//------------------------------// // Between Chaos and Order // Story: Opposite Attraction // by Brinde //------------------------------// Between Chaos and Order It all began on a beautiful morning in Ponyville, before, well… what would soon happen. This wasn’t anything to do with the Lord of Chaos, Discord himself, though he likely would have found a nice spot to watch what was about to happen. No before there was Discord, the Lord of Chaos, there was Pinkie Pie, this was waaaay before the seal snapped and broke him loose. It was a well known fact that even the most logical of ponies couldn’t make heads or tails of Pinkie Pie. Though, how could Twilight Sparkle? A pony of Logic, science, order, and strong OCD tendencies. While she wasn’t the perfectionist that Rarity was, she still had to make sense of everything. With… one exception, Pinkie Pie, the one pony she could, and never would truly ever figure out. Who would be able to though? Or perhaps it’s more proper to say who could? After all this was… Pinkie Pie. The one pony who, no matter what she did, was Twilights exact opposite if one would think about it. Pinkie didn’t think the way Twilight or any other pony did, and no one knew how she was able to bend the laws of physics the way she did, or how she was able to keep up with supposedly the fastest pony in Equestria. If there was one word to describe her character, just one, it would be enigma. Pinkie Pie, for all intensive purposes was an enigma. A fact that everyone who knew her, came to very quickly accept, if only to give their mind some peace. To continue on, it was on this beautiful morning, where Rarity sat outside, enjoying a nice herbal cup of tea, some delightful biscuits, and of course reading up on the latest trends. That Pinkie Pie decided to pop out, yes, pop out of the tea kettle, right in front of Rarity. As always a huge smile followed her, which she caught and placed on her mouth. Rarity at that moment, screamed in surprise, after all it’s not everyday a Pinkie Pie comes flying out of a tea kettle. “Pinkie Pie!” She began to chastise her. “You shouldn’t surprise a lady like that! You nearly gave me a heart attack, and more importantly I could of chipped part of my hoof.” In that same complaining tone of voice one, could always hear coming from her as soon as something she didn’t like happened. Helping Rarity up, after her fall, thanks to the sudden surprise. “I’m super duper sorry about that!” Pinkie said as earnestly as she could, before she continued on, “but I had a really important question, and I thought to myself, well I talked to myself, well it was more me thinking out loud like I always do, and so I said to myself on that particular problem that my mind decided to come across, you know who can help you? Rarity, she’s always good at this sort of stuff, and it’s like one of her favorite subjects after fashion, so then I decided to appear in front of you to ask this question.” It was always a wonder how Pinkie Pie was able to ramble on without so much as taking a breath. Brushing herself off, as she would, Rarity blinked once she was back on her seat at what Pinkie was saying. Finally after she finished fixing her dress, she would look back at Pinkie, already calmed down.  “And this question would be what dear?” She asked as she proceeded to drink from her tea cup. Without a single pause, or a batting of the eyes, Pinkie went straight for the jugular with her question. “How does a pony know if they’re in love?” Rarity, the pony who considered herself to be a self proclaimed lady, at this moment did something very unlady like. She spit out her drink, but was at least polite enough not to spit it out in Pinkie Pie’s face. “Wh… what? did… I’m sorry Pinkie Pie, but… did you just ask me? How some one knows if they’re in love?”  Her mind unable to believe she actually heard what she just did, as she wiped her face with a handkerchief. To this Pinkie nodded rapidly… too rapidly. “Yeah huh!” She agreed readily eager to hear what Rarity had to say on the subject. Tilting her head as she tried to figure out if Pinkie Pie was being serious or not, Rarity finally decided to ask her next question. “Are… you perhaps, as silly as this may sound, but Pinkie Pie darling… are you in love with anyone?” Mirroring Rarity’s action, as Pinkie Pie pondered this, the gears in her mind whirling. Then her head sprang back shaking a little, before a grin appeared on her face. “Well duh, I wouldn’t be here if I knew the answer to that question!” Sighing slightly, Rarity furrowed her brow slightly. “Well this is a rather… complicated… question dear. Is there a certain pony you always tend to think about? A tightening in your chest when you’re around… him?” Rarity eyed Pinkie to see her reaction to the gender, once she got a plain look she then changed it. “...Her?” Ah there it was, that bright smile Pinkie always wore. Pinkie tapped her chin twice, and only twice, thinking about this. “Hmmm, I’m not sure, oh I know! Hold on I’ll be riiiiiiight back!” She said as she then zipped away before Rarity could blink. This all left poor Rarity very confused, but also very intrigued, there was a mare that Pinkie Pie liked. Then it further dawned on her, there was… a mare… Pinkie Pie? Liked? Was that even possible? It had maybe been around five