A Rainbow for a Twilight
Chapter 3 - ...that must be...
Twilight woke up that morning after having a bit of a restless night. Watching through the window she saw a sunny and cloudless sky, but that wasn’t what caught Twilight’s attention, what did though was that the sun was already up and shining and through the thick walls of her bedroom she could hear the laughter of playing foals.
Taking a quick glance at the clock that was hanging from the opposite wall, she confirmed her suspects. Twilight Sparkle had overslept.
Twilight got up from bed and went to the bathroom and taking a glance of herself on the mirror she saw that her mane was completely disheveled. “Of course” she thought “What can I expect after such a restless night? I could hardly stop from thinking of Rainbow and when I finally fall asleep, I dream of, what a surprise, a rainbow. Although I admit that it was stranger than usual.” ~Yawn~ “I think I’ll need to do some research about it. After I take a shower, of course” She then took a brief shower and combed her mane.
After her little grooming session, she walked down the stairs and went to the main room of the library. Remembering the dream, she made a mental list of all the book about dreams in the library. Once finished she walked to one of the shelves and took one of said books. Making sure that she had in fact taken the right book, she looked at the cover and read aloud, “The dreams guide for eggheads - The meaning of a pony’s dreams. Alright, now some breakfast.”
While reaching for the kitchen Twilight opened the book in the content table and searched for a title that would help her predicament. After a bit of lecture she finally reached the title she was looking for and at the same time she reached the kitchen counter. “Here it is, Dreams 101. Now what’s for breakfast.”
She picked some bread from the pantry and searched for some of her favorites flowers in the fridge, having decided for a simple daffodil sandwich. And all of this while she was still reading her book.
The first thing to note in this simple guide to understand the complexity of a pony’s dreams is that the dream in question is subject of the emotions of it’s owner. So not all the same dreams have the same meaning. It usually differs from pony to pony.
By this time, Twilight already had finished making her sandwich and was sitting on a chair at the table, eating her sandwich.
However there is a an exception to the rule, and these dreams are what we call a caradion dream, in which two ponies share the exact same dream with the same meaning.
A caradion dream is not exactly something that happens too often due to the fact that said two ponies must share a special connection of not only the purest of loves but of complete trust in each other.
“Well, so much for that” she bitterly thought “I know for a fact that I love him and I trust him with my life, but while I know he trusts me, I can’t think the other part could be possible.” ended with a sad tone.
Deciding that she didn’t want to be more depressed, she cleaned the area where she had been eating her breakfast. And headed for the door to open the library and collect the mail that the mailmare Darpy usually delivered. Mostly consisting on spam.
What Twilight didn’t expect was to have the rainbow maned pegasus of her dream there, mumbling at her door. One thing that Twilight found adorable in Rainbow Blitz was that, while it wasn’t very common for the rash pegasus to think the things beforehoof, when he did, he mumbled what he was thinking without noticing.
So Twilight stood there watching the back of Rainbow in complete silence, thinking “What is Rainbow doing here? Maybe he just want to thank me for the books or something, It’s not like he came to ask me out or something, after all, how can an adventurous pony like Rainbow like an egghead like me.”
“Yeah, that’s not gonna happen.” said suddenly Rainbow, startling Twilight.
“See, it’s like he could read my thoughts.” Thought Twilight, starting to feel depressed. Stelling herself, she forced a “What’s not gonna happen Rainbow?” out of her mouth, sounding almost to cheerful. Thankfully Rainbow didn’t noticed and turned around to answer.
“Hey Twilight, I... em... came... to thank you for the book... Yeah, thank you” Rainbow said, which Twilight found strange. “Why is Rainbow acting so strange? Is it me or he combed his mane?” Twilight thought.
“Oh, well. You are welcome, though I really don’t know why you didn’t came to see me first if you wanted to finish that book. You know, me living in a library and all.”
“Hehe. Yeah, my bad. Well that’s it, now I gotta go, to.. em.. do some stuff. See you later”
And having finished quite abruptly Rainbow took off into the sky, while Twilight just watched him go. “Now that was weird. Why was Rainbow so frightful?” Twilight thought. “Maybe he came to ask me on a date and got cold hooves? Yeah, sure” her thought started to turn slightly grayer.
After that, Twilight returned to the library, having forgotten to check her mail and to put the open sign in the door.
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That same evening Twilight was reading one of her books in the table at the corner of the main room of the library. That day have been a little slow due to the fact that the library hadn’t had any visitors at all. While not being one of the most popular place for the foals and such, she still had one or two visits a day.
What took Twilight by surprise was the fact that somepony was knocking at the door, which was weird, “Since when anypony knock on the door of a public library” Twilight though.
Standing from her spot, she took a bookmark and placed it in the page she left.
She trotted to the door and with a flick of her horn opened the door, finding Rainbow on the other side.
“Rainbow, why did you knock the door? This is a public library you know.” Twilight said.
“Yeah, I know but the sign said that it was closed.” Rainbow responded. And with that, Twilight remembered that that morning when she stepped outside to change the sign to open, she encountered her crush and after a not so meaningful conversation, she re-enter the library without changing the sign but forgetting to check her mail.
“Doesn’t matter” said Twilight “Come in Rainbow, What can I help you with?”
Once they were inside, Twilight closed the door and turned to see that Rainbow had stopped at the door and was looking at the floor.
“What’s happening with him today?” Twilight though “Seriously, is like he’s nervous or something”.
After a brief awkward moment in with Rainbow seemed to compose himself, Rainbow started “Twilight, I was thinking that... maybe… I don’t know, you would like to go out with me and watch a movie or something?”
And with that Twilight lost it, “It’s Rainbow Blitz asking me on a date” Twilight though.
“Like in a date?” Twilight asked.
“Yes, well you see.” Rainbow started mumbling. ”Last night I was in bed reading Daring Doo and I kinda started thinking about you and I think I might like you” Rainbow ended in nearly a whisper,
Twilight couldn’t believe it. Rainbow Blitz was asking her on a date.
Before she could even think about it, she blurted “I would love to, Rainbow!”
“Cool, What do you think of tonight? Maybe two hours from now, So we’ll have time to prepare”
“Okey, let’s meet at the cinema.”
And with that Rainbow parted and Twilight closed the door behind her, having to prepare herself for the date. But before she could make a step, she heard from behind the door a mighty shout coming from a familiar voice “She said yes!”.