Sweetie dreamily made her way to the library. Her mind raced with thoughts of her run in with Crush. Some thoughts were ones that were probably not the most appropriate at least according to Rarity. “Why should I care about what she thinks though, she left me. Twilight is my guardian now, not that I need one anymore.” Sweetie continued on her way forgetting about her sister and focusing on her Crush. Ok so maybe she was being possessive but she deserved to be and besides, Crush clearly liked her, right?
Sweetie arrived at the library and without thinking, opened up the door and startled Twilight who jumped a few feet into the air before she spoke. “Sweetie, what are you doing here? I thought we discussed not having you come by today?”
“That’s right; I’m just a bit distracted. I met the most wonderful stallion today.” So Sweetie Belle just met the stallion, that didn’t mean he wasn’t wonderful. She turned and left as she continued to daydream.
“At least she has somepony that likes her considering her-” Twilight cleared her throat. “At least she is happy.”
Crush finally found the clubhouse or at least what he thought was the clubhouse. He walked up the stairs, over to the door and opened it up. He chuckled when he looked inside. “Cute little place she has here.” He looked around and on the walls were all kinds of pictures. Two of them were of two of the six elements of harmony, Rainbow Dash and Applejack. He glared at the two pictures and walked over to the one of Applejack and touched the picture with his hoof. It had been tempting to rip the picture off the wall and rip it up but he had to realize that Sweetie Belle liked these mares. “She likes them and I’m trying to help destroy them?” Crush lowered his hoof just as a voice was heard behind him.
“Hey, who are you and what are you doing in our clubhouse?” Crush turned around and found an orange Pegasus mare with a purple mane and tail. Beside her was an earth pony mare that looked like Applejack except yellow with a red mane and tail. “I asked you who you are, now answer me.” The orange Pegasus demanded.
“I apologize; Sweetie Belle said that I could stay here.” Crush said in a hurry hoping that none of the elements of harmony would hear about this or was it possible it was just his paranoia getting to him. He really didn’t want either of the mares telling one of the elements of harmony about him but when he thought about it; that would have been a rather childish thing to do. Surely he wasn’t a threat to them.
“Oh, ok if Sweetie said it was ok. I’m Scootaloo and this is Apple Bloom.” Scootaloo introduced the two of them with a big smile on her face.
“Are ya Sweetie Belles coltfriend?” Apple Bloom teased; she got the reaction she was looking for. Crush’s cheeks turned redder then a tomato. “Ya are aintcha?”
“He so is, just look at him blush. It’s so cute and that says something coming from me right Apple Bloom.” Scootaloo wrapped a hoof around her friend.
“Ah’d say, ya hate all that mushy stuff.” Apple Bloom smiled and turned to Crush. “So what’s yer name?”
“I’m Crush.” Scootaloo was about to comment on his name but was cut off by Apple Bloom who covered Scoots mouth. “I just met Sweetie; I’ve never met a mare like her. I take it you’re the friends she mentioned. The three of you fixed up this old club house I hear, it’s cute.” Crush looked around the room a little more and found a target on the ground under the light. “What’s with the target?”
“That was our thinking spot where we came up with good ideas to find our cutie marks. They seemed like good ideas at the time anyway, in reality though, a lot of our ideas weren’t exactly smart.” Scootaloo thought back to some of the dumb stuff they did as fillies and chuckled about it.
“Yeah, we weren’t the smartest ones around. By the way, ah noticed ya don’t have yer cutie mark yet, why is that?” Apple Bloom asked as an excited voice was heard behind them.
“Scootaloo, Apple Bloom!” Sweetie ran up to her friends and grabbed them in a hug. “It’s so good to see you two again; I’ve missed you so much.”
“The war didn’t help any Sweetie Belle; we would have come back sooner. We are here now though.” Scootaloo broke free of the hug and spread her wings. “Check out the wings, I can fly now but only for like, ten minutes at most but still.”
“You never told me about your wings; the only thing you two told me about was that you got your cutie marks.” Sweetie noticed Crush behind her friends and smiled. “I see you met Crush.” She walked past her long time friends and stood next to her big time crush.
“They even teased me a little to boot.” Crush said with a small smile.
“Yeah we did and Sweetie, what’s with the hat?” Scootaloo asked.
Sweetie turned her head away sadly but answered the question, sort of. “Look girls, I don’t really want to talk about it. It just brings up anger and I just don’t want to talk about it.”
“Oh come on, ya have never kept secrets, yer not one-” Apple Bloom started but Sweetie cut her off.
“Crush understands so why can’t my friends.” Sweetie Belle snuggled up against Crush and glared at her friends. The two mares looked down sadly and kicked at the ground. “I don’t want to talk about it.”
“Ok Sweetie Belle, we’ll stop asking, sorry.” Scootaloo sat on the floor and stared at the ground.
Sweetie could tell that they didn’t mean to upset her and let out a sigh. “Look, its ok but I’ve been through some things and I just don’t like to talk about those things.” Sweetie Belle went over to the window and looked out. “It’s good to see you again but I had better get back home, it’s getting late. I’ll see you tomorrow Crush.” She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and walked off leaving him blushing and the two mares chuckling.
“I shouldn’t have gotten so mad at them, it’s not like they meant anything.” Sweetie Belle thought a lot as she walked and before she knew it, she had arrived at the library. She gave a big yawn and walked inside. “Goodnight Twilight.”
“What, no hello for your big sister?” Rarity stood up off the couch.
“Rarity!”
After Sweetie Belle left, so did her two friends after giving Crush a bit of a hard time. Once the two mares left in a fit of giggles, Crush heard a voice just outside. “Go, find her and bring her to me.”
Crush ran to the window and looked around outside but didn’t see anypony but he knew who it was and who he was talking to. “I can’t do it, I can’t-”
“You’ll do it, we didn’t set up this war, lose hundreds of our own kind and send you into dangerous territory just for you to give up. Now find her sister or you will suffer for it. Ditch that little whelp. Don’t you betray me son.” Crush could hear the sound of wings flapping and knew that Chrysalis just flew off.
“But I really, I love her, I think. I just don’t want to hurt Sweetie, she likes the six of them and so she would be upset if anything happened to them. I don’t want to upset her; I just don’t know what to do.” Crush collapsed onto the hard wood floor and began crying his eyes out.