Author Note: For this short story, I used a free program called Grammarly which catches most of my grammatical errors. Of course, it can't catch everything, so please don't expect perfection.

I wasn't going to go this route for this story. I'm not sure what happened, but I didn't follow my story layout, but I feel like this one is okay. It probably turned out much better than how it was supposed to be written. Probably.

Disclaimer: I do not own the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic franchise. All characters that appear in this story belong to Hasbro and My Little Pony.


Title: Truth or Dare

Author: Betty Bear

Chapter: 2

Word Count: 1,837

Thoughts: 'Truth or Dare'

Genre: Slice of Life

[Truth or Dare]

"Twilight, darling, this was a marvelous idea." Rarity complimented as she sat down beside Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. The rest of the girls chorused their approval with a variety of nods and shouts.

"Thank you, Rarity. I'm glad you all agree." Princess Twilight said as she used her magic to place an empty green bottle in the center of the circle the girls formed.

In truth, it was a brilliant idea for Twilight to host a slumber party. She had been so busy as of late with her duties that she did not have enough time to spend with her best friends. Well, besides Spike and her pet owl. They resided in the castle, and they had constant contact with the purple alicorn. Twilight was the Princess of Friendship now, and she was forced to embrace her royal duties. From holding court in her castle to conversing with local and foreign dignitaries, Twilight hardly had enough time to spend with her friends. Life seemed so much easier when she was just a regular unicorn, studying the Magic of Friendship under Princess Celestia's guidance.

Luckily for Twilight, she was still considered a new princess, and because of that many ponies preferred to approach Princess Celestia or Princess Luna. Sure, Twilight still had ponies come towards her, but on some days, like today, nopony would bother her with their problems or concerns. These were the days Twilight loved because she could make up her missed time by spending it with her best friends in all of Equestria.

"Oh yes," Fluttershy spoke softly. She did not have any reason to stutter or be afraid since this was a group of ponies she deeply trusted. She felt comfortable around them. "We all missed you."

"Yea! Life's not awesome without ya, Princess Egghead!" Rainbow Dash said. She got an annoyed look from Twilight when she called her an egghead, but Twilight just shook her head and smiled. She knew "egghead" was a term of endearment from Dash; Rainbow would never insult her friends.

"Glad ya came up wit the idea of uh sleepover, Twilight. It's been too long since the last one." Applejack's southern-accented voice was heard from her position between Rainbow and Twilight.

"I agree! We needed this! It's been so boring and not fun lately now that Twilight had to spend a lot of time with those boring ponies!" Pinkie Pie stated as she bounced up and down at her spot. "And now that Twilight got a free day, we get to have a fun-fun-fun sleepover with Twilight! And it's been the best sleepover so far! We got to play lots of games and eat junk food and talk and do makeovers and play more games and-"

"Yes Pinkie. We know. We were there. We did all those things." Rainbow quickly interjected. They all had learned a while ago that Pinkie had a motor mouth. If somepony did not stop her, she would continue to talk and talk and talk.

"I'm awfully sorry girls. You know how busy I can get." Twilight said with some remorse.

"That's alright, darling." Rarity said as she gave Twilight a genuine smile.

"Yeah! What's important is that we're here, and we're gonna have fun!" Pinkie said happily. Fluttershy and Applejack gave a little nod of confirmation.

"Okay! Enough talking! Let's just play Truth or Dare!" Rainbow said impatiently as she had her usual daredevil grin on her face, her eyebrows furrowed, and her hooves rubbed together in a maniacal manner.

The girls all calmed down before glancing at each other, wondering who was going to start the game. They would have kept glancing at one another if it was not for Applejack.

"Ah reckon Ah'll start the game." Applejack said as she reached her hoof towards the bottle and gave it a mighty spin. It continued to twirl and spin for a couple of minutes until it slowed to stop. The front end was pointing towards the quietest and shyest pony in Ponyville.

"Okay sugarcube, would ya like uh truth o' uh dare?" The cowpony asked.

"Oh...umm...uh..." Fluttershy stuttered. She had prayed to the high heavens for it to not land on her, but the bottle landed on her anyways. Now, she had to choose between telling the truth or accepting a dare. This would not have been a problem if she could choose her own question or pick her own dare.

'Oh dear. What do I pick? I can go with the truth, and answer a question, but it might be an embarrassing one like who do I like. I'm not sure if go through that. Then there's the dare. I'd be forced to do something I really don't want to do. What to pick...' Fluttershy thought to herself. 'Perhaps I'll chose the truth. It can't be worse than a dare. Oh, I hope I made the right choice.'

