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Today's Horoscope (Virgo): Drama in your personal life might interfere with your plans.

Early Morning

"Flash?"

I wake up to see Twilight leaning over me, frowning. She's dressed in jeans and a tank top. "Ngh..." I sit up, groaning, and rub my head. "What time is it?"

"It's a little after eight," Twilight says. "We were worried when we woke up and you weren't..." She blushes. "You know, in bed with us. What're you doing sleeping in here? I mean, not that I mind you sleeping in here, or anything, but..."

"I woke up...couldn't get back to sleep, didn't want to wake..."

I remember what Fluttershy told me last night. I'm instantly awake and alert. "Get Pinkie and Cadance. Now."

Twilight frowns. "Uhh...okay...what's wrong?"

"I'll explain it to all of you at once," I say.

"Okay...should I get the others too?"

I shake my head. "This isn't a Zodiac thing."

Twilight nods. "Umm...maybe I should give you ten minutes to shower and get dressed?"

I look down at myself. I'm in my boxers and pretty nasty...

...oh god, Fluttershy saw me like this...smelled me like this...

"Yeah."

A little while later, I'm back in Twilight's room, clean and dressed. Twilight, Pinkie, and Cadance are there waiting. "Last night, Fluttershy gave me a heads-up on Sunset Shimmer's new plan to screw with us."

They look at each other. "I thought you said this isn't a Zodiac thing?" Twilight says.

"It isn't." I take a deep breath. "Sunset Shimmer's about to start telling everybody I got her pregnant."

Pinkie and Cadance gasp. Twilight's eyes narrow. "THIS is EXACTLY why I wanted you to turn her in!" she yells. "Do you have ANY IDEA how bad this is?"

"Oh my God," Cadance whispers. "Flash, if...if she's..."

"She's not," I say. "Fluttershy got into the clinic's patient files. Sunset's not pregnant."

Cadance frowns. "Alright. As soon as she starts with the rumor, I'll force her to come in for a pregnancy test. I'll administer it myself. We'll kill this before it gets ugly." She rubs her chin. "Actually, I may even be able to get her doctor's records if I pull strings, say it's a policy thing..."

The door opens, and Principal Celestia walks in. She has a stern frown on her face. "I just got a very interesting message from Sunset Shimmer over Canterbook," she says.

"Aaaand here it goes," Pinkie says, burying her face in her hands. Her hair wilts.

"Principal Celestia, we can explai—" Twilight begins, but Celestia raises a hand to stop her.

"I already know," Celestia says. "Luna called me the same night she broke in and told me everything." She looks at me with a mix of sympathy and disappointment. "I never let on that I knew what happened that night because I respect your wishes, and Luna said you made it very clear you wanted nothing done about this and nobody to know. And since you never came forward to press charges, I couldn't do anything about it. But I want you to understand that you've put yourself in a very ugly position here. If Sunset Shimmer is pregnant with your child, and you never pressed charges against her, this is going to end badly for you."

"Not with the number of witnesses we have," Cadance says. "Besides, I'm going to examine her myself and administer a test she can't fake."

Celestia nods. "Very well." She tilts her head. "You suspect she isn't pregnant, and this is a hoax?"

"We're pretty sure," I say. "Sunset's a psychopath."

Celestia sighs. "I wish I had trusted Luna's instincts about her," she says. "Unfortunately, the only thing she's done that warrants expulsion, I can't expel her for without Flash pressing charges against her, and..."

"Let her be as much of a lying, manipulative bitch as she wants," I say. "I want her to graduate from CHS."

"Why?" Twilight asks, blinking at me.

I turn to her. "Remember what you told me back at the start of the school year? Sunset Shimmer's been trying to undermine you for longer than I've been here, all because you're beating her out for valedictorian." I grasp Twilight's shoulders. "I want her to lose out to you. I want her to have to watch you give your speech at graduation. I want her to live the rest of her life knowing that despite everything she's tried to do to us, in the end, she couldn't beat you." I look around at everybody. "I want Sunset Shimmer to have to accept that Twilight has everything and she has nothing."

Cadance throws up her hands and screams. "MEN!" She starts to pace. "God, it's the same with all of you! This is exactly the kind of macho BULLSHIT I expect from Shining Armor!" She turns to me, fury in her eyes. "Just fucking man up and admit you're embarrassed by what happened and you're sticking your head in the sand and hiding from it!"

"Cadance," Celestia says sharply.

"Okay. Fine," I say. "I admit it. I woke up to find the one person at CHS I hate the most riding my dick, and..." I trail off, looking around at all of them. I sit down heavily, putting my head in my hands.

