Twilight Sparkle usually spent most of her days studying or reading, but hung out with her friends any chance she would get. For the longest time, she was happy to be around her friends, but she started to change, she had urges she couldn't control, feelings she couldn't contain. Spike took notice, and tried to comfort her, to no prevail. Twilight started to stop going out with her friends, and eventually stopped coming out of the library, everypony worried about her, mostly her friends. She just stayed confined in the small hollowed out tree, only creature knowing how she was couldn’t speak words; Owlowicious was owl, and could only say ‘hoo’ which Spike still misinterpreted as ‘who.’
"Oh Spike, these feelings, are they real? Or are they just perceptions of what I think I want. I've never dealt with such conflicting feelings before! I don't know what to do!" Twilight was defeated; she lay helplessly on the bed, her limbs limp, and her mane and tail frizzy. Her thoughts were racing faster than they ever had before, and she didn’t know why. Her heart was beating, and she was always wearing a light blush on her face, no matter who she was talking to; mare or stallion. But she was now blushing more than she’d ever blushed before, and she didn’t understand in the slightest bit why.
"Twilight, don't be so hard on yourself," the small little dragon replied, "I'm sure if you talk to them, they'll help you through this time. I'm sure they've probably gone through the same." Spike was trying to persuade her to talk with her friends, but Twilight was too ashamed of her feelings to tell anypony. Spike could see she was distraught and lost, her eyes were filled with a small film of tears that were starting to fester up in them. “They’re your friends, I’m sure that they can help you, but then again, I’m just a baby dragon and know nothing of what you’re going through.” Spike said shrugging slightly, Twilight’s head quickly shot up and looked at Spike.
"I can't do that Spike! What if they laugh at me! What if they decide to kick me from the group! Oooooh I can't deal with this kind of pressure right now Spike! I have work to be done, studies to conduct, and friends to try and avoid. UGH! What does it have to be this difficult!?" Twilight lunged herself into the bed, burying her face in the covers and pillows, trying to hide her 'shame' from Spike. Her voice was filled frustration, and complete and utter defeat. Small drops of tears escaping from her eyes softly as Spike looked at her sadly.
Spike could tell she was in distress, but didn't know how to comfort the lavender unicorn. "Oh, Twilight, your friends will understand, if you talk to them, and only if you talk to them. Maybe they can tell you something your books can't." Spike's words finally persuaded her, but only to go out of the library. But that was good enough for Spike, at least she was getting out of the library after being sheltered inside of it for the past couple of weeks, almost a month now.
"I'll leave the library, but I-I can't talk to them yet...I'll need time before I can confess this to them. It's just such an embarrassing and helpless feeling, knowing you can't do anything to stop the constant stream of hormones and emotions. But thank you for sticking with me through this; I appreciate you talking with me." Twilight smiled, her smile stretching across her face softly, and happily.
Twilight opened the door and was immediately greeted by the sun, shining bright into her eyes, which had been inside for the past couple of weeks. Twilight had not written letters to Celestia in a while, for she wasn't hanging out with her friends to learn anything from them. But she started taking a walk down the streets of Ponyville, as she walked, a smile began forming on her face when she saw a familiar face at an apple stand, and she was kind of hungry.
Twilight approached the stand, "Um, excuse me?" she said, and a light brown pony got startled letting out a small yelp and knocking over a plant put on the stand to add appeal. It fell on the ground with a small and distinct ‘crack’ as the stallion just looked at the ground in disbelief of what he’d just done.
"Oh horseapples, why, why, why can't I do anything right!" the stallion said to himself out loud, making almost everypony look at him, "Oh, uhm...err.. Sorry 'bout that. Wha'dya need?" He asked calmly, slightly embarrassed from his little outburst just a second ago, his face showing a slight awkward smile that he had almost permanently pasted on his face.
Twilight laughed a little bit, "Oh nothing much Caramel. I'm looking to buy some apples; I'm having a day to myself today. I'll be out for a while so I’ll take a small sack of apples please." Twilight finished smiling at the clumsy stallion as he fumbled the apples into a small sack, and handed it to Twilight.
"Small sack a' eight apples comes out to be 16 bits please." Caramel, stood looking at Twilight as she dug the bits out of her saddlebag and handing them to him. Caramel dropped one coin, and he bent down to pick it up and knocked the apple cart, unlocking the wheels causing it to rocket down the street. "Oh horseapples..." he said before running after the cart that moved through the middle of the streets in Ponyville.
