Study Aid

The following evening after mailing the letters Twilight asks if you would like to eat out in honor of your first major breakthrough. With a soft blush and a shrug you soon find yourself alone in your bedroom with only your thoughts to keep you company as she gets ready. In only a few hour s Twilight had helped you accomplish something you never had before! Control, mastery of things small as well as large.

What was in her letter?

The thought begins to nag at the back of your subconscious even as the bedroom door opened. You stop dead though as Twilight approaches, something a bit…different about her appearance. She smiles only slightly before looking away, her normally natural hair flow pulled back in a very stylish tail. Her purple and pink scarf found its way to being played with between a hoof in the most playfully nervous way.

“Twilight…Wow.”

She looks at you with wide hopeful eyes and resumes a stern tutor like demeanor before cracking a smile. What in Celestias name had you done to get so lucky? She does a quick little turn and tosses the scarf over her shoulder while laughing quietly.

“Is it too much? I can take it of if you like.”

Oh that sounds good right now.

“Uh…no it’s perfect.”

She smiles again and walks away, looking back at you with a nod of her head.

Stop staring and walk.

You follow close behind, grabbing a hat from Spike as he tosses it to you with a suggestive wink. The beanie slips on without fault, causing you to wonder very briefly on where it came from. Without a second thought you walk to the side of Twilight and give her a playful nudge. She gives you a look that reads “Oh really?” and rolls her eyes with a giggle.

“I’ll race you to the bistro.” you say while pulling the beanie down a little lower.

“Just say when.” Twilight states as she kneels low in a runners stance.

Before you can speak she smiles and dashes forward. You tail after her as fast as you can, but soon find the lean mare before you has an advantage of speed, but you had a few tricks of your own.

“Quill!” She squeals with gleeful laughter as you levitate her off the ground in mid-run.

She pouts as you quickly move in front of her and lean against a mailbox, your horns glow outlining your mischievous grin. She hangs in the air and laughs as you place her behind you and resume the race.

“You never said we couldn’t use magic!” You call behind you.

You make it to the door of the bistro and look back to see Twilight nowhere in sight, but a “humph” attracts your attention to the space next to you.

“Teleportation spell, learned it second year in school.”

“Little cheater.” You tease as you tickle her lightly.

“Whatever. Well here we are, shall we go inside?”

You open the door for her and bow as she passes, stealing as glance at her flank with a smile, pausing as she turns her head slightly with a barely visible blush.

“You coming?” She asks.

“Yeah!”

She leads you past the tables and the other ponies that seem to stare, but you cant seem to tell. She looks around and smiles widely as she spots a blue Pegasus with a small posse with her and waves.

“Rainbow!”

She runs over and talks excitedly to the mare and you begin to recognize others around her. Spitfire, Soarin, and another cream colored pony with a cowboy hat. You walk over and Twilight looks to you, placing a hoof on your back as she addresses Rainbow.

“This is Quill, Celestia sent him to Ponyville to learn more about magic.”

Rainbow raises an eyebrow and offers her hoof out. You pull your back and slam against hers with a loud slam that shakes the other guests watching.’

“What’s up Dash? Heard you swept the competition at the last Young Flyers competition.”

Dash smiles widely and laughs, crossing her hooves over one another.

“I like him I approve.”

Twilight blushes fiercely and hushes her before she can say anymore, and you take a seat next to Spitfire with a shrug and a smile. Spitfire raises and eyebrow as well as she looks you over, a sly grin spreading across her face slowly.

“What’s your name cutie?” she asks, a familiar slur in her voice. You could tell you could tell she was probably a bit inebriated.

“Quill. And I know who you are Spitfire, and the other guy next to Rainbow eating the pie like he would a fine mare must be Soarin.”

Soarin raised his head from his assault on the pie with a cherry splashed grin before returning to his onslaught. Twilight shifts nervously in her seat as she glares at Rainbow, who can’t seem to take her eyes off of you. Finally you decide to be a bit…forward and place a hoof around Twilight, getting a surprised gasp from her.

“And I don’t believe we have met ma’am.” you say as you extend the free hoof to the earth pony, who shakes it rather warmly.

“Names Applejack and it‘s a pleasure to meet ya.”

“You own Sweet Apple Acres?” you ask in order to get some talk out of the steel faced pony.

“Oh apples no, my family works on the far, been in the family fer generations.”

A regular cowpony huh?

“That’s intense!”

Twilight looks at you with a questioning look and then stares down at her water. You bring your lips close to her ear and smile.

“Don’t be shy Twilight.”

She nods her head and looks at you as the others gaze expectantly.

“What did you do besides study magic when you lived in Canterlot?”

Why did she ask that?

“Well I… I read a lot, listened to musicals, went to some raves, and I studied other things…” you say hoping to avoid the subject entirely.

“What other things did you study stud?” Spitfire asks, her head in her hooves with a dreamy look in her eyes.

