Love Is Sweet
The Present
"Hey Cloud Skipper... Ever just think about how your parents met? It's been on my mind recently how mine met. Do you know your parent's story?" A friend of Cloud Skipper's asked.
My daughter Cloud Skipper replied confusingly, "Hmmmmm. You know what? I'm curious now, I think I'll go ask them now," Cloud Skipper states, spreading her wings and flying home, before I knew it she had come crashing through the front door of our house. "Yo Dad how did you end up dating Mom?"
Caught off guard from the sudden noise of the door being bust open I jump to my hooves and stare at my daughter. My daughter having an interest in her parents? That's something I thought stopped happening a long time ago. Asking her whether or not I had told her the story yet would be pointless, even if I don't remember telling her, she obviously doesn't know. Wow, so my daughter is this old and still doesn't know huh? Guess now is as good a time as any. "Hello? Should I just ask Mom?" Cloud Skipper asks in an annoyed tone. Just who does she think she is talking to?
Stretching my back and clearing my throat I begin my story, "How I wound up dating Cotton Candy huh? Alright then. This is how I wound up dating your mother. But it’s important I tell you all the details or it might not make sense. So pay attention," I explain to my impatient daughter as she sits. I twist my neck and back popping the bones, I lean into my sofa in a relaxing sigh, and begin the story.
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The Past
"Hey Prism! Who are we pranking today?" Cotton Candy asks crouched down in a pouncing position, "Del? T? Claire? WHIRLWIND?!" Candy jumps in glee.
"......." Thinking as I stand behind Candy I look at her intently," Pretty nice, not too big just about right. It looks nice," I think to myself as Candy jumps left to right crouching. Candy had then turned around asking what I was doing, but my eyes were closed so I didn't quite notice. I was too lost in thought. "It is preeetty beautiful though. “Candy then questioned my words as to what I was describing as beautiful, I hadn't even noticed that I said that last part of my thoughts aloud. "Nothing," I say as I shake my head, "Maybe we should not prank any pony today?" I suggest with a yawn," It's a pretty nice day for relaxing." Looking at Candy she looks disappointed.
"You never want to do anything fun anymore!" Candy states pressing her face close to mine. Jokingly to get her out of my face I kiss her nose, as she falls back from the kiss I stick out my tongue at her. There! I pranked some pony now we could go relax, I suggest to her. "Wha-what do you think you're doing?!" Candy yells... in my ear no less. Rubbing my ear I explain that it was totally platonic, that bros sometimes just joke around like that. Though I don't have any bros I would ever joke around with like that aside her. A little kiss like that means nothing unless you make it mean something anyway. "I'm gonna get you back!" Candy states angrily... What's her problem? I didn't think a small peck would be that bad to her, maybe it's an OCD thing.... Or maybe it's a girl thing. "You know what? I bet the reason you're always wanting to sleep is because of depression!" Candy states triumphantly as if she had just solved the world’s greatest mystery. Staring at her with a blank expression I assumed she would drop the subject. She did not. "Wanting to sleep all the time and losing interest in hobbies is a sign of depression! Maybe you're depressed because you have broken up with Whirlwind for so long," Candy explains to me. I roll my eyes and begin to walk away. "I can set you up with some pony! I'm a great matchmaker," Candy yells after me. Hearing other ponies chuckling from hearing our conversation I tell her to quiet down.
"You can't even get a boyfriend yourself and you expect me to let you match me together with some pony?" I ask her, probably shouldn't have done that, she began to pout, planted her beautif... uhhh... flank into the ground. I scratch the back of my head and circling around her, but she kept turning her head so she wouldn't see my face. "Candy c'mon I didn't mean it." Candy refused to budge. "I'm going to leave you here," I threaten. Candy still didn't move, as I sigh I ask her," C'mon aren't bros supposed to forgive each other?"
