Two's a Crowd Three's a party!

The three lovers stepped off the and collectively breathed a sigh of relief as they realized they were home once more. Twilight stopped to savor the familiar scent of the countryside while Spike hauled their things and Pinkie bounced around more enthusiastically than Twilight had seen in a long time.

She watched the pink mare bounce all around her and Spike with a strange look in her eyes. Just then Twilight noticed Pinkie’s hoof twitch mid jump then her ear flip-flopped and her tail shook. Spike grumbled as she picked up their meager luggage, silently thankful that at least it wasn't Rarity’s fifty million pieces of carry on.

“Hey Twi you gonna give me a hand with this or-” Spike found her muzzle shut tightly by magic and Twilight leaned down shushed her. Though annoyed the dragon followed her hoof to a now deathly still pink mare whose face was scrunched up in thought.

“Think it's something about to fall on us?” Twilight asked as she released Spike’s mouth from her telekinetic grasp.

Spike snorted a tiny cloud of smoke at getting her mouth shut so forcefully but couldn't deny that she was curious too now that she looked at Pinkie. The mare in question’s face twisted and she rubbed her chin in thought.

“Could be a party emergency.”

“Nah, that's twitchy tail, wiggling ears then itchy flank.”

Spike cocked her head and eyed Twilight cautiously. “Did you memorize all her Pinkie senses?”

Twilight blushed a little. “Although it's not something I can study it's still fascinating. Did you know her Pinkie sense works in her sleep?”

Spike frowned though a part of her had to admit that it was rather interesting Spike was hungry and antsy to get back home after a long train ride, so she dismissed such curiosity and took hold of their bags with what meager energy she had left.

After all, they had spent most of the morning in bed together, cuddling and fucking in equal measure and only checked out ten minutes before they would have been forced too.

As such, they were forced to wait until the six o clock train to Ponyville came around and even then it took several hours of waiting, of which the two female ponies were forced to listen to Spike’s constant belly aching. Both literally through her complaining and also literally when it grumbled noisily.

“Let's just go home and eat already, you grab Pinkie I'll grab the other luggage.” Spike picked up the last of the luggage and quickly made her way through the throng of ponies to the edge of the platform, waiting for Twilight.

The alicorn herself frowned and glanced over at the still unmoving Pinkie. She poked the pink mare on the shoulder with an outstretched hoof. “Equestria to Pinkie, come in Pinkie.”

Pinkie shook herself from nose to tush and looked over at Twilight with a quizzical look, surprisingly ignoring the opportunity to answer with something funny despite Twilight’s excellent build up. “That's new.”

Twilight gently prodded Pinkie towards Spike. “What exactly is new?”

“New Pinkie sense, it wasn't a doozy or a party emergency but it kinda felt like both.” The party pony let herself be guided by the alicorn as she thought of what exactly just happened.

When they got to Spike her nostrils flared in annoyance. “Hurry up you two, I'm starving and left all my gems at the treehouse.”

“We are going Spike, we just had to stop because Pinkie had a new one.” Twilight explained.

“A new what?” Spike asked about to say something else before Pinkie suddenly leaped in the air and gasped.

“Do you know what this means Twilight?”

“A new possible stimulus for your Pinkie sense?”

The pink mare frowned mid bounced, gravity not acting on her for a split second before she landed back on the ground. “Yeah but I woulda used less sciency words. It's something new! I wonder what it could be?”

Twilight hummed as she thought. “You said it felt like a doozy and a party emergency but not really, what did you mean?”

“Well it started out like a party emergency, twitchy tail, and itchy flank but then of a sudden, it felt like a doozy but not a doozy!” the pink mare bounced beside Twilight as they both put on their thinking faces.

Spike just rolled her eyes and eyed the treehouse in the distance. “Come on girls the treehouse is coming up and I'm dying to get something to eat.”

Twilight snickered. “Yes yes Spike, you will get all the gems you want as soon as we are home but there was something I wanted to say first.”

“So long as it's not another three-hour discussion on Pinkie senses…” Spike said with a groan.

“No, it will only be two and a half hours long,” Twilight replied.

Spike groaned loudly, much to the amusement of the other two giggling mares. “Good one Twilight.” Pinkie said with a smile.

“Why thank you Pinkie,” Twilight responded graciously.

“Augh, you two are rubbing off on each other too much. What next, Twilight playing pranks?” Spike’s eyes shot open at the mere thought of her calculating lover taking up the art of pranking. “That was not a suggestion, please don't.”

Twilight stopped at the stoop of the library and rolled her eyes at Spike’s continued antics. “Don't worry about it Spike, I was trying to be serious.”

“Seriously cute,” Pinkie added with a beaming smile.

“-and seriously sexy too,” Spike added, elbowing Pinkie.

