Turning Point
You gotta be kidding me... even THIS!? I was staring at the white porcelain bowl called a toilet in the bathroom after Twilight finished her brushing Okay, sure it's a bit bigger than usual but they seriously based everything off from what humans used???
"I'm guessing I just... sit on it?" I muttered, "or as close as I can get to sitting..."
"You talk to yourself a lot, don't you?" Came Twilight's voice from the other side of the door.
"I'd like some privacy here, thank you!" I yelled at the door nervously.
"My bad!" she yelped and laughed awkwardly.
After I finished my "businesses" - which by the way, "retractable" organs if you know what I mean, is reeally creepy and weird if you ask me. I looked around the bathroom a bit to find any other resemblances to the bathrooms I was familiar with. It didn't take long for me to notice the decorated curtain on the far side of the unusually large bathroom - since it's a royal guest bedroom then these bathrooms aren't too common, but the bathroom had way too much open space -. I walked over to the curtain and slid it open, revealing yet another familiar-looking bathtub - It was a very large bathtub as well. If it wasn't for the shower head and the faucet I would've just called it a Jacuzzi.
"I bet this thing can fit four ponies all at once..." I said out loud. Twilight in three, two... one...
"You're doing it again..." Bingo. I chose to keep quiet and ignore her at that point.
"Well... I think I'll take a bath before going to bed..." I said quietly, turning over my shoulder and sniffing the closest part of my body that I could reach - which in this case was my wing -."Yeah... I smell like dirt and tree sap..."
"Don't forget to use the brush!" yelled Twilight from the other side. Okay... one thing is notice someone talking to themselves ... but paying attention to what they're saying??? Forget ignoring her!
I opened the bathroom door to confront Twilight, who was in bed reading a book. "Twilight..." I sighed, "One thing is comment on me talking to myself, but this is downright creepy..."
"Sorry..." she pulled back her ears, "won't happen again..."
"Thank you." I said and walked over to the drawer to get a towel. I walked back to the bathroom and turned open the tub's faucet. After a few minutes waiting for it to fill up I finally stepped into it. I let out a big sigh of relief as I sank into the perfectly hot water.
"Hmmm.... I might as well sleep in this tub for tonight..." I sighed, looking up at the ceiling. "Okay... time for some cleaning."
A few minutes into rubbing my head with some shampoo, I glanced at the brush that was sitting at the corner of the bathtub. How do I hold that thing? My line of thought was interrupted by the sound of the door opening and Twilight walking in. That and also the fact I had left the curtain wide open.
"Knock before entering you know..." I frowned while sinking all but my head into the water full of soap.
"Oh please, Johnny..." Twilight giggled, "you're just taking a bath."
"Exactly!" I exclaimed.
"Exactly what?" She asked. Hold on... ponies don't exactly wear clothing, do they?
"I feel like an idiot now..." I muttered. Twilight giggled a bit more. "But why did you come in here anyway?"
"Just came here to check up on you, that's all." She said calmly.
"What am I? Two years old?" I said sarcastically, "I know how to take a bath on my own..."
"Very well..." she replied, "Have fun with the brush!" Oh you... She turned around to leave the bathroom.
"Wait." I called out. Twilight stopped at the door and turned around smirking.
"Yes?"
"I don't know how to use the brrsrshh... I slurred.
"Didn't quite catch that..." she said, still smirking. Please don't make me say it... I'm feeling like an even bigger idiot...
"The brush..." I muttered quietly. Come oooooon, don't do this to me...
"What about the brush?" Fuck it, you win.
"I don't know how to use the brush!" I yelled, crossed my forelegs and pouted. Oh great, didn't know I could cross my legs like this but whatever... Twilight didn't budge a single bit and just laughed.
"Need help? Or can you figure it out by yourself?" She asked calmly.
“...Alright fine, help me..." I sighed.
"But didn't you say you knew how to take a bath by yourself?" she asked.
"Are you going to help me or not!?" I snapped at her. Seriously, stop torturing me like this!
"Awww...." Twilight cooed in a baby voice, "Liwwe Johnny doesn't know how to bwushie-bwushie!" Ffffff-
"...Done yet?" I said, sinking back into the water and grunting silently. Twilight nodded and approached the bathtub.
She levitated the brush floated it between us. "Since I'm a unicorn I can just levitate it around to use it." She began, "But for you it's a bit more complicated."
"A bit?" I asked, raising a brow. "I can't even pick up a pencil with my hooves, much less a brush handle..."
She lifted her hoof and showed it to me. "Do you see my hoof? Lo-"
"No, I see a microphone." I interrupted her in a sarcastic tone... which made Twilight raise a brow at me, "You know... because of the obviousness of the answer and uh..." I trailed off, "just keep going..."
Twilight slowly shook her head in disapproval, "Anyways... look at where my fetlock and knee meet."
"The knee and the what now???" I shook my head in confusion.
"Fetlock... the back of my hoof, and knee, just above it..." she sighed. "Just look at what I'm doing." She bent her knee forward, and much to my surprise she used it as a hook to ‘grab’ the brush. "Simple as that." It was pretty much like bending the wrist for humans.
"Ah." That was all I could muster, as I was too busy mentally face hoofing myself for never noticing I could do that.
"But since you just learned that..." Twilight continued, "I guess it would be okay if I just brush you this time." She grinned. Suuuure...
"Or use it as an excuse t-" I mumbled quietly, but stopped mid-sentence. Crap, I should have kept that in my head...
"Excuse for what?" Twilight asked, tilting her head.
