“Dear Diary,
	“You would have loved to see Twilight Sparkle today. I’ve always known she was brave and heroic and smart, but I never really knew how much of a hero she was until I saw her in action today! Even after being smushed, squashed, stung, and running halfway across the Everfree Forest to find Fluttershy, she still saved me not once but TWICE! It was amazing! I was scared stiff by the hydra, but Twilight whooshed back and got me, saving me from certain eatedness! And then, she did the same for Spike, and THEN, as if that wasn’t enough, she charged that big ugly monster so that we could get away! Oh my gosh it was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been around Dash for YEARS! It was like, PYOOM! You can’t have my friends! And she charged in like a superhero! I felt bad for being such a load, but I couldn’t stop shaking. I wasn’t sure if it was ‘cause of my Pinkie Sense or that hydra or ‘cause I was scared Twilight was gonna get eaten. I couldn’t do anything except shake and shiver and hope that everything was gonna be okay.
	“AND IT WAS!
	“She jumped over the gorge, landed on a big bubble, and then PCHOOOO, she was safe! My heart never pounded so much! Well, except when we all jumped together and Twilight hugged me. Oooooh! Now diary, you can’t say this to anypony, buuuuut… I never did tell her what the real doozy was. It wasn’t her believing me about my Pinkie Sense, though that was kinda surprising. No, it was when I realized that, and you gotta promise not to tell, it was when I realized that I was in love with Twilight Sparkle.”

	Pinkie giggled and pressed her bright red cheek against the page next to Twilight’s name. “Oh Twilight, you were so awesome~ If you weren’t there, we’d all have been hydra chow.” Giggling, she pressed a kiss to the page and mushed her lips all around it to make sure she got it all. Her tail wiggled back and forth as she started covering the page in pictures of Twilight’s face surrounded by hearts, with tiny Pinkie Pies curled up on them. She closed the book halfway through scribbling a comic and hugged it to her chest. “This was the best day ever, diary.” With a happy sigh, she closed her eyes and let her mind wander.
	Flashes of the day’s events flitted through her head. She could see Twilight following her around, which was funny and cute, especially how eager she was to prove her wrong, even if she did get hurt a little in the process. Weird how that had happened… She remembered volunteering to carry Twilight home after she’d collapsed on the cliff path. It felt so good to be useful to her, and Twilight’s soft warmth on her back felt even better. She laughed and hugged the book tighter. Then she remembered how haggard her friend had looked the entire time. The pinched cheeks, the tousled mane, the mud and cuts everywhere, and especially that distant look in her eyes at the end.
	Pinkie sighed and buried her nose in the book, her heart sinking slowly. “I bet Twilight still thinks I’m just a great big lump of fluff and nonsense. I know how much she wanted to be right, to make some sense of my Pinkie Sense. I wish I could help her, diary, but she’s such an amazing smartyperson, and I’m… Pinkie. I’m no good at math or science or magic, and I never did finish school.” She rolled over onto her stomach and sprawled on her bed. “I bet Twilight’s got about a hundred degrees in everything. Maybe even a doctor’s degree. And she still keeps saying she’s got a bunch to learn.” Another sighed rolled past her lips. “I wonder if I’ll ever be as smart and brave as her.”
	Pinkie’s eyes closed again. Of course she wouldn’t be super-smart, not without a brain transplant or something. She wondered if Twilight could do it. Probably, since she had all that neat science stuff in her basement. Maybe if she fiddled with the brain scan doohickey, she could do it.
	A thought pinged somewhere in the back of her mind. “Could she?” She rolled onto her side and curled around her diary. “If I were smart like Twilight, would she like me back?” Her lips gummed the edge of the diary’s binding. “Aha! I’ve got a plan!” She rolled back onto her stomach with a whoop and hastily scribbled on the inside cover of the book, outlined the plan in pink pen, and then snapped it shut. “Now all I have to do is go see her!”