Why Not Both?  
by RestartBob
 

 
Mercury cuddles with her Cloudy marefriend while longing for a suggestively posed filly. I was intending Gemshine to not have her Mark as of yet. When the story takes place, they are both in high school, though she is younger. When she is relevant to the plot she is “young and innocent”.  

 
Good enough. I attempted to do a background, but none of them were good enough So this will have to do. It has all of the characters and things and I tried to do the drawing things, and things and things.  
It’s a temporary cover image at least. Eventually a background might get finished, or a better drawing. I don’t know. But, it’s definitely better than the first attempt so that is something.
 
 
Relationship with the First  
I always longed to be with somepony, but I am really bad at relationships. I had clumsily attempted to find love before, but it didn’t work. Nopony wanted the sad pony… until one really did.  
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One day, some filly began to talk to me. She would say “Hi” when I saw her every other day, as I was walking home from school. The filly didn’t go to my school, or seem to have any reason to talk to me, so at first it was a bit odd, but soon it became the norm.  
She was nice, even though we didn’t have a lot in common. The times I tried to continue a conversation with her after the initial greeting would often end up in an awkward silence before parting ways.  
After a month or so of contact with her, she let slip that her friend, a classmate of mine, “liked” me. I couldn’t believe that anyone would be interested in me, so I started to talk with the mare that appare