It was during lunch that I was approached by Wallflower, and she seemed to be more nervous than usual.

"I trust things went well?" She questioned, trying to sound sure, but still phrased it as a question.

"That's one way to put it," I responded with a chuckle.

"Ok?" She questioned, before shrugging, "Anyway, is now a good time to introduce myself?"

"It should be. I trust you can keep your distaste for Sunset in check?" I responded.

"Yes, I'll be good," Was all she said, as I led her to the group.

After a few moments of silence, she spoke up.

"So, what did you mean by that?" She finally decided to ask, making me sigh.

"Well, not only did we manage to make-up, but we also..."

"Yes?"

"Fine. I will just be blunt and say it. We ended up forming a harem with most of the other Rainbooms."

"What?"

"Yeah, exactly like I said. Somehow, I managed to make most... Well, all of them like me. Two of them just need more time."

"Not surprising," I heard her mumble.

"What was that?"

"Nothing," She responded nervously with a heavy blush.

"Ok," I simply said

"So, you're all together in a relationship?"

"Yeah, we agreed to have a friend with benefits type of relationship."

"Are there open spots?"

"Yeah, they gave me full control over who joins."

"Great!"

"Why do you ask?"

"Oh. Well..." She stuttered nervously with a dark blush.

"Wallflower, do you have feelings for me?"

"Maybe a little. Ok maybe more than that," She managed to admit, "Though, I'm not quite sure I am ready for something like that."

"Yeah, it's a little... No, very strange and will take a while for me to get used to it myself."

We finally arrived at the cafeteria and quickly spotted the Rainbooms sitting at their table. I noticed Wallflower sighed nervously, so I gently grabbed her hand in assurance. She quickly calmed down and we even shared a small smile, as I led her to their table. The girls noticed me and gave me a huge smile. Seriously, they haven't noticed the person I happen to still be holding hands with?! I quickly let go of her hand, as Rainbow decided to greet me in her usual way.

"Stud there you are. We were beginning to think you would never decide to take your rightful place at our table," Rainbow greeted me with a teasing wink, "Honestly, as our groupie you had an honorary spot, but now as our lover even more so. I thought I had to finally hunt you down and bring you here."

"Nice to see you are just as clingy in public, as you are when we're alone."

"Yeah, yeah. You're the only one I would ever act like this way towards. Lucky you."

"Who is that with you, darling?" Rarity asked me.

"This is the one I was telling you about. We usually eat outside together, but since you girls insist, I joined your table and she finally agreed to meet with you, this meeting is happening now."

"Yippie!" Pinkie called out, as she jumped out of her seat and rushed right up to Wallflower, "Hi! I'm Pinkie pie, though I'm sure you already know that. Nice to..." Pinkie was interrupted when she shook and gasped in realization, "It's you. You're the student I missed. I thought I met and befriended everyone in this entire damn school and that my Pinkie sense was wrong, but it wasn't. I of all people should have known better than to doubt my senses, but I just couldn't handle myself actually missing someone to befriend. This has never happened before. Oh well. I shouldn't dwell on the past and I get to befriend you now. Better late than never." Pinkie blurted out at a rapid pace.

"Huh?" Wallflower could only ask, confused and weirded out by the hyper girl's nonsense rant.

"Anyway, nice to meet you. Well, it actually completely is since Marky started a harem with the girls and me, so I am no longer a clingy jealous girl. Well, actually I am still clingy, but I am no longer jealous, or at least I can keep it in check. I no longer have any reason to have any beef with you, or any potential girl that Marky attracts."

"Yeah," Was all Wallflower could say in response.

"Why don't you two grab a seat and we can get to know your other friend?" Sunset suggested.

Wallflower took a relaxing breath, before nodding. As I took a seat, I noticed her take off her backpack, before she seemingly gave it a pondering look for a brief moment. She then gently placed it on the floor, before taking another relaxing breath. That was kind of weird, but it's probably nothing?