Irritated Candy began to shout at me. "Bro this and bro that! Why am I a bro?!" Confused from her behavior I attempt to answer, but she interrupts," I'm not a stallion in case you haven't noticed! I have lady parts!" As she yelled I felt heat rush to my face as I covered my face, the other ponies around us watching us. I try to ask her to take the conversation elsewhere, but she has refused to listen to my words, she just kept talking. "You're so dense! I bet if I threw you into the ocean you'd sink like a rock! No! A rock has more buoyancy than you! Compared to you a rock practically floats in the air! Flies better than you ever could!" Mixed emotions fill my body, I have never seen Candy this irritated, and pissed doesn't even begin to describe how mad I am for chewing me out about nothing in public.
"Shut up! Stop Talking! No scratch that! Keep talking! Just explain how you want me to fix this! Do you just enjoy making a spectacle out of me calling you a bro? Alright I'll change it, what do you want me to call you? Sis?" I finally decide to defend myself and demanded an explanation, but Candy had questioned why it had to be sis I suggested. I thought we were close enough to refer to each other as family, was I so wrong? Candy however had stated that she didn't want to be my 'bro' or 'sis.' She then looked around, then ran away yelling that she was going home. Angry I decide to take a walk by myself to clear my head.
"Why did she have to be such a pain over a little prank?" I say aloud not noticing I was talking to myself. "Jeez and being called bro or sis. What's so wrong about that? That girl is just as crazy as her mother... No I shouldn't be bad mouthing her parents like that." Sighing I catch my train of thought, an hour passed as I found myself at water fountain in a park, then sun was setting so no fillies or colts were using it, suddenly I see Candy again. "What are you doing here? Here to publicly embarrass me again? Well sorry, but the audience is gone now." Candy hadn't noticed me until I started talking, she hadn't even noticed she was at the park.
"This isn't the way to my house!" She said in a gasp as she saw me and the scenery. I totally forgot she is bad with directions, but c'mon Candy at least be able to find your own house... Maybe her head was too caught up in thought. Candy then stood in front of me, it's pretty awkward. We are just... Staring at the scenery around us not even looking at each other. Thinking about how mad Candy was earlier I then came to a realization, no matter how sensitive she was about the subject, it was my actions that caused this mess. Awww dammit, why is it always my fault? Why can't it ever be some pony else's fault. Sighing and scratching my head I begin to feel my pride being lost... Or maybe in some way I was saving it.
"Loo-"
"I'm sor"
Candy and I interrupt each other, we trade a little bit going back and forth on who should talk first, but after a few games of tic tac toe... 20 ties of tic tac toe... We finally decide that I should start. Look. I'm sorry for kissing you, I figured because it wasn't on the lips it wouldn't mean anything to you," I apologized with my heart in it... Well whatever I felt like putting in it. Candy however still wasn't responding. "I'm also sorry for calling you 'bro' I just felt like since we were close like family that I could call you that." Candy still wasn't looking at me. "Please just say something."
Candy looked at me in a way that looked like she was pitying me, but then she switched to a pout pointing her eyes down as she puffed her cheeks. She then finally began to explain, “I’m sorry for yelling like that in public, when I realized that there were ponies around us I ran for the hills too. It was soooo embarrassing!" Urging her to apologize for over-reacting about the kiss I throw my head forward in a circular motion, signing her to go on, but she was confused," What? That's all I have to say." I can't believe this. She isn't going to apologize? That little peck caused so much trouble and she doesn't think she over reacted a little bit? Instead of demanding an apology I clear my head and ask her why it was such a big deal to her. Then she I saw something I see very rarely. She turned bright red, "I don't want to talk about it..." she said, but I wasn't about to let her off that easily. I urged her on to explain to me why it was such a big deal, but she wouldn't budge. So I attacked her, I pushed her down and put my mouth to her neck and blew into it, making quite the disturbing noise, but she began to laugh hysterically.
