Fluttershy’s Cottage – Half an hour before the party

Fluttershy was upstairs in her room. She picked out her gala dress out from her closet. It was as beautiful as ever and the green colors reflected her personality really well. She loved the nature so the color green was nothing but natural for her. It was also almost the same color as Sharpy’s coat too. She giggled at the thought.

What a coincidence.

After she had put on her dress she looked at herself in the mirror. She wanted to look as good as possible. This was going to be a night to remember. Hopefully. She started to get nervous.

What if I can’t do it? What if I back out? What if he doesn’t like me? But, no! She slapped herself gently on her cheeks. She couldn’t let thoughts like these get the better of her. She took another look at the mirror. She slowly stroked her hoof though her mane. Her mane looked like as it always has. But she wanted it to be more than that. Tough she couldn’t figure out what she would do with her mane so in the end she decided that she wouldn’t do much to change it. It was good enough. Besides, she knew that most ponies liked it. But of course this didn’t stop her from adding three butterfly-like barrettes in her mane. She placed them in a way so that they would look like her cutie mark. She was ready. She took a deep breath before heading for the stairs.

And there was Sharpy. He was wearing his suit and she had to say; the black and white colors really suited him. He had also taken the time to comb his usually quite disheveled mane so that it was combed back. Now you were able to see his eyes a lot better and they were shining of excitement. He looked at Fluttershy as she came down the stairs. His eyes opened wide and an approving smile covered his face.

“You look absolutely beautiful, Fluttershy”, He said while watching her new style clearly impressed. Fluttershy felt her face becoming warmer as she was about to blush.

“Thank you, Sharpy. And you look really good in that suit”, Fluttershy said with a friendly smile. Sharpy chuckled and returned the smile.

“Yeah, I’m quite satisfied myself”, he said and stroked his mane with his hoof as a joke. “But, we should head to the party. They might need our help with some final preparations”. Fluttershy agreed and together they walked their way to the town centre, where the party was supposed to be. Fluttershy highly doubted that Pinkie would need any help with her party, but it’s better to attend a little bit early than a little bit late, right?

And as Fluttershy predicted, everything was in order. Those who were there was Pinkie, Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Spike, of course. There was also some other ponies there who were waiting for the party to begin. Vinyl Scratch was the DJ of the party. A good choice.  Her friends were all wearing fancy clothes. Both Pinkie and Twilight were wearing their gala dresses and Spike was wearing a little tuxedo. Rainbow, however, didn’t wear her gala dress. The dress she was wearing still reminded Fluttershy a lot of her rainbow colored gala dress, tough it wasn’t as big and clumsy. She probably wears it not to slow her down to much while flying.

Typical Rainbow, Fluttershy thought with a smile. Then she remembered that Sharpy and Rainbow haven’t met each other yet and now was a good time to make an introduction.

When Rainbow saw the two ponies coming she immediately flew down to greet them.

“What’s up, Fluttershy?” she said while making the landing.

“Oh, I’m just fine, Rainbow”, Fluttershy said. Then she began to introduce Sharpy. “This is Sharpy”. Sharpy smiled and raised a hoof.

“Oh, hi! Pinkie told me about you”, Rainbow said and started shaking hoofs with Sharpy. “I’ve heard you’re a pretty good flyer. How about having a race sometime?”

“Sure”, Sharpy agreed. “But it’ll have to wait. I’m not sure if I can do my best for at least a couple of days”. Sharpy carefully flapped his wings. Fluttershy, however, excused herself, left Sharpy and flew over to Pinkie. Pinkie seemed to have everything under control, but Fluttershy thought it would be best to ask her anyway.

“So how’s everything going?” Fluttershy asked, ready to help if necessary.

“Oh, it’s just fine. Everything is ready and when more ponies show up, we can start this party!” Pinkie said, clearly exited. “Twilight is about to give the fireworks some extra kick. It’ll be wonderful!” Fluttershy was glad to hear everything was in order. Now she just wanted to talk to Rarity. She might need some advice or at least some moral support. Be she wasn’t hear yet, but that wasn’t a problem. The night was still young. She could wait. She looked over at Sharpy. He seemed to like Rainbow. They were probably talking about flying or something like that. Fluttershy didn’t really care too much. She was just looking at Sharpy. And just like Sharpy knew she was watching him, he turned around and waved to her and gave her a warm smile. But this wasn’t like one of his normal smiles. This time it was something more. She knew it was something more. Like he wanted to tell her that maybe… maybe… he shared the same feeling for her as she felt for him. This just encouraged Fluttershy even more.

