You all know the drill: I do not own My Little Pony and any other trademarked entities within these chapters.
Sunshine watched as Twilight slipped out of the door and back into the chilly afternoon. She couldn’t wait, but she knew she had to. It was going to take all of her mental capabilities to keep herself focused. Wrenching her unfocused eyes from the door she began to turn around before running head first into her boss. Fortunately he wasn’t holding any letters, or heavy miscellaneous objects. “Oh Sorry Sir! I wasn’t looking.” But all he did was chuckle.
“Oh don’t you fret Sunshine, it’s quite fine. I do remember how everything within a mile radius of my love stricken form managed to find its way to the floor, Oh how I was carelessly in love.” Gorge said in a dreamy manner. He was a tall Pegasus, and rather well built. Ponies generally thought that delivering mail was not a very strenuous job, but you’d be surprised. When Gorge meant instant delivery, he literally meant instant delivery. It kept him in shape, and entertained, not to mention competitive. He speed matched Rainbow Dashes but he didn’t have the aerodynamically perfect body as she did, but he was happy to settle for second being a mail mare and all. But he was not only fast but very observant, and he had managed to catch Sunshine in the act. “Don’t give me that look dear, I know you little secret. Don’t worry its same with me, but I’m interested. For how long?” he cocked an eyebrow.
“Umm...well...Hehehe, 3 months sir.” This was not a line of conversation she ever thought she’d be having with her boss of all ponies.
“Wow, you’re quite the fox eh? I remember it took me just over a year to get a date with Apple Strudel... And boy did our first date go well. I remember it like it was yesterday.” Gorge was quite the, how do you say “care free” type. But he could see Sunshine blushing; it was something he always loved to see in his wife.
“Well, I... really sir... Oh! No sir, it isn’t a date.” Te hell with that, it is a date you moron! She was scratching her hoof against the ground shyly. She didn’t want her boss getting the wrong idea about her.
“Oh? I’m pretty sure somepony asking you to come by their place to do anything counts as a date, even if it is reading.” He was wiggling his eyebrows in a comedic fashion; he was intent on getting sunshine to laugh, and you could never go wrong with the eyebrow trick. She was ever so close to a full fit of giggles.
“How much did you hear sir?” She whispered softly.
“Everything my dear Sunshine, I’m sure you’ll be happy spending the rest of you days with a librarian.” If I were to say that he didn't have the concealment skill of a ninja I’d be laying, not really. A large pile of boxes doesn’t really count.
“Well, um...everything...thank you sir...please don’t tell anypony else please.”
“Your secret is safe with me, and honestly it’s about time you found yourself a mare that will help you take care of Dinky. You’re a great mother, but you can’t do it alone.” He winked as he trotted out of the storage room. And Sunshine did know it wasn't easy juggling her work and Dinky, with Twilight all her problems just magiked themselves away. This all most seemed fitting, Twilight being the element of magic and all. Now Sunshine had to find a way to keep herself busy for the rest of the afternoon, she finished her daily routine so fast just be meet twilight now she had nothing else to do. She could always go and check if any new letters had been dropped off. Which to her enduring boredom there were none, ponies didn’t write that fast. Oh what to do...what to do... She truly had no idea. Well nothing that kept her at work and not thinking about twilight, so she did what she always did when she was bored and Dinky was at school. She went to sugar cube corner.
Some clouds had returned when Sunshine had left the post office, it was approximately 1:30 in the afternoon. She had three hours to kill. Walking down the road she noticed that the town had gotten rather busy, ponies were out and about fully dressed in the weirdest get ups. But ponyville was a ski town, the mountains nearby did leave for a lot of fun in the snow. Sunshine and dinky were planning to go up next week before winter wrap up. And she hoped she could get twilight to come. Oh but what will dinky think of her? She couldn’t hate her could she? Sunshine began to fret, she had forgotten about Dinky, but now that she remembered, what her daughter would think of her marefriend. Would she hate her? Sunshine played out all the most horrible scenes in her mind, truly believing that once her daughter found out, it would be the end of a relationship that had barely gotten off the ground. Now she really needed to have a few muffins.
