Chapter 21: Love? Pft. Who needs it.

Author's note: Hello! I have many announcements to make so strap in! First and foremost, we have cover art now! Hell yeah! This magnificent piece was done by the lovely Tanaka InuTasha, so go and give her deviantart page a visit, shes really good! Infact, theres a piece of Breeze as a cat which I think is pretty neat. So here! . Next, after I said that I would accept all of your OC's, 5 came in within a couple days. Like I said, I will put them in, but be patient, because I have to find places for everyone elses as well. There are 8 I have yet to put in, so I need time to get them ready to make an appearance. So don't worry, your OC will 100% get in at some point. And lastly, todays new OC was sent in by jgreek! Hurrah!

After Fluttershy ran out of her own house, I decided to clean up all of the broken glasses, and all of the dishes. (Don't tell anyone, but I took some (a lot) of the food.) I then made my way outside and decided to head home. I walked through Ponyville until I found my house. I walked inside and saw Dash and Nightstar having dinner. Dinner of course being a couple of apples.

"Hey guys, I brought some leftover dinner home from Fluttershy's. Would you like some?" I asked

"Umm yeah sure, but why were you having dinner with Fluttershy?" Dash asked

"Well I was fixing her yard up from when I crashed, thanks to somepony, and she invited me in for dinner."

"Oh would you get over it and hand those containers over here!" She yelled

We heated the food back up and dug in. I of course grabbed the majority, because I knew how good it was. As Dash was getting some pasta, she got a confused look on her face.

"Rad, did Fluttershy say anything out of the ordinary when you guys were eating?" She asked

Well I can't really say that she likes me, because that would probably tear their friendship in half. So I guess I'll just lie! Thats better right?

"No not really. We ate in almost silence."

"Well thats interesting. She only makes this pasta for extra special occasions. Are you sure she didn't say anything strange?" She said while narrowing her eyes at me

"No! I swear! She didn't say a peep the whole night!" I said quaking in my boots

She just stared at me for a second, and started to eat. Nightstar and I did the same.

"WOW! This food is amazing!" Nightstar said

"Yeah it is!" Dash agreed

"You guys should have had it fresh, it was ten times better than this!" I said

We all licked our plates clean, and decided it was time to go to bed. We went our separate ways, and when I got to my room, I jumped on my bed and stared at the ceiling.

Fluttershy was really nice to me. I mean she took care of me when I was hurt. She probably could have gotten somepony else to fix her yard, but she waited days for me to do it. And she made me a meal that she saves for "extra special occasions". Do I really mean that much to her? I mean hell, we have exchanged at most a couple of sentences. She can't even talk to me for Christs sake! I mean I can't really blame her, she's a timid pony to begin with, so just imagine what it's like talking to her crush. Ahh fuck it I'm going to bed. And go to bed I did.

I woke up feeling very refreshed. I made my way to the bathroom, which was unoccupied this time. I did showered and all that stuff and made my way to the kitchen. Nightstar was sitting on a chair eating some fruit.

"Hey pal, toss me something." I said

He turned around and threw me a pear.

"So what does an Alicorn do all day when he's not ruling Equestria?"

"Not much of anything. I quit my job at the restaurant I worked at because I figured I would be to busy, now that I'm an Alicorn and all. How wrong I was."

"Can't you just go back to work?"

"Weeeeeeeellll not really. I kinda threw a plate of food in my bosses face and shouted "I'M OUT SUCKA". But you have to understand, my boss was the worst! I had my reasons, trust me." He said

"*Sigh* Whatever you say." I said as I chuckled to myself

"Yeah..." He said

"WAIT how are you paying rent?" I asked

"Dash said she could cover me for a while!" He said happily

"Hmm well ok I guess." I said turning my attention back to the pear

"Oh! The girls invited us to lunch with them at 3, so be there!" He said

"Ok, I'll see if I can get off work. See ya later bro!" I said as I got up

He said bye and I left for Brawns shop. When I arrived, I saw a bunch of ponies milling around outside. I fought my way through the crowd to see a sign on the door that said. "Closed today, be back tomorrow!" Well ok then. I guess I can make lunch after all! I figured now would be a good time to get Creative Mind caught up on everything, so I started walking around asking some ponies about where she lived. I got a couple vague clues, but they all added up and I found my way there. I knocked on the door, and a couple seconds later, I saw her standing there, with a messy mane, and a pair of glasses on. When she saw me, she perked up immediately and she fixed her mane back to it's regular shape.

