//------------------------------// // Just classes? // Story: What to Choose // by FALG //------------------------------// Just as I expected, Twilight's way of stargazing was way different than mine: I just like to look the stars, she analizes the universe. You wouldn't believe how something you like to do can become boring! I barely heard anything she told me. The only thing that caught up my attention was when she started talking about constelations. "You know, you can save your monologue Twilight" I interrupted her at some point "I know enough of the universe." "Hehe, sorry, sometimes I get carried away." she apologized. "And now you're telling me?" She gave me a sheepish smile. We were on the astronomy wing of the castle, several telescopes were around and another way bigger than the others stood on the end of the room, we were using that last one. "Do you have clearance to use this telescope anyway?" I asked Twilight. "It's midnight, and the guards allow me to enter, need any more information?" "I guess no..." I said scratching my head. We kept looking with the telescope by turns, while Twilight used it to investigate, I looked at a nearby window to stargaze on my own. "Hey check this out!" she called me after a while. I went to the telescope and looked some rock bursting in some kind of flame. "What's that, a meteor?" I asked. "That's a meteoroid." she corrected me. "Isn't it the same thing?" "Not really, a meteor is the visible path of the meteoroid, that's exactly what everypony calls a 'shooting star'." she explained "I never knew exactly what a shooting star was anyway." "See? Not everything you hear from me is useless." "I never said that, I just said you don't have to tell me everything." "But you thought it." "That..." I paused "...I won't discuss." She kept teaching me a bit of astronomy, but I barely paid attention. As classes went on, Twilight was even more light hearted to see me than the last, plus, she also tried to engage in talks with me. On one hoof I found cool that she found these meetings not just to learn, but to spend some quality time. But on another, my head usually told me that there was something hidden in this. I ignored those thoughts at first because everytime I thought that, it wasn't true at all. I started to suspect something after some more classes. "And you think there's something else behind the lessons?" Plaid asked, to which I nodded "Aren't you a little paranoic about this stuff? It happened to you before and it turned out the other way around." "I know, I know." I said "That's why I said that I 'think', I may be wrong." "I mostly think you are." "I do so too, but I can't keep wondering." "Why don't you ask her?" "I will, but I'm afraid I may misunderstand, after all, she didn't make some kind of move yet." "Then wait until she does, and ask her the next day, or right away, depending on what she does." "That seems the best option." The next class everything went like always, with her joy rising up when I entered the room. "You came just in time! I found out that a meteor will show up soon in the sky!" she said "So, should we see it with the bare eye? Because I don't think I can follow a meteor with a telescope." I replied. "I was actually going to suggest we could go outside. To Canterlot's fields." "To stargaze the way Celestia intended? Because everything we've done so far was astronomy." She chuckled. "Let me get some stuff, wait for me in the castle gates." And so I did. When she showed up again at the gates, I saw she was carrying... "A picnic basket? What for?" "I thought that maybe we could have something to eat while we wait for the meteor, you don't mind do you?" she said. I shook my head in denial, and we parted to the fields. We put the cloth on the grass and sat there, I checked whatever Twilight brought on the basket, a few sandwiches and drinks, along with some sweets. "This is not any kind of picnic." I thought "There is definitely something else behind this." but I went on with it, to see how far would it go. "So, you've come very prepared for this occasion." I said. "I guess, but I like to do this most nights." she answered. "Well, maybe I'm wrong after all." I thought. We sat there, silent for some time, until I spoke: "Do you contact with your friends regularly when you're here in Canterlot?" "Well, not regularly, but every few days I write them a letter, why?" "No reason." I quickly said and looked at the sky again. Another silence. "I actually want to know, how's Fluttershy?" I asked. Twilight turned her head slowly and looked at me. "Aren't you supposed to contact her on your own?" "Well yeah, but I haven't wrote to her since your letter about this classes you wanted to share." "Oh, that explains it." she muttered. "Huh?" "Oh! Er, nothing!" she gave me a strange smile. I didn't ask again, I'd do it later anyway. Some minutes later, the meteor showed up, and suddenly another few followed suit. "Hey, I thought you said that only one meteor was going to show up." I said. "You can't expect that everything that everypony else says is completely accurate." she replied. "Well, not from everypony, but your info is, sometimes." "Oh stop it." she smiled. The few meteors that crossed the sky dissapeared as quickly as they appeared. "So this was a quick meteor shower." I said. "I tend to look at the sky whenever I predict a meteor shower, even if it's as short as this one." she explained. "But do you prepare this much?" I asked while pointing the basket, and grabbing a sandwich. "Hehe not really, I only did it because you'd be coming, and maybe you wanted something to bite." "That's thoughtful of you." We stared at the sky for some time, not saying anything and enjoying the peace surrounding us. But there was still that thought in my mind that all this situation was hiding something. "Should I ask her if there's something going on? And how should I do it?" I kept thinking. We kept quiet a long time, and eventually I made it obvious that I was feeling uncomfortable. My heart was racing again. Finally Twilight spoke: "Hey, remember a week ago, when I told you that I felt jealous about you and Fluttershy?" she asked. "Uh, yeah? What about it?" I asked back. "Well, I think I wasn't actually jealous of you both, only of Fluttershy." she explained. "Why? I told you, you will have your chance someday." "But it's not the fact that she has a coltfriend." I wished it wasn't what I was thinking it would be. "It isn't? Then why are you jealous of her, if it's not because she has a coltfriend?" "It's because... of the coltfriend she has." "Er, I'm afraid I'm not following you there." I badly lied. I was more than certain what Twilight was saying. "Don't you play dumb on me Flaring, you know very well what I'm talking about." she looked at me a little sad. I waited. "I like you, Flare." I really wished I was wrong this time, but those four words crumbled upon me. I'm a weak pony, when it comes to love, because if I don't have a crush on any mare sometime, it only takes a declaration from one for me to develop feelings for her. It happened to me once, but I had a marefriend by that time, and I felt it was like cheating. Twilight likes me, that was the truth, and I couldn't do anything about it. "A-a--are you sure?" I tried to reverse the situation "Maybe you just feel a...a crush! You know! It will go away with the time." "No, I'm definitely sure about this." she said. "But, how? And when did you start feeling that for me?" She sighed: "I started developing something for you around the time when you arrived to Ponyville." "That long?" "Not totally, you see, I think I've left those feelings dormant until then." "I think I don't follow, for real this time." "I only thought you were cute, nothing more." "Oh I see. But what made you like me?" "Hmmm, maybe what you told me in the hospital." I was confused. "What did I say?" I asked. "That Shining didn't introduce us before because he was afraid of what could happen." For a pony recently confessed, I was more nervous than her. "He doesn't have the right to hide me stuff, or friends! I'm her sister!" she said. I waited some seconds before saying something else. "Look Twilight, you are a great mare, you're smart, pretty, I repeat it, I'm sure you'll find a colt that suits you." "Didn't you hear me a few minutes ago? I said I like YOU, I don't care for other colts." I sighed. "I know that, but you know I already am with Fluttershy, and you know I love her." I couldn't believe that this declaration would make me doubt my feelings. "So I have to say it, as hard as it is for you, but I don't feel the same way for you." "Are you totally sure?" My mind asked me. Twilight looked down. "I'm sorry." I said. "Don't be, it's okay, at least I could tell you." she looked up again "You're not mad at me are you?" "Why would I? Nopony can get mad at you for liking somepony else... well, unless that pony has a crush on you." She giggled. "I better go, I guess you want to be alone." I said. She simply nodded, so I left. Once I walked away some meters, I heard a quick noise. I turned back and only saw a little puff of purple smoke.