Flower opened his eyes again. He tried in vain to fall asleep, but a big smile on the face and the knowledge that a beautiful mare is sleeping in the next room kept him awake the entire night. He stood up quietly and entered the living room. He took care to not awaken any of the animals on his way out of the house. Flower opened the door and was greeted by a cold breeze of night air. When he went out and closed the door behind him, he looked up to the dark sky.
It was like a black painting, covered with thousand points of light and the sun of the night in the center. It was as beautiful as ever, but in this night Flower was distracted by other thoughts.
He followed the trail away from the cottage and crossed the tiny bridge, after a few meters he leaved the trail and walked on a flower meadow. Flower lay down on his back and stared at the moon. "Hello Luna, how are you tonight?" He giggled because he knew that the moon can't answer him.
"We are doing very well, kind of thee to ask."
Flower stood up and looked around. Close to him stood a tall mare, taller than every other pony he has ever seen. Not only that, she had also a horn and a pair of wings. Her coat was dark blue and her mane flowed like water and was colored like the night sky.
“YOUR HIGHNESS!” Flower bowed to the ruler of the night. “It's an honor to meet you.”
“Thee may rise.” The princess smiled.
Flower looked up. "Uhm… your highness, excuse my asking, but what are you doing out here?”
Princess Luna lay down in the grass and said, “Thoust be stressèd with our royal duties, so thoust hath decided to venture outdoors. And what is thee doing out hither at such an hour so late?”
Flower sat down and said “I couldn't sleep because…” he fell back and placed his hooves on his chest where his heart is, a big grin erupted onto his face, “because I met the most beautiful and kind mare in my entire life.”
The princess giggled. “And what is the name of this mare so fine?”
“Her name is Fluttershy, I don't know if your highness know her?”
The eyes of the alicorn widened a bit “Oh, the element of kindness.”
“What?” Flower was confused.
“Never mind. Do you take an interest in Fluttershy? Enough to court her?”
Flower thought for a while to find the best words “Hmm, I just met her, so I think it's too much to say that I love her, but… I want to be near her all the time, I want to look in her eyes every day and see her smile, her beautiful and kind smile. I also have a strange feeling in my stomach if im around her."
Luna giggled. "This, our dear Flower, is love."
Flower smiled at the princess. "And I thought that love at first sight only exist in books."
She put a hoof on his shoulder. “And did she feel the same?”
Flower frowned. “I don't know, I know her only since tonight.”
“If it's so, you must tell her. Not all of us are immortal such as thee."
Flower looked a bit worried at the princess. “Do you…uh your highness think that’s the best way? We have only just met and I don't want to mess up with her already."
Luna stood up and looked down into Flower's eyes. “Maybe it is not good for your new relationship, but what if she feel the same? We know Fluttershy now for a long time and we know that she is too shy to reveal her true feeling, so you have to make the first step. Do you understand? There is no time to loose, my child."
He looked at her uncertainly. "I- I understand your highness, thank you."
"You don't have to thank thee, it is the least that thee can do for one of our few night watchers." She looked down to him. "And if you want to talk again, just go to sleep and we appear in your dream, but for now you have to wake up, the sunrise already begins."
"Dream? Wake up? Sunrise? What are your highness is talking about? I'm awake and it’s still the deepest nigh-" Flower's mouth shut as the princess slowly levitated in the height and started to glow in a light that blinded him.
Flower abruptly sat up and looked around. He was in the guest bedroom where his nocturnal adventure started. Through the window was clear that the sun has already risen. “A dream? I should have known it. But why should Princess Luna visit me in a dream?” Flower stood up, he could smell the sweet scent of pancakes.
He entered the living room and saw Fluttershy sitting on the couch, she looked at a flower on the table. "Good morning Fluttershy."
Fluttershy was still focused on the flower "She's beautiful".
He walked up to her "Yes, she is. For this reason she is my favorite flower". Flower sat down beside her and startet to dug in the earth around the flower "Got it." He raised a hoof to show Fluttershy what he was looking for "This is a seed of this flower. Every flower left only one seed back, so I get this out of the earth before he starts to sprout."
"So you had only one seed last night?" Fluttershy looked in his eyes.
Flower was dumbfounded for a moment. "Yes thats true, sorry that I lied to you." He looked in her eyes "But now I have a new one so this isn't such a problem." They were looking at each other.
They sat there for minutes without saying a single word, only stare each other in the eyes. It was like at the first meeting. Their heads start moving slowly towards each other. Flower's heart was beating faster and wasn't able to think straight. The cheeks of the two were blush while the space between them get smaller.
But then both stopped at the same time and looked embarrassed away.
"Y-you need breakfast. I'm g-gonna go m-make it." Fluttershy ran in the kitchen.
"I'll water the flower... I guess." Flower ran in the bathroom and closed the door.
He looked in the mirror, a scared expression on his face "What's wrong with you?" He asked his mirror image "You could ruin everything before it even started." He splashed water into his face.
After he calms down, Flower leaved the bathroom. He walked in the kitchen where two plates with pancakes stands on the table. Fluttershy sat in front of one plate but hasn't begun eating yet.
Flower sat down on the other side of the table "Uhm... Do you want to talk about it?"
Fluttershy looked with a uncertain expression "That would be the best... Probably."
And then they sat there. Silently. Without saying anything, they ate the pancakes.
Then they had eaten the looked at each other and said at the same time.
“Later!”
“Later!”