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// Hearts and Hooves Day! (part 2) 
// Story: CMC: The Third Generation 
// by PhoenixTDM 
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Jany’s POV:

After the fun day at school, Jany walked eagerly to Sugarcube Corner, Ponyville’s bakery restaurant. She was feeling more anxious than usual, with butterflies in her stomach. She opened the door and hoped to see her crush, Cinnamon Apple sitting at a table waiting for her. But when walked in, she saw the pony she hoped didn’t send it. Sun Ray Dash. The sky-blue pegasus filly sat fidgeting with her hooves at a table. 
Does this mean Fluffball was telling the truth?! Sun Ray actually likes me?! she thought. Jany walked up to her friend.
“Um… Hi…” Jany said.
“Jany?” Sun Ray asked. Huh, she seems surprised to see me!
“Wait, did you not write the note?” Jany asked.
“No? I got a note!” She pulled out an identical note to Jany’s, except it was addressed to Sun Ray instead.
“Fluffball…” Jany hissed. A pale yellow unicorn stallion with a blue mane walked up to them. 
“Hello, um- fillies! How are,” he snickered, “you doing this lovely Hearts and Hooves Day?” Jany looked into his purple eyes and saw a flash of green. Fluffball.
“Oh, we’re doing great! Can we have a strawberry milkshake?” she asked, “with two straws?” she smirked and Sun Ray’s eyes widened.
“Huh?!” Sun Ray cried. Jany ignored her and Fluffball disguised as the waiter grinned from ear to ear.
“Of course! You two make a lovely couple,” she walked away giggling and Jany turned back to Sun Ray.
“What the hay? No offense Jany, but I only like you as a friend,” Sun Ray said.
“Yeah I feel the same way. That was Fluffball disguised as the waiter! I’m trying to prank her, play along,” Jany replied.
“Ohhhh! That makes way more sense. Okay, this is actually really funny, now. But why did Fluffball try and set us up on a date?” Sun Ray asked.
“I don’t know, she thinks I have a crush on you for some reason,” she explained, adding a quick “I don’t, by the way.”
“Okay, good. No offense again but I’m glad you don’t. There’s nothing wrong with you, I just don’t like anypony in that way,” Sun Ray replied.
“Really? You don’t like anypony?” Jany asked.
“No, I’ve never even liked anypony before. I might eventually but right now I don’t even want to like anypony, it’s weird,” Sun Ray replied, “but do you like anypony?” Jany blushed, but then Waiter Fluffball came back to them levitating a giant strawberry milkshake the size of Jany’s head. It was topped with whipped cream and strawberries on top.
“Enjoy, fillies~” Fluffball said as she walked away. Jany and Sun Ray looked at each other and burst into a fit of giggles.
“How do we trick her even more? This is really funny,” Sun Ray asked.
“Ooh I see you’re coming to like pranks, now,” Jany smirked.
“Yeah, I guess I am. I never really saw the appeal about pranking until now,” Sun Ray replied. Jany looked around and saw Fluffball creeping closer and closer to them.
“Okay, I see Fluffball going closer to us, let’s act like we’re in love or something,” Jany said. 
“Okay!” Sun Ray raised her voice and dramatically said, “Oh, Jany, you’re soooo pretty!”
“You are, too, Sunny!” Jany leaned her chin on her hoof and looked at her friend with an “in love” expression. They both tried to hold in their laughter as Fluffball watched them, smiling from ear to ear. Jany put her other hoof on Sun Ray’s and Sun Ray smiled bashfully, all while they tried their hardest not to burst out laughing.
Suddenly, Cinnamon Apple walked through the door. Jany’s eyes widened as he looked from Jany, to Sun Ray, to their hooves touching, back to Jany and tears formed in his eyes. He turned around and ran out of the restaurant. Jany snatched her hoof away from Sun Ray’s and jumped out of the chair.
“What’s wrong?” Sun Ray asked.
“Nothing- I mean- I have to go to something. Bye,” Jany galloped away after Cinnamon. She followed his hoofsteps in the snow all through Ponyville and to his Apple Farm, and saw her crush sitting down crying by an apple tree at the front of the farm.
“Cinnamon?” she asked as she approached him. He looked up at her, sniffled, and wiped away a tear with his hoof.
“Oh… Hey, Jany. Why did you leave your date?” he asked. “With my cousin…” he added quietly.
“No, we weren’t on a date! Fluffball tricked us to be there for some reason, so we were trying to trick her back by playing along! I only like her as a friend! And I don’t even like fillies, at least I don’t think I do,” Jany explained, sitting down next to him.
“Really?”
“Yeah!” Jany replied.
“Um… Do you? I mean, do you like anypony?” he asked, touching the snow with his hoof.
“Yeah,” she admitted, looking away. He looked back up at her.
“Really? Who, um… Who is he?” Cinnamon asked. Jany summoned the card she made for him with her magic. The real card. She handed him the card and he read it aloud.
“For the first time, on Nightmare Night,
I saw your heart was full of light.
That night at the movies, and sledding in the snow,
My feelings for you began to grow.
Your eyes are strange, just like me.
Whenever I see you, I’m filled with glee.
Your cinnamon coat and blonde mane
make my heart go insane.
This isn’t a bunch of baloney
So will you be my special somepony?” Cinnamon looked at her with shining eyes and his face was red.
“I couldn’t think of a good rhyme for pony,” Jany laughed awkwardly.
“Wow, Jany, this is the best thing anypony’s ever done for me, I don’t know what to say!” Cinnamon replied.
“How ‘bout… Yes?” Jany smiled in a sheepish way.
“Yes!!! I’d love to be your special somepony!” Cinnamon grinned. Jany hugged him and he hugged her back.
“I really like you, Jany,” he smiled. 
“I really like you, too, Cinnamon,” she kissed him on the cheek.
“Oh, wow,” he said. Jany giggled.
“Hey, do you wanna go to the giant sled hill again?” Jany suggested.
“Yeah!!!” Cinnamon agreed. “But only if you promise to share a sled with me.” The two love-birds galloped away to go sledding.

