Few hours earlier.

Octavia sat down on the sofa gently drinking her cup of coffee, on the other hoof Vinyl was nervously trotting around the room.

“So Vinyl, it is really rare that you need my advice on anything, what can I help you with?”

Unicorn stopped dead in her tracks and slowly turned towards her roommate, her eyes free from purple shades were showing signs of nervousness and maybe even something that Octavia never thought she will see in her friend.

“Is it about Blaze?” Grey earth pony asked.

Vinyl blushed and nodded weakly, Octavia was rather surprised, her friend dated many stallions but till now she never saw her getting embarrassed by something as simple as mentioning colt’s name.

“What is it Vinyl? I am sure you have much more experience in this area then I do.”

“W-Well normally yes but…*sigh* I dated many guys but there’s something oh I don’t know, different about this one.”

“What exactly makes him different?”

“I-I don’t know how to approach him, there were some colts who asked me out themselves, and those who I asked out, I didn’t really have any problem with simply trotting up to them and asking them about date.”

“Then why don’t you do it this time as well?”

“I can’t Octi! He’s different, I-I fear that..”

“That he will reject you?” Vinyl’s eyes went wide and she nodded while hanging her head low, Octavia sighed and walked up to her friend, placing her cup of coffee on a table beforehoof.

Grey mare embraced her friend in a hug which Vinyl quickly accepted.

“I can’t say I understand how you feel Vinyl, because from what it seems this isn’t a simple crush like those guys before. If I am right it’s something more.”

Vinyl backed slightly away to look her friend in the eyes and asked. “What do you mean Octi?”

“This is just my theory, but Vinyl, I think you are in love with him.”

Vinyl stared at her with open eyes for a moment before her cheeks became crimson, color of her coat did nothing to hide it.

“W-W-W-What the hay Octi!” She shouted jumping away from her friend.

“Well how else can you explain the way you are acting?”

Vinyl opened her mouth but no sound came out of it, she stared in the floor for a few seconds before responding.

“B-But I knew him for like, one day! How can I be in love with him?”

“Don’t ask me, I am no expert in this, but you know what they say, love is completely unpredictable.”

Octavia took her cup and started to leave the room before turning once again towards her friend. “But there’s one thing I know for sure, if this really is love you are feeling, then if you won’t do anything about it, it will only get stronger and eventually you will get hurt if he gets into other mare’s hoofs, just sayin.”

And with that Octavia smiled warmly and left the room leaving her friend in a state of utter confusion.

From this point it took Vinyl several hours to figure out her feelings, even after all this time she still didn’t know what she exactly felt, but she decided that there’s just one way to test it out.

Present

“Oh, emm that is really, surprising offer Vinyl.” Blaze said blushing slightly, Derpy who was standing on his side was watching the scene unfolding before her with wide eyes.

“Well I guess it is, so how will it be?” She asked with high hopes in her voices, luckily for her he couldn’t see her eyes through her signature purples shades, everyone would easily tell from them how nervous she was despite how confident she looked on the outside.

Blaze froze for a moment thinking about it, he couldn’t deny that Vinyl was very attractive, he also enjoyed her company very much.

Unicorn colt smiled and nodded his head before adding. “I would sure love to.”

Vinyl smiled and sighed with relief on the inside, on the other hoof Derpy felt her heart hurt a little bit.

“Great so how about you pick me up tomorrow at 7 p.m.? You know where I live right?”

Blaze blushed remembering the rather embarrassing way he found out where the white mare lived and nodded.

“Great sooo, see you then.”

Vinyl leaned in and planted a small kiss on his cheek making both of them blush, she then quickly trotted away from the pair.

Derpy watched the white unicorn trot away, until she disappeared from her sight. “Well that was, surprising, right Blaze?” She asked trying her best to sound as happy as possible.

“Blaze?” She turned towards the dark blue colt and saw him completely frozen from that small kiss.

Derpy’s expression fall, she quickly shook her muzzle ‘No derpy! Bad pony, it’s only your fault that you didn’t ask him out sooner.’

She nudged him with a hoof.

“Huh? Oh hey, where am I.” Blaze said to nopony before processing everything that just happened.

“Oh right, I got a date tomorrow, who would have thought.” Blaze said before finally noticing Derpy again.

“Oh hey Ditzy.”

Derpy sighed and Blaze expression fall when he remembered about Derpy’s dream from that night.

“Hey Derpy can we, talk about something?”

“About what?”

Blaze sighed, he didn’t think about what to say beforehoof since he didn’t really have time for it.

“You know that Luna can enter ponies dreams mostly in order to get rid of ones nightmares and fears.”

“Yeah I know that.”

“She actually isn’t the only pony who does that.”

Derpy looked at him with cocked eyebrow. “Then who else is… ohhh.”

“Yeah, I can do that too and since I got here in Ponyville, I went into few nightmares and one of them belonged to well, you.”

Derpy’s eyes went wide when she finally understood where was he going with this.

“I-I don’t want to talk about it.” She said while keeping her stare on the ground.

“But Ditzy, if you won’t face those fears that come from memories, these nightmares will just grow stronger and stronger.”

Derpy’s eyes started to water slightly remembering her foalhood, all the bullying and all the sadness she got from other fillies and colts, before Blaze could say anything else she spread her wings and took off.

“Derpy wait!” Blaze shouted but to no avail, before he could do anything she was high in the air flying away.

‘That was really smooth Blaze, congratulations.’ Blaze sighed angry at himself and decided to go back to farm, as he didn’t really have anything better do to he might as well check if there were any letters from his Princess waiting for him in his rented room.

Canterlot Castle, Luna’s chambers

Princess of the night sat on her haunches and read another book hoping to find anything that might help her with finding out what blocked her way into her students dreams while he was unconscious, she sighed in defeat and closed the book, reading for so long tired her out and she needed to sleep.

After getting into her bed and making herself comfortable she closed her eyes still thinking about her student and the possible danger he was in.

There was only one answer she had in mind, and she was hoping from all her heart that she was wrong.

Author's Notes:

Small chapter I know.

I have like alot of free time so if I manage to get rid of all this laziness chapter will be updated much, much much more frequently.

But I can't promise anything.

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Riter12pl4