Just the two of us

by PonyXpress

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Comedy, Romance, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie
Length: 5439

The ESSA has put front a competition, which Pinkie Pie accepts.

The Equestrian Society for the Support of Animals (ESSA) puts forth a community competition for anyone to participate. When the prize is said to be a surprise, Pinkie Pie quickly decides to take part.
However when she hears that Fluttershy is also competing she has second thoughts.

Fluttershy X Pinkie Pie ship fic
Idea from SwiperTheFox
Image is by mn27

Published 2012-02-12 20:54:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-02-16 05:39:32 UTC

Cooking up a storm

The Equestrian Society for the Support of Animals, it was a new community run group approved by Celestia herself not long ago. The volunteer group aided in any nature affairs, tending to animals homes, gathering them enough food and the like. The problem was nopony knew about the group and funding part in small volunteer groups such as this. If they wanted any chance to show Equestria what they had, they need a publicity stunt. Something to get as many ponies' attention as possible. Something to allow ponies to participate. If ponies were able to participate, they would definitely talk about it with their friends, it would spread like wild fire. Of course, they'd need a prize, something to win, something to give them a reason to participate in the first place.

After several meetings and discussions, some of which even involved the Princess herself. The group had come to a decision to hold a fundraising contest. Whoever raised the most money for the cause would win! The deal was settled, and posters were setup through various towns all over Equestria.

"Hey Twilight! Twilight!" Pinkie's voice could be heard from a mile away.

Twilight slowly lowered her book and sat upright waiting for the bright pink pony to burst through the door any second.

"Twilight!!!"

"3...2...1"

At that exact moment a pink earth pony slammed the front door of the library wide open with a thud. Although Twilight had managed to count down and know exactly when she would show up, the sudden appearance of her bubbly friend always took her by surprise.

"Hey Twilight, look at this!" Pinkie yelled as she held up a little note that Twilight could have sworn she saw on a noticeboard somewhere around town.

Twilight's horn glowed a faint purple, taking the note from Pinkie's grasp, she brought it closer to her face and hopped off her seat.

"The ESSA Fundraiser Event" She read out aloud giving Pinkie a funny look.

Pinkie looked at her with a grin. "Yeah!"

"This event will be hosted, this Wednesday. Whoever can raise the most amount of money will be declared the winner. The winner will receive a prize, which will be announced as soon as the winners are"

Twilight levitated the paper back over to Pinkie, who grabbed it in her mouth.

"Isn't it exciting?" Pinkie hopped in her place with glee.

Twilight cocked her brows "Sure...Pinkie...but why are you so interested in this? It's just another fundraising group trying to get on their hooves" She questioned the pink pony with genuine curiosity.

Pinkie took the note in one of her hooves and pushed it into Twilight's face. The lavender coated pony abruptly retracted her head in surprise with a grunt.

"Look! They haven't told us the prize, because it's a surprise, I LOVE surprises. Plus all the money we raise from the competition goes to a good cause anyways so everypony wins!" Pinkie squealed with delight before stopping in her place giving her friend a confused look "Well not everpony wins...because then there would be no winner"

Twilight looked at her blankly, unsure of what to think.

"Okay..."

The book she was previously reading before Pinkie's intrusion levitated itself over to her, enveloped in a familiar purple glow.

"Is there any particular reason you came to tell me about this? I hope you aren't planning anything to get me involved right? I understand it's all in good will and all but I don't think I have the time to be..."

Her sentence was cut short as she noticed Pinkie was shaking her head in denial.

"Nope" The pink party pony said

"Then why..."

"I dunno" Pinkie shrugged "You were the closest so I came here to tell you that I'd be baking some treats to raise money"

Twilight's ears perked at the sound of treats, she knew Pinkie's goods were always top notch and that if she was going to raise money, she'd definitely chosen the right way to do so.

"Oh? What kind of treats?" Twilight asked inquisitively

Pinkie paused for a moment, bringing a hoof to her chin as she thought of what to say next.

