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// Breakfast 
// Story: Unromantic 
// by Storylover-Vodhr 
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"Oh, uh, hey Starlight. Have you seen Twilight anywhere?"

Starlight, who had previously been trying to wake herself up by nursing a strong cup of coffee, jolted slightly in surprise from the unexpected voice and promptly managed to accidentally spill half the cup all over herself, nearly scalding herself in the process. She quickly let out a curse immediately after, and grumpily turned to face her aggravator.  And, sure enough, it was Rainbow Dash, a mare who had proven herself surprisingly malicious when the whim struck her.

Her pranks were, in a word, legendary. Honey in a shampoo bottle, food dye in toothpaste, spicy cupcakes left in the open, for any brave and/or dumb enough to take them. Rainbow, along with Pinkie, could drive a pony insane when they wanted. 

But that raised a completely different question. What was Rainbow Dash doing in Twilight's dining room at seven in the morning? Was she here for another prank? To make her spill her coffee, and laugh about it?

Sure, She was one of Twilight's closest friends, if not her best friend, but still. It was awfully early for it to be anything but malicious. 

Starlight quickly shook her head at the thought, and forced the angry, bitter thoughts away. No, that was the old Starlight thinking. Rainbow was probably here for a completely normal and non-prank related reason. Surely.

Maybe she wanted to bum some breakfast? That sounded pretty normal for her. Truly, that had to be the reason.

"Oh, Hi Dash. I don't know where Twilight is, actually. She's usually up before me."

Rainbow gave a small shrug at that, before casually sitting at the table and stealing a piece of toast, seemingly confirming Starlight's suspicions of breakfast thievery. But, before Starlight could comment on it, the chromatic mare quickly took a bite, and sat down in a chair. "This is good. You make it?"

"No, I did. Hiya, Rainbow."

This time, the Wonderbolt was the one who jumped slightly at the voice, making Starlight grin a little as the mare began to cough out the dry toast she had began to choke on. It seemed Karma was on the ball today.

"Spike, don't spook me like that! I might just go crazy, or something. You know, unleash the awesome."

However, the dragon didn't phased by the threat, and instead shrugged apathetically. "Yeah, yeah. So, If I knew you were gonna stop by, I woulda made you something. You should really call ahead."

Rainbow just gave an apathetic shrug, her inconsiderate attitude bothering Starlight. What did Twilight see in the rude mare, to see her as a friend? It made absolutely no sense to Starlight. 

"Eh, she told me to stop by. Blame her."

Spike shrugged at that, before walking into the kitchen. "So, you want me to cook you some eggs or salmon?"

"Eh, why not both? I'm starving."

At that, Spike nodded, and left the room, leaving the two mares alone, which Starlight didn't appreciate. She was still pretty new to this whole friendship thing, and frankly, she didn't like the thought of having to deal with the most... coarse of Twilight's social circle. 

But, hey, she was honor bound to try and be friendly, at the very least.

"So... uh, what did Twilight want you for?"

The rainbow-headed Pegasus shrugged at the question, before sighing and looking at the clock on the wall. "No idea. Hope she'll hurry up, though, I gotta get going soon."

Starlight nodded awkwardly at that, and the pair sat in awkward silence for several minutes. She tried, failed, and now, she was gonna wait until Spike returned with Dash's food. 

"Here ya go, Dash. Some seared fish, and a couple eggs."

Both the mares froze at that, and turned towards the voice. This time, it was the missing Princess. 

"Finally, Twilight? Where'd ya go?"

The Alicorn just smiled and rolled her eyes at Dash's tone, and placed the food in front of the Pegasus. "Oh, you know, just making sure you had a lunch for work. And breakfast, for that matter."

Dash made a small squeal, which terrified Starlight. She had never really did much with Rainbow, but the last time she heard the mare make that sort of noise, a ice-bucket fell on her head.

But, to her surprise, no bucket ever came. Instead, she saw that Rainbow Dash was staring at Twilight with no small amount of hero worship in her eyes.

"You made me a-"

There was a loud thunk, as Twilight dropped a large cooler on the table. "A unholy abomination of a sandwich? Yes. Two, in fact. In all their... carbohydrate laden glory. And some fruit wedges-"

"In the funny shapes?!"

Twilight just continued to smile. "In the funny shapes."

The Pegasus simply sighed in what seemed to be bliss upon hearing the confirmation, and leaned back into her chair, bewildering Starlight even more. But even that didn't amount to the confusion she felt after hearing what came next. 

"Twilight, I love ya."

Twilight chuckled at that, and ignored the confused expression on her student's face. "And I love you, Dash." 

The rest of the meal went by quickly, mainly due to Rainbow's... enthusiastic eating, and all the while, Starlight watched the pair of ponies closely, trying to figure something out. Now, she was still pretty new to this whole friendship thing, so she didn't know what was normal. So, maybe telling one's friends that you loved them was a normal thing? 

That must be it. Twilight was already proving to be an amazing teacher.  She was learning so much, already!

"So, See ya at the show, Twi."

Dash then turned to leave, but, before she did, gave Twilight a quick kiss on the lips. "See ya later, Starlight!"

Alright, no. The love you for friends bit was horse hockey. So, Starlight waited for a moment until Twilight, seemingly twitterpated, floated off to the next room, before running off to Spike, the sane one. He'd know what was up.

"Spiiiiiiiiike~! Twilight kissed Rainbow Dash!"