Sunset stood outside of Sugarcube Corners with hands in her pocket. Being that today was a rather hot day she wore a simple t-shirt and shorts. She was sitting at the same bench she was on yesterday waiting patiently. She pulls out her phone to read the text chat she had last night. It’s been awhile since she got any sort of message from Flash Sentry.
She’s quite surprised that they were up so late at night texting each other. To be completely honest though, it was just a conversation over what they are going to be doing today.
First, they go to Donut Joe’s place to get a snack. Then they’re going to the Rec Center, apparently something is going on there.
It’s just going to be him and her...just the two of them. Alone...with no one else with them.
Sunset quickly shook her head to get rid of any unwanted thoughts. They’re just two friends grabbing lunch and nothing else to it. Besides, it's not uncommon for people to do it...right?
“Sunset.” Calls out someone to her right.
Flash was making his way towards her with one hand waving at her and another in his pockets. He wasn’t wearing his typical black jacket, instead he was wearing brown khaki shorts with a blue t-shirt with the symbol of his band on its center.
Sunset waves at him as she stands up from her seat and walks over to meet him halfway.
“Hey sorry for taking too long, my dad and I were discussing my work schedule.” Flash says.
“It’s alright, I wasn’t waiting that long anyway,” Sunset says. “So, I got your message last night.” She pulls out her phone and rereads the message. “Lunch at Donut Joe’s then to the recreational center?” Sunset asks.
“Yeah that sounds about right,” Flash says. “Oh…unless you had something else in mind?” He gives her a nervous look as if worried that he might’ve done something wrong. Thankfully Sunset wasn’t looking at him now and only shrugged her shoulders.
“No, I think going to the rec-center will be fun.” She says to Flash’s relief. His expression lightens up just before she looks back at him.
Letting out a mental sigh of relief, Flash leads Sunset to their first destination of the day. Donut Joe’s, the town's number one donut house owned by none other than Donut Joe.
Sunset and Flash were standing in front of the case that contained all the donuts. There were ones with chocolate frosting, chocolate frosting with rainbow sprinkles, there were even ones that were swirled and covered in glaze topped with vanilla frosting and brown chocolate sprinkles. Both teens' mouths watered just by looking at the goods.
A tall man wearing an apron walks out from the kitchen carrying a tray of freshly fried and glazed donuts.
“Hey there,” he says, placing down the tray and walking over behind the counter. “What can I get you two?”
The two teens look down at the display windows eyeing every donut that there was.
“I’ll have a jelly filled glazed donut.” Sunset tells Joe.
“And I’ll have the vanilla long john.” Flash says after.
Nodding his head, Donut Joe pulls out a tong and picks out the named donuts and places them on a tray.
“Drinks?” He asks.
“Coffee?” Flash asks, turning his head to Sunset. “Can we have two coffees one black and one with two sugars and one cream.” He turns to her. “That's still your regular right?”
A little surprised, Sunset nods her head.
Donut Joe walks over to the coffee maker to prepare their ordered drinks.
Sunset pulls it from her wallet to pay for her order, but was stopped by Flash. She gives him a confused look.
“Don’t worry I got this.” He says. Though before he could do anything Sunset walks past him with her wallet in hand and waits for Joe.
“I don’t think so,” she says. “I’ll take this one.”
Flash gently pulls her aside and waits with his wallet in hand.
“Come on, I insist.”
The two teens went back and forth debating who would pay for their food. Neither of them notice Donut Joe watching them bicker holding their drinks and donuts on a tray. He didn’t really care who paid as long as someone was going to pay, money is money.
“Fine,” Flash says. “We’ll settle this like we used to.”
Sunset gives him a confused look as he shoves a hand in his pocket and pulls out a rather old coin. At first the coin just seems like an ordinary old dirty coin, but she gives it a closer look. She gets a better view of the coin when Flash pulls it in front of her.
“Wait, that looks like a…bit?”
“It’s the coin you gave me for our first anniversary.” Flash says. In his hand was a golden coin with the letters F etched on one side and an S on the other. The coin was useless in this world, but back in Equestria the coin was probably equivalent to one human dollar.
“You still have that?” Sunset asks, sounding a little surprised.
“Well yeah it's the first actual gift you got me back when we…you know…dated.” Flash says. “Kept it all this time.”
“Would’ve thought you'd thrown it away by now.” Sunset half joked.
“Why would I?” Flash asks, sounding a little shocked by her question.
Sunset was caught off guard by his response.
“Well it’s just that you know, we broke up,” Sunset starts. “And well our relationship wasn’t all that great…you know?”
Flash shrugs his shoulders and looks back down at the coin.
“Well it has sentimental value.” Flash says placing the coin above his thumb. “Same rules F I win, S you win.”
Pushing any awkward thoughts from her head, Sunset nods her head.
With a quick flip of the bit, both teens stare at the golden coin as it flips in the air and falls back down in his hand.
Slowly, Flash opens his hand revealing the letter F.
“Guess I win this time.” Flash says, turning towards Joe with his wallet in hand.
Sunset watches as he pays for their food and drinks. She couldn’t believe that all these years he kept the bit she gave him. It baffles her that even though their past relationship was…terrible because of obvious reasons, he still kept and remembers all the little things.
“Alright where do you want to sit?” Flash asks, pulling Sunset out of her thoughts.
“Oh, um yeah that's good.” She answers him completely unaware of his question.
Flash gives her a confused look.
“Uh, alright I guess we can just sit here.” Flash walks over to a table near the window.
Taking their seats, Flash hands her cup to which she gladly took. The two began to talk about some of the stuff that happened in their latest school year.
“Man, you still got those sweet moves when you’re on a bike.”
