Celestia’s sun grazed the land to start a new day. As Ponyville was hit with the sun’s waking rays and its residents started to rouse from their slumber, the Castle of Friendship was still quiet in a certain book-filled room. On the Library’s couch lay a slumbering Kicker, what was in a cuddle sandwich between his soon-to-be-official mother Sparkler and her crush Twilight. Flappy was sleeping with his back against a stack of books on the table in the library.
Back on the couch. Kicker slowly awoke from his slumber, and immediately felt two sets of wings around him, and two pairs of forelegs around him. He momentarily tensed up, before his eyes opened and he relaxed at the sight of Sparkler and Twilight. At first he was confused as to why Twilight was cuddling him as well, before the events of last night slowly came back to him. After the all day Ogres and Oubliettes session, he had lazily asked if both Sparkler and Twilight could read him a bedtime story, and cuddle him. He blushed a little when he realized he had actually asked both of them. Mom’s cuddling me, that’s no surprise. But Twilight’s actually doing it too? He hadn’t expected Twilight to be cuddling him too, but he wasn’t gonna complain. So cozy. He snuggled into the Alicorn cocoon of his own apparent making. Like laying on a bunch of fluffy clouds. He closed his eyes and basked in this moment of serenity.
Over on the Library table, Celestia’s sun roused Flappy to the waking world. He fidgeted for a moment before his eyes fluttered open. He stretched his wings and sat up. “Squawk! Morning every—“ He stopped when he turned his head and saw his friends on the couch. Twilight and Sparkler were facing each other, Kicker was between them, and both Alicorns had both their wings and both their forelegs around the little colt. All coming together to make one of the cutest sights he had ever seen.
Oh, My, Stars! That is SO adorable! He screamed in his head. I have to get a picture of this! He glanced around the room, hoping for a camera. He quickly spied one that was on the table with him. He smiled as he got to work. He carefully, and gently, aligned the camera, he looked through the viewfinder to make sure it was aligned properly, and once he confirmed it was, he pressed the button and snapped the picture.
The camera just happened to be an insta-print so as soon as the picture was taken, the photo immediately printed. Flappy took the photo in his claw and examined it. He beamed when he found it was perfect. This is definitely going in the album.
The noise from the camera taking a picture and printing the result was enough to rouse Twilight awake and she fluttered her eyes open. “Ehhh…wha…” Her senses started kicking in again and she was able to process a few things. One, she was in the Library, two, she was on a couch, three, and probably most confusing to her, was that she was cuddling with both Sparkler and Kicker. What? What’re Sparkler and Kicker doing here? She dared not move from her spot so as to not wake Kicker and Sparkler up, but her mind raced. The events of the previous night slowly came back to her and she realized what must’ve happened. Right, Kicker asked both me and Sparkler to read to him and cuddle him. She decided just to lay there until Kicker and Sparkler woke up.
She smiled as she gazed at Sparkler and Kicker, fast asleep. Aww. Look at them. They look so peaceful, you’d never guess how they met. She relaxed as she started gently stroking Sparkler’s side with her wing, caressing her body. You’ve come so far in the last few weeks Sparkler. When we first met you were a Unicorn pretender afraid of revealing your true self. And now you’re a mother-to-be. Those Nobles in Canterlot can complain all they want, you ARE worthy of your wings.
The stroking from Twilight’s wing got a reaction out of Sparkler. She made a small purring noise and a smile captured her muzzle. “Mmmm. That feels nice Twi.” She said, probably in her sleep. “I love you so much.” She added lazily.
Twilight’s eyes widened as she stopped her stroking, her eyes darted to that wing and realized what the heck she was doing. Her mind raced. Was I just caressing my friend with my wing? And did she just… She shook her head. No, surely she just meant as a friend. T-that’s probably it. She felt her cheeks heating up as she blushed. She carefully retracted her wing, which was still on her friend. It’s your mind playing tricks on you Twilight. You haven’t had your coffee yet. Hehe.
Finally, Sparkler was roused awake and her eyes fluttered open. The first thing she saw was Kicker, safe in her forelegs and wings, with a smile on his face. She smiled as she gently squeezed the colt. Just seeing him smile is enough to get my heart going. And knowing he’s safe makes it even better. Her senses started picking up speed and she took in the rest of her surroundings, and her eyes snapped open when she realized what was in front of her. “Twilight?” She said before she could even think.
“Morning Sparkler.” Twilight replied, carefully maneuvering so she could sit up without disturbing Kicker.
“Mmm. Morning Mom, Twilight.” Kicked said. Hearing Sparkler wake up and seeing that the moment was gone.
“Oh, Morning Kicker.”
“We didn’t wake you up did we?” Twilight asked.
Kicker shook his head. “Nah, I’d say I’ve been up for the last few minutes.” He said. “I just wanted to snuggle a little more before you two woke up.”
“Yeah. Give me a second, last night’s events are coming back to me.” Sparkler said. She sat up as last night replayed in her head. Yesterday was an Ogres and Oubliettes marathon, followed by Me and Twilight reading to Kicker…and given our position a few seconds ago we must’ve fallen asleep cuddling…like Kicker wanted. She smiled as she remembered Kicker had asked both her and Twilight to read to him and cuddle him. “Right. I remember, Kicker asked us to read to him and cuddle him.”