Waterfall’s POV:

Waterfall was flying home after hanging out with her new coltfriend and marefriend at Violet’s house. She opened the door to her cloud-mansion and went into her and her brother’s room. Waterfall didn’t mind sharing her room with her older brother, but it was a little annoying not to have a room for herself.
Their dad, Thunder Dash, and his twin sister, Aunt Lightning, shared this room with their younger sister, Aunt Prism, when they were growing up and their dad wanted her and Icy to have that same experience. He said it “builds character”. 
“Hey, sis!” Icy Breeze ruffled her mane as she entered their room.
“Hi, Icy!” she replied.
“You’re happier than normal, did something happen today?” he asked.
“I have a new coltfriend and a marefriend!” she beamed.
“Oh, really? They both know, right?” 
“Yeah!!! The three of us are together!” she replied. 
“Who are these mystery colt and filly?” he asked with a smile.
“Violet Sparkle and Lucas!” she told him.
His smile fell. “Lucas? As in PhoenixTDM’s younger brother Lucas?”
“Um… Yeah?” 
“You can’t be with him! PhoenixTDM became my marefriend today! You can’t date her brother!” Icy yelled.
“What?! But I really like him!” Waterfall protested.
“You have to break up with him,” Icy said. He turned back to the homework he was doing and Waterfall’s eyes filled with tears. She ran out of her room and back outside. 
Waterfall Mist was flying. She didn’t know where she was flying, but she wanted to be alone. She forgot to put her hat and scarf back on. She was getting pretty cold. But she didn’t care. All she could think about was Icy yelling at her. Icy had never raised his voice at her before.
The pegasus filly flew and flew until she saw a blanket of snow-covered trees. I’m at Sweet Apple Acres already? She thought. Her wings were starting to grow frost and get stiff so she landed by a large hill. 
Waterfall saw two foals around her age sledding down the hill on a shiny purple sled. Once they reached the bottom, they both disappeared! They both reappeared in front of her and she shrieked.
“Waterfall? What are ‘ya doin’ here? And, wow, you look freezin’!” Her cousin Cinnamon Apple said.
“Cinnamon? Jany? What are you…” everything went black.

Waterfall Mist woke up with a pounding headache. She was laying on a couch in front of a fireplace, and there was a quilt on top of her. She sat up and looked around. She recognized this house, it was where her Aunt Dinky and Uncle Cinnamon Stick lived with their son, Cinnamon Apple. 
The wooden house was built right next to the Apple Family Barn and the house where the Apple Family originally lived. There were a few other wooden houses, as well, because they had a really big family.
Waterfall walked over to her cousin’s room where she heard laughter coming from the two ponies she had noticed earlier. The door was cracked open, and she peeked through. Cinnamon Apple and Jany were sitting on Cinnamon’s bed and laughing. Jany leaned over and nuzzled him, and they both blushed.
“What the hay?!” Waterfall shouted. The foals immediately pulled away from each other and Cinnamon went to open the door.
“Um… How much of that did you see…?” Cinnamon asked.
“Are you guys a couple?!” Waterfall shrieked.
“Um… Yes? But don’t tell anypony!!! Especially my friends,” Jany replied.
“How long have you guys been together?” Waterfall asked.
“Just since this afternoon,” Cinnamon said.
“I thought you hated each other!” Waterfall replied.
“We made up a while ago. But Waterfall, what were you doin’ outside like that without any winter clothes? You were so cold that you passed out! We thought you might have caught the ponythermia,” her cousin asked.
“I don’t really wanna talk about it… But thanks for bringing me here to warm up! How long was I out?”
“You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to. And you weren’t out for long, it was only like half an hour. We can heat up some apple cider for you if you’d like!” Jany said.
“Yeah!” Waterfall smiled. The three foals went into the living room and Cinnamon put a pot on the stove and poured some apple cider into it. He had to stand on a stool because he was too short. Hoofsteps sounded down the hallway and a brown earth stallion with black hair walked into the room.
“What are you doing, young stallion?” Uncle Cinnamon Stick asked his son.
“Oh, um, I’m just heating up some apple cider for Waterfall!” Cinnamon Apple replied.
“You can’t use the stove without adult supervision!” he snapped.
“Sorry… She was just really cold,” Cinnamon Apple said.
“It’s okay, kid, just ask me or your mom next time,” Cinnamon Stick responded. He moved the stool and turned on the stove to start heating up the cider. Cinnamon Apple and Jany sat down next to Waterfall on the couch. The three foals talked and had a nice night as they drank delicious hot apple cider.