Rainbow woke up with the sun. She took a slow look around at the world: Tank sleeping not too far away, the cloud wall shining with the diffused light of the sun, the fresh wind blowing through a window somewhere. Then she remembered Twilight and what had happened the night before.

"I'll get up later."

Rainbow went back to sleep.

Fluttershy slept unusually late for the time she normally got up. Being so active yesterday had worn her out. Physically and mentally, having spent many hours flying and many hours talking with other ponies.

Angel, not always as nasty as he appeared, was already up and about, tending to breakfast for himself. "Oh, Angel, you got your own breakfast. Thank you, I overslept a bit."

Angel nodded and continued to eat.

Fluttershy set about her daily routine of tending to animals and such. Eventually she left the house to visit Rainbow, and so they could talk and decide when they wanted to tell their friends. If today at all. Rainbow's house was on the other side of town, near the other edge, a quicker commute to Clouds Dale. Fluttershy decided to walk through the first part of town, and maybe fly later.

She came up to Applejack, who was ponnying the apple cart at the market. "Good morning, Fluttershy," she called.

"Good morning, Applejack."

"Whatcha been up to? Didn't see you or Dash at all yesterday."

"Oh, um," Fluttershy tried to make it look like she wasn't just deciding how much to reveal. "We flew to Clouds Dale to visit some family for the day. Sorry we didn't tell you girls first, we really should have."

Applejack shook her head, "Naw, that's okay sugarcube. Just wanted to be sure y'all were alright. With what we've been through I wouldn't have been surprised if you two were foalnapped or imprisoned by some giant unicorn or somethin'."

Fluttershy laughed and said, "I sure hope not, but I guess you're right."

When she finally did reach Rainbow's house, she found herself standing nervously outside the door. She thought, should I knock? Are we at the point yet were I can just come in? She did come into my room that time during cider season, and that was back when we had just started dating. But I don't want to be rude... After a minute, she decided to knock. Just in case. So she pushed her hoof against the could door loud enough to make a kind of PHLOPH, PHLOPHnoise that carried wetly through the house. She waited. Nothing happened. Is she still asleep? I guess... Well, I guess I just go in then. It seemed wrong, but Fluttershy swallowed her feelings and opened the door anyway. She stepped in and looked around.

Fluttershy had been to Rainbow's house before, but only once or twice. The front door opened up to reveal a large airy living room with a high ceiling. Two cloud couches spread themselves around the living room without any real need, since Rainbow did most of her living and lounging outside. Arched windows were set in the walls along intervals, shining down the ten-o'clock sunlight and casting pale gold in strips. Touching the right-hoof side of the room was a staircase that sprawled upward to Rainbow's room. Tucked away behind the living room was a kitchen (that looked messy from here), an extra room that held miscellaneous junk, a back door, and a bathroom. Upstairs there lived Rainbow's bedroom, another bathroom, and a kind of workout room with weights and exercise equipment Rainbow admitted to using very seldom.

Fluttershy flew upstairs and peeked in Rainbow's room. Rainbowwas asleep. But another head distracted her as it looked up from the floor.

"Oh, hello Tank, I haven't seen you for a while. Still doing good? Is Rainbow taking good care of you?"

The corners of his mouth sluggishly dragging upward, tank nodded. Fluttershy hugged him and whispered, "Good."

Then she straightened up and looked back at Rainbow. She was a sloppy sleeper, unless she was hanging on a tree branch. Her head tilted to the door, nearly hanging off the bead, and her tail whipped up in a splash of color over her body and wayward limbs, stuck in every which direction. Fluttershy took a moment to appreciate how cutely weird and messy Rainbow looked, before taking another moment to decide how best to wake her up.

Dimly, from somewhere far away, there was a heat. Pleasant, like the embrace of a hot room after a long day out in the snow. Not that there was snow here, out on top of a plateau in the middle of dead-grass plains. It seemed to come from the sky. Rainbow decided to fly up and look for it, until she remembered she didn't have any wings. So instead she decided to look in a cave nearby for tank, and see if she could borrow his flying mechanism. But she had only crawled in a little ways when an outcrop of rock fell and trapped her chest in a tight clamp. I can't get to Tank like this, she thought. But then, in a blur of smells and colors, she was on her bead. With Fluttershy, standing close enough to pleasantly rub up against her, gently shaking her chest.

"Rainbow, I'm sorry, but I think you need to get up now."

"Mmm, yeah..."

"I don't mean to be rude but it's already ten and we need to talk before we tell our friends, and you have weather duties, and I'm sorry but it's time to get up."

