Twilight and I lay in bed, embracing each other as we caught our breaths. We had just finished a rather...intense make out session, since we’d agreed to save anything...more until after we were married.
Yep, you heard me right. After so much time together since I’d returned from my travels and founding out what she really thought of me, Twilight and I had been growing closer and closer, so much so that I knew it was time to pop the big question.
We hadn’t picked a date yet or had even told anyone, not even Spike or Starlight. Not that we didn’t want them to know, we were just waiting for the right time.
“You know, Jake,” Twilight said.
“Yes, Twilight?” I said, looking down at her with a smile.
“I know we’ve been waiting for the right time to tell everypony that we’re engaged, but I feel bad that I have to keep it a secret so much,” she confessed.
I stroked her mane and kissed her forehead. “You just want to be able to wear the ring I bought you in public, don’t you?”
Twilight’ s face quickly turned a dark shade of red. Ever since I’d proposed to her in that antique shop, she’d been completely mesmerized by the ring I gave her. It was gold with a sizable diamond that matched the color of her eyes. She’d been telling me that the fact that I had been the one to give it to her made it worth more than anything she could ever think of.
“Well...it’s a gift from you,” Twilight reasoned. “What point would there be if I couldn’t show you how grateful I am?”
I had to admit, Twilight had a point. Also, I’d also been getting kind of eager to tell all our friends about the engagement. There was one thing holding me back, however.
“What about Starlight? I feel like telling her would...change what we have. I really don’t want to hurt her.”
Twilight nuzzled my side and tucked herself closer to me. “Neither do I, but... maybe it won’t be as bad as you think. What we have now is amazing to say the least, but I don’t see anything wrong with taking things a step further, and I doubt Starlight will either.”
I was already close enough to agreeing, but Twilight then did something that couldn’t have made me say no in a million years, not even for a million dollars: she nuzzled her muzzle against my neck and used one of her wings to stroke my sides.
“Alright, we can tell them.”
Twilight gave a tiny, cute cheer and started to kiss me again.
Before we got going again though, I held my hand out to back her away a little bit.
“What’s wrong?” she asked.
“Well, this isn’t just some small gossip between friends. This is huge news, that I think we should invite your brother and his wife over to hear, as well as Sunset,” I explained.
Twilight shrugged and tilted her head a little bit. “That’s fair. We can invite them and the rest of our friends over and tell them the news.”
“That’s good.” I quickly grabbed onto Twilight and turned over so I was over her, causing her to giggle. “Now where were we?”
Sunset watched Rainbow Dash and Applejack mash their controller buttons with a pure lack of amazement. Every now and then, their eternal feud could be somewhat entertaining, but it quickly got either boring or annoying.
Sunset looked over to the front door, wishing her other friends would arrive already. They agreed to have a sleepover at her house at seven o’clock, but Applejack and Rainbow Dash and both arrived early.
“You sure you don’t wanna join, Sunset?” Applejack asked.
Sunset shook her head and looked at the two feuding gamers. “No, no I think I’m good.”
“Alright, I’ll just have to kick AJ’s butt again. That never gets boring,” Rainbow Dash said. Applejack glared at her, and they both went back to their furious button mashing.
Sunset groaned just quiet enough to not be heard. Luckily, it wasn’t much longer before the doorbell rang. “I got it!” She wasted no time getting up and rushing to the door, happy to have an excuse to get away.
She opened the door to reveal the rest of her friends, each holding something unique. Rarity, to no one’s surprise, was holding her makeup kit. Fluttershy had some junk food, no doubt having helped Pinkie Pie carry it in. Speaking of which, the party girl was holding...more junk food. Twilight had surprisingly brought something other than a text book. It looked like a few movies to Sunset.
“Come on in, girls. Rainbow and AJ are already here,” Sunset said, stepping out of the way of the door.
“Thanks for inviting us over,” Fluttershy said, walking into the kitchen and dropping...a lot of food on the way.
“I’ll help her!” Pinkie needlessly yelled as she rushed to help her friend.
“Sorry we’re late. How long have...they been here?” Rarity asked as she too walked inside.
“Half an hour,” Sunset answered, doing her best to keep a straight face but unable to hold back an involuntary eye twitch.
Twilight recoiled in understanding. “Here, I brought some movies for us to watch. Maybe it’ll distract them for a while.”
Sunset took the three movies Twilight had and looked at the covers, looking back at Twilight with a look that just said ‘are you serious’.
