//------------------------------// // Rising Sun (Part 2) // Story: Alone in the Night // by BrainLapse //------------------------------// "Um well, you see, uhhh........" Twilight stammered out, trying to come up with a reasonable answer to Rainbow's question. Although not uncommon, mares liking other mares was still slightly looked down upon and Twilight definantly did not want to lose any of her friends because of it. As Twilight mulled over the possiblities, Rainbow Dash was trying to come up with a reason as to why Twilight was hiding something. Trying to get the unicorn's attention again, the weatherpony began waving her hoof infront of Twilight's face. "Yoo-hoo, Twiiiiillliiiiight? Are you there?" Rainbow Dash said with mild annoyance in her voice. When the cyan pegasus spoke, Twilight quickly came back to reality. She quickly looked around, checking if anypony was nearby. While she had been lost in thought, Twilight had come to the conclusion that if she would tell anypony about her preferences, Rainbow Dash would be the best option, because of her loyalty and her supportiveness. "Well you see, the pony I like is not exactly a stallion." Twilight said with a blush. Rainbow Dash just stood there for second. Twilight began to panic, worried that the cyan pegasus would be disgusted with her, or would begin to degrade her where she stood. But instead of doing any of those things, Rainbow Dash began to smile. "Is that what had you so worked up? Sheesh Twi, you think I care about you liking stallions or mares? As long as you don't hit on me, we're golden." Rainbow Dash said nonchilantly. At this Twilight smile and hugged the cyan pegasus. "Oh Rainbow, you don't realise how much this means to me. I was so worried that you would ridicule me, or beat me up, or ridicule and beat me up. But now you said it's fine!" Rambled a relieved Twilight. She was just happy that atleast one of her friends would stand by her. Slowly she realized that she was still hugging the cyan pegasus. Blushing she pulled away muttering apologies. "So anyway Twi, who's the lucky mare? And, as I said before, I may be awesome, but I don't fly that way." Rainbow Dash said as she floated lazily in the air infront of the lavender unicorn. Twilight blushed before looking away. Rainbow Dash just smiled at her, waiting for the answer. As Twilight slowly thought up of some way to getting out telling Rainbow Dash that she was starting to crush on Fluttershy, an energetic pink pony hopped on over. Humming to herself, she made her way over to the pair of mares. "Hi Rainbow! Hi Twilight! I just saw you two standing over here talking and I was like 'I bet that they are planning something', then I thought that maybe it was a party, but then I realized that was silly because you would get me to help if it was a party, well except for that one time where you all threw me a surprise party, which was super dooper awesome!" Pinkie Pie said in her usual overexcited manner. While she said this, both Twilight and Rainbow turned to look at her, trying to keep pace with the movement of the pink pony's mind. Eventually they caught up, looked at each other, and with a slight nod from Twilight, they decided to tell the energetic earth pony. "Well Pinkie, we weren't planning a party. I was just talking to Rainbow Dash about who we had crushes on." Twilight said with a blush. Looking at the party pony, she saw that Pinkie was still bouncing in place with a big smile on her face. "Oooohh, who is it? Is it Big Macintosh? Or Carmel? or -"Pinkie began to guess before Rainbow Dash shoved a hoof in her mouth. Rainbow Dash looked at Pinkie with an annoyed look before speaking. "Well Pinkie, If you would wait a few second, I'm sure Twilight would be able to tell us." Rainbow Dash told the pink party pony, beginning to become impatient from waiting so long to find out. Silently, Pinkie nodded, and they both turned to Twilight. "Well the pony I like is um Fluttershy..." Twilight said while rubbing her hoof on the back of her neck. Rainbow Dash had a surprised expression, expecting somepony more bookish, while all Pinkie did was smile. "Oh Twilight, I'm so so so so happy for you! Have you told her yet? Are you two in love? Cuz then I could throw you a party! Then everypony can see how cute you two look together and be all happy with you!" Pinkie told Twilight, getting a small smile from her. "Well you see that's the problem, I can't exactly find the right way to tell her. I mean there is nothing about it in any of my books and I just don't know what somepony should do in this situation." Twilight said while beginning to worry, realizing that she had no clue on how to tell the timid pegasus about her feelings. She thought over all the possibilities of things that she could do to tell Fluttershy without scaring her. Rainbow Dash just looked at her with a smile and began to form a plan. "Twilight, you've got nothing to worry about! You'll have the best pick up pony in all of Equestria helping you. And Pinkie too." Rainbow said with a cocky smirk on her face. "Really? You would do that for me? Oh thank you so much!" Twilight exclaimed pulling both ponies into a big hug. "Alright Twi, enough with the hugging. Now let's head back to your home to begin to plan it out." Rainbow Dash said while squirming out of the hug. Slowly the ponies all began to head back to Twilight's library home to plan out her next move. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A/N: Sorry that it took so long ya'll. Life just kinda got in the way.