It had been a month since their first date, and every week they spent more and more time together. Nothing huge had happened throughout. The relationship hadn’t gone far at all. According to the laws of dating, the two weren’t even technically official. However, there was one particular subject that both stallions wanted to address but were both far too embarrassed to talk about.
Many ponies have different ways of dealing with cold hooves and awkward conversations to happen. However, Sunburst's methods for dealing with such a sensitive matter wasn’t quite the most conventional method.
“I know what you want… in fact, I want what you want… We both want it, so how do I tell Ristretto that I know what we want and that he wants what we both want as well? Do I even know that Ristretto wants what I want? What if his wants want nothing to do with my wants?” Sunburst sighed. He was sitting in the shower, staring at a particular section of his body that didn’t come out often. Yet there it lay, pestering the perplexed pony with imagery of the barista he had been dating in more than lude circumstances. Was it normal to talk to such appendages? At this point Sunburst didn’t have many ponies he could go to with such a problem, so he resorted to what he considered the next best thing.
Letting the warm water hit his fur he had been sitting like that having a fairly one-sided conversation with his body for way too long to be considered a sane circumstance. For whatever the reason Sunburst found logical thought and reasoning best came to him in the shower, some of his best ideas had come from the blast of steamy liquid. However, this had most certainly been a first for him.
“I… I’m going, to be perfectly honest, I have no idea how to do this… being an introvert does that I… guess? I am going to have to go to someone about this, hmm, Starlight? Mail takes too long.” Sunburst took a long sigh until it struck him. “I know!” He triumphantly exclaimed to his non-responsive appendage.
“I will talk to the most qualified pony in all of Equestria! She has a foal, so she has to know about this stuff, she is my employer! I am going to get advice from the princess of love… Princess Cadence! Uhh… Umm… good… talk?” He awkwardly finished. Hopping out of the shower Sunburst dried off and placed his signature cloak on.
After spending less than an appropriate time getting ready, he started on his way to where he would usually be working for a very ulterior motive. The whole time he tried to think desperately how in Equestria he was going to ask his friend/employer how to talk about his sex life… Or lack thereof.
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“Sunburst! Come on in. I haven’t had a surprise visit from you, since you and that Ristretto stallion all cute, to what do I owe the company?” Cadence smiled as her close friend made his nervous entry. Sunburst’s cheeks had in fact gone a shade of crimson knowing the fact that he was well and truly going to discuss very sensitive matters with a princess.
“Sunburst? Is everything alright? You look like you just got dunked into a tank filled with strawberry jam, what’s the matter.” Cadence asked using her magic to pull up a chair near her desk. The office was somewhat large, mostly filled with pictures of either Cadence and Shining, or with the addition of Flurry Heart. Her chairs were soft and luxurious, the room brightly light, truly fitting for the very princess of love.
“Well… it’s a little sensitive. It’s actually about Ristretto and me.” He admitted, sinking deeply into the chair, to the point where he was more chair than pony.
Cadence gasped at the prospect of a potential issue. “What could it be! You don’t know how to ask him out. Or it could be he is a snorer. OR! It could be that he is leaving the Crystal Empire forever and you are doomed to separate!” Cadence cried out getting more and more dramatic every time a thought popped into her head.
“Cadence! Cadence! It’s not anything like that… well, it’s. Kinda awkward, umm, is that door locked?” Sunburst asked looking behind him.
Cadence’s head rested on her hooves on the table as she locked the door with her magic not taking her eyes off her troubled friend. “Spill the beans.” She urged.
“Well, it’s about… well... “ He took a breath and sorted his thoughts. “Ristretto and I haven’t gotten… well active, in that way.” He said awkwardly clopping his hooves together idly like a colt trying to admit his secret crush. “And I want to, but I don’t know how to talk to him about it,” Sunburst admitted.
Cadence deadpanned. “Dude… just get to the point.” She replied flatly, being about as blunt as a wrecking ball hitting a building made of lego blocks. “Just... okay, don’t do exactly what you did there. Don’t beat around the bush. It’s the only way you are going to be able to have a civil conversation with him.” Cadence elaborated.
“Ohhhkay?” Sunburst replied. “Can you give me an example?” Sunburst asked.’
“Okay, so let’s do a scenario, you’ll be Ristretto, and I’m you.” Cadence smiled.’
“Okay, I am Ristretto. Got it.”
Cadence started the scenario, “So Ristretto, we have been going out for a while now, maybe we should talk about the more sexual aspects of our relationship. I do have a close connection to you, and I feel like we can talk about this stuff.”
“Uhhh okay?” Sunburst replied nervously, clearly not knowing what to say.
