Late morning had now long passed, as early noon was just starting to set in. Twilight and Spike sat together at their table, having their breakfast (which was more like bunch now) while they hardly talked. It wasn't awkward, but Spike could tell there was just something...off with the Princess, she was happy, and seemed fine, but she also looked a little too cheerful to be honest.

Spike didn't know how to react as he sat looking to Twilight, wondering just what had caused her to act the way she was right now. She wasn't upset or depressed like she was yesterday so that was a good thing, but at the same time she still didn't seem like her normal-self. She hadly talked, and wasn't doing well with staying on topic, she would keep trailing off and pausing, before completely forgetting what the conversation was even about. Just what was going on with her now?

"Twilight," Spike called to the Princess to try and get her attention, but Twilight didn't seem to hear him at first, instead she just sat there, smiling to herself, while she moved her untouched food around her plate with her magic, not caring that she was now starting to make a mess of it all.

"Twilight!" Spike called a little louder to see if the daydreaming Princess would snap out of her happy trance, and come back to Equestria for a bit in order to talk to him.

"Hmm? Oh what is it Spike?" Twilight lifted her head as Spike had seemed to successfully caught her attention, but the Princess still looked like she was very much in a dreamland.

"Are you okay?"

"Of course I am, why do you ask?" Twilight's gaze was slowly drifting away from looking at Spike, as she was still smiling to herself for some reason.

"Well you got up at pretty much the same time as me, and you haven't stopped smiling and sighing to yourself since we got downstairs, plus you haven't eaten anything yet," Spike explained as he was feeling a little concerned for the Princess, but at the same time he had no idea just what was going on with her.

"I didn't get much sleep last night, and I guess I'm not all that hungry right now," Twilight shurgged slightly, as she turned her head away from Spike, and just sighed happily, before she turned to leave the table.

"Did you have a good dream or something?" Spike asked as he watched Twilight leave the table and seem a little lost in her own world still, while she stopped and glanced back to the young dragon.

"Yeah, something like that," Twilight smiled, while she let out a small chuckle, "I'm going to my room for a bit, okay?"

"Wait, what about your breakfast?" Spike now became a little worried since Twilight was being more distant again, plus she hadn't eaten any of her breakfast.

"I'll have it later," Twilight replied, before she quickly disappeared upstairs, to her bedroom, leaving Spike to become more confused as to just what was going on with the Princess.

Spike felt like calling out to Twilight again, before she left up those stairs to hide away in her room, but just decided against it, while he sighed deeply and looked to the alicorn's untouched food, wondering if the Princess was really okay. Was she just trying to stay positive after what had happened yesterday? Or was this all caused by something else?

... ...

Twilight lay on her bed, resting, streched out on her back, giggling to herself like a pre-teen, lovestruck school filly, constantly smiling over their special somepony all the time. This wasn't like her, she was never normally like this, but it all felt so different to her now. Yes she had been dating Rainbow Dash for a good couple of weeks now, but she never felt like it was all real until last night happened. Doing all those things with the stunning pegasus, sharing so many breathtaking kisses, and listening to every 'I love you' it was all like a wonderful dream, that she would never want to wake up from.

Twilight sighed as she gazed up to her ceiling, remembering looking up to her beautiful marefriend, while the dim glow of the moon caused her cyan coat, and bright rainbow mane to shimmer in the light, a sight that she was sure she wouldn't ever forget. Twilight had never done something like that before, and now all she could do was smile and blush while she thought back on it all, remembering laying there on that soft, fluffy cloud, last night feeling like everything was so perfect. And the fact that they were outside in the open made everything even more exciting.

Although she wasn't sure how Dash had felt about it all, to Twilight last night she felt that everything finally made sense to her, and she now knew she was sure of her real feelings for that cyan pegasus. She loved her, she really loved her, she wanted to be with her, even if she had to keep it a secret from everypony else, she didn't care, she knew that Rainbow Dash was the one for her.

