There was a very long awkward silence. The silence was deafening, making it difficult for Neon to hear his own thoughts. He just didn't know what to think of it. Should he be happy for him and try to hook them up? Should he support him?
"Well," Neon finally broke the silence, "I think you should talk to her and tell her how you feel."
"WHAT? THAT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA!" Neon held the phone away from this ear and winced.
"So what, you just want to keep quiet about it? Nothing will happen between you two if you don't come out and confess. What if she gets a coltfriend before you have the chance to tell her?"
Neon began to put aside all of his unknown feelings. He still felt that sick feeling whenever his best friend was mentioned, and a new feeling was beginning to build up, a feeling he understood, yet he denied it.
"Neon, I just dunno what to do. What if she rejects me? She would reject me, she barely knows me, heck I barely know her. All I know...all I know is that she's the most beautiful mare I've ever seen." There was tension building up, Note Worthy was oblivious to it, though it would be hard to feel it over the phone.
Neon hung up, suddenly having the urge to chuck the phone at the wall and watch it shatter. He was enraged, yet he didn't know why. Was he being overly possessive of Vinyl? Was it like how close siblings always feel the need to butt into each other's love lives and ruin them?
"Yeah, that's it, I'm just being an overly protective brother figure. I'm always being overly protective of her, like when I wouldn't let her go out while she was injured because I was afraid she'd get hurt again. I've gotta stop doing this. If Vinyl wants to date, I shouldn't keep her from doing so." Neon sighed and rubbed his temples.
There was a few short knocks at the door before it opened without being invited in. Neon immediately jumped off of the couch to see who was intruding. He sighed again when he saw it was just Vinyl, and she was levitating two boxes of pizza.
"Hey Neon! I ordered one box of cheese pizza and they got my order wrong and gave me two instead, so I thought I'd bring it all over here and we can have dinner together." She smiled her beautiful pearly white smile that made Neon blush slightly.
"That's great, I'm starved." Neon began to clear off the glass covered living room table to make room for the pizza.
"Awesome, you can keep the leftovers if you want." Vinyl offered, setting the pizza boxes on the table.
"Alright. I'll be right back with some paper plates." Neon walked to the kitchen and opened the cupboard that contained the paper plate, using his telekinesis to lift two. He let his forearms touch back down to the kitchen tile and he turned to make his way back to the living room, but he was stopped.
Blood filled his cheek once he realized that he was muzzle to muzzle with Vinyl. She just smiled innocently and giggled after looking at his embarrassed facial expression.
"You done gettin' those plates?" She backed up slightly, right before booping Neon's muzzle lightly.
More and more thoughts began to flood every inch of Neon Light's mind. Every thought being denied.
"Y-Yeah." He stuttered, losing his cool. He knew it showed, but hoped that it would fly over Vinyl's head.
"Great, 'cause I'm starvin'!" She trotted back the the living room, Neon sighed in relief that she didn't notice.
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They both sat facing each other on the living room floor, Vinyl happily eating her pizza, and Neon taking small nibbles.
"Ya'know, I thought you said you were starved. You sure aren't acting like it." She mumbled with food in her mouth.
"I-I am!" Neon took a much larger bite, and then chuckled when he realized that he was now taking bigger bites than her. He jumped when her front hooves suddenly hit the top of the table as she jumped up on her hind legs and Neon found himself being stared at by a pair of sharp red eyes,
"Alright, what's wrong? You've been acting really strange lately. I know I asked you before at Club Canterlot, but you never gave me a straight answer." She sounded slightly irritated, meaning she wasn't gonna let him get out of this one with a "nothing" for an answer. Vinyl's front hoof met Neon's shoulder and her sharp glaring gaze became calm and full of worry.
"You can tell me anything, Neon. You're my best friend, I'd never do anything that might hurt you. I care about you, that's the only reason why I'm asking. I'm worried about you and I just wanna know if there's anything I can do to help, but I can't help you if you can't tell me what it is." Vinyl's forearms wrapped around his neck comfortingly and almost lovingly, causing Neon to blush, he quickly tried to brush it off.
"But I can't tell her. I shouldn't tell her something that I don't know for myself. I'm not one-hundred percent sure. How am I even supposed to tell that this feeling is what I think it could be? What if I'm wrong about this feeling, what if I tell her and then find out later that this is different? Or what if...what if she feel uncomfortable near me if I tell her. What if telling her ruins everything?"
Thousands of doubts surged throughout Neon's mind, so many questions asked, but none answered.
"I," Neon finally began to rely. "I don't know Vinyl. I don't even know myself." Neon stared at the ground, or at least tried to. Vinyl having her arms wrapped around him sitting right in front of him made it hard for him to concentrate on his thoughts, and the place on her body that his eyes wandered off to only made him question himself more.
Neon suddenly felt a hoof make impact into his head, and he immediately held it in pain.
"N-Neon, what the literal buck was that all about!?" He looked up at her, her face was as scarlet as her eyes, then he realized that she must have noticed where his eyes were.
"W-What!? I was looking at the floor! Honest!" He yelled in protest, his face now as red as hers.
"Yeah right!" She smacked him upside the head again.
"I was! Now please stop hitting me, it hurts." He rubbed the new bump in his head.
Vinyl sighed, her face still beat red in embarrassment.
"And I thought you were a homosexual. I bet you meant to do that just to dodge the question." She crossed her arms.
"No, I WAS trying to look down at the floor, you just so happened to be sitting right in front of me." Neon was just as embarrassed as Vinyl. He never looked at Vinyl THAT way before. It was an accident after all, it wasn't like he meant to look there.
A thought, a brilliant and sensible thought made its way to Neon's mind.
"Most brother figure would ever look at his sister figure in that kind of matter. If I'm now looking at her like that, maybe I am attracted to her. But now there is the thought of maybe it's not love, but lust. But I still do love to be around her just her being beside me. She doesn't have to be making physical contact with me for me to enjoy being with her. Can somepony lust for someone they truly enjoy to be with? But lovers can lust for each other. Lust is just one of the little things that keeps a couple together. Maybe it's one of the pieces to the puzzle that is love...wow that sounded cheesy as buck. But still, maybe...I do love her."
"Vinyl," Neon spoke quietly in a sincere tone. "You remember Note Worthy? The stallion that stopped us for a minute when we left Club Canterlot no too long ago?" The rest of the blush left on her cheeks finally faded.
"Nooo, I completely forgot about him." She said sarcastically, making Neon chuckle.
"Well, what do you think of him?" Vinyl cocked her head to the side questioningly.
"Uuhh...odd question." She scratched the back of her head. "Actually he seemed like a real nut job to me. I don't really know him so I can't say anything for sure, but that was my first impression of him." She stood and sat down on one of the couch cushions and patted the other with her front hoof, gesturing for him to sit beside her. "Sooo, why ask such a random question?"
So that was it. He confirmed her feelings without telling a secret that he promised to keep from her.
"That wasn't to hard." Neon thought as he sat down next to his friend, who he was now sure he was in love with.
"So that's it? That's all that was bothering you? Kind of a silly thing to be bother by." She used her magic to take another slice of pizza out of its box and took a bite. Neon took that question as an option to gallop away from the conversation.
"Yep, that's it." He smiled. Vinyl smiled back and grabbed the TV remote from the side-table.
"Alright, lets finish our pizza and watch a movie!" She said as she pressed the power button eagerly.
"Okay."
"What do you want to watch?"
"Surprise me."