Chapter 8:
It was the morning of a new day at the library. Today was special; today marked the third anniversary of him and Twilight being a couple.
Spike yawned as he sat up in his bed, "Today's the day…" Spike quietly said to himself as he smiled. "I had better get up…" Spike groggily thought to himself for a moment, rubbing his eyes before stepping onto the floor and out of bed.
Things had changed a lot over the course of a few years; one thing being that Spike now had his own room, which was located on the first floor of the library. The room was furnished with a bed, a nightstand, a bookshelf with various books on it, and a soft chair by the window.
Spike made his bed and proceeded to walk out of his room and began heading towards the kitchen. Once in the room he began to get the things out that he needed to cook. As he set everything out, he realized he had forgotten to do something.
Spike quietly ran from the kitchen into the main room of the library. Spike grinned as he used one of the library's ladders to ascend one of the large bookshelves. Once all the way up, he searched the top of the bookshelf until he found a small brown box.
The box was full of random old trinkets. Spike started sifting through the contents of it, "I know I hid it here somewhere…" Spike mumbled as he searched until finally, "Found it!" He exclaimed before quickly covering his mouth, realizing how loud he was.
The object Spike had gotten was a little white box with a Silver heart print on the lid.
Spike carefully climbed down off of the ladder and walked over to Twilight's saddlebag by the door and placed the box in one of its side pouches.
"My plan is perfect. Right before we go out tonight, Twilight will check her bag as she always does, and then she'll spot it. She'll then pick up the box, open it, and see what's inside! And when she does, I'll be right there and ready for her reaction!" Spike rubbed his claws together as he went over his plan in his head while walking back into the kitchen.
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"Thanks for breakfast, Spike." Twilight thanked her assistant as Spike gathered up the rest of the plates off of the table.
"No problem, Twi." Spike smiled as he responded.
"Hey Spike, do you know what day it is?" Twilight asked Spike, trying to get a certain answer from him.
"…Friday?" Spike asked, trying to appear oblivious to the answer Twilight wanted.
"Spike!" Twilight shouted in annoyance.
Spike sat the plates over on the counter next to the sink as he responded, "Hehe, just kidding, Twi. I did the same thing last year, your reaction was too priceless not to do the same thing again!"
Twilight shot Spike a look of daggers at this.
"Come on Twi, I'm sorry." Spike began, "To make it up to you, I have something great planned! I'm taking you out to dinner!"
"Really! Wait…how did you get the money?" Twilight inquired. To her knowledge, Spike had only done volunteer work for a few of the ponies around Ponyville, she didn't know he had done something that paid.
"Well, since Rarity and Reginald opened a new boutique a little further away, on Mondays and Saturdays I go to the original one and help run the front of the store for a little while." Spike stated.
"Well, you told me about that, but you never said you got paid." Twilight said.
"Well…it was only temporary that I was getting paid. I told them it would just be until I could afford…something." Spike said, trying to not give to much info away.
"Something?" Twilight asked the purple dragon.
"I'll tell you more at dinner." Spike began, "Right now we need to finish that book on advanced spells you've been studying."
Twilight took a second and then smiled, she liked how Spike had started actively helping her study again. With him assisting her in her studies, she got through much more in a day than she ever had by herself.
Twilight knew Spike was up to some kind of plan. Taking into account how he had to save up alot for it, she was pretty sure she knew what it was.
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It was a little before six as Spike and Twilight finished up on another book "Okay, that should be it on that book. Hey Spike, what time did you want to go out to dinner?" Twilight asked as she levitated the book onto a pile of other books.
"I was thinking we could go in just a minute, if you want to." Spike said as he finished writing the last hoofnote from that particular book down.
"Well, I'm curious to hear about this 'something' you mentioned earlier." Twilight said.
"I said I would explain more at dinner, although by the time we get there, I don't think I'll need to explain." Spike grinned as he stated.
At this she gave a pondering look at him, "Okay, I'll go get ready." she said as she trotted out of the room and upstairs.
Spike watched as Twilight left the room, "Come on…I can do this!" the dragon thought to himself, "This is the time."
Spike walked out of the Study and waited at the bottom of the stairs for a few moments before Twilight started making her way down, "Ready to go, Spike?" she asked.
"Y-Yes." Spike stuttered, nervousness pouring out of him suddenly.
Twilight began walking towards her saddlebag by the door, "Let me just check my saddlebag and I'll be ready."
"Come on Spike…" Spike's mind encouraged, "This is the time…I can't go back now!"
The purple unicorn was checking to make sure everything was in order. Everything looked in check, until, "Spike, what's this?" Twilight questioned as she levitated the white box out of the bag.
"Why d-don't y-you open it?" Spike's stuttering worsened as Twilight looked at the box.
Twilight looked at the box for a second before slowly lifting the lid off of the box. Her expression dramatically changed when she saw what was inside "Spike…is this…" she looked at the contents a second before looking back at Spike, who was now on one knee.
"Twilight…" Spike began, "Will you marry me?"
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