Twilight couldn't help but chuckle at Caramel, but the extent of the situation wasn't funny any longer when the apple cart crashed right into the side of Carousel Boutique. Caramel was greeted by an angry Rarity, who then began helping him clean up the apples and pieces of broken glass. Twilight decided to move on before she got spotted by any of her friends; she ducked away in all the commotion and made her way away from the town.
Twilight stopped trotting slowly bringing herself to a stop, and tried to find out just where she had run to, but for the life of her, she’d not really ventured this far into Ponyville before. She approached a small looking pony, one that she had thought looked like a mare but she wasn’t all too sure about her thoughts. “Um, excuse me; I seem to have gotten myself lost. Could you please tell me just what part of town am I in?” Twilight asked as the pony turned around, their light violet eyes meeting with hers leaving her speechless for a while. “Oh, uh… I’m very sorry to bother you, I’ll just ask some pony else then.” Twilight started to trot slowly away until she was stopped by the pony, and she now knew her thoughts were also wrong, his voice was just strong enough to be distinctly male, but was higher than most stallions that she’d heard talk before.
“Yeah, this is the eastern part, places over here are still kind of being built up; but if you’re looking for a way back to the town square and market, just take that path over there. But seeing that you just came from the town square, I’d infer that you’re making your way to the park to get away from your troubles in some way shape or form, just go ahead and take the dirt path over there and you should be there in no time.” The stallion smiled softly, as Twilight shook her head snapping back into reality to reply to him.
“Yes, thank you but I’m curious on how that you knew all of that. I mean, I didn’t tell you anything and there’s no way in Equestria that you could’ve just inferred all of that correctly!” Twilight said defensively, her brainiac side shining once again over her.
The stallion just chuckled slightly, “Well in the professions I was in you learn to read ponies easier, still sometimes hard as hay and takes a little bit longer to figure them out, but I can read almost any pony nonetheless. Bu--” the stallion was cut off in the middle of his thoughts by a large brownish figure speeding past the both of them, “Dude, I swear if you keep doing that I’m going to sever your wings and then create a nice snug noose for you to where you’ll hang as a warning outside our house…”
The large chestnut coated pegasus spoke with a large deep booming voice, “Yeah, yeah, you know that you really are kind of a buzzkill right? I mean every time I try to have some damned fun you always have to do something like that, but whatever, I just came back to ask you for some bits anyways.”
“Dude! I gave you 275 damn bits! How the hay did you spend all of that in less than an hour?!”
“Dude, I used it for building those stupid bucking ramps on that new building! Ramps are expensive you know! Seriously bro, you really need to take a chill pill, and see a therapist for that dark mind of yours, oh and… you really should start locking your door; I mean that journal of yours has some pretty deep and disturbing things in it, now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go make some copies. Later!” The pegasus then sped off leaving a trail of dust in his path.
“Oh no you don’t! Get back here you stupid son of a bitch!” The light brown stallion yelled as he rand after the chestnut coated pegasus desperately trying to catch up to him, “Just follow the path and you’ll be fine! Just watch out for potholes!”
Twilight looked confused, but couldn’t resist chuckling at the two, she’d met them before but Paint had changed his looks since they’d last met. His mane was short and a golden blonde color while his tail was the same color with red dye at the end of it. Paint Splatter was his full name, and his coat was a mix between a light gray and an almost pure white coat. Dark had changed slightly too, he seemed to be one of the only stallions in the town that actually wore clothes, which Rarity liked, but she wasn’t too into the style of clothing that he liked, he would always wear T-shirts, ripped jeans and a chain that inadvertently lead to nothing anyways. He was a large dark gray pegasus with a pure black mane, and had an attitude that made every pony else stay ways away from him. But Twilight listened to him and followed the path that he said led to the park.
That way to the park was much quieter than the way that she usually took, so it definitely gave her time to think to herself. Walks to the park always cleared her mind, no matter the situation; the park calmed the atmosphere and put her battling thoughts at bay. Her way to the park being the best and most calming time she’d had in the longest time. Considering that she’d sheltered herself inside of the library for that past couple of weeks, this was the only time she had to be herself without the worry of being judged.
