Playing The Heartstrings

"FINALLY! I finished the last book! About damn time..." I slammed the book cover closed and threw my head back into the arm of the couch I was laying on. "Together that was not a dozen like we thought, noooo, of course there had to be another pile just as big under the dresses!"

"Good timing too. Whoever it is comes in about three hours. Can't believe we've spent the week doing nothing but reading those...my eyes still hurt." Bon-Bon held her head and rather than look for her own seat simply laid on top of me.

"Ahh, get your gigantic ass off of me!" I tried to shove her off but she didn't budge.

"You never told me that while we were in college." She stuck her tongue out and flashed a cheeky grin. I failed to hide my blushing to make matters worse.

"That was a while ago..."

"Barely a year, why did we stop anyway?"

"I don't know, actually I think it was because we were so busy with finals we didn't have time." I confessed.

"Well we have plenty now..." Just as she said that there was a knock at the door. She pulled herself off of me and let me answer the door. I tried my best to hide my excitement, but who could? It was probably our human coming early!

The door opened to reveal Fleetfoot standing in the doorway with a big tray of food and an equally large smile. "Sup bitches!" I had a few classes with Fleetfoot in college so we got to know each other pretty well, especially when we started visiting each other. After college we still kept in contact at least.

"Hey Fleetfoot! What's up? How are you and James?" I asked as I feasted my eyes on the food on the tray. It looked amazing to say the least.

"Oh we're doing great. Though at one point I asked if he wanted to try a three-way and for a second I thought he stopped breathing!" She laughed a little and passed the tray to me.

"Did you mention me???" I asked excitedly.

"Oh I forgot to tell him if it would be a mare or stallion...whoops." She said with an evil grin. "Could be Thunderlane...hehe."

"Actually...that would be hilarious. You have to take a picture of his reaction when he finds out."

"Oh I shall...even better I think Thunderlane might swing both ways..." Her grin widened even further.

"Oh you are evil...I love it!"

"Yep! Well anyway I cooked these up based on what I know James likes in case he doesn't have a taste for pony food, I heard about your human arriving today and I figured this would be great for all three of you."

"Wow, thanks!"

"Sure thing! Anyway I should get back. I gotta find Thunderlane...and maybe some lube. Catch y'all later! Tell Bon-Bon I said hi!"

"I will! See ya!" I waved as she flew off back towards Cloudsdale.

I turned around and as soon as Bon-Bon opened her mouth I told her. "It was Fleetfoot, she told me to say hi and she dropped off some food for us and the human coming later."

"Oh, great! Wait a minute though...I don't think we read the personal file on whoever is coming. I think we meant to but forgot."

I thought about it for a moment before realizing she was right. I set the tray on the coffee table in the living room and found the personal file still laying in the box. I opened it and looked inside.

"Let's see...his name is...Jacob?" Bon-Bon realized the look on my face right away.

"I'm sure it's not the same one you were...I heard that lots of humans end up with the same names. Pinkie told me that David told her he's met several Davids in his life."

"Yeah, I suppose that would make sense. Anyway it looks like he's tall too, he'd be about six feet tall. From the eastern United States, wherever that is. It says he's only 19 years old, but that on Earth humans can live up to just over a hundred but most make it to their 70's or 80's. Wow...that stinks. Ponies can live to be like three hundred or more if they take care of themselves. They have no magic on Earth." I continued reading it and with the memory of all that I read about humanity it seemed like they'd had it pretty rough compared to ponies. Must explain why the ones already here were so eager to stay."

"No kidding. I read most of the stuff on their history and it reminds me a lot of gryphons and dragons, though they live a lot longer than humans too. Gryphons live almost as long as we do and I haven't heard of a dragon dying of old age."

We spent the next few hours mostly reading the rest of the file and speculating on what he was like in person and though we already talked about the books for a painfully long time we discussed anything else that might seem important for the other to know. Apparently humans were more shy when it came to things like sex. I learned from James and Anders that they have a serious thing about wearing clothes though since they'd been here they became more relaxed about it.

Eventually we looked at the clock and noticed it was almost 12:30. Damn...what if he never showed up? Did he get lost? Surely he could find his way here. My worry was broken as I heard a knock at the door, if it was anyone other than him I'm sure they'd understood if I wanted to strangle them. I raced to the door and pulled open the door. For just a moment, I'm pretty sure my heart skipped a beat.

"Hey, are you...Lyra Heartstrings?" He said, looking up from a note he held in his hand. The other was a suitcase on wheels that I guessed held his personal belongings. What really shocked me is how he looked. My eyes widened further as I realized he looked almost exactly like the Jacob Heller I found naked on the computer. A part of me wondered if he was still that big down there...His looks weren't quite as chiseled but he was still handsome and he seemed to have a bit of a tan now. When he wasn't looking I made a promise to myself to delete all damning evidence from the computer.

"H-hey...you must...be Jacob. Heller. House my welcome with Bon-Bon. I said awkwardly as I felt my heart beat rising. I listened to what I said and wanted to cover my mouth. Great, he's not even through the door and probably thinks I'm retarded! Bon-Bon came to the door and though I knew she was every bit as surprised as I was she hid it far better.

"Oh...why hello there...come on in dear..." She said with a slightly seductive look. Note to self, violently strangle Bon-Bon later.

"Thank you, you must be Bon-Bon. Pleased to meet you guys. Is there anywhere I can put these?" He shook the hand with the suitcase. I tried my best to not fantasize about what else he'd do with those.

"Right in my bedroom, here let me get that for you!" She scooped up his suitcase and carried it into her room, where he followed her. He walked in and looked around at the room while Bon-bon leaned against the doorway with a winning grin.

"What the hell? You can't just do that!" I told her, careful to make sure it wasn't loud enough for him to hear.

"Do what my dear Lyra? I'm simply treating our handsome guest how he deserves..." She flashed a wink at me. Oh now it's personal.

"This isn't over, you know he'd fall for me."

"Not if you play the same cards you did when he opened that door."

"I was surprised! It's not fair, I've always had an interest in humans and then you're already strutting your stuff as soon as you see him!" I peeked over into the room to notice Jacob still looking around the room curiously and feeling how soft the bed was. Looking at his reaction it was apparent he thought it was very soft.

"Fine, let's see who can win the boy over, I have more experience."

"Cougar." I told her, she was in fact two years older than me at least.

"Chicken." She responded. "How about this, let's see who can win the boy's heart. You get him to ask you out on a date, you win. I get him to ask me out, I win. Sound fair?"

"Deal." I narrowed my eyes at her.

"Then may the best mare win!" She declared.

"Oh I shall." I smiled back. We shook hooves and shared a look at Jacob as he prepared to exit the room.

"Why you can lay in my bed tonight if you like..." Bon-Bon attacked the opportunity like the cougar she was.

"Slut." I huffed to myself as she guided him back into the room and began to introduce herself further.

You win this round, Bon-bon...now it's my turn. I thought to myself as I began to plan how I would turn this around.