Soon more ponies arrived to the party. They were all chatting and Pinkie was right now busy handing out drinks. Vinyl was preparing the music and Twilight had all the fireworks ready and prepared for launch. Things were coming up nicely, but Fluttershy was as nervous as ever. She really wanted to share a few words with Rarity before Vinyl turned on the music.

Fluttershy spotted Rarity among the crowd. A lot of ponies were there so it was a bit hard to reach Rarity, but Fluttershy could without any bigger problems, gracefully get past all the ponies. Fluttershy carefully poked Rarity on her back to get her attention. Rarity turned around and greeted Fluttershy. She excused herself and followed Fluttershy to a spot where nopony would listen.

“Oh, darling. You look fabulous”, Rarity said and looked impressed at Fluttershy. Well it was Rarity herself who had made the dress in the first place, so it was hardly a surplice for Fluttershy to hear her say that. “And those barrettes make you look so cute. I’m sure that Sharpy liked it”.

“Why, thank you, Rarity”, Fluttershy said and began to blush. “And yes! Sharpy did like it. And it’s him I wanted to talk about”.

“Well that was my guess”, Rarity said and gave Fluttershy an encouraging smile. “I think you should go dance with him. Maybe have a drink with him. Make him soft enough to embrace your feeling for him”.

“But what if he says no?” Fluttershy asked worried.

“Don’t think like that”, Rarity was determined. Fluttershy really liked Sharpy… no she loved Sharpy and Rarity wasn’t going to stand by and watch as Fluttershy wasn’t able to build up the courage to even ask Sharpy. “If you make him understand your true feeling he will not say no. Some stallions can be very shy when it comes to true love. If he doesn’t make the first move you must”. The music started as they spoke. The first song was pretty fast but really good for dancing. Fluttershy looked behind and saw Sharpy looking around for somepony. He was looking for her. Rarity noticed this too and gave Fluttershy a little push.

“Come on, darling. He’s looking for you”. Fluttershy nodded to this and began to make her way to Sharpy. When he saw her he gave her a big smile and walked to meet her half way. But with just a few steps more some other mare blocked Fluttershy’s way and stared to talk to Sharpy.

“So you’re new here in Ponyville? Are you the reason why Miss Pie took her time to make a party?” The new mare had a light blue coat and a perfectly stylish purple mane and she wore a fancy dress that matched her mane. Sharpy tried to excuse himself but she wouldn’t let him go. Fluttershy could just stand there and see how the now mare tried to seduce him. Fluttershy began to walk slowly away. She would never have any chance against that one. Or so she thought.

Rarity, who had seen everything didn’t take this easily. But she didn’t just want to shoo the new mare away. Instead she went to Fluttershy. It would be for the best if she was the one who made the move.

“Where are you going, Fluttershy?” Rarity ran up to Fluttershy. “You can’t just walk away!”

“But…” Fluttershy began but Rarity interrupted her.

“No! You are going to walk straight up to them and show her that you are the mare he wants. Look! Sharpy’s seems really uncomfortable with her”.

Fluttershy looked back to the two ponies. Rarity was right. Sharpy didn’t like this situation one bit. Fluttershy swallowed and gave Rarity an unsure nod before she walked up to Sharpy. And Sharpy seemed really relived to see Fluttershy and he took the opportunity to get away from the light blue mare. Sharpy gave Fluttershy a hug and made a nervous laugh.

“This is my… very special somepony, Fluttershy”. The light blue mare looked awkward at the two ponies, excused herself and left them with some badly hidden irritation.

Fluttershy was chocked about what he said. She was confused but at the same time happy. She looked at him. He didn’t let go of her until she spoke.

“Your… very special somepony?” she whispered so quiet that it was next to impossible to hear unless you were really close. And right now… Sharpy was really close.

“Well, I… ehh…” Sharpy wasn’t sure what to say. Perhaps he did something stupid? “She was getting really annoying and I… well…”

“Don’t worry, Sharpy. I understand”, Fluttershy said. But did he really just say that to get rid of her? Or was there something he wished for? She really hoped for the last one. In the corner of her eye she could see Rarity talking to Spike. She wondered what they talked about, but she didn’t think too much about it. She decided to focus on Sharpy. The rhythm in the song was quite catchy and Sharpy nodded and carefully stomped his hoof to the beat of the music. Then Sharpy looked at her. You could see, even though his coat was already red, he was blushing.

