Rewrite: Your Little Adventure

by My Only Weakness


Training Day

Panting and sweating you stand on the starting line of the race track. Still breathing heavy you grab your towel and wipe away the sweat from your face and then place the towel around your neck. Catching your breath you stretch out your wings, moving them from side to side, up and down, getting ready for another 5 laps around this track.

Today was your day off work so what better way to spend it then getting back to your training habit. You’ve already done 15 laps already but you’re routine has always been doing 20 laps in a day. Still stretching your wings you have a sip of your water and then place it back down on the ground, along with the towel. Getting into a starting you countdown in your 3. 2… 1!

You zoom off from the line leaving some cuts of grass in the air. Flying around the track, using the wing tricks that your Grandpa taught you, you go as fast as you could, sticking to the inside lane of the track, you speed around the oval feeling the wind on your face. After counting 5 laps you slide across the grass and stopping next to your things.

Breathing heavily again you fall on your back and look up at the clear blue sky. The sun was beaming down on you, making you sweat more than ever, but you liked the sensation of perspiration on your face, as it makes you feel like you’re going a grand job. As you’re looking up at the blue sky you can’t help but think of home.

This is what you always did whilst living back at Fillydelphia, practicing around the track with your family watching you from the sidelines, cheering you on, especially your sister, she was your biggest fan when it came to your races. Each race you went to Rose Beat would always be there to be the one to cheer the loudest, she definitely gave you motivation and confidence… but mostly embarrassment because of how crazy and wild she screams. Turning your head to the side you’re expecting your family to be there watching from the edge of the track… but noone was there. Giving a heavy sigh of disappointment, you roll over on to your stomach and push up back on your hooves. Doing another couple of stretches you grab your towel and water bottle, as you’ve finished your training for the day. As you were about to leave, you get stopped by a female voice calling out “Hey, Star!”

Looking over to where the voice came from to see a Rainbow maned pegasus flying down towards you. You also notice that seems to be carrying something that looks like a flyer in her mouth.

“Hey, Dash!” you say to her as she descends and lands in front of you “What's that? You ask, referring to the flyer, too which she takes it out of her mouth hoofs it over to you. Taking the flyer you start to read out loud “Ponyville Pegasus Relay Race?”

“Yep! Every so often the Mayor will do an event, and this time it’s a relay race!” Dash said excitedly “And I think you and me should get a team together!”

Without thinking you say “Yeah definitely!” This would be your first race since being here so of course you would say yes to this “Who else would we get for our team?”

“let’s be honest if it was just the two of us as a team we would win no problem” Dash grinned as boosted both of your egos, to which you nodded with a smirk “But I was thinking maybe Cloudchaser and Thunderlane since they’re both pretty fast” Dash thought as she rubbed her chin.

“That sounds like a solid team” You agreed to which Dash smiles “I’m already excited for this race” you continue, sitting down and rubbing your hoof together excitedly

“Yeah, it should be awesome!” Dash cheered “I’ll go ask the other two” Dash continued as she flapped her wings and slowly ascended into air “And I was thinking we should start training after work tomorrow.” to which you nod in agreement “And you should totally teach us that wing trick you do to make yourself go faster!”

“Err I don’t know about that” You begin “It took years and years of practice. I was only 5 years old when I was first taught and I didn’t get it right until I was 9” you explain.

“Ah I’ll get it down in no time. Besides I’m a fast learner” Dash says, brushing off your explanation.

“That’s not the point” You grumbled “Doesn’t matter if you’re a quick learner or not this trick has to be mastered in order for you to go faster. Plus if you do it wrong or too much you could sprain a wing!”

Dash just looks for you for a couple of seconds as says “Whatever it will fine”, brushing off your explanation.

Rolling your eyes and letting out a sigh, frustrated because she didn’t even listen to you. Deciding not to argue with her you agree to teach her your trick. To which she responds with an “Awesome!”. After saying goodbye to each other Dash went off to go a recruit Cloudchaser and Thunderlane to the team while you decided that you were going to walk home since your wings are aching like crazy.

Walking down the dirt road of Ponyville main square and you can’t help but smile at the scenery of so many different coloured ponies happily going on about their day. As you walk back to your house loads of ponies start of gather around the notice board outside of town hall. Wanting to know what the commotion was about you head over to the crowd. As you trot over you notice a curtain red-maned mare on the edge of all the ponies.

