The spa was full. Ponies were happily having mud-baths and getting facials. Two ponies in particular were enjoying their massages. It couldn't have been a more perfect day, the sky was almost completely clear outside due to Rainbow Dashes amazing skills. The birds were chirping more beautifully than ever due to Fluttershy's training and it gave the spa a very serene feel.
“Mmhn” Pinkie Pie moaned as Lotus Blossom found another of her tensed muscles. Pinkie stretched out, not normally the spa type without her friends so she was more ticklish than everypony else, laughing more than letting out blissful moans.
“For one of the happiest ponies in Ponyville you really have a lot of stress, don’t you? You’re so tense,” Smiled the light blue spa pony massaging Pinkie. Only to be greeted with another blissful moan.
“Heh, Pinkie, you’re really getting into, it aren’t you?” remarked Spitfire with a smile, only to lay her head down with a moan shortly after Aloe massaged her wings. Spitfire stretched out happily letting Aloe find all of her weak spots, sighing contently and happily her wings spread wide.
“Well, you sounded like you really needed it, being the ‘best flier in all of Equestria’ and all,” exclaimed Pinkie, giggling as Lotus finished up. The yellow and orange Pegasus hid her face and blushed remembering the obscene and embarrassing sounds she had just made.
“Yeah-yeah” Spitfire laughed, looking back at Pinkie the pair got up from the massage tables and went toward the mud-bath.
*************************************************************************
A knock came at the door of Sugarcube Corner early in the morning, I had to go check. It was almost time to open, but who was up this early? Almost nopony was up this early, with the exception of me of course… happy go lucky Pinkie, always woke up first and went to bed last, everyone assumed that it was just my hyper attitude or all the sweets I eat… they couldn’t be further from the truth.
I opened the door and there stood a VERY excited Rainbow Dash. “No time to explain Pinkie, just bring your welcome gear and meet me at the train station!” I immediately put on a smile.
“Okie doki loki!” I said and Rainbow zipped off.
I wonder who the new pony is; it will be fun to greet them!
*************************************************************************
“So what is it like to be one of the Wonderbolts? How are the other ponies in it?” asked Pinkie, she knew that Dash had probably asked that question, but that didn’t matter to Spitfire. She mulled it over her hoof on her chin, trying to find the right way to say it, and when inspiration struck she splashed the mud in the tub, completely missing her other hoof with embarrassed shock.
“It’s fun, one of my favorite parts is messing with the recruits, they think I’m mean as can be and always signing documents in my office, its great! All the little pranks we get to pull, it's fantastic!” Spitfire said as she and Pinkie laughed at the great athletes greatest fail of the day.
It felt amazing, exactly right after the massage, the mud was just warm enough to melt all those tensions away, even the ones Spitfire didn't even know she had. She let out a happy, blissful sigh as she found the perfect spot to rest in.
“If they just think you're signing documents, what are you actually doing?” asked Pinkie before she jumped straight into the tub of mud. It went everywhere, all of the ponies around the tub were splashed with the mud. Aloe and Lotus Blossom just laughed at their customers shocked expressions, a little bit of surprise was relaxing in its own right.
Spitfire giggled as the mud flew, “Reading all the love letters! Nah I’m kidding, it's normally some autographs the foals ask for or me trying to write my biography, but I always quit after the first few pages. Honestly that’s the boring part, all the free time I get, but it does make for excellent prank planning time.”
Pinkie laughed, “Sounds like fun,” then disappeared under the mud slowly, playfully acting menacing.
“So how about you? This place seems like there's always something fun to get into.” Spitfire asked. No sooner did those words leave Spitfires mouth than Pinkie appeared out of the mud behind her and tickled the Pegasus silly. The two laughed and lay back in the mud relaxing.
“Yeah, Discord, the mirror pool ... oh! That reminds me, Twilight was really having a bad day once when she was practicing her magic and the effects were hilarious! She kept missing with her spell and wound up turning a bunch of animals into oranges.” Pinkie giggled.
Spitfire couldn’t help but laugh, “That’s terrible!”
