Popping her balloons.

by FinnPony

Meeting the in-laws

The sun was already high on the sky but there was a thick layer of light grey clouds hiding it, making the weather a bit cooler than it had been for the most of the week. Most of the Ponyville was awake, well everypony except Rainbow Dash actually. Most of the ponies were spending the cooler Saturday doing some more physical work around the town because the uncomfortable heat wasn’t bothering them. Everypony were happy as they managed to get something done around the town.
In the Sugarcube Corner the atmosphere was completely different. It was tense.

Even the bakery was closed during the weekends, the owners Mr. and Mrs. Cakes were making an inventory. Usually Pinkie Pie would be helping them, but that particular day she was just sitting in front of the front door. She had been staring at the door ever since she and Pokey had finished their breakfast. Pokey Pierce was in turn pacing around the shop. The clatter of his hooves filled the otherwise silent shop. They were waiting for the arrival of their families. Pokey was the only child in his family but Pinkie in other hand was one of three siblings of the Pie family. Pokey wasn’t nervous about meeting her family or presenting her to his parents. Pinkie had told him about his family many times but he still felt rather nervous about the whole meeting. Mostly because he didn’t know what his parents would be thinking about Pinkie Pie’s family and otherways around. He looked at Pinkie and stopped on his tracks.

“You sitting there won’t make them come any faster,” he said and walked next to the pink mare sitting in front of the door. She glanced at him and had a small smile on her lips. Pokey sat next to her and she said, “Yeah, but I want to meet them as soon as I can. If I’d be sitting behind the counter, it would take me couple of seconds to come here and open the door.”
Pokey was used to her funny way of thinking so he just laughed silently and rose up. He then started to pace around the shop again.

Mrs. Cake came from the back room to check on the couple. She took a quick look at Pinkie Pie and then at Pokey. She smiled warmly, knowing how they felt. She herself had been nervous when she had met Carrot’s parents for the first time. She cleared her throat and got their attention.
“Would you two want some tea while waiting?” he asked from them with motherly smile on her lips.
Pinkie didn’t react but Pokey turned towards the older mare and said, “Yes please. I would really use something to calm my nerves.”
“And maybe it would help you too dear,” Mrs. Cake said to Pinkie, who shook her head and answered, “No thank you. They might come while I would be drinking tea with you.”
“Come on honey. It’ll calm you down,” Pokey tried. Pinkie gave him an annoyed look and said, “I am calm!”
Pokey gave her a pleading look and she drooped her ears and sighed, “Okay. But if they come while I’m back there…”
“They won’t.” Pokey said and helped her up. They then started to walk towards the back room where Mrs. cake was already boiling the water for their tea.

Just as they were on the door to the back room there was a knock on the door. Pinkie and Pokey both looked at the door and then at each other. Pinkie shot somewhat angry look at Pokey before dashing towards the door. She skidded to a stop just in front of it and took a hold of the handle. She opened the door only for couple of inches at first, peeking from the small gap. Then all of the sudden the door swung open so harshly that it almost flew off from its hinges. Pokey saw two mares tackling his marefriend to the floor.
Other one was almost same colored as he was and she had light grey colored, straightly cut semilong mane. Her cutie mark was a heart shaped piece of limestone. The other mare had same colored coat as the other’s mane. Her mane was longer and it was dark grey. Her cutie mark was three marble balls. They might have looked different than Pinkie, but they shared the same energetic spirit as Pinkie did.

“PINKIIIEEE!” they both screamed as they hugged the helpless mare on the floor. She returned the hug and exclaimed, “Lime! Marble!”
“Ohh we’re so happy to see you!” the lightly blue coated mare said and rubbed her nose against Pinkie’s. The other one giggled happily and said while clapping her hooves together, “I knew that this day would come, and now it’s here!”
Pokey had kept quiet until then but he had to let out a small snicker as all the sisters happily hugged each other. He immediately regretted making noise as Pinkie’s sister turned their eyes towards him. They stared at him with wide eyes and then they gave each other an evil glare. They rose from the floor and started to slowly approach Pokey with that evil look in their eyes.
“So this is the stallion who melted our sister’s heart?” the blue one said and winked at Pokey. The grey one giggled and said while examining him from hooves to horn, “Not bad. He could be a bit more hunky but look at that horn!”
“Yeah,” the blue one said with sultry voice. “such a long, sharp horn…”

