Noah stepped into the jewelry store. The bell jingled above him. Looking around, he saw what Fluttershy was talking about. The bracelet she’s been eyeing for.
Going up to the display case, he studied the details. It does have a songbird on it like his crush stated, with pink beads. Two beads separated, where he saw that the charm and the beads were being held by a clear, elastic band.
He took his eyes off of it, tapping on the bell. It let out a gentle ring. He was about to do it again when he saw an older mare coming up to him. Seeing her, he put on a polite, friendly, expression smile. “Hi, how are you?”
“Good.” The mare returned the same feeling. “Is there anything you want?” she asked, placing her hooves on the countertop to where all of the jewelry are at, inside of it.
Noah gestured the item in the display case. “I would like to have the bracelet. The one with the songbird and pink beads on it.”
Pulling out a small, nice bag, she took out the bracelet, wrapped it up in some paper, placing it in there. “Here you go. It costs ten bits.” Noah gave her the coins. “Thank you. Here’s your change.” She gave him ten coins in return. “Is this for somepony in particular?”
He took the bag, answering her. “It’s for Fluttershy. For Hearth’s Warming Eve.” He gazed out the window. “My friends and I’ve been told that Ponyville is next to get snow. Either tomorrow or the other day.”
The other pony on the other side of the display case nodded. “Yep, you are correct.” She peered over him. “You might want to hide this - she’s coming,” she whispered, pointing her nose to the door.
Glancing behind him, his heart skipped a beat when he saw the girl of his dreams walk in. Fluttershy went up to him, and he quickly gave her gift back to the shopkeeper.
She took the hint, placing the bag on the floor next to her. “Fluttershy,” she spoke in greeting. “Here to buy something?”
“I came to see what Noah’s doing.” Looking down, the pegasus saw a bare spot. Her ears drooped. “Guess someone bought the bracelet I was eyeing for,” she assumed. “Oh well,” she shrugged her wings. “I can get it next year - or the year before that.” She shyly looked at the stallion. “When winter comes, do you wanna help with the animals? It’s not long until they’re going to hibernate.” Her eyes went to the window. “The birds had already left for the south for it is getting a bit chilly out.”
Noah glanced at the shopkeeper then back at the pretty pony. “I can help you with the animals, Fluttershy,” he replied, looking back at the older mare. He did a quick wink at her. “I went to see if the bracelet is still here. Turned out someone else bought it,” he lied in a good way.
“Mm. Fine by me. I’ll meet you at the sanctuary for tea time with a few of my critters.”
Tea time? The Blue Ranger kept his thought to himself, shifting from one hoof to the other. He never knew she had tea time with her animals. Yet, she wanted him to join her and her animals. Aren’t tea times for girls? He had to ask. “Isn’t it for, you know, for females?”
Fluttershy patted him on his shoulder. “It isn’t just for girls. I have a few critters who are boys. They enjoy having tea with me.” The two sides of her face went from yellow to a touch of pink. “I’ll see you there.” Turning, she went out the door.
Letting out a relief sigh, he was happy because she hadn’t known he bought the accessory he got for her for the holiday.
Getting the gift for her back from the shopkeeper, he went out the door, wishing her a nice day.
He headed to the cottage. When he got there, he went to his room, hiding the bracelet in a spot where he would know where it's at, except she wouldn’t know where it is.
With the present in the hiding spot, he stepped out of his room, bumping into Hazel. “Sorry,” he apologized, shutting the door behind him. “I wasn’t paying attention,” he guessed. “Are you going to have tea with Fluttershy?”
She shook her head. “I don’t like tea. I prefer other drinks. What about you?”
“She wanted me to join her with her animals,” he sighed, heading to the stairs. “Besides, it won’t be so bad.”
“Okay, you two enjoy yourself.”
“I will.” Opening up the front door, he went back outside, walking to where the sanctuary is at.
The Blue Ranger made his way to Fluttershy when he reached the area, seeing her at a round table with a robin, a chipmunk, a squirrel, a skunk, and a ferret, with teacups in front of them.
There was an empty spot next to the cute pink maned girl, who picked up the pink and purple teapot, pouring the liquid into each of her animal friends’ cups. Her ear twitched behind her, hearing hoofsteps, along with taking a sniff from her nose to smell a familiar scent.
Smiling, she saw him. “Glad you’re here,” she expressed delightfully, waving him over. “You’ll be sitting between Nutty and I.” She looked at the squirrel. “Is it okay for him to be between us?”
Nutty made some squirrel noise, moving to the side. Noah sat at his spot, looking down at his cup while it got filled up with tea.
“Sugarcube?” Snapping his eyes off his cup, he was presented a bowl of white sugar shaped into cubes. “Do you want one or two?”
Noah picked up his cup with both hooves. “Two would be nice,” he responded politely like a gentlecolt.
Fluttershy plunked two sugarcubes into his cup. She put two in her own cup. “Have you ever had a tea team?” She offered the bowl to her critters, who each took one, placing them into their own cups.
He had to shake his head at this. “I wouldn’t say I’m into tea time. The way I see it, it’s more of a girl thing. Boys are normally playing video games or throwing a football around.” His lips formed into a smirk. “Unlike me. I would always be in my room doing science-y stuff.”
Picking her cup up with her wing, the pegasus took a nice sip. “Do you use chemicals?”
“Ahh, no…” he slowly answered. “My parents don't want the house to explode.” Looking down at his cup, he watched the sugar-up cubed getting smaller. “Speaking about parents…” he brought up when a new thing came into his head. “Would they be surprised to see you with someone like…”
“You?” The unicorn nodded at her guess. “Noah, I’m sure they’ll love to see you. I told them who you are, what pony you are, explaining to them about my friend, Twilight, who would use her magic to get you to walk on clouds.”
