//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: The Retreat // Story: Diamond Hard // by Betty_Starlight //------------------------------// Diamond Tiara sees the Trotster board on the floor of her cottage, with the two spin wheels for playing the game as she widens her blue eyes to the glasses-wearing gray pony standing to the right of it and says, “Okay, stop! You wanna play Trotster, with me now? It’s like you’re intentionally making today sexually awkward for me!” Silver Spoon widens her eyes as she stares at Diamond from behind her stylish blue spectacles, “What? It’s a fun game!” Diamond frowns. “Yeah but, I’m gonna be putting my face near your butt and junk and stuff!” Silver grins wickedly, “Well, maybe? But last I checked; turnabout is fair play!?" Diamond’s cheeks grow visibly red while the gray mare snickers at her. Silver shakes her head before saying staring back at Diamond and saying, “Okay, fine!” she sighs and giggles slightly, “We don’t have to play Trotster, if you don’t want to…” Diamond is visibly relieved as her shoulders suddenly relax when she suddenly notices that they’re very tense and she smiles as she says, “Th-thanks Silver Spoon!” she raises her gaze as she thinks about what to say, “I mean, I liked sex with you and everything, but…” Silver smiles, “Aww, that’s okay Diamond!” she widens her eyes. “Tell you what! I can do solo Trotster positions on the board for you with my hooves later and you get to figure out how you’re gonna cum in and pleasure me!” Diamond widens her eyes all the way with her mouth agape, “SILVER SPOON!!!!” Silver laughs hysterically, “I just can’t help it! It practically writes itself!” she adjusts her gaze to the aghast pink mare. “But actually, that does sound like a good idea!” Diamond frowns while keeping her eyes wide as she says robotically. “My marefriend is a sex pervert!” Silver giggles some more, “Well, at least I’m not boring?” before grinning. Diamond starts wiggling her mouth with her eyes still wide as she suddenly says robotically and emphatically. “Coffee! Yes! I need coffee, right the buck now!” <*****> Diamond sits at her polished kitchen table behind a steaming white cup of blond coffee as she stares up at the other pony and says, “So, we had sex!” before grasping her cup in her hooves and tentatively chancing a sip… Silver smiles, “Mhm! But I hope you know that’s just a nice bonus!” she widens her eyes, “The truth is, I really like you and want to be with you, too!” Diamond smiles warmly at the gray mare, “I KNOW that Silver Spoon!” she smiles a bit wider, “I’ve known you for some time now!” before looking back to her cup at her right and grasping it once more for another cautious sip. Silver nods, “Right! So, the juicy flanks are a nice bonus, but this is really about you!” Diamond almost chokes as she tries to swallow her coffee. Silver leans forward with wide eyes, “Are you okay?” Diamond coughs and sputters, before she manages to swallow when she opens her mouth for a good breath and then, normalizes her gaze to Silver, “Sorry! I’m just not used to you talking about me like that, okay?” She shakes her head and stares back at the mare with her blue eyes as her mouth narrows, “I mean, your Silver Spoon! The best playmate and cutest filly around! And now, you’re having sex with me!” Silver widens her eyes while stating, “All, technically true statements!” Diamond continues emphatically, “Right! So, this is all new! You’re gonna have to give me a few minutes!” before taking another larger swig of her coffee. Silver smiles and giggles before adjusting her glasses with her right forehoof as she stares across the table at the other mare with a straight face, “Yeah, I’m sorry if I moved too fast, Diamond!” She raises her chin, “The truth is, when I just think about, “she moves both forehooves before her in a hugging pose as she sways side to side, “just sweet lovable you, my heart starts to flutter…” she lowers her hooves and stops swaying as she stares at the pink pony, “I like you and want to be with you, okay?” she smiles. “I love you!” Diamond widens her eyes and narrows her mouth, “W-wow! Do you really mean that?” Silver narrows her mouth and raises her left eyebrow, “Would I have said those things, if I didn’t?” Diamond normalizes her eyes and mouth as she says lowly, “Well, n-no, you probably wouldn’t?” she cracks a slight smile while staring downward. “I love you too, Silver Spoon!” Silver gives an exasperated sigh as her shoulders visibly relax, “FINALLY!” she looks down at the white cup of coffee on the table, before her and grasps it with