Author's Notes:

Been writing this being a bit dizzy, might have typos I'll do a small proofreading by myself tomorrow before sending it to my proofreader.

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“Del! Hey Del where are you!” Starburst shouted as she trotted through the fields of Sweet Apple Acres, she and her friends split up and started to search for Delicious while Pinkie and Applejack were taking care of dinner back on the farm.

“In my whole life, I’ve never been so humiliated.” Nidra commented with her cheeks still red from embarrassment as she followed Starburst through the forest of apple trees.

“Yeah, that was awesome.”

“Pardon me?” Nidra said with indignantly. “I’ve just been made fun of by some lowly farm pony in front of your so called friends, and that’s “awesome” in your opinion?”

“Yeah, why wouldn’t it be?”

Nidra opened her mouth to response but no sound came out from her throat, she realized that if they switched roles she too would describe this as “awesome”.

Starburst smirked. “I thought so, Del! Hey Del come out! I know she looks scary but she’s really nice when you get to know her, okay maybe not but come out anyway!”

“You’re digging your own grave Star.” Nidra commented gritting her teeth, her angry responses only made Starburst more amused.

Suddenly without any warning Delicious just walked from behind the tree, surprising both mares. “Hello.” He said with a shaky, nervous voice.

“Hey Del! Glad to see you not scared anymore.” Starburst replied and smiled widely, looking at Nidra with a corner of her eye.

Del smiled at Starburst and turned his attention to Princess Nidra, who like he expected, was staring at him with daggers in her eyes.

Colt sighed and scratched his head. “Princess Nidra, I am very sorry for what happened, it’s just that yer wings are looking so, bat-like and I am well…”

“He’s so scared of bats that when he sees one, he completely freaks out.”

“Star!”

“What? It’s truth.” Starburst said with a shrug.

“I guess it is.” Del looked at still not amused Princess of Slumber and forced few nervous laughs. “Well, that’s in the past right? Ya ain’t gonna make any big business out of it right?”

Nidra turned around without saying any words and started to walk back to the farm, leaving two friends alone.

“Well, it seems that our princess doesn’t like you, too bad, I hoped she would get few friends right off the bat and leave me alone.” Star commented.

“I can’t help but think that ya don’t really like her.” Del replied, still looking in the direction Nidra went.

Star shrugged and closed her eyes, thinking back to all these scenarios from the castle in which she and Nidra played main roles. “She can be really annoying, and her way of being just pisses me off.”

Del smirked. “I am quite sure that she would say same thing about ya.”

Star’s eyes snapped open and looked at Del. “What’s your point?”

Del smiled and started to walk back to farm. “Never mind.” He said with a shrug.

“What do you mean by never mind? Don’t give me never mind! Now I’m curious!”

“Forget it!” Del shouted and started to run.

“You will get back here and tell me what you wanted to say!” Star shouted as she chased her friend through the green apple trees of Sweet Apple Acres fields, before she realized they both arrived at the entrance to Del’s house where rest of their friends waited.

Candy was here, but she wasn’t alone, Anthea, a blind unicorn mare with long green mane she wore in a braid, her fur was pale shade of pink and her muzzle was adorned by her adorable smile. “Hey Del, are you all right?” She asked with a concern in her voice, which didn’t stop her from bursting out in laughter after hearing what happened.

“Yeah, I’m fine, when did ya get here?” He asked.

“Few moments after you ran away.”

Del nodded and turned towards Candy with a small blush on his muzzle. “Where’s Princess Nidra? I would like to apologise to her, or something.”

Candy smiled she started to play with her pink and white curly mane. “She’s inside, and you better do apologise, or else you two will never make a good couple.”

“Yeah I… what?” Del asked dumbfounded.

“What do you mean by ‘what’? You two looked so adorable together! A royalty and a simple farm pony, that’s a perfect love story isn’t it?”

“Candy I don’t think it’s a good idea.” Del replied.

“Well I think that’s a great idea!”

“Annie you too?!” Del asked surprised as his blind friend nodded with a mischievous smirk on her muzzle.

“Hey Del, don’t get too worked up, they’re playing you.” Star commented.

Said colt stared at her questioningly as he was completely confused.

Starburst sighed. “They were just kidding, I mean what love story? You two just met and not only you didn’t become friends, she seems to hate you.”

Del gulped nervously. “That bad?”

“She said nopony ever humiliated her like that.” She said with a smile, Delicious on the other hoof was far from smiling, he felt guilty even though that wasn’t fully his fault, it’s not like he’s scared of bats on purpose. “I’ll go and say sorry.”

“Go ahead big boy! Go get her!” Candy cheered Del as he entered his own house.

He walked through the kitchen where his mother and aunt Pinkie cooked something that smelled glorious and got into the living room, where on the couch laid Princess Nidra. Delicious couldn’t see her muzzle as she was lying on her stomach with her face in a pillow, but he was sure she was far from smiling.

He coughed few times to make sure she wasn’t sleeping, after few moments he caught her attention and she raised her head a couple inches to see who’s interrupting her. “What do you want?” She asked not even trying to sound like real royalty, she was annoyed and tired.

“Well I, I wanted to…” Del started but didn’t know how to finish, he started nervously at the floor as he felt the piercing gaze of annoyed Princess, he sighed and picked up all of his courage, which he needed because of her scary wings put on display. “I wanted to say I’m sorry, I never wanted to humiliate you or anything, when ya came around and Starburst introduced you I hoped we could get along and be friends, I’m angry at myself for screwing that up.”

Nidra wanted to ignore him at first, but his words caught her attention as she slowly raised from lying to sitting position, making her wings less visible for Del.

“So, like I said I am very sorry, and that’s everything.” He said and turned around in order to walk away, but he was stopped by her voice.

“Hey, Delicious right?”

Said colt turned around and nodded. “Eeeyup, Del for short.” He said with a smiled.

‘Maybe he’s not so bad? Nidra thought and smiled as well. “Well, I don’t know if this will work out but we can try being “friends.”.” She said making quotation marks with her hooves.

“That’s great!” Del commented full of joy, then he had an idea. “Wait here, I’ll bring you something great from kitchen.” He said and started to run away, he however stopped after few steps and quickly turned towards her startling her a little bit. “Do you like cake?”

“Emm sure.”

Del smiled. “Then you’ll love it, I made it myself, wait here!” He said and dashed out of the room into the kitchen, from where Starburst and her two friends just walked into the living room.

“Woowie, what was that?” Candy asked.

“He ran to the kitchen to get me a cake or something.” Nidra said with a smile.

“Del is treating you with his own cake? Lucky! He’s such a good cook.”

“Is he?” Nidra asked.

“Oh yes! Del’s dream is to serve his dishes in best restaurants in Equestria!” Candy replied.

Nidra suddenly became interested in the colt as well as the meal that he was going to bring with him, as if on cue Del ran into the room with a slice of cake on a plate which he hold with his teeth.

He ran fast towards Nidra, a bit too fast.

Everypony stared in awe as Del tripped on the carpet and his plate along with cake flew through the air, they watched closely as if in slow motion cake gently landed on Nidra’s muzzle cowering her in delicious yet sticky substance.

Del massaged his sore head, he looked up and his expression fell as he saw once again angry Nidra, staring daggers at him as other mares in the room rolled around laughing. As if to add fuel to the fire Applejack and Pinkie came into the living room as they heard weird noises, and they too burst out in laughter.

Delicious nervously smiled. “I’m sorry?”