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// How BonBon and Lyra Met 
// Story: Tales of Lyra and BonBon 
// by Polar Muffins 
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How BonBon and Lyra met
by Polar Muffins


“So. How hath thee met each other?” Luna asked us.
“Well, it all started 5 years ago, when BonBon and I were 15 years old and Grapes over here was too.” Grapes smiled. BonBon giggled. I continued. “BonBon and I will both tell it to you. I’ll start and then BonBon will continue. Got it?”
“We got it! Go on, go on!” Grapes said in her raspy voice.
“Ok, as I was saying, we were in high school and Grapes and I were ditching, to hang out, have sex, and drink.” I paused. I felt a little uncomfortable saying this in front of a Princess, but Luna didn’t seem to mind. So I continued.“Grapes was smoking and I said...”


~


“Grapes you’ve gotta stop smoking! It’ll hurt your vocal cords!”
“Lyra stop your worrying! I’ll be fine!” Grapes said in her beautiful soprano voice, that I felt would disappear very soon if she continued with this.
We were outside of a bar in Canterlot. We went to school at the High School for Untalented teens. I had applied to the magic school that Celestia had created, but I didn’t pass. That was during kindergarten. That was the past. Since then I’ve gotten my cutie mark for the thing I was truly meant to do, play the lyre. 
Grapes on the other hoof, had gotten her cutie mark of a wine bottle with a grape in front of it for making the best wine that she taught herself how to make. If you only met her at a bar you’d think it was for her love for it. That’s what her parents thought and didn’t listen to her if she tried to say the truth. Her parents sent her to the school and there she became lesbian, there she began smoking, and there she drank more varieties instead of just wine.
I was sent to the school because my parents never thought music was a good career and said I would never amount to anything. At the school I started drinking, I was already a lesbian and I thought smoking was atrocious. I drank because I knew I was underaged and wanted to rebel against my parents.
The bar we were outside of was a bar that wasn’t very good and we were just about to leave, when Grapes wanted to have a smoke.”Grapes can we go?”
“Just one more whiff.” I heard a bit of a rasp when she spoke.
“No.” I said firmly and started walking away. Grapes dropped her cigarette, stepped on it and caught up with me.
“Lyra, it’s just a cigarette.”
I turned around anger was plainly on my face. “Just a cigarette?” I asked. “That’s what Teal said when she started. Three years later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.”
“Lyra. I know she’s your best friend since you guys were fillies, but just because it happened to one mare doesn’t mean it’ll happen to another.”
It was late. I couldn’t take it. Teal was just never the same after her diagnoses. Grapes didn’t understand. “Grapes. I’m going home.” I turned around and headed in the direction of my parents place.


~

“Well,” BonBon cut in. “I believe it is my turn to tell the story.”
“Agreed.” Grapes said eyeing me. She knew what I was about to say. She knew what was going to happen. She knew no one else knew. Not even BonBon.
“This is what happened to me.” BonBon began. “It started in class.”


~
	
I was sitting in front of the toughest mare in school. Grapes. Beside her was her equally tough marefriend. She was very attractive. It wasn’t that I was lesbian. It was just I was pulled towards her. Like my gut was being wrenched and it was in her direction. Hard to explain yet it was there.
Ring, Ring
Class was over. I gathered my stuff to head towards lunch. As I was gathering my stuff I felt a presence behind me. I turned. My heart pounded. Her green magic glowed. She put all my stuff into my saddle bag and placed the saddle bag onto my back. I did the stupidest thing. I stood there, staring like an idiot.
She looked at me. “You wanna get something to eat?”
Now I was surprised. I only knew her in kindergarten and that was ages ago. She had gone to my elementary school, but we’d never been good friends. We hadn’t gone to the same middle school. “Um, uh.”
“If you don’t want to just say so.” She got up on her hind legs. I never knew why she did it. It was a little weird.
“N-n-no! Sure. Out to lunch?” We had that option at school. We could go around Canterlot and get food. We could only stay for a little time. If we didn’t get back at the right time we would get severely punished. I knew in some schools we would lose our privileges to go out, but here we would get the old fashioned punishment. We would get our hooves slapped by a ruler.Ya, I know it’s weird, but our school was for ponies who others think won’t amount to much. Cheerilee used to be in the school too, until she finally got her cutie mark. Then, they thought she would do good things.
“Ya, okay.” She walked towards the exit. 
I followed.

~

“My turn!” I said, cutting in. Grapes glared at me again.
“Fine.” BonBon said.
“Ok. Before I go into what happened after what BonBon said. There is something important I must share. You must all know how I broke up with Grapes.”
Grapes slammed her mug that was filled with wine. “You lie! You did not break up with me! I be-”
“How ‘bout I tell the story?” I interrupted.
Grapes picked up her mug and began sipping and glaring at me.
“Now. I was heading towards home when...”

