Rainbow Dash made her straw turn inside her glass, watching the bubble from her reddish beverage going up to the surface and rubbing against the plastic. Why did her father insist for her to come with him at the airport, she had no idea. It wasn't as if he was away all the time.
The other times, he didn't bother to ask her anything... He partially opened her room's door when she was still asleep and let a note with a credit card, and he was gone silently at the break of dawn.
She took a glimpse at him, standing next to the counter in his pilot uniform, busy chatting with the cafe's employee. Even when she was by his side, he was doing his best not to look into her eyes, and barely told her a word. What could she do about the fact that she looked like her mother so much?
It has become some kind of routine. Him trying hard not to spend time with her, and her behaving as if she had no parent - at least, as if she had not the remaining one - and handling things on her own, the way a seventeen years-old girl could handle things on her own.
"I'm probably expected", he said turning around, his eyes rather staring on the shoulders of her denim jacket than inside her own irises. "I'll see you soon. Your drink has already been paid."
Rainbow Dash nodded speechlessly, while his mouth twisted in a kind of fixed grin, right before he put on his cap and left the cafe hurriedly. In the end, everything had been going on fine, though they hadn't said a lot. They didn't say a lot to each other since already too many years...
She sighed, and pushed away her glass. Searching through her bag, the teenage girl grabbed her phone, and patted a message on the touch-sensitive screen, that she sent to her four friends at the same time. Tonight, she didn't really feel like being all alone in that immense cold house, and invited them to join her for a movie and pizza party, like they liked to do sometimes.
Without even finishing her soda, Rainbow Dash left the cafe too, and hands in her pockets, her favorite band to the max in her headphones, she rushed into Canterlot airport's swarming crowd. Head low, she hurried straight forward, not daring to look around her... but cannot help herself feeling attracted when seeing a plane taking off through the huge bay window.
Until not so long ago, her dream had been to integrate a famous professional aerobatics troop, to follow her mother's steps, who was a pilot known for her exploits in the air. It also was "because" of her that she had given up on this dream. Since she was gone, the iron monsters which had fascinated her so much as a child, and which kept on captivating her in a certain way, though it all, made her feel dizzy, if not nauseous.
Once her dream vanished away, Rainbow Dash had made a promise to herself that she had swore never to betray, whatever might be on her way - to make the most of her adolescence, and never to hold herself back to do anything she wanted to do. Too bad if some adults could hardly understand this theory so dear to her... It wasn't her problem.