Twilight entered her personal spa, rung the bell, and then waited for her personal masseuses to arrive. Of all the decisions she had ever made, hiring the Soothe Family for her personal Spa had been one of the best, at least in her own opinion. The family had taken up the responsibility with gusto, moving their business and setting up shop in the facilities Twilight had prepared for them. After a few moments two ponies came out, looking like picture perfect copies of their ancestors before them, right down to their cutie marks.

“Welcome Princess,” Lotus and Aloe sang, walking up to Twilight with smiles on their faces. “How may we service you today?”

“Straight to the massage table girls,” said Twilight, “today has been a rough day.”

The spa sisters nodded, leading her over to the massage table and then helping her out of her regalia. She climbed onto the table, getting herself comfortable and then groaning out loud as the two sisters got to work on her stressed joints.

“Why your highness, your muscles are nothing but knots, something stressful must have happened to cause all this.”

“Yes…really bucking stressful.”

“Well you know you can tell us anything your highness, we are here for you,” said Lotus, moving her hooves slowly over Twilights wing joints.

Twilight sighed, knowing that Lotus was right; it was why she was here after all. “I got proposed to today.”

“Oh Princess that's marvelous,” said Aloe, using her elbow to grind into a particularly knotted bunch of muscles near Twilight's lower back. “Who is the lucky suitor that has asked for your hoof this time?”

“The Princesses Mi Amore Cadenza, Celestia and Luna.”

The spa sisters stopped, looking down at their princess with shock and awe. “All…all three of them?” asked Lotus.

“Yep and all of them practically at the same time, they even got into a fight over me after they went into another room to talk, I mean a fight for Faust’s sake!”

The spa sisters listened as she ranted, taking in every detail as that she described, down to how many teeth Celestia had lost. Due to being her personal masseuses, their job was not only to help her with her physical stress, but also listen and try and alleviate her mental stress as best they could. When Twilight finished, Aloe whistled aloud, a grin spreading across her face as she shot a wink at her sister, the kind of wink Lotus knew meant “don’t worry I got this”.

“I must say Princess, I can see why this has caused you so much stress, but you know Celestia does have a point.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well you are immortal, and so are they” said Aloe, massaging her shoulders as she continued. “You would never have to worry about experiencing the pain of losing a loved one again, and if you remember correctly, Trixie did make you Pinkie Promise to try and find love again.”

Twilight growled at this, but stayed in silent contemplation. That was the one problem of having the Sooth Family as her personal masseuses; they passed down her secrets so that the ones who took over could know their princess better than anypony, and thus be better able to help her. “You thought it was a good idea, now live with the consequences.”

“Also,” said Aloe, drawing her from her thoughts. “You are ignoring the one obvious thing you could do to find out if you love them.”

“And what would that be?” asked Twilight, turning her head to get a better look at the blue haired earth mare.

“Well, you could just date them, that way you can see if you love them like they love you.”

Twilight’s eyes widened at this, and then her brow furrowed, her mind beginning to buzz with questions. The first obvious one was did she like them enough to even attempt what Aloe was suggesting, she couldn’t just date them unless she was certain. She started looking at the princesses in a different light, not as fellow princesses as she was prone to do, but as mares to be sought after, and promptly started to turn as red as Big Macintosh. “Oh boy, that sure brought up a lot of memories, I thought I had gotten over those crushes ages ago.”

She had in the past fantasized about Luna and Celestia, and admittedly Cadance when she had gotten older. She couldn’t help it, they were all beautiful mares…but it did confirm something for to her, it confirmed that she did feel for them, at least when it came to physical desire. “Still that is enough to begin with sometimes, and you do know you have feelings for them beyond the physical, so why not go with what she is saying huh?”

“You know what Aloe, that is actually pretty brilliant, I will have to run it past them. Now, lets get back to the massage. I will need some time to figure out how to present this to them and I would like to be as relaxed as possible.”

