Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle have seen each other on the same spot the same day for almost a year. However, Pinkie Pie have started to feel something she have never felt before.
Twilight and Pinkie see each other the same day every week at the same bench on Townsquare. But one day Pinkie Pie started feeling weird, she had never felt something like this and it only happens when Twilight is around. What would she do? Would she take the risk and tell her friend about her feelings? or, would she keep everything as it is and try to hide her thoughts about her? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a quick note guys. This is my first time writting a fanfiction ever so expect some mistakes.
It was a pretty, warm, typical spring day in Ponyville. Everypony was on the streets doing their daily activities, Rose had just placed her cart full of flowers with astonishing colors, Octavia playing her chello outside which let everypony hear her music, and Lyra just sitting on a bench, thinking if some hands would help the mailmare to do a better job. Mixed with the flowers there was an aroma of sweetness and fresh cupcakes coming from a place where nopony would deny to eat from.
Inside the Sugarcube Corner, the Cakes were crazy handling all the orders that almost everypony in the town wanted to place at almost the same time, making the bakers work even harder than any other day; there were so many ponies that even the mayor had to be in the line in order to buy something. But everypony was working hard and helping each other, Mr. Cake was in charge of the mixtures, Mrs. Cake of the frosting and decoration of everthing that got out of the oven, and Pinkie Pie of the sweets and the baking process. Suddenly Pinkie Pie noticed the clock standing on the wall indicating the time: 12:00 P.M. "Oh shoot! I'm late!" she said while taking the apron she was wearing.
"Pinkie, were are you going? Don't you see we all have our hooves full?" Mrs. Cake had been frosting cupcake after cupcake in a line that didn't seemed to end.
"I'm so sorry Mrs. Cake. But is Thursday and I'm already late" A flash of pink left the building holding a basket on her mouth, leaving the poor bakers with the desperate costumers.
Pinkie Pie was jumping happily towards Town Square for her weekly appointment with her very special friend: Twilight Sparkle.
It's been almost a year since every Thursday at 12:00 P.M. they saw each other on the same bench near the fountain. A year ago Pinkie Pie saw Twilight Sparkle heading the bench with a book and she wanted to give her company so she wouldn't feel alone being the new pony in town. Since then they arranged to see each other the same day at the same place. Although most of the reunions go the same way: Twilight reading a book while hearing Pinkie saying lots of random things. But some days they just talked for hours and hours until Luna's stars shined on the dark sky.
"Oh hi Pinkie Pie, I was waiting for you" Twilight greeted her friend who had just arrived on the usual spot.
"Twilight, I had a great idea while working on the Sugarcube Corner" she responded giving Twilight a purple cupcake from the basket.
"I can't wait to hear it" Said Twilight while opening the book and giving a bite to the cupcake.
"Remember the spell that can make us walk on clouds? What if we find a spell that makes us BOUNCE on them? And then we use the party cannon to reach the clouds and go *pump pump pump pump* from cloud to cloud until we get to Canterlot... But what if we RAN OUT of clouds?! Then we need Rainbow Dash to..." Pinkie Pie went on and on with her cloud idea, and jumped into other ideas without finishing one. She spoke for almost an hour while the unicorn only nodded and say "aha" every once in a while.
"... And then a giant cupcake can be in the town. But what if it turns to be a cupcake monster?! How would you even fight back to that? or would you just eat it?"
Finally, Pinkie Pie noticed she was pretty much talking alone the whole time. She stood up and took the book away so her friend could snap out of her trance.
"Twilight, can I ask you a question? Why do you come here when you can read in your library? If it is because of me, don't worry, you don't have to come if it bothers you"
The purple one had just finally realized she was ignoring her friend the whole time "I'm sorry Pinkie. It's just that some times I get too into my books that i forget I'm with ponies around. You have my full attention now"
Pinkie Pie smiled, jumped and sat right next to her friend "That's great because I got a great game we could play: Truth or truth"
"Don't you mean truth or dare?"
"Nope, truth or truth is a totally different game. We ask each other questions and if you are lying or you don't answer the question you drink this whole bottle of hot sauce"
"So, we just ask each other questions... Okay, Pinkie, ask away"
"That's sooo great... okay, what should I ask?... Uh, what's your favorite kind of cupcake? No, I already know that... Is it true that Spike has a crush on Rarity? No, you promised not say... Aha! Do you have a very special somepony?" The earth pony's eyes were devilishly looking into the unicorn eyes. Twilight startled with the question and started to blush.
"Pinkie! That's not something you ask somepony just like that!"
"Are you refusing to answer?" Pinkie took the bottle of hot sauce.
"Okay, okay. No, I don't have a very special somepony"
Pinkie Pie started to laugh, not to Twilight's answer but to her reaction "It's your turn"
It was the unicorns payb It was the unicorns payback time "Same question. Do you have a very special somepony?"
"No" Pinkie Pie didn't even thought for a second, there was not a single reaction to it.
"Okay, it's me again. Do you like somepony?"
Pinkie hit bull's eyes again. The whole body of Twilight was as red as BigMac's.
"Y-Yes..." she whispered. Pinkie Pie started to unroll the bottle of hot sauce "Fine! Yes, I do like somepony!"
"Who is it? Who is it?! Tell me, tell me!" the earth pony started to bounce demanding her answer.
"I can't remember... is my turn now" She dodged the bullet. She tried to think of another question, but after the relief of not evading the other one she couldn't think of another "Do... you... like... somepony?"
"Wow, Twilight. You are not very good at this game, are you? The answer is yes" She liked somepony? Of all of Twilight friends Pinkie Pie was the one she would never imagine going after somepony else, also, who would this pony be? Maybe in the next round she might have the answer.
"Now, Twi. Do you miss anything?" A weird question, at least not one that made Twilight blush. "Well, yes I do. My smarty pants doll. After... the spell, I never found it again. I had it since I was a filly and it was actually the only doll I had. Just like Shining Armor was the only friend I had" Twilight eyes filled with nostalgia as she spoke, Pinkie didn't miss a single word she said.
"And you Pinkie Pie. Do you miss being in the rock farm?" Finally a question that make the curious one think for a moment.
"Well, kind of, sometimes I miss my family. My mother making dinner, my father telling us stories, and my sisters always fighting on who had the prettiest mane. There was not much of smiling there, but it had a charm to me. The sunrises when the light of the sun touched the rocks was definitely something I wont forget; all of the rocks shining at the same time, it was like stars twinkling in the ground" Twilight was surprised of how profound her friend sounded. It was completely weird, never before have she gone so serious about something, nor have she lost the high pitch of her voice. It was like a somepony else entirely "But I would never give you away. I'm happy here... I mean with you all". Pinkie finally blushed, mission accomplished. They hugged as the bell on the tower rang.
"Oh darn. I forgot I had to go see Cheerilee. She wanted me to prepare a class about magic. See you next week, at the same time"
Twilight left while Pinkie Pie was waving her good bye "So she misses her doll, huh?" Said Pinkie Pie to herself as she headed into town.
Another week came and went with nothing really memorable for the ponies in town. However, Pinkie Pie had been scheming something since the reunion with her purple friend. Today the business had been rather peacefully compared to the last week and not many costumer had shown to the Sugarcube Corner, allowing the bakers take their time to make the sweets. Once again Pinkie was staring at the clock waiting for her weekly appointment. The clock walked slower than she had ever felt, it seemed that sometimes it didn't even move. Each minute felt like hours and she could swear it went backward sometimes. All of the sudden the clock finally marked the 12 o'clock.
"Bye Mr. and Mrs. Cake" Said Pinkie moving towards the door, taking with her favorite party cannon.
"Wait, Pinkie, I don't know if the party cannon is necessary. Aren't you overdoing it a little?" Mrs. Cake was really worried about the outcome of the plan Pinkie Pie had.
"Don't worry, Mrs Cake. It's all part of the surprise, and the party cannon never let me down... except that time. I kept forgetting were I put my fireworks, but I checked this time. Gotta go!" She left without another word. Nothing Mrs. Cake would have said would change her mind.
Pinkie Pie was pushing the party cannon across the street and was wearing a white saddle bad that contained another surprise, as if the party cannon wasn't enough. Her smile was as wide as a mile. She was lost in her head thinking on how her friend would react to the surprise. Images of them hugging and partying came into her mind. She was so absent minded that she didn't noticed her friends walking by.
"Hi, Pinkie Pie. What you doing?" Rainbow Dash greeted the pink pony who didn't notice her. The wheels of the cannon almost ran over their hooves and Pinkie did not even hear the sound of the pegasus voice "What's with her? and, where is she taking the party cannon?"
"I don't know, dear, but remember what I asked you to come for" Rarity didn't seem to be very much interested on her friend ignoring her. Moreover, she was more interested on getting back to her house/boutique "I have to make a dress for a pegasus client. I need somepony to model the dress for me and Fluttershy has been busy lately. We must get to the boutique immediately, he longer it take us to to get there, the longer it will take to make the dress"
Rainbow Dash was trying to evade the dress making process, if there was something she hated was to stay still and making a dress required her to be still for hours.
"I know, Rare, but she has the party cannon. She surely is going to hit somepony with it. It might be fun to watch, don't you think?"
Rarity gave a sigh "Okay, Rainbow, but after this no distractions. Okay?" she didn't want to admit, but she actually found jumped scares really funny.
They followed her carefully, keeping their distance so Pinkie wouldn't spot them. Not like she would even notice them, she was too focused on her task. Everypony noticed her, is hard not to notice a pony with a cannon even more when is Pinkie, almost everypony in town had felt the power of the party cannon and they were afraid on who'd the next victim is going to be. She reached the park and thankfully Twilight was lying on the bench and reading yet another book, giving the back to the entrance, not seeing her friend and the cannon she was holding. Rarity and Rainbow Dash ran and hide on some bushes near them. Pinkie Pie stopped and thought for a moment, she didn't move as she just gazed at mare on the bench near the fountain. Then she reached her saddle bag and took something from it.
"What is it? I can't see! Darn it, dumb bush!" Rainbow Dash tried to get a look to the item Pinkie Pie was taking, but couldn't find an angle to look it clearly.
"Careful Rainbow Dash, she might heard us. Maybe if I open a little leaves from here I can see... It's... an Ursa minor doll?" Just as Rarity thought Pinkie took an Ursa minor bear doll from her saddle bag. The bear doll was completely dark blue with little dots like stars on the body and big dark eyes. She even thought of keeping it for herself.
She looked at it for a moment and wondered "Should I put it inside? or, should I give it to her straight out? But what if the cannon shoots the bear too long... and somepony else gets it, and then they want me to be their best friend, and then Twilight gets mad because she doesn't have one?!" Pinkie's head started to hurt with so much thought as she held the bear against her head. She finally decided to give it herself, so she put it back on the saddlebag.
The pegasus and her white friend were spying on her the whole time "Wait is she going to prank Twilight?! Awesome!" Rainbow was excited about it. Although they had played pranks to her before they never actually did something for her to startled, Pinkie always refused to.
"I don't know if that's a good idea. She is reading a book, what if something bad happen?"
"Oh come on Rarity. She is the perfect victim. No one would expect to be scared when reading a book"
Pinkie moved the cannon slowly close to Twilight who was still blissfully unaware of the surprise attack that was about to hit her. The cannon were so close it almost touches the unicorns tail. Pinkie Pie was giggling in a low volume containing her laughter. Then she calmed down, she took cannon and pushed the button on top of the cannon opening fire to the unaware pony. Streamers, confetti and candies started to filled the air, making a small rainbow, but also launching the one who was on the bench to the ground, even the book she was reading flew into the air.
