Jany’s POV:
It had been a month since Cinnamon Apple apologized to the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Cheeseball. He was on good terms with them, but none of them still considered him as their friend. Except Jany, of course.
She wasn’t going to admit it to anypony, but she had a huge crush on the colt. She hung out with him a few more times, but was still too busy with her other friends. Every time she saw him at school, she had heart-eyes, but Fluffball still thought it was about Sun Ray.
But ever since Fluffball had started shipping Jany with Sun Ray, she also started noticing how pretty Sun Ray was and how she always stuck out her tongue when she was focusing on her math work and how her green eyes glistened every time she laughed.
Jany really had no clue what was happening to her. She knew she didn’t have a crush on Sun Ray (or at least she thought so), and that she really wanted to ask out Cinnamon for Hearts and Hooves Day. But she had no idea what her friends would think of that. Also, she knew Fluffball was trying to plan something for her and Sun Ray. She kept insisting not to, but her cousin wouldn’t listen.
The holiday of love was coming up in a few days, and everypony was tasked with making a card for each one of their classmates. Jany and Fluffball sat at Fluffball’s kitchen table making the valentines.
Fluffball was currently making a huge heart card for Cheeseball. It was orange, his favorite color, and had drawings of heart-shaped cheese on it. She was currently squeezing orange glitter-glue onto the card.
Jany was making a fake one for Cinnamon. She already made the real one for him. It was a poem about the time they spent together, and at the end it asked if he would be her special somepony. She blushed as she thought about it, and then wrote a fake message on the fake card.
“Oooh, are you thinking about Sun Ray?” Fluffball teased.
“Huh? No!” Jany glared at her cousin.
“Oh yeah? Then why are you blushing and smiling like you’re in loooove?” she asked.
“I don’t know, I just really like Hearts and Hooves Day!” Jany replied.
“Have you made a card for your Sunny yet?” Fluffball smirked. Jany hoofpalmed. Ever since she’d accidentally called Sun Ray that nickname, Fluffball had never let her live it down.
“She likes you too, you know,” Fluffball said as she stuck some heart stickers to the valentine.
“Wait what? She does?” asked Jany.
“See, you do like her! Look how hopeful you were! And yeah, Cheeseball told me.”
“What? Since when is Cheeseball telling you Sun Ray’s private information?”
“Awww look how much you care about her!” Fluffball said.
“I care about everypony’s privacy!” Jany snapped. She turned back to the card she was writing for Cinnamon, which said “Dear Cinnamon, Happy Hearts and Hooves Day. Love, Jany”. She added a cute little heart at the end, folded the card, and put it in her pile.
Finally, it was time to write a card for Sun Ray. Jany didn’t know what to write that would be nice but also not make her cousin tease her.
“Dear Sun Ray, Happy Hearts and Hooves Day. Love, Jany”.
“OOOOH You wrote loveeee!”
“Wait, I did?!” Jany looked down and saw she did indeed write “Love”. Why did I do that?! I only wanted to do that for Cinnamon’s, she thought. Jany quickly erased it and wrote “From”. Fluffball took one of the stickers from her sticker sheet and stuck it onto the card Jany was writing. The sticker was a pink heart that said “be mine”.
“What the hay, Fluffball!” Jany took the sticker off and stuck it to Fluffball’s card for Cheseball. Fluffball smiled at it.
“Do you think Cheeseball will like the card?” Fluffball asked.
Jany read it aloud, “‘Dear Cheeseball, you’re such a nice colt and I really really like you. I love spending time with you and I’m so glad I met you. Will you be my valentine? Love, Fluffball.’ Aww, yeah! I think he’ll love it!”
“Really?”
“Yeah!” Jany replied. Fluffball grinned and put her cards into a bag. Jany put her own pile of cards into a bag, as well. Then, the cousins started making their Hearts and Hooves Day boxes. Everypony in their class was also tasked with decorating a box for ponies to put cards in.
Jany wasn’t great at art, so she just put a bunch of colored swirls all over hers. Fluffball drew trees on hers with red hearts on them and then put lots of glitter. Jany liked the idea of using glitter and poured a bunch of pink sparkles onto her card.
When they were finished, Jany went next door to the Castle of Chaos and spent the rest of her night at home with her parents.
