//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: An Unusual Proposal // Story: Cutting In: An Odd Romance Story (Redux) // by Betty_Starlight //------------------------------// Lyra says to Bonbon from the left, “Are you sure she’s here?” Bonbon frowns from where she’s standing next to her love, “Well, she said she always went to the market on Fridays to get some food before heading home and making it herself. But uh, it’s a big market!” Lyra spots an indigo pegasus about 20 feet before the pair. This pegasus has a wavy long pink mane, done into a single ponytail behind her head and a matching pink ponytail behind her. Bonbon notices the blue pony as well before widening her eyes while saying, “Yeah! That’s the one I was telling you about! Her name is Doris and she’s just so gosh darn cute! Her little button nose and those sweet cerulean eyes of hers! Uh…” she blinks, “I don’t know, Lyra?” Lyra looks down at the pegasus, “Well, what are we waiting for?” Bonbon frowns at Lyra, “Well um, geez Lyra! it’s not like we can just go ask her to dinner?” Lyra looks back towards the pegasus, smiles, and trots forward. Once near her, Lyra looks directly at Doris and says, “Hi! You’re Doris, right? Bonnie was just talking about you and well, you wanna go out to dinner with us tonight and hang out?” before smiling as she stood there on her hooves, right in front of a wide-eyed Bonbon. The pegasus widens her green eyes before shaking her head and saying, “Yeah, I talk to your wife every Thursday when I get my treat.” She frowns, “Uh, sure! Lyra, was it?” Lyra smiles and says, “Yup! That’s me! Lyra! How does seven at the Ponyville Café sound?” <*****> Later that evening, Doris swished her long pink tail incredulously as she stared at Lyra to the left and Bonbon on the right, both sitting across the table from her at the lonely coffee shop patio. She widens her eyes as she once again asks the two ponies, “Okay wait! What?” Lyra smiles and says, “We want you to be our third! With us! Like I already told you, my quartet touring takes me away from home sometimes and Bonnie here, well she gets lonely.” She sighs, “I came to my senses and I finally just told her that I wouldn’t mind if we both took on an extra lover!” she widens her eyes while leaning forward slightly, “And that’s where you come in!” Doris frowns and says, “Um, why me? I mean, I’m the most boring pony in Equestria! I just read, keep to myself, and sip my coffee! Why would you be interested in me at all?” Lyra smiles even more broadly as she says, “Exactly! You’re not going to do anything weird, and we decided that if we’re going to do this, we should scout out potential partners and well,” she leans forward somewhat, “you fit the bill nicely! We’d like to give you a try!” Doris sips her coffee and as she sets it down with her forehooves, she says lowly, “Well it’s not like I have any other romantic options? And uh, you two are total lesbians, right? Not interested in stallions at all?” Lyra shakes her head and says, “Not really? I usually don’t like the way they act, and Bonnie here is put off by um, other things…” Doris starts giggling to herself… Bonbon frowns while staring at her with her blue eyes before asking her, “What’s so funny?” Doris smiles as she says, “Well I was actually thinking about suggesting my brother and so that’s why I asked! The truth is, I actually don’t want to do this, and yet” she giggles incredulously, “I really don’t see any reason not to!” Bonbon widens her eyes, “Well if you don’t want to do this, we’re not going to force you!” Doris chuckles as she looks down at the earth pony and says, “Well, that’s the thing! I’ve been alone for so long that I feel like I’m gonna go nuts if I don’t at least explore other options! But uh, this idea never really occurred to me until you two intercepted me in the market a little while ago! Er, what do you mean ‘scouting’ anyway?” Lyra smiles and says, “Well, remember how you always go to Bonbon’s candy shop for millionaires every Thursday? Doris looks left at the unicorn, “Well, I get paid on Thursday and I love those things!” Lyra nods, “Right! Well Bonnie here started talking to you last week and the more she learned about you, well…” she looks over to Bonbon to her left to see the yellow earth pony smiling as she blushes slightly. Doris looks at Bonbon in stunned wide-eyed surprise as she says in amazement, “Wait! Y-you