The unicorn hit the ground hard, she felt a little dizzy, her back hurt, and her ears were making a buzzing sound. After a while she was finally herself again "Pinkie! What was that for?!"
Pinkie Pie was on the floor laughing out loud "Sorry Twilight. But I wanted to give you a surprise" The laughter of the pink pony could be heard from a mile away, her tummy was hurting and she couldn't get up from the ground. Rainbow Dash and Rarity were also laughing, but they still had their hooves in their mouth so they made little to no sound.
"Wait... where is it? where is it?!" Twilight was looking around the ground. It was obvious she was really worried about something she lost. She was breathing heavily and sweating nervously. She looked beneath the bench and to around the are scouting for the missing item.
"Where's what?"
"Oh no!" Twilight went near the fountain where it was. On the shooting of the cannon the book she was reading fell on the fountain. She used her magic to dry it, but it was too late. The pages were wrinkled and the ink from them had melt away.
"I'm sorry Twilight, I didn't mean to hurt you or your book. It can be fixed, right?" Pinkie Pie was truly sorry for what she have done and tried to cheer Twilight up, but Twilight was furious.
"No, Pinkie! It can't be fixed. The whole books is ruined! You ruined my best book! Why don't you pay attention of what you do?"
"B-b-but... I'm sorry..." Pinkie looked down and lowered her head in regret. Surprising ponies and making pranks was fun for her, but she knew that nopony must be harm by them, nor it should have a negative consequence on them.
Twilight didn't accept her friend's apology. She grunted and muttered something, and her eyes were on fire. Twilight had been angry before, even sometimes because of Pinkie, but never did she look that mad "Being sorry is not going to bring my book back! When will you ever grow up?!"
The pink pony was completely shocked at the comment. The question echoed in her mind "When will you ever grow up?!" over and over. Images of his father and mother being angry and yelling at her came fast into her head. Her eyes were wide open and her face showed pain and regret. Tears came from her eyes and rolled through her cheeks. She felt heartbroken for the first time in years. Twilight took what was left of her book and left to her home to try find a way to save what was left of the book, she never looked back. Rainbow Dash and Rarity who had been watching the whole time were speechless. The first one to come was Rainbow who put her hoof on her friend's back.
"Pinkie Pie, are you alright?" There was no answer, she was looking at the nothingness. Here eyes were empty and color of her skin and mane looked darker, as if she had lost the color of herself "Rarity, I think I'll skip today's dress making"
"The costumer can wait for now. She needs us now"
They picked her up and took her to the closets place to try cheer her up, and turned out to be the Carousel Boutique. They wanted to help her and drawing attention from other ponies might make things even worse, they needed a place where they could talk and they needed it fast. Rainbow carried her on her back while Rarity lead the way. Pinkie didn't move, not even once, since her friend furiously yelled at her. But tears didn't stop coming from her eyes either.
When they arrived to the boutique, they tried talk to her "Hey Pinkie, don't be so sad. Everything is going to be fine" "Hey, she's your friend and she'll forgive you" They both tried cheer her up, but those words felt empty to her. She only muttered "I'm sorry" sometimes, but she never stopped crying. Nothing they do could snap her out of her shocking state.
Rarity decided that there were nothing they could do to help, so they took her to Rarity's room and put her on the bed "Let her clear her head for now. Once she feel better she will come out" she told her flying friend.
"But if she needs us?" Rainbow didn't want to let Pinkie alone. She wanted to get inside the room, but Rarity was blocking the door.
"If she needs us, she will tell us. I think is better for her to be alone now"
Rainbow didn't want to go, she felt useless because she couldn't help the friend who has always gave her a hoof when she needed. But as much as she hated it, Rarity was right. They left the door a little open, so if Pinkie said something they could hear her. Pinkie Pie lay on the bed as the time flew and the only thing she said was "I'm sorry"
Pinkie pie had been on Rarity's bed for hours, her eyes were glowing red for all the crying but completely empty. Voices echoing in her head repeating the phrase over and over. The night had just came to Ponyville. Luna had covered the sky with a black blanket decorated with small blinking lights, a beautiful sight indeed. Suddenly, a different voice appeared saying "Friends always forgive and trust each other, don't they?" It was Twilight. Her gentle and sweet voice make Pinkie Pie felt better, but when did she said that? "I don't remember her saying that... at least not to me, did I dream that? or did she actually said it?" she wondered for a moment. But quickly forgot about, it didn't matter when or if she said that, the important thing is that it give her strength to get up and try again. She was determined to fight for her friend. She cleaned up the tears from her face and got up from the bed... but got scared because she didn't actually remember get the on the first place, she didn't even knew where she was. She went to Rarity's house a lot of times, but never before she went to her room. She walked down the stairs that led to the main room of the house/boutique, and there they were. Because of Pinkie not reacting, Rarity took the time to start with her dress making and using her friend to help her. They didn't hear her coming down, they just noticed her when she came a little closer to them.
"Hi, guys" She greeted rather shy, Her friends jumped and came to her to give her a big hug.
"Pinkie, darling, are you alright?"
"Yeah... no... I mean I don't know" Pinkie looked confused, she was kicking the ground and lowering her head.
"What was all that about anyway?" Rainbow Dash wanted to move on and actually help her friend, but she couldn't help without knowing what was going on.
"Well... I wanted to make Twilight smile and give a little surprise. I have a gift for her, but I thought the gift wasn't enough so I went with the party cannon. I didn't want to kill the book, I swear!"
Rainbow Dash gave a face hoof, she knew sometimes Pinkie's surprises could be dangerous but as much as she had told her over and over the earth pony never understood that.
"But why would you want to give her a gift? I know is non of my business but it isn't even near her birthday and you usually don't go around giving things to anypony... not me at least" Rarity was curious about the gift. Something about that seemed weird.
Pinkie was starting to blush and open her eyes wide open "Well... she misses her smarty pants doll and I... wanted to replace it" Her nervousness was clear as day. She smiled just like Applejack does when she lie, she was sweating and her hooves shaking.
Rainbow Dash flew and took away the dress she was wearing in a swift move, and continued with the interrogation "And why now? Why not waiting till her birthday?"
Pinkie was caught on the spot "B-b-because everypony gets gifts on their birthday. I wanted to do something special" She kept lying, but all the lies made things even worse.
Pinkie tried to think of something that would help her out to get out of the situation, but she couldn't think of anything. She saw the door and thought to run away, but Rainbow had positioned herself on the direction of the door, probably she thought on preventing her escape before. Finally she gave up, it was time to confess.
"Okay, I'll tell you, but you have to promise not to tell anypony. Pinkie Promise!"
They rolled their eyes and began the pinkie promise at unison "Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye"
Even though they did it, she didn't feel comfortable, but she did said she would tell them the truth. She took a deep breath and told them "I... I have a crush on Twilight... I really like her, and I wanted to give her something she likes to see if she look at me the same way"
Rainbow Dash fell to the ground in surprise. Her eyes were wide open and her wings became stiff. Rarity's jaw dropped, she couldn't believe what she just heard. The room filled with silence, nopony say something nor do something. You could feel the awkwardness on the air.
"I know, I know. I'm sick. We are both mares and we are friends. But I can't help it, I try not to think about her and not see her in that way, but every time I see her my heart accelerates and everything around me becomes nothing"
The first one to break the silent was Rarity "What ever do you mean? You are not sick is just who you are, and nopony chooses who they love"
"Really? Do you like mares?" Pinkie asked back to Rarity
"Well not really. In my line of work I see all kind of ponies and some of them are not interested in colts, some even tried to hit on me once or twice" The earth pony was kind of surprise at the answer so she kept asking their friends "What about you, Dashie?"
"Me... I'm to busy becoming a Wonderbolt to think about something like that" Rainbow dash tried to keep herself calm when answering, but she still was thinking about her friend just confessed.
"And what are you going to do now?" Rarity asked when seeing the pink pony going to the door and taking her saddlebag.
"I'm going off to Twilight's. I need to find a way to make it up for her"
"Don't you think is a little early? She's probably still angry"
"No, I can't let things this way"
The unicorn and pegasus were surprised of how mature her friend was acting. Rainbow Dash didn't say a word, the idea of her friend being so different was still hard to sink in for her, but seeing how determined she was about her objective they would let her go "Thanks for bringing me here, I'll make it up to you to. Laters" Pinkie left the building in direction of Twilight's library/house.
Once she arrived, she saw Spike coming out from the front door "Hey Spike, is Twilight home?" "Hi, Pinkie Pie, yes. But she has been in the basement since the afternoon. Feel free to go" "Where are you going?" "The cutiemark crusaders ask me for a favor. I'll be back in a while. Later"
The dragon ran off leaving the door open "We are going to be all alone" she thought "Maybe this wasn't a good idea" She considered going back and try tomorrow, but she was already there and there would be no interruptions. She took all her courage and entered the tree. She left the saddle bag next to the entrance and headed to the stairs leading the basement. The whole place was quiet... perhaps too quiet, kind of creepy actually. She carefully opened the door to the basement, she sneaked up slowly until she saw her friend right in the middle of the room. She felt relief at seeing nothing really creepy is around but now she had to come in.
She approach her slowly and tried to this time not scare her "Hey, Twilight" Twilight jumped again... she failed "I'm sorry, I didn't want to scare you this time, I swear!"
Twilight looked at her and took a deep breath "It's okay Pinkie. I'm actually happy you came"
"You are?" She was surprise her friend actually wanted to see her after what she did.
"Yes. I wanted to apologize about what happened earlier. This important is very important for me, is the dearest belonging I have.You see this is the very first book I had, my parents gave it to me when I was a filly and I love it. It's called: The filly princess. Is a great book and I read it every once in a while... or I used to. I know you didn't want to did it. I got mad and I yelled at you, it wasn't fair. I'm sorry"
Instead of feeling better because of her friend apologizing, she felt even worse. Before, she only knew it was very important book, but know she knows is the most important thing for her "I'm really sorry Twilight. I didn't know" She felt even more depressed than before.
"Pinkie, I said it's okay. Don't worry about it" Twilight put her right hoof on her friend's cheek and showed her a big smiled. This cheered her up a little, but she still felt guilty "I know what I said hurt you. I don't want to do that again to you, I really want to leave that on the past"
"How did you know that?"
"Rarity came by a while ago. She told me how bad you were and I couldn't forgive myself... I thought you wouldn't like to see me again"
A part of Pinkie felt kind of happy, her friend cares about her just as much as she does, but it was still a hard situation for her "Twilight... I wanted to tell you..." before she notice she was about to tell Twilight her true feelings, the words came out her mouth all of the sudden. She stopped once she acknowledge what she was about to do and wondered "Wait, is it really what you want to do? What she would want?... What if she says no?... Too much risk!"
"Yes, Pinkie?"
"That... I'll make it up to you. I don't know how yet, but I will" and she smiled. She decided not to confess to her.
"You don't have to"
"But I want to. Don't worry, I wont miss this time. I gotta go" Pinkie Pie didn't want to be there. So many things were on her head and she needed time to settle things. Although she loved the lovely eyes of Twilight, she felt ashamed.
"Do you really have to go?" Twilight wanted to spent a little more time with her.
"Sorry, Twi" Strange enough she didn't say anything else. She left the room in a rather fast pace. Leaving Twilight alone there.
Pinkie left the house without looking back. Her head hurt, her eyes hurt and now her heart hurt. She needed to clear her head out, but she didn't know how. She just kept galloping forward.
