Soarin flew over ponyville hoping to spot Rainbow Dash somewhere in town. She hadn’t answered the door at her cloud house and he desperately wanted to talk to her and apologize for what he’d done. Before long he found her helping Fluttershy pick out flowers for her upcoming wedding. He hovered silently above just watching as she showed her good friend all sorts of flowers only to have the pale yellow Pegasus shake her head in disapproval. Rainbow Dash seemed happy enough he thought while he watched. She didn’t look like a pony that recently had her heart broken by his carelessness and it brought a smile to his face knowing that she was at least doing better than he was. Finally he glided down and landed next to the flower cart where RD and Fluttershy were now looking at a set of white lilies.
“Um excuse me Rainbow Dash.” He said clearing his throat. She looked at him and the smile on her face suddenly turned to a frown. Her bright magenta eyes darkened as she glared at him angrily.
“What do you want?”
“Uh well I um…I was hoping we could talk and…”
“And what? Make sweet passionate love only to have you go home and marry Spitfire? I don’t think so Soarin, I’m so done with all of that and I’m done with you!” She said and disappeared from sight as if she were never even there. Soarin shook his in pain and looked up only to meet Fluttershy’s eyes.
“You hurt her really bad.” She said quietly. “You shouldn’t have done that you know.”
“Yes I know and I can’t tell you how sorry I am that I hurt her, I wanted to apologize, but I can see that she’s still upset with me.”
“Um yeah well I should be going.” Fluttershy replied backing away not knowing what else to say. She wasn’t as good of a flyer as Rainbow Dash was and she really hated heights, but she had to catch up with RD so she took to the sky flapping her wings wildly. Soarin watched her disappear into the clouds and let out a heavy sigh. What was he to do? How was he going to convince Rainbow Dash that he never meant to hurt her the way he had? With those thoughts in mind, he took the sky once more and found a nice puffy cloud to perch on.
“Rainbow Dash?” Fluttershy questioned looking around for her good friend. She soon spotted RD’s multi-colored tail sticking out from behind a large cloud and yanked on it with her mouth.
“Go away Soar…oh it’s you Fluttershy, sorry.” She said plopping down on the cloud folding her hooves across her chest.
“You really should hear what he has to say.”
“No, I don’t care about it anymore, I just want to forget the whole thing ever happened and the only way to do that is to not see or think about him in anyway whatsoever.”
“Oh um okay…” Fluttershy’s voice trailed off. “But um…how…how was it? I mean…” She asked and Rainbow Dash looked at her questioningly. Fluttershy’s cheeks had turned a bright red and she tried to hide her embarrassment of the question she’d asked.
“Ha-ha Fluttershy, you’re so cute.” RD laughed and Fluttershy just covered her face with one hoof. “Are you worried about your wedding night with Big Mac?”
“A little I guess…”
“You have nothing to worry about, Big Mac is a great stallion and he’ll treat you right, he’s Applejack’s brother and they are the most honest trustworthy family in all of ponyville, if you can’t trust them then you can’t trust anypony.”
“Oh I know that, it’s not that I don’t trust him, I’m just…I mean…does it hurt?”
Rainbow Dash held back her laughter this time and eventually let out the breath she was holding in loud sigh.
“I’ll be completely honest with you, yes it does.” She replied and she saw the fear suddenly fill Fluttershy’s eyes. “But it only last for a minute or two and then it’s…” Her voice trailed off as she thought back to the night she’d shared with Soarin.
“Then it’s what?” Fluttershy asked curiously.
“Then it’s really nice.”
“Really?”
“Yes.” RD admitted. It had been everything she’d always imagined it would be and she couldn’t have asked to have given up her virtue to anypony other than Soarin, but that didn’t excuse his thoughtlessness.
“Oh I’m so excited for my wedding!” Fluttershy exclaimed with a giggle in her voice. Her cheeks were still very red, but she was feeling better about her wedding night to come. With that Fluttershy flew back down to the market to continue looking at all the various flowers there were to choose from. Once he noticed that Rainbow Dash was alone, Soarin went to her.
“Will you just go away already?”
“Rainbow Dash please hear me out.” He pleaded and she looked at him over her shoulder. Her wings were extended and she was ready to take off once more. She noticed how sad he looked and with an annoyed sigh she turned to face him.
“Okay.” She said folding her wings and sitting down.
“I’m very sorry for what I did; I never should have let things get that far between us.” He told her and she frowned. “I was confused about my feelings for Spitfire, you know how we’ve been dating for a few years on and off and everything, I love her, but we’ve never been able to make our relationship work…”
“Then why did you propose to her?”
“Because…”
“Because why?”
“She’s pregnant.” He answered and RD’s mouth dropped open.
“Pre…pre…pregnant? As in having your foal?” She said in disbelief.
“Yes, she told me a couple of weeks ago and I was in shock, I’m not ready to be a father, but I knew that I had to do the right thing, I was thinking of how I was going to ask her to marry me that night that we…well you know…”
“So you’re only marrying her because she’s pregnant?” Rainbow Dash asked trying to confirm and Soarin nodded. “But you don’t really love her, do you?”
“I honestly don’t know right now, all I do know is that I’m going to marry Spitfire no matter what and I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for any trouble I’ve caused you.” He replied matter-of-factly and then took off flying back toward Canterlot.
Rainbow Dash watched him go and couldn’t decide if it was better that he was marrying Spitfire only because she was pregnant and that he’d be out of her life for good or not. She let out a frustrated sigh and then rejoined Fluttershy in the market.