9/27/13

I had started my day off as I normally did in this new life, hitting the gym. After hitting my normal machines and about 10k on the treadmill, I was about to hit the showers really fast and think about how best to spend the rest of my day off, when a familiar face came at me from out of nowhere.

"Lily!" Glimmer was shocked and happy to see her new best friend, a little hesitant to hug her because she was covered in sweat.

"Glimmy!" Lily addresses Glimmer by her pet name as she practically jumped into a hug. The filly had come out of her shell after being around Glimmer so much. A fact that Glimmer took a little pride in. Lily didn't even seem to care that she was now covered in Glimmer's sweat.

Glimmer smiled and accepted the embrace, returning the affection of the hug. After a warm embrace, the two mares separated their bodies but kept holding hands.

"What have you been up to? I haven't seen you in, like, forever" Glimmer commented, looking Lily up and down. She certainly looked well. So well she practically glowed to her. Her mane was done up in a slightly cuter, bouncier way, pulled back with a new hair clip to show her beautiful face. Lily had on a cream-colored skirt that was just above the knees, matched with a new top that showed off some of her midsection that was right and complemented her bust. 'Not bad. That coltfriend of hers must go nuts when he sees her like this. I know I would if I was her boyfriend.'

"Well... I kinda have been with... My coltfriend..." Lily blushed and giggled between statements as she often did when she thought and spoke about her coltfriend.

"You're going to have to introduce me to this lucky guy" Glimmer cocked a half smile at Lily but her eyes looked over her head and at some stallion entering the gym. Her heart jumped into her throat.

Entering the gym, as if out of Glimmer's dreams, was the stallion whom Glimmer had thought about so much for months, who filled her heart with a rainbow of emotions, whose very foal Glimmer was carrying in her. Casually walking towards Glimmer, was no pony other than Turbulance. The grey, wet behind the ears, eager to prove himself, but humble, stallion who made hot passionate love to Glimmer those few but so many moons ago. Or, at least he made love to a disguised Glimmer. At that moment, everyone else, including Lily, disappeared from Glimmer's world. Leaving just her and Turbulance.

'What should I do!? Should I apologize for leaving that night!? Should I reintroduce myself!? Should I play it cool!? Should I ask to go get coffee or something!? Should I tell him about... The foal!?' Glimmer's heart was pounding like crazy as she struggled with what to say. A million different things ran through her mind all at once of his reactions to the various statements she could say to him at this exact moment.

None of what she could think of to say was said. Instead, it was Lily's turn to say something for once and Glimmer's unfortunate fate to become mute.

"This is my Coltfriend, Turbulance" Lily giggled and wrapped herself around Turnulance's bicep, giving him a peck on the cheek.

Glimmer's heart shattered. All the possible things she could have said to the colt who ruled her dreams somehow went mute. She felt a whole new array of emotions replace her shattered ones. Feelings of guilt, betrayal, and several other feelings only a mare could begin to understand that Glimmer herself was experiencing for the very first time. She was only made aware that she was just standing there awkwardly when someone cleared their throat.

"Ugh, oh, what did you say?" Glimmer shook her head clear.

"Well, I said 'Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Turbulance" The grey pegasus stallion held out his hand for Glimmer who hesitated and then acted as if she suddenly remembered how to shake somepony's hand. "You must be Glimmer. Lily's told me all about you. I'm glad my fillyfriend has such a great friend to help her out at work."

"Why don't we all get some tea and cake?" Lily suggested, beaming with such joy she was practically bouncing.

"Sounds good to me" Turbulance shot her a smile before returning his attention to Glimmer. "Would you like to have tea with us? I'd love to get to know Lily's best friend."

'I can't say no' Glommer thought. 'If I do that, Lily might think I hate her coltfriend! But I can't just go out with them like he wasn't the stallion I've been thinking about for months who knocked me up! But he doesn't even know that I'm the pony he met at the bar! Much less that I'm carrying his foal!'

"Ugh, Glimmer, you ok?" Lily spoke up this time, though both she and her coltfriend seemed a little off-put by Glimmer's sudden blank moments of reaction.

"Oh, uh, Yes! Tea! Tea sounds great! I love tea! Drink it every day! But, er, I need to shower and change!" Glimmer made a motion of smelling under her armpit and an expression of her selling bad. "Oh, yeah! I need a good shower. How about I meet you two there? Say, in about, an hour?"

"Great! Same place as always?" Lily asked as if there were so many tea and cake shops in the Crystal Empire.

"You bet! See you two love birds there!" Glimmer waved bye to the two and left quickly for the locker room.

Once in a shower stall, Glimmer turned on the shower and let the not-temperature water hit her bare body as her back pressed against a wall. She slid down, her body now soaking wet, her muffled cries were drowned out by the sound of the shower head. Glimmer curled up, her knees to her chest with her arms wrapped around them as she tried to get her breathing under control. But her sobs didn't show any signs of stopping.

'Just get it all out here...' Glimmer told herself as her tears ran harder. 'You need to be happy for Lily... And Turbulance... It wouldn't have worked out between you and him anyway... They are both good ponies... They deserve each other... They will take care of one another...'

Images of Lily's beautiful, elegant, naked body appeared in Glimmer's mind. She narrowed her eyes and smiled at Glimmer as blew her a kiss. Moments later, a pair of strong, grey arms wrapped around her naked body. Turbulanc's head hung off next to the side of Lily's as he began kissing her neck. The expression on her face was one of pure bliss. A small explosion on her muzzle after a thrust from behind let Glimmer know that he entered her. Lily bit her lip as she closed her eyes to the world and lost herself in the stallion she was one with. Turbulence was holding her in his embrace, tightly, but tenderly, the same way he had made it to Glimmer moons ago.

"They deserve each other..." Glimmer said out loud as she looked up from her knees, tears still streaming from her eyes, trying to convince herself that what was happening was for the best. For all of them.

Author's Note

Ok, in all honesty, who saw that coming?

For posterity reasons, I want to know how obvious my subtle hints in the previous chapters were.

What gave it away of anything that Turbulance was Lily's SSP?