Cadence quickly got the all important question after the shaky response. “Well, let’s be to the point here, Ristretto.” At this moment Shining unlocked his wife’s door in a frantic matter. Flurry Heart was crying about her broken toy, and he needed the name of the toy shop they had gotten the toy from. “Would you like to have a sexual relationship with me?”
Shining’s jaw hit the floor with such vigour it threatened to go through it. “Am I interrupting something here!” Shining shrieked, his voice breaking on near every vowel he spoke.
“Shining dear, I was just telling our friend Sunburst how to talk to his coltfriend Ristretto. What’s the matter?” She asked giving him eyes saying she would explain in more depth later.
Taking a couple of seconds to recover from the initial shock, Shining finally regained the ability to remember why he had barged in. “Well… Ummm, okay, well Flurry broke her toy.” Shining showed his wife the toy, or rather the two halves of what previously was a toy in his aura before putting it away. “Do you know where we got this? I need to get her a new one before she cries the kingdom to the train stop.” Shining finished.
“We got that at the market remember? From that crazy mare who insists she makes all the toys herself but when you look at the tag it says ‘made in Manehattan’. She sells them all the time. You could probably still catch her if you’re quick.” Cadence once again using her eyes to say ‘we can talk later but I am busy’.
“Right. Thanks bye!” Shining quickly finished before hurrying to the markets to stop the torrent of tears streaming from his daughter. Slamming the door Cadence quickly locked the door and resumed as if nothing happened.
“Look, Sunburst, just be straight to the point, don’t make it awkward or beat around the bush, tell it like it is. If you’re comfortable, he will be. But remember Sunburst…” She paused.
“...Yeah?” Sunburst replied after a sufficiently awkward amount of time had passed.
“Use protection, plenty of lube. No teeth or sharp objects. Remember to wash out extraaaaaaaaaa carefully and oh do not eat any gassy foods. Finally, remember to give him the ride of his life!” Cadence winked.
If sunburst looked like he had been dipped in strawberry jam before, it looked like he had been marinated in it this time. “OkaythanksCadencegottagobye!” Sunburst shrieked exiting the office quicker than Cadence could say orgasm.
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Ristretto and Sunburst were on the couch eating dinner together. Ristretto’s hooves dangling and his body resting against Sunburst’s.
“I gotta say Retto. You’re curry is a culinary masterpiece.” Sunburst smiled taking another forkful off the deliciously hot curry. Hazel and his friend sleeping over had taken the first bowls. Later Ristretto added a lot more heat to it and served the couple’s own.
Ristretto giggled a little and finished his mouthful, “The secret is knowing which ingredients to let age overnight so that you can develop all the flavours.”
Sunburst smiled and finished his mouthful. “An old family secret?”
“I found it out of a magazine at the doctor's office.” Ristretto chuckled.
Sunburst suddenly started choking on something. Ristretto ran around the table and started slapping his date on the back to try to remove the offending object, Sunburst's eyes were watering by the time the thick chunk of “food” was removed from his oesophagus. Ristretto picked up the little object and resisted the urge to laugh.
“Sunburst… you’re not supposed to eat star anise. It is for flavouring.”
“Seriously? Why was it in the curry then!” Sunburst retorted.
“For the flavour! You just leave them in the bowl.”
“Okay, good to know that you put choking hazards in your foods. Next time you come over, I’ll whack an army man in your soup for ‘texture’”.
Ristretto giggled and rolled his eyes. “Gunpowder flavoured... yum.” Ristretto replied earning a chuckle from Sunburst.
Silence ensued. It was a comfortable one, only broken by the sounds of cutlery clanking on bowls.
“Hey, Ristretto?” Sunburst broke the silence.
“Yeah?”
“I’m going to be blunt here. When would you feel comfortable being… sexually active with me?” Sunburst asked.
Ristretto thought about this, letting his fork sink into the curry. “Can I answer that question with a question Sunburst?”
“Yeah?”
“Sunburst, will you be my… my coltfriend? Make it official?” Ristretto blushed looking away from Sunburst.
Silence… This one was a tad more heavy. Finally, Sunburst broke it again. “I thought we already were, to be honest.” Sunburst smiled.
Ristretto put his bowl of curry down and took Sunburst hoof. He lead Sunburst up to his room and shut the door. As soon as the two stallions were in the room together, Ristretto kissed the stallion square on the lips. Opening his mouth slightly, Ristretto allowed Sunburst to kiss deeply, their tounges meeting and dancing in the middle. Eventually, an eternity passed, and Sunburst broke away.
“Hehe, you taste like curry.” Sunburst smiled wrapping his hooves around Ristretto and falling onto the bed with the smaller stallion in his arms.
Ristretto looked into his eyes. “It’s better than gunpowder flavour.” He giggled.
The two stallions began their wild, adventurous night together. It was almost perfect. It would have been totally perfect… had Hazell Quill not arrived home early from his sleepover.