Love Isn't A Desire, It's A Feeling

by kittyhasnosoul

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life
Length: 1042

Now that Diamond Tiara is older, she will do anything to find a lover. Apple Bloom attempts to convince her that love isn't a desire, it's a feeling.

Diamond Tiara is caught up in wanting to find a lover now that she is older, and Apple Bloom convinces her that love isn't a desire, it's a feeling.

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Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-03-29 15:10:02 UTC

Chapter 1

Diamond Tiara paced around her room nervously, "Ugh!" She exclaimed, jumping onto her pink bed.

"There is like, no possible way I'd go with Feather Weight. The last thing I would want to do is date a colt who is like.. blah.. shorter than me!"

Apple Bloom, who was standing on the opposite side of the room, rolled her eyes and said, "But Diamond Tiara, Feather Weight's a real nice colt and--"

"I said I wasn't going to date a colt shorter than me, and that is like, finale!" Diamond Tiara shouted, hopping out of her bed angrily.

She cleared her throat and said, "I can't pick Snails, he picks his nose! Like, ew. It's like he just doesn't want any mare all over him."

She laid back down in her pink bed and raised a hoof in the air, "Like, what's up with that?! How could he not want a marefriend?"

Apple Bloom threw a dead-pan stare at Diamond Tiara, "Diamond, ever think that maybe he just--"

"I mean, once you pass 5th grade, relationships are everything!"

She moved over to her bedside dresser, and opened the drawer revealing a doll with strawberry blonde hair and a pink coat.

Diamond Tiara sighed dreamily, "Like, why can't everything be as simple as, get your Cutie Mark, find a coltfriend, get married, and have foals and live happily ever after?!" She half-shouted, admiring the doll in her hooves.

Apple Bloom had went over to Diamond Tiara's house to comfort her after she sent her a letter saying that she was having a 'mid life crisis.'

Diamond Tiara growled, then threw the doll against the wall.

"Why can't life be perfect?!" She shouted, nearly crying.

Apple Bloom sat up from the corner where she was sitting, and walked over to Diamond Tiara.

"Di', life ain't bout findin' a col-"

"Don't you even say that, Apple Bloom!" Diamond Tiara suddenly shouted, pushing Apple Bloom away and off her bed.

"It may not be for you, but for me, I just want someone to be my coltfriend~!" Diamond Tiara shouted in a whiny, desperate tone.

Granny Smith had taught Apple Bloom when she was just a filly searching for her cutie mark that you shouldn't just go falling head over heels for just anypony, mare or colt.

Applejack, being the type of older sister she was, told her the difference between love and desire.

"Now, Apple Bloom, ya' listen up, you here?"

"Yeah, big sis'. I can hear ya good 'n loud." Filly Apple Bloom said, giggling escaping her muzzle as she spoke.

"You see, when I was a foalish young filly, I met a colt." Applejack said.

"Oh! Was he cute?"

"On a respectable level," Applejack said, looking up at the brown wooden roof.

"Now, be sure yer listenin' loud 'n clear when I say this, it might become important to yourself or others later on in life, ya' here?"

Apple Bloom silently shook her head.

"Well, when I was a filly, I met a colt named Caramel. When I was a tad bit younger, I was told that every girl has 'ta find her prince by my other friends. I believed 'em, every word, so every colt I saw starin' at me I got the feelin' he was checkin' me out."

"One time," Applejack continued,"Caramel was lookin' at me, and went over to me and asked me to dinner. All of my three friends, Ditzy Joe, Annie Bean, and Zoe Zinger, physically and mentally forced me to say yes."

"Sis, what's the difference between physically and mentally?" Apple Bloom asked, eager to learn.

"Mentally is when someone messes with yer brain and does things the inside, physically is when someone does somethin' good or bad on the outside."

Applejack continued her story, "Anyway, I was caught up 'n thinkin' there was nothin' more to life than bein' loved, but I soon learned somethin' when Granny found out I was datin' so young: "Love is a feelin' not a desire."

Apple Bloom snapped out of her day dreams, and focused back on Diamond Tiara, who was now ranting to her, oblivious that she wasn't listening.

"Diamond," Apple Bloom said firmly, insuring that Diamond Tiara heard her.

"Ugh, like, what, Apple Bloom?"

"When I was a lil' filly, Applejack told me-"

Diamond Tiara interrupted with an annoyed groan.

"That love ain't a desire, it's a feeling." Apple Bloom finished, and Diamond Tiara stuck out her tongue and blew a raspberry at Apple Bloom, "What is that supposed to mean?"

Apple Bloom took a deep breath and cleared her throat before saying,

"You don't need love, you don't have to find love just fer the sake 'o havin' it. You gotta feel love, the real kind. Not the skanky kind that Prince Blueblood enjoys."

"How do you know that he likes that kind of love?" Diamond Tiara asked.

"Don't ask," Apple Bloom said, then she continued, "You don't just fall 'n love with somepony because they're 'cute' or 'exceptional'. You fall 'n love with somepony because they love ya' back, and you love 'em, and you truly care about 'em."

Diamond Tiara gave her a dead-pan stare, "But Apple Bloom, everypony who is into the 'true and romantic' kind of love doesn't like me!"

Apple Bloom walked over to Diamond Tiara and put a hoof on her shoulder, "Diamond, you've changed since we were lil' filly's back in Ponyville Elementary. All of 'em danged foals know you as 'Diamond Tiara, the bully who picked on blank flanks', and if that's all they can see you as, well, buck 'em!"

Diamond Tiara raised an offended hoof to her chest and pushed Apple Bloom's hoof off of her shoulder, "You sure have developed your sister's vocabulary, as well as her wisdom."

Apple Bloom pulled an apple out of nowhere and bit into it, "Nah. Actually, I got it from Rainbow Dash."

Diamond Tiara brushed off the answer and hugged Apple Bloom, "So, you're saying that I should wait for true love to come along, instead of being a desperate school-filly?"

"Eeyup." Apple Bloom said as she took another bite out of her apple before throwing it out Diamond Tiara's window and returning her embrace.