I lightly groaned as I heard my alarm blaring and was once again greeted by the feeling of something, or the girls cuddling me. I recalled us agreeing to just have them sleep with me once again together, before going back to our regular days system. I quickly reached out and shut it off, as I heard the girls yawned.

“Good morning, Marky!” Pinkie greeted as she snuggled on my chest, “Do we have to get up now?”

“We better not, Pinkie! I want to spend some time cuddling before school!”

“Surprising to hear you say that, Rainbow,” Applejack teased with a chuckle.

“Yeah… Well, not like you disagree.”

“Touche.”

“What do you girls want to do?” I asked, before lightly gasping when Rainbow gently placed a big toe on my bare sole.

“What do you think, stud?” She teased, “Let’s put it to a vote girls. Who wants to relax with stud for a little while, before having to get ready for school?” She asked, before she began gently rubbing her big toe on my foot.

“Count me in, Dashie!” Pinkie exclaimed, as she placed a big toe underneath where Rainbow’s was.

“Me two!” Applejack agreed, before doing the same.

Most of the others agreed and followed suit, leaving only Fluttershy left.

“Come on Shy!” Rainbow encouraged, “You are missing out on the fun.”

Fluttershy nodded with a small smile, before slowly joining the others in playing footsie with me.

“This is fun, but it would be better doing it all alone,” Pinkie commented with a cheery grin.

“Too bad, Pinkie, for tomorrow is my turn with my Marky Wikey!”

“Tartar sauce!”

“That show has rubbed off on you, Pinkie.”

“What can I say, Rarity. It’s awesome and it’s a crime, that I just learned about it yesterday.”

“Wait until I show you Ed Edd N Eddy, my precious party balloon.” I commented with a chuckle.

I was carrying the large box of money, as Sunset knocked on the door to Celestia’s office. This should help us get close to the goal, or at the very least have them not play that music for at least today.

“Come in.”

We all entered the room to find both Celestia and Luna sitting down and they both smiled at us.

“Hello girls and guy. What brings you here?”

“We are here to drop a large donation,” I simply answered, before setting the box down in front of them.

“Ah. So, that is what your car wash from yesterday was for,” Celestia commented, as she grabbed a wad of bills from it and scrolled through them rapidly.

“You know about that?” I asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Let’s just say a video involving the girls and Mr. Breeze has become, what is the term, viral online,” Luna explained with an amused smile, “It probably isn’t my place as his school vice principal, but I did enjoy watching it.”

“As long as that fact doesn’t become public knowledge, Lulu, you should be fine. It will take some time to count this amount, before knowing how much we still need, but you more than earned a break from that annoying music.”

“One of your better ideas, Tia,” Luna told her with a smile.

“Speaking of that song, can I have a copy?” Pinkie pleaded with a begging look.

“You?... You want a copy of this song, that I specifically picked to be so annoying to force you all to donate?”

“It’s not annoying! It’s fun to listen and dance to, but yes! So, can I have a copy?”

Both Celestia and Luna looked from pinkie to each other rapidly for a few seconds, before fainting anime style.

“Seeing it in action was more amusing than imagining it, my precious party balloon,” I chuckled, before gently stroking her hair.

“Glad to make you happy, Marky. Now let’s wake them up. I am not leaving without that copy!”

With that business done, we were walking through the hallway and decided to find somewhere to sit before school started. Along the way, we heard laughing and angry grunts. Looking ahead, we saw a crowd of students surrounding Zephyr with their phones out and Zephyr glaring at them all. As we approached, we noticed that someone had indeed recorded Zephyr and the girls competing against each other.

“Shut up! I let them all win! I didn’t want to take their offer as that will make it too easy! Zephyr likes a good challenge and he will win them all and every girl in school! You hear me!”

The girls and I looked at each other and shook our heads. Goes to show nothing can get through the unbreakable wall that is Zephyr Breeze.

“I… I let you win.”

“I thought you wanted to win me?”

“No, I… I wasn’t ready.”

“No, you were. Ready to lose at any rate.”

“I just said that to make her feel better!” Zephyr argued, blushing hotly in embarrassment, after instantly being proven wrong by the video.

Everyone else only laughed as they continued to watch the video, while Zephyr groaned in defeat, before perking up when he noticed us, more specifically the girls.

“Girls, how wonderful to see you all again! Please tell these punks, I let you win and most of you are going to ditch that loser,” He began, before snarling and pointing at me with a glare, “In order to finally be with me, the ultimate harem stud.”

The girls and I only sighed and looked at each other, before we all facepalmed.

“Could someone skip ahead to when he faced Fluttershy?” Rainbow asked, getting nods from the crowd.

Someone did so and managed to play the perfect response to Zephyr.

“Just so you all know, I let you all win. What would be better than to win it all on the last chance?”

“If only you were actually skilled.”

Zephyr could only pout in complete defeat, before slowly walking away.

“Alright, Flutter Butter. No more holding back.”

“Yes, I think I should stop doing so, unlike last time.”

“Wait, you were going easy on me last time?”

Zephyr groaned in pure anger, as we all chuckled at his expense. Hopefully, he learns to actually improve himself, but I know that is wishful thinking. It's terrible that people could be so stubborn and set in their ways that they refused to self-reflect and improve themselves to the point that not even several instances of "learning the hard way" could make them learn better. It would be so sad if he wasn't such a cocky jerk about it.

A short chapter to kick off longer ones as the gang get ready for camp Everfree, this fic big conclusion, then I will take a break to reflect on what is the biggest story I have ever worked on to decide what to do next for the sequel. For now though I think I will focus on this fic until then and then go back to my other ones.