Adagio looked the very image of a chastised child caught with her hand in the cookie jar, she had to fix this! “It wasn't a prank or anything...I mean, Rainbow was totally a prank, but you weren't!” Offering up no comment to that, Fluttershy instead turned on her heel and she walked away with a finger held up with the ‘follow me’ motion. Adagio groaned, “I'm screwed...” she walked after her Mistress with her hands behind her back.

From the direction she was going, Adagio could tell that she was being led to the 'Lonely Room’. The ex-siren also noticed that her Mistress was putting some excessive sway in her step with her naked ass. “Um...Shy, Fluttershy…” Adagio tried very hard not to be swayed by the swaying ass, and she failed miserably. It was going side to side like a hypnotist's watch. “Why are we going there?” she asked, though Fluttershy said nothing as she entered the room and placed a hand on the cage and looked at Adagio.

Adagio’s shoulders slumped in defeat. “Alright, guess I got this coming,” she got down on her hands and knees and she began to crawl into the cage but, at the last moment, Fluttershy blocked the cage door with her leg and she pointed to the post. “Oh thank god...” Adagio smiled in great relief and crawled to the post instead. Anything was better than the cage.

Silently, Fluttershy helped her pet to stand and, when she was on her feet, she shackled Adagio's hands above her head in a pair of heavy metal manacles and then, with her face pressed side on to the post, she secured Adagio’s ankles to the sides of the post in a similar pair of manacles. Her wrists were then adjusted by a chain so that Adagio was up on the balls of her feet. The post was round so it rest against the bound pet’s belly and between her breasts. “If it was a prank,” Fluttershy said eventually, “You'd be in the cage. I'm happy you didn't earn that.”

“Thank you, for not putting me in there,” Adagio said as she tested the shackles and discovered that they were quite strong and she wasn't getting out any time soon. She also found that with a little effort, she could pull her head back to face her Mistress in the room. “I hate those things…”

With her back to her pet, Fluttershy was bent over at the waist, rummaging around in a really beat up old dresser that totally fit the decor of that particular room. “They have a purpose,” she turned to look at Adagio before she could see what she had found. “I don't think you were looking this way when I chained you up.”

“Um, no, I wasn't,” Adagio turned her face away and resumed the position she had originally been in. Suddenly though, feeling as nervous as she was had her all chatty. “When we were younger, back in Equestria, Aria got herself trapped in a fisherpony's lobster cage.” Fluttershy just nodded, allowing her pet to talk, at least for the moment. “It wasn't pleasant. I’ve never heard her freak out like that before or since.”

Behind her, Fluttershy used a heavier than normal footstep so that Adagio knew when she was approaching her. “I can understand that. I don't mind being in a small space as long as I know I can get out. Weren't you sirens in Equestria? Seems it would have been easy to get out.”

“Y-Ye-Yes, we were,” Adagio stammered nervously, “But we had no magic to open things, and unlike earth ponies, our hooves werent exactly dexterous, and Aria was terrified, which got Sonata terrified, and I was, too.”

Right at Adagio’s right side, Fluttershy whispered in Adagio's ear, “Do you think you're trapped right now?”

“M-My brain thinks I'm trapped,” she admitted, though she forced herself to breathe as normally as she could, she knew she had a safe word, but right then, it was all she could do to not break down in tears and beg forgiveness, “Ma’am.”

Casually, Fluttershy licked all the way up Adagio’s right ear lobe from the bottom to the tip at the top. “That’s because you are trapped right now, my naughty, naughty pet.”

Adagio Dazzle made a noise she hadnt ever made before. In fact she was sure that nobody had ever made a noise like that before. It was somewhere between a squeak and a neigh as she flinched against the large round post, “I'm sorry Mistress!”

“I know you are, pet,” Fluttershy said as she ran her index finger up Adagio’s earlobe, making her squeak again. “Do you remember what I called this room when I first showed it to you?”

“The Lonely Room, Mistress.”

