Finding the Spark Within

“Oh, we simply MUST invite her, darling!” Rarity proclaimed with urgency, standing with her friends in the hallway of lockers while numerous students gathered their things to leave for the day.

Applejack grabbed her backpack out of her locker, and shook her head. “I don't know about this,” she offered, slamming her locker shut and twisting the combination lock once. “You really think Sunset's ready to join our group?”

“It's been nearly a month, and she hasn't hurt so much as an ant, Applejack. We have to give her a chance.”

“I just don't feel right about it. I mean, what if she's faking it? What if she's just whipping up some crocodile tears so we feel sorry for her, and then she double crosses us when our guard's down?”

“She's not faking it, Applejack!” Fluttershy interjected suddenly, surprising the other girls around her. “Sunset's been trying so hard to make amends for what she did, it's hardly been paying off for her. How would you feel if you didn't have any friends? If you had seen what I saw, you'd know how miserable she is.” Fluttershy stayed silent a moment, as she realized that all of her friends had their eyes locked on her in their bewildered state. Feeling her adrenaline taper off, Fluttershy backed away and sank her head into her shoulders.

As the majority of students had already vacated the hallway, with only a few stragglers behind, the object of their discussion approached her own locker catty-cornered from where they were standing. Sunset Shimmer took note of their presence briefly, then covered her face behind the door of her locker as she gathered her things.

“I say we invite her.” Rainbow Dash said in a hushed tone. “If she was planning anything against us, she would have done it by now. Besides... she's kind of cute.”

“Oh, for Pete's sake.” Applejack grumbled as she shook her head.

“What!? She is! Now that she's not being all gripey and acting like she's queen of the school or whatever. She kinda has that soft, timid personality going on. It's really attractive in a way.”

“Alright, fine. I guess it can't hurt nothing letting her join us this once.”

“Then it's settled!” Pinkie Pie whispered excitedly. “I'm gonna go invite her.” She turned about, and took an energetic step towards Sunset.

“Hold on a minute!” Applejack called to her. Pinkie screeched to an abrupt halt. “Tell her about that thing that we sometimes do. It ain't fair for her to come along and then get hit with that all of a sudden.”

“Gotcha! I'll tell her.” Pinkie Pie said with a wink.

Sunset Shimmer packed the last of her supplies into her backpack, and moved to zip up the top. On the left side of her peripheral vision, she thought she saw something pink and poofy creeping up to her. She turned her head, and saw nothing but an empty hallway. Feeling a bit uneasy, she turned her head to her right, and closed the door to her locker, and was met by the overly excited face of Pinkie Pie, mere inches from Sunset's nose.

“Hi Sunset!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, making the girl jump several feet into the air. Pinkie watched as Sunset clung to the slant on top of the lockers for dear life, her smile not faltering in the slightest.

“H-h-hey P-Pinkie.” Sunset sputtered as she trembled. “Nice seeing you, again.”

“So... got anything planned for tonight?” Pinkie asked, bouncing on her heels as Sunset carefully slid off of the lockers and landed on her feet.

“Not really,” She muttered, her heart rate returning to normal, while the other four girls showed up behind Pinkie. Fluttershy smiled feebly at Sunset, who averted her eyes at remembering how she had snapped at her previously.

“Great! Well, me and the girls were chatting, and all of us would love it if you came over to my house for a sleepover tonight!”

Sunset perked up when she heard what Pinkie had offered her. “Really?” she asked, looking at Pinkie Pie, who nodded her head enthusiastically. She had assumed from her awkward display at the lunch table, they had no interest in befriending her. But as her eyes scanned the girls behind her, all of them showed a look of approval on their faces, including Applejack, though she still looked a bit uneasy. “Um... sure! Okay, thanks.” Sunset replied, the corners of her mouth stretching in appreciation. She couldn't believe that on the day when she was feeling her absolute worst, she was being invited to her first slumber party.

“Great! So, you probably don't have any pj's or anything with you since I just now invited you, but that's okay! You can borrow some of mine. Come on, let's get going!”

“Pinkie...” Applejack uttered, a touch of agitation in her voice.

“What?” Pinkie asked, puzzled. “Oh, right! Applejack wanted me to tell you that sometimes we like to tell really spooky ghost stories, so hopefully you're not scared easily.”

“No, not that.” Applejack refuted.