“Girls behave yourself,” said a stern male voice from the door. Everypony turned towards the door and saw an older stallion with brown coat, grey mane and sideburns. He wore a black hat and he had a rock hammer as his cutie mark.
As the two mares saw him, they immediately changed back to grownup mares and they said meekly in unison, “We’re sorry.”
The stallion nodded and Pokey saw light grey mare appearing next to the brown stallion. Her mane was very light green and it was tied to a topknot. Her cutie mark was simple, three pieces of quartz in triangle formation. She had glasses on her muzzle and a warm smile on her lips. On her neck was a black scarf with white stripes in it and a golden medallion hung around her neck.

“Mom! Dad!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she dashed towards and hugged them tightly. Her mother was returning the hug with smile on her lips and Pokey thought that her father seemed like he too was smiling a little. After the hug ended, Pinkie Pie smiled at her family and gestured Pokey to come forward. He did so but kept eye on the giggling sisters of Pinkie Pie. She stopped next to Pinkie, who placed a hoof on his chest and said with cheery voice, “This is Pokey Pierce. He’s my coltfirend.”
“And soon to be husband,” the brown earth pony said seriously while two sisters giggled in the background. Pokey gulped and raised his hoof while greeting, “Pokey Pierce, nice to meet you sir.”
The brown stallion took of his hat and shook hooves with Pokey while saying in his emotionless way, “I hope it stays that way. I am Igneous Rock.”
Pokey nodded and Igneous continued, “This is my wife, Cloudy Quartz.”
“Just call me Cloudy,” the older mare said sweetly as Pokey shook hooves with her. Then Pinkie’s sisters took a step forward.
“These are my other daughters, Limestone -” Igneous pointed at the light blue mare who winked at Pokey “- and Marble Pie,” he finished and turned his hoof towards the grey mare who curtseyed at Pokey.

“Wait a minute!” Pinkie suddenly yelled. “Where’s Maud!?”
Everypony looked around themselves, but did not see the pony they were looking for. As if on cue a bluish gray mare with violet mane shaped much like Twilight Sparkle’s. She seemed to be oldest of the three sisters. Around her thirties maybe. She had a simple, dark blue dress on her. She wore a deadpanned expression on her face. Pokey noticed that unlike her sisters, she wore make up. Violet eyeshadow and black eyeliner highlighted her turquoise eyes.
Pokey thought that she was pretty good looking and kept staring at her. Soon he snapped back to reality as Pinkie bounced towards her and wrapped her into a hug.

“Hi Maud!” Pinkie exclaimed as she nuzzled her sisters cheek. Pokey seemed a bit confused as she didn’t return the gesture. She just looked at Pinkie with that deadpan stare and said calmly, “Hi Pinkie.”
“Pokey, this is my oldest sister Maud Pie, she’s so awesome,” Pinkie said while pulling Pokey closer to them. Maud looked at him straight in the eyes with that dull look that made Pokey feel a bit troubled.
“Maud, this is Pokey,” Pinkie introduced him to her sister, who raised her hoof towards Pokey. When they shook hooves she said flatly, “I’m really excited to meet you.”
“Uhh… Sure. Pinkie’s told a lot about you,” Pokey said and gave her a small smile which she didn’t return. She stayed quiet and so did Pokey. Pinkie giggled and said, “I’ve never seen her so shy around anypony.”

