Celestia's New World

The guards didn't do much here. Soulfire mentioned that there wasn't enough room for them to properly exercise like they did on duty. There wasn't a whole lot I could do to help them.

Shining Armor started to help me with the chores. It was, of course, optional. Neither Celestia nor I told him to do it. And it's not like I'm gonna ask Celestia to help. She's a Princess, she's not supposed to do chores.

I guess it's just the husband in him that compelled him to help. I wish I had a husband like him...

While the guards were busy complaining about their new situation, Celestia had become... my girlfriend.

If I ever found myself sitting on my couch, be it to eat or use my laptop or just to relax, she was sitting next to me, leaning on me or snuggling up against me. Celestia was a cuddlebug. She was a cuddlebug and a little puppy dog. She followed me around the house as I moved around and she didn't care if she was obvious about it. I didn't care either. I liked when she was with me.

She was affectionate and playful. At times, she really was almost like a pet. I rubbed, pet, and scratched her whenever she held onto me. I certainly wasn't complaining about her affectionate attitude. It was a dream come true to have my very own big, squishy huggy-buddy.

Now that we were together, we were free to be ourselves. Celestia had a lot of pent up love and I was the one that she wanted to share it with. She was a clingy girlfriend and I loved it.

One thing was stuck in my mind, though. The morning after we woke up in the same bed, she felt that she had been manipulated. At least, that's how I understood it. She was vulnerable and scared. I never thought I'd see her like that. I never want to see her like that again...

And... She never said that she loved me back. If I ever said it to her, she would giggle or maybe just smile at me. Even if she didn't say it though, I knew she felt that way. With the way she's been acting, how could she not? There was no doubt. None at all.

The more I thought about Celestia, the more my mind became muddled. I loved her. I loved her a lot. After a point, it became hard to separate the truth from I wanted to believe about her. Thankfully, she was happy to answer anything I wanted to know.

Over the next week or so, Celestia and I spent every minute of our time together. Our love only grew. Kisses became our favorite method of communication.

Today, I was on my laptop after an uneventful day of work. Celestia was to my side, lying against me. I wasn't doing anything special, just checking Facebook. I clicked away to another site when the internet on my laptop started to fail. Naturally, my first thought was to reset the Wi-Fi. I went downstairs and did just that, Celestia following without questioning what I was doing.

It didn't seem to change anything, even after doing it again. I checked it on my phone as well. It wasn't working there, either. I unplugged it again and left it alone for ten minutes. Still nothing. It wasn't just the Wi-Fi, the computer wasn't working either.

Celestia had no idea what I was doing and didn't hesitate to ask. I answered her as best I could. She seemed to understand about half of what I told her, maintaining her cute little smile the whole time.

Nothing was wrong with the network from what I could tell. No luck from anything, though the lights on the router told me something was wrong. Wait, router? That's not my end. Against my usual troubleshooting methods, I made a service call.

Apparently, they couldn't connect to my house either, meaning something was wrong outside of my personal setup. They scheduled someone to come and take a look at it, but it was going to be a few days.

I told Celestia about the situation, but she didn't seem particularly bothered by it. I didn't expect her to be.

Without the internet, Celestia wouldn't be able to study anything. Her smile told me that she didn't mind. She didn't complain.

Two days later, a very large gentleman came to check my network. I was curious about what he was doing, but I let him work in peace. As it turns out, a squirrel had gotten to the outside cables.

With no internet to distract us, Celestia and I spent even more time together. I noticed that we were alone more often than before. The guards were conveniently somewhere else whenever we were together. I couldn't help but feel that it was on purpose, but was unable to figure out if she had asked them, or if they did it on their own.

When I got back home today, Celestia was at her usual place. She looked to me and smiled as I walked in. "Welcome back."

I smiled back at her. "Hey, Celestia. I'm gonna go shower."

"Have fun!" she said with a smile.

I went to my room to pick out some clothing. To my shock, my drawers were devoid of pants.

"Oh, come on..." I growled to myself as I checked more thoroughly. "You gotta be kidding me. Seriously?"

Looks like it's laundry time. Celestia came down with me. Surprisingly, there weren't any clothes at the bottom of the stairs. Maybe I already washed them and forgot about it.