“Yeah…I guess I did. Hehe.” Kicker said. “It…it was nice…”
“Yeah. It was.” Twilight admitted.
Sparkler just nodded in agreement, not trusting her words at the moment. For a brief moment, we might have actually looked like a real family. And Twilight wasn’t even weirded out.
“Squawk! Well I see our little picture perfect family is awake. Squawk!” Flappy said. Finally making his presence known.
Sparkler and Twilight both blushed at that as Kicker giggled and all of them turned to look at Flappy, who was hovering in the air, and holding something in his claws.
“Morning Flappy.” Kicker said happily.
“What do you have in your claws?” Twilight asked.
At that, Flappy giggled. “Squawk! How bout you take a look fer yourself. Squawk!” He held the thing out for one of them to take, making sure to keep the contents hidden.
Sparkler lit her horn and took the thing from Flappy. She flipped it over and she, Twilight and Kicker saw what it was, a picture of them cuddling on the couch.
Twilight went red in the face as Sparkler glared at Flappy. “Dude, why?” She asked.
“Squawk! Hey, you two may not be together but you gotta admit that you three are pretty flapping adorable cuddling with each other. Squawk!” Flappy replied.
He’s right. Sparkler thought. Kicker was sandwiched between her and Twilight, who were facing each other. They both had their wings and forelegs around the colt, it literally looked like a pair of mothers cuddling with their son. “What do you think Twi?” Sparkler asked.
“Uh…” Twilight was at a loss. The photo was cute, she wasn’t about to say otherwise, but like Sparkler, she knew what it would look like, and the strange part was that she didn’t mind at all. Why is my heart beating faster than ever?! She screamed in her mind. Her heart had beaten faster than normal whenever she was around Sparkler, but never this fast before. I..is it possible…
Twilight shook her head clear enough to give an answer. “Alright. I’ll concede. It is adorable.” She said.
“Squawk! Of course it is. Hehe. Squawk!” Flappy responded.
“Hey mom?” Kicker said to Sparkler. “Can we hang it up on the fridge?”
Sparkler glanced between Flappy, Kicker, and Twilight, her mind struggling to catch up. Can we put it up on the fridge. Ya know what? Buck it. “Sure.” Sparkler said, resolving just to go along with it. “Yeah. Sure we’ll do it when we get home.” She said as she and Twilight hopped off the couch.
“Yay!” Kicker exclaimed. Clearly happy about it.
At that moment, everypony heard a rumbling sound. After a second it was gone. All eyes turned to Kicker who blushed and smiled sheepishly. Sparkler smiled. “Aww. Is somepony hungry?” Sparkler asked.
Kicker nodded. Sparkler giggled. “Well then we gotta fill up that tank.” She said.
“You're welcome to stay for breakfast if you can.” Twilight said.
“Sure. We can stay for breakfast.” At that moment, something clicked in Sparkler’s mind and she turned her attention to Twilight. “Hey Twi.” She leaned over and whispered something in her ear.
Twilight’s eyes widened as she listened to Sparkler. When she was done, she nodded, lit her horn, and after a flash that briefly blinded everyone, a stroller appeared out of thin air. Sparkler smiled as she lit her horn again and carefully levitated Kicker from the couch into the stroller. “You and Flappy go on ahead to the kitchen. Flappy, his sippy cup should be on the kitchen counter. Make a salad, blend it up, and make sure he drinks all of it if Twilight and I haven’t gotten to the kitchen yet.” She told Flappy.
Flappy nodded as he grabbed the stroller handle with his claw. “Squawk! Aye aye Sparkler! Come on Kicker! Onward! Squawk!”
“Wait, you aren’t coming mom?” Kicker asked.
“I’ll come in a few minutes Kick. Just gotta talk to Twilight about something. Nothing you need to be here for.” Sparkler replied with a reassuring smile.
“Ok.” Kicked said.
Flappy took that as his cue to start pushing the stroller. He pushed it out of the library and turned it to the left to head to the kitchen. After a moment, Kicker broke the silence. “I wonder what they’re talking about.” He asked.
“Squawk! Eh, probably nothing major. So. I assume you heard Sparkler say that she loved Twilight so much in her sleep? Squawk!” Flappy asked.
“I did.” Kicker replied. “It was a little funny.”
“Squawk! It was hilarious! Hehe. Wait until we tell her her little secret’s out to the one pony she doesn’t want to know yet. Squawk!” Flappy chuckled
“I wonder what she’ll say.” Kicker replied.
Back in the Library, Twilight turned her attention to Sparkler. “So. What is it that you needed to talk about Sparkler?” Twilight asked.
Sparkler let out a sigh. “Remember yesterday when we said Luna was talking to a friend of hers about them potentially helping Kicker?” She asked.
“Yeah, I do?” Twilight replied, sensing she wasn’t gonna like what Sparkler was about to say.
Sparkler gulped. “Luna came to me in my dream last night…Twilight, it’s one of my old schoolmates.” She revealed.
Twilight’s eyes widened and her jaw became slack as it sunk in what Sparkler just said. “What.” She said, unable to think of anything else in her state of shock.
To be continued…