The Scholarly Appeal
“And that concludes the fundamental theorem of Calculus. Anypony have any questions?” Cheerilee asked her class, her bright eyes scanning the room for any glazed over expressions. Luckily, her fears were unfounded as even Snips and Snails seemed excited over the prospect of math, of all things. “Very good, class. Now, I know you all have been waiting very patiently for class to end, and seeing that it’s such a nice day out, I think I can turn you all loose early for the day–”
With an unnatural roar, the class exploded into a frightful din, the students immediately starting to pack their school utensils into their desks as they let their thoughts run over the wonderful gift of an extra half an hour their teacher had given them. “Now, everypony, I want questions one through ten done tonight, and question eleven is extra credit for anypony who wants to take a chance at Differential Calculus.”
“Oh! Do we get extra credit anyway for attempting it?” Sweetie Belle chimed, raising her hoof into the air. Cheerilee chuckled but answered with a slight nod. “Yaaaay! Come on girls! Tonight we’re gonna be Cutie Mark Crusader Mathematicians!”
Applebloom beamed at her friends as she skipped out the door, her nose directed in the general direction of the clubhouse. “I can’t wait!”
“I don’t even know what that is and I’m excited!” Scootlaoo called after the two, galloping not too far behind. Cheerilee took a seat at her desk, smiling as the rest of the class exited. As the last foal trundled out behind Snips and Snails, Cheerilee’s serene expression faded as she let her face slump on her desk.
“What a week...” Cheerilee breathed, her eyes fluttering. Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara were caught bullying Snips and Snails on Monday, and after the talk with their parents, the two had been model students. Wednesday was when she had so foalishly promised to have her book reports graded and turned back, so she had spent her Tuesday evening under the lamplight, and Wednesday was spent scheduling for next week. Thursday was when she brought in a guest speaker from Hoofington, and she had to treat them out to dinner as part of the agreement with the school board. And now it was Friday, and unlike last week, she need not have to worry about a legion of pony writing to worry her. Cheerilee allowed herself a tired smile. It had been mildly awkward, but she had asked Twilight to help with the scheduling on Wednesday, and she seemed so excited.
Twilight Sparkle, there’s a pony who she never expected to have fallen for her. Cheerilee picked herself off her desk and rested her head on her hoof. The schoolteacher huffed as she recalled the first thing she said. “My mother has a way of needling herself into all of my relationships,” she thought aloud.
Cheerilee wasn’t even close to surprised when she heard Twilight Sparkle at the door. “Oh! Um,” Twilight was making awkward faces, framed in the doorway. Cheerilee slid her head lazily as she greeted Twilight.
“Come in,” she beckoned, not wishing to keep Twilight outside. “It’s been quite a long day. It’s been quite an exciting day of teaching, no small thanks to your scheduling ability, Twilight.” Cheerilee praised, watching Twilight’s slow movements around the tables of the classroom. Absentmindedly, Twilight’s magic picked up a pencil that she had just barely kicked with a hoof, left by some lazy schoolfoal.
“Oh! Yes? I mean, thanks,” Twilight said, her eyes looking at just about everything in the room but Cheerilee. Getting up on her hooves, Cheerilee walked around her desk, putting herself in full view of Twilight as the unicorn danced around the desks.
Wearing an unsure expression, Cheerilee leaned her head forward. “Um, Twilight? Did you have any reason for coming by? Not that I don’t mind you visiting, but you seem–” Despite never making eye contact with Cheerilee, Twilight managed to completely forget that she was navigating chairs. With a loud crash and a tangle of hooves, Twilight screeched in terror as she fell to the ground, her hoof caught in the vice-like grip of an inanimate object. Wincing back, Cheerilee could only survey the carnage as Twilight groaned on the floor. “–distracted. Are you alright, Twilight.”
“F-F-Fine!” she lied, kicking off the demon chair with a desperate push. The pencil she held was quickly joined by the floating furniture. “Peachy–perfect!” With a scramble of hooves and a spark of her horn, Twilight’s magic started to hastily right what she had wronged. “Just a trip.” Now she was looking at Cheerilee, her eyes begging not to be judged. “Everypony trips, I mean, who doesn’t? I’ve seen Celestia trip before!”
