A Rainbow Dash Love Story (Chapter 1)

A Rainbow Dash Love Story (A Human MLP FIM Story)

Chapter 1

I had never been much for all the mushy love stuff. I never thought that I ever would, but a lot has changed. I guess I've been through a lot of things that I never prepared myself for. Some were more unexpected than others.

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It had been a normal day for everyone else. The others had all been able to make it to Pinkies' party that night and everyone was having a good time. Except me. Around a month before, Pinkie came up to me all; "Rainbow. Huge news!"

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Well it was more of a “Rainbow, I have the most wonderfully amazingly wonderful splendiferous news!" She was never one to understate things at least.

I rolled my eyes at the time. For her big news could have meant "I made another batch of cupcakes!" but went along with it 'cos if anything she's always a laugh. She dragged me back to Sugar Cube Corner and when we got in she went round slamming all the windows a doors shut. Again, I just thought she was being, well, Pinkie Pie. Even after running around the place she just acted like that was a normal thing to do, so I asked her, "What's so important that you had to drag me off the street and lock all the windows as though a storm was coming?"

She immediately began looking nervous. Twitching and shuffling her hooves. "Well..." She stuttered, sounding very unsure, "I wanna tell you...no. I NEED to tell you something...but..." She stopped, biting her lip.
"But what?" I urged. I always hated people keeping secrets from me, so she already had me interested.
"Well...it's just that I Pinkie swore I wouldn't tell anyone, but I think you really REALLY need to know."
Of course that was the problem. She would never break a Pinkie swear.
"Then, can you give me a clue or something?"

She perked up when I said that, as though I gave her a window. "Ooooh. I think that'll work. Okay, erm...” She tapped her finger to her chin in thought, and her eyes lit up before she started to speak.
“Have you noticed anything about...anybody...lately?"

I frowned. This was going to be harder than I had hoped. "How is that supposed to help me? It's a bit open isn't it?"

She danced on the spot in desperation. "I know, b-but...I don't wanna tell you too much cos that would be breaking the promise."

I let out a sigh. This was going to be a pain. And it was actually starting to sound important, I just wish it didn't have to involve the hassle. But to her, a pinkie promise is one of the most important things in Equestria. "Pinkie, I have stuff to do, can you not just tell me. I mean, you wouldn't be trying this hard to tell me if it wasn't something I SHOULD hear. Surely that could make it, like, an exception or something?"

"No. I SWORE! That means I can't just tell you. That's the problem."

"Fine. But can you at least give me a proper clue?" Of all people, I am NOT a patient one. I didn't really have stuff to do, I was just getting bored. I know it sounds rude since she is my friend, but Pinkie is funniest in bits. Like, I love hanging with her every now and then, but it was stuff like this that just drove me insane.

"Well..." She thought, tapping her chin again. "Well, have you noticed anything about any of the others then?"

I gave it some thought, but still nothing came to mind. "Er, no. Not really. Why?"

"You suuuUUUuuure?" Her words, or word, rang in my ear.”

I sighed, knowing I would have to play along with the guessing game.

“Fine. How about this? Does the person you're talking about, have a name beginning with, F?” I looked at her with hopeful eyes, but she didn't move. Just glanced around the room blankly, but I carried on. “Whaaat about...R?” Again. The same blank look. “Err...T?” There. When I said T, she raised her eyebrows slightly. “Right, so you're talking about Twilight?”

She shuffled her feet again. “Maaaaybeeee...” She still sounded unsure and wary about what she told me. She was set on keeping her promise. No changing that.

I tried to think if there was anything I had noticed about Twilight recently. "Well, I've been knocking about her library for a bit 'cos I was looking for some new books. But other than that, I've spent no time with her. So I haven't had much time to exactly notice much about her. Can I have a better clue?"

At that moment a quiet but still noticeable throat-clearing came from the doorway for the shop. Pinkie and I turned to see a head of purple hair peeking through the door. “Maybe I can be of assistance?”

“Great.” I thought. Rarity was probably the last thing I needed now.

“Erm, Rarity, how long have you been there?” I asked.

“Oh, long enough darling” She said wandering into the room. She would probably say “sashaying”.

“And besides, wouldn't you like to know what Pinkie is on about?”

I gave her a confused look. “How are you gunna do that Rare? You can't tell me or you'll be breaking a Pinkie Promise, and you know what Pinkie will do if you do that.”

“True darling, but Pinkie is the one who made the promise. I meanwhile am simply astute enough to figure out the situation myself, so I am not bound to such secrecies.”

“Well spit it out then!” I blurted. “What the heck is she on about”

Rarity rolled her eyes at me. “Do you really not see it?”

“NO! Why do you both think I just magically know what's going on with Twi! I don't exactly spend every day with her so how the heck should I know!”
“Rainbow,” Rarity placed a hand on my shoulder, lowering her voice slightly in the still dimly lit Sugar Cube Corner. “Have you not seen the titles of the books that have been on her desk over the past few weeks? Have you not been seeing the little signs she gives off without knowing?”

By this point, saying I was annoyed was understatement of the year. “Rarity, you think if I had noticed any of whatever you are on about, that I'd still be as clueless as I am right now?”

“Dash. Every book she reads these days is some grand romance story, and whenever you walk into the same room as her she tries to act like the perfect person. And whenever you aren't in the room, she's doing nothing but talking about you.”

And right then, it clicked. My eyes shot wide as I tried to process my realisation. I did remember seeing these cheese romance books on Twilights desk the last few times I had gone to get a new Daring Do book, and Twilight had been doing a lot of favours for me over the last few days.

That was it. Twilight Sparkle, had a crush, on me. Twilight, the crazy smart bookworm, had a crush on me, the awesome Rainbow Dash. It was never something I thought about. Certainly not about any of my friends. Not since flight camp really. But especially not Twilight. Don't get me wrong, she's one of my best friends, but I could never have pegged her to be into someone like ME! Not that I mind, I mean, how could you not like me. I'm Rainbow Dash. Best of the best, at anything AND everything.

But after finally coming out of my thoughts I realised, I'd never really been in a real relationship before. I was never bothered about it when I was young, so I had no idea what to do.

“Darling? Are you okay?” Rarity snapped me back into reality. “You've been quite for an awfully long time.”

“W-What do I do?”

“Well don't look at me dear. That's for you to figure out.”

“Yeah but, how do I figure that out?”

“Well...it would be a good start, to think about whether or not you like her.” and with that, Rarity turned to the door, and left, leaving me still pondering the thought as Pinkie escorted me out of the closed Sugar Cube Corner.

“What do you think Pinkie?” I asked, turning to her in the sunlight, hoping for some guidance. Which was probably a long shot really considering she's more for silliness the seriousness, but it worked.

“Dashie,” she said, pausing to take a thoughtful breath. “I can't tell you how you feel.” She paused again, seeing me expression fall slightly. “but I can say, that I think you'd make a really Cute couple.” She gave me a wink, before beginning her skip down the road.

“Yeah,” I thought. “Me too.”