"Shining Armor cleaned our clothing while you were gone." Celestia told me.

"Did he? How nice of him." Guess I'll put them away.

As I pulled clothes out of the dryer and put them onto the floor, Celestia began picking them up and folding them in her arms. I gave her a look, but all she did was smile. I thanked her for her help and the two of us took them upstairs.

After we put the clothes away, I picked out a pair of pants so I could finally shower. My shower wasn't an especially long one, but the water helped me clear my head a bit.

Celestia and her guards have been here for a while. Celestia wasn't a problem, but it made me feel uncomfortable that the house was always full. The lack of pants didn't help, but the clean clothes did.

A few days later, something changed. Instead of Celestia's beautiful, cheerful smile as I walked through the front door, I was met with nothing. Huh... I was looking forward to seeing her there when I got home.

The bedroom door was open. Shining Armor talking to Celestia inside. I walked in.

"Hello, Phil." said Celestia. It sounded like her nose was stuffed. She was sweating and her nose was red.

Shining Armor looked to me before leaving without a word.

"Hey Celestia. You alright? You don't look so good."

"I'm sick."

"Aw, poor Princess."

"Yes, poor me. It would explain why I felt so tired last night."

I placed my hand onto her shoulder over her blanket. "Did you check your temperature?"

"We didn't know where to find a thermometer."

"I'll get one for you, don't you worry."

"Thank you, Phil... Shining and Soulfire were so worried about me."

"I bet they were. I'll be back."

She smiled at me.

It was a simple task to collect the thermometer for her. While I was in the area, I got her some headache medicine and a bottle of water from the fridge.

She looked to me as I walked back in, still smiling. "It's just a cold. I'll be fine after some rest." she said.

"Sure?"

"I'm sure."

"C'mon, let's check your temperature."

She scratched her head and yawned before sitting up against the wall. Even as miserable as she looked, she kept smiling.

As she placed the thermometer into her mouth, I brushed her hair out of the way and placed my hand over her forehead. Warm. She looked up at my hand, then back to me, still smiling.

The thermometer beeped at us. She was a healthy 100.6. Wait, that's bad.

She let out a sigh as I put it away.

"Oh, what's wrong?" I caringly asked her.

She let out a small grumble. "My head hurts, my nose is clogged, I feel nauseous..."

"That... sucks."

"What's that look? It's too early to be morning sickness."

"I wasn't thinking that."

"Yes you were, I could see it on your face." She chuckled to herself, then started to cough.

"Here, this might help." I held out the bottle of medicine for her.

She took it and the water I held and started reading the label. She tipped out two of the tablets and downed them.

"You don't need a bucket, do you?" I asked, taking the bottle and setting it aside.

"No, no... I should be fine." She laid back on the bed and turned to her side, facing me. "I haven't been sick like this in quite a while."

"Oh yeah?"

"It's been... years. I can't remember. Maybe it's because I'm not in Equestria anymore."

She moved her hand out from under the blanket, staring at me. I moved my hand to it and she grabbed on.

She looked up at me. "Stay here. They leave me alone when you're with me."

Seeing her like this dampened my mood. I nodded at her, lowering to my knees next to the bed.

She looked to me as a small smile grew across her face. Her eyes closed again. She pulled my hand closer and laid her head on it. When I tried to take it back, she let out a soft giggle. "You can have this back when I'm done with it."

"I need that, you know." I said with a smile.

"I need it more."

She opened her eyes. I looked right at them, setting my head on the bed next to her.

"You're always welcome to lie with me, you know." she stated.

"Hmm?"

"We haven't lain together since the night after the bar, Phil." she said, "Did you forget? We're a couple now. I've been wondering why you've been sleeping on your own."

"I... Um..."

"Did you not think you could?" She chuckled. "Come... lay with me."

"But you're sick."

"It's not contagious, I promise." Another giggle. "And I wasn't talking about sex, if that's what you were thinking."

"It may have crossed my mind."

"Is that so? I suppose the thought crossed my mind as well." She gestured to the bed with her head. "Join me, Phil."

"No need to convince me, Celestia."