Candy is extremely ticklish when it comes to her neck, and I was more than ready to take advantage of her weaknesses. After a while of tickling her she finally caught her breathe enough to beg me to stop. Obliging her I blackmail her into confessing why the prank was such a bad thing. My body laying atop of a pinned down Candy I held down her hooves so she wouldn't be able to move, readying to attack if she wouldn't speak, Candy asking me to bring my face closer I obliged her. But why would she need to whisper? There was no pony around. Lowering my head Candy kissed my lips. Shocked from the kiss I neither went in or pulled away I was just stunned and let the kiss go on. As Candy pulls her head away from mine, I slowly step off her from over her and look towards the fountain, holding my head. "What just happened?" I ask myself out loud. I turn to Candy who had suddenly sat near me, her head practically steaming from how embarrassed she was. Thinking and thinking I finally came to a conclusion," Oh! So this is you getting back at me right?" I say as I turn to Candy.
Candy then proceeded to push me down and smack me," You big silly ninny! I love you okay?!" Then once more I feel Candy's lips pressed against mine, my head too caught up in thought to properly process what is going on I don't understand. When? How? Why? Pushing Candy away from me a string of saliva forms a bridge between our mouths from the sudden departure... Ew. Trying to wrap my head around the situation I ask her what she means by loving me. Once again I was smacked," You really are denser as a rock! Tom would fly circles around you!" Candy shouts. Auntie Rarity told us never to talk about Tom, but ignoring that I let Candy talk, “I don't need to be your 'Bro' or 'Sis'! I just need you to know I love you!" Suddenly sparks begin to fly from my head from the short circuiting I am going through. I don't understand, I tell her. Since when? And why? Candy then began to explain," It doesn't matter when or why! Love just happens! It doesn't need a reason, or an explanation." Suddenly steam begins to form along with the sparks of my confusion. Candy then went into further detail," I've loved you for a long time, but you just kept treating me like a bro... So I thought you weren't interested in me..." Candy looked down at the ground.
Guilt suddenly overcame me, for a few reasons. I had treated Candy so much more poorly than I thought, and I had been unfair to her. Remembering all the fond memories we had, and how much time we spent together I sit up pick up her fore hooves and tell her," I love you too. I just have so much fun together with you... You're the only one I can really talk about with my problems without feeling bad about myself. And I feel like you truly understand me and my insecurities. Like when we talked about our parents together that night on the hill." I say these with the most sincere thoughts of her that I could possibly conjure up. I may have only just come to realize that I loved her, but... I really have liked her for a while now. I was always talking to her, having fun with her, and even venting to her. She is the best friend I could possibly have, and who could make a better girlfriend than my own best friend? Suddenly I hear a loud heartbeat... That's my heart beating. Candy looked up to me her face getting closer to mine.
"You really love me too? This isn't a joke?" Candy asks, I shake my head stating that what I am saying is not a joke. Proving my point I leaned in to kiss her, but she had already beaten me to the punch. Our lips together for the third time that night, I felt a wave of pleasure consume me. Time began to pass and the moon was suddenly bright in the sky along with all the stars.
Walking Candy home I tell her, "You know... I was actually distracted when you were asking about who we should prank today..." Candy looked at me suddenly remembering the exact moment. She asked what had me so distracted. "I was looking at your... uhhh.. buuu-" suddenly realizing what horrid thing I was about to say my mind raced trying to say anything but that I was looking at her butt. " -uuuueauuuutiful butt." Realizing what I had just said I whispered to myself, "Dammit!" Candy stood silently for a while and my heart began to race, Oh geez... Were we about to break up as soon as our relationship started?
Candy then broke the silence with a giggle, “Heh, nice cover. I can't blame you though, it is pretty nice." A little embarrassed I try to correct what I said asking her to wait as she began to trot ahead of me she interrupted me for the last time that night, “And it's all you're gonna see when I beat in a race to wherever we're going!" Forgetting that we were going to her house she began to run off.
Following suite I smiled and shouted,"Haha hey! There's no way you're beating me!"
Candy and Prism run past a brown mare with bushy hair, as she looks at them as she runs she states, "Prism you dummy"
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The Present
"And that is how your mother and I got together," I finally finish the story.
Cloud Skipper however ignored the story and asked," Wait! Who was that last pony that called you a dummy?" Smiling at Cloud Skipper I walk to a window and look to the sky without answering Cloud Skipper I close my eyes and say to myself," Some pony who brought your mom and I together."