Twilight tried her best to catch up with Rainbow Dash, but unfortunately she knew that when it came to flying, the cyan pegasus had her beat. Twilight sighed deeply as she looked all around her while she hovered in the sky, stopping to take a moment of hesitation as she saw Ponyville coming into view, along with the floating city of Cloudsdale above it.

'Did Dash come back this way? Did she go back to Cloudsdale?' Twilight wondered as she slowly flew closer to the two towns, thinking that maybe Dash had probably just gone back home, planning out how exactly she would 'fix this' as she said she would. But Twilight really didn't see how that was possible, it's not like Dash could stop those rumors from spreading and growing more serious, or at least it definitely didn't seem like something she could do easily.

'Just what was Dash planning to do anyway?'Twilight questioned as she sighed again and came flying into Ponyville, taking a look around at the town and all its residents, thinking that they all didn't seem so kind and welcoming anymore, in fact they looked a lot like the pegasi of Cloudsdale right now, a little intimidating and hard to approach.

Twilight thought about just teleporting into her home rather than dropping down, and risking being asked about those rumors that were going round, but she also wanted to see if maybe Dash had come into the town as well. So she slowly flew down and landed on the ground, looking all around her at the ponies that suddenly all began to notice her standing there.

Twilight thought the ponies would come up to her and talk to her about the 'relationship' she had with Rainbow Dash, and she expected exactly that to happen, but instead many of the ponies that noticed her just stared at her in a weird way, before they would realize they may be acting impolite and would smile nervously, before walking off to carry on with their day. There was the odd one or two that would whisper something to each other, nodding to each other, while pretty much the whole town avoided greeting their Princess, and all kept their distance from her. Maybe this was better then them all asking her countless questions, but it felt just as uncomfortable and nerve wracking to the anxious alicorn.

Twilight was thinking that she knew how Dash felt when she was around these ponies now, as it seemed like they were all treating her like they had treated Rainbow the other day, she felt like she wasn't welcome anymore, and that she didn't belong amongst these ponies with their judging stares, and obviously fake smiles. How had pretty much the whole population of the town changed overnight just because of some stupid rumors?

The Princess swallowed slowly as she walked through the town, hanging her head low, while she avoided all contact with any of the ponies of the town, sort of regretting that she had decided against teleporting home, as that's all she wanted to do right now. But she didn't mean her home in Ponyville that she had come to love, no she meant the one back at Canterlot Castle with the two Princesses, that's where she really wanted to be right now, it was probably the only place she would feel safe in after all.

"Twilight!"

Twilight lifted her head in response to somepony calling out to her, biting her bottom lip when she saw Applejack and Rarity running over to her. Stopping, Twilight only now realized that a fairly small crowd had began to form around her, having not been paying much attention to what was going on, she hadn't noticed them all standing there, staring at her till now.

"Alright, back off, go on all of ya," Applejack shooed all the crowding ponies away from the Princess, while Twilight felt depressed, not seeing how Rainbow Dash could possible 'fix this' now.

Rarity sighed a little as she rested a hoof on Twilight's shoulder in a comforting way, causing Twilight to look back to her, seeing the unicorn smile to her in a gentle manner, while Twilight just gave her a small, weak smile in return. Once the small crowd had gone, the two guided Twilight over to the side, hiding her away from the rest of the town so she wouldn't be the center of everypony's attention anymore.

"Why did you come out here Twilight? With all these rumors floating around it's no doubt that you would get ambushed quickly," Rarity asked, while Applejack kept a close eye out for any ponies that came walking past, as they would all stop and stare for a moment, only turning and walking away when the farm pony gave them a stren glare.

"I...I...I don't know," Twilight was going to say she was with Rainbow Dash, but quickly caught herself, and just turned away from Rarity, clenching her teeth together while she wished all this wasn't happening, wanting to go back to yesterday, to the day that seemed like a bad one, but ended up being perfect by night. But would that change anything? These rumors had been going around Cloudsdale and some of Ponyville for much longer then just today, so it's very possible that things would have ended up like this anyway, but maybe just not as soon.

Applejack and Rarity looked to each other, both seeming anxious while they both wanted to cheer Twilight up, but having a feeling that it wouldn't be all that easy for them. Rarity caught Twilight's attention, as she rested a hoof on her shoulder again, and smiled slightly when the Princess looked back to her with a wondering expression.