“Oooh, that too!” Pinkie agreed.

Twilight furiously began blushing but forced it down by coughing into her hoof. “Before we get off on another tangent i wanted to say something to you two.” Twilight took a breath and cleared her mind of unwanted distractions. Both of her lovers looked on in a mix of confusion and anticipation. “I just wanted to mention quickly how wonderful last night was. You two really came together-”

“And now puns! What's next?” Spike groaned in mock agony, a wide smile on her face.

Pinkie and Spike shared a giggle before Twilight glared at them for a second. “I’m being serious Spike! Last night was the best night I’ve had in a long time, sure it started off rocky but I have a feeling it was the start of something amazing.”

Both of her lover’s minds whirled with images of last night and what it meant for their new relationship. Spike was unsure and wrung her claws together in anxiety even though a big part of her thought this was an amazing turn of events. Twilight just beamed, watching her girlfriends as they both seemed to try and figure out what to say.

Pinkie grinned and suddenly planted a kiss on Spike’s cheek, words unneeded to express her feelings. “Hey, cut it out Pinkie we are in public you know,” Spike responded quickly blushing and pushing the bouncy mare away with little enthusiasm.

“I know, it's just all of this talk about last night’s got me thinking.” She said, then quickly eyeing up Twilight then before the alicorn could move quickly leaning in and planting a kiss on her lips.

Spike blushed a little harder, a small part of her enjoying watching Pinkie and Twilight kissed. However, a second later when she saw them lean into each other and the kiss deepened a flare of jealousy rose in her chest.

“Hey, I want a kiss too ya know.” Twilight and Pinkie didn't move, both opening one eye and looking at her, lips still locked together.

Pinkie looked at Twilight, Twilight looked at Pinkie, something unsaid passed between them and a second later they scooted a little closer together and broke the kiss enough to give Spike a hint as to what they wanted.

Not wasting a moment of time Spike quickly leaned in and kissed the other two girls at once. Reveling in the shared warmth as both of their far larger tongues snaked into her mouth, pinning her small nimble tongue down and invading her depths. A throaty moan escaped the dragoness’ lips as the two mares shared a sidelong glance.

Both of them leaned forward, kissing the dragoness deeper and filling the younger girl’s mouth with their tongues. The feeling of her mouth getting stuffed full of anything always made Spike squirm and this was no different. In fact, after they discovered this particular kissing technique last night Pinkie and Twilight had used it on their dragon girlfriend every chance they got. Both enjoying the cute moans and twitches the younger girl made as they invaded her mouth.

On and on the three girls went, kissing back and forth. Breaking for a moment while one needed air only to join in another three-way kiss. All the while oblivious to the few passing ponies who gawked at the brazen display in front of the very public library. Despite the lateness they were well illuminated under a nearby streetlight, a fact all three of them cared little about, and the pink one enjoys immensely.

Suddenly, just when Spike had worked up the nerve to snake her long serpentine tongue out and into Pinkie’s mouth, Pinkie jumped up, breaking the kiss. “It's back, what is… that?” She shouted, her voice falling when she noticed something in the window.

Spike groaned in disappointment. “Pinkie why did you? Oh, oh wow.”

Twilight frowned, not happy either about missing out on kissing her girlfriends, though part of her admitted that might be a good thing as her behemoth of a cock had begun to heat up and threatened to spill out of its sheath. “What are you two-?”

Spike grabbed Twilight’s head and twisted it towards the window where a now rather embarrassed pile of ponies stared at them awkwardly.

Pinkie jumped up and waved enthusiastically. “Hey girls!”

The collection of Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash all awkwardly waved back before Applejack bucked the other three off her back making them fall into a heap behind her, out of view from the window, before turning away from the window and drawing the blinds.

“Oh wow, how long were they watching?” Twilight asked, a little flustered but slightly aroused by the thought.

“Applejack was watching pretty much the whole time, then Rarity came along then the rest followed.” Pinkie replied as if it was nothing.

Spike blanched. “Why didn't you say something?”

A blush spread across the pink mare and a guilty look slipped onto her face. “It was really hot.”

Twilight rolled her eyes and stomped to get their attention. “Well, the jigs up girls let's go inside before Rarity explodes from potential gossip overload.”

Spike and Pinkie shared a giggle as Twilight opened the door with her magic and stepped inside, quickly followed by her two lovers. The room inside despite the big banner that said “Welcome home from vacation!” was devoid of excitement. Even worse most of its occupants either coughed and looked away or whistled innocently, avoiding eye contact.

Only Rarity seemed the least bit excited to see the three girls and stopped chewing on her hoof the moment they walked in. In the blink of an eye, Rarity was in front of Twilight, without the accompanying zap of magic, seemingly willing herself directly in front of the alicorn by sheer desire for the details.