"Hmm...I'm not exactly sure you know, maybe I should try make something new, like a new kind of cupcake! I'm sure ponies would love that!" Pinkie started with her signature hop, her mane and tail playfully trailing her body with her movements.

"Well I'm sure it'll be great Pinkie" Twilight gave her a smile and headed back to her seat and continued reading.

Pinkie stopped bouncing for a moment and watched her friend stuff her face back into the book she was reading. She took a few steps backward just about to head off before her curiosity got the better of her.

"Hey Twilight, whatcha reading?" Her voice broke the little moment of silence.

Twilight looked up and lowered the book so she could see Pinkie smiling face.

"It's the second part to the astronomical astronomer's almanac to all things astronomy, it's pretty interesting, wanna read?" Twilight said with an awkward smile on her face.

Pinkie's smile suddenly drooped to a sheepish grin.

"Oh, uhh, no thanks Twilight, I should probably go get ready for that contest, I mean it IS in 2 days"

And with that, the pink earth pony was gone in an instant.

Sugarcube Corner was filled with all sorts of noises, and it was even more full of random, assorted, special, Pinkie Pie goods. Cupcakes littered the benches, some failed, some looking rather delicious to any onlookers, fortunately for Pinkie, there were none. The Cakes had gone away for the day to visit some relatives and left the store in her care. The sweet aroma of sugar and icing along with the scents of various fruits and flavorings she was using filled the store.

Pinkie pulled yet another cupcake from the oven with a frown. Placing the cupcake on the bench along with all her others, she looked at it in slight despair.

"Ohhh...none of these are good, they taste good but they need to LOOK good to" She pouted to herself.

She looked at the dozens of cupcakes that covered the benches, in an attempt to try gain some inspiration. Nothing seemed to click. She gave herself a frown before grabbing more flour and starting over. Single cupcakes were being baked, one after the other, all different than the last not only in looks but taste as well. There were strawberry cupcakes, apple cupcakes, cinnamon swirl cupcakes, caramel, blueberry, razzleberry, rose petal, daffodil. None of them seemed to please her. She looked at them all judging them with hawk like eyes, if cupcakes could feel, they would most likely be dripping with fear.

"OHHHH! Why won't any of you turn out right?" Pinkie whined, sitting herself down

She grabbed the nearest cupcake and brought it to her mouth. Her eyes skimmed over it for a moment, examining it with care. Pinkie let out an exhausted sigh before giving the cupcake a little nibble.

"Mmm, cookies and cream!" Pinkie smiled

There was a familiar ringing sound as Pinkies ears rose to attention. That was the door. Pinkie picked herself up off the floor and set her cupcake on the little free space left. Before long a familiar voice echoed through the store.

"Hello? Pinkie?"

Fluttershy made herself visible in the kitchen, eyeing all the baked goods that lay all over the benches.

"Fluttershy!" Pinkie beamed rushing over "I was making so many cupcakes for this competition and none of look the way I wanted so I kept making more and more and now they're all over the place and I still haven't got the right one yet and I don't know what to do" Her face by now pouting.

Pinkie's voice was so fast it was hard to pick up what she was saying at all. Fluttershy stared at her with a dumbfounded look for a few moments before giving a little giggle.

"They all look fine to me Pinkie"

"But none of them are perfect!" She whined

"Pinkie, since when have you cared about perfect? I thought you didn't care so long as the taste was good?" Fluttershy asked looking around at the mess that was the kitchen.

"Well i wanted to enter this competition" She said pulling the poster she had showed Twilight earlier that day of the table nearby and showed it to her. "Competitions are usually hard because everyone else puts so much work into it...so if I don't do the same, there's no way I'll win" Pinkie let out another sigh.

"ESSA? You're going to enter in that too?" Fluttershy looked at the poster with big eyes.

"Mhmm"

"Well...I was...sort of thinking...of entering too" the yellow pony skulked back a little turning her head to it's side.

"Really?" Pinkie thought about it for a moment, Equestrian Society for the Support of Animals. Animals. Why didn't she think of that before? Of course Fluttershy would enter if the cause was to help animals.