She was the only pony that had made her feel the way she did, not just from last night, but right from when she had first kissed Rainbow, that time when she had got caught up in the moment, and let herself get carried away, and then not being able to stop thinking about it all afterwards, that's where it had all started for her.

However even though Twilight knew how she felt, and she knew that Rainbow Dash felt the same, she did wonder a little about when exactly Dash had developed feelings for her. Rainbow had told her that she had always felt there had been something more than just friends between them, and she was the one that confessed first, but it just all seemed too good to be true to be honest, even though she knew for a fact that it had all really did happen.

Twilight rolled over on her bed, as she reached out and grabbed her pillow, cuddling it close to her, while she wished it was her marefriend that she was tightly holding on to right now, thinking that maybe she should go and see if Rainbow had finshed her breakfast yet, so that the two could spend some more time together.

Unfortunately for the Princess, it seemed like she would be staying in her own home for a little while longer, as she heard a light knocking at her closed bedroom door. Expecting it to be Spike, she thought he would go away and leave her alone once he didn't hear a reply, but instead when she gave no answer, there was more knocking that followed, and it grew louder each time.

Twilight put her pillow back to where it lay orginally, sighing deeply while she sat up on her bed, and looked to her bedroom door, wondering why Spike was bothering to keep trying, when she obviously wasn't responding to him.

"Twilight dear, are you there?"

Twilight's ears twitched to the sound of a familiar voice that was definitely not Spike's. She tilted her head a little after hearing more familiar voices from beyond her wooden door.

"Spike told us ya were up here, can we talk for just a minute?"

"Why isn't she answering? Maybe she's sleeping,"

"I don't think that's it Pinkie,"

With hearing more muffled talk behind the door, Twilight just shook her head, while she lay on her stomach now and slowly opened the door with her magic, smiling when she saw Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy all glance to her, looking a little anxious at first.

"Hey Twilight," Applejack greeted the Princess, as she allowed for her and the others to all come into her bedroom.

"What are you girls all doing here?" Twilight asked, looking to the group of her friends from the town, wondering what they wanted and why they had all shown up at her home like this.

"Umm..." Applejack paused as she and the others all looked to each for a moment, all having that same anxious expression on their faces, while all of them seemed like they had something to say to the Princess.

"Now it's nothing for you to worry about Twilight, I mean honestly it all sounds a bit strange...but if you don't mind us asking, where were you last night?" Rarity asked, as she looked like she was trying to slowly explain to Twilight what they had all come here to tell her.

"Umm...I was sleeping in my room, why?" Twilight looked confused as she answered casually, speaking confidently and clearly, not letting any of them know that she was actually lying through her teeth.

"See I told y'all that it was all just another rumor going around the town," Applejack stated as she turned to face the others, while they all sighed in relief a little, all of them looking like they were really glad after hearing what Twilight's answer was.

"Hey it could have been true, I mean they have been spending a LOT of time together," Pinkie pointed out,

"Of course they have Pinkie, they're working to try and get our two towns to make up, so it's no wonder that they will often be together," Fluttershy explained to Pinkie, while the pink earth pony didn't seem convinced, as the group of four had now gone off into a conversation amongst themselves, leaving Twilight to look even more puzzled as to why they all come round to talk to her like this, just what was this all about anyway?

"Umm...girls, what's going on?" Twilight asked as she cut into their conversation, and they all turned to her, all seeming less anxious now, but still looking like they had more to say to the Princess.

"Have you been outside this morning Twilight?" Fluttershy asked.

"No, I only got up a while ago,"

"So that means that she must not have heard what we all have," Pinkie stated.

"More like what the whole town has heard," Rarity added, while she seemed to have quite the displeased look on her face, "I guess it was expected from the pegasi of Cloudsdale, but now ponies from this town are really starting to take things seriously as well,"

"You kind of can see where they're coming from though," Pinkie smiled.

