Love and Sex

Nighttime had fallen in Ponyville, and most of the ponies who had been out for the past few days enjoying the changing of seasons were inside. It was late enough that most were either asleep or getting ready for bed, but there were a few houses with the lights still on. Although the castle loomed tall and had many windows, only one of them had light emerging from it.

Spike and Sweetie Belle were sitting on his bed cuddling each other, one of their favorite things to do together as a couple. Spike had told Twilight that he had brought his marefriend over to view his comic collection. Even though Twilight raised an eyebrow and mentioned that she didn't think that the unicorn would be very interested, she promised that she wouldn't disturb them.

It was Sweetie Belle that had first told Spike that she loved him, which certainly surprised the dragon. His attention was always toward Rarity, and so he had never given her a second glance until her confession. He agreed to go out on a date with her and it was one of the greatest decisions he had ever made. The first kiss they had that night made Spike feel like there were fireworks going around his head, and he finally understood why Big Mac always had a goofy look on his face after a date with Sugar Belle. Sweetie Belle took after her sister a lot in many different ways. She was very kind and generous and always knew how to make him smile. In addition, she had a beautiful and soft white face that he always liked to make red with compliments and kisses and an amazing figure that made Spike feel insanely lucky, although he would never tell her that to her face.

After a few weeks of secretly dating, Sweetie Belle told Spike that she felt bad for hiding their relationship from her best friends, and Spike agreed that they should know. So one day after school, they went to tell Apple Bloom and Scootaloo in the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse. Both just shrugged it off and said that they sort of already knew, although they seemed disappointed that Sweetie Belle was the first of them to get a boyfriend. Twilight was the next pony that Spike and Sweetie Belle had told about their relationship. After a month of sneaking around together, Twilight became suspicious when Spike's excuses for leaving the castle kept piling up. She was definitely surprised but assured them that she supported their relationship and commented on how grown up her assistant was getting.

Little did they know that Spike thought the same thing about himself.

They had now been semi-public for three months, and Spike was ready to take that next big step with her. Sweetie Belle had made it clear that she wanted to start slow since it was her first real relationship, but that didn't stop her from flirting with him a bit. They had hugged, kissed, and cuddled a bit, but had never really had the conversation about taking the next big leap before. It didn't matter to Spike, though, because he was a dragon of action.

After showing his girlfriend his comic book collection for a full two minutes, they lay on his bed and started a cuddling session. Just as Twilight predicted, his marefriend had shown no interest in the books and had kept her emerald eyes on him the whole time, and absentmindedly nodded in agreement as he described a few. Eventually, Spike gave up his lesson and sat down next to her. They had been cuddling for a little bit now and Spike saw the regular red blush overtake his sweetheart's muzzle.

Seeing this as his chance, Spike smirked and put a claw under it by her chin. To her surprise, he then lifted her face closer to him and gave her a kiss on the lips. Startled for only a second, her eyelids fell down and she melted into the kiss. The two separated a minute later and Spike saw the cute little smile that indicated she wanted more, and he naturally obliged. They tenderly brought their lips together again and this time Spike felt bold. He slipped his tongue in between his lover's lips and felt no pushback. Soon her tongue was swirling around his and rubbing around the insides of both their mouths. Sweetie Belle's lips were so smooth and light and it made the kissing experience feel even better. The lavender perfume she was wearing only served to drive Spike crazier and he felt his erection starting to grow.

They then parted again and Spike's partner did something he wasn't expecting. She put her hands on Spike's chest and gently pushed him to the mattress so that she was now lying right on top of him. The two remained silent but said everything with their eyes. The green light went off in Spike's head as his marefriend lowered her head to peck at his two cheeks before bringing the attention back to his lips. His arms reached around his marefriend's back to pull her even closer and positioned her so that they could make out easier. She gave a little squeak as she was pulled closer, but had no reaction otherwise. Now Spike felt both the comfort of the soft bed beneath him and the comfort of his princess laying above him. He loved everything that his unicorn lover was doing right now. They had only ever gone this far, and even then only once or twice when they were feeling very bold, and now Spike was feeling bolder than ever.

Nervously, he brought one of his hands that had been on Sweetie Belle's back and slowly cupped her left breast. Instead of pulling away and yelling at him or even slapping him like he thought she might, she only paused the kissing for an instant to moan. He took this as a sign to keep going and started to massage her boob, moving it in circles and lightly squeezing it. His efforts were rewarded with small moans and squeaks from his partner in between kisses, and when he lightly brushed her nipple she inhaled sharply and tried to suppress a big moan, but failed.