Smirking, Fluttershy licked from Adagio’s neck up to her cheek as she stood behind her lover. “I promise you, if you were in the cage I wouldn't be in this room, for...well, let’s say some time. It might be tomorrow, it might even be Monday. Then, that would play into your fear, wouldn't it?”

Whimpering fearfully, Adagio nodded her head, shivering from the lick and from the very idea of being left in that room for so long. The tone of Fluttershy’s voice told her it was not an idle threat. “Yes Ma'am, yes it would!”

“That would be a shame,” Fluttershy gently flicked the feather she held in her right hand up and down Adagio’s pudgy sides, “Because I have so many interesting toys in this room.”

“Eeeeeek!” Adagio jumped at the sensation of the feather and she felt her chubby sides jiggle. Behind her, Fluttershy continued to lick her ear and side of her face as her fingernails moved along the side opposite the feather. Adagio could feel the two floatation devices that Fluttershy called breasts pressed against her back as she squirmed and wriggled in a vain attempt to escape the tickling she was being made to endure in her ticklish places. “Haahaha...M-Ma'am...eeeeek!”

“I have been studying all your tickly places,” Fluttershy purred dangerously as she started to grind her hips into Adagio’s ass like she was wearing a strap on toy. “It turns me on to make you squirm, my naughty pet.”

Adagio erupted in a gale of forced laughter before she was able, somehow, to speak, “Y-You studied? Th-That's cheating!”

“No, Cheetahs have spots,” the cold frostiness had disappeared from Fluttershy’s voice, to be replaced with a devious sinister glee at what she was doing. As the feather and her fingernails moved up to her exposed armpits, Adagio wasn’t all that sure which voice she preferred. “HAAHAHAHAHA...” she took a forced breath, though it wasn’t easy, “Hohohoho heeeeee! Pl-Please....no-nohohoho!”

“Is this punishment,” Fluttershy asked after having wet her pet’s face due to her repeated licking, “Or am I being too cruel?”

Adagio tried to shake her head, as much as she could seeing as how she was pressed up against the post. “Y-Yes it is…” her chest heaved, gasping desperately for breath amid her laughing, “No, no you arent.”

“Very good answers, pet.” Fluttershy then dropped down into a squat with her own knees forcing Adagio’s knees apart so that the shackles secured around the ex-siren’s wrists tightened up. A moment later, and the teen’s teeth worked their magic on Adagio's ass while the feather worked its own magic between her spread open legs. All the while, the free hand was working its devious magic on the back of Adagio’s left knee.

Fluttershy was upping her game, determined to get her pet to use her safe word. “GAAAahahahhahahaha!” Adagio shook and squirmed and writhed helplessly in her tight bonds, going absolutely nowhere. “Mi-Mistressssss!” she laughed hysterically, “St-staaahahaaahp!” If she had the capacity for rational thought, she would have reasoned it was a good thing she had peed before this began. As it was, she was slowly going out of her mind.

Smirking, Fluttershy's tongue moved to the back of the other knee and she applied the now wet feather to the soles of Adagio’s raised up feet. “Wrong word, pet.”

“Pl-Pl-puuhahahaha-lease!” Adagio squirmed and thrashed, to absolutely no avail. For a solid minute of that, she was unable to breathe at all, let alone speak, and she was sure she was going to pass out. “Pleeeeease Ma'aaaahahahahaam...I beg you pleease!”

“Hmph!” Fluttershy snorted her annoyance through her nose and, standing back up, she moved a step back. “I guess tickle torture wasn't enough.” Good thing was, she had more than just a feather to use on her pet.

Bound to the post, Adagio gasped long, deep haggard breaths, just grateful that she could breathe at all after all that. “Fuck...fuck...” she took one very deep breath, her sides hurt from laughing so hard, her lungs hurt from being deprived of air. She had been on the verge of saying her safe word when Fluttershy mercifully stopped.

Adagio learned, a second later, that Fluttershy had not stopped to be merciful.

Without any warning whatsoever, the crop landed hard on Adagio's left butt cheek, followed quickly by an equally stiff blow to the right one, then came a blow to the side of the left breast, right breast, left thigh and finally one hard strike hit her right thigh. “GAaaAAOOOOW! OoooOOW!” Adagio screamed out loud with each impact that landed on her prone body.