Noah had to shrug in reply. “Eh, I guess I can take what you said.” He lifted his eyes until he was looking straight at her. “Fluttershy?” He called her name. “May I… May I say something to you?”
Setting her cup down, she gave him worried eyes. “You can tell me anything.”
Fiddling his hooves, thoughts rang in his mind. Thoughts like: She doesn’t like you. You’re better off being friends. What if she doesn’t have the same feelings as you do?
The more his thoughts spoke to him, he became heavily nervous, forcing himself to speak. “May I get something for the tea?” he blabbered out.
Really writer!? You have him say something else!?
It’s my story - I’m writing it. Are you going to keep breaking the fourth wall? I don’t mind, but your timing was off by a mile.
Probably. The story needs comedy use. You won’t know when the Queen of Fourth Wall Breaking will jump in. You may get back to writing.
Great, she’s going to be doing this throughout the whole story…
You betcha.
Go away! God! Anyway, Noah-
Have him come over to my place?
Grr! Anyway, Noah smacked himself in the face with his hoof, hitting his muzzle. It wasn’t what he wanted to say, except it was too late - for him, at least.
Fluttershy couldn’t help except to grin at his offer. “Sure. You can go to Sugarcube Corner to see if there’s any teacakes we can have. Pinkie Pie will probably give them to you for free.”
Noah stood up, fixing up his blue blazer. “I’ll go get them. What does her place look like?”
“It looks like a gingerbread house,” she described, picking up her cup. “You won’t miss it.” She took a drink from her teacup. “We’ll be waiting right- Slinky!” She yanked the bowl away from the ferret. “Don’t eat the sugarcubes,” she scolded, keeping them away from him. “We’ll be waiting for you,” she directed her words at the unicorn.
He returned a smile, this time his own face turning a shade of pink. He walked away.
When he was sure he was far from the sanctuary, he stomped his front hoof. “Good job, dude,” he berated himself in a scolding manner. “You could have said those three words to her.” He breathed out of his nose, walking down the dirt road. “I’ll have to try again for another time. I wouldn’t want those three words to be too late before my friends and I leave.”
A wonderful aroma filled his nostrils when he got to Sugarcube Corner, the smell lingering out from an open window.
He entered the building, where he was greeted by two, tiny ponies - a colt and a filly. The colt is a pegasus, while his sister is a unicorn.
They were adorable like her.
He went down to their level, more like laying on the floor. “Hi, what are your names?” He had to laugh at himself. Of course, they won’t answer. They’re babies, after all.
“Sup, Noah.” Jake came into the dining room with a tray of cupcakes. “I see you met Pound and Pumpkin Cake.” He placed the tray on the counter. He picked up one of the pastries, going up to his best friend. “You want one? Pinkie and Sugar Cupcake had pulled them out of the oven. They’re as good as fro-yos.”
His best pal declined his offer. “I’m here to pick tea cakes for Fluttershy’s tea time. I’m joining her.”
“Ooo,” the Green Ranger whooed. “Guess you-”
“No, I hadn’t, Jake,” he stopped him. “I was going to tell her, but I said something else instead. Stupid, huh.”
“No.” Jake shook his head, biting into the soft dessert. He swallowed. “I tried asking Gia out on a date - when you barged in,” he said, pretending to be mad.
Noah simply chuckled. “My bad, man.” He stood back up, watching the twins going over to their toys. Pumpkin Cake put a rubber chicken in her mouth, chewing on it like a puppy would do. Her brother, Pound Cake, picked up one of the blocks, hitting it on the other one. “Where are their parents?” He saw the unicorn filly spit out the toy, replacing it with a binky.
“They went to Indianeighpolis,” his friend told him.
“The name is similar to Indianapolis,” Noah answered with an arched brow. “Interesting. I’ve been reading the History Of Equestria for two and half months, learning everything about this world.” He came up to the counter. “You know, I did read a similar place to our home - Haywood.”
This got the other stallion’s attention, finishing up the cupcake. “Haywood sounds like Harwood.” They both saw Pinkie and Sugar walked into the dining room. “Pinks, Sugar, Noah is here to pick up teacakes,” he told the girls.
“Teacakes? Sure.” The Power Pony went back to the kitchen to get them.
Pinkie let out a gleeful sound. “Yippee,” she cheered, doing a small dance over to the twins, picking one of them up. “The writer of this crossover has you-” She placed an arm around the geek. “-come over to Sugarcube Corner.”
“Huh?” Noah and Jake exchange confused looks. Pinkie can only giggle, releasing the unicorn, placing Pound Cake, the one she’s holding, onto the Green Ranger’s back.
“You’ll understand someday,” she reassured them, grabbing Pumpkin Cake, also placing her on Jake’s back, letting her sit next to her brother. “Jakey, mind putting the twins up for their nap?”
“I can do that.” With the foals on him, he made his way upstairs, the twins having a nice ride.
With Jake upstairs, the unicorn stallion went up to the party pony. “Pinkie Pie... “
“Yes.”
“I’m going to be honest with you, but...you are random.”
She took it as a compliment. “Thanks.”
“No, really. What makes you-” He paused when the other giddy pony came with a box, knowing straight away it was the teacakes. Sugar Cupcake gave him the box. “Do you want…”
“We got you covered.” Pinkie pushed him out the door. “Go on. Have fun with Fluttershy at her tea party.”
“Tea time,” he simply corrected, holding the box to his chest. “Bye, see you later,” he waved, walking out of the building.
With the teacakes, he walked his way back to the sanctuary, where the girl of his dreams is waiting for his return.