Eyes open as wide as they could go, face a deeper shade of red than anypony thought was possible. Her breathing had stopped entirely. Her sight was blocked by green eyes. She was frozen.
"Sweetie Belle?" Spike spoke up, "Could you get off me?" He asked while struggling to move.
"No, Spike!" Scootaloo yelled. "You're supposed to say something romantic!"
Spike turned his head towards Scootaloo. "Romantic?" He asked Scootaloo. "Why would I say something romantic?" Spike turned his head back over to Sweetie Belle. "Sweetie Belle, do you know what's going on? What is Scootaloo talking about? And why are you still on top of me!?" Spike yelled, eyes shut and fists clenched.
Sweetie Belle began sweating. What do I say? What am I supposed to do? She turned her head slowly towards Scootaloo and Applebloom looking for an answer. When they noticed her looking at them, Applebloom pointed at Scootaloo, who started hugging and kissing the air. Sweetie Belle's face grew a darker shade of red and her muscles tightened up even further. She decided to ignore them and looked back down to Spike, who was still looking up at the filly expecting an answer. "I- I- I... I REALLY LIKE YOU!" Sweetie Belle screamed, her eyes shut tight, her head so hot she thought it was going to explode.
Silence. Everything was quiet. Scootaloo and Applebloom both wore ear to ear grins. Spike lay still eyes wide. Sweetie Belle opened her eyes slightly and saw Spike staring up at her. Suddenly, she was able to control her body again. She got off of Spike, taking care to not step on him. Once she was off, Spike slowly got up and dusted himself off without a single word being said. The awkward silence grew more awkward by the second.
"Well?" Applebloom spoke, finally breaking the silence. "Whaddya ya have ta say Spike?"
"Yeah, Spike!" Scootaloo chimed in.
Spike stood in silence. Um," He spoke at last, "I- I uh, guess I'm not against it." He said, as he averted his eyes and scratched the back of his head.
"So, does that mean you like her too!?" Scootaloo asked.
"Um, I don't know!" Spike shouted, his cheeks now red. "Let me, let me just think." Spike closed his eyes. He sat still and tried to process everything that had just happened. Sweetie Belle stood in silence, still unable to believe what was currently happening. She stood patiently waiting to hear what Spike had to say.
Finally Spike opened his eyes again. "Sweetie Belle?" Sweetie Belle made a small squeaky noise in reply. "I, I don't really know if I like you that way or not," Spike said. Sweetie Belle felt a horrible feeling in her stomach. She felt like she was going to puke. "I really don't know you enough to really feel anything special about you."
"So, are you saying that if you and Sweetie Belle started hangin' out more than you might end up liking her?" Scootaloo asked.
"Um, maybe." Spike replied.
"That's good enough! Spike we leave Sweetie Belle to you!" Scootaloo yelled as she and Applebloom jumped onto her scooter.
"So long!" Applebloom said as she waved.
Scootaloo began flapping her wings. "See you later Sweetie Belle!" Scootalloo yelled as the two fillies took off into the distance.
Spike and Sweetie Belle stood looking in the direction that the two Cutie Mark Crusaders left in. Spike looked over at Sweetie Belle. "Um, want to come inside the library? I still have some things I need to do." Spike asked.
Sweetie Belle still stood motionless. She slowly turned her head to Spike and gave a weak nod. The two headed into the library and Spike closed the door behind them.
***
I love you, Pinkie!" Fluttershy yelled. Her voice echoed through her cottage. After the loud shout was nothing but silence. Pinkie stood still for a moment.
"Ooohhh. It all makes sense now!" Pinkie said happily.
"Whuh?" Fluttershy said, shocked with Pinkie's reaction to the love confession.
"Why you were acting so weird the other day. It made me think that I did something wrong, but now I get it!" Pinkie put on a satisfied smile like she just figured out the answer to a riddle. "But wait!" Her smile disappeared. "What about Twilight?" Twilight's ears twitched upon hearing her name.
"What!? What about me?" Twilight asked.
"Don't you like Fluttershy?" Pinkie asked bluntly.
Twilight face grew red. "Uh, well. That is, uh. I guess I do." Twilight admitted. "But you do too, don't you?" Twilight asked back.
Pinkie gave an energetic nod. "Of course! I've always loved Fluttershy!" Pinkie jumped over to Fluttershy and hugged her. "She's just so adorable!" Pinkie yelled. She continued to hug Fluttershy as the pegasus' face grew more red by the second.
Twilight looked at the two ponies, Pinkie was still hugging Fluttershy, and while it was obvious she was embarrassed, Twilight could see the happiness in Fluttershy's eyes. Pinkie looked like her usual happy self, but something was different at this moment. She seemed to be shining, like Pinkie was the physical form of true happiness. How could I ever cause any trouble to those two when they look so happy. Twilight smiled. Seeing these two like this is really all I need. I can tell by just looking at Pinkie, what I had with Fluttershy was nothing compared to how she feels.
"You know what? I'm over it." Twilight said, with a sincere smile. If you two really do love each other then I shouldn't try to get in between you two. I'm satisfied enough with seeing two of my best friends so happy." Twilight began walking to the door. "Now, I'll go ahead and leave you two alone. I'm sure you want to be alone." Fluttershy blushed harder at this remark. "One last thing." She said as she approached the door. "Pinkie?" She asked.
"Yeah?"
"How did you know I felt that way about Fluttershy?"
"Well, whenever I saw you looking at Fluttershy my ear would itch, then my eyes would blink and my hair would shake!" Pinkie answered.
"Oh, so Pinkie sense then. That makes sense." With a small sincere smile Twilight walked out of the cottage.
"Hey, Fluttershy?"
"Hmm?"
"Wanna go on a date?" Pinkie asked.
