>>157518He takes the other hoof, and pulls her closer. He rubs all along her, moving a bit lower on her body, and starts to place his tongue into her mouth.
>>157519He is able to feel the muscles all along her body beneath her winter coat. She opens her mouth a bit and welcomes in his tongue, feeling along it with her own.
>>157520He tilts his mouth to meet hers, and gently rubs his tongue along hers. He rubs his hoof along her flank, and lower back.
>>157521Mustard is able to hear her breathe steadily through her nose as their tongues mingle. She continues caressing his lanky body with all four of her hooves, her meaty rump supported on his hind legs.
>>157522He keeps his eyes closed, and continues kissing her, simply rubbing one hoof along her mane, while keeping another hoof over her flank, He moves his tongue gently against hers.
>>157523Amber is content to remain in this romantic embrace and kiss, feeling his touch on her as she also pets his mane.
>>157524He sits there with her on him for a little while longer, before pulling away to ask
“Do you want something, little filly?”
>>157526He rubs his muzzle against her nose
“I’d stay here all night, if I could. But I have to go soon.”
>>157530She slowly pushes herself up and turns around on the bed, her tail to the side to give him a full view of her posterior. He can see–and perhaps even smell–his seed matted on the hairs of her rump.
"Shall we go?" she asks with lidded eyes.
>>157531“Hehe” he giggles, and stands up, following her.
“Yeah, let’s go.” He says
[1d20 = 3]I have to sleep now
>>157532She hops off the bed, takes a swig of water and turns to leave. She, perhaps unwisely, doesn't take any clothes or equipment with her.
>>157533Mustard Trim stops her before she leaves, placing a hoof on her shoulder.
"Amber, you should take a jacket. You wouldn't want to catch pneumonia."
>>157534"Yes, you're right."She dons her burlap cloak. Underneath that she straps on a leather holster with a straight handle sticking out, and which is mostly hidden under the cloak.
>>157535Mustard Trim wears his own dress shirt that he wore to work. He starts out of the apartment, and down the hall. He asks
"So... Should we walk?"
>>157537"Hehehe" He ruffles her mane. His smile fades at the "fresh air" remark.
"Alright, let's walk together. I suppose I need to get a taxi for you to go home?" His eyes move away. "I wonder if my mother would be okay with you staying on the couch."
>>157539"Hehe. Alright." He says
The two walk out onto the street. It is cold, with a little bit of wind. There are lights from street lamps and some buildings. The sky is hard to see.
>>157541He looks up to the sky. There must be some degree of cloud cover.
"I don't think you can see them from Baltimare." he replies
"They shine here, but they are blotted out by its own lights."
>>157543"That's just what the city does." He replies
>>157545"Yeah. It is a bit sad. Even Blackwater had the light from the town square and each of the mills that made it hard to see sometimes, but you could go down to the lagoon and see the whole night sky lit up as Luna made it. Here, not really."
>>157546"Then thank you again for taking me down to the cliffs. I'll remember that the rest of my life," she says, lightly swatting his rear with her tail.
>>157547He reaches over with a hoof, and pats her
"I will too." He is silent for a moment
"I wish I could have bought that ship of the line model I saw there..."
>>157551pony is nuzzledHe smiles, and closes his eyes, until walking forward necessitates that he opens them again.
"You too, Amber. I think I will actually look forward to work now. And you give me something.. someone to think about while I'm in school."
>>157553"It's not all ponies and they aren't always nice." He looks over
"To meet me at school?"
>>157554"Yes. Work is fine and all, but meeting new friends and learning all sorts of different subjects would be very enjoyable for me," she says with a wistful smile.
>>157555"It might be. I don't care for it that much, but you really liked those books I showed you yesterday."
>>157557"Well, some stuff from my father. some from school, some from my mother. And some things I found out on my own."
>>157559"The rubbing" He answers, not making eye contact.
>>157560"Oh, okay." She doesn't know what to ask or say, so she continues walking in awkward silence.
>>157561"So what was this about finding money?" He asks
>>157562She glances around to make sure nopony is listening in.
"The owner of Club Maurice wanted me to find a piece of paper. In return, the debt I had for rent would be cleared."
>>157563Mustard Trim revisits an old topic:
“And that’s why you kissed that stallion.”
>>157565"So if you were offered more than 200 bits tomorrow, would you do more than just kiss the stallion you just met?"
>>157566She looks at him with a disgusted face.