Pinkie's smile twisted into a confused frown as she scratched the back of her neck. “We, uh... sometimes eat so much candy, that we pass out, and then we get really sick in the morning?”

“You're the only one who does that. Never mind, I'll tell her.” Applejack said, stepping past Pinkie Pie who was still racking her brain for what she was supposed to be saying.

“What's going on, Applejack?” Sunset asked, perplexed at what could be so important to address to her.

Applejack lifted her chin, and looked down both ends of the hallway to make sure no one else could hear them. “Well, the thing is, we, uh, that is, all of us, Pinkie, Rarity, Dash, Fluttershy and me, we uh...” The girls behind her seemed uneasy as well, Fluttershy poking her fingers together, Rarity pressing against her own temple, and Rainbow Dash crossing her arms in a huff.“We kinda, sort of, eh... experiment with each other, from time to time.” Applejack admitted, a nervous chuckle following.

“Experiment?” Sunset asked as her right brow raised slightly.

“Oh, that's what you're talking about!” Pinkie exclaimed with a smile, as she turned back to face Sunset. “Nah, Applejack's saying we sometimes have sex with each other!”

Every girl in front of Sunset winced as Pinkie blurted the words, except for Fluttershy who let out a soft whimper behind her hair. However, a rather joyful expression remained glued to Pinkie Pie's face.

“Welp, cat's out of the bag now.” Rainbow said in a droll tone, rolling her eyes.

“I... what?” Sunset asked, as she stood in place looking baffled. Her pupils shrank as her mind was filled with images of all five girls in front of her unclothed and touching each other in the most provocative ways. “You guys...” Pinkie and the others nodded. “... With each other?” Again, they nodded. “... More than once?” A third time, the girls confirmed what she was thinking. “I just... how? Did you guys all just decide to go at it one night?”

“Ooh, it's actually a really funny story!” Pinkie Pie lit up as she waved her hands in front of her. Applejack pulled her hat down in front of her face, while the other girls visibly cringed with embarrassment. “Okay, so about a year ago, we were having this sleepover, and I was trying to make this awesome cake for everybody. But I got a little crazy with the frosting, and ended up coated in it from head to toe. I licked off a bunch of it, but a bunch of it was in my hair too, so I had to take a shower. So, I jumped in the shower, and I was drying off, but I forgot to take some clothes in the bathroom with me. So, I had my towel wrapped around me, and I went in my room where the other girls were, and while I was rummaging around for clothes, my towel fell off! And then Rainbow Dash gasped, and when I looked over to her, everyone was looking at me, completely naked!”

Pinkie Pie giggled as she recounted her story, the others listening in embarrassment, and watching to make sure no one walked near them to hear what she was saying. Applejack looked as if she was trying to disappear through a magical portal inside of her hat.

“And I was all like 'whoopsie!'” Pinkie continued, illustrating the pose she had been in, bending over with her legs straight up, her butt sticking out as she wiggled it slightly. Sunset was immediately hit with the mental image of the girl stark naked while bent over, her wet towel draped around her feet.

“I was gonna pull it back up, but I figured they already saw everything, so I just left it there and got dressed. We had a movie playing after that, but everyone just kept staring at me. So I was like 'do you guys wanna see me naked again?' and they were all quiet, except for Rainbow Dash, who was like 'yeah, kinda'. So, I stood up, pulled my pants down, and yanked off my shirt, and laid on the floor naked! And they were shocked! Like they'd just seen the most delicious ice cream sundae with chocolate, caramel and marshmallow sauce, with all the fixins! So I said 'you guys can touch if you want'. And then Rainbow Dash moved forward and started rubbing my butt. And it felt really good! I could feel my bajingo getting all tingly and stuff.”

Pinkie Pie stopped her story, and tapped a finger to her chin. “It's kind of hard to say what happened after that. I felt a hand brushing my back, and another on my feet, one on my hair. I think someone was licking my chest, and someone else had their finger up my hoo-ha. I couldn't really keep track of whose hand belonged to who, but I knew they all belonged to my best friends, so I was really happy it was them! After we were done, we were all naked and sweaty, and we had these big smiles on our faces.”

“I think she gets it, Pinkie Pie.” Applejack said before Pinkie had another chance to keep going. “Well, there you go Sunset. It's not a thing we do ALL the time, but we just kind of let it happen if we're in the mood. Sometimes we'll all go at it, sometimes just two of us'll fool around, and the others watch.”

