The song of love.

Chapter ten. An eventful night.

Applebloom and Scootaloo sat in the grass to wait for Sweetie Belle. She was eating with her parents. Due the fact that she hadn't seen them for quite a while, she asked them to wait until she finish her eating.

"...Soo... any ideas about how to obtain our cutie marks?" Applebloom asked while looking to the sky.

"... I don't know... and cloud-observers didn't worked..." Scootaloo said while thinking about it.

Just in that moment, the front door opened. They got over there quickly to meet with Sweetie Belle.

Instead of seeing Sweetie Belle going outside, they saw Soft Heart flying through the door and landing abruptly in the ground. Sweetie Belle's father was in the door with an angry look.

"Don't ever dare to face me again!" Sweetie's father said before closing harshly the door.

The two fillies went running toward Soft, who was still in the floor and looking to the sky.

"Mister Soft! Are you okay?" Applebloom asked to him.

"... I've had worse days..." Soft said while looking to the sky.

"What happened?"

"... Well... let's say that Sweetie Belle was being herself and told them everything that happened while Rarity was out." Soft said calmly.

"... exactly what part made her father go nuts with you?" Scootaloo asked to him.

"... the part where she slipped to the couch while I was sleeping. Just this morning. Remember?"

The two fillies looked at each other before returning to Soft, who was getting on his hooves.

"Then... you're not seeing again Sweetie Belle?"

"Not if her father's still in here. Otherwise, he's going to kill me."

"But, you're an unicorn. Can't you do something with your horn?"

"Nope. Her father's a hoofball player. He'd knock me out before i could start casting a spell."

The three ponies stayed in an awkward silence while thinking about it.

"...well... I'm going to my home to eat something. He didn't even gave me chance to taste Sweetie's food. See ya."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Two hours later.

Soft Heart was in his house. Accurately, in his kitchen, preparing himself something to eat. He was cooking some cheese-covered vegetables.

He was thinking deeply in the incident with Sweetie Belle. A few knocks in his door took him again to reality.

Once in the door, he opened it, revealing Rarity in front of it.

"Oh, hello, Miss Rarity. Why do I have the pleasure to have you here?" Soft said, still attending to his meal.

"Hello, mister Soft." Rarity answered while lifting a small package. "Can I come in?"

"Sure. Come in."

Rarity made her way inside of Soft's house, while he returned again to the kitchen. Rarity came next to him to see what he was doing.

"Cooking something?"

"Yeah. I didn't had any chance to eat while being in your house."

Rarity blushed while remembering how rude her father have been with him. However, that reminded a question she had in mind while going there.

"... was it truth?"

"What?"

"... the part where Sweetie Belle asleep with you?"

Sort turned around to see at her face. Instead of answering instantly, he focused on cooking his meal, at the same time he prepared some orange juice using his magic.

Done this, he took out of the frying pan his meal, put the juice in a glass and put them on his table.

"... I couldn't tell..." He said after thinking it for a while.

"What do you mean?" Rarity got startled by this.

"... It's just that even I don't know how to answer to that..." Soft said while remembering last night...

"... would you... want to be... my special pony?"

Soft didn't answered to that. he looked at her hooves holding his hoof with such a strength that she looked like if he were going to go to the other side of the world, she wouldn't let him go.

He looked at her eyes, which were amazingly big and beautiful. Then, he thought to himself "Who cares?"

"Well... why not?"

Sweetie Belle jumped to his neck in a full embrace that took Soft by surprise. However, he didn't complained. He just took a hoof to Sweetie Belle's back and embraced her, too. Both of them kept the embrace for a few minutes.

Soft suddenly felt Sweetie Belle shivering. He broke the embrace to see her face. Once again, she was crying, still embraced to Soft's chest.

"Sweetie Belle? You okay?"

"I'm okay... it's just that... "

Sweetie Belle stopped for a few seconds to finally compose herself.

"... I really think i love you..." She said while looking him to the eyes.

Soft didn't said a thing. He thought about it for a few seconds before getting to a logical conclusion. He put her in the ground and turned around to his bedroom.

Sweetie Belle stayed in the living, thinking about what she just said to him. She started to feel anxious. Maybe she shouldn't have told him that? What would happen next?