Spike was in heaven at this point. Sweetie Belle's tit was so soft and she seemed to like what he was doing with it. Even though there was a shirt and bra that separated them, this was his first time actually touching a girl's breast. He reached over to the other one and gave it a similar treatment, receiving a similar response. He did not want to hurt his marefriend, so he just moved slowly and tried to listen for any warning signs from her, but only receiving noises of pleasure, he decided to see what else he could do with her.

Taking the hand from her breast, he slowly traced her side from her ribs down to her hip and grabbed onto it. He wanted to continue the journey down to her lower body, and he decided in order to do that they should change positions to give him full access to her body.

He took his other hand and put it on Sweetie Belle's exceedingly red face to keep kissing her while they changed positions. He guided her to the side of him so that they were now both lying on their sides and were level with each other. Now his cock was starting to feel very painful inside of his pants and he decided that now was the time to start moving even farther.

He guided the hand from her hip and cupped her butt with it. Again, there was no response from Sweetie Belle except to arch her back a bit and kiss him even harder. Spike had always known that she had a really great butt and always snook peeks at it when it was turned in his direction. For a girl who was in great shape, she had a really soft backside, and when he clutched to it the flesh seemed to move wherever he wanted.

Spike was on cloud nine, and it seemed to him that Sweetie Belle was too, so after only a minute of playing with her rear, he reached his claw out to the bottom of her t-shirt and slowly started to pull up.

He only got to her belly button when she pulled away.

"Spike, what are you doing?" she asked, shocked.

Startled, Spike stared back. "Uh, well, weren't we making out?"

"Well, yeah, but then you started pulling up my shirt. You know I'm not ready for that kinda thing."

"But I thought it was going really well."

Sweetie Belle narrowed her eyes. "Did you seriously think we were about to have sex?"

Spike knew he should just apologize and let it go for the sake of his girlfriend, but he was too horny and unsatisfied to care. "So what if I did? You seemed alright with where we were going just a minute ago."

That seemed to light a fire in his girlfriend. She got up from the mattress and glared at her boyfriend. "I can't believe you! We're barely legal age in Equestria and I've never even been naked in front of a boy before. The least you could do is show more consideration for your marefriend!"

"I've shown plenty of consideration," Spike barked back. "So tell me, when will it be long enough for you?"

"I don't know," Sweetie fired back, turning away. "We need to talk about these things before we rush into them. It's still way too early to be thinking about this...kind of thing." She turned back to stare at him. "I thought you were a different kind of guy that didn't just want me to take my clothes off anytime you want."

That was a big blow. Spike furrowed his eyebrows at her, turned around on his bed, and crossed his arms with a huff. A minute passed in stifling silence before a groan was heard.

"I've got to go, it's getting late."

"Fine," Spike said, flicking his wrist towards the door. This seemed to make Sweetie Belle even madder and she quickly exited the room, shutting the door loudly behind her.

"Damn," Spike groaned, completely dissatisfied. "So close."

After a night that made it hard for him to sleep until he took a cold shower way too late, he woke up with a lot less energy than normal. The fight with Sweetie Belle did nothing to help him and he carried on with his daily chores almost robotically. Twilight and Starlight both commented that he looked like death, and he gave them both a sarcastic chuckle in response.

Besides fatigue, his biggest feeling was angry confusion.

"Why doesn't she just want to let this happen? She seemed fine with where we were going!"

The more he thought about it, the madder he felt toward her. He could not understand her reluctance and felt that she was cockblocking him. He knew that it was still her decision, but he was disappointed that she was only willing to go so far and not push the boundaries anymore.

Maybe it was just the hormones talking, but he still felt that he needed to lose his virginity.

Then an idea hit him. It was so horrible and so risky yet so brilliant and so exciting that he almost dropped the broom he was sweeping with. Spike knew that Sweetie Belle would feel awful if he went through with it, but it felt like the only option so that they would both be happy.

Spike was going to cheat on his marefriend.

If she never found out, then she could take her time and wait until the time was ready and, meanwhile, Spike would be satisfied that he had at least laid one mare. Spike's hormonal mind was going crazy with the thought of getting a beautiful mare to have sex with him and his girlfriend's feelings quickly faded into the back of his head.

With that small detail ignored, Spike ran to his bedroom and started to think about who he would ask to have sex with him, but he soon found himself with few options.

Spike ruled out anyone his age right away. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo were too close to Sweetie Belle to trust not to blab to her right away, and most of the other young mares around his age were either not appealing to Spike or in relationships.

