Snails was standing at the door of Golden Oaks Library. He kept trying to knock the door again and again but every time he pulled back.

"Oh, hi Snails!" Twilight suddenly opening the door. "Are you here to see Spike?"

"Uuhhhhh...ye-yes."

"Well I´m sorry but he isn´t here right now, Rarity took him to gather some gemstones or something."

"Uuuhhh okay."

"Okay."

After a minute of awkward silence, Twilight was ready to slam the door shut.

"Umh can I come in and ummh read the books?" he asked.

"Well, sure you can. This is a library after all. Come in. Are you looking for a specific book?"

"uuuh the one with words on it?"

Twilight suppressed the urge to say anything.

Ten minutes went by in complete silence as Snails read a book about birds in a corner while Twilight double-checked her notebooks. A couple of times she asked him if he needed help but Snails response was always a series of "ummh" and "aahh"

"Hey Twilight! Where were you? We waited for you like forever!" Rainbow yelled, suddenly bursting through the door.

"I´m sorry Rainbow, I know I said I was going to visit you and Pinkie but I got a client," she explained, pointing at Snails.

"He?" Rainbow asked, getting a glare from Twilight in response. Of all ponies she shouldn't make fun of others for wanting to read. "He sorry but, what are you going to do? Wait all day until he finish that book?"

"If that´s what it takes, yes. It is my duty as a librarian," she proudly announced.

It did take Snails most of the day to finish the book, the sun already setting when he closed it. Twilight asked if he wanted to check it out but he instead asked if he could come back tomorrow to read another one. When she said yes, Snails blushed and ran off the door, a confused Twilight watching him go.

****

"Hey, wanna grab a chocolate cake at Sugarcube, Snails?" Snips asked his best friend.

"Ummh no."

"Why, don´t you like chocolate now?"

"Ummmh no. I just need to visit the library."

"The library, ha! Do you even know how to read?" Diamond Tiara mocked him having listened to their conversation.

"Maybe he just sit there and stares at the covers!" Silver Spoon added.

"Hey, he knows how to read!" Snips defended him.

"Sure, but I bet he does it one page per hour! hahaha! Because he is as slow as a snail. Silver, that was a joke."

"Oh!" and both fillies left laughing.

"Ah, ignore them Snails. You are not that slow."

"Umh thanks Snips."

"So you want to got the library then?"

"Umh I prefer if I can go alone, Snips."

"Why?" Snips asked and his friend blushed in response. Snips may not be the brightest pony either but he knew his friend better than anypony. "Oh!"

"Umh could you keep the secret, Snips?"

"Hey, do you even need to ask? You know I got your back covered. As long as you don't tell anypony I´ve a secret crush on Apple Bloom!"

"ummh it was supposed to be a secret? ´cause I may have say something to Spike the other day about your drawings of her."

"SNAILS!"

****

Days and weeks passed by, everyday the same routine. Snails stopped by the library, he sit there reading a book while Twilight did some paperbook in a corner. Some days Spike was there and they played for a while and some days Twilight wasn´t there because of some emergency, but Snails went to the library every day.

Eventually, Twilight began to talk to him. It all started when he asked him a question for a word he didn't know. He then started making more questions, all of them she was happy to answer. They spent their hours like this, Twilight explaining some complicated issue and Snails just nodding along. He didn´t always understand but he keep asking and listening.

Everyday after school, he walked to the library and waited at the door. He never got to actually know, for some reason she always opened the door for him. He asked him one time how she knew and Twilight just shrugged, "Twilight sense, I guess".

A simple answer but to Snails it was a light of hope, like they were meant to met each day.

****

Snails was standing at the door of Golden Oaks Library, waiting for the door to open. He kept staring at the library, ignoring the boarded windows and the CLOSED sign. He kept waiting.

"Snails! Snails! Come on man, the storm is about to begin!" Snips yelled, trying to get his friend to react. "We better go take cover."

"I want to stay."

"Oh come on man. You know she is not coming back. She is a princess now princess don't live in libraries, they live in castle and stuff."

"You can go now, Snips."

"Oh man..." Snips patted his friend and left, just before the storm began.

Snails stood there in the rain, looking at the closed door of the library, waiting for the beautiful librarian to open the door and said

"Oh hi Snails! I knew it was you!"