Beach Bum

Rainbow Dash collapsed on the sofa and let out a long sigh. She then picked up a pillow and put it over her face and let loose a scream into the fluffy object. She dropped the pillow as soon as she was done venting into it, and then sighed again. “I’m an idiot…” Dash lamented to no one in particular. “I could’ve just told him the truth: ‘Hey Spike, I want you to fuck me silly because I really like you and it’s the only way I can communicate it.’” She ran her hands through her thick rainbow-colored hair and closing her eyes in frustration. “Nope… I had to convince him I could get him a date with Rarity.”

There was a moment of silence before she repeated her original sentiment.

“I’m such an idiot...”

***

“What took you so long, Spike?” Twilight didn’t even look up from her book as she addressed him. “Where’d your shirt go?”

Spike looked down, immediately aware that he had indeed left his shirt in the other room. That was a big mistake. How was he supposed to explain all of this? “Uhh… well, Rainbow and I got… in… an argument.” Spike took a second to gather his thoughts and get a good hold on the lie he was about to tell. “I got mad at her, and she threw a soda at me. I didn’t want to come back here dripping wet, so I took a shower over there.” Spike knew it was weak, but he hoped Twilight wouldn’t look too deeply into it.

“Rainbow…” Twilight growled out as she shut her book. “I swear, she lets her temper get the best of her way too much.” The studious woman got up and walked over to Spike, placing her hands on his shoulders and looking him over closely. “She didn’t do anything else, right? She didn’t hurt you?”

“I wouldn’t say ‘hurt’.” Spike mumbled, then he winced as he caught his slip up. “I mean-” He started to correct the situation. “-not physically. Anyways. I just didn’t think she would ever get mad at me like that.” He tried to make his bluff extra-convincing by dropping his eyes to the ground.

She took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. “Do I need to go talk to her? I swear, Spike, I'm going over there to give her a piece of my mind right this instant.” Twilight took off towards the door. That wasn't good. He couldn't let her confront Rainbow for something she didn't actually do.

Spike put a hand on Twilight’s shoulder, stopping her from moving towards the door. “It’s fine, Twilight.” He smiled, attempting to placate Twilight’s ire further.

She seemed to take it, and she backed down, going back to the bed. Spike’s mind races for something else to talk about, anything other than him and Rainbow. “So, how was your day? Did you do anything interesting?” He took residence on the couch that he was to call his own for the next few days, stretching out lazily.

Twilight blinked, holding up the novel she had been occupied with. “Well, I read my book. It’s actually pretty good. It’s about sixteenth century-”

Spike rolled his eyes. “Twi, we’re on vacation. You read all of the time at home, we’re supposed to be doing stuff we don’t do at home.” He wanted to snatch that book out of Twilight’s hands and drag her out to do something. It was frustrating have to constantly show her how to have fun like abnormal human.

“Spike, I have to keep up on my studies.” Twilight tapped a backpack that was beside her on the bed. “If I fall behind, I might actually be on par with the everyone else instead of staying ahead.”

Spike knew that arguing with Twilight about studying was a lost cause, so he would have to change the subject in order to win. “Have you eaten today, Twi?” A beast-like growl that came from Twilight’s stomach, answering him perfectly. He swung his legs off of the couch and stood up. “C’mon, get dressed.” Spike grabbed some clothes out of his suitcase, putting on a light purple shirt. “We’re going to get something to eat and get you out of this hotel room.”

To Spike’s surprise, Twilight actually agreed, and she set her book down. A few minutes later and some more prodding, the two of them were dressed and ready to go. Just as Twilight grabbed her purse, the door to their hotel room opened and Fluttershy walked inside. She was dressed in a long sleeved yellow shirt, even though it was the middle of summer.

Typical Fluttershy, really.

“Oh… Hi, Twilight. Hi, Spike.” The pink-haired animal lover mumbled softly, moving her hair out of her face. “Are you two going out…?”

Spike’s ears twitched slightly. By the way she worded it, Fluttershy sounded like she was accusing them of going on a date.

Twilight craned her head to look into the hallway beyond Fluttershy. “Yeah, we’re going to get something to eat. Where are the others? I figured you would be with them.” She had a point, it wasn’t like Fluttershy to walk anywhere alone, especially at night.

