Twilight and Blue were kissing, soon after they begin their courtship. The two could not even process the immense happiness that they contained for being together.
Then Twilight broke the kiss with Blue and he asked:
"What is it, Twily?"
"It's just that I think it's best we stop here..." Twilight replied. "We can be caught."
"Ok... what about your room?" Blue asked, making a slight smile. "I bet we'll have more privacy there."
"I do not think our relationship is mature enough for this advancement, Blue."
"But then where? Twilight, we can not be together if we are always vigilant if anypony approaches. We need space."
Twilight had to agree with Blue. They had to find a place just for them, a place where nopony could bother them, a place that was just theirs. Then the perfect place came up in her mind.
"And what about the Oasis of the Heart?" Twilight suggested. "That's where we did our first kiss and is a secluded and hidden place, besides being beautiful and enjoyable."
"That sounds good to me" said Blue. "Look, I'm free tomorrow afternoon. After lunch, we can meet outside the Empire Crystal and quietly move away to the oasis."
"Okay" Twilight said. "But are you sure nopony will notice us? And when I say 'nopony', I am referring to Shining."
"Twily, don’t worry" Blue replied. "If we do things well, nopony will notice anything, not even Shining. Besides, we can always count on Cadance and your friends’ help, right?"
It was true, she knew she could count with her friends for everything. She looked at Blue that was making his loving smile and she could not help but smile too.
"You're quite right," Twilight replied, rubbing her face in his. "I can always count with them. Well, I better get going."
She gave a farewell kiss with Blue and then went to the exit, opening the door and looking everywhere to see if anypony was coming. How she wasn’t see nopony, she left, exchanging a smile with Blue and waving her hoof. He replied with another smile and hoof wave. When the door closed, Blue sighed:
"She's really beautiful."
Outside, Twilight, leaning against the door and sighed:
"He's like a dream."
Composing herself, she began to walk away, putting her most natural air. Shortly after, Blue left the room and also departed.
Twilight did not take long to find her friends who were waiting tirelessly for her return.
"So?" the seven asked at the same time.
"So what?" Twilight asked, with great naturalness.
"Come on, Twilight, don’t let us in suspense" said Rarity. "Tell us what happened there between you and Blue."
"Who told you that I went to Blue?" Twilight asked, earnestly.
"Oh, please, sugarcube, we're not idiots" Applejack said. "We know ya went tah solve this thing with Blue."
"Come on, tell us all the details" Rainbow said, while in the air. "And don't leave anything out."
"Yes, Twilight, tell us, tell us, tell us, tell us!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, bouncing in her place. "Please, please, please!"
Twilight knew she could not hide anything from her friends, so she replied:
"Yes, you are right, I went to solve things with Blue."
"And?" the seven asked again.
"The truth is..." Twilight began, starting in a sullen tone, to pass to an immense joy. "Me and Blue started dating!"
When they heard that, they all gave little whinnies of joy, congratulating Twilight. All except Spike who muttered:
"Honestly, you need to scream like that just because she told you something that would eventually happen? You almost broke my eardrums. I don’t want to imagine if she told you that she and Blue were going to marry or if they were going to have a foal."
That made the mares look him again. Seeing seven pairs of eyes staring him, Spike gave a nervous laugh and then said:
"Hurray!"
The mares returned their attention to Twilight again.
"We are so happy for you, sugarcube" Applejack said.
"Finally you got the courage to declare yourself to Blue" Rarity said.
"This is my girl!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, giving Twilight a quick noggie.
"We knew that you were capable of doing it" Fluttershy said in her soft voice.
"Well, it was more he who declare himself, but I accepted the request of dating him with all my heart" Twilight said.
"You see?" Cadance asked. "I told you that you and he would eventually understand yourselves."
"Yes, now the only problem is Shining" Twilight said, now worrying.
"Don’t think about it right now" Cadance said. "Now what you have to do is let your courtship with Blue take root and then we can worry with Shining later."
Twilight nodded. She thought it was the best to do. If she wanted to prove to Shining that she and Blue would be happy together, maybe he would accept their love. But for this, they would have to strengthen their courtship to show Shining how resistant it was, in case the white unicorn didn’t react so well.
During the rest of the day, Twilight waited anxiously the next day to arrive just to be with Blue. When she imagined her in Blue the forelegs in the relaxing shade of those beautiful bright trees, her enthusiasm grew so much that she could barely control herself.
Whenever during the day the two met, they exchanged smiles and glances. If there was nopony around, except maybe one or another Twilight’s friend, the two exchanged a caress or a kiss, but if there was other pony around, mainly Shining, the two endeavored to not approach too much.
The next day arrived, much to Twiloght and Blue’s delight. The morning passed, reaching the lunch. At the end of it, Twilight waited. Through a window, she saw Blue getting out of the castle and going to the outside of the empire, carrying his saddlebags. That appealed to Twilight’s curiosity.
With her friends giving her coverage, she left the castle and headed to the outside of Crystal Empire. However, upon arriving at the meeting place, she didn’t find Blue. Instead, she found a note, secured with a small protective spell. When she touched the barrier, it disappeared. It should be programmed to be disabled with her touch. Using her magic, she took the ticket, opened it and read it.
My love,
Meet me at our special place on the island of the lake. I have a surprise for you.
