//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Awkward Tea // Story: Brightdawn // by Betty_Starlight //------------------------------// Oh, gosh! She’s smiling at me! I think to myself before smiling… I probably look nervous? The blue unicorn smiles at me, “Hiya Misty! What’s up!” I blink and gulp, “Um, can I talk to you?” Her pretty red eyes widen, “Oh, sure! I was about to have my afternoon tea! Do you want some?” before frowning at me cutely… I smile wider, “Oh uh, I’d love some tea Izzy!” She nods, “Well, come on to the tea area!” before turning to trot to her weird tea contraption… I trot closer to her and the machine… She forces her horn to glow and the machine neatly folds out as if it were lotus flowers and I see two baby blue glass cups on the petals there before her… She looks at the matching baby blue tea kettle back near the center of the flower and forces it to glow and levitate over and pour us two fresh hot cups of tea… She smiles while staring at her work and floating the kettle away, “This is green tea with jasmine! It’s not my favorite, but it’s still pretty yummy! You like two sugars, right? Kinda sweet tea for Misty?” I smile, “Oh, that’s nothing! Opaline usually had me add five whole spoons of sugar to her tea whenever I made it for her!” before lowering my grin… You stupid idiot! Why did you bring up Opaline? I think to myself… She turns with two glowing baby blue saucers before her, each with a cup of steaming tea on it, before forcing the one on her left to glide towards me in the air and saying, “Here’s yours, Misty! No, wait!” her eyes widen and the saucer stops flying towards me before the other one begins to glide my way. “That’s MY cup! Not yours!” My eyes widen, “But don’t we both like it with two sugars?” Her own pupils enlarge, “Oh, yeah! Both of these teas are exactly the same, aren’t they?” she smiles. “Don’t know why I didn’t realize that?” I gotta laugh at the ultra-cute scene, “Yeah, it doesn’t really matter which one I got!” before looking at the blue saucer in front of me and concentrating to make my own horn glow. “Got it Izzy!” “Okay!” I feel her release her magick and she sets her saucer down on the table to her right… I take a cautious first sip of my tea… And widen my eyes when I realize it’s still really hot! Her eyes widen as her mouth opens, “Oh, Misty! Be careful! I just brewed that tea!” I set the cup down on its saucer while keeping my eyes wide, “YEAH! Really hot!” and then I sputter… “Are you okay?” She asks me with genuine concern in her cherry pupils. I widen my own gaze, “I’ll be fine, Izzy! Thank you!” She smiles, “Yeah, you gotta give it a few minutes before you take that first sip, silly!” I smile back, “Yeah! Uh, hey! There was something I wanted to talk to you about…” Her eyes widen again as her snout goes agape, “Oh?” My smile lowers, “Yeah, Izzy! You see uh, I like you!” She smiles again, “I like you too, Misty!” I gulp, “N-no Izzy! Not like that! I mean, I really like you!” Her smile lowers a little, “Oh, definitely! Us unicorns have to stick together!” I blink, “I l-love you, I-Izzy!” and smile… She smiles wider, “I love you too, Misty!” “NO! I mean, I REALLY love you!” I yell and I can’t believe I’m almost screaming this at her! She shouts back! “I REALLY LOVE YOU TOO, MISTY!” I frown at her… I can’t believe it? I’m trying to tell my feelings to this other unicorn and for whatever reason, she’s just not getting the message! At that point, as much as I absolutely hated to admit it to myself, there was really only one thing I could do… I looked down and sighed before scooting my stool back and flopping from my haunches to all-fours on the floor and I begin trotting around the left side of the table… Izzy is watching this with her curious red eyes as she asks, “Uh, Misty? What are you doing?” I stop just shy of her stool and look at her right in the face… I can feel her warm breath on my face now as she looks at me with concern, “Misty?” I stare at her right in the eyes, “Izzy, I love you!” Her mouth begins to quiver as I’m not sure she understands? “I love you too, Misty!” I blink, Oh, for goodness’s sake! I think to myself before trotting forward just a few more inches and planting a loving passionate kiss right on her lips! I eventually release her face and stare at her curiously from a few inches away…. She smiles, “Oh, you like me! Gee, why didn’t you just say so?” and grins even wider while tilting her head slightly to the left… She just looked so gosh darn cute right there, I couldn’t help myself! I moved my face to hers again and planted another kiss on her mouth! This time, she almost seemed ready for it, because I could feel her snout tightening and readying itself as my lips remained locked on hers! I release her again and she stares at me to say, “Again, all you had to do was just say something!” I sigh, “But I did!” She frowns, “You did? Oh, wow! I didn’t even notice!” and smiles once more. “Sorry about that!” I squint my eyes as I can only take so much of her cuteness, “Izzy, I uh… I’m sorry I didn’t tell you the right way. Um, I guess, I just uh… “I smile, “I like you a lot Izzy! I mean, you’re the first nice unicorn I ever met and you’re just um, well, you’re so gosh darn cute and… uh… I like you… “and then, I beam brightly at her… Her frown straightens, “AWWW, you’re SO CUTE!” My eyes widen! “Am not! You’re cute!” She smiles, “Oh, yeah?” and boops my nose with her right forehoof! She giggles as I frown at this audacity… I widen my eyes when I begin to realize that this whole time, she never told me to stop or said no… I blink again, “So uh, what do you say Izzy?” She stops giggling and stares back at me, “To what?” I blink and gulp, “T-to being with me?” Her eyes widen, “Oh, sure! I’ll be with you or whatever!” she smiles while flitting her right forehoof in the air. “Does this mean we get to have ice cream?” I stare at this other unicorn in confusion… I pour out my feelings to her, she agrees to be my marefriend, and is really only concerned with frozen treats? “So uh, you’re with me, now?” Her eyes and mouth normalize, “Didn’t I already say that?” I eye the blue pony carefully… It was already hard enough when I realized I was gay earlier… And now, I have this… I smile like a crazy pony, “Sure honey! Let's go get ice cream!” Her eyes widen, “Oh, honey! I like that! You should call me honey some more!” I roll my eyes and begin trotting towards the freezer on the other side of the kitchen… And while I can already tell that this is gonna be a weird day, I’ll take it over what I was doing earlier… (To be continued…)