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“Sorry Flash, I guess that means we can’t practise today.” Sunset said sweetly, not breaking eye contact with the boy as she grabbed Twilight’s hand and interlaced their fingers. “But glad we worked this out. We’ll see you next time.”

Sunset turned and immediately dropped her smile, taking off briskly with Twilight in tow.

“Hey, Twi, let’s go to my place. I um, really need your help studying for that math test coming up.”

“...You mean the one we have next month?”

“Yea, that one! I’m just really really unprepared.”

“O-okay, sure.”

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Sunset clamored up the stairway toward her apartement, never breaking pace as Twi stumbled after her, following close behind. Sunset slipped off her jacket and tossed it blindly over a chair.

“Whew, I got pretty sweaty.”

“Well, you did walk pretty fast the whole way. And it’s kind of hot out.”

Sunset proceeded to yank off her boots and kick them aside with as much care.

“It’s made me kinda smelly, I should probably take a quick shower.” She glanced sidelong at Twilight awaiting a response. Twilight continued to just glance all around at Sunset’s apartement. “Uh, Twi you’re probably sweaty too.” She added, catching Twilight’s attention.

“No no, I’m good.” Twilight waved dismissively.

“Come on, you can’t tell me you didn’t sweat up a storm in that heat.”

Sunset grabbed her friend’s shoulders from behind, placing her nose into Twilight’s hair and sniffing, taking several seconds longer than Twilight expected the action to take.

“Sunset?”

“Uh-” Sunset quickly recomposed herself. “Yea, Twi, you stink. You really need a shower.”

“Well, okay, I guess.” Twilight conceded, frowning. “You go ahead and I’ll take one after you.”

“No!” Sunset replied suddenly, already goading Twilight along by her shoulders. “I’m uh… super into water conservation, yea, total eco-nut. I just couldn’t bring myself to waste so much of a precious resource. We’ll just take one together.”

“O-okay, I supoose that’s a good idea.”

Twilight wasn’t really sure how to feel, Sunset just seemed to be one surprise after another. She made enough sense, but Twilight was still somewhat embarrassed by the idea as the two entered into the bathroom. Sunset found Twilight’s beet red face to be nothing but adorable but felt the need to reassure her.

“Hey, it’s no big deal,” she said with an arm around Twilight, barely withholding her own blush just from looking at her sweet face. “I’m embarrassed too, but we’re both girls so there's nothing to hide. This is totally normal for friends.”

This made Twilight feel more sure of herself but she still waited for Sunset to start. Sunset, however, hesitated with her hands gripping the hem of her shirt. She noticed that she’d spoken a bit of truth. She was embarrassed to be seen by Twilight and she wasn’t sure why. She’d never hesitated when showing herself to a boy.

Her own face began to glow red, which seemed to give Twilight assurance to know that someone as confident as Sunset could be embarrassed too and she felt her own need to reassure her friend. Twilight began undoing the buttons of her blouse, removing an outer layer. Sunset was brought back to her senses by her friend’s initiative and she quickly continued removing her clothes with little attention, enraptured by her friend’s display. Twilight seemed to have taken her words to heart, acting as though this were perfectly normal, an ironic display of confidence as Sunset worked with a steady glow remaining on her cheeks and her chest burning with increasing warmth. Standing there in her underwear, Twilight broke pace for a moment to look up at Sunset, slowly unclasping her bra from behind and letting it fall off of her shoulders, wrapping her arms in front of herself to loosely cover her chest. Sunset caught herself staring and quickly removed her remaining undergarments, finding herself nude together with Twilight. It felt rather surreal and suddenly she was caught in between wanting for Twilight to comment on her body but praying she had nothing to point out.

“Sunset?”

Her heart stopped for a moment. Would Twilight’s reaction be good or bad?

“Your… your shower?” Twilight looked with slight confusion at her unresponsive friend. “Are you going to turn it on?”

Sunset turned and quickly proceeded, bending down and turning the water on but fumbling as her face turned red again, realising that in her position, Twilight could very clear look at her exposed sex as she was bent down here, her stance slightly spread. She turned the shower on as quickly as she could and turned back to face Twilight again, only to find that she’d been courteously looking away. A nicety that Sunset would have never spared Twilight in that situation.

“F-feel free.”

Sunset motioned toward the shower and Twilight moved swiftly across the small room, climbing right in, only to immediately jump back out.

“Ahh!” Twilight shrieked, her body tensing up. “It’s cold!”

