Love is Amazing....ly terrifying!!!

It had been a few weeks since my talk with Summer, and since I had told her how I felt about her. We had still hung out and talked, and we seemed to have grown closer now that I had been honest with her. Still no direct declaration of love, but all the indications were there. Little things she said and did that made me question if perhaps she really did share my feelings.

I found myself in her pleasant company yet again as we sat in the shade of a tree, on a hill overlooking Ponyville, a picnic basket between us. I nibbled at a daisy sandwich and glared daggers at a couple of small ants that had come to investigate our food. I satisfied them by placing a few little pieces of my bread crust in the grass, and they left us alone.

"Fireblaze?"

"Hmm?"

"I like you alot."

I nearly choked on my sandwich but managed to avoid it, and swallowed before I looked over at her. It wasn't the first time she'd said it, but something in her tone was different this time.

"I like you alot too." I returned, smiling.

She snickered. "No you don't. You love me." Her eyes twinkled at me.

"Well, I mean, yeah. You already know that." I replied, tossing a bit of daisy from my sandwich at her and getting her right on her muzzle.

"Why you!" She sputtered.

She jumped at me over the picnic basket, tackling me, and I let out a yelp followed by laughter as we rolled around in the grass like a couple of foals in a schoolyard fight, each of us vying for dominance over the other. I wasn't trying all that hard, since I knew she could easily win anyway. We finally stopped rolling and I ended up flat on my back with her laying on me, pinning me under her as she grinned victoriously while I panted for breath.

"Do you surrender?" She asked, just as out of breath as I was.

"Do I? Hmmm..." I pretended to think, and then employed a sneaky attack by tickling her sides with my wings.

"Gah!" She yelped, falling off me in a fit of adorable giggles.

I took that chance and pounced, pinning her under me as I put my muzzle close to hers, grinning widely. "Do you surrender?"

For a moment she just stared up at me, eyes twinkling with mischief, then she moved her head closer to me and kissed me. I was so stunned I released my grip and fell over next to her. Instantly she rolled over and flopped on top of me again, snickering in victory as I simply lay there too shocked to move.

"I...that...you...so unfair." I spluttered out with some indignance.

With a quiet chuckle, she stared down into my eyes for a long moment, and then she kissed me again, rendering me utterly speechless as my heart thundered loudly enough to be heard by both of us. And in the back of my head i was screaming in excitement, as well as hoping with all I had that maybe, just maybe, she was finally going to tell me she loved me too.

She broke the kiss and smiled at me, her face an adorable shade of red, and then leaned close to my ear, which twitched in eager anticipation of what she would say. She leaned closer, and closer, til I could feel her breath, and then....

Nom.

"Gah!" I yelped as she bit my ear, though more from surprise than anything else. It wasn't painful. "Hey!"

She laughed as I shoved her off into the grass and then let out a startled eep as I snatched her up in my forelegs and flew over to the nearby pond.

"Fireblaze? Fireblaze, what are you-?"

I snickered as I dove down through the air, pulling up just short of the water, and let her drop. She shrieked as she hit the cold water, vanishing for a moment before popping back into view.

"FIREBLAZE!" She glared up at me.

I doubled up in mirth, laughing hysterically, barely keeping myself hovering in the air. And then I felt hooves grabbing me. Summer had flown up, dripping wet from the pond, and was smirking.

"How do you put out a fire? With water!"

"GAH!" I yelled as she flew down with me and shoved me into water. When I came back up she was laughing at me. "OH THAT DOES IT!"

She eeped and tried to fly off, but I nabbed her and dragged into the pond with me, where I proceeded to splash her unmercifully with massive waves of clear blue.

"Surrender!" I yelled through both our laughter. "Surrender and I release you!"

"Never!" She vanished under the surface, and a second later I was yanked under by an unseen force. I came up coughing and spluttering, to find her giggling.

"How dare you!" I huffed in mock rage.

Lifting myself out of the water, I dove down on top of her, sending us both under. We came up spitting and sputtering, and then laughed at ourselves. We climbed up on the bank and sprawled in the sun to dry out, still laughing. I rolled on my back and sighed in contentment.

After spending awhile sprawled in the warm sun, we were dry and rested up, and Summer finally sat up and stretched. "I think its time to pack up lunch. I need to head to Sugarcube Corner to pick up some baked goods from Pinkie."

"Oh, ok." I nodded, not really wanting to part ways. "And I....need to go practice some flight stuff." That sounded lame.

She chuckled and helped pack up before heading off to do her thing, and I watched until she was out of sight before I picked up the basket and flew towards Cloudsdale, my mind still reeling with all the afternoon's events.

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I had barely arrived home when a prismatic blur blazed past me and crashed into my sofa, knocking me over in the process.

"What the...RAINBOW!" I picked myself up and rolled my eyes. "So good of you to just...fly in."

"Soooo how'd it go?" She asked, ignoring my comment. "How did she like the surprise picnic?"

"She liked it." I replied, flopping on the partially destroyed couch. "I mean, we had fun and alot of laughs."

Rainbow might claim to not be one for "mushy" stuff, but she was interested in how Summer and I got on, so she flopped into the chair opposite me.

"Spill!"

I huffed, but filled her on all our fun, including how Summer had kissed me. That made her sit up straighter.

"You absolute ninny." She said in amusement, and threw a pillow at me.

"What did I do??" I demanded.

"You say you don't know how she feels about you, but actually you really do!"

"Wha..?"

"She kissed you, you cloud brain! Twice! And you still wonder how she feels?! Why somepony oughtta buck you into Tartarus for being so stupid!"

She was smirking during this speech, which took any offense out of her choice of words. I blinked rapidly, my face heating up. She had a point.

"I mean...I guess she loves me?" I managed.

Rainbow glared at me. "You guess?! Fire, its as plain as the muzzle on your face, even to me, and you know how bad I am at this mushy stuff."

I snorted, yet her words made sense. The way Summer looked at me, the way she would let her wing brush over me, the way she'd let her hoof play with my mane; add to that the way she'd kissed me that day...

"Sweet Celestia..." I muttered, eyes wide. "She does love me!"

"Well duh!" Rainbow snarked at me. "Geez, Fire. You're supposed to be smart."

"Love apparently makes you stupid as well as blind." I returned, rolling my eyes.

"Pffft. In that case, I am never falling in love." She snickered.

It was my turn to have fun now. "Oh yeah? Hey, Rainbow, how are you liking all the time you spend with Fluttershy lately?"

Her face turned several shades of red. "Wha...no...wait...its not...I mean...GAH! I'm going home!!"

She couldn't leave fast enough, and I laughed heartily before sighing and collecting some small clouds to rebuild the sofa she had wrecked, all the while three words playing on repeat in my brain.

'Summer loves me!'

Maybe she wasn't ready to put it into words yet, but that was ok. I'd give her all the time she needed. I could play the waiting game as ling as I had to. As long as there was hope she loved me back. I hummed a merry tune to myself.

'She loves me!'