4- That moment when you scare your mother by kissing a Princess on her doorstep.

This chapter is more aimed at relationship building.

Celestia dried off the rubber ducky first. She put it back in the cabinet behind the mirror before drying herself off. For once her mane and tail were actually still, they hung low with the weight of the water it had soaked up. Her horn glowed and the towel went and wrapped itself around the top of her head. I wrapped my towel around my torso and held it there with magic.

"So, how much is this breakfast gonna cost?" I asked figuring I better pay it like one of my usual dates.

"One thing you'll learn about being with me is: No matter what I say, they usually won't accept money from me. Even as payment for an object or service!" Celestia explained.

"Yeah, I can understand that, my fans do the same thing." I said remembering on all the times I got free stuff from a fan.

"Shall we finish drying off and leave?" Celestia asked.

"Yes." I said

"This is rather exciting. Our first actual date as a couple!" Celestia exclaimed.

I smiled as I dried my mane off.

She was right, this was sort of the first actual date.

"Ah, hello Princess Celestia!" The hostess greeted at the entrance.

"Hello, Mrs. Cinnamon" Princess Celestia greeted

"Princess, it's good to see you again." She looked to me "And who might you be?"

"Hi, I'm Seethe Master." I greeted with a smile.

"Pleasure to meet you, I'm Mrs.Cinnamon. My husband, my two sons, and I run this restaurant." She explained "Princess Celestia has been coming here at least once a week for the past year. Oh my, where are my manners, table for two?"

"Are any of the romantic booths open?" Princess Celestia asked, winking at Mrs.Cinnamon.

She caught the wink. "Ohhhhh.....so this is a........good for you two! Follow me please."

As she lead us to one of the romantic booths on the far side of the large building I noticed there were already quite a few couples in the restaurant. I saw at least 6 couples making out. The romantic booths were a lot of nearly closed off candle lit, booths. Celestia took a seat, I sat across from her.

"So, what'll it be?" Mrs.Cinnamon asked dropping two menus on the table.

I opened the menu and examined it's contents. There was a couple's breakfast, a couple's lunch, and a couple's dinner.

"Whats in the couple's breakfast?" I asked.

The hostess's smile seemed to grow bigger. "It's a full breakfast for two. And I personally think it'd be perfect for you two."

"Should we get it?" I asked Celestia.

"I think so." Celestia said.

"Okay, I'll be back in a few minutes with your meal." Mrs.Cinnamon said taking the menus as she left.

And there I was left with the Princess of the sun, waiting for a romantic breakfast. Thinking about made it seem kind of odd. My mind began to wonder,  at first I thought about what I'd tell my sister and my parents about this. (Yes I do keep in touch with my relatives.) I was thinking about the way I would tell my parents.

Dear Mom & Dad.

I have begun dating Princess Celestia.

As much as I would love to make my father I had gone insane I was not sending that!

Suddenly Celestia took me off my thoughts. "You're being oddly quiet. Are you thinking about anything?" she asked.

"How did you know?" I asked giving a laugh.

"May I ask about what?" Celestia asked.

"Mostly about how I am going to tell my mom,dad, and sister about....well you."  I said devoting maybe 50% of my thought to thinking about what kind of letter I was going to write them.

"Where do they live, maybe I could tell them in person?" Celestia suggested.

"They live down in Ponyvile. Sadly, there's a void of comedy clubs in Ponyvile, so I usually don't see them." I said.

Celestia smiled "We.....could visit my student Twilight Sparkle,in Ponyvile." she suggested.

"You have a student, that gets you as a private teacher? She must be incredibly gifted." I said

"She is." Celestia said, I noticed she seemed to stare at the candles. She looked up at me again "May I ask a serious question?"

"Sure. What's your question?" I asked curious to the nature of this " 'Serious question' ".

"Do you ever plan to have............." She paused.

"My own comedy club? My own bar? Uhhhh....another manager?"

"No, no, no........." she switched to an almost embarrassed whisper "......Offspring?" she asked in a serious whisper.

I didn't know what to say. This........almost scared me. Princess Celestia, who I was dating now, wanted to talk to me about having babies. Talk about unforeseeable future. I had no idea if I wanted 'offspring'. Sure there's alot of good memories you make, but it's also incredibly difficult and I don't intend to end up a stay-at-home parent of any degree. I wanted to keep my career.  Although, I did want to continue my family tree. You know, not leave it up to just my sister. That, to me, would seem selfish.

"I uhhh......I-I guess I do." I answered.

"Hmmm" Celestia hummed. I wasn't sure what to think of that response.

"Do you want 'offspring'?" I asked.

Celestia smiled "I do.".

Now, something about that answer confused me. I don't know what it was. Was it the way she said it? Maybe it was it was something in the way she looked or something she did when she said it. I didn't make a face, I held in all expressions or actions that could have said I was curious about something in the answer.

"May I ask, why you asked that question?" I asked.

"I asked it because I was curious about you. I mean it would have been awful if...let's say many, many months from now, we're still together and I want 'offspring' but you don't. That would probably ruin our relationship. It's good to know that we both want the same thing if this relationship escalates." Celestia explained.

