"Hey squirt, how's it going?" Rainbow called down as she saw Scootaloo walking around Ponyville, it had been a few days since she had talked to Sweetie and she was still kind of nervous so she had wanted to talk to Rainbow.
"Oh, you know, its going pretty good, I'm just a little nervous," Scootaloo said as she looked up at her honorary big sister with a smile. "I'm having my first date tomorrow and I'm still kind of nervous to be honest, I've never felt like this about another pony before."
"Well, who's it with?"
"Sweetie Belle," Scootaloo said with a smile as Rainbow grinned and flew down to her.
"Well its about time, so when did you tell her?"
"Oh, a few days ago, we've been kinda busy with Crusader stuff and other things so tomorrow was the first day we really got a chance to try and have a date," Scootaloo said and took a deep breath. "I'm still nervous to be honest, I mean I told her how I feel but what if she decides she doesn't feel the same way about me? This is kind of to try and figure it out so I don't really know."
"Scoots, you're going to be just fine," Rainbow said as she hugged the smaller Pegasus tightly. "Sweetie is just nervous, heck I was a bit nervous on my first date too."
"Wait you were nervous about a date?" Scootaloo asked as she looked up at Rainbow with a look of surprise on her face. "When was that?"
"Oh, I was a few years older than you are now, it was with... well that's not important right now," Rainbow said as she blushed a little. "Needless to say it didn't quite work out, but it was actually pretty nice at least. Honestly Scootaloo, you're going to be just fine I promise. You're an awesome filly and anypony would be lucky to have you, I know its not going to be easy especially if you're dating your best friend, but somehow I think it'll all work out, just let Sweetie figure it out okay?"
Scootaloo nodded and let out a sigh of relief. "Thanks Rainbow, do you have anything else you think I should do?"
"Yeah, be yourself, if Sweetie loves you it should be for who you are instead of who you pretend to be, that's the best advice I can give you," Rainbow said with a big grin. "You're the most awesome filly in Equestria, maybe even more awesome than I am."
"Aww, I don't know about that..." Scootaloo said bashfully. "I don't really know to be honest, but thank you, I'll figure this out I promise that I'll do my best."
"Do you really love her?" Rainbow asked.
"Well, yeah, I feel really strongly about her," Scootaloo said with a nod and a smile. "I'm still kind of figuring it out really, I mean I really do feel something. I've never really felt like this about a pony before like I said, so, I honestly have no idea."
"Well, I'm sure everything will work out fine, come on, lets go do some flying practice," Rainbow said with a smile as they headed off to a field near Ponyville.
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Sweetie Belle took a deep breath as she headed to Scootaloo's house, she had told her that she wanted to meet her there before they headed out to go on the date.
She still wasn't 100% about how she felt about Scootaloo, what would she say? What would she do? Rarity had tried to give her the best advice she could of course, but none of it was really that helpful. It was tough to try and figure out her feelings about Scootaloo, and it felt almost like she was doing this more to help her feel better.
Was it possible that she could really feel this way about one of her best friends? Or maybe this was just some sort of joke being played on her by the universe, she didn't think Scootaloo would do that kind of thing to her, but still, everything was all kind of a jumbled mess in her mind.
She finally stopped in front of the small two story house that Scootaloo called home with her aunts and knocked on the door. Scootaloo's aunt Lofty answered with a smile as she looked down at the filly.
"Well hey there Sweetie Belle, its so good to see you again," Lofty said with a smile as she ushered the little Unicorn into the house. "Scootaloo's upstairs getting everything together for you, she'll be down in a few minutes."
"Oh, okay," Sweetie said as she looked around the house, she hadn't been here that often, more often since Scootaloo's aunts had moved in a few months ago. "So, what exactly does she have planned? She hasn't really told me anything."
"Oh don't you worry about it, Scootaloo's got something nice planned," Holiday said as she came into the room and gave the filly a smile. "Are you nervous?"
"Yeah, a little, its my first real date," Sweetie said with a shrug. "What did you two do for your first date? Were you this nervous?"
"Well, that would either be the dinner we had with Lofty's parents, in which case yes I was very nervous..." Holiday said with a blush. "Or it would be the dinner we had a few days after, but yeah, that wasn't too bad at least."
"Well, at least you didn't start stuttering like crazy with that one," Lofty said with a laugh as she nuzzled her wife gently. "Really, we couldn't be happier together."
Sweetie smiled a little, she didn't know a lot about Scootaloo's family but what she did know was that she lived with her two aunts while her parents were working in Fillydelphia. She was actually glad to know that Scootaloo did have family that cared about her, she had always gotten the impression that the Pegasus filly's parents had kind of just stopped being around for some reason.
Maybe it was nothing, but she had to wonder why they were like that. Sweetie's parents were almost never around either since they had kind of just dumped her on Rarity while they did Celestia knows what. It wasn't that she didn't love her sister, but it felt like her parents didn't really want her sometimes.
Oh well, at least she had her big sister and her friends, as long as nothing bad happened today at least. No, she couldn't think like that, she was going to give this a try and hope for the best.
"Okay, I'm ready, we just have to wait for..." Scootaloo said as she came down the stairs carrying a picnic basket on her back. "Hey Sweetie, glad to see you're here."
