That time to use what I'd learned came a lot sooner than I'd expected. Wednesday of the very next week, Mom had a couple new foals move in temporarily. They were supposed to be her apprentices in the jewelry shop, but they weren't working in the jewelry shop. Amber Gleam had set up the spare room as a working studio for them, which meant...

“Oh it's just for a couple weeks, sweetie.” Amber patted me on the head in an infuriatingly condescending way. “I don't see what the problem is. I thought you liked Rose Gold and Topaz. The three of you were getting along so well when they first arrived.”

We had been getting along well, even though both of them were a bit older than me and already had their cutie marks. Rose Gold was a filly with no end to her imagination when it came to games, and Topaz was a rambunctious enough colt to entertain all three of us, but... That was before I'd learned the terrible news! “But Mom!” I put my best whining tone behind that word. “Why do they have to stay in my room?”

She sighed. “We've already been over this. Twice. They need a studio to work in and a bedroom to sleep in. And this house only has so many rooms.”

“But why can't they stay in your room?”

“Because, well, ah...” Amber looked up at Pickle, who met her eyes over the kitchen table. She blushed hotly. “Because I'm already sharing my room with my Pickley Pear.”

I winced slightly. The cutesie nicknames had been an unfortunate and unforeseen development of my getting them back together. They'd been spending a lot of time in there together the last couple days, actually. And I'd spent a lot of time watching them through the keyhole in the door. I'd learned quite a bit, and I knew better than they'd ever admit exactly why they didn't want two foals in there with them.

But that didn't mean I wanted two new foals in my room with me! “But what if they snore? Or what if they—?”

“No.” Amber held her hoof up. “I'm not hearing any more of this. Now go to your room and help those two settle in. Why don't you help Topaz set up his bed? Oh, and tell Rose it's her turn for a bath now that you’re done!”

“I love how you handled that, Gleamie,” Pickle said, grinning at her.

Amber shot him a sweltering look from under her forelock. “Oh? And is there anything else you might love to see me handling?”

With a defeated sigh, I turned and headed back to my room. Sometimes I thought getting my adoptive parents back together was the greatest thing I'd ever done. Other times I was sure it was the biggest mistake I'd ever made.

* * *

When I got to my room, I found Topaz standing on top of my bed, shouting down at the other new foal. “Come on, Rose! Tell me!”

“Tell him what?” I asked, still a little irritated from failing to win over my adoptive parents.

“Nothing!” Rose Gold sat down and crossed her front hooves over her chest. “Nothing at all!”

I rolled my eyes. “Well, that's convenient, I guess. 'Cause Mom says it's time for your turn in the bath.”

“Suits me!” Rose hopped up and trotted past me into the hall, turning toward the small house's one bathroom.

Once she'd left, I looked over at Topaz, trying to ignore the way he was standing on my bed, getting my pretty pink sheets all wrinkled. I could only hope his hooves were clean. “What's she all worked up about?”

“Ugh! Fillies are so crazy! Why won't she just tell me?” He looked down at me as if he'd just noticed me, blushed slightly, darkening his blue cheeks, and he hopped down off the bed. “I, um... I don't mean all fillies, of course, just...”

“Just Rose Gold?”

“Seriously, though, why won't she just tell me? I mean come on!”

“Tell you what?”

He shook his head. “She won't tell me if she has a special somepony back in Baltimare or not. No matter how I ask her!”

“But... Why do you want to know so bad?”

“No reason!” he blurted out, blushing again. He ran his hooves through his honey-yellow mane repeatedly. “So, um, should I set my bed up here by the closet, or is it okay if I block some of the drawers of this dresser from opening all the way?”

Well if this was how he got when Rose asked him why he wanted to know, no wonder she wouldn't tell him! I propped one hoof against his rolled-up camping mattress, preventing him from opening it up. “You wouldn't be pestering her so much if you didn't have a reason. Come on, fess up.”

Despite being a bit older than me, he still seemed pretty intimidated by the way I looked down at him, standing on top of his bedroll. “It's, um... Well...”

“What? You like her, don't you?”

His eyes went wide, and it almost looked as if his fur stood on end. “You mean, as a friend, right?”

“How do you think I mean?” I grinned down at him, starting to enjoy this little interrogation.

He winced, then glanced around the room as if checking to make sure nopony else had snuck in while I was talking to him. Then he leaned in close. “Can you, um ... keep a secret?”

“Of course!”

“I mean, really keep a secret?”

I smiled, thinking of all the things I'd seen Amber Gleam and Pickle Park do with each other, and how I'd never said a word about it. Hopping off of his bedroll – a fair revenge for him standing on my bed – I sidled up to him and laid a hoof over his withers. “Kid, you have no idea the kinds of secrets I can keep.”

“Well, um... Okay.” He took a deep breath. Then another.

“Yes...?”

“Um...” Even more breathing like that.

I plugged his mouth with my hoof before he could do it again. “Just say it.”

He gulped, closed his eyes, nodded. And the moment I took my hoof away from his mouth, he blurted it out: “I like Rose Gold!”