Twilight sighed deeply as she could see that she wasn't getting very far with finding out what her friends had wanted, since they would keep going off into their own conversations, and not making it any easier for her to try and guess what was going on, in fact they were pretty much just making it harder for her.

"Listen if you all came here to tell me something, can you just get on to the point please? I need to get going soon, I said I would meet up with Rainbow Dash this afternoon," Twilight said as she hoped that the others would stop confusing her and say what was on their minds already.

"Well that's kind of what it is all about Twilight," Rarity stated as she nervously smiled to Twilight, unsure of how the Princess would react to hearing something like what they had all heard about.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked, feeling a little relieved that it seemed like her friends were finally going to tell her what they had orginally come here for. Rarity glanced to the others, all of them looking a little anxious again, before Rairty looked back to Twilight and sighed deeply,

"Listen Twilight, since you came here and became friends with Rainbow Dash, there has been the odd rumor being spread around by some of the pegasi from Cloudsdale, and at some point the ponies of Ponyville have joined in as well it would seem. They started off as harmless so we decided to just leave it, and not worry you or Rainbow Dash, but now...well I would say things have gone a little too far," Rarity explained, Twilight still not getting it completely, although she did have a slightly better idea then before, but was still very much confused.

"There's rumors going around the town? About what?" Twilight was now slowly starting to become a littlle uneasy, when she heard Rainbow Dash being mentioned, knowing that when you mix her secret marefriend with the ponies of this town...well it was never going to end in a good way.

"About you and Dashie. Stories of you and her seen kissing behind buildings, and flirting with each other in public, not to mention all the worse ones that have been spreading around both towns lately, everypony was talking about it this morning," Pinkie seemed annoyed as she too was tired of beating around the bush like this, and just came out with the truth.

Twilight's eyes went wide, as she seemed shocked, her mind filled with countless questions that she didn't know the answers to, and her heart felt like it had sunk in her chest when she heard what 'stories' had been going around the town, unknown to her until now.

"Pinkie Pie, ya can't just go saying it like that," Applejack scolded the pink pony, while Rarity and her glared to Pinkie a little for being so blunt about what was going on.

"She was going to find out anyway," Pinkie rolled her eyes, as she just wanted to tell Twilight the truth without tiptoeing around everything.

"Yes that's true, but you could have been a little more discreet about it," Rarity sighed as she thought that there was no trying to slowly tell Twilight about all of this now.

If last night was really a dream, Twilight really hoped that this was part of it, as slowly her mind was quickly going crazy, while she tried to stop herself from losing her composure, and possibly reveal her and Dash's secret, that was if it hadn't already been exposed. Twilight knew that her and Rainbow Dash had always spent a lot of time together, but they were always careful, could ponies really know about their secret that they had kept hidden from them all? There was only one way to find out.

"Tell me more," Twilight lifted her head as she now sat up straight on her bed, looking serious, while she looked to the others with a stern stare, "What other rumors have been going around?"

The others all looked to each other, all not really wanting to be the one that would have to tell the truth, but all of them knowing that the Princess obviously wanted an answer, and she clearly wasn't going to settle for any less than the real truth.

"Making out behind buildings,"

"Engaging in...indecent acts in bushes,"

"Spending all their time around at each others houses,"

"Seen sleeping together some nights,"

"Flaunting their relationship to both towns,"

Rumor after rumor was told as each one of the group had heard all kinds of different ones, each one sounding more and more absurd then the last. Some even dipping into the truth, and sounding similiar to some things that Rainbow and her had done, however both of them had made sure that nopony had seen them at the time.

Twilight was a little speechless, she gussed that many ponies and pegasi from both towns wouldn't be happy about her and Rainbow spending so much time together, but how did it get to the point of spreading all these rumors which made her and Dash sound like they couldn't keep their hooves off of each other, and none of them were even a little bit true, well maybe a few were.