Sunset looked uneasily at Applejack as the situation was explained to her. She knew that the girls were close friends, but she had no idea they were that close. It was a lot to take in at the moment.

“So, are you guys in like a big, five-way relationship or something?”

“Oh, hardly.” Rarity chimed in blatantly. “I prefer boys myself, so I could never see myself in a committed relationship with a female.” Rainbow Dash snorted her disapproval, as Rarity rolled her eyes and continued. “We just do this from time to time to help each other relax and unwind, in a way that we're unable to do with the students around us. It's quite relief to have your best friends that you can snuggle up close to when you need them.” Sunset grabbed her adjacent elbow with her hand as she averted her eyes from them.

Sunset's eyes met the floor, staring at the legs of the girls in front of her. So many thoughts were racing through her head at the moment. She wasn't sure how comfortable she was being in a place where girls she hardly knew might jump into an orgy at any second. Would they shut her out while she had to watch? Would they try to make her join in? Would she have to perform well in order to win their friendship? What if she didn't, and ended up embarrassing herself? Would they never speak to her again?

“Sunset?” Fluttershy asked softly. “If it makes you uncomfortable, don't worry about it. We don't have to do that or anything. We just want you to spend some time with us, that's all.”

“It'd be kind of cool if you did though- ow!” Rainbow Dash yelped as she received an elbow to her ribs from Rarity. “But yeah, you don't have to. We can just watch tv, play videogames, and junk.”

Sunset Shimmer felt herself smile, for the first time since she had been given a chance to man the bakery fundraiser earlier that day. All of them earnestly wanted her to join them. She wasn't used to receiving this sort of kindness, nor was she used to the warm feeling spreading throughout her chest that the offering gave her. Breathing through her nose, she forced herself not to cry again: she'd done enough of that for one day.

“Okay. Sure, I'd love to join you all. Thank you.”

“Great, then let's get going!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, grabbing Sunset by the wrist and pulling her towards the school exit, the rest of her friends hastily trying to keep up with her.

“Alright, I know who the culprit is!” Pinkie Pie declared vigorously, the volume of her voice and the stern expression on her face striking fear into the girls around her. Sunset Shimmer and Fluttershy clung to one another, while Applejack found herself sandwiched between Rarity and Rainbow Dash. Each of them were dressed in their own pajamas with a color scheme or pattern to match their physical appearance, with the exception of Sunset, who had borrowed a mulberry pair with short sleeves that Pinkie hardly used.

“They thought they were so clever, that they could get away with their anus crime!” Fluttershy quietly piped up “heinous” before Pinkie resumed with her tirade. “Their HEINOUS crime! But Pinkie's Thinkie is way too sharp to let them get away with it. And once I rat them out, they're gonna get it! They'll have the book thrown at them! They'll spend the rest of their days in the brig! They'll be so sorry, they-!”

“Today, Pinkie.” Applejack urged her, pushing Rarity and Rainbow Dash off of her.

“It was...” Pinkie Pie paused for dramatic effect, before taking a deep breath. “Hanky Panky, in the warehouse, with a rubber chicken!” She cried, pounding her fist on the game board in front of her, making all the pieces jump in the air, before falling back into their precise places.

With her estimation finished, Pinkie reached for the envelope in the center of the board, and pulled out the three cards inside. After looking at all three for a few seconds, her scowl transformed into a smirk, and she laid out each card on the board, one by one, for all of her friends to see.

“Rubber chicken! Warehouse! Hanky Panky!” Pinkie Pie declared triumphantly. “I win!”

“How on Earth did you win?” Rarity inquired, rubbing her palm against her hair as she looked at her cards.

“With a keen eye for detail, one truth always prevails!”

“Darling, you've been on your laptop for the majority of the game.”

Following an electronic beep, Pinkie Pie turned to the side, and hunched over to gaze at the light glow brimming from her laptop. After a few clicks, she burst out laughing and pointed. “Oh my gosh! It's a puppy riding a unicycle!” she cried out, as the sound of barking filled the air in front of her. “Ha ha ha, that's so funny!” She then laid down on her belly, her legs swinging up over the end of her pink shorts and night gown.