Cheerilee’s eyes never left the chair that Twilight was horrendously trying to upright. “And as for the etiquette of putting a chair back upright..?” As of that moment, Twilight had opened the student’s desk and was attempting to compact the chair inside. Ceasing her magic, Twilight stared at the impossible task, her mouth open but unsure of what to say anymore. Chuckling, Cheerilee grabbed the chair leg in her mouth and placed it gently on the floor.
“I-I-I–” Twilight stammered, her magic still spinning the pencil. As the redness in her cheeks continued to flare, Cheerilee could feel a latent fear for her schoolhouse if she didn’t stop the mare before she reached critical mass. “I just wanted to come by and maybe ask you if you wanted to do something andmaybedinnerIhearthenewDaringDoiscom–”
Reaching over, Cheerilee’s hoof wrapped around Twilight’s neck and brought her close, sealing the librarian’s mouth her own. This had the added benefit of being a kiss. Twilight’s eyes went wide as saucers, the pencil in her grasp flying completely out of her magical grasp. At that moment, Twilight started to go limp in the schoolteacher’s hooves, her tense muscles relaxing as her eyes started to roll back.
Releasing the unicorn, Cheerilee fought to keep her raging blush from turning her face any redder than it already was. “Ahem– Twilight,” Cheerilee began, her lips tingling. “Sweet Celestia,” she whispered, her mind coming back into focus. “We went over this before on Wednesday. There is simply no reason to be shy with me!”
“I... you... kissed me,” Twilight murmured.
Cheerilee blinked. “Yes.”
“You hadn’t kissed me before.”
Cheerilee opened her mouth to answer, but her voice caught in her throat. They hadn’t? It had been a week; she usually had a better track record than that.
“I hadn’t even been kissed before.” Twilight said, her voice strangely subdued. Cheerilee felt her stomach drop from under her. Twilight Sparkle hadn’t been kissed before? Like, ever? “M-m-my first kiss.”
“T-Twilight!” Cheerilee said, her eyes bulging. “I am so, so, sor–”
“EEEEeeeeeeEEEEE!” Twilight squeaked, her smile exploding onto her face. “You kissed me! I kissed somepony and that pony was Cheeeeerrrrileeee!” Bounding up into the air, Cheerilee was witness to a phenomenon that very few ponies were ever privy to– a feelingsgasm. Watching her marefriend bounce around, Cheerilee’s eyes could only follow Twilight’s flickering tail, her gaze firmly on her surprisingly firm-looking hindquarters.
Snapping herself out of it was a task upon itself, but eventually Cheerilee caught Twilight in mid-landing, corralling Twilight and giving her an emergency peck on the cheek. All at once, Twilight froze up, her smile frozen on her face as she looked gleefully into emerald eyes. “G’hee!” she laughed with suppressed glee. Cheerilee was smiling so hard herself that her cheeks started to hurt.
“So, you were talking about dinner?” Cheerilee asked calmly. Looking into her eyes, Twilight nodded quickly, her dazzling smile completely stuck on her face. “Then we’ll do dinner.”
Cheerilee trotted out of the schoolhouse, the picture of keeping her cool, while Twilight scrambled behind her, her hooves disobeying her every through as they skipped about without her permission. “Where’re we going?”
“Oh, I dunno. We’ll figure it out on the way,” Cheerilee sang, her brain trying so hard to keep her smile down; her cheeks were feeling mildly sore.
At the other entrance into the schoolhouse, the barely faded maroon pony watched the two mares trot off, a smile growing on her own face. “No after school lessons you said, Cherry. How could you lie to your mother?” With a mischievous giggle of her own, the middle-aged pony skipped her way a far distance behind the two.
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You bastard.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Brony stop sneak attacking my emotions.
You're playing my heartstrings like a... Lyre...
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This was indeed a fluffy sneak attack to my Cute Twilight Feels. Critical soft, fluffy hit.
Nice
Cute!
Ah Twilight, so endearingly adorkable.
Update, awesome!
Oh Twilight, you're cuteishly adorkably crazy.
The way Twilight reacted, adorkable, just plain adorkable.
Well, the fundamental theorem of Calculus is pretty important, the modern world basically wouldn't exist without it. Seems a little advanced for foals the age of the CMC, but the school chalkboard always has surprisingly advanced math on it so it's reasonably true to the show that Cheerilee would be teaching it.