After couple of silent and confused seconds Pokey slowly turned towards Igneous Rock again.
“I’m sorry that my parents are not here yet, but they should arrive shortly,” Pokey said, trying to sound as formal as he could. That erupted a giggle from Pinkie Pie who leaned her head against his, making her and her younger sisters giggle and. Her father still kept his serious face and said, “It’s alright.”
He kept a small pause and then said, “We have been on the move since morning and we would be grateful if we could get something to eat.”
“Mrs. Cake made tea!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“Also you can take anything from the shells,” she added and gave a wink to her younger sisters, who squealed and dashed towards the shells full of different kind of pastries. Cloudy Quartz and Maud Pie gracefully walked after them with Pinkie next to them. Igneous and Pokey looked after the mares. Then at each other.
“We have lot of talking to do,” Igneous said in his serious but still somehow fatherly, not threatening way. Pokey even smiled a little when he nodded.

After the guests had settled in and had their tea, Pinkie Pie was showing her sisters around the house while Pokey was talking with their parents. Pinkie bounced up the stairs with Marbel and Limestone closely behind her. Soon they came to the door that lead to Pinkie’s room.
“This is my room,” She announced as she opened the door and let her sisters in. They trotted in and examined the bright room with excited sparkling in their eyes. They had never seen a room like that. They let out ‘wows’, ‘oohs’ and ’aahs’ while walking around and looking at the candy themed furnitures and balloons of different shapes.
“This is so… different,” Limestone said and turned towards Pinkie who tilted her head in questioning manner. Then Marble Pie joined the conversation, “She means that our rooms are nothing like this.”
“I know. I’ve been home too you know,” Pinkie Pie said and trotted towards the bed. The sisters then sat on the big fluffy bed and started talk.
“So this is where the magic happens,” Marble said while bouncing on the bed with a mischievous smirk on her lips. Limestone too looked at Pinkie with that teasing smirk. It took couple of confused seconds before Pinkie realized what they meant. She flushed scarlet red, earning a loud giggling from her sister.
“This is a first time I’ve seen you blushing over a colt,” Limestone said and leaned against still blushing Pinkie. Marble too leaned against her and whispered, “So that means he must be somehow special?”
The two sisters giggled at Pinkie’s small smile that confirmed Marble’s claim. They didn’t stop their teasing even Pinkie seemed really troubled and uncomfortable between them.
“I bet that his horn isn’t the only long thing he has,” Marble said with faked dreamy voice. Limestone giggled and Pinkie frowned. She hopped from the bed and snorted, “You’re just jealous!”
“Oh we surely are,” Limestone said with sultry tone, making Pinkie blush even more. Then she and Marble started to laugh heartily while Pinkie was frowning at them. Luckily their laughing was catchy and soon Pinkie too joined their laughing.

After the laughter died down, She hopped back to the bed between her sister and hugged them both. They were surprised by the hug for a second but soon hugged her back.
“I’m so happy to see you two again,” she said and tightened the hug. Her sisters sighed happily and then Limestone said, “We’re happy to see you too.”
“And I’m happy to see that coltfriend of yours,” Marble teased but got an annoyed look from her sisters. She flashed a sheepish smile to them and decided to stop joking around.
“But seriously, he’s pretty good looking,” Limestone said more casually. Pinkie Pie chuckled and said, “Sure he is. I wouldn’t pick a bad looking one.”
She then realized what she had said and how it fought with her nature.
“N-not that I wouldn’t like him if he was ugly though. It’s the inside that counts…” she muttered. “He’s pure gold from the inside.”
Then she smiled shyly and said, “But I’m glad that he’s pure gold from the outside too.”
Her sisters squealed excitedly and started to giggle.

It was then when Limestone noticed the part of the wall above the bed which was full of pictures taken by Pokey. She crawled to the end of the bed to get a better look at the pictures. Marble Pie
too looked at the pictures and let out a little ‘aaw’ when she saw the picture where Pinkie was kissing Pokey on the cheek at the train station.
“One of his best pictures,” Pinkie chirped as she joined her sisters. They kept looking at the pictures for a while before Marble asked, “So he’s a photographer?”
“Yep,” Pinkie clarified with a nod. Then Limestone asked from Pinkie, “Where does he work?”
“He works at…” Pinkie started but stopped when she realized that she didn’t know where Pokey worked, or if he worked at all.

Meanwhile at the downstairs Pokey was sitting around the kitchen table with Pinkie Pie’s parents. Cake’s weren’t there with them, they were still doing the inventory so Pokey and Pinkie’s parents could talk in peace.

