Chapter 2: Painful truth.

A beautiful night. Stars were shining on a sky with moonlight. In this same time, on the hill, red unicorn run around.

- Cody! Cody, where are you! Cody! - He shouted over and over, but nothing happend.

Five minutes later he saw at the edge of the hill gray pegasus.

- Here you are – Heatwave ran to him and sit down next to him. - Listen, I know it's hard for two of us, but...

- What's that future so perverse – Cody stoped him in half - With one word, you have remind me about everything.

- What do you mean? - he asked suprised.

Pegasus only smile and laughed to himself.

- I have looking for very happy pony, don't I? Always laughing, helpfull, with happy family and friends. Isn't that great? Maybe that is now – he pauzed for a moment - but years ago don't. - Heatwave didn't said anything.

- Maybe it's hard to believe, but when I was little, I don't have practically anypony with me. My family was busy with themself. Dad have a job and he take care about my siblings and they don't see anything an inch beyond one's nose, so I don't spend time with them.

- Wait a second. What about Frankie and another pony?

- Frankie has her own family, so she couldn't be with me. And another pony... - Stoped for a while. - They treated me like a monster. They ran away from me. I don't blame them, after all, meet with pegasus, which can use magic must be frightening. So I spend all time in my room. I draw a lot, read books, desinged and sewed clothes, even I learned cook, took care of the garden and animals, but still I felt emptimess, which I couldn't fill.

For long while after that, neither of them speaked.

- I still don't get one point.

- What? - Cody aasked.

- You told before, that you don't have practically anypony with you, so you have to have anypony around you.

Cody took a deep breath.

- Well... There was that pony. Pony, who always was with me... Conebris...

- Conebris? - Heatwave reapeted his name.

- Yes. He always was with me, like my shadow, but anypony don't knew about him. He played and spend time with me. It's probably only thanks to him, I don't fallen into depression and madness... - He pauzed - And he was the onepony, whereby I got controle over dark magic...

- What?! - Heatwave looked shocked. - Dark magic?!

- Yes... He was the onepony, which found the Forbidden Book and took it to me, because he knew, how I want to better control my power. But that time we painfully understood, why anypony can't start with dark magic... We took control over it, but it was close lost control over ourselfs...

- Forbidden Book... I don't hear about book like this.

- Because only I can use it.

- What?

- After the acceptance of dark magic in my heart, I enshrouded it with magic barrier I found inside it, which only I can broke and hidden it in my room, in order to anypony revealed it... And don't experienced this pain like we...

The conversation stoped for a moment.

- I understand you, but why you don't tell anypony about this?

- Because I know, how it could end... I preffered to tell them, that i learned dark magic from myself, than I learned it from Forbidden Book...

- I still have one problem. What do you meant by words „this again"?

- When I have been 10 years old...

- What, when you have 10 years?

- … He told me, than he love me...

- What?!

- Yes, he told me, that he loved me from all years, but I... I could't reciprocate his feeling. I Told him about this. And next day... He's gone. I thought, than for a year spended alone I will gone mad. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, but then..

- Then?

- Then I met you. When I started to teach you, spended time with you, and you asked me for help, I felt necessary. Then even my family started to pay attention to me. But really, I most enjoyed in your company.

Heatwave looked at him.

- Why?

- Because you are like have really similiar characters. Stubborn, Self-confidence, quarrelsome, nervous, but in this time, kind, caring and sensitive. The more time I spend with you, the more I was happy and yet more suffered, because I remembered my past. But now, it;s return again. This word reminded me everything, but now it was different.

- Different? - Hearing these words, aroused hope in him.

- When Conebris told he about his feeling, I don't felt anything. But when you do this, my heart started to hit faster and I feel happy - tears began to flow down his cheeks

- Cody...

- I don't know, I love you or not, but I don't want to lose you or another pony...

- Stop for a moment! - Heatwave hugged him - I don't care, how much I resemble him. I care only for this, how much I love you. I don't care, whether you return my feelings, I will love you no matter what. But I'm happy, because you give me hope, you will fall in love with me one day...