Rainbow Dash stood at the end of the Wonderbolts HQ runway, looking out at the sea of clouds in front of her. She was going to spend the weekend with her friends, and she had to get going. She unfolded her columbia blue wings and prepared for liftoff-
"Rainbow Dash!"
She stopped and looked behind her to see Soarin skidding to a stop beside her. "I wanted to see you one last time before you left for the weekend so I could say goodbye and stuff but I kept putting it off because goodbyes are generally kind of unspoken around here because ponies go to visit friends and family all the time but then I saw you out here getting ready to leave and so I ran out here before-" Rainbow Dash placed her hoof over Soarin's mouth, effectively shutting him up.
"Soarin, I'm not going away forever, just for the weekend. Chill out." Soarin nodded, and Rainbow Dash let her hoof fall back down to the smooth white cloudstone. They stood there for a while in awkward silence, one waiting for the other to say their piece, the other having so much to say to the first but not knowing how to.
Soarin eventually spoke up. "I guess this is goodbye for now, then."
"Yeah." Rainbow Dash skimmed her hoof across the ground.
Instead of giving a playful salute and flying off to the Ponyville train station, she continued to stand there on the runway, another awkward silence stretching to infinity between them. She could sense that her teammate had more to say, and so she continued to wait as he fumbled for the words. He did have more to say, quite a bit more, but now that Rainbow waited in front of him to say what he needed to, he was second-guessing his entire short speech.
If she had to wait much longer Rainbow was going to be late to meet her friends, so she leaned forward and whispered in Soarin's ear, "You're not fooling anypony."
"Wha-" Rainbow Dash kissed him on the cheek.
Soarin stood shell-shocked with a blush spreading across his face as Rainbow Dash unfolded her wings and began to fly off. "I'll see you in a week!" she called to the stallion behind her.
He held up a foreleg in wordless acknowledgement as Rainbow Dash disappeared in the clouds, a swiftly-fading rainbow contrail the only evidence of her presence.
Soarin, co-captain of the Wonderbolts, squealed like a fanfilly.