“What? They’re good movies,” Twilight argued.
Sunset raised an eyebrow and looked back at the movies. “Hidden Figures, Gattaca, and Lorenzo’s Oil.”
Twilight couldn’t do anything but blush as Sunset had called her. Sunset, in turn, just laughed and shook her head. “Never change, Twilight.”
All of the sudden, Sunset’s stomach started to hurt as if she’d just finished spinning in a circle.
“Are you okay?” Twilight asked, rushing to her friend’s side.
“Yeah, just a little nauseous,” Sunset answered.
“You sure? How long have you felt like this?” Twilight asked as she helped Sunset into the living room.
“I don’t know, a couple of days, I guess,” Sunset answered as she sat down on the couch.
“Who wants nachos?” Pinkie called from the kitchen.
“Nachos? I’m starving!” Sunset said, immediately getting up and walking into the kitchen.
“Sunset, wait. You just said you were nauseous,” Twilight said, trying to hold onto Sunset’s arm.
“Not too nauseous for nachos,” Sunset replied, trying to pull her arm away.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea to eat-“ Twilight started to say.
“I said I’m fine,” Sunset said sternly as she forced her arm out of Twilight’s grip.
Twilight just stared on, dumbfounded at what had just happened.
“What’s her problem?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“I’m not sure, but I haven’t seen Sunset act like that since...ya know,” Applejack responded.
“I think I may have a theory,” Twilight whispered to herself.
In the kitchen, Sunset had finished making herself a plate of nachos when she her stomach suddenly started doing somersaults. She covered her mouth and ran into the bathroom. Rarity and Pinkie started to follow her, but the sound of Sunset vomiting immediately got them to walk back into the kitchen.
“What is it, Twi?” Rainbow asked.
“Well, it’s pretty much rock solid at this point, but I need to make sure. When exactly was the last time Jake was here?” Twilight responded.
A few minutes later, Sunset came back into the living room, wiping her mouth with a hand. All of her friends were sitting on the couch, the TV off.
“Oh, you guys didn’t have to wait for me,” Sunset said, going to join them.
“Before we put on a movie,” Twilight said, standing up. “There’s something we need to know. When was the last time you and Jake...hung out?”
“Ummm, random question, but it was just a few days ago,” Sunset answered.
“And is that when you started getting nauseous?” Rarity asked next.
“I don’t know. Maybe,” Sunset answered, confused as to what her friends were hinting at.
“We think we may know what’s going on and why you’re feeling so bad,” Applejack stated.
“Okay, and?” Sunset asked.
“Think about it; random outbursts, hunger, nausea, and it all started when Jake last visited,” Fluttershy pointed out.
“And you were super chill the next day we saw you. Like, you had a smile on your face the whole time. Even my face needs a break from smiling!” Pinkie added.
Sunset suddenly felt very uncomfortable and like she needed to go. “That’s none of your business. And what are you trying to say, anyhow?”
“Come on, Shimmer, connect the dots,” Rainbow said. “Here, if you need us to spell it out for you, Rarity went to the pharmacy while you were in the bathroom.”
She then held a small, rectangular box out to Sunset, who took it and looked at it.
After seeing what it was, she looked back up at her friends with a bit of anger. “Are you girls serious?”
“Take it? For us,” Twilight said.
“Fine,” was all Sunset said before storming off.
The girls sat back down, but didn’t do anything else.
“Anyone else feel a little bad about that intervention?” Rainbow asked, breaking the awkward silence that was starting to form.
“Well, if we’re right, we’d be doing the right thing,” Twilight said in response.
“And if we’re wrong?” Applejack asked.
“Then...we’re terrible friends who violated Sunset’s privacy,” Twilight hesitantly answered.
Rarity shook her head. “We can’t be wrong. It all just adds up.”
“Let’s just hope she forgives us either way,” Fluttershy interjected.
After a few minutes of silence, the bathroom door could be heard opening, and Sunset slowly walked out to join her friends.
Rainbow Dash was the first to stand up. “Well?”
“B-Before you tell us, we just want you to know that we’re really sorry, and-“ Twilight started.
“No, you were right,” Sunset said, causing all of the girls to gasp.
“Y-You mean-“ Rarity said.
“Yep,” Sunset cut off. “I’m pregnant.”