He then started to think of older mares he was close with, which, luckily for him, there was plenty of due to the town's crazy gender ratio. Although he wanted to pick a girl he knew relatively well, he knew it would be an insane risk to ask any of the elements. Unfortunately, all of them were beautiful in one way or another, and so pubescent Spike narrowed his search down to all of them, with the exception of Twilight since she was more of a sister figure to him.

He wanted his first to be a pony who was curvy since that was the type of woman he was always attracted to, and he decided that his best bet was either Rarity or Fluttershy, both of which were equally pretty and risky.

Fluttershy was a bit of a safer bet when it came to secrecy, and she was debatably more beautiful than Rarity was. While Spike never looked her way in a romantic sense like Rarity, like with most mares he had seen recently, he had caught himself looking at her in a dirty way, and Fluttershy definitely had plenty to look at. The biggest problem was that asking Fluttershy for something like that might make her afraid of him forever, and even though a part of him knew what he was doing was terrible, he did not want to lose friends over his little problem. On top of that, he figured Fluttershy would not be that experienced with sex seeing how shy she was.

Spike then thought about Rarity. Even now that he was passed his puppy dog days of following her around everywhere, he still held a bit of a flame for her. He also knew that Rarity was at least competent in sex based on the conversations he had overheard between her and Twilight, so that was a plus.

Plus, he knew Rarity might be more open to the idea, and there was one big reason why.

For some reason when Spike got older, Rarity still liked to tease him, but it was like how she teased a boy toy love interest. She had sometimes asked his opinions on how beautiful she and other mares were and would joke about how he was getting to the age where he would look at the girls in his life differently. There was even one time when Rarity told him that if he ever needed help with something love-related to let her know. Spike was sure she meant romantic love, but the more he thought about it, the more hope grew.

There was one huge problem, however. Sweetie Belle had likely told her older sister about their relationship, and while the unicorn never mentioned the relationship to him, Spike knew how protective Rarity could be of her little sister, even if they didn't always get along. Asking Rarity to take his virginity could be a death sentence in both his friend and romantic relationships.

After careful consideration of both, the horny dragon decided to pick what he thought at the time was a safer and better bet. Rarity was his pick, and he prayed it wouldn't backfire.

He figured that at the very least, Rarity would be able to forget about it and forgive him, and he felt it wouldn't hurt to test out the waters. Rarity was definitely worth it.

Quickly, he ran out of his room, down the stairs, and out of the castle doors. It was still the early afternoon and he wanted to get in and out of Carousel Boutique before the Cutie Mark Crusaders got out of school and he ran into Sweetie Belle. He still didn't want to run into her after the fight they had the previous night, especially not right when he was about to go see her older sister. The sun shined down on his scales and he struggled not to get any hotter than he already was over the embarrassment he felt over what he was going to ask Rarity. He shook his head as he picked up the pace down the main road in Ponyville until the boutique came into view.

When he got to the Dutch door he stopped and paused. He rose his claw and paused before knocking.

"Is this really a good idea? Rarity probably knows about my relationship and probably would tell me that a gentledrake needs to stay dedicated to his lover."

He remembered the beautiful green and yellow pony on the cover of his favorite Playcolt issue. Then he pictured Sweetie's scowl from the night before, and how she had stopped things just as they were getting in motion. As much as he loved his marefriend and wanted to respect her wishes, it was unfair to him that she deny him after getting so close.

Filled with more determination than before, Spike finally moved his hand forward to knock on the door.

"Just a moment," a dainty voice called from the inside. Quickly, Spike licked his hand and proceeded to push up his spikes to look better.

Suddenly the door opened revealing his white unicorn friend with a big smile.

"Why, Spike dear! What a lovely surprise."

"Hello Rarity," he said politely. "May I come in?"

"Of course, darling! But you know that you didn't have to knock. This is a place of business and my door is always open to my best friends."

Spike facepalmed himself for forgetting that her shop was still open. "If you have clients I can come back later."

"It's quite alright," Rarity beamed, "it has been rather slow since the Spring Fling event in Canterlot last week, and the only things I'm working on are commissions that aren't due for a few days. Please make yourself at home!" She gestured to her green dining room table that had two frilly chairs next to it.

"Thank you," Spike nodded as he took his seat.

"I'll go make us some tea. Or would you like some coffee instead?"

"Tea is fine, thank you."

Rarity nodded and started to get to work.