Another chuckle. She turned to her other side and lifted the blankets behind her, allowing me to get in next to her.

I draped one of my arms across her midsection and slid the other underneath her as she dropped the blanket. She pushed herself against me, her back pressing against my chest. She was sweaty from the cold.

Her hair was getting in my face. It had a faint smell of strawberries to it. Odd, considering I didn't have any strawberry scented hair care products. I ran a finger through her bangs, moving her hair away from her face. She giggled.

This was... a little awkward. I wasn't used to this kind of thing with Celestia. She was right, we were a couple. Even so, the most we've done since night zero was kissing.

I don't know if I was comfortable enough to lie with her yet. It had all happened so fast. Here I was though... My Princess in my arms.

She must have known how I felt. She just liked to push my buttons. She liked it when I was flustered. I guess it was just one of her ways of showing her feelings.

I could feel her heartbeat pressed up against her like this. It was so fast. Maybe she was flustered as well.

Celestia grabbed the hand I had draped over her and brought it to the center of her chest, fingers intertwined with mine. She took in a deep breath and let it out in an audible sigh. She was enjoying this. She was close to me, and not just because our bodies were touching.

Up against her like this... I felt warm. My body and my heart were both so very warm.

I could not think about anything else. My Princess had taken over my thoughts. She squeezed my hand. It's like she knew I was thinking about her. I squeezed her tightly. Her warm body snuggled against mine.

After a few minutes, she fell asleep. Unable and unwilling to move away, I would sleep here tonight. It was so early in the day, yet when I held her like this, I felt sleepy.

It was exactly how I thought it would be. Hair in my face, a squashed arm, and an awkward boner. This is what love is, isn't it...

I lifted myself and planted a small kiss on her cheek. She didn't react. Goodnight, Celestia...

I woke up to a buzzing noise. After groggily looking for the source, I realized that it was the phone in my pocket.

As I went for it, Celestia mumbled something in her sleep. "Mmm... Not now... Too tired..."

I checked who it was, the bright light briefly stunning me. I put my phone up to my ear and let out a tired, "Trevor, c'mon... Can't a guy masturbate in peace?"

"Phil-man, what are you doing up at three in the morning?"

I turned onto my back. Celestia was on my arm. I couldn't move it. "Doing up? Fuck you. What do you want? I'm busy fondling my roommate."

"I'm sure he can wait, I need some help."

"Fuck do you need at three AM?" I asked again, "You should be asleep by now."

"Fuck you, you're not my mom."

"I'll be your mom for $35." I humorously replied, laughing quietly to myself.

"So what are you doing?" he asked me.

"Huh?"

"You busy or something? I didn't wake you, did I?"

Celestia began to stir. She turned to me, giving me a curious look. I could see the light from the phone reflect off her eye.

"Of course you fucking woke me."

"Ah, sorry man. Anyways, I need some help."

"Serious? What with?"

"I got some car issues."

"What?"

"Yeah... I blew a tire about... six miles out off Afton road. I managed to pull it to the side of the road, but it's not going anywhere."

"Oh... You alright?" Huh...

"Yeah, I'm good. Just a bit stranded."

"How the hell'd you blow a tire?"

"I musta went over a broken bottle or something. It looks like I went over a fucking spike strip. I don't have a spare, so I'm sadboys out here."

"Geez... Alright, I'll be there."

"Sweet... Thanks man, I owe ya."

"Yeah, you fucking do." I closed the call and dropped my head back onto my pillow. This sucked.

"Who was that?" she asked.

"A friend. I gotta go help him." I sighed. The arm with the phone in the hand was idly hanging off of the bed and my other arm was still under Celestia. I looked to her. "Sorry I woke you."

"Don't worry, Phil."

We looked at each other for a few more moments before sharing a brief kiss.

I laid where I was for a small while longer before pulling my arm out from under her. She sat up as I did.

"Go back to bed, honey." I said to her.

She giggled. "Honey..."

"That felt weird."

"I liked it... honey."

"Ok, now it's weird."

She let out another cute giggle. I smiled at her.

"You're going to help your friend?" she asked.

"Yeah, he has a... his car has a flat tire."

"Can I come with?"

