The song of love.

Chapter six. Hearts and Hooves day.

Soft Heart was trying to fix a wire that seemed to cause the electrical interruption. He started focusing on a spell when a little voice interrupted him.

"Mister Soft Heart, what are you doing?"

"I'm trying to fix this wire. I'm pretty sure this is the causing of the power outage. If I can fix it, the power may return."

Soft was nervous. He had studied something about electricity in the school with no real applications. It was very different to light up a light bulb than fixing up an entire electrical grid. He started again the spell, only to be interrupted again.

"Are you sure you know how to do this?"

"... pretty sure. It might be a lot easier that rearranging bones."

Sweetie Belle remain silent at that comment. Soft turned around to see the sad look on Sweetie Belle's face.

"Umm... Sweetie Belle... look, i didn't wanted to... sorry for that."

"... don't worry. It's not like you're quitting again, don't you?"

Soft Heart remembered the day he swore to Sweetie Belle never to quit until her leg got cured.

"Yeah... i mean, no. I'll never quit."

Soft returned to his labor with the burned wire. The spell was not too difficult to do. However, the problem was on the wire. Sweetie Belle's voice interrupted him again.

"Can I help you?"

"No, thanks Sweetie, but no. This is very dangerous. If i can't do it right, it might cause an electrical shock that could kill a pony."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Thanks, but no thanks. I have to do this alone."

Soft turned to the wire, this time, fully focusing on the spell. With the tip of his horn, he started to fix the wire. However,

"Are you sure?"

The little voice of Sweetie Belle made him to get distracted, causing the spell to fail and cause a small implosion that sent him to the other side of the room. He started to get pretty angry.

"Nnnhhh... Sweetie Belle!"

"Yes?"

The two emerald eyes came in front of him with a huge smile. Soft was about to yell her to quit the room. However, those cute eyes made him to go ease on her.

"... Sweetie Belle... please, could you go downstairs and check the lights when i tell you?"

"Okay!"

In a quick movement, she left the room toward the living. Soft got on his hooves again and went toward the damaged wire. This time, the wire was fixed correctly. However, it let out a small spark that hit Soft on his horn, causing him to get a headache.

"Sweetie Belle! Are the lights working?"

"Yes they are on!"

"Alright, coming down!"

Soft went downstairs with his head aching from the accident. Sweetie Belle went again fast enough to meet him.

"You're a genius, mister Soft heart!"

"Thanks, Sweetie. But that's enough for know. We may be needing some rest after this."

"Aww... you mean like... going to sleep?"

"Yeah, it's more than ten o'clock. We're going to have a walk tomorrow morning."

"A walk? That's great!"

"Alright. That will be tomorrow. Good night, Sweetie."

"Good night!"

Sweetie Belle went running toward her room, as Soft Heart went toward his temporal room. That night was tremendous for him. The headache was taking the better of him on trying to sleep.

The next morning, Soft hadn't sleep too much. However, he always had a plan to stay awake. He learned in the school about the super heavy latte that kept you awake all the day. He listened about a pony that stayed awake for a whole week with a huge cup of that coffee.

Before Sweetie Belle got awake, he drank a whole cup of his "special" coffee. Once done, he was heading toward the door to take a deep breath of the morning's air. When he was about to open the door, he sensed a deep anxiety for something bad to happen if he opened it.

He turned around to left from the door. However, his suspects were confirmed when a pair of filly voices came from the other side of the door.

"Do you think she's here? I saw her sister going out of the town."

"I saw her yesterday. I was sleeping in a cloud. When i heard a voice resembling to Sweetie Belle's, i turned around and saw her walking along with a colt."

"A colt? Do you think it's her special pony?"

"I don't know. Maybe."

Soft Heart had learned about the "Cutie mark crusaders", a group of three fillies who caused a lot of troubles around Ponyville. He knew something bad was going to happen if they got reunited along with Sweetie Belle, Ponyville might be in danger.

However, a phrase that one of them said kept echoing in Soft's head. "Her special pony?" That could mean only one thing: The hearts and hooves day was that day.

The hearts and hooves day was something terrible for Soft Heart, for him to never had a special pony on this day.

"Hey, girls!"

Soft got back to the reality when he heard Sweetie Belle's voice coming from upstairs. After that, a weak noise of hooves coming downstairs made him to hide behind a couch. For him to not to frighten Sweetie Belle (and for curiosity), he used a spell to transport quickly to the outside.

Once in the outside, he hid behind a bush, close enough to hear whatever those two fillies could tell Sweetie Belle. He listened to the noise of the door opening, revealing an energetic white filly.

"Hey, girls! Good morning!"

"Hey Sweetie Belle! How's your leg?"

"Well... still with the bandages on it, but i can walk very well."

"Hey! Guess what?"

"What?"

"Do you remember about that time when we gave Big Mac and miss Cherilee the love poison and we thought they were still poisoned? They're not!"

"Really!? Uff... thought they were still poisoned."

"Poisoned?" Soft wondered to himself. Rarity didn't mentioned him about that kind of actions. However this didn't was time to think about that.

"And that's not all the surprise!"

"There's more?"

"Yes! They are not poisoned, but they're still dating! That can only mean one thing!"

"They're their mutual special pony!"

