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A Delicate Balance

by JapaneseTeeth
Twilight struggles with the fact that her feelings for one of her friends may have turned romantic.

What happens when you realize that your feelings for one of your friends aren't quite the same as your feelings for the rest of them? Do you just prefer some friends for others, or is it a sign of something deeper? What do you do with those feelings? Hide them? Admit them? And how will the rest of your friends react when they find out?

Twilight is going to have to do her best to find the answers, because they're anything but obvious.

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Yes, this is a story about romance, but I'm trying to use it to explore the relationships between the characters and see how they'd really react if romantic feelings ever did crop up, and how such a development would impact the cast as a whole.

Now with a TvTropes page!

There's also a dramatic reading in progress on youtube, here.

And also an updated verison of the cover, courtesy of Novel Idea.

Everyone
Complete
Slice of Life
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Romance
 
CTMAS

280664 words: Estimated about 23 hours to read
Download:textHTMLePUB

36 Chapters:

  1. The Sun Rising 2012-07-20 01:46:15 UTC
    5418
  2. Love's Alchemy 2012-12-14 01:04:55 UTC
    5753
  3. The Dream 2012-10-11 16:44:21 UTC
    8161
  4. The Undertaking, Part 1 2012-10-11 16:49:10 UTC
    5614
  5. The Undertaking, Part 2 2012-10-11 16:51:24 UTC
    9940
  6. Love's Usury 2012-10-11 16:53:41 UTC
    7786
  7. Confined Love 2012-12-14 02:17:43 UTC
    12430
  8. The Harbinger (to the Progress) 2012-11-04 01:07:00 UTC
    5558
  9. Break of Day 2012-11-16 02:47:36 UTC
    7876
  10. Community 2012-12-13 20:21:01 UTC
    11107
  11. Love's Diet 2013-01-14 01:28:57 UTC
    8349
  12. On the Progress of the Soul 2013-01-23 21:53:45 UTC
    5670
  13. Go and Catch a Falling Star 2013-02-12 01:51:37 UTC
    10107
  14. Sweetest Love, I do not go... 2013-02-27 22:57:07 UTC
    8223
  15. A Lecture Upon the Shadow 2013-03-17 23:06:35 UTC
    10335
  16. The Paradox 2013-04-01 22:19:51 UTC
    6492
  17. A Burnt Ship 2013-04-19 20:11:26 UTC
    7531
  18. Love's Growth 2013-05-18 00:43:11 UTC
    9393
  19. That Time and Absence Proves Rather Helps than Hurts to Loves 2013-06-08 20:49:22 UTC
    6313
  20. A Fever 2013-07-14 20:39:08 UTC
    8630
  21. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 2013-08-02 00:36:54 UTC
    5450
  22. The Calm 2013-09-07 16:37:12 UTC
    7580
  23. No Man Is An Island 2013-10-04 01:02:42 UTC
    9584
  24. The Blossom 2013-10-24 22:56:07 UTC
    7388
  25. The Triple Fool 2013-11-16 16:56:29 UTC
    7259
  26. A Jet Ring Sent, Part 1 2013-12-16 22:46:55 UTC
    7436
  27. A Jet Ring Sent, Part 2 2014-01-13 20:39:13 UTC
    7074
  28. Elegy III: Change 2014-02-03 21:56:37 UTC
    7038
  29. An Anatomy of the World 2014-03-13 20:19:28 UTC
    11852
  30. Daybreak 2014-04-11 20:17:58 UTC
    8442
  31. The Bait 2014-05-17 19:21:20 UTC
    5660
  32. The Ecstasy 2014-06-19 22:05:09 UTC
    5736
  33. Disinherited 2014-06-30 20:32:42 UTC
    6088
  34. Negative Love 2014-08-19 22:15:24 UTC
    5772
  35. Air and Angels 2014-09-13 15:28:14 UTC
    6530
  36. The Good Morrow 2014-10-13 19:59:42 UTC
    11089