Walking out through the snowy fields in a cloudy morning, Luke saw a line of trees not far from him. Snow was still falling from the cloudy sky, but he was okay with and didn’t really care about the continuous, falling flakes landing on him. At last, he found a lone tree not too far from him, and decided to have a seat under it.
He honestly didn’t know what to think of this unexpected love for Fluttershy. A small touch of crimson read appeared on his cheeks, both with a feeling of fuzziness within him and the other half with humiliation.
“Oh come on, man!” He said to himself. “A Human and a pony together? That’s pretty goddamn stupid.” Then he decided to throw a few snowballs in a short distance just for the heck of it. “What the hell am I thinking?” He scolded himself. “Sure, Fluttershy is a sweet and kind pony, not to mention adorable, but falling in love with her?” And the young Human made a small growl of frustration.
Another thing that worried him was that what if Fluttershy found out about this and felt absolutely disgusted because they are very different species.
“I can imagine what the kids would look like.” And then Luke paused “Ah! What am I thinking? That would violate so many laws of nature.” Deciding to throw more snowballs into the distance, he was thinking of ways on how not to be so in love with Fluttershy and like her as a good friend.
So far, he honestly didn’t know what to do. At least, he wasn’t suffering from lovesickness. Man oh man, how much of a mess Luke would be if he was lovesick.
“Okay, Okay, maybe some awesome tunes should help me get my mind off this bull crap.” Pulling out his iPod, he was trying to find a good song that didn’t involve romance or a boyfriend/girlfriend type of themes.
All of a sudden, he remembered hearing about the Ponyville Winter Fair. Hearths Warming was Equestria’s defenition Of Christmas. Fluttershy has been a really good friend to him ever since he arrived here from his wish. Thinking deeper into his thoughts, he realized that if he was going to get rid of these love nonsense, he would have to admit it to her personally.
“Maybe... it wouldn’t be so bad.” He jumped to conclusions. “Yeah, maybe being a boyfriend and girlfriend as a different species isn’t so bad. And besides, couples don’t have to have kids if they don’t want any. That way we wouldn’t have to violate so many laws of nature.”
At last, maybe this wouldn’t be so bad after all. Still, he had some feelings of doubt about this crazy, yet romantic idea. He got back up and decided to go walk around the snowy fields some more. It was a very peaceful wonderland, nothing but snow falling and the sound of the wind rustling against him.
It was all reminding him of Bend back home. Snow falling endlessly from the sky was certainly relaxing and felt magical every time he would experience it, and didnt’t even care about how cold it was, unless of it was a blizzard of course. Luke hardly doubt that a blizzard would come his way and enjoyed this weather, and it wasn’t like he would suffer from hypothermia, for he was wearing his warm clothes.
Without noticing, he saw a few elk prancing near him, one bull and two does. Luke heard the the male bugling at the top of it’s voice, and it kinda irritated him for it an elk bugle can be quite ear-piercing. He decided to go farther away from the elks so he wouldn’t have to listen to the rather annoying mating call.
A thought cam to him and realized “Hey, the Ponyville Winter Fair is coming soon. Why not try to get Fluttershy to love me then?” And the feelings of uncertainty came back to him a little bit. He kicked a small pile of snow in frustration, trying to let go of his negative feelings and emotions.
He definitely felt like staying away from Fluttershy for a little while, just to get these silly thoughts out of his system. Thinking again, he thought that maybe he should do something very nice for her on the upcoming festival and holiday.
“Yeah, maybe I can give her something so special and breathtaking, it will make her the most grateful girl in the world. But what?” Then he began creating a snow angel to help create some ideas of a perfect Hearth’s Warming present for her.
Luke made a total of twenty snow angels already, and yet not even a single good idea cake to him.
Wandering about any good ideas some more. Another ten mi utes have passed, yet still nothing interesting came to his brain. “Okay Luke think, what is the most thing Fluttershy loves more than anything else in this world? Maybe... a puppy? Nah, Fluttershy already has some critter friends at him already.
And he began pacing to and fro around a small portion of the field of snow. Indeed Fluttershy has more animals friends in her cottage than she can bargain for, and the human didn’t want to make it a little more difficult for her.