A few hours later, Sunset was curled up in a ball in her bed, crying as she shoved a pillow in her face, hoping to cover the sounds of her cries. Her friends had gone home, but only after telling her that they always had her back and that everything was gonna be okay.
‘How could everything be okay? Nothing is okay. What am I supposed to do? How am I...How am I supposed to tell Jake? He’s been nothing but an amazing boyfriend, and this will ruin his life.’
After a few more minutes of crying and thinking of what she was gonna do, Sunset forced herself to get up and find the journal. Before she could start writing it, however, it glowed.
Hey, Sunset. Sorry to just say something out of the blue, but can you come to Equestria tomorrow? Jake and I have some great news to tell everyone!
Sunset turned away from the page to keep her tear from falling on it. Before she could write anything, however, more writing appeared.
Oh, and out of curiosity have you met my brother Shining Armor and his wife Cadance?
Sunset couldn’t help but chuckle, despite herself. Of course she’d met them, she’d even admittedly tried to flirt with Shining Armor, though she didn’t know he was Twilight’s brother.
Yeah, I’ve met them
Great! So you’ll come?
I don’t know if
What’s wrong? Something bad happen?
Sunset thought about telling Princess Twilight right then, but didn’t.
No, I’ll be there
Great! See you tomorrow
Sunset fell down to the floor and curled back up into a ball. “Yeah, see you tomorrow.”
“You guys were called here too?” Rainbow Dash asked as she flew in the entrance to the castle.
“Yep, except we’ve got no clue as to why. You wouldn’t happen to know, would ya?” Applejack asked.
“Your guess is as good as mine,” Rainbow answered.
Twilight and I were hiding in the room over. Starlight and Spike were on their way to join us. Other than that, we were just waiting on Shining Armor, Cadance, and, as far as I know, Sunset. Twilight could barely contain herself, so much that I nearly had to physically hold her back.
“I get you’re excited, I am too, but calm down,” I said with a huge smile on my face.
“I just can’t help it! I’ve been wanting to tell our friends ever since we got engaged in the first place!” Twilight countered.
We had already planned the way we were gonna tell our friends: we were gonna gather in the foyer, tell everyone the gathering was my idea, and I was gonna propose to Twilight again, right there.
I thought I was gonna have to actually hold Twilight down if it weren’t for a crashing sound in a nearby room.
“Sunset’s here!” Twilight yelled, taking off in the direction of the crash.
I followed her, and sure enough, Sunset Shimmer was lying on the ground in front of the powered down mirror portal.
“Hey, Sunset, glad you could make it,” I said, helping her to her hooves.
“Thanks, Jake, I...one second.” Sunset immediately covered her mouth with one of her forehooves and turned a little pale. She looked around and looked like she was having a panic attack.
“Are you alright?” Twilight asked, nearly matching Sunset’s level of distress.
“I need a bathroom or a trash can or a bucket...I’m gonna puke,” Sunset said as she started to heave.
Twilight quickly used her magic to materialize a bucket which Sunset buried her head in and hurled. I couldn’t help but dry heave a little at the sight and sound.
Once she was done, Sunset backed away from Twilight and wiped her mouth with a hoof. “I am so sorry about that.”
“It’s fine, the portal must’ve shot you out too slow,” Twilight reasoned.
“Yeah...that’s probably it,” Sunset said as if she were hiding something.
“Is everything okay, Sunset?” I asked, picking up on her secretive tone.
Sunset quickly shook her head and seemed to snap out of whatever funk she was in. “Nothing, nothing. So, what is it you guys wanted to tell me?”
Hearing this, Twilight perked up again and started to hop in place like Pinkie Pie does. “You’ll see. Just...go out in the foyer, and we’ll tell once everypony gets here.”
Slowly but surely, Sunset walked out the door to the foyer.
Once we were alone, I quickly knelt down in front of Twilight. Sure enough, I could see the pure excitement in her eyes and knew it was only a matter of time before she lost it and blurted it to everyone in the foyer.
“Twilight, I need you to calm down. We don’t wanna ruin the surprise before your brother gets here. Just...calm down!” I said, her excitement slowly starting to infect me.
Twilight looked like she was about to explode. The only thing I could think to do was...kiss her. And that’s what I did. All of the excitement I felt in my fiancé just moments ago was all gone and now replaced with lust and passion.
Once we parted, Twilight opened her eyes, and we gazed into each others’, our love and affection surely on full display.
