//------------------------------// // Vicious Misunderstandings // Story: Road to love // by Mes Amis //------------------------------// After getting home, Dante went straight for bed trying to get some sleep but was unsuccessful. "Why can't I get that kiss out of my head?" he thought as he got up and went straight for the shower. "Maybe a quick shower will get my mind off it." After finishing his shower, Dante's mind was still stuck on that kiss. "Ahhh! Why won't you get out of my head? I just want some sleep!" he yelled as the memory repeated itself over and over in his mind. After hours of struggling with his mind's disobedience, mental and physical fatigue put Dante to sleep, and taking him back to the dark room he was in the night before. "Great, here we go again." he said sarcastically as he was pulled into anther one of his memories of his foalhood. "... And that's why the Apple family is a big part of Ponyville history." Big Mac said as he finished his lecture on his family's history to Mr. Libro's class. "Thank you Big Mac. Are there any questions?" Mr. Libro asked the class. "No? Okay then, thank you again Big Mac. Everypony say thank you to Big Mac." "Thank you Big Mac!" said the class in unison. "Y'all welcome." he said as he rubbed the back of his head. Applejack then ran up to her brother and gave him a hug. "Ya the bes', Big Mac." she said hugging him tightly. "Tell mah somethin' ah don't know, AJ." he said jokingly returning her embrace. Applejack soon let go of her brother and he left soon afterwards. "Okay class that's all for today. You can all go home now." Mr. Libro said as he stacked some papers. Then the entire class got up and ready to leave. "Be careful on getting home." After leaving the school Dante went straight home, droped off his belongings, grabbed his guitar, and left for the clearing where he heard Fluttershy sing. As he made it to the clearing he could hear Fluttershy's voice coming from the trees to the left of the clearing. Dante made his way to the tree he hid behind the other day, making sure she couldn't hear his hoofsteps. As he hid behind the tree he heard her talking to the animals around her. "Oh dear. Have any of you seen Angel?" she said with worry in her tone. "Angel bunny come on out. It's not good to wander off with out telling me." she said as she made her way to where Dante was hiding. "Oh no. If she comes closer she'll find out I'm here and ruin my plan." he thought as he felt something soft on his head. "huh?" he looked up to see a little white bunny on his head, looking angrily at Dante as if he did something wrong. He tried to grab the bunny but it soon jumped off his head and ran towards Fluttershy. "What is it Angel? You want me to look behind that tree? Why? T-there is somepony there, a-and he's been s-spying on me?" she said a little frightened. "Dammit that rabbit ratted me out!" he thought trying to get up, but found his right wing caught on the tree. "Ow! Come on I got to get out of here or she'll never trust me." he thought as he tried to break himself free from the tree's grasp. He finally got his wing free when Fluttershy turned the corner and fond Dante standing there. "Too late." he said as he facehoofed. "Huh? W-what are you oing here?" she said with fear written across her face. "Fluttershy look I can explain." She started to back away as he got closer to her."W-why were you spying on me?" "I wasn't spying on you Fluttershy I just wanted to hear you sing that's all." "Y-you h-heard me singing?" "Yes and your voice is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard." he said merrily. "D-don't come any closer." she said in complete fear. "Fluttershy please calm down. I just wanted you to trust me, so I thought I could..." He was cut off by Fluttershy as she went from helplessly scared to monstrously angry. "You wanted me to trust you and you chose to spy on me? Is that how you get fillies to trust you, huh? By spying on them?" "It's not what you think." he said trying to defend himself. "It's not? Really, then explain what you were doing behind that tree and listening to me sing!" she growled. "I... I was..." he stuttered. "Well come out with it!" she yelled. "I'm sorry." he said as he hung his head. "I'm sorry that I was spying on you. I'll leave you alone from now on." he said as he left through the trees and towards town, with tears running down his face. "Oh no, what have I done?" She said as she put her hooves to her face. _____________________________________________________________________________ The next day at school Fluttershy walked in and noticed Dante wasn't in his seat. She looked around the room, and found out that he wasn't in the class. The day went on she felt a sudden loneliness and guilt for what she had said to Dante yesterday. At the end of class she walked up to Cheerilee. "Um, Cheerilee do you know where Dante is?" she said sounding worried. "No I haven't seen him since yesterday. Why?" Cheerilee wondered. "I, um, need to talk to him. Do you know where he lives?" she asked. "Yeah do you want me to take you there?" "Yes please." "Okay then let's get going." Making it to Dante's home was fairly quick, but on the way there Fluttershy had been thinking what he might say to her for what she had done. Most scenarios ending with Dante hating her. As they made it to the door Cheerilee turned to Fluttershy to see her looking as she was about to start crying. "Fluttershy, what's wrong?" Cheerilee asked worried that something had happened to her. "He hates me." she said as she started sniffling. "Who?" "Dante." Cheerilee then motioned her to follow her as she crossed the street and sat under a tree, which Fluttershy did."Okay tell me what happened." After what seemed like an hour, Fluttershy finally finished and suddenly felt no need to cry. "What should I do to get him to forgive me?" she asked. "Simple. Apologies." "But what if he doesn't want to talk to me?" "Apologize. That's all you have to do, and if he doesn't listen you keep apologizing until he finally forgives you. "Are you sure that will work?" "One hundred percent." she said confidently. "Just go to the door ask to speak with him and apologize to him. I'll be right here if you have any trouble." "Okay I'll do." "That's the attitude." Fluttershy made her way back to the door of Dante's home, but as she was going to knock the door suddenly opened and Dante found himself face to face with the filly that had snapped at him the day prior. "Um, Dante can we talk?" she asked sheepishly. "Why would you want to talk to me? Are you gonna finish yelling at me?" he said looking away from her. "I-I just wanted to say I'm sorry for yesterday. I really didn't mean to do that. Could you ever forgive me?" she said looking straight at him. "Why would I ever forgive you? Just what makes you think I want to forgive you? What right do you have to my forgiveness?" he yelled, shutting his front door and walking past her. "All I wanted was to be your friend but that doesn't matter anymore. Now just leave me alone." he said to her before he left towards the market. Fluttershy walked back to Cheerilee. "How did it go?" she said worryfuly. Fluttershy then broke down to tears, which was a clear answer to her question. "I thought as much."