minutes, before Pinkie Pie zipped back in a pink blur while Rarity was thinking about all this. It was only the gust of wind that followed Pinkie Pie, that snapped her back to reality. “The answer to your question is yes, yes there is!” Pinkie Pie said happily. Rarity blinked, once. “I see… and who would this pony be exactly? More importantly.” A slight inquiring sly smile crept onto Rarity’s face. “Do I happen to know said mare?” “Weeeellllll I could tell you, but that might ruin the surprise, and I don’t exactly know if I like her, ‘like’ her.” Pinkie began before she narrowed her eyes. “Waaait a moment, how did you know it was a girl?” A small chuckle escaped Rarity’s lips. “Your expressions during the time I was trying to figure out what gender the pony was.” Pinkie Pie smacked one hoof on top of the other. “Oh!” Before she blinked and smirked. “Oh you’re gooooood.” Rarity smiled politely. “Why thank you dear, now you were saying?” “Oh right! Well like I was saying, I could tell you, but I don’t know if I should, I mean that’s why I came to you in the first place, to figure out whether I liked her or not, so I don’t think I should really say who it is, buuuuuuuut if I did I might be able to get help in doing so.” Pinkie started as she continued on her tangent. “What other signs are there in being in love? Maybe if I knew more, I could confidently tell you who it was I think I like but don’t know if she likes me, though I know she likes me, but I don’t know if she ‘like’ likes me.” Rarity then hummed and hawed, as she thought how she could help Pinkie Pie, and of course more importantly, satisfy her now dying need to know. “Well… would you do anything you could for this pony? More importantly, can you imagine a life without her?” For reasons unknown, Pinkie Pie was suddenly upside down doing a headstand, before she shook her legs like one would their head in a no fashion. “Of course I’d do anything for her silly! At least I think I would, unless it made some other pony sad… then I don’t think I would, but I don’t think she’d ask me to make another pony sad. As for imagining life without her, well… I’d be super sad! I mean it’s just depressing thinking about that, I don’t even like imagining any of my friends disappearing, I don’t even know what I would do if that ever happened.” A caring, yet still curious expression was upon Rarity’s face. “Well then dear, I think you might just actually like this special somepony of yours.” Pinkie Pies eyes widened as she heard this, before flipping herself upright, and in one fluid motion going to hug Rarity. “Really? That’s the bestest! Thank you Rarity.” Hugging Pinkie Pie back. “You’re welcome Pinkie Pie, but remember dear, you can’t truly know if you love her until you spend more time with her, and take her out on dates, getting to know her along the way. Though I still would like to know who this pony is that you think you like.” Withdrawing from the hug. “Oh yeah! It’s Twilight Sparkle! The first new pony I met who moved to Ponyville! And since you know who it is, you can totally help me set things up for her, after all you’re like the best pony to come to for relationship advice!” Did she hear right? Pinkie Pie… liked… Twilight Sparkle? Well this is certainly interesting, still… Twilight Sparkle… who would have guessed? Rarity knew she wouldn’t have, after all Twilight was practically Pinkie Pie’s polar opposite just about. “Did you just say Twilight Sparkle?” She asked in complete disbelief. “Yup!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed happily. “I mean she’s generally always alone, I mean I know she has Spike and all, but I can’t bare to see her alone, I mean sure she’s just about as happy with her books as Fluttershy is with her animals, but other than that she’s super secluded and that makes me sad, and then I think of how sad it makes me, and I wonder if being alone all the time makes her sad, and then I thought I didn’t ever want to see her sad either, so I kept thinking to myself wondering if I liked her, and that’s when the idea to come and meet you came, so I could find out!” “Well yes… I can imagine that… especially with her new home.” Rarity said as soon as she took in Pinkie Pies mouthful. “Exactly! That’s what I thought too! And her new home is like super huuuuuge, I could totally throw the most epic parties in there too! But like with it being so huge, it would be even easier for Twilight to lose herself in there, and mope about the past like she always does, and I don’t want her to mope about the past either.” Pinkie Pie replied without missing a beat. “Well in that case, if you feel so strongly about her, I would be delighted to help you.” Rarity then said, right after she stopped trying to make complete sense of it all, which was probably for the best. “You’re the bestest Rarity!” Pinkie Pie said as she went to hug her for a second time. “Now that I have all the information I need, I should go and talk to her again!” She said before finally leaving in a pink flash towards Twilights Castle. This only left poor Rarity in a slight daze, Pinkie Pie always tended to come in like a hurricane. Before a realization on Pinkie Pies last comment came to her. “Again? When did she go and talk to her the first time?” She asked herself as she watched Pinkie Pie disappear into the distance.