“Sorry to kick you out so quick yesterday.” Sunburst spoke from behind a stack of books, his voice barely carrying over, both a testament to the size of the pile of books and the timidity with which he spoke.

“It’s okay, I hoofed off when I got back to my quarters too.”

Shining heard a book thump onto the ground from the other side of the pile. Sunburst poked his blushing face around the stack to look at Shining. “Oh, we’re just being that forthcoming then?” His voice wavered as he looked around the empty library, apparently afraid some invisible pony was listening in.

“After you almost finished in front of me last night?”

Sunburst seemed to forget he wasn’t a turtle for a moment, his head shrinking back into his shoulders as though he expected it to recede. “I. I-I-”

“It was an intimate moment, it’s fine.” Shining stepped around the side of the pile to stand next to Sunburst, bringing his shoulder down to bump into his friends. “I got pretty worked up myself. We are both just a bit pent up.”

“Hehe. Yeah. You don’t even know the half of it.” Sunburst’s face was so red. Shining almost wanted to touch his cheeks to feel how warm they were.

“Slow time for you?” Shining chucked, almost worried he may touch a nerve, and exited at the prospect of doing so.

“You’ll have to tell me what It feels like to have sex in my body, let’s just say that.” Sunburst took another book off of the pile as he spoke casually.
“Sweet Celestia, Sunburst! I think I need to report you to psyche for self harm!” Shining almost felt his eyebrows raise off of his skull.

“I had to take the ammo from you before you used it.” Sunburst let out an awkward laugh as he leafed through the book he held.

“I know I’m harsh, but Luna’s stars I didn’t know you thought so low of me.” Shining leaned his head down, trying to look at Sunburst’s face to read his expression.

Sunburst let out another gentle laugh. “You can be kind of an asshole.”

“Woah woah woah, I am charming and caring.” Shining and Sunburst shared another gentle laugh. “Oh, but I did lie to you.”

The two of them stopped for a moment, letting the room quiet as Sunburst looked up to meet Shining’s gaze, eyebrows up in expectation.

“Yeah. Um. If you wanted to ask anyone what it would feel like to have sex in your body, you would actually have to ask Cadance.”

Another pause between them.

Sunburst spoke, “You’re both going to be me?”

“No.”

“Oh geez, are you going to be Starlight? Is that why you were asking about me and her?”

“Sunburst-”

“Oh man, wait, are you going to just stay as yourself!?”

The two of them stared at each other for a moment. The look on Shining’s face had to have been very obvious, or Sunburst had to have gotten better at reading faces, because understanding slowly crept into his expression.

“So you will be you...and you needed to see me...so you could help Cadance be me...so you could have sex with me…?” The gears were visibly turning with each segment of the sentence.

“I’m sorry for lying.” Shining tried to keep his voice even.

“It doesn’t really change the pretext of me letting you look at me…” Sunburst pontificated aloud.

“I really just didn’t want to have to talk about-”

“You’re gay?” Sunburst let the question fall like a guillotine.

Shining paused a moment, leaning back to sit on his haunches before responding. “I think. Maybe. I guess all of this is part of being sure.”

“How does Cadance feel?”

Shining looked up to see the worry in Sunburst’s eyes. He hated having people feel worried for him. “I still love her. I still find her attractive too, that much I know for sure. I think she just wants to help me figure things out. I’m lucky. A lot of guys in my position would be left with these questions forever.”

“Unless they decided to cheat.” Shining didn’t like that being out there.

“Either way. I get to try out my fantasies a bit. I’m really lucky to have a wife as loving and talented, and I’m really lucky to have a friend as understanding as you.” Shining rubbed his hoof on the back of his neck.

“And attractive, apparently, right?” Sunburst was taking the reigns on this one, Shining could already feel it.

“Hehe. Um…” Shining knew he had lost as soon as he found himself without a response.

“Come on now. I let you oggle me up and down, and you can’t even say to my face that you think I’m attractive?” Sunburst moved to sit next to Shining, bumping his side against him. “If you can’t admit it, then I might just not let you get a peek again.” There was a cutting playfulness to the end of this sentence that Shining truly didn’t know how to react to.

“Yeah. I’m used to, like, guard ponies. Big and burly, you know. But earlier this week, when I saw you in your hut, the way you moved with your cloak off...I like the way you look. It made me rethink the way I think of stallions.” Shining didn’t need to feel Sunburst’s cheeks anymore, his own cheeks must’ve been just as hot.