“...So that’s how I started to date your daughter,” Pokey finished his story about how he and Pinkie Pie met and fell in love. Cloudy Quartz smiled widely to the story and clapped her hooves together happily while saying, “That was just so adorable! I knew that Pinkie would someday find a good, nice stallion.”
Pokey blushed at her words and rubbed the back of his head with his hoof. Maud looked at him with that deadpan look and said slowly, “Sweet story.”
“Yes… Sweet,” Igneous Rock said calmly. “Say Pokey, what do you do for the living?”
“That’s what I was going to ask!” they heard a voice say from under the table.

Pokey winced at the sound and looked under the table. Pinkie Pie’s wide smile and blue eyes met his gaze.
“Hiya!” she said as she crawled from under the table so that she was between Pokey and the table. She looked at Pokey in the eyes and said, “Girls asked about your job and I was like ‘He’s working at...’ and I realised that I don’t know where you work now days so I had to come here to ask!”
“What a coincidence,” Igneous said calmly. Pokey blinked confusedly at Pinkie who had herself pressed herself against him and the table. He then answered her question, “I work with the Manehattan Times’ correspondent of Ponyville. I take all the pictures for his articles.”
“I didn’t know that,” Pinkie said.
“I’ve told you countless of times,” Pokey answered. Pinkie thought for a minute and then shrugged while saying, “Well I didn’t remember it then. By the way I’m a baker.”
She then planted a soft kiss on Pokey’s lips and quickly disappeared under the table. Pokey snickered and started to talk while peeking under the table, “I know that…”
He stopped when there was nopony under the table.
“She’s sometimes like that,” Igneous said.

Pokey chuckled and nodded in agreement. Then Cloudy Quartz asked, ignoring her daughters wacky antics, “So have you two thought of moving together?”
“Yes mam, we have. We have thought of moving into my house. It’s not too far away from here,” Pokey explained.
“What about your parent’s? Where are they from?” Igneous asked. He seemed to be eager about meeting Pokey’s parents.
“They are originally from Ponyville and so am I. They moved to Canterlot when I was sixteen,” Pokey answered. “I was so attached to this place that I couldn’t leave with them.”
“Pinkie was about the same age when I she moved here,” Cloudy said. Pokey nodded and said, “Yeah I remember that. Or the party actually.”
He and Cloudy chuckled. Igneous almost smiled. Maud didn’t have any emotions on her face.

“She has always been such a beam of sunshine,” Cloudy said when they heard loud giggling through from upstairs. Pokey nodded and sighed happily.
“She has brought a fine share of that sunshine into my life for sure,” he said with quiet voice. He didn’t notice it, but both Cloudy and Igneous were smiling. Before he could continue they heard a knock from the door.

Meanwhile Pinkie Pie was telling her sisters about her and Pokey’s date in the amusement park.
“And then he gave the teddy bear to that little filly,” Pinkie Pie told her sisters, who sighed at the chivalry of Pokey’s actions. Marble was hugging a pillow when she asked with dreamy voice, “So how was the kiss?”
“What? I didn’t say anything about a kiss,” Pinkie said confusedly. Limestone giggled and said, “We are your sisters! I know that you just had to have kissed him after that.”
Pinkie Pie smiled at her sisters warmly. They had seen right through her. She leaned closer to them and whispered, “It was magical.”
“Aww come on! Give us some details!” Marble said.
“Dirty details,” Limestone added. Pinkie chuckled at her and was just about to say something when shivers went up her spine and one of her mane’s curls sprung up, separating itself from the rest. Her sisters had lived with Pinkie to know that it was a doozy. They also knew most of them but that one was new. They looked at her a bit weirdly and asked, “What doozy was that?”
Pinkie Pie bounced off from the bed and singsonged, “~It’s Pokey’s parents~”

Pokey was walking towards the door with wide smile on his lips. He hadn’t seen his parents in ages. He wasn’t too nervous about them meeting Pinkie’s parents anymore. He was almost certain that they would come along nicely with each other. Hopefully.
Pinkie Pie suddenly appeared next to him when he got to the door. She smiled at Pokey and said, “I can’t wait to meet them. Or I could but I don’t want to. I mean you already met my parents so it would be kinda rude if I wouldn’t introduce myself to them.”
She giggled and then finished, “So I pretty much can’t wait to meet them.”
“Me neither,” Pokey said when he didn’t come up with anything else. He took a hold of the handle. He then slowly opened the door and saw two unicorns standing in front of them.

