Luna spit out her tea along with Twilight, coughing as Twilight glared at her mother and spoke. “Mom, you don’t just ask somepony that, it’s rude!”

“Oh come on dear I’m just making conversation,” said Velvet with a smile, before turning back to Luna, “so, how long?”

“Um, since I was young,” said Luna, using magic to clean up her tea before pouring herself another cup.

“And are you seeing anypony?” asked Velvet.

“No,” said Luna, “though that is mainly because I only just got back….”

“Well my daughter is single, how would you like to date her?”

“MOM!” cried Twilight, looking at her in shock as the rest all looked flabbergasted. “I...buh...wha...?”

“Dear you don’t have to look so shocked,” said Velvet with a smile, “I mean she is a desirable looking mare all things considered, and hell if your father wasn’t such a prude I would have offered her a night in our bed for some fun.”

Twilight looked like she was about to explode, but what happened next made her turn pale.

“I’m not the prude one,” said Nightlight, “if anyone’s the prude in this marriage, it’s you.”

“….what?” said Velvet.

Nightlight chuckled, “Honey, I was in an open relationship with several other mares and stallions before I decided to marry you, and I stopped all those relationships because the impression you gave me was that you would not approve of that kind of life style.”

“What….but I only acted like that because of your….are you telling me that I have been missing out on wild sex because I was trying to appease your mother?”

“Honey she would have been happy due to the simple fact that you were marrying me, so yes, you have. Hell, I gave up my relationship with Princess Celestia because of you.”

It was so quite you could hear a pin drop, but finally the silence was broken by Velvet. “Are you telling me that you were in an open relationship with Princess Celestia?”

“Yep,” said Nightlight, “hell she was the last one I spoke to when breaking off my relationships so I could marry you, though she said that if I could ever convince you of it, she would love to invite into her bed.”

“….Can you get ahold of her now?”

Night Light nodded, conjuring up a pre-written scroll, which cause Velvet to raise an eyebrow. “I had this written up and ready to go, in case I found a way to convince you to…well, see things my way, but I never worked up the nerve.”

With that said, he sent the letter off, and not a few moments later another one appeared, which he grabbed and quickly read through, before smiling and handing it to Velvet as he spoke. “Well Twilight, I’m sorry for this but your mother and I are going to have to cut our visit short, for the princess’s chariot will be arriving to pick us up in thirty minutes.”

“I jubu….eh jebu….” stuttered Twilight.

“Use your words dear,” said Velvet, before looking up from the scroll and speaking to her husband. “Honey, what does the princess mean by out special toys?”

He opened his mouth to speak, but just then the door to the library opened, everypony turning to see Blueblood and Applejack standing in the doorway, looking a bit disheveled.

“Why son,” said Nightlight, “what the hay happened to you?’

Blueblood smiled, “I got engaged!”

Twilight, who had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to what she had been hearing from her parent’s mouths, decided that she just couldn’t handle any more shock, and promptly passed out.

*

“Twily, Twily wake up.”

Twilight groaned in protest as she returned to wakefulness, finding herself on a couch in the libraries main room and seeing that Blueblood was standing over her, looking relieved.

“Oh thank the makers; you gave us quite a scare.”

“What happened while I was out?” asked Twilight, not bothering to ask how long she had been out, for she figured that would be answered in due time

“Well….after you passed out your friend Fluttershy freaked out, and started reprimanding our parents for talking about….well, inappropriate topics around foals. While that was going on, I was swarmed by the rest of your friends as well as Shining and Cadance, all of them asking questions which…well, let’s just say I didn’t want to say anything yet, for I didn’t want to embarrass Applejack.”

“So it’s true then,” said Twilight, giving him a look, “you and her are…?”

He nodded, “She’s the one Twily, I can feel it.”

“She better be,” said Twilight, getting up before looking around. “Where is everyone?”

“Well, your friends all had to go back to their homes, and mom and dad left about 10 minutes ago, and before you say anything, I already know about mom and dads…..interesting sex lives.”

