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// Chapter 10 
// Story: Confessions 
// by CartoonNerd12 
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Two mares, one earth pony and one pegasus sat on an apple and butterfly patterned picnic blanket with their very special some creatures, a dragon and draconequus as they celebrated Celestia's success of getting Concordia to let Spike and Discord go and agreed to go with Celestia to Canterlot to see firsthoof of how Equestria changed in thousands of years.

Concordia admitted to Fluttershy that she had felt jealousy toward her and that she was lucky to have the chaotic being's affections and told her to take care of him. Which Fluttershy happily agreed to. The alicorn knew she had a long way to go to free herself from her biases and Discord told her that the same thing happened to him when he began to reform and that she would get there. That gave her some encouragement.

The couples exchanged cucumber sandwiches and tea and had an apple pie for dessert. But the girls couldn't help notice the boys looking at them somberly sometimes.

Applejack addressed it, "Okay, something is going on with you two, what's wrong?"

Discord nervously chuckled, "Wrong? Nothing's wrong, we're just enjoying this wonderful looking picnic, you girls prepared!" but one look at Fluttershy's 'not buying it' expression, he sighed, "The truth is… Concordia pointed out how we would live on much longer then you two and well…"

Spike spoke dismally; "We can't bear the thought of the day that will happen…" he looked down in sadness.

The girls exchanged stunned looks before sadly smiling and went to the creature they loved and had them face them.

Fluttershy told Discord, "I may not live forever but I want to spend the rest of my life with you… I want to make every moment count before it ever comes to that… I love you, Discord and after my death I will keep on loving you…"

Applejack said to Spike, "And so will I… but right now we have plenty of time to worry about that later. What matters is the time we have now and how we spent it. I would be lyin' if I said I wish I could have long lifespan like yours but I do love you, Spike and I don't want you to wallow in misery after I have gone… I want you to keep being happy no matter what."

Spike slowly smiled as they embraced. Fluttershy and Discord did the same. When they let go Spike said, "Yeah, at least we'll have our descendants keeping us company."

"WHAT?!" the girls gasped out.

Discord smirked, "Oh, we forgot to mention this, but Celestia looked into our future and it turns out we will have dozens of descendants running around."

The girls gapped in astonishment while the boys chuckled. Slowly smirks went on the girls' faces causing the guys to stop as they looked on in concern as to what they were thinking.

Applejack exclaimed, "Gosh that sounds incredible! Makes me want to start planning how much kin I want, wouldn't you agree, Flutters?"

"Oh, absolutely!"

Discord and Spike exchanged worried looks, they weren't liking the sound of this…

Fluttershy continued, "I would want four, no, eight, no… fourteen foals!"

Discord sputtered, "F-f-fourteen?!"

Applejack then declared, "And I think maybe six, no, twelve, aw, what the heck maybe I'll even have twenty foals!"

Spike stammered, "T-t-twenty…?" then he fainted.

Discord wrapped his arms around his marefriend and uneasily said, "Now, sweetheart let's think about this…"

Fluttershy questioned with an innocent look, "Don't you want children?"

"Well of course! But not that many! You know how much we would be paying for groceries and braces?!"

The girls giggled indicating they were just messing with them.

Applejack helped Spike up and said, "Don't worry, sugar cube, I was only kiddin'…"

Spike wiped his brow, "Thank goodness…"

"Besides, we have to wait until you reach your prime before we get there…"

Spike sighed, "I guess that means we can't kiss the way we did in that dream…"

AJ sadly shook her head, "'Fraid not, but that's okay, I can wait. Between running the farm and taking care of Apple Bloom it's better that way."

"But we can still have dates, right?"

"'Course. I wouldn't have it either way." she winked causing him to him to blush.

Fluttershy fluttered up to Discord to tell him, "I'm not ready for that either, I still am getting used to the idea of being in love for the first time…"

Discord smiled, "Then we're even, it's my first time falling in love as well…"

They leaned in closer to have that first kiss. Applejack and Spike watched on with happiness and wrapped their arms around each other. Hoping their first kiss will be just as a special as their friends'…