“May I…?” Sharpy raised his hoof, ready to grab hers. It was obvious that he had trained for this, but Fluttershy still envied his courage. And she was happy that he did. Because now she didn’t have to ask him.

“I’m glad you asked”, she said and grabbed his hoof with hers. They walked together towards the dancing area which was placed in the middle so that everyone could watch the dancing couples. The other dancing ponies gladly made room for another couple. There was space for everypony who wanted to dance.

Sharpy wasn’t a very good dancer. In fact: we was quite terrible. But Fluttershy, however was a really good dancer and she helped him to get the moves right.

This must be something he’s unused to, Fluttershy thought as she tried to figure out what Sharpy was thinking. But Sharpy had shown before he was a quick learner and dancing was no exception. Soon he was able to perform all the basic moves at least.

Things were getting along really well. Fluttershy had never felt so close to Sharpy, or anypony for that matter, before. And she liked every moment of it. As they both danced her heart started to beat faster. And it wasn’t just because of the physical effort.

But as they danced, Fluttershy spotted Rarity, Spike, Twilight and Pinkie talking to Vinyl. For time to time they looked over at them.

I wonder what they are talking about. And then the music stopped. Everypony stopped dancing and looked confused at Vinyl. But just a few seconds later she had already turned on a new record. The songs on this one were a lot slower and more romantic. It was pretty unusual for Pinkie to have this kind of music for her parties, but now Fluttershy realized what Rarity and the others was talking about. Both Fluttershy and Sharpy blushed as everyone around them held each other close as they slowly danced to the music. And then they looked each other in the eyes. They could both see the same thing and they both knew what their loved one was thinking. They smiled and held each other tight as they let everything fade. Now there were only two ponies left in the world. It was Sharpy and Fluttershy. They embraced each other, standing as close as it was possible. They danced to the music but didn’t let go for one single moment. They opened their eyes once again and looked deeply into each other’s eyes. No words were needed. They both knew just by looking at each other that they were in love. Sharpy slowly bend forward and Fluttershy did the same and their muzzles met. When they kissed time itself seemed to stop.

Everypony around stopped with what they were doing and looked at the young couple. All the other couples smiled and looked at each other, remembering their first kiss. And just behind Vinyl Spike gave Twilight a signal with his claw. Twilight nodded and the next moment the fireworks were flying in the air above them. When the first firework burst in the air high above them the explosion was formed like a giant heart. Fluttershy and Sharpy hugged each other as they watched the fireworks. This was a moment they would never forget.

***

The party was perfect. Sharpy would never forget this moment. He and Fluttershy had just arrived home. It was late at night and they were both tired so they decided to call it a night. But when Sharpy began to lie down in the sofa Fluttershy stopped him.

“Ehum… you’ve been lying in that sofa all the time”, Fluttershy hesitated for a moment. Unsure how to make it sound right. “Perhaps you want to sleep in a real bed for a change?” Sharpy didn’t expect to hear that from Fluttershy. As far as he knew she only got one bed. He hesitated. And when he did Fluttershy immediately looked away. It looked like she felt ashamed to ask such a question. But she didn’t leave. She waited

“Yes. That would be nice”, Sharpy said. But not just to make Fluttershy feel better, but because he wanted to himself. Well he wasn’t ready to go all the way. It was too early and he didn't know what would happen considering he’s a dragon. But he still wanted to be close to her.

His answer actually calmed her down and they went upstairs to Fluttershy’s bedroom together. They both hesitated before lying down.

Come on, Sharpy, he thought to himself. It’ll just be me and Fluttershy, lying close to each other. Nothing more.

Fluttershy was already lying in the bed before Sharpy even moved a muscle.

Why is it so hard to do this? Sharpy had to concentrate just to lie down besides Fluttershy, but the second he was lying down he knew this was the right decision and his entire body relaxed.

They were lying close to each other. Sharpy could feel the hot air coming out from Fluttershy’s mouth as she breathed. But it was late and they were both about to fall asleep any second now. But before they fell asleep Sharpy wanted to say something.

“I love you, Fluttershy”, he said wile looking at Fluttershy with a heartily smile. Fluttershy smiled and gave Sharpy a kiss on his cheek.

“I love you too, Sharpy”.

They both closed their eyes, embraced each other, and fell asleep.

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