“I see, and what about you hmm, isn’t this marriage going to interfere with your work in Saddle Arabia?”

“Oh Candace cleared that up,” said Blueblood, “the Saddle Arabian’s will be sending a delegation to Equestria soon so that they can attend the wedding, and after the wedding they will be in conference with Princess Celestia to discuss the trade negotiations in person.”

“Speaking of weddings,” said Cadance, the young alicorn walking into the room and drawing their attention. “A stallion called Big Macintosh just came by and wants to see you, and he wants to speak with you about something called the Apple Family Reunion?”

“Ah, then I should probably talk to him then, sounds important.”

With that, he got up, kissing Twilight on the forehead before walking out of the room, leaving Twilight and Cadance alone.

Cadance walked over to sit down beside her, getting comfortable before looking at the young mare and speaking. “So….how long are you going to wait before telling mom and dad you have a special somepony?”

Twilight turned pale at that, “Um….Cadance I don’t know what you….”

Cadance smirked, “Come on Twilight, you know better than to try to lie to me, I am the princess of love, it’s kind of my thing.”

Twilight hesitated for a moment, and then sighed, “I never could hide anything from you.”

“No you couldn’t,” said Cadance with a smile, “now tell me, who’s the lucky mare?”

It was Twilight’s turn to smirk, “Now Cadance, you should know better than that, I’m not going to tell you just like that.”

“Oh tell me tell me tell me!” begged Cadance, beginning to tickle Twilight a little before stopping to let her catch her breath.

Taking a deep breath, Twilight spoke, “hmm….let me think, nope!”

“Oh come on,” said Cadance, “not even a hint?”

“Nope!” said Twilight.

“Well shoot,” said Cadance, before sighing. “Well, in that case, I got some news for you…”

“You and Shining are finally getting married?”

Cadance’s eyes widened in shock, “what….no, but how did you know me and him were…?”

Twilight smirked, “I’m not blind Cadance, nor were any of the guards, or mom and dad, or the maids or….”

“Ok I get it!” cried Cadance, “we did a horrible job covering our tracks, but can you blame us, were in love, just like you and this mystery mare seem to be.”

“Cute, but I’m still not going to tell you, now what is the good news?”

Cadance did her best pouty face, but then relented. “Fine, well….Shining has been made high commander of the equestrian guard.”

Twilight’s eyes widened in shock, “What, but Shining’s a unicorn, only pegasi have ever been allowed…”

“I know,” said Cadance, “but Celestia found out some information about the pegasi flocks which….well, it’s made it so that she can’t trust the pegasi right now. He’s going to have to head all around Equestria due to his new position, and I am going to be staying with him, to keep him on the straight and narrow and make sure he does not fail in his new role.”

She then got up, helping Twilight to her hooves before pointing to the door which lead into the next room. “Well come on, you better get out there and let him know you’re ok, you know how he can get when he is worried about you.”

*

It was hours since their visit, and now Cadance was heading down the hallway toward Celestia’s room, ready to give Celestia her report.

Before she had left to join Shining and his family on their visit to Twilight’s new home, Celestia had asked her if she could do a read on Luna when she got there to see if Luna was actually in love with whoever this mystery mare was or if it had been a onetime thing.

She had been utterly unprepared for what awaited her at Twilight’s new home, for the place was positively radiating love, both from Luna, and as she would come to learn, Twilight herself, and it had nearly floored her.

It was so….powerful, and so intoxicating, that it had sent her head spinning with ideas, till finally she had come to one conclusion.

She had of course thrown out the obvious thought that Twilight and Luna might be in love with each other, that was just ridicules. Twilight was too smart to take advantage of Luna after she had just got back from the moon, and Luna hadn’t seen Twilight since the party at Ponyville celebrating said return, so it was highly unlikely that they were in love.