“Wow, that was a lot of fun, Pinkie!” Sunset conveyed, while the girl in front of her laptop held her stomach from laughing so hard.

Rainbow Dash grumbled as she threw her cards in the air disappointed. Her eyes scanned Pinkie Pie's bedroom, the walls adorned with painted balloons and colorful streamers. She found herself staring at the television, with her videogame system on the floor in front of it. A smile formed as she looked over to Applejack.

“Hey, wanna play Alpha Strike?” She asked, holding one hand over the other arm of her short sleeve shirt and striking a muscular pose.

“Eh, sure.” Applejack replied. “Just don't get mad when I whip you like I did last time.”

“Yeah yeah, save the smack talk for later.” Rainbow Dash sat up and began to fiddle with the system, powering the machine on and changing game discs. Sunset watched as the screen began to light up, and a brightly colored title flashed, along with a command for one of them to “press start”.

“You don't have any interest in those things, do you?” Rarity asked, crawling on all fours to Sunset, and adjusting her purple night gown over her knees as she sat down.

“I don't really even know what it is.”

“You've never played a videogame before?” Rainbow Dash asked, while Applejack moved her control stick, prompting the right half of the screen to cycle through a number of fierce looking characters.

“Well, I remember there was something that somepony made back when I lived in Equestria. It was like, virtual tennis or something. Just three lines and a circle on a black screen. It looked really boring.”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash stared at each other in wonder. “Wow, that's retro.” Rainbow commented, turning back to to the screen. Applejack's side was locked on a young woman with boxing gloves, while Rainbow chose a large man with track pants and bandaged hands. The screen changed to show their selected characters in a new area, and the words “FIGHT!!” flashed across the screen. Sunset watched the two girls mash the buttons on their controllers as fast as they could. Applejack had to adjust her hat in between button presses a few times. Sunset thought it was funny that she kept her stetson on even when she was dressed in a onsie adorned with spotted apples.

“I for one don't care for them in the slightest.” Rarity commented. “Obnoxiously violent and loud. Very jarring, and the cause of a lot of stress in young boys from what I see. Oh!” Rarity looked at Sunset's fingernails, and her face lit up with excitement. “Ooh, can I paint your nails? I think I know a color that would look enthralling on you!”

Sunset Shimmer looked down at her bare, colorless fingernails a moment, then back up to Rarity's eager face. “Okay.” She agreed casually.

“Wonderful! Fluttershy can do your toes while I'm on your fingers. Fluttershy?”

Sunset wanted to object, but before she had a chance to, Rarity was already moving to adjust her properly against the end of the bed, with a pillow to keep her propped up comfortably. She tossed a pillow to Fluttershy, who placed it under Sunset's ankles to keep her legs elevated, and her feet rested over the legs of Fluttershy's amber pajamas. Rarity rummaged through her bag, and pulled out a vial of scarlet red, and sunny yellow. She handed the yellow one to Fluttershy, and gave her instructions to only paint every other nail, as she would do the same with Sunset's hands.

Sunset's arm tensed a moment before the wet brush made contact with her, but found its touch wasn't as distressing as she anticipated it to be. After a few strokes on the same nail, she found it rather soothing.

“So, Sunset, you mentioned that you were from Equestria, and you referred to the one who was making videogames as 'somepony'. Does that mean you're from the same world that Twilight is from?”

“Oh yeah, didn't even think about that.” Rainbow Dash said, offhandedly commanding her character to shoot a shining fireball at Applejack's.

“Yeah, I am.” Sunset replied, the soles of her feet relaxing as she felt Fluttershy's wand brush across her littlest toe.

“Ah, interesting. So, what is your world like then? I've been wondering ever since Twilight told us about her being a pony princess and all. Oh, does that mean you were a pony when you lived there?”

Sunset took a deep breath, letting the tension in her shoulders melt away. “M hm. I was a unicorn, actually. How do I describe it, it's been so long.” Sunset trailed off, trying her hardest to recollect her years in Equestria, the land she had called home for most of her childhood. “It's big. But, not in the way that the city here is. It's hard to describe, but when I came here to Canterlot High, it felt like most of Equestria had been packed into one building. Cities like this aren't that commonplace back in Equestria. They have maybe three or four big ones, and the rest are small villages or farm land. Technology isn't nearly as developed as it is here. I don't even think they had computers yet, last time I was there.” She finished, her eyes finding their way to Pinkie Pie, who was still on her stomach and typing rapidly on the keyboard.