Later that night Spike came back to the library and found Twilight laying on the couch in the living room "Hey Twi, are you okay?"
Twilight looked back at Spike and smiled to cover her thoughts "Yes, I'm just... what do you got there?" Spike was holding a white saddle bag with blue balloons on the sides, clearly Pinkie's bag.
"Oh, I found it next to the waaah!" Spike tripped with some books that were laying on the floor and dropped the bag. A black doll came out of it and fell near Twilight.
Twilight used her magic to bring it closer to her to examine it "It's an Ursa minor doll... kind of cute" She found a gift tag on it's ear and it had something written on it, and she read it to her self "To: Twilight Sparkle From: Pinkie Pie. I know is not your Smarty Pants doll, but I wish this can make you feel better. Love, Pinkie Pie" A single tear rolled through her cheek and a small but really bright smile appeared on her face.
"Twilight, are you okay? What's that?" Spike seemed worried about his friend
Twilight had a hard night, she has been hugging the Ursa bear the whole night and couldn't stop about her friend "She tried to make me feel better, she went out of her way just to make me happy, and I yelled at her. She did everything she could to make me smile, and now is my turn" She did't have a plan but it was decided she would do something. But before she had to cleaned up the place. The day before she looked for spells that would make bring her book to it's former self, but she couldn't find a thing. She just finished putting the last book on the shelf, when all her friends broke in at the same time, all of her friends except Pinkie Pie. They came running through the door, all they looked worried and in a hurry, Twilight had become worried "What happened, guys? Is everything okay?" she asked.
"Pinkie is missing. She didn't arrive home last night. The Cakes don't know where is she" Rarity explained the situation. She knew last night Pinkie was in the very same building they were. And the last pony who saw Pinkie Pie before her disappearance was the librarian.
Twilight was paralyzed. She couldn't comprehend what she just heard "Pinkie is gone?! How this could be happening? Was something I said? Was something I didn't say?" He wondered in despair looking for a reason in her mind "TWILIGHT!" but thankfully her friends were there to wake her up.
"I know Pinkie came her last night, didn't she? What happened?" Rainbow approach her as close as she was interrogating her.
"Now, take it easy Rainbow, will ya?" Applejack pulled her feathered friend tail calm her down "But if you have any kind of information, Twilight, it would be quite helpful"
"I... I apologize for yelling at her... she went outside all of the sudden, she didn't say where or what. I don't get, why did I do?" Twilight tried to think of what she might have done to make her friend, but nothing made sense.
"No time to waste here, we gotta find her. Let's move, ponies" Rainbow seemed hesitant but for now she was right.
"Okay, Applejack, Rarity you go all around the town and ask the people if they had seen her; Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash fly around the area of Ponyville and the Everfree Forest in case she have gone there. We'll gather on the Sugarcube Corner in 2 hours. Spike! you head there now in case she shows up" She was serious about this. She sent everyone to gather as much information as possible to where the earth pony might have gone.
Four whole hours, more than the agreed, have passed and there were no sign of her pink friend, nopony saw her last night. Some of them said they saw her walking on the park, but after that no one saw anything else. The pegasi had flew around the Everfree Forest a dozen time but apparently she never went, not even Zecora remembered seen her. Even worse the day was about to end. They gathered on the sweets shop each of them with bad news.
"Something, anything?" Twilight was desperate, her mane was a mess and she couldn't stand still in a single place.
"I'm sorry, Twi, but no one say nothing" Applejack regretted her info.
"There were many animals on the Everfree Forest but no one saw her either... I'm sorry" Fluttershy was scared, not only for Pinkie but because she hated the forest and she still had the chills.
"And now what do we do?! We can be here crossed hooves doing nothing. Pinkie is out there"
"Now Twilight. Calm down, darling. Desperation is never an answe"
"But what if she was ponynapped? What if somepony saw her and wanted to keep for themselves and she is trapped in a basement and tied up" Twilight sounded kind of like Pinkie Pie with her theory "or what if she ran away from the pony, but fell in a giant whole and hit her with rocks and is now unconscious and..." a cold water showered the unicorn interrupting her random theory. It was Rainbow Dash with a bucket who had thrown water at her.
"Keep it together, girl. If we are going to find her wee need to keep our heads clear"
Suddenly Mrs. Cake joined the conversation "You said that you looked in the Everfree Forest and around Ponyville in case she left the town. Why don't you check the trainstation? I think she would rather had taken the train than just roaming around"
It made sense. Everyone felt silly for not thinking about it before, but with so much thinking and the pressure of never seen her friend again they were not thinking straight. After the suggestion, all of them ran of the store and headed towards the trainstation. Once they were there, the night had finally arrived. Outside the station they saw All Aboard, the train conductor.
"Excuse me, sir. But by any chance have you seen Pinkie Pie?" Twilight was the first one to step in and ask the conductor right away.
"As much as I'd love to, I don't remember everpony names. You'll have to be more specific" The conductor's answer was a bit sarcastic, but understandable.
"Pink earth pony, pink curly mane, blue balloons cutie mark, totally random, eyes that make everyone smile at the first sight" Twilight's description was accurate, although made everyone else look strangely at the last point.
"Oh yeah, I saw her. She came here last night and left on a train"
"Would you kindly tell us where she went?"
"Canterlot, she said she had something "extremely important" to deal with"
At last! An useful information, they didn't know what the "extremely important" was but it didn't matter right now.
"Well then, we want five tickets to Canterlot, please" Twilight finally felt a little of relief, but it lasted long.
"Sorry, but I can't. There are no trains at night, it's too dangerous and we don't want to risk anypony life"
"Then how did she went to Canterlot on the first place?!" Politeness meant nothing to the purple unicorn anymore
"Because she didn't go on a normal train. There was a cargo train with materials to Canterlot and she agreed to go on it with the materials"
"Okay, we'll do the same. When's the next cargo train going?!"
"There are no cargo trains tonight. Now, if you excuse me I'll have to close the station"
The closer they felt to find Pinkie Pie, the father they actually were. Twilight screamed in frustration, she wanted to find her friend and find her in one piece "Why did she go?! Why Canterlot? Why?" All these questions were constantly popping on Twilight's head, she couldn't handle all of this.
Rarity had finally came with an idea "Twilight, you can teleport, can't you? You can teleport to Canterlot and then we can look for Pinkie"
"I wish, the teleporting spell is actually for dodging. The longest I can teleport is 6 foots" The idea was quickly scrap.
"Well, no point staying here. We come here at first hour on the morning, is that good for y'all?"
Twilight didn't agree with her "No, is not good. I'll go to Canterlot on hoof"
"But Twilight, is too far away. Even flying it takes too much time to get there. Think, what if something happens to you and you don't get there?" Again Rarity was the one making sense on this.
"We'll went to Canterlot when the station open. We'll find Pinkie" Fluttershy tried to be supportive.
Twilight still didn't agree but seeing how her friend wouldn't let her go on her own, she nodded and agreed with her head. Everypony headed back to their respective houses, promising seeing each other on the morning.
The night felt eternal. The purple unicorn was up all night just laying on the bed and hugging her new Ursa minor doll. She smelled it sometimes, it still had some fragrance of the one who gave it to her. Images of the day she got mad and yelled at the one she is now looking for came and went "It has to do something with it... why? Pinkie Pie please come back?" she curled hugging the doll, wishing the night ends and she finally can go look for her friend.
Chapter 5: Returned The light of the sun illuminated the land starting the day for all the ponies of Equestria, one pony in particular who was waiting for the train station to open. Because she couldn't sleep, Twilight Sparkle pack things she might need in her quest looking for Pinkie Pie. Once the sun was about to be raise by Celestia she went to the station to wait, however the train station opened at 6 A.M so she had to wait for a few hours. One by one, her friends started to gather on the agreed spot, very optimistic and keeping a positive mood, but none of their happy thoughts would make Twilight smile. She just stared at the station entrance waiting for it to be opened.
After quite some time, the conductor finally opened the gates. In a quick move, the leader of the group jumped into the building and ordered the one in charge "Five tickets to Canterlot, now!"
The conductor pony wasn't happy "First, please be a little more gentle ma'am, is still too early. Second, something is blocking the rail tracks from Manehattan to here. We don't know what's blocking it but a group of specialist had already gone there to investigate. There won't be trains until further notice" A pegasus arrived and called the conductor's attention, they moved to a room to talk in private before anypony could say something.
Twilight frustration in her mane as it starts to catch fire. As she yells hysterically "Hold on there, sugarcube. Calm down" Applejack jumped and hold her trying to calm her down, then all the other did it as well. After awhile she started to be herself again. "I can't believe this, am I destined to not find her?!"
"Darling, please. We'll just have to wait, remember that is the fastest way to get her" Rarity using logic as always.
Twilight didn't reply to anyone, she moved to a nearby bench that led in front of the train rails and sat there. The others did the same and avoid telling her anything at all, thinking she might would freak out again. The sat next to her, they talked about what might had happen keeping a low voice to not disturb her purple friend. But no matter what they would have said, she was focused on her mission, she stared at the train rails observing every inch of it waiting for the train to take her where Pinkie Pie was.
They sat there and time seemed to be going by slower and slower, on top of that there were no signs of the train yet and the conductor pony didn't bring any new information of it's current state. Everypony started to get desperate, especially Rainbow Dash who staying in one spot was like a death sentence. The only one who stayed still and didn't make a sound was Twilight, nothing seemed to make her focused on anything else.
Six hours had passed and for the first time the ponies started to feel like there was no point of being there
"Um... Maybe there will be no train today?" Fluttershy said.
"Maybe we' should come back later, sugarcube" Applejack seemed tire of being here.
"You can go, I'll wait for the train"
"Please, Twi, you have to eat smothin'"
"I'll be fine. You go." Twilight face was expressionless. She just stared at the nothing giving sighs every once in a while.
"We'll go for somethin' to eat and come back, please. Whaddya say?" Applejack, as always, tried to keep a smile and look happy to make everypony feel better.
She finally gave up, if going with them would let her wait for the train she would do it "Okay, but once I'm done I'll come back immediately"
Suddenly a hard noise was heard, the floor shaking, and rumbling sound broke the calm and the quiet of the train station. Everypony turned in their surprise watching now that the train had finally arrived "Come on everypony! Time to go!" Said Twilight galloping towards the entrance of the train.
When the doors were about to open the conductor pony interrupted the way "That'd be 25 bits for 5 tickets, if you don't mind"
Twilight was fed up with all of this "Yeah, what ever take it!" She took her purse and threw the bits to his face, not even taking the ticket. She ran up to the closed doors impatiently trotting in place, finally good news for her.
When the doors opened a single pony was standing there, her pink fur was all covered with dirt, her curly pink mane was all a mess, her faced demonstrate that she was pretty tired. Once she stepped out of the she was assaulted by a group of five ponies who jumped and hugged her at the same time making her losing balance and fell down. Pinkie had jumped and hugged ponies making them fall too, but it was the first time somepony else did to her. Her back hurt but it felt nice.
"Pinkie! Here you are, thank Celestia" Twilight hugged her tighter than she had ever hugged anypony.
"Hi, everyone. What gives?" Pinkie loved the surprise, but she was confused
"What gives?! You disappeared all of the sudden and tell no pony where you were going?! Why the hay did you go in the first place anyway?!" Rainbow Dash broke the hug first and began the interrogation.