"Well...yes, I was hoping to make some little things to sell as well...and, well, I came here to pick up some flour" Fluttershy explained "But, if you're going to enter i wouldn't want to get in your way, I'm sure you'd do much better than me" She finished with a warm grin.

"Hey now...come on, don't be like that, you can still go for it, besides all the money goes to the animals right? If both of us..." Pinkie trailed off getting lost in thought.

She suddenly sprung up with a huge cheesy grin on her face.

"I, just had the BEST, IDEA, EVER!" Pinkie squealed with glee

The sudden movement force Fluttershy back a little, sinking towards the ground in shock. Pinkie raced over to her yellow pegasus friend.

"Why don't we both, enter the competition?" Pinkie suggested, raising a hoof to the roof. "As a duo?!"

Pinkie smiled putting her hoof around Fluttershy, waving her other arm over all the cupcakes as she continued her speech.

"I'm sure you and I could come up with the best cupcake ever! And we can make heaps and heaps of them! I'm sure we'd win if we work together!"

"But...Pinkie, are you sure we're allowed to work together in groups?"

"Well, the posters doesn't say we aren't allowed to so I'm sure it'll be fine" Pinkie reassured her a pat on the back.

The idea did seem rather pleasing to her and it sounded like a lot of fun, baking cupcakes with Pinkie. She was almost certain they'd be able to raise a lot of money for the group.

"Sure, I'd love to Pinkie" Fluttershy agreed with a giggle

"GREAT! We should get started right away!"

Pinkie rushed over to the benches and cleared all the cupcakes off, tossing them into the trash except for one, the cookies and cream cupcake she had nibbled on earlier. The cupcake was the only one she had tasted, yet, she knew that it was the best tasting one of the whole lot she had whipped up today. There was no mistaking Pinkie's taste, it was yet to be rivaled. Pinkie put the half eaten cupcake on the bench in front of Fluttershy.

"I think this was the best one I made today, the only problem is, I can't seem to decorate it well enough"

Fluttershy looked at the cupcake attentively, coming up with various ways to ice the cupcake in her head.

"Well, Pinkie, if you can make more I can try make it look better if you want"

She didn't need to mutter another word, before long Pinkie gave her a prompt salute and dashed for the flour and began slapping together another batch. Fluttershy followed her along helping her mix all the ingredients carefully. Scooping the butter into cups to keep them evenly measured. Flour and milk was getting everywhere, on the floor, all over the tables even on themselves. The sound of giggling and cooking could be heard from outside, fortunately Pinkie had flipped the sign to closed so nopony came in wondering what all the noise was.

Fluttershy tried her best not to get herself messy, but being around Pinkie Pie and cooking with the ingredients they had to work with, she realized it was futile. Pinkie was taking the baking seriously but in a way, she was so free about it, like she had to make sure they were both having fun. Which made perfect sense, what good was a group project if neither of them was having fun? Pinkie snickered as she finally threw together a tray of cookies and cream cupcake batter. She slipped them into the oven and spun around admiring the mess they'd made of the kitchen.

"Look at this mess" Pinkie giggled, walking around the kitchen leaving light hoof prints in the flour, looking at their 'handiwork'.

The flour coated pegasus gazed around at her surroundings. There was a thin coat of fine white powder over the whole kitchen, butter and milk could be seen splattered here and there. There was a whole cracked egg on one of the benches, she laughed, wondering how they even managed to completely miss one whole egg let alone have it laying raw on a bench. Then there was the sugar, it was hardly visible with all the flour, but it was there, it was surely there.

"Oh my...This IS a big mess isn't it?" Fluttershy said with slight emphasis

Pinkie cocked her head up can gave her a grin "But we had fun, right?"

The pegasus pony looked into Pinkie eyes, she was clearly awaiting a response. She knew how much it meant to her when she made her friends happy.

"Yes, we did" She finally nodded

Pinkie leaped for joy "Yay!"

