Vying for Her Love

Planning for their Discussion

While Colgate was up in her room screaming and kicking holes in the wall, her two marefriends were sitting down in the living room doing some soul searching and decided they had to discuss their future. The longer they heard Colgate up there screaming in rage, they realized that perhaps the time had come to either make her choose one of them or to leave her entirely.

Lemon Hearts asked, "Twinkleshine, I think we need to talk."

Twinkleshine replied, "I agree." She paused for a minute as Colgate's tirade continued to get louder and more profanity laced. She continued, "I take it you want to talk about our future involving her?"

Lemon Hearts said, "Yes, I do. I know both of us love Colgate but something needs to be done. I don't know about you but I don't want us to just live together as three lovers forever, I want to be married."

Twinkleshine replied, "I want the same. Like I have said before, it has always been a dream of mine ever since i was a filly to have a strong willed mare come sweep me off my hooves, marry me and live happily ever after with her."

At first Lemon Hearts had a disgusted look on her face. While she was a romantic as well, she thought Twinkleshine was too much of one, that she wanted nothing short of a fairy tale life. It was then though that she realized that it was her innocence that attracted her to her in the first place. Her look quickly changed to a smile and she said, "I know honey. I have the same desires that you do and I think that we need to approach Colgate about this."

Twinkleshine added, "We need to make her choose. Since she can't marry both of us, she will have to pick one or the other and if she doesn't like it, perhaps she shouldn't have either one of us."

Lemon Hearts was shocked by Twinkleshine's statement. For so long she would have been a bit more soft in what she said but this time she spoke with more confidence, with more determination. Lemon Hearts grabbed her, kissed her and replied, "Wow, this is a whole new side of you Twinkleshine! I've never seen you speak with determination like that before."

Twinkleshine said, "Well, this is a situation that I can't be soft in, neither one of us can be soft in. We have to let Colgate know how we feel."

Lemon Hearts asked, "When do you think we should talk to her about this?"

Twinkleshine replied, "Well not now, that's for sure. Let's let her cool off for a while. I think if we try talking to her now, she would likely go into an even worse rage and I don't want that."

Lemon Hearts agreed with her on this one. They decided to go to their room and do what they had done for years, even before they knew Colgate to unwind. They figured that Colgate would just go and watch news after she calmed down rather than wanting to spend time with them.

Decision Time for Colgate

A couple hours passed and Colgate had finally calmed down enough that she wasn't screaming. She headed downstairs to the living room and flipped on the TV to the news. Despite it being a rather slow news day, Colgate still quickly became absorbed by it. She focused on it so much that she didn't even notice her marefriends come down the stairs and plop down on the couch with her. After a minute of not even being noticed, Twinkleshine nibbled some on Colgate's ear, quickly drawing her attention away from the news. Colgate began to giggle but that would not last for long as her marefriends had serious issues to discuss with her.

Twinkleshine said, "Colgate, Lemon Hearts and I have some very important issues to discuss with you."

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

Lemon Hearts replied, "Well first, we are very worried about you and these tirades you go on sometimes. We are worried that one day you will either be a threat to one of us, one of your patients or yourself."

This annoyed Colgate a bit that they would think she would ever harm anypony. She said, "Look you two, I'm not going to hurt anypony, especially you two. You should know that."

Twinkleshine began to cry a bit, "I know Colgate but when you go into rages like you did earlier today you might lose control of yourself. You would do things that you wouldn't mean to do."

Colgate stood up and yelled, "Look, I get mad, it is part of me AND I would not harm you. I would never get so mad that you two would be in danger. I would never hurt anypony that I love."

Lemon Hearts raised her voice and continued, "Oh, and speaking of love, Twinkleshine and i have been talking about our love for you and our future."

Colgate did not like the sounds of this but she realized that perhaps she needed to calm down. She took a deep breath and asked, "Oh, and what is it you have been discussing?"

Twinkleshine replied, "Well Lemon Hearts and I have been discussing things. As you know, it is in both our desires to eventually be married but because of Celestia's ban on plural marriages we can't do that unless one of us is left out." She got a more determined look on her face and continued, "Colgate dear, you are going to have to pick one of us. You can't have both of us."

Lemon Hearts added, "I know you don't want to break anypony's heart but in this case you are going to have to."

This caused Colgate to get an idea, one that she thought the two would love. She suggested, "I have an idea. How about I marry one of you two but the other one could still live with us and we could live like we do now! We would still have our love for one another and we could still have our sexy nights! It would just be a matter of one of you two not being bound to me by a government sanctioned piece of paper."