“EVA!” You call out to her loud enough hoping that she can hear you over all the noise of the crowd. Thankfully she does and she turns her head towards you a smile as you come closer to her. As you reach her you ask “What’s everyone gathered around here for?”

“Oh they’re all checking out the poster and information about the relay race that's happening” she explains “I take it you’re going to enter?” she asks with a grin, probably knowing the answer.

“Of course! I can’t wait!” you say excitedly stomping your hooves like a giddy little colt “Already got my team sorted”

“Are you teaming with Rainbow Dash?” Eva said asking another question, to which you nod enthusiastically cause you know you’ve got a strong team “well looks like I’m going to have to place a big beat on you then” She mumbles to herself

“Eva, are you ready to get going?” A voice pops up next to the red-maned earth pony.

“Yeah, I’m ready” She answers to the pony walking to her side.

The pony next to her was a white pegasus with a white mane with purple highlights, which was long enough in the front of cover half her face. For some reason, this pony seemed familiar to you but you couldn’t put your hoof on it. Once this pegasus looks at you and her eyes widen in shock and her mouth opens in disbelief. Confused Eva looks from this pegasus to you, to Which you just shrug at her, and then back to this mare.

“Well… heh” Eva said breaking the awkwardness “Introductions I guess” she continues “So this is-“

“S-StarGazer?” the mare stutters

You were taken back by how this girl already knew your name. But somehow you feel like you already knew her name as well and you can feel it on the tip of your tongue. But the one who looks really confused was Eva, she just looked at her friend in total shock that her mouth was, figuratively, hitting her floor. Closing her mouth and shaking her shock off she then turns towards you and says “A-Anyway, this is my friend Winter Heart”

Winter Heart!! You remember your friends back home telling you that she had a crush on you back in school. So this is where she’s been all these years. What a small world this is.

“Winter Heart! I remember you!” You said loudly, kinda regretting it a few second later because a couple of ponies walking past turned their heads towards you.

“Y-Y-You do?” Winter stammered in shock from her childhood crush remembering her.

“Yeah!” you reply “Wow it’s been a long time”

The white pegasus giggles with a blush, which she tried to hide with her long mane “Yeah it has been. H-How long have you been in Ponyville?”

“I moved here a couple of weeks ago actually. And I’ll tell you now, it’s turning out to be one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time” you say with a chuckle at the end, which caused Winter Heart to giggle “How long have-“

“EXCUSE ME!” Eva cuts you off as you were about to ask Winter a question. Looking over to her you see that she has a very confused look plastered on her face “You two want to tell how you know each other?”

“We went to school together,” Winter said happily with a smile, to which you nod to confirm.

“Okay, that explains a lot.”

“Yup, almost took every class together” you continue on Winter Hearts statement, who giggles and nods

“Anyway Winter Heart, we ready to go?” Asked Eva

“Well… W-We don’t have to go yet right?” The white pegasus hesitated “I mean I just ran into an old school friend”

“But we’ve been planning this lunch or like…. Ever!” Eva pleaded with her friend

“Oh I don’t want to keep you from your plans,” you say, hoping not to get in the way of there plans “Besides I was just heading home to shower”

“M-Maybe you could come with us?” Winter asked

“No, it’s fine. You too enjoy your lunch” you start, flapping your wings and starting to hover in the air “I’ll see you soon?” You say looking at the two girls from the air.

“Yeah, I’d like to see you again”

“And I’ll probably see you at my shop tomorrow, right?” Eva asked with a grin knowing that you being there is a grantee.

Laughing and nodding at her question you say your goodbyes to the two mares and fly off back to your house. After a short little flight, you land at your door and pull out your keys to open the door. Walking inside you feel your front left hoof land on something strange, looking down you see a letter under your hoof. Picking it up you see a very familiar hoof writing… it was a letter from your mum! Sitting down on the couch you open it as quick as you can you pull out the letter to read…

Dear StarGazer

We’re happy that you made it to Ponyville safely and you have a hoof over your head. We hope you’re having a lovely time there and that you’re keeping yourself safe.