"We're sorry about eariler, we should know that all you and Rainbow Dash are is close friends, we shouldn't have pressured you like that," Rarity apologized, while Applejack did the same, both of them hanging their heads in shame, feeling kind of responsible for putting the Princess through all of this.

"Oh umm...well..." Twilight paused as she was actually starting to consider the thought, of possibly telling the truth to at least these two, after all how long would it be before the whole town would find out, that there in fact actually was truth in some of those supposably 'false' rumors? Not very long by Twilight's guess.

"What's going over there?" Rarity asked as she looked over across the town, as Applejack and Twilight did the same and followed the unicorn's gaze, stopping when they all saw a big crowd starting to form near to the middle of the town, growing bigger by the second, as more and more ponies came walking over to see what was going on.

"I don't know, but it doesn't look good," Applejack thought out loud, while she wanted to stay far away from the growing crowd of ponies, only to widen her eyes when Twilight started to slowly make her way over, walking with a wondering look on her face.

"Twilight!" Applejack called to Twilight as she and Rarity both ran after the Princess, and quickly stood in front of her, stopping her from walking over to the crowd.

"What are you doing Twilight, you should have guessed that going into a big crowd of ponies like that right now is more than highly riskful, I mean with your current situation and all, wouldn't it be wiser to just stay away from most of the town at the moment?" Rarity asked as she and Applejack looked to Twilight with pleading eyes, not wanting to put the Princess through anymore troubling situations today.

"Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are over there," Twilight simply pointed out, causing the other two to look over to the crowd, and indeed they saw Pinkie and Fluttershy standing in it, looking around at the other ponies, probably wondering what was going on as well.

Twilight carried on, walking over to the large crowd, now having Rarity and Applejack following alongside her, as they walked on either side of the Princess, shielding her at best as they could from any prying eyes, or judging stares. All three of them wondered just what was going on as they all walked up to the crowd and called to Pinkie and Fluttershy, causing the two mares to turn to and greet them.

"What's going on here? Why is everypony crowding around like this?" Rarity asked as Applejack and Twilight both nodded in agreement, while Pinkie and Fluttershy moved in a way so that Twilight was more hidden from the other ponies, knowing that it wouldn't be good if the Princess was seen by anypony right now.

"Beats me, but it looks like something interesting is about to happen," Pinkie stated, while she sounded a little excited for what might be happening.

"Apparently a pegasus has called everypony to gather here for some reason," Fluttershy added, seeming to have more of an idea of what all this was for, more than any of the others did anyway.

"A pegasus?" Twilight quesioned, her eyes going wide, as she worried that she may know exactly who that pegasus was, and hoping to Celestia that she was wrong.

"Great what's this then, more ridiculous rumors about Twilight and Rainbow Dash?" Applejack assumed, while all the others were pretty much thinking the same.

"Most likely," Rarity added, as she rolled her eyes in a displeased manner, while Twilight began to look more worried now for where this was all going.

Suddenly Twilight and the others heard a voice call out to them, as they all looked to where the voice had come from, they were all glad to see that it was just Spike running over to them all,

"Hey what's with all the commotion? I could hear it all the way from the library...Twilight what are you doing here, I thought you were still in your room?" Spike looked to Twilight as he hadn't noticed the Princess amongst the group until he got closer, wondering when exactly she had left the library.

"Well..." Twilight paused as she smiled nervously.

"That's not important right now," Applejack stated changing the subject, before Pinkie noticed something.

"Hey isn't that Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie asked as she pointed to the front of the crowd, as all the others looked to where the pink earth pony was pointing, and Twilight immeditaly felt like she knew that this wasn't going to end well.

Twilight and the others all looked to indeed see the cyan pegasus, with the brightly coloured mane named Rainbow Dash, hovering just over the front of the crowd, looking anxious, but confident at the same time.

"This should be good, just what is she doing here while this is going on?" Rarity thought out loud as she seemed annoyed by just seeing her old enemy, while the others all just looked to Rainbow Dash, guessing that she was the peagsus that was behind all this.

