A large thump sounded at the door to the old tree. Its inhabitant didn’t know what to do at first; it was about midnight after all. ‘Who in Equestria could that be, especially at this hour?’ Twilight thought to herself as her horn flared and lights lit up all around the old tree that is the Ponyville library. As the unicorn cautiously walked towards the door, she could hear something she didn’t notice at first. Just before she reached the door she froze in her tracks. She heard a pony crying.
She didn’t know who this pony was or what he or she was doing at the library door at this hour. She hesitantly opened the door to a cyan Pegasus heaped on the floor leaning against the door that had no moved so the body fell even more onto the ground. The pegasus’ mane fell into the library.
“Rainbow Dash!” the lavender unicorn yelled as her horned flared and lifted the cyan Pegasus up with her magic. She rested the crying Pegasus onto her sofa, not caring if it got dirty. The unicorn then dashed into the kitchen to get a warm mug of tea.
When the lavender unicorn returned the Pegasus was still lying on the couch, crying much less now.
“Are you ok, Rainbow?” the unicorn asked with concern easily noticeable in her voice.
The Pegasus sneezed, “y- yes” Rainbow was trying to hide the truth as much as she could in her current state.
“Let’s get you cleaned up, I’ll go run a hot bath and prepare the spare bed.”
“Th- thanks.” The Pegasus said, still crying a little. The unicorn smiled and walked off to run the bath.
She returned several minutes later to find the cyan Pegasus standing next to the couch looking at the wall.
“The bath’s ready for you.” The unicorn said, “I’ll prepare the spare bed upstairs and then we can get some sleep.” The Pegasus walked past the lavender unicorn and smiled at her as she walked into the bathroom and closed the door. She walked upstairs to prepare the spare bed. Her horn glowed and as the cupboard opened the bedframe, sheets, mattress and a pillow flew out of it and were set up next to her own bed. It wouldn’t normally take as long as it did but she had one thing on her mind that kept bugging her while she performed her task: what happened to Rainbow Dash.
When she finished her task she walked over to the main room but stopped when she reached the bathroom door. Dash was crying again. Twilight frowned and continued into the main room of the library and sat down on the sofa, avoiding the patch of dirt that was created when the unicorn brought in her friend. She sat down and started to think. It was lonely in the library without Spike. He was with Fluttershy doing something Twilight didn’t really care too much about. She decided to do a little bit of reading, so she picked up the book on the table near her and started to read.
Dash came out of the bathroom a few minutes later looking better than she did when got to the library but still not all that good compared to her normal self.
“Ah, you’re out. Are you sure you’re ok? I mean you didn’t sound ok when I walked past the door.” Rainbow sighed and let a tear drop from her eye and slowly onto the floor. She walked over and sat down next to the unicorn who looked concerned. This was going to be a long night. Twilight looked at her, her concern turning into deep worry for the Pegasus.
“I… I don’t know what to say first…” the Pegasus said, trying to break the awkward silence between the two friends. “She…I…”
“It’s ok, take your time. You can talk in the morning if you want,” Twilight said trying to comfort Rainbow, she really wanted to know what happened but she could wait ‘till the morning.
“Tha… that would be nice.” So the two of them stood up and walked upstairs, side by side, to the bedroom. When they got up there Twilight showed Dash her bed and she sleepily got in, the unicorn got in her own after Rainbow was in. They fell asleep quickly, well, at least Twilight did. Rainbow was turning over constantly in bed, not finding that one comfy spot where she could get to sleep nice and easy. She would often turn over and look at Twilight. ‘What’s happening to my life, it started out so awesomely! But now it’s ruined, I’m a wreck’ she thought. Her dreams started to drift from new flying tricks to her time with her and then finally they rested on the mare across the room, sleeping soundly in her bed. Rainbow drifted to sleep quickly after she thought of the lavender unicorn.
Twilight was first to wake, when she opened her eyes she noticed Dash sleeping heavily and moving about a little. She decided to get breakfast before Dash wakes up. When she got downstairs she let out a big sigh and decided she needed to know what was on Dash’s mind, she wanted to know mainly because she was incredibly worried for her, but something else was happening in her mind. She didn’t know what and she didn’t understand it so she ignored it.
She finished the breakfast and laid the table when Dash was walking slowly down the stairs, thankfully no tears running down her face. Twilight smiled at her, and Dash smiled weakly back at her.
“Please, sit down.” Dash couldn’t even think of why she wouldn’t sit down and eat something; she didn’t care what she ate, since she didn’t get any food last night due to her unfortunate event. “Please enjoy, this may not be much but it is something nice to start the day.”
“Thanks, I will,” Dash thanked her and looked down at the food on her breakfast plate: a sandwich of some kind. The Pegasus thanked the unicorn once more before starting to eat the food.
“Dash, I was wondering…” Twilight started to say but trailed off as the Pegasus realised what she was going to say, she politely finished her mouthful before speaking,
“What happened last night?” she said,
“Do I have to talk about it?”
“Yes, I’m concerned for you Dash, you look really sad and I want to make sure you’re happy.”
“Fine.” Dash composed herself before continuing the conversation, “…She left me!”
“WAIT, WHAT?” Twilight was very surprised to hear that somepony ‘dumped’ Dash. She was completely unaware that the cyan Pegasus was in a relationship, not to mention with a mare! “You were going out with another mare?”
“Yes, Twilight, I was. Her name is Storm Fire…”
“Why didn’t you tell us, your friends? We wouldn’t have objected to the fact that you are a ‘filly-fooler’.”
“Really, you guys would have been ok with it?” a small smile spread across the cyan pegasus’ mouth.
“Yes, anyway, so what happened?” Twilight tried not to make eye contact with the other mare, “I was really worried when you were at the door last night…”
“I guess you should deserve to know… uh…” Dash seemed to be at a loss for words, “It started out so awesomely… she was SO AWESOME...”