We all miss you so so so so so much. I’m not used to not having my baby boy around at all time during the evening. I just want to hold you in my arms again and never let go. Your father even said that the house is so much quieter without you around and it’s making him uncomfortable with all this silence.

Rayless Shade and Peach Top are doing fine as well. I remember Peach saying that she’s starting to miss having you come to her with some minor injury on your wing. And even though he might not admit it but your big brother misses you a lot as well.

Rose Beat is doing fine. She most definitely misses her baby brother the most. She misses seeing your face every Sunday or if she ever pops round. most of the songs that she's been writing is so sad she been since you’ve moved away. (I’ve put one of her songs in with the envelope)

You stop reading for the moment to look inside the envelope to see a CD case inside as well. Pulling it out there was some writing on it which read “For StarGazer. “Can’t you see” by Rose Beat”. Smiling at the CD you place it down next to you and carry on reading, even though there wasn’t much left.

We all love you very much and hope that you’ll come back home to visit us soon. Please stay safe and eat well.

Love From

Mum xxx

Smiling at the letter you gently fold it and place on the small round table next to your couch. You then pick up the CD case and open it to pull out the disk. Sitting up you trot over to the CD Play you bought with you from Fillydelphia and place the disk inside and press the play button. Suddenly a voice comes on which almost puts tears to your eyes. The voice from it is definitely your sisters as she says “Hi StarGazer. I hope you’re doing well… I wrote this song for you”

She then starts strumming on her guitar to a very catchy tune to which you start nodding your head to slowly. After 25 seconds of playing the tune, she then starts to sing in her beautiful voice.

Pulled aside as if I was the wrong one,
You said it all and you made me the lost one.
Elevated by your greatest mistake, now I'm all alone.
I bet you couldn't tell that I felt the same way,
Struggling just to get to the next day.
I'm not force fed lies while I'm by your side.

So tell me why can't you see
This is where you need to be?
You know, it's taken its toll on me,
But I don't feel invisible.
So tell me why can't you see
This is where you need to be?
You know, it's taken its toll on me,
So I'll hope for a miracle.
I'll hope for a miracle.

After singing that first verse and the chorus she starts to strum on her guitar again. Just hearing her voice again makes you miss her even more. After 10 more seconds of strumming her voice comes in again.

Holidays tend to make me feel whole again.
Rainy days make me feel like the dream is dead.
I can show you what it's like to be down when you're all alone.
I'm quite aligned to your design.
What's mine is yours, and that's just fine.
I'm finally acquiring the state of mind that everything is gonna be alright.

So tell me why can't you see
This is where you need to be?
You know, it's taken its toll on me,
But I don't feel invisible.
So tell me why can't you see
This is where you need to be?
You know, it's taken its toll on me,
So I'll hope for a miracle.
Yeah, I'll hope for a miracle.

And if you want to be free,
I can't be the one to make you believe.
You've still got this promise to keep.
Step back and wash away the reckless intentions.
They're leaving me breathless.
Find a way to stay in your skin.

So tell me why can't you see
This is where you need to be?
You know, it's taken its toll on me,
But I don't feel invisible.

So tell me why can't you see
This is where you need to be?
You know, it's taken its toll on me,
But I don't feel invisible, whoa.
So tell me why can't you see
This is where you need to be?
You know, it's taken its toll on me,
So I'll hope for a miracle.
I'll hope for a miracle.

Once she finished singing and playing the guitar the disk ends with her saying “I love you, little brother. Stay safe… I miss you”

Smiling you wipe a small tear from your eye and look at the photo you’ve framed up on the wall with you and your family you say “I miss you guys too”

--

Finally, after a long day work was finally over. It was a busy day today since it was scheduled to be a cloudy day so you had to place clouds all around the sky. There was a few issues during the shift since Silverspeed and Blossomforth got into an argument about which cloud should go where, the argument got to the point where you and Thunderlane had to separate them before they started ripping each others manes out.

After everyone gathered up to say there goodbye they all flew off. The only ones left are Cloudchaser, Thunderlane, Rainbow Dash and yourself. Today was the day that you started training for the relay race. Thunderlane and Cloudchaser have never really been in a competitive race before so you’re gonna have to push them hard.