With eagerness to see you,
Blue
Her curiosity grew even more. What was the surprise he was talking about?
She headed to northeast, facing the snow and cold wind that piled up, capturing, when she was approaching, the sweet and attractive aroma of the oasis. It wasn’t long until her hooves touch the fresh grass and the warmth embraces her with the giant shadows of the trees giving her shelter. She advanced through the oasis to the lake in the middle. When she arrived, she was speechless for what she found.
On the island, just in front of the great tree, was Blue who had prepared a picnic for them. He was waiting for her, sitting with his warm smile on his face. Twilight was still surprised, but she smiled back to Blue.
The stone platforms have emerged, paving the way for the island and Twilight jumped each one until she get there.
"Hello" Blue said, going to greet his marefriend with a kiss.
"But what is all this?" Twilight asked, advancing with Blue to the picnic.
"Do you like?" Blue asked. "I made it myself. I thought we could do something on our first date."
"Wait, you're the one who did all this?" Twilight asked as she saw the picnic, sitting.
There were finger sandwiches that Twilight recognized as being her favorite, red fruit tartlets with chocolate sauce aside, fresh strawberries and even a tasty cookie cake.
"Don’t look so surprised" Blue said. "I learned a few things when I was helping my mother in the restaurant. I just had to follow her recipes. And look it was very complicated, because some steps are quite accurate with the time and with... well, you know, my little memory problem, I had to walk with the recipes from one side to the other."
Twilight gave a slight laugh and then she used his magic to pick up a finger sandwich and took a bite.
"Yum-yum!" she exclaimed. "This is delicious! How did you know these were my favorite sandwiches?"
"I'm observer" Blue replied. "When you went to my family’s restaurant with yours, you used to ask the same sandwich."
Twilight could not believe that Blue remembered that. It just showed how attentive he was.
"You are such a dear" Twilight said, giving a kiss on her coltfriend’s cheek, making him blush slightly.
They continued their picnic, eating, talking, laughing and making out. Everything was perfect.
It was not long until the sun begins to set. Embraced by Blue’s forelegs, Twilight and her coltfriend were watching that.
"It was a perfect moment!" Twilight exclaimed. "I never thought that my first date could be so amazing."
"Well, you know how I am, I always make everything in great" Blue replied.
Twilight laughed and said:
"You're so silly, but in a good way."
They nuzzled and continued to watch the setting sun. It was then that Blue felt a light touch on his shoulder. He looked back and saw one of the great tree’s branches that contained one of its flowers. It seemed that the tree was offering it to him. Blue smiled and then said to Twilight:
"But the moment is about to get better."
"What do you mean?" Twilight asked, always looking forward.
Blue took the flower of the tree and then handed it to his marefriend, saying:
"A beautiful flower to the most beautiful of all flowers."
"Oh, Blue..." Twilight said, not knowing what to say, getting the flower and smelling it. "You're so sweet. Although, you have to improve your speech. This thing of "the most beautiful of all flowers" is a bit tacky."
"Well, I can’t think of anything else to say" Blue said, scratching the back of his head. "There aren’t a lot of words that do you justice."
Twilight smiled at him and the two exchanged a kiss.
It was time to return to the Crystal Empire. Using his magic, Blue packed everything in his saddlebags and they returned to the other side of the lake and then they went to the exit of Oasis of the Heart, abandoning its heat. They made their way back together, but as they approached the Crystal Empire, Blue gave a kiss of goodbye to Twilight and she went in the front, so nopony would notice that they had arrived at the same time.
As she walked through the corridors, eventually she found her friends who asked the same:
"How'd it go?"
"Amazing!" Twilight exclaimed. "I never thought a date with a stallion was so good! Look at the flower he gave me."
And she motioned to the flower of the great tree that Twilight took behind her ear.
"Wow, it's really beautiful!" Said Rarity.
"Yes, you bet" Flutterhsy said, seeing carefully the flower. "And it smells tremendously well."
“It makes me remember when Shining gave me our special lilly” Cadance said. “It was so romantic.”
"And the light that radiates from it is also fantastic, isn’t it?" Said Twilight.
"Light?" Rainbow asked. "What light? I don’t see any light.
"To me it seems a normal flower" Spike said. "Unusual, but normal. Do you see something?"
The others shook their head.
"But it can’t be" Twilight said, as she used her magic to pick the flower. "It was radiated light right now."
But then he saw the flower was not freeing the light that made it shine. Now it was beautiful, but perfectly normal.
"How strange" said Twilight, puzzled. "Maybe it just release light when it is in the Oasis of the Heart."
"If this flower is from there, so it’s no wonder" Cadance said. "That place is very mysterious and strange."
"Well, I think I go to my room before I run into Shining and he start asking questions" Twilight said. "Thank you for giving me cover, girls."
"Ya're welcome, Twilight" Applejack said. "It was a pleasure."
"Yeah, we are always willing to help our super-duper special friend" Pinkie Pie said.
Twilight then walked quickly to her room and when she arrived there, she lay down on her bed, placing the flower that Blue had given her carefully on the nightstand. Next, she put her head on the pillow, sighing.
She loved spending the afternoon with Blue, the two alone eating that wonderful picnic in that wonderful oasis. Her first date was even better than she had dreamed or even imagined. She only hoped to repeat it soon.