"Nuh-uh. He was gross, and I had no idea beforehoof that he would kiss me. If I did I wouldn't have accepted."
>>157567"Okay..."
He is silent for a moment
"A whole month's rent for one piece of paper? That's a lot of money for what, one hour of work?"
I'm now wondering if Amber ever said "200 bits" about this incident
>>157569He blinks
"And also 200 bits? That's a lot of money..."
There is no real pause before he says
"Well Amber, if you do not trust me to tell your secrets, I'm not sure who you will be able to tell things. I think that because you and I are together now, you need to tell me about things like your past kisses and all that happened around it, because otherwise I am always going to wonder, and I want to trust you..." He looks closely at her
"So, what exactly did you have to do that they gave you so much money for it?"
>>157570She looks frightened by what he said.
"Please don't think I don't trust you. I was told never ever to speak about it, and if it got out that I told anypony I might get hurt, maybe you too. But trust me when I say I didn't hurt anypony, and I didn't do anything really wrong."
>>157571"Can you at least tell me about the kiss again in more detail? I had danced with you just an hour before, and we had a good time. Then I left you alone for the night, that was at like midnight, and then you came to my house afternoon the next day, and I find out later you had kissed someone."
>>157573"Did you uh... You've never done anything else - kisses, hugs, what we did, anything else - with
any other pony? Even when you were younger... Even times you don't want to remember or wish didn't happen...?"
>>157575"At least you knew his name..." He says
"I'm sorry Amber. I'm sorry you didn't get your first kiss to be with someone you actually liked, and I wish you could have made a more- a more informed decision the first time you became even more intimate with... a colt. So you at least knew what you were doing and what you were getting into."
He takes a hoof, moves over, and rubs behind her ear.
>>157576She smiles weakly at his rubbing.
"It's okay. I don't have any regrets about being with you."
>>157577"If, uh... If you would like to not do those things together, I won't be mad. So long as you'll stay with me."
>>157579Despite having already committed to walking along the road, Mustard Trim stops to play with Amber's mane, trying to stand up (or sit, if movement permits) and place his hooves in her mane.
"It's the part of the day I look forward to the most." he says
>>157580She stops and lets him play with her mane, smiling back at him.
"Hehe, it is a lot of fun, and I love being with you."
>>157581Mustard Trim sits down, and runs his hooves along different parts of her mane, picking it up, and letting the hairs roll off and fall down the edge of his hoof.
"It is, and I love being with you. I thought I needed to tell you that my father and mother always told my sister never to do anything more than kissing with a stallion until he gave her a ring and made her a promise. But if you feel okay doing it then that's okay. Personally, I wish we could do it more often."
>>157582Those auburn hairs look darker in the dim light, but her smile remains bright.
"Your folks ain't wrong, and I bet my folks wouldn't even permit kissing 'till then. But…we've already crossed that threshold, so why stop now? Whenever I'm around you I feel a little different, more tingly and excited."
>>157583If Amber had any hopes of having a straight, non-tangled mane, her hopes are quickly and thoroughly dashed. Mustard, once again, ruffles Amber’s mane.
When this is done, he leans forward and wraps his hives around Amber’s neck in a hug.
“Would you still have done it?” He asks
>>157584hives?Her mane was already a bit tangled from earlier, but she giggles at what he does.
"Hard to say…but I think I would have. You're just too special."
>>157585Legs. ReeeeeeeHe huggles the little filly, moving her side to side.
>>157587He pulls away, smiling embarrassed, and asks in a low voice,
“What did you do with the money?”
>>157589“What were you going to do? Live without a bed?”
>>157591He frowns
“I guess that’s pretty frugal living. How much of it do you have left?”
>>157593“Uh, do I need to help you get back home?” He asks
>>157595“Oh, okay. I can buy you a cab back . It’s okay.”
>>157597“Uh, okay…”
He looks around, side to side.
“You… think you can do something like that again? I mean, not like that, but, I mean, do you think you can make money quickly like that again?”
>>157599“But you want to look for money in… treasure hunts?”
>>157601“Uh, like what? What excitement do you want?”
>>157603“Uh, well I guess some of that is appealing.” He says
>>157605“Oh, okay. I thought that maybe you wanted to go look for missing treasures, or abandoned buildings, or stuff.”
>>157607"Well, I know of some stories I heard back in Blackwater. And colts talk of things in school. So uh, maybe."