Twilight’s POV
I was humming a little tune while I read a bit of light reading at my desk. I was expecting Flash to knock on the door any minute now.
“Well somepony seems to be really happy today,” I heard Spike say. I turned to him and saw him in a little apron.
“Oh hi Spike, I guess I just woke up in a good mood this morning.”
“This wouldn’t have to do anything with a certain Pegasus stallion now would it.” He got a sly grin on his face while I turned back to the book. I felt my muzzle grow red as I slumped my head deeper into the book.
I heard Spike laugh.
“Oh, cut it out Spike.”
“Aw, I’m just teasing you Twilight.” He walked up to me and placed a claw on my shoulder. “Sorry, it’s just kind of weird.”
“Weird?” I looked at him confused.
“Well you were so busy with your studies,you never really took notice to colts. It’s just kind of weird to see you giving goo goo eyes.”
“I do not give him goo goo eyes.” That may have come out a little more defensively than I wanted it to but I knew for sure I didn’t give him those eyes. I turned away from Spike and folded my forelegs over my chest. “Hmph.”
“Oh, come on Twilight. I think I should know those eyes when I see them.”
I still didn’t look at him.
I heard some knocking and got out of my grumpy state. “It’s Flash,” I shouted with glee… I didn’t mean to do that. Honest. I ran down excited to see him.
When I opened the door… it wasn’t Flash. It was Rarity.
“Hello Twilight.”
“Oh, hey Rarity.” I didn’t mean for my disappointment to be obvious, it just kind of slipped.
“Well, you sure don’t seem very happy to see me.” She sounded a little insulted.
“Oh, I’m sorry Rarity, I didn’t mean to sound that way. I was just expecting somepony else. Please come in.”
She complied but she grew a curious look.
“Who were you expecting then Twilight?”
“That would be me.” My eyes grew wide as I turned to look in the doorway. Flash was standing there with a smile on his face and a saddle bag on his back. “Hello, I’m Flash Sentry.”
Rarity gasped. I saw her mouth hang open as she looked at Flash. Eventually she seemed to calm down and took my shoulder. “Um, my name is Rarity and I’m sorry but would you excuse us for a moment?” She asked in her polite way.
“Sure,” Flash nodded.
“Thank you.” The next thing I knew, I was being yanked by Rarity into the kitchen.
“Hey, easy Rarity. I’m not a puppet.” I complained, remember the difference now.
“I’m sorry Twilight but you have a stallion in your library.” I saw her run to the entrance of the kitchen. My guess was she was watching Flash while he walked into the library. I heard the door close and Spike’s voice greeting him.
“Yeah, so…”
“So, isn’t he the stallion you had your eyes on while we were at the Crystal Empire hmm?” She came to me and with every step she got a sly look on her face. Great. First Spike and now Rarity.
I grew nervous. Knowing Rarity she wasn’t going to let the subject go. I sighed knowing that it was probably best coming clean. “Well, yes, but–”
“What do you mean Twilight? He’s here and you were expecting him.” She draped her forearm around my shoulder. “Seems to me you two are hitting it off quite well.” I was going to say something but she gasped again and said, “Wait a minute.” She let go of me and then eyed me. “Did you meet up with him before today?”
“Well, yes. He came by yesterday hoping to check out a book.”
“A book?” She sounded disappointed and confused.
“Yes, a book. Then well, we went to dinner, had a good time and agreed to meet up again today.”
“Oh darling I’m so happy for you.” She gave me a hug.
“Um… thanks.”
“Oh, but you should have told me sooner, I could’ve made you a fantastic dress for your date.”
“Date?! Whoa Rarity. This isn’t a date.” I felt myself blushing and getting really nervous. “Flash and I are just merely… hanging out for a bit.”
“Oh don’t be so modest Twilight. This is a love that will bloom beautifully. I just know it.”
“Love?” I sort of started panicking. “Rarity this isn’t love. We’re just two ponies that… like each other’s company.”
