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// The Fine Line 
// Story: The Fine Line 
// by nutcase4real 
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The Fine Line

Fluttershy was sitting in the living room of her cottage, peacefully reflecting back upon her day. She had spent her day with Rainbow Dash, her oldest and bestest of friends. First they had a picnic, then they flew together for a while, which Fluttershy wasn't to enthused about doing , but because it was with Rainbow Dash she could make an exception. Afterwards they walked and talked for what seemed like hours about nothing in particular. She didn't know why, but she couldn't get these thoughts out of her mind. Today was a perfect day to her. She was surprised that Dash flew with her since Dash was a speed demon and Fluttershy liked to fly slowly, so she could admire the beauty of the day and hopefully see one of animal friends.

It all seemed to good to be true, like a livid dream, but she knew that the events of today had actually happened. That it wasn't a dream. She began thinking about the picnic that Rainbow Dash had prepared for them, which was a pleasant surprise. It had all of Fluttershy's favorite foods, lily sandwiches, rosemary salad, lemon cupcake surprises from Sugarcube Corner, everything. She knew that Rainbow Dash wasn't to fond of these foods, which made Fluttershy wonder as to why Dash had brought them, but she just chalked it up to friend being nice.

"That smile that Dash had all day today. I wonder why she was so happy?", Fluttershy pondered out loud.

She closed her eyes and began thinking of Dash's smile. The why her nose wrinkled, the dimples on her cheeks, and that sparkle in her eye. Fluttershy thought very deeply on these things she ha noticed in her friend, and soon she had a very puzzling thought.

'Why am I blushing?'

She thought back to the little flight they had shared. 

'Rainbow Dash's self control was astonishing during our flight together. She could've easily taken off and left me behind, but she stayed with me the entire time. Why?' , she pondered as she felt her cheeks get warmer. 

'And the walk we took afterwards, Rainbow Dash never walks when she can fly. Why did she do all of these things with me?' Fluttershy asked herself as she allowed a small grin to appear on her face and a small chuckle escape her throat. Her cheeks felt like they were on fire by this point. 

'My goodness I've never blushed like this before. Could it be that I...?' 

Fluttershy cut her thought short and laughed a little.

"Rainbow Dash and myself, together?", Fluttershy asked into the darkness.

Suddenly she felt something hit her head. She looked down and she saw a small carrot. 

"Oh I'm sorry Angel Bunny, are you hungry?", she asked the little rabbit who looked angry and was impatiently tapping his foot. 

The rabbit crossed his paws, looked at her, and shook his head no. 

"Then what is it Angel?" Fluttershy asked. 

Angel using his paws made an outline of a heart, and pointed to a picture of Rainbow Dash that Fluttershy had on the mantle of the chimney. Fluttershy's blush grew even more red as she asked 

Angel, "D...do you really think so Angel?" 

The bunny nodded his head yes and recrossed his arms signifying, 'What are going to do about this?' 

"Do you think I should go talk to Dash about this?" She inquired. 

The bunny face-pawed and slowly shook his head yes. 

"O...okay if you think its a good idea Angel."

Fluttershy slowly flew out the door, and began making her way to Rainbow Dash's home in the sky. She arrived at her friend's cloud house and knocked on the door. 

"Just a sec!" was the response from inside the house. 

After a minute or so the door opened and there stood Rainbow Dash.

"Oh! Hey, Fluttershy, come on in!", she said excitedly. 

Fluttershy shyly walked into the house and was shown to the living room. "Would you like something to drink?", Rainbow Dash asked her friend. 

"Oh n..no thank you, if that's okay with you.", she responded.

Rainbow Dash just shrugged off her friend's obvious shyness and asked, "So to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?" 

Fluttershy cleared her throat and said very meekly, "I..I wanted to ask you s...some questions, if that's okay with you." 

"Sure Fluttershy what's on your mind?" 

Fluttershy couldn't help but blush as she thought of ways to ask Rainbow Dash her questions. 

"Rainbow Dash, d..do you like me?" 

"Well of course I do Shy! We're friends aren't we?", Dash answered with a large beaming smile.

Fluttershy then reworded her question, "N..no, I meant do you really like me? You know, like more than a friend?"

Rainbow Dash's jaw dropped and she just stood flabbergasted, which Fluttershy took as her asking 'Why would you say that?'

"W..well yesterday was just so romantic," Fluttershy said as she felt her cheeks start to boil, "I..I'm sorry. I must be going.", she said quietly as she began to move at a quickened pace towards the door a little broken hearted. 

Suddenly from behind her she heard Rainbow speak, "Fluttershy? Don't leave just yet. I admit that I've thought about it, but the thought of being with another mare, especially you since we're like the best of friends, just doesn't seem right. Ya know? I didn't want to say anything because I was afraid of hurting your feelings. I mean, I...I," she paused to think, "I guess I just don't know how I feel." 

Fluttershy turned around and looked into her friend's eyes, her beautiful rose colored eyes. Fluttershy could feel something in her stomach churning. 

The butterflies in her stomach got worse and worse as she asked her friend, "S...should we find out how each of us feel?" 

Rainbow Dash stared quizzically at her friend and asked almost as shyly as Fluttershy on a normal day, "H...how do we do that?" 

Fluttershy moved closer to Rainbow Dash and said in a very quiet voice, as she lightly kicked at the ground with one hoof, "W...we could k...kiss, a...and if we don't like it, we can just keep it a secret."

Rainbow Dash thought about the proposal for a few seconds and finally said, "O...okay. Yes we should definitely do it.", regaining her confidence, "I don't want to wonder what if." 

Fluttershy's heart almost exploded when she saw Rainbow Dash take a step closer to her, close her eyes, pucker her lips, and leaned in for the experimental kiss. Fluttershy followed suit and closed her eyes, puckered her lips, and leaned in. 

When their lips met, they were quite surprised with how the other tasted. Rainbow Dash was very sweet almost like fresh fruit, where as Fluttershy was a little spicy like cinnamon on an apple pie. The kiss only lasted seconds but it felt like an eternity to the two mares. Each mare was taking her time sampling the flavor of the other.

An explosion of pleasure and overwhelming joy shot through Fluttershy as the kiss deepened. Rainbow Dash thought here heart was literally melting in her chest, and although the kiss was short, it was more than long enough for each to reach the conclusion that they wanted, no needed, one another. When their experimental broke, Rainbow Dash stared into Fluttershy's gorgeous baby blue eyes. Before Fluttershy could say anything, Dash cut her off with a longer, more passionate 
kiss.

The pleasure the two felt was unbelievably good. They laid on the floor for what seemed like hours gently caressing each other's tongue, as their forehooves explored each other's body. The two pegasi knew that they were meant for each other, and that this was the right thing to do. It just felt so right. 

After the kiss finally ended and each pegasus had caught their breath Rainbow Dash laid face to face with Fluttershy and asked in a gentle loving voice, "Fluttershy, will you be my marefriend?" 

"Yes! Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!" Fluttershy exclaimed in a whisper somehow, which made Rainbow Dash chuckle.

'Oh Celestia, she's so cute.', Dash thought to herself.

When Fluttershy began to return home later that night she decided that Angel Bunny had earned himself a special treat. Thanks to him, she had the greatest marefriend in all of Equestria.