Each strike of the crop made her flesh ripple and her ass jiggle, each lick made her ‘dance’ against the unyielding post. “OOOOOW! OOOAaaaAAAAARGH!” she screamed in agony, because by the time Fluttershy repeated the unending cycle of blows, her scream was a continuous noise. Each blow left an angry welt in its place, and by the end of the second repeat cycle, she’d had enough. “Ocean!”

As soon as she heard Adagio’s safe word, Fluttershy dropped the crop to the flagstone floor of the room and she moved close and she rubbed her hands along the breast strikes and her own wet groin and legs over the marks on Adagio’s ass and thighs. “I think my pet took her punishment rather well.”

Adagio cried, now the strikes had ended, the intense immediate pain was replaced by an ache that covered her whole body. She sniveled and sobbed, not caring what her girlfriend thought of her. It had to come out. “Th-Thank y-you Ma'am…” As Fluttershy lowered herself back down, she licked and kissed along Adagio's back until she was able to unlock the ankle shackles. Then, she repeated the process going upwards until she unlocked her wrists. Freed, Adagio stumbled shakily into Fluttershy's embrace, sniffing. “That was...intense.”

Fluttershy allowed Adagio to lean on her as she led her sobbing lover back to the couch in the living room. “I'm working to be braver,” she said softly, “But I do slide back often. It was really embarrassing to wake up and find myself under the coffee table.”

Letting out a teeny giggle, Adagio blushed, “I'm sorry, I mean no disrespect, but that was really impressive how fast you went under there.”

“Maybe,” Fluttershy giggled in spite of her embarrassment, “But it was and is still embarrassing, and Mr. Badger wasn't impressed when I ended up in his den. I don't think Ms. Badger was happy about it either.”

“Fluttershy...I really am sorry,” she shot her girlfriend a sideways look, “Next time I can pee on you if you're into that.” One never knew what someone was into, after all.

“Um, no,” Fluttershy said very, very quietly as they sat on the couch, “If you don't mind. Cleaning it up is fine, and you wouldn't be the first to pee on me. Some of the animals lose control when I'm doing trimmings and such.”

“Noted. Roll you on the floor it is. Check.” Adagio winced as her full bodyweight was placed on her tenderised butt cheeks. “Damn...you know how to swing the crop, that was accurate work back there.”

Fluttershy looked very proud of her efforts. And rightly so. “Some animals have very thick hides and I have to work to get their attention. By the way, making kitten in distress noises would have been the best option.” She turned Adagio’s face to meet hers and she kissed her lips. “Although rolling me onto the floor would have been a different punishment.”

“Got it,” Adagio returned Fluttershy’s smile, “Kitten in distress. That would've been me if you'd put me in that cage. I don't think I'd have lasted very long at all."

“I hope we don't have to find out,” Fluttershy said honestly as she snuggled her head onto Adagio’s breasts, “You may have guessed, even Rainbow doesn't prank me anymore. I did get to forty with the crop before she safe worded out.”

Adagio shuddered hard, though the placement of Fluttershy’s head went a long way to calming her nerves, “I really hope so too,” she looked up to Adagio’s face and the much older woman could tell by the very look on her face showed that she was not playing. “I much prefer snuggles and cuddles.”

“Oh, well so do I,” Fluttershy returned to lay her head down to its previous position in Adagio's lap. “You may pet me, my pet.”

“Thank you, Ms. Fluttershy,” Adagio started to stroke her Mistress’s long pink hair, while Fluttershy ran her hand along Adagio's thick chunky thighs. “Hmmmm,” she purred as she stroked in long fluid motions, “Much better…”

~ ~ ~

Sunday morning and, just an hour after the sun had risen, Fluttershy opened her eyes thanks to the light hitting her eyes. She felt Adagio's arm draped across her chest, and she was sure that was her girlfriend’s drool on her breasts. Smiling, she glanced at the alarm clock and, when she saw there was roughly fifteen minutes till the usual postal delivery time, a wonderful, sexy idea occurred to her. Her smile widened as she got out of bed making sure to wake Adagio as she did so. “If you need to use the toilet, pet, do it now.”

