Pinkie’s Private Apology

It's Valentine's Day at Canterlot High, and everyone was enjoying the holiday. Students have been giving people Valentine's Day cards, and expressing their love by giving them gifts, such as candy and flowers. Normally, the holiday was inspired by a lost idol in the form of a Cupid, who shoots arrows with love at the end of them. If anyone was struck by it, he or she would fall in love with the first person at first sight. But that would be a different case.

A student named Bubble Goo was a sucker for Valentine's Day. He would even wish for it to be Valentine’s Day everyday. It made him look like an extraordinary gentlemen who believes in chivalry, respecting girls for what they are and was willing to impress them. For this year, he decided to go out with someone instead of impressing just to show his love for this holiday. It wouldn't be easy to find, but Bubble might go very far carrying a big heart.

On the first of February, a beep alarmed the speakerphone before Principal Celestia spoke. “Attention, CHS Today’s the first day of February, which starts the countdown of thirteen days until the Valentine's Day dance. To start off the festivities, students willing to participate can go to the gym. There, you'll find two buckets - one for boys and the other for girls. Write your name on a small sheet of paper and place your sheet in the basket. Entries are until tomorrow, when Principal Luna will take out the sheets from the two baskets and pick the two students as Special Valentines. We hope you students have a great time.”

Everyone was either excited or nervous after hearing the announcement. Bubble Goo, who was thrilled to do it, gathered his supplies from his locker. He then took out his stake of notes from his backpack and wrote his name on it.

“I am so happy for this holiday,” He exclaimed. “It doesn't matter what girl I'm hanging out with. I'm always good at it...”

He made his way into the gym with a pep in his step before putting his name into the boy’s basket. At the same time, he came across a pink-haired girl named Pinkie Pie, who put her name in the girl’s basket, much to Bubble’s dismay. He had a thought about talking to her beforehand, but the thought hadn't crossed his mind, even now.

“Can't wait for this awesome Valentine's Day dance!” She hopped cheerfully.

Yesterday, almost everyone at Canterlot High placed their names in the buckets. Everyone was anticipating on who they're going to be paired with, The Mane Seven talked about their potentials in the hallways.

“Is everyone excited for this time of the year?” Pinkie Pie asked with a smile.

“Kind of...” Fluttershy said softly.

“What do you mean Fluttershy?”

“I'm just not prepared for me pairing with someone I never went out with….”

“Wait. You didn't put you name in the girl’s basket because you never hung out a boy before?” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. Fluttershy shook her head to answer Dash.

“Well, did everyone put their names in the girl's basket?” Pinkie Pie asked as well.

“Unfortunately, no.” Sunset Shimmer retorted. “You see Pinkie, we really don't hang out a lot of guys because we always have each other. And no offense, but Valentine's Day isn't our type of holiday to celebrate.”

“What do you mean?”

Then Applejack filled in on a memory of last year regrettably. “It's not that boys are gross jus’ because we don't wanna be mean to them. It's just that boys try way too hard to impress us. Last year, so many boys gave me chocolate all the time in the Valentine's Day season jus’ ta get a lil’ nibble on me.”

As soon as Applejack took out all the chocolate she got from last year along with the bag filled with so much candy, which was luckily still in good condition, everyone was surprised.

“How many boys give you that much candy?” Rainbow Dash's eyes widened at the sight of the haul.

“Thirteen boys, and then some. Hell, they keep sayin’ I'm the most attractive piece of cutie-pie in the group.”

“What about Rarity?” Rainbow turned to the fashionista.

“I was sick, darling...” Rarity stated, glaring at Pinkie Pie.

“Oh, Sorry. Must've been that snowball fight party from last year...”

“What made you think I was going to enjoy a snowball fight party? You know well I don't like my clothes getting wet!” Rarity argued.

“I'm just excited that last year was supposed to be your time pairing up with a boy.”

“I found boys completely annoying, okay?” Rarity boasted shamelessly. Pinkie agreed with her, but still living up to a claim that one boy can make a difference for any girl.

“I think the boy I'm going to be pairing with will love me like crazy!” Pinkie winked. It wasn't long before Principal Celestia and Luna came into the gym and announced to everyone with the baskets in their hands.

Luna was the first to state the announcement. “Alright, everybody. The time has come! Now, what we're going to do is to see who will pair with whom. I’m picking out one of the tags from the girls bucket, while Celestia is picking out some of the tags from the boys bucket. Once we have two of the tags, the two genders will pair up.”

“So, I hope everyone in Canterlot High will enjoy this Valentine’s Day experience.” Celestia Celestia and Luna began to take their hands into the basket and pull out one of the tags before announcing the first two names.

For the next ten minutes, everyone got into pairs. However, the last two people who didn't get paired up were Bubble Goo and Pinkie Pie.

“I'm very sorry, Bubble Goo, but there aren’t any girl tags left. So, you'll be paired up with Pinkie Pie.” Luna apologized as she showed him the girl who was only available. Pinkie Pie turned to Bubble Goo with a smiling wave, which made him blush a little bit.

Bubble Goo decided to walk up to her and greet her. “Hello.”

“Hi!” She greeted back, which surprised him.

“Woow! You really surprised me!”

“Well, I love being hyped up, especially when I'm throwing parties all the time. And for this Valentine's Day dance, I’m going to be in charge.”

Bubble nodded. “That’s great for you, Maybe I can help with-”

He got cut off when Pinkie Pie decided to run past him and decorate the whole gym for the party in seconds. Bubble Goo was impressed with her energy. He never meant someone this hyper before. But, he'd consider her still respectful under all that vigor.

“You don’t have to help me. I always got everything planned ahead for every type of party comes.” Pinkie Pie returned back to Bubble Goo, standing in front of him.

“Well, yeah... but that wasn’t what I was going to tell you.”

“Oh. Then, what do you want to help me with?” Pinkie Pie tilted her head.

“It doesn't matter right now. We have a lot of time to talk about our feelings. Anyway, I’m Bubble Goo, and Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday of the year.”

“Really?” Pinkie asked.

“Yes I loved this sinc-” Bubble tried to explain, but got cut off again when Pinkie interupted him.

“Valentine's Day is mostly the saddest time of the year. People always gets the worst pairing ever! I mean, I don’t like it when some people complained that they don’t like girls.” Pinkie exclaimed, which offended Bubble.

“What? This holiday isn’t sad. It’s just that people have different opinions. I mean, did you ever hang out-” He got cut off again when the school bell ring, causing Pinkie Pie to go to her next class.

“No time to talk! I have to go! See ya later!” Pinkie Pie waved and skedaddled out of the gym, abandoning her pairing partner. Bubble Goo felt a bit disappointed, but his spirit wouldn't give up easily..

“Okay no problem, me and Pinkie have more than ten days to know each other. I know she’s in my cooking class, so maybe I can ask her if she can come to my house for tonight.” Bubble said to himself. Bubble Goo headed to his next class thinking about what him and Pinkie Pie together.