Seeing Yellow

Two days later, strange things happened in my life. My job had gone under and they were moving out, but I didn't care. I had quite a bit of of money from making some very successful iPod games that I made in some spare time. The university had shut, due to renovation. Odd for a university, but they gave the students exam marks for how well they performed before hand. I got good marks. I was fine. I didn't care about losing my job or not having to go to uni. It just meant that I could spend more time with her. I heard of time speeding up when good stuff was happening so it passed in a blur. But time seemed to slow down. I think that time slowing down, plus my job going down and uni being renovated, was just life's way of telling me that I should spend every passing moment with Fluttershy. And I did. We played together. Laughed together. Ate together. We did everything together. Nothing was done alone. Apart from showers and 'nature calls', but everything else, we were inseparable.

The love between us was also apparent. We hugged each other, we cared for each other. We did romantic things together, like walking together and stuff like that. Nearly every night, we slept together, but by unspoken agreement, we never got... 'physical'. That was one of a few things we both didn't feel comfortable doing, so we never went there. We hadn't kissed yet. On the lips at least. I could tell she wanted to, but we were both so nervous. I just had to wait. In time, things would get less awkward. But now, I was happy. She was happy. And life seemed to want us together for as long as possible. I knew it would have to come to an end. But I didn't worry about that. I was living in the moment, with Fluttershy. Together. Always.

Tomorrow was her birthday. She was excited, but she didn't tell me her age for some reason. However, I think I managed to get it. Assuming that she was 16 when she entered my world, which I thought to be the most plausible age of the mane 6, including the year she had appeared in my world, she would be 21 years old tomorrow. 21. A significant age in my world. She didn't look 21, but then I reminded myself than pony growth cycles are different than humans. But I have noticed that Fluttershy has grown. She is taller than her appearances on the show at least. That at least calmed down my silly fear of her not ageing while in my world.

When we went to sleep together, I got out of bed and silently started decorating the house. Mostly with the colour yellow, but I used pink and aqua as well. Balloons, streamers. Simple stuff. I also made a cake. It turned out quite good. The last thing to prepare was the present. God, that was difficult to decide on. What do I get a cartoon pony? I only got her one present in the end. But she would like it. I'm sure of that. I silently got back into bed with her, and smiled at the sleeping mare. It past midnight. I placed my arm gently around her, and, still asleep, she turned over and snuggled up against me.

"Happy birthday Fluttershy." I whispered. She probably didn't hear me, due to being asleep, but I just felt like saying it anyway.

We woke up the next morning, and when Fluttershy saw the decorations, she started jumping around crazily. I let her jump around for a while, before calming her down and hugging her.

"Happy 21st birthday Fluttershy."

She stared at me with a small smile.

"How did you know I was 21?"

I smiled.

"Lucky guess."

We celebrated for a while, remembering everything that we had done together. I told her to follow me. I led her to my piano and I played 'My Immortal' by Evanescence to her. She loved it. We moved back to the living room and sat on the couch. Then I pulled out her present, neatly wrapped. She opened it. It was a book. She stared at me.

"You're not going Twilight Sparkle on me, are you?"

I laughed. "Look at the title."

She looked down at the book again. But, it wasn't a book. It was a ring binder. On the front of the ring binder. The title read: Fanfictions by AscendingAnthem. Yes, I had got her a ring binder, full of my Fanfictions. She actually has read some of them, and she liked them. She looked up at me. She hugged me.

"Thank you so much!"

"The best thing about it?" I said "When I write new Fanfictions, we can place them in here."

She opened the book. Inside were all of my Fanfictions, ordered neatly. She flipped through the pages, searching for a specific Fanfiction. She seemed to have found it, because she had started to read. I moved around and peaked over her shoulder.

"Polar Opposites, eh?" I asked.

"Oh, I do love a good romance." she said in Rarity's voice.

The next few hours were spend reading over my Fanfictions together. We took it in turns to read different characters. She once forced me to read as her. Good thing I have a good Fluttershy voice. After a while, I gave Fluttershy her cake.

"Make a wish." I said as I lit the candles.