The sound of the oven suddenly filled the room, it's ringing indicating the cupcakes were ready. Pinkie ruched over and pulled her oven mitts on, she carefully pulled the door open trying to ignore the sudden gust of hot air billowing out. The tray slid out into Pinkie grasp, who then carried the cupcakes over to Fluttershy.

"We should probably clean up while we wait for these to cool" Pinkie suggested sheepishly

Fluttershy bobbed her head in agreement as the pair of them grabbed some brooms.

Cleaning the kitchen wasn't all too hard, most of the mess was simply dry, powdered ingredients anyway. Neither of the ponies spoke while sweeping, likely because their mouths were full holding brooms. They enjoyed each others company none the less and Pinkie made sure to show it with an occasional glance and a smile.

Fluttershy looked down at the now cool cupcakes with determination. She picked up the green icing and slowly gave it a base coat. The pink icing was next however this time she made a small circle of pink on a tray. She paused for a moment, heading over to the oven, she slid it carefully into the heated contraption. With the yellow she added a secondary coat, a much smaller spot than the green, in the shape of a small flower. She quickly rushed over to the oven, where the little pink circle was now clearly hardened. Cutting the little circle of hard icing in half, she pressed one half in the side of the cupcake and the other half in the opposite side. Looking at the baked treat with satisfaction, her hoof pushed it towards Pinkie, who was simply sitting, watching her with complete and utter attention.

"So....what do you think?" Fluttershy's voice was almost barely audible but Pinkie made it out in the silence of the room.

Pinkie was speechless, in one try, Fluttershy had made it look so...pleasing. It was simple, yet unbelievably effective. It looked like a flower,but at the same time vaguely resembled a butterfly.

"It looks...really, really good!" Pinkie exclaimed

Her yellow friend let out a sigh of relief before her face beamed with a smile.

"I'm glad you like it Pinkie"

'Like it' was an understatement "I love it!"

A pink tint quickly found it's way to Fluttershy's face and she turned her head away the slightest.

"Well I think that's it" Pinkie said stretching herself "We'll make as many of these as we can...not now of course"

Both ponies peered outside, the sun had completely gone, and the darkness of the night had taken hold of the town.

"Wow, is it that late already?!" Pinkie shouted "Hey Fluttershy, if you don't feel like flying home in the dark, you're more than welcome to stay here the night"

Pinkie spun around to her baking companion and awaited a response.

"Oh, umm, I...sure I guess that'd be alright"

The earth pony simply gave her a welcoming smile as she headed upstairs. Fluttershy quickly followed her up as all the lights downstairs were switched off. Pinkie lead Fluttershy to her room, she'd been there before for several parties and the like so it was no surprise. The room was particularly large for a bedroom, then again this was pretty much her house, so the size was much more understandable taking that into consideration.

"You can take my bed" Pinkie offered raising a hoof at the single bed in the room "I'll take the sofa"

"Oh I don't know Pinkie, I don't think I could take your bed, I'm fine with just the sofa"

Pinkie giggled, trotting up to her modest pony friend. She put a hoof over her shoulders to comfort her.

"Really Fluttershy, it's no worry, you'd do the same for me, I know you would"

Pinkie walked over to a cupboard in the room and pulled out a spare blanket and pillow, both of which were adorned with pictures of balloons and cupcakes. She turned around only to see Fluttershy standing hesitantly by Pinkie's bed. She looked at it carefully, it had the same pattern as the blanket and pillow Pinkie had just pulled out. Pinkie's face saddened for a moment.

"Fluttershy, if it's worrying you that much you can have the sofa...I just want you to be comfy!"

"Oh...no, it's ok, thank you, Pinkie" She said pulling the sheets of the bed away.

"Okie dokie lokie!" Pinkie's mood ripened with happiness yet again.

Fluttershy lay in Pinkie's bed pulling the sheets over herself. The bed smelled of, well, Pinkie Pie. It was almost as if she was laying right next to her. Usually she'd have trouble sleeping in someone else's house, let alone their bed as well. Yet she felt comfortable here, almost as much as she did in her own bed.