“I think it sounds wonderful.” Fluttershy uttered with a smile, as she began to paint Sunset's big toe.

“Really? How come Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash asked, her character receiving a succession of jabs from Applejack's. Rainbow Dash hammered a few buttons on her controller, and her the muscular man knocked Applejack's boxer away with a jumping uppercut.

“Well, living in the big city gets a little intimidating sometimes.” Fluttershy continued. “I'd like to live in a world where cities aren't as big as the ones here, and the villages are small with only a few dozen residents. And, oh I can't imagine what it's like being surrounded by cute little ponies, using ther tiny hooves to move around on their small, soft bodies while their tails swish about over their tushies.” Her eyes began to shine with excitement as she rambled on. “I wish I lived in Equestria!” she exclaimed jubilantly. Fluttershy's smile faded as she found all eyes on the room were directly on her.

“DEVASTATED!!” The videogame announcer shouted, as the last fireball Rainbow chucked hit Applejack, depleting the last remnants of her vitality bar, and knocking her character unconscious. Fluttershy touched the tips of her index fingers and kept her eyes downwards in embarrassment.

Sunset Shimmer smirked as she looked at Fluttershy. “You kind of get over the novelty of it when you're born there. “

“But Fluttershy, if you lived in Equestria, then you might run into your other self.” Pinkie Pie said, her eyes still fixed on her laptop. “And if you do that, you might destroy both our worlds!”

“Say what now?” Applejack asked, as the characters reset themselves for another round of fighting.

Pinkie Pie pushed the screen of her laptop closed and sat up to look at the group of girls adjacent from her. “Okay, so I never really paid it any mind before, but every now and then when I'm not in school and walking around the city, I would see this one girl with purple hair with a pink streak in the front. And she always had a cute little puppy with her, with purple hair and green ears. Then one day, I'm setting up decorations for the Fall Formal and I was shocked to see the same girl and dog right behind me. She started talking to me, saying that her name was Twilight and the dog was Spike. I asked her a question to see if she was the same girl I saw before, but it turns out she wasn't. Sooooo, that means there's a human Twilight living here, and a pony Twilight living in Equestria.”

“That is astounding!” Rarity exclaimed, removing her brush from Sunset's fingers. “Sunset, are there pony counterparts to the people who live here, in Canterlot High?”

“There's definitely a Celestia. I was her student for a while. And I know there's Luna, though last I heard, she wasn't around anymore. I didn't exactly see them face to face, but I thought I remembered Twilight saying something about her 'friends back home'. She warmed up to you girls really quickly, and you were able to wield the elements of harmony, I guess it's safe to say her friends were likely your counterparts, since they wielded the elements themselves.”

The five girls exchanged excited glances at each other in response to the new revelation.

“That is so awesome!” Rainbow Dash shouted, dropping her controller to look at Sunset fully.”

“That's pretty fascinatin'.” Applejack added, keeping hold of her controller, and commanding her boxer to pummel the docile muscular man that Dash wasn't moving.

“I wonder if mine plays soccer? Wait, how would ponies even play soccer, if they're running on all fours? Maybe they- hey!” Rainbow Dash shouted as she scrambled to pick her controller back up and fight against Applejack.

“Well, that is the most invigorating thing I have heard.” Rarity remarked, trading paint vials with Fluttershy, so she could fill in the fingers she had left blank, and Fluttershy could do the same with her feet. “Just imagining all the students and teachers as various creatures in Equestria: the possibilities are truly endless!”

A few minutes passed, and Sunset Shimmer's nails all had a new coat of paint on them. She craned her head forward to look at them, seeing that they had alternating red and yellow caps on her digits.

“Wow, they're pretty.” Sunset observed, before turning her eyes to Rarity and Fluttershy. “Thank you so much for this.”

“Oh, it's no problem at all dear. Now, sit tight, I shall return in a moment with some cold water, so we can quickly dry the paint.” Rarity said, pulling herself up off the floor and stepping out the door of Pinkie's bedroom.

Sunset turned towards Fluttershy, who offered a bashful smile in return. Even though sunset had no qualms with her, she still found it difficult to talk to her sometimes, with her being so meek and softhearted. Sunset felt she had to say something to her in any case.

