A few moments in life are vital, they can make or break how your relationship with another developes.
These are those few moments, that over the years lead up to the royal couple of Shining Armour and Princess Cadence

Twilight has always wanted a big sister, Cadence has always wanted a little sister, now thanks to each other their wishes can finally come true. A new adventure in every chapter!

Twilight is called in by Cadance to translate some old books in the Crystal Empire's library. To Twilight's chagrin, Cadance takes the opportunity to try and put her together with Flash Sentry. Twilight is left with no choice but to confront her feelings towards the guardspony.

(Cover art courtesy of Deviant Art member Coolez.)

Princess Twilight Sparkle travels to the Crystal Empire to visit her brother, Cadance, and their new foals, Il Bolero di Fuoco (better known as Bolero), and Gleaming Shield. When her train ends up derailed due to the snowstorm, she ends up somehow trapped in an ice cave, in a raging blizzard, with none other than Flash Sentry. Can these two star-and-dimension-crossed lovebirds thaw out the chilly Frozen North with their love, or are they doomed to freeze to death wandering aimlessly through the snow and hail? When Shining Armour finds out his sister's going out with a royal guard, can he accept it for the love that it is? Or will he totally flip a table?

The song "Vanilla Twilight" belongs to Owl City.

BEFORE ANYPONY ASKS, YES, "IL BOLERO DI FUOCO" MEANS "THE BOLERO OF FIRE" IN ITALIAN. I LIKE TO PLAY ZELDA GAMES, SHUT UP, GO AWAY, IT'S A BADASS NAME FOR A PONY.

We haven't known Shining Armour for an awfully long time, but Twilight grew up with him, and she knows what he's like.

A few points in Twilight's life where she felt down and Shining was there for her, to cheer her up and to convince her that there was nothing to worry about.

Please offer any criticism that you can, please let me know if you see any mistakes in here and please give me suggestions for the tags. I'm always so crap at those...

Twilight is finally old enough to understand Christmas! But when her mother and Cadence tells her that everypony gets presents she has to figure out what everypony needs! Will she be able to get all the presents in time and celebrate her new holiday?

(This fic goes with a headcannon that Equestria has both Christmas AND Hearths Warming Eve! So it will go as a normal Christmas and not like Hearths Warming Eve with the play and such. Enjoy!)

Twilight Sparkle has always cared more about studying than friendships, but what is it about her past that made her so immersed in her studies, to the detriment of her social life?
And why would her mentor, the great Princess Celestia, choose to wait so long before interceding?
After all, her cutie mark represents her talent at magic, not studying.

Based on scenes from the show about Twilight Sparkle's past. If anyone has a better suggestion for her parents names, I'd love to hear them, because I just took the suggestion from the MLP wiki.

Inspired by the cover art (by glittering-pony).

Twilight hated when her teacher did it, but couldn't talk to anypony about it. After all, who would believe her if she said that Princess Celestia – always so refined, graceful and regal – could be even worse than Twily's own mother when it came to grooming? Nopony, that's who.

Except... Cadance might actually surprise her on that one.

An ordinary afternoon at Canterlot's Summer Sun Faire becomes extraordinary when a young filly gets too curious and Princess Cadence experiences every foalsitter's worst nightmare. This is how one Princess discovered there is more to Twilight Sparkle than she ever imagined, and realized she is truly anything but "a regular old unicorn."

EDIT: Featured on Equestria Daily on 12/31/12. It's a New Year's miracle!

What was Twilight's childhood like? Who knows, but here is my take.

This will say complete but i plan to update it every time i get an idea. Doing this because it was a one shot idea i had after reading another story here, but as i started writing it I had some more ideas that would fit the same criteria and didn't want a lot of different stories and would rather have them as chapters in this. So each chapter will more than likely be a self-contained story (unless they are overly long) and there may be 10 chapters or two just depends on if i have inspiration or not.

I only tagged Twilight since she will be the one in all the stories, but all those in her childhood will be there too. So her parents, Shining, Cadence, Spike and Celestia will make appearances throughout.

pic isnt mine, its from M24Designs, check them out

The First Night - Twilight spends her first night in the castle. Monsters may have been present too.

It's My Story and I Can Change It if I Want To - Twilight reads spike her favorite story, it soon becomes his.