They both were a bit older than Pinkie’s parents. His mother had the same colored coat as Pokey did. Her mane was straight and snow white. Her tail was styled like her mane and it flowed behind her like a veil. She held her snout upwards in a bit snobbish way like Rarity does. Pinkie noticed that her golden eyes were just like Pokey’s. Her cutie mark was a green aurora.
The stallion was brown coated but he had the same frizzly blue and white mane as Pokey did. It was only cut a bit shorter than his son’s and it’s colors had started to fade. He had round glasses on his snout and a small white moustaches and beard. His cutie mark was a golden ring and a small jewelry hammer. Pinkie thought that if Pokey would look like his father when he got older, she would be a happy mare.

“Hi mom,” Pokey said and wrapped his hoof around the mare’s neck. She returned the hug and said with thick canterlot accent, “It’s been so long,”
“Too long,” Pokey said and let go of her mother. Then he turned towards the stallion and reached his hoof towards him. Stallion stepped closer and gave him a fatherly hug while saying with deep voice, “Good to see you kid.”
“Nice to see you too old man,” Pokey said when they broke the hug. He kept staring at his parents for a moment, nopony saying anything. He smiled stupidly and didn’t know what to say. Luckily his mother soon spoke, “Aren’t you going to introduce us?”
“Oh! Of course,” Pokey muttered with sheepish smile on his face. He then stepped backwards so that he was side to side with Pinkie Pie.

“Honey. This is my mom, Blue Aurora and my dad, Hoofcraft Pierce,” he said to Pinkie Pie who smiled happily and bounced forward, tugging both of Pokey’s surprised parents into a tight hug. Pokey was as surprised as his parents were and couldn’t say a word.
“Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie! Super nice to meet you! I’ve waited the whole morning to finlayy get to meet you! I literally sat in front of the door whole morning!” she announced while still hugging Pokey’s parents. Blue Aurora looked at the clingy mare and then at her son, who smiled sheepishly at her with his ears folded backwards. They both turned towards Hoofcraft when he started to chuckle lightly.
“It’s nice to see that she’s not a shy one,” he said and Pinkie broke the hug. She smiled and said, “Pokey has told a lot about you.”
“He writes about you in every letter,” Blue Aurora said after she got over the surprise of the sudden hug. She then added with small hint of disappointment in her voice, “And I can clearly see why.”
Pinkie Pie didn’t notice it but Pokey and his father scowled at the blue mare. Pokey’s father then turned back towards Pinkie. Hoofcraft wore a sly grin and said, “I can’t believe that my son has found such a marvelous looking mare.”
“Dad,” Pokey said, clearly troubled and annoyed. Pinkie Pie in turn just giggled at him and said, “I think I found him.”

That made both Pinkie Pie and Hoofcraft laugh heartily. Blue Aurora rolled her eyes.
“We would appreciate it if we got a cup of tea,” Blue Aurora said when the laughing stopped. Pinkie smiled and said, “Of course, my parents are in the kitchen and they are eager to meet you.”
Hoofcraft cleared his throat and said, “Then the feeling is mutual. Could I get coffee instead?”
“Sure thing dad,” Pokey answered.

Pinkie Pie gestured them to follow her and so they did. Hoofcraft stopped his son when they were about to enter the kitchen. He looked at him with apologetic look in his eyes and said, “I’m sorry. You know how Aurora can be.”
“I know,” Pokey said. “Canterlot has changed her.”
Hoofcraft smiled sadly and said, “She doesn’t mean to be mean.”
“I know that too,” Pokey answered and turned toward the kitchen. There they saw Pinkie Pie serving tea to Blue Aurora with constant smile on her lips.

