FeatherBelle

"Ok everypony! See you tomorrow, and don't forget, tomorrow is Hearts and Hooves day!" Ms Cheerliee said as her students were packing up their things and headed out the school house door. Among her students was a colt named Featherweight who started to walk out the door until a filly with a white coat and pink/purple mane and tail stopped him.

"Umm...Featherweight? Can I talk to you about something?" She said with a squeaky voice. He recognized this filly as Sweetie Belle, a fellow classmate and friend at Cheerliee's school house. He has had a crush on Sweetie Belle ever since he first came to the school about a year ago.

"Hi Sw-Sweetie Belle. What is it that you want to talk about?" Featherweight said, being as curious as a cat.

"Are...are you doing anything for Hearts and Hooves day tomorrow?" She said. Featherweight was slightly surprised when he heard his crush say those words.

"No....why do you ask?" He replied

"Well...I wanted to kn...know if you...you...yo-" She immediately turned around and bolted out the door, leaving a confused Featherweight.

"That was strange." He said. "Was she gonna...no I don't think she wanted that." Featherweight said to himself as he left the school house.

At the Carousel Boutique, A sobbing Sweetie Belle was in her room crying over the fact that she couldn't ask Featherweight out. Apparently Sweetie Belle has had a crush on Featherweight ever since he came to the school a year ago.

"Why! Why can't I ask him out!? Now he's never gonna like me!" Sweetie Belle screamed in her pillow trying to calm down. She then stopped crying and started thinking about what to do now.

"What should I do?" She said to herself while she looked around until her eyes went towards a pencil and a peice of paper on a small table. She slowly walked over to the paper and picked up the pencil with her mouth, and slowly began to write.

'This is my last chance. If this doesn't work then I don't know what will.' She thought.

It was nighttime in Ponyville and inside Featherweight's house, Featherweight was on his bed wondering about what happened today.

"Why did she runoff like that? Does she have a crush on me?...I'm not so sure but...maybe I should talk to her tomorrow about this issue." Featherweight said as he pulled the bed sheets over his body and drifted off into dream land.

"Have a great weekend everypony! As well as a happy Hearts and Hooves day today!" Ms. Cheerliee said as multiple fillies and colts left the building. Featherweight goes to grab his saddlebags when he notices a note sticking out. He took it out and began reading it.

"Dear Featherweight..."

"Come to the gazebo. I need to talk to you. It's important."

"From your secret admirer."

When Featherweight read the last sentence, he realized that somepony was in love with him. He had no idea if he should go or not but eventually he decided to go because he didn't want to leave the filly there. He then left the school and began his walk towards the gazebo.

As he was walking to the gazebo, he started thinking about who his secret admirer may be.

"Who could she be?" He said. "Could it be Twist? No I don't think Twist is interested in me. Maybe Apple Bloom? Then again, I heard she was interested in Pipsqueak. What about Scootaloo? But she seems to be more interested in Rainbow Dash, and Wonderbolt stuff then love. Or maybe...no It's not her. She never seemed to be interested in me. It's not gonna happen I just know it, but im not gonna figure it out unless I get there soon." He said as he walked faster to the gazebo.

He got there in about 15 minutes because he passes the gazebo every time he walks or flies home. He remembered seeing Cheerliee talking to Big Macintosh under there once but what they were doing under there remains a mystery to Featherweight. When he got there he saw a picnic blanket, and a basket.

"Now thats strange." he said to himself. "Who would leave a picnic basket and blanket in the middle of the gazebo?" He said trying to figure it out.

"Oh...there you are Featherweight." said a female squeaky voice. Featherweight turned around and saw Sweetie Belle behind him.

"Sw-Sweetie Belle? Why are you here?" Featherweight questioned.

Sweetie Belle giggled at his reply "You're cute when you're slow. I'm here because I gave you the letter to meet me here." Sweetie Belle said.

Featherweight then looked at the note he got in his saddlebags and realized that Sweetie Belle, the filly he was crushing on, is in love with him.

"So Featherweight...wanna have some lunch I made? It's daffodil sandwiches."

"That.....would be nice, yes." Featherweight replied, going towards the picnic blanket to eat with Sweetie Belle. He grabbed his sandwich and started munching on it. He heard that she was a terrible cook, but the sandwich he was eating didn't taste bad at all, probably because she made the sandwich not cook it. After finishing his sandwich, he then asked Sweetie Belle the all important question.