“Okay” you start, clapping your hoof together “You all ready to train?” to which they all nod

“You’re going to teach us that wing trick right?” Dash said excitedly

“Yes, bu-”

You were cut off by the sound of Dash letting out a happy squee and trotting in place while like a little filly followed by a “This is gonna be awesome!”

“Okay.. but I need you all to-

Cloudchaser joined in by saying “I can’t wait to learn how to go faster!”

“That’s good… but there’s just one thin-”

“I’m so pumped!” Thunderlane cheered, cutting off the warning that you’re trying to tell them.

The three of them started chatting amongst themselves about how amazing it’s going to be learn this trick. You try to get there attention by calling out to them with words like “Guys!” “Hello?” but no of them seem to hear you. Progressively getting more and more annoyed with each passing second you finally yell out to them.

“LISTEN TO ME!” They all jump at the sudden volume in your voice. They all turn towards you “I appreciate the level of enthusiasm, but I need to warn you guys about something” You continue, then looking at Dash and comment “Because apparently, it fell on deaf ears last time”, to which she rolls her eyes at “Now this trick is pretty tricky to get right, but if you do it wrong you could injure your wing”

“What does the trick look like exactly? We’ve never seen you do it” Thunderlane asked

“Well, you pretty much spread your feathers to get more air flow whilst pivoting your wings as you flap” you explain “Kinda like this” you then extend your wings and show them what you mean. Thunderlane and Cloudchaser look in awe at the way that you move your wings while Rainbow Dash watches carefully, seeing the trick up close to see if she can master it easily. Once finishing the demonstration you continue your explanation “So yeah doing that makes you go faster… slightly might I add”

“I seriously have to ask! Where you taught how to fly by a Wonderbolt?” Asks Dash trotting over to you “Because that’s the exact wing technique they use”

“Hey yeah!” Adds Thunderlane “I thought that look familiar”

They all look at you waiting for you to answer. You can’t tell them that your grandpa was a former coach for the famous team who knows how they would react. Getting nervous, because you were never any good at lying, you shift your eyes trying to think of a way to get out of this. The three ponies still look at you, gradually getting closer and closer.

“Well, Star?” Cloudchaser says, breaking the silence “where you?”

You needed to think of a plan quick. Scanning your eyes for an escape route and see that the race track in empty. A lightbulb quickly goes off in your head and you say, quickly “That’s not important. Last on to the race track is has to buy drinks!” You then fly off toward the track leaving behind the others in confusion.

After they process what you’ve said they extend their wings and fly after you. Once you’ve landed at the start/finish line the others were close behind. They each landed as followed; Rainbow Dash, Cloudchaser then, lastly, Thunderland

“Looks like you’re buying” you smirk at him as he lands

“Whatever, let’s just get started” he replied, clearly annoyed

Chuckling you nod and say “Let’s start with some stretches and then will get into the trick”

After a couple of hours of training. The four of you sit in a circle, sweating and panting from all the fast flying you all were doing. You were definitely impressed with how fast Cloudchaser is.

“I gotta say, you’re pretty fast” you compliment her

“Thanks, hot stuff” she responds, with the nickname she’s given you whilst shooting you a little wink

“I also can’t believe how well you’re getting the hang of the wing trick” you continue, turning to Dash to give her a compliment as well

“Like I said, I’m a quick learner” she replies, pounding her chest with pride. To which you chuckle in response

“Oh, I meant to ask this earlier!” The dark grey pegasus speaks up “Which order will we be going in?”

You all turn toward Dash who explains the order “We’ll have StarGazer first so that we can get a good lead”, you nod confidently “Then you and then Cloudchaser so we can keep that position”, they look at each other with smiles and then turn back to Dash “And I’ll go last so we can get the win!”

“So you’re going last so I can take all the glory right?” Thunderlane grunted whilst rolling his eyes. Even though he said is quietly you all managed to hear him. You were all a little shocked by this comment.

“Thunderlane” you start “This is a team effort. We all win in the end”

“Yeah, I know that. But how much do you want to bet that Little Miss Rainbow over here wants to be the one to cross the finish line to boost get gigantic ego a bit more and brag about how she won it for the team,” he says back to you with a hit on annoyance in his voice

“Excuse me!?” Rainbow Dash said, clearly offended. Standing up and looking down at Thunderlane she continues “You really think I’m that much of an egomaniac that I would believe that I was the one who won the race without giving my team the credit!?”