“Oh, they’re coming. Pinkie Pie got distracted by a game down at the pier and the others decided to stay behind with her.” Fluttershy looked down, and a sadness swelled up in her eyes. “I didn’t mean to leave them, but I just didn’t like all of the noise.”

Twilight smiled at her friend, extending an inviting hand. “It’s okay, Fluttershy. You’re welcome to come along with us, you know.”

The nervous girl smiled back and gave a slight nod as Spike and Twilight moved passed her and onwards to the promise of food.

***

"Spiiiiike..." Rainbow moaned softly as her fingers drifted towards her crotch. "Mmm... Oh, Spike... That's nice..." Quickly after her fit of frustration, she had slipped back into a state of lust. Her mind wandered back to the moments when Spike was inside her, when they had shared more than just an embrace.

She slowly slipped her index and middle finger inside, rubbing around her wet folds. With her free hand, she massaged her breasts, squeezing them and pinching her hard nipples while letting out suppressed moans. "Yeah, baby... Bite me there... Yesssss… Harder, Spike..."

Driven by her sexual desire, Rainbow Dash drilled her fingers into her slit at a faster pace, reaching depths and levels of pleasure she had never achieved through her own fingers. Rainbow had to bite her lip to keep herself from screaming aloud and disturbing and neighbors. After several minutes of vigorous pleasure, she pulled her fingers out of her slit and observed them. Rainbow parted her fingers, watching the sticky cum stretch between them, and a sad smile formed along her lips. "Oh, Spike... I... I think I love you..."

Those three words…

Rainbow surprised herself when she moaned them aloud in her fantasy, but she didn't dare stop. She licked her fingers clean before sliding them back inside her slit. Rainbow Dash punished herself furiously in an attempt to recreate the feelings Spike gave her. She was so caught up in her own fantasy that she didn't notice the opening of the door. "Don't pull out this time... I want it inside..."

"You want 'what' inside, dear?"

Rainbow Dash let out a terrified shriek, and she quickly pulled her fingers from her slit the moment Rarity walked through the door. She bolted upright, attempting to cover herself with her arms.

"I didn't mean to startle- Oh... Oh, dear..." Rarity groaned as she noticed her roommate sitting on the sofa. "You... You're not wearing a shirt... or pants... or anything for that matter..."

Rainbow Dash regained her confidence and moved her arms, lying in a relaxed pose on the couch. She took the two fingers that had previously been inside of her and licked them clean. She was going to play this off as casually as possible. "Yeah? So?" She folding her arms back across her breasts. "We're practically naked all the time at the beach. Twilight told me that most standard bikinis expose ninety percent of a girl’s body.”

Rarity made a face suggesting that she might have more to say, but she pursed her lips and kept quiet. Rainbow arched an eyebrow, challenging the fashionista to argue with her. "Hmm... You may have a point. The top I wore today was quite revealing... I got a lot of looks from some handsome lifeguards by the pool.” She muttered else before setting her purse down. "But why sit on there with no clothes on? Leather couches are no good for sitting on in the nude, darling. You need to go velvet for it to be truly wonderful.”

Rainbow opened her mouth, tempted to ask how Rarity knew that, but decided to keep that question for later. Her cheeks turned red, and she let out a nervous chuckle. Rarity probably wouldn’t believe her if she just said ‘I was just chilling’ or something. It wasn’t like Rainbow wouldn’t do that, and she doubted she could sell it. Instead, she opted for the truth. "Uh... Before you walked in, I was kinda..."

Rarity's jaw dropped to the floor as it dawned on her what Rainbow was alluding to. "Rainbow Dash! That is disgusting! I sit there too, you know!" She turned her nose up at her naked friend, obviously fed up with Rainbow’s actions. “I cannot believe you right now!”

"It was a moment of weakness." Rainbow Dash fired back. "Don’t act all high and mighty, you do it too!” Rarity scoffed, but Rainbow pressed the attack. “I heard you last night, ‘Oh Fancy Pants, DARLING!’” Rainbow did a bad, nearly offensive, impersonation of Rarity.

Rarity crossed her arms, glaring sternly at her roommate. "Yes, well… At least I have the decency to make my sessions private, in my bed and away from prying eyes." She grabbed a robe from the closet and tossed it at Rainbow.

Rainbow Dash shrugged, as she stood up and slipped the robe on. "I like the open space..." She purposefully left the front open, just to make Rarity mad. "Anyway... Did you find what you were looking for?"

