"I..I could..maybe..i-if you..don’t mind..w-walk you home?" he said shyly, closing the door behind her as she walked out behind him.
"Well it wouldn't really be a walk~" She says, chuckling. "But I'd really like that." She adds on, smiling.
"What..do you mean?" Chestnut asked curiously, following her face as she spoke.
"I live in Cloudsdale, silly! We'll have to fly there." She informs him. "Oh.. A-are you a pegasus?"
"Ahhh!! You..you live in cloudsdale?!" Chestnut asked excitedly. "I am pegasus!" He said now more excited. "So how do you get to your house?" He asked.
"I just.. Fly until I get there.. Like I said, it's right on the edge, so it's pretty hard to miss. It should be even easier for you to find. And then you can meet mommy! I'm so excited!" She says, looking forward to it already.
"Sure! Let's go!" Chestnut said, excited he might be able to see Cloudsdale, the city in the sky.
"Awesome!" Snowdrop takes off with an excited bound.
"Woah!" Chestnut said, watching her fly before taking off himself. "Wah..woah..ok..there!" (almost fell..keep it together.) he thought to himself.
"Keep up, Chestnuut!" She calls behind her, ecstatic to be flying again. It was her second favourite thing to do.
"Im trying!" he said, pushing himself harder to catch up. "There! Now we're side by side!"
Snowdrop smiles, laughing a little."Good work! So.. You don't spend much time flying, huh?" She asks.
"No..not really." he said smiling as he stretched out his arms as they flew. "My parents..well..they aren't pegasi. They're unicorns." He said.
"Both of them..? Hmm.. Why are you a pegasus then? That's weird.." She says, thinking aloud. "H-hey.. Keep an eye out. We should be getting close."
“Ok!" Chestnut said. "And no..only my mom..my dads an earth pony." he explained.
"That's even weirder!" She says, laughing.
"Who cares!" Chestnut laughed. "Woow!" he exclaimed as Cloudsdale came into view. "It's..so big!"
"It's just weird." She repeats herself, chuckling. "And isn't it? I've heard about Cloudsdale. It's so beautiful.." She says sadly, sighing.
"What do clouds feel like?" Chestnut asked, hearing her sadness.
"Hmm.. I don't know. Soft.. Fluffy.. Comfortable.. I dunno." She says again. "Kind of like big, fluffy.. Sinky pillows."
"Huh..well..that...thats what it looks like..it looks like a soft, fluffy pillow." Chestnut said, trying to describe what he saw.
"Hmm.. Thank you, Chestnut. I never knew that." She says, smiling.
"You're welcome." He said happily. "So..your house is on the edge?"
"Mhm. I think it's even pretty isolated. Not sure about that though." She says, stopping her ascension.
Oh..well lead the way Snowflake!" Chestnut said in his excitement, blushing when he realized what he said.
"Snowflake, hmm?" She asks, chuckling. "What happened there, Acorn?" She responds, grinning and starting a slight descent.
"N-n-nothing." He stammered. "S-so..a-are we close?" Chestnut asked, trying to ignore his mistake with a question.
"Should be.. But can you please tell me why you just messed up my name..? That isn't something that happens too often and I don't like it.." She says, sounding a bit sad
"I...I..its..a...a nickname..h-haven't you..h-had one?" Chestnut stammers, confessing why he called her name wrong.
"Nope~" She says, giggling. "You're my first friend, remember? And mommy always calls me things like sweetie or dear. From a guy that'd be just.. Bleh. But why Snowflake then, Ches..ty? That's longer than my real name!" She says, laughing.
"I..I don't know..I..it sounded good?" Chestnut said unsure.
"I guess it did.." She says thoughtfully, smiling again. "Hmm.. Sure. You can call me that. But how's Chesty?" She asks him, a bit concerned.
"Its..I like it." he said more comfortably. "Why is it that I can talk so easily around you..you're the first pony to be so nice to me." Chestnut said.
"Well it could have to do with the fact that you don't need to worry about me seeing you.. But even if it were, that's probably not something you would think of. Hmm.. I-I'm not sure.. Maybe because I've been so nice to you?" She asks. "I know that would definitely help me if more ponies were.."
Yeah..I guess thats it." Chestnut thought. "So..where is your house?" He asked, looking at the Cloudy City.
"We should be pretty much above it right now.. Didn't you notice that I've started going down?" She asks, almost ready to just stop flying and let that mysterious separate cloud that never left her house catch her. She loved doing that!
"Oh..ok..I have but I wasn't entirely sure." Chestnut said, looking down and spotting a small cottage looking house.
"Hmmm.." She thinks carefully and closes her eyes to concentrate on her hearing even more. Her house was a bit too far to risk the fall yet, but she starts descending straight down.
