Twilight lay serenely on the wooden floor of her library, flipping the pages of her book every few seconds. She was completely submerged in her novel, all of her problems forgotton as she followed Courage in his adventures throughout the world. Suddenly as she turned a page, a word made something click in her mind, something that had been puzzling her for days.
"Oh Celestia, I have a crush on Pinkie Pie."
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"I should have seen it coming!" she fretted, pacing in her usual circle. She recounted her memories from before: the lingering eyes she had on the pink pony, the slight blush that Pinkie had commented on, the even smaller trace of a stutter, and the heated awkwardness she felt around her all added up. She ground her teeth in a nervous, undecided way. "I must take immediate action to..... uh," she paused. What DID she want to do? Did she have the guts to tell Pinkie the unthinkable, or would she just have to hide? Oh, a better idea, move back! No, scratch that, too many friends here. "I will hide! It's not like Pinkie can read minds or anything!" she decided finally. She grabbed a quill and some paper.
"It's been too long since I wrote a checklist. I really should make these more often," she mused, holding up her completed checklist to the light. It was, well, shorter than her other checklists, but there wasn't much action or planning involved in avoiding a crush. She smiled and made a quick *check.* It made that whicking sound that she recognized and loved. She buried it upstairs under her pillow and went back downstairs.
Twilight woke in the morning to a torrent of dingdongdingdongdingdong. She groaned and muttered under her breath as she pulled herself out of her bed. She trotted floppily down the stairs, smoothing her mane as much as she could manage before she pulled open the door. "Hello?"
"Hey Twilight," Rainbow Dash said as she pushed her way through the door. Four of her best friends filed in after her, and they all sat down at her table as if she had invited them in.
"Ah... hello? What's up?" she asked, confused. Her body had also heated up about twenty degrees as Pinkie walked in, so she was altogether befuddled.
"Well, Pinkie here called some meeting about something, and wouldn't let us NOT attend," Rainbow said with an added eye roll. Pinkie seemed to perk up.
"Quite so. You see it's quite elementary Watson," Pinkie began her speech with a random bit of sluethiness. She decided to talk normally after the slight glares that she recieved.
"Ahem, here goes."
"It was just last night that I was sitting in bed, eating candy, that I had an astounding bout of Pinkie Sense. Now, I had had similar signs before, like the times when Cherry Picker and Sourpatch both had.... CRUSHES on me. But, something about THIS Pinkie Sense was different. I had also recieved and added tail tango, which I have found before to mean..... of friends. That means that one of these ponies sitting in this room... is crushing on me." she finished dramatically. Twilight stiffened, but was smart enough to start laughing. The others joined her after a second's pause, and when they were done they all had tears in their eyes from laughing so hard. Pinkie crossed her forelegs seriously. "Believeit or not, it's true. And I WILL find out who it is." She disappeared in an instant, amazing everypony there.
"W-wait, guys, what if she is actually..." Fluttershy trailed off. Her friends nodded, suddenly realized what would happen if...
Everypony eyed everypony else suspiciously. They all asked simultaneously, "IS IT YOU?" but nopony got any reply other than the offended 'no.'
"Well, I don't even LIKE fillies, so I'm outta here," Rainbow said boredly. Fluttershy's head whipped around.
"Wait, you don't? Dang-" she stopped and turned red. Her friends stared at her.
"FLUTTERSHY?"
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Pinkie Pie sat preparing for the next day, which she would so discretely start discovering wheter or not each of her friends had a crush on her. Personally, she could swing either way, fillies or colts, and had had a crush on all of her friends at some time or another. She had heard Fluttershy's speech, and had somewhat counted her out; Fluttershy would not be one of the three main suspects in her project. She opened pony.net and started researching. She knew most of what she was seeing online, but anything to aid her in her search would be nice. She had already made an outline of her master plan.
One pony would be kissed
Another flirted with
Another would be hugged
The other two would find a pink stranger in their beds.
Pinkie rubbed her hooves together deviously. She would start with her plan first thing tomorrow, and would continue on until she found out who it was......
"PINKIE!"
"WHAT?" she called. Her mother gave her another holler.
"YOU NEED TO WATCH THE TWINS TOMORROW!"
"Oh beluga whales. OKAY!" she called back. She bit her lip, but was able to change her plans in a second. "Oh, this'll be WAY better." She laughed an evil planning chuckle and drew an emphasized veiw of Fluttershy's back, tracing her pencil all the way down to her friend's enlarged bottom, expertly drawing every curve.
Pinkie Pie stayed up most of the night attempting to fill up her Fluttershy drawing pad. She had six drawing pads, one for each of her friends, and the last one for pictures of all six of them. She smiled at last when she drew the last picture, and drifted off into her own horrifying dreams.
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Twilight's dreams were worried. She fretted over her growing paranormal Pinkie Pie problem, wondering about being found out. What would Pinkie think if she discovered her? How would she discover her? Worse, what would her friends think? She tossed and turned that night, her thought thrown from place to place. Little did she know, Pinkie had discovered a way to figure out which friends was crushing...