First Love

Dawn arrived all too soon for both ponies. Neither had got much sleep the night before and were still extremely tired. Rarity yawned, "Ugh, I don't know about you but I am still really tired."

Fluttershy found this comment as a no brainer. She replied, "Well you are going to be tired. You didn't get much sleep last night."

Rarity asked, "What about you Fluttershy, are you still tired?"

Fluttershy snapped, "Look, Unloved Fluttershy is still tired but most of all, she is hungry. Let's go get something to eat."

The two headed out of the castle to find something to eat. Fluttershy began to eat some berries while Rarity looked around and cringed. The only thing to eat was berries. She began to gag which was quickly noticed by Fluttershy. She sighed, "Nothing is good enough for you now is it? You just can't eat anything wild, can you?"

Rarity replied, "You know I'm used to the finer things, or at least you used to know." She again began to sob, "But now you have either become a ruffian like Applejack or you are just doing this to test me."

Fluttershy simply grunted and began to gorge herself on berries again. Rarity began to realize that if she is to win back the love of the one pony who has been attracted to her for quite some time, that she would need to either start roughing it more like her, try to seduce her or both. Rarity began to eat the berries the way Fluttershy was. It was all she could do to not gag but she managed to choke them down. Fluttershy yawned, "I don't know about you but Unloved Fluttershy really wants to get some rest. She is going back inside to get some more sleep."

Rarity added, "That sounds like a good idea to me. Let's get some more sleep."

They headed back into the castle and laid on the floor. Refreshed and not quite as stressed, Fluttershy sprawled out like she would in her bed while Rarity curled up in a ball feeling bad about everything that had happened since the night of the storm. She began to weep, "Rarity, if you are to win back her love, you are going to have to show her you truly love her by staying out here with her no matter what, no matter how unpleasant it may be."

An hour passed and Fluttershy had fallen asleep while Rarity lay there contemplating what she should do. One small part of her just wanted to leave but an increasingly large part of her believed that she could get her friend to come around and see that she does love her. As Fluttershy was laying there, Rarity approached her, knelt down and began to massage her shoulders, which caused Fluttershy to stir. After ten minutes Fluttershy woke up, looked around and smiled up at Rarity and asked, "Rarity, what are you doing?"

Rarity replied, "Well I....I'm just trying to help you calm down. I know you're really stressed."

Fluttershy smiled, "I am not all that stressed but it does feel good. Thank you Rarity."

This brought a smile to Rarity's face. It wasn't so much as to what she said, it was that she stopped calling herself "Unloved Fluttershy." Despite this, she knew that she couldn't just start talking to her like she used to, before what happened on that dark and stormy night that put Fluttershy in the state she had fallen into. She continued to massage Fluttershy's shoulders and replied, "Of course Fluttershy, anything for you darling."

Fluttershy sat up and pulled Rarity into a tight embrace and began to massage Rarity's shoulders in return. What had seemed to be chilly relations between the two finally seemed to be returning to a sense of normalcy which brought a great amount of relief to Rarity. She pulled Fluttershy close to her and moved in for a kiss, but she pulled back. She said, "Rarity, I'm not sure if we're ready for this. We still have a lot to talk about."

Rarity asked, "Whatever do you mean darling? You don't seem as upset as you did earlier."

Fluttershy replied, "I'm not quite as upset as I was but that doesn't mean that things have returned to normal between us. That night when you kicked me out of bed and yelled at me is still fresh in my mind and it hurts that you first sent Twilight to talk to me about this rather than coming to me directly that morning."

Rarity sighed, "Fluttershy, I have told you many times that I reacted the way I did was because I was in a state of shock to wake up with you on top of me kissing me and as far as why I didn't come talk to you directly was because I was scared of how you would react. I was worried you would react even worse than you did when I first got out here."

Fluttershy rolled her eyes and replied, "I might have, I might not have. We can't go back and change things so all we can do is move forward."

Rarity sighed, "I know."

They decided to drop the issue and sit and reflect for the rest of the day and going into the night. As it got dark in the castle Rarity couldn't help but think to herself that perhaps that would be the night she could win Fluttershy back. She remembered that night when Fluttershy made her move on her and decided that the time had come for her to do the same had arrived.