"No duties today... It's Friday." Rainbow struggled to get up, rolling her limbs all to one side and starting to sit up, "I get Friday off once a month," she yawned, opening her mouth wide and showing off lots of pink, "about."

"Oh, I'm sorry. If you just want to sleep then, I can-"

"No, it's fine. You're right. We need to talk." Rainbow half-fell out of bed into a standing position and stretched like a cat, "Hug first though."

"What-" But Rainbow had already stepped forward and was clutching her close, forelegs wrapped around her neck, burying her muzzle in the flowing pink hair.

"Good morning."

Fluttershy hugged her back, blushing, "Good morning Rainbow."

They made their way down to the kitchen, and even though Fluttershy had already eaten they both sat down, at the square table in an open space near the living room, with bowls of cinnamon oatmeal.

Rainbow started the conversation with food in her mouth, "So Fluttershy, I'm surprised to see you in my bedroom so soon. Could this maybe mean-"

"Rainbow, no!" Fluttershy's blush deepened significantly, and she hid behind her mane a little. "I just came in to check on you and talk. I knocked first, I did!"

Rainbow laughed. "It's fine, really. You look so cute when you blush."

This made Fluttershy blush even more, and she cast around for a new conversation topic. "So, um, what's the weather next week look like?"

"Oh, you know, sunny skies mostly. We have a shower scheduled for Saturday, but for now we're keeping it just a shower. And then we've gotta make Sunday and Monday mostly cloudy after that, just to keep the water from evaporating too quick."

"Well that sounds good, I'll have to remember not to water my garden on Saturday. I have passionflower coming in good this year, you know, I might even have to trim it back."

"Nice."

"So how's Scootaloo been? Are you still giving her flying lessons?"

"Oh yeah, she's improving really quick. You know last week she nearly flew half a mile by herself."

"Wow, last I saw her she was still having trouble hovering."

They made small talk like this until the conversation steered toward the subject Fluttershy had come about in the first place.

"Oh, uh, yeah. About that Shy. Well, actually, Twilight already found out yesterday."

Suddenly Fluttershy felt just colder. "She did?"

Rainbow looked her in the eyes. "She saw us kiss last night, and I think she's okay with it, but I'm not so sure. Said she was anyway. She wanted me to go to the library today to talk to her about it. I think you should come."

"Oh gosh." Fluttershy bit her lip. "Oh Rainbow what if she's not okay with it? What if she's freaked out and-and doesn't want to be our friend anymore? What if-"

"Fluttershy, no matter what she says, you still have me, and probably still all our other friends. Besides, I don't think Twilight is gonna go and just ditch us, alright?"

"...okay."

They set off together, after putting their dishes in Rainbow's rather full sink.

They got to the library door and Rainbow stepped forward and knocked. Spike answered. "Hey guys. Need Twilight?"

"Hey Spike. Yeah, is she in?"

He looked almost bored. "I'll get her." He turned and walked away, leaving the door open. They stepped in in time to see the green and purple tail disappear upstairs. Twilight came down a moment later, but Spike stayed upstairs.

The familiar wooden world of the library seemed to Fluttershy rather harder than it used to be. As if everything in the room, every book lined up at attention, every piece of furniture sitting in wait, every arrogant decoration, every crevasse in the wood stared at her. Angrily.

"So." Twilight said.

"So." Rainbow sounded braver than she felt.

Twilight turned, "Fluttershy, are you really... really-"

"Yes." Fluttershy said in nothing more than a whisper.

"Okay. I just wanted to make sure Rainbow wasn't, ah." Fluttershy pressed closer to Rainbow, hiding deeper under the blue wing around her back. "Forcing anything. I didn't think so," she added quickly, "I just wanted to make sure."

They stood in an awkward silence for a minute, Rainbow glaring at Twilight, Twilight staring at Fluttershy, and Fluttershy starting at the floor wishing she could go back to sitting at the table eating breakfast.

Then Twilight collected herself enough to say, "I've done some reading," Rainbow and Fluttershy both rolled their eyes at this. She ignored them. "Ethics and biology mostly, but there were some other things, and in the end I asked Princess Celestia about it."

"Really?" Rainbow didn't hide her annoyance, and couldn't hide her fear. "You didn't use our names, did you?"

"Of course not! Anyway, I think I'm, well," She sat up on her back legs and fiddled her forehooves together in little circles. For a second Fluttershy thought she was going to say "I want to study you and run some tests," and then try to hook them up to machines. But, averting her eyes, she said, "I want to support you."

Rainbow managed to hold herself together better this time, but Twilight was still bowled over from the force of both of them rushing forward to hug her. "Oh Twilight," Fluttershy cried, "thank you so much!"