“I love you,” Twilight said, breaking the blissful silence.
“I love you too,” I replied. “And I’m so glad that I’m gonna get to spend the rest of my life with you.”
With that, we joined in a wide and tight embrace that made me question why it had taken me so long to fall in love with Twilight.
Once I broke the hug, much to Twilight’s dismay, I stood up and said, “I’ll go get the ring and meet you in the foyer.”
“O-Okay,” was all Twilight could say in response.
I walked over to the door, but before I went out, I looked back and blew Twilight one last kiss.
Twilight love-drunkenly wandered down the hall toward the foyer, eagerly hoping her brother and sister-in-law had arrived by now. The first time Jake had proposed had just been magical, she would have a hard time replicating it in front of her friends. She would have to act out the shock, the romance, and the acceptance.
After what felt like days of aimless wandering, Twilight eventually came to a door and heard voices on the other side.
“Sunset? Are you okay?” asked the voice of Starlight.
“Yeah, just a little lost is all,” replied the voice of Sunset.
“Did Twilight and Jake ask you to meet in the foyer too?” asked the voice of Spike.
“Yep, but I have no idea why. Do either of you two know?”
Despite herself, Twilight couldn’t help but press her ear up to the door.
“Nope. Jake just told us that he had a, quote ‘huge announcement’ and to go wait in the foyer,” Starlight answered.
“So Jake is the one with the announcement. Yippee,” Sunset said in a dapper tone.
Despite eavesdropping dropping being wrong, especially on friends, Twilight felt a little glad she was listening in on this conversation.
“Is...everything okay?” Spike asked.
“Fine, just...fine,” Sunset replied.
“Come on, we’re your friends. You can tell us,” Starlight pleaded.
There was a moment of silence on the other side of the door, causing Twilight to press her ear up again the door a little harder.
“Alright, but you have to promise not to tell anyone, especially Jake,” Sunset eventually said.
“Cross our hearts, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in our eye,” Spike said.
There was another moment where nothing was said before Sunset whispered something inaudible to Twilight. Ever so curious, Twilight pushed up a little more on the door.
“What do you mean ‘you’re pregnant’?” Starlight suddenly asked aloud.
The second she heard the word pregnant, Twilight pushed against the door in shock, accidentally opening it. She hit the ground with a thud as Sunset wore a terrified look on her face.
“T-Twilight, I-I can explain, I-I swear,” Sunset stuttered.
“Are you kidding? Why would this be bad news?” Twilight asked, much to everyone’s surprise.
“Wait, you’re not mad?” Starlight asked, clearly confused.
“Why would I be?” Twilight asked, forgetting what was going on.
“I thought for you’d want to be the one to have Jake’s first child,” Spike explained.
“Oh, well, yeah but...that’s not important right now. Sunset, did you not plan on telling Jake?” Twilight said, getting the focus off of herself.
“No! Or, not today at least. When you said you had news you wanted to share with everyone, I figured you’d be upset if I had something like this to tell you,” Sunset replied. “And besides, Jake’s gonna flip!”
“What makes you think that?” Starlight asked.
“”Well, has Jake ever said anything about having children to any of you?” Sunset asked, being met with two shaking heads and a shoulder shrug. “See! If he finds out he’s having a kid now, who knows how he’ll react!”
“What exactly do you plan to do then? You realize it’s gonna be pretty hard to hide a child from its father,” Spike explained.
“Wait! Can we discuss this another time? I...Jake has really something important to tell everypony,” Twilight said.
“Alright, that’d be great,” Sunset said, relieved she didn’t have to talk about this any further.
“Seriously, though, you have to tell Jake. It doesn’t have to be now, but you do have to tell him some time,” Twilight said before running out to find Jake. “Meet you in the foyer!”
All Starlight, Spike, and Sunset could do was shrug and make their way to the foyer.
It hadn’t taken me long to find the ring, but I still couldn’t resist practicing in front of the mirror.
“Twilight Sparkle, will you marry me?” I said to the mirror before immediately realizing how lame that sounded. I wanted everything I was going to say to come straight from the heart, to let Twilight know how much she’s meant to me, how much she’s always meant to me. One thing was for sure:
It had to be perfect, no questions asked.
“Twilight Sparkle, light of my life...no, that just makes it sound like I’m sucking up to her,” I said aloud.
I took a deep breath and prepared to try again...and then Twilight came into my room.
