Chapter 3: Roadblock of Love

“I just don’t get why Fluttershy wanted us to come back another day,” Twilight said, “She normally has time to talk to us, well when she’s not talking to Discord.”

“Discord? Who’s that?” I asked her curiously.

“Oh he is a draconequus, it’s a mix of pony and a dragon. We haven’t found evidence of any more of them so he is the only of his race that we know of in Equestria. I guess that is sort of a good thing because he causes enough trouble.” She said.

“Well, it’s a wonder why Fluttershy always has her hands--- I mean hoofs full.” I said, quickly correcting myself. “She said we could still see her today, correct?”

“Yes. She said she was busy yesterday feeding her animals so we are coming to visit her today.” She said. “I do hope she is able to see us, I really couldn’t think of any reason why she wouldn’t be able to.” She said.

“Maybe she was meeting with Discord.” I said raising one of my eyebrows.

“Oh. You mean like that? No, no, no, she just takes care of him. Before he was reformed, he was quite the chaos maker. She was able to reform him into a more relaxed and less-chaotic state, I suppose. He still plays tricks on us but they are less mean-spirited.”

“Well I guess that makes sense.” I said looking up at the sky pondering what she had just told me.

Not looking where I was going, I walked straight into a tree lining the entrance to Fluttershy’s Cottage.

“Well we’re here now,” I said sarcastically, “And so is this red mark on my face.”

Twilight giggled and knocked on Fluttershy’s door.

“Well well well, if it isn’t Twilight Sparkle.” A voice said opening the door. I noticed the creature’s appearance and assumed this was Discord, the draconequus.

“Hello, Discord. We would like to speak with Fluttershy. Is she here?” She asked in a flat voice, ignoring the evident dry humor in his voice.

“Hm.” He said putting a paw (hoof?) to his chin and thinking. “I don’t think so, Fluttershy dear!” He shouted into the cottage, eliciting a “Coming!” from a sing-song voice in the back of the cottage.

“H-h-hello, T-t-twilight. H-hello Justin.” Fluttershy said to us. “C-c-come in, do have a seat… I-i-i mean if you want to.” she said beckoning to a small green couch in the living room.

“Well I must say this is quite a surprise.” Discord said walking out from the kitchen with a batch of hot cookies. My mouth began to water at the sight of them. “Ah ah. None for you.” He said watching me. “These are for the animals.” Discord said flinging one towards Angel, Fluttershy’s resident pest of a rabbit.

“So Twilight, Justin what did you want to talk about?” Fluttershy said, swirling the liquid in the cup in hooves around.

“Well Justin just wanted to know you a little better if you have the time. I know rabbit breeding season is coming up.” Twilight said.

“Oh yes it is I almost forgot.” Fluttershy said. “But you wanted to know me a little better Justin?”

“Hm… Oh yes, sorry I was looking out the window,” I said blushing hotly. “ That would be fine with me.”

“W-well, my name is Fluttershy and I live here,” She said gesturing to the small cottage that I was sitting in, “I take care of all types of lovely critters that happen to wander near me.” She said, playing with a wisp of her hair.

“Well, I’m Justin Marshall. I’m from Earth, I had two older brothers, Austin and Alexander, a younger sister, Elizabeth, and two slightly absent parents. Which now that I think about it wasn’t all that bad considering I had the rest of my family around.” I said shrugging.

“O-oh my, I wonder why your parents were never around. Well I guess that could be another story for a different time.” She said still playing with her hair.

God that face was cute. “Well, It is about lunchtime,” Twilight said, “And I brought some food, not knowing if we might be here for a little bit so here you go.” She said, opening the basket that was moved around the corner into our line of sight. She produced what looked like sandwiches with daisies and tulips, some hay “fries”, a box of crackers and what looked like wine.

“Twilight, Is that wine?” I asked, pointing towards the slim bottle that was levitating around filling up our cups.

“Hm? Oh, no, no. It’s one of my inventions of course. It’s somewhere between grape juice and apple juice. I haven’t been able to come up with a non-silly name other than ‘Grapple Juice’.” She said giggling.

“Well, pour me a glass. It sounds like it tastes as good as it sounds.” I said. “I might as well be dreaming then, sitting with my favorite out of the six.” I said under my breath.

“Awww, well isn’t that nice. Isn’t it now.” A voice came from above my head. “It would be a shame to have to pick and choose, wouldn’t it now?”

“Who said that?” I said getting up and looking around. “Who are- wait a second. That voice is familiar. Discord, get out of my ear.” I said, moving my hand toward my ear.

“Ouch, hey let me go!” Discord said, as I pulled him tail-first out of my aural tract. “You silly human, you can’t just hold me.” He grew to his normal size. Flattening me on the ground.

“Can’t……Breathe…….Help.” I managed, before Twilight lifted Discord off of me. “Thanks Twi. Discord, what was that for?” I asked him.

