Chapter One: Date One - Baking Cupcakes is Romantic?
Twilight woke up surrounded by books in her bed. She must have fallen asleep while reading. No one could blame her. The day had been hard on her. Well, not that she had worked, but it was almost exhausting just thinking how the rest of her week would be. How could that have happened? They had months to do this, but everyone just came to confess to her at the same time! Why could she not do something so simple in a simple way? Well, because she was Twilight Sparkle, and there would always be a test for her. The biggest problem was that she had never faced such a test. A test that she could not study to for, and would do it and see how it played out, and that's what gave her the chills this warm morning.
Twilight Sparkle never in her life had done a test without studying, and just thinking about that gave her the desire to lock herself in her room and not go on these dates. She still did not believe it. Was there was something behind it? She would never know.
She stopped thinking of the minutiae or the silly things about the date. Twilight got out of bed, lazily stretching her arms, and did her routine morning hygiene and then arranged the books she had read yesterday, taking them to the library in the castle and putting them in the correct shelves.
She sighed as she went to the kitchen, this is going be a really long day with Pinkie…
“Hey Twilight!” a young and cheerful voice said as she entered. It was Spike, who was trying to make pancakes on his own.
“Pancakes?” He offered to the stressed woman, turning back to see Twilight sitting at the table, staring at the ceiling with a surprised face.
“Spike?”
“Uh huh?"
“Why are there three pancakes on the ceiling?” she finally looked at him. He was running a hand behind his neck nervously.
“Hehe, well… Looks like I don’t know how to make flapjacks.” said the boy with a chuckle at the end.
With that, Twilight, still with her pajamas, rose from her chair and smiled at the boy.
“Let me do this Spike, I think neither of us want to see more pancakes on the ceiling,” She joked, the boy gave a small laugh and took a seat at the table.
They spent a few minutes in silence, while Twilight prepared pancakes and removed the ones that were stuck on the ceiling, until Spike broke it with a question.
“What happened?”
“Uh…?” she did not understand why he was saying this.
“You nervous Twilight. I can see this… I mean, when you’re nervous about something, everyone can see, it’s pretty obvious.”
“Oh!” Twilight blushed. Was it really that obvious? “ Well… Maybe, if I tell you, you will not believe me... I know it's weird and almost impossible, but... Pinkie, Princess Luna, Discord, Sunset and Trixie said that they liked me at the same time." Twilight just kept her focus on the pancakes.
“I’m surprised that Trixie was humble and that Sunset admitted something, but... I thought Pinkie always liked you, and you really helped Princess Luna! Discord already... He is... More or less,” Spike said shaking hands from one side to the other to show the "more or less" at the end of the sentence.
Twilight did not answer for a few minutes, putting the pancakes on a plate stacked on top of each other and set the plate on the table, then sat down at the table and sighed.
“It's not in that way Spike… It's... they wanted to be more than only friends,” she blushed, again.
The boy's eyes widened, he had a pancake in his mouth and the fork he was holding dropped onto the table with a clatter. “Moar than friemmds?!” He exclaimed with his mouth full.
“Yes…” She blushed for the third time and took a lock of hair, running it along her finger, giving an embarrassed smile.
Spike quickly swallowed the food and his eyes widened again, “Twilight… How you do that? I can’t get Rarity’s attention and you get attention from five people! FIVE! Tell me your secrets, please!” Spike joked.
“Spike, I didn’t want attention… I mean, I like them all very much... But why did they come at the same time?”
“I don’t know Twilight. Irony of the destiny?” He said while took over a pancake.
Twilight sighed. “It’s almost ten o’clock, Pinkie will probably be here soon. I need to get dressed before that tornado in the form of human get here,” she rose from the chair, “You can stay with all pancakes Spike, I won't eat." She then headed towards her bedroom.
“Hooray!” He cheerfully shouted and attacked the pancakes, not questioning her loss of appetite.
Twilight put on a lavender vest and a dark purple skirt, along with her glasses. She stopped and looked in the mirror, raising her eyebrows, and sighed, perhaps, was the hundredth time of the day she sighed. While Twilight thought about her week and at the incoming date today, she heard a shout.
“Twilight!” Spike was calling her from the reception. Pinkie probably had arrived. She gulped and walked through the halls to the source of her dread, following the origin of Spike's call.
Twilight received a huge ear to ear smile from Pinkie when she arrived at the big castle doors. Spike just walked away from the two, but murmured "Good luck” to his friend. She would need it. After all, it was Pinkie Pie over there.
“Twi-Twi!” Pinkie shouted as Twilight travelled towards her position, where Pinkie awaited, pulling Twilight into a tight hug as she arrived.
“P-Pinkie you'll break my back. Oh my spine…” She moaned with the force of the hug. Who knew that Pinkie could be so strong? Maybe she had the gift of Maud?
“Oh sorry, Twi-Twi!” she dropped the taller girl, and then jumping up and smiling, which scared the princess, but Pinkie only laughed when she returned to the floor, “I'm just sooooooo excited about our date! It will be super-duper-fun! Let’s go!!!”
Before the Princess of Friendship could protest, Pinkie grabbed her by the hand, leading her somewhere unknown to Twilight.
“Pinkie, where we going?” Twilight asked as she bumped into a few people while Pinkie pulled her.
“It’s a surprise! You will love it!”
“Ok…” Oh dear Celestia, what I have I got myself into?
“HERE WE ARE!” Pinkie shouted when they arrived at Sugar Cube Corner, which was strangely silent. “Oh and Mr. and Mrs. Cake are out with their babies and the store is closed…” Twilight would not even ask how Pinkie knew she was wondering why everything was so quiet, “Oh oh!” Pinkie exclaimed suddenly, “I have a gift for you, stay there!” Pinkie ran like a hurricane and came in two minutes with a lotus flower in hands and a smile in the face, extending the flower for her.
