A Torrential Change

Only few minutes later the doorbell rang. A young human stood there, not more than eighteen years old. He smiled broadly when he saw us.

"Gosh... three ponies at once. This will be the best time ever!"

He first brohoofed/fist bumped Solar, then bowed and kissed Sun on the hoof and last but not least hugged me.

"My name's Tyler, so nice to meet you!"

I laughed.

"Hold your horses... sorry bad pun..."

I chuckled. "My name is Torrent Sky"

 "No human name?"

 When I shook my head my mane danced at the side of my neck.

"Nope. Not anymore... I'm a pony now."

He raised his eyebrows.

"That's cool with me. Nice name though."

He smiled as the other two introduced themselves.

"Okidokie. I heard you wanna ride to NY?" Tyler pointed at his car.

"Hop on in!"

To make the already embarrassing situation between Solar and me worse, Sun took the front seat, while we both had to sit on the back seats. There were special blankets constructed for ponies to lie more comfortably on. Kinda lucky for me, since I had already tried to sit in Lyra's pose. Uncomfortable as hay...er hell... hay sounds better.

Anyway, we could sit pretty naturally in there. Now, the conversation I had with Solar, only moments before Tyler had appeared, came to my mind again. Very quickly a blush formed on my cheeks that I wanted to -unsuccessfully- hide.

"You know, you look cute when you blush, Torry."

Immediately after he realized what he had said, he put a hoof over his muzzle and blushed as well.

"S...sorry... I didn't meant to..."

Sun Streak looked at us with an expression that clearly told us,

"I knew it!".

Tyler, however, was totally unaware of the awkward situation in his car. He started the vehicle and drove onto the highway leading south.

"We have to head south first; then we'll go east." He let us know.

Soon we arrived at a city where would change onto the highway that leads east. But as soon as we tried to pass a certain street, two tanks emerged. One from one side, one from the other blocking the street ahead of us. I scrunched my eyes in an attempt to read the foreign logo on the vehicle. The four bloody looking letters on it caused my blood to freeze.

P.A.P.A.

Four simple letters that were my everlasting nightmare.

"Shit! Duck guys!"

Taylor cursed.

He drove into a narrow street leading southwards.

"Sorry guys. It seems that this scum controls nearly every route to New York. There is only one possible way. We have to go south until we reach the Tennessee and from there take some secret streets to NY. This means I will probably get to know you better, which is absolutely not a bad thing."

Slowly my heart rate returned to normal, though Solar still eyed me with worry.

"Are you okay, Torry?"

He asked after a while.

"I'll be fine", I snarled more aggressive then I had wanted to.

Solar shuffled closer to me.

"We will both survive this, yes? And then we will live a happy and carefree life, okay?"

"Okay." I sighed.

But then something happened that I hadn’t prepared for. He nuzzled my nose! It was just a friendly nuzzle, sure, but my hormones didn't care.

"C...could you stay close to me, please?"

I whispered after we passed yet another armored vehicle.

Just with a friendly smile he laid his head on my neck while I buried my head in his mane. Its fresh, cool and lovely scent soothed and calmed me.

Admittedly I never was this afraid in my life, neither as a human, nor as a pony.

While I was in Solar's mane, I had time to think about things. Like, what the hay was wrong with me?! Every time I thought of him, I either felt extremely happy and like on cloud seven, or I felt a desire, a longing.

This was totally not normal and there could only be one reason responsible for this...

Could it be...? Could it be that I... love him?

At this thought my heart started beating furiously.

It was wrong to love a stallion, a guy... I am a guy myself...

'Were... you were...'

Torrent's mind reminded me.

Gosh... why does this have to be so complex?

Never mind, if I don't confess, I fear these desires will drive me crazy.

I had to, so I stared into the blue pools that were his eyes and started stammering,

"Solar... I know we, as humans, don't know each other for too long...b...but I ha...have to tell you some...thing. S...Solar, I... I... I love you!"

My inner Torrent cursed. 'Dangit, girl! I never wanted to tell him!'

'So... it's your fault?'

'Yeah, sorta. Ever since he came into Ponyville I had my eyes on him'

Despite my mad blushing I managed to keep myself looking at Solar.

At first, his mouth became as wide as the Grand Canyon and his eyes were as big as the Pacific Ocean, then his cheeks got red as lava and his facial expression softened. His muzzle slowly reduced its distance to mine. Just a few inches from mine, Solar whispered,

"I... I love you, too..."

Then our lips touched.

Maybe it was because I was a pony now, or the fact that I never kissed as a mare, but this kiss felt super good. Better than anything I have ever felt before. At the same time I also felt relief that all the hiding of my true feelings for Solar for months was over now.

I hadn't noticed that Tyler had halted the car and he and Sun were watching us.

When Sun suddenly made a quite loud "Aww!" I noticed it, but had too much pleasure to care about it. After few minutes, what seemed like few hours, we both separated looking into each others eyes smiling from ear to ear. Then we just hugged embracing each other as much as possible.

"Best day ever!"

I shouted gleefully.

"This really is the best thing that ever happened in my car." Tyler stated.

"I knew it all along!" Sun exclaimed

"Yes, Sun, you were right, but I never expected the feelings to be the same for both of us."

Solar snuggled me.

"That is the same I had thought. Ever since you greeted me, when I had entered Ponyville for the first time."

"Glad I told you then, huh? Otherwise we'd be gazing at each others flanks for ages without any success at all."

I pondered chuckling. Still tons of unknown hormones flow through my body making me feel delighted and elated. This also reflected in my speech.

"I never would have imagined to someday meet the love of my life."

Solar raised an eyebrow and chuckled.

"Love of your life? My dear Torrent, now you're making up stuff."

"Actually, no."

I let the response be short and then licked his cheek.

"Ehehe, Torrent... stop that, it tickles."

Solar laughed our loud.

Just to tease him I made a pouty face and complained in a whiny voice.

"You don't like my licks? Why?! How could you?"

From the margin of my eyes I could see Sun and Tyler's asking faces and rolling eyes.

"No, no." Solar tried to wind himself out of this situation, I felt it. "Your liking is fine, but maybe you could do it a bit softer?"

"Like this?"

My tongue once again touched his cheek, but this time slow enough to actually taste his fur. It tasted just like his mane smelled, fresh, slightly salty. A bit like an ocean, but then again different. Imagine you could taste how the vastness of space, the desire of exploration of any kind, this would be what Solar's fur tasted like.

And I loved it.

"Gosh, Torrent. You deserve a lick from me for this."

Without any further ado he licked my cheek. Gosh, it felt nice! Slightly ticklish, but still nice though.

You know those tools with which you can massage your head?

It felt exactly that way, just a bit wetter.

Gosh...that sounded totally wrong.

"Okay, you two, you don't mind if I continue our tour?" Tyler asked.

Solar and I answered with a casual "Yeah, yeah" and proceeded to gaze into each others eyes.

Time flew by just like a blur and I heard a rumbling in Solar's belly.

"Somepony here is really hungry, eh?"

Then my belly rumbled too which caused me to blush madly.

"Well, I guess, there is also somepony else that has quite the hunger."

Solar said winking.

Tyler though, sighed.

"Okay, guys, I get it. I see what I can do for you."

A few minutes later we halted in the parking lot of a restaurant.

I was kinda nervous when I saw the amount of cars parked there.

"Everything is going to be fine, Torry"

Solar reassured me.

But we were never prepared for what happened when we entered the restaurant...