“As in, you know, special somepony kind of like?”

He nodded again, a wistful, almost hurt look coming to his eyes. “Ever since I first saw her today! I mean, have you seen her? That golden-pink fur, that creamy mane! I feel like I could just snuggle up with her forever! And she's really smart and really funny, and she makes me feel like ... like I don't even know! And her ... her...” His eyes going wide and a little bit misty, he traced a round shape in the air with his hooves.

More and more lately, I'd found myself noticing both stallions and mares in ways I never had before, and I knew exactly what he was talking about. “Yeah ... she does have a really cute little ass, doesn't she?”

He stared at me as if startled, but did nod slightly.

Another chance to get ponies together! I hadn't had any dreams about it this time, but now that I was more experienced, I felt like I'd have no problem pulling it off again. And I just somehow knew these two were meant for each other. They'd be so happy together, wouldn't they?

He was still staring at me. Looking a bit more worried now.

“Don't worry, kid!” I poked him playfully right in the chest fluff. “As soon as Rose Gold gets back from her bath, we'll—”

“No!” He jumped away as if he'd been stung. “You can't tell her! You promised! And don't call me kid. I'm older than you are.”

“Still a kid, though.” I rolled my eyes. “Come on, Topaz. I'm pretty sure she already—”

“You promised!”

“Oh, alright, fine. Let's get your bed set up.”

He started rolling out the camping mattress alongside my bed.

“No, not over there. Right here, next to Rose's.” When I saw the look he was giving me, I just shrugged it off and slid his bed over next to hers anyway. He could thank me later.

* * *

By the time Rose Gold came back, Topaz was teaching me some complicated card game he'd learned in Hoofington. It seemed to all appearances as if he'd completely forgotten the earlier conversation. But I certainly hadn't ... and maybe that's why I was having a hard time concentrating on the game's weird rules.

Rose came in still toweling her slicked-down wet mane ... which sure seemed to draw Topaz's eye.

“Your mom and dad said it's time for Topaz to get a bath,” she said, all businesslike. “And, um... They said 'Don't come in here!' And there was a lot of bumping and moaning. Are they okay?”

I shrugged, playing it off as coolly as possible that I'd missed a chance to peek at what they were doing. “He's, um... Probably just helping her rearrange the furniture or something, and they don't want us getting in the way.”

“That's ... weird. At this time of night?” Rose's eyebrows scrunched, and she glanced back towards my adoptive parents' bedroom. But after a few moments, she shrugged too. “Whatever. But yeah, Topaz had better get in there before they finish, I guess. They'll probably be all dusty and sweaty, and they'll really want a bath.”

Dusty, no. But sweaty was very likely. I grinned to myself, keeping my dirty little secret all for myself.

“Yeah, um... I'll just go, uh... and do ... that.” Topaz stared at Rose Gold so obviously as he stumbled by, almost tripping over his own hooves.

Once he was well out of earshot, I came up close beside Rose. “So... What do you think of him?”

“Who? Topaz?”

“Yeah. Pretty cute, right?”

“Pretty annoying if you ask me! You can have him.” Rose flicked her wet, cream-colored mane back with a hoof. “Really – what makes him think that asking the same thing a thousand and one times is going to get him a different answer?”

“Asking you whether you have a special somepony or not?”

She glanced over at me, staring hard. “You didn't tell him, did you?”

“I don't even know,” I said with a smile and a shrug. “But why don't you want to tell him? Is your special somepony a secret?” A thought flashed into my – admittedly fanciful – filly head. “Ooh! Is it forbidden love?” I wasn't quite sure what that meant, but I'd heard it in some fairy tales, and after seeing what regular love was like, I was very eager to find out about the forbidden kind.

“No!” she said, a little too vehemently.

“Then...?”

“Look – I ... I just don't want to talk about it, okay? He's been pestering me about it since sunset, and now you're going to pick up where he left off?”

“Maybe if you tell me about it, I can help you!”

She favored me with a petty little scowl, then set about arranging the blankets on her bed. I saw the way she kept looking at Topaz's bed right next to hers, but interestingly, she didn't scowl at that. When she looked at his bed, it was almost like she was nervous, or afraid of something.

“Come on, seriously – I can help!” I gave her my best smile.

“What do you know about this kind of thing? You don't even have your cutie mark yet.”

“I know more than you think I do.” That was a big understatement, and she seemed to see it when she looked in my eyes.

She carefully placed her pillow as far as possible from Topaz's side of the two beds. “Can you make him stop asking stupid questions? That would be a huge help.”

“I will if you tell me your other problem.”

Rose glanced sidelong at me. “You drive a hard bargain, little filly. Fine. But you'd better find a way to make him shut up. And you'd better not laugh.”

I nodded solemnly.

For a long moment, she didn't do anything. She could have been a statue of a pensive filly. “Okay, well, here it goes. All the other fillies in my class are out having fun with colts. You know – kissing and stuff, not just stupid kid games. And I really want to know what it's like.”

“So ... why don't you?”