“Yeah, I do actually!” Thunderlane yells back, as well getting onto his hoofs to be eye level with Dash

“Alright, let’s calm down a bit” you say, getting into the middle and trying to keep the peace

Soon Dash and Thunderlane start to argue over you. Trying your best you try to keep them apart, though having two loud ponies pushing and yelling was kind of hard to do. Meanwhile, Cloudchaser was trying to get them to calm down as well by saying “Guys seriously! This is uncalled for!”

Starting to get more and more annoyed with there pushing and shoving of you, as they were still trying to get in each other’s faces. Once the shoving and shouting got too much you finally lose your temper and shout “ALRIGHT THAT’S ENOUGH!!”

The two arguing ponies finally back off from your sudden rage and look at you in surprise “THIS IS NOT HOW A STRONG TEAM IS SUPPOSED TO ACT!” Crossing your eyebrows you turn towards Thunderlane and saying “You! There was absolutely NO NEED for that comment!” You continue shouting whilst pointing at him “Learn how to keep comments to yourself and maybe you won’t be getting into argument all the time!”, Thunderlane looked like he was about to make another unneeded comment but he suddenly backs down and looks to the ground. From behind you and can hear Dash giggling a bit, which most definitely annoyed you more “AND YOU!” You shout again turning toward her, causing her to jump “You need to learn how to control that attitude of yours! I get the whole pride thing, but getting all over offended when insults you slightly is not a good way to act for someone your age, seriously! Grow up!”

Taking another quick glance at both of them, to see that they’re both quite embarrassed by the scolding that you’ve given them. Rolling your eyes and shaking your head you extend your wings and fly off leaving the three of them behind on the field.

After you’re little burst of anger you stormed off home hoping to calm down. A couple of hours have gone by and you’ve definitely no longer angry, but still a little annoyed. But you also feel ashamed of yourself for losing your temper so easily over a little thing like that. Right now you’re sitting on your couch just reading a comic book you bought from a comic book shop on the edge of town. Whilst in the middle of reading there was a knock on your door, placing the book on the coffee table you trot over to the door. Slowly opening it you see two ponies standing there. These ponies were Eva and Winterheart.

“Hey StarGazer!” They both said at the same time with happiness in their voice

Confused from there unplanned visit you respond with “Err… Hey guys. What’s bring you here?”

“Well we heard that you went off on Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane,” said Eva

Blushing in embarrassment you smile awkwardly and say “Oh, you heard about that huh?”

They both nod to confirm your question, then Winter Heart says “we were coming by to watch you guys, but when we got there you were yelling at them and flew off”

The feeling of embarrassment washes over you more and more knowing that the two mates where there when you lost your temper “Sorry you had to see that” you apologized as you looked at the ground

“It’s fine, Star” Eva reinsured, you lifted your head back up to looking at them again “What do you expect when two big egos like Dash and Thunderlane collide”

“So to maybe help cheer you up. We got you this”, Winter Heart then reaches into a bag, that she was carrying on her wing. She then pulls out a 1,0 litre of whiskey. Once you see the bottle you eyes widen and you let out a short chuckle

“I remember you saying that you miss having drinks with your friends back home” Eva adds “So we were thinking we could all share a drink” she continues. Whisky Winter Heart shakes the bottle a little

A huge smile comes across your face. Not because of the idea of having a drink after so long would be nice, but the fact that these two sweet mares have come to you for the sole purpose of cheering you up, and that made you feel fuzzy inside.

“Why not? I’m not working tomorrow, on in” you say happily, whilst stepping aside to let the two ponies in

Once they’re both in your small house you shut the door behind you and offer them to take a seat on the couch. As you take your seat, in between the two of them, Winter Heart places the whiskey bottle on the table and reaches into her bag again to pull out three rock glasses. Eva does the honors of opening the bottle of whiskey and pouring it into each of your glasses. With a cheers and clinking on the glass you bring the amber liquid to your lips, feeling the burn of the liquor on your tongue you swallow to feel the sensation continue down the throat. After you glass was empty you recoil from the heat of the liquid and shake yourself to feel slightly normal again, the three of you place the glasses on the table at the same time. As you sit back the only thought that went through your mind was how much you really need that.

