Four months since the coronation of Princess Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight stood in front of her parents’ front door, staring at the portal apprehensively. She hadn’t been dreading this conversation at all. In fact, the thought of it hadn’t even begun to bother her until she had left the castle to walk here. But now...
Swallowing the lump in her throat, she knocked on the door. A few moments later, it opened, revealing her mother. “Twilight, honey! I didn’t know you were stopping by!”
“Hi, mom,” Twilight smiled, giving her mother a hug. “Is dad here? There’s something I want to talk to you two about.”
“Sure, come right in!”
Twilight trotted into the living room and sat down on the nearest chair as her mother disappeared further into the house. She emerged a minute later with her husband and they sat down on the sofa across from Twilight. “So, what did you want to talk about?”
“Well, I...” she choked on her words, trying to consider them carefully. After a minute of silence, she decided to just blurt it out. “Mom, Dad, I’m in a relationship. With Luna.”
Her parents sat there staring at her, stunned. “You... You’re not mad, are you?”
“Mad? No, of course not!” her mother stammered. She exchanged a worried glance with her husband. “We’re just... shocked.”
“Yeah. We honestly didn’t think you were interested in mares,” her father muttered.
“Well, that’s the thing: I’m not.”
Her parents exchanged glances again before turning back to her. “Okay, you’re going to have to explain this to us, honey,” her mother said quietly.
“Well, it’s... Umm. I guess that when it comes down to it, I love her,” Twilight murmured. “I don’t have romantic feelings for her, but I really do love her.”
Her parents simply sat there passively, with curious expressions on their faces, so she continued. “We’ve grown so close over the past few months. She was there for me when Celestia died... And I was there for her. We just... When she asked to ‘court me’, I really couldn’t see any good reason to say no.”
“You mean aside from the fact that you aren’t attracted to mares?” her father asked skeptically.
“Well, yeah. But to be honest, that doesn’t really matter to me a lot,” she mumbled. “Even before we started... dating, we already cuddled frequently and spent a lot of time together. The only thing that’s really changed is that she’s gotten more affectionate than before. And it’s made her really happy.”
“But are you happy, Twilight?” her mother asked, gravely serious.
“You know what? I really am,” Twilight replied with a small smile. “Like I’ve said, we’ve gotten really close, and I love seeing her happy. It’s also really nice to have a special somepony, and I didn’t exactly have my eye on any stallions.”
She sighed, staring up at the sealing. “Plus, she’s almost everything I’d want in a partner. She’s smart, kind, fun to be around... it just seemed kind of silly to say no just because she’s a mare when she’s perfect in every other way. It didn’t make sense to wait — maybe forever — for ‘perfect’ when something close to it was being offered to me right then and there.”
Twilight’s parents both stared at her hard for an uncomfortably long time before her mother slid off the couch, walked over to her, and pulled her into a tight hug. “Twilight, if being with Luna makes you happy, then be with Luna. We’ll support you no matter what.”
Twilight gasped incredulously, returning the hug. “R-really?”
“Of course,” her father chuckled, joining the hug.