"Night Fluttershy"

Pinkie's voice broke the silence, forcing Fluttershy to perk her ears at the sudden sound. There was a brief pause between that and the next sound.

"Goodnight Pinkie"

The day before

Bright blue eyes watched Fluttershy sleeping soundly from across the room with a a strange peacefulness. Pinkie was always up and out of bed rather early, regardless of the time she went to sleep. Nopony ever really quite put a hoof on how that actually worked. Eventually most ponies would come to realize that with Pinkie, almost anything was possible.

A small ray of light peeked through the windows and flooded Pinkie's smile. She reached out in front of her and pulled herself off the sofa, stretching her arms and legs as she did. A loud yawn slipped out of her mouth while her hooves trotted their way over to the sleeping pegasus.

Fluttershy's mane was rustled in a mess, strands of her pink hair curled and crumpled in her sleep. The blanket she lay under rose slowly before lowering itself back down. Pinkie had never seen Fluttershy like this, in fact, they she was probably the one pony out of all her friends that she'd spent the least amount of time with. However, she felt she was just as close to her, as she was with everypony else.

Pinkie took a deep breath, spinning herself around, heading for the door. Her mind started running through ideas for breakfast while the sound of her hooves on the wooden floor echoed through the silent house. Stepping into the kitchen, Pinkie took a look around until she noticed the single decorated cupcake. It sat separate from the rest of the 'naked' cupcakes. She lifted it up to her mouth and gave it a little nibble. It tasted just as good as the last one, even better with the icing on it.

"Good morning Pinkie"

Pinkie's body stiffened at the sudden voice. The cupcake fell from her grasp, her body kicking and flailing trying to catch the falling baked good. The cupcake landed in her hoof with a light poof sound as she toppled over.

"Oh my goodness!" Fluttershy called from behind her quick rushing to Pinkie's aid "I'm so sorry, i didn't mean to startle you"

"It's fine" Pinkie giggled pulling herself up off the floor.

The pink pony shook her body trying to get some flour off that had gotten on her from the fall.

"So, do you think we should make the cupcakes now? Or tomorrow?" Pinkie asked looking her shy pegasus friend.

Fluttershy took a look around, pondering what to say.

"Uhmm..." there was a brief pause of silence before she finished "How about tomorrow? It'd be better if they were fresh...but um...whatever you think is better is fine" She said shying away.

Pinkie couldn't help but snicker.

"Silly, I asked you because i wanted to know what you think, that DOES sound better"

Fluttershy smiled, lifting her head just a little.

"So, then what do we do today?" Pinkie asked tilting her brows

"Well...I think I should probably head home to take care of some of the animals"

"Oh, ok then, I guess I'll...." Pinkie frowned, contorting her lips in thought.

"OH! I know!" She screamed, startling poor Fluttershy backwards a bit.

"I'll go tell everyone about our bake sale tomorrow! That way, we're sure to sell as many as we can!"

The pink earth pony began jumping in her spot with a cheerful grin. Fluttershy looked at her with large eyes trying to catch her breath.

"That...sounds like a good idea" She managed to say

"Great! Well you have fun with you animals, I'll go spread the news!"

Pinkie put a whole lot of emphasis on that final word, for whatever reason she had. Fluttershy gave her friend a quick smile and headed for the door.

"I'll see you tomorrow Pinkie"

"Okie Dokie Lokie!"

Pinkie stood in her place for several minutes, she wasn't even sure why, her mind had just trailed off for a few moments. Coming back to reality, she let out a giggle and made sure everything in the store was in order.

"Looks like it's clear!"

With that, Pinkie quickly dashed out the door to tell everyone about their plan.

Pinkie knocked on the front door or the library with a grin. Before long, Twilight emerged from inside the library, with a saddle bag of books.

"Oh, hey Pinkie Pie" She greeted her

"Hey Twilight!"

"So, what brings you here?"

"Oh, well you know that contest that I was going to enter?"

"That animal society one?" Twilight asked, trying to recall the name of the group as best she could.

"Yuh huh!" Pinkie's mouth formed a great big smile

"What about it?"

