Time passes in Ponyville, the sun begins it decent as the day grows closer to night. Most of the residents of the town had already retired to their homes for the day leaving the streets mostly clear and only few stores still open.

"I think we may have to call it a day" Applebloom sheepishly spoke.

"Yea, it's getting late" Sweetie Belle added.

"And we hardly had anything to eat at all since we been busy most of today" Scootaloo finished.

"Then you three can go home then. It has been a long day and you helped me plenty" Spike said while remembering their experience in Ponyville today. Though they had good intension in helping him, their enthusiasm had caused them to scare or annoy the majority of ponies they came in contact with.

"Alright, Spike. Sorry we couldn't find the one who sent you the letter" Applebloom replied.

"Guess mystery solving, isn't our special talent either" Sweetie Belle added.

"Don't worry about it. No one said solving a mystery from the mail was-" Spike stopped in mid-sentence as his eyes widen. His mind began racing as he came to a realization; he has been going about this all wrong. Instead of talking to his friends to find his answer, he should have went to the pony who made the transaction; the mail pony who delivered the letter.

"Spike?" Scootaloo spoke to get his attention.

"Hu?" Spike blurted out, as he turned his attention back on the fillies.

"You froze up for a moment"

"Sorry, something just came to my mind. I think I just figured out how to solve this, I can handle the rest of this on my own" He said while giving a confident smile.

"Alright. Good luck, Spike" Applebloom said.

"Cya, Spike" Sweetie Belle added.

"Bye, Spike" Scootaloo finished.

"Thanks, goodbye" Spike said as he waved at them while running off towards the Post Office, which wasn't too far away. After a few minutes of walking he could see the building in sight and enters. Inside he could see a huge desk in front of him with a light brown colt; with a tan mane and a black baseball cap on his head, sitting in a chair. He seem to have been reading a magazine until Spike came in; grabbing his attention.

"You're a new face in here but I believe I heard others talked about a baby dragon in Ponyville before. Spike, am I right?" His voice was stern and slightly intimidating as he looked down at Spike from the large desk.

"Yea, that's right but I'm not a baby" Spike pointed out.

The colt gave a small chuckle before continuing. "Nice to meet you, 'Mr. Spike'. My name is Pete, caretaker of this establishment and control all the mail that goes though Ponyville; making sure they going to the right pony and places. I'm assuming you have some business here so; how may I help you today?"

"I'm here to find a certain mail pony that delivered mail to my home today. She is dull blueish grey, with a yellow mane, and yellow googly eyes"

"Ms. Derpy Hooves you mean. What happened that you need to speak with her?"

"I received a letter but it was from a secret admirer so I been going around town all day to try and find out who it was but with no results. That is until I finally got the idea that I should talk to her. She is the one who gave me the mail so whoever sent the letter must have been in direct contact with Derpy."

"I see. In any case, I will let you know where she lives since she is not here and I apologize for all the trouble she has caused. We don't send out letters or packages to anyone in Ponyville without some form of address or way of identification unless it was of great importance."

"Oh… it was not much trouble though. She is not going to lose her job or anything because I told you about all of this, is she?" Spike asked concerned.

"No, I will let it slide this time but please do let her know to reframe from sending anonymous letters in the future. She lives in a house just on the outskirts of Ponyville in the northwest."

"Northwest?" Spike questioned.

"Just head towards the Mayor's House from here and continue going in that direction" Pete explained.

"Alright, thanks and I will let her know" Spike said as he made his way towards the door.

"Goodbye and have a pleasant evening"

"Bye" Spike replied just before exiting though the door and head towards what would hopefully be his final destination. It was a bit of the walk as the sun was now just heading past the trees and hills in its decent, casting long shadows over the town.

After crossing Ponyville, Spike could see what he suppose was Derpy's House. It was a small house; only one story high but assuming she lived alone it was more than enough room. There was a small flower garden just on the right side of the front of it and a fence surrounding the premises. Spike made his way past the fence, walked up to her front door, and knocked.

It was only a few moments before Spike could hear noises from inside the house of someone approaching the door. The door swung open revealing, Derpy with a smile and her still bright yellow wall eyes. Her face soon turns from a smile into confusion when she notices Spike. "Spike? What here are you for?"

Spike quickly pieced together her sentence and responded. "I came here to ask you something about the mail today"

"Oh, letter got sent no problems!" She said cheerfully.

"I meant the mail you delivered to my house. The letter I got from a secret admirer"

"O-oh umm…" She said stumbling to make a sentence and unable to focus on spike face to face.

"So you do know, don't you?" He questioned, grinning.

"I know nothing!" She blurted out, now hiding slightly behind her door.

"Please just tell me who it was, I been trying to find out all day. I went to all of my friends who could have been possibly the one but with no answers. So the only one who could tell me is you, since you gave me the letter. So whoever wrote it must have asked you to send it"

"No…"

"No?"

"No, I can't tell!"

Spike sighs and asked "Why can't you tell me?"

"Because…scared" She said the a low tone, barely hearable as she stared down the floor.

"Scared? Scared of what?" Spike tried to continue on but didn't receive any response. Seeing her not moving or talk, Spike piece together what could she be scared about. "Oh, I think I may know"

Derpy looked back at him with a worried looked.

"Since whoever asked you to send the letter as a secret admirer then whoever she is must have had trust in you to not tell anyone especially me and you don't want to lose her trust as a friend.-" Derpy continued listening to Spike, her expression seem to have went blank. "If that is the case then I won't press on it anymore. It's not worth finding out who sent it if it's going to hurt you in any way" Spike speech and gave a sincere smile.

Derpy just continued to stare blankly at him for a moment before a smile came over her face as she came out from behind the door and gave him a quick hug as she yelled "Thank you!"

Spike wasn't expecting the hug but accepted it, feeling he has done the right thing.

She let go off Spike and open the door wide "Want muffins, inside?"

"You mean you have muffins inside your house?"

Derpy nodded "Yes, made myself"

"Sure" Spike complied as Derpy lead the way into her house with Spike following.

Time passes and the sun completely set over the horizon making room for the moon to dimly shine in the night sky and ground below. Spike opens the door into his home to see the place lit up only by a dim light, coming from upstairs and he could hear a voice calling his name.

"Spike, that you?"

He quickly recognize the voice as he replied while heading up the stairs "Yes, Twilight. I'm back" He answered sheepishly.

"It seem you have had quite a long day" She said turning for a moment to see looking exhausted but staying concentrated in writing something down from a book she was reading.

"Yea, I went-" He paused for a moment to yawn. "-all over Ponyville"

"You will have to tell me about it tomorrow morning but for now I think you will want to rest rather than-" she paused hearing snoring from behind her. She stopped her writing and turned to see Spike had already fallen asleep on the floor. She smiled as she slowly levitated him into his bed and tucked him in. "Good night, number one Assistant"

(The cards are all on the table as the story reaches it's end. I hope I was subtle enough that the ending will still be a surprise, I gave a few hints but also did some misleading as well. Where and when I did those though, I'm sure you all will decide the truths and false on your own. One person who message me did get a correct guess, but I won't say who and never told'em that they were right. Anyways, look forward to the ending coming sometime this week)