Twilight woke up the next morning, awake and on a schedule. She freshened up, and started heading down the castle hallways. Twilight had her day all planned out, and written on a scroll. She was so focused on writing on her scroll, that she bumped into something and fell to the ground. She looked up, and saw Flash. Twilight blushed, while Flash held his hoof out. Twilight placed her hoof in his, and Flash helped her up.
Flash said. "As I said before, we got to stop bumping into each other like this." He gave her a warm smile, which made Twilight even blush harder.
"Flash." She said. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to bump into you." Twilight apologized. "I was just so focused on my what I am going to do today, because I'm on a very tight schedule today, and...." She stopped. "Well what I mean to say is sorry."
Flash chuckled. "It's fine, Princess." He said. "I know your role as princess is a tough job, and if I do say so myself, you are doing a mighty good job at it."
Twilight giggled and smiled. "Well, thank you." Twilight said.
Flash nodded. "Now, if you excuse me, I have to get back to to guarding." Flash told her. Twilight nodded. Flash smiled, turned around, started walking the other way. Twilight looked back, and sighed.
"Well, what just happened here?" Asked a familiar voice.
Twilight turned her head, and saw Spike. "Spike, what are you doing?" Twilight asked.
"Meh... nothing." Spike smirked.
Twilight didn't like the look on Spike's face one bit. "That face doesn't make me believe you." Twilight said.
"I know." Spike answered. "I just wanted to know if you were awake, that's when I saw you talking Flash. It was interesting, so I stayed there to listen till you were done. That's not a crime, is it?"
"Well...no. It isn't." Answered Twilight. "But you still shouldn't eavesdrop on everypony."
"I don't do on everypony, just on you." Convinced Spike.
"Why?" Twilight asked.
"Because it's funny when you talk to Flash." Spike answered, laughing. "He always talks all lovey-dovey to you, and it's funny to see your reaction." Spike thought again. "But at the same time, it's kinda gross." He stopped laughing.
"Flash doesn't talk to me all lovey-dovey!" Twilight demand.
Spike shrugged. "Okay, whatever you say." He gave up.
"Good, now if you excuse me, I running on a tight schedule, so I am just going to eat some breakfast." Twilight said, and started walking away.
"So... are....." Spike's words were cut of by the knock on the castle doors. Twilight went to see who it was, but Flash got there first. When the door was open, Twilight saw her friends. She smiled.
They all saw her too and shouted. "TWILIGHT!" They all rushed in, almost knocking down Flash, and hugged her.
"It's so nice to see you guys." Twilight said, smiling. Then she got curious, and broke the hugged. "Don't take this the wrong way but why are you all here?"
Her friends all looked at each other, then at Twilight.
"Well, you called us over here, sugarcube." Applejack answered in a confused way.
"I never called you all over. Not that I don't want to, it's just I was going to do that after I ate breakfast, that's all." Twilight answered.
"Yes, you did." Rainbow Dash added. "You said that there was a dire emergency, and you needed our help."
"I never sent or said anything like that. Unless...." Twilight thought, turned around, and shouted. "SPIKE!?!?!" But he never came down.
"Wait, you think Spike did this?" Rarity asked.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "It's kinda obvious. That makes sense why he was talking to about..." Twilight froze.
"Umm.. talking to you about what, Twilight?" Fluttershy asked.
Twilight blushed. "Nothing." She said, shaking her head. "Let's just go somewhere else." Twilight turned and started walking the other way. The rest of them shrugged, and followed her. When they arrived to the dinning room, they all went in, and sat down. "Look I'm sorry that you all were called here, under false circumstances."
"It's okay, Twilight." Pinkie Pie said. "This means that we all get to spend time with you." Then she appeared behind Twilight's chair. "As FRIENDS!!! EEEEE, ISN'T THIS SO EXCITING!?!?!" Pinkie squealed, then disappeared, into her own chair. Twilight smiled and rolled her eyes once more.
"Umm... forgive me for asking but, what was Spike talking about?" Fluttershy asked.
Twilight blushed again. "Nopony." She answered.
"Oh." Rarity swooned. "And who was this, somepony."
Twilight looked at them in shock.
"Can I take a shot at the guess of Flash?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Twilight was still shocked. "Did I say nopony, I meant nothing." Twilight said, laughing nervously. "So no it's not him." She sighed.
All her friends looked at her, Twilight knew that they weren't buying it.