Knowing Pinkie Pie, she would have sensed her and Twilights “intimacy” ages before it happened and was secretly planning a surprise party for just the right time. Sunshine was all for surprise parties but, now that she was in the spotlight it didn’t seem all that attractive. Didn’t Pinkie Pie realize that not everypony would approve of her choice. Well there wasn’t much Sunshine could do, once Pinkie Pie caught a whiff of a growing relationship, there was nothing anyone could do to stop her. Something that made her loveable and despised at the same time. Sunshine neared the shop, in dire need of a few blueberry muffins.
She opened the door, fully expecting everything to be normal sans surprise. Which was exactly what she saw, she blew a sigh of relief. She had to take it slow, don’t scare her of like...him.... “SUNSHINE! How are ya? Oooh you’re here for the new muffins right? I knew you would! I said you’d be here right after I pulled them out of the oven and you weren’t so I got down but I knew you would come so that turned upside down and now your hear I can finally get some closer on who makes the best extra spicy muffins this side of Equestria. That witch living in that gingerbread house has some competition and who better to judge than the master of muffins!” Her demeanor was contagious and Sunshine couldn’t help but smile, Pinkie Pie really did know how to cook a good muffin, not as well as herself but she didn’t have time to cook all day.
“Okay, I’ll try one of those then... But they’re not from that wired machine you keep in the closet right? You remember what happened last time right?” Every pony did, Sunshine shivered just thinking about it. Never had bubbles seemed so dull.
“Silly Sunshine! Those are cupcakes!” She didn’t seem fazed at all as she bounced back to the counter with a tray of muffins resting upon her fluffy mane. She set them on the counter and placed two of them on a plate. They certainly looked appetizing, they were a bright blue hue specked with what Sunshine could only guess were the chili and a purple frosting. Sunshine’s mind blanked, and then filled to the brim with the color purple. She knew she was couldn’t stop thinking about her, but if she did she’d go crazy. “Sunshine? Helllllloooooooooooo pinkie to muffin master?”
“Huh? Oh right, the muffins” She picked one up and threw it in like it was a gumdrop, a technique that allows for the most critical of tasting. She chewed and chewed, pinkie pie was on edge the whole time. By that I mean squealing and bouncing round the shop in anticipation. As soon as she swallows her eyes cross (more than they usually do) and she cracks a voice that would put the royal Canterlot voice to shame “PERFECT!” then she fainted, being able to shame the royal Canterlot voice took a lot out of her, plus those muffins were truly spicy. The last thing she saw before she went under was a vision of dinky lying next to Twilight. As she passed under the blanket of unconscious she smiled.
Aaaah! How come we only have five books on dating?!? I thought we had more!” Twilight had dropped everything the minute she had entered the library and began reading every book the library had on dating, romance (not novels, she already read all those) and relationships. But 5 weren’t enough, she knew she had more and she intended to become as ready as possible for this afternoon. “Spike! Did anypony check anything out while I was gone?”
“Not that I know of!” He lied of course because he had the missing books; Twilight wasn’t the only one in a relationship.
“Ugghhhh, where could they be?!? Sunshine will be here any minute!”
“Wait? You mean the mail mare Derpy?”
“She hates that name! I don’t want to hear it ever again, understand!”
“Okay geez, why are you in such a fit? And what do you mean she’ll be here any minute. Didn’t you all ready get the mail?” He questioned her as he descended the steps to the main hall. “Whoa! What’s with this mess twilight? I didn’t hear Rainbow Dash come by.”
“Um, no reason.... Hey, that’s rude....and undeniably true.” It was, the only thing twilight got out of a visit from Dash was a mess.
“Well yea, its Rainbow Dash. And what do you mean for no reason, is that why you have all these books out? Are you going on a date? With the mail mare?!?” Spike suddenly felt as if his food had found the emergency eject button. With a will of steel he managed to suppress it saving a whole row of Prance literature.
