Shy Rainbows

I stared at Fluttershy, suspense overwhelming me in the silence. I did not want to speak or move, it was a lovely quiet. I saw her tears stop and she looked at me, mouth slightly open and her face beginning to get pink as a sunset. "Y-you want me to share the nights.... With y-you?" I held out my hoof, and she took it and stood with a small shy smile on her face. Faust, please always make her wear that smile. "Yes. Its why I was looking about too. I'm lonely on my cloud and there's always room for two..." She took hardly a second to say yes. We flew up. When we got higher than she was used to, she meeped and held my hoof. But she always came out when she realized I was there. I never had thought of Flutters as something more besides the best friend one could have, but now as I flew with her, I felt something new.

We finally got to the Stargazing Cloud. I set her down gently then wiggled besides her. She looked down and yet again meeped. But this time she shocked me. She snuggled up next to me and, as if it were instinct, put by head on hers. We were locked in a hug for a second then blasted each other out if it. I pointed out stars and comets and constellations and she pointed outbowls and moths and formations in the moon. We were at peace. Then, I did something I would never have thought I would have done; I touched my nose to hers and it was, in awkward but sphapoy harmony, we slept.We both had dreams about each other.