//------------------------------// // An Explanation // Story: Love Under the Moonlight // by SerenaTheMoonPony //------------------------------// The two mares, now sitting in Celestia's room once more-well, Luna was sitting on the purple cushion again, mending her front right hoof that her sister accidentally broke mid-tackle while Celestia was pacing around her room. "When were you planning on telling me that you were GETTING MARRIED?!" Celestia asked, as calm as she could-which, just between us, wasn't very calm at all- Luna flinching at every word her sister spoke. Celestia truly was frightening sometimes... "Huh..." Luna started, but was soon cut off by her sister's ranting. "Seriously Luna? You decide to get married and you don't even tell me? I'm your sister for crying out loud! Heck, you didn't even tell me you two were even dating until earlier, and then you decide to drop your engagement on me like that. And then to boot, you decide to run; oh Luna, what a mistake that was. You know it would have been so much easier just to sit there and talk to me about this instead of running away like that...I'm really sorry about your hoof, sister" Celestia apologized, she felt horrible about breaking her sister's hoof, even if it was an accident. "It's alright Tia, the healing spell is working, so it should be back to normal in no time! Besides, I can sort of understand your intentions..." Luna replied. "Again, I'm so sorry about that...Now tell me more about this whole engagement thing; who proposed to who?" Celestia asked, almost as excited as a high school filly talking to her best friend about her first serious relationship. "I proposed to her last evening with the ring mother gave me before she left...We were sitting on a cloud, looking at the stars. She thought it was really romantic" The lunar princess explained. "I can't believe my little sister is engaged...and before me to boot!" Celestia exclaimed as Luna laughed. "Your the only one who knows about this so far; we plan on telling the other elements sooner than later" The princess of the night said. "What about her family?" The older alicorn asked as the younger one sighed. "Twilight is...hesitant on telling her parents, and in all honesty from what I've been told; I can't really blame her, sister." Luna began explaining. "Oh?" Celestia asked, quite intrigued even if she knew about Twilight's parents being homophobic; she just wanted to see if Luna truly cared for Twilight; a test of sorts if you will. "It would appear that her parents are...so to say 'old fashioned'. From what she's told me about her foal-hood, her parents had reprimanded her for befriending a young filly who happened to have been gay, so she's been afraid to tell them ever since. And I can understand that fear; I was extremely nervous to even tell you about it just a while ago. I didn't know how you would react, but Twilight has an idea on how her folks are going to take the news. I told her that I will be right there beside her when she is ready to tell them" She replied as Celestia hugged her sister again. "That's a relief" Celestia sighed much to her sister's confusion. "Huh?" Luna asked. "Luna, both you and Twilight are important ponies to me; I just wanted to be sure neither of you would get hurt. I've known about Night Light and Twilight Velvet's views on homosexuality for a very long time; they were part of the group of ponies who came storming in one day because I had allowed a filly who was gay-I presume it was the same filly Twilight told you about- to attend my school." Celestia explained. "Oh" The moon goddess replied. "I'm really happy for you, sister" Celestia said with a smile. "Thanks, Tia" Luna thanked. Twilight and her friends were sitting at their usual spot; a small hill in ponyville park, enjoying Pinkie Pie's cupcakes as they talked. Though Twilight's head was anywhere but Ponyville... "Twilight? Twilight!" The sound of Rainbow Dash's voice brought the lavender alicorn back to reality. "Huh?" She asked as if waking from a trance. "Are you alright darling? You seem...distracted" Rarity asked. "Oh, I'm fine. Really, just...have a lot on my mind; that's all" She replied with a slightly nervous grin. "Are ya sure, Sugarcube? You don't seem fine..." Applejack asked. "Really girls, I'm fine. Everything's fine..." She laughed nervously. "If you say so Twi..." Rainbow said. A short while later, the girls all parted ways. Twilight ran a couple errands-basically just buying some food and a few other things- before returning to her castle. After -mostly mentally- preparing herself, she took flight and headed to Canterlot. Once there, Twilight found Luna in the hallway about five feet away from her room. "Hello Twilight" She greeted. "Luna, there's something I need to tell you; can we go somewhere...huh...private to talk?" She asked as the two made their way to Luna's room. Twilight then noticed that Luna was limping. Her curiosity getting the better of her, Twilight asked: "Why are you limping?" "Well, I may or may not have told Celestia we were engaged and I may have ran away from her; thus provoking her to tackle me..." She explained with a childish grin. Once inside Luna's bedroom, the two mares sat on the bed. "Now, tell me what's plaguing you my dear" Luna said as Twilight leaned into her chest. "Well, I went to see the doctor today-seeing as I haven't been feeling well lately- and...Luna, there's a chance that I might be pregnant"