I was sitting at home and currently working on a quick sketch, as all of the girls were busy, leaving me once again with complete free time on my hands. This gives me a bit of a weird feeling to be honest. Before befriending and getting closer to the girls, this was pretty much my life and now it just feels weird how this was ever normal to me. Oh well. Not like one day alone is going to kill me or anything. I was suddenly interrupted from my thoughts, when I felt my phone vibrate and I quickly pulled it out, to find a text from Sugarcoat.

Hey, I have some free time and was wondering if you wanted to spend some time together?

Every once in a while, I would have random text conversations with the crystal prep girls I met. Mostly, Sugarcoat and Lemon Zest. Sadly, since I would spend time with my harem members, I didn’t have the opportunity to spend more time with them in real life.

You mean like a date?

Y-Yes, you can call it that I suppose. It has been a while since we saw each other face to face and my friends are busy. What do you say?

To be honest, It is very amusing that her nervousness is very clear, despite us contacting each other with text only and that it’s from someone usually blunt.

Sure, my friends are busy too and I was just chilling alone.

Great, let’s meet up in the middle of the mall in about 30 minutes and we can go from there.

Sounds like a plan.

Looks like once again, I lucked out and is going to spend some time with another beautiful girl, who I suspect has a thing for me, if her blushing is any indication. Considering, other girls have been the same way, that likely is the case.

I wiped sweat from my forehead, as I approached the mall. The weather has gotten a lot warmer lately, as Summer seems to be approaching. The girls in particular have been excited about being able to go to the beach again and I won’t lie and say I haven’t thought about them in their swimsuits. Anyway, it's still hard to believe how my life ended up changing after moving to this school. How I went from an introvert that would only spend time with Big Mac to spending more time with the girls, until I ended up in a growing harem with them. Who would have thought something like that would end up happening?

I entered the mall and was relieved to feel the cool air conditioning. I quickly made my way to the center in hopes she’s already there, or it won’t be too long of a wait. Sure enough, only after a minute, or two of waiting, she approached me, wearing a different outfit than the other times I saw her.

She was wearing a simple gray and white blouse and skirt with matching flat shoes. Instead of her usual triple pigtails, her hair was currently done in a long ponytail with a simple gray scrunchy. She was even wearing bright red lipstick and white eyeshadow. I found myself lightly blushing at her appearance.

“H-Hi it’s great to finally meet up again face to face,” She greeted me nervously, blushing lightly as she seemed to have taken in my appearance.

Like her I decided to dress up a little bit, by wearing a nice teal collar shirt with matching slacks and my hair was neatly combed back. I even decided to use a little extra cologne, which Rarity seemed to really like, to help spice things up.

“I see I’m not the only one who decided to dress up a little,” I teased with a smile, that caused her blush to darken a little and her to stutter a little.

“Y-Yes, s-since it has been a while, I wanted to dress a little more nicely than usual.”

“You know what they say, great minds think alike,” I simply responded, making her nod sheepishly in agreement, “So, what do you want to do?”

“Since it’s almost noon, we could get some lunch then maybe head to the arcade,” She suggested, once she managed to shake off her blush.

“Sounds good to me. Let’s go.”

We both took our seats at one of the various tables in the food court and around us were plenty of other friends, or couples sitting together at their own tables. Sugarcoat took a deep breath and gave me a nervous smile.

“I have to admit this is a bit of a first for me,” She admitted sheepishly, as she nervously rubbed one of her shoulders.

“I have only been on a few myself.”

“Yeah, I figured since you are very close to the rainbooms and a few other girls,” She managed to bluntly say in a nervous tone, “To the point you developed a harem with them, living out a dream countless teenage boys would kill just for a chance at.”

“And here you are asking me out on a date, despite knowing such,” I teased with a smirk, making her blush hotly and even shake a little nervously, “What does that say about you?”

“I… Well…” She could only stutter nervously.

I simply smiled back. To be honest she is very cute, all flustered and speechless like this. It felt very amusing that I managed to make a girl known for being very blunt to act like this. It’s even more fun than riling up Dashie and to think earlier I thought the day would be a typical boring day without the girls to spend time with. I was taken out of my thoughts by the sudden appearance of the pizza and sodas we ordered.

“Here you all go. That will be twenty dollars.”

I simply nodded as I glanced down and reached for my wallet. Once I took it out, I noticed Sugarcoat had taken off her shoes and was gently rubbing her bare feet together. I took out a twenty dollar bill and quickly handed it to our server.

