Gleaming Shield was suddenly woken up the next morning in her soft, comfy “princess style bed,” looking right up at Sunset Shimmer’s smug face. She looked rather silly with her mane frazzled and looking quite a mess and with bags under her eyes. The princess alicorn was gently nudging her and whispering in her ear. "Hey, it's time to wake up, sleeping beauty."
The white-coated mare rolled her eyes at the dumb joke as she slowly got out of bed. Gleaming was still feeling quite tired, noticing that ever since she became a mare waking up seemed to take more energy than when she was a stallion. But she eventually got on all fours and was now looking out the window and seeing the moon still out; Gleaming rubbed her eyes with a hoof and mumbled, “what time is it?”
Sunset was not really in the mood to answer her friend’s question and snapped, “seriously, just come on, I have to get going soon, but I want to make sure you're properly ready for today.”
Gleaming groaned as she knew today would be the start of their official "Princess in Training." The alicorn princess slowly trotted to access the room towards the bathroom to start getting ready for the day. She was quite surprised to see that Winter was already inside the bathroom and a pout on her face. The goddess of winter seemed to get quite angry seeing Sunset come in and snapped, "Ugh, I wanted her alone. Come on, you two hung out all night together."
Sunset got a little prissy as well and snapped, "yeah, because she was helping me with my penmanship, that doesn't really count a “hanging out” now you can get her mane and tail. I got her makeup."
"Fine, then," Winter grumbled with a cute pout on her face. The white-coated mare started with washing and slowly brushed out the tangles from Gleaming's mane and tail. She squinted and clenched her teeth every time the goddess pulled the knots from her hair, making her squeak and kick about in pain. Winter was starting to feel bad as she meeped out, “I’m sorry,” multiple times throughout the brushing. Gleaming didn’t say much else and endured the rest of the makeover. The mare then saw Sunset rubbing some foundation on her face and then snapped, “pucker those lips, please.”
Gleaming grumbled but did as Sunset asked and puckered her lips with Sunset giving a smirk and the former stallion wondered if Sunset thought about kissing her. But the alicorn princess went and smeared some pink lipstick over her mouth. It felt chalky, but it wasn’t too thick, and Gleaming smacked her lips, a feeling time getting them wet. Sunset then went about putting some light makeup around her eyes. Gleaming just stared straight at the tiles behind Sunset, trying to ignore what was happening to her. She can get through this, no matter how embarrassing. If she could get through boot camp, then she can get through this. The mare then felt Winter start to curl her mane, and this made her squeak and feel her mane being pulled and curled by the mare. At the same time, Sunset placed false eyelashes on her and continued to put eyeliner over her eyes. Gleaming could feel her face growing hot red from sheer embarrassment; this was becoming more than she could handle ever in her life would she considered putting on mascara. The mare was even considering that going through boot camp a second time wouldn’t be as bad as this.
"Alright, I need to do her tail," Winter snapped as she took the curling iron once more, and Gleaming turned with her already red face now steaming from embarrassment as she cried out. “Seriously!”
But before she could protest, Winter was running the curling iron over Gleaming’s tail. The white-coated alicorn squealed in pain as the mare's tail was being pulled and curled. Winter did multiple pass-throughs as Gleaming had enough and shouted, "Ugh! Stop that! My tail should be bouncy enough now!”
Winter stepped back, feeling a bit embarrassed as she whispered, “sorry.”
Sunset shook her head and sighed, coming around Gleaming and looking at her back and grumbled, "you forgot about preening her wings."
"You did that yesterday! She doesn't need them preened every day," The pegasus mare cried out.
"Gleaming needs to look perfect! Besides, we got this far already," Sunset shouted, seeming to get quite furious as she took the mare and started to use her teeth to remove the dirt from her feathers again. However, this was the least painful part as she moaned as the alicorn went and quickly cleaned and spat out some bent feathers. But the moment was ruined once again when Winter exclaimed, “ok! I’m done!” As she skipped in front of her friend and the alicorn princess in training gulped, seeing the big wide-eyed mare while Sunset's face was a shade of pink.
Gleaming gulped now, feeling quite scared of how she looked as she cried out, "hey! Stop that! Tell me, how do I look!"