"Oh, that... I... I bought this for you, Twilight" Pinkie was wearing a saddle bag, not her usual one that was still in Twilight's house. It was a brown saddle bag with a pick drawn on the sides. She took the saddle bag and brought out a package inside it, then she handed it to Twi "Here. Sorry, I didn't have time to wrap it up properly"
Twilight took it with her magic, shecarefully opened it. It was a copy of the book she had, The Filly Princess, it was the very first edition but it looked new and well preserved "Pinkie... Why did you... How did you...?" She didn't even know what to ask first.
"I went to Canterlot to see your parents, they told me what bookstore they went and bought the book. When I got there they told me the editorial was discontinued and there were no copies left of the book, but they did told me the name of the author: Ernest Heminghoof and he lived in Manehattan. I took the train to Manehattan and knock every single door until I found somepony who told me where he lives. I went to him and asked him if he had another copy, luckily he had one from the very first time he published it but he wouldn't sell it, however he needed quartzite... a type of rock, to a construction on his new house and we made a deal to exchange the book for a good amount of quartzite. I took the train to my parent's rock farm and told them the whole situation, they agreed to help and gathered all the rock we could..."
"Wait Pinkie, you gathered rocks and took it from a town to another in one day?!" Rarity interrupted the story
"My family has years of experience on rock farming, also all my family helped which made the work much easier" she continued "I took the train back to Manehattan with all the rocks and made the deal with Mr. Heminghoof. It took me a day and a half, or maybe even more, but here it is. Do you like it?"
Twilight couldn't hold back her crying, all the feelings came to her and hit her at the very same time "Twilight, what's wrong what did I do?" Pinkie asked thinking she had hurt her friend again. Her eyes looked down and then she covered her face preventing anypony to see her "I messed it up again" she thought
"What did you do? You did everything you could to give something special to me, you went all across Equestria and doing something other would consider impossible in one day for me. It's... it's... I can even describe how incredible this is. And you did all for me" Twilight hugged her friend once again, Pinkie hugged back and nuzzled on her. All their friends looked and stepped back a little giving them enough space for them. Twilight kissed her on the cheek, this made Pinkie blush and think that everything was worth it. She wanted to kiss back but her nervousness at what her friend would think didn't let her.
They took Pinkie to the Sugarcube Corner and throw a small party to her. The whole Cake family had missed her a lot. Everypony enjoyed having her back again, especially Twilight who didn't let her be too far away from her; Pinkie really enjoyed this attention.
The party went on for hours; Sugarcube Corner was closed to give the party as much privacy as possible. All of Pinkie's best friends were there playing games, dancing, eating cake and having fun. Usually she was the one throwing the party and making sure that everypony was having a good time, but now she was the guest of honor and they treated her like royalty. Especially Twilight who would pop out of nowhere, whenever Pinkie seemed to need something. She liked the attention, but thought it was a little too much.
Pinkie was sitting in a chair, more like a throne right at the back of the room. “What’s that throat, you’re getting dry? Well some punch is going to solve that!” said the guest of honor.
A purple flash went to the table with punch and other sweets and came back to her “Here, you go. Anything else you want?” said Twilight with a small bow.
“Punch without cake is boring, but I’ll go get it myself.”
Again, the unicorn rushed to the table, took a slice of cake and gave it to her friend “Your cake, your highness.”
“Your highness? Twilight you don’t have to be... so much like a servant.” Pinkie wasn’t really comfortable about it.
“Don’t be ridiculous, it’s the least I can do for the most special pony I know.”
Pinkie Pie was stunned. “I’m the most special pony she knows?” She wondered to herself for a moment. She then stood up and took a royal pose, raised her head upright and put her right hoof on her chest. “Then, I hereby decree that thou shall be my royal companion from now on.” Her eyes went wide as she realized what she just said.
“Royal companion? Seriously?! What in the hay was I thinking?” She thought to herself.
However the response was different from what she expected. Twilight bowed and said. “It’d be an honor, your highness.” She took a chair and sat right next to her. Which made Pinkie completely nervous; at least it was nice to have Twilight sit next to her.
Twilight was sad that the party was ending, so she tried to convince the rest of her friends to stay for a bit more fun.
"Come on, the night is young and so are we. What do you say, another round of punch for everypony?" She continued on about how she didn’t want the party to end, but they had been celebrating ever since they had arrived and were all very tired. Her friends thought this was strange, considering that it usually was Pinkie who insisted on keeping the party going.
Even though she was tired as she could be. It wasn't until Twilight saw Spike sleeping on a cake, that she realized it might just be best to go home for now. They all left while the Cakes cleaned the place up. "Pinkie, you can go to bed now if you like. It was a hard day for you, and you might need the rest." Mr. Cake said as he was sweeping the floor with a broom, but found himself talking to the air because the pink pony had already headed upstairs to her apartment.
The upstairs of Sugarcube Corner had a fully furnished apartment, which the Cakes had been renting to Pinkie Pie for years. It wasn't too big, but big enough to have everything the earth pony needed. Once she had entered her apartment she was greeted by Gummy. Who was eating Madam Le Flour, everything in the room had been gummed on by the toothless alligator. Because of her leaving without a word, nopony remembered to feed her pet. Pinkie came near the alligator with a frowny face, she looked at him for a moment and said "Meh!" She was too tired to even think about her stuff being gummed; besides nothing would be seriously damaged except for Madame Le Flour. Pinkie tumbled upon her bed to fall asleep, usually this would happen immediately. But tonight she was thinking over and over again about Twilight, and that kiss she had given her on the cheek. How much she wanted to kiss her back, and to spend a little time with her alone just looking into her eyes. She would give everything for just a night alone with Twilight. Yes, they saw each other every Thursday at noon, but even then ponies crossing by would interrupt them. She just wanted a quiet time for them to share together. Her need for sleep finally overwhelmed her thoughts. Usually she didn't dream, or if she did dream she wouldn't remember them. Pinkie saw an image of them walking down crystal streets together. It seemed that they were there for some reason, but she didn't know why. Both of them were wearing beautiful gala dresses and Twilight was wearing a crown, it was the crown that represented her element of harmony. Twilight spread her wings... "Wait... Twilight has wings?!" Well apparently she does, as she flew over and hugged her pink friend. She held onto her as they flew up and across the Crystal Empire. Pinkie looked into Twilight's eyes and kissed her, "My little princess" she whispered in her sleep.
She woke up all red and sweaty in her bed. The sun was up and she had to get ready for work, even though she was still tired from the huge party last night. "Twilight with wings... yeah, sure. Even I think that’s coo-coo." Pinkie said sarcastically as she stepped on her Take-o-shower 2000. A machine that cleaned everypony who stepped in to it, Pinkie got it from a brown pony that was very good at machines even though his cutie mark was an hourglass. It was a big machine with three stages and a conveyor belt, which took Pinkie into the first stage that was "applying shampoo". A sticky pink substance came out and puffed Pinkie's mane and tail out even more. The second stage was "washing", a couple of hoses came out and blasted her with a torrent of water, to clean and rinse the shampoo completely off before she was moved on to the last stage "Drying". The fans where beneath the conveyor belt and were so strong that they levitated her a little. This helped her mane get its puffy properties. After she finished getting ready and fed gummy, who had eaten the rest of the tea party members, except for Rocky. She was now ready to start the new day.
She bounced down the stairs as the Cakes were preparing everything for the day of work "Good morning, Pinkie Pie. French toast and orange juice for breakfast just for you." said Mrs. Cake while prewarming the oven.
"Oh, thanks Mrs. Cake, you shouldn’t have. What are you doing here so early anyway?" Pinkie usually woke up at the same time every day; her internal clock was quite accurate.
"So early?" Mr. Cake asked surprised. "But it's almost time to open."
Pinkie Pie startled at that fact, stopped eating her breakfast and jumped into the kitchen. "Don't worry; I'll have everything prepared in a minute!" Usually she was the first to wake in the morning. So she could have the materials, ovens and even some mixes ready for the Cakes to start baking with. She got everything on the table that would be needed for her to start work.
"It's okay Pinkie, we thought you'd be tired after the trip and the party. So we woke a little earlier to have everything set." Mrs. Cake said calmly. "Now, would you open the door? I just put some cupcakes in the oven and I want everypony to smell the aroma."
Pinkie, as always, appreciated the gesture. But started to feel annoyed by everypony cutting her so much slack. She opened the doors and the first thing she saw was Spike about to knock. "Oh, good morning Pinkie." Spike was still yawning and looked tired.
"Hi Spike, you want to be the first one in line for breakfast?"
Spike yawn once again "Nope. Twilight woke me up and said to give you this." Spike handed a letter to Pinkie.
She took the letter that stated:
Dear Pinkie Pie: I don't feel like the party was good enough for the things you have done for me. Thus, I invite you to Ponyville's Cafe at 8 P.M. for dinner. Your royal companion. -Twilight Sparkle"
Pinkie thought. "She remembered the royal companion thing, and she is still doing it? That was amazing!" She finally had the chance to spend time together with her, but it might be a romantic setting as well. Pinkie started to jump around the bakery and squeal in excitement, but this caused the baby cakes to wake up. She got herself together and pretended she was serious. "Spike, please tell Twilight that I'd be honored."
Spike was standing there, sleeping on his feet. "Spike? ... Spike!" Pinkie yelled to make the dragon wake up. "Did you hear me at all?!"
"You wanted me to tell Twilight..." Spike said nervously.
Pinkie gave a sigh. "Just tell Twilight I said yes."
"Okay. Good night." Spike left walking like a zombie.
The earthpony was so excited that she was squealing and giggling, but then she remembered. "Shoot, I have nothing to wear." All her clothes were party dresses and a huge variety of costumes. But none of them good for a date... if it was even a date. She ran through the doors heading to the Carousel Boutique and she once again left the Cakes alone without a word.
She arrived at the place just as Rarity was organizing materials. As she went into the shop the bell rang catching Rarity's attention. "Oh, hi Pinkie. How may I help you?"
"I... kinda... sorta... you see..." Pinkie pie couldn't even say what she wanted.
A familiar voice sounded "Oh for Celestia sake! Would you just say it?"
"Rainbow Dash? What are you doing here?" Asked Pinkie
"Rarity's dresses have been selling... slowly and she asked me to come by again." Rainbow wasn't happy at all and rolled her eyes. "But what is it with you, girl?"
Pinkie Pie closed her eyes and told them the reason she was there. "Twilight invited me for dinner and I don't have anything to wear. I need a dress to impress her."
Rarity jumped towards the pink pony all blissful. "Oh, that's so great. I designed a dress for somepony like you, but I knew you would never use it. Its right here, hang on a moment." Rarity left the room, running for the dress in the chest in her room.
Meanwhile Pinkie and Rainbow were alone in the living room just looking at each other. "So... are you going on... a date?" asked the pegasus while rubbing her wing.
"I don't know. I want to think that's the reason Twilight invited me." Pinkie answered happily.
"So you like... really want to be with Twilight?" Rainbow asked further.
"I know it’s weird, but she it's just... I can't honestly describe it."
Rarity appeared with the dress and put it on the "transformation spot" as she called it, then took Pinkie and helped her put it on. It was a beautiful yellow dress with little light blue trim around the edges and a few light blue ribbons. The design was simple and the combination of colors odd, yet it looked wonderful on Pinkie. "You just need to do something with your hair and nopony will be able to resist you, you enchantress." said Rarity.
"Wao wee Rarity, is perfect. Thank you. How much is it?" Pinkie asked with a big smile.
"Nothing, dear. You just come and tell me all the details about the "DATE" as soon as you can, and that'd be more than enough." Rarity answered with a little grin.
