Sweetie Belle rested her head on her husbands shoulder, half awake as the train lethargically made it's way to Baltimare. The two of them had worked for months to go on this small vacation to Horseshoe Bay. She couldn't wait to have the sea breeze blowing against her face, and to smell the one of a kind smell of salty water. She ran her hoof up and down her stomach, with a whimsical smile on her face.
"Are you okay Sweetie?" Button nuzzled his wife, nervousness hanging on the edge of his voice. The stress of their first trip as a married couple had taken it's toll on her. For the past three weeks she had been nauseous during the morning, fortunately she got over it quickly as the day progressed. Still the frequency of it had put him on edge for her well being.
"I'm fine," She answered. It wasn't a lie, true the trains rocking back and forth had been a problem at first, but after ten minutes the rhythmic rocking soon lulled her stomach to sleep as sure as any lullaby. "I just can't wait for us to get to the ocean. It's been so long since I've been. I feel all giddy like a little filly again." She laughed as she leaned against her stallion letting his weight hold her keep her steady. "How about you. Are you excited."
"So long as you're happy and I get to be with you." Button wrapped his forehoof around his wife his hoof was just shy of her mid section. She had put on a bit of weight, since they started planning for the trip. He couldn't say anything though he was a nervous eater too. Also it felt good to see her put meat on her bones hopefully it would mean that she'd take him off of the ridiculous diet she had put him on. "If I can have those two things then I'm the happiest Player one ever."
"I thought I was player one." She said with a playful pout.
"Well, I mean. You could be, but I was a gamer first, and you know what I mean right, Sweetie Belle? Right?"
"I get it, I'll even go easy on you tonight in Immortal Combat." She kissed him on the cheek.
"That was a fluke and you know it, you totally distracted me IRL."
"I didn't cheat I just used my fatality." She kissed his cheek again.
"Sweetie Belle." He sounded just like he did when he was a colt playing Pony Craft. She couldn't stifle her giggling even if she had wanted to. He was still the colt that she had fell in love with.
***
The sun was slowly making its way to zenith. The city of Baltimare glittered as the sun's light danced on all of the city's high rising buildings. The two of them made their way to the beach. The city was already alive with activity nothing like Ponyville when at this hour the only ones that were awake were the Cakes as they prepared their store for the morning rush, and Rainbow Dash as she started to move the morning fog out of the town so that her weather team could be ready for the more important jobs.
"I can't believe that so many of ponies are already awake, and out on the streets," Button remarked as he looked out of the taxi carts window.
"This your first time in the big city country colt?" Sweetie asked playfully.
"I can't say that I'm a country colt but this place is nothing like Ponyville. How are you not impressed by all of this?"
"Do you know how many times Rarity took me to Manehattan, this place is nothing compared to there." She sat back, as her husband continued to watch the buildings pass by. "I mean we were actually able to get a taxi."
"Oh there's the bay." Sweetie Belle sat back up, and looked to where Button was pointing. Sure enough there was the blue of the ocean. "It's so beautiful. Just like your eyes." Sweetie Belle felt her cheeks go red, even as Button kissed her.
"You're just saying that."
"Yeah you're right. It no where near as beautiful as your eyes."
"Stop it." She playfully pushed him back in his seat. Her cheeks glowing red as he laughed. "Rarity was right about you; you're completely incorrigible."
"And that's why you love me," he said with a juvenile grin. When she didn't return it he sat back up straight. "Sweetie are you alright?"
"I'm fine, I was just thinking about Black Opal. We should bring her back something. Maybe a starfish or sand dollar. Maybe watch her over the night as a thanks to Rarity for spotting us that last hundred bits. What do you think about that?"
"Yeah I wouldn't mind. She's a good filly."
"Do you want to have a foal?"
"What?" Button looked up at his wife in shock. "Where did that come from?"
"Well I was just thinking that it would be nice to have a colt or filly of our own." Sweetie's eyes locked with her husband's. "We both enjoy having Opal over, and besides you'd make a great father."
"I don't think we're ready for a responsibility like that Sweetie." Button broke eye contact. "I mean eventually sure I'd like to have a filly or a colt, but right now I'm just not sure, how we'd do it."
"We'd do it together, like we always have, but don't worry about it. We have plenty of time to get ready."
"Yeah, let's not rush into it."
"Right."
***
The two of them walked along the water's edge of the sandy shore of the natural Bay. Horseshoe Bay's blue water glittered with the sun. The gentle waves rolling in with every soft gust of the ocean breeze. Which wrapped around their bodies, and bringing the smells of the fertile ocean in with every minor gale. The clouds also followed the breeze simply floating over head. Heedless of the pegasi weather teams. Every now and again one of them would float in between the sun, providing ample shade.
They slowly waded out further and further into the primordial provider. Until the blue fertile water came up to their shoulders. They half walked half swam around to the other end of the bay. Where they lay down and let the sun warm them and the breeze cool them, until the waning hours of the day. When the sun set casting a purplish hue on the sky, bathing horizon in a rainbow of colors.
"Button Mash, I love you." Button wrapped his forehooves around his wife.
"I love you too Sweetie Belle."
"And you'd never leave me right?"
"Never." Button sat up pulling his wife closer to him and slightly tightening his hug around her. "Why would you even-"
"I just wanted to hear you say it." She cut him off leaning back into his embrace and wrapping his hooves into her own.
"I love you Sweetie Belle, I love you, and I will never leave you." She took several deep breathes as the sunset into the ocean. "I promise."
"I like it here. The three of us should come back some day."
"Three of us?"
"Button, I'm pregnant." She stared out at the ocean waiting for him to say something, anything. Instead she felt him start to shake, heard his breathing become erratic, felt the tears start to fall on her shoulder. "Button I'm." She was cut off as he turned her around and kissed her. Holding each other tight until they finally needed to breath. "You're not upset."
"No." He sputtered. "I've never been happier." The two of them held each other letting their joyful tears return to the ocean,as the stars started appearing over head.
