Thorax and Twilight stared at each other for a long time, almost 10 minutes passed by till Twilight realized she was still laying on top of Thorax.
Her cheeks flared a bright red, and she quickly flew off of him, giving him an apologetic look as she landed a few feet away.
Thorax looked back at her with a dazed expression, before quickly shaking his head, and quickly got up onto his hooves, also looking visibly flustered.
Twilight opened and closed her mouth a few times, her ears folding back against her head, before she finally blurted out what she wanted to say.
“T-Thorax..what does this make us?” She asked quietly, and the tall changeling didn't even have to scan the purple mares emotions to see she was positively terrified of the answer, even if her cheeks were still bright red from the previous encounter.
Thorax took a deep breath, and looked at Twilight with , what he hoped was, a soft expression, and said , a little shakily..”Pr-Princess- I mean, Twilight- sorry- “ he stammered mid sentence “I think that, since we're already Friends-” -Thorax felt a slight sting in his chest at that- “-That we should start slow, go on a few...dates,and if everything goes well, a-as the legends say- w-well...I think you can guess?” The king blushed at the smaller mares gaze.
Twilight looked like she was stuck between a state of shock and happiness, and Thorax smiled a little, relieved.
When Twilight got over her shock, she squealed and in a flash, a number of papers and quills appeared out of thin air, causing Thorax to take a step back in surprise.
“Oh, We have so much to plan!” Twilight said excitedly, already beginning to write something on one of the papers “The first date, where to go, at what time- oooh-! Schedules! “ the purple mare was already almost done with one page, when she felt another magic aura take the paper away from her “hey!”.
Thorax have Twilight a sheepish grin, and she quickly realized she started planning ahead without telling him, she lowered her ears and blushed “Sorry Thorax, I got a little..excited?” the alicorn said, giggling nervously.
Thorax smiled reassuringly, before reading over the paper, his smile widening a little bit “It's fine”, he said after a moment of silence “I think this can be arranged, anyways! So you don’t have to redo the page, so , tomorrow at ..um..A-Amour de la rose? At seven?” Despite his calm words and expression, internally, to be blunt, he was freaking the buck out, his stutter proving that, too.
The green changeling took a deep breath and nodded , as if to assure himself, but Twilight could see he was nervous from his posture - and his rapidly beating heart - and smiled at him, again, which made the heartbeat skip.
"Yes, Thorax, it's a date!" Obviously they both already knew this, but it didn't stop the pink blush from forming on her -and his-cheeks.
Twilight, however, wasn't much better in the 'panic department', on the inside she was screaming out all the possible things that could go wrong on the date, that Thorax would never want to see her again if she messed up somehow, oh sweet Celestia what would she dO?!-
Twilight was knocked out of her thought by a green hoof waving itself in front of herself.
"Are you okay, Twilight?" Thorax asked , with a worried expression on his face.
He just watched Twilight standing there for a minute, her eyes slowly dilating, becoming smaller and smaller, till he got worried her iris would dissaper forever if it went on.
The purple mare quickly nodded, looking embarrassed that she got stuck in her panic filled thoughts, and smiled , again, nervously "Yes , I'm fine, totally- haha-".
She wasn't fine, but neither was Thorax, as they were both panicking internally.
Oh dear.
What a comedy.
Thorax looked out of the window, perhaps to distract himself, when he noticed how late it was.
Gasping, he quickly straightened up , making Twilight look at him in surprise.
"What's wrong?" She asked in a worried voice, making the changeling look at her, and say "It's getting dark, and I have something important to discuss with Pharynx, I'm sorry Twilight" he looked visibly bummed out about this, as did Twilight, but she understood , and nodded.
"it's fine" the princess said, and gave Thorax a gentle smile "We'll see each other tomorrow anyway, right?" .
Thorax blushed, and with a goofy smile, nodded, before flying out of the open window, yelling "Bye Twilight!" Over his shoulder, before realizing the whole Ponyville must've heard him, which caused him to almost crash into a tree, but he regained his balance and continued on his way home.
Twilight giggled at the adorable image, and turned around, walking towards her room, she had a dress to pick out, after all.
Wait.
Didn't she invite Thorax here because she planned to invite changelings to the next Grand Galloping Gala?
Twilight stood still for a moment, two moments, maybe too long, before a loud SMACK filled the hallway, along with a loud explanation of "UGHHH!".
Most likely anypony from three miles away would have heard it
Spike, who was just returning home from Rarity's boutique, heard the loud noise from inside the castle and raised an ...err...place where eyebrow is supposed to be ? Not even Spike himself knows what it's called.
Spike walked in on Twilight pacing the floor, muttering about 'some stupid soulmate thing causing her to forget her duties'.
Spike slowly backed away from the fuming mare, deciding to go to sleep early for once, if she's in THAT kind of mood.
Twilight heard a door close gently, too gently, and slowly turned towards it with a blank expression...
Before...
"SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!" 'oh boy' Spike winced.
"Y-Yes, Twilight?" He peeked out of the door he was behind with a nervous grin.
Twilight glared at him for a moment, before sighing and saying "I have something to tell you Spike".
Spike gulped slowly, sitting down on the ground.
They were gonna there for a while, by the look Twilight was giving him.