While Colgate thought this would make the two happy, it did the exact opposite, it enraged them. Twinkleshine yelled, "Oh, so you will marry one of us but the other will be sloppy seconds that you could discard without any repercussions? Look, I want a real marriage. I want to live like other married couples do and it seems like all you want is what we have now."

Lemon Hearts added, "And it seems like all you care about is the sex. Oh yes, we'll still have our sexy nights!" She began to scream, "You know what, it wouldn't be the same because we would always know that you were bonded with one of us in a way that you are not the other."

Together they screamed, "You must pick one of us!"

Colgate had never had her marefriends yell at her like that before. Their yells were so loud and full of anger that for the first time in her life she shied back. She sat there in silence until Twinkleshine screamed, "YOU MUST PICK ONE OF US!"

Lemon Hearts added, "WE WANT TO KNOW, NOW!"

Colgate began to sob, "I can't decide, I can't decide! I love both of you and having both of you as part of my life has made me happier that I ever imagined. I can't imagine life with only one of you. Please reconsider what I suggested earlier, I know we could all be happy living like that."

Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine looked at one another and realized that the life they desired so much could never be accomplished with Colgate. They knew that Colgate had no desire for a monogamous relationship and believed that they could do better, that perhaps they should set off on their own and marry each other. In a calm voice Twinkleshine said, "Well Colgate, perhaps it is time that we go our separate ways."

Lemon Hearts added, "It is obvious that you don't want a monogamous relationship and from what you have said earlier that the threesomes have a lot to do with it. We are sorry but we want a real marriage and we can only find that in each other."

Colgate snapped, "What? You don't seriously mean that do you?"

Twinkleshine replied, "Yes, we do. We love each other and the only way we can be married is if we marry each other since you are far too selfish to give monogamy a chance."

This caused Colgate to blow her stack. She yelled, "Fine! You two have 72 hours to find a place of your own, pack your crap and get out of MY HOUSE! I'm going to the office to reschedule this week's appointments and calm down." She calmed down and continued, "Call me when you are done moving out and don't even try taking something of mine. I know exactly what is mine and I will notice if it is missing." She began to yell again and finished, "And you don't even want to know what the hay will happen if something of mine is missing."

Moving Forward

Colgate stormed out the door, slamming it behind her and left a devastated but not surprised Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine behind. The two embraced one another and began to sob. They knew that the only money they would have would be what Lemon Hearts earns working at the castle but it would be enough to get a small but decent place. Twinkleshine looked into Lemon Hearts' eyes and sobbed, "Maybe this is for the best. Maybe this was supposed to happen."

Lemon Hearts sobbed, "I agree honey." They began to head upstairs and she continued, "Well let's pack our stuff and get out of here." She looked around the comfortable house and continued, "I just want to get out of here soon. While I have many good memories here, all I will be able to remember is what happened today."

Twinkleshine replied, "I agree sweetie but we have to find a place to live before we can just move everything out."

Lemon Hearts sighed, "Yeah you're right and I don't think we will even be able to talk to anypony until tomorrow about renting a place. I hope we won't have to live out on the streets until we find a place."

Twinkleshine replied, "She gave us 72 hours to get out. I'm sure we'll get something figured out by then."

While they began to make phone calls regarding places to rent, Colgate was in her office calling ponies to reschedule and trying to relax. While most ponies in her situation would sit back and realize that maybe what they did was wrong, this was not the case with Colgate. She placed all the blame on Celestia for her relationships going down the toilet. She mumbled, "Damn that Celestia, this is all her fault!" She then got a sneaky grin on her face and continued, "It looks like next time somepony sees me, she's going to pay dearly!"

It was 48 hours later when Colgate got the call from her ex-marefriends that they had found a place and moved out. When Colgate got home to that empty big house of her's, the sadness hit her. It was at this moment that she realized that she should have been more flexible, that maybe she should have chose one of them and showed her love for the other by buying her a house.

She went up to her room and collapsed on her huge bed and began to cry. All those memories of their fun and loving nights came rushing back to her. She realized that she had blown it and that she would likely never have anything like that again. It bothered her so much that she took the huge bed down and set up her smaller bed that she used to sleep on. Eventually Colgate would get over things and life would return to a mostly normal state but she knew that she would never have anything special like what she had with Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine again.

The End