• Published 18th May 2014
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Our Tiny Secrets - Surry



Twilight wants to know why Rainbow has missed her book club meeting, and the answer might surprise her.

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Our Tiny Secrets

Our Tiny Secrets

by Surry


It was a late, starry night in Ponyville, and Twilight had invited Rainbow Dash over to her castle, as was the usual since they had begun their relationship. The ambient candlelight of her bedroom was giving a much more eerie atmosphere than she had originally intended.

"No!" shouted Rainbow for a second time, trying to break the ropes tying her forelegs to the back of the chair. "Don't say it!"

"Oh yes," Twilight grinned with twisted delight; she had been circling her like a shark in water for the past five minutes. "Are you ready for how it ends?"

"Never!" Rainbow quickly blurted. She could not help but transfix herself upon the Daring Do book Twilight held within her magical grasp, getting a bit dizzy as she did so. "You can't spoil it yet! I only have a few more chapters to go!"

"Tsk tsk," Twilight stopped in place, nodding her head to the side in disapproval. "Honestly, Rainbow, this was the only book I assigned for our book club, and you haven't finished it yet? I thought you loved Daring Do."

"Uhh..." the pegasus swiftly glanced over to an unmarked stone wall. "I do! I do love Daring Do! It's just that I've been busy lately... with things..."

"What kind of things?" Twilight raised an incredulous eyebrow. "And don't give me that excuse about that 'Cloud Taco' restaurant again. I don't care if they have the best sky-burritos around, because that's no excuse to miss out on our book club."

"No," Rainbow chuckled a little. "Not anymore. That place always made me have to go to the bathroom... in ten seconds flat."

The alicorn blushed. "Oh, well... hmm..." she mused, rolling her eyes. "Then.... what have you been doing?"

The pegasus fought against her bonds briefly, then sighed tiredly in defeat. "I'll tell you, Twilight, as long as you let me go. Being tied to the chair isn't as fun as I thought it would be."

"It usually isn't," Twilight agreed, complying with her command and loosening her restraints. "Not until I break out the whips, anyway..."

"What was that?" Rainbow asked, finally getting onto her hooves.

"Nothing," the alicorn shrugged it off without skipping a beat. "So, what have you been doing that's been causing you to miss out on our book club?"

Rainbow became visibly more tense, which Twilight picked up on, and was standing quite oblique to her. The awkwardness of their conversation only amplified.

"I've actually been going to a club," she finally admitted, keeping her eyes remorsefully shut. "Just not to our club."

"W-what do you mean?" Twilight sounded nervous, perhaps even slightly afraid. "You know we can talk about these things, Rainbow. That's what being in a relationship means."

"Yeah, I know," she muttered, letting her head droop. "There's just this new club that opened up in Cloudsdale... one where everypony can dance and have a good time." Her gaze averted upward, finally meeting her mare's. "I'm sorry, Twilight... It's just a fun place that I like to go to now and then, and I wanted to take you there sometime, but..." she paused again, and her voice weakly trailed off.

"You mean 'Hoofsies'?" Twilight asked; her question elicited only a timid nod from Rainbow. "You actually like that place?"

"Well, yeah..." Rainbow's voice only seemed to decrease in volume. "Like I said; I just like the atmosphere, the music, and the flashing lights, the drinks, all of that stuff. Sorry if that makes me a bad pony, Twilight. I know that's not a very good excuse to miss our book club."

Twilight choked back something, then suddenly burst out laughing, falling to the floor.

"Hahahahaha!! Really?! Hoofsies?! That crazy rave-barn?! Bwahahaha!!"

"Hey!" Rainbow retaliated. "I'm spilling my heart out here because you said that's what we're supposed to do in a relationship, and now you're LAUGHING at me?! What gives?!"

The alicorn attempted to calm herself when she saw Rainbow angrily preparing to leave, and mustered the strength in between her laughs to stand up.

"Wait, Rainbow, don't go yet!" she sputtered; Rainbow reluctantly complied when she felt Twilight's hoof on her shoulder.

"Why shouldn't I?" the pegasus deadpanned.

"Well, I wish you'd have just told me about Hoofsies earlier," Twilight's voice began to falter, and she scratched the back of her head. "I-I'm actually about to head over there in an hour or so. Would you... like to go with me?"

"Huh?" Rainbow sounded quite dumbfounded. "Why would you be going there? You were just laughing at me for going."

"Oh," the alicorn blushed. "That wasn't about you liking Hoofsies... I just thought it was kind of ironic. I could've easily gotten you into the VIP lounge."

"Well duh..." Rainbow quipped. "You're a princess. You could get me into anywhere."

"Actually, no, that's not it," Twilight retorted. "I could get you into the VIP lounge because... well..."

"..."

"... I own Hoofsies. It's my place."


"WHAAAATT?!!!" Rainbow's voice nearly shook every inch and rattled every crevice of Twilight's castle, but it was quickly lost as she haphazardly collapsed onto her back, nearly passing out.

"Woah! Rainbow!" Twilight yelped, quickly coming to her side. "Are you alright?!"

The pegasus kept fading in and out of consciousness, eyes darting around the room as she began to drift off. Twilight decided to sit down, trying her best to comfort her mare.