I smiled. "You're not planning out a relationship? Are you?"

"Maybe I am, maybe I want this to work." Celestia answered almost smugly.

I raised and eyebrow. Celestia raised one too.

"Hmmm." She hummed, her horn glowed and a hair in a golden aura flew from my mane. It was a long, frizzy pink hair. It slowly spun in mid air.  "well that's just odd." she said examining the pink hair.

"That is a hair from one of my fans, some nice mare from Ponyvile lured me back to her home a few weeks ago and we were together a few days. while we were together I was always finding pink hairs on myself." I explained.

"Why did you two ever break up?" Celestia asked.

"She was just.....a bit............uhh.........crazy." I said in loss for another word.

Celestia gave a slight giggle.

Our food arrived a few seconds later. The food was actually as Celestia had said, the eggs were probably the best. After eating the hostess insisted it was on the house, but I still left a tip. The tip was actually the price of the breakfast with 20% added. Upon leaving the restaurant I noticed a stallion who wore a journalist's hat and carried a camera. He appeared to be sitting on a bench and he had his camera aimed our way. I didn't look directly at him I just caught a look out of the corner of my eye. I saw him snap a few pictures of Celestia and I.

I whispered into Celestia's ear. "Do look now, but at your 9 o clock, on a bench there's a journalist snapping photos of us."

"I see." Celestia whispered back pretending not to see him. "He's probably getting shots of us for the Canterlot Times. Maybe we should give him what he's looking for?" she suggested.

"What do we do?" I asked.

Celestia grinned "I have an idea." she said.

Her horn glowed and I felt a magical grip on my tail. She tugged my tail and rear end out from under me, and put a hoof behind my head so I wouldn't fully hit the ground. She smiled at me and then gave me the most passionate kiss I've ever experienced. We kissed for at least 2 minutes. I opened one eye and was able to see the journalist snapping so many photos he could make a movie at about 30 frames per second,if you get what I mean.

Celestia and I kept up our kiss and soon I noticed a few passing by citizens whispered and stared. Celestia broke the kiss and smiled at me. "That's probably front page." she said.

"C-can I stand now?" I asked still recovering from immense passion of the kiss.

Celestia helped me flip over and stand . "We should do that more often."

------- The next day.

The next day was Sunday. We, as in Celestia and me, found ourselves on a train heading for Ponyvile. After a few hours, soon after stepping off the train, I found myself 20 meters from my old home. Celestia was right by side. My heart raced. There was no warning for my parents. This was going to be a complete surprise for them.

I was reaching for the door, to knock on it. I took a deep breath, and then knocked on the door lightly.

"Who is it?" I heard my mom call from the kitchen.

"Mom? It's me Seethe." I called through the wooden door of the two story home.

"Seethe? Oh hold on sweetie! I am coming!" My mom called, I heard her quickly walking to the door. The door was unlocked and opened. My mother stood there and nearly fainted upon seeing Celestia. "Pri...pr.....Princess Celestia!" she gasped, looked at me and just made a face of total confusion "What's going on here? Are you being arrested? Or deported?!"

"No, no, no. Your son is not in trouble Mrs........?" Celestia began.

"M-Mist Flicker." Mom answered,

"Your son is not in trouble. In fact....." Celestia gave a grin and then did what she had done to me when we were being photographed the previous day. She used magic to pull my rear end out from under me and then put her right fore hoof behind my head and kissed me as she held me off the ground. I caught a glimpse of my mother's face when she processed what the Princess was doing to me. She looked as if she was going to have a panic attack. The Princess didn't let me fall, she stopped kissing me and flipped me over so I could stand again. My mom was leaning against the door frame, trying to catch her breath. Still shocked by what she saw.

"Wha-what is going on here!?" she nearly screamed.

"It's a long story, mom. Can we come in?" I asked.

"Ye-yes, you better come in and explain. Now." Mom ordered stepping aside and letting us in.

We walked in and I saw my father sitting on the sofa in the living room, reading a large novel. He looked up from the novel and spotted me. The Princess was behind me, in the small hallway area that connected to the living room and the kitchen, and the dinning room. He didn't see her.

"Uhhhh......Hi Dad." I greeted waving at him with my right fore hoof.

"Seethe? What are you doing here?" He asked curiously.

"I have somepony I'd like you to meet." I looked back and gestured for Celestia to come into the living room.

She entered the living room. "Pri-Princess Celestia?!" he nearly shouted in shock. He looked at me "Seethe, what is going on here!?"

"Maybe you and mom should sit down." I suggested.

Mom walked past Celestia and went to the sofa. She had already seen what Celestia and I were about to show Dad. When we started, Dad's mouth fell open faster than if he had a hundred pounds of weight tied to his chin. When I again stood. Dad and Mom where dumbstruck. They didn't know what to think, say, or do.

"Let me explain." Celestia requested.

I didn't stop her as she began explaining what had happened and how we had begun seeing each other.