Twi is as cute as ever about this, and I smell motherly shenanigans ahead.
Adorkable Twilight is best Twilight. Badass Twilight comes as a close second.
13 Update notification emails and exatly no less than 3.724 Fuzzy Feels later, I see that 502fiction is still operational.
And that this is SQUEEE,
Short but very nice
Oh. My. God. That. Was. So. Fucking. Adorable!
Please! Continue this forever!
I'm loving Cheerilee's stalkermom. The rest of the chapter was adorable and awesome, but that last paragraph...
Thirteen update notifications for one chapter of a fic I really liked? I'd say it's a worthy exchange.
Cute. Grammatically sound, which is always a plus in my book (a couple forgivable misspellings). It moves a bit quickly for me, as most ships do, but Twilight is acting the way I always expected she would in a romance. When she's excited about something, she can have fits of... Pinkie in her, and most writers forget this. Cheerilee, I'm a little more concerned about her characterization. She seems to be adamant about not needing a relationship, then moves into one far quicker than one would assume of her. It's still properly cute, but I feel confused about her motives, as well as what interest she has in Twilight. We have properly been introduced to why Twi has the hots for Cher, but we don't know much, if anything, of what Cher feels for Twi.
Good luck. Eager to see how this continues.
This is really all I can conclude.
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Adorable!
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Best. Ship. Ever!
That was two one shots I was reading that became full stories! Win!
So Twilight asked Cheerilee out sometime around summer, and it took until near the end of winter for them to kiss? What have they been doing this whole time?
Yay! CheeriTwi happiness!
Yay new chapter. This is a really good story.
Me: *dead*
Doctor: "Looks like an overdose of D'awww. Poor fool never saw it coming."
This fic is so dang cute and fluffy. Awesome job.
Jeez twilight, you need to calm down.
If that was for her first kiss what will be for her first time?
I'm just waiting for Twilight's parental figures to start meddling. I'm sure Celestia can manage a helluvah meddle if she's in the mood.
Feelingsgasm.
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Yes please, I loved that part.
Also good to see awkward Twilight transform into adorkable Twilight. Great stuff, now I need to find some more Twirilee.
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I hadn't considered that aspect to this story yet and now I am really looking forward to that occurring. Haha
Anyways a big thank you to Hidden for an amazing story, and looking forward to many updates more.
So bucking adorkable... both of them.
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Dating. I suppose 6 months of no kissing is pretty generous. It's almost as if they'd be having sex before they kiss.
...OMFG SO CUTE. >W< You're giving me Twiabetes here, dammit!
...OMFG SO CUTE. >W< You're giving me Twiabetes here, dammit!
Sweet Celestia, that was adorable. I think I've found the cure for the heartbreak that is "What Would Daring Do?". I'll just read this chapter every time that updates.ItsIt's that freaking adorable. Not to mention that you nailed the "feelingsgasm" perfectly. Felt like I was watching the show.
Awwww!
But why do I feel that Mom is going to wangle herself an introduction?
A-freaking-dorable
Love it! Loved the feelingagasm! Keep going!
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Guys it's... it's only been a week.
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But (part of) chapter 1 takes place on a day when it's "abysmally hot out" and the cicadas are buzzing, while chapter 2 begins with Cheerilee mentioning that her students are waiting for winter to end. Are you going with the "pony seasons last about a week, and so 'Fall Weather Friends' really was after 'Winter Wrap Up'" interpretation, or do Equestrian cicadas emerge early, or what?
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I.... I cannot... I CAN'T BRAIN.
It says winter. I see that. But my intent was for it to say 'class'. Why I ever, EVER typed winter is... beyond mortal words.
soooo good but soooo short i needs must have more
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i agree but mine reversed badass is my fav with adorkble a close second
All of my Twilight~
I want more
Keep going man, ship this harder than FedEx.
Well... ya know, sometimes class feels like winter? Or something? In any case, this is friggin precious. Can not wait until the next chapter comes out!
Please keep writing, I'll keep reading!
"Feelingsgasm" has been added to my list of favorite words.
This story is amazing. Twilight is soooooooo cute!
Also--many a hilarious quote to be had!
Many indeed!
Update with Godspeed, my fellow!
Godspeed!
That is all.
Journcy Out.
my only response?
D'AAAWWWWWBeetus
can't wait to see more