Coming Out of the Clouds

It was an average day in the skies of Ponyville. I was arranging some clouds for the rain scheduled for tonight. Most of the other weather pegasi either took the day off or just didn't show up. Thankfully my marefriend Flitter was helping me out today. She wasn't foalsitting today so she came to help out. There wasn't that much to do today but I really appreciated the help. She was doing quite well for never doing any weather work before. Within only two hours we finished up. I landed at a bench which I had put some refreshments. Flitter arrived only seconds after she noticed I wasn't flying around. Her neatly combed teal mane was untouched, despite flying around for awhile. She didn't have her bow-tie on, which she usually has on. Her body was almost the same color as mine but, she was just a bit more pale of a light lavender. She stared at me with her magical magenta eyes before she spoke.

"That was not as bad as I thought it would be. It's easier that foalsitting by far." She grabbed the water bottle just after i got done taking a sip. Afterwards she removed the bottle from her lips. A small strand of saliva stretched between her tongue and the tip of the bottle. I got a feeling of amusement out of it. She broke the string as she wiped her mouth.

"How's the water Flitter?" She looked at me with a blank gaze.

"It's water… so… fine I guess."

"Well I think it tastes succulent." I took a long lick at the neck of the bottle. "Mmmm your spit is still fresh, its the best part. Would you mind… sharing some with me?" I spit on the bottle and ringed my tongue around the tip. She was watching in astonishment.

"Maybe some other time… I have some cleaning to finish up at home… I'll meet you there." She quickly turned around and headed home. I've never got that much satisfaction from her. I've been with her for at least three years now and we never really did anything. I've kissed her plenty but, whenever I try to get romantic with it she breaks it. Her avoidance with it was getting on my nerves. I love her and I know she loves me back but why won't she just let her guard down, at least once. I've been chasing her flank for years and I think it's about time I get some action.

When I came home the rain just started. My mane was wet and it covered my eyes. Though my white and sky-blue hair, the rain still darkened it to a more greyer state.

"I'm home Flitter." I yelled. It was quiet for a bit but after a bit Flitter came out of the kitchen stirring something in a bowl. "What's that hun?" She walked closer and leaned the bowl down so I could see what was in it. It was some vegetables. She loved boiling up vegetables, though I had no clue why it was in a bowl nor, why she was stirring it. "Why are you stirring vegetables in a bowl?"

"I dont know.. well I guess we all go through strange phases from time to time." She smiled and went into the kitchen to prepare supper."

"I'll be right down. I just have to dry my mane upstairs." I went upstairs into our room. I turned the light on and looked at our bed. There was prominent indents on either side of the bed, showing we didn't actually sleep 'together'. I went onto my side and sat on the corner of the bed. Reaching underneath my dresser I grabbed a bottle of wine. I have been saving this for awhile. Saving it for a night Flitter and I decide to get a bit romantic. Its expiration date was only three weeks away and this was not a cheap brand. I was hoping that I would get to open this up and share it with Flitter. But, that was unlikely. Unless, I get her drunk off it first. This wasn't just some ordinary wine, it had a high alcohol content and thats all I needed. My plan was simple, every night flitter and I share some apple cider. If I were able to get her away from the fridge long enough I could sneak some into it. I went downstairs with the wine. When I walked in the kitchen Flitter turned and smiled then turned again.

"Whats with the wine?" She tilted her head slightly to one side with a curious look, following the bottle as I moved it around.

"I found it in my half of the closet. It spilt a bit onto your side but its expired so it shouldn't stain." I grinned a bit as shock overtook her face and she sped upstairs. I snuck some wine into the cider and hid the wine behind the fridge then innocently sat down. She arrived back in the kitchen, tired and breathless.

"Nothing was spilt Cloudchaser what were you talking about?" She grabbed the two salad bowls and placed them on the table. After sitting down she face planted into her arms which were crossed on the table.

"Oh. nothing spilt anywhere? Well like you said 'we all go through strange phases.' Now would you like some cider?" She didn't speak only nodded. I grabbed us both a glass and poured us some. Flitter looked up and grabbed the glass and chugged it down until it was dry. Again she put her head down and sighed. Her glass scooted a bit forward after she pushed it, asking for more. Gladly, I poured more. She drank it but only half, stopped and looked into the glass a tad confused. "What's wrong hun?"