"Thanks, Rari. See you Rainbow. Laters" As fast as she came by Pinkie left the building.
"Rainbow, are you okay? You haven't said anything." Rarity was worried about her friend
"I'm fine... Let's just get this over with." Rainbow posed on the transformation spot looking down at the floor, evading Rarity’s eyes.
The time flew by at Sugarcube Corner. Ponies came and went and Pinkie worked faster and harder thinking that it might help her feel the time go by faster, and it did. When the time was about right for Pinkie to get ready she went up to her apartment. The voice of Rarity came into her head "You just need to do something with your hair..." and she wondered, "Something with my hair?... maybe if I iron my hair... I haven't had my hair straight in years, which could be fun." She took the hair iron and started to style her mane and tail. It was hard, for years she had the same style of curly puffy mane. After that she put the dress on and the shoes that came with it. She was ready.
Pinkie arrived at the cafe and saw Twilight in a beautiful green dress with little white decorations; it had Rarity written all over it. She took her time to prepare to talk to her, and then took a big breath and let it go. She looked at where Twilight was, and she wasn't there anymore. Where could she have possibly gone? Then a big shout came from behind her.
"Surprise!" Twilight used her teleportation spell to get behind her, and Pinkie jumped from the acoustic assault.
"Twilight? You totally got me!" Pinkie enjoyed the scare and started to laugh. "That's new from you, usually I'm the one who does the surprising."
"Come on, let's eat. I'm starving." Twilight headed to the table that was reserved for them.
The whole place was deserted except for the waiter pony that was formally dressed, and because of the lack of ponies around, he could fully attend to the two of them. He took their order and quickly went back to the kitchen. The service was completely efficient, like the whole place was only for them. This was great for the service, but made it harder for Pinkie to talk to her friend as the waiter got in the way constantly. Finally, as the plates were set and everything was ready for them to eat. The waiter stepped back. This was her chance... if it wasn't for the fact that she didn't know what to say. Her mind had gone completely blank from overthinking.
"I don't like your mane." A harsh commentary that came from the unicorn.
"You don’t think I’m pretty?" The earthpony felt heartbroken.
"On the contrary, you look gorgeous... but your mane doesn't. It doesn't look like you, your normal style fits you perfectly."
Pinkie Pie put her hoof to her mouth and started to blow. Soon the hair popped back to its usual form. "How about now?"
"Now, you are completely gorgeous." Twilight made a little smile.
The night went on like it was a normal dinner between friends. Even if this was Pinkie's big chance, she was too nervous to think of something smart to say. They just talked as usual about what they did that day and other stuff like that. But mostly they were quiet while they ate their food. When they were done Twilight invited Pinkie for a walk through the park. They left the bits on the table for their dinner and headed on their way.
They arrived at their usual spot, but before they went to the bench Twilight raised her hoof preventing Pinkie from walking any further. “Wait a second.” Twilight used her magic to illuminate the area. Then she teleported around as if she was looking for something. She then returned to Pinkie and said “The area is safe. You may enter, your highness.”
Pinkie wasn’t used to the royal treatment, but she liked having a “guardian” with her. Although she dreamed her as a princess last night. She followed Twilight thinking that they were going to the bench, but they walked passed it and went directly to the fountain. The royal companion sat on the side of the fountain and invited her friend to accompany her. For a moment there was only quiet, as they looked up into the night Luna had made. It looked different; the stars were shining brighter than normal.
Then Twilight decided to be the first one to talk. "So Pinkie... there's something I want to ask you." She stopped for a moment, took a deep breath and shot her question. "How did you end up here, in Ponyville?"
As Pinkie sat there staring at the moon. "Well, as you know, I got my cutie mark for making ponies happy with a surprise party for my family. But they didn't really share my passion for laughing and sometimes really didn't like how I was. One day we were moving rocks to Ponyville. My parents and sister didn't like the town all that much, but I loved how many things there were to see and do. We would stay there for two days, one to rest and the other to gather supplies for the farm. I had plenty of time to wander around and came across Sugarcube Corner. My eyes illuminated when I saw how the sweets and candies made ponies happy when they ate them. I talked to Mr. and Mrs. Cake and asked them how did that work, they showed me a little of the baking process and said that when they bake their cakes they put all of their love and passion into them so they will taste better when somepony enjoys one of their treats. I was fascinated with all the magic they seemed to put in there baked goods and figured I could make ponies happy with them as well. That place was perfect for me, but sadly I had to go home the next day. So I bought a book for baking they were selling and took it with me. When I got back to the farm I started to make tons of cakes, cupcakes, muffins and candies, I almost filled our living room with all of them. My parents... let's just say, weren't happy. After that I got depressed because I couldn't seem to make anypony happy, nor could I do something that made me feel like I accomplished something. As much as I loved my family I didn't want to work on the rock farm all my life, but I didn't know what to do. One day, my Dad decided to go get some supplies and he asked me to go with him, also to say goodbye to my mother and sisters. I had gone with him on other errands but never did I have to say goodbye, it was weird but I did it anyway. We went on our way to Ponyville, there he took me to SugarCube Corner. Turns out he had made a deal with the Cakes, they didn't have any children at the time and needed a little help. So he would let me stay with them while they took me as their apprentice. He asked me if this would make me happy and I cried like a little filly. I didn't want to leave my family but this felt like it was my destiny. He hugged me and said they would always be there for me. Since then I've been working at Sugarcube Corner, trying not to waste my father’s gift to me”.
Twilight's jaw dropped, she could never imagine going through something that sad for her dreams. But now she had something else bothering her. "Why have you been so serious lately?"
Pinkie lowered her head to answer. "Well, since the accident I've been trying to be more "grown up" as you wanted."
"Pinkie, I didn't mean that. I was angry and I didn't know what I was saying." Twilight said apologetically. "To be honest... I always liked the way you are. So carefree, so true to yourself, not caring what anypony else would say, it's so... you. I don't want you to be any other way."
"You do?" Pinkie blushed and shrunk shyly "Th... thank you. I always like you, too... I mean, I like the way you are. How you take care of things you like, how you focus on what you want and how you really are. I love spending time with you."
The two of them gazed into each other’s eyes, the wind blew moving the leaves of the trees, and the silence of the night was keeping everything in order. The pink pony was shaking, she couldn't control herself and a little voice was saying "kiss her", but another voice was saying "she is your friend, don't risk it". She was breathing heavily, her heartbeat was crazy and her mouth started to mumble nonsense. Until she finally decided to tell Twilight the truth "Twilight... I... I... I always..."
Before she could even finish a sentence, Twilight came close to her. She put her hooves on Pinkie's cheeks and adjusted her face to look at her. Twilight was blushing too and smiling; her eyes shined and showed she had a plan. Then Twilight moved slowly towards her friend until Pinkie could smell her sweet aroma and feel the fur of her coat, and without any warning she kissed her. Pinkie's eyes widened in surprise, she felt her friend kissing her so passionately, and saw how beautiful she was. She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around her, and kissed her back. The soft lips of the pony kissing her felt like heaven, it was like nothing she had ever felt before, she felt like her soul had reached the skies and was bouncing on the clouds. She didn't feel her heart, she couldn't tell if she was breathing or not, she didn't know if she was alive, the only thing she knew was that she didn't want this moment to end.
The kiss felt like it lasted for what they thought was hours. They only separated to stare into each other’s eyes again, Pinkie caress Twilight's face lovingly while she asked "This means we're dating, right?"
Twilight giggled at the question "Yes, dear. Yes, it does."
Then, the pink pony became worried "What would everypony else say?"
"I don't care. The only thing I care about is being with you." Answered the unicorn as she ended the sentence with another kiss.
They went to the library to spent the night together, until the sunlight touched the ground.
Ponyville shined brighter than ever before. Ponies everywhere had a smile across their faces, the air was transporting sweet music all around, and it seemed that nothing could possibly go wrong. Or that was what Pinkie Pie was thinking that morning. After the night she had spent with her royal companion, she couldn’t stop smiling and the world seemed more colorful than ever.
“Come on, everypony. It’s Free Cupcake Day!” Yelled Pinkie outside the bakery. With this statement the bakery was filled in a matter of seconds.
“Pinkie Pie! What is the meaning of this?” Mr. Cake was holding both baby cakes, who had woken up with the rumble of the ponies trotting.
“I want everypony to be super-duper-double-whopper happy as I am. So the cupcakes are on me!”
“But Pinkie...” Mrs. Cake was trying to hold back ponies who'd tried to reach the kitchen. “We don’t have enough to give to everypony! Besides, we’d lose a lot of bits.”
The pink pony gave a sigh “Okay everypony, maybe it’s not Free Cupcake Day...” She stopped for a moment, and then gave a mischievous smile. “Buuut it's Random Party at Sugarcube Corner day!”
Some ponies left the building, but many other stayed to start the party. Pinkie Pushed a button beneath the shop’s counter and two huge speakers came down from the ceiling as music started to play. While everypony danced and enjoyed the party the cakes pulled Pinkie to the back of the store.
“Pinkie, we know you love parties and all. But we already told you that you cannot go offering free cupcakes and throwing parties, without asking us before you go and do it.” Mrs. Cakes sounded like she was about to start yelling.
“Super Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Cake, but it’s just that I'm soooo happy and I want everyone to be as happy as me!” Pinkie said as she bounced in place.
Mr. Cake became curious. “And what are you so happy about?”
“Well, since last night I have a marefriend.” Pinkie giggled and blushed.
The Cakes were shocked with this notice, they didn't say a word for a moment until Mrs. Cake finally stammered out “Y-you... and Twilight...?”
Pinkie nodded her head in agreement. “Yup. We are dating now and I couldn’t be happier, I’m living a dream. Or am I still dreaming? Maybe I’m dreaming that I’m dreaming in a dream!” She hit her head against the wall to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. “Nope, ouch!" she rubbed her head "I’m totally awake.”
“Okay Pinkie, but remember no more random parties without asking first.” Mrs. Cake was heading towards the door when she suddenly stopped. “And... you two be very careful, okay?” Mrs. Cake said when she left the room.
“What’s up with that? We should be careful of what?” Pinkie was confused about Mrs. Cakes advice.
“You see Pinkie, there are ponies who don’t like the idea of two mares being together. Mares should only be with stallions, otherwise it's wrong.” Said Mr. Cake very calmly.
“But, why? If two ponies lo...” Pinkie stopped herself before continuing. “I don’t think I’m ready to use that word yet.” She thought to herself, and proceeded with her argument. “If two ponies really wanted to be with each other, what’s wrong with that?”
“Well, that’s a mature point of view. Sadly, though, some ponies don’t understand that. Some others might treat you badly. Even Cuppy thinks it's a little bit weird. Don’t get me wrong, it's not like she doesn’t approve, it’s just that she isn't used to it.” Commented Mr. Cake.
“Cuppy?... Oh yeah, Mrs. Cup Cake. I keep forgetting her full name. Maybe I should talk about it with Twilight later?” Wondered the pink pony. “Okay Mr. Cake I’ll take that into a count. Thanks.”
“Hey! Will you two come here and help me with all these customers somepony invited to a party?” The distressed voice of Mrs. Cake shouted from the front of the store. With that shout Mr. Cake and Pinkie rushed to help with the party.
The sales were really good at Sugarcube Corner with the party not stopping for several hours. More and more ponies came in when they saw the crowd and heard the music. The party finally came to a close with the last pony leaving when the sun was about to set, this left the bakers with a great amount of bits earned that day, but also with no supplies for the next day of work.