liked me?” Bonbon smiles and lowers her head bashfully while fluttering her eyelashes, truly her last line of defense at this point! “Well I thought you were cute and I kinda always had a thing for quiet types.” She composes herself and straightens her neck before smiling, “Since Lyra and me agreed to do the poly thing, I decided to keep my eyes open and um, well….” She giggles slightly… Lyra starts to prod Bonbon with her right forehoof as she says with a cutesy voice, “You LOVE her, don’t you?” Bonbon flinches and looks at Lyra on her left with narrowed eyes, “Stop it Lyra! Not in front of her!” Doris giggles a bit more and looks up as she says, “Why not?” Bonbon looks at Doris with fixed glare in her eyes as she asks, “Are you okay Doris?” Doris looks down at her and says, “Yeah! I’ll be fine…” and then wistfully looks off to the right. Bonbon sternly looks at Doris with quivering wide-open eyes as she asks timidly, “Are you sure you’re okay with this Doris? You don’t sound comfortable to me?” Doris looks into Bonbon’s eyes as she says, “Look! It’s been literally years, okay? If I don’t at least see what’s out there, I don’t know what else to do with myself… I…” she closes her eyes before opening them to the earth pony, “You say you want to try me out? Well,” she sighs and smiles slightly and nods a tad, “I’m saying we can do that…” Bonbon smiles again and says, “Well okay Doris…” she nods her head, “As long as you’re sure…” Doris sips more of her coffee using her forehooves, before lowering it before her face, “Well, this is almost empty. Suppose we should pay and go then? Since my house is on the South End of town, I guess I should get started soon?” Lyra smiles as she says, “Actually, we were hoping you could spend the night?” Doris widens her eyes as she says, “Okay look! I’m not gonna do any sort of freaky” Bonbon cuts her off sharply as she says, “No! It’s not like that! We don’t even want to have sex with you right now!” Doris’s eyes narrow slightly as she peers out over the desolate patio…. She finally looks back at the earth pony suspiciously, “Wait, so why do you want me to spend the night?” Lyra says, “Well, we wanted to get to know you! Doris, the librarian Pegasus!” Doris frowns as she says, “Well tell me something. Do you have a coffee maker?” <*****> So later, Doris is sitting at their kitchenette table sipping her coffee and asking Lyra on the other side, “Okay, just so we’re clear! Nothing sexual or freaky deeky until I clearly say I’m ready, okay?” Lyra giggles and smiles as she says, “I keep telling you! It’s not like that!” As she scoots her chair a little bit closer to Doris and plants her forehooves below her chin at the table. “Yeah sorry.” Doris says before shaking her head, “I uh, used to watch a lot of porn!” “You don’t think me, and Bonnie don’t do that sometimes?” Doris widens her eyes and quickly responds, “Hey now!” “What?” Lyra shrugs, “We’re all consenting adults here?” Doris sighs, “… Okay… you got me there!” “Where’s Bonnie with our coffee anyway?” Lyra looks over to her right side to see Bonbon slowly balancing out two coffee cups on her snout while keeping her head down, so it stays level. Lyra smiles and takes them off with her magic and floats them over to the table as she says, “There you go honey! Come sit down now!” Bonbon raises her head, and turns it left to her love while smiling, “Thanks Lyra dearest!” before trotting back to the table and sitting down, on Lyra’s left, but Doris’s right. She turns her head left to Doris, “Yeah we both take our coffee sweet and blond and so it doesn’t matter which cup we get!” and smiling broadly. Doris sips her coffee and says, “Well isn’t that convenient!” she frowns, “And kinda sweet and cute really…” Lyra smiles and says, “Yeah, it is right?” she leans forward, “So, you really wanna do this Doris? Like Bonnie here said, we’re not going to force you into anything, and we understand if you’re not comfortable?” Doris sighs and looks down as she says, “Look! For the last time, I’m game, okay?” Bonbon smiles and says, “Don’t you mean, you’re gay?” Lyra prods Bonbon with her right forehoof, “Shut up Bonnie!” Doris giggles as Lyra says, “Again, we don’t want to seem like we’re putting any sort of pressure on you, okay?” And at that point, Doris sighs to herself as she gets off the chair. She then grumbles under her breath about commitment and devotion as she trots