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// Confessions and Cake 
// Story: An Element Of Party 
// by OneFluzzyPuppy 
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                After the Dating Game disaster, Cheese had bolted outside to find Pinkie. Now, as he was doing so, the omnipresent force that is bad luck decided it hadn't punished him enough, and therefore this conversation happened.
"Hi, Pinkie." Cheese said, carefully.
"What do you want?!?!" The pink mare exclaimed, her face streaked with tears. 
" I just want to talk."
"Well, I don't. Go away now, thank you for stopping by."
"Please. I brought cake."
"Oh, so now you're bribing me with cake."
"No!"
"Yes."
"Fine. But only cause I want to make you happy again." Cheese had a point. Pinkie's hair had flattened out, and she looked like she had been put through the emotional mill. Which, of course, she actually had. 
"I'm still not talking to you."
"Y'know what I said back there was true, right?"
"Yes, I'm perfectly aware you bribed me with *mfphnf* cake.
"You know what I mean."
Pinkie sighed. "I know."
Cheese sat down next to her. "So, do you, like, like me that way too?"
Pinkie's eyes widened in surprise. "Why, you scruffy-looking nerph-herder! You have no idea who I like and don't like. But for the record, I don't like you all that much right now!" She turned and took off as fast as she could possibly gallop. 
Cheese just looked puzzled. "Scruffy-looking?"