"Some ponies are even going as far to say that...that you and Rainbow Dash have been...'mating' in open spaces," Rarity seemed to cringe when talking about that particular rumor, it did sound like probably the worst one, however it was probably one of the only ones that was kind of true in a way.

This caused Twilight to become confused again, were these all just rumors, or had they been caught in the act without either of them knowing? And if these were nothing but simple rumors, then just how long had they been spreading around the two towns? Twilight had never really heard anything from Ponyville, but it's not like they would tell their Princess about rumors like this, plus she never hung around Cloudsdale very much, in fact she only ever went into the floating city to see Rainbow Dash, and that was about it, she had never really spent a lot of time up there.

"So...these rumors are going around both towns?" Twilight asked as she nervously looked to the others, while they all had gone silent now, but they still all looked like they had much more to say, as they all just nodded to the alicorn.

"Much more often lately it would seem," Applejack replied while she and the others all still looked anxious, while they all hoped that Twililight wouldn't be too thrown off by the two towns talking about stuff like this behind her back.

Twilight went silent as she thought for a moment, processing all of this in her mind, and trying to piece it all together, feeling a little scared that the secret about Rainbow Dash and her might not be so hidden anymore.

"Twilight I hate to ask, and of course none of us believe that any of these rumors make any sense, but..." Rarity paused, as she sighed heavily, before she looked serious as she spoke again, "Is there anything more going on between you and Rainbow Dash?"

"More? We're close I guess but..." Twilight trailed off a little, as she tried her best to still keep a relatively calm expression, so that she could still not let on that there may actually be something between her and Dash, that she hoped nopony had really found out about.

The others all looked to Twilight, waiting for some kind of answer, they all understood that this was probably very hard for Twilight to hear, and starting to think that they maybe shouldn't have told her, but then like Pinkie Pie had said, 'she was going to find out anyway'.

Applejack was going to say something, wanting to apologize to the Princess for pressuring her like this. But before she could open her mouth, all of them heard a light tapping on the closed window. All of them looked to the window, everypony accept for Twilight looking a little confused.

Twilight just sighed as she walked over to her closed window, and smiled a little when moving the curtain aside, to see her marefriend hovering ouside her window, greeting her with a kind, but nervous smile, waving to her while making a gesture for her to come with her. Twilight glanced back to the others, sighing slightly before she made a gesture for Dash to wait for her, and Rainbow simply nodded in return, guessing that the Princess wasn't alone and couldn't talk to her right now.

"Twilight?"

The others all looked to Twilight, all looking confused as to what that tapping had been, and also wondering what the Princess was doing at the moment. Twilight turned back to the group of four as she smiled to them all a little.

"Hey is it alright if you all could leave me alone for a bit, this is a lot to take in after all?" Twilight asked as she didn't want to just leave them standing there, so instead thought of some excuse for them to leave her alone.

The others all looked to each other, before they all nodded to Twilight, understanding that it may take her some time to get her head around all of this, and so they all soon said their goodbyes to the Princess and left her to her thoughts, but wanting to be sure to check up on her later, to see if they may just get an answer then instead.

Twilight sighed deeply once the others had all left, hanging her head a little low, before she smiled and pulled her curtain aside, opening the window and calling to Rainbow, who had hidden herself in the branches of the tree that the Princess lived in. Dash came flying down to Twilight as she looked to her with a slight nervous expression, greeting her kindly, but feeling uneasy on the inside.

"Who were you talking to?" Rainbow asked, thinking that it was probably just Spike.

"Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy," Twilight simply answered, while Rainbow could tell from her tone that the conversation she had had with them hadn't been the best one.

"So I'm guessing they told you about the rumors that have been going around right?" Rainbow had a fairly good idea that that was why Twilight looked so worn out and maybe a little confused at the moment, knowing full well of the rumors that had been spreading through both Cloudsdale and Ponyville like wildfire lately, today especially.