“I can’t go anywhere without people trying to shoo me away because I’m ‘annoying’, hhmph.” He said, crossing his, um, hoof and claw.

“Sorry, Discord. I meant no disrespect. I just was startled to feel something in my ear that shouldn’t be there, and,” I whispered to him, “Don’t tell them I said that. So shush.”

“Okay okay, I’m sorry for popping your personal bubble.” He winked at me then whispered, “Your secret is safe with me.” He promptly then disappeared in a puff of pink smoke.

“Well, that was unexpected.” Twilight said, “I guess he was partly jealous that we walked in on you and him having tea.” She said, gesturing to Fluttershy, who was sitting on the ground with her head in between her hooves.

“Well, nice to meet you Fluttershy.” I said, kneeling down and kissing her hoof, which prompted a face wide blush for both of us.

“Nice to meet you Justin. I hope you enjoyed my company.” She said quietly, rolling a lock of her pink hair in her hooves while looking at my feet.

“I did as well, I hope we do get to hang out in the future.” I said, opening the door to exit her house before I said something really stupid. “Goodbye!”

“Well, see you later Fluttershy.” Twilight said, walking out with me.

“Whew. That was one heck of a get together, hm?” I said, lightly nudging Twilight with my elbow.

“It was indeed, though I am still wondering, what were you and Discord talking about while I was conversing with Fluttershy. It looked like it was important.” She said reminiscing about what had taken place a few minutes ago.

“Oh it was nothing.” I said, working a kink out of my arm. “I just got annoyed that he was in my ear and he apologized and such. I think he’s actually pretty cool, you made him sound like he was a demon or something.” I said, gesturing towards Twilight.

“Well, he was extremely troublesome when we had our first encounter about a year ago. He made the streets out of soap, made it rain chocolate milk, and the clouds of cotton candy so that the pegasi couldn’t move them. And let’s not forget about what he did to the animals around here. He turned the rabbits into weird tall things and trample ponies.” She said with a small smile. “He really was a trouble-maker. Until the second encounter a few months ago. We gave Fluttershy the opportunity to try and reform him. And she seems to have done a pretty good job at it as well.” She said.

“That must have taken a while for her to do that. It seems as though he has had a lot of history with chaos magic.” I said, looking around. “It seems as though he is quite the character. I hope we can hang out with him more.”

“Hm,” Twilight said. “Why in equestria would you want to hang out with him? He wields chaos magic for Celestia’s sake!” She said, slowly raising her voice.

“Well, he seemed like a cool ‘guy’.” I said, air quoting the word guy. “I would still chill with him, although I do hope he doesn’t curse me or something.”

“I would stay away from him,” Twilight said, trotting a little closer to me, “because I care about you and I don’t want you to get hurt.”

Did my mind just draw a blank or did she really just say that? I fumbled for the right words, “Ahm, uh, Th-thanks Twilight. I care about you too.” AGH that was a stupid thing to say, now I look like twice the idiot I have been now, ugh.

“Wow, thank you. We should get back to my house before it gets too dark.” She said, turning away and blushing.

“Can we walk slowly at least?” I pleaded, “The sunset will be so awesome, and it’s nice to watch the end of the day. It always makes me feel so calm and collected. It is definitely good for laying on a blanket and watching the stars come out, and then waking up in the morning with a small layer of dew covering the pores in your face. I swear it’s the most relaxing thing you could ever imagine, probably more so than a massage. Wait what are you doing Twilight?” I asked, finally breaking out of my descriptive speech.

“Well, you said that it would be very relaxing so come on, we can watch the moon and the stars rise on the hill over here. It’s one of my favorite places to relax,” Twilight said, “I thought you might enjoy it as well.”

“Wow, Twilight, thanks.” I said, blushing, “I just thought you wanted to go home but, this is awesome. I hope it is really relaxing.” I laughed.

“Well, I am pretty stressed out so this is definitely a welcome activity.” There was a flash of light, a telescope appeared out of nowhere covered in a purple aura. “Also we can take a look at some of the stars closer.” She said, starting to walk up the the top of the hill.

“Well, let’s not keep the stars waiting!” I said sprinting up the hill. “Catch me if you can!”

“Oh yeah?” I heard the voice say behind me. There was a flash and she was at the top of the hill, already setting up her telescope and laying down the blanket for us to sit on. “Well come on already, I’ve been waiting forever.”

I rolled my eyes and jogged up to the crest of the hill and sat down next to her on the blanket. “Well, I guess you win. What should I do now, m’lady.” I said, with a bit of sarcasm while smiling.

“Well for starters, you are going to sit there and listen to a lecture about the universe!” She said excitedly, turning to face me. “Well it all began with a small dot of infinitely compressed matter, then it explo-” She stopped mid-sentence, looking at me and rolling her eyes.

Mainly because I had my head back, mouth open and drooling slightly. “Hrrrruk.” I grunted, slowly lifting my head and looking at her with half open eyes. “I’m sorry,” I said, quite sarcastically, “I seem to have drifted off in the middle of your lecture madam.”

