Ch 28. A happy sigh.
“Is this mare your sister?” I ask the mare with the clipboard.
“It unfortunately is. She has always been the black sheep of the family.” The mare says. “My name is White, White Motive. And this is my sister, Black Motive. This isn’t her first run in with the police.” She says as she flips through the clipboard and she finds a, well known to her, page on it.
“So what are you going to do with her?” I ask her.
“Add this to her long, long list of crimes and put her in jail for a week or so that ought to cool her down. I think that this is her,” She looks at her clipboard. “Third time this month. She isn’t really the one to keep her head down.” As she is telling me this a stallion walks up from behind her and grabs the unconscious Black and drags her into the back. “Who is the one who caught her?”
“I am.” I say to her. She floats a clipboard in front of me and asks me to sign on the dotted line. I do and she checks is.
“All seems fine, but might I ask.” She takes a good look at me “Are you new in town?”
“I am. I arrived here a week or so ago. I have been living with Rainbow in the meantime. She has been nice enough to take me in while I gather the money to pay back the hospital bill.” I say; smiling about my situation, sort off.
White Motive glances at me, smiling. “So you are sleeping with Rainbow here?”
“Jep, I am.” Then the full meaning of the question pours through. “What?! No, no, it’s not at all like that.” I quickly spurt out, blushing, trying to change the meaning of what I just said. Looking at the smug smile on White’s face and the blush on Rainbow it seems that I fail quite a bit. “Ugh…” I say as I facehoof.
“Don’t sweat it, Wings. I’ll only hold it against you for the next three to four months.” Rainbow says as she pats me on the back. “And besides, nopony is too awesome to get a piece of this tail.” Rainbow says smug as she lifter her tail just a bit.
“Yea, sure.” I say as I grin back at her. “You sure I’m not awesome enough?” I return the smug smile.
“Don’t get smug now, maybe one day, in another universe and if you’re famous; then you maybe have a chance.” She turns to White Motive. “Are we done here, or do we have to sign some more boring papers.”
“No, miss Dash. You are done with the papers.” White Motive says to Rainbow, who shows great relieve.
“Finally, we can get out of this boring place.” Rainbow yells through the room. She almost storms out of the room, pulling me with her.
The door blurs past me, so does the street for that matter, as I get pulled by Rainbow. I think we only hit two or three ponies as he, almost literary, fly through the streets.
We halt right in the middle of the park. (I have no idea how we got there this quick.) “I’m going to talk to somepony from the weather team. I won’t be home until late at night.” She gives me a salute with her wing. “See ya.” She shoots off again, leaving me standing there. I look around awkwardly, seeing if I can recognize anypony. I of course recognize some of them, but I haven’t really met any of them.
So I decide to walk around for a bit. I sit down on a bench; I think that it is the same as the one where I got my first sign of magic.
The sun is setting by now. And I sit there, enjoying the warm, late evening sun. A tear slips from my eyes. I think of my family back home. Even though things weren’t always best, I now only remember the good things that happened.
The time that I broke my bike and my father had to come and pick me up. He was a bit angry, but still smiled none the less when we drove back and I told him how school went that day. Or that one time when I got a huge Lego set for my eleventh birthday. I smile as another tear rolls down my cheek, matting down some fur. I remember the bliss that I felt many times when I was young. All the bliss pushes away the carlyle that happened too, but I am not in a mood to remember that. And that wouldn’t matter, seeing as the amount of bad things is belittled by the amount of good things, and the amount of good things is still growing.
I thought some more about the good and the bad of being here. Maybe I can jump on a train or something and go to the princesses. I hope that they have a clue about interdimensional or interplanterial travel. I hope that I see my family again, maybe even show them this wonderful place. I really hope I can.
I smile again as I wipe a tear from my fur, leaving a few matted streaks on my face. I get up and I bask in the late evening rays. The sun has almost disappeared below the horizon.
I walk to the ground underneath Rainbow’s cloud home, the last beams of the sun hitting my back. My mind is blank, but I still feel happy. I flap up, still clumsy as always, and reach the cloud house soon enough.
As I walk through the door the sun dips below the horizon. I walk into the house; its quiet serenity is something that I enjoy, even though I usually don’t enjoy calm and quiet houses.
I grab a quick bite and a glass of water before I walk up to my room. After I ate my food and drank my drink I flop down onto the bed.
I fall asleep very soon with a happy sigh.