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// 1. The Hallway (Love Theme from The Prince of Tides) – David Hamilton 
// Story: When Words Fail, Music Speaks 
// by ObabScribbler 
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1. The Hallway (Love Theme from The Prince of Tides) – David Hamilton





He was a rock. He was stone. He wasn’t going to move a muscle. Not a flicker, not a twitch, not a –

“Shining Armour?”

He nearly fell over. “C-Cadence?” Of all the rotten luck! Given a premium role at the Grand Galloping Gala and he botched it because a ghost from his past found him in the hallway. 

A very pretty ghost.

A quite stunning ghost, actually. He remembered braces, a ponytail and the gangly legs of a teenager balanced between filly and mare. The pony that stood smiling at him now was elegant and poised, her long mane swept up into some elaborate up-do that probably had a name, draped in jewellery and a ballgown that made him focus very, very hard on her face in case looking at the way it looked on her flank got him slapped. 

“Wow, it’s been … well, years,” she laughed. “You’re a royal guard now? I remember you wanted to be one way back when we were kids.”

He had also spent the whole of her last year in Canterlot trying to figure out ways to tell her he liked her and possibly ask her out on a date. Tried being the important word in that sentence.  

Her hoof flew to her mouth. “Oh, gosh, I’m sorry! You’re on duty, aren’t you? And I’m totally distracting you. I’ll just go. It was, uh, nice seeing you again.” 

He was a rock. He was stone. He wasn’t going to move a muscle. Not a flicker, not a twitch, nothing that would make his superior mad.

He touched her shoulder before she could leave. “Do you, uh, want to go get some doughnuts after the Ball?”

Cadence looked at him – really looked at him. Then she smiled. “I’d love to.”