“Is it true?!” Rarity cried, ecstatic.

Twilight, now quite used to suddenly having ponies leap into her face, eyes wide and screaming just rolled her own eyes and sighed. “Yes it's true, Pinkie, Spike and I are dating. We are officially an item. Well, as of yesterday anyway.” Twilight scratched her head. “Or this morning, I think.”

Spike shuffled out from behind Twilight and waved her hand at the gathering of ponies. Rarity’s impossibly wide eyes somehow got wider and leaped up to her back hooves and grabbed the dragoness by the shoulders.

“Annnnd?”

Spike sweated nervously and tried to avoid Rarity’s manic gaze. “And what?” She replied nervously.

“And I'm gonna be a girl soon.” Spike would have looked down and awkwardly shuffled her feet, however, Rarity suddenly hugged her with every ounce of strength the unicorn had.

“It's about damn time darling.” Rarity stated quite matter of factly.

The dragoness’ eyes returned back into their sockets as Rarity stopped squeezing the life out of her. Pinkie was quick to join the hug, squeezing them both tightly before asking. “What are we hugging about?”

Rarity blew a stray strand of her mane that had fallen in front of her face and rolled her eyes at the pink mare. “I am just showing my support for Spike’s decision she made.”

Pinkie just blew a raspberry at that. “Why, she's still Spike either way?”

Twilight rolled her eyes and gently picked up Rarity and Pinkie in her magic and set them apart, allowing the rest of the group to join the awkward circle. “Not everypony is as accepting as you silly filly,” Rarity added, booping Pinkie’s nose before being dropped in her spot by Twilight.

Despite Pinkie’s acceptance of her choice had always been obvious something about the way she said it made her want to pick her up and give the pink pony another squishy hug, so she did.

“Ooh more hugs.” The party pony wiggled out of Spike’s grasp and hopped up onto her back legs and hugged Spike again from a better angle. After a few seconds, she leaned in and whispered. “Why are we hugging again?”

Spike chuckled. “Never change, Pinkie.”

“Ahem.” Applejack coughed into her hoof, nervously holding her hat in her hooves. “I’m sorry about gawking at yall, that was mighty rude of us.”

Pinkie and Spike separated just in time to see Rainbow Dash nervously scratch her head and add. “Uh yeah, sorry. But in our defense you guys were out there for like forever.”

The three lovers in the room all blushed but Rarity was quick to dispel that. “Pish posh darling, they are allowed to do that as much as they want.” Especially with how hot that was. Rarity chose not to add, stealing a glance at Applejack who just looked away, trying to dismiss the blush forming on her cheeks.

“So a surprise party just for our short vacation. Thought that was only something Pinkie would have done.” Twilight said curiously, moving the conversation away from their brazen P.D. Just moments ago.

“Well, darling after I saw how strangely miserable you three seemed I had hoped a little party would help us figure out what exactly was bothering you.” Rarity smiled slyly and leaned closer. “However I think the whole town just saw what was bothering you.”

Spike and Twilight had the decency to look ashamed of themselves, Pinkie Pie slightly less so. Who continued to bounce on her hooves excitedly, flashing a huge proud grin.

Rarity smiled at their varied states of embarrassment and drank it all in before finishing her explanation. “So the plan had been to figure out what was bothering you and hopefully offer some help in that regard while helping you unwind if your short vacation didn't accomplish that. As for the actual set up that was all Fluttershy, I'm afraid i just contributed the idea and the cucumber sandwiches.”

Twilight eyed the inside of the library more thoroughly for the first time. Noting the streamers and party themed balloons, banners, full dessert table, even more decorations and even a small spinning crystal ball hanging in the center of the room.

Twilight whistled. “Wow Fluttershy, if you keep this up you might steal Pinkie’s job.”

Pinkie bounced over beside Fluttershy and lay a proud hoof across the timid pegasus’ withers. A tiny part of Pinkie was suddenly very jealous but images of Rainbow Dash’s birthday and a certain pony whose name rhymed with bleese blandich popped into her head. “Great job with the party Fluttershy.”

Pinkie’s enormous and genuine smile took some of the nervousness away from the timid pegasus and she stood a little taller at the praise. “Oh thank you Pinkie Pie but I had a little help from my animal friends and I just had to help you three out.” In a smaller more timid voice she added. “You are just so cute together.”

“Yeah yeah, now can we get to the party? Applejack said she was going to bring out some special cider and I bought my own special drink.” Rainbow dash pumped her wings and flew into the kitchen only to appear a second later holding a gold bottle easily large enough to have four or five liters of liquid in it.

Twilight gasped. “You didn't…”

Rainbow Dash just smirked and brushed some nonexistent dirt off her shoulder. “I totally did.”

