Twilight sprang up fearfully from her bed, and she now pacing around in circles afraid of what Applejack would do to her if she found out it was her who was peeping in on them in the park last night, "Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no." Twilight just repeated the phrase over and over again, her voice grew more and more frantic as she repeated the phrase, now doing it even subconsciously. "Do they know?! If Applejack knows she'll have my hide for sure! I mean, Applejack will take me to the barn and skin my very coat off and then hang my body as a warning to every pony else showing what happened to the last pony that thought that they could get away with watching her! And Rainbow Dash, she'd tell every pony I'm a no good peeping tom! That can’t be good for my reputation, she’ll ruin every single root I have here in Ponyville!" Twilight gasped loudly, “I might have to even move back to Canterlot and Celestia will be so disappointed in me, she’ll remove me from her academy. She might even send me all the back to… Magic Kindergarten!” She slumped onto the floor, afraid of what her friends or soon to be former friends would do to her, and the long term consequences of what they would say. "I really wish I'd have just kept to myself. Minded my own business! Now I might lose two of my best friends over this! I-I didn't mean to stumble upon them!" Her voice started cracking, she looked a mess; her face was scared, scared of what she thought to come.
Spike stopped the panicking unicorn, and nodded. "Twilight, just talk to them, I'm pretty sure they'll understand what you have to say to them, I mean, peeping in on them is a pretty serious thing, and knowing those two they’ll most likely kill you in some of the worst ways possible.” Spike said, as Twilight’s very heart skipped a beat and her face wore a very big fearful look. “But they are your friends by the way, I’m sure that if you just, you know, talk with them, they would understand just what you are going through, and maybe they can even help you get over these feelings." Spike's words soothed Twilight's racing mind, but it still didn't put her worries at bay. She would have to face the infuriated Applejack face to face, and most likely take a couple back hooves to the side of the head, in order to understand.
Twilight gulped and opened the door, "Yes Applejack?" Twilight awkwardly looked at Applejack with Rainbow Dash, sharing her fury, standing behind her, both of them wearing a large scowl, almost a pure deadpan look at Twilight, "You've caught me right in the middle of a critical study for Princess Celestia. I'm afraid I’ll have to get back to you guys whenever I can, so would you please go away so that I can continue my studies so that Princess Celestia doesn’t come after me wondering why I haven’t been working on what she’s asked me to." Twilight said, as she tried to close the door, but Applejack stopped it with her large and muscular foreleg. Twilight lightly gulped at Applejack's gesture, afraid of just what Applejack would do next, but she was prepared to take a couple of hits to her head and body if need be.
Applejack sighed, "Twi' I reckon we need to talk." She said her fury suddenly subsiding. Applejack and Rainbow Dash entered the library and sat down in the kitchen. "Hey, Twilight, can you get me some coffee? That Manehattan roast kind, I have a feeling we're going to be here for a while. For some reason, Applejack has been talking a lot more nowadays, literally nearly talked my ear off a couple of times." Twilight nodded, and went and made a pot of coffee quietly, trying not to show in her body language what she knew about the two mares. As it brewed Applejack began to talk, "Twi'...Was it you who spotted us at tha’ park last night?" Applejack said calmly, her voice had a hint of confusion to it that just lingered in the very atmosphere for a while.
Twilight blushed lowly able to just barely hide her blush from the two, as she was bringing the coffee to the cyan pagasus and orange earth pony, "Uh... Heh... I... Well... You know..." Twilight was put on the spot, her cheeks sustaining a light blush, that was dark enough to show itself, making both of the mares standing in front of her to shoot another signature deadpan stare at her. Twilight gulped then sighed knowing that she had been defeated and her lies seen through, "Yes, It was me... Who saw you two in the park… I was hiding in the bush that was adjacent to you, I lied so you wouldn't get mad at me… You probably must despise me now... I understand if you guys want to drop me as a friend..." Twilight lowered her head, knowing that she was most likely about to get the largest tongue lashing of her entire life.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked at each other and burst out laughing making Twilight look back at them with a baffled stare, not knowing just what they were laughing about, "Oh sugar cube we’re sorry ‘bout all that, we didn't mean to scare the livin' heck outta ya. But it's just kinda awkward when you know somepony's watchin' ya... You know, with somepony else. But we get your curiousity, We can tell you have a lot of sexual tension built up. Ya really need to find yaself a nice pony to release that, or you're never gonna feel better, and by the way you’ve been acting, you really need a rather loving one to release all of this onto." Applejack was reasonable, as always; her smile calming the air, but her smile receded as she started examining Twilight’s features slowly contemplating them in her mind.