"Weeeell, I was trying to come up with some new cupcakes yesterday when Fluttershy came over to get some flour and she asked me what I was doing and then I said that I was making cupcakes for that contest and then she was like 'oh my gosh I'm entering that too' so I thought it would be a super fantastic idea for us to work as a team and then Fluttershy helped me make some really really yummy cupcakes that look really good and then she slept over at my place because it was too dark and then she went to go look after her animals not long ago while I go and tell everyone that we're gonna be selling the cupcakes at Sugarcube Corner tomorrow!"

Pinkie's actions as she spoke were almost as fast as the speed at which she spoke. Twilight stood at the open door in shock, not knowing what exactly had happened.

"Right" was all she could muster.

"Well yeah, just tell as many ponies as you can about the sale tomorrow, okay! I promise they're really really yummy!"

Pinkie quickly waved good bye to her lavender coated friend and headed off to her next target.

Rarity's boutique was an incredible building, probably one of the more notable of the town. Fine details decorated almost every square inch of the structures surface.

Pinkie burst through the front door, feeling knocking was unnecessary.

"Rarity!" She called

"She's not here" A familiar voice called

Pinkie spun around, Sweetie Belle was standing over by the entrance to the kitchen.

"Oh...umm, I guess I'll tell you then!" Pinkie said bounding over to the little unicorn.

"Tell me what?"

"Fluttershy and I are gonna be making some really super awesome cupcakes tomorrow to raise money for that animal society"

Pinkie jumped in her place with a smile that could only be rivaled with that of unbridled joy.

"Ohhhh, cupcakes, I love cupcakes!"

Pinkie's body locked up as she came to a stop on the ground, her mouth let out a gasp.

"Oh my gosh! So do I!" Her face quickly returned to a smile as she headed for the front door "Well I better go tell everypony else! Don't forget to tell Rarity for me!"

"Okay!" Sweetie called from behind

The pink earth pony quickly left Sweetie Belle's view rather fast. The little unicorn was left standing at the front door of the botique before she closed the door and headed about her day.

Pinkie bounced happily through Ponyville pondering on where to head next. The town seemed rather busy today, busier than usual at least. There were ponies running around picking supplies up, conversations going on in almost every possible direction and ponies selling various things at stand scattered through the area. She wondered how many other ponies were going to enter the contest, it was Equestria wide so there would be a good chance that ponies from Trottingham and Fillydelphia would be competing too. Would any of them be able to out do their cupcakes? She shrugged it off and headed to the first place she could think of.

She took a sharp turn to her right only to be greeted with a thud. Both ponies fell to the ground quick and hard. Pinkie shook her head, peering over her slumped body.

"Applejack! Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" Pinkie quickly sprung up on all fours and gathered all the fallen apples as fast as she could.

Applejack struggled to pull herself up, still dazed from the fall.

"Oh, hey Pinkie Pie" She muttered

Pinkie put all the apples in the bag Applejack had dropped and placed them in front of the orange farm pony.

"Are you okay? I didn't see you there"

"I'm fine sugarcube, thanks" Applejack smiled "What's got ya'll in a rush like that?"

"Oh well I was going to see if Rainbow Dash was home to tell her about the cupcakes Fluttershy and I are gonna be selling tomorrow" Pinkie's body hopped up and down yet again.

"Oh?"

"Yeah we're gonna be raising money for the the Equestrian Society for....uhh, something about animals" Pinkie's hopping stopped as her face formed a frown. "Well anyway, I was going around spreading the news so we could get as many customers as possible!"

"Sounds like a plan ya got goin there! Well goodluck! I better get back to the apple stand"

Applejack left Pinkie with a nod.

"Okie Dokie Lokie!"

Pinkie approached Rainbow's cloud home, wondering if she was even home. The sun was almost down, the orange sky looked brilliant against the white clouds of the blue pegasus' home. Almost like some kind of heavenly gate, unreachable by Pinkie as she was. Secretly she'd always wanted to have wings, being able to fly would be awesome fun!