As Fluttershy entered the bathroom to do just that, Adagio had only just managed to open her eyes at all. “Uuuuuuuuugh…” Adagio groaned and sleepily she slowly hauled her chubby ass out of the bed, because it wasn’t much fun without Fluttershy in it and she staggered her way to the bathroom rubbing her eyes. While her short orange hair had the ever-popular 'hedge backwards' style, Fluttershy’s was perfect. “How do you do that?” she asked grumpily, “How do you get up and look perfect?”

“Bird hair stylist?” Fluttershy giggled brightly as, once her toilet was completed and she splashed water on her face, she left the bathroom for Adagio to use.

Adagio wasn’t sure if her girlfriend was being serious or not. However, she didn’t have much time to think on it, she really needed to use the bathroom, her morning pee screamed to be released. “I bet your mouth doesn't taste like crap either,” she commented from her perch atop the toilet.

From next room, her bedroom, Fluttershy called back, “I hope not, I was munching on you!”

Leaving the bathroom after flushing and quickly brushing her teeth, Adagio snarked, “Well that explains a lot.”

When Adagio reached the doorway, she saw that Fluttershy was standing in the bedroom wearing nothing but the large ten inch strap on that she was so fond of. Walking over to her, Fluttershy took Adagio’s hand and led her downstairs. It was very nearly time. “I have one question for you, my love, anal or vaginal?”

“Anal,” Adagio answered without having to think about it, “And really go for it. I'm in the mood to get wore out today.”

Fluttershy pointed to the window, where the drapes over the large plate glass were open. Fluttershy only ever closed those if she needed a dark room to watch a film during the day, but the sun drapes were closed. Fluttershy opened those to give a clear view of the driveway and the front lawn. “Hands on the window, and fear not, I'll wear you out, pet.”

“Yes Ma'am, Ms. Fluttershy!” Adagio walked over and, as naked as the day she was born, she placed her hands flat on the window like she had been pulled by a traffic cop. “Like that?”

Walking up behind her, Fluttershy rubbed her hand over Adagio’s left butt cheek, her fingertips lightly brushing over the welts she had made the day before while with the other she slapped some really cold lube between those cheeks as she worked it in with her fingers. “That will do nicely.”

“Ooooooh!” when she felt the generous amount of lube get worked between her cheeks and up her hole, Adagio teasingly wiggled her fleshy ass, “I'll never get used to that cold!”

“Did you prefer the tropical waters in Equestria?” Fluttershy asked, genuinely curious as she lined up the phallus with her target and, with a gentle but firm thrust of her hips, pushed the head and the first few inches into Adagio's accommodating butt hole.

“Yeeeessssss Ma'aaaam!” Adagio moaned happily as she was entered. Now that was a feeling she’d never get tired of! Although, it was very strange having a conversation while she was being anally fucked. “Th-The warm waters were soooo nice!” Behind her, Fluttershy simply smiles as she saw the parcel post delivery truck turn up her driveway, like every Sunday. “M-Ma'am...” Adagio gasped, she couldn’t help but thrust backwards as her Mistress hilted inside her back door. “There's a truck!”

“That’s why we are here,” Fluttershy responded, calm as if she was chatting about the weather and not fake-balls deep in her girlfriend’s asshole, “I wonder who the driver is today?” she asked entirely to herself as she started to thrust herself back and forth. When the truck stopped, a young man got out and moved around to the back, “Oh, it’s Green Mountain today. They often send the strong ones for my route.”

“AAaaAAH Fu-FuuuUUUCK I don't care!” Adagio screamed as she was plowed right there up against the window for anyone that happened to be there to see. Her breasts swung and her pudgy belly jiggled in time with each thrust of the toy in her ass, “Don't stop please!” as she screamed and moaned, the delivery guy came around the trunk with a dolly packed with boxes. Fluttershy waved and he just stopped to watch. Adagio was determined to put on a good show, “Ma'am that is sooooo good!”