"Wouldn't you rather go back to sleep?"

She shook her head. "I want to come with you."

"Are you sure? You were just sick. You've only been asleep for like... wait... I guess it's been like eight hours, that's normal."

"I feel better."

"Well, alright then. I guess. It won't be that exciting, I'm just changing a tire. I'm not waiting for the other two though, so either go without or stay."

"I don't need them to follow me everywhere. I have you, don't I?"

"Yeah, I guess you do." I know they aren't doing it on purpose, but I was a little sick of them following and coming between us.

Celestia yawned loudly as she stood up and joined me. She was already fully dressed aside from her socks.

The two of us made our way to the car, stumbling about in our tiredness. It was cold outside. Not surprising, given the time. We probably should've at least left a note for the guards. If they woke up without her being there, they would be pissed at me. Not my problem.

As I got into the car, I rested my head on the top of my steering wheel before doing anything. Celestia stared at me, a tired smile on her face. What... did she see when she looked at me?

I knew where he was. There were about three different bars past where he was talking about, but he didn't sound drunk.

Except for my headlights and the occasional street light, it was pitch black. I didn't usually drive this time of night, and for a good reason. I hated driving late at night. The glare from car lights really bothered me. It was hard to stay focused and it was even worse when I was tired.

"You should take a shower." I told Celestia, "Wash all that sick off."

"You're probably right. Will you join me?"

"Join you?"

"In the shower. We're a couple, Phil."

"Let's... take this one step at a time, Celestia."

"Very well. Even though you skipped a few steps already."

It didn't take long to get to him. He was signaling me to the side of the road. I pulled up in front of his car.

"It's cold out here." Celestia stated as she joined me.

"I'm sure it is." I walked up to him and crossed my arms. "Pull me out of my house at 3 AM... Away from my comfy bed..."

"And me." Celestia added.

He glanced at her. "Uhh... sorry."

"I was dead asleep..." I sighed. "Well, we better get to it, then."

As I retrieved my spare tire from my trunk, I noticed that his tire had already been removed. That made things easy. Less than ten minutes later, we had successfully replaced his worthless tire with the new one.

"Man, you really were missing a spare."

"Well yeah, dumbass. That's what I said."

"What happened to the old spare? Wait. You know what? I don't care."

He held his fist out towards me. I bumped mine against it.

"Thanks man. I owe ya." he said

"Yes. Yes, you do." I said with a yawn, "Go home, ya fekkin... What the hell were you doing out here anyways?"

"Oh, I..."

"I don't give a shit." I grumbled.

"Kinda figured that. Yeah, home sounds nice right now. See ya, mate. Thanks again."

"Get the fuck outta here." I pointed down the road.

He waved at us as he took off down the road, leaving the two of us alone.

I yawned again and looked to Celestia.

"That was easier than I thought it would be." she said.

"I told you it wouldn't be exciting."

"What shall we do now?"

"Now? Go home. Sleep."

"Oh, must we?"

"Huh?"

"We've finally separated from my guards. I don't want to go home so soon."

"Well... alright. What do you want to do?"

"I... Um... I... don't know."

I chuckled.

"What do you think?" she asked.

"We could get a midnight snack."

"I don't know if I'm that hungry."

"I kinda am. I doubt we could find something good at this time of night. Guess there's nothing."

"Don't say that, I'm sure we could find something."

"I'm too tired to figure it out."

"This would be much more fun if we had more sleep."

"Yeah." I yawned again. "If you really wanna do something, I think I can manage."

She sighed. "No, I couldn't do that to you."

I leaned my back against the car and blankly looked up. It was pretty cloudy, there weren't a lot of stars. It might even rain today. "I don't like it when they're with us. I don't like being watched. I feel like they're judging my every move. I can't stand it."

"I'm not too fond of it, either. I'm not saying that I don't like them, but..."

"No, no, they're good guys. Real friendly and nice. Great guys to hang around with."

"Of course. I'm glad to call the two of them friends, I just dislike how over-protective they can be. They're almost like parents, even though my sister and I are much older than them."

"That's 'cause they care about you. It's more than just a job to your royal guards. You're a great person as well. Pony. Whatever. You must've done something right for them to want to keep you this safe."