“She’s quite a personality,” Hoofcraft said to his son with smile. “I really like her.”
“Well I’m sorry to tell you but she’s mine,” Pokey joked and his father chuckled quietly. He then patted Pokey on the back and said, “Good, keep that attitude.”
He then gave Pokey a strange look and said, “You seem different from the last time we saw each other.”
“Different how?” Pokey asked. His father smiled a little and said, “You seem more self-confident.”
Pokey looked at his father straight into his eyes for a second and then glanced towards the kitchen where he saw Pinkie Pie smiling at his mother while talking about something. Her smile was contagious and Pokey soon found himself smiling too.
“Well I’m not such a whimp anymore,” he confessed to his father who in turn said with serious tone, “You never were a whimp in my books.”
That made Pokey feel a sudden urge to hug his father. It was so strong that he couldn’t hold himself and he wrapped his front legs around his father’s neck.
“I’ve missed you,” Pokey said slowly.
“We’ve missed you too,” Hoofcraft said and patted him on the back. He then said with barely audible voice so nopony in the kitchen could hear, “Now let’s go. We can’t keep that hot mare of yours waiting.”
“Dad!” Pokey hissed and folded his ears, though soon he and his father started to snicker and walked into the kitchen to meet Pinkie Pie’s family.

After the families had been introduced to each other and Pokey’s parents had had their share of tea, coffee and pastries they were engaged into some chit-chatting. Pinkie Pie and Pokey sat next to each other with Pinkie’s sister’s on their left with her parents and Pokey’s parents on their right side. Her younger sisters kept giggling when Pinkie and Pokey whispered things to each other’s ears. Meanwhile both of their parents were talking.

“So what do you do for the living Igneous?” Hoofcraft asked. Then he added, “Oh excuse me. May I call you by the name?”
“Of course. We’ll be paying their wedding together so I think we can call each other by the name,” Igneous said, earning a chuckle from Hoofcraft. Igneous Rock then answered his question a bit grudgingly, “Me and my family work as rock farmers.”
Hearing that made Blue Aurora look at them with wide eyes. She herself was a highly educated unicorn with master degree in astronomy. Hearing that her son would be marrying a daughter of rock farmer got her by the surprise.
She snickered nervously and started, “Rock farmers? T-that’s…”
“That’s mighty interesting,” Hoofcraft said and gave a stern look to his wife that made her fall silent. “What kind of rocks are we talking about? Granite? Potash? Diamonds maybe?”
Igneous and her wife were taken aback by his question. They probably didn’t except that unicorn from Canterlot would be interested in their work. It took a second before Igneous could answer, “Uhh, mostly potash and quartz but we sometimes come across precious metals and diamonds.”
“Pegmatites are my favourite,” Maud said. Pokey’s parents looked confusedly at her for a second, but then Hoofcraft cleared his throat.
“I bet that they are a good bonus?” He asked. Igneous chuckled and said, “Indeed. one good diamond is worth a one month of working.”

He then looked at his wife and poked the medallion she had hanging in a golden chain around her neck. Cloudy Quartz smiled warmly and said, “This is made from metals found on our farm.”
Both of the unicorns looked at the medallion.
“It is beautiful,” Blue Aurora said while examining it, forgetting to sulk. It was clearly made by professional. The jeweler in Pokey’s father woke up as he looked at the medallion and he had to ask, “Who did that? It’s quite professionally made.”
“He did,” Cloudy said and smiled at Igneous who had a small, proud smile on his lips. Pokey and his parents looked at Igneous with their mouths agape. Soon Hoofcraft laughed and said, “I must say that I didn’t except that.”
“Well it’s just a hobby,” Igneous said modestly.
“All the great artists understate themselves,,” Hoofcraft said while looking at the medallion. He then turned towards Igneous and said, “You are more interesting than you let us believe mr. Rock.”
“So are you mr. Pierce,” Igneous said with almost amused tone.

