//------------------------------// // Eradication Of Misconceptions // Story: Road to love // by Mes Amis //------------------------------// After he vented his anger out on Fluttershy, Dante went to the market to buy some supplies his mother sent him to pick up. As he bought the last item on the list, Dante started to doubt that what he said to Fluttershy was the right choice. "I shouldn't have said those things to her. I know how fragile she is, but I still yelled at her." he thought as his feelings went from guilt to anger. "Then again why should I feel sorry for what I said. She did the same thing to me, but worse." then his mood had changed once again. "But she was there to apoogize, and I told her she didn't deserve my forgiveness. I'm such a jerk!" he then facehoofed. "I think trust is the last thing I should try to get from her. I need to find her and apologize before its to late." Dante then started galloping towards his home. Making it home he left the items his mother asked him for and then left to find Fluttershy. Dante looked everyplace he could, bt he found no sign of Fluttershy. Seeing that Celestia's sun was about to turn in and the moon was readily awaiting its time to rule the skies, Dante went home, ate supper, and went to bed. He hoped he could apologize to Fluttershy tomorrow. _____________________________________________________________________________ When he got to school the next day, it seemed to Dane as if all of Fluttershy's friends were staring at him. As he took his seat he tried to get Cheerilee's attention. "Cheerilee, whee is Fluttershy?" he asked in a hush tone. "Why do you care? She just wanted to say she was sorry, but you went ahead and made her cry because of what you said to her." she responded, but not even bothering to look at him. "I see." he said as he hung his head. "And everypony else knows about it too?" "Yeah, they do." Dante then felt as if somepony was behind him, so he turned to see Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie all around him. "What's the big idea making Fluttershy cry, huh?" Rainbow let out angrily. "Yeah what did she ever do to you, you meanie McSweeny?" Pinkie asked with an angry look on her face. "And don't try to mediate your way out of this one, Mr." Rarity added. Dante let out a sigh as he began to explain. "I was trying to get her to trust me, and then I ended up finding her in the forest..." He was then cut off by Applejack. "We know the story, what we wanna know is why ya said those things t' Fluttershy." "I... I honestly don't know." he said as he turned to see Cheerilee looking at him as angry as the others. "You sure did sound like you knew when you said those things to her." Cheerilee said. "Fine. I was angry, I wanted revenge, I hate her. Will any these reasons make you leave me alone, because if they do then I'll gladly say that's the reason I did it." he yelled angrily but only loud enough for the five fillies to hear him. "I just... Want to be alone right now. Alright?" he said hanging his head before looking out the window. The five filles then started to look at each other as the guilt built in their heart. Rarity was the only one to speak. "We understand. Come on girls we have to get ready for class." and with that the four fillies surrounding Dante left. "Dante, I'm so so..." "No, don't apologize. You were angry that I made your friend cry, I understand." he said as he tried to avoid her stare. Cheerilee was about to speak until Mr. Libro came through the door. "Okay class let's begin, shall we?" ____________________________________________________________________________ After class ended, Dante went home and grabbed his guitar. Seeing that music was the only true escape he had whenever he was sad, Dante started playing some sad songs thinking it would help him cope with his feelings, but the effects were the complete opposite. Feeling to sad to continue, he stopped and just laid down on his bed. After a few minutes he heard a knock on his door. "Dante, there is somepony at the door for you." his mother said through the door. "I'll be right down." he said as he looked in the mirror to see that his mane was a mess. After he combed his mane, Dante went down stairs to see who would want to speak to him at this hour. "Yes what do you.... Want?" he said as he opened his eyes to see Fluttershy at the door once again. "Um, h-hello." Fluttershy said a lot more sheepishly than normal. "Fluttershy what are you doing here?" he said shocked to see the filly who he tried to apologize to earlier in the day. "Well yesterday, before you said those things to me, Cheerilee said that the only way to get you to forgive me was to keep apologizing until you finally did. So I thought that I should try again today." "And after what your friends said to me today, you think that I would just go ahead and forgive you. Do you really think it would be that easy?" Dante said as his anger was coming out with each word he said. "I-I'm s-sorry. I'll leave now." she said as she started to sniffle and walk away from Dante. 'What am I doing? I want to apologize to her, not make them hate me even more.' "Fluttershy wait. I didn't mean to say that to you I... I was just a little mad about earlier. Look I just want to say that I'm sorry." "Why are you apologizing?" she said as she held in the tears. "Because I had no reason to say those terrible things to you yesterday. I was angry and I let it out, and because of that I made you cry and your friends hate me. What I'm asking is, will you forgive me?" "On one condition." she said cheerfully. "What is it?" he said cocking an eyebrow. "Um, well. I was hoping you could play some music for me sometime." "Of course. Anytime you want me to play you some music just tell me, okay?" instead of getting an answer, all Dante heard from Fluttershy was some very close to a squee as she hugged him. "I'll take that as a yes." _____________________________________________________________________________ As the memory faded, Dante slowly started waking up. After stretching his legs, he went over to the kitchen, poured himself some tea, and walked outside to see if he had any mail. As he returned to his house he saw there was a newspaper sitting on one of his bushes next to the door. He picked it up, walked inside, and looked at the front page to see the headline read 'Local Mare Enchants Music Idol!' Dante then dropped his tea and the paper and let out on simple sentence. "WHAT THE BUCK!"