//------------------------------// // The Good Stuff // Story: The Brother and The Sitter // by Spike120812 //------------------------------// The Good Stuff The two ponies were in a quick gallop towards Shining Armor's date spot. They ran through near-deserted streets, earned a few surprised looks from some passing ponies due to the fact that a princess was with some random colt, and with a few more turns, came up to the purple-blue building. Shining stopped at the front door and pointed to the sign above it. "Here we are, Joe's Donuts!” Cadance stared at the sign with a quizzical look. "What's a donut?" Shining Armor quite possibly performed the greatest and longest gasp in Equestrian history at that moment. He looked at her with wide eyes and an open mouth. “You don’t… how do… that’s just… we need to get in, now!” Shining Armor opened the door and motioned for Cadance to step through. She did so with the same elegance and grace that she somehow managed to use with everything she did. Shining followed her in and led her towards the front counter where a certain light amber stallion was tending to a customer at the bar. “Hey, Joe!” Shining called to the stallion. Joe looked up from the donut that he was wrapping for his other customer and gave a huge smile towards one of his favorite customers. “Hey, Shining. Hello—“ Whatever Joe was about to say was interrupted by his own ragged breathing as he saw the regal pink alicorn standing before him. “Pri-Pri-Princ-Prince-Princess Cadance!” Joe ducked behind his bar and the stallion on the stool instantly fell down to a bow. Shining walked up to the bar and looked over to see Joe in the same bow as the stallion on the ground. “Joe, you don’t need to do that. Cadance and I are just here to get some donuts,” Shining explained to the still bowing confectioner. Shining Armor leaned over the bar to get closer to Joe. “She doesn’t know what a donut is!” Joe just looked at Shining, very unconvinced. Joe mouthed out “Are you serious”? but stayed in his deep bow. Shining only nodded solemnly in response. At this news, Joe shot right up and looked directly at Cadance with wide eyes. “You poor mare.” Cadance gave back a confused look, clearly not knowing what Shining Armor whispered to Joe. “Well, I can fix that,” Joe said with pride. “Just sit whereva, and I’ll get you two the best donuts I got, on the house.” In a flash of amber and brown, Joe raced into his kitchen, and Shining Armor guided Cadance to a table. “What did you tell him?” Cadance asked as she took her seat. “That you’ve never had a donut. How is that even possible?!?” “I’ve never been this far down into Canterlot before. Farthest I’ve ever been was to Blueblood’s tailor.” Silence held for a few seconds as Shining Armor took that in. He knew that Cadance spent a lot of her time in the castle, but he never realized just how much she was kept from. “Well then you’re in for a treat. If anypony’s donuts are gonna be your first, be glad they’re Joe’s.” As if on cue, Joe zipped from the kitchen to Shining Armor and Cadance’s table, carrying plates with pink-frosted donuts and two hot chocolates. “And here you two go.” Joe placed the plates of goods on the table and walked back to his bar to tend to his other customer of the night. Cadance eyed the pink-frosted goody lying in front of her. In her life, she consumed some of the finest desserts ever conceived by the equine mind, but never has something like what was lying in front of her ever touched her lips, or even been within her sight. She brought the donut to her face and looked at Shining. He was eyeing her like a scientist waiting for a reaction, so to end his stare, she took a bite out of the simple pastry. The moment her tongue met with the pink pastry, all of heaven seemed to be in her mouth. “Oh by Auntie...” she whispered dramatically after she swallowed. “Good, isn’t it?” Shining Armor asked as he saw Cadance’s eyes grow in ecstasy. Instead of an answer, he heard loud gobbling sounds as Cadance nearly shoved the rest of the treat into her mouth in a frenzy. Once she finished, she let out a nervous giggle. “Sorry about that.” “Don’t be. Twi, Spike, and I did the same thing with our first donut from Joe,” Shining explained before digging into his own treat. Using one of the napkins on the table, Cadance wiped her mouth clean of the remaining bits of the best thing she ever ate. “That was soooo good. Kinda wish I didn’t eat it so fast.” Shining Armor looked down at his own frosted dessert, a thought emerging. He carefully tore the treat in half and outstretched a limb with the donut half. Cadance looked