After Fluttershy's close call at the mane salon, she tried to search for someplace with a little less... hubbub. Lady Slipper looked at Fluttershy, glaring.
"What?" Fluttershy looked at her angry Breezie friend worriedly.
"What did ya run out of there for?" Lady Slipper yelled, causing Fluttershy to cower in submission.
"I c-couldn't let them see my wings. I just... couldn't." Fluttershy tried to explain, stammering.
"Oh-Kay." Lady Slipper sighed, "I got ya."
Fluttershy trotted into a small, slightly empty cafe. The quiet was a welcome change to the craziness of the salon.
"Hi there!" a little white unicorn smiled, waving frantically from behind a counter containing many different kinds of candies.
"Hello, miss." Fluttershy said timidly. "Oh my, do you run that little juice bar too?" Fluttershy added, pointing to a juice bar with many juice fountains and stacks of cups behind and on it.
"Well, my name's Sweetie-Bell, and yesseree-boo I sure do!" the energetic filly chirped. Fluttershy smiled at the fact that a unicorn lived in Ponyville without having to hide, but still... she couldn't risk it.
"So, what's your name?" Sweetie smiled as she used her magic to operate the soda machines; combining all of the possible flavors and then taking a sip. She slid onto the bar counter and looked over at Fluttershy, who suddenly pulled out her camera and... *snap*!
"Uh, sorry about that. M-my name's Fluttershy. Why isn't anypony around?" Fluttershy asked, not that she minded.
"Oh, my sister Cotton Candy and her friends are at the Petal Parlor!" Sweetie smiled.
"So, they're c-coming back soon?" Fluttershy asked worriedly.
"Truth-Cabooth! If I'm guessing right, they she come in right... about... NOW!!!" Sweetie suddenly shouted, flying up into the air.
Just as Sweetie yelled, a crowd of giggling mares rushed into the shop, ignoring the fact that Fluttershy was standing in the middle of the shop and leaving the poor pegasus completely flustered. Sweetie-Bell instantly rushed over to the candy counter and began hoofing out candy with amazing speed. After she finished giving out orders, she instantly rushed to Fluttershy's side.
"This is my crazy daisy far awaysie sister and her bestie-westies." Sweetie whispered, grabbing Fluttershy's shoulder and making and grand sweeping gesture with her hoof.
"O-ok..." Fluttershy stammered, becoming increasingly uncomfortable. Meanwhile, her sarcastic Breezie caretaker was flitting around, taking in the crazy scene.
Just then, Sweetie's tail began to twitch furiously, and the room grew eerily silent. Sweetie's tail shook harder and harder, and suddenly a milkshake landed on Fluttershy's head and spilled all over her.
Fluttershy looked confusedly at all of the ponies laughing. She tried to ignore it, taking the milkshake glass off of her head and looking suspiciously at Sweetie. "What?" Sweetie smiled, her tail still, looking at the slightly angry mare.
"What was that?" Fluttershy asked the filly as the room returned to the usual buzz of conversation.
"Oh, that was my Sweetie Sense! See, Pinkie Pie is my cousin, but I guess I'm the only one who inherited the 'sense'!" Sweetie explained, so quickly that Fluttershy could barely keep up.
"Wh-what does it do?" Fluttershy asked, but not before snapping a picture of the juice bar.
"Well, I get different little, tingly feelings, and they mean different things! Like, if my tail starts twitchin', something's gonna fall!" Sweetie explained.
"Okay..." Fluttershy tried to keep up with the chatty filly. She had once heard that Pinkie Pie's ancestor had a similar power, but Sweetie must have been the only one to inherent it.
Pinkie herself had another power entirely; Fluttershy had learned this through her obsession with photo-taking. The mysterious and elusive Pinkie Squink (an odd and childish name for said power) could project visions of the future straight from Pinkie's eyes.
As Sweetie-Bell trotted back over to the candy counter, a cyan mare that Fluttershy vaguely recognized trotted in, wearing a brightly colored dress that made her shield her eyes.
"Darling, whatever happened to your cloak?" the mare said worriedly, trotting up to Flutters. "And such a drab color! You know, I could make you a rainbow colored one, darling!"
Before Fluttershy could react, the fashionista mare whipped off her cloak. Everypony turned as she looked around helplessly.
All the ponies were looking at her. Looking at her wings. She couldn't bear it. She trotted out as fast as she could, covering her face with her wings.
Lady Slipper looked nervously at the fleeing pegasus. The other ponies didn't seem to notice Fluttershy's wings, but they did seem to notice her disappearance. As the the broke into nervous chatter, Lady Slipper's flew out a nearby window.
Sweetie-Bell watched concernedly, then was got with realization: Fluttershy was running into the Everfree Forest!