"Next time be sure to hurry it up stud, I don't want to lose out on my day," Rainbow teased me.

"We still have all of after school, my little Rainbow," I teased back, before gently rubbing her head.

"Hey! I'm not little!" She pouted cutely.

"Whatever you say my awesome Rainbow."

"That's better."

Messing with Rainbow while we are in a relationship is much better than when we were single. Through the lunch period, I noticed Wallflower managed to relax a little and successfully met and talked with the others. I could tell and figured it would take more time to get her out of her shell. It did take me a while too after all to get to the point where I am at socializing, but she is getting there. It may be slow, but she is making progress.

I awoke to the sound of my phone alarm and groaned, before gently rubbing my eyes. I pulled it out and saw I had a rather surprising text from Applejack.

Howdy Marcus... lover boy 😍. I would like you to meet me at my house, so we can get this project done. More than one if you know what I mean. Oh, and Big Mac told me he wants to talk to you. Not sure what's going on between you two, but hopefully it won't last long, so we can enjoy the day together. See you soon Don't keep me waiting 😘

Huh? Didn't expect her to send a text like this. Is she trying too hard to be playful like Rainbow? No matter. Now's time to get used to this whole harem thing.

I finally arrived, ready to get this whole thing done. Another thing is Big Mac. I haven't spoken to him for weeks and now all of the sudden he wants to talk. I still don't even know what his issue was. Hopefully, he wants to make up. To be honest I will be happy to be friends again, but it might take a bit for me to completely get over this. I will see what he wants and decide there. I walked right up the door and knocked on it. After a brief moment it opened, revealing Applejack.

"Glad you could make it... uh sugar cube," She greeted me as she led me in, before she gently grabbed my hand.

"As much as I want to take you straight to my room, so we can get right to it, if you know what I mean, Big Mac insisted on talking to you," She began before sighing in frustration, "It better not take too long, and he better not be overprotective. I can take care of myself."

"Really sis? That's funny because last I heard he beat you effortlessly at arm wrestling."

Applejack and I turned around to find Big Mac standing, with his arms on his hips and a teasing smile on his face. Applejack groaned with an angry embarrassed blush on her face.

"Well, he beat me a lot faster than you did. How do you like that?"

"Sis you are aware I hold back against you, right?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, I figured after my match with him," She sighed, "All this time I thought I was close to your strength only to meet someone else much stronger that made me realize I still have a long way to go, but I'll get there soon. I know it."

"I know you will. Now, may I speak with him, before you two work on your English project?"

"Just make it quick."

"No worries sis he will be with you soon and in one piece," He assured her.

Applejack reluctantly let go of my hand, before giving me a quick kiss on the cheek, to my slight surprise.

"I'll be in my room. Meet me there and try not to take too long," she told me, before going on her way.

"Come on. This has been a long time coming," Big Mac told me with a blank expression on his face.

I quickly followed him to the living room.

"So, how have you been?" He asked me rather bluntly, making me raise an eyebrow.

"You broke off our friendship for some reason I still don't even know and now after weeks now you have the nerve to start out with that?" I asked in disbelief.

"E..."

"If you finish that word, I'm leaving."

"Look, I'm not good at this. In fact, just our brief interaction today is already my weekly word quota," He began sighing, "I realized weeks ago how pigheaded I have been and wanted to reach out, but I was scared at how you would react. I have never had a friend before, and I was too much of a coward to face you. After your accident at the games, I tried to find the courage to approach you, but I still couldn't. It was to the point I stopped caring that AJ was gushing about you, about how you crush her at arm wrestling and that she finally found her dream guy. I am too overprotective of her, I admit that. To the point I ended a great friendship, just for giving her a good compliment and feared you winning her over," He explained before taking a deep breath, "Though I ended up being right, I was still paranoid at the time. I realized the only one I can handle being in a relationship with AJ, even in a harem is you. I understand if you are still annoyed or even angry, but I hope we can start over."