Rarity seemed to have completely forgotten why she was scolding Rainbow Dash, because her face broke into a huge grin as she reached for her purse. Rainbow was hoping that her barely covered nudity would get a rise out of Rarity, but since it didn’t she finally closed the robe. "I did... Look at this, Rainbow..." She revealed a small cream-colored bottle. "This stuff took ages to find, but it's the greatest body lotion on the entire Gulf Coast. We can try it on ourselves when we go back out to the sand tomorrow.”

Rainbow didn’t really care about fru fru lotions, but hey, if she could look better than Rarity on the beach, maybe Spike would... "Will it make me look sexier in my bikini?"

Spike! Rainbow remembered the whole reason she was supposed to talk to Rarity.

Rarity chuckled at the thought of the many opportunities to meet young men the lotion had to offer. "It will, actually. This lotion is supposed to make your skin glisten in the sun and make your curves look more definite, while protecting you from sunburn, of course."

In Rainbow’s mind, however, the intrusive thoughts of the spiky-haired young man popped up. *I'd love to try it on for Spike...* She just couldn’t help herself, the stud was just too pervasive of a thought. *Maybe I can ask him to... apply for me... Some places are just so hard to reach...* Rainbow Dash shook the dirty thoughts out of her head. *N-N-No... No... He wants her... I made him a promise... It's time I delivered...*

With a grim determination, Rainbow cleared her mind and focused on one of the hardest things she would ever have to do.

"We could meet a lot of strapping men with this lotion… What do you think, Rainbow?”

Rainbow Dash cleared her throat softly, catching Rarity's attention. "Strapping men… Yeah... About that... I know someone who would want to take you out with or without the lotion…" She couldn’t meet Rarity’s eyes, it was an impossible task. It was like she was digging the grave for any chance of Spike being hers.

Rarity looked intrigued as she joined her on the sofa. "Who might that be, darling?"

Rainbow let out a breath that she didn’t know she had been holding. She steeled her nerves and looked to her friend. *Sweet Celestia, this is hard!*

"Uh... You know him... He's kinda short, real lean, messy, kind of a slouch, green hair..." She held back the urge to go into more intimate details about Spike. The things she could use to describe Spike would certainly make Rarity think twice about taking him out on a date, if only because she would see that Rainbow liked him.

Rarity cocked her head. "Are… you talking about Spike?" She gasped as she came to realize the truth Rainbow was struggling to admit. "He... He wants to take me out on a... a date?"

Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow. Rarity's reaction certainly wasn't the response she had been expecting. Was Rarity really that oblivious? It was really obvious to everyone else that Spike liked her. For the first time, Rainbow Dash was really beginning to understand her little friend’s frustration. "Um... Yeah." That was it, the final nail in the coffin for her to have any chance with Spike. "Spike's been after you for years. He's just... never had the courage to tell you how he really feels..."

Rainbow was glad she was telling at least a modicum of truth, it relieved the burden a little. *Not like I'm any better… I've been too stupid to tell him how I really feel…*

Rarity sighed, tapping her chin. "Hmm... He certainly has grown into quite the handsome young man, hasn't he? I'd be lying if I said I haven't noticed his physical maturity."

Rainbow wanted to grab a pillow and scream again. Why was this so hard?! *Oh yeah... He's grown up in more ways than one...*

"So... Does that mean you'll... go out with him?" Rainbow desperately wanted Rarity to say ‘no’. She wanted to hand Spike the rejection and then swoop in with acceptance. Rainbow needed for that to happen.

Rarity hesitated for a moment, but she nodded her head. It shattered the hopes that Rainbow had hedged all of her bets on. Instead of despairing, Rainbow put on a false smile. "Yes... I think I will. I'd like to go on a date with Spike.”

Rainbow Dash scanned Rarity’s face, searching for any sign that she might reconsider her choice. "Well... What if... What if Spike expects a little more after your date? Like... What if he wants to..." It was a long shot, but maybe if Rarity thought Spike would expect sex, that would scare her away. Intimacy on the first date would scare most women away.

Rarity smiled dreamily as she thought of the evening she and Spike would share. "Mmm... Like I said before, darling, he's turned into quite the handsome young man. I think I'd enjoy a more... exciting evening with him if he proposed it.” Rainbow Dash clenched her fists, and her blood began to boil. The whole situation was so infuriating! "That is only if he should make the first move, of course." Rarity pursed her lips, not noticing Rainbow Dash's rising anger. "I'd never do anything to pressure Spike. He's a real sweetie, that Spike."

