Candy Love

It was the late afternoon and Steve was laying on the bed, feeling like he could kick himself slightly after he told Lyra the whole truth about his feelings. But even though he had to cause he wanted to be honest, he began to think that maybe he should've handled the situation a lot better by telling her the minute he became friends with her. However, he was concerned about what would Bon Bon say if she found out, but as he was pondering over it, he heard the front door open and close.

"Looks like she's back." he said to himself. "I better think about getting ready for our date tonight. If Lyra tells her about what I said, she might get angry."

"Anypony home?" Bon Bon asked as she walked up the stairs.

"Hi Bon Bon, I'm in here." Steve replied.

"Ah there you are, we'll be going on our date in a few minutes, I advise you to get ready."

"Yeah, okay."

"Is there something wrong?"

There was a knock on the door and Steve thought of that moment as a way out of the question.

"I'll go and get it, so you can get ready."

"Okay Steve."

He walked down stairs and opened the front door to see Rarity with a pile of neatly stacked clothing.

"Hello there Steve, here is your new line of clothing as promised." she said as she used her magic to bring in the clothing and placed them gently on the sofa. "I am sure they are up to your intelligent standards, dear."

Steve looked over and noticing a well made shirt and trousers, he made a big smile thinking that this will impress Bon Bon.

"Wow! You really went to town with these, thank you so much!" he complimented.

"Oh think nothing of it darling, it was my pleasure. I must get back to my boutique now, Sweetie Belle was caught trying to get herself frozen in time earlier."

"Wait a minute, what?"

"Au revioir, dear!"

Rarity then left and closed the door behind her whilst Steve shook his head and grabbed all of his new clothing and brought them upstairs.

"Bon Bon, check out the clothing Rarity made for me so I could have different ones to wear."

"Oh, was that her just then?"

"Yeah...I'm gonna change into these smart ones and see how it looks."

"Okay, I'd like to have a look as well." she then giggled as she was going over her clothes, "And I don't mean it that way."

"I wouldn't think of such a thing." he replied, raising his eyebrow a little before he went to the bathroom to have a bit of privacy.

Meanwhile, Lyra had stopped crying, but she was looking through her bedroom window with sadness, a couple of tissues were on the floor but Steve's words were playing on her mind nearly every minute. She heard Bon Bon return of course, but she didn't feel like coming out and taking to her. Bon Bon had just finished getting ready after a while and Steve was about ready to go. She knocked on Lyra's door and felt curious about why she was in her room a lot today.

"Lyra, is everything okay?" she asked.

"Yeah...it's fine." Lyra replied although it didn't sound convincing.

"Are you sure, you can tell me whatever it is you want."

"No it's okay, you and Steve have a wonderful time tonight."

"Alright, but I would like to come and see you when we get back later, please?"

"Yeah, we will, have a good time."

"Thank you." she turned to Steve who was now dressed more smartly. "You look very dashing."

"No pun intended if Rainbow was present." he smirked.

"Oh stop it, you. Come on, let's go."

Bon Bon and Steve then left the house and made thier way to the finest restaurant in Ponyville where it was sunset time. Back at the house, Lyra began to have an idea of her own and fed up of being sad throughout the beginning of the night, she wanted to cheer herself up. She left her bedroom and walked downstairs, into the kitchen and opened the fridge door.

"Typical, nothing for me to drink and have myself a good time." she sighed before noticing something at the far back of the fridge that caught her eye. "Oooh, what's this?" She picked up a bottle carefully and looked over it. "Made to stimulate your mind in times of sadness? Well whatever, I'm gonna drink this anyway!"

She then opened the lid and began drinking a small amount, at first nothing happened to her. She then drank some more and didn't feel much change at all.

"Hmm, maybe it needs a little something...I know, maybe I'll play with my harp and see if that will do anything."

She then walked upstairs with the drink and to her bedroom, she grabbed the harp and getting an idea, she walked back down the stairs and went outside, she sat on the bench just by the house and sitting in her usual position, she began to play a melody with the harp whilst drinking all the rest of the drink. Then the trouble began, Lyra failed to notice that the drink was alcoholic and imported from Las Pegasus as part of Bon Bon's monthly drink prescription. Lyra had completely forgotten all about it but it was too late, she was already beginning to feel a little drunk.

"Hmm, that's not how I err...play with the harp." she said as she began to feel different. "Maybe if...I correct...this..."

But it was no good, her harp was now sounding out of tune according to everypony else who bothered to listen and she began to feel a little frustrated.

"Ugh, come on....you s-s-s-s-stupid harp..." she exclaimed at the harp, not aware that the drink was now affecting her concentration. "...why...I oughta err kick...you...in the f-f-f-flank!"