* * *

Twilight sat in her throne, watching as the three other Princesses walked up to her. She had sent letters to them asking them to meet her in the throne room to hear her decision. They all nervously sat down in front of her, all still intimidated by the fact that she kept her mane billowing menacingly around her.

“I have had some time to think about what you told me, and I have come to a decision on the matter. While I cannot accept your any of your proposals yet…” she said, noting the hopeful looks that came over their faces, which made her grin for some reason. “…I have come up with an alternative. I shall date each of you in turn, for I must admit to you that I do hold attraction for each of you, and am willing to explore it and see if it blossoms into the same kind of love you hold for me.”

She could tell they were barely containing their glee, Cadance practically bubbling with joy as she spoke up.

“So…so how do you plan this dating, do we each take turns…?”

“Well I was thinking three dates, first with you Cadance and then Celestia, Luna being last. They will be…”

All three of the princesses momentarily blushed, all of them liking the idea more then they would ever let on to Twilight, at least not til the proper moment. Cadance smiled most of all, not even caring as Celestia and Luna glared daggers into the back of her head at being the first to get to date Twilight.

“...So we will need to plan them out accordingly. Also after all have had their turn, we will all have one final set of dates with all of us together, to see if…”

“WHAT!”

All three of them had shouted at once, startling Twilight as Luna spoke up.

“Twilight my…never mind, do you seriously expect me to go on a date with two mares I am competing with, especially my own sister?”

“I don’t see what the problem is Luna,” said Twilight while looking serious, “herd relationships have been allowed in Equestria for thousands of years, and it is not uncommon for sisters to mate with the same stallion or mare. Also wouldn’t it be prudent to try it in case I decide I love you all equally?”

Luna hadn’t honestly considered that, but then again neither had the rest, who were looking just as skeptical as she was.

“Twilight, I am not sure that would be…”

“Those are my terms Celestia, either that or I will not date any of you at all, no matter how many centuries pass.”

Celestia gulped at the thought, for she knew that she herself could not stand the ideas such a statement brought forth, especially now that she had confessed her love to Twilight. She looked toward the others, noting that they were shared similar looks, but she could also see that they were as determined as her, and she would be damned if she was going to back down now.

“Very well I accept your terms Twilight, assuming the others do as well,” she said, looking back at them in challenge, to which they nodded.

“Good, now I have to go get everything arranged so that the court won’t miss us, meanwhile I hope you will all concentrate hard on your plans for our dates. I’ll give you all this entire week to prepare, then next week we will start. Now I better go, see you girls later.

Twilight left on hoof, swaying her hips in a manner Trixie had taught her long ago, figuring she might as well give them an idea of what they were aiming for besides her heart. When she reached the door she looked back, grinning broadly at the sight of the three princesses eyes glued to her rump and their mouths hanging open in utter amazement. “That girl really did know her stuff,” she thought, and with that happy thought she left the room.

The moment the door closed the three princesses turned to face each other, glaring at each other now that the mare of their affections was nowhere in sight.

“She is going to be mine,” said Celestia, a grin forming on her face, confident that she would not lose.

“I will not lose to you Tia, I may be younger but that will not stop me from wining your former student’s heart.”

“Well I won’t lose to either of you,” said Cadance, grinning almost as broad as Celestia was. “And remember, I have the first set of dates, and I can guarantee you both that by the final date I will have that mare’s heart for my own.”

“You willing to bet that Cadance?”

Cadance smiled, looking toward Celestia and flashing an evil grin. “I don’t need to.” With that she turned and left, her mind already abuzz with ideas for the coming week.

Celestia and Luna for their part were a bit surprised by the statement, but left all the same, their minds also abuzz with what the coming week would bring.

None of them could contain their excitement.

Author's Note

Introducing Lotus and Aloe Sooth, great great great great great great great great great grand daughters of the original Lotus and Aloe. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter and stay tuned for more.