Author's Note

This is a direct continuation of its prequel, Starlight Glimmer Is A Hopelessly Oblivious Lesbian And We All Love Her For It. I highly recommend starting there.

Starlight Glimmer Nearly Doesn't Get All The Mares

“Y’know…” Ellie trailed off. “Considering all the feelings flying around this room right now…”

She unclasped an arm from around the still half-catatonic Starlight and turned to sit down on the bed, right between her and Trixie. She placed a hand on Trixie’s thigh. She smiled at the blue unicorn, whose look back was a mix of surprise and slight confusion. She then faced forward to look beyond the edge of the bed over at Maud, who was still standing at her desk. She had her head turned to face Ellie, showing that she had her attention. Her eyes were half-lidded and expressionless, as always.

Ellie was about to say something that could end very badly. Or very well.

“Foursome?”

“Ellie!” Starlight shouted angrily, suddenly finding herself. “That’s the fourth mean joke you made out of this! Are you sure Twilight was your friendship teacher? It seems like she did a way worse job with you than she did with me!”

“But I—” Ellie’s stomach dropped as she instantly regretted the first three cracks at Starlight’s expense she had made. She was not in a very good position for making her case now.

“I’m sorry, Starlight! I know it—” She stopped herself and re-calibrated. “I’m sorry, Starlight. I shouldn’t have made fun of you like that. I just…“ Ellie laughed nervously. “Oh, God, I sound like a children’s show character right now… I, like, made fun of you because I like you? You get so easily flustered and frustrated and it’s, just like, cute, you know? It’s fun to rile you up like that.“

“What?…”

“I mean, that’s not all, you know?” Ellie continued. “You care so much about your job, and you’re running a whole school! Responsibility is hot. Not to mention that little blazer you put on? I mean wow. And it doesn’t mean the same thing to you ponies as it does to me, but the fact that you walk around with just the blazer on is…”

Starlight looked down as if realizing for the first time that she was, indeed, still wearing her headmare blazer from earlier in the day. She tried to cover herself with her forelegs.

“Are you coming on to me right now?” she said, incredulous. “I really have to add a skirt to this thing,” she muttered too low to hear.

“Well, uh, I guess? That last part about you not wearing pants was pretty forward, huh? Sorry about that!” Ellie was sincere. “Like, I meant to just confess that I was into you, like Maud and Trix just did.”

“Wh-what?”

Starlight seemed overwhelmed.

“B-but why are you telling me this? Don’t you see how that makes things worse?”

“What?”

“You just saw Trixie and Maud tell me that we could have had something but didn’t, you saw how I reacted, and you decided to join in on that? That’s just cruel. You’ve only known me for, like, three moons!”

“I…” Ellie grimaced. She had miscalculated worse than she had thought. Thankfully, Maud saved her.

“I don’t think Ellie meant it as a joke.”

“Maud! You know that when you do deadpan, I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.”

“I’m not.” Maud said.

She climbed up onto the bed and sat down, about to continue addressing Starlight.

“Wait. Hold on.”

Maud got back off the bed, then walked over to her dresser. She pulled a small drawer whose inside was lined with silk pillows, took a rock from her pocket, placed it inside, then closed the drawer.

“Boulder doesn’t need to hear this,” Maud explained as she got back on the bed. She continued.

“There are twelve one-way attractions between the four of us. Between what was said earlier, Ellie’s very clumsy and bad come-on, and your not-rejection, that makes eight. Here are two more.”

She turned to look at Ellie, still with that half-lidded, expressionless expression.

“Ellie. Trixie. I am attracted to you both.”

It was the most romantic thing Ellie had ever heard.

“That leaves two.”

All eyes were on Trixie.

“Well… Trixie certainly appreciates being the object of desire of everypony here,” she said smugly, closing her eyes. Then she opened them to the unamused expression on everypony’s faces.

“Okay, fine,” Trixie admitted. “I wouldn’t mind being taken care of by anypony in this room.”

“I think that’s the most we’ll get out of her!” Ellie chuckled.

Starlight was, if anything, even more lost now.

“But… Why are we even talking about this? All three of you already have partners!”

“Yes.” Maud agreed. “So there must be reasons none of us have objected.“ She blinked. “Mudbriar does not see the logic in getting upset about things I do that do not affect my feelings for him.”

“And what do you think Rarity is doing on that trip of hers?” Ellie asked rhetorically. “She has a mare in every port! Sometimes she brings me along to share, like with Coco Pommel in Manehattan.” She smiled as if lost in memory. “I think she’d be more upset at me if I passed up something like this.”

Trixie spoke up next. “Well… Trixie knows that you see her Great and Powerful Coltfriend as a brother, so she doesn’t want to go into too much detail about this, but let’s just say that he would more than not mind if this happens.”

Starlight’s jaw was agape. “Wh— Wh— Wh—”

“I mean, it sounds like we’re all set.” Ellie smiled, and looked at Trixie and Maud in turn before facing Starlight again. “Unless you don’t—”

“No! I mean, yes! I mean, please, yes, Idefinitelywantthisplease! Please!” Starlight was not even trying to hide her desperation.

Ellie was bouncing with hardly contained excitement, which Maud noticed.

“Ellie, please don’t say anything weird to ruin the mood. I am very aroused right now.”

“What? No! I was just going to suggest where to begin!“ Ellie said, offended. “I mean, doesn’t it make the most sense to start by focusing on Starly here?”

Starlight’s eyes glimmered.

“I— I—“ She gulped. “That sounds nice.”