Letting her anger developing, she threw her harp on the ground in disgust, luckily but not even caring, her harp didn't break but a part of it was now bent. She then got off the bench and began to walk around Ponyville which thankfully was beginning to look deserted as she began to stumble around the town, not knowing where she was going.

Meanwhile at the restaurant, Steve and Bon Bon were sitting comfortably as they had a table for two in the corner which was fine to them as they didn't want to have any attention on them, seeing as it's their first date. They had just ordered thier food and treated themselves to a bottle of wine to go along with their evening.

"Now this is what I call restaurant service." Steve commented. "Is it always busy like this?"

"Only on special occasions." Bon Bon replied, "Like the night we're having."

"And you are looking incredibly beautiful this evening, if I say so."

Bon Bon began to blush and beginning to look a little pink.

"Your blushing is quite sweet too." he added.

"Awww stop it, you're gonna make me weak at the hooves."

Steve poured a glass of wine for the both of them, before placing down the bottle and holding Bon Bon's left hoof.

"Are you blushing too?" she asked.

"I am a little, since I haven't been on a date for a long time." he replied.

Just then, a waiter came along with plates of food.

"That must be our meals." he added as they got served with thier ordered foods.

A few minutes later outside, Lyra was going through the short alleyways and accidentally walked into Berry Punch.

"Ooof!"

They both lost thier footing and landed by the plastic trash bins in a huge pile.

"Yuck!" Lyra exclaimed as she removed a peeled banana skin from her foreleg.

"You...why don't you...watch where...you're going?" Berry said as she tried to make it a proper sentence.

"No you..."

Lyra then got up after struggling to stay on her hooves and then caught sight of the restaurant, things were about to get ugly...

Inside, Bon Bon and Steve had just finished thier meals and were looking into each other's eyes.

"You know, I think we can make it work." Bon Bon said.

"I feel the same way." Steve replied. "Despite our appearances, I am definitely sure that I want to be with you and love you."

"Even when we're kissing?"

"Especially when we kiss."

"Well, how about now, nopony's watching."

Just as they were about to kiss, the restaurant doors opened and in came Lyra who was now absolutely wasted, still holding the now empty bottle in her hoof.

"Where...are they?!" she asked, almost yelling with her voice.

Steve and Bon Bon looked over at where the voice was from and Bon Bon facehoofed first whilst Steve looked stunned.

"Oh for the love of Celestia..." she moaned, "...what she gone and done now?"

"This is not good." he muttered.

"Aha!" Lyra exclaimed as she saw the two of them. "There you are...now can I...errr tell...you something?"

She was about to stumble towards them until two pony workers came and escorted her out of the restaurant.

"Nooo!" she whined, "Get...your hooves...off me...I have...errr my rights, you hear?!"

"Ugh! This is so embarrassing..." Bon Bon sighed as she covered her face which was now redder than ever. "I'm going to check up on her now."

"Alright, I'll come out with you too." he replied before he placed several bits on a small empty plate and then left the restaurant.

When they were outside, they spotted Lyra down one of the alleyways, she was sitting down with the empty bottle and was in tears.

Bon Bon sighed as she walked over to comfort her, she took the bottle away and looked at it.

"Oh for Celestia's sake! Why did you drink one of mine?" she asked calmly.

"I didn't mean to..." Lyra cried, "...I was...just so upset *sniff* that I wanted to cheer myself up by drinking."

"But you know you can't handle this kind of drink, we had this discussion before."

"I know...I'm sorry Bon Bon, but I was hurt when Steve told me the truth."

Steve suddenly felt like his heart was pierced

"Wait a minute, you're upset because Steve told you that he loves me?"

"Yeah...but now I feel really stupid for the way I acted...umm uh oh..."

Lyra cut herself off as she got to the nearest trash bin, stuck her head inside it and began to throw up.

"Oh Lyra...I'm so sorry to see you like this." Bon Bon said as she pulled Lyra into a comforting and caring hug. "Let's go home, we'll have a proper talk then."

"Lyra, I'm really sorry that I hurt your feelings." Steve apologized.

"No, it's alright." she replied as she began to wipe away her tears. "I was being too dramatic and I don't wanna get in the way of your date night."

"Are you sure?" Bon Bon asked.

"Yeah, I'll just go to the fountain and wash myself when no pony is looking."

Steve just blinked, unable to speak.

"Uhh, too much information there but okay, we'll see you in the morning."

"See you two, have a good night."

And with that, Steve and Bon Bon headed back to the house, thinking of how to finish thier wonderful date night despite Lyra's sorrow getting in the way for a moment. As for Lyra, she began to show a smile, she then got back up on her hooves and washed her face clean by the fountain. After she was done, she spotted a stallion that caught her attention...