Twilight just nodded slightly, "Are we in trouble Dash?" she asked, seeming a little afraid of what Rainbow's answer might be.

"We should talk about this somewhere else, come on," Dash stated as she knew that it wouldn't be good to talk about this kind of think while Spike was still downstairs, and plus being seen together in this town was going to be quite nerve-racking now that those rumors were floating around everywhere.

Twilight nodded as she knew talking somewhere else would be their best bet with dealing with this, as she left out the window not forgetting to lock her door, before taking to the skies together with Rainbow Dash and heading off into the distance together, far away from both Ponyville and Cloudsdale, so that nopony could see them together, and they could talk about everything in private.

... ...

Rainbow Dash sighed deeply as she landed on a hillside, far off from both of the separated towns, looking up to Twilight, while she waited for the alicorn to come and land beside her. Twilight slowly came to stand beside Rainbow, while she looked to the pegasus, nervously watching as she would look out to the distance, and sigh deeply, feeling a little guilty for all of this happening, after all she was one that had decided for them to date in the first place, but when she thought about it, that might not have even mattered in the long run.

Twilight caught Rainbow's attention as she pecked the pegasus on her cheek, causing Dash to look back to her with a slight smile. Twilight copied Dash's heavy sigh, while she felt Rainbow's wing lay over her back in a comforting action.

"How did this all start...I mean...how long have those rumors been going on for, and how did they suddenly start to spread all over the two towns?" Twilight asked while she sat down, and cuddled up close to her marefriend, glad that they were far enough away so that nopony could listen in on their conversation.

"Well I knew there was always the odd rumor going around Cloudsdale right from when you first came to be our Princess, but as you and me started spending more time together, I guess they turned into something more serious. I don't actually think anypony has seen us doing anything, since most of the rumors sound awfully exaggerated, and although some do sound similiar on some level, they don't exactly make a lot of sense," Rainbow Dash explained, as she had always known about certain rumors about the Princess going around Cloudsdale, but she guessed that was just because the pegasi may not have been happy with their new ruler, but now that she was being brought into it as well must mean that some of the ponies from Ponyville had been joining in on all the gossiping as well.

"If ponies have been talking about this for that long, then why haven't I heard about any of until now?" Twilight asked, not understanding how this had all be kept from her until now.

"Well these stories were always going around Cloudsdale, but you never went into the city really, plus they were never much of a worry before maybe this morning. And Ponyville has never been a town for gossiping, but once they heard I was involved, it's possible that a good amount of them may have started making their own dumb stories up about us," Rainbow hung her head a little low, as she felt she should have just put a stop to these rumors, before they had the chance to get like this.

Twilight thought over all that Rainbow had said, trying to figure out why both towns had suddenly changed from keeping to themselves to now delving into the Princess and Rainbow's private life, without consulting either one about it first, could a pegasus possibly have seen them last night? Or maybe some ponies had seen them, but didn't want to confirm their suspicions until they heard about the rumor of the two making love in open spaces.

"Could it be possible that a pegasus could have seen us together on that cloud last night?" Twilight asked, while she could see how anypony could easily have caught them in the act, after all they weren't exactly 'hidden away'.

"Maybe...I mean I guess it is possible a pegasus could have seen...but now that I think about it, it probably wouldn't have taken long for both towns to jump to conclusions if nopony at all had seen us," Rainbow pointed out as she guessed that maybe a pegasus had seen them, and started telling pegasi from the city about it, and then word would easily travel fast from the town above, to the below. The two towns did normally keep to themselves now, but when it came to causing trouble many of the pegasi from Cloudsdale would happily do things they wouldn't usually do, like enter the town below, and talk to the ponies that lived there.

"Perhaps we should have just waited after all, we were going a little fast when you think about it," Twilight thought out loud, thinking that maybe they should have crossed that line much later than they had decided to, it may have felt right, but maybe it wasn't after all.

