Author's Note

This chapter is a direct sequel to Sibling Ribaldry II.

There are those among you who are inclined to analyze and dissect the events of these two chapters from a legal perspective, apparently as dictated by the laws of the United States, Canada, or other countries that exist in the real world--a setting which does not reflect the entirely fictional setting presented herein.

I am going to have to ask that you refrain from such analysis and discussion in the comments section of this story. To paraphrase the MST3K mantra: "It's just a fanfic, you should really just relax." I'm hopeful that you will respect my wishes and not veer off into unproductive and stressful avenues of discourse.

To everyone else: Apologies for the unpleasantness. Please enjoy the chapter.

Just Girls Talking About Porn II

Fluttershy waited anxiously outside the art club room after school, checking the time on her phone in between rounds of match-threes and idle browsing. After what felt like forever, the art club members began drifting out of their meeting in ones and twos; Fluttershy took note of who was leaving as they filed out. After most of the club left, she bit her lip, stood, and stepped inside. Watermelody was just putting her things away. Steeling herself, Fluttershy walked over to her. "Umm, Watermelody?"

Watermelody looked up, startled. She smiled. "Fluttershy! What's up?"

"We...we need to talk," Fluttershy said quietly. Looking at the two other people still in the room, she leaned in and whispered. "In private."

Watermelody blinked, pursing her lips. "Huh? What's—" Her eyes widened, her face going pale. "About—?" she said hesitantly.

Fluttershy nodded, allowing herself a mild frown.

"Oh." Watermelody swallowed and looked around. "Um. Yeah. C'mon, I know a place nobody will bother us."

A few minutes later found them outside at the rear of the school building, in the shaded side. A line of stone benches sat under some trees; Fluttershy recognized the spot, she'd eaten lunch there with her friends once or twice, and had even had a class there once when the air conditioning was broken and the classroom was too hot to bear. This late in the day, nobody was there and it was quiet. Watermelody sat down on a bench, fidgeting nervously; Fluttershy sat down beside her.

For a long moment, neither spoke. Then, Fluttershy said, "So. I saw some...interesting pictures. That apparently you drew." She glanced aside at Watermelody, her eyes half-lidded. "Of certain girls who go to CHS."

Watermelody grimaced, unable to meet Fluttershy's gaze. "Yeah," she said. "Um. I..." She bowed her head. "How'd you find out?"

Fluttershy frowned. "That's all you have to say? Really?" She let that hang in the air for a moment, then sighed. "You don't really think my dipshit brother can keep something like that secret without me finding out, do you? I'm honestly surprised it even took this long."

Watermelody blew on her bangs. "It figures."

"Which leads to my first question," Fluttershy said. "You can see how sending my brother porn you draw of me is...creepy and gross and wrong, right?"

Watermelody grimaced. "Yeah," she said.

"So why?"

Watermelody sighed. "Because it was nice to have somebody to share my art with who wouldn't say anything," she said. "I mean, I can't really show it to anyone, obviously."

"Except, apparently, my pervert of a brother."

Watermelody laughed ruefully. "He found out by accident," she said. "The flash drive I keep all that stuff on fell out of my bag. He just happened to be the one to pick it up. I...don't exactly label my flash drives, at least not that one, so he had to look at the contents to try to figure out who dropped it."

"Oh." Fluttershy frowned. "He didn't blackmail you, did he?"

"No, not at all!" Watermelody said. "He just told me he made a copy for himself, and asked if I'd mind sending him anything else I draw because he thinks it's really hot. And, well..." Watermelody shrugged. "Like I said, it's nice to have somebody to show it to."

Fluttershy's brow furrowed. "I guess that makes sense, but...why are you drawing stuff like that of people you know?"

Watermelody bowed her head sheepishly. "I like drawing pretty girls," she said. At Fluttershy's reaction, she hastily added, "I'm not gay or anything like that, I just...like drawing pretty girls. And, well...drawing sexy girls. And drawing pretty, sexy girls...in really sexy ways."