“It’s love Twilight. You may not feel that strongly for him now, but trust me, you’ll be very much in love with him given time.” She sounded so sure about it too. It kind of scared me… and it also kind of made me happy.
Could I really fall in love with Flash? Like not just dating but really fall in love with him. Suddenly my imagination took me to our wedding day. The bells and decoration… Flash looking just handsome in a tuxedo– Hang on. I shook my head to get rid of the thought–not that it wasn’t pleasant. Easy now Twilight. You haven’t even gone on a proper date with the guy. When I looked back at Rarity she had a great big grin on her face.
“You just had a fantasy about you two didn’t you?”
“What? Huh, no.” I looked away failing to convince Rarity that she was wrong.
She started to hop and squeal in glee. “Oh, this is wonderful Twilight. I can’t wait to tell the girls.”
“What?” I looked at her as if she grew a second horn.
“Why of course Twilight. As your friends we simply must know of your love life, just in case you need to talk to us about it. Especially if you two seem to be having problems.”
“But–”
“No buts Twilight.” She looked at me sternly. “Now, we’ve got to get back in there and act natural.” Rarity pushed me into the library. I didn’t try to resist knowing that I might just end up embarrassing myself in front of Flash.
When we made it to the room, Flash and Spike were at a shelf and it looks like Spike was handing over a book to Flash before he spotted us. “There are the girls.”
Flash turned around and smiled at us.
“Terribly sorry about that. We just needed to have a little heart to heart chat is all.” Rarity nudged me telling me to walk closer to them.
“Oh, no problem. I finally got that book I came for yesterday.”
“Yup, thanks to yours truly,” Spike said.
“Oh, that was very sweet of you Spikey Wikey.” She nuzzled Spike’s face.
Flash turned to Spike with a smirk. “Spikey Wikey?”
“Hey, only Rarity can call me that.” Spike got a semi angry look on his face and folded his arms over his chest.
Flash chuckled. “Sorry, but come on you can’t really blame me Spike.”
“Oh I can try.”
Flash rolled his eyes. “Whatever you say Spike.”
“Oh, hey what did you come here for Rarity?” Spike asked. It completely slipped my mind to ask Rarity why she stopped by.
“Hm, oh, I was hoping Twilight could model for me for a bit. You see a client of mine has a coat just like Twilight’s and I was hoping to try a color I hadn’t before. I needed Twilight to make sure the color didn’t look completely horrible.”
“Oh.” I saw Flash give me a worried look.
“But, I can wait until tomorrow. I have a few other works that I need to get started on as soon as possible. Spike, would you like to come along?”
“I’d love it.” Spike walked up to Rarity who gave him another nuzzle.
“It was nice to meet you Flash Sentry. I trust that you and Twilight will have great time together. Goodbye.” With that, Rarity left and took Spike with her, but not before she whispered, “Good luck,” to me.
Something told me she took Spike more so because of me and Flash rather than she needed some help.
“Spike wouldn’t happen to have thing for her would he?” Flash asked as he walked up to me.
“Hm, oh you noticed?”
“Not that hard to figure out.” He looked towards the door. “He kind of made it obvious when his eyes turned into hearts when she got real close to him.”
I giggled. “That’s Spike for ya.”
“She seems nice enough.” He turned to me. “I was a little caught off guard by the accent though.”
“Yes, Rarity took it upon herself to seem a little more… sophisticated than rest of the residents.”
“So she’s definitely a native here?” He cocked an eyebrow.
“Uh-huh.” I gave him a nod.
“All righty then, I assume we have the entire afternoon to ourselves.” He gave me a semi questioning look.
“Yes we do.”
“Then what do you feel like doing? I don’t really know much about the hotspots around here.”
I gave some thought to it. I actually wasn’t sure what we could do. Ponyville isn’t exactly a place with a lot of tourism or attractions. It’s just a simple little town. A nice little town and I liked it that way. Not a lot of noise until something in the Everfree Forest disturbs the peace.
“There really isn’t much to do. How about a stroll in the park?”
“Sounds good to me.” He smiled at me. I felt my knees buckling…