A slight proposal

Switchblade looked around "Yeah it was quite weird. All in all a very weird day." he said, then remembered why he went to the forest in the first place "Do you want to come inside for a little bit?" he asked, hoping for the answer to be yes.

"Uh yeah sure.... There's nowhere else to go." She said with a shrug. "How did you know where I was? That weirdo put me there after knocking out my lights." She said and walked in.

Switchblade shrugged "Truth be told, I had no idea where to find you; I just searched until I found you." he said, unlocking the front door.

"So how did you find me? I was somewhere in those woods, you couldn't have found me. I'm glad you did let me tell you, but how." She said.

Switchblade nodded "I know loneliness and what it looks like, so I just got that trickster to help me out."

DJay shrugged and trotted inside and over to the bathroom. She splashed some water on her face then turned around and trotted over to the couch. She stretched out on it and sighed deeply. "Well that worked." She said.

"What worked?" he asked, confused about the context she was referring to.

"You using the Trickster to get out. Anyway. What were you looking for me FOR." She said looking at him from the couch.

Switchblade paused "What was I there for? Oh yes, I wanted to ask you a question. It's a pretty big one and I hope the answer is yes. The question is, it's, um, how do I ask this? Will you be my marefriend?" he asked awkwardly

DJay looked at him wide eyed and shuffled for a second then looked at him. A goofy grin spread onto her face and she laughed. "Of course dumb-butt." She said and sat up on the couch.

Switchblade sighed with relief "Oh my goodness I was worried there, you have no idea how hard that was to ask." he said with relief in his tone.

She laughed. "I believe it was hard." She said and stood up. She trotted over to him and rubbed her nose against his. "I don't know why you were worried. You really thought I wouldn't say yes?" DJay giggled as she walked away.

Switchblade smiled "I guess I was just worried because of my lack of romantic experience." he said, giving DJay a kiss.

"I have a GREATER lack than you buddy." She chuckled and trotted up the stairs then came back down with a pillow. She walked over to him and smacked him with it. "That's for making me think you were leaving me." She said dropping the pillow.

Switchblade laughed "Interesting way of making your point known, besides, I never said that I would be leaving you." he said, he thought about what DJay had said, 'how could a pony like her have less romantic experience?'

DJay looked around for a second then trotted into the kitchen. She turned on the stove and grabbed some apples. She cut them and threw them in the pan with some butter. she put them on the stove and turned around and made some dough. She grabbed some pears and cut those up and put them in a mixture of cinnamon and applesauce and mashed the pears. She moved the apples and turned on the oven. She made a pie curst and put it in a tin then poured the pear mixture in their with some other stuff. She covered the mixture and put four slits on the top and she put it in the oven. She took the golden brown apples from the stove and put them on a plate and made a salad. She set that on the table and grabbed some cider and poured it in 2 mugs and placed those on the table. She took the finished pie from the oven, turning off the stove and oven then placed the pie on the counter. "Dinner." She said to Switchblade. "Done."

Switchblade looked at DJay, his face a humorous mic of emotions "You know what, for once I have no words to say about this." he suddenly stopped "I wonder what Pillow will think of her new mother, must be the strangest family in the neighbourhood."

"Totally. A bat pony, a unicorn, and a pegasi. What a family." She said sarcastically. "Anyway, sit down. Eat. I made food." She said and sat down with a smile.

Switchblade smiled, sitting at the table "Didn't know that you drink." he commented, looking at the cider. "Oh and by the way." he said, throwing down a file between them with DJay's sibling's profiles in "A friend in the night guard got me these and has helped me try to get your siblings out of the militia."

She stared a the folder, then Switchblade, then the folder, then her eyes rested on Switchblade. "Thank You OH MY STARS!!" She said and she hugged him and gave him a kiss. "I'm going to see my siblings again! Oh I hope they missed me..." She said and excited worry was in her eyes. She calmed herself down and sat to eat. "Thank you..." She whispered and giggled a bit. "Now to eat." She said and grabbed the cider and started to drink some then she grabbed some apples, and some salad and placed it on her plate and started eating. "Oh I almost forgot." She said getting up then coming back with a bowl of mangoes. She placed 2 on her plate and smiled.

"Don't thank me yet; I still need to get them out of there, that's a lot of admin work." he said calmly. He saw DJay get the mangoes "Of course." he said with a laugh.

She giggled and bit into a mango. "Where do you get these? I mean I have tasted many mangoes, but this--this is the best." She said swallowing her bite.

Switchblade shrugged "It's honestly hard to remember, I have gained the friendship of many merchants so I know the best places to go to get what I need." he looked at DJay awkwardly "I know this question I'm going to ask is going to be hard to answer, but do you know what happened to your parents? You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

DJay smiled. "Well your merchant friends are smart." She said then took a bite of the mango. Hearing Switchblades question her face fell and she looked down. "It's ok, I'll tell you.." She whispered. "My mother died, giving birth to my youngest sibling, the boy, Poison Night.... My dad died when I was young from sickness or something, I don't know..." She said as she shoved the images to the back of her mind.

"Ah." Switchblade said "My condolences to you." he said honourably. "Anyway, perhaps now that you are here, perhaps we should make use of the night to travel to the night guard barracks and reintroduce you to your siblings." he recommended.