Even though the words were beginning to blur on the page, Shining Armor stuck to his book, reading the tedious paragraphs full of crucial names and dates over and over again. He propped his head up on his hooves, staring at the impenetrable doldrum of The Royal Canterlot Guardspony’s Guide to Equestrian History. He was expected to somehow remember everything in this entire book if he was going to ace the final training exam to become a fully fledged Royal Guard. And not just pass it. If he wanted any chance at the higher ranks, he’d better get almost every question right. Hence, studying it even though the minutia of thousands of years of history was boring him to tears and he could barely force himself to read another line.

Just then, though, a very welcome distraction slipped into his bedroom.

“Cadance!” Shining leapt up from his desk and rushed to her, clinging to her neck as if to save himself from drowning as he nuzzled into her mane – that ponytail of hers was irresistibly cute!

She laughed a little. “Nice to see you again, too. I see you missed me for the thirty minutes I was gone.” And when he didn’t let go, she laughed a little more. “Are the books that bad?”

He still clung to her, enjoying her warmth and the soft silkiness of her pink fur. So much better than those books. “You have no idea...”

“Oh, I think I might have some idea. After all, I studied quite a bit under Princess Celestia, and she’s not shy about assigned reading, either.” Cadance looked at the thick tome on Shining’s desk and scrunched her nose. “At least she usually had better taste in reading material, though.”

Finally, Shining let go of his secret girlfriend, standing on his own four hooves again, rather than hanging off of her neck and shoulders ... but he still nuzzled the back of her mane. So nice... How did she always manage to smell so good, even after a long evening of babysitting?

“Finally got Twilight tucked in for the night,” Cadance said casually, conversationally ... but with a little wink.

But Shining knew it meant so much more... For one thing, it meant that his sister wasn’t really asleep. She never went to sleep at bedtime. She’d be under the covers, reading some book of magic by the light of her own horn. But that in turn meant that Twilight wouldn’t be bothering them. With a normal filly, there would always be the chance of her getting out of bed for something. Not with her – she’d be too worried about her nocturnal reading habits being discovered, so she’d be sure to stay right where she was. Which meant he and Cadance would be effectively alone, undisturbed for the next couple of hours until his parents came home. And that meant...

But he had responsibilities now. As much as he wanted to throw those responsibilities to the wind, he could never be that kind of pony. He always did things by the book. That’s why his training commander liked him so much. “I, uh, really need to study for this, though. It’s important. And the test is tomorrow!”

Cadance backed up a pace, looking him piercingly in the eyes. Wow, those eyes of hers. He could just drown in those depths if he let himself. And she knew it. “Come on, Shiney,” she said, her tone teasing as if she already knew how this was going to go. “I know you want to. And who knows when will be the next time both your parents will be out of town? How long will it be before I’m here babysitting again?”

“I know, I know. And believe me, I want it so much!” Shining shook his head. “But I just can’t let anything distract me right now. I’ve been falling behind on learning this stuff as it is, and—”

A flash of magic. Three slips of paper appeared in midair, hovering in front of him within Cadance’s magical aura.

One free back rub and massage♥
One free anal pounding♥
One free THOROUGH tongue-bath in the shower♥

He looked back into her eyes, his jaw dropping. “Wow, three coupons... Big spender tonight, huh?” He could already feel the slight tingling pressure along his spine, the slight tightening of his chest, the restlessness in his legs. The magical compulsion of the hex baked into these coupons was already affecting him.

“You’re going to do it, aren’t you?”

He shook his head. “Why did I ever let you enchant those sex coupons with Starswirl’s Unbreakable Hex?”

“Because that’s the only way you could get me to give you a blowjob under the school bleachers even though you were still all sweaty from hoofball practice.”

“Oh, right...” Come to think of it, though, that had totally been worth it...

Cadance came alongside him, reaching one hoof under his belly to gently stroke his cock as it began to emerge from his sheath. “Now you’d better get started on that back rub if you want to finish all three before your parents get home. Wouldn’t it be so awkward if they caught you in the shower with the babysitter?”

“I was just being responsible and conserving water!” Taking advantage of her closeness, he nuzzled that spot just above the base of her tail, the little spot he knew drove her crazy ... and always made her tail shoot up high.

Giggling, Cadance moved past him, giving him a gorgeous view under her rising tail as she threw herself onto his bed. “Always so practical and responsible. I love that about you.” She glanced back at him, her eyes half-lidded and partly veiled behind her mane, which was already beginning to come loose from the ponytail after he’d been nuzzling it so much. “Now come over here and rub my back like your dignity depends on it.”

He chuffed out a little laugh. “It does. Why did I ever let you set ‘confess your most embarrassing secret to Celestia in an official royal audience’ as the punishment for breaking the hex?”

She looked away again, but swished her tail playfully behind her. “Because that’s the only way you could get me to invite those nice fillies from the cheerleading squad over and—”

He pounced on her before she could finish, and she squealed in glee.

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