“Jake, what is taking so long? Everypony’s here!” Twilight told me.
“Sorry, just got a little carried away,” I told her.
“Just...come on!” she responded.
“Alright, alright,” I said, walking beside her toward the foyer. Guess I’ll have to think of a speech on the fly.
Once we arrived, we were greeted by Shining Armor and Princess Cadance.
“Glad to see you again. Hopefully there’ll be a bit less arguing this time,” Shining said.
“That’ll be a huge plus. I’m just glad Sunburst agreed to watch Flurry Heart on such short notice,” Cadance added.
“So what did you guys want to tell everypony?” Applejack asked.
Twilight took the opportunity to walk to the center of the room. “Actually, Jake is the one with the announcement.”
Assuming it was my cue, I walked up to Twilight and held one of her hooves. Looking at everyone present, I smiled and told them all, “I’m so glad every one of you could make it. I’m sorry if we pulled you away from something important, but this is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now.”
“Just tell us! We can’t wait much longer!” Rainbow Dash yelled, earning herself a few glares from her friends.
After taking a deep breath, I knelt down, facing Twilight, and held her other hoof.
“Oh my Celestia, this is really happening!” Cadance said in excitement.
“Calm down, sweetie,” Shining said.
I looked at the others in the room and saw they were all glowing with both shock and excitement. Turing back to Twilight, I began my speech.
“Twilight Sparkle, ever since we first met, even after my reaction to first seeing you, you’ve been...nothing but kind and...and accepting of me. When everyone else had turned their back on me, I...I could always count on you. You’re an amazing mare, and an even more amazing friend. Even when I didn’t return or acknowledge your feelings...you still loved me, a creature misplaced in a world that didn’t accept him. I...I just can’t go another day without knowing that...that y-you’ll always...” I trailed off, choking up on my tears of joy. Twilight was doing a good job of acting surprised, as she had began to cry as well.
With nothing more to say, I pulled the box from out of my back pocket and opened it for her to see it. Her reaction was the same when I had first shown her the ring, and it’s a look I will never forget. Her beautiful violet eyes grew wide with shock and excitement, and her breaths hitched on joy.
“J-Jake, I...” she tried to say, but couldn’t get any further.
“Twilight Sparkle, will you make me the happiest man, or creature in all of existence...and marry me?” I finally asked.
“Oh Jake, o-of course. Y-Yes, I’ll marry you!” Twilight cried, leaping into an embrace that brought cheers and congratulations from all of our friends. Even Starlight and Sunset looked excited, which I wasn’t sure to expect.
Before we were inevitably surrounded by our friends, I separated from Twilight to slip the ring over her horn. Sure enough, immediately after, everyone present had gathered around us in a huge group hug.
By now, everyone had given Twilight and me their sincerest congratulations and promises to attend the wedding before going home.
It was just Starlight, Sunset, Spike, Twilight, and me in the library.
“Don’t worry, nothing’s gonna change between-“ I told Starlight and Sunset.
Starlight, to my surprise, cut me off before I could finish. “We know, and quite frankly, we were surprised it had taken you this long to propose to Twilight.”
“Wait, really?” Twilight asked, just as shocked as I was.
“Yeah. We know that you two have the most history together, so we knew it was only a matter of time before one of you proposed,” Sunset answered.
“Huh, well...alright then,” I said with a shrug.
It wasn’t long before Sunset yawned and got up. “Well, I’d better get going.”
“Hold on, are you sure you’re not still a little sick from earlier,” I said, standing up as well.
“I’m fine, Jake. It’s gone away since then,” Sunset replied.
“Jake’s right. The portal may not be too safe for the baby,” Spike said before immediately covering his mouth with his claws.
“Spike!” Starlight half-shouted and half-squeaked, covering Spike’s mouth as well.
“W-What?” I said, turning back toward Twilight, Starlight, and Spike.
“Ummm...” was all Twilight could say.
I turned back toward Sunset and asked, “What baby?”
All Sunset could do was look back at me with worried eyes.
“Whatever it is, just tell me,” I said.
“I-I’m...I’m pregnant,” Sunset told me.
And just like that, all the feeling in my legs left, and all the blood rushed from my head. The last thing I heard before blacking out was Sunset yelling my name.
Author’s Note
Alright, just so you know, I’m not sure when I’m gonna get back on this line of continuity. That being said, don’t expect the next chapter to immediately follow up after this