Hearts and Claws Day

Head Mare Starlight Glimmer came up to the small stairs in the mane room of The School. "Alright! You've all done amazing today on your classes and now it's time to celebrate Hearts and Hooves Day with your very special somecreature for the rest of the day. So happy Hearts and Hooves Day everyone!" She called out.

Silverstream looked at the ponies, both mare and stallion getting together and walking away side by side. Light Breeze, a new student, ran up to her special somepony Floating Light, a black stallion with a curly blue and white mane. She saw almost everypony with there soulmates, even Sandbar and Yona were together.

Then her eyes landed on Gallus flying over to there friends. She blushed as she realized she was staring at him and ponies started whispering next to her. She joined her friends quickly, her usually cheery mood faded.

Sandbar and Yona were standing close together while Ocellus and Smolder were talking excitedly about something. "Hey!" She said, trying to sound happy.

Yona looked up. "Hippogriff alright?" She asked, clearly catching the small hint of sadness in her voice. Silverstream blinked. "Great. Everything is great heh heh." She said forcing a smile. Yona smiled slyly "Okay, Yona take hippogriff word for it." She rumbled with disbelief in her voice.

"We're heading to the lake." Sandbar told them. "So see you." Yona said, following him happily out of the school.

Smolder took flight and fluttered there for a moment as Ocellus finished speaking. Silverstream didn't take any notice of them. "I'm gonna keep an eye them." Smolder finally said slyly. "Pulling some fun on them shouldn't hurt anything." She then flew at top speed after Sandbar and Yona. Ocellus giggled as she bounded off to follow Smolder.

Silverstream and Gallus sat alone.

Gallus chortled. "So, should we meet them at the lake or what?" He asked. "Smolder can't have all the fun!"

Silverstream snapped out of her thoughts at that. "O-oh um- I'll catch up!" She told him more cheerfully. He shrugged and waved goodbye before taking flight.

Silverstream sighed then walked to her room, door 5. She walked in, closed the door and flopped onto the bed. "I have to tell him today! On Hearts and Hooves day!" She hissed to herself. "I just don't know how!" She looked up at her desk with a piece of paper and a pink pen.

"A secret admirer card! That's it!" She laughed getting up and siting down at her desk, ready to write.

"No! That won't work!" Silverstream screeched throwing another crinkled paper in the trash. "It needs to be perfect!" She had been writing for only ten minutes but it felt like forever.

She herd a complaint from a pony on the other side of the wall. Silverstream froze. "Sorry!" She called, blushing. She turned back to the last piece of paper and thought.

Roses are red. . .violets are blue. . .violets are blue. . . I think griffons are great. . .and. . .

And. . .

I have a crush on you. . .

Silverstream thought about that one for a moment them smiled. "Yes that works great!" She said then wrote.

"Roses are red
Violets are blue
I think griffons are great
And I have a crush on you."

She folded it in an origami heart and scribbled it pink with a pink pen. She grabbed it in her talons and flew out of her room and down the hall to Gallus's room and placed it on his desk then quickly left and flew down the hall and out to the lake.

She got there to see Smolder, Ocellus and Gallus were hiding behind a tree watching Sandbar and Yona looking out over the lake. She flew over to them and sat quietly. "What's happening?" She whispered, now in a cheerful mood.

Smolder laughed softly. "Were going to throw a rock in the water and try to scare them." She said. "Okay!" Silverstream exclaimed.

"Happy Hearts and Hooves Day Yona." Sandbar said with care. Yona blushed then leaned in when Sandbar did. Smolder chortled softly as the two kissed. "Maybe we should hold off on the prank till later." She told Gallus and Silverstream.

The couple must have heard them, as their heads shot up and away from eachother. Sandbar blushed as he noticed his friends watched the whole thing. "Dudes!" He called. "Y-you didn't see us-uh. . ." He trailer away.

"Kissing?" Silverstream said slyly.

Sandbar and Yona both blushed.

"Don't worry buddy!" Gallus said, slapping a claw on Sandbar's back. "Your secrets safe with us."

Sandbar's blush faded slightly. "What are friends doing here?" Yona asked timidly. "Oh just poking some fun at the lovebirds." Smolder told them.

"Don't you all have Special Somecreature's of your own?"

"Nah." Smolder said, glancing quickly at Ocellus, who looked away bashfully. Silverstream and Gallus shook their heads, slightly subdued. Not yet at least. Silverstream hoped. They all soon left.

After awhile longer, Silverstream screeched inside, impatient. "Has he seen it yet?!" She thought desperately, only time would tell.

Gallus walked over to his desk to find a piece of paper colored pink in the shape of a heart. His eyes widened in shock, wondering how it got there. "W-What is this...? He said aloud. He opened the heart carefully.

"Roses are red
Violets are blue
I think griffons are great
And I have a crush on you."

Gallus blushed, hard. "How? Who? When?!" He stammered, looking around despite him being the only one there. He was so confused. Who would right this to HIM?

He looked over it again to make sure he wasn't seeing things. It was undeniable: somecreature had a crush on him!

He thought back through the students of the school, was it one of his friends? He didn't think any of them would have a crush on him, they all just liked him as a friend. The only one of them he could find any higher connection to was Silverstream and he had this different feeling when he was around her but it could also be a random student that got a crush on him at one point.

He didn't exactly know how he knew if he had a crush on someone, so it would be unlikely to feel the same about them.

He picked up the Secret Admirer paper in his talons and thought about that for a while. He couldn't help blushing as the thought rang through his mind. He knew that his friends would be out eating soon, that could probably take his mind off of the letter.

He ventured out of the school and into the forest. He spotted a rabbit hopping around close to the school, he hadn't had real prey in awhile since most other creatures at the school were herbivores. It kinda creeped them out at seeing a omnivore eating a bird or a squirrel at the school.

He couldn't resist, he took flight and swooped down to catch it as he landed. He put his prey in a paper bag, making sure the letter was safely away from it.

He returned to the school, and joined his friends at their table. Silverstream blushed as he came then looked down at her fish to avoid eye-contact.

The others, besides Smolder, looked a little unsettled at the grisly choice of lunch Gallus ignored. He still was thinking of the letter. He reached to make sure it was still safe but it was gone. He looked around to see it sitting at the end of somepony's table. The pony looked down at it and widened her eyes.

Gallus froze for a moment then raced over to the letter and snatched it. "Sorry, that's mine." He said, then ran back to his table. The pony looked puzzled.

He foolishly set it on the table and started on his rabbit, Ocellus looked at the paper curiously. It wasn't untill they were all finished eating, did she ask about it. "What's this?" She asked slyly, obviously having read the paper.

Gallus almost choked on rabbit fur at that.. "Nothing!" He exclaimed. The others got closer to see the paper. "Oooh, who's that from?" Smolder sneered in a teasing tone.

"I-I don't know!" He growled, snatching the paper away.

His friends stared at him with accusing smiles as he started blushing. Silverstream held back. He looked from one to the other then blushed harder, it raising from the sides of his face up to his eyes. He groaned and growled at the same time then, firmly grabbing the letter, flew away.