And the two ponies laid back to enjoy the relaxing mud-bath, not saying a word until they got out.
*************************************************************************
I arrived at the train station not too long after Rainbow herself. It was a foggy morning, not spooky but one of those mornings that drives everypony to sleep in a little later. The train station was almost empty aside from the ticket taker.
“The train is almost here! Get ready Pinkie!” squeed Rainbow.
I got the greeting cannon ready, double-checking that the cake isn’t in the confetti cannon… again. No sooner had I done that than the train pulled into the station. Right as a yellow Pegasus got off the train I started the usual song and dance, only one difference, this time I slipped at the end and hit my head on the train station floor. Dashie did what I expected, she laughed and I really couldn’t blame her: it was hilarious. In-fact I would have done the same… it’s what the other Pegasus did that surprised me.
“Are you okay?” she flew over to me and picked me up, checking to make sure I hadn’t hurt myself. What is this feeling?
“She’s fine, it happens all the time, Pinkie is nearly indestructible.” Dashie told her, but nonetheless she sat me down slowly. She dusted me off and stared at me with those big, caring eyes.
“Thanks for the warm welcome, but don’t get hurt okay?” she said.
“I have yet to fully introduce you two, Pinkie this is Spitfire, Spitfire meet Pinkie Pie.” Rainbow said.
“Nice to meet you Pinkie,” Spitfire told me, extending her hoof.
“It’s good to meet you too Spitfire,” I said, shaking it happily.
****
The day flew by, Dashie and I showed Spitfire around Ponyville. While I showed Spitfire all of the interesting places like Carousel Boutique and Sugarcube Corner, Rainbow Dash would ask about all of the Wonderbolts. It was a little frustrating having to fight for attention, but funny still.
Just as it was getting late in the afternoon and the sky was turning the same brilliant shades of orange as Spitfire’s fiery mane, she yawned, “It’s getting late, anypony know where I can go to stay the night?”
“Oh you can stay at my place, I mean, if you want to…” Rainbow Dash offered
“Nah, I may sleep on clouds, but I don’t like staying in a house of them sadly. I’ve been on the ground too long for that, but thanks for the offer.” She kindly responded.
“You could always stay the night with me at Sugarcube Corner,” I offered, “We have plenty of extra bedrooms.”
“Sure Pinkie,” smiled Spitfire it was settled and we took her bags toward Sugarcube Corner.
****
The moon was high in the night sky, Spitfire had already gone to her room to sleep for the night and I lay in bed unable to sleep. Just thinking as I stare into the sky…
It was all I could do on a cloudless night such as this that always make my mind go towards the rock farm. How were they doing? Was it right for me to stay in Ponyville having fun while they stay on the farm working their flanks off? Why had I left? These were all questions that spun in my head every night, but tonight, when the air is cold and the wind howls, they would cut me deeply… and I began to cry.
I wept and wept into my pillow, Gummy was asleep or he would have gotten in bed for me to hold him as he always did. He was a smart alligator and more of a friend than a pet, but I didn’t wake him. It could have been minutes or hours of my crying into that pillow and I wouldn’t have been able to tell a difference.
Just then I heard a knock at my door, immediately I snapped up and fluffed up my mane to answer to door, quickly wiping my eyes so that whoever was there wouldn’t be able to see me in a non-perky state.
I opened the door and was shocked as to who it was; there was Spitfire, her mane frizzled from bed-head. And I stood their agape, wondering…
“I hope you know I’ve been hearing you,” she said, I blanked, unable to think... of all the things I expected her to say or wanted her to say, that most certainly was not on the list!
My heart sank…there was only one answer to what she was talking about and I unfortunately knew it. She had found out that the party pony… the mare everyone goes to, to cheer them up… the mare happy and hyper enough to keep up with the famous Rainbow Dash… was me…
I had to calm down… try and fix this… “Hearing what silly? Were the twins too loud?”
“We both know what I am talking about Pinkie, now you can let me in and I can try to help, or you can shut the door and act like nothing happened - staying sad. Your call.” Was all Spitfire said, and I was dumbfounded... my jaw dropped, she wasn’t going to force her way into my room and interrogate me?