“I can turn stallions gay but can’t get a mare. Sheesh.” Shining could feel Sunburst chuckle next to him. “I didn’t know I was such a catch.”

“Oh for sure. If Cadance hadn’t given me a blowjob before she left, I would’ve probably cum just from looking at you like that.” Shining could feel Sunburst tense next to him. He had the high ground again. Still embarrassed himself, he decided to be punitive. Without looking over to see Sunburst’s reaction, he went on, “more than looking at it, which your dick is just as nice as your body, might I say, It was the smell. It was really...rich down there, between your legs. Knowing each of my little breaths was bringing you closer and closer. If I had been backed up just a few more days, Sunny, smelling the salty tinge of the precum you had dripping from the tip, that would’ve driven me wild”

Shining finally looked over at his friend sitting next to him, unsurprised to find that he was hunched slightly, an erection sticking prominently forward from his legs where he sat. Shining had slid out of his sheath by this point as well, but Sunburst’s cock already twitched with his heartbeat.

Without looking up, Sunburst spoke somewhat raggedly, “Hey Shining…”

“Yeah, buddy,” Shining admired the slightly shallow breathing, pleased to see that he could have such an effect on his friend.

“The...the door is locked, right?”

“Um. Yeah, it is. Why?”

Sunburst still didn’t look up as his horn began to glow softly. His aura wrapped itself around the pink dappled head of his cock and began to slowly snake its way up, blobbing around his head, already beginning to flare, and then slowly dragging its way down, pulling the skin taut around the head of his cock as it went, leaving itself sitting around his medial ring, squeezing at it before repeating the motion. Up and down and up and down.

Shining stepped to the side to look at Sunburst more head on, and Sunburst reciprocated. He shimmied his cloak off of his shoulders and leaned back against the pile of books behind him. He brought his hooves up to feel around his chest and run through his mane as his aura continued to work. He began to gyrate his hips a bit as another strand of his aura snaked its way under his balls, delicately rolling his orbs as his breathing got only more and more rushed and shallow.

Getting more bold, he brought a hoof down and raised his left leg up and to the side, giving Shining a view of his ass as he continued to jerk himself off in front of his friend. Shining didn’t dare move. He had been bested. In the game of being more willing to say something lewd, there was no beating masturbating in the open. He let his cock ache in front of him as he simply observed.

Sunburst began to let out soft moans, his chirpy voice raising an octave as he responded to his own ministrations. Building to a coup de gras, another light of his aura began to shine, this time glowing around his perineum. Shining watched, his mouth slightly agape, as Sunburst’s aura began to massage at his taint, finding a steady rhythm with his own strokes. The room was silent save for the sound of Sunbursts aura gliding up and down his cock, at this point accompanied by the soft schlicks of his precum lubricating the process. His cute moans acted as punctuation for this process, cooing more and more as he got closer. He opened his eyes to look at Shining just a moment. “Step back.”

Not knowing what was going to happen, and completely at the whims of his friend at this point, Shining leapt to his feet, his cock bouncing against his belly, and stepped back and to this side. Just in time too, as Sunburst grimaced and arched his back deeply before thrusting his hips a few times into his own aura, shooting several thick ropes of cum out to glitter in the air before pittering onto the cold crystal floor of the library. After the first few, a few secondary spurts of cum leaked out and messed their way around the head of his cock. He let out a few shuddering breaths as he sighed deeply.

The two of them sat for a moment in the afterglow. Both deathly aware of the scenario. Shining was enamored with watching Sunburst’s cock slowly slide back up, lazily retracting back up into his sheath. “You reap what you sew.” Sunburst spoke through his tired breaths.

“H-h-” Shining couldn’t even get words to form. He was shocked at his friend.

“It’s a sneak peak for what you’ll see tomorrow from your wife. I don’t like the precedent where you can just try to turn me on and face no consequences, so from now on, if you turn me on I’ll just take care of it.” The way Sunburst spoke was awfully matter-of-fact considering his cum stained cock was only just now folding back in.

“I...Sunburst…”

“You can’t even pretend to be offended. Put yours away though. Unlike you, I’m not expecting to fuck my best friend tomorrow, so I find you being erect right now rather inappropriate.” Sunburst chuckled to himself as he stood, putting his cloak back on. “I am going to get something to clean this up. Keep sorting, if you don’t mind. You’ll have to let me know how well Cadance acts like me when she cums.”

Shining could only stand and stare.

Author's Note

Back from hiatus. This next chapter might take a bit longer, but isn't a hiatus as much as this next chapter being a bit beefier.