Spike watched her as she went to fetch everything she needed with her magic. "Well, at least she seems like she's in a good mood today," he told himself. A sad and miserable Rarity was almost impossible to talk about something normal with, let alone ask her to bang. While she put tea leaves in her teapot his eyes gazed towards her rump that was covered by the beautiful skirt she was wearing "Maybe she will be more receptive to the idea since she's so cheerful today."

Spike then paused and let his eyes fall to the ground. "Or maybe I shouldn't do this." He thought about how if Rarity was appalled by the idea she would kick him out of the house, and then she would tell everypony about it. She would tell Twilight, Applejack, Mayor Mare, Princess Celestia...

She would tell her sister.

"Here you are Spike," she hummed as she floated a cup of tea in front of him, taking him out of his thoughts. "I just poured it, so please wait for it to cool a tad."

"Thank you," he nodded, smiling weakly.

"So what do I owe the pleasure? You seem a little troubled today if you don't mind me saying."

Spike paused and looked up at his beautiful friend. She was now sitting across from him with her own cup of tea and had a look of complete understanding on her face. One thing that Spike always loved was how easy it was to talk to her even with her formal demeanor. It was one of the things that attracted him to her all these years.

"Well, I..." he started. Then he realized he had no idea how to open up this conversation. If it came off wrong it could backfire in so many different ways. "I was thinking about something."

Rarity nodded but remained silent. Spike put a claw to the bridge of his nose.

"I'm sorry, it's a little weird."

Rarity levitated her teacup to her lips and took a quick sip. "Spike, you know you can always talk to me about anything."

The dragon nodded. "Well, y-you know how you always said that...you told me I could come and talk to you if I, um, w-was wondering about...things...because you, uh, y-you...were an expert?"

"An expert in what kind of things, dear?"

"Well, an e-expert in...love," he said quietly.

"Spike, I'm not quite sure what-" Then her eyes lit up and the biggest smile graced her face. "Spike, is it what I am thinking of? Has it finally happened?"

"Wha-" Spike then found himself being cut off by the unicorn who had lunged herself across the table, somehow avoided knocking their teacups off, and grabbed him for an embrace.

"Is it true? My little Spikey-wikey has finally found love?" Rarity squeezed harder, and Spike tried to ignore the fact that her generous chest was very close to his chin. Spike blushed hard as she pulled away.

Suddenly his brain clicked. "Wait, she doesn't know? How could she not know?" For Spike, it was a good sign, giving him more confidence to move toward his real end goal.

"So," Rarity smirked, still leaning forward to hear, "who's the lucky mare that's caught this handsome drake's eye?"

Spike blushed crimson and took note of the compliment.

"No, no that's not really what I meant," Spike explained.

"Oh," Rarity said, a bit disappointed. "So then there's no mare that's caught your eye then?"

"No," Spike lied.

Rarity looked away slightly embarrassed. "I apologize, Spike, I got a little carried away."

"It's fine," Spike chuckled, "but you were kind of right."

Rarity turned her head back to him. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I did come here for help with something like that, but, um, it's not what you think."

"I'm listening, darling."

Spike took a deep breath and continued. "I remember when you used to, kind of, sort of, flirt with me and tease me even after I was younger, and how you used to ask me if I had started looking at mares differently." Spike looked up to see Rarity looking slightly confused but still interested, so he kept going. "I, uh, do now, and you always seemed so open with me, and, well, I was wondering if I could get a little bit of...you know...um...experience."

Spike cringed and looked to the floor, anywhere but at the unicorn. They remained silent for a whole agonizing minute before Rarity broke it.

"I see," she mused. "So my little dragon is looking to become a man, is he?"

She was teasing him, and it finally hit him how stupid this whole thing is. He stood up from his chair quickly and shook his head.

"Listen, I'm sorry. It was a stupid thing to say. Can we please just forget I said something?"

"Spike, it's-"

"-normal for my age," Spike interrupted. "I know, Twilight already gave me the speel a few years back. Sorry for making things weird and wasting your time. I'll leave you now."

Before Rarity could say anything, Spike burst through the door and ran a block away until he reached an alley a few blocks from the boutique. He ran into the dark space and peeked his head around the entrance to the alley. Rarity was standing there searching for him, and he could see a concerned expression on her face. She scanned the area for a minute before returning inside and closing the door.

Spike exhaled the breath he had been holding it, angry that he had messed up. He kicked a tin can that was lying in the alleyway as hard as he could and cursed at himself.

"Fuck," was all he could say as he started his long walk home, head down and trying to erase the last five minutes from his memory.