Nervous looking white mare trotted down the main street of Ponyville. She kept glancing up on the sky, and earned confused looks from the other ponies around her. She didn't mind about them though, she had something much more important in her mind. She was headed towards one certain pegasus's home.
"I hope he is there," Rarity thought, and kept trotting towards the city hall. There it wouldn't take long for her to reach Thunderlane's home. Rarity looked up again, and tried to see if there would be a black dot soaring on the clear skies above her.
There was only couple of grey pegasies lying on a nearby cloud.
Rarity sighed frustrated, and looked in front of her again. She was almost at the city hall. She saw a cyan pegasus appearing from behind one of the buildings to her right. It was her friend Rainbow Dash. Rarity remembered that she was in the same wonderbolt group with Thunderlane.
"Rainbow Dash!" Rarity shouted and waved at the cyan mare. Rainbow turned towards her, and a small smile formed on her lips. She waved back, and waited for Rarity to reach her before saying with a playful tone: "Sup George?"
Rarity frowned at the dumb nickname Rainbow Dash had given her, but she didn't start to whine at her about it.
"Have you seen Thunderlane? Was he at the practice today?" Rarity asked. Rainbow Dash frowned, when her provocation didn't work. She then noticed Rarity's asking look. She rubbed her forehead, and thought out loud: "He was, but he was acting pretty strangely."
"What do you mean?" Rarity asked, and Rainbow shrugged.
"He was like.. I don't know. Like in his thoughts all the time," Rainbow answered to Rarity, who chuckled sadly. Rainbow suddenly looked at Rarity a bit weirdly.
"Why are you asking anyway?" Rainbow Dash asked, eyeing Rarity with narrowed eyes. Rarity was silent for a second, and then said quietly: "I just have one really important thing to tell him."
Rainbow kept looking at her with a suspicious look on her face, but she then said: "Well that's none of my business."
Rarity was relieved by Rainbow not pushing it any further.
"Do you know where he is?" Rarity asked, and Rainbow rubbed her forehead again.
"I think he spoke about something important he had to do, but I don't know where he went," Rainbow said and looked at Rarity, who drooped her ears. Rainbow saw her friend's anguished expression, and she said, sounding a bit worried: "Umm.. Rarity. Is something wrong?"
Just as Rarity was about to say something, she heard a small thud from behind her, and saw how Rainbow's eyes went wide from surprise as she looked at something behind Rarity. She then looked back at Rarity, and had a confused look on her face. Rarity looked at her with wide eyes, and then started to slowly turn around.
She saw behind her a dark grey, almost black pegasus with ice blue mohawk. Thunderlane had a sad smile on his lips, and his golden eyes had a apologetic look in them. In his mouth was something. Rarity lifted her hoof on her mouth, when she recognized it as a red rose. She looked at the stallion in front of her with wide eyes.
Thunderlane then stepped closer to her, and presented the rose to her. She took it into her blue magical grasp, so that Thunderlane could speak.
He looked at Rarity, and reached his hoof towards her. She did the same and they wrapped their hooves around each other. Rainbow looked at the scene in front of her, dumbstruck by what she was witnessing.
"I'm so sorry Rarity," Thunderlane whispered into her ear. He didn't wait for response, and continued: "I felt so bad after I left.."
"Oh honey.. We both did.." Rarity said, and buried her face to Thunderlane's neck. She rubbed her muzzle against Thunderlane's neck, and said: "I'm terribly sorry too.."
"For what? I was the one being the brick," Thunderlane said, caressing her mane with his muzzle. Rarity sniffed, and leaned a little backwards. She looked at Thunderlane into his golden eyes, and said: "I said that one thing too.."
Thunderlane just smiled to her sadly, and said: "We both did."
They hugged each other tighter, and were there for a moment.
Couple of more ponies had stopped near them to see what was going on. Most of them watched at the two with wide eyes, and mouth open. Rainbow Dash was one of them. She just stared at them two. She thought that it didn't have any sense. Rarity and Thunderlane together. Something didn't seem right there.
"What's going on here? Why is everypony..." she heard a familiar voice from behind her. The voice stopped, and Twilight Sparkle walked next to her. She too had her mouth open, and surprised expression on her face.
"Rarity.. and Thunderlane?" she asked from nopony in special. She didn't wait for response, but Rainbow still answered her: "Yep.."
Thunderlane whispered into Rarity's ear: "Will you forgive me?"
Rarity sniffed again, and looked at Thunderlane. She had small tears in corner of her eyes.
"If you will forgive me," she answered, smiling a little. One single tear started to roll down her cheek. Thunderlane swept it away gently with his hoof. He then said: "Of course I will."
Rarity didn't answer him with words. Instead she pushed herself forward so that their lips touched. They closed their eyes, and sunk into the kiss. Rarity opened her mouth, and Thunderlane followed. His tongue soon met Rarity's, and they danced around his mouth for a while, before Rarity broke the kiss.
They heard some 'awws' from around them, and a small 'boff'. It was followed by Twilight giggling, and Rainbow cursing her wings. Rarity and Thunderlane didn't pay any attention to them.
They stared into each other's eyes, and Rarity felt the tug in her chest again. This time she started to have clues what it might be. She stared into the golden eyes of Thunderlane. He too was starting to realize the true meaning of the strange feeling in him. He stared at the heart stopping beauty in front of him, right into those azure eyes. He leaned closer to Rarity and they pressed their foreheads together.
"I have been getting this strange feeling lately.." Rarity said, and Thunderlane nodded. He then said: "Me too. I couldn't sleep at nights."
"I think I know what it is," Rarity continued, smiling to Thunderlane happily. He smiled back at her, and said: "Yeah.."
They shared a small peck on each other's cheeks, before Rarity said: "I think I love you."
"I know I love you," Thunderlane said, and saw how Rarity's eyes started to get wetter again. She then pressed her lips against Thunderlane's. They kissed passionately, embracing each other gently. They continued kissing, and the rose dropped from Rarity's magical grasp. They heard couple of the ponies cheering, and then there was a loud bang.
Rarity yelped, and Thunderlane too winced a little. Then there was a rain of confetti and all kinds of colorful streamers. They looked around themselves, and saw the local pink party pony standing next to a pink, smoking cannon. She cheered loudly, and clapped her hooves together happily. She wore a wide grin on her cheeks, and exclaimed: "Rarity and Thunderlane are in looovee!"
"The hay is going on in here?" they heard a heavy southern accented voice say from behind them. They turned around, and saw Applejack looking at them with confused look. Just as Rarity was about to say something, Rainbow Dash trotted next to Applejack and said: "We just witnessed something totally awesome and cute."
"What?" Applejack asked, and Rainbow Dash whispered something to her ear. She then started to smile broadly, and said: "Aww shucks... Ain't ya two cute together."
"Aren't they?" Rainbow asked, and planted a small kiss on Applejack's cheek, making her blush.
Other ponies started to get away from the scene. They had lost the interest in the two ponies making out in the public. Only Rarity's close friends were there around the pair.
She smiled warmly at them, and saw that they all had waiting looks on their eyes. Thunderlane lifted the rose back up from the ground, and gave it to Rarity again.
"I think we have some explaining to do now honey.." Rarity said to smiling Thunderlane, who nodded happily at her.