Breaking the silence Winter Heart ask “Another one?”, to which you and Eva nod at the same time.

As the night went no you and the two mates progressively got more and more drunk. Once you finished a glass one of them would instantly fill it up again. You and Winter Heart were leaning up against the armrests of the sofa, whilst Eva was sitting on the floor resting her head in her arms on the table, you don’t even remember her getting there, to be honest.

During the night you were telling the girls stuff you got up to back home and some childhood stories which made them laugh a lot because of all the mischief you got up too.

After finishing another giggle fit, Eva lifted her head off the table to look at you and said “C’mon, Star! One more story”

Taking a sip of your whiskey, still burning your throat as it goes, you shake your head and replied “no, I’ve already told you loads”

“Come onnnnn, pleassssseeeee” Both Eva and Winter Heart begged. They kept asking and asking until you finally gave in a told them a story you’d hoped you’d forget.

With a sigh, you begin to tell them the story “Well there was this one time Dark Flair, Free Runner and I got chased by the police”

They both sit up from shock once the word police came out of your mouth

“Really?” Asked Winter “What for?”

“We were putting flyer for one of our friend's band around the city”

“How old were you?” Eva asked, following up Winters question

You tap your hoof on your chin, trying to remember how long ago it was “I was probably 14 maybe turning 15” you look at the girl's faces to see total shock, chuckling you continue your story “So we split up to cover more areas. And I think maybe two or three hours later as I was walking in the park to find more places to hang the flyer and cop came running towards me screaming” you cough a little to prepare your voice for the impression you were about to give. “HEY YOU LITTLE PUNK! YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE, YOU KNOW THAT?!?” The girls laughed that the voice that you managed to pull off and asked you to continue “Well after that I dropped the flyers and ran, obviously”

“Why didn’t you fly?” Asked Winter

“Because I hurt my wing by…” you sigh and get ready to say the most embarrassing thing “by falling UP the stairs”

Giggles fill the room to the point where you think it’s never going to stop. Shaking your head you say “Come on, it wasn’t that funny”. They continue to giggle which causes you to shake your head again and bring the glass of whiskey to your lips to take the finishing sip, making you feel even dizzier than before.

Once you’ve finished and brought the glass away “STAR!!” The sudden loud noise makes you jump, almost falling off the couch. Recovering from the loudness you look over to see Eva, with her hoof on the table, looking at you with her mouth wide open.

She suddenly points to your hoof and screams “You glass is empty!!” Looking down at your glass and then back up to her, you give her a half smile and shrug “H-Here! You.. you need… m-more...” suddenly she collapses to the floor.

Gasping, along with Winter Heart, you quickly stumble to your hooves and trot over to her to check to see if she’s alright. Once you get to her to crouch down to check if she not hurt. As your checking up and down to see if there are any bruises, you suddenly hear a faint snoring coming from her mouth. Breathing a sigh of relief you smile and sit down before you fall over as well.

“Is she okay?” Winter Heart asks as she sits next to you

“Yeah, thankfully she just fell asleep” you replying smiling at her.

As Winter Heart sits next to you, you can see how much the alcohol has taken effect on her. As she smiles back at you her eyelids start to come down, till they cover half her eyes, and she starts to sway back and forth, bumping you a little bit, until her eyes completely closed, she falls. Luckily you managed to catch her in time before she hits the floor. Holding her in your arms you can’t help but smile at how cute she looks as tiny snores escape her mouth.

Shaking your head and chuckling at the sight you maneuver her around you until she’s laying on back, which was very difficult to do as you were fairly drunk as we. With her sound asleep on your back to trot over to your bedroom and which on the lights. Crouching down, until your back in level with the bed, you tip to one side until Winter rolls off you and onto your bed. After making her she was comfortable you stagger back to the main room to pick up Eva from the floor and do the exact same thing.

When both of the mares are safely tucked into the bed and sit beside them and another smile comes to your face from the view of how cute they look cuddled up together. Turning back around to exit the room, you stop at the door to look back at the girl again to get another cute image. Closing the door behind you, you stumble back to pick up the drink glasses to put in the sink in the kitchen. Since you were there you’d thought you’d better have a glass of water to help you sober up a bit.

