CrimsonNova

Tia blushed, but couldn't help squirming around in her seat. "I'm glad you're so undertanding," she said, and dipped her head, but smiled at Moonlite happily.

"This really is a wonderful revelation," she stuttered, still nervous; and yet more confident than she had been so far.

(Sorry, I just started back at School for the year so my replies may be slow - I'm exhausted!)

Tia blushed badly and looked at Moonlite. "Yo-You do? I mean, I do know that we just met but.. It doesn't have to be rushed, or anything, right?" she was shaking a little, and now looking at the table cloth. Her stomach was too knotted up to finish her meal. She glanced up at the mare and blushed again at the sight of her. "Right?"

A huge wave of sadness swept through Tia as she heard Moonlites statement. She lowered her head sadly. "But, you're amazing! What's not to love about you?" she exclaimed, before realising what she said. "I mean like about you! Not that I mean I couldn't love you, because I could but-" she stopped, and looked down at her plate, completely and utterly embarrassed.

Tip Toes shook her head and nodded her thanks as the waitress brought the orders over to the table. She smiled to Moonlite. "No, I too live alone. Although I have always wanted a pet. Do you find it lonely? Living alone?" she inquired shyly, and she began to dig into the fries.

Tia let out a nervous high pitched giggle and looked anywhere but at Moonlite. She tapped her hooves to fill the silence as she waited for her fries. Soon, the silence became too overwhelming. "Umm, do you have any pets?" she asked, hoping this wasn't too random of a question.

Satin gladly took the towel and nodded her thanks while she began to dry off her mane. "What a great start to my vacation, huh?" she glanced back to her wings and shook them out. "I guess its karma or something at work here! My captain is always telling me to get my mane cut, and the one chance I get to get away from him, and it's ruined!" she huffed angrily and pulled her wings back into her sides. "Honestly!"

She realised she was probably being a little bit intimidating, and smiled warmly at the other mare. "Oh, sorry! I'm Satin Ribbon. You might have heard of me. Or maybe you haven't, I don't know how famous we are." she shrugged, and didn't bother to elaborate. "'ll gladly take you up on that offer, however! I love ice cream." she said, with a rather dopey grin.

Tia nodded to the waitress. "Two, please." The waitress nodded and trotted off. Tip Toes turned to Moonlite. "So, working in a library. You must know a lot about a lot," she said, nervously picking at the table cloth with her hoof. "I'm not exactly a scholar of a mare.." she said, a little ashamed.

Tia chuckled to herself and smiled once her hair was tied. "Thank you! It really is getting too long." She waved the waitress over and exchanged small pleasantries before ordering. "I think I'll have a small portion of hay fries and some lemon water. How about you .. Moonlite?" she asked slowly, blushing a little as she said her companions name.

Tia blushed and giggled girlishy. "Just a simple tie is fine." She blushed even worse at the mare's comment. "Oh, I get regular treatments at a salon. I'm a spoiled little daddy's girl," she giggled again nervously. She paused and looked up at Moonlite. "Maybe I'll treat you sometime," she suggested, still smiling.

Tia couldn't help feeling just a little bit disappointed as the two made their way outside into the air. Why did she always have to be so shy when it came to situations like this?

She sighed to herself and lead the way forward to a small café on the corner of the street, just a few minutes from the studio. She flipped her mane from her face with an irritated huff as she pushed open the door with a soft ping. Her mane was getting too long. She needed to visit a salon soon.

Tip Toes led the way to a small corner table and looked at Moonlite. "Um, can you do me a favour? I need to tie up my mane."

She smiled shyly and held up a blue ribbon. "If you could help that would be wonderful."

"Oh good! I know this sweet little café just down the road! It shouldn't take two minutes to get there!" Tia trilled, and smiled. She was happy to have something else to focus on. She trotted to Moonlite and bumped her gently with her rump. She grabbed her coat from the back of the chair and made her way back into the main room.

(Sorry, been stressed lately, completely forgot. x_x )

Tip Toes looked up at the mare nervously and said nothing. She didn't know what to say. She didn't want to be too forward, so she sat in silence, shuffling her hooves. She was all too aware of the blush on her pink pelt. She hoped that it wouldn't be too noticeable.

She eventually cast a shy smile at the mare, and made to say something, but nerves made the words catch in her throat.