"Are you sure about that, Twi?" Applejack asked.
Twilight started laughing nervously, again. "Yeah." Twilight hesitated. "Why do you ask?"
"Because you were here the whole week "studying"." Rainbow answered.
"What, you don't believe me?" Twilight asked
Rarity shook her head. "Nopony could ever study for that long, darling."
Twilight didn't know what to do, or say. Her friends were all staring at her. Twilight was thinking of an excuse to hide her secret. "Well, I can study for that long, so I just proved your point wrong." Said Twilight. She looked around, and saw her friends. They still weren't buying it.
"Twilight, why have you stayed inside this week?" Pinkie asked.
Twilight looked around, and started hesitating. Finally she gave up. "Fine, I admit it." Twilight shouted. "I don't want to be followed around Ponyville, by my guard, Okay? Are you happy now?" Twilight dropped her head on the table, and groaned.
"That's it? That's what the big fuss is about?" Rainbow complained. "Because you don't want to to be followed around by your guard. That is his job for CELESTIA’S SAKE!!!" Everypony, with the exception of Twilight, stared at Rainbow. "What?" She asked. "It's true." They all looked back at Twilight.
"Twilight, dear." Rarity tried to reason with her. "It's not that bad having a guard around, and following you. It just means you have protection 24/7, that's all."
Twilight raised her head. "I guess you're right, but what happens if a friendship problem comes up. It's not like he could come with us, right?"
Everypony stared at each other, once more, then looked back at Twilight.
"Well, we don't know yet." Fluttershy answered, and smiled. "I guess that is something we can find out in the future."
"That's true, sugarcube." Applejack agreed. "You shouldn't get too much ahead of yourself, Twi." Twilight smiled.
"I guess you girls are right." Twilight said, and took a deep breath. "Well the parade isn't going to organize itself, we're half-an-hour off schedule. Come on, girls."
After Twilight quickly ate her breakfast, everypony headed to the town square. When they got there, the floats were already being worked on. Twilight looked around and pulled out a quill and scroll, and started checking things off. While she was doing that, two mares ran up to her. One was a unicorn with a bright pink coat, and a dull blue mane, and her mane color match her eyes, with a flower as a cutie mark. The other one was a earth pony that had light blue coat, with a purple mane, and pink eyes, and hearts as a cutie mark.
"Princess, we need have a problem!" The pink pony exclaimed.
"We need advice on what kind of bows we should use!" The blue mare said.
The pink mare took them out. "Which one? The ultramarine or the rose quartz?" She asked
Twilight took a good look at both of them. "I like the ultramarine." She answered.
They both looked at the ultramarine bow, and smiled. "Thank you, Princess Twilight." They both said in union. They bowed and walked away.
Rainbow rolled her eyes. "What's the difference." She complain. "It's just blue and pink. That's it."
Rarity gasped. "Just blue and pink?" She asked. "They both show elegance and class. It is not just blue and pink. That's what's the difference." Rarity scoffed.
"Okay, settle down y'all." Applejack reasoned. "The reason we came here was to help organize the parade, not argue about colors. Now let's get to work, okay?"
They all agreed, and Twilight assigned them to where they were suppose to do. Everypony went, which left Twilight and Flash alone. Flash looked at Twilight. He took a deep breath, and let it out.
"Umm.. Princess?" Flash asked.
Twilight looked at Flash. "Yes, Flash."
"Well it's about last night." Flash said. "All that was just between us, right? That's not going to be told?"
Twilight shook her head. "I won't tell anypony, if you don't?"
"Agree." Flash said. Twilight smiled.
Twilight looked in front of her, and handed the scroll to Flash. "Can you hold this, Flash?"
Flash nodded, and took it. Twilight started walking towards one of the floats, and started talking to one of the ponies that were putting it together. Flash wasn't that far to not hear what they were talking about. Twilight was just asking some questions about it, and the stallion was answering them. Flash looked up above Twilight, and saw that some other ponies were put heavy duty speakers on the float. He rolled his eyes, but then noticed that they were tipping over. Off the side of the parade float, and Twilight was underneath it.
"WATCH OUT!!!" The stallion called.
Flash didn't know what to do, he ran, and pushed Twilight out of the way, as the speaker and other boxes were falling. The next thing Flash knew was he got hit, with all the stuff. The last thing he heard was Twilight calling out his name, then the rest was silence.