Sprout's Second Chance

As there were now five mouths to feed, Izzy had to consider lunch more carefully.

"Well, if we wanted to forego the whole 'spoonfeeding' thing for one meal, how about pizza?" Sunny suggested as they sat around the dining table, with Sprout having his turn in the high chair. His smile widened at the thought of the favorite food he hadn't had in almost a week.

"Sounds good to me, if we all want to pitch in. What do you girls like on yours?" Izzy asked, getting out a small pad and a pen.

"Supreme for me!" Zipp said, and Sprout immediately nodded in agreement. Best kind of pizza on the planet.

"Pile it with as many different kinds of cheeses that you want, but only cheese," Pipp said.

"Now we're talking. Four-cheese," Sunny replied, licking her lips.

"Don't know about all of you, but mine has to be pineapple," Izzy said.

"A-ha!" Sprout exclaimed. "I knew at least one of you would be a pizza heathen!" He said, sticking his tongue out playfully.

"Alright, I'm probably going to let you out of that high chair for a bit while we wait on delivery, but let's do a large supreme for Sprout and Zipp, a large four-cheese for Pipp and Sunny, and lastly, a personal size pineapple for yours truly, the heathen," the unicorn finished, sticking her tongue out at Sprout. True enough, she lifted Sprout out of the high chair and shoo'd all of them over to the living room while she placed the order by phone. After that, she joined the two pegasi on the couch while Sunny and Sprout played on the floor, seeing who could build the taller tower of wooden blocks.

"Say, Izzy," Sprout began, carefully placing his eighth block onto his tower. "I don't know how long you were planning on staying in town, but when you do head home, I... I was wondering if I could come with you. I'd like to see Bridlewood," Sprout told his foalsitter.

"Now that you mention it, yeah, I was going to be heading home for a bit at the start of next week. We'll have to check with your mom to see if you can tag along. I'd love to show you around Bridlewood," Izzy replied, and Sprout smiled.

"And we'd love to have you back in Zephyr Heights, Sunny," Pipp told her friend down on the floor. "You could see more of the castle than the dungeon and concert hall. And, well, if you like, you can absolutely bring your ageplay stuff, I can give you more than enough privacy for that."

"Are you sure?" Sunny asked, adding her seventh block to her tower.

"Certainly. It feels like we haven't seen you in a while, and now that we're not running for our freedom, it's a great opportunity to take in our city."

"I mean, sure, I can be ready to go by Monday," Sunny replied.

"Whoo, road trips!" Izzy cheered.

Sprout's tower was one block higher when it came toppling down, and the top block tumbled over to where Sunny's block tower was, and also sent it tipping over.

"No fair!" Sunny objected.

"Totally counts!" Sprout replied, grinning in victory. Sunny stuck her tongue out in response.

Zipp was a bit mystified. Sure, it had been a couple weeks since she had last seen Sunny, but she had really gotten into this role play; she had never seen her earth pony friend act so... Infantile. For a moment, she was surprised that her sister hadn't started livestreaming, and then immediately realized that doing so would have most certainly been a blatant invasion of privacy.

As the two adult foals were picking up their blocks, the doorbell rang, and Izzy got up, answered it, and came back into view with a stack of pizza boxes.

"Lunch is served, everypony back to the kitchen!"

The other four ponies were on their hooves and trotted to the kitchen, two of them crinkling with every step. Sprout was lifted into the high chair with the tray clicking into place immediately afterward, and a plastic plate being set in front of him, followed by a slice of hot, fully loaded supreme pizza.

"Now that's what I'm talking about," Zipp commented as she plated up a couple slices for herself. Pipp and Sunny each took two slices of the four-cheese pizza, and Izzy merely kept the smaller personal pizza box in front of her at her place at the table. She then glanced over to the counter and poured glasses of soda for herself and the two pegasi, while giving Sunny and Sprout two sippy cups of apple juice.

"Now, Sprout, assuming you can come along, I'm going to have to insist that you follow the same rules that you do here when it comes to this," Izzy began, after swallowing her first bite. "Which means you're free to foal out when you're in my house, but on the way there, as well taking in the sights, you're back to an adult. I just wanted to make that clear."

"Yup, I'm not about to show this to all the unicorns in your hometown. I know not everypony would immediately get it or understand it," Sprout answered as he started into his piece of pizza after taking a drink from his sippy cup.

"And you don't need to say it," Sunny said over to Pipp. "I'll be going by the same rules. Not really into exhibition or showing this new side of myself to absolutely everypony."

Pipp gave her a soft smile.

"Nothing wrong with keeping it behind closed doors, Sunny. I'm just glad you're willing to share it with your friends," Pipp told her.

"Just, one question. From the moment I decided to try this, Izzy has been there every step of the way. I've never, well, changed myself or anything like that..." Sunny said, blushing slightly.

"Well let's cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, let's eat!"