“Yeah, I guess so, but the school bikes for friendship games kind of suck,” Sunset replies. “Now if I was able to use my baby back at home I’m pretty sure I would’ve wrecked the race.” She smiles back at Flash as he did her. She was nearly done with her drink and her donut was long gone.
This was a good sign for them to leave and move on to their next activity. Giving a quick thanks to Joe, both teens headed towards the recreational center.
The walk wasn’t long seeing that it was only a block away. Sunset turns to Flash with a confused look, the recreational center was fun and all, but there wasn’t much to do other than the playground and basketball court around the back of the building. She then notices that he has a confused look on his face as well. He pulls out a small brochure and looks up at the building.
“Something wrong?” Sunset asks.
Flash takes a few double takes from the pamphlet and to the building.
Sunset looks over his shoulder to see that he was looking at a brochure for a carnival that was supposed to be at the recreational center…in a month. She covers her mouth with her hands as she tries to suppress a laugh as she stares at the date on the corner of the page.
Flash’s face begins to redden with embarrassment as he shoves the brochure into his jacket.
“Well that plan is a bust.” Flash says in defeat.
“Well seeing that we don’t have any gym wear,” Sunset starts. “There's still a playground.” She gives him a small smile.
Flash raises a brow, but before he could say anything Sunset grabs his hand and pulls him towards the playground.
“Sunset, come on, what are we supposed to do here?”
Without saying a word, Sunset walks over to the swing set and sits down on one of the two swings. She pats on the seat of the second swing silently telling him to sit down.
Flash walks over and sits down next to her causing the swing to move back from his fall on the seat. He turns to Sunset and is surprised to see her beginning to swing using her legs to give a nice push backwards. He watches as she begins to build up and swing back and forth at a decent speed. Her orange yellow hair began to sway each time she would swing forward and it would reveal her smiling. He didn’t notice that he was staring at her the whole time until she came to a halt with her feet skidding on the wood chip ground to stop herself.
“Hey, want to have a contest?” She asks.
Flash quickly shakes his head and nods his head.
“Alright, whoever jumps the farthest wins.”
“And what does the winner get?” He asks.
“Bragging rights.” She begins to swing with Flash following not long after.
It doesn’t take long for the two of them to be swinging as high as the swings would allow. Flash was the first to jump and with a loud thump landed on the ground. He turns around to see Sunset still swinging back and forth on her swing.
“Anytime now Sunset?” He teases with a smug look.
In return Sunset grins and flies out of her seat over his head and past the boundary of the wood chip ground and onto the grass. Landing on her feet, Sunset turns around to see Flash staring at her with wide eyes. Seeing as that she won their little contest she steps forward to bow, but instead feels a random pain on her left leg. She felt herself falling onto the grass as her leg couldn’t support her body because of the pain.
Flash quickly rushes over to her and picks her up making sure to keep her from putting any weight on her leg.
“That was amazing, but ouch.” Flash says.
“Hey, no pain no gain.” Sunset responds with a small laugh. “Though I am the winner, suck it loser.”
Flash lets out a small laugh and helps her walk over to a nearby bench. Neither of them says anything as they watch the sky change in color. The sunset was bright orange now as the day would be over in an hour or two.
“I think we had enough excitement for one day.” Flash says.
“Alright then,” Sunset tries to get up from the bench, but her wounded leg says otherwise.
Seeing this, Flash stands up and moves in front of her and crouches before.
Sunset gives him a confused look at his actions until she realizes why.
“Flash no, come on.” Sunset says.
“Hey, with your leg hurting like that it’s going to suck heading back to your place.” He says turning his head over his shoulder and gives her a reassuring smile.
Red to the face, Sunset didn’t want to walk on a messed-up leg, but at the same time she doesn’t want to be piggybacked all the way to her apartment. After a few minutes of thinking, she lets out a sigh and scooches over and slowly gets on Flash’s back.
In one sweep motion Flash got up on his feet with Sunset holding onto him with her arms wrapped around his neck and her legs were held up by his arms.
“Alright, let’s get going.” Flash began to make his way all the way back to Sunset’s apartment.
Sunset kept quiet as her face was slowly growing red. Her head was running with thoughts of what they look like to anyone who sees them. Thankfully most people were back home, but still Sunset still had the thoughts running through her head. At the same time, Sunset felt a warm fuzzy feeling in her from being this close to Flash. Even back when they were a “couple” they never really were this “touchy touchy” usually it was just holding hands and a quick kiss on the cheek, but that was all for show. This was different, there was no ulterior motive behind her being this close to him. Without thinking she gently tightens her hold around him and rests her head on one of his shoulders.
It was about half an hour before they finally arrived at Sunset’s apartment. He brought to her front door and carefully put her on the ground making sure to let her right leg drop first.
Pulling out her keys from her pocket, Sunset looks up at Flash who was looking back at her.
“Today was fun…other than me hurting my leg everything else was great.” Sunset says.
Flash let out a small laugh and scratched his head.
“Well that’s good,” he says. “I was a little worried that today was going to a snore fest.”
Sunset shakes her head and smiles.
Both stand there, neither of them saying a word. They both have an awkward look on their face, but unbeknownst to both teens they were thinking the same thing.
“So want to do this again?” They ask at the same time. Their eyes went wide as they realized what they just did.
“How about we get dinner next time?” Sunset says.
“Yeah…that sounds nice,” Flash answers. “Next week?”
“How about this weekend? I start working next week.”
Flash nods his head, he gives Sunset a quick goodbye and heads off home.
Unlocking her door, Sunset limps over to her couch and with a small thump falls back. Her face was red as her hair and using her hand she covered her face.