Pinkie hopped, bounced, and pranced around Twilight as me, Applejack, Fluttershy and all of our pets approached the two mares, who were accompanied by theirs.

Rainbow Dash's whereabouts in Ponyville were currently unknown. Me, Applejack, and Fluttershy all just assumed different things; The former believed that she was somewhere on a cloud, sleeping. The latter believed that Rainbow had an unexpected Wonderbolt's academy lesson that she could've been late too.

"Hi, hi, hi, everypony!" Pinkie shouted, an impossibly big smile plastered on her face, big enough to even where we three can see it, approximately over 100 feet away from where Twilight and Pinkie were.

Discreetly as I possibly could, I frowned.

I thought nopony would be able to notice, but when Fluttershy turned her head towards me, her face went from a small, content smile to a slightly frowning, knowing face. She softly patted me on the back, and smiled. I returned the smile, naturally.

We finally met Twilight and Pinkie at the end of the pathway, that seemed to go on for an infinite amount of time, despite the pace at which we were going.

Pinkie bounced in excitement to see us all; before she noticed that Rainbow Dash wasn't with us. "Where's Dashie?" she asked. She was still smiling, albeit an eyebrow raised.

We all collectively shrugged, in a chorus of "I don't know", or what sounded like "ionkno" from Applejack. Pinkie's ears flattened against the side of her head, then perked right back up.

"Well that's all right! We can still have our pony-pet play date! I wonder if the pets will mind; especially Gummy. He and Tank have gotten pretty close lately," Pinkie shrugged. "Oh, well! It's just one pony-pet play date without Tank and Dashie!" She smiled, and promptly bounced away, the rest of us following.

After a few hours, Celestia's sun had started to set, and Luna's moon had started to rise. The sky was a hazy red, orange, and yellow.

Everypony went their separate ways, off to their place of residence. Fluttershy and I went in the same direction, as we were heading to my house for our monthly sleepover.

Once we reached my house, I lifted the front mat off the ground, and floated a key from under. I let go of the mat as I unlocked the front door.

We let the pets into the house first, before we both headed inside.

"Rarity, we need to talk." Fluttershy softly demanded.

"Sure, darling. Let me make some tea for us."

I walked away from Fluttershy, leaving her alone.

I came back with two cups filled with hot, steam coming from the drink; Fluttershy had already positioned herself on the couch. I sat on the chair across from her, gently placing her cup of tea in front of her, holding mine still in my hooves.

I slid a cup of sugar in the middle of the table, watching Fluttershy drop three cubes of it in her tea.

plop, plop, plop, the cubes went as they fell into her tea.

As I started to speak, Fluttershy quickly grabbed a spoon to stir her tea. "So, what did you want to talk about, darling?" I asked, leaning slightly forward in little anticipation.

"You," Fluttershy responded. I was almost taken aback by the sharpness in her tone.

"What about me?" I raised an eyebrow, taking a sip of my tea.

"Or, more so, your feelings for Pinkie Pie."

I blinked once, then twice. "Fluttershy, darling, don't be preposterous! I have no feelings for Pinkie Pie," I frowned. "Why would you ever assume such a thing?"

"I saw how you looked at Pinkie and Twilight." She paused, as she looked me directly in the eye. "Or was it Twilight you have feelings for?" She raised a knowing eyebrow.

I halfway spit out my tea, directly in her face; quickly placing a hoof over my muzzle to prevent any of my... Fluids from spurting out of my mouth.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I hope you don't mind my asking..." She squeaked so quietly, you could hear a pin drop over her.

"Oh, no, darling. I don't mind you asking at all." I floated a cloth over to clean up my mess, while Fluttershy took a meek sip of her tea.

She nodded, taking another small sip of her tea.

I lifted my head up from cleaning, and threw the dirty cloth away.

"Now, how about we have our usual sleepover routine, hmm?" I smiled, and Fluttershy smiled back and softly nodded.

"...And that's why she did it!" Me and Fluttershy laughed, before sighing and leaning back in our chairs.

"Rarity, this was great but--" Fluttershy yawned, cutting her off. "shouldn't we be getting to sleep, now?"

I yawned as well, covering my muzzle with a hoof. "I suppose you're right, darling."

We both sat up in our chairs, standing up. Heading up the stairs, Fluttershy yawned once more, signifying just how tired she is.

Once we reached our corresponded rooms, we both said our good nights, and headed off to bed.

I slid into my bed, floating my eye mask over to my bed. I turned the lights off in my room, pulled the mask over my head and on top of my eyes, and closed them.

As I drifted off into Luna's dream world, I heard nothing but silence, which was exactly just how I liked it.

Author's Note

Try and see if you can find any song lyrics in this chapter (I put those there on accident).