Author: LDSocrates
Prompt: Comfort
“Er… Pinkie, sweety…are you sure about this?”
“Yes indeedy!” Pinkie chirped from her shower in the next room. “Go on, climb in!”
Twilight’s already tomato red blush got so hot it somehow went straight to pink as she kept staring at the bed. Pinkie’s bed. Pinkie’s… bed. The one she was going to sleep in. For the first time. First time she was going to sleep with anypony… ever. Overnight. In the same bed. Pinkie’s bed. With Pinkie.
Oh sweet Celestia, was this a bad idea.
“I-I could sleep on the floor,” Twilight shakily suggested.
“Then why come over for the night, silly filly?” Pinkie asked back. “You said you wanted to see what it was like, and we can’t do this at your place since kicking Spike out of your room would be beyond rude.”
“Right, yeah,” Twilight mumbled, eyes not breaking from her biggest fear at that moment.
The clock ticked by, and the shower turned off. A few more ticks later and out came a very clean Pinkie, her mane flat from all the water and steam. She almost didn’t look like Pinkie, but she was very… pretty. Yeah, pretty’s the word.
“Oh wow, you're shy; your face went from grape to cherry,” Pinkie giggled, bumping their cutie marks together.
“Can you blame me?” Twilight asked, her voice cracking and finally managing to look away from the bed and towards her marefriend. “I’ve never done this before. Ever! I’m not used to this kind of intimacy! How are you so calm?”
Pinkie blinked and tilted her head. “‘Cause you’re cute, you’re hot, and I love you with all my sugar-coated heart?”
Twilight bit her lip, shifting her weight between her hooves. “I-I love you too, but… I’m really not sure I’m ready for this. I’m feeling really uncomfortable right now.”
“Okay!” Pinkie said with a smile. “Want me to walk you home?”
Twilight stared at her marefriend, her jaw slightly slack. “That’s it? No objection, no disappointment?”
“Why would I be disappointed? That you won’t do something that you don’t want to just to make me happy? What kind of marefriend would I be if I was like that?” Pinkie asked with a roll of her eyes. “You’ve been reading Rarity’s romance novels for research again, haven’t you?”
“No! Well, maybe,” Twilight admitted. “I just thought that ponies were always upset when their partners weren’t, you know… ready for the next step.”
“Not me,” she giggled with a soft nuzzle to Twi’s cheek. “I’m just happy with what I have, and what I have is you. You’re worth waiting for.” She turned around and trotted towards the door. “Come on, let’s get you home.”
“Wait!” Twilight blurted out, holding a hoof up dramatically. When Pinkie did actually wait and turn back around, she suddenly felt at a loss for words. “I…er…um…” She bit her lip harder and closed her eyes. “It’s not that I don’t want to. I really do, it’s just that… ugh.” She sat down so she could facehoof twice over. “I don’t know.”
Pinkie giggled behind her hoof. “Twi, sometimes the best way to get comfy with something new is to just take the plunge. But if it’ll make you feel better, we can both be good little filllies and not do anything naughty tonight; just pure cuddles.”
Twilight’s ears flattened as she looked between the troublesome bed and its too-good-to-her owner. With a deep breath, she trotted towards the former and climbed in under the covers, facing her marefriend and patting the space next to her. “Deal.”
Pinkie let out a little squee and turned off the lights, quite literally jumping into bed with Twilight but holding her tight before she could bounce. After the initial jolt, muscles that Twilight didn’t even know were tense relaxed in Pinkie’s arms. She hugged her lover back and held her close, the pink pony’s fuzzy fur and warm body tight against her own as she nuzzled into Pinkie’s damp mane.
“Comfy, Twi?” Pinkie whispered, pecking her on the cheek.
Twilight kissed back, holding her all the closer. “Yeah, I am… good night…”