over to Bonbon’s left side, which was just to her right at the table. Bonbon turns her head left to see the pegasus while narrowing her mouth and widening her eyes… Doris looks up at her and smiles psychotically, “Here we go!” and then moves her face to the earth pony to lock her azure lips with the earth pony passionately. Lyra widens her eyes and opens her mouth to speak, but she soon closes it when she remembers that this is acceptable. Lyra looks on as Doris breaks with Bonbon, looks into her eyes, and asks her, “How was that?” Bonbon just stares onward at Doris with wide blue eyes while all she can do is stutter, “Um… Um…” Doris smiles now knowing she has the earth pony where she wants her and moves in for another, slightly slower kiss. Bonbon is more prepared this time and manages to enjoy this brief passionate moment with the pegasus! Her lips lock with Doris in a brief exchange of feeling and saliva… Doris draws back again after Bonbon has a few lovely moments with her and turns her head left to Lyra as she says, “And you!” Lyra widens her eyes at the delirious pegasus at her left and frowns, “Uh…” Doris smirks as she trots around Bonbon, to arrive on Lyra’s left, at the head of the table. She looks up into the unicorn's now wide and quivering eyes, and moves her head towards her snout as she embraces her lips to the green pony’s in a brief exchange of love… Then she draws back her neck carefully and smiles at the befuddled unicorn while looking deeply into her auburn eyes, “Are you convinced now?” Lyra says to Doris, “Okay, so I’m guessing we’re doing the three-way thing after all then!” Doris smiles and nuzzles her slightly, “I guess so!” Bonbon says, “Okay so we are, in fact, doing this then?” Doris looks at Bonbon and says, “For the last time, yes! No, I’m not entirely comfortable, but now I’m curious and I know my other options are very bleak!” Bonbon widens her eyes at the pegasus at her right, “Doris! I don’t want you to do this just because you don’t have anypony else to love! I want you to love me for me, Celestia-dammit!” Doris smiles and says, “Tell me something! Did you love Lyra for Lyra when you first started going out?” Bonbon widens her eyes and frowns, “Well um no, not really? But well, “she smiles slightly, “that grew over time…” Doris smiles and then says, “Exactly! But now I’m confused…” Lyra, still up close to Doris, then asks her, “About what?” Doris looks at Lyra’s russet eyes, “Well at first, I thought you two were ready for this thing, but Bonbon keeps asking me if I wanna back out and I even had to convince you as well?” Lyra giggles as she looks down. Then she looks to her right at Bonbon, “Okay new rule! No asking the third if she wants to back out!” Doris frowns and says, “I have a name you know!” Lyra then turns back and nuzzles her slightly, “I’m sorry Dory!” she smiles and says whimsically, “There’s more than one of you now!” Doris smiles and says, “Dory? I kinda like that Lyra…” Lyra smiles, “Awesome…” Doris yawns and Bonbon says, “It’s getting pretty late now. Do you two want to turn in?” Lyra frowns, “I’m not sure?” she looks at Doris, “Hey Dory! Wanna go to bed with me and Bonnie, now?” Doris starts and looks at Lyra as she says, “W-with both of you? Uh….” Lyra says, “Of course! I mean, even if we’re not having sex, we would like to snuggle you! Well, we understand if you’re not ready for that yet…” Doris squints at Lyra, “Okay, now you’re a jerk!” Lyra widens her eyes at the pegasus, “W-what?” Doris nods her head, “You heard me!” Lyra frowns, “Why?” “Because now, I have to do this!” Lyra raises her left eyebrow, “What do you mean?” Doris glares at the unicorn with her green eyes, “If I don’t do it now, I never will… So uh, lesbian snuggle fest?” before smiling nervously… Lyra widens her eyes and says, “Um, okay then!” she looks back at Bonbon on her right, “Okay Bonnie! You ready for bed now?” Bonbon smiles at the unicorn, “I am if you are!” Lyra smiles and says, “Great!” before getting off her seat and trotting towards the back of the cottage foyer as she says, “Dory! Our room is back here, and we have a king-sized mattress with plenty of room!” She opens the door with her forehoof, and Doris can now see the interior of the bedroom. She can also make out the side of a large green bed just to the left of the door and what looks like a few slightly darker green pillows on it at the edge. Bonbon