“I... I don't know how! And what if I'm bad at it? Everypony's going to laugh at me, and I just know they'll come up with some kind of terrible nickname based on how bad I am at kissing and, you know, stuff.” She looked at me, then frowned. “You promised not to laugh!”

“I'm not laughing,” I said as seriously and as levelly as I could ... given the huge smile on my face. “It's just that I have a perfect way for you to find out what it's like.”

She raised an eyebrow at me.

“Topaz! He's totally into you!”

Rose scoffed and went back to making her bed. “If he liked me, he wouldn't be pestering me all night with stupid questions. He's worse than my Aunt Tenderhooves. 'When are you going to get a special somepony, little cutie?' 'Oh, look at that nice colt, wouldn't he make just a lovely special somepony for a little cutie like you?'” She stuck out her tongue. “Bleh! What am I supposed to do with all that pressure, huh?”

“He's asking you if you have a special somepony because he wants to be your special somepony!”

“Him?” Rose blinked. “But ... he doesn't even live in Baltimare.”

“So? There's no rule that says your special somepony has to be from the same place as you.” At least I hoped there wasn't any rule like that. I felt that there shouldn't be.

Her eyes slowly went wide. “Would that... Do you think it would really work?”

I sure hoped it would. I'd already broken my promise to Topaz and spilled his secret. But if things went the way I was hoping they would tonight, that would more than make up for it. Ponies being together with the ones they love is always more important than keeping silly promises, at least that's what I always say!

“But still ... what if I'm bad at it? What if he is supposed to be my special somepony, but I screw it up because I don't know how to do kissing? Or, you know ... that other stuff.”

“I know how to do it! I'll teach you!”

“What? How do you know how to do it? You're like two years younger than me!”

“Three years younger!” I said. “But I have my own little secrets.”

* * *

When Topaz came back, Amber Gleam was right behind him, herding him along. Her mane was frazzled, had some very suspicious sticky spots in it, and was partly matted down with sweat. She really did look like a mess. “Okay, you three, lights out. It's time for bed.” Even as she said it, she flicked the light switch off with her magic.

What? No! This was way too early for bedtime, and it would throw off all my plans with Rose Gold and Topaz. What if Rose mentioned that he liked her? He'd know I broke his promise, and everything would be ruined!

But Amber's next words put my fears to rest: “It's time for Pickle and me to take a turn in the bath. But you all should be getting to bed right away – we don't want to hear a peep!”

Perfect! With Pickle and Amber in the bath together, they were bound to take their time. I hadn't been able to spy on them in the bathroom as effectively as in the bedroom since the bathroom door's keyhole didn't face toward the tub, but from the sounds I'd heard a couple times before, they were doing much the same as they did in the bedroom ... except with a lot more splashing. And that meant that they'd be busy for at least an hour or two.

Topaz let out a little whine. “Aw, come on. How come they get to save time by having a bath together and we don't?”

I was fully aware of why Topaz wanted to take a bath together with Rose Gold ... and it had nothing to do with saving time. And I really didn’t need him screwing up our opportunity here by getting my adoptive parents to take separate baths just like we had. That's what he'd drive them to if he asked too many questions.

“It's rude to talk back to grown-ups,” I said into the now-dim room. “We should do what they say.”

“Aw, thank you, sweetie.” The tone of Amber Gleam's voice almost suggested that she knew I was helping her get with Pickle yet again, as if that was what she was thanking me for. Then again, maybe I was just imagining that. When she spoke again, there was no hint of that tone, “Cadance is right. You'll all need to get plenty of sleep tonight if you're going to get a good, early start on your jewelry crafting lessons tomorrow.”

With that, she left, closing the door behind her, which plunged the small room into near-total darkness.

I waited, patiently. It took a bit longer than I was expecting, but soon enough the water started running, filling the tub for the fourth and final time of the night.

“Psst,” I whispered. “Are you two still awake?”

“Uh-huh,” Rose said with a hint of eagerness in her voice. She probably had a better idea of what I was planning than Topaz did.

He responded rather sourly: “Really, 'We should do what the grown-ups say'? I didn't know I'd have to spend this whole time in Heart's Rest cooped up in a room with a goody-four-shoes who's gonna tell me to follow the rules all the time.”

I huffed out a little laugh. “How's this for following the rules?” With a flick of my magic, I switched the little light beside my bed on, filling the room with a nice dim orange glow.

Two pairs of eyes stared up at my lamp, both of them looking shocked that I'd dare violate the sanctity of bedtime lights out. Of course, they didn’t know how long Pickle and Amber would be keeping each other busy in the tub.

“They're gonna see the light under the door!” Topaz hissed.

“Not from the bathroom, they aren't,” I said smugly.

Rose poked him in the side with her horn. “Now who's the goody-four-shoes?”

He pouted. “I just don't want to get in trouble on our first night here. And besides, what good is having a light? We can't do anything we didn't already do in the daytime.”

“Oh, I can think of something...” I let the word hang in the air for a moment. “Why don't you two come up on my bed, and I'll show you?”