Twilight levitated the bottle across the room, while AJ scratched her chin, clearly confused. “Ah, any reason that bottle is such a big deal Twi, other than the fancy bottle it doesn't look that good. Aint even a label or nothing on it.”

“Well, the gold leaf wrapper is quite nice…” Rarity added quite unhelpfully.

Spike gasped as well when the bottle came close and she shot Rainbow a huge smile. “I think I love you.”

“As cute as that big round butt of yours has got I ain't interested in making your threesome a foursome,” Rainbow replied quickly, eying up said butt much to Spike’s dismay.

“Awww but Dashie, parties are always better with more friends. Plus her butt is way nicer when it's not hidden behind any clothes.” The baker licked her lips and bumped her flank against Rainbow Dash’s who snickered at the thought.

“I’m a one mare kinda mare I'm afraid, although I wouldn't mind a quick roll in the hay…” Rainbow added much to Fluttershy’s apparent relief.

Rarity and Applejack shared a knowing smirk and were about to say something when Twilight had apparently finished analyzing the bottle and tugged the prismatic pegasus forward with her magic.

“How did you get this?” Twilight’s glare was firm and unmoving but something about the way she said it made Rainbow Dash think she was more curious than angry.

“Don't act so surprised Twilight, I can do sneaky you know.”

Twilight just rolled her eyes. “Yes but this is from Celestia’s personal wine cellar. I cannot even begin to tell you how many layers of security are in that room. She used to take me down there to practice trying to break the enchantments which I only managed after four years of attempts.”

Rainbow looked confused and looked from the alicorn to the bottle. “What, no way? There were just a guard, a couple lasers and a note asking that nopony take it. Easy peasy.”

Twilight just snorted and began laughing and rolling around on the ground. Rainbow looked to her friends and back to the furiously laughing alicorn below her. “I didn't think outsmarting one guard was that funny.”

Pinkie eyed her lover curiously and bumped Spike. “What's so funny about lasers? Something tells me they aren't the fun kind of lasers like the ones at those huge shows in manehatten.”

Spike shook her head. “I have no idea Pinkie.”

Twilight meanwhile had run out of breath and began wheezing as she tried to continue laughing. “That wasn't her wine cellar you silly goose.”

Rainbow Dash looked even more confused, scrunching up her muzzle as she cocked her head. “But there were all these bottles and it said royal cellar above the door.”

Twilight wiped a tear from her eye and took a deep breath before standing back up. “That was all an illusion she cast, the real celler is actually in the old Canterlot dungeons that she had refurbished to suit as her personal cellar. There is no way you got in there!”

Twilight looked at the bottle with a smile and whispered a small thanks to her mentor. Rainbow Dash meanwhile seemed unconvinced. “But those lasers were real and there was that big black dog guarding it and-” Quickly abandoning her plan to dole out tasty details one at a time in order to make the whole attempt seem more grandiose.

“-Celestia is a master prankster Rainbow Dash and I'm afraid you were her latest victim.” The pegasus stuttered for a second before Twilight turned the bottle so she could see the bottom. There stamped to the bottom was a tiny note that simply said.

“Congratulations, Spike, Twilight and Pinkie Pie on your relationship! -Princess Celestia.” Rarity stopped reading and paused. “That was short but nice. When did you say you ‘stole’ this?” Rarity added air quotes with her hooves when she said stole.

Rainbow slumped to the ground in defeat. “Last week.” She said weekly.

Twilight just smiled and Spike quickly joined her. “Well that was really nice of her, she didn't have to do that.” Spike reached out and gave the bottle a gentle shake. “Oooh, and it's even full!”

“But but, the guard and the lasers, and that huge dog and and…” Rainbow’s voice weak and confused.

Applejack patted the downtrodden pegasus on the back. “Aww shucks, R.D ain't no shame in getting pranked by the princess, considering she's got a few hundred years experience on ya.”

Fluttershy gave the dejected pegasus a weak smile. “And that was awful nice of her.”

“Yeah yeah.” Rainbow waved a hoof to shoo away the ponies trying to comfort her. “I’ll get her back somehow.”

Twilight just snorted in amusement. “Good luck with that. For now, though I think this was supposed to be a party!”

As if on cue Pinkie turned on the music while Twilight popped the cork, officially beginning their not relationship help party. Despite the party’s odd name and the awkward beginning, it was an amazing success. Easily the best and one of the only parties Fluttershy had ever thrown and possibly even one of the best Pinkie had ever been to. Though not much different from the other party’s the pink pony had thrown this one had something different her usual parties didn't. Some undetectable extra ingredient that turned an otherwise great night into a super spectacular one! Though the three lovers hardly acknowledged it they all had felt as though a hole had been filled, allowing them to truly enjoy themselves without worry or restraint for the first time in a very long time.