Rainbow Dash looked down, "Sorry for saying ‘I’ll sock ya’, you didn’t deserve such a comment, though you do deserve a nice pop in the head for spying on us. But you know how awkward it is for somepony to watch you having sex right?" Rainbow Dash and Applejack laughed in sync, their laughs loud and almost simultaneous to each other’s. But Twilight didn't laugh, because she didn't know how awkward it was, the fact of the matter was, she'd never ever had a relationship that ever led that far, and she didn’t know if she ever really wanted to.
Twilight sighed, "So, what do I do then? I can't just go up to any pony and casually say; 'Hey, you, me, sex right now.' Can I?" Twilight laughed a little, and the snickers of her two friends followed suit, their laughs echoed throughout the room, almost seeming to make the very ceiling shake above them. "Well, it seems I'm going to need a bit of help then, I've never really been with any pony, so I have extremely limited experience in the matter. But I have read a lot of romance novels! D-Does that count?" Twilight said ducking her head slightly as the two mares deadpanned her once again.
“No, no it doesn’t” Rainbowe Dash said, her deadpan was the strongest looking in the entire room, making Twilight feel rather uncomfortable seeing it.
Applejack looking into the hopeless unicorn's eyes, " Oh sugar cube, you are going to take a lot of work, I can tell already, but hay maybe you'll fine yerself a nice stallion or mare of your own. Or maybe even a mare, not sure which one y’all would like, I have a feeling stallions though." Applejack Patted Twilight on the back. "Yeah, and, the romance novels don't count for the record, not even in the slightest bit. Them things are fiction Twi', no wonder yer still single, you’re livin’ in your own little romance book fantasy world. I can tell you like books, but books are not yer life Twi', yer life could be so much more! Full of excitement, and no Twi’, action novels do not count in this area either." Applejack looked at the time, "Oh shoot! Come one Rainbow, we gotta go!" Applejack said.
Twilight's look saddened her face seemed to droop lowly, "Why? You were just explaining all of these things, now you're just going to leave me here with my partial knowledge?! How very rude and unprofessional of you two, leaving me here with a little taste of this ‘true romance’ type of conversation, and then just leave like nothing had happened!" Twilight managed to sit down, but couldn't get back up for whatever reason, as if her hind end had become magnetically attracted to the floor. "Please don't leave girls! You have to explain these things to me! I'm sitting here with partial knowledge you know!" Twilight started to weep, her eyes showing hints of sorrow, confusion, and most of all, a lingering depression from her.
Applejack put her foreleg around Twilight's neck, "Sorry Twi' but me and Rainbow have some 'business' to attend to back at Sweet Apple Acres. We'll come back with more knowledge fer ya later sugar cube, knowledge that would blow yer mind at that. Uh... Just try not to peep on other ponies okay? Kinda creepy if I do say so myself, but I have been considered kind of a creeper myself though." With that her and Rainbow Dash rushed out the door, leaving Twilight sparkle alone, and curious.
"I know! I'll visit Fluttershy! Her calm and all around timid ways of handling situations should take my mind off of things!" with that Twilight had her destination in mind, and she started making her trek to the pegasus’ cottage. She wanted to use her teleportation spell, but just popping in on her would be rude, and kind of creepy for her to do. So the unicorn decided to walk, and enjoy the nice day that the weather pegasi had scheduled for today. As she walked she once again passed Caramel, she decided to stop and say hello to him, though she still couldn’t shake the image of an angry Rarity yelling at him for breaking her ‘fabulously decorative masterpieces of windows’. Twilight approached the stand once again greeting caramel in a calm, sweet voice, "Hello Caramel, I'm sorry about your apple cart yesterday." Twilight's voice sounded sincere, remembering it was partially her fault anyways.
