I Didn’t Mean to Marry Him, I Swear!
It was a lovely evening in Ponyville. The Mane Six were hanging out in Princess Twilight’s castle, to have a slumber party and with it, fun, much to Twilight’s delight. Twilight rarely had slumber parties nor saw her friends as often anymore. All six of them were too busy living their lives as who they were meant to be, although they hung out as often as possible. Rarely did all six of them meet unless there was some threat.
Pinkie, the party planner, was in charge of planning the games they would play. Applejack was in charge of creating dinner for all six of them. Rarity created lovely decorations for the castle in celebration. Rainbow Dash had made sure it was going to be a clear sky that night, which had taken some approval from the new weather manager as it was supposed to be raining. They had only decided to allow clear skies lest Rainbow decided to attack them, something she looked like she was planning to do according to her facial expression. Fluttershy left all her critters with enough food for the night. Twilight made sure that nopony else was in the castle, not wanting anything to disturb their time together. She easily persuaded Starlight to have a sleepover with Trixie, and Spike to have guys’ night with Discord and Big Mac.
Twilight looked at all of her friends and gave them a smile, “Thank you for putting this much effort. It wasn’t necessary. I would have enjoyed it even if we went on a picnic or just sat down and spoke to one another.”
“Sugarcube,” Applejack began, “We’ve been planning this for months with ya. ‘Sides, once in a while ain’t much.”
Rarity nodded in agreement, “We do love being here with you. You seem awfully busy with your duties these days. You do need some more spa days to relax, darling.”
Rainbow rolled her magenta eyes, “Enough with the boring, sappy stuff! Pinkie, what’s the first activity?”
Pinkie bounced up and down, “Classical good old truth or dare! I’ll go first!”
“But first…” Pinkie said with dead seriousness in her voice, “I want all of us to Pinkie Promise that we will answer any truth questions with absolute honesty and do any dare that is within our power.” All six of them Pinkie Promised, although five of them knew that the sixth was being overdramatic with a game.
She looked at all of them one by one, pretending to think very hard on who to choose, “Hmmm.. Who to choose....”
“Twilight Sparkle!” Pinkie shouted suddenly, “Truth… or dare?”
Rolling her eyes once more, Rainbow said, “She’s gonna choose truth again.” Applejack shot her a quick glare, warning her to not ruin the game they were playing.
Rainbow protested, “What? It’s true! She always chooses truth.”
Twilight replied after getting slightly annoyed with Rainbow, “Dare.” Then the logical part of her mind started the function again and she realized that she had just chosen dare from Pinkie Pie.
Pinkie Pie pulled out an egg from her mane, “Egg-cellent…” She cracked it open and a strip of paper fell out. Pinkie quickly read the paper before managing to put the paper back into egg. The egg reattached itself and disappeared into her mane.
Twilight raised an eyebrow, “What’s in that paper?”
“Well, Rainbow and I came up with a super duper dare just in case you choose dare. By the way Rainbow, you owe me five bits since Twilight chose dare.” Rainbow groaned and hooved the bits over.
Pinkie put the bits in her mane as well, “Twilight Sparkle! I, Pinkie Pie, dare you to… get the reject box of letters, choose one without looking, accept it, and do whatever the letter says!”
Twilight gaped, “What? But I clearly rejected them for a reason!”
“A dare is a dare… Unless you’re going to break a Pinkie Promise,” Pinkie said with clear mischief and a hint of warning.
The alicorn knew that she didn’t have a choice. Facing Pinkie Pie’s wrath was worse than any possible thing she could ever agree with. She teleported the reject box from her work table and made it pop up on the table. Pinkie decided to mix the reject letters really quickly with one of her hooves while one of her other hooves blindfolded Twilight with a napkin found on the table.
Afterwards, Twilight choose a random letter with her hoof and took the blindfold off.
Pinkie snatched it away from her, “Let’s see what Twi is gonna accept!”
She read the letter:
“Dear Twilight Sparkle.
It is within my firm belief that we are bound by the stars to become married. I asked all of my servants and they all agreed willingly that we are destined to be together and live happily. I would prefer to live in your castle so we won’t need to see those other annoying princesses. Twilight, you are my stars and you’re a hero with clearly plenty of fame. I’m more famous. We are fated to be together, married under the dazzling stars. We will share fame together and since we’re both royalty, we will have many servants! I’m also the best so you should marry me in a week.
Accept this. We are meant to be.
Love,
Prince Blueblood”
Pinkie looked up to see that everypony else blanched, “What? This is going to be so fun! Prince Blueblood and Twilight are gonna be married!”
Twilight gulped, “Uhh Pinkie?”
“I’ll deliver the letter!” Pinkie said with a huge smile and failing to notice everypony else still gaping at the letter. She ran off and returned in an hour.
Pinkie gave another huge smile to the still gaping ponies, “Prince Blueblood is super delighted although he was being a bit of meanie. He’ll cheer up soon!”
Twilight shook her head rapidly, “Pinkie, please go back and tell him that I didn’t mean to accept the letter-”
Pinkie began singing, not paying her any attention, “Twilight Sparkle’s getting married~”