Anonymous requested: Okay but when Raven said I have a confession to make what if she said something about Apple

Not really a request, but I responded with a ficlet, so!

"Dexter, I've got a confession to make…" Raven trailed.

She avoided Dexter's eyes, knowing he wouldn't like what she was about to say, and instead looked around at her classmates, all of whom were frozen in time thanks to her most recent magical outburst. She twisted a strand of straightened hair around her finger. "I'd hate to hurt you in any way, but I have to be honest with you and myself. I've been mulling over my feelings for you for some time and I've come to realize that what I feel for you isn't… love, or even attraction. My love, my true love, is reserved for someone else. And I think I know—"

"Raven, may I interrupt?"

Raven looked up in surprise. She focused on stilling her shaking hands and nodded, in some ways grateful for his interruption.

Dexter thoughtfully pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and then fixed his eyes on Raven's with an unusual intensity. "I'm not the one for you. More specifically, and tell me if I'm wrong, you think you've actually found the person for you."

Raven nodded hesitantly, suddenly breathless.

"That's great," he assured, though Raven noticed the weak smile that couldn't conceal the heartbreak in his eyes. "Look, Raven. Believe me when I say I'm hurt that I'm losing the girl of my dreams, but I'll get over it eventually because I'll know it wasn't meant to be. I'm sorry I had to stop you. I just don't think I'm ready to hear about this other person yet, but… this isn't about me anyways, right?" He quirked his lips, a bemused expression now fleeting. "Only promise me," he said, adoringly brushing a hand over Raven's sleeve, "that you won't let me get in the way of your happiness."

Raven allowed her gaze to fall while she briefly retreated into thought. Suddenly, she met Dexter's gaze once more and leaned forward. She placed a kiss on his cheek, too quick, too light for his liking, but a kiss nonetheless.

"Thank you, Dexter."

Dexter gave Raven a feeble smile before standing and leaving the theater. Raven made a gentle motion with her hand, setting the entire room back into action, and watched until Dexter's long, lean frame became lost in the crowd.

Raven sat by herself for a while, allowing a smile to slowly rise to her face as a strange sense of relief washed through her. This was it. She had finally admitted how she felt about her true love — and it felt good! She was suddenly filled with giddiness and an intense desire to find this person and tell them what she had discovered.

Raven climbed to her feet and pushed her way out of the crowded theater, not even paying any mind to the startled couple she walked between. She was so zealous, so driven to confess her love, that the walk from Book End to Ever After High melted into the back of her mind. Before she knew it, she stood in front of her love's dorm door. She took a deep breath, this time one of excitement, and knocked.

There was a moment of shuffling bedsheets from inside and then the sound of slippers dragging across the carpet. Shortly after, the door swung open.

"Raven? What's the matter? Did you lose your key?"

There Apple stood in all her royal glory. She rubbed sleep from her eyes as she clutched her light pink robe closed over her nightdress, but Raven couldn't help but think she looked nothing shy of perfection.

Surprised and mostly confused from drowsiness, Apple stepped aside with furrowed brow to allow Raven into their dorm. Raven entered but held the door.

"Apple, I've got a confession to make…"

And then she closed it behind her.