Violet’s POV:
Violet Sparkle sat on her bed about to cry. Something was definitely wrong with her. She had a crush on two ponies! Everypony knew you could only like one pony! Her stomach was in knots and her heart ached with worry. She was making cards for everypony in her class, and was left on the last two. Waterfall Mist and Lucas.
“Hey, Violet! Are you okay?” Star, her older brother, was standing at the doorway to her room. He was an orange colt with wavy blond hair and green eyes.
“Oh! I’m fine,” she lied. She wiped a tear from her eye with her hoof.
“No, you’re not. What’s wrong?” he sat next to her, “Is this about a crush?” Violet looked up at him scared, but then nodded.
“It’s okay, you can tell me anything! I won’t judge you. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” he said, doing the motions as he said the words. Violet giggled.
“I think something’s wrong with me…” Violet said.
“Nothing’s wrong with you, Vi-Vi! What makes you think that?” he asked.
“I… I don’t wanna tell you…” she replied.
Star nodded, “Okay, you don’t have to. But I want to tell you something that I haven’t told anypony before. There’s a filly in my class named PhoenixTDM and I… I have a crush on her…”
“Oooh, really?! You have a crush?!” Violet squealed.
“Yeah, but… I’ve always been so mean to her. Since the day we met when I was in kindergarten. I knew I liked her, but I’ve always been a bully to her and her friends. I don’t even know why… I just didn’t want to be bullied like when I was in preschool,” he explained.
“Oh. Well I think you should apologize and tell her the truth!” Violet said.
“I don’t want anypony to know that I’m…” he looked away.
“No, I don’t mean that, I just mean tell her and her friends that you were bullied as a foal and that you regret being mean to them!” Violet replied.
“Yeah, maybe I will…” he said.
“Thanks for telling me that, big bro! Okay now I think I’m ready to tell you why I’m sad. But please don’t judge me or tell anypony!!!”
“I won’t! I swear,” Star responded. Violet smiled and then took a deep breath.
“I have a crush on two ponies!” she admitted. She closed her eyes and buried her head in her hooves because she didn’t want to see his reaction.
“Violet, there’s nothing wrong with liking more than one pony!” Star said.
“Really?! But in every movie and book there’s always only two ponies who get together! And when you see ponies on dates, it’s only couples!” Violet replied.
“Well, it’s not common, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. Who are the ponies you like?” he asked.
“My best friends, Lucas and Waterfall…”
“Aww! You should tell them you like them!” Star said.
“No! They’ll think I’m weird!” Violet replied.
“I mean I've seen the way those two look at you when they come over for playdates.”
“Wait what! Do you actually think they like me?!” Violet asked.
“I dunno but you should see what happens! But just know, you can’t be with both of them unless all three of you agree to,” Star told her.
“Okay!” Violet grinned and her brother walked out of her room. She turned back to the valentines she was writing and wrote “Dear Waterfall Mist, you’re super pretty! I want to tell you and Lucas something at recess today! Love, Violet Sparkle.” She wrote a similar message to Lucas, but called him handsome. Violet put all her valentines in a bag and then sighed in happiness and relief at knowing her feelings were normal, not weird.
Jany’s POV:
Jany woke up the next day with nervous pain in her stomach and her heart fluttered when she thought of Cinnamon. She jumped out of bed and quickly got ready. She was about to run out of the house when her mom stopped her.
“Happy Hearts and Hooves Day, Jany!” Jewel gave her a plate of pancakes that were heart shaped with strawberries and strawberry syrup on top.
“Thanks, Mommy!!! Happy Hearts and Hooves Day!” She scarfed down the delicious breakfast and gave her mom a hug.
“I love you, Mommy! Tell Daddy I love him, too!” Jany galloped out the door towards her cousin’s house.
“I love you too, Jany!” her mom called. Jany smiled and then knocked on her cousin’s door.
“Good morning, how-” Jany was interrupted by Fluffball saying, “Fantazzlistic! Now, I have a plan for you to ask out Sun Ray!”
“Oh my goodness, for the last time, I DON’T HAVE A CRUSH ON HER!” Jany yelled.
“Then why do you always give her heart eyes and get all awkward and stutter around her?” Fluffball smirked.