"Oh, Twilight..." I began, "You're trying too hard now, seriously." Might as well just get this cleared up already...
"W-what are you talking about?" She stuttered.
"Ohhh! You stuttered!" I smirked and pointed an accusatory hoof her. "I heard a stutter!"
"N-no I didn't!" Wooooow really, Twilight?I thought. After a few seconds of silence Twilight sighed and continued. "Alright, fine. I stuttered..." She pulled back her ears and looked down slightly.
"You're hiding something, and you're being awfully bad at it." I said, laughing a bit. The tables, Twilight. They have been TURNED!
"And what exactly am I hiding?" She talked back.
"Let's examine the situation for a moment here..." I said calmly and rested on the side of the bathtub. "Here I am... taking a bath in peace, when out of nowhere you show up to "check up on me"..." I said while making aerial quotation marks with my wings.
"And I see no problem with that..." She replied. "You didn't know how to hold the brush, so you'd end up asking for my help anyway."
"Not the point I'm trying to make..." I gritted my teeth. Don't try to get away from this, Twi... "Even if I DID end up asking for your help on my own, you'd still happily come to help - which brings us to reason why we're here talking about this." Wow, I feel like I'm giving her a lecture now... Twilight broke eye contact and looked to a wall, and tapped the floor slowly. Just a bit more and she'll snap... Part of me was enjoying playing with Twilight like that.
"And what exactly are we talking about?" She asked in an innocent tone, but I didn't buy it.
"Let's play a little game..." I said, rubbing my front hooves together like a mad scientist - or at least how I think a mad scientist pony would. Twilight rolled her eyes an kept quiet.
"It's called Clues."
"Ookay?" Twilight said, looking extremely confused as to what I was going with that.
"I'll give you some clues, and you have to use them to figure out the answer."
"Why not just call it-" She retorted, but I interrupted her with a "shush".
"My game, my rules... Let me have some fun, will ya?" I said. Twilight rolled her eyes and kept quiet. "First clue: You said I'm good company, back in the train in Ponyville."
"Is this where I think it's going?" She asked nervously.
"You bet it is..." I smirked.
"Can't I just say the answer now?" She whined. "This is a bit torturous in my opinion."
"You did the same to me a few moments ago. It's only fair I do the same to you." I replied.
"But I didn't go this far..." She trailed off.
"Okay... I promise not to do this again.” I said calmly, "Now. The quicker we do this the quicker this ends."
"Fine..." she sighed.
"Great!" I smiled. "Second clue: You insisted that I sat next to you at the dining table when I came back with Amy and Daring Do." Twilight nodded and stood silent. "Third clue - well, this is more of a question: Why did Cadance wink at me when she left the room?" I asked.
"Uhm... well..." she muttered. Yup, I got her now...
"I'm waiting..." I lifted my front leg and looked at an imaginary watch, Twilight shook her head in disapproval once more. "What did you tell her that caused her to do that?" Twilight mumbled something completely incoherent and went quiet again.
"Okay, let's skip that... On to the next clue: When we went to bed the other night, you said, "Good night" to m-..."
"And there's nothing wrong with that as far as I'm aware." She interrupted me, slightly nervously.
"It isn't..." I sighed, "unless you say it in a sweet voice like you did." Twilight's face went red and her ears twitched a bit.
"Okay I guess we know the answer that can come out from these clues." I said putting my front legs behind my head and resting on the side of the bathtub again, waiting for Twilight's response, but she just stood there quiet. Okay, Johnny... enough playing with her, just get this over with...
"Alright, I'll answer it for you if you want." I spoke up after a moment of silence. Twilight nodded in agreement. I took in a deep breath before speaking again.
"... You like to watch other ponies bathing, do you?"
"What!?!?" She exclaimed, slightly confused. "Okay, I do like you but I'm not a cree-" she realized what she had said and stopped mid-sentence. "Okay, I gotta admit that was clever..."
"Gotcha." I pointed a hoof at her once again. "I already knew that, I just wanted to see how long it'd take for you to say it yourself."
"Please don't do that again..." she dropped down to the floor and sat down.
"I promise. "I said calmly. "Why were you making it so hard, anyway?"
"I don't know..." She trailed off, "I definitely didn't imagine it to end up like this, though."
"Well... It doesn't really matter now." I continued, "Do you feel like we cleared the air now?" I asked her. Twilight nodded quietly. "Alright, do you still want to brush me?"
"You had enough fun for now, don't you think?" She raised a brow at me and got up to leave.
"Fair enough..." I said, "I'll be out of here in a few minutes." Twilight closed the door and left me to brush my coat on my own.
After finishing my bath and drying my mane and coat, I walked back to my side of the bed. Twilight was still reading her book, so I scooted over to try to see what she was reading, but Twilight closed the book shut just as I began reading.
"Need something?" she asked me calmly.
"Just curious as to what you were reading..." I trailed off, "never mind..."
"Oh, it's just a romance novel..." She replied and turned off her bed lamp.
"Okay... Good night, then." I said, turning away from her and back to my side of the bed, shutting my eyes.
"Good night, Johnny." Twilight replied, but not in the same sweet voice as the other night. Heh, she really was trying too hard.
A few minutes of silence passed, I was about to fall asleep, but Twilight spoke up. "Johnny?" She asked out quietly.
Before she could continue I stopped her. “...I’m sorry I just need some time to think, alright?"
"Okay..." I heard Twilight say nervously.
"It's alright... I’m not mad at you." Okay, she likes me, but do I feel the same way? How does this work?