"Um...uh...just see for yourself!" Sunset snapped out loud as she ran off, and Winter feinted with what looked like blood coming from her nose. The mare gulped as she turned towards the mirror and gasped, seeing her reflection. It was unlike anything she could imagine; her mane was perfect and bouncy, her tail curled delicately while her eyelashes were doubled their average length, with her face now had light blush on her cheeks. Her lips had some pink lipstick gently applied to them making them look glossy. She was undoubtedly the very definition of the term "sexy" and now Gleaming was starting to feel self-conscious about her looks and quickly went back to her room. She went through the wardrobe of dresses taking out a light gold dress with white satin lacing and trim; she placed it over her body and turned to see Sunset wearing a simple yellow dress with her mane and tail curled and all prettied up. Gleaming was quite stunned seeing Sunset looking so beautiful she had to turn away as her beauty as if her beauty was hurting her eyes.
Sunset stood by, seeming to be too angry at her dress as she was adjusting it in the mirror nearby. The orange coated alicorn grumbled under her breath. "I have to go deal with the prissy Celestia, I hope you'll be ok without me."
Gleaming slowly came over to her new friend, feeling uncomfortable with the dress swishing around her. She slowly came over and took her hooves around the mare and hugged her close."You'll do fine, remember to relax; you got this"
Sunset bowed her head from what Gleaming saw; her classmate wanted to say something, but she grumbled under her breath as she walked off down the hall quite disgruntled. Gleaming just stood there staring at the door, hoping Sunset will pass and everything will turn out alright. She barely even noticed Winter comer over all prettied up too with her mane curled, and wearing a sparkling light blue dress, she nuzzled Gleaming making her sigh as she replied, "Come on, let's go eat before we head to our classes."
She sat down with her new friend at the small table set up in their room. They used the phone and ordered some light pastries of croissants and coffee. They then began to eat breakfast together in almost perfect silence. They ordered some pastries and coffee as they ate their breakfast together. It was relatively calm and peaceful, with the two mares eating their breakfast together.
Gleaming couldn't help but notice that it was quite apparent that Winter had feelings for her and asked, "so...you want to get something off your chest before we go to class."
The goddess gulped, seeming to be unsure of asking her question, and whispered, "so...um...yeah, I have a question."
"Yeah, go ahead, ask away," Gleaming replied; she would rather get this over with now and not in front of the anal Celestia.
"So….um do...do you like Sunset Shimmer," Winter whispered meekly into her coffee.
The white-coated alicorn princess seemed to be a bit confused and responded, "Of course I do."
The goddess rolled her eyes looking rather annoyed, and replied, "I mean..more than a friend."
"Well...I do like her a lot, but I'm married. I can't just do what I want," Gleaming snapped, getting quite angry as she continued to eat her food, now being angry at Winter even implying having feelings for Sunset Shimmer.
Gleaming decided to try to find a way to keep this conversation from getting any more awkward. The mare got up and grabbed the chessboard and placed it down between her and Winter. "Let's just play something to keep our minds occupied."
"Right...not what I was hoping for," Winter mumbled under her breath as they went and played together for some time.
It wasn't long after Gleaming beating Winter on their first game that Celestia came through the door. The two performed curtseys on instinct, with Gleaming still feeling so awkward in her dress she was only glad that her wife wasn't there to see her.
Celestia took a hoof and replied, "rise, please."
The two princesses in training did as Celestia asked, standing up in front of her as she circled them. Gleaming felt it was like when she was Shining and having his uniform inspected. As Celestia spun back to face them, she clapped her hooves. "Bravo, you two look simply beautiful; now come, let's go to the dining hall."
The two princesses in training followed their mentor down the hall, with Gleaming still feeling flustered from the morning, not knowing how much more of this princess stuff she would be able to take.
The two princesses walked down the stairs and through a set of double doors; what laid before them was a long table with plates and silverware already set up correctly in straight lines. Alicorn princesses were sitting across from each other. Sunset Shimmer was sitting proudly, and Gleaming quickly strutted over and sat down next to the mare; and she was quite excited as she asked, "did you pass!?"
Sunset was also giddy from excitement and whispered, "yeah, in fact, I was told I had the best penmanship than anypony else, thank you."
The two alicorns then hugged each other wrapping their wings around as Winter looked on with jealousy. Then Celestia interrupted their happy reunion and exclaimed," "attention, my students! Listen up!"
