Chapter 34: I’d Prefer Reading ‘Past Sins’

Dusk could see that Carrot Top is now a small, orange dot, on the dirt pathway leading to town. As he turns around and walks back into his marefriend’s cottage, he looks at Fluttershy as he walks inside. She seems proud at Dusk, which he assumes is because of what Carrot Top had thanked Dusk for before.

She pulled him into a tight, loving hug, and says “Thank you Dusk, for what you did for Ditzy.” Her tone of voice exuded happiness, as she released her quick embrace.

“It is no problem Shy, I just did what I had to do.” He says in a humble manner as he moves towards the nearby couch.

“I really like that about you Dusk. You tend to help ponies out of your own goodwill, and I love that trait of yours.” She compliments kindly. She gives Dusk a smile, which would cause some ponies to have cuteness induced heart attacks.

“I don’t help the ponies I don’t like.” He says in an annoyed tone, deflecting the positive reinforcement. Dusk always was terrible at receiving compliments, mainly because of his pessimism. He really hated that part of his personality.

“But I still think that it’s good that you still help anypony who might be in trouble.” She reassures, with a quiet tone.

“I guess it is, Shy.”

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Dusk has noticed the smell of something cooking in the kitchen, which intrigued him, as Fluttershy was still reading her romance novel. The scent of the unknown food, mainly consisted of tomato, onion and various herbs, and it smelt delicious.

“Hey Fluttershy,” The yellow coated mare looks up at Dusk. “What are you making in the kitchen? I don’t see you or Angel making something on the stove, but I can still smell something cooking. What is it?” Questions Dusk, completely aware that it was probably going to be something rather obvious, which would make him look like an idiot.

“I’m um… making vegetable in the slow cooker near the kettle. It’ll be ready in about an hour.” When Fluttershy finishes talking, she points her hoof in the direction of the cooker. Dusk facehoofs himself.

‘Damn it, why am I so stupid. I knew that this was going to happen anyway, but I still hate it.’

Dusk asks another question, “So when did you make it? It must have been soon after I left.” He mentions.

“I put it in the slow cooker at about 11:00AM, so we could have it together at 7:00PM.” She finishes kind heartedly. She really likes it when we both have dinner together.

‘It takes 8 hours to cook?! It seems a bit excessive.’

Quick Author’s Note: It’s not excessive.

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The slow cooker let off a few subtle *dings* meaning that it has finished cooking. Fluttershy leaves her book on the couch, while it was still open, and walks towards the kitchen. Dusk sees the open book, and his curiosity leads him to the open novel. He sits on the soft couch, picks up the book and begins to read from where Fluttershy had gotten about.

{No clopping bits, it is rated teen for a reason.}

‘Hmm… this looks interesting, it seems a mare named Dancer and a stallion named Red have finished having a date, and he has brought her back to her house. She invites him inside, for some coffee. [Activate Dirty Mind] Just coffee? Really? I have a feeling that she’ll want a bit more than that… Might as well keep reading then…’

‘…loved the date… was wonderful, how dull is this, just hurry-… Oh here we go, it seems that she wants to give Red a present in her room. I can just imagine, as they both walk into the room, Dancer will say something like “Oh Red, my present for you, is my body, please treat it with care.” And they’ll have sex.  Okay, so in the book, they both walk into her room. So… *nervous laugh* she take her dress off, and is only wearing some… uh… erotic clothing…’

Dusk was still reading the book, with his mouth wide open, and his right wing fully erect.

‘What the hay does she read?! I really should of expected this, but this is just… ugh.’

She walks to the nearby table, carrying a bowlful of hot, vegetable casserole, and places it on the table. Dusk decides to ignore what he had read on the book, as he didn’t really like to think about the extremely descriptive piece of literature that he’s read. He tries to fold his erect right wing back into its normal position, but he is a tad too late, as Fluttershy had seen the raised appendage while she put the second bowl on the table.

She heavily blushes, “Why is-is your wing out Dusk?