“Okay, time to close. The sales were great today, and we're going to have to order some more supplies. So, we're probably not opening the shop tomorrow.” Mr. Cake said while closing the doors of Sugarcube Corner.
Suddenly, somepony prevented the door from closing. “Excuse me, good afternoon.” It was Twilight. “Hello, Mr. Cake. Mind if I come in?”
“Twilight!” Pinkie jumped to her marefriend and gave her a little kiss, this paralysed Twilight as she blushed. “I missed you soooo much!”
Mrs. Cake walked out of the bakery with a frown on her face, passing by the couple. “Pinkie, you can close the shop, can’t you? We have to go. See you later.” She galloped out and didn't stop.
“I’m sorry, she is just tired. Pinkie, please close up the shop. Take care, girls.” He left following his wife.
“What was all that about?” asked Twilight curiously.
“She’s just worried, nevermind her. Oh! Come in, I got something special for you.” she pulled Twilight into Sugarcube Corner and closed the door and locking it.
“Err... Pinkie why are you locking the door? How am I going to leave?” Twilight asked nervously as the earthpony finished locking the door.
“What makes you think I will let you leave?” Pinkie face showed her mischievous intentions.
Twilight didn’t know what to think, her eyes opened wide and she blush as red as an apple. “Pinkie... what are you planning to do?”
“Why, spending the whole night with you, of course. Just like last night. What did you think I’d do?”
Twilight giggled in relief. “Nothing.”
Pinkie Pie took out a couple of cupcakes from under the counter, they were purple and the frosting was decorated just like Twilight’s cutie mark. She had them hidden beneath the counter. “I made these for you before the party and save them from being sold.”
They sat at the table to enjoy their little desserts, but Twilight seemed uncomfortable. “Pinkie... do you think we should tell our friends?”
“I don’t think so. I only have these for us, I couldn't save some for the others.”
“No, I mean if we should tell them about us?”
“If we tell them we were eating cupcakes and did not offer them any, they could get upset.”
“I’m not talking about the cupcakes!”
“Dah! I know, we are talking about our friends.”
Twilight was starting to lose her mind. “No Pinkie! What I meant is if we should tell them that we are dating?!”
“Oooh... Yes.” The earthpony smiled and answered without a second thought
“How could you say that so calmly? Don't you think about what they might say?” The unicorn was hyperventilating in panic.
The pink pony poked her marefriend in the face with her cupcake to help her snap out of it, leaving a little bit of frosting on her cheek. “Hey, weren’t you the one who told me, that she didn’t care about what others would say in the first place?”
The purple pony just nodded her head, and her partner continued. “Then aren’t you contradicting yourself a little? Besides they're our best friends and the bestests of best friends we could ask for, they will understand for sure.”
Finally the unicorn felt like herself again. “Thanks, it’s just that I’m not used to having a marefriend and I don’t know what to do sometimes.”
The pink pony approached her lover, licked her cheek to clean the frosting and said. “It’s okay Twily, now why don’t we go upstairs and hit the bed?”
Twilight startled at the suggestion. “Wait, isn’t a little early to be asking that? I’m not ready for that... is not like I’m don’t want to... but not now.”
“I know is a little early, but I’m tired from today’s work and I really want to lay down, we can still talk there. Or if you don’t want to we can stay here.” said Pinkie Pie.
The purple one began laughing. “Okay, if you really want to let’s go... to the bed.” and laughed some more.
“Twilight, what’s so funny?” Asked the pink pony curiously.
“Nothing, let’s just go.” Twilight went with Pinkie up to her apartment. They laid on the bed, and talked until they fell asleep.
The next day they invited all of their friends for a picnic. They went to a nice place near Fluttershy’s cottage, it was close to the river giving the air a nice fresh breeze, the trees around had birds and other little creatures. Whose noises were like smooth music giving the whole place a comfortable and perfect feel for a picnic. When the mane six arrived, they placed the blanket and started taking out the food from their picnic baskets. Pinkie’s only had streamers and balloons and Rarity had a full body size pillow to lay down comfortably on.
As the picnic went on Rainbow Dash was getting more and more desperate until she snapped. “Okay, everything’s good and all but, why did you ask us to come?!” she looked excited but also very frustrated. You know the saying 'curiosity killed the cat'? Well, there’s a saying in Ponyville too. ‘Rainbow Dash’s curiosity will kill you’'
“Way to kill the mood Dash... She had a point though. What’s with all this?” Said Applejack.
“Okay everyone, listen up. We have an announcement to make.” Twilight stood in front everypony.
"Oh, Oh, this is gonna be good. What is it Twilight?" Pinkie jumped and sat next to the others.
"Pinkie you were supposed to be with me remember? This is that THING we talked about yesterday."
“Oooooh, right. Sorry.” She moved with her partner and faced the rest of the group.
“Oh my... Is something wrong? Was it my fault? I’m sorry.” Fluttershy covered her face with her hooves.
Twilight gave a sigh and try to comfort her friend. “No, Fluttershy, it’s not something you did.”
“Then was it something I didn’t do? I’m really sorry.”
“No, Fluttershy it doesn’t have to do with you!” Twilight started to get frustrated.
“Then what in the hay does it have to do with?” So was Applejack.
They sat and stared at them very impatiently. “Okay everypony... you see... due to some... circumstances, Pinkie Pie and I had... decided...” she stopped as her nervousness raised and prevented her from moving her mouth.
“We are dating” Pinkie Pie knew nothing about drama, suspense or social awkwardness.
The group stared in silence at the just confessed couple. After a while Applejack and Rainbow Dash cracked in laughter, Rarity smiled and clapped with her hooves, and Fluttershy still couldn’t believe her ears. “Hahaha good one Pinkie Pie.” said Rainbow while rolling on the ground.
“Rainbow Dash, it’s not a joke. We are dating.” Said Twilight fearlessly.
The laughter vanished from the atmosphere. Pinkie leaned on her partner's shoulder, just to reaffirm what Twilight had said. The silence came back, but was now accompanied by weird looks. Except for one particular pony. “The possibilities, a new couple fashion line. You just cannot date with out looking fabulous.” Rarity was very excited for what the new couple might bring to her job.
“Woa woa, let me get this straight. You both are into mares?” Applejack seemed to have a hard time accepting the fact that her friends were so different.
“Well, not quite. I just fell in...” Twilight stopped herself at that moment. “I don’t think that is appropriate right now. Not yet.” she wondered and then continued. “I mean, I have a crush on her and I really like her.”
“So do I. She is the only girl I can look at in that way.” The Pinkie agreed with her partner.
The weird looks continued until somepony else asked further. “So the book and all that was for hitting on Twilight... Oh I mean, was it to get her?... It was a bad question, wasn’t it? I’m sorry.” Fluttershy was the only one curious there.
“It’s okay Fluttershy. Well no, I really wanted to repay her for what I did to her book, and since I cared so much for her I only could do what it took to make her happy.” Pinkie answered happily.
“And what about your parents? I mean, are they okay with the idea?” Rarity asked further.
“We haven’t told them yet. I think it would be best to give our relationship a little more time before telling them.” Twilight answered very calmly.
Rarity was still very curious “Another question: What is the thing you like the most about your partner?”
Pinkie was the first to answer. “Her sweet voice, her eyes full of kindness, the warm feeling when she is around and when she hugs me... her.”
Twilight was so moved by what her marefriend said she didn’t mind that others were there and was about to kiss Pinkie when Applejack prevented it. “Stop! It’s okay and all that yer together, but please keep the... romance for yerselves. It's not normal in Ponyville to see that, and it will take awhile to get used to.”
Rainbow was finally able to move after she was in shock. “Yeah, what she said. Two mares sharing a romance is not normal.”
Then Rarity cracked in laughter, no one followed her or got what she was laughing about, she just kept laughing. “Hey! What’s so funny?!” asked Rainbow.
“It’s... it’s so strange that the one saying that is the one with rainbows in her mane.” she laughed even more.
Then everypony laughed with her, even Rainbow Dash got the joke. The day went on without any complications. Although they had to keep control over some of their behaviors, everything went just as Pinkie Pie said.
When the picnic was over Twilight invited Pinkie to her house. She accepted and walked with her there. Once they arrived they stayed in the living room for a moment, suddenly Spike came by and saw them. “Hey mo.... I mean, hey Twilight. Oh you here too Pinkie, what’s up?”
“What was he going to say?” Twilight wondered “Oh, hi Spike I just came to spend some time with Twilight, where were you?” greeted Pinkie pie.
“I went with the cutie mark crusaders, aka the investigation team!” He was really excited about something.
Twilight looked at him suspiciously. “The investigation team? What are you investigating?”
“Well, things around Ponyville, mysteries and... yeah that’s pretty much it. You know, kids stuff.” answered spike.
“Kids stuff? Spike wouldn’t talk about something like that. He doesn’t want to be considered a kid anymore. Something is going on here.” The unicorn thought to herself, but Spike interrupted her thoughts. “Well I’m kinda tired from all the investigating. I’ll go sleep now. Good to see you, Pink. G’night!”
The purple pony kept thinking and forgot she had a visitor. “Umm Twily, are you alright?”
Then she got back to herself. “Sorry Pinkie, I'm worried that Spike is doing something that might get him hurt.”
“Don’t be so overprotective of him. He’s still a kid, right? Let him be.”
“I suppose you are right... How come you have been right about everything lately?” Twilight tried to think about something else.
“I have my rushes... You know what I don’t think I should keep calling you “Twilight”. Everypony calls you like that.” the earthpony frown her face as she stated her comment
“That’s because it’s my name.” the unicorn thought this was random, even for Pinkie standards.
“Yeah, but everypony does it. I’m your marefriend now, I got my rights. Therefore I shall call you... ‘Dear’... no that sounds like Rarity... ‘Honey’... no too generic... Oh, I know: my star”
“Star?” Twilight was happily surprised. “Yeah, you are Twilight Sparkle, aren’t you? And what do stars do? sparkle!”
Nopony had given her a nickname so adorable before, she was moved about the details her marefriend was taking. “Then I shall give you a name too... Mmm... how about... angel?”
“Angel? I don’t know that kind of pie.”
“It's not because of your name... It’s because I feel like you came into my life like and angel and illuminated it.” Twilight was so nervous she curled herself on the couch.
Pinkie came near her and wrapped her arms around her. “Come over here, my star.”
She kissed her, she wanted to do it since the picnic and finally let her passion go. They lost track of the time, but that didn’t matter anymore, the only thing they were thinking about is their lover.
It was another beautiful morning in Ponyville. A few days had passed since the new couple revealed the secret to their friends. Although they had decided to keep a low profile and not tell anypony else about themselves. They couldn’t stop from giving some loving looks or sometimes being a little too suggestive about their intentions. This made the other ponies suspicious about them and gossip behind their backs, but never actually saying anything that would be harmful or give the couple a bad reputation.
Today, Pinkie was going around looking for her friend Rainbow Dash. It had been quite sometime since they had just hung out together and she was feeling up for a good prank. As much as she loved her marefriend, Twilight didn’t let Pinkie Pie do pranks on other ponies, or at least not as much as she wanted. The earthpony wandered around Ponyville asking everypony if they had seen Rainbow Dash, but nopony had seen her. “Hmm, maybe she’s still working with Rarity.” She remembered that they had been working together for quite some time. She decided to look over at Carousel Boutique, but not before she got some left overs from Sugarcube Corner to share with her friends. But on the way there she bumped into Spike who seemed a little down. “Hey Spike, you okay?”
