“He still didn’t woke up?”

“I’m afraid not.”

Blaze slowly shifted himself on what he assumed was bed, slowly opening his eyes he was staring at the window, he looked around, room he was in had some bookshelves and a mirror, also roof looked like it was part of the tree.

“C-Can I see him at least?”

“Sure why not.”

Blaze’s ears perked up as he heard hoofsteps approaching the door to the room he was currently laying in, as his vision shifted towards the mirror he gasped quietly realizing that his illusion stopped working and his right repitilian eye was visible.

His horn glowed and he managed to hide his pupil behind illusion at the last moment, doors slowly opened and two ponies slowly walked inside.

They both looked with mouths agape at Blaze who was grinning like an idiot, one of them quickly jumped and wrapped her arms around him embracing him in a hug.

“H-Hey Derpy, what’s wrong? You are acting like I just came back from hell.”

“Well you could say that.” The other pony, who by know Blaze recognized as Twilight Sparkle said.

“What do you mean?” Blaze asked staring at her while gently stroking Derpy’s mane.

“You blacked out week ago.”

“A WEEK?!” Blaze suddenly shouted startling Derpy, to which he nodded in apologetic manner.

“Sorry, this used to happen before but I usually woke up after few hours, one day at most.”

“I know that already, after you lost consciousness I wrote a letter to Princess Luna and Spike sent it immediately. She came as soon as she got it.”

“And?” Blaze asked quite curious about the outcome of his mentor visit.

“She told us the same thing you did, she then visited us again after you didn’t woke up for 3 days, she tried reaching you through your dreams but…”

Blaze nodded as if confirming her to continue.

“…but she couldn’t, Princess said that something was blocking your mind, forbidding her from entering.”

Blaze sighed in disappointment.

“So we learnt nothing new huh…”

His stare shifted towards Derpy who was now sitting next to him on a bed smiling sheepishly.

“By the way, I know why Twilight’s here, since it’s her house and all, but why are you here too?”

Derpy’s smile slowly changed into sad face.

“Y-You would prefer if I wasn’t here?”

“Oh no, no of course not, I was just curious.”

“Well you should know that Derpy came around to see if you woke up every day.”

Blaze’s eyes went wide and he once again looked at Derpy who avoided his gaze, her cheeks started to change color.

“Wow Derpy, that’s, I mean thanks, that means a lot.”

“No worries, besides I wasn’t only pony to visit.”

“Really?” Blaze asked in disbelief.

“Of course, that cool DJ mare came here few times as well.” Derpy said emphasizing word “few”.

“You mean Vinyl?”

They both nodded.

Blaze shifted from sitting to laying position and stared at the roof for few moments while swimming in his thoughts.

‘Huh, so that’s how it feels to have real friends? Like those friends that actually have you back at hard times, and not the type of friends that just like to have some fun with you then you can kiss their flanks?’

“Ummm Blaze, is everything all right?” Twilight asked a bit concerned.

“Oh yes, of course.” He said and jumped off the bed landing on all four.

“A-Are you sure everything’s all right?” Derpy asked with care in her voice.

“I’m might fine, thanks, since I was just napping here all week I don’t want to lose anymore time.” He said grinning.

“Well that’s understandable, but can I ask you something before you leave?” Twilight asked.

“Sure go on.”

“What did you feel before you lost consciousness?”

Blaze mouth opened but then he found himself lost for words.

“Weird, I can’t remember, but it’s not that I don’t have any memory at all, no I remember something but, it feels like watching something through thick fog.”

Twilight nodded and smiled.

“No worries, if you remember anything tell me immediately, maybe I will find something to help you with those fainting accidents of yours.” Twilight said emphasizing last words.

“I sure will, thanks.” Blaze smiled and trotted downstairs, right before he was about to leave he stopped in his tracks and turned around. His gaze connected with Derpy’s making the clumsy mare blush a bit.

“Hey Derpy, wanna hang out a bit?”

His proposition surprised her, but made her happy nevertheless.

“I would love to! I-I mean, yeah sure, why not.” Her gaze shifted towards the floor as she started to poke the floor with her hoof, a view that made Blaze chuckle lightly.

“Then come on! There are still places I haven’t seen here I’m sure.” He dashed off as soon as he finished his sentence.

“W-Wait for me!” Derpy shouted quickly taking off after him.

Twilight laughed and trotted upstairs.

“Well what do you know, our best mailmare has a crush on somepony.” She talked to herself while walking into her room and resuming her studies.

“W-Wait! Blaze!”

“No can do! Try catching me if you can!” He shouted back while running through the crowd as fast as he could, Derpy desperately tried to keep up but she constantly bumped into other ponies.

After few moments she realized he was teasing her, she spread her wings and took off into air, after few moments she spotted him running away towards the town park and dashed into his direction.

Blaze stopped and turned around, his grin changed into small frown when he couldn’t see his clumsy friend in crowd of other ponies.

“Well buck, I just wanted to have some fun and now I have to look for her.”

He started thinking where to look when suddenly he heard something.

A sound he heard before.

He stood there few moments closing his eyes to focus on the sound, then it hit him.

Literally.

Blaze and Derpy rolled for a good minute without stopping, a momentum that clumsy pegasus accumulated slowly vanishing.

They finally came to stop and Blaze slowly opened his eyes, only to start blushing.

Derpy was laying on top of him, her muzzle buried in his chest, after few moments she finally lifted herself, she shake her head and slowly opened her own eyes, their gaze’s meeting.

They sat like that for a minute or two before Blaze finally broke the rather awkward silence.

“Ekhm, Derpy?”

“Y-Yes?”

“W-Would you mind, getting off me?” He said in a flat tone.

It took Derpy few seconds to realize what was he talking about, she started to blush extremely hard and quickly jumped off him.

“I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to..”

“Hey, calm down, nothing bad happened.” Blaze assured her while standing up.

Derpy looked at him, she knew him for such short time but she could tell for sure, maybe this wasn’t what you call love yet, but she definitely had a crush on him.

‘Come on Ditzy! You can do it, just ask him if he wants to go out someday.’

“Umm Blaze?”

“Yes what is it?”

“W-Would you, umm would you maybe?”

Blaze waited for her to finish her sentence, he had to admit that she looked very cute when she was being nervous.

“Would you perhaps want to go ou…”

“Hey BLAZE! What’s up I heard ya finally woke up!” Derpy was cut short by somepony screaming, they turned around and saw Vinyl Scratch trotting towards them with a huge smile on her muzzle, and her signature shades covering her eyes.

“Hey wassup Snow White, as you can see, I’m still alive.” He said with a bit of teasing in his voice.

“Good to hear, oh hey Derpy, we haven’t seen each other in a while right?”

“Y-Yeah.”

Vinyl then looked at Derpy and Blaze.

“You two know each other?”

“Yep, Derpy’s is my best friend.” Ditzy couldn’t help it but feel both happy and disappointed after he called her his best friend.

“Cool, so Blaze I wanted to ask you something.”

“What is it?”

“Wanna go out together sometime?”

“Sure, I was supposed to study friendship here anyways.” He said with a grin.

Vinyl cocked and eyebrow at him and after few moments she chuckled.

“What’s so funny?” Blaze asked confused.

“Oh silly colt, I didn’t mean it like that.”

“Well what did you mean then?”

Vinyl Stopped laughing and looked at him with what you can only call a “Seductive smile”.

“I’m asking you on a date Blazey.”