She was so excited about tonight, though there was a threat to the city and also a Royal Wedding coming up she couldn't contain her excitement. Her and Celestia was going on a date again, which the last one they had been on was a little over a month ago. Though she could accept that since she lived under the same roof as her.
"But am I ready, is she ready to take this step though?" She asked herself under her breath.
Now that she thought about it the more nervous she became, Celestia had let her plan the date. And she wanted this night to be one that her marefriend would remember for eons after she had passed. But was this the right thing to do after going out for such a short time?
They had been going out for at least half a year now, but even though she knew other ponies thought that was plenty of enough time for this sort of thing, would she think it's time? The question sent nervous shivers down her as she brushed her mane. She couldn't help but think that this might ruin things now.
But she put her nerves to the side and looked at herself in the door sized mirror in her bathroom. She wore a simple red dress that seemed to sparkle in the light. What caught her attention though was a pair of sapphire ear rings that was given to her by her marefriend for her birthday three months ago.
She only ever wore them during special events or sometimes on the occasional fancy dinner date in the throne room. But she dare not wear them on any other occasion for fear that she lose them. Though she knew that Celestia would just buy her another pair, these ones were irreplaceable no matter how many sapphire ear rings there was.
"Oh sunshine are you ready?" Celestia called.
"Yeah, just give me another second." She replied, and hurriedly finished touching up.
When she walked out of her bathroom her jaw dropped at the beautiful mare before her. She wore a sky blue dress with gold trim with her normal necklace. The only thing missing was the crown she normally wore, but just seeing her standing there in the setting light of her sun was enough for her.
"You know a fly might fly into your mouth if it hangs open like the." Celestia said after letting a small giggle loose.
"I-i'm sorry, you look incredible." She answered closing her mouth blushing.
"As do you, maybe after dinner these dresses could find somewhere else to sit?" Celestia said giving her a wink.
"Um, uh, maybe?" She replied gulping suddenly feeling hot.
Though they always do this kind of banter between them, for some reason Celestia always knew how to make her blush. But she loved that about her marefriend, that's why she wanted this night to go so perfect. She gave Celestia a small smile and they started to walk towards the door.
When they arrived at the restaurant that she had made reservations for they managed to stop them from laughing. On the way over they had ran into a group of foals playing kick ball, and when they noticed the princess they all came over to say hi. Though what got them into a laughing fit was that one of the young colts had a crush on another filly, and both the princess and her help him out.
But he was just so nervous that he could barely get two words out and as they watched him they started to laugh a little. Though they did finally help him after a few seconds, but after wards as they talked about it they busted out laughing. When they realized they were standing outside of the restaurant they forced them to calm down.
"So shall we go in then?" Celestia asked.
"Oh, um yeah let's." She said nervously.
"Is something the matter sunshine?" Celestia asked taking note of the nervous look of her date.
"No, nothing wrong here. Why do you ask?" She replied.
"Because you seem to be nervous, and you normally don't get nervous like this." Celestia answered.
"Don't worry i'm fine, it's just been a minute since we've been on a date in the city." She said, though there was still an air of nervousness around her no matter how hard she tried to hide it.
"Well if you say so, how about we get something to eat then?" Celestia asked.
They walked in and quickly got a table since partly because of Celestia being a princess, partly because they had just made their reservation. The waiter seated us near a window and the table had a lite candle in the center. Classic music played a romantic song as they made small talk and ate their food.
"So tell me what's bothering you?" Celestia asked.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." She replied.
"I think you do, since we've arrived here your mind seems to wonder off. Now please tell me what's going on." Celestia said with concern filling her eyes.
"Um, well to tell you the truth I've been thinking about the wedding that's coming up." She answered.
"Oh, but I can tell there's something else." Celestia said putting a hoof on hers. "You know you can tell me anything right?"
"Yes I know my Celesti. There is one other thing, I've also been thinking about us." She said looking away momentarily.
"What do you mean?" Celestia asked her voice full of concern and she had a glint of fear in her eyes.
"Well the whole wedding thing got me thinking, and even if it's to early I wanted to ask you something. Something very important." She said looking straight into her marefriends eyes and smiled.
"A-and what is it that you wanted to ask me?" Celestia asked a sense of her own nerves coming up.
"C-can it wait until dessert?" She asked blushing.
"Of course my sweet." Celestia answered a slight sense of relief came over her. What did she want to ask her though? Why had she been thinking about their relationship since the wedding was drawing near?
"Here's your desserts ladies. The mystery jello for the young pegasus, and the banana split special for the princess. I hope you two have a very good evening." The waiter said giving Feather a little wink. "And I hope you enjoy your dessert princess."
"Thank you, and you have a good evening to." Celestia said, and the waiter bowed and walked away. "What was with that little wink?"
"I-I don't know, maybe we should eat our dessert." She answered putting a spoon full of jello in her mouth and letting out a moan as it tantalized her taste buds.
"Yeah, himm I love bananas." Celestia said.
"Why is that?" She asked after swallowing.
"Oh, you mean why do I love bananas so much?" She gave a nod. "Well I used to have a potassium deficiency." Celestia answered.
"Really? You poor thing, but you said you used to?" She asked.
"Yes, eventually I it went away. But I ate so many bananas that I guess I became addicted to them." Celestia said with a small chuckle and then taking took a bite out of the banana.
"Well that's good to know, I was always curious about that." She said also giving a small chuckle.
They made more small talk as they slowly ate their desserts, which was very good. Both of their foods enchanted, her ice cream had a cooling enchantment so it wouldn't melt, and hers had an enchantment that made each bite taste different. As they both started to get near the bottom Celestia stopped her spoon midway.
"What's wrong?" She asked her nerves which hadn't gone away started to multiply again.
"There's something in my ice cream." Celestia said with a little curiosity.
"Well what is it?" She asked swallowing.
"Here let me see." Celestia said using her magic to move a strange looking box out of the ice cream. "What's this?"
"I-it's apart of my question I had." She answered blushing looking away.
"What do you mean sunshine?" Celestia asked.
"O-open it p-please." She was now a nervous wreck as Celestia looked at the box to her back to the box.
"O-okay, if you say so." Celestia said and opened the small box, and she had let out a gasp of surprise.
When she summoned enough courage to look she saw the expression on her marefriends face was one of pure shock and surprise. Her eyes now going from the contents of the box to her, and her nerves starting to really take over. She was managed to get up and walk over to where her marefriend was sitting.
"Listen Celestia, here in front of all these p-ponies I-I wanted t-to ask you, if you d-don't think it's to soon, i-if you could possibly c-consid..." She was cut off by lips pressing against hers.
"Of course my little pony, of course I will marry you." Celestia said breaking the kiss tears in both of their eyes.
Both mares jumped in surprise as the crowd inside and outside cheered and flashes of light blinded them. They both smiled at each other and leaned in for another kiss. This day was one the entire city of Catnerlot would remember for decades.