Spike didn't look like he wanted to talk, but answered anyway. “Hey, Pinkie Pie. Yeah, I’m fine.”
“Oh come on Spike, you can talk with me. Does it have to do with your 'investigation team'?”
“Yes! I mean, no! I mean, I’m fine. Okay?!” Spike was acting very frustrated.
Pinkie wanted to help him, but she wouldn’t force him to talk. “Okey dokey lokey. But remember Spike, if you need something you can count on me. I mean, what’s better for an investigation team than Madame Pinkie with her Pinkie sense? I’ll just leave this little treat here, see you.” she left a small cupcake and bounced away from there and hid behind a tree to spy on Spike. At first the dragon didn’t care about the dessert, but then he grabbed it and ate it. Pinkie Pie giggled and said “Always works.”
Pinkie arrived at Carousel Boutique where she was greeted by Rarity. “Hello, Pinkie. What brings you here?” She said well hanging her laundry outside to dry.
“Hi Rare. Is Rainbow Dash here?”
“I’m sorry, darling. But she went to Cloudsdale, I think she had something very important to do there. She won’t come back until tomorrow, I’m afraid.” Rarity didn’t turn or look at her friend while answering, for her it wasn’t anything really important.
Pinkie felt a little down as she was very excited to spend the day with her friend. “Okay, well thanks anyway. Bye”
“Wait, Pinkie. Do you mind staying with me for a while?”
“Sure, but why?”
“Well, Sweetie Belle has been going with her friends a lot lately. And to be honest, I have so many questions I really want to ask you.”
The earthpony seemed confused, but she had nothing to do until tonight so she might as well spend a few minutes here. Although she was looking forward to spending time with Dash, she remembered she hasn’t spent much time with Rarity ether. “Okay, Rarity. Shoot.”
“Let’s go inside, darling”
Inside the Carousel Boutique everything was clean and shiny. They sat on some cushions Rarity had for guests. “Now, this might be a little naughty of me to ask, but curiosity is killing me. Have you and Twilight slept together?”
“Yes!” The pink pony answered quick as a whip, causing Rarity to startle.
“Really?! And... how is she in bed?”
“Well, she sleeps like a rock, thankfully she doesn’t snore. She likes to cuddle and sometimes it smothers me, though.”
“No, Pinkie that wasn’t what I meant. What I tried to say is, if you two have had... a private moment.”
“Of course. Sometimes she comes to the Sugarcube Corner and we spend the whole night together in private. It’s because she’s scared Spike may catch us during a kiss or something.”
“Okay... that wasn’t what I had in mind, but it brings me to the next question. How is Spike taking the news?”
“We...” Pinkie Pie stopped for a moment and thought. Even for her something didn’t seem right. “We decided not to tell Spike yet.”
“Oh yeah? May I ask why is that?”
“I don’t know. My Star told me not to tell him yet, I don’t even know if she told him or anything.”
“Interesting... Do you think it’s important for him to know?”
“Of course. I mean he’s our friend, besides he lives there. It would be awkward if he found us kissing or something, wouldn’t it?”
Rarity put her hoof on her mouth and looked down, clearly she was thinking about something. Then she continued with her interrogation. “How far do you want this relationship to go?”
Pinkie looked confused at her friends question “Sorry Rare, but I don’t get what you are saying.”
“You see, Spike is kind of like Twilight’s son, right? Maybe they are not related by blood, but she is the one who takes care of him. He’s just a baby and can’t look out for himself. If you are with Twilight then you might have to take responsibility too, that’s if you take the relationship serious and are planning to... settle down.”
“Oh silly, I’m already settled. I live in the apartment at Sugarcube Corner, remember?...” Pinkie looked away and smiled nervously, obviously she wanted to change the topic. “Take responsibility for Spike? It won't be like babysitting the babycakes. It would be like I was his mother... am I ready for that?” she wondered to herself.
Rarity noticed the awkwardness and tried to change the subject, but then they heard something. It sounded like something heavy hit the floor. “Hey, what was that?” asked Pinkie Pie.
“Huh?... It's … A roll of fabric, it probably fell. Hey, why don’t we go to Sweet Apple Acres? I bet Applejack is doing something fun.”
The earthpony looked curious for the sound, but didn’t find much. “Nah, I’ll pass for now. I gotta... do stuff. See ya.” She said goodbye rather quietly and left the shop, and heard Rarity talking to somepony or maybe herself, but she didn’t care. The things they talked about had given her a lot to think on.
She went to the bench in front of the fountain as she used to do before. It’s funny, she used to love that spot, but ever since she started dating Twilight it didn't feel the same. They saw each other every night so the excitement of being there had almost been extinguished, but she remembered the peace and calm the place provided. She sat alone on the bench to clear her head. “Responsibility... why do things have to be so complicated?" She layed down on the bench and looked up at the sky. "I just want to be with Twilight. All of this stuff makes my head feel like it's about to explode!” she thought to herself. She closed her eyes and tried to keep herself calm. Images of her marefriend came to mind. Twilight’s eyes were hypnotizing for her. Pinkie also loved the way Twilight walked, something in the pace and the mini-jumps whenever she gave a step was something she loved and found extremely cute. The more she imagined her the more the pony felt calm and her thoughts about her problems started to vanish.
Suddenly a familiar voice was heard, it was masculine but still kind. "There you are. Hey are you sleeping?" it was Mr. Cake.
She opened her eyes and remembered she was in a public place. "Sorry Mr. Cake, I have a lot of things going on in my head right now... You were looking for me? What's up?" She said as she sat up.
"Yes, I have to give you a message. Twilight came to the store looking for you a while ago. She said that she wanted you to go by her house this evening. Well I gotta go, I was buying stuff for the babies. Take care." said the stallion as he left.
“That was kind of weird.” she thought to herself. But she didn’t mind much, she had to go back home and get ready for the night.
Pinkie's wardrobe was full of clothes, mostly party dresses and costumes, clothes for any occasion. She loved parties and having fun, so she wanted to be ready for any kind of party. But that only made things worse. She knew that Twilight had invited her to the Library, but she didn't know what the occasion was. "Maybe it's a surprise party!... No, my birthday isn't even close yet." She picked some clothes at random and threw them on the bed. She couldn't decide what to wear. "Maybe it's our anniversary... is it?! Gosh I can't remember!" Pinkie panicked, how could she have forgotten something so important? She went to her party calendar on the wall to check, but she didn't mark down anything about it. Spending so much enjoyable time with Twilight made her completely forget to make a note on something so important. As the time passed Pinkie looked for something to give her marefriend, but couldn't find anything. "What should I do Gummy? She's gonna be so mad!" She had her hooves on the side of her head, but then she gave an evil sly look to the alligator that was bouncing on a ball near the window. "Oh Gummy, how would you like to be an anniversary present?" The pet responded with his usual expressionless face and a blink, he stared at his master's eyes and jumped out the window with the ball. Thankfully the ball cushion the impact of the toothless alligator and he bounced away. "YOU COWARD!" Pinkie stuck her head out of the window and yelled at her pet only to find out that it was already evening. "Uh oh." There wasn't time to pick a dress now. So she decided to go without one, she just put on some of her “Glaçage Essence” (a perfume she bought from a small shop in Canterlot) and went out to her marefriend's house.
When she got to her destination she thought. “Maybe this is what I need. Just a relaxing night spent with my star.” and she knocked on the door.
The door opened and a purple pony jumped and hugged the earthpony. “Welcome, my angel.” Twilight took the chance to blindfold Pinkie.
“Oh no! I’m blind! I can’t be blind! How will I aim my party cannon now?” Pinkie was just playing along.
“I got a surprise for you. I’ll be your guide.” She took one of Pinkie’s hooves and put it on her back.
After a few steps they stopped. “Okay, you ready?... Now, you can take the blindfold off.” said the unicorn very enthusiastically.
The pink pony took the blindfold away and saw a big plate of lasagna, two glasses, a bottle of apple cider and a single candle lit on a table. It was all nicely set, the candle being the only source of light in the dark room giving it a smooth atmosphere. “Hey, what’s this about? Is it our anniversary? Oh no, did I sleep too long and wake up almost a year later? Nooooo! All the fun I’ve been missing.” Pinkie yelled in distress.
The unicorn giggled and explained. “No, my angel. And you better have our anniversary right. I just wanted to do something nice for you, it's nice when you have a surprise for no other reason than just to have a surprise.”
Pinkie’s eyes teared up as she smiled, it was like if Twilight knew everything she needed. But then she wondered. “Hold on, you know how to cook? I’ve never seen you cooking before?”
Twilight blushed and held her right hoof with the left. “Well... No, this is my first time. I got a special book of fancy cooking and followed the recipe step by step, I think it's good. It made me happy that the first time I did it was with you... I mean FOR you.”
They sat at the table and Twilight served some cider for them. Then Pinkie noticed there was only one plate and it was on her side. “Are you forgetting your plate?”
“Oh no. After a few... failed attempts, I only had time left to make one and it was just big enough for a pony. I’ll eat salad, don’t worry about me.” The purple pony seemed to not mind at all as she drink a bit of cider.
Pinkie thought it would be okay if they shared it, but she didn’t want to be rude to Twilight, after all she put a lot of effort into it. Also it looked quite delicious. “Oki doki loki, it’s chow down time!” She gave a big bite and took away a good chunk of the lasagna.
The moment it touched Pinkie’s tongue she knew something was wrong. It tasted very sour and spicy. It was too firm for lasagna, which made it hard to chew and there was still squishy parts in it. She felt that swallowing it might be a bad idea, but Twilight was looking happily at her to see how she would react. “So, how is it? It's really bad, isn’t it?”
“Oh! Dear Celestia, please don’t let me die here, not like this!” She thought as she swallowed the lasagna. “It’s good. Not bad for a beginner.” she lied and pulled a smiled.
“Good, please don’t stop.” after feeling confident that her cooking wasn’t that bad she began eating her salad.
The pink pony stared at the dish. “Come on. Nothing can be that bad, maybe I need another bite. It can only taste better, right?” She thought to herself and gave it another bite. She was wrong, not only was it not better it was even worse. Somehow the squishy things felt slimy as she chewed them, she didn’t taste the pasta at all, she just tasted the sour-spicy sauce. Gathering all her strength she swallowed it. She quickly got the cider and drank the whole glass in one shot. “Could you serve me some more, please?” she asked, and Twilight gladly served her, but the glass didn’t last long as she drank it all again. “I can’t take away the taste from my mouth. I can’t finish it, what am I going to do?”
Suddenly the front door opened and slammed against the wall. It was Spike who had just came home. “Hi mo... Twilight, sorry I’m late. Oh, hi Pinkie Pie.”
“Hi Spike, where were you? Investigating again?” She was very happy that he came by, thankfully she had something that would distract from the dinner.
Twilight looked ashamed at Spike’s arrival. “Sorry Spike, lately you’ve left the house early each morning and went straight to bed when you got home, I didn’t think I would need to make any for you.”
“It’s okay, my star. I can share some of mine.” Pinkie remembered Spike eating the worst cupcakes ever created in Ponyville and he had liked them.
Spike looked sad for a moment, but quickly came back to his usual cocky self. “Wait, you made it?" indicating Twilight with a look. "Thank Celestia I came late. You used to be a nice friend Pinkie, I’m sad it had to end like this." he said jokingly. "I’ll go to bed now, G’night.” The baby dragon went upstairs to his bed
“Sorry about that. He’s been coming back late saying he’s already eaten, So I didn’t consider I would need to make some for him. I should do something to make it up to him.” Twilight looked sad as she took another drink of cider.