Everypony looked down the table towards Celestia as she cleared her throat. "Now, this will be a class in proper table etiquette. Now I must warn you this class will be long and tedious as the last, as before you may use the restroom at any time properly excuse yourself. Also, don't worry about refreshments.. you'll be quite full by the end of the day, I'm sure."
Gleaming grumbled under her breath, not looking forward to this; she then noticed a few bottles of wine, and Sunset leaned over to her ear and whispered. "You want to get drunk while Celestia isn't noticing."
Sunset had a devilish grin on her face, and even Winter snickered beneath a hoof. "Hehe, whoever can sneak in the most glasses wins."
"Ok, I'll keep count, so no lying," Sunset cooed as she took a bottle and poured each of the mares a glass.
Gleaming smirked as a stallion; she had been through her fair share of drinking games these two were going down. They then turned their attention to Celestia as she began her first lecture on proper silverware placement.
Gleaming had to endure a class even more tedious and boring than the last going over topics like proper silverware etiquette. They went over how to eat soup properly, then how to eat and dress a salad, how to eat spaghetti, to simple fancy dinners, to how to dab their chins with napkins, how to drink wine and tea properly, and how to eat desserts like ice cream and cake. However, the three princesses in training were getting quite drunk. Winter was wobbling back and forth while Sunset was trying to throw grapes into a bowl nearby and missing most of her shots. Gleaming, however, just couldn't keep her eyes off Sunset while Celestia blabbered on about." "How well they were and how she was quite proud of them...but the words they all heard was, "you are now dismissed."
All of the mares started to leave as soon as those words left Celestia's lips. The three mares stumbled off down the halls, drunkenly mixing into the crowd of other princesses. Gleaming stumbled about as things were going through her head, she liked Sunset, but she was married; they can't be together. Even if they did, it would only before a few days, and it would be just a stupid fling. Winter couldn't help but snicker as she opened the doors and flexed her wings." "Yay, it's finally over."
Sunset just groaned as she slumped over her bed and grumbled, "I'm done... I don't want to eat anything else for the rest of the day.”
"I bet you ate more than the rest of us combined," Gleaming laughed out loud as Sunset snickered at the joke as she tore off her dress and flung it across the room. The white-coated alicorn removed her dress next, slowly pulling it from her body. She kicked it and scoffed, "what improper manners, I think the anal Celestia will come and shove a stick up your rump."
Winter laughed as she threw her dress off next and laid down on the bed. "Come on, who won the wine contest? Was it me?"
Sunset burst into laughter, kicking her legs about uncontrollably, and exclaimed, "it was me I won! I drank three full bottles of wine! Both of you only had two.”
Gleaming stumbled, actually feeling embarrassed as a stallion should've been able to drink at least four or five before getting this tipsy; she must weigh a lot less as a mare. The drunk alicorn stumbled about, unable to keep her balance as she came forward and fell between the other mares. She turned to Sunset first, and before she knew it, they were kissing, and her mind exploded as feelings she hadn't felt before flooded her mind. Then she somehow found herself with Sunset on top of her with the mare's hoofs digging near her crotch area. Sunset was giving her bedroom eyes and making her feel so hot and bothered as she whispered seductively, “so Gleaming, you helped me with that stupid penmanship class; now I’m going to reward you and show you the pleasures of being a mare.”
Thoughts of bucking Sunset off soon came into Gleaming’s mind, but she felt as if all thoughts of infidelity seemed to have melted away as they embraced in a sudden kiss. Gleaming then thought about Cadance, and she used her magic to push Sunset back. “No, stop! We can’t do this!”
“Why not!? You want me, right?” Sunset slurred as Gleaming shook her head as she grumbled. “No, we can’t do this...you're drunk, and so am I we're just not thinking straight.”
Sunset groaned as she tugged her mane. “Ugh!? I keep forgetting you're married! Fine! You're right I’m sorry...please pretend that never happened…” The orange coated mare slammed down on the bed.
Gleaming on the other hoof slowly backpedaled onto another bed and curled up under the covers as she grumbled, “it’s fine...let’s just get some sleep…”
The mare just stared at the ceiling, realizing how close she was to cheating on her wife...in fact, she just kissed Sunset. Gleaming just laid there trying to keep her emotions in check, but she seemed unable to think straight with her realizing that she did, in fact, had feelings for
Sunset Shimmer and Cadance.