Rainbow Dash let out a sigh and relaxed her hands. It was nothing but a superficial gesture, she was still pissed beyond all belief below the surface. This had all stemmed from the lie she had told Spike, that she was doing this to just ‘blow off steam.’ Why didn’t she just tell him the truth? "Yeah... He's a great kid..." She let out a lengthy sigh before standing up from the couch. "I'm... going to get some clothes on. You wanna text Spike to let him know you’re good for the date?” Rainbow walked over to her suitcase, fishing out a pair of shorts and a tank top.

Rarity frowned at her now melancholic friend. "You sound upset, dear... Is something wrong?"

Rainbow Dash shook her head as she walked past Rarity and into their bathroom. As she was about to shut the door, she looked Rarity dead in the eyes and for the first time today, she told the truth.

"No..." She spoke so softly. "Nothing's wrong... I'm just... tired...”

***

Spike was carefully looking over the menu of the seaside shack that served as a local seafood restaurant. Currently, he was torn between crab legs or a serving of fried catfish. Both sounded so delicious that he just couldn’t decide.

*Bzz Bzz*

He looked to his phone, which he had set on the table. The screen flashed to life with an alert that he had a new message. He picked the device up, unlocked it and went to his messages. Sitting pretty in his inbox was a message from Rarity.

His heart nearly stopped.

Twilight sat her menu down and checked her own phone to make sure a similar message had not been sent her way. “Who is it, Spike? Is it Applejack?” She frowned at her screen, signalling that she had indeed not received the same message.

“It… It's just Pinkie...” Spike lied, reading over the message again and again to make sure he wasn’t seeing things. “Just a picture of a thing she won at the pier.” He had not been seeing things! Rarity had said ‘yes’ to the date! Man, next time he saw Rainbow Dash he owed her the biggest hug he could manage.

Twilight leaned forward, resting her arms on the table. “I’m glad they seemed to be having fun at the pier. Are you having fun, Spike? I know it’s not exactly an ideal situation being stuck out here with us girls for a whole week…”

Spike shrugged. “It’s a nice change of pace.” He knew that he had been a bit stubborn when the vacation had first been proposed to him, but all in all he was glad he came. It was relaxing and exciting all at once. He’d even been promised a date with Rarity. Plus the whole situation with Rainbow had really boosted his resolve. “I just wish you would have a bit more fun, Twilight. This is your vacation too, you know.”

Twilight sighed in resignation. “You’re right. How about tomorrow I go down to the beach with you and the girls?”

Spike was rather fond of that idea. In his opinion, Twilight didn’t cut loose enough. “No books.” He looked her dead in the eye. “No studying, either.” He wanted her to have a genuinely good time without any of her usual trappings. He wanted her to just have fun for once.

On the other side of the table, Fluttershy chuckled quietly at the conversation bouncing back and forth between them.

Twilight held her hands up. “Alright... Alright... No books, and no studying. Just Me, you, our friends, and the beach.”

That sounded really nice to Spike.

“So…” Twilight trailed off for a second. “Do you think things between you and Rainbow Dash are going to be alright?”

That was a complicated question. Spike had a lot of conflicting emotions about Rainbow at the moment. “Uh...” On one hand, she had gotten him a date with Rarity in exchange for sex. Both of those were good things, but there was an underlying feeling that Rainbow didn’t want that, that she was holding back something. “I don’t know…”

Spike glanced at the text message again. He wanted to respond and ask Rarity where they could go for dinner tomorrow, but there was something in the back of his mind that caused a lot of hesitation. He knew it was probably just an attachment to Dash because she was his first sexual partner, but he couldn’t help himself.

Twilight reached out and put her hand over Spike’s. “I’m sure she didn’t mean it, Spike. I’m certain it’s just Rainbow being… Rainbow. She’s wild and unpredictable. You know you can’t take her too seriously.”

That’s exactly what he was afraid of, that it meant nothing and it was just Rainbow Dash being herself. “You’re right.” Spike let his shoulders slump. He shot a text back to Rarity, confirming a place and time for their date.

“Rainbow didn’t mean it…”

***Up Next: Mutual Feelings***