Getting to Know You

by TheBookish_Disaster

Putting it my way, but nicely

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"Dearest Princess Twilight Sparkle,

I would be positively honored to go out with you- eh, I mean, on a friendly outing, of course...

Hah, and would you imagine that when Celestia kicked me out of the 'important meeting' I thought nothing else exciting

would happen!? Well, see you on Monday, my dear! I can't wait to spend some good quality time with you, only the two of us~

Your Dearest Discord~ <3"

The letter was short but she had to admit, the paper was really nice. Even the small drawing of herself and Discord on the bottom of the paper wasn't that annoying, compared to other things Discord had done.

Twilight's thoughts were interrupted when all her friends spontaneously started giggling. She looked up to find them all on their previous spots, Rarity and Applejack looking slightly suggestive towards her, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie almost falling off the bed from laughing so hard, and Fluttershy, she was trying to cover up her tiny giggles with her sweather-cloved hooves.

-"What's so funny?"- Twilight raised an eyebrow.

She only recieved more laughter. The alicorn rolled her eyes, as she pushed two of her friends off the bed, who, in conclusion, weren't very happy about that.

-"What gives!"- Rainbow yelled, not laughing anymore.

-"Why are you laughing! I mean, yeah, it's good that Discord accepted, but why is that funny!?"

The mares looked knowingly amongs each other, each wielding her own little smirk. The whole exchange made the princess feel uneasy.

-"Twilight... have you ever been flirted with?"- Rarity suddenly asked, causing the rest to snicker again.

Twilight's face turned into beed-red shock as she stared back at her fashionista friend.

-"W-what does that have to do with anything?"- she questioned, her expression turning into a scowl, trying to recover from the previous embarrassment.

-"Dicord is flirting with you, silly!"- Pinkie blurted out.

All ponies except the purple, blushing mess in the middle of them, started 'ooh'-ing facetiously.

-"D-don't be silly, girls!"- Twilight started again, trying to brush of the obvious humiliation that was covering her up from head to hooftips- "Why would you think that? It says right here, we're only friends!"

The lovely piece of paper got snatched by the spectrum-maned mare, who's eye immediately went wide and then a smirk appeared on her face. She turned to her friend Fluttershy, waving the paper in her hoof.

-"Flutts, I didn't know Discord can draw!"

-"What d'ya mean?"- questioned the apple farmer- "Discord, the other day, was talkin' 'bout everythin' by drawin' some fancey paintings in dark rooms!"

-"Hmm, his first painting could have been considered a kind of amateur try, but the portrait he made later on was simply lovely!"- commented Rarity, enthusiasticly.

-"For one thing you're right!"- exclaimed Pinkie, a paintbrush and paint in both her hooves from Celestia knows where... (Maybe Discord would know?)

-"You're being ridiculous."- the alicorn complained, now clutching the end of her sheet.

-"And you have a date!"- Rarity threw back, causing another roll of 'Ooh's.

-"Regular, friendly outing!!!"

-"Aight, aight, calm down, sugercube! We're jus' joking! Ain't that right, y'all!"- Applejack said, looking around her. The others nodded, their expressions changed to serious all of a sudden.

Twilight sighed.

-"How about we just go to bed already."

The five agreed and soon, slumber fell atop the little ponies.


Monday morning.

9:45

Twilight Sparkle was ready.

She had already scheduled a meeting with Discord at 9:50 infront of the cinema.

The princess' list was already made and checked at least 50 times that day.

-8:00- Get up
-8:10- Take a shower/Brush teeth and coat/mane
-8:30- Have breakfast
-8:50- Read a couple of my books on Friendships and Relationships
-9:15- Send a letter to Rarity
-9:18- Letter gets resent to the rest of my friends
-9:30- Reconsider my life choises
-9:40- Walk to the Ponyville cinema
-9:50- Meet Discord
-10:00- Movie starts
-11:48- Movie ends
-11:50- Say 'bye' and go home!

Twilight rolled back up her list and looked around the hall. Surprisingly, even tho the movie was out for a long time now, a lot of ponies were there specifically to watch Deadpon. She didn't really know much about it anyways. She hadn't watched it. The general information on the princess' mind was that the movie was based on a popular Manevel comic and the main character, Deadpon, had a sort of 'chaotic-neutral' role. At least that's what she managed to make out of Rainbow Dash's enthusiastic rambles...

The alicorn looked up at the clock stuck to the wall.

9:55

'Where is he!?'

Suddenly, like an answer to her silent anger, the popcorn in the popcorn machine behind her started popping more rapidly than before. Twilight turned around, slowly stepping back, seemingly the only pony noticing the weird action.

All out of the blue, the lid on the machine popped up, hit the ceiling and, with a loud bang, it fell right on the spot she had been a couple of seconds before jumping back.

