A short time after Lumpy and Fluttershy had arrived at Fluttershy's cottage, they decided to rest in her bed together. They mostly wanted to keep each other company while they were recovering from their colds. Besides, Fluttershy really wanted to make it up to Lumpy for accidentally sneezing on him, so she tried to be as nice and kind to him as she could.

"Haah..." Fluttershy started to inhale again, tilting her head slightly back. For the umpteenth time today, her nose had started itching from her cold. She tried to hold her sneeze in by putting her front hoof under her nose. "Aaahh... Haaaaaah..." Her nose was really itchy, however, so she moved her hoof down to her mouth as she prepared to release the sneeze. "...chu. Aaaaah... choo..."

Even after two sneezes, her nose still itched slightly. Fluttershy removed her hoof from her mouth and started rubbing her nose gently, trying not to make herself sneeze again. She looked over to the side of her and saw Lumpy looking at her, apparently surprised. She blushed in response.

"Excuse be..." she said, politely.

"It's all right," Lumpy said. "It's just that you have wud of the cutest sdeezes I have ever heard. Especially cobpared to bide."

Fluttershy blushed in response, but otherwise took it as a compliment. "Aw, thadk you," she replied.

A short time after she said that, Lumpy's nose started to twitch again, and his nostrils started to flare up. He sniffled a few times, but that didn't seem to do any good. He then began to inhale, tilting his neck farther back with every gasp he took.

"Ah... Aaaahhhh... Aaaaaaaahhhhhh..." Lumpy brought up his hand and rubbed his nose, but it didn't work. He quickly switched to holding his forefinger under his nose, but that also didn't stop the sneeze. He didn't manage to see Fluttershy looking concerned for him. A few seconds afterward, he gave in, removed his finger from his nose, and took a final inhale, tilting his neck as far back as possible before the release.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Lumpy shot his neck forwards as he unleashed a huge, loud sneeze that released a good amount of mucus from his nostrils. Fluttershy had to put her hooves over her ears to keep from hearing the sneeze, but it was no use. Lumpy recovered from the sneeze, but almost immediately afterward, his nose started twitching again. Apparently, that huge sneeze didn't provide enough relief. Lumpy prepared to sneeze again, but this time, the buildup was much shorter than before. "Aaaaaahhh... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH..."

"CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! AAAAHHHHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOO! AaaaaAAAAHHHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

By the time Lumpy had finished sneezing a rare triple, his nostrils were flowing with mucus. He raised his forefinger back to his nose as he reached his other hand to the tissue box on the end table close to him. He pulled out a few tissues, and then blew his nose loudly onto them, causing Fluttershy to cringe. Once he had finished, he removed the tissues from his nose, only to reveal several strings of mucus from his nostrils connecting to the tissues. It took him a few seconds to realize this, but then he started wiping his nose, clearing the mucus from the outside of his nose. Then he put the tissues down on the blanket over him, sniffled and rubbed his nose on his forefinger again.

"Bless you," Fluttershy said.

"Thadks," Lumpy responded and sniffled once more. He just couldn't help it; his nose was running constantly. "And sorry about that."

"It's... it's okay, Lubpy," Fluttershy said. "I just... couldn't believe that you could sdeeze like that, or that buch..."

"I dow."

Lumpy reached over to the tissue box that was closest to him, but realized that since his minor sneezing fit earlier, he had finished using the entire box. He lowered the blanket that was covering him and sat on the side of the bed.

"I'b godda get sub bore tissues. You deed adything?"

"No, thadk you."

It took him a few seconds, but Lumpy managed to gather enough energy to get out of bed. He slowly walked over to the door, opened it and left the room, leaving Fluttershy alone in her bed.

Lumpy sniffled repeatedly as he made his way through the hall until he arrived at the bathroom. He opened the door and turned on the light, but the rays from the lamps on the ceiling immediately reached his face, causing his nose to itch.

"Aaaaah... AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH..." Lumpy hastily looked around, but managed to find the tissue box close to the sink. He quickly pulled out a tissue and held it in front of his nose as he sneezed again. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Ugh." Lumpy sniffled and blew his nose before throwing the used tissue into the trash can. Rubbing his nose, he looked under the sink to find some extra tissue boxes, waiting to be opened and used. He pulled out a couple and walked out of the bathroom, making sure to turn off the light.

By the time Lumpy had returned to the bedroom where Fluttershy was, she was building up to a sneeze. She was holding the last tissue from her own tissue box and waiting for the sneeze to escape from her body.

"Haaaaah..." Fluttershy took a single inhale, and then made sure to cover her muzzle with the tissue that she had been holding. "...choo." She then blew her nose quietly onto it, and then removed it from her face. She brought up a hoof to wipe off any excess mucus from her nose.

"Aw. Bless you," Lumpy said, sounding almost like he was in love, as he walked up to her and placed one of the unused tissue boxes on her end table. He then went to his side to put the other unused tissue box on the end table close to his side.

"Oh, Lubpy, thadk you so buch. You are a true fred." Fluttershy smiled and blushed at him.

"No probleb," Lumpy said as he got back into bed with Fluttershy.