I was telling her things she already knew, but it seemed that hearing them from me brightened her mood. A warm smile spread across her face. "You don't know how good it feels to be able to speak with someone like this. It's like a burden has been lifted off of my shoulders. I feel like an entirely different woman."

"Well, you kinda are. You have that new beautiful body of yours."

She lifted her hand and looked to it. "I suppose you're right about that." She leaned against the car next to me.

"I'm starting to think that your body is like a representation of what you looked like as a pony."

"Is that so? I can believe that. Shining and Soulfire were both very handsome stallions in Equestria, and from what I've gathered, they're quite attractive here as well."

"Damn right, they are." I said.

"Oh? What was that?"

"Hey, I know a good looking guy when I see one."

"Oh?" She found this funny and it showed in her voice.

"Princess Cadence is a lucky woman."

"I'm a lucky woman." she said with a smile.

"That's really nice of you to say... honey."

She giggled. "I had so much freedom here before they arrived. I rather liked it."

"Well, you have freedom now. What do you want to do?"

"That isn't what I meant.."

"Hmm?"

"The freedom to be alone for as long as I choose. To be able to walk out into the world without any supervision. That's the freedom I was talking about."

"I'm not gonna let you wander around without supervision, Celestia."

"I didn't think you would. I have no problems with that, though. You're not a guard. There's quite a difference."

"Yeah..."

"I like this. Being able to do nothing at all without having to worry about the entirety of a nation."

"You're quick to let go." I noticed.

"There's nothing I can do, is there?" She repeated with a more serious tone, "Is there?"

"I dunno."

She sighed and shook her head. "It's nice."

"Yeah..."

We both looked up at the sky for a small while. It felt nice being out here.

"Hey, Phil..."

"Huh?"

"Can I ask you something embarrassing?"

"Sure, what's up?"

"You're not allowed to laugh, alright?"

"Yeah, what's up?" I asked her, looking at her.

"Well... I was just curious... whether... we would ever... have sex again..."

"Uh... What?"

"I... L-last time... I... You... I don't... know what to say."

"Did you... want to have sex again?"

She nodded. "Yes. I... did. I didn't... know what you'd say, so I kept it to myself, but... Yes... I want to..."

I moved in front of her and put my arms on either side of her, leaning on them against the car. She slowly moved her hands towards me and placed them onto my sides. "If I knew you thought this way, I would've done something sooner." I told her. "You know... I did say I was hungry, didn't I?" I moved my face closer to hers. I gave her a quick peck on the lips.

"Is that right? Well, I... I hope I can provide a satisfying meal." she said, a seductive smile covering her face, "We're doing this here?"

"Unless you'd like to go somewhere else."

"We're not exactly concealed. What if someone saw us?"

"At three in the morning?"

"It's just been quite a while since I've done this outdoors."

I pushed my lips against hers again. I remembered what she said about kissing. I didn't really care about disputing her claim. Her mouth wasn't necessarily where I wanted to put my lips anyways. I pulled away and said, "If you want, we can wait until we're back home."

"Don't make me wait."

Another kiss. I grabbed her lower lip with my mouth and gave her a small pull. I moved close to her, wrapping my arms around her body as I continued kissing her. She gave off a sensual sigh.

I lowered my hand down her back, sliding it over her pants. I grabbed onto her bottom and she pulled away from my lips to sigh.

I rubbed her bottom with my hand. Her hands moved to her pants and started to unbutton them. I heard her zipper being pulled. I allowed my hands to enter her loosened pants and squeezed her soft bottom.

She sighed again. "So forward..."

I drug my tongue out from the very top of her chest to the tip of her chin, licking up her neck. She gave out a tiny, "Oh..." in response.

I did it once more, tracing the curves of her body with my hands leading into a gentle caress of her hips. She placed her hands over mine. Her gorgeous hips were so wide that her pants refused to slide down on their own.

I lowered to my knees, reaching around her body to grab her butt once more. I started to lick the very bottom of her stomach, just above her pants. She pulled the hem of her shirt up a bit for me.

"Keep going..." she quietly let out.

I reached to her pants, looked up at her, then started to pull.

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