Bi(g) Brother Best Friend Forever

The Crystal Fair could not possibly have been held on a better day as the weather is not as easily controlled there as it is in Equestria. Not only was the weather perfect, everything else was going very smoothly too, the attendance turnout, no security issues, everything. Stands dotted the grid-like layout of the fair selling refreshments, others art, books and some even sold fancy hoof made soaps. Really everything seemed to be going well in the Crystal Empire and the new rulers were ensuring that everypony was happy and comfortable unlike the last ruler they once had.

Princess Cadence and her husband Prince Shining Armor were trotting along down one of the many lanes in the fair, the latter sporting a novelty drink hat with two cans of lemonade strapped to the sides. Though they were both rulers of this empire, still they were equine beings with souls and a sense of humor and it made others comfortable to be around them as they did not mind looking somewhat silly from time to time. Cadence was carrying a paper bag full of scented bath fizzies she had purchased and was making a beeline for another stand that sold perfumes that smelled of cupcakes of which she hastily went over and bought a dozen small bottles. The stand next to it sold bottles of many different kinds of bubble bath mixtures and the excited Princess simply had to pause for a moment to make her selections.

Not long ago the couple was joined together in holy matrimony and even less long ago, acquired a large empire of their own and were looked up to as the epitome of love itself and what a "perfect" couple should be. Admittedly however, they had not even approached their thirties yet and as such still had much to learn and a great deal of experience yet to be gained. They were just like everypony else and they knew very well that they too were not flawless and neither was their relationship, again like that of anypony else. They had their fair share of disagreements, arguments, and just plain bad days where they got on each other's nerves but nevertheless loved each other with every fiber of their beings. Though they had their drawbacks, what was most important that they both understood that they still had room to learn and grow from their experiences.

Finally, after at least five minutes of politely declining an offer for a royalty discount, selecting and purchasing her prizes in the form of a large bag full of bubble bath solution, Princess Cadence trotted back over to her husband who patiently waited for her. Shining Armor smiled warmly at his beautiful wife as she rejoined him in his trot down the street. He never minded pausing for a moment to wait for her to attend to something that caught her interest. As the two resumed their stroll however, she would soon find that her husband had caught the eye of somepony else. Trotting up to the same stand she had just purchased from was an amber colored stallion with a hot pink mane, matching tail and a cutie mark of a triangle with three hearts on each corner.

Normally, this pony would be just another citizen to have trotted past but it was when she noticed him biting his lower lip that she turned her head around to see him standing there staring into their general direction. Though she glanced over, still the pony stared very intently at what she at first assumed was her. She was a very attractive mare with a slim yet curvy figure and had gotten used to getting looks from stallions everywhere she went but when she realized that she was indeed not the topic of his interest, she followed his gaze to find what he really found simply irresistable. Like a perfectly straight line from the eyes of a not so straight pony, she could nearly see the burn marks his eyes were leaving on her husband's firm, muscular flank as it flexed with every step he took.

Looking back up towards the stallion, Cadence could tell that he had taken notice of being caught staring as his ears folded back out of embarrassment and he trotted off with a heavy blush. Cadence however did not mind however as she thought it amusing and honestly a breath of fresh air for a male to be making eyes at her husband rather than her for a change. If only he had not begun trotting off so quickly, she could have told him she had no problem with him but perhaps it would just be best to let it go though she still could not help but giggle to herself over what she just saw.

"What's so funny, babe?" Shining Armor asked his wife, noticing that she had seen something she found comical.

"That stallion over there was just checking you out, honey. The yellow pegasus back there with the pink mane." Cadence chuckled. "He sure liked what he saw."

"Heheheh, you sure he wasn't checking you out?"

"Oh no, I saw just what he was looking at and he was looking right at that nice, sweet butt of yours."

"Ahahah! Well, I guess that's bound to happen when you've got a guy who looks like me, huh?"

Shining Armor turned his head back to see his admirer trotting away in the opposite direction. This stallion in particular was of a slim build, of average height and appeared to take great pride in his well maintained coiffure and his perfectly manicured hooves shined in the sunlight. He struck Shining Armor as one of the more effeminate types and though Cadence had thought little of it and let it go, her husband couldn't.

"Huh, he's kinda cute." Shining Armor thought to himself as he began pondering excuses to go his separate way and go talk to this stallion.

"Uh, wow, I guess I sure put this hat to good use." Shining Armor said. "I'll catch up with you in a bit, babe, I gotta go empty the tank."

"Okay, dear." Cadence replied, unaware that her husband did not actually have to use the facilities. "But I told you, you'll spend most of your time in the restroom if you don't quit chugging like that. You'll miss out on all the fun!"

"Oh, I won't be too long."