Rose Gold gave me a piercing, quizzical look, then glanced back at Topaz, who blushed deeply, even though he didn't seem to know why. Maybe just because the filly he liked was looking at him.

But neither of them moved.

“Come on!” I said, pulling the covers off of myself and gesturing at all the empty space on my bed. It was big enough for a grown-up pony, so there was plenty of extra room. “We have to do it before they get out of their bath.”

“We have to do what?” Rose said, suspicion in her voice.

“Yeah,” Topaz added, completely innocently. “What? Are we all going to sleep in one bed now?” He did come over, though, carefully avoiding stepping on Rose's bed as he made his way over to mine. And by the time he climbed up on top of my big mattress, Rose was on her way, too.

Once they were on my bed – both of them sitting on their haunches and staring at me expectantly – I figured it was time to drop right into it. I grinned at them, savoring how much fun this would be. “We're going to practice kissing—” I gave Rose a significant glance “—and stuff.”

“W-with Rose?” Topaz blurted out.

Before I could answer him, Rose Gold huffed. “And what makes you think I need practice, little filly?” She looked at me disdainfully ... but also with a hint of challenge, like she was telling me I wouldn't dare tell.

Oh, but I would dare. Getting these young ponies together was obviously more important than keeping their silly little secrets. Finding them love was more important than protecting their egos.

I pointed right at Rose Gold. “Rose wants to find out what it's like to be with a colt, but she's afraid that she'll be bad at it.” Before Topaz could respond, I pointed to him, too. “And Topaz is just hopelessly in love with you, Rose.”

Both their mouths dropped open, but for a moment each of them had too much shock and outrage swirling inside to actually say anything.

“I'm not afraid!” Rose all but shouted.

Topaz hid his blushing face from her. “How could you say that? You promised!”

“Come on, you two!” I hopped over to their side of the bed and pressed them together with my hooves, side by side. The instant tension that caused in both of them was palpable. “This is the perfect opportunity! Don't you want to?”

“I never said I wanted to!” Topaz insisted.

But Rose just cringed down a little, looking away. “But what if I'm bad at it?”

“I'll teach you! See, just watch what I do with Topaz, and then you do the same thing, okay?” Without any more warning than that, I leaned forward, held the back of Topaz's neck with a hoof to keep him from backing away, and kissed him.

It was the first time I'd ever kissed a colt. Ever kissed anypony, really. I wasn't prepared for how nice and soft his lips would feel against mine, even as he stared at me point-blank in shock. And I really wasn't prepared for the way he stuck his tongue into my mouth. I'd never noticed that when watching my adoptive parents! But I went along with it, suckling at his tongue a little bit before offering him my own to play with. I had to pretend like it was completely normal and go along with it, or my already-tenuous reputation as an expert would be shattered and they'd never listen to what I was telling them.

When we separated, both of us were breathing a little heavier, and Topaz was blushing harder than ever before. He slowly turned and looked over at Rose, as if he still couldn't believe what had just happened to him.

Rose just stared right back at him.

“Your turn, Rose,” I prompted.

But still she didn't do anything.

Well, okay. What was good for one was good for the other, right? I wrapped my other hoof around the back of Rose's neck, drawing her closer in. She didn't react until my lips touched hers. At first, she only let out a little squeal of surprise, even though she must have seen me coming. But then that squeal turned into a moan. Her eyes drifted closed and she wrapped her hooves around me just like I had with her.

Rose didn't try anything with her tongue, but I could still feel all the repressed passion inside her trying to get out. She pressed so firmly, and she seemed desperate to explore every contour of my lips with her own.

“Great,” I said once we pulled apart. “But maybe don't push so hard. And, um, Topaz, maybe a little warning before you do that thing with your tongue, okay?”

Rose's starry-eyed look turned to sudden horror. “What thing with the tongue? Was I supposed to do something with my tongue?”

“You don't have to,” I assured her. At least I was pretty sure it wasn't necessary. I'd actually liked kissing her a little bit more than I'd liked kissing Topaz. That was something I could think about and come to terms with later. For now, I had something much more important to do. “Okay, now it's your turn. Kiss!”

“Just kiss? With a real colt? Just like that?” Rose bit her lip slightly.

Topaz, though, just stared at her, a mix of terror and need plain to see on his face. His eyes jittered side to side a little as his mind raced ... no doubt thinking of all the ways he could screw this up and make Rose hate him forever.

Of course, neither one of them made any move toward the other. Thankfully, though, I still had my forehooves around both of them. All I had to do was pull them together, pushing them into each other.

Their first kiss together was the most awkward one I've ever seen, even to this day. He was frozen like a statue, seeming too scared to make any action at all, while she was entirely too enthusiastic about it, smothering him with her lips and doggedly inserting her tongue in a desperate effort to do it the right way.

They pulled apart for a moment, and I feared that everything had gone terribly. But no. After a moment to process it, they both dove back toward each other. And their second kiss looked way better than their first. They were all over each other, pressing their bodies together and touching wherever they could with their hooves as they made out with a frenzy of sloppy but very enthusiastic kisses.