“Hey! What’s wrong with going out on a date? You do it all the time? And so what If I like the mail mare she’s beautiful and there’s nothing you can say that will stop me! At least that’s what the books say’s I should act like in the face of “haters”. What kind of pony has the time to think up that kind of jargon?” She slowed her advance on the purple dragon, indeed what kind of pony had the time to think up such weird words.
“Whoa! Whoa! How did you know I was dating somepony?!? And no I don’t have a problem with that, you’re like my sister Twilight, as long as your happy I’m not the one to complain.” If a dragon could look sincere and utterly dumfounded he would be the definition of it. But alas, dragons have not the facial complexion to carry more than one emotion at a time. This has been cause for many wars, until dragon scientist gave up on trying to make hair growth serums for dragons (that is also not possible). Just so you know, Spike looked dumbfounded.
“Really spike, I’ve raised you from an egg. You really think I don’t know what goes on in that scaly brain of yours? Thanks Spike that means a lot.” She smiled, but her eyes said “Gotcha!”
“But, I... you’re always...”
“Asleep? Maybe but Apple Jack isn’t spike, and playing concerned mother figure to get information out of her is rather easy. Being the element of honesty you’d think she’d be able to pick up on it easier.”
“Please don’t tell Rarity! It’ll break her heart!” Spike was on his knee’s begging, pleading his little dragon hear out.
“Spike, I think she’ll be more than happy that you're in love with Applebloom than sad, but I’m sure she’ll be happy to know you’ll always have place for her in your heart. But how goes it with her?”
“Better than I could have ever asked for, wait hey! That’s not something you’ll find out!” He backed up the stairs, not in any mood to let twilight in on his love life. But he was going to find out about hers. a sly smile cracked on his face.
“Hey...what’s with the smile?
“Soooooo when’s she coming over?”
“Four, urp!”
“Hehehe, Apple jacks not the only one who lets info out easy.” That smile just grew. “Don’t worry, I’ll be out of you mane. I’m going to visit the apples if you know what I mean.” Twilight was shocked; maybe she didn’t know him that well. Spike walked out the building leaving Twilight no less confused than she was before. And the worst part, it was 3:45. The mess! She needed to get in fixed up! But she was far too late.
“Twilight? Are you in? ummm...” Uh-oh.... come on twilight you can do this!
“Sunshine?” she called as she descended the stairs, fearing the worst.
“Were....were you reading these?” Sunshine was staring at The dummies guide to dating, it was a very informative guide. But it had nothing about the current situation that twilight was currently in.
“ye..yeah, here let me get them, the floors no place for books.” She snapped the 5 books close and began levitating them to the shelves. They easily slid into their respective places, all except one. Twilight turned to see where it had gone only to find it was under Sunshine’s grasps, she was holding “True love: with anypony”. A book which delved specifically into the nature of how love has no bounds and that loving anypony stallion or mare is more than natural. Twilight felt as if Sunshine had grabbed this one on purpose, which was true.
“Can...Can we read this?” She turned her head slightly making her thousands of times more adorable. Twilight’s heart exploded, numerous times.
“Yea...if you want to that is...” They were acting like fillies, they both knew how each other felt but they couldn’t tell each other. Come on twilight, out with it! They both lay on their belies with the book between them. Then Twilight, feeling the warm heat radiating off Sunshine, made her move. Her heart was in her throat; massive amounts of nervous energy ran rampant through her body. Just laying next to Sunshine was making her lose her mind, “Ditsy... there’s something I want to tell you...”
“Me too Twilight.”
“Okay...I’ll go first then.” Twilight felt as if was about to burst, her blood pressure was hitting critical levels. And the only way she was going to survive was by telling her...Here goes nothing... “I...I really like your mane.” Whoops! “I...I mean I do like your mane, it’s beautiful and it smells really really good but I meant to say...” As she turned to face Sunshine she could see that her wings were fully extended and that she had a huge grim plastered across her face, Twilight could only make one conclusion to this. But before she could say anything more she was cut off as Sunshine threw herself at Twilight and gave her a massive, passionate kiss. Sunshine was barely standing muzzle in Twilights hoof just shy of her heaving chest, Twilights were legs completely limp in shock of what was happening. Twilight couldn’t believe what was happening, her eyes started out completely open but as the kiss lengthened she began to get into it more and her eyes closed to a shut.
