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"Eyes," written by TheLunarSamurai.

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I…

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I guess I’ve never really tried to explain
this, I don’t think I’ve ever been able

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to, but I’ll give it a shot.

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First you need to know some things.

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I had always lived in canterlot.

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I was young but I was beginning to get new
responsibilities every day.

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One of my most recent (and most frustrating)
was the babysitting of my baby sister, Twilight.

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She was a handful to say the least, and I
loathed taking care of her.

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Instead of being outside, playing with my
friends, I was cooped up with my drooling

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baby sister.

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I needed to be with my friends, my parents
knew this, and I knew it as well, and so they

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decided to hire a babysitter.

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Another thing is that, while I was still young,
I was beginning to mature, and the other ponies

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my age were as well.

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We were all hormonal, but this… it… it
wasn’t some dumb lust.

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I wasn’t attracted to her physically, it
was something more, something beautiful.

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I had never felt this way before, and I don’t
think I will ever feel the same again.

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I was the most stunning and comforting feeling
I had ever felt.

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I still remember the day everything started.

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It was just like any other: slightly monotonous
and rather uneventful.

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I was up in my room, getting ready for junior
guard duty like I did every day after school,

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when a knock rang through the house.

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I dismissed it as I was late for guard duty
(which was becoming a pretty regular phenomenon)

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I remember quickly tossing on my uniform and
I remember being in quite a rush.

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I leapt over my bed, swung the door open,
and barreled down the stairs to the entry

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way.

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My adrenaline was beginning to flow and I
was gaining speed.

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As I peeled through the hallway the sounds
of my hooves on the floor and the adrenaline

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in my veins masked the sound of the unfamiliar
voice in the corridor.

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Maybe if I had heard that melodic speech,
I would remember that instead.

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If I had taken a moment to not breathe out
of my mouth as a cretin, I may have smelled

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her light perfume first.

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But I suppose fate had a different plan.

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As I rounded the corner into the kitchen to
grab my lunch, I distinctly remember thinking

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that nothing could stop me.

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Never before could I have been so wrong.

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I had seen her before at the academy, but
we had never really talked or anything.

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We knew each other’s first names, but that
was about it.

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We weren’t in classes together.

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We didn’t have the same lunch schedule.

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In fact, I think she attended a different
building as me as well.

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As I skidded to a stop on the tile floor I
didn’t even notice her.

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When I did first see her, I dismissed her
at first, as being on time was my objective.

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Since I was in the kitchen for my lunch.

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I was forced to take a closer look when I
grabbed my lunch.

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My eyes drifted up to her head and froze.

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And, as cliché as it seems, time seemed to
slow to a crawl.

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The world around me mattered a little less,
and my heart beat a little harder.

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I wasn’t drawn to her beautiful hair that
sprouted from the bow.

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I wasn’t drawn to her amazingly well groomed
pink coat.

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I wasn’t even drawn to her more… private
areas.

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Instead, I was drawn to her eyes.

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I…

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I don’t know how to describe them.

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It has been so long ago, and the memories
have been replayed in my mind so many times…

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All I can remember is looking into them with
wonder.

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Like they were portals to the one source of
true beauty in the world.

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I must have been staring because her cheeks
became quite red before she awkwardly handed

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me my lunch.

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I don’t know how long I had been frozen,
but it was long enough for me to gasp for

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air.

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I’m sure that didn’t do anything to help
her embarrassment.

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That was all it took, a simple glance into
the eyes.

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Just a moment, and I had fallen.

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As soon as she looked away, time changed to
its normal pace.

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A heavy silence had drifted over us both,
and I remember looking away, half in embarrassment,

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half in the idea that I might not see such
beauty again.

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She said something along the lines of: “You
seem to be in a hurry.”

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That was the first time I noticed her voice.

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It was so beautiful, as if anything else about
her couldn’t be any more striking.

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I turned to her and distracted my attention
from her eyes long enough to grab my lunch.

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I said that I was “Going to junior guard
duty” trying to sound as official as possible,

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but I think my voice cracked when I said it.

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I don’t know, but I think she was impressed.

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She knew I was in a hurry, that I was on my
way to junior guard duty, but I guess she

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thought something else was more important.

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She had something to say, and she couldn’t
wait to say it.

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As I galloped toward the front door, I remember
her telling me to wait.

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With only her voice, again she stopped me…
dead in my tracks.

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She had a hold on me, but the uneasiness in
her voice revealed that she didn’t know

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her influence.

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Then she said something that would change
my life forever.

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“This may seem… strange,” her eyes slowly
started to drift up to mine as she searched

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for the words in her mind, “I really just
think that you should know that…”

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Our eyes locked.

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I felt my cheeks growing red, as hers did
the same.

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Then, she said it.

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She uttered the words that I had been unable
to say only moments before.

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“I really like your eyes.”

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The End

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"Hello everypony, Snogwritts here!

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Hope you enjoyed the reading, if so, be sure
to leave a like.

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If you guys have been checking out my Twitter
lately, a vlog will be uploaded this month.

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You guys voted for it, now you got it!

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I'll either upload it tomorrow or next week.

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Alright, that's it for me, this is Snogwritts,
signing out."