“Okay.... what else does she like?” He wondered. “A cruise line?” He thought, and he had another look of uncertainty. “Too expensive, way to steep for me.” He realized. He thought of more ideas, and decided to go look around a few more parts of this area outside of Ponyville he didn’t explore.
So many beautiful sceneries included many bushes and shrubs covered in the sparkling white snow, and the same with some pine trees. Luke had a very big curiosity since he had autism, and always had a thing for exploring many wonderous areas that he has never dreamed of looking at before. Exploring and sightseeing kinda runs in his family after all.
“Ah, this dandelion here is still it one piece.” He noticed the lone flower sprouting from the freezing ground. Luke decided to pick it up and sniff it, and softly blew on the florets, making them fly off into the distance. “I just wish there was some way I can make a Fluttershy love me and we can be together as soul mates.”
He decided to have apenough of this exploring, and wanted to go back to the cottage for a nice hot cup of hot chocolate with some marshmallows in the cup. He rubbed his hands together to keep them warm in a rapid movement, and opened the door. He saw Fluttershy sitting on the couch enjoying so,e hot chocolate while having a blanket wrapped around her.
“Oh Luke. There you are. I was worried about you. Are you ok?”
“Of course. I just felt like going for a little walk out there. Nothing to worry about.” Luke clarified. Then he took off his fleece jacket, and gloves then put them next to the door. “Right now, I can really use some cocoa right now.”
“What were you doing out there exactly? I mean, you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.”
“Nah, it’s fine.” Luke shrugged. “Anyway, how you holding up the freezing temperature?"
She made that cute, adorable little smile on her precious little face. "Of course. I got a blanket and hot chocolate to help me with that. Oh, and not to mention the fireplace, too."
"Good."
"Aren't you cold, Luke?"
"No, i'm so used to this kind of weather. I might have said this to you before, but in Bend, winters can be pretty freezing where I come from. I even had to get some heavy snow off the roof with a shovel.
Fluttershy couldn't help but giggle. "That's a little funny."
"Yeah, and sometimes we would get snowed in from time to time. But I would just cope with it most days and break out the candles in case the power went out. Besides, when that happens, it kinda feels like camping."
"That does sound fun." Fluttershy remarked softly.
"Yep. Anyway, do you need anything from the farmer's market?"
"Hmmm..... I think I need a few more apples and some other fruit for later."
"I can get them for you." Luke said. "But I don't think that the fields can sustain the cold weather to produce things like apples, watermelons, or strawberries."
"I'm pretty sure that they were all picked before Winter came. Applejack did say that she and her family picked a whole lot of apples before the pegasus ponies created the snow clouds."
"Alright. I might go down there later on and see what's in stock in the stalls." Luke said, taking a sip of his own hot chocolate.
"Thank you Luke. I knew I can always count on you. Just don't try and catch a cold now."
"I know we're hat i'm doing." Luke remarked with a smirk.
Luke decided to go down to Ponyville for a little produce shopping for Fluttershy like he promised her and hoped that there would be some produce picked out before this hard weather came.
Still, he couldn't get his mind on his little crush on Fluttershy. It was starting to drive him nuts.
Walking down the path, he saw a gyrfalcon with a beautiful, white plumage eating a dead pigeon since they are a falcon's favorite meal. Luke wanted to feel sorry for the dead bird, but he knew that the falcon was only following it's instincts.
Some instincts in many animals are too strong to control. After all. Luke couldn't help but take a few pictures of it woth his Samsung galaxy phone, then the gyrfalcon looked at him.
It didn't really do anything but stare at the lone human, and tilted its head from time to time. The black, beady eyes it had made it rather adorable to look at.
Luke waved at the majestic avian and then then tried to get a little closer to it. To do that, he had to take a few slow, baby steps to not frighten it or scare it away.
It was so far so good for him, for he was five feet away from the gyrfalcon. And took a few more pictures at his beautiful appearance. Without warning. The gyrfalcon mare a few chirping sounds and continued eating the dead pigeon he was perching on.
Wanting to give the bird of prey some space to respecy his privacy, he slowly backed away from the gyrfalcon to let him continue eating his lunch.