I just sat back and smiled, enjoying my work. It felt so great to see them together like this. I had to avoid touching myself, though. I usually did that while watching Mom and Dad, but that was when they couldn't see me. I didn’t think Topaz and Rose would understand if they saw me doing that ... at least not yet. It could ruin their moment.

It seemed like they wanted to go on like that forever ... I was impressed that they could even breathe like that. Didn't they have to come up for air sometime?

When they finally did separate, both of them turned to me. As one, they said, “Thank you!” and came toward me, both of them hugging against me at the same time.

It wasn't long before that hug devolved into a three-way kiss. I'd watched them for so long it made me miss doing it myself. First I kissed Rose again, and the moment I pulled back from her, Topaz was there to take her place. He was much gentler with his tongue this time, and I could actually enjoy the rough, slippery feeling of it against my own. And rather than be left out, Rose just pressed her mouth against both of ours, until we were all kissing each other at the same time. I'd never seen or even imagined anything of that kind, but I melted into it willingly, enjoying the two lovely young bodies against my own.

It was one of those bodies – Topaz's – that ended the lovely moment, though. “Woah!” Rose said, breaking apart from the two of us. “Something just touched me!” She looked down, then recoiled even more. “W-what is that thing?”

I pulled away from Topaz just enough to look down myself. Then I grinned. Rose really was that inexperienced, wasn't she? Good thing I was here to help. “That's his cock,” I told her. “It comes out when he's with a mare he likes, and then he can put it inside her.” I reached down and touched it, which made Topaz shudder a little bit. “It needs to get harder than this first, though.”

“That's supposed to go inside a mare, inside ... me?” She stared down at it still. “But it's so big!”

Sliding back on the bed so I could get lower and look at it closer, I ran my hoof down his floppy length and gave it a critical stare. “He's not that big.” In fact, it was a lot smaller than Pickle Park's cock ... though maybe it would get bigger? It was already growing a little bit and firming up as my hoof held it. “First we need to get it nice and hard.” I looked up at Rose from my position next to his cock. “You wanna suck it?”

“Suck it?” Rose pursed her lips, her eyes going wide. “Like ... with my mouth?”

“Yeah – it's great!”

“But...”

“Like this!” Leaning down just a little bit more, I opened my mouth and took Topaz's tip inside.

Topaz gasped, and the tip of his musky-tasting cock suddenly surged firmer and fuller inside my mouth. Rose Gold gasped as well, though not for the same reasons.

I ignored them both for the moment, though. For the first time ever, I had a cock in my mouth. I liked it! There was just something about that warm skin moving over my tongue, the weight of it in my hooves, and the way my lips stretched around the girth of it that just clicked for me. It felt as if I'd been missing out on this for years, even if I'd never known before what I was missing.

Eagerly, I gulped Topaz's cock down. If a little of it was good, more of it would be even better, right? Amber Gleam sure was able to take a lot more of it than I was right now, so I knew it had to be possible.

At first, it was great. His cock filled up even more of my mouth, and I felt the mass of his tip pressing up against the back of my throat, ready to be swallowed down. So I went for it. Immediately, I regretted it. That hurt! It made me want to gag and choke and spit it back up again. But I knew it had to be possible. Amber Gleam could take almost the whole thing when she wanted to! Keeping that firmly in mind, I shoved myself down on Topaz's cock, taking him deep, deep inside my throat.

But it only got worse ... and what finally made me give up was the way he stiffened inside my throat, his cock going rigid and swelling even bigger. I couldn't breathe! His cock was jamming my throat open so wide I could barely move!

Desperately, I pulled myself off of him, coughing and sputtering and leaving a trail of spit connecting my lips to his tip.

Both of them were staring at me. Topaz with a look of starry-eyed bliss and Rose with mounting horror.

“I ... I don't have to do that, do I?” Rose whispered.

“No, no, of course not,” I said, my voice hoarse and creaky. “Not everyone can be an—” I let out a series of tremendous coughs “—expert like me.” Despite how false that bravado was, the determination was growing inside of me to make it true. After that fateful night, I practiced every single day until I could deepthroat like a champ. Turns out it's pretty easy to find colts and stallions willing to let you suck them off, especially if you're as cute as I was when I was a filly. But that all came later. In the moment, I just told Rose, “You can just stop as soon as it gets uncomfortable. I'm sure he'd be happy even if you could only lick the tip, isn't that right, Topaz?”

His eyes shifted from me back to Rose, and he nodded fervently, his eyes going even wider.

“Well, okay...” Rose scooted down to my level in front of Topaz. “I guess it couldn't hurt to try a little bit.”

She started with just a hesitant little lick, but when that resulted in a very appreciative moan from Topaz, she grew bolder – sliding her tongue lasciviously up and down his shaft before taking his tip inside her mouth. She couldn’t get much more than just the tip, but Topaz didn’t seem to mind.

And even better, Rose actually started touching herself with her other hoof, surreptitiously slipped down between her hind legs. Wonderful! If she'd already figured out that much, the next parts would come more easily.

