Sweetie Belle awoke to sunlight pouring into the room from her window. She sat up in bed to find Button gone, and in his place were cherry blossoms and rose petals, filling the room with their scent as she smiled and followed the trail. It continued into the kitchen, where a heaping plate of chocolate chip heart shaped pancakes awaited with a card next to it. Sweetie Belle sat down and ate as she read the card.
To my beloved Sweetie Belle,
Today for Hearts and Hooves day, I'll give you this day of relaxation. Starting with these pancakes. To show my sweet love to you, finish these pancakes to find the next clue.
Sweetie Belle giggled at the cheesy poem inside, knowing Button only made it that way to make her smile. As she finished eating, she found a note sticking out from under the plate. Picking it up, she read it.
With this next clue, I hope that you'll find your way, go to a place you visit for a relaxed day. Sweetie Belle immediately thought of the spa and headed there, when her mother, Button's mother, and Rarity waited in the hot tub, filled with bubbles.
"So glad you could make it Sweetie Belle, and just on time." Rarity said. She tapped her hooves twice on the rim and two spa ponies came in to give her a special treatment. For the next three hours, Sweetie Belle went through massages, hot tubs, seaweed wraps, and more, where her mother gave her the next clue.
"I'm off to go on my date with FancyPants, we'll see you later Sweetie." She said. Sweetie bid them her thanks and looked down at the slip of paper to read the next clue.
The next clue will keep you looking for more, go to the Apple orchards.
Sweetie Belle giggled again at the cheesy poem, and smiled as she made the short trip out of town. Once she made it there, she found Apple Bloom with her siblings and Pipsqueak.
"Hey Sweetie Belle, glad you can make it. The next clue's at the tree house." Apple Bloom said. She found Scootaloo and Rumble, Mrs. Cheerilee, and Imp there with a gigantic card.
"Remember when you girls made a card like this?" Cheerilee asked with a smug look on her face. They all looked away and blushed. "This time, our husbands made this for us, how sweet!" Ms. Cheerilee said excitedly.
"We sure are lucky mares." Sweetie Belle agreed. She closely examined the edge of the card and read some neat little words.
I hope you're feeling relaxed and well, the next clue is somewhere full of treats to sell.
Sweetie Belle looked to up from the card and sighed at the long path she would have to take.
"Button knew you'd feel tired, so he asked me to make ya this." She held out a basket filled with Apples and a slice of her famous Apple Pie. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo's mouths watered at the scent. Apple Bloom gave the basket to Sweetie Belle and picked up another for Scootaloo, who blushed and took it, while Rumble smiled down at the blushing pegasus.
"Happy Hearts and Hooves day." They all said.
"Happy Hearts and Hooves day geveryone." Sweetie Belle answered back.
She started towards Sugarcube Corner, the place she knew the next clue would be.
Taking an apple out, she took several bites out of it until she reached Sugarcube Corner. She went inside and sat down, where there were a bunch of couples eating treats together. Mrs. Cake saw her and whispered to her husband.
"Hello Sweetie Belle!" Mrs. Cake said as she walked up to the expecting mare.
"Hello Mrs. Cake." She replied. "How are you?"
"I'm doing just fine, and how's your foal?" Sweetie smiled.
"Wonderful, thank You. Did Button come by today?"
"Actually, he did. He left just a minute ago." Mr. Cake answered.
"Ok, he told me to cohere for something, I'm assuming you know what it is."
"Oops, how could I forget, follow me." She escorted Sweetie Belle to the table they drank milkshakes together.
She found two milkshakes and a note. Picking them up, she read the slip.
Now that you found our milkshakes, go to the place we had our first date.
Sweetie Belle thanked the Cakes, took the milkshakes, and headed off to the gazebo. By this time, it was noon and the sun was directly overhead. She found another note as she sipped at the chocolate milkshake.
Congratulations, you found the last clue, now go to a place full of love for just me and you.
This one was easy for Sweetie Belle. She took a turn for the Everfree Forrest where she found even more petals deep along the trail. In a way in which it would be just regular petals to anyone else, but noticeable for her.
'He really did want this one to be special...' She thought. She found the cave and walked around the water fall, careful not to get their treats wet, and found Button Mash inside.
"Button!" She exclaimed. Button was caught by surprise as she jumped on him and knocked him back.
"Hello Sweetie Belle." He said with the mare on top of him. They lay there and talked for a while, Sweetie Belle talking about seeing a lot of their friends and the gifts. Button talking about getting up early to set everything up and how he couldn't get everyone since some of their friends were spending their Hearts and Hooves day in a different way.
"....Then I came here." He finished. They finally realized their position and got off of each other. Button looked at the milkshakes, which had partially melted.
"Want to drink those now, while we have the chance?" He asked. Sweetie had forgotten all about them. She smiled as Button took two straws and set them in. The two tapped their milkshakes together.
"Happy Hearts and Hooves day." They said. And they drank as the day slipped into the night, watching he sun set over the town and have the glow of Luna's moon show on the forest floor.
Later that night, as the two sat in the cave, talking to their heart's contempt, Sweetie Belle felt a fluttering in her stomach. "Whoa!" She said, catching Button by surprise.
"You ok?" Button asked worriedly. Sweetie Belle blushed and assured him everything was fine.
"Yeah, it's just, I'm still getting use to those kicks." Sweetie Belle said, wincing as she felt another towards her ribs.
"Well... what's it like?" He asked.
"It's, hard to describe, it's like something's moving around inside of me, and tapping the wall of my stomach." She sighed. "And it gets worse with each passing week."
"Let me feel it." Button offered. As soon as he put his hoof on her stomach, he felt a tap on his hoof. "That is a lot harder than I expected." He agreed. Sweetie closed her eyes and sighed.
"They've been doing this ever since I got that shot." She chuckled.
"Do you think we're doing this right?" Button asked out of nowhere.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, do you think that we're really ready for this? Can you handle the months ahead?" He asked.
"I... don't know. But no one said this would be easy. When Twilight first figured she was expecting, she freaked out. Even after months of preparation and her son came, she wasn't completely prepared. But who is? Our parents had dealt with it before us, and still had trouble. I guess that we'll just have to... go with it, you know?' She answered.
"You know you can let me know if you feel like something is wrong." He said. It took a long time before Sweetie Belle could reply.
"I will." She looked away.
Sweetie Belle sat in bed, writing in the very back of her notebook, tense since she was afraid he would wake up. Tears brimmed at her eyes as she wrote in the notebook, a few splashing on the page. She looked down at Button, who was deep in sleep.
"I love you so much." She whispered. Putting the notebook behind her pillow, she closed her eyes and turned off the lamp, silent tears streaming down her face.
'I'm so sorry Button, I hope you know that I always love you." The words echoed in her mind as Hearts and Hooves Day came to a close.