The reality of what had happened didn't really hit Dash until she had reached her home.
What was all that? Dash thought, she realized that something had change, but could not place it. She decided finally that it was fluke, told herself over and over, But she knew that it was something so much deeper. The blue mare sighed and made her way inside. She tried ignore the complicated feelings that came along with the day's events, but to no avail, she couldn't get that shy yellow pony out of her head. After accepting that sleep would be impossible she decided she needed some pony to talk to, however she had no idea who to turn to. She deliberated for a while and decided that it would be best to talk to Twilight Sparkle, though she wasn't very adept when it came to matters of the heart, she was smart, not to mention always awake.
Rainbow made her way to the treebrairy slowly; many times she thought about turning back, struggled with how she would even approach Twilight with the matter, ultimately however, she ended up on the purple unicorn's doorstep. She knocked delicately and called to her friend,
"Twilight, you awake?" She said "I need to talk to you."
"Just a moment!" the studious unicorn called "I'm in the middle of something!"
From outside Rainbow heard the tell tale signs of large books sliding onto shelves and soon she Twilight opened the door.
"Oh! Hello Rainbow, this is unexpected, what brings you here?" Twilight stepped out of the way to allow Dash entry.
"I…" I think I'm in love with my best friend she thought."Just wanted to talk..."
Twilight could tell that there was something very serious on Rainbow's mind but she knew that in time she would share.
"All right, what would you like to talk about?" Twilight said moving to make some tea for the two of them.
"Um, nothing in particular." Dash said, plopping herself down at Twilight's small dinner table.
"You alright dash, you seem… upset, are you sure there isn't something you'd like to talk about?" Twilight said setting the tea service onto the table.
Dash let out a long, slow, breath before speaking "Look, Twi, I'm… I'm really confused, and I'm not sure that this is exact but…. I think I'm in love with Fluttershy." The last few words came out in a barely audible rush.
Twilight looked at her friend with confusion, though she was fairly sure she had heard brazen friend clearly, and calmly asked her to repeat herself.
Rainbow blushed a little, but something about putting out into the open had given her a new bravery, a new strength, and this time she spoke clearly and directly to her friend.
"I said, I think im in love with Fluttershy… and I need advice." She looked up to twilight with a mixture of both fear and freedom, the familiar emotional mixture that came with admitting ones deepest feeling.
"Oh, Rainbow," The purple unicorn spoke like a doting mother, "I'm sure that I'm not really the one to be admitting this to..."
She was interrupted by a certain very embarrassed blue mare " I knew I should have kept it to myself!" she said " Now everything's been ruined, I should have just left it alone, well at least I told you and not Fluttershy, please promise you won't tell her!"
"Rainbow!" Twilight called "Calm down, you've got it all wrong!" and then more calmly, I'm Trying to tell you that you should go tell Fluttershy."
Dash stuttered, "But..." she said "what if..."
"What's the worst that could happen?" and before Rainbow could protest further "Go to her." And with that she sent her on her way.
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