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// Chapter 1 
// Story: Kiss And Tell 
// by TotallySimpleUsername 
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It was a bright summer afternoon in Ponyville. The streets, like always, were alive and bustling with ponies shopping, chatting with one another, and just plain trotting around. Everypony, like every other day, was happy and content in their lives. Fluttershy was trotting along, back from buying carrots for Angel, when she came to a halt. Something had caught her eye. Everypony seemed to be looking at a pair of mares trotting down the street. Fluttershy thought to herself, "Who are they? I don't think I've seen them before." Then, she saw the distinct prismatic mane of her friend, Rainbow Dash. And, next to her, Twilight? "Why was Twilight trotting alongside Rainbow Dash?" She trotted up to the pair and tentatively asked, "How are you two?"

Rainbow Dash looked up at her. She had been holding her head down in what seemed to be shame.

Fluttershy noticed that Twilight had her wing around Rainbow and was holding her tightly.

Twilight blushed.

"We're fine." Twilight answered.

"Oh, good! I can't help but notice that you have your wing around Rainbow. If it's not too much trouble, why is that?" Fluttershy asked in a small, slightly frightened voice. She didn't want to mention it to the pair, but she also noticed that the both of them were sweating.

"Of course!" Fluttershy replied. "How about we go and have a talk back at my house?"

"No!" Twilight replied, very quickly and then sheepishly said, "Sorry, I'm just a little bit riled up... How about we talk at my house? It's just that my house is closer."

"That sounds okay." Fluttershy replied.

And so, the three mares trotted back to Twilight's humble treehouse-library, Rainbow Dash still hanging her head.

When the three mares arrived at Twilight's, she motioned for them to take a seat. Twilight and Rainbow sat next to each other on the plush couch facing the fireplace. Fluttershy took the chair positioned diagonally across from them.

They sat in awkward silence for a while until Fluttershy finally asked, "Umm... I don't mean to bother you, but I have to get these carrots home to Angel, so I'll just be going. I'll be back soon. Bye."

While she was walking, she wondered, "Why did neither of them talk? Why did Twilight have her wing around Rainbow? Why did Rainbow hang her head so sheepishly?"

When she got back to her house, Angel was waiting patiently for his snack. When he saw Fluttershy trot up the path, he started hopping around happily and smiling ecstatically.

Fluttershy dropped the bag of carrots at Angel's feet, and he happily started munching on one.

"Now don't you eat it all before dinner." Fluttershy remarked as Angel finished his first carrot and started on a second one.

Without stopping eating, Angel waved a paw as if to say, "Yeah, yeah."

Fluttershy left Angel to his carrots and trotted back to Twilight's house.

When she got there, she let herself in, and immediately regretted not knocking.

Twilight and Rainbow Dash had wrapped their forelegs around each other and were kissing intimately. They semmed to have not noticed the door opening.

Fluttershy let out a little squeak of surprise and then ran out the door.

Twilight reluctantly broke the kiss and uttered a quick "Sorry!" to Rainbow, who looked completely confused as to why Twilight had taken the pleasure of a good kiss away from her so quickly. Twilight scampered out the door, Rainbow in full out pursuit. Twilight spread her wings and took off, flying as fast as she could to catch up with the pink mane that she could see darting through the crowd.

She didn't catch up in time, for Fluttershy had ran into her house.

The purple mare landed and carefully folded her wings in front of Fluttershy's house, Rainbow landing next to her.

Twilight tentatively raised a hoof and knocked on the door.

A small, slightly scared voice said, "Who's there?"

"It's Twilight and Rainbow." She replied.

There came a little squeal of surprise from inside the house, followed by a very scared-sounding, "Come in."