‘Celestia damn my bucking luck, because I’m in trouble right now.‘

Dusk quickly tries to think of a good answer, and he fails. “I don’t know why it’s out Shy, I-I just feel like a stretch right now.”

‘Well done Dusk, *slow imaginary clapping* that was the best excuse ever.’

Fluttershy is unconvinced, and she continues to press the issue, “I’m sorry Dusk, but I just want to know why you have a wingboner… that is if you don’t mind me asking…” She quietly finishes.

Dusk bites his lower lip, knowing that he’ll have to tell her. He is quite embarrassed about the answer. “While you were preparing dinner, I took a quick look at your open novel, and the next thing I read is those two having sex with each other, which caused my wing to uh… stretch out.”

Fluttershy gasps when Dusk had finished talking, and the first thought that crossed Dusk’s mind is ‘I am stuffed.’ She begins to speak in a disappointed tone, “Uhm… Dusk, I wish you didn’t tell me that, because I haven’t got up to that bit yet.” Dusk feels a pang of guilt, as Fluttershy timidly finished, “But I don’t mind too much.”

Dusk rubs the back of his short mane, and begins to apologize to her, “I’m sorry Shy, I didn’t realize that you weren’t up to that bit yet. I should have said Spoiler Alert or something like that, before I told you.”

“It’s not too bad, it will only take a few minutes to get to that part anyway.” Reassures Fluttershy. Dusk felt a lot less guilty after hearing that.

“I guess that is a good thing Shy. Also, remind me to never read one of your books again, I’d rather not read about the fictional sexual archives, of Red and Dancer.”

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Dusk and Fluttershy were both sitting on the table, eating the exquisite casserole that she made. Dusk is thankful  that he figured out how to use spoons/knives/forks, as this made eating the meal a lot easier, and a lot, lot cleaner. The two were engaged in small talk.

Dusk asks her a question, “I’ve been wondering, how do you think that Ditzy Doo made her eyes go weird like that?” He forgot to ask Ditzy the question, yesterday.

Fluttershy begins to think of an answer, until she says, “I think that it was an accident from when she was younger.”

Dusk slowly shakes his head. “Ahh, tis a pity. I hope that it wasn’t anything too painful for her.” Pities Dusk.

“I hope not.” Agrees Fluttershy.

“…”

“…”

Dusk breaks the silence, “Now a completely different subject, somepony told me that Big Mac is planning on asking out Cheerilee.” He says in a gossipy way. “Make sure that you keep it a secret though, they told me not to tell anypony.”

“Cross my heart, and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Promises Fluttershy, while doing all the motions of the Pinkie Pie Promise. She continues talking after making the promise, “Rarity would be disappointed though.”

“Yeah, she would.” Agrees Dusk. He is thinking back to what Rarity told him a few days ago.

‘I would love to work with that sexy hunk of a stallion…’

Dusk shudders.

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It was getting late around the town of Ponyville, as Luna’s moon floats high across the sky. Both Dusk and Fluttershy had gotten themselves washed, and have nearly gotten themselves into bed, until Dusk thinks about something.

“Shy, have I ever had a normal day in Ponyville?” He asks the yellow pegasus.

“What do you mean?”

“Think about it for a bit, something different happens to me every day. In 11 days, I’ve been to hospital... twice, I’ve had a mental breakdown, I went of one of Pinkie’s parties, we’ve been on two dates, I stopped bad things from happening to you and Ditzy, I’ve gone to a nightclub and I’ve been charged at by Big Mac. As a matter of fact, I’ve actually had three ‘normal’ days.” Answers Dusk. He realizes how much he has done in such a small time period.

Fluttershy is surprised with all that’s happened to Dusk. “W-wow, that’s a lot. When did Big Mac charge at you?” She timidly asks, as she doesn’t know what happened yesterday. “Are you hurt?”

Dusk waves a dismissive hoof, “Don’t worry about Shy. I forgot about it ages ago.”

“Okay then Dusk, good night,”

“Night Shy.”

They give each other a quick kiss on the lips before they both fall asleep.

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