Slowly approaching the doorway, Rey saw the look on Twilight's face, was not one of anger, or even frustration, but something close to embarrassment. He wanted to be done with this whole fiasco as soon as possible. "Look Twilight, about what I said earlier..." He started.
"You didn't mean it did you?" She asked solemnly. She was majorly upset, and nervous at the same time. She looked terrible, her fur matted as she'd run through town looking for Rey, to make sure he was okay.
"Of course I didn't mean it... I..." He started to say, Then he started to recall the words he said to her, something about her being a cute girl he recalled . "Wait! I mean yes I did mean it!" He exclaimed. He thought to himself. "Do I mean it? why me?" As he thought to himself, her face brightened up and she smiled.
"So you really do think I'm pretty?" She asked. Her sad desperate looked completely turned around, and she was smiling with a sparkle in her eyes you could see from sweet apple acres. For a moment, she'd completely forgotten about how upset she was that he'd run away like how he did.
The question caught him off guard and forced him to look at the pony in a way he hadn't before. She had pretty eyes, her body wasn't much different than any other ponies, but the shade of purple she was, reminded him of his windows 8 background color, which always put him at ease, and looking at it from where she was he was a tall, hairless, alien that she had to babysit because he didn't think things through, the very least he could do now, was comfort her. "Of course you are." He said comfortably, and got down on a knee to rub her head. "Ah, It had to be a platonic question, that figures. To them I'm a tall bald alie..." He started to think to himself, right before Twilight leaned in forward and planted a kiss right on his lips.
Startled Rey almost broke the kiss by backing away, but in an instant realized what all this meant, and why that would not only hurt her, but him as well. He leaned forwards returning the kiss, and he felt Twilight relax underneath him. When the kiss finally parted, he had to ask, It had to make sense somehow. "Why me?" He asked.
She poked her bottom lip out in thought, and finally answered. " I don't know, At first, you were like one of the girls, we'd hang out and have fun, I think I first noticed how I was feeling when you brought up getting a separate bed, and how empty my bed would feel without you. Besides, you don't think ponies have wings or horns because they only courted within our own species do you? Love goes beyond that kind of thing. or at least, that's what I've always thought," She said cheerfully.
Rey thought that made sense and stood up. A huge pain in his lower body struck him, as Twilight rear up on her hind legs and used her front hooves to kick him in the stomach. He looked down at her, to see her loving grin all scrunched up in a upset frown.
"THAT'S for running off earlier, you took a nasty fall and you wouldn't even stop to let me see if you were hurt you jerk!" She said, irritated at his lack of empathy at that moment. She Moodily pouted back into the house, but deep in the back of her head, she was throwing a party. He'd returned her feelings, despite all the doubt she knew he harbord about courting anything that wasn't human. Little did she know, Rey no longer considered himself human.
A few hours had passed and it was now three o'clock PM. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Twilight had picked today to introduce Rey to her friends. Rey still sore from all the incidents that morning was glad to be able to sit down again. They had walked for half an hour to a outdoors restaurant. The tables were up, but the umbrellas were down, Rey thought it was due to the lack of clouds in the sky, which he found odd because that morning the sky was dark grey with clouds. They finally found their table with five other ponies at the table with them, This was sure to be an evening he was going to remember. Right off the bat, He recalled Applejack from the day before, and the white pony from this morning.
"Ah, howdy again feller, Twilight invited us here to introduce us to ya, an from what ah've heard, that ain't even the fillin' in the pie." She said to him. She made a vague gesture with her front hoof at Twilight, who blushed and giggled. It was Rarity's turn to speak next.
"Oh yes dear, we met this morning but I'm sure you remember, and don't worry those clothes were on me, what's more important is that I hear your courting Twilight! This is wonderful news, and I'm so happy for you both." She said excitedly. "Honestly, I can't say I saw it coming, I knew you and Twilight were living together, but I never thought she'd fall for you, and I certainly never thought you'd fall for a pony, but congratulations to the both of you, and whoever else may join your herd in the future." Rarity finished.
Next to speak was the pink one, unfortunately Rey hadn't prepared for it. "OH MY SWEET CELESTIA! THE NEW STALLION IN TOWN IS GOING TO MAKE A HONEST MARE OUT OF TWILIGHT! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! PINCH ME I'M DREAMING! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I CAN'T! HOLY HORSE APPLES TW..." The words were coming out of her mouth a mile a minute! Applejack actually stuck her hoof in her mouth to quiet her.
"Sorry bout that, she's uh... excitable" Applejack said. They all shared a hearty laugh and when They'd quieted down some, applejack continued. "That's Pinkie pie. she's a bit... Odd, but y'all never see a happier pony in all of equestria." She finished. Pinky wore a huge smile after the introduction.
Twilight cleared her throat. "This is my friend Rainbow dash, She can teach you how to fly sometime." She said gesturing towards the light blue pony across the table talking to Rarity, It hadn't seemed she noticed Rey at all.
Rainbow dash had attended all of Twilight's get togethers, and met tons of new ponies, only a few of which she still talked to.
Rey looked to where she was guesting and caught sight of the light blue pony with wings, her mouth slightly open and her eyes open wide. Rey chuckled a bit and stood up from his seat. He backed up a few feet and took off his shirt, and very slowly extended his wings. It felt good to him, for his wings to finally have them open. A quick glance back at the table, everyone had large smiles on, except rainbow dash whose jaw was on the floor.
"Rainbow dash, what's the matter?" Rey asked, concerned he'd done something wrong as the winged creature that he was now. She blushed heavily, easily visible through her lighter fur color than Twilights. Without a word, she jumped into the air and flew off in the opposite direction. Rey was confused, and a little disappointed.
"Um, excuse me?" said a quiet voice. "O-opening your wings like that is a mating practice for pegasi, for all winged creatures actually. " said the small voice again.
"Fluttershy, why didn't you say so sooner darling? How was anypony supposed to know?" Rarity asked. Rey was upset that he drove her away because of a misunderstanding, but instead of running away, he was going to do some chasing of his own.