"Oh, Angel."
A buttercup-yellow Pegasai plucked lettuce from the floor of her cottage. Angel, Fluttershy's white bunny, was a very picky eater and if he didn't like whatever meal was prepared for him, he had a habit off tossing it to the floor. Fluttershy's endless patience encouraged his behavior and even though Applejack had repetitively explained to Fluttershy that she owned Angel and Angel didn't own her, the timid pony still obeyed her precious pet's wishes.
"Angel," Fluttershy prodded. "Please eat. Mommy would be so proud if you did." The bunny shook his head and pushed away the bowl. The door bell rang. Fluttershy sighed, leaving the bowl in front of Angel, she went to answer the door. Angel glared at the bowl of lettuce, as if wishing it to wilt.
Fluttershy cracked the door open, just wide enough to peak outside. Her blue eyes falling on a big shadow.
"Hello." A deep voice spoke.
"Eep!" Fluttershy shut the door quickly and took a deep breath. 'Its Big Macintosh! Oh, goodness...oh goodness.' She panicked in her mind. Whenever she was around the apple pony, her heart struggled to stay calm and her mind scrambled for words. "Fluttershy." She told herself, "You can do this." She exhaled and opened the door fully.
" Hello..um, Big Mac. Haven't seen you in a while."
"Eeyup." Macintosh looked down on the mare, his green eyes studying her blue ones. He was quiet for a minute when Fluttershy turned so that her face was covered by her long pink hair. With Fluttershy looking away, Big Mac fixed his mane, he wasn't one for looks, but he'd make an exception for Fluttershy. He did want to impress the mare, but he wanted to be subtle about it.
" Aj sent me up here to bring you a saddlebag of apples."
He set the bag on the floor, Angel hopped over to it and dived in. Resurfacing with an apple in his mouth.
Fluttershy looked to Big Mac and spoke just above a whisper. " Thank you."
The stallion nodded his head, fiddling with the sliver of wheat that hung from his lips. Again, the two stood awkwardly. Neither of them uttering a word. It was a few minutes before Macintosh spoke.
" I should be gettin' back to the farm."
He turned to the door and left without saying another word, closing it behind him.
"Fluttershy you are such a loudmouth." Fluttershy scolded herself quietly.
-Outside-
Big Mac sighed and with one more glance at the pink door, he shoved off down the hill. At the bottom Applebloom, his youngest sister, had been waiting.
" One bag down, one more ta go!" Applebloom spoke, bouncing around her brother.
He nodded his head, thoughts still on the Pegasus pony up in her cottage.
"Then we can go home, right?"
"Eeyup."
-Inside-
Fluttershy picked the saddlebag up with her teeth and set it on the table beside the lettuce bowl. Angel pawed his way out of the apples, something hanging from his mouth.
"Angel?" Fluttershy looked at her pet. "What do you have?"
A crumpled piece of something dangled from the bunny's mouth, the item growing increasingly soggy. Angel shook his head and hopped to a small couch with the item. Fluttershy followed Angel, her yellow wings lightly beating the air.
"Angel, let me see."
Angel shook his head and hopped away again.
"Angel.." Fluttershy said and watched the rabbit, who stopped and glanced at the pegasus before springing off again.
"Angel, please come back." She flew after her pet, who had knocked over a small lamp. "Oh, dear." Fluttershy uprighted the light and took off again after the bunny. After a minute or two, she lost track of Angel, who had disappeared somewhere in the upstairs bedroom. "Angel?" She called out as she stepped into the room. After a few steps forward, a small scuffling sound came from behind the nightstand. "Angel, is that you?" At her voice, the noise stopped.
The mare walked over to the nightstand before pushing it aside slowly, a white face looked up at her, something dangling from it's mouth.
"Angel...let Mommy see what you have." Fluttershy coaxed Angel, but the animal refused to let go.
"Please show Mommy?"
The bunny shook his fluffy little head.
Fluttershy sighed, she hated to do this, but she looked at Angel. Her eyes like daggers; when Angel still refused to let go, her stare intensified, her blue eyes reading everything behind this tiny pupils.
Shaking, Angel finally dropped the item, his heart quivering under his owner's stare. Fluttershy retrieved the item and her eyes returned to their gentle calmness. "Thank you, Angel." She said cheerfully. The bunny nodded and scampered away nervously to the kitchen, perhaps to snack on some apples.
As her pet left down the stairs, Fluttershy looked over the item, which revealed itself to be a scrap of paper with something written on it. By the clumsy script, Fluttershy could tell it had been written by mouth and not by magic. She got past the technicalities and actually read the letter, when she put it down, her eyes widened as surprise and nervousness and anxiety and happiness rushed in all at once. The pegasus's heart felt faint and she panicked, flipping over onto her back with hooves in the air.
Fluttershy spaced out for a while before her tiny voice squeaked out.
"Big Mac...wants to go out....with....me?"