"That was was cool." Luke thought to himself. Then he continued walking down the road to Ponyville for his little errands to run for his closest Equestrian friend
He made it in town and saw that the inhabitants were still wearing their winter garments, he wouldn't really blame them since the temperatures out here were freezing right now.
"On the upside, there are no blizzards and it is not like Greenland or Antarctica. Heh, that would be unbearable, hell, I bet they would suffer from blizzards twenty-four seven. At least we have all four seasons in the year."
The farmer's market was not so busy, but it did have a few lines in many stalls. He decided to get some watermelons first, then a few lemons for himself, and finally purchased a few apples from Applejack and Big Mac.
It was just at the moment, Luke was thinking lovey-dovey thouguts about Fluttershy again and was caught in an awkward standstill.
"Uhhh Luke, you're kinda holding up a line there." Said Applejack.
Luke snapped out of his thoughts and said "Sorry Aj, I was just thinking."
"About what?"
"I.... don't really like to talk about it." Luke replied uncomfortably.
"Everything alright?"
"Yeah everything's fine." Luke lied. "Anyway, I have to go." He payed for the apples and left in quite a hurry.
Applejack and Big Mac didn't know what to think of this honestly. Still, they had a job to do at the stall and decide to wait until they were all finished and get off work.
"That was weird, big brother." Applejack said to him
"Eeyup. Should we be concerned about this?" Asked the big red stallion.
"Later, don't wanna leave these ponies empty-hooved, right?"
"Nope. True that. Granny Smith would kill us of she saw we were shirking our duties." And both siblings continued selling the apples.
Meanwhile, Luke decided to go sit down on a bench, and felt a little embarrassed for what he just did back there at the apple stall.
"Man, I almost blew it on that one, goddammit." And he made a small growl, barring some of his teeth.
"Luke?" Said a voice. It was Pip and Spike along with Lyra, Bon Bon, Cloudchaser, Flitter, Thunderlane, and Rumble. "Is everything alright?"
"Yeah, just fine Pip. Why?"
"Because yoy look like something's stressing you out." The mint green unicorn pointed.
"And you're eye is kinda twitching." Cloudchaser pointed. It made Luke even more embarrassed and tried to stop his little twitching problem.
"I am not twitching!" He said defensively. "Nothing has ever psyched me into twitching."
The others were not very convinced. "Luke," said Thunderlane suspiciously.
Realizing he can't hide it from another group of friends besides the mane six, Luke finally said "alright. You guys would laugh at me for it, so go ahead and do it when I told you about it."
"What is it?" Spike asked curiously
Luke took a breath and finally said "I think I am in love with Fluttershy. There, I said it, go ahead and laugh at my pain.
The others didn't know what to think, for they were all a little stunned by what the human just said to them.
"You love her?"
"Yes." Luke replied begrudgingly. "I know it's completely srupid, but it's true."
"Ah Luke. We don't think it's dumb. It's rather.... cute." Spike said with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah right." The human doubted.
"Why is that a bad thing?" Asked Flitter in confusion.
"Because me and Fluttershy are different species. I'm a human, she's a pegasus pony. It will never work, and it would violate soany laws of nature."
"Okay, that is kind of a fair point." Said Bon Bon
"But it's okay if you're in love with Fluttershy." Cloudchaser added
"That's easy for you to say." Said Luke with doubt. "Cloudchaser, you're not a human like I am and take a look at me. I'm practically the only human in Equestria right now."
"Fine, you are the only human, but it doesn't mean yoy are a weirdo." Said Pip
"Yeah, why don't you just talk to Fluttershy and tell her how you feel?" Lyra said.
"Because she'll think i'm a freak for admitting love to her. She will think u am weird and wouldn't want to be my friend anymore and call me creepy."
"That's crazy talk." Said Rumble. "Okay, fine you guys might not work, but it's okay if you feel like this."
"My brother's right." Thunderlane agreed. "We're toy planning on telling her some time?"
"Well... there was the Ponyville Winter Fair, that's what I was thinking."
"There you go." Said Lyra.
"Look. If you want to talk to us more about this, you can talk to any one of us." Spike said.
"Thanks guys. As a matter of fact, maybe u should talk to Twilight about this right now." Then he went to the castle and the other couldn't help but follow him there as well just to make sure he was alright.