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Chapter Six

“…I mean seriously, by the time I was finished with filling in Caramel’s cavity, I was about ready to ring him a new one on proper dental care. How hard is it to brush twice a day? It’s far from poisonous, it’s a far better alternative to having your teeth rot and fall out from your mouth, and they shouldn’t count out flossing, that ranks up there too!”

Colgate gave a sigh as she finished detailing her most recent procedure from her dental office.

“That was how my Wednesday was. Did you need to know anything else Twilight?” She asked.

The lavender unicorn however stared at her dumbfounded. For twenty uninterrupted minutes, Ponyville’s local dentist had delved into a long description of one of her most recent patients and his apparent lack of brushing twice a day.
If there was one positive thing that came out of Colgate’s twenty minute rant was that Twilight Sparkle now had a better picture of dental care.

“Um…” Twilight spoke as she struggled to form a response, “…No thank you Colgate. I think that will do for today. Thank you for your time.

Colgate turned to leave, but paused as she approached the door. Turning her head towards Spike she told him, “Oh and by the way Spike, you got an appointment coming up next week. Just wanted you to know.” The blue unicorn mare then finally turned around and trotted out the door.

Once the door shut, Twilight finally dropped her fake smile. “Did she really have to go into excruciating detail about her checkups?” She asked rhetorically.

“Indeed. While she is quite knowledgeable on proper dental care, Colgate seems to pat her ego a bit too much.” Rarity chimed in.

Spike couldn’t help but throw in his two bits on the matter, “Yeah seriously, it’s not like she’s doing a heart transplant.” He then walked over to the door to bring in the final interviewee, the Pegasus mare Flitter.

Flitter trotted in after Spike granted her entry to the library.

“Hello Flitter, how are you today?” Twilight greeted.

Flitter gave a small shrug as she answered, “Oh, nothing too special. I have the day off from the Weather Patrol and I decided to come to this interview thing that’s going on here. Cloud’s going to be working all day, so is Thunderlane, and Rumble is at school so… why not?”

Twilight pulled out her trusty notepad and began writing down the essentials.

NAME: Flitter

GENDER: Female

OCCUPATION: Weather Pony

The lavender unicorn then asked, “Do you have any favorite hobbies?”

“Well, I do like to cook;” Flitter responded. “My mom had a ton of cookbooks back at my old home in Cloudsdale that I always looked at when I was just a filly. I guess my mom’s love for cooking rubbed off onto me. It really helps me out whenever I foalsit Rumble whenever Cloud Chaser and Thunderlane go out somewhere. He always gets so excited whenever I make his favorite meal: Spaghetti and Hayballs.” She finished with a smug look on her face.

After writing down ‘Enjoys Cooking’ on her notepad, Twilight moved onto her next question;

“Have you ever dated anypony before today?” She asked.

Flitter answered, “Honestly, no I have not. I was fine going solo during my time at Cloudsdale High.” The Pegasus mare’s face then developed a small frown; “Usually it was Cloud Chaser always finding ways to rate the ‘hot colts’ of our class. She always gave them a ‘One through Ten’ scale, with ‘One’ being bad and ‘Ten’ being best.”

Twilight asked the final question as she wrote; “What about today? Do you ever want to find a pony to date now?”

Flitter thought about it for a moment, and then answered, “You know what? Maybe I’ll look into it. I’m not sure if I’ll find anypony that I could consider a Special Somepony, but who knows? It might be fun.”

As Twilight wrote down the necessary words onto her notepad, she couldn’t help but feel that she and Flitter had something in common with each other. During her time in Canterlot, at Princess Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns, Twilight was always very engrossed with her regular classes, her private studies, and her personal lessons with Princess Celestia herself. With Shining Armor away at Guard Basic Training and her at the time only friend being a certain purple scaled baby dragon, Twilight almost never got involved with anything as distracting as eying up the cute teenage colts and the occasional filly. Those straight A’s weren’t going to go her on their own after all.

But now practically an adult, having experienced what true friendship with five other mares, and with her eyes set on a certain white coated Unicorn mare, Twilight just couldn’t ignore the near similarities she had with the Pegasus Mare standing in front of her.

After writing down her final entry, Twilight once again spoke to Flitter; “I think that will do it. Thank you for your time Flitter.”

“No problem at all.” Flitter replied simply as she trotted out the door.

