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// The Question 
// Story: The Crowded Library 
// by SuperGiantRobot 
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Once you were simply a friend; just one of my five BFFs. You were all fun and games and I was ‘the serious one’. I still can’t be sure who made the first move – I’d always thought it was me, but maybe we both did at the same time. I don’t suppose it really matters. 

I used to be so studious - spending all of my free time reading and learing and experimenting.  Then one day you talked me into taking ‘a night on the town’. 

Then it became a habit.

It all started with a goodbye hug. Just a simple hug, nothing more. You were always good with hugs. 

Then you decided it would be cute to make it a peck on the cheek instead and that got the ball rolling. I’ll never forget the day I thought, ‘To Tartarus with it’ and turned the usual goodbye cheek smooch into a full-fledged kiss. I swear I just meant it as a joke – we were both comfortable around the other and I could just laugh it off as the joke I’d meant it to be. I knew you’d have found it funny. 

You’re that way.

But a simple kiss turned into a complex one – it was just a kiss on the lips, nothing more. Five seconds later, though…

It turned out that you were just waiting for this moment and, after getting over the shock (how’s that for funny? I was trying to shock you …), I found that I had been too. Eventually one of us had to come up for air. We looked into each other’s eyes and went for a second course.

Then we went back to your place for dessert…

Now that’s a memory that will be with me forever.

Since then we were an item – a source of jealousy for both mares and stallions, not to mention our other friends. Rainbow still gives me the odd dirty look.

And it was marvelous. We were the perfect pair. Opposites, as they say, really do attract.

If I had a bad day, you always said or did just the right thing to help. If I were tired, you’d be my comforter. If I were under the weather, you'd make the clouds go away. If I had a good day, you’d make it even better, one way or another.

And sometimes more than one way.

And when you were sad, I’d find a way to turn that frown upside down, when you were ill, I’d make being sick not so bad, and even when you’ve think you’d had the bestest day ever, well…

Let’s just say I had a good teacher in that respect.

You’re a breath of fresh air in a cloud of smoke. A cool breeze on a hot day. A warm fire on a cold one. You’re always just what I need when I need it most.

If it weren’t for you, my life would be so boring, so utterly mundane, so empty. I would have nothing but days and nights alone in my library. And I couldn’t live with that, now that I know better – that I know what I’d been depriving myself of. That kiss was the greatest thing I’d ever done, because it gave me you.

And I know as long as we stay together, the world’s ills won’t be more than a stepping stone, both for me and for you. Nothing bad can happen that we can’t overcome.  Problems simply won’t matter. They’ll just be ‘something to deal with’. 

Together.

So let the bad things happen. Let the world’s weight be set upon my shoulders. I don’t care, because at the end of the day, you’ll be there to make everything better. And I’ll do the same for you. 

Always.

It’s just you and me against the world. May Celestia help the world.

Pinkemina Diane Pie, you are my Very Special Somepony.

May I ask you to be something more?