Vying for Her Love

A month has passed since Colgate's first sexual experience with Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine and rather than only doing it on weekends, they are now doing it several times a week. While Colgate had grown to love it and want more and more of it, her marefriends were beginning to want something different. They were now wanting Colgate as solely their own but have been scared to discuss it with one another, until now.

Sunday night before they headed to bed, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts began to talk about their situation with Colgate. Lemon Hearts asked, "Twinkleshine, I want to know something. Are you happy with the three of us being together or are you hoping that one day one of us can marry Colgate?"

Twinkleshine replied, "Don't get me wrong, I love the situation we are in but it has been a dream of mine ever since I was a filly that I would wind up in a monogamous relationship. I have always dreamed of a strong willed, hard working mare such as Colgate sweeping me off of my hooves, us getting married and living happily ever after." She got a dreamy look in her eyes and continued, "Just like in the fairy tales!"

Lemon Hearts was not thrilled to hear this. She asked, "Oh and you don't think I want to get married someday too?" She sighed and continued, "Why the hay do you think I tried to sway Celestia into allowing plural marriages? I did it so that you and I both could have all our dreams come true."

Twinkleshine said, "Like I said, I love our current situation but in the fairy tales it is always just a loving couple that gets married, there is never a third pony involved. I just think it would be more romantic if I were the one to be legally married to Colgate."

Lemon Hearts was not thrilled at all over this statement. She got up in Twinkleshine's face and snapped, "Oh, so it's all about you huh?" She calmed down a bit and continued, "And you don't think I would love it if it were just me and Colgate? That my relationship with her would be recognized by Celestia?"

Twinkleshine shied back and replied, "Well yeah, I know you would want that just as much as me." This argument was beginning to make Twinkleshine nervous as stressful situations would cause her to panic, not to mention that if they got into a fight that Lemon Hearts would easily win. She wanted to deescalate the situation. She asked, "Lemon Hearts, instead of arguing and fighting like this, how about we talk to Colgate tomorrow morning about this?"

Lemon Hearts knew that she was right. She sighed, "Yeah, we can do that. Besides, I don't think Colgate would be thrilled if she had to come up here and break up our argument."

Twinkleshine nodded and they decided to turn in for the night. While they still harbored bitter feelings towards one another, they hoped that talking with Colgate would ease their feelings but would their discussion with Colgate yield what they hoped or would it just add fuel to the fire?"

Another Monday morning arrived but this one was different. It was a civic holiday set up by Celestia so that everypony could have a three day weekend, which made Colgate happy. Rather than go in and deal with an overloaded schedule, she could stay at home and rest. Despite this being a day to relax though, she already dreaded the following day as it would be incredibly busy like it always is on the day after a holiday.

It wasn't long after she got downstairs that her marefriends arrived as well. Like they always do they began to nibble on her ears, causing her to giggle. Very quickly though the two gave Colgate a more serious look, which is not normal for them. Twinkleshine started, "Colgate, you know that we love you a lot and love everything we do together but the two of us have been talking and there is an issue that we must address."

Colgate asked, "Oh, and what is that?"

Lemon Hearts continued, "As you know, polygamy is illegal in Equestria and the two of us do hope to be married someday but because of Celestia's ban on plural marriages, as long as we are a three way item, we can not be married."

As she was telling her this, Colgate did not like where this was heading. She had a feeling that eventually she would have to pick one of the two and leave the other. She loved both of them and she enjoyed their threesomes way too much to sacrifice it for a monogamous relationship and marriage. She also believed it was still way too early to discuss marriage. She asked, "Girls, isn't it a bit early still to be discussing marriage?"

This frustrated both Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine. Twinkleshine sighed, "Colgate, do you even love us or are you just claiming you do so that we can continue to have our fun?"

Lemon Hearts added, "Look, you know we love you but if you ask me the fact that you don't seem to want to discuss marriage makes me wonder about you. Do you love us or do you just love the sex?"

Colgate rolled her eyes and replied, "Look, we have been an item for just over a month. I simply think it is way too early to be discussing marriage." She looked them in the eyes and continued, "Besides, there are plenty of studies that have been done that have PROVEN that ponies who get married soon after they hook up are far more likely to get divorced than ponies that wait a while."

Lemon Hearts said, "That may be true but we have been part of one another's lives for an extremely long time. We have known one another since we were fillies and we have always been close...."

Colgate interrupted, "That is true BUT we were not romantically involved!" Colgate stopped to get her thoughts together better and continued, "Besides, if I was to marry one of you, what would happen to the other? Would one of you really want your heart broken like that when we can just live the way we do and nopony would suffer any heartache?"

Twinkleshine said, "I get where....."

Colgate interrupted, "Besides, it's not like we will ever have any foals so I don't get why marriage is so important. We can live together as a happy, loving family without the government sanctioned sheet of paper and I don't feel like getting pushed up into a higher tax bracket." She looked at Lemon Hearts and asked, "Lemon Hearts honey, would you want to get pushed into a higher tax bracket just so that the feds would recognize our relationship as 'official?'"

This caused both Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine to look at one another in shock. While they loved Colgate dearly, her comments and rants about the negative aspects of marriage caused them to realize that Colgate may put money ahead of them and that she is opposed to a monogamous relationship because she simply can't commit to one pony.

Lemon Hearts asked, "Colgate, what is the real reason that you are so opposed to marriage? Is it really about the higher tax bracket or is it because you simply don't want to commit to one pony?"

Colgate replied, "Look, I don't think you truly understand how much I love you. I don't want to break one of your hearts just because I have to choose one of you." She paused for a second and continued, "Look, how about we go and talk to the princess about this. Maybe I can get her to change her mind and give us an exception."

Their eyes brightened up when they heard this but Lemon Hearts still had her concerns. "Colgate" she asked, "but I thought you wanted to wait several months if not a year to approach her about this."

Colgate kissed her and replied, "Well I can tell how important this is to you two. Yes I think it is a bit early but just so we can get it out of the way, let's go see if maybe we can sway her."

This really lightened the mood. Her marefriends said, "Yay!" in unison and they headed out the door and towards the castle. While it still frustrated both of them that Colgate would not answer their question about being moved into a higher tax bracket with marriage, they were still happy that their marefriend was willing to talk to Celestia and try to persuade her to make an exception for them.