After the door shut, Twilight turned towards where Rarity was standing and her horn began to glow. “Your thoughts Rarity?”

“Well, Miss Flitter seems very friendly;” Rarity replied as the invisibility spell was removed and was once again visible. “She certainly has a responsible side of her to be willing to keep an eye on Rumble. Not to mention that she enjoys cooking. If I decide to have a date with her, we’ll have to see if I can sample some of her cooking.”

Twilight set aside her notepad, quill, and ink bowl and asked Rarity, “How about we go out and take a break from all of this?

Maybe see how Pinkie Pie is doing over at Sugar Cube Corner?” Rarity nodded and headed towards the door; while
Twilight turned towards Spike and asked, “Spike, would you be willing to hold down the fort while we’re gone. I’ll be sure to bring you back something you’ll like.”

“If it means getting something sweet to eat, then absolutely.” Spike replied.

“I knew I could count on you.” Twilight said as she gave him a quick hug. She then turned to follow Rarity out the door and towards Sugar Cube Corner.

Sometime later, both Unicorns had arrived at the local bakery and home of both the Cake Family and Pinkie Pie. The party pony soon joined them bringing several glasses of lemonade and blueberry muffins.

“How did your dating thingy go?” Pinkie Pie asked, just starting to go into one of her rapid fire rants;

“Did you find your perfect somepony already? Are you gonna get married and have lots and lots of foals? Of course if you’re getting married then I’ll have to throw the biggest wedding reception of all time! It’ll make the wedding in Canterlot’s reception look like a circus! Not that circuses are bad, I love circuses, especially the acrobats, the funny looking animals-I’ll have to get Fluttershy to see them sometime- and of course, THE CLOWNS!!! The masters of laughter! Rarity, do you want clowns at your reception?”

Rarity managed to keep herself composed throughout Pinkie Pie’s excited questioning and replied; “Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves dear. I’m going to think about who to ask out when I return home. Then I will ask that certain pony if they would be interested in something small at first, like going out for tea for instance. Marriage is a fairly significant step that shouldn’t be rushed Pinkie.”

Twilight nodded in agreement, but decided to keep Pinkie’s spirits up, “Don’t worry Pinkie, if or when the time comes that one of us- as well as Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and even yourself- ever do get married, you’ll be the first pony to call for reception planning.”

“Thank you so much Twilight!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed before taking a quick swig from her lemonade. She then decided to switch topics; “Well, Bonnie left just before you two got here. She’s giving out invitations to everypony in Ponyville. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are coming for sure, but Applejack can’t because of the upcoming Zap Apple Harvest. Ooh! The Cutie Mark Crusaders are coming though! So is Derpy and Cloud Chaser and Flitter and Thunderlane and Snowflake and of course Lyra –the birthday mare!” She finished without even taking a breath. She then added in, “Not to mention the readers…”

Twilight tilted her head, “The who?”

“Not important!” Pinkie Pie replied, “What is important for you two and Spike is that the party is in two weeks!”

Rarity spoke, “We will certainly attempt to make it darling.”

After their meeting with Pinkie Pie, Twilight and Rarity left Sugarcube Corner with a bag containing another muffin for Spike.

Rarity turned to leave towards her home, Carousel Boutique, but not before turning towards her lavender friend.

“Twilight, I simply cannot thank you enough for everything you’ve done to help me.” Rarity said as she gave Twilight a firm hug.

Twilight responded, “Anytime Rarity. Let me know how your first date works out.”

After releasing the hug, the two friends went their separate ways. Twilight had quite a bit to ponder about.

For instance, how now she’ll have to Faust Almighty that Rarity will somehow see past her potential suitors and eventually start to see Twilight in a new light; Or how several of said suitors actually seem like they could be great partners for the dress maker; Not to mention that if that were to happen, then Twilight would lose any chance of attempting to date the mare Unicorn she herself has been holding a torch for since the events of the Grand Galloping Gala…

“Now now Twilight;” She said to herself, “Now’s not the time to panic…”

She then continued with a shudder in her breath, “…that comes later.”

Author's Note

I am so sorry for the delayed update. I've had a lot going on here and I'll do whatever I can to update more often.

Now that the interviews are (Finally) over, we can now move on to Rarity's first date as well as the first interlude, where Shining Armor will make an attempt to conquer his old fear: Slendermare.