Pokey and Pinkie snickered at each other quietly and Pinkie whispered into his ear, “They’re getting along nicely.”
“I know,” Pokey whispered back and looked Pinkie in the eyes for a moment before leaning forward and planting a kiss on her lips. Their parents didn’t notice it but Pinkie’s sisters sure did. They started to giggle and clap their hooves together happily.

“Oh,” Blue Aurora suddenly sighed.
“We haven’t talked about the wedding at all,” she spoke, sounding like it was a thing she wouldn’t have wanted to talk about.
“Oh my, you’re right,” Cloudy Quartz said and everypony in the table turned towards Pokey and Pinkie, who were snickering at each other. It took a second before they realised that everypony was staring at them.

“What?” Pinkie asked. Her father frowned and said, “The wedding Pinkie. Me and mr. Hoofcraft are going to pay them so maybe we should know a bit about it.”
“Ooh!” Pinkie said and started to smile. “Well there’s not that much for you to pay. I have this old friend who arranges these super cool parties and he promised to arrange the wedding reception and the Princess Celestia won’t…”
“Beg you pardon? I think I heard you wrong,” Blue Aurora said calmly.
“I have this old friend who…” Pinkie started but Blue Aurora cut in annoyedly, “No dear, I thought you said something about Princess?”
“Oh yeah! I was saying that Celly won’t charge anything for the cere…”
Celly? as if… Princess Celestia? Princess Celestia will be attending your wedding?” Blue Aurora asked with wide eyes. She then looked at Pokey and asked, “Are you serious?”
“Well she’s one of the elements so naturally the princesses will be there,” Pokey answered and saw how her mother’s jaw dropped.
“E-e-element of… harmony?” she asked and eyed at Pinkie with disbelieving look in her eyes. Pinkie smiled and said, “Laughter reporting in!”
“You never told that she was a element bearer in your letters,” she said to Pokey who shrugged and said, “I guess it never came to cross my mind.”
“My son is marrying a element of harmony…” Blue Aurora muttered slowly and smiled a goofy smile. She started to sway a little and her husband moved his hooves towards her just in time to catch her as she fainted. Others looked at her with confused and scared expressions. Hoofcraft just sighed and said, “She can be quite a drama queen sometimes.”

Night came sooner than everypony wanted. It was already dark outside and everypony were getting ready to sleep. Pokey and Pinkie laid on her bed, both thinking about the day while the moon’s light illuminated the room in pure white light. The Cake’s had prepared room for all the quests. Pokey’s parents slept in one of the quest room and Pinkie’s in another one. Her sisters slept in the last quest room that was between her and the Cakes’ room. Pinkie Pie and Pokey could hear Limestone and Marble jumping on the bed and their giggling could be heard through the wall.

Much to Pokey’s and Pinkie’s delight their parents had liked each other. Pinkie had noticed that his father had been more open with Pokey’s father than he usually was with strangers. Pinkie’s younger sisters had gotten rather fond to the Cakes. Probably because they had promised that the sisters could eat all the cake they wanted. Pokey couldn’t tell what Maud thought of him or his family but Pinkie told that she had enjoyed their time together. Pokey was happy that his mother didn’t let the difference between the two family’s education get in the way of their friendship. Or maybe it was because Pinkie Pie was considered a ‘celebrity’ in Canterlot. Luckily his father was there to keep her in control.

“I think today went pretty well,” Pinkie said suddenly, making Pokey snap from his thoughts. It took a second before he understood what she had said but when it finally sunk in, he said, “Better than pretty well. Our families like each other.”
“Your mother was pretty fun,” Pinkie said. Pokey smiled and said, “Yeah. I was a bit worried at first. She can be pretty snobby sometimes.”
“I like how she fainted,” she giggled a bit evilly at Pokey who was still a bit embarrassed by it. Who would faint in front of her son’s fillyfriend and her family. Luckily they had good sense of humor and Cloudy had even helped Blue Aurora to calm down. He looked at Pinkie and said, “Your mother was sweet.”
“Sweet as sugar,” Pinkie giggled.
“I didn’t know that your dad was so good at making jewels and all,” Pokey said after a while of silence.
“And I didn’t know that you’re dad was so handsome,” Pinkie teased. Pokey frowned and looked at Pinkie who had teasing smile on her face. She then wrapped her front hooves around his neck and pulled his head against her chest.
“Promise that you will look like that when you get older,” she said and nuzzled the top of his head, careful not to hurt herself on his horn.

