//------------------------------//
// The first of many Ly's 
// Story: Lyra Lyra pants on fire 
// by Smugburn 
//------------------------------//

The silence remained a unwelcomed guest to the conversation which was promptly shoo'd away by Fancy Pants as he turned his full attention to Lyra "Is something the matter Lyra my dear?" he asked with a raise of his brow, Bon Bon was taken back by how her Lyra was just called dear by a colt, Lyra chuckled uncomfortably and asked
"Heh, Excuse us one moment Fancy Pants." she said promptly grabbing Bon Bon and pushing them away hastefully from the conversation, the fiery orange maned pony soon trotted over to Fancy Pants "Well what was all that about?" she questioned watching the sea green pony push away who she could only assume to be the ponies best friend
"I haven't the faintest idea Spitfire dear, now where were we, ah yes!" Fancy Pants continued as they conversed about there daily lifes to eachother.

Lyra managed to push Bon Bon all the way to the drinking lounge a place where Fancy Pants wasn't in view, Lyra's eyes were darting around the room just to be sure, Bon Bon trotting to her partners side took this oppurtunity to ask a few questions "Okay, Lyra a few questions, one, who was that? two, why are you so nervous around him? and three, dear?" she asked one after another almost in a interrogative like manner, Lyra bit her bottom lip nervously and tried to think of answers to the questions as she slowly turned to Bon Bon, she couldn't possibly let Bon Bon know the truth.
"Um...heh um...oh that was...um...Fancy Pants and um." her eyes drifted across the room trying to think of an answer to question number two "He was, a old school friend who...I used to partner up with during ettiquette classes when I used to live here in Canterlot" she said and immediately thought 'No you foal, to closely related think of something else quick!' her mind told her as she then added "when it came to dating he wouldn't take no for a answer..." at this point Lyra could feel her brain facehoof, thats if her brain had either of those things.

Bon Bon raised a brow curiously she knew she was lying but couldn't understand why, she shrugged and bought the excuses for her partners sake, it was obvious this was an uncomfortable subject for her "Okay, I understand why you wanted to get away now, so how about we get a drink seeing as we're here now?" she asked.
"A drink sounds good." Lyra responded taking a deep sigh of relief as they both trotted over to the bar, this bar had a wide selection of drinks of so many different colours some of them even had multiple layers of different colours, Bon Bon was the first to order she looked at Lyra and asked "How about something simple like a wine mrs.look at the strongest drink here?"  she asked as Lyra diverted her attention from a 7 layered drink called a rainbow crash.

Lyra nodded in agreement as Bon Bon turned to the well groomed colt bartender and ordered a bottle of rose wine, Bon Bon giggled some "I've never had wine before, so might as well try some." she said, Lyra smiled sheepishly as she thought 'someone is going to be sleeping on the couch tonight hopefully it won't be me' as their bottle of wine arrived the fiery orange maned pony had entered the drinking lounge and took a seat near-by the pair, Lyra gave a sly glance to her realizing she was talking with Fancy Pants before he came over and talked to herself, she knew eventually that pony would try to speak with her.

Not one minute after as Lyra made her suspicions Bon Bon took a couple of sips and arched a brow "I'm not sure why but I feel the need to have dark chocolate with this, be right back I'm gonna see if I can find some!" she said hopping off the stool and trotting away leaving Lyra with the rest of the wine and a fiery orange pony near her, seeing as they were both alone now the pony with a mane of fire scooted closer "So, what with that earlier?" she asked
"With what?" she responded her attention now fixated on this pony
"Well Fancy Pants left me to talk to you to catch up and you blow him off, why?" she asked
"What's it to you?" Lyra asked already not liking where this line of questioning was going as such, she took a sip of her wine
"Well, I am his girlfriend, the names Spitfire..." before she could say another word Lyra spat out her wine soaking the bartender in front of her before covering her mouth
"Your his what?!" she almost yelled, her eyes widening in shock
"His girlfriend, don't worry I ain't the stay away from my guy type, I'm quite the opposite actually, hence why I wanted to talk to you." she smiled sweetly her eyelids lowering in a seductive manner.

Lyra bit her bottom lip and from the corner of her mouth mimic'd "Lyra come over here and see the thing at the place!"
"Oh would you look at that I'm being called, I'd love to stay and chat but um....bye!" she galloped away from this conversation as if it was on fire, Spitfire shrugged and giggled to herself paying for the wine herself "Hmm, she's going to be a challenge to get to come around." she said pouring some of the wine for herself and taking a sip "Looks like this years Gala is going to be more fun then I thought".