The caramel colored pony turned around, "Huh?... Uhhh...." He looked at Twilight as if he'd never seen her before, his eyes lost in total confusion. "I-I'm sorry... You are... Who exactly?" he asked as just then he knocked the safety locking mechanism on the cart, unlocking the wheels sending his apple cart downhill once more. "Oh, horseapples..." The stallion sighed and went after the apple cart not appearing to be in a big hurry, but was still annoyed that he kept losing his applecart like that.
Twilight didn't let that bother her, she continued on her way to Fluttershy's cottage, the nice day persuading her to keep going, no matter how much she just wanted to turn back. She didn’t mind that the day was somewhat cloudy; her day was going along just as she’d planned it to, except for the fact that RD and AJ had found out it was her watching them in the park. But she couldn’t help but feel like she was just missing something. She didn’t try to worry herself in finding what it was; she just wanted to get some answers, and she thought that Fluttershy would be able to alleviate some of the confusion and depression that the mare felt.
She finally got to Fluttershy's cottage after what seemed like days of walking, her hooves hurting from trotting on the dead and prickly brown grass. But the strange thing was that no pony appeared to be home, the lights were dimmed, if they were even on at all, and the house was quieter than usual. Twilight pressed her ear against the door and distinctly heard voices; she couldn’t make them out at first until they started actually conversing. One was unmistakable as Fluttershy's, with her low sound level and all, but the other, was definately one that Twilight had heard before; but she just couldn't remember who it belonged to. The situation baffled her, so she decided to listen in to see if she could get a name to be said.
"Are you ready Fluttershy? Ready for the most mind blowing steam session in the history of all of Equestria?" the first voice said, Twilight hearing where their conversation was going, and let out a fake and exaggerated gag upon hearing it.
"Oh yes... Um, but... O-Only if you are too..." Fluttershy replied back, her voice as timid and mild as it ever was, even when being talked dirty to.
The voice just chuckled, "You aren't as much of a dweeb as I thought, but we've really gotta work on the shyness thing. It’s kind of cramping my mood you know, not dissing you and your shyness any, but… You get what I’m saying." Twilight could feel the dots connecting, but still couldn't remember the voice’s owner. She listened a little bit longer, and heard Fluttershy reply back, this time finally with a name.
"Whatever you say Gilda..." Fluttershy said softly. Twilight moved back from the door in utter shock from the name that she’d just heard. Gilda? GILDA?! Why in all of Equestria would a pony like Fluttershy, be doing with a mean spirit like Gilda! The whole thing made her head spin like she’d just come off of a merry-go-round that spun a bit too fast. Most ponies couldn't stand to be near Gilda, let alone have that troublesome beast around them almost all of the time. And after how badly Gilda had treated Fluttershy that one day in Ponyville didn’t exactly show the best first impression ever.
Twilight knocked on Fluttershy's door, though not intentionally, her hoof clacked upon the wooden door as Fluttershy came to answer the door. "Oh, hello Twilight, um, d-do you think you can come back another time maybe? I'm kind of, you know... in the middle of something... But um, I-I'll leave that up to you... Um, i-if that's okay..." Fluttershy's voice was as weak and soft as ever, but she knew what Fluttershy was embarrassed about.
"Don't worry, I'll come back another time. You can continue, whatever...it is...you're doing..." Twilight started to blush knowing what they were about to do, and she apparently didn’t hide the blush very well, Fluttershy shooting a look at her. "Sorry to bother you for no reason then Fluttershy." Twilight turned to leave but was stopped by Fluttershy’s timid voice.
Fluttershy quickly said before Twilight was out of view of her, "Come back tomorrow and I'll formally introduce you to my girlfriend... Umm... If you want to that is..."
Twilight smiled falsely, already knowing well enough about Gilda and her mean spirits, "I'd love to sometime, but I must be going. Tell her I said hello though." Twilight started to prance off into the distance, now unsure of where she would go next but then again, she was kind of afraid to find out what just random thing would happen next...