"Woah! Down faster?" He asked, following her move shortly.
"Just you wait~" She says, grinning and taking a deep breath. "I think we're close enough."
"Close enough for what?" Chestnut asked, watching snowdrop.
Watch~" She whispers, closing her eyes and leaning back.
"O-ok.." Chestnut said, watching with his great curiosity.
"See you on the other side.." She says dramatically, stopping the flapping of her wings and letting herself plummet down towards the ground.
"Snowdrop!!" Chestnut said, flapping down after her. Stopping shortly after he saw the cloud. "N-n-not funny!!"
Snowdrop rolled around on the cloud laughing hysterically.
"Y-you sc-scared me!" Chestnut said, flapping next to her little cloud.
"Oh man! You've got to try that some time, Chesty. I know it looks scary.. And it really is. Even to me still, but it's SO MUCH fun! Now come on down here with me. Pegasi can walk on clouds." She informs him happily.
"We...we can?" He asked, slowly setting himself down. "Woah!! This feels...it feels...soft, and...and fluffy."
"Liiike I told you~ And no other race can do it! Isn't that cool?" She asks, smiling at him and getting up. "Mommy, I'm home! And I brought a friend!"
"Ohh my! A friend?!" Comes her upbeat voice from inside.
"O-oh..she sounds nice." Chestnut said to snowdrop.
"Oh, mother's very nice! I can't wait for you to meet her!" Excited Snowdrop jumps up from her cloud and runs into her mother's waiting arms. "Mmmm.." She lets out a little loving sigh as she holds her.
"Now now, darling.. Introduce me to your little friend." She says, standing up and smiling.
"Ooh ooh ooh! His name is Chestnut and he's been really nice to me, mommy! I ran into him on my way to school and.. Oh no.. I already can't remember.. Do you want to tell her, Chesty?"
"Chesty?" Her mother asks, chuckling. "You two have nicknames for each other already! That's so cute! What do you call her.. Chesty~?" Her mother asks teasingly, chuckling some more.
Snowdrop goes quiet as she does. Already knowing that he wouldn't like that very much.
Which she notices almost immediately and covers her mouth. "O-oh.. I'm sorry.. Could you still tell me, please? I really want to know.." Says her mother.
"S-snowf-snowflake.." He said shyly, not looking up as he spoke to her.
"Snowflake?! Oh my goodness, that's ADORABLE! Come in, you two. Come in." She says, backstepping into the house. "And y'know, Snowflake.. It's pretty accurate too. You're quiet and delicate like a snowflake. He must have put a lot of thought into that name, sweetie. You better appreciate that. Now go ahead and show him around. I'll make the two of you some Hot Cocoa." She says, walking off into the house.
Still outside, Snowdrop speaks up quietly. "W-wow.. I really want to apologise for what just happened.. But what mommy said.. Is that true, Chestnut? That's so sweet.."
K-kinda...r-remember when I got quiet in class?" He started.
"Yeah.." She said, still quiet and a little saddened again by the reminder. "I really didn't like that too much.. I thought I must have hurt you or scared you or something.." She confessed to him, looking down.
“N-no..th-that is when I started thinking.." Chestnut said. "S-so...c-can we go inside? I'm getting cold." He said as a shiver ran through his small body.
"Wow.. So you really did put a lot of thought into this.. W-wow.. That's all I can say. Thank you so much, Chestnut.." She says, walking up and hugging him tight. "S-sure.. Let's go inside. Mother must have left the door open for us too and that'd be no good. All the heat will get out." She said, patting his back before letting him go and then leading him inside.
Chestnut followed with a smile on his face. (W-wow..she..she actually likes the nickname..that's...she's really sweet.) he thought to himself as he looked around her house.
Snowdrop lets out another happy sigh. Even with a friend at school, FINALLY, it was always nice to come home to the familiar feelings and warmth of home. Especially now that she had this friend.. She realises. He'll make her life so much better now. Maybe she could even get into that dating thing she hears the older ponies talk about. He definitely seemed like "coltfriend material" from what she'd learned. "S-so.. Uh.. I've never done this before.. I have no idea what to.. Um.. S-show you.." She says, suddenly extremely shy and nervous again for some reason.
"I don't know..its your home..I..I guess we..you could..uhm...I..I don't know." He said, stuttering like her.
"Oh! I know!" She exclaims, excited again. "Follow me!" She calls behind her, running off upstairs.
"Ok!" Chestnut said, following quickly behind her. "Where're we going?" He asked.
“My room!" She says excitedly. "I have so many books I can show you!" Quickly making it up the acute stairs and running down the hall.
"OOH!! Ok!" Chestnut said excitedly.