With that, the curious unicorn looked around to find the stallion nowhere to be seen. He had remembered that he appeared to be heading towards where snacks and refreshments were being sold so he decided that he would try there. Most would ask why he wanted to find this pony to begin with or simply told him to just let it go as he would probably never see him again but still, he was compelled to find him and talk to him. At least tell him that he nor his wife were offended by him admiring his flank, flattered if anything.

In the back of his mind, Shining Armor knew that he found this stallion rather attractive just as much if not more than vice versa. He had never told his wife that he went both ways and was physically attracted to both mares and stallions. He never felt the need for it, he was married to the girl he fell in love with. It wasn't like he was expecting to go over and rut or be rutted by this stallion right off the bat, though it had been an incredibly long time since he had attempted to express his attraction to a male who felt mutually. Just harmless flirting, nothing more. He was honor bound to one pony and one pony only through marriage, he would never dream of breaking his vows and hurting the mare he held so near and dear.

The search for this individual proved to be more difficult than Shining Armor first anticipated and if he wanted to talk to this guy, he would have to catch up with him soon before Cadence wondered why he was absent for so long. The concessions area was quite a lot larger than at a first glance as well and the crowd seemed to get thicker and thicker still as time went on. Just when he thought of calling it quits however, Shining Armor caught his break as he saw this stallion sitting alone at a picnic table eating a plate of hay fries and sipping from a bottle of orange cream soda. He was in somewhat of an uncrowded area too and now that Shining Armor could get a good look at him and the way he slowly and daintily ate and drank, he could see just how charming he appeared to be.

"Hey, he's not a half bad looking guy." Shining Armor thought to himself as he stood and admired the one who admired him before.

On second thought, surely Cadence would understand that navigating through a crowd can be time consuming so there should be no need to rush over just to get it over with or even just make things more awkward than they already were. The only question was just how precisely he would go about initiating conversation with this attractive pegasus. As he glanced around to observe his surroundings and to make sure that his target of interest was in a quiet enough spot, he saw his answer in the form of the stand selling his all time favorite snack, the corndog. Being a carrot on a stick dipped in cornmeal and then deep fried, he and admittedly many others often wondered why it was called a corndog but he knew that at the moment, that wasn't entirely important. What mattered was that it was just the perfect shape and size for what he planned to do next.

Though not the most subtle of ideas to get somepony's attention, Shining Armor figured that the worst that could happen was to weird out a stranger he would most likely never see again but even that was unlikely. With his suggestively shaped treat in hoof and plenty of empty tables for him to sit at, Shining Armor put his plan into action and took a seat a few tables away and directly across from the cute stallion. Upon seeing the white coat of the pony taking a seat in front of him through his peripheral vision, the pegasus glanced up and immediately blushed as he most certainly recognized Shining Armor from before. Then again, one would be hard pressed to find somepony who didn't know of the very Prince of the Crystal Empire.

Be that as it may, now that he had his attention, Shining Armor would show this admittedly adorable stallion that he was not only flattered by his admiration but would also be willing to reciprocate it. With his corndog floating in his unicorn aura, he bobbed his eyebrows as he shot a sultry stare back at the now heavily blushing stallion much to his confusion. If indicated by the expression on his face, the excited pegasus certainly didn't see that coming and just when he began thinking it was surely too good to be true, What Shining Armor did next was a dead giveaway. In his pink aura, floated a plastic squeeze type bottle of mayonnaise of which the sneaky unicorn then compressed the bottle and covered the corndog in the sticky, white condiment.

He couldn't believe what he was seeing. The stallion over across from Shining Armor sat there with his jaw on the table as he watched this dreamy unicorn wrap his lips around the tip of the corndog and begin to suck the mayo off. The entire time he slid the corndog in and out of his mouth while moaning softly, Shining Armor's half lidded eyes were locked with those of the shocked and aroused stallion whose wings had involuntarily flared out. If that wasn't enough to get his blood flowing and show how quite obvious it was that he was attracted to males as well, for the finishing touch, Shining Armor slowly engulfed the entire length of the corndog before pulling it back out, the mayonnaise having been cleaned right off. Just when he thought the brazen unicorn was done tormenting him, he was nearly pushed over the edge when he watched him lick his teeth just to drive that already obvious point across.

Still, the stallion at the table just sat there with his mouth agape and upon further observation, Shining Armor could see that he had crossed his back legs under the table, clearly trying to conceal his arousal. Just to torture this poor stallion even more, Shining Armor decided to stall by simply sitting there and winking as his target soaked himself in his sweat. Finally, he felt it was time to show mercy and trot over to introduce himself as the other party certainly couldn't at least without being slapped with a fine for failure to conceal in public. Slowly, and casually, Shining Armor trotted over and sat right across from this cute guy where he could finally get a close look at him.