"Um...truth please." Fluttershy said quietly.

"Alright. What's yer favorite color?" Applejack asked. She was not going to ask a question that made Fluttershy uncomfortable.

'Oh. That was a good choice! Good job Fluttershy.' Fluttershy thought to herself. She was highly relieved that it was not an embarrassing question, or something she really did not want to answer.

"My favorite color is pink." Fluttershy replied softly.

"Such a beautiful and romantic color." Rarity commented to Fluttershy. "That is a very good choice, dear."

"Yeah! Pink's my favorite too! Hey, I bet I'm your favorite too! Cause I'm pink! I got a pink mane and pink fur and pink hooves and a pink tail! OH! OH! OH! My name even has pink in it! Heehehehehe!" Pinkie giggled to herself. The rest of the group could not help but join in. Pinkie's laughter was too infectious.

"Fluttershy, it's still your turn. Spin the bottle." Twilight informed Fluttershy after the group finished their laugh.

Fluttershy gave a little nod before placing her hoof on the bottle and spinning it.

[Truth or Dare]

The game continued on with the bottle picking the next victim, and the victim choosing Truth or Dare. Finally, the girls agreed that this would be the last round of Truth or Dare. One victim left before they could check off Truth or Dare from Twilight's checklist.

Pinkie wore a big grin as she reached over and spun the bottle. Everypony's eyes were on the bottle as they silently prayed not to be chosen. They all learned that Pinkie was dangerous when given power. She had the most absurd and most embarrassing questions and dares. Not even Rainbow Dash wanted to be chosen, but fate decided to be cruel.

Everypony's eyes automatically shifted to the doomed pegasus. Rainbow wore a frown as she stared at the bottle before her. It just had to choose her. It just had to. It would have been fine if somepony like Fluttershy or even Rarity spun the bottle, but it was Pinkie, and Pinkie was one to fear when it came to games like these. The cyan pegasus swallowed some of her saliva in fear before putting on a brave face. She was scared, but there was no way she was going to show it.

Pinkie gave Dash an innocent smile.

"Truth or Dare Dashie!" Pinkie said.

'Okay okay okay.' Dash thought. 'Now I can either go with a dare or the truth. Pinkie's dares aren't that bad. I mean yeah she dared me to swallow a whole bottle of Diablo Hot Sauce, and she wouldn't let me drink water afterwards until 2 hours passed. I remember I had to go to the doctor to get my taste buds revived. Ugh. And then there was that time where she dared me to wear a pink, bunny suit for 3 days straight without taking it off. Oh man, that was embarrassing. But I did have fun. I bet the truths are gonna be much worse anyways. Besides, when have I ever chose truth. I'm a daredevil! Dare's in the name! That settles it! I'm gonna do a dare!.'

"Dare!" Rainbow Dash responded with confidence. She was sure she made the right choice even though she chose dare every single time. Pinkie's innocent smile turned devious. Rainbow Dash blinked in surprise, and immediately started to wonder if she made the right choice. The other girls all looked at Pinkie and Dash with worry.

"I dare you to..." Pinkie started, letting the sentence drift to create some dramatic effect. "...kiss Big Mac on the lips. Passionately."

There was a heavy silence in the library after Pinkie said those words.

Pinkie had a smug look on her face as opposed to her friends' faces. The pink pony was proud of her dare.

Rarity and Twilight had a look of surprise on their faces. They really did not expect that one from Pinkie.

Applejack had a look of shock. She did not know what to make of Pinkie's dare.

Fluttershy had a look of jealousy on her face. The shy pegasus wished she could have that dare.

Rainbow Dash blushed heavily. Of course, Pinkie would give her that kind of dare. How could she have not seen it? She should have known Pinkie would try and play matchmaker with her and Big Mac, especially when both of them had grown closer to each other in the past few months. Still, this was one dare Rainbow Dash would definitely enjoy.


Author Note: Alright, I never attended a sleepover as a child. I was invited to a whole bunch of them, but my mom never let me go, so I don't really know how to play Truth or Dare. I mean I do know how to play it, but I have no idea how you set it up. Like, do you just ask the question, or do you just get a bottle and go from there? Anyways, I tried. This is my own version of Truth or Dare (unless this an actual version of the slumber party game).

Long live MacDash!