"Wait! The Hearts and Hooves day is TODAY?"

"Yeah. What's the big deal?"

"I have to ask mister Soft Heart if he gives me permission to go to the school to see Miss Cherilee!"

"Soft Heart? Who's that?"

"By the chance. Wouldn't he be the pony i saw you with last night?"

"Yes. That's him."

"Is he your special pony?"

Both, Soft Heart and Sweetie Belle froze at Scootaloo's question. Soft never thought about thinking too much about it. Was he that special for Sweetie Belle? Sweetie Belle turned around with a huge smile on her face.

"No. He's not."

Soft Heart started to relax at Sweetie Belle's response. What came after made him to feel more anxious.,

"He's just a very cute colt who have been staying with me in order to take care of me because Rarity went out of Ponyville due to her business. He is the doctor who have been watching my leg while it's getting cured."

Obviously, Sweetie Belle didn't know how to  explain things with an accurate style. The two fillies looked at each other before answering her.

"Well... looks like you know him very well. Can we meet him?"

"I don't know if he's awake. But come in. I'll awake him."

Soft used the same spell again to transport to his room before Sweetie Belle came to him. When the door opened, Soft Heart was pretending to read a book.

"Good morning, mister Soft Heart."

"Good morning, Sweetie Belle."

"Guess what?"

"Tell me what."

"My two best friends are here and they want to meet you. Can you come down?"

"... Alright. I'll go down in a few minutes."

Sweetie Belle leaved him with a distracted look in something he looked at in the book he just grabbed. The book itself wasn't all about medical magic. However, what he was searching for a long time was finally on his hooves.

How to rearrange bones.

When he went downstairs, still with the head on the clouds due to what he just read, he suddenly heard a little horn before feeling a strong hit that launched him to the ceiling.

"Scootaloo! What have you done?" Sweetie Belle was shocked.

"He crossed in my way" Scootaloo replied.

Soft fell of the ceiling, leaving his own mark on it. When he opened his eyes, the three fillies were very close to him with a concerning look in their faces.

"Uf... thought you were dead." Scootaloo answered.

"Mister Soft... are you okay?" Sweetie Belle approached more to him.

"Yeah, Sweetie. I'm okay." Soft took a hoof behind his head. "Ouch... what hit me?"

Both, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom pointed toward Scootaloo.

"... Do you mean that SHE hit me? How?"

"With a Scooter." Scootaloo answered with a nervous smile.

"... She hit me with a scooter... alright..."

"... You're not angry with me, mister Soft?"

"Well... I'm pretty disgusted with you. However, getting angry won't solve anything."

"That's great! That way, i won't loose my Scooter."

"Why is that?"

"Well... I almost hit Granny Smith the other day. And then, she warned me not to do it again or else she's going to tell my parents."

"... Okay. I won't tell Granny Smith if you promise not to use it on this place. Deal?"

"Deal."

"So... I think we haven't been introduced yet. My name is Soft Heart."

"I'm Applebloom!"

"I'm Scootaloo!"

"Pleased to meet you."

"Hey, mister Soft. What are you doing in here? I mean, what kind of relationship do you have with Sweetie Belle?" Scootaloo went ahead the others in asking him.

"Relationship?"

Soft was surprised for Scootaloo to be so direct for this kind of matters.

"Well... I am the doctor that has been inspecting her leg. However, Rarity asked me to watch over Sweetie Belle due the fact she's out of the town."

"Oh. Right. Then that means you're not Sweetie Belle's special pony?"

Soft couldn't avoid but to stand quiet for a few moments before answering to that.

"... No. Actually, i don't have a special pony... yet."

Sweetie Belle turned toward Soft with a surprise expression on her face. She couldn't believe that.

"Then... that means you're... alone?"

"... Alone? No. I have friends. That is enough for me, at least for know."

The three fillies looked each other before asking Soft something.

"If you could find your special pony... then you would date her?"

"... Um... yeah... i suppose."

The fillies smiled to Soft's answer.

"... Um. Mister Soft Heart. Could you let Sweetie Belle to go to the school to give miss Cherilee a gift?"

Soft started to feel anxious. If he let Sweetie Belle to go with them, then something really bad would happen. He was about to tell them something related to Sweetie Belle's leg. However, Sweetie Belle was a few steps ahead from Soft, for she to knew Soft couldn't resist a special kind of cute eyes.

"Mister Soft. Pleaaaasee?"

Soft turned toward Sweetie Belle. Once again, those huge and cute eyes made him to ease.

"... I suppose a couple hours wouldn't hurt anypony."

"Thanks!"

The three fillies ran out of the room, leaving Soft alone to think about it.

"Soft... What have you done?"

Meanwhile, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were walking toward their tree house.

"Then... what can we do?" Scootaloo asked while looking to the sky.

"About what?"

"About this Soft Heart. If he's alone, then... what can we do?"

"... I don't know."

"What about the love potion?" Sweetie Belle asked.

Her friends turned around with a surprise expression on their faces.

"What?"

"Remember what you told me? If we gave Big Mac and miss Cherilee this potion and broke the spell, but still it worked then... who tells us that it won't work twice?"

"Right."

"Then, let's get this going up."

"Yeah!" The three of them claimed while clapped their hooves.