Despite the way his hooves trembled, he carefully and softly reached down to brush a little bit of Rose's cream-colored mane out of her face. “Oh wow,” he said breathlessly. “You have no idea how good that feels.”

“I know a way you could show her how good that feels!”

“Huh?” Topaz said, his eyes still not leaving the sight of Rose Gold suckling his tip.

But Rose popped up just a moment later, and with a much more intrigued-sounding “Hmm?”

“Yeah!” I said. “Rose, lie down on the bed and spread your hind legs out.”

For a moment, she looked at me as if I was a crazy pony, but soon she shrugged and did as I said. Good. She respected my 'expertise' enough to go along with it even if she thought it sounded weird. That was a great sign.

Once she was lying down on the bed, I turned to Topaz. “Now pay attention. You'll have to do this next. You have to return the favor if a mare sucks you. That's like ... a rule.”

He nodded and watched readily enough.

Satisfied that he'd be taking in every detail, I bent down between Rose's legs. Her cute little pussy was right there, spread open slightly to show a slit of deeper pink between the yellowish-pink outer lips. As I stared, her pussy winked open, briefly popping out a big pink bulb. What was that? I'd felt it against my own hoof when I'd touched myself before, and I knew it felt good to touch, but I still had no idea what it was called or what it was good for besides that. In fact, I was a little unsure about this whole part. I'd seen Pickle do this with Amber a few times, but his head always blocked my view. I had no way of knowing exactly what he was doing.

But I'd been staring and doing nothing for too long, and it stood to reason that if touching myself there felt good, getting licked there should feel good too, right? I was pretty sure I was supposed to lick her – on multiple occasions, Amber had loudly and insistently begged Pickle to 'lick me 'til I scream'.

A jolt ran through Rose's whole body when my tongue touched her little slit, but I kept going. Soon, I was sure that was the right thing to do because she moaned deeply and pressed her hips up, trying to push her little pussy closer against my face.

If she wanted more, I was happy to oblige. Nudging her lips apart with my muzzle, I licked right up through the middle of her hot pink, tangy-tasting slit. Right as I reached the top of it, that round nub winked out again, and it met against my tongue.

Rose let out a startled gasp when that happened, so loudly that I immediately yanked my head back.

“Oh my gosh!” Rose gasped out. “That last thing you did was so good! Do it again! Do it again!”

Instead of going back down there to do it myself, I looked over at Topaz. “No ... I think it's Topaz's turn. You saw what I did, right?”

He nodded solemnly.

“Well give it a try, then. If you do it enough, she'll feel really good.” I was confident of that after seeing it done to Amber Gleam a few times ... as well as my own experience with my hoof.

For a few moments, I watched his fumbling efforts at nuzzling his way into Rose's pussy, but I was soon distracted by the sight of his light blue rump stuck up in the air behind him ... not to mention that cock of his still rigid underneath his belly. Bigger than before, but still nowhere near as big as Pickle's... But maybe that made sense. Topaz was only a colt. Maybe his cock would get bigger just like the rest of him when he grew up.

In the meantime, though, I didn’t see why it should just stick out there in the air without anypony enjoying it...

Topaz started and turned his head around the moment he felt my mouth on his cock, but I waved a hoof at him to suggest that he should keep going with Rose. He went back to her easily enough, leaving me to enjoy his body.

This time, instead of trying to jam the whole thing down my throat, I worked my way around the outside, sliding my lips and tongue over and around his shaft everywhere I could reach. I just couldn’t get enough of feeling that big, firm, hot core of his cock surrounded by such soft, supple skin. I even traced my way all the way down to his balls and experimented with licking those, too.

He seemed to like that, if the way he moaned was any clue. And even better, Rose really seemed to like it when he moaned. I could feel her body jerk against the bed, making the whole thing shake, and a moment later she let out her own loud moan.

After that, things only grew and grew. Topaz started humping his hips forward against my mouth, and I happily let him fuck the little gap between my lips. Rose's cries and gasped breaths grew every louder and more desperate ... until she finally went quiet for a moment.

Just for a moment, though. When that brief moment of calm had passed, she screamed, squealing out her passion to my bedroom ceiling as her whole body convulsed, rattling my bed against the wall. Ooh – I hoped my adoptive parents wouldn't hear that!

Topaz jumped back away from her, so far that he pulled his cock away from my mouth at the same time. “Did I...?” He stared at her shaking body in horror. “Is she gonna be okay?”

“She's fine,” I said with more confidence than I really felt. I was pretty sure what I'd just seen. “That's normal ... and it means she really liked it. Right, Rose?”

She lifted one trembling hoof. “Mmm... Uh-huh. Oh my gosh, wow! What... What was that?” She took a few deep, heaving breaths, then managed to lift her head up and look at me. “Can we do it again?”

“Maybe sometime. But first, there's one more thing I want to show you.”

“More?” Rose flopped down onto the bed almost as if she'd fainted.

Topaz, though, slid up toward me, an almost manic smile on his face. “There's even more? Do I get to have fun this time?”

