It was the night of the date, and Pinkie was super excited. Super, duper, fantastically, magnificently, PINKIE PIE EXCITED!! Which meant the bright pink party animal was bouncing off the walls with glee. Literally. There was absolutely nothing, and Pinkie meant NOTHING, that could ruin her mood. Fluttershy squeaked with fright at the sugar fueled and utter chaotic bouncing about that was taking place inside Sugarcube Corner, while Applejack just shook her head, her lips turned up in a light grin.
"Ya got anything special ta wear?" Applejack asked flippantly, raising an eyebrow until it almost disappeared beneath the rim of her dusty old Stetson.
The simple question made Pinkie stop dead in her tracks, strangely enough, midair above the sweets counter. She hung there for a moment in one of her seconds of pure Pinkieness, defying gravity before seemingly leaping off of nothing to land on the ground, her hooves coming up to her mouth and her back bending backwards an a 'C' shape as one of the longest, loudest gasps she had ever made gets forced through her mouth.
Nothing could ruin Pinkie's mood...but that.
"I NEED TO GET TO RARITY'S RIGHT AWAY I'LL SEE YOU GIRLS LATER BYE!!" The pink blur screamed as she bolted from the sweets shop towards the Carousel Boutique, a large dust cloud rising up behind the frantic mare.
The orange earth pony farmer lets out a hearty bellow of laughter at the sight, while Fluttershy merely smiles in a knowing fashion to the trail of dust and dirt that was left in the wake of Pinkie on a mission. The small pegasus then does something to surprise the earth mare, by lifting her head and giving Applejack a tender kiss, right on the mouth. After a moment of holding the sweet moment, they break apart with smiles curving their lips as their eyes connect. It was then that Fluttershy speaks.
"I remember being a little like that on our first date...frantic and worried that I'd forgotten something. But I guess...I guess it never really mattered, in the end. And....I'm really glad we told each other, even if it was a little...scary and things. But Applejack? There's nopony in the world I'd rather be with. You've made me more confident, like at Twilight's earlier. And though I'm still shy...I'm glad I can make you happy. I hope I make you happy. I mean...oh!"
Her lips were suddenly very occupied with something other than words as Applejack returned the earlier kiss with more of a passionate tone to it, though the sweetness still lingered in the last moments of the lip lock. When they broke apart, didn't have to say a single word for Fluttershy to know exactly what was in her eyes, and she gave a little hum of happiness before nuzzling her muzzle against Applejack's soft neck fur, relaxing as she watched a new love story unfold before her eyes.
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Pinkie Pie burst into the Carousel Boutique with a comically grim face on, quickly making her way over to a startled Rarity, who had just finished up another dress. Pinkie lifts her hooves and squishes Rarity's white cheeks together while getting her face veeeery close, the powdery colored unicorn doing her best to pull her head back; with no success. Pinkie's grip was like iron.
"Rarity. I need a dress. STAT!"
"Mphkeeeh, bnnn oool hfff ooo wer gu oof mu ffsss." (In Muffled, that meant, 'Okaaay, but you'll have to let go of my face.')
Pinkie quickly obliged, her eyes going wider as she awaited the dressmaking to begin, tightening her muscles to remain as still as she could, for as long as she could.
"'Kay Rare's! I'm all ready to go! Do. Your. Worst." Pinkie says dramatically, though her face is both anxious and excited. Rarity rolls her eyes as she begins to pull out swaths of fabric.
"Really, darling, I don't get why you're getting so worked up over all of this. If she likes you, then you don't need to try to make yourself look prettier. Doesn't she think you're beautiful as you are?"
"Well, DUH, she wouldn't ask me out if she doesn't like me. And if she didn't like me, she wouldn't think I'm beautiful, so the fact that she asked me out means that she MUST think I'm pretty, right?" Pinkie pouts off in return, stunning Rarity into a rare moment of speechlessness. Rarity wasn't used to Pinkie being both logical and serious at the same time. It was...well, a little unnerving for the marshmallow mare.
"I-Indeed, I suppose that's correct. Now, come back in an hour or two and it will be done. I'm sure the both of you will have a lovely time tonight." Rarity said in a dismissive tone, letting Pinkie know that Rarity's brain was going into dressmaking overdrive, and that it would be no use trying to talk to her now.
She began to trot back towards the center of town, and then her eyes lit up as she saw a certain jewelry store, cogs turning in her head before she trots over to the store, giggling lightly when she hears the bell chime. She begins to wander, and the owners of the store look quite nervous to see her in there. Pinkie in a store with shiny things was like Iron Will in a china shop. But after a while of browsing, Pinkie finds the perfect item, smiling bright enough to outshine every last diamond in the store.
"I'll take that one."
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Meanwhile, Twilight Sparkle was worrying another grooved circle around the centerpiece of the library, her eyes frantic and her magic pulling books out here and there, bringing them to here eyes before she unceremoniously tosses them to the pile on the edges of the ever deepening trench around her.
"There are books on how to pull a chair out for a mare, how to be polite, the correct table manners for select restaurants, and even a book on how to avoid steaming manholes so your dress doesn't fly up like Mareylan Monroe, but not a SINGLE BOOK ON HOW TO GREET A MARE ON YOUR FIRST DATE!! AAARG!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO SPIKE?!"
"Uh...I don't know, Twilight, but I don't think yelling is the answer to that." The little purple dragon says with a soothing tone in his voice, gently placing the books Twilight had so heinously discarded back on their proper shelves. He didn't, however, let her see his eyes, which now rolled slowly in his small head. Twilight always over thought simple things like this, and freaked out over the smallest things.
"You're right Spike, I need to stay calm. Its okay, I can just walk up to her and say 'Ready to go? You look lovely tonight.' And she is lovely, isn't she Spike? Such deep blue eyes, I don't think I've seen anything like them...and her smile? Oh, I think I could live for days on just one of her smiles..." Twilight says dreamily as she practically floats upstairs. No joke. Her wings were upright against each other, with just the tops of each fluttering slightly, awkwardly lifting her front hooves an inch or two from the ground, while her rear hooves had to keep stepping forward to propel her.
Once more, Spike's eyes roll in his skull.
"Sissy girly stuff...I'll never get how she can be so weird sometimes. Oh, hey...Twilight! I sent that note that you left out for Celestia!" He shrugs when he gets no response, figuring that Twilight was far too busy drooling over Pinkie to hear him. He huffs softly as he continues to put the books away, shaking his head. "Sissy girly stuff."