Sunset Shimmer woke up with such bliss to find Lockon Astros sleeping next to her. Then, the memories of the previous night came rushing into her head. Thankfully, they did not do anything other than kissing and sleeping next to each other that night.
She still could not believe it. Her special somepony had just asked her to marry him the previous night at the Grand Galloping Gala.
Just then, she heard the sounds of her fiancé waking up as well.
"Morning, beautiful." Lockon complimented her as he blinked his eyes open to find her awake.
"Morning, handsome." She responded before they shared a kiss on the lips.
"Hey, Lockon." Sunset brought up. "I just realized something."
"Oh?" Lockon said. "What would that be?"
"Well, now that we're engaged," Sunset began, "since we will be living together, where are we going to live? I don't want to leave my friends in Ponyville."
"Actually, I thought about that scenario." Lockon answered her. "Since your friends are important to you as well, I have already decided that I would like to move in with you in Ponyville. If that's alright with you, that is?"
"Of course." Sunset responded. "But what about Celestia? Does she know about this?"
"No." Lockon answered her. "I am actually going to tell her at breakfast. And I would like you to be there with me when I do. I don't exactly know how she is going to take this news."
"Alright." Sunset agreed. "I'll help you through this."
After they both had a quick shower, they headed down to the dining room where Princess Celestia was waiting for them.
"Good morning, you two." She greeted them with a warm smile. "I'd like to congratulate the both of you on your engagement last night."
"Thanks." The couple replied in unison before Lockon stepped closer to his adoptive mother.
"Mom," he addressed her, "there's something I need to talk about with you."
"And what would that be, son?" Celestia asked him in reply.
"Well…" He paused, obviously having difficulty breaking the news to his adoptive mother, "now that Sunset and I are engaged, she and I have talked about where we'll be living together…but she does not really want to leave her friends in Ponyville and I want to respect her wish in that regard."
"What I am trying to say is…" by this point Lockon was a sweaty nervous wreck, "…I want…I want to… oh, why can't I just say it?!"
Celestia then cut him off by wrapping both her wings and both her front hooves around him in a tight embrace.
"It's alright, son." She murmured into his ear. "I understand. You wish to move into her house in Ponyville with her."
"You know me too well, mom." Lockon sniffed as he returned the hug. Sunset could only watch this touching moment as tears started to form out of the corners of her eyes.
"I don't understand." Lockon told her. "I thought that I would have to deal with a stream of tears coming from your face and give you the whole 'the baby bird has to leave the nest eventually' speech. How can you possibly be handling this so well?"
"I always knew this day would come, son." Celestia replied. "I knew you would not live here forever. I was prepared to accept this. I just never expected this day to come so soon."
"I'm glad that you are so understanding, mom." Lockon responded. "Just know that even though you only adopted me, I am proud, happy, and lucky to be your son. And no matter where I go, you will always be family to me."
"And you will always have a place in my heart." Celestia sniffed as tears of joy started to form in her own eyes. "Sapphire and your parents would definitely have been proud to see the stallion that you have grown up to become."
"I know, mom." Lockon sniffed with tears of happiness in his own eyes. "I know."
"By the way," she began to ask while directing her attention to Sunset Shimmer as well, "have the two of you decided on where and when you want the wedding to be held?"
"Well, we have not really decided yet." Sunset answered. "But I think Lockon would agree with me when I say that we want to have it here in Canterlot on the first day of summer."
"Indeed." Lockon agreed with his fiancé before turning back to his adoptive mother. "And of course, we would definitely like it if you could officiate our wedding. In fact, we will probably ask Twilight and the rest of our Ponyville friends to help with the preparations when the time comes."
"Of course, I would be honored." Celestia replied. "And I am sure that Twilight and the others will be too. Go ahead and start packing. I'll send some guards to help you move in."
"Thanks, mom." Lockon replied before he and Sunset went back to his room to gather all of his belongings.
After packing up all of Lockon's essentials, and retrieving their outfits from the gala the previous night, Sunset and Lockon met Celestia down at the front gates where a royal carriage was ready to take them back to Ponyville.
"I am sure that you are already aware of who my second in command is?" Lockon asked Celestia.
"I am." Celestia answered him. "And I believe that he will make a great captain, just as you did."
"Well, this is it." Lockon said as he hugged his adoptive mother for the final time that day.
"Good luck, son." Celestia told him before the carriage took off for Ponyville with Sunset and Lockon in tow.
As soon as they got back to Ponyville, they landed right in front of Sunset's house. Spike and Shadow were waiting for them. As soon as Sunset stepped out the carriage she was immediately tackled and licked by the enthusiastic little wolf pup who was just starting to hit puberty.
"Good to see you too, Shadow." Sunset giggled as the wolf licked her face. Then, she got up after getting Shadow to calm down and then turned to Spike.
"Thanks for watching Shadow and my house for me, Spike." She told him.
"No problem, Sunset." He replied before getting a smug smirk on his face. "Need an extra set of hands to help move your fiancé's things into your house?"
"For a baby dragon, you sure are a lot cleverer than you look." Lockon answered him. "But that won't be necessary."
He proved this by gathering all of his belongings into his signature sapphire blue aura with a levitation spell.
"Ok, in the meantime, I'll just tell Twilight that you just moved into Ponyville." He said before walking away. "Catch ya later, you two."
Sunset and Lockon both said their goodbyes and entered the house together with Shadow in walking happily behind them.
As soon as Lockon was finished unpacking, they both had dinner and retired to the same bed together for a good night's sleep.