“Tent?”
“Check.”
“Erm...toiletries? Sorry...”
“Check.”
“Blanket and pillows?”
“Check.”
“Great, that’s everything!”
After ticking off the final check boxes on your list, you set your pen aside and pocket the list in your saddlebags, which were already stuffed full with plastic bags of vegetables and a few bags of marshmallows. In the next room, you could hear Fluttershy struggling under the weight of the a piece of luggage that she was carrying. Being the gentlecolt that you are, you let your saddlebags drop from your back and set them off to the side before leaving the kitchen and moving to the living room.
When you enter, you silently laugh to yourself when you see Fluttershy trying at her best to lift the heavy tent bag onto her back. With each new attempt, the bag refused to leave the ground as if it was stuck to the floor with super glue.
You giggle for a few moments more before strolling over to your wife’s side.
“Here, let me get that for you. You take the saddlebags in the kitchen.”
Fluttershy took in a deep breath and smiled before exhaling. To exhausted to speak, she replied by simply nuzzling your neck as she passed by you on the way to the kitchen.
With a bit of effort put into it, you finally manage to hoist the heavy tent bag onto your back. Fluttershy re-enters the room with the saddlebags full of food draped over her back.
“Are you ready?” Fluttershy asks as she does a quick once over of the saddlebags before turning to you and smiling.
“Sure,” you reply, “but you forgot something,” You said with a sly grin on your face.
“Oh? What did I forget? We have everything on the checklist...I think, and I made sure that the animals had plenty of food while we’re away...” Fluttershy put a hoof to her chin and silently pondered to herself for a moment. You lightly chuckle under your breath and step up to her side. You unhook one of the belt buckles on the saddlebags and poke your head inside. After a quick moment of searching around, you pull your head out and let the golden necklace of your bonding droop down from between your teeth.
“You forgot this!” you wiggle your head back and forth to emphasize. Fluttershy turns to you and blushes.
“Oh, thank you! How could I have ever forgot to put it on this morning?” Fluttershy leans her head forward to take the wedding necklace from you, but you pull back and insist that you put it on for her. She says nothing and instead smiles while she bows her head low to the floor. Taking extra care, you slowly and gently lower the diamond ring necklace over her ears, down to the base of her neck.
You step back and admire your wife's figure as she lifts her head.
“That looks great on your Fluttershy!” you comment on your wife’s appearance.
Fluttershy’s face turns into an even deeper shade of embarrassed blush at your kind words.
“Thank you,” Fluttershy kisses you on the cheek before walking towards the door, with you following behind her. “C’mon now. We don’t want to be late. Twilight is kind of serious about these friendly get-togethers...”
You open the front door and allow Fluttershy to walk out first. She purposely brushes past your face as she walked by. Getting the signal almost immediately, you quickly walk out and shut the door behind you.
“It’s going to be beautiful tonight! Who knew that so many other ponies in Ponyville loved looking at the night sky?” questioned Fluttershy as she gazed up at the growing line of dark blue sky intermixed with the orange horizon.
“It’s going to look even more beautiful when a certain somepony is there with me,” you replied as the two of you walked through the tiny front gate of the cottage grounds.
Fluttershy moves closer to you and leans her head on your neck like she did before the two of you were married. It has been a while since she had done this, and the welcoming feel of her warm breaths against your face always made you crack a smile. She closed her eyes and slowed her breathing, enjoying the cool night air as the gentle breeze swept through her pink mane.
Neither of you said a word as the two of you reached the path that led to the outskirts of Ponyville, nighttime owls and a frog or two sounding out your way.
~~~~~
“Look at em’ all Fluttershy...”
“I know. They’re beautiful...”
“Not as beautiful as you!” You playfully poke Fluttershy in the side of her chest, which sends her into a rough fit of giggles. You then deeply kiss her in the same spot where you poked her, savoring the delicate texture of her supple flesh. She did not giggle, but instead moaned in bliss.
“I’ve always wondered as to why you’re so ticklish,” you comment while you retract your neck.