“Thank you. Enjoy.”

Once the server was gone, I took a slice of pizza and took a bite. Sugarcoat took a relaxing deep breath and finally managed to regain the composure to continue to speak.

“Seriously, I… I have never been on a date with a boy before,” Sugarcoat admitted, as she took a slice of pizza, “No boy has managed to get my interest before.”

“Yeah, it was kind of obvious,” I responded, as I took a sip from my soda bottle.

“That’s what I am talking about,” She spoke up, after she took a quick bite, “No boy has ever been blunt like that before towards me. None of them could handle it when I did so.”

“So, to meet one that not only could be so, but to the point that they were able to get you flustered was like a fantasy come true,” I finished with a knowing grin.

She could only nervously nod, while blushing hotly once again. She shook nervously and looking down, I noticed her once again rubbing her bare feet.

“You know if you are interested, you are always welcome to join my harem,” I finally told her, once she shook off her blush.

“You mean you…”

“You are a beautiful girl and I do like your bluntness,” I began with a smile, that caused her to once again blush hotly, but this time she had a nervous smile on her face, “You are also adorable when you get all flustered like this,” I added changing my smile to a smirk.

Like I expected, my final words caused her to nervously stutter. Compliments are a great start, but actions do speak louder, though what could I do out here in public that wouldn’t be too forward? I hummed for a few seconds, before glancing down at the table and upon seeing her still bare feet got an idea. I quickly removed one of my shoes and gently moved my socked foot to one of her own. She gasped when I gently rubbed her big toe with my own.

“Are…”

“It’s up to you,” I assured her with a gentle smile, as I continued to gently rub her big toe.

She nodded with a nervous smile, as she gently rubbed my big toe back. I gasped when I managed to feel how soft it was through my sock. It wasn’t long until she began more comfortable with our display of affection, that she gently began rubbing my entire foot and I quickly learned hers are almost as big as mine, to my complete surprise. We continued to play footsie with one another as we finished our food.

“As much as I hate to cut this short, I have to go to the restroom.”

“Fine, but you better be back in only a couple minutes and you owe me a little something, once we are somewhere more private,” She told me both bluntly and sternly.

I simply nodded, feeling conflicted that she was no longer as nervous towards me as before. On one hand I am happy she is more comfortable and it seems like she is going to be joining my harem, but on the other hand she was just so adorable when she was flustered and nervous. Then again I could still get her to be like that, maybe.

Once I quickly left the restroom, I made my way back to our table, ready to continue spending time with Sugarcoat. Things seem to be going well and I seem to have managed to get her to relax and be more like her normal self, for better or worse. I can’t wait to see what else we are going to do. I was snapped out of my pleasant thoughts, when I noticed something, or rather someone who managed to immediately sour my pleasant mood, Zephyr Breeze. He was wearing his usual outfit, but with strap on sandals instead. I fumed as I watched him approach Sugarcoat with a cocky grin on his face and I quickly picked up the pace. Once I got close enough, I could hear the conversation between them.

“No, I am with someone. Someone much more appealing than you could ever hope to be!”

“Hey! Don’t be like that! You don’t have to lie about being with someone. I understand and am willing to spend time with you, even if you said something hurtful,” He responded with a smile, showing his yellow teeth.

“Being hurtful was the point and you need to brush your teeth. Actually scratch that. You need to groom yourself better and more regularly. Your rotten cheap cologne is doing a poor job disguising your rotten body odor. You should go home and shower immediately.”

“Please, you just don’t understand the Zephyr Breeze style. I will have you know, I have plenty of girls lining up to spend time with me and I am such a nice guy, that I am willing to spend time with you, despite your attitude,” Zephyr managed to shrug off her blunt, yet needed criticism and even took a seat at the table.

Sugarcoat groaned in complete annoyance and shook her head. Most likely at someone managing to shrug off and handwave her blunt words. Figures, the one person doing so without being able to counter or out do her would be Zephyr.

“Come on! Zephyr won’t bite.”

“Yeah, but I will if you don’t leave me alone!”

“I swear you are just as bad as Rainbows at playing hard to get,” Zephyr scoffed, before rubbing his messy hair with a devious smirk, “But I will get my own harem and finally win her heart. Then I will live happily ever after as the ultimate chick magnet stud.”

“Good for you. If only you could achieve living in reality with the rest of us.”

“Fine, if words won’t convince you. Maybe actions will,” Zephyr simply responded with a flirty wink that made Sugarcoat cringe.