“You both do.” I smiled back. “Or maybe ... we both do. You wanna help me show Rose how it's done while she catches her breath?”

Topaz nodded his head so hard I thought I'd hear things rattling inside.

“Well, we should get off of the bed for this one.” I hopped down, positioning myself next to the bed where Rose would be able to see easily. Still though, I wanted to be sure. “Can you see me good enough, Rose?” I asked.

Rose turned her head toward me as Topaz hopped off the bed. She was still breathing heavily, but with longer, deeper, more relaxed breaths now. She'd probably be ready for another turn soon.

But for now, it was my turn. “Good,” I told her. “Now, Topaz, this might sound kind of weird, but unfortunately there just isn't any easy way to show you ... not without some other stallion here to do it.”

He came around in front of me ... closer than he'd normally stand. He was getting awfully comfortable around me, which was all for the better, probably.

“No,” I said, pushing him to the side. “Come around behind me. Then you're going to hop your front legs up and slide your chest up over my butt, okay? And then your cock is going to go inside my pussy.”

He was already halfway around behind me, but froze when I said that. “Your ... what?”

“That little pink slit under my tail. Sometime it winks open.” I consciously made my own pussy wink, just to show him. “Not my butt hole...” I definitely didn't want him sticking anything there, though I'd later learn how much fun that could be. “... The long up-and-down hole below it.”

“Here?” He said, touching my pussy with his hoof.

I stifled the little moan that wanted to come from my throat at the feeling of somepony else touching me there. “Yeah,” I purred. “That's the spot.”

“Oh. My sister calls that her vag. Or sometimes her cunt. Um ... mostly when she's yelling at me to stop staring at it.”

I smiled back at him and winked my pussy again. “Well, you can stare at mine all you want.”

“Mine, too,” Rose said softly from her spot on the bed.

“But for now, wouldn't you rather try putting your cock inside it?”

He gulped. “It can really go inside there?”

“Uh-huh!” I said confidently. That part I knew for sure. It seemed like that was Pickle and Amber's favorite thing to do with each other. Sometimes they skipped the other stuff, especially if they were in a hurry, but they always did that part.

“Okay ... here it goes...” He finally got into place right behind me, and without taking any time to appreciate the view of my raised tail and slightly-spread legs, he hopped right up onto my back, quickly scooting forward.

The tip of his cock – still wet with my spit – rubbed against the bottom of my pussy, making me gasp at the contact, but then it slid downward when he pushed, slipping down between my thighs.

“No, that's not quite the spot. Back up and try again.”

When he did, I held his cock in my magic, helping guide his tip to just the right spot, near the top of my slit ... just where I'd seen Pickle pushing into Amber so many times already.

Now that he had help, Topaz's tip pushed right against my pussy lips, quickly squeezing between them and spreading them open. And he just kept going! Thankfully, he was still pretty slippery from having my spit on him, or else it would have really hurt. Even as it was, it hurt quite a bit. Something seemed to tear inside of me as his cock rammed deeper and deeper inside, and he didn’t seem to care at all. Even as tears came to my eyes, he just groaned and shoved himself all the way in.

The pain was fleeting though. Before I'd even managed to say anything to him, he'd already thrusted in and out a couple times purely on instinct, and with every movement, that pain was replaced by pleasure.

At that age, I didn't really understand the significance of losing my virginity. I was just surprised how good it could feel to be stuffed full of a colt's cock deep inside me. It seemed to fit so perfectly in my pussy, touching me everywhere at once, even in places I'd never known I had.

And when his forehooves gripped hard against my sides and he bit down on the base of my mane to help him push harder, I couldn't help but let out a little moan. I could feel every contour and vein of his cock rippling in and out over the entrance of my pussy, and his big firm warmth moving deep inside me churned me in ways I'd never imagined before, lighting a fire deep inside me that has never really gone out since. Every thrust from him rocked me forward a little bit, and every time his little balls bumped against the bottom bulge of my pussy, it made me let out a little gasp.

“Um... Can I try that?”

Both of us froze for a moment. I opened my eyes – when had I closed them? – To find Rose Gold standing right in front of me, looking up and down between both of us. She held one hoof up in front of her nervously, and her tail was already flipped up high behind her back.

“Um... Of course you can.” I tried to ignore the desperate way my pussy winked around the base of his now-stationary shaft. Slowly, despite every instinct in my body telling me not to, I stepped forward, out from under Topaz. His cock slid out of me in a way that made my fur stand on end, finally plopping free just as he slid down off of my back.

Instantly, Rose took her place right next to me, bumping her side and her rump up against mine. She swished her tail back and forth in front of his face. “I'm ready, Topaz,” she said. “I want to finally know what it's like. Do it!”

Eagerly, Topaz leapt up onto Rose Gold's back, but before he could shove himself inside her, I gripped his tip with my magic. More than guiding him in this time, I held him in place, preventing him from pushing.

“Slowly,” I said with grave vehemence, remembering the way it had felt when he started with me. “You need to start really slowly and gently, or it will hurt.”

“Oh, um... Okay.” He glanced between me and the back of Rose's head. “Wait ... does that mean...?”