Rainbow looked to Twilight a little taken aback for a moment, as her eyes widened, and she felt like she couldn't believe what her marefriend had just said. Dash pulled away from Twilight a little as she thought about what the Princess had said, clenching her teeth together, while Twilight's words replayed over and over in her mind.

Twilight sighed deeply, not noticing that Rainbow had left her side, while she gazed up at the sky, wishing that this was all some bad dream that she would wake up from soon. Rainbow shook her head as she turned back to Twilight, and pushed her down to the ground, tackling the alicorn, and catching her off guard in the process.

Twilight looked up to Rainbow, seeming surprised and confused as to why the pegasus had suddenly pinned her to the ground,

"Dash, what are you-

Twilight was cut off as Rainbow leaned down and pressed her lips to the alicorn's, surprising her even more, and causing her to melt into the sudden deep kiss as she forcefully pushed her tongue in, and bit down hard on Twilight's bottom lip. Twilight gasped slightly as she shut her eyes tight, moaning a little as the kiss became more heated, feeling her breath being taken away while she allowed Rainbow to take things further, letting her be rough, even though she was a little afraid of this side to her normally very gentle marefriend.

"Dash...stop...stop it..." Twilight panted out once their lips had parted, trembling slightly when she felt Dash attacking her neck, covering it in kisses and slight bites.

"S-stop, Dash...please stop," Twilight pleaded as she pushed Dash away with her hooves, feeling a little betrayed for Dash ignoring her protests at first.

Rainbow stopped as she looked down to Twilight, giving the Princess another surprise as she saw tears streaming down the pegasus's cheeks, while slight sobs escaped her lips. Twilight wasn't sure how to react as she gazed up to her crying marefriend, only being able to reach a hoof up to her face in a comforting manner, causing Rainbow to nuzzle into her touch in return.

"Don't go saying things that you don't mean just because things are looking bad, last night felt so perfect, and right to me, and I know you feel the same way, so don't you dare going regretting what happened between us," Rainbow glared down to Twilight, while she bit her lip to stop herself from sobbing any harder then she already was.

Twilight swallowed slowly as she understood why Rainbow looked so upset now, she had been hurtful, and had spoken without thinking first, in truth she did feel the same way as Dash, and now was wishing she had stopped herself from thinking out loud like that.

"I'm sorry Rainbow Dash, I didn't mean that," Twilight apologized, as she kissed Dash lightly on her lips, nuzzling into her, while Dash sniffled and nuzzled her back in return.

Rainbow sighed slightly as she nodded to Twilight, pecking her lightly on her forehead, while Twilight just smiled in return happy to see that the pegasus had forgiven her, before Rainbow wiped her tearful eyes and got off her marefriend, letting her stand up again.

Dash turned away from Twilight again as she walked away from her, looking like something was still bothering her. Twilight quickly got up, and looked to Rainbow, running to the edge of the hillside when Dash suddenly spread her wings out wide, and took off into the skies above them.

"Dash, wait! Where are you going?" Twilight called to Rainbow as she looked worried.

Rainbow stopped as she simply hovered and took a deep breath, turning back to Twilight with a serious expression, which looked a little anxious as well,

"To fix this," the pegasus replied, before she quickly turned back around and flew off into the distance, leaving Twilight on that hillside by herself.

Twilight watched Rainbow disappear out of her sight, sighing deeply, while she sat down on the grass, looking to where Dash had flew off to, wondering just what the pegasus was planning to do in order to 'fix this' as she had said. Taking a moment to herself before she shook her head, stood up and nodded to herself, lifting herself up into the sky a second later, and following her marefriend back to the two towns that they had just gotten away from.

Author's Notes:

Rainbow Dash to the rescue!
(Sorry this took a little longer to get up, I have been busy with family over the past few days)

Thanks ever so much for reading

KillerChainsaw ;)