'Dash what are you doing here? Was this your plan?' Twilight thought while she was trying to keep herself calm and not call out to Dash, which she definitely felt like doing right now.

Rainbow looked around the crowd waiting for most of the ponies to notice her, before she would actually start talking to them. While looking Rainbow spotted where Applejack and the others were, seeing them all looking back up to her in return. Her magenta eyes went wide as she saw Twilight standing in the middle of them, being hidden away from the rest of the crowd.

Rainbow was wondering just how Twilight had gotten here, but that didn't matter right now, in fact it might actually prove to be a good thing that she was here, at least Rainbow wouldn't have to tell her marefriend about this later now, but she doubted Twilight would be happy with her once this 'plan' of her's was all over and done with.

Rainbow sighed slightly, before she noticed that most of the ponies were looking up to her, deciding to just look away from Twilight for now, and just try to forget she was standing there, gazing up to her with those entrancing dark eyes of her's,

"Ponies of Ponyville, listen up!" Rainbow called out to the crowd, catching the remaining ponies attention as every one of them turned to look up at her now, all of them having the same wondering expressions, minus a few unamused and distasteful looks among the large crowd of ponies.

"I'm sure you're all wondering why I have gathered all of you here. Well there's something that I need to speak to all of you about," Rainbow started as she was constandly telling herself to stay calm, and 'stick to the plan' not worrying about what any of these ponies may think of her, and just get this all over and done with.

"So I'm sure that you've all heard about the many rumors that have been going around here and Cloudsdale, these rumors are about me and...our Princess," Rainbow paused as she glanced to Twilight, waiting for an reaction, only to see a worried look from her marefriend in return. Expecting Twilight to stop her, she was surprised that she was just standing there along with the rest of the crowd. Rainbow cleared her throat as she continued on,

"These rumors weren't too bad at first, so I didn't take much notice in them...but now they've gone too far, and so I am here to say something, and I will be saying the exact same thing to the pegasi up in Cloudsdale after this as well," Rainbow took a deep breath as she looked to all the ponies staring back at her, all waiting for her to finish,

"All those rumors...none of them are true," Rainbow stated with a confindent look on her face, while whispering followed after, Twilight sighing with a little bit of relief, glad that it seemed like Dash was still trying to keep their secret hidden for now.

"Princess Twilight and I are close and we may spend a lot of time together, but that's only because...that's only because..." Rainbow shook her head as she paused again, slowly looking over to Twilight, while she finally locked eyes with that beautiful alicorn, who she couldn't be more happy to call her's.

Dash sighed as she looked to all of the others that were hidding the Princess away from the other ponies of the town, feeling her heart sink when seeing that worried look never leaving her marefriend's face.

"I...I can't do this..." Rainbow whispered out, before she nodded to herself, and completely forgot about her plan, throwing caution into the wind, as she held her head up high, and proud,

"While those rumors might not be completely accurate, there is at least some truth to them after all," Rainbow smiled slightly as the only pony she was looking at now was Twilight, mouthing the word 'sorry' to her, while the alicorn's eyes went wide, and she realized just what Rainbow was planning on doing.

Twilight shook her head to Rainbow, while her worried look now turned into more of a panicked one, 'Dash...no please...you can't...' she thought as she knew what was coming, and although her mind was telling her to go and stop the pegasus, her hooves stayed nailed to the ground, feeling paralyzed Twilight could feel tears welling up in her eyes.

"You see, Princess Twilight and I have been secretly dating for a little under two weeks now. She makes me the happiest pegasus alive, and I love her more than words could ever say," Rainbow stated proudly, not caring about all the gasps of surprise, and all the disapproving looks she got in return, as all the ponies went into whispers again.

'No! Dash...stop...' Twilight could only stand and watch as her legs felt like stone, and her mouth had ran completely dry, not being able to speak or do anything at all.

"I'm sorry Twi...it was fun while it lasted right?" Rainbow smiled to Twilight, hating seeing those tears filling the alicorn's eyes and starting to run down her cheeks, but knowing that she couldn't hide this anymore, it didn't feel right keeping her love for the Princess as a secret from everypony, she wanted to scream it from the rooftops, and write it on the skyline. She had never felt the way that Twilight made her feel, and so she would tell all this to Cloudsdale as well, no more hiding, no more secrets.