“I don’t really know...” Fluttershy leans her head against your neck again, “But that felt nice,” She ends off her words with a kiss to your chin.
You turn away from your relaxing wife and poke your head out through the unzipped tent flaps. You take notice to the plethora of mixed conversations happening around the campsite. Twilight was discussing the sciences of flying with Rainbow Dash, who was looking as bored as ever, Pinkie Pie and Rarity were sharing a small basket of sugary treats and giggling whenever one of them told a joke, and Applejack was busily reading through a farming magazine while eating an apple and tending to the small fire in the middle of the circle of tents.
You look at the hoof watch on your leg. It read twenty minutes past eleven-o'clock at night.
“How much longer until this meteor shower, Twilight?” you asked. All of the girls stopped what they were doing and looked to you with questionable faces. “We’ve been out here for almost an hour and nothing’s happening.”
Twilight smiles and pokes her head into her tent. She comes back out with an astronomical star chart on her mouth, which she then lays out onto the ground in front of her. Everypony moves closer to the chart and stares at it with wonder in their eyes.
“According to the observations I made earlier today,” Twilight drags the tip of her hoof over a red dotted line that was drawn out over a series of constellations, “the shower should be happening right about...now!”
On her words, everypony looks up to the sky just in time to catch the first meteor zip across the night sky, followed by two more. Fluttershy pokes her head out of the tent and snuggles up to you. Three meteors appeared this time, each one side by side as they raced towards the darkened horizon.
Fluttershy bent away from your neck and moved closer to your ear.
“I...I need to talk to you about something. Something important,” Fluttershy whispers in your ear. You reply by tilting the side of your head closer to her mouth, keeping your eyes on the starlight spectacle.
“I’ve been doing some thinking lately...” Fluttershy starts, “a-and this is something that’s been on my mind for the past few months. I’ve thought about it for quite a while and...” Fluttershy moves away from your ear and looks off to the side, looking somewhat embarrassed.
“Yes?” you said, “What is it Fluttershy?”
Fluttershy turns back to you and takes one of your legs in her hooves while looking deep into your eyes.
“What if...”
“Yes? Go on.”
“What if we had-”
“Fluttershy, look! It’s starting!”
Twilight’s excited voice forces you both away from conversation just as the first wave of bright and colorful stars rained down from the heavens. Everypony cooed in awe and wonder as the mini-fireballs came down in droves, completely illuminating the dark landscape. Fluttershy leans off to the side and wraps one of her wings around your body, enveloping you in a soft blanket of warmth. You then take one of her hooves between your own and wrap her leg around yours as you lean against her head.
After a full five minutes of awe-inspiring wonder, the show stopped just as the last meteors fell into the horizon.
In an act of passion, Fluttershy wrapped her arms around your neck and held onto you in a tight hug. You smile and gently nuzzle her in return. She then moves back to the side of your head and whispers into your ear again.
“I’ll talk to you about it tomorrow, OK?” she asks. You nod your head in reply.
Twilight and the other girls spent the whole night commenting about the show, but you weren't listening. Your eyes and ears were focused on your darling pegasus the entire time. When she loved on you, you loved on her back, no matter how far she went. Sadly though, it had to come to an end eventually. After all the girls said goodnight to each other, the campfire was put out and everypony retreated to their respective sleeping tents. Fluttershy coaxes you into the tent with a kiss. You happily follow her inside.
Everypony else usually slept in uncomfortable sleeping bags that were either too small or too hot for the night, but tonight, you would have none of that. You wanted Fluttershy to feel as comfortable and as relaxed as possible, so you took a few steps forward and carried the extra weight to set up a tent that was slightly bigger than the others. This tent allowed you to lay down a few layers of soft blankets by which you and Fluttershy could use to cuddle on.
Just as you had done several times before, you fluff Fluttershy’s pillow and tuck her in before climbing into bed yourself. You blow out the lantern hanging above you and leave some room for your wife to move closer to you. After kissing her goodnight, you poke your head underneath the topmost blanket and allow the chirps of the nighttime cicadas take you away to a land of pleasant dreams.