College Expenses

Twilight and co. jumped back as Rarity snapped back to reality.

“Spaaaa time!” The alabaster fashionista shouted. Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Alex all blinked in confusion in response.

“R-rarity, what are you talking about?” Twilight inquired first, her nerves spiking as the situation slipped further from her control.

“Yeah, really Rare’s, what’re you on about?” Rainbow Dash added to her friend’s question.

“Well girls, it’s quite simple. Why don’t we all go to the spa? Twilight and Ice need to go anyway to get her lodging sorted out, so we might as well come along. Fluttershy and I can get our spa day in a little early, Twilight and Ice can join us once they’ve sorted things out with the sisters, and you, Rainbow Dash, can come and experience the magic the sisters do for yourself.” Rarity said, her attention almost solely on Rainbow as she did.

The Rainbow maned pegasus blinked in confusion, prompting a grunt of frustration from the fancy unicorn.

Twilight’s magic surged a little as her natural instincts for protectiveness of her mate overpowered a few of her magical levies, forcing her subconscious to draw up the plans for a shield powerful enough to stop the unicorn who was threatening her mate. Except, she wasn’t sure why her magic felt Rarity was a threat to Alex.

Whatever the reason, the magical prodigy had enough control to cloak her magic. Now was not the time to cause an incident, and with a unicorn and two pegasi a confrontation would go badly.

Alex looked about as his skin tingled, trying to find the source of the disturbance, but couldn’t see anything odd going on.

While Twilight was freaking out over trying to figure out how her friend was ‘threatening’ Alex, said friend had pulled another friend with a distinctive polychromatic mane to the side to have a chat with her in semi-privacy.

“Yo Rares, what’s with this spa thing. You know I don’t dig the fru fru junk you and Fluttershy do. It’s all fine for you two, but don’t drag me into it.”

“That, my dear Rainbow Dash, is because I have something else in mind for your presence at the spa. I need to speak with you and Fluttershy in private as soon as possible, this being as soon as it’ll get.”

“Rares, seriously. I don’t do spa’s”

At that, Rarity gave a little thought into what would convince Rainow to join her, and very quickly came up with the perfect thing “... Well perhaps, but if I recall correctly Twilight and Ice will be joining us after they organize for her to stay with them. And as I also seem to recall, one of those treatments will be a massage, where she’ll have to be… naked for all to see”

Rainbow Dash frowned. “But Rarity, we’re naked all the time... why does it matter if she’s naked at the spa?”

“Well, perhaps I forgot to mention one small, insignificant little thing. It’s an oiled massage, I’m sure you can just imagine what she’d look like in that situation.”

Rainbow kept her frown, until she proved her friend right and her mind wandered over to the classified folders of her personal fantasies. Most of the recent entries featuring Ice Closet, one of those entries, in fact, including an oil slicked pair of ponies wrestling in more than one turn of the phrase.

With an almighty blush and a pair of erect wings Rainbow gave her friend an answer. “Alright fine, you have a point. I’ll come along, but only so I get to watch Ice, got it?”

“And if I just so happen to wish to speak to you privately before you do?”

“Yeah, sure. This better be important though.” Rainbow said before going somewhere private to get her wings under control.

Twilight set Alex aside as Rarity wandered off to talk with Rainbow, feeling that now was the best chance she was going to get to talk with him before they got dragged out to the spa.

“Hey, Alex.”

“Yes, Twilight?”

“Well, I just wanted to say a few things, as well as warn you before we go. First, I think you should keep the dress on as much as possible while we’re there, I don’t think I need to tell you why.Second, watch out for Rainbow and Fluttershy. Rainbow because it’s obvious to me that she likes you and that’s saying a lot, and Fluttershy because I’ve honestly never seen her act like she did around you before and I’m pretty sure I don’t want her doing whatever she was going to. Third, especially watch out for Rarity, she has this way of making you tell her things you don’t want her to know, and then thanking her for getting you to tell her. Really, I don’t understand it, but right now it’s a problem if she decides she want’s to know everything she can get on ‘Ice Closet’, and I really want to keep them from finding out as long as possible.”

“S-so… you’re ashamed that you’re a futa… or is it that you have a thing for things my shape?” Alex asked as his heart dropped a little. Regardless which it was, it hurt that she had bucked him in the throat and was now embarrassed about it

“Um… Well, when you put it like that it sounds kind of pathetic, but yeah. I guess I am ashamed of what I am. Why else would I have hidden it from everypony?” Alex’s ears dropped as Twilight’s last word hit him a bit harder than he could handle right then.

“I-I don’t think it’s anything to be ashamed of.” Twilight glared at Alex, but relented after a few moments.

“Look… I know you’re a nice colt, how bad you seem to feel about all this proves that, but this is something I’ve been hiding my whole life. I’m really stressed right now with everything that’s going on, and honestly? A trip to the spa sounds like it would really help.” Twilight said, a sigh escaping her lips.

“R-right now, I just really want to relax. Just go to the spa and get a massage and not have to worry about my friends finding out about me, or-
Twilight was cut off as a crazy blue blur shoved both of them towards the door.

“Hey, pep up! Rarity says a massage is just the thing to get rid of her worries. I’m not gonna try it, but you two sure as heck get to!”

Especially you Ice. Rainbow Dash added mentally as she shepherded the two out the door before they could get out a response.

She was going to see oiled up filly, even if it killed her.

Rarity pulled Fluttershy aside to chat while Rainbow was pushing the others out the door.

“Darling, there’s something I’d like to tell you before we head out.”

“Oh? W-what is it Rarity?”

“Well, I have some thoughts about Twlilght’s friend, Ice Closet that I’d like to run past you while we’re at the spa, I just thought I’d avoid surprising you with them when we got there.”

“Well, th-thank you Rarity, I don’t really like most surprises, they're just so… surprising. Um, if you don’t mind me asking, what do you want to say about Ice?”

“Well, darling, just a couple thoughts I had on where she came from, what she used to do, things like that. Now, we really should go lest Rainbow gets too impatient waiting for us and does something rash.”