Startled by her shriek, Sunset quickly grabbed for the shower’s handles again but found her eyes glued to Twilight’s chest. Her hands having been drawn back against her sides, giving Sunset a welcomed view of her full chest now and its reaction to the cold. Still, her own hands blindly fumbled to heat up the shower, trying in vain not to make Twilight feel awkward with her mouth slightly agape. This time she took the initiative and climbed right in, the cold water quickly rising to a comfortable heat as Twilight followed right back in and Sunset forced herself to tear her eyes away from Twilight’s ripe raspberries. Sunset just stood there for a moment letting the water flow over her and though it was warm, allowing it to cool her down from her heated head rush.

“Um, Sunset?”

“Mhmm?”

After a few more seconds Sunset opened her eyes and looked down, discovering a dry Twilight. Sunset was quite a bit taller than her friend and had been blocking any water from even hitting Twi.

“Oh… my bad.”

Sunset began to move but quickly realised an issue with the size of her shower built for a one bedroom apartment. There was room for the two girls to both stand comfortably, but without much of any space to move.

“Um, well, you should be on this side.”

Sunset stated the obvious to soften the blow as she made her move, placing her hands on Twilight’s shoulders and sliding passed her. As their skin made contact it became painfully obvious that Twilight was only about chin level with the taller Sunset’s chest, which delighted her to no end, but with great reluctance, she moved quickly so to spare Twilight. The two shimmied against one another and in seconds had switched places. Twilight smiled up at Sunset and turned around to face the water, pulling her hair over her shoulder. Without thinking Sunset reached out a hand to feel the girl’s bare back, her breathing deepening as Twilight changed from cute to beautiful in front of her. She didn’t realise how tense Twilight had become as both of her hands were so easily groping Twilight’s back and shoulders.

“I-I can take care of that myself, Sunset. You should hurry and wash so we don’t waste more water than we need to.”

Sunset pulled her hands away, cursing that the very excuse she’d used to get her into this situation had now given her a time limit. Twilight made quick work of washing herself and so Sunset did so as well. Sunset hung her head over Twilight in order to wash her hair, drawing a laugh out of both of them as her long hair completely engulfed Twilight’s face. Sunset reached around Twilight for the bottle of conditioner, taking the opportunity to place her hand on Twilight’s tummy, eliciting a small gasp from the girl. It was soft, unlike Sunset’s own hardened stomach. She lingered there a moment but Twilight continued washing, not feeling as tense now, so not wanting to ruin the moment Sunset moved on to grab the conditioner and finish off her hair. Twiligiht knelt forward and turned off the water, brushing off some excess water, wringing out her hair and Sunset watched her every move. She glanced around the bathroom for a second and Sunset quickly climbed out of the shower, taking two towels from her linen closet and offering one to Twilight, doing a lazy job on herself as she watched Twilight rub the towel over her wet body. She felt like a prowler as she leered at the small girl drying herself off but she couldn’t help herself. She hadn't noticed before but Twilight had a cutely trimmed patch of hair perched just above her croth. As Twilight wrapped her towel around herself, Sunset made quick work of finishing drying herself off and moved toward the living room. Twilight went to reach for her clothes when Sunset topped her.

“Hey, I’ll lend you something clean to wear.”

She motioned Twilight to follow and the two of them entered into her bedroom and Sunset opened her closet. She looked over her wardrobe, considering what to give Twilight to wear and her face turned red with the possibilities. Her hand moved on its own to a miniskirt and then for a tank top, grabbing some underwear and clothes for herself. She returned to Twilight and handed them over to her.

“I uh, hope you don’t mind. it’s what I had available,” Sunset said, avoiding Twilight’s gaze.

Twilight eyed the outfit for a moment and began to put them on.

“So Sunset, what specifically did you want help studying?”

Sunset paused as she suddenly remembered her earlier excuse. She had a bad habit of not thinking these things through.

“Mm, it’d probably be best to just run through everything.”

She looked up at the now dressed Twilight. She hadn’t taken into account their size difference and her tank top hung down enough to expose half of the girl’s chest. Twilight futilely tried to fix it a couple of times before giving up and shrugged.

“I guess if it’s all you’ve got.”

Sunset couldn’t possibly correct her.

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Author's Note

This is an old story idea that I only worked on once and have long since abandoned. There was only one other scene that I wrote that leads up to where this starts about them starting a band with Flash, but it's an incredibly boring scene so I just cut it. This is the section that is core to the point of the story. I had two main themes that I was basing this story around::

1. Looking at the kind of casual and unintended eroticism and general openness between girl friends when no boys are around, and how this dynamic changes when one party is sexually interested and the other is oblivious.
   -This is the basic concept that inspired chapter one of Hidden Intentions

2. Taking someone who is straight and is used to using her body to get what she wants from guys and having them suddenly and abruptly falling in love with a girl at first sight and trying in vain to understand her genuine feelings and intense attraction to this girl.
   -I still like the idea, but I just have no inspiration to tell this particular story anymore.