Pokey nuzzled her chest with his muzzle and then lifted his head to kiss her chin. She giggled and planted a soft kiss on Pokey’s forehead, right on the base of his horn. That made shivers go down Pokey’s spine. Horn was one of the most sensitive parts of unicorns body after all. Pinkie Pie giggled when she noticed how Pokey started to blush.
“You know I just got in the mood for some fooling around,” Pinkie Pie said with sultry tone. Pokey chuckled a bit amusedly and asked, “Because we we’re talking about my father?”
“Nah,” Pinkie said while rolling over him. “Because I love you.”
“I’m okay with that,” Pokey said and they both snickered playfully. Then Pinkie lowered herself over Pokey and lustfully kissed him. They kept kissing for a moment, and just as they were about to move on, they heard the door open.
Pinkie rolled off from Pokey and pulled the covers over her while Pokey did the same. All that in less than a second. They looked at each other with a look that said ‘We’ll get back to that later’.

“Pinkie?” came a quiet voice from the door. Moon’s light didn’t quite reach to the door so they didn’t see their visitor. They could hear that it was one of her sisters though.
“Limestone?” Pinkie asked a bit confusedly while breathing heavily due the small ‘exercise’ they had had.
“We can’t sleep,” Marble Pie’s voice came from the door. Both of her younger sisters were there. Pinkie let out a sigh and asked, “Why can’t you sleep?”
“Cake’s snore pretty loudly,” Limestone said, making Pokey almost snicker. Pinkie in other hand was a bit annoyed by her sisters interrupting them and snorted, “You can’t sleep because somepony snores? Get back to bed you foals!”
Everypony were silent for a while. Pokey looked at Pinkie Pie a bit weirdly. Then he heard hoofsteps and the door started to close. He placed his hoof on Pinkie’s shoulder and whispered quietly, “They’re trying to sleep in a weird, new place Pinkie.”
Pinkie frowned but Pokey’s stare made her feel bad about herself.
“Girls,” she said and the door stopped closing. “Come here.”
There were some whispering on the door and then two figures quickly sneaked towards the bed. In moonlight they could see the sisters better. They had small smiles on their faces as they climbed on the bed and snug under the blanket.

“Did Maud fall asleep already?” Pinkie asked from her sisters. Before they could answer they heard Maud say from the door in her monotone voice, “No.”
There was a small silence before she added, “I don’t want to sleep alone.”
“Aww. Come here,” Pinkie said and soon Maud emerged into the moonlight. Now Pokey could see her cutie mark. It was a diamond shaped rock. Her face didn’t give any hints how she felt but Pinkie and her other sisters started to giggle.
“You don’t need to be so shy,” Pinkie said. “Besides... He’s mine.”
Pokey almost saw a faint blush on Maud’s cheeks.

“So you three keep away from him,” Pinkie Pie warned as Maud climbed onto the bed. Marble Pie snuggled against Pinkie Pie and wrapped her front hooves around her. Limestone laid behind her and had her front hooves wrapped around Marble Pie too. Maud gracefully laid her head on the pillow and stayed quiet.

“Don’t worry,” Marble said and yawed heartily. “I’m into some more mature stallions.”
That made Pinkie and Limestone giggle and Pokey sat upright.
“Are you talking about my dad?” he asked and the three younger sisters giggled under the blankets. Then Limestone said with dreamy voice, “His voice is so sexy.”
Pokey couldn’t do anything but to flop his head against his pillow and mutter, “What the hay is wrong with you three?”
“Aww, you know you’re the most handsome, sexy pony I know,” Pinkie said, snuggling against him and kissing him on the cheek.
“Aww…” her younger sisters cooed and maud coughed a bit troubled way. Everypony except Maud started to snicker. It lasted a while and then slowly they all started to fall asleep.