trots up behind her, looks at Doris, and says, “Are you coming Dory?” Doris starts before getting off her chair and saying, “Um, okay but uh… Let’s go slow alright?” Bonbon smiles with her neck turned left and back at the pegasus, “Of course!” Doris nervously trots towards the bedroom door. Lyra watches this and can’t help but think that she’s trotting like somepony on death row to their execution. She determinedly scrunches her mouth and focuses her eyes forward as she makes the decision that she needs to put Doris at ease and trots over to her leaving behind a confused Bonbon. Lyra looks into Doris’s eyes, smiles, and asks her, “You okay?” Doris scratches the back of her head with her right forehoof and says, “I think so? I mean, when you first started talking to me about this, I didn’t expect to sleep with the two of you on the same night!” Lyra smiles and nuzzles Doris’s snout gently with hers as she says, “It’s okay Doris! You need to know that we’re all here to love and support one another.” Before nuzzling her gently some more and smiling. Doris looks down and says, “Yeah, um, okay…” she looks into the brown eyes of the unicorn “Can I uh, take the edge of the bed please? Um, until I’m more comfortable!” Lyra grins wider and says, “Well, I was actually about to suggest that! Doris widens her eyes and says, “Well then!” Lyra then hugs Doris tightly as she whispers in her left ear, “This is an adjustment for everypony, and we all three need to be there for each other!” she clutches the blue pegasus tightly, “I love you Dory!” Doris smiles while timidly returning the embrace as she says, “I-I love you too Lyra!” Doris sees Bonbon smiling in the background over Lyra’s shoulder. At that point, she felt a little more at ease knowing everypony was there for each other. Lyra breaks her embrace and looks at Doris’s green eyes as she says, “Shall we adjourn to the sleeping quarters then my dear?” As she curtly bows. Doris snickers and says, “Okay, where did that come from?” before turning her neck left and trotting that direction to the door near Bonbon at the left, with Lyra close in tow behind her. Doris trots into the bedroom, and gulps deeply as she realizes that it’s now or never. Lyra trots in behind her followed by Bonbon who closes the door with her right forehoof. Lyra trots to Doris’s left and turns her head left to see her, “Okay I’ll make this easy! Doris can have the edge closest to the door, so she’s more comfortable and Bonnie can take the other edge and I’ll be the sacrificial pony in the middle!” She trots over and gets into bed and under the covers. She slides over to the center and pats the edge next to her and says, “Coming Dory?” Doris smiles and says, “Sure! Why not? I woke up alone this morning, but I’m definitely not going to sleep that way!” before trotting and getting into bed timidly. She pulls the green blankets over her as she faces the door and puts her forehooves under her pillow with her head on top to snuggle in. Bonbon says, “Okay! My turn!” And then she trots over to the other side of the bed and slips in herself. She looks at the green unicorn, who now has her face to the earth pony. She looks into the brown eyes of Lyra Heartstrings and nuzzles her slightly, “Hello lover!” Lyra smiles and says, “Hiya Bonnie! We’re not alone anymore!” Bonbon says while playfully bounding her head, “I know! Just what are we gonna do with our new Dory?” Doris says to them on the other end, “Uh, what are you two talking about?” Lyra smiles and licks her lips as she says, “Hey I know! Let’s hold her and love her! Um, if she’s okay with that?” as she looks back over her left shoulder. Doris says, “If you’re gonna do it, just do it now and get it over with!” as she tenses her body and closes her eyes, expecting doom and death while tightly clutching the pillow. Lyra twists her mouth as she realizes that making Doris comfortable is up to her at this point. She turns around and says, “Okay Dory… I’m going to hold you now.” She says faster, “So uh, don’t freak out, okay?” Doris almost shouts as she says, “Just do it! Do it now!” Bonbon looks on in shocked silence as Lyra moves her hooves over Doris in the soothing darkness of the room, lightly illuminated by the pale moonlight from the window behind her, to envelope the pegasus in a loving embrace tentatively and says, “Geez! You’d think I was about to kill you Dory!” Doris looks down as