~

“Hey Lyra!” Grapes called.
I turned around.
“You know what I did when I asked to be excused at the bar?”
“You went to the bathroom?” I said in a normal voice because I had gone back to stand next to Grapes.
“No.” She leaned in close. “I. Fucked. A. Stallion.”
I was shocked. When she and I became marefriends she swore to never fuck a stallion as long as we were dating. I was starting to tear up. “You know what that means don’t you?” I paused, waiting for an answer.
She shook her head yes and grinned evilly. “It’s a simple way of telling you: we’re through.”
“Fine then. We’re done.” I ran off. Tomorrow was a school night, and I would go to school and be the best student I could be.


~

Grapes was furious. She stood up on her hind legs. Her front hooves on the table. “YOU BITCH! I WAS FUCKING DRUNK! YET YOU FUCKING HOLD IT AGAINST ME!”
Luna was sipping her pina colada without alcohol as if this was perfectly normal. BonBon shifted closer to the Princess. Things like this usually happened when Grapes was drunk. 
“Grapes,” I said calmly. “you’re drunk. I know you never wanted me to repeat it in front of anypony else because you’re embarrassed by it, but this wouldn’t be a story about how BonBon and I met if I didn’t tell the truth on how we broke up.”
“I’M NOT FUCKING DRUNK! THAT FUCKING STALLION MADE ME FUCKING PREGNANT AND I HAD A FUCKING CHILD THAT I TOOK CARE OF ALL BY MYSELF!” Tears sprang to her eyes. “I FUCKING LOVED THAT CHILD, BUT I HAD TO GIVE HER AWAY BECAUSE I COULDN’T TAKE CARE OF HER! HOW DO YOU THINK THAT FUCKING FEELS?” She sat down and started crying harder.
BonBon spoke up. “You mean you gave her away? When?”
“Last year on January 5th. Money caught up to me and I placed my child in the care of my uncaring parents, where she’ll grow up until I make enough money for both of us.”
“That’s so horrible!” BonBon exclaimed.
Luna suddenly stood up. All eyes turned to her. She looked towards Grapes. “If thou loves this child you speak of, then why doth thou sound as if you have given up? Keep up your bar business, but thou shalt not give up! Will thee continue wallowing in self pity? NAY! Stand up for what you believe in!” With that she went off to get another pina colada.
It took a few minutes to calm Grapes down, but when she was calm I was urged to continue from where BonBon had finished when it was her turn. A half hour had passed and the story was needed to finish before people poured in. Luna had returned and was sipping her pina colada, noticeably, quite happy.

~

Why had I asked BonBoon, BomBee, or whatever her name was to lunch, I didn’t know. I turned to look at her. She was pretty, but she wasn’t lesbian. I overheard her with her friends admiring cute stallions. She was not for me. She was off limits. Unless. Unless, I could charm her. But, I didn’t know if she was my type. Frankly, I didn’t have a type. “Hey, um, what’s your name?” I directed it at her, but she was obviously confused, because she looked around to see if anypony else was there.
“Um, I-I’m BonBon.”
“Cool.” I didn’t know if she remembered my name so “I’m Lyra.”
“I know.” She said coolly. I liked that.
Minutes later we each had a sandwich, we were heading back to school and we were laughing. BonBon looked to be enjoying herself. That made me happy.

~

“MY TURN!” BonBon suddenly yelled. Then she blushed because everyone was staring at her. “It’s, um, the best part.”
I leaned back, getting comfortable. “Go ahead Bonnie.” Her nose wrinkled at the sound of that. She began from where I ended.

~

I was enjoying myself immensely. My attraction to Lyra was stronger than ever. I knew something for sure now. I was lesbian. “Um Lyra?” I asked.
“Ya.” She said looking me in the eyes. That kinda freaked me.
“C-can I do something crazy.”
“Uh...”
I didn’t wait for an answer. I willed my head to go forward, I forced my lips to pucker and I placed my lips on hers. I had no idea how to kiss, but it seemed as if she did. Her eyes were closed. Mine were open. I tried to follow what she did. It seemed as if she were lingering on a closed mouth kiss. I closed my eyes and just let it happen.

~

“And from then on we were soul mates.” She finished.
Luna and Grapes applauded.
“Bravo! Bravo!” Luna cried. “Truly a love story worth telling my sister!”
BonBons mouth dropped and she fainted.
“She’ll be fine.” I said.
Grapes looked at her watch. “Welp. Time to open up. You guys can go party.” She stood up and went to open the doors.
BonBon got up, blushing.
I stood up. “May I have this dance?” I said, holding out a hoof.
She smiled and we walked off to the dance floor as ponies started piling in.