“I'm... sorry about earlier today, Fluttershy.” she offered, looking at her for only a moment.

“That's okay.” Fluttershy replied softly.

“No, it's not. You were just trying to help, and I bit your head off. That's not okay.”

“But, you weren't really in control of yourself when I saw you. You were scared, so you wanted to scare whoever was bothering you back. You didn't know it was me.” Sunset looked up momentarily to see Fluttershy smiling at her. “Besides, you know that what you did wasn't right. So I can forgive you.” She finished, massaging the top of Sunset's left foot.

Sunset felt at ease while Fluttershy smiled and rubbed her foot. It sent a warm, captivating feeling up her leg, and helped her relax into the end of the bed she was propped up against.

“Land sakes Dash, you gonna keep spamming that all night?” Applejack griped. The outburst got her attention, and she turned to see that Applejack's fighter was having difficult time jumping over and blocking a rapid surge of energy balls from Rainbow Dash's.

“As long as it keeps working I will!” Rainbow Dash replied with arrogance.

“But it's cheating! That's why they came out with that new one, where they slowed the fireballs down.”

“Well, until Pinkie Pie gets the Tournament Edition version, nothing's stopping me from using it.”

While Sunset watched the two girls argue, she felt the mattress move behind her. Being careful not to move too erratically and mess up her nail paint, she looked over the edge of the bed to see Pinkie Pie crawling along its surface towards Rainbow. Looking at Sunset, Pinkie lifted a finger to her lips, signaling her not to give away her position. Sunset turned back to her original position, but glanced out the side of her eye towards Dash. She found herself a bit eager to see what Pinkie, known throughout Canterlot High for her light-hearted pranks, had planned for the smug athlete at the moment.

Rainbow Dash continued her projectile assault on Applejack, who had resigned to ducking and blocking, waiting for the minimal damage it was inflicting to pile up and eventually defeat her. Dash was unaware however, that Pinkie Pie was right above her, looking down with a maniacal grin. Her hands were up near her head, wiggling her fingers in anticipation. In the blink of an eye, Pinkie reached down and grabbed the front of Rainbow Dash's short sleeve shirt.

“Honnnnk!” Pinkie Pie shouted, giving her small chest a firm squeeze.

Rainbow Dash exclaimed in something that was half a giggle, and half a delighted gasp. She closed her eyes, and for a moment, her fingers stopped tapping her controller. With a chuckle, Applejack took advantage of Rainbow Dash's state, and began to advance on screen towards Dash's character who had ceased shooting fireballs.“Mmmm- hey! Don't distract me!” Rainbow Dash clenched her body tight, while she fought to keep her fingers working on her controller.

“Distraction's part of the battlefield, Dashie.” Applejack replied, getting in a jumping attack, combining it into a right hook and a rapid blow of jabs to the face.

“Yeah, come on world warrior!” Pinkie Pie teased, tapping her fingers against Rainbow's chest as she tickled her. “Coochie coochie coo!”

Sunset Shimmer had trouble processing what she was seeing. While it was obvious that Pinkie Pie was teasing Rainbow Dash in good fun, she was caught off guard to see that her first choice was to grab Dash's breasts. Did she have an ulterior motive with Dash, or was that kind of contact considered friendly amongst them?

Sunset noticed Rainbow's nipples poking up from under the white part of her t-shirt as Pinkie's hands moved around. While she struggled to keep playing, Pinkie's hands found their way to the protrusions, and she pinched them between her thumb and finger. Dash's toes curled in and her thighs squeezed together as she moaned out loud. With Dash's character nearly depleted of her health, Applejack put in a staggering amount of button inputs, then put her controller down. The screen turned dark, except for her character, which flashed brightly.

“You're finished!” the boxer screamed, before charging in and slugging the man several times from side to side across his face. With her right boxing glove glowing, she brought it up from her chest against his chin, and sent him flying to the air with a definitive uppercut. “SUPER-ASTRAL-HYPER-KNOCKOUT!!” the announcer screamed, before declaring Applejack's character the winner.

“Both of you stink.” Rainbow Dash pouted, letting go of her own controller, and leaning back while her chest moved up towards Pinkie's hands.

