Dear, Rainbow Dash

How are you? What have you been up to?I’m doing well, for the most part at least. Nothing is wrong, so I won’t elaborate on that. I know it’s been a long time since we’ve last seen each other. I won’t obfuscate as to why I’m writing you a letter. I understand you’ve recently become engaged to Fluttershy. I have one question. When did you know? When did you know that you wanted to spend the rest of your life with her? I guess I’m just struggling with my own feelings right now. Anyways, I’d appreciate a response. Sorry for not saying more. At the moment I’m kind of busy with college work. I’ll reply as soon as you send me your response.

Your friend, Twilight Sparkle.

Dear, Twi

It’s good to hear from you. Fluttershy says “hi” by the way. I’ll be honest I don’t really get why you wrote me a letter. It’s more than a bit old fashioned. But Fluttershy said it was the polite thing to reply to a letter from a friend. It’s good to hear you’re doing well. We haven’t spoken much since high school. We should really get together with the rest of the girls sometime.

We’re doing well actually. The wedding is in a few months and Fluttershy is already busy with the planning. I can’t say I really care much for that type of stuff. I’d rather just be over and done with it already. But Fluttershy wanted a wedding, and for our friends to come. She’s very happy actually. That’s good enough for me. Actually, you’ll probably already have gotten your wedding invitation by the time you get this letter. So take his as an informal way of saying we’d really like for you to be there. Both Fluttershy and I have missed you a lot, Twi.

I don’t think I’ve really been up to much these last few years. The biggest thing that happens was I started dating Fluttershy. And of course proposing to her. Life’s been good though. Right now I’m working on becoming a P.E. teacher for Elementary school students. Fluttershy is working on becoming a veterinarian inbetween her job at the pet store.

Well, I think that was enough meandering. When did I know I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Fluttershy? I really had to think about that one. I even asked Fluttershy if she felt like there was a moment like that for her. A few months after we’d starting dating, which is about three years ago now, Fluttershy ended up in a pretty bad bike accident. Broken arm, and her legs were scraped up pretty bad. She didn’t have a concussion or anything though. So at least she was good there. She didn’t go back to work for at least a month. I ended up taking care of her. A lot. It wasn’t even a big deal or anything. I just genuinely wanted to help her. I brought her food, I cleaned her apartment. Took out the trash. Things like that. It wasn’t even like I felt obligated to do it because she was my girlfriend. I just wanted to be there for her, even if long term the accident wasn’t really a big deal. It felt good, it felt right. And it meant a lot to her. She said that’s when she knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life together.

I really thought about it, I know when I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Fluttershy. It was a month after high school graduation. It was July 4th, and she wanted to see the fireworks that night.

Since graduation I’d been psyching myself up to finnaly ask her to be my girlfriend. It was a nerve racking month, and one I wish I’d told you or one of our other friends how I was feeling. I was shy, and nervous, and I really didn’t want anybody to tell Fluttershy how I felt. I wanted to ask her out. Pride, is the word to describe it I suppose. Spoiler, obviously I asked her out, thought not until a year later since I somehow never found the right time to tell her how I felt. And to be honest I was kind of scared too.

Anyways so I figured no better day to ask her out then the 4th of July celebration watching fireworks. It was gonna be great. We’d sit back and watch the fireworks together, and I’d stare deep into her eyes and tell her I loved her. A romantic kiss as fireworks lit up the sky. Of course reality is often dissapointing compared to our expectations.

First thing, my car had a flat tire. And then it ran out of gas. And my parents couldn’t give me a lift because they were out of town. No big deal, I’ll just walk to Fluttershy’s house. Construction. They were tearing up the entire road I’d normally cross to get to her house.

I took a detour, one that made me walk for three hours before I reached her house. Not sure if you remember, but at the time I’d broken my phone and hadn’t replaced it yet. And my parents, bless them, had finnaly gotten rid of the land line the previous month since we never used it anyways. And yeah, I tried to find a pay phone.

I’m at Fluttershy’s and she’s happy I see me. And Tank is sick. Because of course he is, and the way Fluttershy is looking it’s starting to worry me. She’d been taking care of him since I was busy with my job at the time. We took him the vet, and had to wait two hours since we didn’t have an appointment.

Tank ate something he shouldn’t have. Don’t remember what it was, but the vet gave him something to settle his stomach.

I’ll get to the point. This wasn’t some fiasco of a day where everything possible went wrong. It was mildly bad, and that badness was ultimately negligible. But we did end up seeing the fireworks. I even let Scootaloo ride on my shoulders. I remember she grabbed my hand then. We were just standing on this hill, holding hands, watching the fireworks. Peaceful. That’s how I felt. It was with her, in that moment, that made me happy. That’s when I knew. Even before I asked her out I wanted to be with her. It didn’t matter what it was, just being with her made me happy. And I wanted to do the same for her. She deserves to smile, and people deserve to see her smile. I love seeing her smile, and I love seeing her happy. It’s a wonderful feeling Twi, it’s like you’re the only people in the world. And you’re totally fine with that, to just be together, alone.

I hope that helped you with whatever you’re going through. It’s been good hearing from you, Twi. Take care.

Sincerely, yours, Rainbow Dash.