Well if I tell them it will get her away from me.

“Opera.”

Spitfire spit out what she was drinking onto the table as Soarin stared open mouthed as bits of pie crust fell from it. Applejack was the first to say anything, and that anything turned out to be a loud series of laughs and snorts. Soon all of the others were laughing, even Twilight as she raised a hoof to muffle her laughs.

So that’s how it is huh?

You lower your head and remember that this exact thing had happened since you were nothing but a young colt at the academy…

“Well it was a pleasure meeting all of you goodnight.” You announce with an edge of anger as you leave the table, drawing apologies through the laughter.

You rush out of the building, bumping into a waiter and not even apologizing as you push through the door and walk on an unplanned walk. Every time, EVERY time they would laugh… And why? Because it wasn’t normal for a lower class pony to go to Canterlot with dreams of one day performing in front of the princess herself?

“Quill!”

You stop with a sigh and turn around to see Twilight running after you, a look of worry on her pretty face. She stops to catch her breath and locks her eyes onto yours. If you weren’t so hurt you would have been struck dumb, but being the case you sighed and looked away.

“I didn’t mean to make you feel insulted.” She says softly, picking out her words carefully.

“Nopony ever does, they just do.”

She bites her lip nervously and looks to the sky. She then looks to you and shuffles one hoof before cocking her head to the side.

“Do you like to sing?”

What a stupid question. Yet you feel the honesty in her voice and begin to calm yourself.

“I wanted to since I was a little colt. My father and mother however wouldn’t have it and sent me to the academy. I spent so much time studying I never had time to do what I loved. In the end it just made me so angry, I hated my parents for making me do what they thought was best for me.”

As you look over you see a side to Twilight you had yet too. Her eyes were soft, filled with a mixture of wonder and care as she came a step closer.

“Will you sing for me? If it’s not too much to ask of course.”

You pause and think over what she just asked. She had shown a genuine interest in what you wanted to do and you…hadn’t expected that.

“If you don’t want to it’s fine.” She quickly states before you smile and shake your head.

“Okay.”

“What?”

You look at her and smile brightly as you offer your hoof to hers.

“But I think we should head elsewhere. Spike is probably asleep so where could we go?”

Twilight thought for a moment before nodding her head.

“I can take us to the lake!”

“Perfect.”

Before you can ask which direction is the lake a sudden pop echoes and a bright flash of light envelops you. As the light fades you stand with mouth agape, staring at the expanse of crystal water before you. Twilight bumps you with a mischievous grin and sits on the grass.

“Teleportation spell duh.” She jokes.

“Are you sure you want to hear it? I have been out of practice for a while.”

Twilight waves a hoof and rests her hoofs over one another, watching expectantly.

Well here goes nothing.

The words leave your mouth as clear as the day you learned them.

Come over the hills my bonny Irish Mare,

Come over the hills to your darling.

You choose the rose love and I’ll take the vow.

And I’ll be your true love forever.

Red is the rose that in your garden grows.

Fair is the lily of the valley.

Clear is the water that flows from the void.

And my love is fairer than any.

Twas down by the valleys greenwood that we strayed.

The moon and the stars they were shining.

The moon shone it’s rays upon her golden mane.

And she swore she’d be my love forever.

You stop as the last note escapes your lips effortlessly, and you close your eyes with a deep breath, mind filled with familiar memories of home. A light sniffle stirs you from your daydream and you look over to see Twilight wiping her tear laden eyes with her scarf.

“That was absolutely wonderful I never knew a Stallion could sing with such…emotion.” she says in a whisper.

You sang it because of her.

You wish you could say what your mind and heart are saying, but you know it’s too soon. She is your tutor. You walk over and sit next to her, watching the moons reflection in the water as you hum quietly. Twilight closes her eyes and nuzzles you before snuggling against your side, her head resting on your shoulder as you both watch the lake surface.

“What are you going to do when you finish your lessons here?”

You think briefly on going back to Canterlot, but the idea grows more and more fowl as you feel Twilights warmth.

“I thought I might get a job here in Ponyville and settle down for a while.”

She smiles while leaning against you and sighs contently.

“I would like that Quill. The library could always use another librarian.”

She sits upright with a fierce scarlet blush and looks away.

“If you would like the extra money or even a job you know it would be totally…”

Her rambling stops as you lean over and kiss her on the cheek, no longer caring of what might happen. The seconds pass as you fear rejection, but she just sits there with her eyes wide.

A flash of purple light later and she’s gone.

Leaving you alone at the lake with only the moon as company.

Wow this chapter has been re-written 3 times today! And I now finally can say it’s acceptable. The song used was “Red is the rose.” and I will be using the campus recording studio to get the actual pony version of the song up on you tube in the next month. The song really fit’s the character and the mood (in my opinion.) so hope you all have a great upcoming weekend and I will see ya’ll later.

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