Snowdrop's room was on the far left of a nicely sized second floor. She ran into it like.. Well, an excited filly and jumped onto her bed to wait for him with all four legs down.
Chestnut followed her in with a smile on his face, stopping when he spotted her on the bed.
"Ooh, you finally caught up! Hey, slowpoke!" She jumps out of bed and gestures him over to her book collection. She had a few small bookshelves, stocked almost fully with books.
"Hehe..what was with the pose?" Chestnut asked with a laugh. "Wow!! So many books!"
"Pose?" She asks, stopping right there and cocking her head. "I wasn't posing.. I was waiting for you, silly!" She wraps an arm around him. "I'm glad I met you." She says cutely.
"M-me too..I..I mean..im glad I met you." He said, stammering slightly as he glanced at her arm.
She giggles. "I love how quickly you can switch between awkward and confident." She says, nuzzling him. "Anyway.. Whew. Where to start with all these books?" She asks him, sitting nice and close.
"Yeah." He said, slightly squirming around from her closeness.
"Well why don't we take a look at them then?" She asks, standing up and walking to the left so that her plot was in his face. She didn't even think of that when she got up.
Chestnut sat there, slightly stunned as her tail appeared in his face. (Why is her tail in my face? Should I move?) he thought to himself.
Snowdrop answered for him by finishing her strut over to the very left side of the bookshelves. "Over here, silly! I alphabetically order my books by genre." She explains to him.
"Ok." Chestnut said, standing up and following her.
She smiles as he approaches, hearing his soft hoofsteps on the clouds. "After what my mom said.. I've thought of two better nicknames for you, Chesty~" She happily tells him as he gets closer.
"R-really?" He asked with a smile. "And what are they?"
"Well.." She trails off, drawing back her hoof. "Silly!" She continues, booping his nose. "And sweetie." She says, kissing his cheek. "Because you've been really sweet to me." She tells him with a smile.
Chestnut blushed as she kissed his cheek. "O-o-oh." He stammered, trying to find words to say.
"Do you like them~?" She asks happily.
"I...I l-like them!" He stammers, finally finding words to say. "S-so...what are these books?" Chestnut asked, turning his attention to the bookshelves.
"Good. I'm glad you do. I've been thinking about that.. You probably noticed how I reacted when mommy was teasing you like that.. Ever since then, I've been thinking I need to come up with a better one for you. Calling you silly was just a joke, really.. But you really have been so sweet to me and.. And Chestnut is hard to work with!" She exclaims, chuckling. "That sounds almost like a nickname already! But I also do find you pretty silly, so it wasn't all just a joke.. Not even close. Is there anything you'd want me to call you?" She asks, forgetting about his question as she carried on and on.
"Hmmm? I..I can't think of anything." Chestnut said thinking.
"Well sweetie it is then." She declares, mocking a professional's voice. "Let me know if you think of something better though, kay?" She asks him, smiling. "Now.. W-what was that other thing?"
"What..other thing?" Chestnut asked, snapping out of his embarrassed trance.
"I heard you ask a question when I was.. Uh.. Rambling." She chuckles. "But I didn't really hear it hear it.. Know what I mean?" She asks, still trying to remember.
"Yeah..b-but..I don't remember it really either." Chestnut said, thinking hard to remember.
"Oh well.. Couldn't have been too important then. Come to think of it.. I know we both really like books, but I'm not too interested in reading right now. I.. I think I only wanted to bring you up here to confess that.. Have you ever had a crush before?" She asks, walking back over to him.
"N-no..why do you ask?" He asked, following her sightless gazes.
"Because I obviously like you!” She giggles. “I think that's the main reason I had you over. And it seems like mommy can tell too. We'll be great friends at this rate!" She calls excitedly. "Now let's go get our cocoa!" She says, racing away again.
"Ok!" Chestnut says, following her graceful maneuvers as she ran through the memorized path.
To get even further ahead with another risky thing Snowdrop loved to do, she slides down the banner and lets the fluffy clouds bounce her into place at the table. "Beat 'em!" She says, chuckling.
"Woah! That was so cool!!" CHestnut said, finally catching up to Snowdrop.
Imagine how long it took to master without sight." She tells him, smiling in the direction of her mother.
"Woah..." he said, thinking of the possible injuries. "Cool."
"It sure was fun learning it. Thanks for the cocoa, mommy! So.. What do want to do when we're done, Chestnut? Are you hungry?" She asks, clasping her mug.
"Thank you for the cocoa." Chestnut said quietly to Snowdrops mom. "I don't know..I'm not really hungry right now."
"Okay. My mom makes great snacks too, that's all. Maybe we can actually get some reading done after this. OOH! Mommy, can he stay for supper?" Snowdrop asks excitedly.