Applejack and the others were all surprised and weren't sure how to react, was Rainbow actually telling the truth here, or was she just going back to her old ways, and doing all this to cause trouble?

"D-Dash...stop...just please stop..."

The others all looked to Twilight as they heard her whisper out for Rainbow to stop, standing there while she looked up to Dash, with tears streaming down her cheeks, begging the pegasus to stop, but her voice only coming out in a raspy whisper that only Applejack and the others could hear. All of the group looked worried and concerned for Twilight while she stood there crying, wishing she could move, but still didn't budge a single inch.

"I love you Twilight Sparkle," Rainbow said in a low tone, looking straight to Twilight, smiling to her slightly and wishing she could wipe those tears away from her beautiful face.

'I love you too Rainbow Dash, but please stop this...' Twilight wished she could reply, but all that came out was a small whimper, feeling weak while she couldn't yet see why Dash had come clean, but deep down she knew that their secret would have been revealed anyway, Rainbow Dash just made the process go a little faster.

Rainbow winked to Twilight, before she wiped her eyes and turned, taking to the skies and soring up to the floating city she lived in, leaving Ponyville in shambles, while off she went to go and do the same to the town above.

Applejack and the others all quickly caught Twilight's attention and lead her away from the large crowd, who were all now talking loudly to one another about what had just happened. Applejack and the others all quickly headed over to Sugarcube Corner, closing all the windows and doors, while they all hid away from the rest of the town, wanting to quickly get Twilight out of that situation before the ponies had the chance to notice her and make things even worse than they already were.

"What was that all about?" Applejack asked as she and the others all looked to each other, all having the same expression of confusion and maybe a little resentment for Rainbow Dash after she had done domething like this. While Twilight walked over to the corner of the room, feeling depressed and puzzled as to why Dash had told everypony their secret, she could have convinced the town that those rumors were all just a lie, couldn't she?

"Well it definitely seems like Rainbow has gone back to her old ways, honestly just when we thought she really had changed, so goes and does something like this just to cause trouble and cause more stress for Twilight," Rarity stated while she looked awfully annoyed with the cyan pegasus, now thinking that there was no trusting that damn hot head, always following the crowd when it came to causing a uproar.

"Maybe she was telling the truth," Pinkie pointed out as she seemed to think differently from Applejack Rarity and Spike.

"What, how could that be true?" Rarity asked, not seeing how Rainbow could possibly be telling the truth about all this, it just sounded like a crazy hoax, much like all those rumors did.

"She did sound sincere when she said she loved Twilight," Fluttershy agreed with Pinkie, as being the only one in the group to see things the same way as the pink earth pony did.

"Do ya honestly think that Twilight has been dating Rainbow Dash without telling us all this time?" Applejack asked as she also didn't see how any of what Rainbow had said could be true.

"Well..."

All the others turned to Twilight slowly as they heard her speak up, before she paused and didn't continue. She could now see why Rainbow Dash had come clean about their secret relationship, and the reason was there simply was no secret anymore, and because of this everypony was now going to probably spend their time arguing over if this was all true or not till it drove them apart.

Twilight could see this already starting to happen with her friends, some wouldn't believe it, while others would, if the truth didn't come out eventally then the whole town would soon fall into complete chaos, it was already starting, and Twilight couldn't deny that she as well was tired of all this hidding, she loved Rainbow Dash, and she shouldn't have to hide that from anypony.

"Twilight, are you saying that all that Rainbow Dash said...was true?" Rarity asked as she and the others all crowed around Twilight, waiting for her to answer, and really wondering what she would reply with.

Twilight looked anxious as she looked to each one of her friends, before she took a deep breath and just felt like she should just tell them all the truth. She didn't want to see them fighing over who was right, or wrong, and the fact that Dash had now come clean, made her think that her marefriend had done the right thing after all. They already been found out, so there was no point in hidding it anymore.

"Yes..."

Twilight replied with a small nod to the others, sighing heavily as she faced the truth that it was time to finally tell them all the secret she and Dash had been keeping from them all this time. Now they would all know what had really been going on between the cyan pegasus and their Princess.

Author's Notes:

The truth finally comes out.

Thank you ever so much for reading

KillerChainsaw ;)