"Nothing it just tastes funny, must be a different batch applejack is trying out and just decided to not tell anypony." She shook off her disbelief and finished the glass.

We later finished our salads and the cider. Hopefully this much alcohol will make her as intoxicated as berry punch. Yawning I grabbed the bowls and cups and put them in the sink. The plan was already working. Flitters eyes were growing drowsy and she slowly swayed side to side. "I'm a bit tired. I'm heading off to bed if you would like to join me fliter." She said nothing, just drunkenly got off the chair and headed up the stairs. She plopped on the bed next to me stomach up legs spread out. I traced a hoof around her chest. "So is there anything you would like to 'do' tonight?" Her response was a non understandable type of mumbling. I went up to her and gave her a long sweet kiss. But she wasn't kissing back her tongue was still and she was completely unresponsive. I backed up and shook her head

"Flitter!" The small liquid strand between us didn't break it just giggled as I shook her, "Flitter!" She turned over on her side, back facing me. Mumbling what sounded like 'goodnight'. The string of mixed spit hang off my mouth down the bed, waving, taunting me of my failure. I left it there as I fell asleep, unsatisfied, unhappy, unimportant.

The morning abruptly hit me, like a bitch slap to the face. I sat up and looked down at my pillow. There was a dark damp spot where I drooled last night, thinking of flitter. Flitter was still sleeping so I made sure to be quiet as I walked down the stairs. Opening the blinds revealed a typical mid morning ponyville. The sound of Vinyl scratches dubstep alarm was heard all throughout. After the few weeks she lived in ponyville she hooked up with another mare, Octavia. After that her alarm was not as loud as it used to be, making it bearable. Todays weather schedule was to be all sunny and the large amounts of clouds meant a hard days of work. The only ponies on duty today were me and rainbow dash. Rainbow dash had been in a pretty successful relationship another pegasus named Fluttershy. Though the extreme differences they had they seemed very happy. Flitter and I were fillyfoolers but nopony knew. We just said we lived together for financial reasons so nopony would ask questions. So if I talked to dash I would have to open up about liking mares. It was actually very common but even though mare couples lacked the ability to reproduce. There was though an alicorn named twilight, who was a student for princess celestia herself. She once learned a spell to take genes from one mare in a mare couple and transform it into sperm, which is then put into the other mare to produce offspring with traits just as if the couple were straight. She already tried it on some other couple here in ponyville. Lyra and Bon-bon, they had an adorable little pegasus. She had an astounding ocean blue body with a mane of light and dark purple matching her lavender eyes. They had called her tootsie flight. So It was proven to work. So that's made fillyfoolers much more common and supported. I usually left before flitter woke up so I could get home early. So I walked out the door and headed to the sky. Not even a few minutes in the air I saw dashes trademark rainbow streak as she broke a cloud and stopped right in front of me.

"Ready to do some cloud bustin' cloudchaser?" She was obviously up here awhile and she didn't seem tired at all, though she got a significant amount of work done.

"Yeah, how long have you been up here. I see you got some work done without me today."

"Oh I went right to work right after I got up. Fluttershy and I have a date night planned at her house later and I wanted to get my work done ASAP so I could have enought time to get ready."

"Oh yes about that Dash I was going to ask you how you maintain such a strong relationship with Fluttershy." She looked at me awkwardly.

"Why? Well, how bout' we talk after we finish up here." I nodded and started busting clouds giving way to sunshine.

After only a few hours at work we finished. I met up with dash at sugarcube corner. "So what was it you wanted to talk about?"

"I was just wondering how you keep such a great relationship with Fluttershy."

"Why?" I blushed a bit and felt my heart race from the anxiety admitting my relationship gave me.

"Well I've been marefriends with flitter for quite some time now and she hasn't really done much for our relationship. We don't go out or anything like that. She always just avoids it and I was wondering if you had any ideas?"

"Oh I never knew you and flitter were.. you know… Anyways I do have some input. Follow me to my house and I'll tell you while I get ready." She zoomed off to her house in the clouds and I followed.