“Aw, don't feel so bad sugarcube.” Applejack replied, moving to straddle Rainbow's legs and stare her in the face. “I was getting tired of playing on that controller. I'd much rather mash your buttons.”

Sunset watched as Applejack slid her hand down Rainbow's moving chest, until she reached her lap, and poked her fingers in where Rainbow had her thighs clenched. Since Sunset had arrived at Pinkie's house, the girls had kept themselves entertained through wholesome activities; dinner, chatter, board games and such. She had been enjoying herself so much, that she had completely forgotten about the warning she received before arriving, about the activities the girls delved into on various occasions. It seemed to be happening right in front of her, and for reasons she couldn't explain, Sunset was unable to turn away from the scene before her.

“Ugh, really Applejack?” Rainbow Dash scoffed, as she closed her eyes. “'mash your buttons'? Do you know how corny that sounds?”

“Yeah yeah, it's the best I could come up with.” Applejack refuted, moving her hands up Rainbow's shirt and behind her back. Sunset watched her dark blue bra fall to her waist.

“Um, girls?” Fluttershy's voiced peeped out softly. None of the girls in the room seemed to notice her.

Applejack took hold of the bottom of Dash's shirt and peeled it up, revealing to everyone in the room Dash's blue, baseball sized breasts. Pinkie's hands moved down to caress her flesh and tweak her nipples. Rainbow Dash's open mouth rounded a bit in reaction, while Applejack began to kiss underneath her chest.

“Girls...” Fluttershy's voice again fell on deaf ears. Sunset's face grew hot as she leaned to the side, instinctively trying to get a better view of the scene taking place in front of her. She wondered how far Applejack was going to go with her, and she felt a tickle in her belly as the farmer's chin reached the waist of Dash's leggings. The door to Pinkie's room opened up to Rarity with two bowls of fresh cold water in her hands, and she gasped at the sight of Dash partly naked, with Applejack's teeth reaching to grab her waistline.

“What on EARTH do you think you're doing!?” Rarity said sharply, putting in effort to keep from shouting.

“Eh, it's no big deal.” Rainbow Dash, after a soft moan. “I think I'd rather play this game than Alpha-”

“Our NEWCOMER, the one we said we weren't going to do this in front of, is a FOOT away from you!”

All three girls traded wide eyed looks of panic, before they looked at Sunset, her cheeks as red as a cherry. With their eyes meeting hers, she became aware that she was staring at them so intently and looked away, in search of anything to keep her distracted. She tried to pretend that bookshelf was the most interesting thing in the world while the trio jumped away from each other.

“I'm sorry, Sunset!” Pinkie Pie called out, while Rainbow Dash yanked her shirt down. “I completely forgot we weren't gonna do this tonight, since you're not used to it. We just got caught up in the moment. Sorry!”

“Well, it certainly won't happen again.” Rarity assured Sunset for them. Rainbow Dash looked a bit reluctant to agree, but nodded along with the others.

“It's fine.” Sunset responded. Rarity knelt to the ground and placed the bowl in front of her. As she held Sunset's hands and guided them to the bowl, Rarity's eyes glanced downward a moment, then raced back to meet Sunset's. Was she staring at something on her shirt? Sunset looked down as she felt Rarity dipped her hands in the bowl and winced, as she saw the cloth of her shirt being held up by the force of her nipples standing up.

“Oh, I know it's cold darling. But there, all done!” Rarity assured her as she eased her fingers out of the icy water, and pat them dry with a towel. “Now, we just need to do your feet.”

Once Sunset's fingers were dry, she brought her hands to her stomach, and slowly crept them upwards to cover her chest, and hide her nipples from those around her. While Rarity moved her legs to angle her toes in the bowl of water, she found her mind racing with all sorts of thoughts, none of which she was comfortable with. Did the other girls see her nipples standing? If they did, what did they think of her? Did they assume she was turned on by what she had seen Pinkie and the others doing? Sunset told herself that she wasn't, that it was probably the temperature in the room, or any number of reasons. Nipples had a mind of their own, sometimes.

“Goodness Sunset, you're trembling,” Rarity remarked as she dried the girl's toes. “The water isn't THAT chilly, is it?”

“N-no, it's not.” Sunset replied, pulling her legs into her chest.

“Are you alright?”