She blew them out and I had wondered what she had wished for. However, I didn't ask her.

"Do you want to know what I wished for?" asked Fluttershy.

"If you want to tell me." I answered.

"I wished for nothing."

"Nothing?"

"All I want is to be here with you."

I smiled at her.

"Cute... but so cliché."

She looked at me in mock anger. That only doubled her cuteness.

"How dare you ruin this golden romantic moment!"

"Golden?" I said. "Like you?"

She let out a loud over-the-top exhale of frustration and pushed me off the couch we were sitting on. Then she leapt on me. We rolled around on the floor, giggling uncontrollably. We stopped, holding each other, me on the floor and Fluttershy looking down at me. We stayed that way for a while. For a second, I thought this would have been the perfect time to kiss. But, I did something else. I pulled her into yet another tight embrace.

"I love you." I said.

"I love you too." she replied.

My birthday rolled around very slowly that year. Even when time wasn't going slowly, it was slow in rolling around, due to it being in December. This birthday... it was better than all my other birthdays put together. Why? Because I spent it with Fluttershy. She had woken up early and decorated the entire house with help from her bird friends. As I saw all her hard work, I pulled her into a hug and didn't let go for a while. She had made a cake as well. She definitely had a little 'Pinkie-flair' in her. She didn't buy me anything, but I felt she already had. Her 'being here' was worth all the presents in the world. As we celebrated and Fluttershy planted a kiss on my cheek, I could help but feel that we only had 7 months left together. 7 months. And I knew I had to make it the best time of my life.

Christmas rolled around soon after my birthday. Fluttershy knew of Christmas because I told her about it, but had never celebrated it because it wasn't in her homeland. It was her first Christmas. I put up the old artificial tree with help from Fluttershy. She seemed really fascinated by all the decorations we could place on the tree, but the lights were her absolute favourite. She seemed hypnotised by them. She once just sat in front of the tree, gazing at the lights the whole evening. It was hilarious.

I told her not to worry about giving me gift, because she was a gift to me. She replied to this comment with a swift kiss on my cheek. However, I had to get her a gift. That was difficult. What do I get for a cartoon pony? It was the same dilemma that had happened on her birthday. I didn't know at first. It took me ages to figure it out, but it came to me. I got one of my friends who had gone into making jewellery when he left school, and I asked him to make a necklace. I told him exactly what I wanted. He finished my order just before Christmas Day. Wow, it was pretty high quality. I thanked him and left.

I went to sleep with Fluttershy next to me as always, hoping for a great day tomorrow. When I woke up, Fluttershy wasn't sleeping next to me. I went down to the living room, looked around, and what I saw made my heart stop, explode, the pieces of the exploded heart imploding, the imploded pieces reforming to form my heart, which exploded once more. Fluttershy was smiling mischievously at me. She had a red Christmas hat on, some of her mane was brushed in front of one eye, and she had some ribbon tied around herself, which ended in an expertly tied bow nestling right on her back.

I walked towards the mare, try not to fall over from the sheer cuteness that was Fluttershy. She spoke a sentence which I will never forget.

"You said I was a gift to you, right?"

We couldn't stop laughing for hours. We calmed down multiple times in between, but as soon as we looked at each other, we started laughing once more. When, finally, we calmed down, I pulled the ribbon off her. While I was doing so, I said this:

"It's what I've always wanted."

God, I wish I took a picture of her. But I think that the memory has burned itself into my brain. I got Fluttershy her present. She opened it. Her eyes widened. I think her heart exploded. She held up the necklace with shaking hooves. The necklace was a simple golden heart. The heart was engraved with a small picture of a smiling Fluttershy with equally smiling human putting his arm around her.

"This is- This is-". She could barely speak simple words. I smiled and pulled down the neck of my t-shirt. I had the same necklace. Her eyes widened even more. I took the necklace from her hooves and placed it around her neck. She looked at her new possession, then she threw her forelegs around me, with enough force to knock me to the floor. She looked at me, tears of joy coming to her eyes.

"I love you." she said with a trembling voice.

"I love you too." I replied.