The life and times of Lafayette Ryder

“Damn.”

I’m in Twilights bed, where I’ve spent the vast majority of the last two weeks, with Twilight curled up against my side, asleep and snoring lightly. Nopony has bothered us since the first night of cider season, in fact I haven’t seen anypony since the either, not that I’ve been out of the library, or bedroom, much lately.

Twilights readjusts herself again. I look at her and smile as she fidgets a bit and nuzzles my chest. God I love that feeling, her soft fur on my thick skin, it’s like silk rubbing against leather. Though she’s sound asleep, worn out from previous ‘activities’, I pet her mane and run my hands across her back, I just can’t get over how soft and smooth she is.

I think back to the three mares and the stallion id been with and how they had felt. It’s strange, though I guess it makes sense in this world, that their skin seems to mimic their attitude or abilities. Pinkie’s fur felt like angel food cake; soft and spongy, Dash felt like clouds, light and fluffy (I know how they feel, I’ve been in one.), Fluttershy felt like a pillow full of down, and Big Mac felt like the ground, hard and solid, yet supporting and flexible, and Twilight… Twilight takes the cake, she feels like brand new silk linens, cool and airy, but also warm and thick.

I scratch her ear and she moans softly in her sleep. Lizzie would do the same thing when I tickled her shoulder. Lizzie… a few tears trickle down my face as I look at Twilight, I’ve never felt weird about my open relationship before, never regretted sleeping around or felt guilty because I only ever gave my body away to strangers. Never my heart.

I’m no longer sure I can say that truthfully anymore.

‘I’m sorry Lizzie, but I’m gone now. I can’t come back, I can’t be there to love you, will you hate me if I start to love someone else? Till death do us part, well I’m dead and gone, so are we over? Is everything I ever knew over?’ Twilight burrows under the covers and closer to me as more of my tears fall. ‘Or are we in the ultimate open relationship, sleeping with and even loving others with only the knowledge that one day we will meet again somewhere heavenly to love each other once more, to love each other and others.?’ I close my eyes and cuddle with Twilight, vibrations form in the air as I hum a tune from my childhood. I start to sing the words that go along with the melody.

“I leave you tonight,

And wonder far away,

With nothing, save a kiss,

And the hope of returning someday.

I travel long and far,

Seeking the truth,

I spend all my time,

As you lose your youth.

For years I wonder aimlessly,

Plains, deserts, and oceans I cross,

Death and danger I face,

While you stay home and mourn your loss.

Winning battles, starting wars,

An eye, and ear, an arm, a leg,

Lost in the field,

To God you pray, to God you beg.

Years my journey consumes,

A dozen or more,

Before I return, old and decrepit,

To your door.

What I find when I knock,

Is the child of my lover,

And not I but another.

I weep, I moan,

But away I flee,

Sure that you no longer,

Want to love me.

I run then walk,

Then stumble and fall,

I shout for help,

But no one heeds my call.

I’m bleeding, I’m broken,

And angels descend from above,

Just before I pass you show,

And prove your love.

I look down now,

Watching from the stars in the sky,

And wish you well,

For you’re the apple of my eye.”

“That was beautiful.”

I look at Twilight in surprise. “I thought you were asleep.”

“I was your voice woke me up.”

“Sorry.”

“Don’t be, I loved hearing you sing, in fact do you think you could sing it for me again?”

I wrap her in a hug and whisper into her ear. “I’ll sing it again, just for you.” twilight levitates a piece of parchment and a quill over and uses her magic to record my words as I sing to her. When I finish singing I place a kiss just under her ear, then on her cheek, and then on her lips.

“I’ve only ever sung that to one other person.”

“Thank you for picking me to sing it to next.” She smiles and returns my kiss with more force than I had expected.

“Twi?” I mumble through the now feverish kiss.

“Mmmhmm.” She replies using simple sounds due to her tongue being busy. I break the kiss and hold her head in my hands.

“Why the sudden interest in me? I knew you liked me but then you started like liking me out of the blue. I’m not complaining but I want to know why. Was my appeal just too much to ignore or what?”

Twilight giggles and turns redder than Mac. I sit against the headboard of her bed and pull her onto my lap. My left hand rests on her hoof and my right wonders around her back before settling on her cutie mark.

“So?”

“Well, it’s kind of like what you said, but before I tell you anymore you need to understand this; I liked you since you came here, I just didn’t do anything before because I was afraid you’d reject me or that pony human relationships would be frowned on or that something terrible would happen like you getting taken away from me. The only reason I acted on my attraction to you when I did was because…” Twilight buries her head into my chest and lets out a choked sob.

“Because?”

“Because I was in heat, I have been for the last two weeks and will be for another few days.” She looks up at me, tears streaming down her face. “Please don’t be mad at me, please don’t leave me. Please.”

I kiss her on the lips again and hug her tightly.

“I’m not mad at all Twilight, in fact I’m very happy that you did what you did when you did it. And I’m not going to leave you Twilight; I’m never going to leave you, that is if you’ll still have me after you’re out of heat.”

“Yes, yes I’d love to have you as my...colt friend?”

“How about ‘boyfriend’?”

“Boyfriend, I like the sound of that.” She nuzzles my neck and starts giving me hickies.

“I do have a question though, when you over with heat will you be done… you know… until next spring or whenever?”

“Nope, ponies are horny all year; it’s just that in spring we go into reproductive overdrive.”

“OK, that’s good. I wouldn’t have really cared otherwise but I think my balls would permanently turn blue if I only could get laid one month every year.” Twilight laughs and goes back to kissing my body; she’s at my chest now.

“You said that you’ll be in heat for a few more days, right?”

“Yeah, three or four, why do you ask?” She’s lowered herself to my stomach.

“No reason, let’s just make those few days count.” I share a smile with Twilight for just a moment; soon her mouth is a bit too busy to continue smiling.

Today’s gonna be a good day, and so is tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that.