“I'm fine!” Sunset told her. Rarity looked at Sunset inquisitively, not completely believing her. Sunset's mind scrambled to formulate a fib to tell her why she was trembling. She wondered if she could tell them she was getting sick. Then she realized that if she went with that story, they would all try to avoid her for the rest of the night, if they didn't outright ask her to leave to avoid catching her illness. She quickly realized that lying was not going to be the best solution for the night. But she also couldn't bring herself to tell the entire truth either.

“I'm... nervous.” Sunset confessed at last. “I've never been to a sleepover like this before. I just feel a little out of place.” She felt a little better, telling at least part of the truth to Rarity.

“Oh, well that's understandable.” Rarity nodded, crawling on all fours up towards Sunset. “You've probably never been around so many of your peers in such an intimate way. It's natural to have some difficulty adjusting to a new environment. Ooh, I know! I'll give you a massage that I picked up from the day spa down the street.”

Sunset tried to object, but the fashionista had already forced her away from the bed and scooted behind her. Rarity's hands rested on Sunset's shoulders, and she squeezed them with care.

While Sunset enjoyed the feeling of Rarity's hands squeezing and caressing her tendons, it did little to ease her mind. While she was sure that she wasn't attracted to them, she still found her mind focusing on Applejack, Dash and Pinkie. She had to tell herself over and over again that it was because she had never watched anyone do such a thing in front of her that she was so intrigued. Sunset wondered if that meant she had discovered a voyeur complex dwelling within her subconscious. She wanted terribly to think of something else, but still her thoughts were locked on Applejack's face trailing down towards Rainbow Dash's pants.

Sunset wondered what would have happened if Rarity had not come back in when she did. Would Applejack have gone further? Would she have bitten Dash's pajama bottoms and pulled them down to her ankles? Would she have done the same for her underwear, and left it exposed for her to gaze at? Or would Applejack leave them on, pressing her face up against her underwear and letting Dash writhe in arousal behind the bit of fabric between her legs? Sunset's fists clenched as the thought sent a tickle running between her breasts, and spreading down past her belly. Would Pinkie Pie continue to play with her from her position on the bed, or would she drop down and join the two more personally? And what on Earth could a girl with Pinkie's energy do with those two?

A chorus of giggles rang out from the side, and Sunset turned her head towards the other girls, afraid that they were laughing at her. She looked to see that their eyes were fixed on the television screen, which depicted a cartoon involving some fat old man chasing around a spry looking animal humanoid creature. Sunset breathed in relief, knowing they weren't laughing at her. She looked back at Rarity, who had pulled her hands away at Sunset's sudden movements, and offered her an apologetic smile before she resumed her ministrations.

A moment later, as Rarity moved her thumbs down Sunset's spine, she found herself again thinking of the scene with all three girls touching each other so intimately, but this time, all three were completely naked. And instead of Rainbow Dash between Pinkie and Applejack, she imagined it was herself in the center, with Applejack's mouth hovering over her naked pussy lips. She would feel the farmer's hot breath puffed over her wanting lips. Pinkie Pie would be right behind her, pressing her soft breasts up against her own bare back, holding her as her body went rigid and kissing her shoulder.

“Haaah!” Sunset moaned, as she felt Rarity's hands push tenderly against her back. The touch, combined with her fantasy, send an exquisite tingle reach between her legs, and made her clitoris throb. She immediately pulled herself away from Rarity and covered her mouth at realizing she had made such a loud noise. She was afraid to look at the girl behind her, or the ones adjacent to her. There was no way they hadn't heard her. They would have all had to be deaf to not hear the lustful sound that had just escaped her throat.

“Are... you alright, dear?” Rarity asked, a touch of uneasiness in her voice.

Sunset's fear surged as she felt her hips move, and a touch of slickness between her legs. Her face burned as she realized that her labia was wet, and the sensation made her throb once again. Panic gripped her, as the image of her with a wet spot on her pajamas, even worse on the floor, where everyone could see it, plagued her mind.

“I... uh...” Sunset stammered, racing to find something, anything to say to get her out of the situation. “Bathroom!” she blurted out, heaving herself up off the ground. She regretted pushing her butt up first as she felt the wetness press against the top of her thighs, fearing that if there was in fact a wet spot on her behind, she had most likely given Rarity an eyeful. Avoiding any contact with the girls in the room, Sunset raced out of Pinkie Pie's room and into the bathroom down the hall.