Cutie Mark Crushes and More.

The day before Crystal Griffon was a normal school day except for Diamond Tiara giving Scootaloo and AppleBloom some crap.

"Are you serious!" She screamed as she fell down laughing. Everypony shot Diamond Tiara a dirty look even Silver Spoon. Scootaloo looked at AppleBloom and they both nodded.

"Very." She says sticking her muzzle in Diamond's face and with that Diamond shut her bucking mouth. When Miss Cherilee came out she had on a slightly bigger smile than usual. Scootaloo wondered but figured out that she must have been out with Big Mac last night.

"Good morning my little ponies how are we today?" Everypony lined up single file. AppleBloom, Diamond Tiara, Snips, Snails, Scootaloo, Silver Spoon, Buttons, Pipsqueak, Dinky and Sweetie Belle. AppleBloom and Scootaloo said the same obvious thing at the same obvious time.

"Better than I've ever been." They said as they shot each other a dreamy little smile. Diamond rolled her eyes but everypony else didn't seem to notice. After everypony went around and said how they were feeling the class went inside and sat down.

"Ponies today we have a very special guest to speak to the class. Everypony give a warm Ponyville welcome to...Shining Armour!" The white stallion walked in wearing his uniform the CMC remembered from the wedding the 3 had attended. Diamond nearly fainted when she saw the gold on his belt and buttons.

"Hello little foals, how are you all today?" Everypony in the class responded with a good, great or something to that nature. Except AppleBloom and Scootaloo who were to busy shooting lovey dovey looks at each other.

"I'm in town on business for the my princess." He took a second to stare into the distance and think about his wife. Who was probably missing him something awful.

"And I wanted to come talk to you about what someone like me does day to day." It took about 3 seconds for Silver Spoon's hoof to shoot up into the air.

"Wait Mr.Armour I'm confused, aren't you a prince? I didn't think royalty had to do anything at all. Except for, you know lying around and telling ponies to get you things." Shining through his head back in deep laughter. Wiping a tear of from his eye he set her strait.

"Oh my how wrong you are little one. Me and Cadence hardly ever even use the stuff in our castle. We're far to busy. She's running around to peace conferences while I'm putting the Crystal Guard through their paces." Silver Spoon lowered her hoof, knowing now that playing princess was far from the real thing. The next one to raise their hoof was oddly enough Scootaloo, Shining's Laughter having shaken her out of her staring contest with AppleBloom.

"This isn't really about what you do every day but..... Is love always as powerful as it is with you and Cadence?" Shining furrowed his brow and thought hard.

"In a magic sense no, that was because of who Cadence is and what she does but emotionally? Spiritually? Definitely." He looks over at AppleBloom and makes a smirk.

"And might I say you have a fine looking filly friend yourself." Scootaloo nearly jumped out of her seat she was so surprised.

"Wait. What?! How did you?" She had honestly no idea how he had figured out that she and AppleBloom were in a relationship. Shining laughed again, smaller this time but just as joyful.

"Being married to the Princess of Love, I've learned how to pick up on the small things but it doesn't take a psychologist to see you two staring at each other half the class." Everypony let out a chuckle, even Scoots and AppleBloom. The next three periods passed uneventfully and at 11:30 Cherilee raised her voice to get the foal's attention.

"Time for recess everypony!" All of them filed out of class in single file. Once out in the yard, Scoots, AppleBloom and Sweetie Belle meet up by the sandbox as usual. Sweetie was the first to speak up.

"So you two.. what's it like to be official?" Scoots and AppleBloom could have talked to her for hours about how it felt and how it effected them but they kept it short Scootaloo was the first to tell her.

"Sweetie it's amazing! I've never felt this awesome, not even when I'm flying with RD!" Sweetie was blown away, nothing had ever compared to RD in Scoots' book. AppleBloom's comment wasn't as mind blowing as Scoots' but still nice.

"I would say it's like flying. So many things I've never noticed, her laugh, her smile, the way her mane whips around when she rides her scooter and the way her feathers feel when we touch." They moved in and held hooves.

"Plus..." She leans in and kisses Scoots. Sweetie is a little surprised but she knew she's going to be seeing alot of it over time. When they finally pull apart AppleBloom smirks.

"You get to do a whole ton of that." After Cherilee called them back in there wasn't really anything to say about the day. After the bell rang the foals flooded out the door, with the CMC meeting by the sandbox again. Scoots ran up and kissed AppleBloom.

"So I'll pick you up at 8 O.K?" AppleBloom had already picked out a fancy southern belle dress Rarity had sewn but Scoots had yet to pick out an outfit. AppleBloom had a stern look on her face, at first Scoots thought she was joking but her look was dead serious.

"Don't be late." Her smile returned and she gave Scoots a peck on the cheek as she raced off towards home. Sweetie noticed she was acting strange.

"The hay was that about?" Scootaloo was still concentrating on the kiss she'd just been given.

"Huh? Oh she's just nervous, it is our first OFFICIAL date after all. Now if you'll excuse me I have an outfit to find." She ran off to RD's place. She was now staying with RD after the rainbow speedster had adopted her. She yelled up to her.

"Hey RD are you home? I need to find a dress!" RD shot down and brought Scoots to the porch. They walked in and towards RD's wardrobe.

"So you and AppleBloom...on a date...Rarity owes me five bits." While rummaging through her closet to find something to wear she replied to RD.

"Oh and why's that?" As if she didn't already know. Another thing she knew was she had nothing to wear. She had never been to a big event like this.

"Because Rarity bet you were into Buttons." Buttons? How ridiculous, Buttons was nice but he wasn't exactly what you'd call social. RD had one more thing to throw at Scoots.

"So...which one of you is the mare?" Scoots head shot up so fast she nearly hit her head on the drawer. She'd never heard of that before. What did RD mean?

"What do you mean? We're both mares." RD just shook her head, Scoots obviously didn't know what she meant. So she had to explain a little better.

"No, I mean which one of you is the masculine one? The coltish one?" Scoots didn't know. AppleBloom was a land hardened cowgirl and she was a stuntmare.

"Oh and I bought you something from Rarity, since I knew you didn't have anything to wear." There was a shout from the ground below the house.

"Hello Rainbow?! I have the tux!" Scoots was ecstatic until those last two words hit her, the tux. A tuxedo! That was something stallions wear! Well they do make them for mares for...well for this exact sort of thing but could she really pull it off? What would AppleBloom say? Oh well it was the only thing she had to wear so she'd give it a shot. They zipped down. RD greeted her friend.

"Hi Rarity. Is it dazzling? This filly needs all the help she can get." It was a white tux with wing wholes so she could get there on her scooter and a black and white striped tie. Scoots fell in love with it the instant she saw it. It was so her. Rarity was almost insulted.

"Of course it is! As is everything I create. Go on sweetie try it on." She fit it on. It was so snug and fit her perfectly. She put on her helmet but loosely so it wouldn't mess up her mane.

"Alright i gotta go guys!" She zipped off to possibly the most important night of her life.