"You what?"

"I think we should tell you sister that we're together."

"No no no no. That's a really bad idea Emerald. She will skin you alive and never let me leave the castle again." Luna began panicking just contemplating the thought of telling Celestia.

I Took Luna's hooves in mine and said, "Luna, we promised each other that we would stick together. We said we wanted to be together forever. Sooner or later we will have to tell her. Let's just get it out of the way. We'll stick together. Remember that."

Luna looked down and closed her eyes to think. After a couple of minutes, she looked back up and said, "Okay let's do this."

Seeing as we had been out for a while, it didn't take long for Luna to have to leave. except this time, I was with her. We both took the journey to Canterlot by wing as Luna always did. She suggested traveling using the moonlight like she had the first night we went out but I said that the flash of white light would attract too much attention.

We landed on Luna's balcony. "Wait here." She told me. "I'll go set the moon and when Celestia is in a good mood, we'll talk to her. nodded and Luna left. Eventually, the sunlight began spilling into the room as I walked around looking at all of Luna's possessions.

One particularly interesting one was a glass container holding a creature of blue smoke. The container had a glowing aura around it and I could tell it was magically sealed. I read the golden label on the case. I recognized the word as being of Latin origin. "Tantabus."

"Nightmare."

I eventually heard Luna coming up the stairs. She opened the door and walked over to me. "Ah yes. The tantabus. Probably one of my more infamous magical mishaps.

"What's it for?"

Luna sunk her head. "It's kind of personal. Come, it's time."

I began walking towards the door but Luna pulled me back. "No. Through the window. We'll land in front of the doors and walk you inside. We don't want to know what will happen if Celestia sees you coming from the direction of my chambers."

I nod and we both fly out through the window and down in front of the shining golden doors. We walk in together and I am greeted with the most incredible sight I have ever seen. Of course, I've seen the throne room in pictures and books but I had never actually been inside it myself.

Celestia looked at us with a warm smile. "Hello Luna. Hello young one. What brings you here?"

Luna stepped forward. "Sister, I have something I must announce."

Celestia looked down from the throne and gave her a look of confusion. "Go on then."

"This pony is named Emerald Shine. He is a resident of Ponyville. We have both decided to be together."

Celestia thought for a moment, processing what she had just heard. "How long have you known this pony?"

"A little more than a moon."

"And how long have you been going out with him?"

Luna's head sank down in guilt. "A l-little m-more than a m-moon."

Celestia slammed her hoof on the arm of her throne. "Luna! How could you think of dating somepony who you have just met! And a lowly pegasus of all things! I told you, you must wait for an alicorn to come around who suits you!"

"But why sister? Princess Cadence of the Crystal Empire married a unicorn! Why can't I marry a pegasus?"

"I have no say in what Cadence decides. At least Shining armor is related to royalty."

"He wasn't at the time."

"Not...the...point" Celestia said, her voice growing angrier by the minute. She sighed. "Luna, I don't like controlling your life this way. But I must do what is best for you."

"Sister please, I beg of you, just give him a chance."

Celestia sighed. "Fine! I will allow you two to date. But nothing beyond that, you got it?"

"Yes Sister! Thank you!" Luna said turning to me. We embraced in a hug and left the throne room.

We walked beside each other through the gates of the palace. "That went better than expected." Luna said.

"Yeah I guess." I said looking down at the ground. I sighed.

"What's wrong?" Luna asked. "We got what we wanted."

"Not quite."

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing beyond that. That's what she said. No marraige. No building a life together. No being together forever like we said." I sighed again and looked down.

"She probably didn't mean it that seriously."

"I looked up and said. "Yeah you're probably right." I smiled weakly. "Your sister's kind of a buzzkill."

Luna laughed and that made me feel a lot better.

The next night, Luna did not return to Canterlot. Instead, she followed me as I entered the castle that night. She laid down next to me and we stayed the night there. The unfortunate part about the night was that she woke me up at five A.M. when she got up to set the moon.

That day, we walked around Ponyville. I showed her everything that I liked about the town. It didn't take long but it was still fun. We went to Bon Bon's sweets shop. The look of surprise on Bon Bon's face when I walked through the door with Princess Luna was priceless.

In fact, everypony was being more friendly to me. I wonder why? I even think I heard one of them clapping their hooves together when I walked past. It didn't take long for the rumors to begin spreading.

After Luna left, I went to my job. It was a drag as usual but at least I had that night to look forward to. One thing in particular interested me about my job that day though. I heard the sounds of a conversation from the table next to the one I was serving. The conversation amused me to say the least.

It went something like this:

"Did you hear that Emerald is dating Princess Luna?"

"Wait really? Emerald Shine?"

"Yeah Emerald Shine. According to Cheerilee, they've been sneaking off into the woods at night for moons."

"You think they've been... you know.." At this point, the pony made a hoof gesture that actually made me laugh.

"There's no way Princess Celestia is allowing them to do that. You know her rule, Only alicorns are worthy of her sister."

"I guess not anymore. But think about it. Nopony's seen a male alicorn for years. There's been a lot of wonder if there even has ever been a male alicorn."

That's where I walked away. It seems that Cheerilee had been watching me leave town every night for more than just that one night. She had been watching for an entire moon. I can tell that as fast as the rumors are spreading, Cheerilee is confirming them.

So much for keeping your mouth shut. Thanks Cheerilee. As I continued to hang out with Luna in public, more things began to change in my every day life. Ponies were specifically asking me to wait their table. More ponies were willing to talk to me.

Remember the story. That's what I always told myself. The story was Dear Evan Hansen. The pony in that play went from invisible to popular almost as quickly as I had. I tell myself this to remind myself to not let it go to my head. As Evan showed, one slip up and everything begins to crumble until it inevitably collapses. I always keep focus on the one thing that never changes.

My love for Luna, and her love for me.

What I couldn't predict back then, was that my feelings would drive me to forget some very specific things about our conversation with Princess Celestia.

Very bad things were about to take place. I just couldn't see it....

mmm Two chapters in one day. It's been fun!