her hooves for a first sip. Diamond raises her left eyebrow, “I’m not THAT hard-headed!” before taking another sip of her own coffee. Silver sets her mug down and looks at the pink mare, “Yeah! ONLY about three days, before you eventually got the idea in your head that I liked you!” she smiles and giggles again. “Not too bad!” Diamond sets her mug down as well and frowns at the gray mare as she says lowly, “I don’t know if that’s good or bad?” Silver widens her eyes jokingly as she tries in vain to suppress a smirk on her face, “Well um, it’s probably good for you?” Diamond raises her right eyebrow, “For me?” Silver nods, “Yeah! For you! I mean, you’re Diamond solid, remember?” Diamond normalizes her eyes and grimaces deeper, “You’re saying I’m hard-headed, aren’t you?” Silver giggles, “Well uh, sorta, kinda, yes?” she smiles, “It’s okay baby!” she perks up, “I think it’s cute!” Diamond widens her eyes and looks up at the gray mare, “Cute?” Silver nods again, “Yeah! I mean, it’s like dealing with an adorable foal who really wants to get her way but ends up having sex with me anyway!” Diamond scrunches her mouth as her cheeks get noticeably puffier and redder in front of a snickering gray earth mare wearing blue fashion glasses! Silver sighs and composes herself, before adjusting her gaze, “But yes Diamond! The whole purpose of this thing was to get you to be with me, I’ll admit now!” Diamond shakes her head and frowns as she asks, “Um, so this had nothing to do with friendship?” Silver raises her right forehoof and speaks, “Au contraire, my dear Diamond Tiara! I still wanted to be your friend!” she lowers her hoof, sighs, and looks wistfully off to the right before affixing her gaze back to the pink mare and smiling softly, “You’re my oldest and best friend Diamond Tiara…” she smiles wider. “My life just isn’t complete without you!” Diamond gives a wide-eyed scowl to the other mare, “You’re making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside now! Knock it off, jerk!” before looking right and taking another sip of her coffee. Silver grins. “Right! So, licking your privates is fine! But you’ll get all antsy if we start talking about feelings!” Diamond widens her eyes as she sets down her coffee mug and looks to the gray mare aghast and says louder. “That’s kinda harsh, don’t you think?” Silver nods and widens her eyes. “But am I right?” Diamond narrows her eyes and stares at the gray mare carefully, “Well um, technically true, yeah!” she sighs and looks off pensively to the left before looking back at Silver Spoon. “You know, there’s a difference between physical intimacy and emotional intimacy!” Silver widens her eyes, “Okay, uh…” she normalizes her eyes again and says at a slower calmer pace, “Y-you’re right Diamond…” she sighs, “I-I’m sorry if I moved too fast for you…” she smiles, “Yeah, I think you’re sexy and yeah, I kinda did want to have sex with you…” she widens her eyes sincerely, “But I also have every intention of being with you too…” Diamond gazes at this earth mare carefully as it occurs to her that she wouldn’t be saying these things unless she was honest. A slow smile forms on Diamond’s face before she says, “It’s okay Silver Spoon… We can do whatever you like!” <*****> Diamond lifts the fork with her right forehoof after grasping her (veggie) lasagna in it’s prongs and brings it to her mouth for a taste as the explosion of garlicky broccoli goodness happens on her tongue and she chews before swallowing and staring at the pretty gray mare on the other side of the table, “So uh, you eat here often?” Silver leans towards Diamond and says, “Well, on Saturdays, I like to give myself a treat and eat out with friends!” Diamond raises her left eyebrow as it occurs to her that this means she’s Silver’s friend again and she grasps another hunk of the lasagna with her fork as it just now occurred to her how hungry she was after… After what she did earlier… Silver smiles while using the cleft of her left forehoof to grasp a fork and bring some lasagna to her own mouth. She chews quickly and swallows. “So uh, what was life like at the boarding school, anyway?” Diamond finishes chewing and adjusts her gaze, “Well, it was pretty lonely, honestly?” she blinks, “I mean, there was Whipperwheel the pegasus and Backgammon the unicorn for me to hang out with there! But uh, they weren’t um…” she frowns and blinks as she stares at the other mare blankly. Silver blinks and leans forward interestedly. “They weren’t what, Diamond?” Diamond blinks again as she stares onward, “Well, it wasn’t the same?” she frowns and