Viva Los Pegasus

I felt something shove my back. "Hey...hey, wake up." The voice was barely above a whisper. It felt like someone was licking my ear.

"Fuck my ass!" I shouted, waking up to a splitting headache centered right in my dome. I started to groan wildly as I woke up. "Who the fuck--" I stopped myself as I opened my eyes. Sunset, bright blue eyes and all, was staring right down at me. "Whaba? Oh...hi there beautiful." I felt myself start to laugh as I stared up at the beautiful mare. "Where am I?" I looked around, finding nothing but my modern apartment surrounding me. "Whoa shit...did you stay the night?"

Sunset bapped me with a hoof. "You invited me over. I slept in your bed, you slept on the couch. Remember?"

I laughed gently. "No...not really. I remember banging that griffon, but everything since-- oh right! The rape deal." I scratched my head, enjoying the slight length of my hair. "We didn't have sex, did we?"

Sunset frowned hard, an indignant, annoyed frown. "No."

I felt a weight lift from my chest. "Oh thank god." I laid my head back and pressed the back of my hand against my burning forehead. "That would have been terrible."

Sunset watched me in my over dramatic display. "Really? I thought you were--"

"Trust me. I'd love to lay you down, lick you clean, but it has to mean something." I sat upright, balancing myself on my couch. The world slowly fell into place, my magazines and porn strewn over my living room pit. "I can have any girl. I mean look at me, ponies, griffons, woman, they eat this up! But damn, you just burn me so bad, it makes me so fucking mad when you turn me down!" I held my arms out. "I mean, I should have fired you for being such a bitch. But I just can't...." I brought my arms back to my chest. "Something about you, you're so quiet, but you've got a lot to say. You're so cruel, but I can see the nice mare behind it." I turned my legs off the side of my couch to face her dead on. "If I get to take you out, if I get to crack that shell, it's gonna be worth every swear and struggle." I reached out to her. "This-" I brushed her mane with my fingertips, "-this is something I'm willing to take a hit for. This is something I want to hurt me. It'll make it all the better if I pull it off."

Sunset's face went through a series of complex and severe changes. Utter rage sat in her eyes, melting away to something mournful, then back to something mean. "You don't even know what I did! You barely know who I am--"

"I'd love to know more!" I shouted back, willing to fight her for her own beauty. "Listen sweetheart...I don't know you that well, and maybe that's why I want to know you better. But I get--"

"Don't fucking psychoanalyze me!" she screamed, stomping a hoof and sending a sharp crack through my wood floor. "You don't know me, George, you don't know me at all. And I don't want you to--"

I jumped upright, frowning softly at the hurtful mare. "Why not? What am I going to say?" I walked past her, up the steps from my den towards my kitchen. "You could tell me you've killed, and I couldn't say a word about how terrible it is, because I've done fucking worse!" I slid my hand over my fine counters and grabbed an empty vodka bottle along the way to my sink. "You think you're the only one who's done some fucked up shit?" I started to laugh as I filled up my bottle. "Sunset, you can punish yourself all you want. You can turn me down all you want. But so help me god, if I crack that shell, you're never going to lose me."

Sunset's hooves clopped softly behind me. "So what you're saying is I should never tell you anything?" Her voice was cold, but earnest in her question.

I leaned back against the counter and took an ultra pleasing drink of water. The cool rush eased my sticky throat and washed away the taste of sex and booze. "That's all up to you." I set the bottle down and let the cold sensation travel into my stomach. "I- urh. I want to know you better, and I get wanting to hide what you did, but we all have to move on some day." I looked towards my window, the sky full of life, the far off beach brimming with sex, alcohol, and ponies trying to stave off adulthood with one last hurrah. "I mean look at me. I was a fucking homeless runaway. So was Tenor-" I picked up the bottle again and took a deep drink, "point is, we can all change from what we were, at any point in time."

Sunset stared at me, slowly starting to shake her head. "What happened? You weren't--"

"Sobriety." I dumped the bottle into the sink, letting it burble as I cleared my throat. "I get all philosophical when I'm not fucked up, right?" I wiped off my upper lip and snorted loudly. "Now I told you my secret, we gonna trade or you just gonna hold that as blackmail material?"