The slim and petite looking male Shining Armor was interested in talking to was nervously fidgeting with his hooves and sweating as he looked Shining armor in the eye. It was rather clear that he was quite shy as Shining Armor once was so he could understand what he must have been going through. He also seemed to be around the same age as well so perhaps he was not used to having his flattering gazes reciprocated and could explain why he was so shy and timid. Now that he was close enough to him to talk however, perhaps it was time to spare him further anxiety and break the ice by introducing himself.

"Hey." Shining Armor greeted with a friendly, welcoming tone.

"H-hey." The stallion stuttered, still shaking a little but seeming to calm down.

"So I uh, couldn't help but notice that you have a keen eye for nice butts huh?"

"Erm, y-yeah I th-thought yours was pretty nice."

"You're a good looking fella yourself. My name's Shining Armor by the way."

Shining Armor then extended his hoof for a friendly bump as customary for when ponies introduce themselves to one another.

"Oh, yeah I know who you are." The stallion said, now much more calm than before. "I mean, you are the Prince of the Crystal Empire after all."

"Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that I'm known nowadays. I'll never get used to that."

"Well...I had no idea that you were...um..."

"Bi?"

"Right."

"How about you?"

"I'm gay."

"Heheh, no I meant like what's your name?"

"Oh! Uh, I'm Heart Flutter."

A cute name for an equally cute pony and Shining Armor would most certainly agree. There was just something about him, be it his charm from his shyness, his feminine appearance, or how he was so easy to turn on by making him watch him give a blow job to a corndog. Whatever it was, Shining Armor wanted to get to know him as it was a breath of fresh air to find somepony he had such a thing in common with. Not that bisexual ponies weren't common, they most certainly were but for a married pony, they weren't particularly easy to find as he didn't make it a habit to spend much time searching. With his busy schedule, he couldn't even if he wanted to.

"Cute name." Shining Armor said playfully.

"Um, I-I don't mean to be rude but, uh...aren't you married?" Heart Flutter asked.

"Well yeah but it's not like we did anything. That, and you're a dude. My wife would be pretty pissed if I was flirting with another mare though but as long as you have a dick, as far as she knows, we're just a couple of bros hanging out, you know?"

"Oh, well if she's okay with this...er, us just hanging out, I mean."

"Totally harmless. You seem like a cool guy so I just figured we could...we could...is that a Maredonna album?"

"Oh this?"

Heart Flutter then reached into this bag and proceeded to pull out the object in question in the form of a vinyl record album securely wrapped in a clear plastic package for its protection. Shining Armor's eyes lit up at the sight of what Heart Flutter was showing him not only for what it physically was but in the mere minutes of engaging with the cute guy, he already found a common interest they shared.

"Oh...my...god, I love Maredonna!" Shining Armor squeaked with glee.

"Really?!" Heart Flutter gasped. "Wow, I'm like, the only guy I know who likes her work! Wow, this is great! Which one of her songs is your favorite? Mine is-"

"Like a newbie!" Both Stallions beamed in unison before gasping and covering their mouths.

For nearly an hour, both stallions found that the more they conversed with each other, the more they found they had in common. Shining Armor was so thrilled that he even forgot that he told Cadence that he just needed to make a quick stop at a rest room but upon seeing her trotting around off in the distance, realized it was most likely time to bid his new friend good day. As he cautiously watched his wife search for him with a rather confused and bemused expression on her face, he extended his hoof for a bump.

"Oh, there's my wife." Shining Armor said as the two stallions bumped hooves.

"Hey, well it was nice talking to you, Shining Armor!" A now much more comfortable Heart Flutter beamed.

"Likewise! So um...here's my card. Let's hang out sometime, alright? It's been awhile since I've had another dude to just chill with, you know?"

"Yeah, I'd like that. Catch you later."

With that, Shining Armor trotted back over his his wife who searched for him and rejoined her as she had just noticed him by her side. She appeared to be glad that she at least was able to find him though slightly irritated that he ran off and took his time catching up to her. However, the Crystal Fair lifted everypony's spirits including her own and as such, she simply decided to shrug it off as her loveable goofball of a husband had found something to occupy his time.

"Hey, what kept you, dear?" Cadence asked, her bemused frown giving way to her sweet smile she was known for. "Did they need to bring in an extra tanker to hold your pee or something?"

"Hahaha! Sorry, babe." Shining Armor replied with a laugh. "I uh...I made a new friend."

"Oh, well that's nice. Sorry if I came off like I was upset, I could never be mad at you far making friends. I'm just tired."

"I knew you wouldn't. I'm ready to go home if you are."

"Thanks, honey, I've got a crazy busy day tomorrow so I'd better rest up for it. You on the other hoof get a nice clear schedule tomorrow you lucky oaf you."

"Huh...I do, don't I?"

"Heheheh, don't rub it in."