“I don’t know! And I don’t give her ‘heart eyes’!” Jany replied. Fluffball giggled and Jany remembered what her cousin had told her the night before. That Sun Ray had a crush on her? That wasn’t true, was it? Cheeseball would never tell her something like that. Or would he?
The fillies teleported to school and there was a banner on the front of the schoolhouse that read “Happy Hearts and Hooves Day”. They galloped towards their two best friends under the tree and Fluffball jumped towards Cheeseball to hug him. He yelped as they both crashed down onto the snow. Sun Ray and Jany laughed.
“Happy Hearts and Hooves Day, Cheesy!” Fluffball yelled.
“Happy Hearts and Hooves Day, Fluffy,” Cheeseball replied. Both of them blushed.
“Awwwww,” Jany and Sun Ray said. The two love-birds stood up from the ground and Fluffball looked at Jany.
“Jany, do you have something to say to Sunny?” she smirked. Jany rolled her eyes.
“Um… Happy Hearts and Hooves Day, Sun Ray,” Jany said.
“Thanks! You, too!” Sun Ray smiled. The school bell rang and everypony went into the schoolhouse.
“Happy Hearts and Hooves Day, everypony! Today is about celebrating the ponies you love and care about. Your family, friends, and for some ponies, their special somepony!” Mrs. Cheerilee announced. Fluffball looked at Cheeseball and Jany looked at Cinnamon. Nopony noticed, though, since the colts sat at the desks in front of them.
“Now, it’s time for the class party! Take out your card boxes and valentines for everypony! You can go around the class and drop off the cards, and I have snacks and candy for when you’re done!” All the fillies and colts jumped out of their seats and the four best friends all met up with their bags of cards. They all talked as they absent-mindlessly put cards in their classmates’ boxes.
The students had heart-shaped rice krispie treats, heart candies, and reeses pieces for snacks from Mrs. Cheerilee, and everypony had an amazing time.
Right before recess, everypony opened their cards. Cheeseball blushed when he saw the card from Fluffball. He wasn’t sure what to answer, but he really really loved it. Lucas and Waterfall Mist both wondered anxiously what Violet had to say to them. Cinnamon smiled at the “love, Jany”, and she smiled at “love, Cinnamon”.
But Jany also got another card. It read “Dear Jany, meet me at Sugarcube Corner after school. Love, your secret admirer.” Jany wondered who it was from. It didn’t match the writing on any of the other cards! She hoped that it was from Cinnamon. Jany didn’t show any of her friends the card she got in case it was.
Violet’s POV:
It was finally time for recess. Violet went to the playset and sat near the slide, waiting for her two crushes to get there. She saw her friends approaching and smiled, but was also nervous. She was scared they were gonna think she was weird or they would only like her as a friend.
“Hey, Violet!” Waterfall greeted.
“Happy Hearts and Hooves Day, Violet!! What did you wanna tell us?” Lucas asked. They both sat down in front of her. The filly and colt gazed at Violet Sparkle with hopeful eyes.
“Well… Umm….” Violet started, blushing, “I have a crush on both of you!” she looked down to avoid seeing their reactions. She slowly looked up and they were both blushing and staring at her with their mouths open in shock.
“Really?” Lucas asked with a smile.
“Yeah… Please don’t think I’m weird!” Violet replied.
“You’re not weird! I also like both of you,” Waterfall admitted.
“Me too! I thought I was the weird one,” Lucas said.
“Oh my Celestia, really?!” Violet beamed. Her friends both nodded.
“My brother Star said there’s nothing wrong with liking two ponies! I felt so much better after he told me that,” Violet explained.
“Guys, willyoubemyspecialsomeponies?” Waterfall blurted. Violet and Lucas both looked at each other, blushed, and yelled “Yes!!!” They all shared a group hug and played in the snow for the rest of recess.
Meanwhile, Cheeseball and Fluffball were having their own conversation under the tree while Jany and Sun Ray went off playing a game to give their friends time to speak alone.
“Fluffball, the card you wrote was so sweet, I really liked it,” he smiled.
“Thanks! So… What’s your answer to the question?”
“I don’t know… I mean I really don’t want to have a special somepony yet. We’re too young for that!”
“I’m not asking you to be my special somepony, just my valentine!” she grinned.
“Hmm… Well, okay,” he responded.
“Yay!” Fluffball hugged him and they both fell onto the snow again. Their friends walked back over and congratulated the two of them.