“I'll be fine. But you don't want to hurt Rose, do you?”

He winced, his whole body stiffening for a moment. “No! Not at all!”

“Then do it as slowly and gently as you can. Ask her when she's ready.”

He nodded gravely. “Um... Rose, are you ready to start?”

Rose looked back at me. “It's not going to hurt, is it?”

“You'll be fine as long as he's gentle with you.” I really hoped that was true. I felt like it would have been a lot easier for me if he'd done it slowly and gently instead of just shoving himself in. “Tell us if it hurts at all, and he'll stop.”

She took a deep breath ... but her tail rose up even higher, her pussy winking fervently underneath. “Okay ... I'm ready.”

The moment I released my magical hold enough to allow him, Topaz pressed forward. But to his credit, he immediately slowed to a glacial pace the instant his tip made contact.

“Oh ... oh wow,” Rose said. “It feels so big ... and so warm.”

“Uh-huh. Really nice, isn't it?” I licked my lips, wishing I could feel that again. Pain or not, I wanted that again. I wanted as much as I could get of it! “Okay, Topaz, push forward just a little.”

I watched, fascinated, as Rose's pussy lips spread open around Topaz's tip. I'd never seen it this slow or this close before, so I'd never before seen the delicate way her pussy lips bulged out or the little triangle of pink that remained on either side once the roundness of his cock pressed into her vertical slit. Both of them moaned as her pussy slowly swallowed just the first little bit of his tip.

Once he was fully inside, I touched his flank to stop him for a moment. “There, how does that feel?”

“T-that's it?” Rose looked back at me. “I ... I thought it would feel deeper than that.”

“This is just the beginning,” I told her, smiling. “But it's feeling good so far?”

“Yes! Oh Goddess, yes!”

My smile grew. “Okay, Topaz ... take it nice and slow, and stop if she shouts.”

He pushed, even slower than before, and I watched with more than a little bit of jealously as the sides of his shaft gradually slid past Rose's pussy lips, using my juices to make it all easier. I was tempted to touch myself again, but I didn’t want to miss a moment of this. I could always touch myself later. Maybe I could even get them to touch me later. For now, it was all about Topaz and Rose, as it should be.

And, thankfully, I turned out to be right. Eventually, Topaz got all the way inside Rose, and she'd never done anything more than stiffen slightly, so it couldn't have hurt much, if it did at all.

“There,” I said, reaching up to touch his sheath where it pressed against her pussy lips. “That's all of it. How's that feel, Rose?”

“It's ... it's... How is it even possible for something to feel this good?” She moaned when Topaz just shifted his weight slightly. “It's like ... like I've always been empty on the inside, and I finally found a way to fill it!”

Oh, I could remember that. And I wished it was still happening to me. “Yeah ... pretty great isn't it? Topaz, why don't you try moving a little?”

He did ... and with hardly any of the restraint he'd shown earlier. But Rose didn't seem to mind. She cooed out soft little moans every time his thighs came back to bump against her ass cheeks, and her whole body shuddered – her pussy winking madly – whenever he pulled out for another thrust.

Or maybe he had been using some restraint. Because the more he went, the faster he started going, losing all sense of rhythm and just jamming himself into her as much and as often as he could. Each time, he pushed hard at the end, as if trying to get even deeper, even though he was already hilted to his sheath.

“Cadance!” Rose gasped out, her eyes going wide. “It's... He's getting bigger! Deep inside of me, I can feel it! It's stretching me out! What's he gonna—?”

Before Rose could finish her question, her pussy finished Topaz. With one brutish final thrust, he locked himself against her, and I saw the tell-tale rhythmic pulsing of his sheath.

By that time, I'd seen what that meant. I'd seen Pickle cumming on Amber's face once, so I knew what was happening deep inside Rose Gold's pussy. I just wished that I could know what it felt like. From the way Rose shuddered, her eyes rolling up, I could tell it must be amazing ... but what would it feel like to have all that white stuff gushing out deep inside?

When the pulses finally slowed down to nothing, Topaz slumped down against Rose's body, his forehooves hugging her from behind. He nuzzled his face up against her neck, breathing deeply as he let her creamy mane flow over his nose. In a soft, whispering voice that wouldn't be audible if the room wasn't so quiet, he said, “I love you, Rose Gold.”

She turned her head and kissed him briefly. “I... I think I love you too, Topaz.”

The instant she said that, a bright flash came from behind me, startling all three of us. Had somepony opened my bedroom door? I turned sideways, looking back there to see what it had been, but there was nothing behind me.

Topaz slid off of Rose's back. “Cadance ... your cutie mark!”

Rose, her pussy still dripping white, darted over for a closer look. “Oh wow, it's amazing! So pretty!”

I craned my neck around to look at it myself. My eyes went wide. A crystalline blue heart, with two little gold frills underneath it. It was pretty! And it had finally happened! I finally got my cutie mark! And it was for helping ponies find love! How great of a talent was that! “Yes!” I shouted out loud. “I can't wait to show my friends!”

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