Soft got back to the living. Sweetie Belle was there, in the couch. She fell asleep while he was preparing his bed. He brought a few sheets to put in the couch, for he to guessed that he'd be sleeping in there. He was right.

Soft didn't wanted to wake up Sweetie Belle, so he took her in his back and took her to his bedroom. Once in there, he put her in his bed and put a sheet upon her.

He was as cautious as possible to avoid waking up Sweetie Belle. However, a small contact between his hoof and her face woke her up.

She inspected the room she was in. And she guessed whose room it was. She turned to see the single bed. And then, to look at Soft.

"Where are you going to sleep?"

"Down there. In the couch. You have the bed for yourself."

Soft started to head to the exit. Suddenly, he turned around to say good night to Sweetie Belle, who was seeing him with a pair of huge and sad eyes.

"... can you... stay here until i... fall asleep?" Sweetie Belle asked to him.

Soft started to doubt about this. How far would he be going with this? What kind of repercussions this would have upon her?

He sat next to Sweetie Belle, who almost instantly embraced him while starting to feeling sleepy. She lifted her eyes to see at the pony of her dreams.

She had dreamed about her special somepony a few times. She always thought that he should have to be somepony tall, heroic, handsome... And there he was. Soft was her definition of a hero: a doctor. Somepony who saved others life at any cost. He didn't was as handsome as she dreamed. However, for her, he was the most beautiful pony in all Equestria.

Having all these ideas in her mind, she fell asleep in Soft's forehoof. She wore a smile while she closed her eyes, just in time to go to Dreamland, where she could do anything she wanted.

Soft put her little head on the pillow and head to the exit.

Feeling his heart racing again, not from a hard exercise but from a mix of feelings, he head for the couch. Suddenly, he found himself humming a little song. He only did that when he was happy. He then felt it. A deep feeling in his heart that made his heart to race up. Every time he remembered that name, his heart made that.

Having that in mind, he lay in the couch and started to fall asleep.

Rarity listened to Soft's point of view of Sweetie Belle's history. She could barely believe what she was hearing. Her sister was in love with somepony older that her. She wouldn't have any problem if her sister was older or if her special somepony was at least one or two years older that she.

However, she was in love with somepony fifteen years older than her!

Soft had finished his food. He was playing nervously with a clip he saw in the table. While waiting for Rarity's answer to his history, the clip didn't seemed to be a clip anymore. Instead, it looked like an old an plain piece of metallic garbage.

Finally, Rarity composed herself of thinking about it for a while.

"... I always knew that Sweetie would fall in love sooner than me." She said while trying to make a forced smile.

Soft lifted his eyes to see at her. She seemed somewhat absent-minded.

"... are you angry?"

"...angry? with you?"

"Heavens, no. I mean, to Sweetie."

Rarity's attention got caught by the last sentence. She turned her head to see at Soft's concerning face.

"... No. I wouldn't be angry with her."

"... your parents, in the other hoof..."

"... yes. They are truly angry with Sweetie Belle. Or at least, Dad's angry with her."

"... I made a mistake, Rarity." Soft said while covering his face between his hooves.

Rarity could understand Soft's thoughts. She carefully put a hoof on Soft's shoulder, hoping that it could help him a bit. Soft lifted his face to see at Rarity. She was smiling to him, which made him somehow more relaxed.

"... You love her, too... right?" Rarity asked to him.

"... I suppose so... I haven't felt this sensations for anypony else before..."

Rarity didn't put away her hoof on that time. Soft felt somehow more and more confident about it.

"... I'm going there." Soft said while standing from his chair.

"What? What are you going to do?"

"I'll go and tell her my feelings toward her. And your father, too."

Rarity stood in front of him with a look of fear on her face. She tried to say something to him. However, she understood the why Soft had to do it.

He had to do it. If he was a real hero, then he would have to go and face all those problems. He didn't thought that the problems would be in his own door.

When he was ready to go out, he opened the door, revealing a white young mare who resembled Rarity at the grade that seemed like her clone.

"... Rarity?" Soft said while turning around to see at the surprised Rarity behind him.

The mare just stood in there, looking at him with a pair of green eyes that Soft recognized almost immediately. She gave a small step inside before looking at him with a shy look.

"You don't recognize your special pony, mister Soft?"