The man smiled, waved back and he moved the boxes round to the back of the house. “He’ll put them next to the shed,” Fluttershy said casually, not like she was reaming Adagio’s butt for all she was worth.

“The su-supply shed or t-the sh-shed I'm not allowed in?” Adagio managed to ask, the absurdity of having a conversation while her Mistress was banging her behind not escaping her.

“I’ll leave that a mystery,” with that said, Fluttershy really went to work to finish Adagio off before the delivery man returned. She gripped her lover’s ass so hard her fingers left marks on her skin as she pounded her so hard she was lifted off the floor. After several hard deep thrusts like that, Adagio was reduced to a howling sweating mess pressed up against the glass, only held up by Fluttershy’s firm grip.

“FUUUUUUCK YEEESSSS!” Adagio screamed when she came and, when she herself was finished, Fluttershy pulled out and she lifted Adagio up so she could push the front of her body right up against the glass just in time for the man to walk past with the empty dolly. He just smiled and waved again. “Shit...” she sighed, “That was good!”

The delivery guy went behind the van to stow away the dolly and then he returned to the front, where he blew Fluttershy and her partner a kiss before he got into the driver’s seat and left. “I think Green rather enjoyed the show, my pretty, pretty kitty.” Fluttershy grinned, treating her pet to a kiss of her own.

“M-Me-Meeeow!” Adagio giggled, “Not as much as I enjoyed it, Ma’am!”

Carefully, Fluttershy lowered Adagio back to the floor, where she removed the strap on toy and set it on the same coffee table that she had hidden under the day before to be cleaned later. “Now, we need to put away the delivery,” she headed for the back door, not bothering to put on a stitch of clothing.

“Need any help?”

“Of course I do. I need a big strong girlfriend to lift things.”

“In that case, it's a good thing I'm here!” Adagio laughed as she followed Fluttershy outside to the back garden. “I can ring Aria and get her over to help,” she giggled, “Failing that, I can lift and put down.” All but one box were full of things for the wild critters around and near Fluttershy's home and they went into the critter shed, not a lot of heavy lifting was involved. The last box, Fluttershy moved to the other shed, it wasn’t heavy, but she did let Adagio help her move it. “So what's in there? A super-secret sex dungeon I don't know about?”

Rolling her eyes, Fluttershy opened the shed. Inside it were large adult pet sized play toys, like the tether ball set. “In this box is an inflatable swimming pool. Sweet Tooth got a little carried away with my last one.”

“Hmph...” Adagio grunted, “Not as exciting as what I was thinking.” It turned out that the most interesting item in the shed was the steeple race set of barriers.

“You've already seen my sexy dungeon as you were in it, and the real sexy times items are in my other room. I can enjoy sexy times at any location,” Fluttershy gave her girlfriend a wink, “Like a front window.”

Adagio blushed, “Damn that was fun!” she gave Fluttershy a kiss, “Not a bad way to wake up either.”

“For some reason, totally unknown to me, the delivery is always on time!” Fluttershy giggled.

“If I didn't know better,” Adagio grinned as she took Fluttershy’s hand and squeezed it, “I'd swear you were part siren.”

“Well, based on our stories,” Fluttershy commented as they made their way back inside the house, “I have no desire to send them upon the rocks, but I do like to help them load directly to the shed, wearing less than I did walking out of the bedroom. I think it does brighten their day. I only had one, kinda bad experience, as guy decided I was available. Sweet Tooth helped him change his mind.”

“I imagine it helps having a big guard cat on call,” Adagio laughed before she frowned, “And I don't know where you humans got the idea sirens did that. Back home, we'd sometimes even save ponies from shipwrecks!”

Sympathetically, Fluttershy kissed Adagio’s lips, “They are stories, maybe made up to excuse wrecking the ship. It is now time for my morning shower, care to join me?”

“Like you need to ask!”

~ ~ ~

The end of the long, long summer holidays saw twelve friends all sitting around a long table at Sugarcube Corner. It had been arranged that since the core group of friends were all moving on to colleges and universities now they had graduated, there would be a last get together before they went off to face the world.

