Hey everycreature! What's up!?

So I decided to change my original plan for the first short story in this series, seeing the results from my Shop Sweet Shop story. And this first story now is going to be something my very good friend, T8ECR34TOR, has been asking…

Also… The Best Gift Ever special is coming out tomorrow! And before you ask, yes I am going to post a review of it!

Anyway for now, enjoy this while you're waiting for the special!

Dating my Teacher? Part 1

It was like any other normal day in Ponyville, the town's residents going about their business and the School of Friendship running as always as the school bell sounded to signal the midday break and lunch time. However in the town itself, a familiar young red unicorn stallion was walking to one of the cafes in town for his lunch break from his job.

"Okay, so if I finish up lunch in less than an hour I can finish editing the mayor's speech before the day ends." The stallion said as he was looking down at a day planner, checking his tasked assignments and not looking where he was going.

His name, of course, was Drawn Pen, the new assistant to Mayor Mare and doing quite a good job at it. In fact when the mayor told him how good a job he was doing and considering a raise already, it only encouraged Pen to work harder, so hard he even worked during his breaks. Currently while Pen was just about to enter the cafe grounds, he should have been looking up because he bumped into another pony, both of them falling down. Pen rubbed his head with his eyes closed as he felt a bit dizzy from the impact.

"Hey, watch where you're…" Pen started, but stopped as he then opened his eyes to see who he bumped into. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going, let me help you." Pen said as he stood up and extended out his hoof for the other pony to talk, a yellow colored one grabbing on.

"Thanks very much." The pony replied as Pen helped the pony up. "Oh… Drawn Pen is it?" The pony questioned.

"Yes and you're Professor Fluttershy, right?" Pen replied nervously.

"Oh, just Fluttershy." The yellow pegasus pony chuckled. "You're Blooming Rose's older brother, right?"

"That's me." Pen blushed, a bit embarrassed. "So I see you're on lunch break as well."

"Yup, always come here for my tea and sandwiches." Fluttershy answered. "Do you want to join me, I didn't get to talk with Rose's family much during Friends and Family Day and I didn't get to talk to you at all."

There was a reason why Fluttershy didn't talk to Pen in fact, it was because Pen was extremely nervous to talk to her and didn't want to be acting like a fool in front of everycreature, especially his own family. So Pen avoided Fluttershy as best he could that day so no one else would look at him funny. However now, with less ponies around, Pen felt some courage, so he said…

"Sure, I would like that very much." Pen answered and smiled nervously. "Mares first." Pen told Fluttershy as he held open the cafe's fence opening for her.

"Such a gentlestallion." Fluttershy commented as Pen felt his heart beat even faster.

As Fluttershy went first, with Pen following, they sat down at a table and after ordering their lunch, they started a conversation.

"So, the mayor's assistant, must be a pretty nice job." Fluttershy started, asking in her soft, sweet voice that Pen liked.

"Well, it is hard, but I enjoy it, in fact the mayor really likes the great job I'm doing, she told me she might even give me a raise." Pen answered, but than realized he was letting his ego go. "But, what about you? What's it like being a friendship teacher, I never had an experience of being a teacher, so I don't know."

"Well I love it, I get to share my knowledge of animals and kindness to my students, it's truly rewarding to teach young minds." Fluttershy answered. "And your little sister is becoming a very good student, gets along well and asks more and more questions each day."

"Yeah that sounds about right for my sister, she used to be so scared of everything, she always came to me whenever mom or dad weren't around for some comfort." Pen added.

Speaking of little sister…

Blooming Rose was in fact trotting through the streets of Ponyville, normally she would be eating lunch with her new group of friends, but today she decided to eat with her brother, to give him some company. Rose's friends understood and told her it was okay, so as soon as the school bell rang to signal lunch time, Rose trotted out of the school to Town Hall where she thought her brother might be.

However as Rose trotted through the streets, looking around for Town Hall, she noticed something as she swung her head for a quick second to the right to see any familiar buildings. She had to blink her eyes several times as she turned her head back around in the rightward direction again, this time focused on it as she couldn't believe what she was looking at.

"No way, that can't be my brother and Ms. Fluttershy." Rose said in disbelief as she galloped froward and hid in a bush that was up against the cafe's fence.

As Rose hid in the bush, she couldn't properly hear the two in their conversation, but she could hear and see the laughs both of them had when the other said something. She continued on to see when the waiter brought their lunch over and they enjoyed their meal together, she even saw her brother put sugar cubes in Fluttershy's tea cup when he asked her if she wanted any sugar.

"My brother is dating my teacher…" Rose said in her head in shock as she continued watching, unable to believe what she was seeing.

Soon enough, lunch time was almost over and as Fluttershy and Pen went back to their jobs, they waved each other goodbye, with some more soft laughs and smiles from the two of them. Rose waited, staying hidden in the bush until both fo the older ponies couldn't see her before she got out and went back to the school, having not eaten anything.

For the rest of the school day, all Rose could think about was what she saw, not even wondering about how hungry she was becoming as she didn't eat lunch because of her, well, spying. It got so bad that when classes for the day was over and Rose stayed with her friends to do homework in the library, they certainly noticed.

"Rose, are you okay?" Silverstream asked, snapping Rose's thoughts free.

"Huh?" Rose said as she was surprised. "Yeah, I'm okay, why?" Rose asked, but then she heard the clear sound of her stomach growling.

"Because it sounds like you didn't eat lunch with your brother like you said you would." Smolder pointed out the obvious.

"Here, I saved some of my lunch for a snack later on, but you can have it." Ocellus offered her leftovers.

"Thanks Ocellus." Rose said as she took the leftovers Ocellus put out and slid over.

"So what troubles you little red pony?" Yona asked.

Rose sighed, at first she thought she shouldn't tell her friends, but again they were her friends they would listen to her no matter what, so sighing before she began…

"It's my brother and Ms. Fluttershy…" Rose gulped as her friends all were paying attention. "I think they're dating."

"How do you know?" Sandbar asked, now more alert like every other creature at the table they were sitting at.

"During lunch time I saw them sitting together at a cafe, enjoying lunch and having a conversation, smiling, laughing…" Rose trailed off as she had a hard time still figuring it out.

"No way…" Gallus commented and then grew happy. "That's awesome, you can get your brother to ask Ms. Fluttershy the answers to her tests for us." Gallus brightening up at this thought, only for Sandbar and Ocellus to look at the griffon with a "Really?" Look on their faces. "What?" Gallus replied to their looks with innocence.

"That's not awesome, that's just weird." Smolder not exactly agreeing with Gallus either.

"What do I do, I don't want my brother to think I'm following him around and not studying, but I also can't just keep it to myself…" Rose said as she couldn't make a decision.

"Well maybe it was just that the two just bumped into each other and decided to sit together, maybe they're not dating." Silverstream thought.

"You really think so?" Rose asked.

"Yeah and if it turns out your brother is dating our teacher, I would suggest you go talk to guidance counselor Starlight, she's good at what she does." Ocellus suggested.

"Thanks guys, I appreciate it." Rose smiled as she took another bite of the leftovers Ocellus gave her, hoping that it wouldn't come to that point…

Well, I think you all pretty much know what's going to happen, after all this is only the first part to this short story!

And again, I'm trying something that I been doing for a short series in my namesake fandom and using vague titles. Let me know if you all like or dislike it and I'll change it if there are more dislikes about the vague titles.

And with that…

See everycreature later!