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// Who could be following me? 
// Story: Unrequited 
// by DtdFIMBrony 
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	She was finally almost home, but there was still another mare in the back car watching her, she could almost tell who she was from the corner of her eye, but not quite, so she left that a mystery to herself for a while, but she still felt angry at herself, no, she was ashamed that she could have ever fallen in love with Twilight, no, to her it was not possible, she didn't feel that way, she couldn't, and now she would never think about it again. Or so she told herself over and over, but the more she told herself that, the more she wanted to cry.

The train finally stopped, and Fluttershy slowly trotted off toward her house, consciously aware of the mare still following her, but she payed her no attention, hoping that she would go away. What if it was some sort of psycho killer? A pony napper? Somepony who wanted to steal her away and put her in a cage taking away all her freedom. She finally lost her senses and started to run home, terrified that something bad was going to happen, when she got home she closed herself in and locked the door with all the locks she could find in the house, in which was a surprisingly large amount that even she didn't know she had. At least here she felt safe from such possible monsters that could put somepony in a cage for their whole life! She cowered in her bed under her blankets, not even peeking at the window, and keeping all her hooves on top of the bed, under the blanket, and lay awake hoping that she was safe, wishing that Twilight would save her. "Wait, why am I wishing Twilight would save me?" she asked herself, "That makes me so ashamed of myself, of all the ponies I could have fallen in love with, why did it have to be her? I should love a stallion, not a mare like myself! But why does she love Dash, and not me?" Kicking herself she started to cry at the possibility that she will never have a lover of her own, and as she was about to fall asleep something started her back to full consciousness.

"I will love you" Said a familiar voice, "Oh please, please, please, please, please let me love you! I know everything you like to do, I know exactly how you brush your mane, I know EVERYTHING about you! So please let me love you!"

"Wait, you're the one who has been following me?" she asked the mare that sounded so familiar but she couldn't place the voice, "you have been following me this whole time, just because you love me, but I don't even know who you are?"

"You don't? Oh well if you open the window more than-- woah!" Having dodged a bird the mare lost control of her flight and went crashing through the window, "Oops, my bad."

"Derpy Hooves?" Fluttershy asked, "You are the one who loves me? But I'm a mare like you, you shouldn't love me, you should feel ashamed, like I have been."

"But Shy, thats not true, you can't control your heart" Derpy said while slowly crossing the room to Shy's bed, "You have to allow yourself to follow what your heart wants, and if it wants a mare, then love that mare, we are all a little different after all, and I, love the differences in you."

"Oh, well, I don't know, I don't really know you, and I can't say that I love y--" she began to say but was suddenly interrupted by Derpy putting her hoof to Shy's cheek.

"I know, you don't know me, but I know you, and right now, you just knowing that I love you, makes me happy, even if you don't love me back" Derpy started and continued to say in a sort of, derpy, way, "But I still love you!" Then she flies out the window, but too late realizing it was the wrong window goes crashing through and as she regains her balance Shy could hear her saying "I could have sworn I came through that window, oh well" then raises her voice so Shy can hear it, "Sorry, my bad!"

Shy, exhausted, and, no longer so ashamed, lay down to go to sleep now, the only thing she was worried about was why she still felt so attached to Twi, she just now experienced what it was like to have somepony confess their love to her, although the way it was brought about she didn't think was very traditional, after all, not everypony crashes through your window to tell you they love you, and then leaves through the opposite window. No, Shy felt lucky to have experienced that, so she could finally go to sleep, with only one weight on her heart rather than two, but she still had to do something about this, how was she going to tell Twi how she felt, she can't just go up to her and say 'Hey I randomly fell in love with you' can she? Whatever the answer was, she was certain that it would come to her soon, she just hoped it would go okay when she did tell Twi about it. 

Just then, as she was zoning off to sleep, she came up with the perfect confession, the way to let Twilight Sparkle, the mare of her dreams, know how she felt, even if the love was not given back, she wanted Twi to understand her heart. With that final though running through her mind, she slipped into a gently sleep, one she would wake from, like any other day, and feel just as rested as ever.