"I didn't know you wore glasses, I kinda like them!"

She blushed a little and thanked me.

"So do you want to head on over to my place, and I can tell you all about the fight?"

"Sure thing Breeze! Let me grab some things!"

She disappeared into her house, and soon popped back into the doorway with a saddle bag on. She was also still wearing the glasses. We walked pretty slowly back to my place, but it was filled with a bunch of interesting conversations. We finally found our way to my house and I invited her in. Nightstar was still there, but he was standing on one of his back hooves, balancing a broom on one of his front hooves. When we walked in, he got an embarrassed look on his face, dropped the broom, and hid it behind the couch.

"H...hey Breeze! I wasn't expecting you back so soon!" He said

"Creative Mind, this is the pony who will be ruling over Equestria for three days, Nightstar." I said

She laughed at my joke, and Nightstar nervously giggled. They shook hooves and we went to my room. Once we were in there, I gathered up all of her stuff, and gave it back to her. She was pretty happy to have some of the papers back. We sat down on my bed, and I started to tell her all about what happened. The whole time, she took a bunch of scribbly notes that didn't look like much of anything. When I got to certain parts she got really excited, as if she was making the plot in her head, which I suppose she was. At the end she was glowing with happiness.

"Oh my goodness, this will make an awesome short story! I gotta go before I forget all of this stuff!" She said as she started to gallop out of my room.

I looked at the clock and it was about 2:30, so I went outside of my room to get Nightstar. He was sleeping on the couch. I went up real close to his head, and clapped my front hooves together. He jumped off of the couch and shot me in the chest with a magic bolt. I flew on the floor several feet away.

"GAH GOD DAMNIT" I said while holding my chest with my hooves.

"Oh my goodness Breeze, I'm so sorry. But don't sneak up on me like that! You kinda deserved that you know, embarrassing me in front of that mare and then waking me up. Tsk tsk tsk." He said

"SHUT UP AND HELP ME." I said

"Oh yeah sorry."

His horn started to glow, and he shot me with a red stream of magic. I started to feel better in seconds, and when it was done, I stood up.

"Thanks...Well anyways, it's about three, so we better get going." I said

"Alright!"

We walked outside and started to go towards the restaurant we all like. When we arrived, we saw Twilight, Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie. Also, Fire Heart, Thrash, and Drake were there.

"Hey everypony!" I said

They all said hello, and we got a table outside. We started to talk about a bunch of nonsense, nothing really noteworthy, until Miss Cheerilee walked by with a stallion walking beside her.

"Oh by the way! Did you guys did you hear that Miss Cheerilee got a coltfriend? In fact, he's with her now! I'm not sure what his name is though." Rarity said

"Lets ask her! MISS CHEERILEE!" Pinkie yelled

We all got pretty embarrassed for making a scene, because everypony in the restaurant looked over at us. But it did get Cheerilee's attention, and she looked over at us. She started to walk over to us with her coltfriend. He had a light tan coat, with a brown and red spiky mane. He had blue eyes, and some freckles on his snout. He was also pretty tall. His cutie mark was the iwagakure symbol from Naruto, but inverted and light and dark brown. He also had a dark green vest on. He looked like a pretty cool guy.

"Hello girls, you called?" Cheerilee asked

"We sure did! So who's your friend?" Pinkie said while pointing to the stallion

"Well this is my coltfriend, Rough Boulder." She said while hugging him. He blushed a little

"Haha hello everypony." Boulder said

Everypony aww'd at the cute sight. She then looked over to Drake and got a smile on her face.

"Oh Drake! I've been meaning to speak with you! Would you like to come to my class and display your abilities, and tell us about your anatomy? I think it would be fantastic to show the children what a real life changeling looks like!" She said

"Sure thing. What time?"

"Well after recess so at about 1. Is that ok?" She asked

"Yep."

"Wonderful! I'll be seeing you tomorrow! Goodbye everypony!" She said as her and Boulder walked off

"He seems nice." I said

Everypony agreed with me, and then our food arrived. We all dug in, but I noticed that Fluttershy hasn't said a word yet, and she didn't even touch her food. I should talk with her privately and work this out soon before something bad happens.