“Stop it!” She said, whacking me with her hoof. “Look, the sun is setting. Wow, I’ve never actually seen it from outside, I’m always working so I never get to see it.” She said, sniffling.

“Well now's your chance to see it for real this time.” I said, laying down on the blanket. “Look the sun is setting.” I said pointing at the horizon.

“Oh my gosh, it looks even more beautiful than ever. Maybe it’s because I’m with my real best friend.” She said, leaning up against me, a dreamy edge in her voice.

I almost flipped out of my skin, not being used to female contact. “Wow, I um, thanks Twilight. You’re my best friend too.” AGH! STUPID STUPID STUPID. Why did I even say that, there go my chances of being with her. Wait, don’t I like Fluttershy……..This is all just so confusing.

“Justin? Are you okay?” Twilight asked me, “You seem like something is wrong. If you want you can tell me, I can try to help you.” She said, wrapping her hoof around my arm.

Do it, do it, do it. You’re going to have to tell her. “Twilight, there is something I have to tell you.” I said, sitting up and looking at her. “It’s important. So please listen.”

She sat up and looked at me. “Okay, what is it? Is there something wrong?” Her facial expression was one of worry.

“I wanted to tell you something a few days ago, but I didn’t have the nerve to say it in front of your friends.” I took a deep breath to calm my spazzing nerves. “It’s been bugging me ever since the third day I came here and, pshhhh, how do I say this?”

“What did you want to tell me?” She said, giving me a little nudge. “I’m sure it’s pretty important. I mean if you haven’t told me since then.”

DO IT! IT'S YOUR ONLY CHANCE, THERE’S NO BETTER TIME. “Okay Twilight, I’m going to tell you.” I said, “Promise not to freak out?”

“Yes, yes. I promise, cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” She said, waving her hoof around her chest, and face. “Now tell me.”

You got this, you got this. “Okay Twilight.” I said, my face turning bright red. “I love you! Not as a friend, as something more. A girlfriend…? No, as a mare.” I said, breathing a sigh of relief. Wow that felt like a weight off of my back.

“I never knew you felt that way about me,” Twilight said, blushing heavily. “I thought nopony would ever like me, much less be my marefriend or coltfriend.” She said tearing up. “I’m sorry if I don’t really know what to say, this is just a really new experience for me. I actually started liking you a few days after you came here. At first I was really confused at why, but I guess I just felt like you were more different than everypony else in the town. Not because you were human but because you had a more careful atmosphere around you. That’s really what made me so attracted to you.” She said.

“Thank you Twilight for just being there for me, and letting me sleep at your house while I’ve been here for the past week or so.” I said. “What about we look at some stars, hm?”

“Oh yeah!” She said, walking over to the telescope and looking at the sky. “Here’s one thing I wanted to show you.”

Kiss her, do it. It’s now or never. Perfect timing, life is all about that. Getting up and walking over to the telescope I sat next to her and leaned in near to her. “Hey Twilight, I wanted to show you something.” I said.

“Okay what is i-” She was cut off as I put my lips against hers and kissed her deeply, She resisted for a second then started to push her tongue into my mouth. I pushed my tongue into hers and into her mouth. She made a moaning noise then we separated, a thin string of saliva connecting our mouths. “Woah, so that’s what a kiss is like.” She said.

“I hope I wasn’t to bad. It’s my first time at it.” I said blushing again.

“I hope I wasn’t that bad, It’s my first time with a boyfriend or coltfriend so I probably did pretty badly.” She said tearing up.

“Twilight,” I said reassuringly, “If you were bad, I probably was horrible. I had no relationship or friendship with a girl so, talk about inexperienced.” I said, reaching my hand up and scratching behind her ear.

“Mmmmm, that feels good.” She said, “Oh, I totally forgot! The Horsehead Nebula is visible tonight. We have to look at it!” She said moving the telescope around.

“When you’re done madam,” I said, ever so politely, “If I may have a look, if it so pleases you.”

“Absolutely,” She said smiling, “You can keep scratching my ear though. That would also please me.”

I laughed then brought my hand around to scratch her ears. “I think I’m doing a pretty good job.” I said, hearing a satisfied hum, I then looked through the telescope at the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my entire life. It looked like someone had thrown a water balloon of colors and it had exploded in the sky. I heard a yawn next to me, interrupting my deep thoughts about the heavens.

“I’m *yawn* going to take a nap.” Twilight said, laying her head down on my lap. “G‘Night Spike. G‘Night Justin.”

“Goodnight Twilight.” I said laying down on the blanket covered by the cool, crisp night air. “Goodnight my love, sleep well.”

Author's Note

Holy crap guys. This chapter took a while. And So did my writers block, procrastination and annoying computer that reset my document a few times.

Well, it's sort of long, but I hope you enjoy this chapter.