Rainbow Dash knocked on the panel next to the cloud door to Flitter's room, you couldn't very well knock on a cloud door. "Flitter, I'm coming in." There was a loud, non-language response, though it was definitely in the negative. Rainbow Dash pushed the door open anyway. "I said I was coming in, not asking permission." She carried in the bag with the croissant and a boutique of a dozen roses, placing them both on the table next to Flitter's bed. Flitter opened her mouth to protest but paused when she saw the presents, her hoof snaking out and grabbing the croissant, but still glaring at Rainbow Dash. Rolling her eyes as Rainbow Dash took the silence as permission and climbed up on the bed, watching as Flitter did indeed not eat the croissant like a normal pony. She managed to get the center flap up a little and grabbed onto it with her teeth, starting to unravel the pastry.
Rainbow Dash couldn't stop her grin as she watched and Flitter scowled at her. "What?"
"That's cute." Flitter took a moment out of her eating of her snack to stick her tongue out at Rainbow Dash before going back to her pastry. "Hey Flitter, sorry about all that stuff." Flitter gave a small non-committal noise in response before Rainbow Dash groaned. "Look, I'm trying to say sorry, can you just... I don't know, acknowledge that!?" Flitter didn't answer and Rainbow Dash just let out an annoyed grunt, starting to get up off the bed. "Fine, be that way. I'll see you..." She felt a soft wing wrap around her leg as she started to push off, looking back to see Flitter holding onto her. Rainbow Dash slowly sat back down next to Flitter, but this time didn't speak, she just waited for Flitter to finish the croissant.
"Don't go..."
Rainbow Dash hadn't known what to expect but she hadn't expected that... "Uh... Yeah sure..." She continued to sit there, awkwardly quiet as Flitter was curled up at the head of the bed, peering at the roses that Rainbow Dash had brought her.
"These were her favorites you know."
"Huh?"
"Roses were mom's favorites."
"Ah." After another long silence Rainbow Dash was doing her best not to yell from boredom, she was trying to be sensitive but just sitting here in silence made her want to kick something! She let her mind wander back to how Flitter had been acting and talking, goodness, this would be so much better if Fluttershy was here instead of her, or Rarity, or Applejack... ANYONE!... Ok, maybe not Pinkie Pie, but anyone else. She remembered Twilight said to play your strengths but her strengths weren't sitting and connecting to other ponies emotionally... Wait...
She looked at Flitter and frowned, remembering the time when Applejack was acting to weird, tired all the time because she wouldn't tell anypony that she needed help at the farm while Big Mac was under the weather. She ran her tongue over her teeth nervously, maybe that was it...? Flitter was lashing out because she had to deal with all this stuff on her own... And she didn't want to be alone, she'd been with her sister her entire life, and while she pretended to be fine with that she hated being alone! Score one Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash smiled and stood up on the bed, Flitter looked up at her but didn't stop her this time.
However, Flitter did let out a loud meep as she was hoisted by the stronger mare onto Rainbow Dash's back. "Gah! Rainbow Dash!? What are you doing!?"
Rainbow Dash grinned. "I'm helping you ya stubborn mare!" She grabbed the roses in her teeth and trotted out of the room, holding the other mare in place with her wings. Flitter could have gotten out of that but she was half curious, half beyond caring as she was trundled off somewhere. Rainbow Dash trotted into her own room, depositing Flitter on her luxuriously soft cloud bed before trotting off. Flitter got up to complain before just letting out a small coo to herself and sinking down into the sinfully soft bed.
Rainbow Dash trotted back in with a small vase with the roses in it now, molding a small side table out of clouds she left the vase there before climbing onto the bed herself, walking over to Flitter and laying down next to her, wrapping one of her strong wings around the other mare and pulling her in close, remembering doing this for Fluttershy a few times in Flight School, Fluttershy always felt better after a platonic cuddle with her best friend. Rainbow Dash didn't realize that without that background this likely came off very different to Flitter.
Flitter for her part was nearly panicking in her head. Physically she was frozen, but her mind was racing as she glanced over at Rainbow Dash then the roses, then back to Rainbow Dash. She didn't know what to do, she wasn't... Interested in Rainbow Dash... Well, not beyond... Rainbow Dash was very attractive of course, beautiful and athletically fit, but she was a boor!... No she wasn't she was actually very kind and somehow rather insightful. She didn't... Whenever she got like this Cloudy came in and cuddled her like this but this was... Rainbow Dash wasn't her sister! This was something marefriends did! She sighed, drawing a small grin from Rainbow Dash as she felt Flitter press a little more into the rainbow mained pony. Maybe she did need someone to look after her emotional state. She'd always been good at the practical things of life, cooking and everything, but despite her rough exterior Cloudy had always been the more emotionally stable of the two sisters. "Rainbow Dash...?"
"Yeah Flitter?"
Flitter paused for a moment biting her bottom lip for a moment before nodding to herself, she... Could accept this. It wasn't her first choice but it'd make Cloudy happy, and... She could do worse than Rainbow Dash. "Good night Rainbow Dash."
Rainbow Dash grinned, she was going to brag to no end to Fluttershy about how insightful she was tonight. "Good night Flitter."