Twilight blushed, “Oh thank you… Pinkie, it’s beautiful.” She grabbed it from Pinkie’s hands and sniffed the flower, It is surely the best gift I've ever received... Argh! She had no time to drop or throw the flower when a small jet of water splashed on her face coming straight from the kernels of it. Pinkie laughed, as Twilight tried to dry her face with the sleeve of her vest. “Pinkie, that’s not funny!” Twilight angrily shouted when finished drying her face, but then gave a slight smile at the laughing girl before her. This silly girl, she smiled and blushed again with her thoughts.
After Pinkie recovered and apologized to Twilight, the girl with pink and messy hair jumped for kitchen, calling Twilight to come along.
“Pinkie, what we going to do?” she asked as she went to the kitchen.
“Cupcakes!” Pinkie said excitedly as she picked up some ingredients in the cupboard, “You like cupcakes right?”
“Uh… Yes.”
“Hooray!” she jumped with ingredients on hand. “Then it means that you will enjoy spending this time with me making cupcakes, right?” Pinkie asked going up in front of Twilight, which was propped on the counter, and giving a smile.
“Of course Pinkie, well… I will like to spend this time with you, but…”
“Buuuut?” Pinkie had a sad face now.
“Er… I mean… This will be very good for our date! Uh… Let’s get started?” Twilight said with a weak smile.
“Pow-wow!” she celebrated with a jump, “LET’S GET STARTED!” she yelled as she went to get two aprons.
Maybe my afternoon won’t be that bad... right?Twilight thought to herself while waiting for the girl with a smile at the corners of her lips.
Twilight knew nothing about how to make cupcakes. The only things she knew about the desserts were:
-Cupcakes were done in mass quantities.
-Confectioneries could be added to it.
Her knowledge of cupcakes really did not help the Princess of Friendship now. “Hey silly, let’s go!” Pinkie said smiling at her. Twilight observed how Pinkie was holding her hand gently (for the first time) and blushed for the fourth time that day. She took her apron and put it on like Pinkie.
They put themselves in front of the counter where there was a lot of bags and jars of ingredients and some paper cups of pink and purple lavender color spread out in a surprisingly organized matter considering who made the set up. It was obvious that Pinkie had chosen those colors because of Twilight.
“Uh… Pinkie, I don’t know how to make cupcakes…” Twilight murmured looking at the pink haired girl.
“What?! Oh it’s so simple Twi-Twi! So simple that I’ll sing for you!” She said excitedly before starting. Oh no…
All you have to do is take a cup of flour!
Add it to the mix!
Now just a little something sweet, not sour!
A bit of salt, just a pinch!
Baking these treats is such a cinch!
Add a teaspoon of vanilla!
Add a little more, and you count to four,
And you never get your fill of…
Cupcakes! So sweet and tasty!
Cupcakes! Don’t be too hasty!
Cupcakes! Cupcakes, cupcakes, CUPCAKES!
She finished the song jumping up in the air. “Do you know now?”
“Not exactly…”
“Oh silly, I’ll teach you Twi-Twi!” Pinkie stood behind Twilight, getting on tiptoe to try to reach her, “Now you go Twi-Twi, catch all the ingredients, except the milk!”
“Pinkie what you doing?” asked the taller girl.
“You think too much you silly! Let’s make cupcakes and I’ll help you! IT WILL BE SUPER FUN!” Pinkie said excitedly, almost making the princess deaf from the hundred decibel blast.
Twilight just followed what Pinkie said, blushing when Pinkie held her hand to guide o help her. But then, after a long time, they were able to do everything, and both of them let out a happy sigh as they finished.
“Let’s eat!” Pinkie stated, for the first time, calm and sweet with Twilight.
“Yes,” Twilight sighed contentedly. At that, both sat at a table somewhere in the middle of Sugar Cube Corner and began to eat, but soon Twilight noticed that Pinkie had stopped eating and had leaned her head against her hand with a sigh and had made a little smile directly at Twilight, who raised an eyebrow and then blushed. “Er.. Pinkie?”
“Twi-Twi?”
“What you doing…?”
“Looking how you’re so super-duper-cute!” She exclaimed, making Twilight blush even more and let out a little smile, “You know that, don’t you?”
“I’m not cute Pinkie, I’m just…”
“Cute-cutie!” Pinkie exclaimed again. Twilight decided that she would no longer protest, so she smiled.
“Well, if you say so Pinkie… Thank you.” Twilight clumsily leaned over and placed a soft kiss on the cheek of Pinkie, whose eyes widened to dinner plate class and smiled from ear to ear, “I think I should go now. Princess Celestia sent me some important papers two days ago and I must read them. But our date was really fun, and I learned how to make cupcakes, which was more fun than I had expected. Thanks for that, Pinkie.” Twilight stood, straightening her skirt, smiling at Pinkie, who rose quickly and jumped onto Twilight, hugging her tightly.
After what seemed like five minutes, they parted away, with an even bigger smile (if that is possible) coming from Pinkie.
“So uh… Bye, Pinkie. I had fun today, and I hope we can make cupcakes another time,” Twilight said as she blushed and gave Pinkie another kiss on the cheek, “Bye.”
Twilight smiled at her shorty partner and left Sugar Cube Corner, let out a happy sigh, and when she was a little bit down the street, and heard an excited feminine shout proclaiming "YES!" to the world. She looked back and smiled. It was Pinkie being Pinkie, and maybe Twilight liked that.
That was not so bad. Pinkie is... peculiar to say the least. Well… Pinkie Pie: Check. Now onto… Princess Luna.
