"I'd completely forgotten about the concert," admitted Apple Fritter. "Shall we go and listen?"

The two ponies returned to the main arena and sat with their backs against a wall, and their hooves around each other in a loose hug. To their disappointment the Pony Tones were trotting off stage. The crowd kept applauding, and after a few minutes the four original members of the Pony Tones walked back on stage.

The group launched into an imaginative cover version of Good Ponies Gather Round, from the famous Manehattan musical Hinny of the Hills.

"It's a shame that Fluttershy hasn't come out for the encore," said Flitter.

"I know," replied Apple Fritter, "but my cousin says she's always been very shy."

"Yes," said Flitter. "Me and my sister have probably never helped matters either," she admitted. "Fluttershy has faced a lot of challenges here in Ponyville, and Cloudchaser and I, well, we've not always been as supportive as we could have been."

She thought back to when Rainbow Dash had been training all the pegasi in town to create a hurricane. Flitter and Cloudchaser had only been young at the time, barely out of pony school, but their behaviour hadn't been anything to look back at with pride.

"I suppose," Flitter continued, "even back then I had a bit of a crush on Fluttershy, and didn't handle it very well."

"You have a crush on her too?" asked Apple Fritter.

Flitter blushed. The two ponies smiled at each other. The song was ending, and the audience started clapping again.

Apple Fritter gushed, "she's so pretty, isn't she? She looks so soft, but elegant. And feathery..."

"Hey," interrupted Flitter, "what's Fluttershy got that I haven't?!"

Apple Fritter smiled at her. She plucked up the courage to ask the question that had been on both their lips for a while. "So are we...? What are we now? Are we fillyfriends? Is that what I call you? My fillyfriend?"

Flitter looked away. "I don't know," she admitted, "I've kind of already got a filly."

At that moment a familiar voice sang out. It was Fluttershy - she'd come out to join the Pony Tones for another song. It was a reprise of Find the Music in You. Flitter concentrated on listening to the song, trying to avoid an awkard conversation letting down a mare that she really liked.

Apple Fritter listened to the song, her heart bruised by the mare sitting beside her. "Everything's gonna be a-okay" came her cousin's voice from the stage. But was it? She had hardly known Flitter more than an hour, but the experience they'd shared together had turned her upside down. What did it mean if Flitter was going to go back to another mare?

Flitter sat beside Apple Fritter, inches away physically, but feeling as isolated from her as if they were miles apart. Part of her wanted to spend the rest of her life with the beautiful yellow earth pony. Another part wished she'd never met her. Why did Flitter's sex life have to be so Luna-damned complicated?!

"Everypony's sayin' you should learn to express your voice," came the music from the stage, "But if talk doesn't seem like it's the answer, luckily you have a choice." Apple Fritter felt like Big Mac was talking directly to her. Talk wasn't the answer.

Apple Fritter took the pegasus mare's face in her hooves and kissed her passionately, not caring who would be able to see. Flitter was surprised, but soon melted into the kiss, returning it with equal passion. She knew she couldn't keep away from her sweet Apple Fritter for the rest of her life.

Apple Fritter broke away from the kiss. The two mares looked each other in the eye.

"Yes," said Flitter, "you can call me your fillyfriend."

Author's Note

Not sure if I'm going to do a sequel or not. But it might make Apple Fritter, Flitter, and Flitter's original fillyfriend into a threesome. (Did you guess who her original fillyfriend was? I dropped enough hints!)