"There's sexy and then there's porn," Fluttershy said, eyes half-lidded.

"Yeah, well..." Watermelody shrugged. "It didn't start out that way. It started with me doing a portrait of Sunset Shimmer, actually. I wanted to do a piece that was titillating but not overtly erotic, and Sunset agreed to model for it. I...really, really liked the way it turned out.

"So then I got to thinking, what if I did some nudes? But getting a model to do nudes is a lot harder." Watermelody played with her skirt. "At first, I tried being my own model. Took pictures of myself naked, tried drawing it, but..." She frowned. "It just wasn't working for me."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not pretty or sexy," Watermelody said. "I look at a picture of myself naked and I just think about how badly I need to shave my legs or how I've put on weight from one too many treats at Sugarcube Corner." She shook her head. "But I didn't want to just give up on it—I couldn't. But I didn't want to go around asking girls at random to pose nude for me.

"And then it hit me. I could use my own nudes as a posing model, then draw, well...other girls. Filling in details using my imagination, you know—take a picture of you in a party dress or Sunset at the beach to get the body shape and proportions right, sketch the pose, that sort of thing." She looked up at Fluttershy. "That way, I could draw nudes all day long using all sorts of different models."

"I guess that makes sense, sort of," Fluttershy said. "And...you use me and my friends for that because...?"

"Because you're the prettiest, sexiest girls at CHS?"

"Oh." Fluttershy blushed. "Um. Thanks, I guess?" She coughed. "Alright, I can understand an artist wanting to draw nudes, and even how you ended up...umm, 'inspiring' your work the way you did. But how does that explain the porn?"

Watermelody's face turned red. "Ah, yeah. Well..." She ducked her head. "You remember Clyde, right? That really huge senior, really accident-prone?"

"I remember seeing him around, yeah. He graduated last year, right?"

"That's right. Well, it turns out he was Ditzy Doo's boyfriend. Might still be, I'm not sure." Watermelody coughed. "Anyway, I...accidentally walked in on them in the nurse's office one day."

"Walked in o—" Fluttershy's eyes widened, her face heating up. "You mean having...sex?"

"Yeah." Watermelody wrung her hands. "S-so...I went home and I couldn't stop thinking about that, so I drew it the best I could from memory, and it was terrible, but it, well...made me want to draw more. Nudes weren't enough anymore. So I, umm...branched out. I still used myself as a model for whatever I could, but then I started using actual porn to do my basic sketches. Then, well..."

"You started drawing me and my friends in those poses," Fluttershy finished, nodding and biting her lip.

"Yeah." Watermelody looked down at her lap.

Fluttershy sighed. "Couldn't you just do, I dunno, manga characters or something? Video game characters? You know, the kind of stuff people usually draw that kind of art of?"

Watermelody grimaced. "I tried that a couple of times," she said. "It just never feels right. Or more, it feels lifeless. It's like, I can't draw really good art unless I know the subject."

"Uh-huh." Fluttershy picked at her skirt. "It's just...you understand how wrong this is, right?"

Watermelody looked away. "Yeah," she said softly. "I don't blame you if you hate me forever, or if you go to Principal Celestia with this, or..."

Fluttershy shook her head. "I'm pretty peeved, but I think on some level I'm also a little bit flattered? I'm just also really weirded out that you're sharing this art of yours with my brother of all people." She frowned. "I mean, you're sharing porn you drew of me with my brother. That's not cool. That...that has to stop, okay?"

Watermelody nodded mutely.

"Actually, sharing anything you draw with Zephyr Breeze has to stop. For good."

"Yeah, I know."

"Okay, that's the first problem taken care of. Now, I think you need to talk to the rest of my friends about all this. They need to know."

Watermelody paled. "Oh crap..."

* * * * *

Watermelody watched nervously as Fluttershy's friends looked through the portfolio of erotic and pornographic art she'd drawn of them. Rarity and Twilight Sparkle both looked scandalized, Sunset Shimmer looked vaguely irritated, Rainbow Dash seemed unable to decide whether to be angry, embarrassed, or aroused, Pinkie Pie was calmly munching popcorn as she browsed, and Applejack was completely stonefaced.