"Twilight... owner..."

"... Hoofsies... my marefriend..."

"... VIP lounge..."

Twilight sighed deeply, caressing Rainbow's cheek as she blabbered incessantly.

"Guess I'm going to be a little late for work tonight," she whispered to herself.

Author's Note:

This story is one of many short TwiDashes I will be doing. Once they are all completed, I will give the most successful one a full-length run.

Comments ( 57 )

That got me to laugh. :rainbowlaugh:

I liked it :twilightsmile: It was cute and had a funny twist. Never thought about Twilight venturing into that kind of business, but it sounds like it would be an interesting read if there was more. Also, while RD would be used to Twilight being awesome to an extent, I bet she never thought she would breach into RD's territory of what she considers to be awesome.

A little short, but that was actually pretty funny.

You had me at whips.

But this was good, too.

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4409515 Thanks, guys! :yay:


4410764 Thanks for your time. I'm pretty fresh to this stuff. :fluttershysad:

feet -> hooves

Foot : the lower or lowest part of something standing or perceived as standing vertically; the base or bottom.

While 'hooves' may be more appealing to the reader because of horsewords and all, 'feet' is still technically correct. I will make your other corrections.

"It usually isn't," Twilight agreed, complying with her command and loosening her restraints. "Not until I break out the whips, anyway..."

Are you referencing my story here? :trollestia:

This face...
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That was an amazing twist. :rainbowlaugh: Good show, old bean. :moustache:

4411495 I don't know if I was referencing your story, if I'm to be honest. :rainbowhuh:

But thanks all the same, buddy. :yay:

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That is all. Carry on.

4411531 Thank you, fine sir. :yay:

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There is more than one definition of 'foot'. The definition you referenced is in relation to other objects that are large enough to have a bottom piece of it and NOT in relation to anatomy.

"The game console is at the foot of my television."
"The blankets are at the foot of the bed."

In relation to the anatomy of a creature, foot has a different definition, one which an animal such as an equine does not match. Hoof is the proper term for an equine, just as paw is the proper term for a cat or a dog. Foot is the proper term for a human. It's different depending on the race.

Comment posted by Surry deleted May 19th, 2014

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Angered the TwiDash gods? I don't see where you get that from. :rainbowderp: I was merely throwing in a bit of data in an attempt to help you get the correct definition.

Comment posted by Surry deleted May 19th, 2014

I'm loving these morning Twidash stories of Yours Surry, heck I've seen this in the popular box already.:twilightsmile:
Keep up the awesomeness!:rainbowdetermined2:

4411920 Thanks, man. I was writing another one at the moment. :twilightsmile:

4411757 Well there's a third. There's also the measurement, but for these stories I use the metric system just to keep things nice and clear. :derpytongue2:

4411516 Think nothing of it. The story is excellent.

The description has an ambiguous pronoun. "She." Replace it with 'Twilight' or another word to reference Book Horse like 'the purple mare' or... you get the idea. Forgive me, going through my English finals.

Great mini TwiDash, like it, it was awesome.
:heart::twilightsmile::rainbowkiss::heart:

Short, funny, and weird. Everything a one-shot needs to bee good.
good job sir/madam.
~Tobben

What the fuck is this.
I mean, I love this!
But what the fuck is this.
Now I'm going to open a club called handsies.

4413722 The name was based on a real-life club named Tootsies

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Lolwut.

I needed this laugh so thank you.

I liked this, so... where's the rest? This just seems like the climax of a much longer story.

LOL I readed a TwiDash.

4414819 Was writing about 10 different mini TwiDashes, and whichever one I considered the most successful was going to get the full-story treatment.

4415990 I've been getting a lot of that lately, but I'm alright with that. I think I'm quitting this website soon anyway.

All of this.
We need more stories like this to get us through this off-season.
And Surry, if you quit the site, I will hunt you down and tickle you to death. Whips may or may not be involved.

4411952 Metric system FTW!

Man, you must really hate TwiDash to subject Twi and RD to this kind of crap. :facehoof:

4416625 Don't know yet. The site's been bogged down with a lot of negativity lately, and I'm getting kinda' tired of it.

4416756 Obvious troll is obvious. :derpytongue2:

4416693 You have the BEST GODDAMN AVI EVARR!!! :pinkiegasp::heart:

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And Surry, if you quit the site, I will hunt you down and tickle you to death. Whips may or may not be involved.

:rainbowderp:

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Expect nothing but the best from the one and only Panty Muncher Pony. That's me! :twilightsmile:

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I recommend that you mention this in the description or in the author's notes.

4418445 If you don't mind me asking, for what reason?

4419278 It keeps people from keeping their hopes up for stories that likely aren't going to update anytime soon, for one. Not to mention, some people expect a full-on story to read, and this is more of a slice of a story. Not telling them that this is just a slice just doesn't seem very polite.
Anyway, I'm off to actually read this now.

EDIT: Yeah, put it in an Author's note. This thing isn't really a story in its own right. It's a fun read, and I liked it, but I don't think I'd have appreciated it as much if I hadn't read the comments and learned that this was just a mini.

4419732 Alrighty.

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