//------------------------------// // Reviling The Truth // Story: Road to love // by Mes Amis //------------------------------// “Wait! What did you just say!?!” Dante yelled as he immediately backed away from Reda. "About what?” Reda asked as he raised an eyebrow. "Oh I don't know there was you almost giving me a heart attack, having a party in my house, or was it about YOU BEING IN LOVE WITH FLUTTERSHY!," he said mockingly and shocked. “First of all the party wasn't my idea, and you didn’t know? Of course I am in love with her. Isn’t it awesome!? Being in love I mean.” Reda said in an excited tone. ”But please don’t tell her." He chucked nervously and rubbing the back of his head. “I know it's awesome, but it’s just that…” Dante let out a sigh. “Just what?”  Reda’s smile began to fade away and turning into a worried look. “I'm in love with her too." "What?” Dante once again let out a sigh and was thinking of a way to not hurt his friend's feelings or start an argument and fight about it. He had no choice but to tell Reda why he had fallen in love with Fluttershy. Dante and Reda began to take seat at the front porch. Dante took a deep breath and tell Reda everything. “Look while I was out touring, I was constantly thinking about her when I left. I couldn’t take my mind off her day and night those days. When I had the time, I wrote a song about her before all my performances to do at a different town. I never sang them to anypony or on stage when I had the chance to do it. When I arrived here in Ponyville, I was excited to see her once more and wanted to tell her that I've been in love with her ever since and never forgotten her. But when I saw her, she didn’t seem to recognize me. I couldn't believe that Fluttershy, my closest friend from we were kids, had forgotten her own best friend. I think she still hates me for avoiding her whenever we see each other, I never knew she will react this way." He said as he sadly finished off his story. Dante began to feel guilty for everything he had done in the past and can never fix it since Fluttershy already hates him for avoiding her. Dante was trying to fight off the tears that were already rolling down his face of guilt and sorrow. Reda decided to Dante his story of how he fell in love with her. “When you left town Dante, everypony around town started waving goodbye at you before you were about to leave. Everpony except Fluttershy, tears were rolling down her face because that would be the last time she would lay her eyes on you and not be with you. After you left, I followed her to where she was going to. I found her face down on the ground crying while a bunch of animals surrounded her. I walked up to her and grabbed my guitar then strummed it until she noticed me from behind. I began to play her one or two songs that I wrote when we were at school and got in trouble for doing so instead of schoolwork. I found out that we both have something in common, that we both love music. She began to smile at me and thanked me. Then she kissed me on the cheek, and at that moment I was deeply in love with her. We both began to spend each day with each other while you were gone. I never told her that I loved her when I had the chance. I was always there for her in your place, Dante." Reda finished his story. Reda had strong feelings for her, but he didn’t know his best friend, Dante, had feelings for her which Dante was hiding from Reda. His heart was now torn between his love for Fluttershy and his best friend's love for her. After Dante told him everything, Reda got off the porch and walked out the front. “Where you going? The party is over here.” Dante asked sadly. “I just gotta go okay. See you tomorrow.” Reda said heartbroken as he walked off Dante's porch with his head down and a broken heart for telling Dante how he feels about Fluttershy. He walked down the road and never looked back. Reda teleported himself back to his home, where a flash could be seen from the front of Dante’s home. _____________________________________________________________________________ Dante walked back into the house where the party continued. Ponies at the party were dancing, exchanging conversations, and having a good time. Dante smiled at the sight of the party. Applejack was still with her brother, and with another ponies. Rainbow Dash and Rarity were talking with each other. While Pinkie was in the middle of the party doing an awkward dance while other ponies didn’t notice, Dante chuckled when he saw Pinkie doing that. Dante continue to walk into the party until he bumped in to Twilight causing to spill her punch on her and wetting her mane. “I am so sorry about that, you okay?” Dante panicked as he desperately tried to find a towel. “It's okay Dante; I wasn’t looking where I was going either.” Twilight apologized. Twilight noticed that Reda wasn’t with Dante when he needed a word with him. “Wasn’t Reda with you? Where did he go by the way?” Twilight asked Dante didn’t want Twilight to know to what Reda said to him, so he tried to come up with a lie fast. “He just had to go that’s all." Dante lied. “Why would he leave this party so early?” Twilight asked and became a little suspicious that why ponies would ever leave Pinkie’s party this early. “I don’t know, I guess that he had to run a few errands for tomorrow." “I see." Dante began to make his way to kitchen to drink his problems out for what happened between him and Reda. “You’re still in love with Fluttershy, I see.” Twilight said in a mocked tone. Dante stopped and dashed across the room when he overheard her. He put his hoof on her mouth to shut her up. “How did you know?” “I overheard you when you guys were talking. Something that has to involve Fluttershy." Twilight was unsure what they were talking about. “Please don’t tell Fluttershy that I feel that way." Dante begged. “Don’t worry Rainbow Dash was right about you guys that you seem to make a very good couple when you were kids. I also thought the same. Remember the Pinkie Promise?” “Oh no, not at this time. Everypony is right here right now.” Dante did not want do it in front of the party and get laughed at. “I won’t.” Twilight giggled. “Oh thank Celestia.” He said out loud relived. Dante made his way to the punch bowl and to enjoy every last minute of the party. He took every sip of his punch enough to make him forget the conversation with Reda. Dante was now back to his old happy self and to just enjoy the party.