Fluttershy smiled. "Yes, I would like that very much."
***
Twilight walked away from Fluttershy's cottage. She could not understand the feelings that were going through her head at that moment. One second she was devastated to hear Fluttershy say that she loved Pinkie and not her, but after seeing Fluttershy with Pinkie she knew in her heart that Pinkie and Fluttershy being together was right.
She no longer felt a horrible pain in her heart. She felt almost happy. But, her happiness was cut short when she saw a cyan dot approaching her quickly. "Oh no!" Twilight began running another direction.
"Give it up, Twilight! I will catch you!" Rainbow yelled.
"Oh, Celestia. Why can't I catch a break!?"
***
"An' that's why Ah need yer help." Applejack finished.
"Okay, so basically it's like this." Discord held out his notebook to Applejack. On the page was a bunch of crude drawing of Applejack and everything that she just told Discord.
"Uh, yeah. Ah guess that's right."
"Alright, then Applejack. I will help you. I'm guessing the best place to start is finding little Rainbow Dash. Luckily for you, I think she'll be here any second."
"What makes ya say that?" Applejack asked. Discord answered by pointing a finger. Applejack looked in the direction he was pointing and noticed a cloud of smoke. "What in the hay is that?" She asked.
"Why it's our little friend Twilight Sparkle of course," Discord answered. "And look who's following behind her."
Applejack squinted her eyes. "It's Rainbow Dash!"
Twilight ran passed Discord and Applejack with Rainbow closely behind her. "Come on, Twilight! What's one make out session going to hurt?" Rainbow asked.
"I told you NO!" Twilight yelled back.
"Discord!" Applejack yelled. "Can ya stop Rainbow fer me?" She asked.
"Why of course!" Discord simply snapped his finger and a big orb began to appear above Rainbow Dash. Once the orb was done growing it slammed down and trapped Rainbow inside.
"Oops, it looks like I may have trapped the little unicorn as well."
Rainbow, still flying at top speed, slammed into the wall of the orb. While Twilight ran so fast that she almost went upside down before fall onto her back.
"Discord!" Applejack yelled. "Ah didn't want ya ta get Twilight too."
"Well, these things happen," Discord shrugged.
Rainbow Dash recovered from the crash and looked around her. "What's going on?" Rainbow knocked on the wall of the orb. "What is this thing?"
"I think it's a magic barrier." Twilight answered. "And by the looks of it, it's discord's."
"How do you know that?" Rainbow asked. Twilight simply pointed a hoof and Rainbow saw Applejack and Discord in the distance. "Oh, yeah I guess that adds up." Rainbow turned towards Twilight. "Well, I guess I could take advantage of this. You have nowhere to run, Twilight." Rainbow got into a tackling stance.
"Wait, Rainbow!" Twilight yelled. "We uh, we need to find a way out. 'Cause I uh, I can feel our oxygen running out!" Yeah! This has a limited amount of oxygen. Oh no! We're going to suffocate if we don't get out!" Twilight screamed dramatically.
"Twilight, I'm breathing just fine." Rainbow replied in a deadpan voice.
"You are now! Just wait! You'll be gasping for air any second!" Twilight screamed.
Rainbow smirked. "Well, if that's the case, I guess I better make the most of my time." She said she began approaching Twilight.
"Aah, that didn't work at all!" Twilight yelled. She began frantically looking for a way out but saw nothing.
"There's no way for you go, Twilight!" Rainbow said as she got closer.
Twilight thought hard about a counter spell for the orb. "Oh wait." Twilight focused her magic and disappeared out of the orb on the other side. "Ha! I got out!"
Discord saw that Twilight had gotten out of the orb. "Oh, well that's no fun. Rainbow Dash was really enjoying herself." Discord snapped his fingers again.
"Haha! I knew I could get out. I just had to tele—" The orb then stretched itself out grabbing onto Twilight and cutting her off mid sentence. "Aah!" Twilight screamed as she got sucked back into the orb and slammed into the wall.
"Bahahaha!" Rainbow laughed as tears formed in her eyes and she collapsed onto the floor.
"It's not funny, Rainbow!" Twilight glared at Rainbow Dash. "I'll just teleport out again." Twilight focused her magic again, but felt no response. "What?" She tried again. "Why isn't it working? Don't tell me." Twilight glanced out and saw Discord laughing just as hard as Rainbow Dash. "Ugh, he must have put an anti magic spell in this thing."
"Well, Twilight looks like you're stuck again," Rainbow pointed out.
"Yeah, I noticed." Twilight replied.
"Okay, Twilight get ready for—"
"Rainbow." Twilight cut in. "I understand that you like me, or really like me, and I appreciate the thought. Really, I'm flattered. But I just don't feel the same way! Can we please just go back to the way things were?"
Rainbow was caught off guard by Twilight's change of approach, but this did not change the way that Rainbow felt. "Twilight, you don't understand. There is no way things can go back to how they were." Rainbow stated.
"Why? Why can't they?" Twilight asked desperately.
"Because I have realized how in love with you I am!" Rainbow shouted, her cheeks red and eyes closed tight. "There's no way I can just see you as nothing more than a friend. Not anymore."
"Rainbow."
"Let me show you, Twilight." Rainbow Dash began approaching Twilight again. "Let me show you much you mean to me." Rainbow Dash slowly approached Twilight. Twilight, with little to no room to go, back up until she started going up the wall of the sphere. She kept backing up, until she lost her footing and fell onto her back.
"Wait Rainbow." Twilight pleaded, but Rainbow Dash did not stop. She stood over Twilight and slowly lowered her head. Twilight closed her eyes and accepted the fact that there was nowhere to go. Her cheeks blushed and her eyes closed tighter as Rainbow Dash finally made contact with Twilight's lips.