"Goodness," Rarity said, sitting back and fanning herself. "Is it rather warm in here?"

"You should draw porn for a living," Pinkie Pie said. "Uhh...just maybe not of us or anybody else you know for real, maybe?"

"Just whut'n tarnation makes you think this kinda shit's any kind of okay?" Applejack asked.

"How many people have seen this?" Sunset Shimmer asked.

Watermelody bowed her head. "Other than you girls just now and Fluttershy? Just me and, well...Zephyr Breeze."

"Oh HELL NO," Rainbow thundered. "Seriously?"

"It was an accident! At first." Watermelody explained everything to the girls as she had to Fluttershy. When she fell silent at length, the girls looked at one another, frowning thoughtfully. "I...I never meant any harm, honest," she added. "It was just art, I mean..."

Sunset Shimmer sighed. "To be honest? We barely even know you that well, really, so it's not that any of us feel betrayed so much as, well...weirded out."

"Majorly weirded out," Twilight added.

"And the whole Zephyr Breeze seeing this thing doesn't really help, because what's to stop him from sharing it with other people?"

"Oh, I've taken care of that," Fluttershy said determinedly. "There isn't a single copy of any of this stuff left anywhere he can access it, and he swears on pain of emasculation he didn't share any of it."

"Well that's a relief," Rainbow Dash said.

Sunset looked at the others. "I think...if Watermelody agrees to stop drawing stuff like this of us without our permission, we could maybe let this go. I mean, there isn't any real harm done here."

"No harm?" Applejack asked incredulously.

"Okay, maybe that was a bad way to put it, but..." Sunset bit her lip. "If we make a big deal of this, it'll do more harm than good. Plus, then everybody would find out about it, and would that really be a better idea than just forgetting about it and letting it go?" She shrugged. "Besides, it's kind of flattering in a weird way. I mean, I'm not that bothered by it myself."

"I'm...honestly not that bothered by it either," Fluttershy said. "Not anymore, I mean. It was more the fact that my brother was jerking off to it that bothered me. The art itself, I, umm...maybe don't mind so much except I agree she needs to stop drawing it?"

Watermelody sighed. "Yeah," she said. "I guess I'll give drawing manga characters a try again."

"Hey, at least that you could make some money off of," Sunset pointed out.

"That's...a good point," Watermelody said, pursing her lips.

"So...we're just lettin' this go?" Applejack asked.

"It's for the best," Sunset said. "Girls?"

"Yeah, I agree," Rainbow said. "I mean, obviously I gotta kick Zeph's ass over this, but I can let it slide. Uhh...I'm keepin' the porn, though. For...reasons."

"I'm not even really bothered by it," Pinkie said with a shrug.

"Honestly? Being told I'm one of the pretty and sexy girls here is kind of a huge self-esteem boost, so I'm willing to take this one as a win," Twilight said.

"I...would rather let this incident be quietly forgotten without anyone else ever hearing of it," Rarity said.

Applejack sighed. "Yeah, y'all are right. But you're on thin ice, missy."

Watermelody deflated. "Thank you," she said. "And..." She wrung her hands. "I'm not gonna say I'm sorry, but if...if I can do anything to make this up to you girls..."

Fluttershy laid a hand on Watermelody's arm. "Just stop being so hard on yourself," she said. "This all started because you have low self-esteem, right? You're just as pretty as any of us. Don't sell yourself short."

The girls scattered to go to their various part-time jobs or other activities, leaving Watermelody alone with her thoughts. Absently, she pulled out her phone and went through the pictures of herself naked. She bit her lip. She opened up her messages and sent a text.

Hey. Still interested in my art? I have a new model & she's 100% on board, total consent, anything goes.

It only took a few seconds for the reply.

Oh god yes. Everything you draw is so smoking hot! I'm already in withdrawal, gurl!

Her pulse quickening, Watermelody hurried off for home to plan her next work.