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// Chapter 5 
// Story: Afternoon Fun 
// by GhostRider1996 
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The three ponies had a great time. They did all of the usual sleepover stuff: pillow fights, makeovers, gossip, everything! The night was full of surprises, laughter, and fun. As it was nearing bedtime, Sweetie Belle started to climb into her sleeping bag, but she was stopped by Twilight.

“Umm, Sweetie Belle?  What’s that on your hip?” She asked casually.

“Huh?” Sweetie asked, confused, looking at her legs. “Where, Twilight?”

“Right here, Sweetie,” Rarity said, poking her sister’s tummy and causing her to squeal.

“I think she means here,” Twilight teased, poking Sweetie’s left side, eliciting another cute squeal.

“What do you mean?” Sweetie asked again. Then she saw the look in the mares’ eyes and she panicked.

“Oh no,” was all she hide time to say before the relentless tickle attack. Twilight mercilessly tickled Sweetie Belle’s tummy, while Rarity used her mane brushes to scrub every inch of her sister’s hind hooves. Sweetie Belle was overwhelmed with laughter and happiness, not just from the playful tickle torture that she was currently experiencing, but also from how the day went as a whole.

“Nohohohohohoho!” She squealed in ticklish bliss. Her desperate please making the mares smile happily.

“Cootchie, cootchie coo!” Twilight sang.

“Some things never change, do they?” Rarity asked rhetorically, playfully nudged Twilight’s side.

After a good twenty minutes of nonstop tickling, they finally let Sweetie Belle go.

“Okay, hehehe, I suppose I deserved that,” Sweetie said with a blush.

“You sure did,” the mares said together. All three laughed again at what had transpired that day. They all agreed that a day filled with laughter should end on the same.

“I love you, girls,” Sweetie said with a smile.

“We love you, too, Sweetie,” they replied, pulling her in for a group hug.

“I’m almost embarrassed to ask this,” Sweetie admitted, blushing pretty hard. “But… can we have another tickle day like this? And sometime soon?” 

The question caused the mares to laugh again.

“Maybe if you laugh for us one more time,” Rarity said with a sly wink.

Sweetie Belle didn’t notice Twilight hovering some feathers near her hind hooves. But she definitely felt them when they rubbed against her, causing her to start laughing hysterically once more.

“I’d definitely be okay with it. I enjoy a good tickling every so often,” Twilight agreed. This news made Sweetie Belle squeal, tears of joy flossing from her eyes as she pulled the others into a hug.

“Thank you, girls, so much!” Sweetie said as she began to cry happily. Rarity and Twilight were also shedding tears of joy. 

They remained in the hug for several long minutes, then they broke off and Rarity turned out the light. Each pony giggles softly as dreams of ticklish bliss lulled them to sleep. This would be a day that they would never forget.