“"Hey, don't you think there's something weird with him lately? Have you talked with him about it?” Pinkie was honestly concerned about Spike, but also wanted something to distract her from dinner.
"No, he's been acting weird ever since he started doing that investigation thing, and coming back really late. But I thought that overwhelming him with questions about it wouldn't work. He usually doesn't talk much about the things he does. I'm just going to give him some time, when he feels ready he will talk with me." She was trying to sound confident, but there was some insecurity in her voice.
Pinkie tried to comfort her. “Maybe that’s all he needs. Speaking of which... should we tell him about us?”
It didn’t helped much. Twilight kept thinking about her baby dragon. “I don’t know Pinkie, maybe we should wait until he stops acting weird. If he has something and we throw him another bombshell, things might get out of hoof.” Twilight gave a sigh and looked at Pinkie’s dish. “Oh sorry, your dinner might have gotten cold with all this. Do you want me to warm it up for you with my magic?”
The earthpony had completely forgot about the dinner, and with that reminder the taste came back to her mouth like a ghost. “Oh, you know what, I kinda lost my appetite. I can take it with me and eat it later.” She smiled trying to hide her true thoughts.
“Pinkie, can we go to your place tonight? I don’t want to bother Spike.” Twilight asked kind of embarrassed..
The earthpony accepted and they went to her apartment. They just tied not to talk about the last topic and enjoyed the rest of the night in the moons light.
The next day, Twilight opened her eyes, the bright light of the sun dazzled her as she slowly regain consciousness. She found that she wasn’t alone in the bed, she had someponie’s arms wrapped around her and that pony was Pinkie Pie. Somehow during the night they had fallen asleep in the same bed, this was the first time that somepony had slept with her in the same bed this way. But instead of freaking out, she was just glad that the first thing she saw was her, she cuddled upon her marefriend and enjoyed the great beginning of the day. Twilight’s horn gave Pinkie a tickle and woke her up. The sight of having her marefriend in her arms made her heart pump faster giving a hint to the unicorn that her loved one was awake. “Good morning.” said Twilight in a gentle and soft voice.
“Good morning, my star.” Pinkie answered back and kissed her forehead
The two ponies laid on the bed for some time, hugging and giving soft caress to each others. Time was meaningless, the whole world was gone, there were only the two of them. But just like the sweetest dream, the moment had to be broken, and the moment breaker was the smell of bread and sweets in the air. Pinkie Pie suddenly remembered her job and that she might be late. “Twilight... not that I don’t like this, but excuse me.” She jumped out of bed towards the Take-o-shower 2000 and began her clean up.
Twilight was confused and still a little sleepy. “Hey, what’s the matter?”
“I may be a little late for work. I forgot I had to work today, sorry.” She said well on the second stage.
“Don’t you have a clock or an alarm to tell you when to wake up? Come to think of it, do you even have a clock?”
“Nope, I usually wake up at the time I need to open the store. Like if my pinkie sen- uurrg!” She reached the last stage and forgot that she shouldn’t be talking on the machine.
After the quick process, the pink pony was ready. “I’m sorry the morning had to be so short, my star, but we can go downstairs and have breakfast. What do you say?”
Twilight was angry, but she couldn’t blame Pinkie Pie, she was the one who came up with the surprise after all. She agreed and they went down to start the day. Twilight wanted to clean herself up, but didn’t trust her marefriend’s machine to hop on it, she just fixed her mane a little with her magic and used a little bit of perfume.
When they walked down the stairs they were greeted by the awkward stares of a lot of ponies. Sugarcube Corner was packed full of ponies and all of them watch the couple coming down. Some of them had suspected that they had a relationship, but never actually saw them doing something as a couple before. Even Pinkie Pie felt weird with everypony staring at them, and not a single sound being heard until Twilight spoke “I... I’ll see you later. Excuse me.” and she left the place.
Pinkie Pie went to the kitchen and start working as if nothing happened. Everypony continued with their activities, and thankfully no one asked Pinkie about it, because she wasn’t sure if she had done something wrong. But she couldn’t look her mentors in the eye, she didn’t do anything really bad, but for some reason they didn’t say a word except for the orders she had to make. This made her feel like she had misbehaved somehow.
The day had passed and the customers were gone. The Cakes were getting ready to go home, and Pinkie was getting ready to get yelled at, even if she didn’t know what. Instead Mrs. Cake said just two sentences. “Close the place well, Pinkie. Just be on time tomorrow.” and she left. Mr. Cake, who usually gave her some kind words said nothing. He just looked back at her giving a smile, it was quite forced but a well intended smile.
Pinkie locked the door to secure the place, somehow them not telling her something was wrong felt even worse than if they had just gotten mad at her. “Did I do something wrong?” Her head felt heavy, so she went upstairs to clear it.
She laid on her bed with the image of the Ponies eyes in her mind, haunting her, she just didn’t know what went wrong. The more she tried thinking about that beautiful morning, the more the image of the ponies staring at them came to her stronger and scarier. She struggled with these ideas in her head until she fell asleep.
The next day, as an apology for what she might have or haven't done Pinkie Pie opened the store, had all the ingredients set, and the rest of the store ready for the day of work. When Mr. and Mrs. Cake arrived they just looked a little impressed for her having everything ready. But they didn’t say a word besides the usual greeting, Pinkie wanted to talk things over, but she was too afraid of something going wrong. Not many ponies came by the store that day. So the three bakers stared at each other most of the time not saying a word.
Mrs. Cake came close to Pinkie Pie and finally spoke to her. “Pinkie Would you kindly go and deliver this cake to Berry Punch?” Her voice was kind of harsh, but at least she was talking to her.
“Right away!” She took the box and ran off. She didn't really do deliveries, but was going to do whatever they asked of her if that would make things better.
On her way to Berry Punch's house she heard ponies talking and whispering as she passed by. It felt weird "Could they be talking about her?" she thought. "Nah." She just shrugged it off. She dropped off the cake and headed back to the store fast, she usually would take her time to talk to the ponies around her, but now she needed to make things better with the cakes. While she was walking back she bumped into Spike. “Hi Spike, you look a little gloomy. Everything alright?” She could tell that there was something wrong with him.
“Pinkie. I don’t feel like talking.” He said while avoiding Pinkie’s look.
“Then, come with me.” She bit the dragon’s tail and pulled him to Sugarcube Corner with her.
They arrived and she placed Spike right in front of the counter, then she went to the kitchen, took some hot chocolate and a slice of cake, and gave them to Spike. She then took a cloth and cleaned the counter with it while saying “So, what’s wrong in your life, champ?" She said with a deep voice.
Spike smiled a little, she kind of reminded him of pony Joe back in Canterlot. When he lived there he used to talked to him about his problems frequently, something about him just made him feel like he could say anything. He finally gave up and just let everything out. "It's just that the investigation team and I are actually looking for our origins. We found some for Sweetie Belle and Applebloom, but no matter how hard I look for mine I can't find anything. I just want to know who I am, and where I come from. I thought of writing to Princess Celestia, but what if she doesn't know anything either? I just don't know what to do."
Things looked worse than she thought, sadly this wasn’t something a small chat or a party could solve. Suddenly, she remembered what Rarity had said, this was a chance to bring him closer to her. Perhaps she couldn’t help him right now, but at the very least she could give him the feeling that he wasn't alone. “I don’t know Spike. I think you got nothing to lose by asking the Princess. But I want you to know that if you have a problem or if you feel sad or lonely, Pinkie is here and you can always count on her." She said with a calming voice trying to comfort the dragon. "I really hope we can be... closer.” Her voice sounded a little bit shy and sweet.
Spike blushed a little and smiled. “Thanks Pink. I'll keep that in mind.” He said after he finished his cake. He then got up waved goodbye and left.
Pinkie Pie felt a warm feeling in her chest, something different, something she hadn’t felt before. But the feeling was quickly interrupted by Mr. Cake. “The sales were really slow today. Do you mind if we leave early? I don’t think many more customers will come by today. The sun is setting anyway.”
“Sure, no problem Mr. Cake.” said Pinkie.
“Thanks, and Pinkie Pie... Don’t worry. We were just a little surprised yesterday, but it’s alright. Why don’t you take a free day tomorrow?” Said the stallion before following his wife who had just left the shop.
The earthpony felt like a heavy weight had been lifted off of her shoulders. At least she knew she wasn’t in trouble anymore, but what would they be surprised about? Maybe she’ll find out later. She stayed at the store for a while, just like normal for this time no one stop by, sweets and bread aren’t needed every day. So sometimes the bakery was like a ghost town. It did feel deserted until one pony came by. “Hello, my angel. How have you been?” Twilight entered the shop and went straight towards her giving her a small kiss.
“Great, are you staying here?” the pink pony asked excited.
“Sorry, but I can’t. I wanted to get some sweets for Spike, I feel like I should spend some time with him.” The unicorn said sorely.
“Hey, tomorrow I’ll have a free day. We can have a nice day together.” Pinkie Pie suggested with a smile on her face while she put some sweets and cupcakes in a box. This made Twilight happy, but a little curious.
“Pinkie, you’ve been asking a lot about Spike and trying to spend more time with him (not that it’s bad or anything), but why is that?” The unicorn asked.
The pink pony was caught on the spot, even if she knew what to do she was nervous of what her marefriend would say. “I just thought that... if we are going to be together. I thought, I should get a closer relationship with Spike too. You know because he’s your so...” She stopped herself before finishing that statement and tried to rephrase it. “He’s your... Ward and well we will be spending more time together, right?”
Twilight was moved by what her marefriend had said, she hugged and gave her another kiss. “That would be perfect. Please come to my house at noon.” She took the box and said goodbye.
Pinkie finally felt relieved, relationships were way more complicated than she’d ever imagined, but when she spent time with her loved one it was all worth it. Pinkie went upstairs and got out a ruby she had hidden beneath her bed. “I’ve been saving this for some time. So sad that he will eat it, but I’m sure he’ll love it”. She now had something to look forward to.
The next day Pinkie got out a picnic box to get ready with balloons, streamers, and a big cake with a string beneath it that will launch everything when the box is opened. She left her apartment to head to the library, but not before she was stopped by Mrs. Cake. “Hey, Pinkie, I wanted to apologize for my behavior the other day. I think we need to talk about it later with you.” Mrs. Cake looked worried about something.
Pinkie’s curiosity shown, but she didn't want to be late for her appointment with Twilight. “Okey Dokey Lokey Mrs. Cake. Take care, will talk later.” she then continued on to Twilights.
When she arrived at the library she found Spike and Twilight hugging, and she wanted to join in. Without even greeting her marefriend she just jumped in and made the small hug a group hug. “Awww, thats so sweet. I think I got here just in time.” she said.
“Hi Pinkie, mom and I are heading for a picnic. I’ll go and tell everypony else, see you there.” Spike was really excited and ran off.
“Mom?... Is it me or is this the first time he's called you that?” Pinkie Pie was really surprised. Since she's met them, not once has Spike called her “Mom” or anything close to it.
Twilight giggled and blush because of Pinkie’s question. “It’s nothing, he just found out who his real family is.”
“His real family? But Twilight is his family, aren’t they?” Pinkie wondered, but her thoughts were interrupted by Twilight again. “So, why don’t we head to the picnic spot, my angel?”
As they walked to the picnic spot Pinkie Pie wondered something. “Hey, if you are his mom... what am I?”
A mischievous look and grin appeared on the unicorn’s face. “Why don’t we find that out later?”