Mrs. Cake had kindly agreed to open up just for them, and the party of twelve sat around three large tables pressed together. They were sat in their respective couples; Rarity was with Pinkie Pie on her left, who was next to Twilight and Rainbow Dash, next along were Applejack and Sunset. Sonata was sat next to the Equestrian with Wallflower, then it was Aria and Chestnut Magnifico and finally Adagio and Fluttershy.

They all looked resplendent in their evening gowns – even Rainbow Dash had been corraled into a sparkly dress, all of them except Applejack and Aria, who had insisted on wearing suits over the frou frou nonsense Rarity had crafted. “Oh,” Pinkie Pie squealed as Mrs. Cake bought out the starters, “We're having alphabet soup with sprinkles!”

“So,” Chestnut asked as the soup was placed on the table, “Why did you all chose this place?” the actress was genuinely interested, “I'm sure you had the choice of anywhere in the city.” Certainly, she had the choice of anywhere in the city, and she was more than happy to get them in anywhere they’d have opted for.

“I guess you've never eaten here,” Fluttershy commented, taking a spoonful of her soup while the others did the same, “Or you wouldn't question it.”

The rest of her friends just looked at Fluttershy, though it was Rarity who found her voice first. “That is true darling,” she said as the rest ate their soup, “We thought a bright environment would be a good place for all of us to gather.” She didn’t add ‘for one last time’, there was no need.

“It's better than Taco Towers,” Aria snarked, causing Sonata to give her older sister a roll of her eyes. “I guess it’s minimum property damage in case you have to rainboom us too,” she casually inspected her fingers, though the corners of her mouth did curl up, indicating she was amused by her own joke.

“Why Ari,” Adagio had to set down her spoon because she was laughing, “I do believe that was a joke!”

“Maybe,” Aria actually smiled for once.

Delightedly, Sonata clapped her hands, “Ari's in a good mood! This is her second this year! Another reason to celebrate!”

“Um,” Twilight adjusted her glasses and realised that she was quite underprepared for the dinner. “I didn't do enough research for this dinner date!” she felt the familiar pang of anxiety build in her gut and her chest tighten up, “You three seem to be in better spirits since our last meetings though.”

“Relax, Twi,” Rainbow waved her hand breezily in the air then she squeezed her girlfriend’s thigh in an effort to calm her nerves, “You don't need to research everything, this is just friends having dinner.”

“Rainbow is right for once,” Adagio found herself for once agreeing with the athlete, “As it happens, I have reason to be in good spirits.”

“First,” Aria looked right at Rainbow Dash, “I've heard that Fluttershy can swing a mean crop that could even break a siren.” She was pleased to see Rainbow blush, meaning what she had heard was correct, “Second,” she held up her new pendant with the white geode inside it, “Life is looking up since Fluttershy came into Adagio's life.”

From her bag at her feet, Twilight pulled out a notepad and pen, “About those...”

“Later darling,” Rarity placed her hand on Twilight’s and took the pen from her, “This is the socializing time.”

“Ah have to agree with Rares there.” Applejack grinned at Rarity as Twilight blushed and stowed her notebook back in her bag.

“Heh...you aren't wrong about how hard she can swing a crop,” Rainbow Dash shot finger guns at Aria, “You'd think I'd have learnt after the time I pranked her,” she giggled, “Any way, I gotta say things have perked up since Adagio started teaching me,” she them beamed with justifiable pride. “Guess who aced her history test?”

“Oh, ooooooh!” Pinkie Pie raised a hand like she was trying to get the teacher’s attention in class, “Pick me, pick me!”

“Go for it, Pinks.”

“Oh, um, was it...” Pinkie Pie actually ran through a handful of options in her head, much to Rainbow’s amusement, “No, not her. Maybe... You! It was you, Dashie!”

Rainbow Dash struck a particularly heroic pose, “It was me!”