“I… uhm…” I stood there thinking… what happens if I let her in? If I close the door everything stays the same… everypony thinks I am happy… I stay sad, do I really want that?
“Could you please come in?” I mustered and opened up my door, my shield broken, my hair went flat, and I let the exhaustion show for the first time in my life… I was completely vulnerable. I fell onto my bed and let it all flow out.
I told her how I feel when everypony laughs… about how it got worse after discord but it was still there before. I told her I cry every night to get rid of the feelings, it helping for a while but coming back the next day. She just listened, not pretending to listen, but actually caring, it felt good and when it was over she got up on my bed with me and laid her wing over my back.
“You’ve held a lot in, I wish I could be as strong as you,” she said as she nuzzled my neck. Her wing felt amazing, even though it was just barely touching my back it was so soft, i almost broke into tears from the feling alone, it was like kindness and caring personified.
“That’s the thing, I am not strong, I make everyone happy yet something in my breaks all the time, I am weak.” My defenses are all gone; I can’t believe I am being so honest.
“That isn’t what I meant, you tried to keep this up because you didn’t want to worry your friends, and you tried to make sure they were happy even if you weren’t, I admire you.”
Wait, what? Did the Idol of my good friend Rainbow Dash, the pony that not just her but every pegasus admires and aspires to be like… Did that pony just say she admired ME?!
“You have to be kidding,” it was the only logical thing; she had to be playing a sick joke or something, right? She must have fooled me into talking to her... there was no way, it didnt make sense.
I stared at her, trying to find any sliver of insincerity, and there was none to be found. Her warm eyes looking straight into my own, they looked tired, but very caring. Her mane, as frazzled as it was, looked like a flame that was too exhausted to stand, letting anypony near without burning them. Her wing was soft on my back, it felt good, and it was gently rubbing up and down, very calming. Her mouth wasn’t in a smile, but it wasn’t frowning, she had an expression of worry and concern… One that was rarely if ever given to me by anypony. Then I noticed she could tell I was staring at her, she got the faintest smile, it calmed me, felt good, but I had to respond.
“No, I’m not,” I couldn’t help but look away, I was embarrassed, and something warm and soft, and just a little bit moist pressed itself on the nape of my neck. Then it was gone only to return a little higher, what’s going on, I can’t turn around and look at her to check. Then It went away and came back behind my ear, it felt good, unbelievably so. And then it was just gone.
That was it; I had to look behind me to see what it was, embarrassment or none. The not-knowing was killing me, what was it? I quickly turned my head around, immediately I found what it was that had been pressing itself to my fur, Spitfires lips as they pressed themselves to mine.
The kiss lasted for what felt like centuries, my mind was blank, the world melted away. Her soft tender lips softly moving on my own, with a blank mind my own moved with them, nothing mattered anymore, not my sadness and regret, not happiness, just her lips and my own. She gently rubbed my ears and neck, it felt amazing so I returned the favor, her yellow coat was soft to the touch, it felt like silk, she gasped a little when I rubbed her ears. A smell of cinnamon came forward from her coat; it smelled simply amazing, as warm as Spitfire’s welcoming eyes as they met my own. I was only snapped back to reality when it ended.
The world slowly came back, I was on my bed, and Spitfire was there beside me with a blush on her muzzle.
“Sorry… I didn’t ask... I knew I should have but it just felt like the right time…” she said.
“Don’t be, that was AMAZING, just one thing.” I said
“What would that be?”
“What was that?”
Her jaw fell; she stared at me in shocked silence.
“You don’t know what a kiss is?” she asked, I shook my head. “You have no idea what I just did and what it means?” I shook my head again. “Didn’t anypony ever tell you of the birds and the bees?”
This one I knew! “Well Fluttershy says that bees make honey and birds like to sing and fly.”
I must have said something wrong because Spitfire just pressed her hoof to her face.
“The basics are, what we just shared was a kiss, it’s what ponies normally do with their very special somepony.”