Out of the glass box, in a swirl of popcorn, came out a large, noodle-like figure. If this was the first time she ever saw him, Twilight was sure she'd mistake him for a tragically reathached ragdoll. There he stood, infront of her now lying form, the lord of Chaos, Discord.

He smirked down at his 'friend', bowing low while taking off his tophat, more popcorn coming out of it.

-"My dearest, Twilight~"- he acknowledged, standing up again and putting the hat back on his left horn.

Twilight glared at him, then her eyebrows popped up in surprise as the top hat was now magically gone, then glared again, realising the stupidity of questioning Discord.

-"Hello... Discord..."- she said, his name rolling down her tongue with consideration. A small drop of regret falling off as well.

Discord quickly took out a small napkin out of a pocket in his fuzzy, brown furr and passed it to the princess, his smirk not washing off even in the slightest bit.

-"You have a bit of regret left there, here you go..."

Twilight raised an eyebrow.

-"You're late."

-"Oh, am I!"- the draconeques exclaimed, taking out a watch out of his ear and quickly placing it on his wrist, showing it to the alicorn.

It said 18:27.

Twilight stared at the watch for a moment, then looked back at Discord in confusion. He was quietly staring back, an expression of silent suffering taking over his features.

-"Did... did I ever tell you how bad I am with time..."

Even so, he was still late. The room had been left empty, in excludion of the weird duo. Both looked back at the clock on the wall.

9:59

Both immediately started shifting and the sound of claw-snapping and poofing was heard before Twilight's hooves touched warm, soft sand. Looking around, she saw the beach, a few tikki bars nearby, and Discord, who's leg was now stuck in a folding chair, as he jumped around in a panicked state.

"Horseapples!"- he yelled, a couple of apple falling off the nearby coconut trees, as he snapped his talons again.

10:05

They were finally in the teather, watching the usual trailers. Discord offered Twilight popcorn from his own giant box. Twilight declined.


11:50

The movie had a slight... unexpected combination of drama and comedy... But she could see why Dash liked it so much. Twilight had to admit, some of the jokes made her snicker. And she had to also admit, Discord wasn't that unenjoyable during the movie, of course, as long as he stayed quiet, which, he completely broke after the movie had ended.

-"So, Twily, did you like the movie? I found it extremely enjoyable! Especially the part with the spelling... So, anyways! When are we going to meet again!? How about right now!"

Twilight snapped back into reality after the end of his sentence.

-"Wait, um... I don't really think this would be a good idea..."

-"Well, why not, Princess?"

-"Well, um... you see... um..."- the alicorn looked anywhere but the draconeques by her side as she tried hard to think.

As if fate herself wanted her to die, her eyes fell back on Discord, his large red and yellow eyes sparkling with anticipation as he awaited her answer. Darn it.

-"Well, um... we could... go back to my castle and hang out... there- GAH!"- suddenly, the breath was taken out of her lungs, as she was lanched upwards in a bone-crushing hug, her back feet dangling at least 2 meters off the ground.

-"I knew you couldn't resist me!"- he yelled in glee, suddenly dropping her back to the ground, his ears folding backwards, a sheepish expression showing up on his face as he kicked some dust off the ground- "Heh, I meant... Friendship, yaaay!"

Twilight stared at him, face unamuzed, as she rolled her eyes, then smiled.

-"Well, I have something planned~"

Discord smiled too. This was going great!


This was going terrible!

-"What are we even doing now!?"- Discord yelled, as he glared at Twilight from his spot on one of the larger cushions of the library.

Twilight was sitting on a cushion opposite of him, reading a book for at least 2 hours now, not giving her friend even the slightest bit of the attention.

In the sign of being ignored, Discord turned around crossing his arms and angrily murmurring:

-"Stupid mares. Stupid Twilight. Stupid 'Don't do any weird stuff or I'll kick you out of my castle!'..."

-"What was that?"- for the first time in forever, the mare in question lifted her gaze from her book to raise an eyebrow towards him.

The draconeques turned back towards her, glaring rather loudly.

-"You aren't giving me any attention! You are ignoring your own friend!"- he screached in anger.

-"I dunno. All my other friends can tolerate me reading in their presence."- she calmly answered.

-"You, you..."- he glared down at the pony infront of him, who was reading again. How did it end up like this? She was the one desperate for his attention earlier! How did he end up begging for her's instead!? He frowned.

-"How do you always manage to put things your way."

In all shocks, the alicorn smirked.

She lifted her gaze up, looking him straight in the eyes, that taunting smile still on her face.

-"I do it nicely."


Author's Note

Here it is! New chapter! I am saying this now, I probably won't post any new chapters for the next week or so, since I'll be traveling, but I will try to write as soon as possible. Promise! :twilightsheepish:

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