Cadance was brought out of her thoughts when she got close to her aunt’s door, and ran smack dab into another field of love, a mix of old and new which was so palpable it made her weak in the knees, and it was coming from her aunt’s room.

“Well, that’s it,” thought Cadance, “when I get back to my room, Shiny is going to get rekt!”

Steeling herself for what lay beyond, she knocked on the door, hearing giggling and then her aunt telling her to come in before opening the door and walking in. She moved past the living room, heading right into the bedroom and looking to see Celestia and Velvet in the large bed, a blanket pulled over both of them and a bowl of fruit in front of them.

“Ah Cadance,” said Celestia with a smile, “just got back from Ponyville I assume?”

“Mhmm,” said Cadance, “and I assume you….um….have been having fun?”

“Oh most assuredly,” said Celestia with a smirk, “now, about that little assignment I asked you to do while over there?”

“Tia?” said Velvet, giving her a look.

“Oh it’s nothing, just worried about my sister is all, nothing to worry about.”

Cadance gulped, “Um….you may actually need to be worried…really worried?”

“Cadance?” asked Celestia, looking concerned, “what did you find?”

Cadance took a deep breath then spoke. “Both Luna and Twilight are in love with some pony in Ponyville, and I believe they are in love with the same pony.”

The moment the last words left her lips the blanket that had been covering Celestia and Velvet came flying off, revealing Nightlight who had been situated between Celestia hind legs, the stallion looking angry as he spoke, “Twilight is what?”

Scrambling out of bed, Celestia, Velvet, and Nightlight herded Cadance into the living room, everypony sitting down before Celestia spoke up. “Ok Cadance, tell me that again, because it sounded like you said that Twilight and Luna are in love with the same pony.”

“I…did,” said Cadance, “but before you try and tell me I’m wrong, I have seen this before….ok well I felt it but I’m not wrong here. The fact that both Twilight and Luna are radiating the same kind of love, and at the intensity it’s radiating, it reminds me all too well of a case I did a few years back when I found that stallion who was dating multiple mares but none of them knew they were dating the same stallion.”

“So we have a player on our hooves,” said Nightlight, his anger evident in his glare.

“It would seem so,” said Celestia with a snarl, “and that player is going to burn when we find out who she is!”

“Calm down dear,” said Velvet, nuzzling the large mare to calm her as she spoke. “I want to see this mare face punishment to, especially seeing as how she is playing my daughter as well as your sister. But we need to play it carefully; after all if they are as in love with this mare as Cadance’s says, we may end up doing more harm than good if we rush into this.”

Celestia nodded at that, but she still looked mad, “oh if only we had an easy….wait a minute, I just got a brilliant idea.”

“What is it?” asked Cadance, looking wary.

“Why don’t we get Luna and Twilight to fall in love with each other?”

It was so silent you could hear a pin drop, Celestia looking to see both Velvet and Nightlight looking at her in shock, while Cadance made vain attempts at speech.

“What?” said Celestia, “it’s perfect, they have so much in common, and they would be perfect for each other.”

The silence remained for a moment longer, and then Velvet spoke up, “You know, that might actually work.”

“What?” cried Cadance, looking confused.

“I said it might work,” said Velvet, before yawning, blinking her eyes a bit before looking to Celestia and speaking. “Well dear I am going to go to bed; we can talk about this tomorrow, come on Nighty.”

The couple then left Celestia and Cadance alone, the young mare waiting till they were out of earshot before trying to speak. “Aunty, do you really think….”

“It will be alright Cadance,” said Celestia with a smirk, “now go to your room, you have a young stallion awaiting you there, and with all the love you have been running into today, I very much doubt you have any plans to sleep, I certainly don’t.”

And with that, Celestia left for her waiting bed, and a few seconds after that, Cadance teleported away, the sound soon being followed by the sound of a very startled stallion’s yell before all became silent.

Author's Note

Next chapter is going to have some Twiluna fluff and smut, but till then I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them down in the comments section below, and for those who want to and can, consider supporting me on Patreon, every little bit helps.