After what seemed a century of pure bliss, twilight broke the kiss. Completely out of breath she just lay there staring into the clear, focused eyes that stared back at hers. She couldn’t put a hoof on it but she knew that this was love. All the symptoms pointed to it, racing pulse, shortness of breath and the irresistible urge to plant another big one on Sunshine’s lips. Which she did, and again and again. After five minutes of pure kissing and a few appearances of the tongues both mares were completely exhausted. Sunshine was the first to recover; she turned to face Twilight “For a mare that never gets out, you are is quite the kisser twilight sparkle.” She smiled and planted a peck on twilight’s cheeks.
“I...really? I mean books don’t count do they?” she smiled shyly.
“Yes you are, and no they do not Twilight. I’d almost say you were a natural, born to kiss me.” Born to kiss Sunshine? I’m fine with that. A soft giggle escaped her as she rolled over and began to get up. “Where are you going beautiful?
“To get the book we were going to read, we can’t be forgetting our date can we?” She trotted over to the door where she had left the books when she returned to the library in haste to find out as much about dating and love as possible. It turned out all that knowledge really wasn’t necessary, no...That’s not right, knowledge is always necessary. And in fact it was because of books that she was now with the most amazing mare she could ever imagine. She owed her whole life and now her love to books, you really can’t go wrong with books.
She retrieved the book, was exactly where she had left it. Lifting it over to where Sunshine was laying she simultaneously put the other book away remembering where she put it. Who knows it may come in handy later. She set the book down and opened it to the first page, and then she lay down right next to Sunshine leaning against her and nuzzling her neck. If she was to spend the rest of eternity like this she would love every second of it.
Dear my faithful student Twilight sparkle... “No no no! Not good enough!” Celestia crumpled the paper and magically chucked it at the mountainous pile of crumpled scrolls in the corner. She had spent the last hour trying to write a letter to Twilight Sparkle, and it wasn’t going very well at all. She just couldn’t bring herself to get it out, no matter how formal it looked or how casually she wrote it. No writing style made it any easier writing. And she wasn’t even trying to tell Twilight how she felt, she just wanted to invite her to visit, Is it really that hard! You’ve ruled these lands for many millennia, seen things that would make any pony go mad. You’ve banished your own sister to the moon yet you cannot bring yourself to write a very simple letter to your student?!? “UGH!” She let lose a bout of frustrating energy as she flopped back on to her bed. Why was she so scared, there wasn’t even anything suggestive in the letter (that was for later).
“Tia? Are you...wow! that’s quite the paper mountain you have going there, are you trying for a world record?” Celestia sighed, she really didn’t have time for Luna’s antics.
“What do you want now sister, come to make fun of me again?” Ever since Luna had found out about her feelings for Twilight she hadn’t stopped teasing her.
“Me? I would never sister” she giggled trying to act innocent.
“Really? Because that’s not you said yesterday.” Luna sighed, she really only wanted help this time.
“Sister, I meant none of it. I’m sorry if I offended you, but you look like you could use some help here.”
“It’s okay Luna, it’s all just very frustrating. How am I even supposed to start this letter?”
“Sister, I’ve been gone for a thousand years. I didn’t even know how to talk when I first met ponyville remember? I can imagine writing a letter now involves more than just a simple hi, how are you? Good? Okay then bye.”
“More than you can imagine, come here. You might learn a thing or two.” She gestured to the empty spot next to her on the bed. Luna trotted over to the bed side and laid next to her sister, who had begun her next letter.
“You can say more than just greetings?” It was going to be a long day.
Author’s notes:
Well I must say writing this has been a very interesting experience. I hope you guys like reading this as much as I like writing it.