sighs. “I only saw them in class, and they never came by to visit me…” Silver blinks as she stares onward interestedly. “Well, why didn’t you go visit them?” Diamond widens her eyes. “What? Well, uh, no I probably shouldn’t do that?” Silver frowns as she leans forward. “Why not?” Diamond normalizes her eyes to the silver mare before saying mechanically. “Because everypony always leaves, in the end…” Silver Spoon stares at this pink mare carefully. “So, you don’t think there was any real point to getting close to them, is that right?” Diamond frowns. “I was close to you once… And you saw how that turned out!” Silver frowns at the other mare carefully as she brings her fork to her mouth with some more food, “So, since you lost me, you just gave up?” before completing it’s journey to her mouth for another bite. Diamond blinks and swallows, “Well, yeah! I mean, none of them were you, so…” she blinks again. “I-I think I need to go now?” Silver widens her eyes and normalizes her mouth, “What?” Diamond scoots off her chair to the right and reaches into her right saddlebags with her neck before bringing it back to the table to place 5 bits down and lifting her neck to Silver Spoon, prior to saying, “This should cover my meal, Silver Spoon! It’s been fun!” and then smiling slightly before trotting around the left side of the table away from the restaurant and embracing a confused gray earth mare in her forehooves. She whispers in her ear, “I love you best friend! See you soon!” and then disengages to turn and trot away… “I wasn’t done talking to you, you know!” Diamond hears Silver yelling as she gallops away, down the road towards her house. <*****> Diamond Tiara takes a warm relaxing bubble bath while listening to orchestral music oh her phonograph and sipping merlot from her glass using her right forehoof.* She stares at the wall on the other side of her body from the bathtub, and notes that it’s tan and wooden as she thinks to herself about the strange gray mare that recently got into her flanks… She frowns when she considers everything… She can’t help but crack a smile when she thinks about all her zany sexual jokes, before shaking her head and correcting her mouth when she thinks that that’s probably not appropriate? She takes another sip of her wine, now on glass 3 as she considers what they did on Diamond’s bed earlier… It wasn’t like it was with other ponies though? She frowns when she realizes that while she can’t quite put her hoof on it, there’s something different about Silver Spoon… She was so loving and affectionate! She grimaces when it suddenly occurs to her that Silver wasn’t really interested in her pleasure at all, throughout the whole experience! She sighs before wondering what that truly means and takes another hearty sip of her wine as she feels the intoxicant taking hold in her body now. She’s not drunk, so much as feeling better at this point… She sighs before taking a final sip of her glass and then, using the cleft in her right hind hoof to pull the chain on the drain plug on the other side of the tub from her… It was almost time for bed… <*****> Diamond sits alone at her table in the kitchen while sipping blond coffee. She sighs when she thinks to herself that since the paper always gets delivered late on Sundays, that she’s probably safe…. Now that the pink pony had rested, she considered Silver Spoon carefully… She began to wonder why she suddenly felt the compulsion to leave so abruptly last night, when it occurs to her that Silver is probably right. Her intimacies are skewed in that while she’s almost more than willing to get physical, being emotional is simply another playing field… She wonders if she should open her heart after all this time before taking a slow tentative sip of her hot coffee. Then, she thinks that maybe she should get a cat, when she hears the telltale extra-heavy thud of the Sunday morning paper hitting her front door… She widens her blue eyes when she sighs and gets off her chair to the right to begin trotting 20 feet across her living room to get to her tan front door and open it from the bottom left with her mouth and then seeing the fat morning paper on her doorstep… She cautiously trots a pace outside with her left forehoof while leaning out her front door and turning her head to look left and then right to verify that there was nopony around… She then stares forward and sighs when she realizes that Silver Spoon isn’t here… She reaches her neck down to grasp the paper in her teeth and then brings her neck back in before closing the door with her left forehoof. (To be continued…)