"Hey! Rainbow Daaaash!" She called out at the distant cloud home.

"You home!?"

Pinkie waited for a few minutes with no response. She lowered her rump down and took a seat on the grass. Time ticked on, the sun crept further down the sky. She figured maybe Dashie didn't hear her, either that or she wasn't home.

"Hellooooooo~!" her voice echoed through the air and off into the distant mountains

A familiar pegasus poked her head out from one of open windows of the cloud home. Pinkie's face lit up at Rainbow's sudden appearance. Rainbow leaped out of her window and and glided down to Pinkie, landing with a soft pat on the grass. She took a few steps towards Pinkie with a welcoming smile on her face.

"Hey, Pinkie, what's up?"

"I just came to let you know that Fluttershy and I are gonna be selling some special cupcakes tomorrow, it's for a contest!" She replied as she stood herself back up.

"Special?"

Dash knew that any kind of special cupcake was worth every bit. The last time Pinkie had made anything like this was when Applejack had helped her, those weren't so good. But since Fluttershy was her helper this time, they had to be good.

"Yep!"

"Special how?"

"You'll see tomorrow" Pinkie gave her friend a mischievous grin followed by a wink. "I promise they're good!"

"Sounds awesome to me, I'll be there, don't you worry."

"Yay!"

"I'll see you tomorrow then Pinkie"

Rainbow shot of back to her cloud before Pinkie could even respond.

"Okie dokie then!"

Pinkie stood in her place just looking at the sky for a while, she had no idea why. It was getting dark, maybe the darkness was hypnotic, those bright shades of purple slowly consumed the orange in the sky as the sun disappeared from view completely. She shook her head to get a grip on herself before heading off back to town.

Pinkie knocked on the red cottage door lightly. The sun had gone, the stars and moon shone brightly in the night sky. the sound of various nocturnal animals could be heard here and there. Fluttershy's cottage was like a safe haven in the midst of the night. Her house was surrounded by trees, bushes, and sat on the edge of the Everfree Forrest. The cottage gave off a sort of, soothing, welcoming light, anyone lost nearby would most likely be drawn straight to it.

"I'm coming! Please don't leave!"

Fluttershy pulled the door open her panicked look quickly turned to a smile.

"Oh hello Pinkie"

"Hey Fluttershy! i just came to let you know, that me and Flutter..." her voice trailed off to nothing but a mere mumble "Oh wait...never mind!"

Pinkie let out a sheepish giggle. Fluttershy did nothing but give Pinkie a funny look.

"Umm...ok...would you like to come in?" The kind pony offered

"Sure!"

Fluttershy stood to the side and pulled the door open wider to allow her in. Pinkie happily took a few steps into the cozy cottage looking around at the interior. She'd never really taken the time to come in Fluttershy's house much.

"Is everything alright Pinkie?" Fluttershy asked closing the door behind her.

Pinkie turned her head to look at her new conversational partner.

"Oh, yeah!" She replied abruptly "You ready for tomorrow?"

"Mhmm" Fluttershy gave a heart warming smile "It should be lots of fun"

Pinkie nodded in agreement.

"I like your place Fluttershy, it's different from mine...but cozy" she complimented

Fluttershy's face tinted itself with a faint pink "Oh..uhh, thanks, Pinkie"

There was a brief moment of silence between the two. The pair stood in their places, Pinkie carefully examining her surroundings and Fluttershy examining her friend. Nothing could be heard beside the tick of Fluttershy clock.

"So...um...would you like something...to drink?" Fluttershy's voice struck the silence rather well, piercing it like an arrow though an apple.

"No thanks, I'm fine"

"Well...ok then"

The butter pegasus pony headed for her seat.

"I guess I better leave you alone" the pink earth pony said

Pinkie made her way back to the door.

"Oh...ok then" Fluttershy said slumping herself on her sofa.

"I'll see you tomorrow at my place, ok?" Pinkie gave a sincere smile

She was greeted by a nod of her yellow coated friend. Pinkie left the cottage closing the door behind her.

Tomorrow was going to be an interesting day indeed.