"Would you like to continue your lesson, or .. we could spend the day out instead?" she suggested shakily.

Dinky flashed her an uneasy and over-exaggerated grin. "Er, yeah! I don't know how it can be wrong!" she squealed, peering around nervously. "How do we even get home?"

She jumped up. "Oh no! What if we get stuck here forever?"

Pesto felt the pride well up inside her. "Thank you!" she said to Twilight, smiling at the sight before her. She then rolled her eyes in Grey's general direction as she stooped to pick up Dirt Buster. "Well, if I remember correctly, you didn't leave the nursery until the nurse threatened to call Hospital Security," she retorted, amusement sparkling in her eyes as she cuddled into the foal.

Pesto shook her head. She didn't want to be the over-concerned mother who never let anyone near her children. She smiled warmly to Twilight and tilted her head. "As long as you're careful with her, of course I don't mind," she said cheerfully as she held out the filly towards her.

Pesto smiled at Thyme and plucked a half-asleep Roqueta from the stroller. "Pesto." she reminded Thyme quietly, as she rocked the foal back and forth lovingly. She then turned to Twilight and gestured towards the sleepy filly in her hooves.

"Would you like to hold her?" Pesto asked, just the tiny little flicker of anxiety flashing across her face as the thought of trusting her with Roqueta.

Pesto was busy trying to strap a struggling filly into the stroller with reassuring coos as Grey waited to leave. She rolled her eyes and finally secured the pegasus filly inside the stroller. She sighed wearily and rubbed her forehead. She wouldn't have traded this life for all of Equestria, but even she had to admit it was utterly exhausting.

Still, she had the most amazing stallion to help her through it, even when he was overwhelmed and at a complete disadvantage when the foals decided to play on the ceiling. There was no doubt that she was looking forward to going back to meet some old friends, though.

The tired mare sighed contentedly and followed Grey through the doors, pushing the stroller with one hoof, just in time to hear Thymes comment. She smiled warmly around to the group. "Hey everypony! It's good to see you all."

She cast a reproving glance at Thyme and shook her head in a tired-yet-playful way. "Meet Dirt Buster and Roqueta, everypony!" she announced, gesturing to the two sleepy foals in the stroller.

Dinky squirmed uncomfortably and peered at the map in mock-confusion. "M-maybe it's upside down!" she suggested, hopping from hoof to hoof anxiously.

Dinky took the map and turned it upside down, and then followed the instructions. The end result; yet even further into the deep forest. "Errr.. maybe not.." she winced.

Dinky blinked. "Oh.. The map? Um, yeah! Here it is!" she pushed the map towards Twilight and winced a little. She hadn't recorded every step they took properly, and the last of it was completely made up. She hoped maybe she had gotten a little bit right. They'd be fine! It wasn't like they could get lost! They weren't even that far into the forest.

(sorry! I completely forgot about this rp )

Dinky nodded to Twilight and burst out of the brush with a loud battle cry. She jumped straight into a group of parasprites, who squealed and buzzed off in terror. Dinky let out a gasp. "Is that it?! Where are the manticore and the cockatrice?" she exclaimed. "Maybe there's nothing here, Twi," she said, with a heaved sigh.

Tia's head snapped up and her blush deepened as she took in Moonlite. "O-oh. I see!" she stammered, and hastily took another sip of her drink.

"Any luck with that?" she asked after a moments silence.

Tia blinked, enchanted by the colour on her companions pelt. "I do understand what you mean. There was this stallion.. But that never worked out. That was years ago. Now.." she shrugged, avoiding Moonlites eyes.

"Well, I am willingly accepting that love does know no bounds," she sighed cast a weary smile upon the unicorn mare.

I've read it..

I'll never be the same again, though, believe me.

"What a lovely story." Tia replied, tilting her head and sighing a little. "It's always a nice treat to meet someone with such an exquisite story." Her eyes became unfocused as she began to think of the stallion she had once loved before he got married to somepony else.

She looked up and shook her head. "You're right, love can be fragile." she said, looking up at Moonlite as a soft blush crept up on her pelt.

Pesto gasped at the pegasi, and turned to face Grey with a look of mock sternness on her features. "Oh you and your many surprises!" she kissed his cheek and leaned her head against his. "How do you come up with these ideas? You're such a sweet stallion." She sighed happily. "I love you too."