When everything was cleared up you sit back down on the sofa to relax for a bit. But before you could do that there was a sudden knock on the front door. Sighing in frustration you get back up again to waddle over to the door, still being drunk you miss the door handle once or twice before finally grabbing it and pulling it open. Standing on the other side was a Rainbow maned mare standing there with the front legs crossed, almost like she was embarrassed to be here, and with her head turned to the side.

Her eyes roll over to look at you and she says “Hey, Star. I… I was wanted to apologize for today”

Blinking at her a couple times you tilt your head and ask “Apologies for what?”

“For the way, I acted. You’re right, I shouldn’t take things to heart and I shouldn’t have gone off on Thunderlane” she responds, turning her whole body towards you

As you were tilting your head you feel like you were to fall over, but luckily you managed to catch yourself by stomping you hoof to stabilize yourself, which also caused Dash to jump a little.

Confused by this Dash looks over your shoulder, getting a clear view of the inside of your house. Once done she looks back at you and asks “Have you been drinking?”

Looking back to the table you see that you left the whiskey bottle there in clear view. Smacking your forehead you turn back to Dash to nod and say “... yeah”

“Did you have all that to yourself?” She asked worrying, stepping closer to you

“Nah. Eva and Winter Heart has most of it. But let me tell ya those girls can drink!” You say enthusiastically

“Where are they now?”

“There in my room sleeping. They passed out!” You answer while trying to hold in your laughter “They can drink but they can’t hold it”

Letting out a small giggle, to which she tries to hide by covering her mouth with her hoof “Alright then, as long as you're not too drunk. Remember we got practice tomorrow so be being all hungover on me” Dash said nudging you with her elbow slightly

“Don’t worry about it” you respond, giving her a small push “I don’t get hangover” to which you bump your chest proudly

“Aren’t you lucky?” Dash said while giving you a smirk, she then turns away from you and says “Well I’ll let you get some rest-“

“Wait before you go”, you cut her off whilst grabbing her arm to lightly pull her back to you. You must have pulled her a little harder than you though since once she turned back around your faces were almost touching. You were about to say something but you were too caught up by looking into her eyes. Wow her eyes were really beautiful, they were the perfect color of dark pink and you couldn’t help but her lost in them for a couple of seconds.

“W-What is it,” Dash said, breaking the silence whilst stepping back.

You’re weren’t sure but you thought you could see a slight blush on her face as well stares at you, waiting for you to tell her what you were going to say.

“Err… T-Thank you” you said whilst still making eye contact.

“F-For what?” She questioned, still with a slight blush

“For selling out your pride to come here and apologizing” you explain and giving her a smile

To which she smiles back and replies “O-Oh yeah, you’re welcome”

“Besides I think it should be me apologising. I shouldn’t of lost my temper like that, it was totally uncalled for. I’m really really sorry” you say to her, while tilting your head down.

Suddenly you feel a hoof under your chin that pushes your head up. You were suddenly greeted with Dash’s face close to yours again, this time making you blush slightly as her eyelids are covering half her eyes. She smiles sweetly at you and says “You don’t need to apologise at all” she then takes her hoof away from your chin and continues “You yelling at us really put us into perspective and I think we can become a better team because of it. And it will all be because of you” Smiling at her you look at her again to see her still smiling back.

You couldn’t help but nuzzle while saying “thank you”. But what surprised you was that she nuzzles you back for a moment and then took a step away. A couple of minutes go by with either of you not saying a word. You just stood there staring at each other and smiling, it might have been your mind playing tricks on you again but you see a pinkish red light comes from her cheeks, which also made heat come rushing to your cheeks as well

“A-A-Anyway I let you get some sleep” She breaks the silence by stuttering a little bit and extending her wing. As she flaps them she ascends to the air.

You wave at her as she goes up and up, but before you could walk back through the door Rainbow Dash stops you by calling out

“Hey Star!”, turning back to her you see that she’s decided slightly and then that’s “If you tell anyone about this… I kill you”

Letting out a big laugh you look up at her to call back “My lips are sealed”