After a long hard day of friendship lessons Twilight settles down with Spike to look through her old photo album. Starlight's reaction to one of the photos brings a shocking secret to light. Starlight is a mother, and she does not know to whom.

Twilight and her friends now want to help Starlight find her long lost foal, while trying to puzzle out just how a mother could not know her own foal. Starlight meanwhile is trying to decide whether to bury the past, or drag it all up once again. Both will be painful, but the question remains. Which one would hurt the least, for all involved?

Several truths are revealed, and motivations are uncovered. When everything is laid bare how will everyone react? Will Starlight's life be turned upside down, even in this time of change for the former villain?

Starlight is now on the path to reformation, but judging from her behavior as of late, it'd seem she still has quite a ways to go. It's become apparent to Twilight and her friends that Starlight is having a difficult time letting go of her questionable ideals about friendship. But they won't give up on her, not yet anyway.

However, Starlight's greatest challenge in changing herself for the better has now reared its head in the form of Laughingstock; a pony whose cutie mark she took but failed to convert to her ideology back in her village. He's now in Ponyville, desperate for work as his cutie mark is still mysteriously missing. As imagined, he's not happy with Starlight in the slightest. After all, living without a cutie mark but bearing one that reminds him of just who did this to him would make anyone mad.

Not helping is the fact that Starlight doesn't seem to feel too sorry about it.

Rated T for language and unfortunate circumstance.

After inadvertently running into Soarin one night when out flying, Rainbow Dash invites him as her 'Plus one' to Twilight's Hearth Warming party.

It's definitely not a date though.

Until suddenly it is.

Spike shows up on Fluttershy's doorstep at the crack of dawn, professing heartbreak and asking for a shoulder to cry on. Fluttershy does as every pony should: she makes him a pot of tea, and sends him off to bed.

This is the story of where that takes them.

This turned out to have three endings. In order they are Bad, True, Happy, and have been placed in the story where they would have occurred had I written them 'in flow' if you will. They are not tied to each other and you only need to read the one you want to get an end to the journey. Thank you to everyone who supported this to the end. It was a lovely trip

Cover art gratefully borrowed from Airy, over on Tumblr. Give a peek for more cuties

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Keeping a secret from your friends is extremely difficult, especially if that secret could destroy your friendship with every single one of them.

Fluttershy needs to keep this quiet. But with it affecting her moods and behaviour, some ponies are already suspicious. Rainbow Dash demands she goes to the hospital. But Fluttershy refuses. She can't go to the hospital, she won't go to the hospital. Because then they will know. Everypony will know. And Fluttershy will be ashamed, hated. Why do things have to be this way?

Fluttershy has been trying to date for a couple months now, and it has lead to many failed dates. After yet another failed date, Fluttershy is distraught, and doesn't know what to do. That is, until she finds an old number to one of her fillyhood friends.

Rated Teen because language and suggestive scenes.

A sleeping Rarity mysteriously appears in her friends' beds, and nopony knows how or why. Her friends are determined to discover the truth behind Rarity's night-time snuggling spree.

Pinkie doesn't tell ponies about Pinkamena and Surprise. The doctors said that they were bad for her, that they were a disease, but she disagrees. Sure, Pinkamena's a bit of a grumpy-pants, but she's still a great friend! She's often the voice of reason to counter-act some of the other two's crazier ideas, after all. Surprise, on the other hand, is a great prank-player, and always up for some fun. She's more like Pinkie, only more hyper. Both are great fun to be around, and they get on well.

Thing is, she knows that if she told ponies about them, then they would be dragged back to the hospital. And then be 'treated' again. None of them want that. Because of this, not even her best not-in-head friends know about them. The three of them have, for years now, been careful enough to keep the existence of Pinkamena and Surprise secret.

This has, of course, gone out the window now that Twilight is hammering on the door after overhearing one third of a conversation, with no sign of anyone else talking.

Hints of F/F shipping inside. Nothing will actually come of it here, though. Maybe in a future story.

Cover art can be found here: http://killryde.deviantart.com/art/Smile-338206490