at the donut half and smiled warmly at Shining Armor. She happily took the donut half, but before she had a chance to take a bite into it, Shining Armor grabbed her attention as he did something a little weird to her. He was dipping his donut into the steaming mug of hot chocolate and after a few seconds, lifted the now chocolate dripping donut, and took a bite. Sweetness swirled in his mouth as he happily chewed and swallowed. Before going back to get another bite, he looked to Cadance and saw her confused look. "Try it," he suggested, hovering his donut over the mug. Cadance did as Shining said and, at the same time, they dipped their donuts in the warm drink. Shining was the first to take a bite, leaving Cadance to ponder this combination for a few seconds. She slowly took a bite... and a part of her died from pure culinary pleasure. Her taste buds melted from the chocolate soaked pastry, sending her into what could only be described as a food-high. After her short food-high, she dug into the rest of her donut, this time taking more princess-like bites. When they both finished, Shining looked to Cadance and saw her lost in some unknown sense. She sat there looking off into space just reeling in from what she just ate. "Amazing." "That's not even the best Joe's got," said Shining, making Cadance quickly turn her head with wide eyes. "There's something better?" The intensity of her question was crushing, but all Shining did was smile as he answered. "Uh-huh," he shuffled around in his seat, ready to get up and get Joe, "lemme just go ask Joe if he can—" "Bring one of his favorite customers and his beautiful date a pair of his famous jelly-filled chocolate glazed donuts?" Joe finished off Shining Armor's sentence, holding two plates with multiple large, nearly pulsating treats. "You know, the good stuff?" "You know me so well, Joe," Shining joked. Joe replied with a small smirk before placing the plates in front of Shining Armor and Cadance and trotting off. "Enjoy you two." Cadance and Shining Armor stared down at the sweet concoctions before them, Cadance's eyes especially widening in desire of the chocolate treat. Both of them turned to each other and each picked up a donut for themselves. Shining Armor took the first bite, and out came the strawberry filling... all over Cadance. *************** Through the starlit streets of Canterlot, two ponies were brushing past the relatively empty streets, seemingly eager to get away from somewhere. "Uck! Jet Set, dear, you know I hate coming to this part of the city," an olive-coated unicorn mare complained in a congested-like voice. "Uck! I know, Upper Crust, but Fancy's charity auction is supposed to be near here," replied the grey-coated stallion in a similar tone as his wife. He scanned the area and scoffed at his surroundings. "Really wish he hosted it in a more... refined area." The prissy couple continued their hurried prance and their snorts of disgust until something through the window of a certain eatery caught their eyes. From across the street, through the window of "Joe's Donuts," they saw... "Princess Cadance!" Upper Crust gasped. "And that colt from the restaurant," Jet Set added. "And they’re..." he looked up at the sign of the eatery the two teenage ponies were sitting in, "at a donut shop?" Disgust in his voice came out very pungently with the words. What the two saw next nearly made them faint in a mix of surprise and utter disgust. They saw the white-furred colt take a huge bite out of some chocolate covered pastry, and spew strawberry filling all over Princess Cadance. "Well I never!" Upper Crust breathed out like she witnessed a tragedy. "That hooligan!" Jet Set exclaimed, a rise in his congested voice. The prissy pair let out collective ‘hmphs’ as they stuck their noses up in the air and trotted off. "Let's go, dear. Celestia knows we don't want to be around when the Princess calls her guards to pummel the life out of that ruffian," Jet Set scoffed. "Or do we?" Upper Crust joked. The two trotted off, noses raised high, laughing stuffily at Upper Crust's cruel joke. *************** Cadance sat on her seat, dripping strawberry filling on the floor, and staring at the wide-jawed unicorn in front of her. Shining sat in absolute terror. He had just squirted filling on his date. His donut was still in his hooves, also dripping strawberry. The momentary silence in the air dripped of guilt, fear, shame, and humiliation. "Ca-Ca-Ca-Cadance. I-I-I-I'm so sorry," Shining muttered with wide eyes and tiny pupils. Cadance sat in silence for a while, unknowingly letting Shining Armor’s fears pile on and