“Well that explains a lot, mostly the reason they always seem so happy,” I said in my usual happy tone. Spitfire couldnt help but laugh, almost falling of of the bed, she wiped a tear that had been forming and smiled as she righted herself.
“Heh, you make a good point Pinkie,” she smiled and looked into my eyes again; I wonder what she’s going to do this time. Her eyes shown with a tricksters delight, but slightly different. I had never seen that look on anypony before when they were looking at me.
I was thrown onto my back, not forcefully but very surprising; before I could react Spitfire was on top of me, nipping at my neck. It felt good, different from what I usually feel but so, so good in my heart. As the warm feeling grew in my chest Spitfire started nibbling my ears, nopony knows this but my ears are incredibly sensitive, “mhmmm.”
“You are just so adorable, your ears are this sensitive?” as Spitfire said that she slowly licked the tip of my ear which elicited another moan from me. Spitfire giggled and pressed her muzzle to mine again as her tender lips began to caress my own, the world melted away again, it felt amazing, and then something new happened. Spitfire’s tongue entered my mouth, what do I do now? The second I start to get worried as to what I do my mind blanks as she gently rubs her tongue along my own, it was amazing, simply amazing when she did that, I pushed my own into her mouth and we kissed deeply and passionately. Her mouth was warm, her tongue was rough and felt good on my own as they entwined.
Spitfire broke the kiss first and went to the covers of my bed and got under them, raising the other side up for me and patting the spot beside her. I got under with her and before I had a chance to readjust myself she was already hugging me.
“I hate to call it quits for the night, but I’m pretty sure we are both exhausted, I had a long trip and I think you need as much rest as you can get.” She said as I scooted down under the covers and got comfortable, her front legs still wrapped around me. It was warm, calming, and I wanted to stay there forever.
“Sure” I said with a yawn, the moon was higher in the sky than when we started, I simply have no idea how long we were like that, but I was exhausted.
“G’night Spitfire,” I said with a smile, putting my hoof behind her ears and rubbing happily
“Nighty night beautiful.” She said as she succumbed to sleep… she had just called me beautiful, I'm nothing compared to rarity and the rest but… nopony had ever called me beautiful. I fell asleep with happy thoughts in my mind for the first time in years.
******************************************************************************
Pinkie Pie woke up in the mud-bath, Spitfire was beside her smiling.
“Have a nice nap?” Spitfire asked Pinkie
The pink pony let out a loud and very long yawn “How long was I out?” she asked.
“About a half an hour or so, it’s almost time for us to get our manes styled, did you have a nice dream?” Spitfire rubbed pinkies back gently trying to wake her up from her day-dream.
“Yeah, it was super duper awesome!” yelled Pinkie Pie enthusiastically.
“That good eh? What was it about?” Asked Spitfire, laughing at the sudden outburst.
Pinkie grew quiet, and double checked the room for prying ears. “Last night.”
An obvious blush appeared on the yellow pegasus as she readied her wings wide and jumped out of the mud-bath, fluttering her wings as she landed. “That was a good dream then” she said with a smile as she pulled pinkie out of the mud-bath and the two ponies headed for the spa’s salon.
****
Rainbow Dash slowly woke up from her nap on one of the last clouds she had to clear for the day. She yawned and smiled as she gazed over Ponyville, nopony else but her knew how to find the best napping spot that had the best view. All over Ponyville ponies were selling goods at the market, Rainbow Dash could hear bucking going on down at sweet apple orchard. Fluttershy’s cottage was as peaceful as ever, and the spa was busy.
While Rainbow Dash was looking out over Ponyville spa she noticed something through the window.
“Spitfire?” asked Rainbow Dash surprised.
Pinkie Pie was quick to follow Spitfire to wherever they were headed in the spa. Rainbow Dashes jaw dropped.
“Spitfire said she couldn’t hang out today because of official wonderbolts business… but she can hang out with Pinkie at the spa?”
Rainbow Dash didn’t know what she was feeling; she felt a knotting sensation in her chest and hid her face in the clouds. Then, where no one could see her, she began to cry, she was crying because the ache in her chest hurt so much, and she was crying because she didn’t know why it hurt.