Twilight was on the floor, with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy above her, clutching on with hearts racing, legs brushing up against legs, hot breath against her chest and neck, inner thighs touching inner thighs-"Girls, I'm glad we're all still friends, but now that you're," she swallowed, "attracted to mares, can you not get so close, please?"

Immediately they understood, and climbed off her. "I'm sorry," Fluttershy said, "I didn't think... about.... Sorry."

"It's fine," Twilight said, standing up and looking away and hoping her face didn't look as hot as it felt. "I just. Yeah. Anyway, we need to tell the rest of our friends. It's not right to keep a thing like this locked up for so long."

"But what if they react like you," Rainbow said, "almost did."

"Then we'll go from there. But they can't react at all if they don't know."

"Good point."

Eventually they made a plan (mostly from the things Twilight read). They would invite everypony to a picnic Sunday and let the news drop then. It seemed for the best, but Fluttershy and Rainbow were already scared.

They set out to invite their friends, and the first pony they ran into was Applejack. She said she would be delighted to come. The next one they ran into was Rarity, who was also good for that Sunday. The one pony they didn't see out and about was Pinkie Pie, so they went to Sugar Cube Corner to check for her there. She was working the counter.

Twilight came up with Fluttershy and Rainbow in tow. "Hey, Pinkie Pie. We just came in to invite you to a picnic this weekend. Does Sunday sound good?"

"Yeah! I'll bring cupcakes." Pinkie said, with an ear-to-ear grin swimming in her voice and on her face. "At the meadow, then?"

"Yep."

"Is there any special occasion, or does everyone just want to hang out?"

"Just hang out mostly," Twilight said smoothly.

Pinkie then seemed to notice the two pegasi standing off to the side. "Hey guys! What's upppPPPPPP AHH YOU GUYS!"

They looked back at her, startled, "Wh-What?" Rainbow stammered.

"TWILIGHT KNOWS NOW, DOES THAT MEAN YOU'VE COME OUT?"

"How- how did you-"

"Oh, please," Pinkie bounced over the counter and scooped them both up in a huge hug. "I've known since day two, but I also knew that this is something big and you should tell us on your own time. I was going to say something soon since it's been like forever already, but now Twilight knows and we can all be happy together!"

This was a shock for all three of them. Twilight spoke first, "How on earth did you know that I knew?"

"Pinkie sense, silly," she said, smiling over her shoulder. "And it's in your eyes."

"Pinkie," Fluttershy squeaked, "Could you put us down now, please?"

"Oh, right," and she released them from her clamp. They fell on top of each other in a heap. "Sorry. Do you make out all the time? I bet you do, ohhhh I'm so happy for you two!"

"So... so you're okay with us, with who we are?" Fluttershy asked quietly, "With us being gay?"

"Of course, silly! Why wouldn't I be?" At this, Rainbow's eyes flickered over to Twilight for a heartbeat. Pinkie noticed this and looked behind her for a second too, smiling. Twilight opened her mouth to say something, but Pinkie quickly turned back.

"I wondered if you might like mares once or twice," at this, some dark smear stirred in her eyes, but immediately vanished. "And then you two started dating and you HAVE to tell me that story and then it took you FOREVER to come out and now you're out and you're SO CUTE TOGETHER!" She scooped them back up off the floor for another bone-crushing hug that they returned with just as much exuberance. They held each other a moment, then broke apart.

Everyone just kind of looked at each other. Then, Fluttershy broke the silence, "Oh, but, um, Pinkie, we're not exactly out yet."

"Awww, what?"

"Well," Rainbow said, "We kinda didn't really mean to tell Twilight, and we had no idea you already knew, so the only ponies who know about it besides you two are my parents and Fluttershy's mom."

"Oh."

Fluttershy spoke up again, "We were planning on telling everypony at the picnic. Do you, um, do you think you could maybe not tell anyone until then?"

"Of course, Fluttershy. I can totally keep a secret."

After Pinkie had properly performed a Pinkie Promise, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight managed to walk back outside. Twilight went off, saying goodbye, to attend to some work in the library.

Rainbow and Fluttershy walked together for a little distance, going nowhere in particular, when Rainbow said, "Hey, so. Do you want to do something today, since we have a bit of free time? It's only noon, after all."

"Yeah, that sounds really nice."

The day passed in the best way: slowly and filled with a bunch of little good things. It was nice to just hang out with each other and occasionally pass conversation with good talking friends. It was such a nice day, but all the while it felt like the eye of the storm for both Rainbow and Fluttershy. Like after this momentary calm there was to be some major storm in the next days. And the wall of the hurricane coming on Sunday.

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