"Do you...do you....have a crush on me?" He asked

Sweetie Belle immediately stopped eating her sandwich when she heard Featherweight's question. She didn't want to awnser at first but she wanted her awnser about his love as well. She put her sandwich down and started telling Featherweight her story.

"...Yes Featherweight I do have a crush on you. Now for how long you may ask? Remember the day when you first came to school about a year ago?"

"Yeah...I remember...."

"I was in love with you on that day since up to here. It all started on that day..."

"Alright everypony, we have a new student so everypony say hello to Featherweight." Cheerliee said just as Featherweight walked in.

"Hello...everypony. My name is Featherweight. I'm very talented at taking pictures. I someday wish for my photography to be popular like in newspaper or something."

"Well the foal free press will start at some point in the spring. Maybe you can be a photographer in there to get a start." Ms Cheerliee said. "But right now, take a seat anywhere you like."

'When I first saw you, I thought you were the cutest and coolest looking colt i've ever seen. You always seemed to be so shy though, Because you barely talk to anypony. When I heard that you wanted to join the foal free press, I wanted to join too not just because I wanted to try to get a cutie mark in newspaper business, but because I wanted to try to talk to you about my love towards you, but...I couldn't do it because I was too shy to do so.'

"So...that's the story Featherweight. I love you and I finally said it to you after so many months." Sweetie Belle said with a proud look on her face.

Featherweight was shocked to hear the entire story, but was mostly shocked by her admitting her love to him. Sweetie Belle's face went from proud to dissapointed when she saw Featherweight's reaction.

"Im...im sorry. I should g-"

"Wait Sweetie Belle. There's something I have to tell you as well." Featherweight noticed a small hill near the gazebo and got an idea. "But first let's pack up the leftovers and go to that hill near the gazebo." Featherweight said, as he was folding the blanket and putting it in the basket. Sweetie Belle wrapped up the remains of the sandwiches in some napkins and put them in the basket on top of the folded blanket.

Featherweight grabbed the basket and flew up the hill near the gazebo with Sweetie Belle behind him. When they got to the top, they sat under the tree that was there a little close together while looking at the setting sun. Featherweight looked at Sweetie Belle who was waiting for Featherweight to tell his story. Featherweight took a deep breath and started telling Sweetie Belle his story.

"When I....When I first saw you at school, I...I thought you were the most beautiful looking unicorn ever. Also, at one point I was walking home and I heard a voice. I looked for it and found you singing while dusting a table with your tail. Your voice was so beautiful and so cute. You never noticed me though because I had to get home, plus I wasn't in an obvious spot."

Sweetie Belle blushed when she heard that, but her blush disappeared when she asked this next question.

"Hold on....what about the day we were on the foal free press? Why did you take those embarrassing photos of me and my friends?"

Featherweight's smile went from happy to sorrow because he too remembered the days of gabby gums.

"Sweetie...what im gonna tell you is truth and I hope that you can forgive me in the end. What happened was that Diamond Tiara black mailed me to blackmail you girls. She told me to document anything embarrassing around the crusaders at one point as it was their first time trying to be news reporters so she suspected that you girls would do a bad first try, and she was right. I didn't want to do it at first, but then she told me that if I didn't take the photos then she would make sure my photography career would end and stay that way. Being a famous photographer is my lifelong dream, but I didn't know what to do at that point so I..I ended up taking the pictures."

Sweetie Belle was flabbergasted when she heard Featherweight's story. She looked at the colt who was starting to shed some tears.

"Featherweight..."

"I didn't know what to do Sweetie Belle. Im sorry...im so so so sorry Sweetie Belle. Can you ever forgive me?"

Sweetie Belle thought about what she should say and told Featherweight four words with a smile

"I forgive you Featherweight." She said as she hugged Featherweight to calm him down. "It's ok. You didn't know what to do back there."They then had let go of each other.

"Thank you Sweetie Belle, I love you with all my heart, but I....but I couldn't admit to you because I was too shy to talk to you. I was also worried if you would reject me or not. But now I too worked up the nerve to tell you my love to you.

Both Featherweight and Sweetie belle were now closer together as they sat under the tree, looking at each other for a while until Sweetie Belle broke the silence.

"Featherweight..."

"Yes Sweetie?"

"Will....will you be my very special somepony?"

"Yes....I will." Featherweight said as he leaned over to Sweetie Belle, his lips meeting her's for the first time. After sharing their first kiss, Sweetie Belle and Featherweight sat under the tree with Featherweight's wing wrapped around Sweetie Belle's small body, watching Celestia's sun set until Luna's moon had risen.