Rarity beamed as Mrs. Cake bought out the main course for the group, “My girlfriend is quite smart.” It was a fact that was very often overlooked about Pinkie Pie, that of her latent genius, something that bothered Rarity to no end.

Smirking, Adagio reached over the table and took a fist bump from Rainbow Dash, “Blue Fast isn't exactly slow, either.”

Proudly, Fluttershy skritched behind Adagio's ear, “She is such a fine teacher. You should tell them all the good news, pet.

“Aaaaaaahn…ahem…yes, my news.” Adagio was trying very hard to not blush as she was purring from the ear skritching, “I'm going to be accredited to teach history at CHS a year from now.”

There was general applause to Adagio’s statement, along with several simultaneous whoops, go for its and congratulations. Rarity though was more interested in Aria and Chestnut. “I wonder, have you two set a date for the wedding yet, I have all the details lined up and just waiting for a time.”

“Ah,” Chestnut hurriedly swallowed her mouthful of food and said, “Yes well we set a date for next summer. I wanted a Christmas wedding, but a certain someone doesn't ‘do’ cold weather.” The eye roll she directed at Aria spoke volumes, not that Aria cared.

“Unless it’s Christmas in Aruba,” Fluttershy giggled.

“Aruba is a bit out of my...” Rarity started after patting her lips with her napkin, then she realised what her friend had meant, “Oh, that was a joke…”

“Nice one, Shy!” Aria reached over the table to give Fluttershy a congratulatory fist bump, “Yeah, summer will do just fine.”

Just like Twilight had taken out her notebook, Rarity got out her cell phone and skimmed through the apps to her calendar. “June is the best times for weddings and it isn't to humid if you want it outdoors…”

“Hmph,” Twilight snorted through her nose, “For someone that made me put my notebook away...”

Caught out, Rarity blushed, “Yes, we can plan after the meal, perhaps.”

“You see Shimmer,” Applejack laughed heartily, “That’s what literacy will do to you. Interrupt a fine meal.” Twilight and Rarity both gave the apple farmer a raspberry each, while Fluttershy, who was sat eating her meal, was just happy that her friends were acting normal around the sirens.

Sat beside her Mistress, Sunset hugged Applejack, “Yeah, um...damn that literacy, huh?”

“Wallflower,” Adagio addressed the gardener, “I assume you're doing the flowers?”

Wallflower nodded enthusiastically, “I sure am!”

Once the main course had been consumed by everyone at the table, Rarity placed a hand on Pinkie Pie’s shoulder. “I know you're off work, my love, but could you please go and get our desserts?” Nodding her head in giddy excitement and she was gone in a flash, without even standing up from her chair.

Sonata though looked confused, “But…I didn't order dessert yet.”

Fluttershy just giggled, “You did, Sonny, you just don't know it yet.”

While a couple of the friends giggled, Adagio wore an amused look on her face. “So, what are all you guys doing now you've all graduated CHS?”

“Rainbow and I aren't moving that far away,” Twilight answered first, “Canterlot City has a university that meets both our needs.” At least, it did now, now that Rainbow Dash had passed her courses and gotten her grades up.

“My business and Pinkie’s are right here,” Rarity pointed to the kitchen of Sugarcube Corner, though she didn’t mention the Coinky Dink World diner that her girlfriend also worked at. Since she had graduated, Prim Hemline and her wife, Fine line, had passed ownership of Carousel Boutique on to her, “I don't think I'd care for the big city life.”

“Same with goes for me and Shimmer,” Applejack spoke up, “We're staying put. Ah got me a new business partner,” she grinned, giving Sunset a firm kiss.

“My work is here too,” Fluttershy put in, “And I do have an adorable kitten to take care of.”

Adagio turned a bright red at that, much to Aria's intense amusement. “Yes, yes you do, have an adorable kitten, Ma’am.”

“Ha!” Aria laughed, “Dagi's adorable!”

“Ugh...” Adagio facepalmed, “I think I prefer you in a bad mood, Ari.”

