After Rune gave his long winded explanation of how he set up this date, the yellow pegasus, took her Dusk, by the hoof, out of the library. Lo and behold, all Fluttershy saw was that it only appeared that she and Dusk have left and the others have not.

Fluttershy tried the best she could, but she was too shy and afraid to look Dusk in the eyes, or even at his face.

'I don't know what to do?' Fluttershy thought to herself. 'I've never been on a date before.'

Then she kinda started to calm down. 'But maybe Dusk hasn't been on one either.' This helped her feel better.

Dusk walked a bit closer to Fluttershy. "Where would you like to go?" Dusk asked.

Fluttershy's heart skipped a beat, probably because she was startled by Dusk asking out of the blue.

"Oh...Ummm...I'm sorry......." Fluttershy was clearly struggling with this. I'm amazed she made it out the door.

"How about we go to your house and see how your animals are doing?" Dusk suggested, trying to stick with something familiar.

"Oh...O-okay..." Fluttershy responded, a faint smile growing on her face.

The walk to Fluttershy's house, on the edge of the Everfree Forest was short. Along the walk Fluttershy was stressing within herself.

'Okay Fluttershy you can do this.' She thought to herself. 'Dusk is with you all day. He's yours today, so you can do this. Confess to him.'

"Fluttershy?" Dusk asked, which caused Fluttershy to tense up a bit.

"Y-yes?" She responded. Dusk began to gently rub her upper back, between the shoulders.

"Its okay." Dusk smiled gently. "I've never done something like this either."

This helped Fluttershy feel a bit better, she began to relax. Maybe this will work out after all.

Arriving at Fluttershy's house, the birds chirp their merry chirps, the small critters ran and scurried about and the sun's light through the trees made Fluttershy almost sparkle. Needless to say, Dusk was dazzled.

"Wow....you look great." Dusk complimented.

"Oh....Th-thank you Dusk...." Fluttershy replied, her mind slightly racing.

'Oh my.' She thought to herself. 'He complimented me......maybe I can do this....no....I WILL do this.'

Fluttershy opened the front door, and a funky sounding noise sounded from within the room. The lights were dimmed and a random disco ball hung from the ceiling, sparkling up the room. In the center of room was a small jacuzzi. Inside it was Fluttershy's pet bunny Angel with his arms across two female bunnies, one on each side. It looked like something you'd find in a very bad porn. The music was cut to a grinding halt, Angel looked up and saw Fluttershy, his humorous reaction of "I can explain" was met with a third female bunny emerging the the jacuzzi water.

"Oh...oh my....I'm so sorry....I'll just....I'll just go." Fluttershy whimpered as she closed her door.

Dusk looked at Fluttershy confused, he didn't see what happened. "What's wrong? What was that music? Is there something going on?"

Fluttershy amazingly was able to compose herself very quickly. "Oh it was nothing, nothing at all. How about we go somewhere else?" Before Dusk could get any word in edgewise, Fluttershy practically dragged him away from her house.

Eventually, the "couple" ended up at the Ponyville Marketplace.

"Oh, want to get something to eat?" Dusk suggested, spying an apple stand, run surprisingly by Applebloom.

"Sure." Fluttershy smiled. So both of them walked to the stand.

"Two apple pie slices and two mugs of cider please." Dusk requested.

"That'll be four bits." Applebloom asked, extending her hoof out. Dusk then placed the money in Applebloom's hoof. In a flash the pie slices and cider where ready to go. "Thank you come again." Applebloom said as the "couple" walked away.

Making their way to a small table for two, Fluttershy and Dusk enjoyed their "romantic" meal.

"I'm glad we got to have time to ourselves." Dusk remarked.

"Y-yes.....well.....its nice........Yes.....I like this too." Fluttershy blushed.

'You can do it.' Fluttershy's mind raced. 'He likes being alone with you!!!!! You can do it, confess......no buck that........KISS HIM!!!!!' This thought caused Fluttershy to close her eyes in a giddy, shy, kinda adorable action.

Suddenly, Fluttershy felt a slight pressure on her forehead. Opening her eyes, she saw Dusk resting his forehead against her's. Fluttershy's face exploded into a deeper shade of red, and in her haste to move from Dusk, she falls backwards. But she didn't get hurt.

"Fluttershy are you okay?" Dusk asked, leaning over Fluttershy, who was now on her back from the fall.