"Despite this I have no beef with you and am willing to start over, though you understand things have changed. Not only have I befriended the Rainbooms, but a couple other girls as well," I answered him with a sigh.

"Of course. I suppose I should give you props for achieving what many of us can only dream of, especially with the most popular group in school," He praised me with a grin and held out a fist.

"Thank you," was all I said, before giving him a fist bump.

After spending a couple minutes catching up a bit, I finally made my way to Applejack's room. Unlike Rainbow's it was fairly clean, and Applejack was currently sitting on the bed.

"About time you showed up," She commented, "Come on, let's get this done and maybe we can move on to something better."

I simply nodded, before I joined her, and we each took our textbook out. After about an hour into working and making great progress, Applejack panted and took her hat off to fan herself.

"Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?"

Is she doing what I think she's doing?

"I hope you don't mind if I take off my shirt," She teased me with a wink, as she slowly took off her shirt.

She is! Well, this is out of left field, but I'm not complaining. In fact, I found myself mesmerized by her action and even gawking a little at her impressive muscular abs. It was actually nice to see that she does have visible muscle somewhere on her body and I found the impulse to touch and rub them.

"Like the show, sugar cube?" She teased me with a flirty wink, making me blush a little at getting caught, "No worries, I don't mind. In fact, go ahead and touch me. I know you want to."

I found myself quickly touching and rubbing her muscles and loved the feeling of them. After a few moments, I noticed a smirk form on her face.

"While this is all well and good. I am feeling a little left out," She told me, before she grabbed my shirt and gently pulled it up a little, "I see I'm not the only one with impressive muscles. Not surprising," She continued, before she began to feel my muscles up, "What do you say we take a break?"

I simply nodded, wanting nothing more than to continue this. Oh, I am beginning to enjoy this harem thing more and more. Applejack quickly grabbed our work and placed it on her desk, before rushing back to me.

"Now, let's remove this completely," she told me, before pulling my shirt off completely and we continued feeling each other's muscles.

After a few moments of this, I got a bold idea.

"As great as this is. I think we should do something to add to it," I suggested moving my face closer to hers.

"Oh? What Sugar-" I interrupted her by gently pressing my lips against hers.

She quickly melted into the kiss and feeling extra bold, I gently grabbed her butt cheeks and gave them a light squeeze. I heard her groan in pleasure, as I gently rubbed my tongue on the entrance of her mouth, before she quickly let me in. We quickly ended up tongue wrestling, and the match lasted a bit longer than the one I had with Rainbow, but in the end, I pinned hers down, making her moan loudly, before I explored the rest of her mouth. After a few moments we separated, panting for breath.

"Wow, sugar cube for an introvert you can be rather bold," She teased me with a smirk, "Always the quiet ones. Had it been anyone else, they would have gotten a kick in the behind, but you are the only exception."

"Yeah," Was all I said with an embarrassed blush.

"No need to be embarrassed. I really love it and I hope to see more of that side of you, when you get more comfortable," She assured me with a smile, "Feel free to do anything and touch me anywhere you want," She added before pointing at her large breasts, in an apple theme bra, "And I do mean anywhere."

"Right. This is going to take some getting used to, but I love it already," I stated with a smile.

"Same here sugar cube," She agreed, returning the smile.

After a moment of smiling, we slowly moved together into another intense kiss. This whole harem thing is turning out to be better than I thought, and I actually can't wait to do this kind of thing with the other girls.

Another one sooner than usual. First chapter of the new year. Hard to believe it has been almost 11 months since I started this. Things get heated with Applejack and Marcus and he introduces Wallflower to the gang. he even makes up with Big Mac and despite wanting to start over he makes it clear things are different and he has other friends and girls he's actually more than friends with, including his sister, though he seemed to realize what an ass he has been and to not stand in the way of his relationship with his sister.

Next chapter: Rarity finally gets her opportunity to spend time with Marcus romantically.