she brings her wings in closely, “Look! If we’re gonna do it um, let’s just do it okay! I-I’m scared…” Doris’s body begins to quiver as Lyra hugs her closely and nuzzles the back of her neck and says, “It’s okay Dory! You’re safe here in my hooves. I have you now and I’m not letting go…” Doris stammers out, “W-what about Bonbon, Lyra?” Then, both ponies hear a sigh coming from the other side of the bed followed shortly by four hooves hitting the floor with a resonating clack, followed by the clip clop of hooves tapping the floor as a yellow earth pony trots around the bed in the dim room. She looks up at Doris now, tensely laying there in the hooves of the green unicorn and looks her eyes as she says, “Dory… I’m one of your new lovers… Do you trust me?” Doris stutters, “U-um…” Bonbon then says lower, “Dory, I need you and Lyra to scoot back now… I want to hold you now…” Doris frowns deeply as she feels the pony behind her moving back to the other end of the bed. “D-do I get a choice?” Bonbon gets a wicked grin as she stares into the azure eyes of the pegasus, “Oh, sweet Dory! Of course, you have an option! Now, you could get out of the bed and fly back home right now! No problem! We wouldn’t even be mad!” she leans forward and grins wider, “But here’s the thing… You’d wonder, what if? So, let me ask you this Doris…” she widens her gaze, “Do you want to love two ponies?” Doris scrunches her mouth and narrows her eyes, “You drive a hard bargain Bonnie…” she sighs, “Okay fine! I’ll surrender to the homosexual lesbian cuddle party!” before scooting back slowly, stopping when she again feels the warmth of Lyra’s body behind her as Bonbon giggles softly in the darkness. Lyra puts her hooves over Doris to embrace her while Bonbon slowly slips underneath the covers in front of a super nervous blue pegasus. She smiles as she scoots closer to Doris and slips her hooves over the azure pony. They both hold the pegasus tightly in a warm, loving embrace. Doris can only stutter, “Th-there’s two of you!” Bonbon nuzzles her snout softly, “Yes Dory! Two of us and we both love you!” Doris feels Lyra’s snout nuzzling the back of her neck and feels the warm breath from her snout on the nape of her neck. While it doesn’t excite the pegasus at this point, it does provide a certain level of comfort that she just can’t ignore. She softly curls up while being held. She comfortably drifts off to sleep and starts. She can feel Lyra’s embrace tighten on her body and she can also feel Bonbon nuzzling her from the front. She’s been held before, but it’s never been this intense. She hears Bonbon say softly, “It’s okay Dory. You’re with us now and we love you!” She then hears Lyra behind her whisper, “We have you and we’re not letting go… Just rest now sweetie…” Doris moves her head down with her eyes closed and slowly drifts off to sleep in the embrace of these two, possibly insane, ponies. <*****> Doris opens her eyes the next morning and sees the face of a yellow earth pony with a red and blue striped mane smiling at her. “Hello lover! Did you sleep well?” Asks Bonbon as she gently nuzzles Doris’s snout. Doris starts and says, “Y-yeah uh,” she shakes her head slightly, “where’s Lyra?” “Oh, she has early morning choir practice, and she has some other music-related things to do today.” Her blue eyes widen, “But I’m off work today and well, you’re a librarian and so you’re probably not working today either since it’s Saturday, right?” Doris frowns and says, “Oh no! You two planned this didn’t you? This is all meant to get me alone with you, isn’t it?” Bonbon squints and asks her, “Doris, do you see any other ponies here?” “Um,” she blinks, “no not really? It’s just you and me.” Bonbon sighs, “Exactly! We’ve been alone this whole time. Now nopony is forcing you into anything, but we decided that since you’re a librarian and have weekends off and since we each get our own ‘chunk’ of this weekend to ourselves, you’d have a day with each of us, so you can get used to your new marefriends individually first! Yeah, today is my day!” and then Bonbon smiles dimly back at her. Doris then says, “Well I could just say no?” Bonbon smiles wider and says, “But what if?” Doris narrows her eyes, “Alright, that argument is both compelling and irritating!” Bonbon giggles as she nuzzles Doris’s snout once more and says, “Well then Dory, what would you like for breakfast?” (To be continued…)