on. Instead of a slap on the face, or a shriek, or even a stomp out the door like Shining Armor expected, she smiled… devilishly, like she was planning something. She brought her own overfilled pastry to her mouth, and bit hard, squirting Shining Armor with strawberry filling. Shining Armor sat there, dripping while Cadance tried to stifle her laughs upon seeing the expression smeared on Shining Armor’s face. What she did next, she couldn’t fully explain, but she took hold of another overfilled donut from the table, bit down and dosed her date again with strawberry goodness. After letting some of the red goop drop from the bangs of his mane, Shining Armor put on a devilish grin of his own. “Oh, so that’s how you wanna play?” Not holding back, he took another donut from the table and bit down, hard, and once again coated Cadance in strawberry. Now it was on. For as long as there was filling in their donuts, they bit and bit, squirting more strawberry on the other with each bite. As they squirted, they couldn’t help but laugh like foals. By the time the barrage of jelly stopped, the donuts on the table and in their hooves looked like deflated balloons and their coats were littered with red. “Here, lemme clean us off,” Shining Armor offered. With a glow from his horn, he, Cadance, and the area around them were surrounded in a cloud of lavender. With a precise swipe of his magic, all the gooey red filling was swiped from the floor and their coats and balled up into one glowing red gelatinous orb. Shining placed the rather large sphere of red onto one of the trays and turned to face Cadance, all evidence of their little food fight seemingly gone from view… almost all. Near the bottom of her left eye, a bit of jelly remained. “Cadance, you have a little jelly on your face,” Shining motioned towards her face. “You got a little something there too,” said Cadance as she tried to lean in a bit to get some jelly off of Shining Armor’s muzzle. Shining also started leaning in to flick off the red residue, but instead of getting to her face, both ponies were met with the other’s incoming foreheads. With a loud ‘bonk,’ the two retracted a bit with nervous laughs of slight pain and embarrassment. “How about I just—” “And I’ll just—” The two gave another try, and this time managed to reach each other without the clanking of heads. They swiped the jelly from the other’s face rather quickly, but with the close proximity between the two, they couldn’t help but look into each other’s eyes. Cadance, staring off into his sapphire eyes and Shining Armor staring off into her twinkling purple orbs. For some reason unknown to them, they were inching closer together, slowly, but surely. It was weird, but at the same time felt right to them as they inched closer and closer together, their muzzles just centimeters away from each other. They both closed the gap as their lips met for the very first time, and on that night, sparks flew as both closed their eyes dreamily. It was like they were the only two ponies in Equestria for those few seconds that they were locked together, but to them, it felt like being plunged into ecstasy for eternity. They pulled away slowly, shock ever-present on their faces. ‘Wow’ was the only syllable that was uttered by either of the two for the next few minutes as they gazed at each other’s eyes, lost in their own paradise. If he could move or talk, Shining Armor would be screaming and jumping for joy, but the experience of his first kiss, his first real kiss, was proving to be too much for him to get over. Cadance was having just about the same reaction. Her own first kiss… on the lips, and it was with Shining Armor. Shining tried to speak, unsure of what to say until a question popped up that he reluctantly asked. “Does this make us coltfriend-marefriend now?” Internally, Cadance was going nuts. She never had a coltfriend before, and here she was, minutes after her first kiss, in front of the nicest colt she has come to know. The answer was obvious, so she decided to make something out of it. She scooted closer to Shining Armor with a sultry look on her face. “I don’t know. You tell me.” She pulled him in again for another kiss. Their lips locked again, and this time, Shining Armor showed no hesitance as he pulled Cadance closer to him. The passion felt between the two, the sparks that flew at that instant, and the rush the two felt couldn’t be described in words. Joe may have brought what he called “the good stuff” as Shining Armor and Cadance’s desserts, but that wasn’t it. In that shop, their first long kiss on the second date… that was the good stuff.