"Of course, I wouldn't miss it for anything," Sweetie said with a smile as she looked at the basket. "So, we're going to have a picnic?"
"Yeah, I know its nothing too fancy or extravagant, but I thought it would be nice to just have a little picnic," Scootaloo said with a nod. "I mean that's okay right? Would you rather go to Sugarcube Corner or the Hay Burger or something?"
"No, no, its fine, I'd love to have a picnic with you," Sweetie said with a smile. "So, where are we going to go for it?"
"Oh, right, follow me," Scootaloo said with a nod and lead Sweetie Belle outside.
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"Its just up here, Rainbow Dash said its the most beautiful place in Ponyville for this kind of thing," Scootaloo said as the climbed a hill together.
Sweetie admitted she was curious to see what Scootaloo had in mind for the date, she knew that it was going to be a picnic, but where would they have it? She got her answer soon as they came up over the hill and found themselves overlooking Ponyville with Canterlot in the distance.
"Wow, she's right, this is really nice," Sweetie said with a smile as Scootaloo laid out the blanket and started to set out food and plates for the two of them. "Do you need any help with that?"
"No, I'm fine," Scootaloo said with a smile as she secured the blanket and passed Sweetie a plate before taking out the last item, something she knew that Sweetie would love.
"Oh wow, is that a Triple Chocolate Cupcake? Its my favorite!" Sweetie said with a smile as Scootaloo set it out for her, she didn't know how she had figured it out. "How'd you know?"
"You always get it when we go to Sugarcube Corner, it wasn't that hard to figure out," Scootaloo said with a smile. "Pinkie Pie made it special for you when I said it was for the picnic... I hope you like it."
Sweetie gave here friend a smile and nodded, this was exactly what she wanted. She was a little impressed actually, Scootaloo had clearly put a lot of work into making this perfect and she was actually rather flattered.
"Its perfect," she finally said with a smile as they sat down to start eating.
Scootaloo smiled a little, she had been nervous about all of this to be honest and she had to get a lot of help given that she couldn't exactly cook very well. She had wanted to make sure that everything was perfect for Sweetie, no matter how this date ultimately went she just wanted to make sure that Sweetie was happy.
"So, how's it going with Rarity?" Scootaloo asked, trying to think of something to talk about.
"Oh its going well, she's been going crazy the last few days trying to figure out how to ask a certain farm pony out," Sweetie said with a giggle.
"Oh, so she's finally admitting how she feels about Applejack? That should be interesting," Scootaloo said with a laugh, it had been pretty clear that the two mares had a thing for each other to her for awhile. "Took them long enough."
"Tell me about it," Sweetie said with a chuckle as she took a bite of her sandwich. "Though, Spike's probably going to get jealous."
"Eh, maybe but I think he's kind of gotten over his crush recently," Scootaloo said with a shrug as she looked out at Ponyville. "Its weird, but, somehow this all feels, strange, like I don't really know what I want to do with my life right now."
"Yeah, I know what you mean," Sweetie said with a sigh as she looked down at her hooves. "I mean its great helping ponies and everything, but do you ever wonder what we're going to do? I mean I've always kind of liked singing and you're a bit of a daredevil so there's always that."
"Yeah, I know but I honestly don't know if its what I want to do with the rest of my life," Scootaloo admitted softly, she had never told this to anypony before. "I mean its fun doing tricks and I'm really good at it, but I just don't know if I'm good enough to do that for the rest of my life, or at least as long as I can."
"Scootaloo, you're not just really good at it, you're amazing at it!" Sweetie said with a wide smile. "I've never seen another pony as amazing as you are on a scooter. You're great, heck I'm the one who shouldn't be sure, I've still got a lot to learn about music, but you? You've pursued your dreams and not let anything get you down, you really are one of the best ponies I've ever known Scootaloo, never let you get yourself down."
"Hey, you're pretty great yourself," Scootaloo said. "You're the best friend a filly could ask for, you're smart, kind, funny, and you do have a great singing voice. Its all of that which actually attracted me to you, but its really because of your good heart."
Sweetie looked at her for a long moment, she actually felt something flutter in her chest a little when she heard those words. Maybe she did feel something for Scootaloo that was more than just friendship, she had been wrestling with this for the past few days and it was starting to come to her that she really did feel something for her.
She had no idea what love really felt like, did she feel love for Scootaloo? Was it just her imagination? That was what was going through her mind, but one thing kept coming back to her. It was like her heart was telling her that she should go for it, and she really wanted to, but she didn't know what to do, at least not right away.
She leaned forward and kissed Scootaloo on the lips, catching the other filly off guard. But after a moment she relaxed a little and returned the kiss, wrapping her forelegs around Sweetie gently.
Scootaloo blushed a little as she broke the kiss, it had been her first kiss and it felt, amazing to say the least. She hadn't expected Sweetie to just go and kiss her like that, not that she was complaining.
"So, does this mean..." Scootaloo said softly as she looked at Sweetie nervously. "Do you really want to... you know..."
"Scootaloo, I wouldn't have agreed to that if there wasn't a possibility of me feeling that way about you," Sweetie said with a smile as she nuzzled Scootaloo gently. "I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and... yeah, I think I do want to be your special somepony, if you want me."
Scootaloo smiled and kissed Sweetie, the two fillies just like that for a few minutes, enjoying the feeling of being close to one another.