She found her favorite spot sat on a bench and opened a book and began eating one of the apples, and enjoying her nice time. But she hears a rustling nearby, she decides to investigate the noise; she approached a bush which she hid inside. She peeked out on the other side, shocked to see Rainbow Dash and Applejack kissing! Not just small pecks, full on lips connected making out, kissing. She was embarrassed about the scene she'd just come upon, but she couldn't look away. Her eyes felt as if magnetically locked to the kissing mares, their body language speaking for itself; they were truly in love. Their hooves passionately moving over each other’s bodies, groping every feature that each of them had.
"Rainbow Dash..." Applejack said, her face overtaken with a soft blush. She laid on her back, spreading out her legs and lie in a provocative pose; Applejack’s muscular legs gave way to what she was hiding between them, anticipating whatever Rainbow Dash had in store for her in that pose. Applejack's face was blushing a bright, light red, "Take me..." she said softly. Rainbow Dash got up on the top of Applejack, and their lips connected once again, though Twilight was just watching; she could feel the sparks between the two, their passion overtaking the atmosphere, igniting the very air with their love. Twilight just kept watching, unable to look away from them, and truthfully; she kind of didn’t want to anyways.
Twilight couldn't resist, seeing them made her lightly blush; and start to touch herself. But she backed up and broke a branch breaking the two apart from each other. Rainbow Dash stood up, and looked around cautiously, as Twilight shot back, her breath condensing as her blood ran cold. She’d just ruined their act of love, and she felt truly horrible about it, but kept her mouth shut trying not to make even the slightest peep that would give away that she was there.
"Come out here you peeping tom! I'll sock ya!" She said with aggravation being broken up from making love to Applejack. Applejack now blushing more than before, knowing somepony had seen them together. The two ditched their position in the park, and quickly ran off into the direction that Twilight had come from, but Twilight didn’t notice, she was just happy they didn’t find out it was her that was peeping on them. Twilight hadn't noticed how dark it was, so she decided it was best to return back to the library and forget all about what she had just seen, though it was hard; the two mares' passion set ablaze the atmosphere… and Twilight.
Twilight came out from the bushes and headed to the bench she'd left her saddlebags, to see Applejack and Rainbow Dash standing over her stuff. Applejack noticed Twilight and ran over to her. "Twi! You've finally come out of that darned tree!" Applejack exlaimed hugging the unicorn. "Uh...err... Did you see anypony run by, looking suspicious?" she asked Twilight.
Twilight lied, and replied, "No, But what are you guys doing at here in the park so late?" A question Twilight had already found the answer to. But she was still trying to keep up the act of her ‘innocence’ with them, straining herself to not spill the huge secret that she’d just found out.
Applejack looked at her, "Oh i was just takin' a walk when Rainbow crashed inta' me. So we just sat around and talked. Musta really lost tracka time." Applejack obviously lying, replied. "What are you doin' out here sugar cube?" she inquired of Twilight. Twilight ducked a bit lower, but eventually shot back up and looked right at the bench she had sat on coming into the park.
Twilight showed Applejack a book, "I was reading until I decided to take a walk that way. I left my stuff here knowing nopony really comes out here at night. I was eating an apple, but the apple made me sick. I got a rotten, soft apple, so my stomach is really turning right now." Twilight wasn't lying about the apple part; the rancid apple was twisting her stomach like a washing machine. But she didn’t show it in her face much
"Caramel," Applejack grumbled softly, "Ah'll be sure to talk ta him 'bout that Twi', sorry about the rancid apple ya got. We'd be happy ta’ refund your money if so ya'd like." Applejack's voice was sincere, trying to make Twilight feel better, and show that she was truly looking out for one of her best friends.
"On no, it's quite okay. Anyways, I have to go, I have some studies to do, and Spike wanted me back before dark, which already makes me late." Twilight said insincerely, she didn't like lying but she didn't like losing a friend either.
"Alright sugar cube, y'all don't get too into those books now ya hear?" Applejack said jokingly getting a small smile from the lavender unicorn as Rainbow Dash and Applejack turned away and galloped the direction back to Sweet Apple Acres.
Twilight forced a smile, and then awkwardly galloped back to Ponyville, now feeling the same awkward emotions she had before. Twilight now knew what these feelings meant. She brushed off what she felt just wanting to return home after a long day. Twilight felt no better than before; she actually felt worse, but that wasn’t the primary concern now. Now her emotions were churned, and her perception of her dear friends twisted beyond belief. Why do these emotions have to be so complicated….