"Yes...yes...I'm okay....."Fluttershy responded. "Why did you put your forehead against mine?"

"I saw your face was getting red, so I was worried that you were getting a fever." Dusk replied.

Looking around, seeing that Fluttershy's fall caused the food and drink to spilled over.

"Oh.....Oh my....I'm so sorry Dusk." Fluttershy tried apologizing.

"Its okay." Dusk responded. "How about we go to a nice flower field?"

"Sure." Fluttershy said, her spirits raised. And they went off.

The young couple lucked out. There was in fact a small field of flowers, right at the borders of Ponyville. They were beautiful. Red, blue, green, yellow, violet, so many colors for flowers. Some had little bees collecting nectar, while others had butterflies. It was like all in the world was right, and happy. All of one's dreams could come true. But back to the story.

"Wow!" Dusk exclaimed in excitement. "I never knew Ponyville had such lovely flowers."

"Really?" Fluttershy replied. "I come here all the time. Its peaceful, calm and there are cute, little critters around."

Looking around........There were no other animals around them. Dusk and Fluttershy were completely alone. This would be a perfect opportunity. Dusk knew this and even Fluttershy was aware of this. Dusk then laid back and looked up at the clouds. Fluttershy, no skipping a beat, followed and laid back, watching the clouds.

"Look." Dusk said, pointing with his hoof at the clouds overhead. "That one looks like a star."

Fluttershy then say another cloud. "And that one looks like a butterfly."

Then the star cloud and the butterfly cloud smashed into each other, merged together and formed a new shape.

"A bunny rabbit?!" Both Dusk and Fluttershy said at once.

Both Dusk and Fluttershy got up and looked at each other. For some unknown reason.....Most likely Rune's doing somehow....Fluttershy and Dusk felt a feeling, there was a strange smell. Looking at the flowers, Dusk and Fluttershy realized that all the flowers were lavenders, chamomiles, morning glories, and poppy flowers. All of them were aphrodisiacs. Fluttershy felt her heart racing, was it time? Was she going to confess? Was she to give into this new desire?

Well, Fluttershy wasn't gonna start. So Dusk moved in and locked lips with Fluttershy, who offered no resistance. In fact, it didn't take long until she kissed back and there was a little tongue in there. Dusk was ready, he was about to just give in and take Fluttershy.....BUT......Fluttershy laid her hoof upon his chest and stopped him.

"Wait." Fluttershy said. "We shouldn't do this."

Dusk was confused. "Why?"

Fluttershy stared into Dusk's eyes. "because you're not the real Dusk."

The look on Dusk's face was priceless. Fluttershy basically told Dusk he doesn't exist.

"What do you mean?" Dusk defended. "Of course I'm Dusk. Who else would I be?"

Fluttershy took a deep breath. *Gasp* "Your.mane.is.the.wrong.shade.of.blue.Dusk.has.more.of.a.sapphire.blue.with.some.violet.while.you.only.have.regular.blue.and.purple.the.mane.is.also.a.little.shorter.than.it.should.be.Your.eyes.are.also.a.different.color.Dusk.has.violet.eyes.yours.are.a.dark.blue.Your.cutie.mark.has.only.one.big.star.its.missing.the.five.smaller.stars.And.finally.your.horn.is.exactly.ten.millimeters.shorter.than.it.actually.is."

Dusk was....well amazed and almost speechless. "I....wow.....this is awkward." Dusk said, rubbing the back of his head. "Didn't think I made that many mistakes. I must be losing my touch."

"Then who are you?" Fluttershy demanded, her tone almost getting angry.

"Whoa whoa whoa.....hold on....it's okay." Dusk said, waving his hooves in front of him. "I am Dusk, just not the REAL Dusk. So you were lied to, but it was only to help Dusk."

"I don't understand." Fluttershy said. But time has run out. Her Dusk was leaving. His body, slowly cracked and withered, almost like a flower.

"Ask Rune. He did all this. I just wanted to be with you. Because I lov-" Dusk couldn't finish his words. His withered body then broke off into a small swarm of beautiful, pink butterflies.

Fluttershy wanted to cry, but she knew she couldn't, she didn't have time. She wanted to know why Rune did this. Looking up at the sky, she saw the bunny cloud, but this time it had a frown across his face. What was Fluttershy going to do?

FUS-RO-DAH

The clouds scatters and dissipated. Fluttershy had some questions for Rune. And he was going to answer them.