Sunset stared at me, starting to show just how tall she was. I straightened out and started measuring myself. "Are...like...up to my che--"

"Yes. I'm tall." Sunset huffed softly and turned to the window. "I was a magic student.... Under Celestia...." She turned to the door. "Now there's a package of condoms in your shower...can you go get them out?"

I stared in awe at the strong mare. "Whoa...and you're trying to be a janito--"

"Can you get them out or should I just go shower on the beach?" Sunset asked, keeping her head low and refusing to make eye contact. "Well--"

"I'll go get them." I pulled my hair back out of my face. "Actually...were you gonna shower?"

"We're not going to shower--"

"I'll put on swim trunks or something." I stuffed my hands in my pockets. "I just want to be around you...that's all--"

"Why!?" Sunset snapped around, eyes watery. "What about me is good? Why would anypony want to be aroun--"

I dropped to my knees and slid towards her. I caught her in my shoulder, wrapping my arms around her and taking a deep, rib lifting breath. "Shhh." I held her tight as I breathed in, and slowly released her as I exhaled. "You can go ahead. I won't bug you." I sat there, resting on my shins as Sunset pulled back, teary and apprehensive. "...What? I'm not moving. I fucking broke my knees doing that slide, so I'm kinda stuck here."

Sunset backed away from me, ending with a hoof in the air. "You're an idiot...."

"I know. I've come to terms with this some time ago." I leaned back slightly. "Oh man...that really fucking hurt." I fell onto all fours and started laughing as the pain in my knees started to amplify tenfold. "Oh Jesus, I've got two sets tomorrow!"

Sunset lowered her head and mumbled something. "Idiot." She walked up to me and pointed a horn at me. "Stand up...." I felt two sets of raw force push my shoulders up. I nearly lost my balance as she forced me upright. "Go get those stupid things out of the shower and let me--"

"No, I get it." I walked past her, hobbling slightly as I passed. "And sweetheart, thanks for sharing." I prickled my fingernails against her flank, causing her to let out a tiny gasp. Her backside raised up like a cat as I left. "Wow, don't get so into it. I was just playing."

"Shut up! Dear Celestia, you're such a prick!" Sunset's voice hammered on as I slipped out of the massive segmented room and into the small hall between my rooms and my bathroom.

I could hear my radio screaming at me, spitting out europop like a drunk weeboo. "Hey, were you gonna shower or have a bath?" I walked into the dark slate grey room, finding a few open condoms littering the floor. "Oh god...I don't remember these."

Sunset poked her head into the room. "Bath? You have a bath?"

"Yeah I- I uh- what the fuck is wrong with my eye?" My left eye started burning like mad. My right only half as pained. "What the fuck--" I blinked a few more times, feeling something start to catch against my eyelid. "Ow...ow...ow." I reached up, pinching the debris with my fingernails. "Oh shit... I pulled the lens off and immediately stopped the burning. "There go my fucking contacts! God damn it!" I pulled my right eye open, starting to feel the same horrid, eye watering, burn. "Fucking hate these things!"

Sunset walked up to my side. "Are you alright?"

I nodded, grimacing as I pulled my ruined contacts out. "I need to get my eyes fucking fixed is all." I reached down beside my shower. A small panel buried in the wall between my shower and my toilet lit up. "Shower is a neat little thing. Equine genius man." I pressed a few buttons, turning to watch my glass box of a shower lose its floor. The drain bearing floor slid away, opening up to a deep pit bath. "Cool right?"

Sunset just stared at the now converted bath. "You live...in a penthouse--"

"Had to do a lot to get here." I put my hands in my pockets again. "Lots of dirty tactics and lies, lots of music and hope, but hey, it worked out." I turned to the door. "Just be careful. The door likes to get stuck." The bath was still contained in the same block room as my shower, and a glass door kept water from spraying out. "I'll uh...did you want some breakfast or something? We don't have to head in until late so I uh.... I'll just go.... Yeah, something small." I hurried out, leaving Sunset staring daggers at my bath.

"Hey!" Sunset popped her head out of the bathroom, catching me in my walk to my room. "... Thanks." She held onto the doorway, staring at me. "You're not... terrible."

I felt a warm sensation settle around my heart. "Well, coming from miss, I want to be a janitor, I'll take that as high praise." I looked out my hall window, the city under me bumping as the sun started pulling back the long shadows cast from the east. "Today is gonna be a good day...I can tell."