“You can't be in a bad mood here!” Rainbow cheered, “I know what's coming for a dessert!” Dessert, as it happened, was totally and definitely ‘off the menu’. Almost on cue, Pinkie bought out six huge bowls carried in her hands and balanced perfectly on her arms. She delivered the bowls to each of the six couples with two spoons and then she sat proudly at Rarity’s side.

Aria, wholly unprepared for Pinkie’s ‘Pinkieishness’, stared wide eyed at the strawberry champagne trifle with caviar in front of her and Chestnut, “How...”

“Don't question it,” Applejack advised wisely. She was used by now to Pinkie’s antics.

“That way madness lies,” Sunset added. Even she knew not to question Pinkie. She, like the rest of her friends, just accepted the fact that each of them had a bowl of something to share that each couple would agree on for dessert.

“I don't care how,” Adagio gushed, looking down in bewilderment at the bowl of chocolate sticky rice with herring, “This looks amazing!” without further ado, she took a bite of it and very nearly melted into her seat, “By the seven seas...” The sentiment was echoed around the table as they all eagerly ate their respective desserts. Once everyone had eaten, and they were all happy and content, she said, “I feel like singing, are we allowed to, here?”

“Pfft,” Pinkie gestured with her clean spoon, “Who would stop anyone from singing, silly?”

Would you seven like to join in?” Adagio asked, feeling the most content and centred that she had in a long while, “I was rather fond of that song you all sang, Shake Your Tail.”

The moment Adagio mentioned their song, Sunset made a thoroughly adorable pout that didn’t go unnoticed by Fluttershy. “It's okay Shimmer, Adagio couldn't wear her tail either.”

Adagio laughed and Pinkie was the first of the group up on her feet, “Sing along!”

“Start us off, Dagi,” Aria said, “And we'll join in harmonies.” Sonata nodded, and then Adagio started the song. All of the table joined in right away with the song, Fluttershy was the third to stand and when she shook her tail, the rest followed suit. By the second verse, everyone was on their feet dancing and singing enthusiastically around the table.

Mrs. Cake applauded along with the group when the song was finished. “I'm so happy those stones are working out for you!” Twilight breathed as she sat back down to catch her breath.

“Thank you for letting me in on having them made,” Fluttershy smiled at Twilight.

Applejack snickered, “Celestia seemed to tell a different story on that, Shy.”

Fluttershy gave Applejack the very briefest of stares, “She was reasonable in the end.”

“They are amazing, Twilight!” Adagio squealed happily, to which Aria and Sonata both nodded in quick agreement.

Aria fingered her pendant, stroking the white geode like one would show affection to the family pet, “It’s nice to be 'us' again.”

“Yeah,” Rainbow laughed, “Without all the soul sucking ev...” however, whatever she was going to say next was swiftly silenced by Twilight, who forcefully slapped the back of Rainbow's head, “Um, I mean, yeah, nice. To be you again.”

Adagio shared a look of thunder with her sisters and the group, it was a look of pure outrage, and she allowed it to hang in the air like a frosty thundercloud before the three of them burst out laughing. Sneakily, Fluttershy gave Adagio’s butt squeeze for her restraint. “Ah think things are looking up for all of us,” Applejack stated when the whole table had stopped laughing.

“You said it, farm girl,” Aria socked Applejack playfully on the shoulder, a gesture that the farmer readily returned.

Still standing from the song, Adagio kissed Fluttershy, “I believe I would like a group hug before we get too mushy,” Pinkie Pie took that as an order, and not a suggestion. Everyone was suddenly pulled from their seats to the front of the table and into a very tight group hug. Adagio, in spite of her request, suddenly started crying.

Sonata saw the tears and immediately she was worried for her sister. “Dagi...”

“They're happy tears, Sonata!” Adagio cut her off before she could worry.

“So...you don't have the Gloomies anymore?” asked Sonata, and in response, Adagio simply hugged the youngest sibling, she hugged Fluttershy, and, her eyes full of hot, wet, happy tears, she hugged anyone else who was within reach.

“The Gloomies don't just vanish, Sonata,” Fluttershy said kindly as she affectionately kissed Adagio’s lips, “But the luminous can keep them at bay while they wilt under the light.”

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