//------------------------------// // 6. Love Is In The Parties // Story: The Super-Natural Squad // by princess-shy-writes- //------------------------------// The morning light shone down on the room Strawb Heart and Shadow Light awoke in. The couple were laying on the couch, snoring, Strawb on top of Shadow. They both slept peacefully until a loud BEEP! burst in making them both jump up, and out the couch. "It's too early! Someone please shut my alarm up.... And please don't get up Strawb." Shadow complained on the couch as Strawb got up from it, trying to push the button on Shadow's phone. "Shadow if you don't let go of me how do I get to your phone? And plus we got the meeting in less than an hour. You have gotta get up," She said brushing her muzzle on his messy hair. He moaned and looked up at her, "Fine I'll get up. But promise me that once that stupid meeting thing is over we will return to this same room and watch a movie or play video games." She chuckled softly and nooded at him "Okay we will. Now please let go of me and go fix that adorable messy hair of yours." Shadow let go of her and she moved towards his phone as he went out to the Bathrooms. She turned the alarm off and fixed her own mane. Once they were both ready to go, they headed down into the meeting room. As they got nearer Strawb got closer and closer to Shadow. She was afraid of what anypony else in the meeting might say of her. No they most likely wouldn't say anything, they would think. They would judge her inside their mind because of something her mother, the Queen of Changelings did. Not her. She also found herself getting closer to Shadow because she was attracted to him. She was attracted to the way he acted when he was with her, his smile, his hair, and most of all, him. Every single part of Shadow she had yet meet of him made him more and more attractive to her and she doubted that there was anything that could or would take that feeling back. She knew it was too early for love. She had read about it on all of her Romance Novels, but there was just something about him that drove her insane. She stopped thinking so much about him once they reached the room. She realized that his hoove was around hers, held tightly for no real reason. She sung the door wide open but only the Ponyville Mayor sat in the large table full of seats waiting to be taken. They sat down and Mayor Mare offered them some coffe and croissants. As Strawb picked up her coffee she noticed the 'Ponybucks' sign on it she smiled. At least she had her favorite kind of coffee to drink. A few minutes later, Higgens joined them to drink coffee and converse. No one saw or had any signs of Starry Mint showing up soon, so the meeting started. "Well now that.... Most of us are here, lets get this meeting officially started." Zecora said. Everypony stared talking and the meeting started. All of a sudden, Shadow got up from his seat and said out loud making sure everypony in that room could hear even though there weren't many ponies to hear so, "This is Strawb Heart, she's one of the Princesses of Changelings!" He pointed at Strawb whom waved shyly. "And she is also known well as my Marefriend." Shadow smirked. Higgens spit out the coffee that had in his mouth and said harmonized with a blushing, confused Strawb, "WHAT?!?" Then five seconds later, the changeling mare fainted on the chair she was sitting in. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Everypony in the meeting room might have thought that Starry Mint had slept in, but she couldn't have been anymore awake. The unicorn was placing mint colored decorations that she had bought at a party store nearby. She knew she wasn't the best at making parties, but she just couldn't hold herself back. This party was for someone special. She used her magic to place the last piece of mint decor on the table, and set off to go find a few more items she needed for this party. "Hello, is anyone here?" Minty asked as she walked into the brightly colored stores that smelled like buttercream and many other delicious ingredients. "YEP I'M HERE!" Yelled a voice from where the smells came from. Minty dared not to look behind the counter and see what was going on. The one and only element of laughter came from behind the store, mane full of cake ingredients and greeted the mare, "Welcome to Sugar Cube Corner, may I help you with anything today?" The mare smiled brightly and Starry chuckled, she couldn't really be happy being this messy could she? "Well, yes please. I am looking for a cake or maybe some cupcakes. I'm throwing a party for my friend and-" That's as far as Starry Mint could get before the Pink mare gasped loudly. "A party? That is fantastic! Ohhh is it a surprise party? For who is it?" The mare blabbered on about the party. Starry Mint smiled widely, "Yes it a surprise party. And it is very important to me. I need as much help as I can get to have it ready soon. Do you think that you could help me if you got some free time?" She asked as the mare's smiled widened. "I'ld love to help you! But- I need to know who the party is for and how many ponies there, if you don't mind me asking," The pink mare said exitedly as she looked around the counter. Minty couldn't believe it! She had just gotten a pony to help her plan the party! "Yes I will, but it has to be somewhere private and you can't say it to anypony. Not until the party starts." The mare nooded and said making an 'X' across her chest where her heart was, "I cross my heart," She went on moving both front whooves up and flapping them up and down, "Hope to fly," then she suddenly got a Cupcake out of her messy mane and stuck the thing to her eye as Starry Mint gasped, "Stick a cupcake in my eye that I won't tell anypony!" Minty smiled in relief to see that the mare was okay and asked, "What was that?" "My pinkie promise, duh. It's something only I as Pinkie Pie do! Well that's too obvious, I mean how awkward would it be if someone else invented it? It wouldn't be a Pinkie promise any more would it? It would be something.... Not as fun. And what's the fun in not as fun?" Pinkie Pie said to Starry Mint. Starry laughed a bit too loudly, "Oh Pinkie! You're so random!" _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "You do not just assume someone is your Marefriend, Shadow Light!" Higgens hissed at the colt who was trying to get Strawb Heart back into consciousness. She had been laying in that chair without moving for about five minutes now, and the room grew more tense each second. Shadow ignored what Higgens said to him, instead he nuzzled Strawb and all of a sudden she got up dizzily, "Hmm.....?" She said under her breath. Everyone sighed relived and they went on to asking if she was okay. "I don't know. I'm confused. Since when are we dating, Shadow?" She asked looking at him tensely. She was more than 'okay' alright. "Well, I meant to ask you out this morning before we came into the meeting....." Shadow Light explained, his ears flattened. "I'm sorry. That was stupid of me to think that you would actually like me. No one ever-" Strawb made him stop talking as she placed her lips on his, gently kissing him. Everypony stayed silent for a while. Just trying to insert what in the living hay had just happened in front of them. As Strawb took her lips off Shadow Light's own, she looked around and giggled playfully. "I do like you Shadow, and a lot. I would just like to be at least informed that I am taken before you say it out loud to a room full of ponies I don't know." She smiled him and he almost fainted. "I didn't expect that." Higgens murmured, and the meeting went back on. It didn't go back to normal though. Shadow and Strawb were now holding hooves and everypony stumbled on their words. Strawb Heart didn't care how tense the room went. All she could think about is that she had in mind was that she was holding the hoove of the most amazing boy in the whole Equestria. Equestria? Who was she kidding? The whole universe!