"And what, Flash?" Twilight asks softly.

I sigh. "And until I realized just who was fucking me, I was enjoying it. Okay? Dammit..."

The girls look around at each other.

I laugh. "You know, I'm the only guy at CHS whose reaction to getting fucked by Sunset Shimmer is to run to the bathroom and throw up." I shake my head. "And even then, before I realized it was her..."

Cadance groans and shakes her head. "Flash..." She sighs. "Look..." She trails off.

"Sometimes...sometimes I feel like I'm just a dick with legs," I say. "And...and I'm ashamed of myself. I think that's the real reason...I didn't want to do anything about what happened that night. Not because...not because I was embarrassed, or angry at Sunset...but because I was ashamed of myself."

Twilight sighs, sits next to me, and hugs me.

"Flash...what you're feeling is relatively normal for a boy your age," Celestia says. "I've been an educator for seventeen years. I've known hundreds of teenage boys." She chuckles. "Believe me, I've seen just about everything. Some boys are slaves to their hormones." She snorts. "Hell, some girls are slaves to their hormones. But I don't think Twilight Sparkle would be as devoted as she is to you if you were, well..."

Twilight laughs. "Oh, I know exactly how big a pervert Flash is," she says. "But he's my pervert."

"And mine!" Pinkie says, latching onto my other side.

I smile and hug both girls tightly.

Celestia stands up. "Anyway..." She sighs. "Unfortunately, since you never pressed charges against Sunset Shimmer, there's nothing I can do about this. Lying about being pregnant isn't a crime, nor is it something punishable by school rules. It's just...severely questionable behavior. The best I can do is try to get her into counseling, but..."

"Just...let us worry about Sunset Shimmer," I say. "Please. We can handle her."

Celestia looks uncertain, but shrugs. "Alright. It's your social life on the line, it's your decision." She glances at her phone. "You kids had better hurry and eat breakfast. Pinkie needs to be at the school by ten, and the rest of you need to get over to Crystal Prep before noon."

We head downstairs to the dining room, where most everybody else is already eating. Rarity has a ferocious blush spreading from the tips of her ears down her neck, and Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom are teasing her mercilessly. Rainbow Dash has a shit-eating grin.

"Oh yeah, that reminds me," Pinkie says, "we never did find out what happened with those two last night."

"I don't think it's any of our business," Twilight says, blushing.

We sit down at the table and serve ourselves from the serving platters. "Well, you three certainly took your time coming down," Rarity says.

"Yeah, what'd you do, get in a little morning nookie?" Rainbow asks.

"Forget about us, what was all that giggling and squealing about?" Pinkie asks with a teasing grin.

Rarity shrinks into her chair, a furiously pouty look on her face. "HONESTLY," she says. "A lady has a right to her privacy!"

"Not around here you don't," Apple Bloom says. She has an oddly sleazy grin on her face...it's honestly a little creepy.

Rarity gives a high-pitched sniff. "If you MUST know," she says, "we had a rather intense tickle fight, and then Rainbow Dash spent the entire evening worshipping my legs."

I see Twilight raise an eyebrow. "Doing what now?"

"I, uhh...made Rarity put on every short skirt and pair of sexy shoes she has and show off her legs for me," Rainbow says. "And, uhh..."

"She sat there pleasuring herself while I strutted around like some sort of...object," Rarity says. "Honestly!"

"Hey, I got you off too!" Rainbow says hotly.

We all stare at Rarity.

Rarity ducks her head. "It...it isn't what you're all thinking!" she says. "I..." She toys with her napkin. "I...decided it would be interesting to experiment a bit, is all. I am, and shall remain, quite heterosexual. It was a bit of fun that won't happen again." She blushes. "Still...it felt rather good to be appreciated so...vigorously."

Feeling the sudden pressing need to visit the bathroom, I excuse myself from the table...

When I head downstairs, everyone who's still at the table is smirking at me. Thankfully, Rarity's no longer in the dining room. I finish eating quickly, then head upstairs to get in some guitar practice before we have to leave for Crystal Prep.

Daytime

Crystal Prep's girls' tennis team is ferocious. The matches drag on longer than anybody expected. The doubles sets are the most intense part of the day; only Coco's freakish serves give us any sort of edge over Crystal Prep. Even then, we lose the doubles matches, but edge out a win in singles. Under the regional rules, that counts as a tie for the match in regional standings.

By the time we all get back to the dorm, it's late...

Evening

Tomorrow, we're training in Zodiac. I'm too tired to really do anything tonight, so I make myself a sandwich, check my e-mail, then go to bed.