Actions? What is he talking about? I was watching in the distance, since she has managed to handle herself against him with her blunt insults, but now I better act to keep it that way.

“What are you…” Sugarcoat was interrupted by Zephyr gently trying to rub her big toe with his own, slightly bigger one.

Sugarcoat panicked and managed to move her feet away from his, only for him to quickly follow hers and continued to try and play footsie with her.

“Stop playing hard to get! Your feet are soft and almost as big as mine. That means more area for me to massage.”

“Stop! Just leave me alone!” She shouted, once I got there.

“You have gone far and beyond your usual standards, Zephyr!” I growled out.

“You again!” Zephyr snarled, as he left his seat, walked right up to me, and tried to be threatening.

Key word tried, as I only sighed in frustration at having to deal with him once again.

“It’s bad enough you don’t take no for an answer and manage to ignore someone pointing out your issues, but to start physically harassing girls? You have managed to hit a new low!”

“What’s it to you?!” He snarled, “I was warming her up to dating a stud like me, so I am one step closer to getting Rainbows back from you!”

“I am not in the mood for your delusional crap! Just get the hell out of here, so I can continue my good day!”

“What are you going to do to make me, huh?” He asked, like a complete moron and thinking he was some tough guy.

“May I remind you, that you couldn’t beat Fluttershy, your smaller sister, using two hands in armwrestling,” I simply responded, while crossing my arms.

His tough look suddenly faded into one of complete embarrassment, as he blushed hotly and even glared at me.

“Hey! Don’t say that in public!”

“Then leave!”

“You win this round, but I will win the war!” He snarled at me, before finally leaving us alone, in defeat.

I swear I am going to have to keep putting up with him for the rest of my life. At least he’s gone for now. I returned to my seat at the table, where Sugarcoat had a curious and relieved look on her face.

“May I ask what that is about?” She finally decided to ask.

“Simply put, you had to deal with the most delusional egotist on the freaking planet,” I scoffed bitterly, while crossing my arms.

She only raised an eyebrow, as I sighed in frustration, before telling her everything about Zephyr.

“Wow, I am sorry for you, Rainbow, and Fluttershy,” She told me, wide eyed, as I finished explaining.

“Yeah, and I am sorry to say you ended up on the receiving end of the worst of his behavior.”

“Well, thank goodness you arrived when you did,” Sugarcoat responded with a grin, “You really saved me,” She then closed her eyes, as she gently placed her feet on my lap.

“What are you?”

“Oh, I feel like relaxing a little after that ordeal. I hope you don’t mind,” She interrupted me with a flirty smile.

“No, not at all,” I responded somewhat sheepishly, as she moved her large and soft feet closer to a certain spot.

So big and soft. She’s even gently wiggling her toes and barely touching a certain spot. How could she do this out in public? I mean I guess it’s not as noticeable, but it doesn’t help ease my… Soft wiggling toes getting closer to making contact, as I feel a certain part getting…

“I have to admit it was very amusing making you flustered for once, today,” Sugarcoat teased me with a chuckle.

“Yeah, I will give you that,” I admitted, returning the chuckle, “So, it was just getting a little payback for getting you flustered a few times earlier?”

“Part of it. You can also consider it a reward for getting Zephyr off my back. It was the only thing I could think of that would do both effectively and it’s nice to know you enjoy my feet so much.”

“I guess another fetish I am into,” I simply responded.

“Good to know as it will help me figure out what I will have you do for taking a restroom break.”

“I am a man of my word and would have kept it, but since you have to put up with him, feel free to go crazy,” I told her with a nod.

“Yeah, I will,” She agreed with a devious smile, as we finally left the mall, “Despite him, I say today has been very fun.”

“Indeed it has,” I agreed with a smile, “There is only one thing left, before we go home.”

“What?”

Sugarcoat got her answer, when I gently cupped her cheeks and gave her a smile. She nervously nodded, before we slowly moved our lips together into a gentle kiss that lasted for a few seconds. Once we separated, we gave each other a smile and went on our way. To think what started out as a boring day, would end up with me spending time with and getting another girl into my harem.

One of the crystal prep girls returns and joins the harem. Another encounter with Zephyr who keeps on getting worse and worse. It's really fun to write a normally blunt character getting flustered, but here I managed to keep her usual nature at least somewhat persistent and dominant as she adapts to Marcus's ways of making her sheepish and she even get the last laugh.