In the next morning, Rainbow Dash felt relaxed. "I love you comfy bed…" she mumbled.
"I know right? It's just like it is made of a cloud! Wait a second…it IS actually a part cloud! Your house is literally a cloud!! No wonder you love napping on clouds!! Although a real cloud is much softer than a building made of clouds!" a high pitch voice said.
"Yeah, napping on clouds is amazing…" Rainbow mumbled again.
Wait a second…
She heard a girly chuckle and woke up in front of a pink blurry circle. Then she realized it is a pink face with great – and creepy at the moment – smile.
"Hi Dashie!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed.
"GGAhhh!!!! Pinkie! Get out of my FACE!!" Rainbow Dash screamed. She wasn’t expecting visitors. The mare looked around her room and noticed that all of her five friends were there.
"Guys?! What are you doing here?" she asked them with confusion.
"We came to surprise you! Aaaaand obviously to congratulate you, silly!" Pinkie hopped from rainbow's bed and stood with the other girls.
"Uh…congratulate me? For what?" Rainbow was VERY confused now.
They certainly won't congratulate her for blenching her wing, because they obviously still didn’t know about it. So why are they here? Isn’t Twilight supposed to help with the preparations for her niece's birthday? And what about the others? Well, Rarity was surely going to design dresses for them for the upcoming big event. If something made her stop her "creativity process" it is definitely important.
"Darling you're so funny! It's okay, we won't tell anybody." Rarity said and winked at her.
"Rainbow you have no idea how excited I am!! It's going to be the best birthday ever!" Twilight said in excitement.
"Hey! That's my line!" Pinkie turned to Twilight.
"Sorry Pinkie, but I am just SOOOO EXCITED!!!" Twilight said while jumping in her place.
"Anyway, we are very proud of ya', sugarcube." Applejack said.
"WAIT GUYS!! I seriously have no idea what are you talking about!" Rainbow said and waved her hooves in the air above her head.
The girls looked at each other, looked back at Rainbow, then looked at each other again, and started laughing.
"What are you laughing at?!" She said in frustration and glared at them. Finally, after some minutes of laughing, Twilight spoke up.
"Sorry Dash, after Shining Armor told me about it, I just had to tell the girls. You…you are not mad right?" she asked Rainbow.
Rainbow still felt like she is missing something.
"No…I just have no idea what you girls ARE TALKING ABOUT!!" she said.
Their looks turned more serious and Fluttershy said: "Doesn’t she know?" and the others shrugged.
"What don’t I know?!" Rainbow asked in frustration.
"That you are going to perform your sonic rainboom at Flurry's birthday of course." Twilight answered.
"OH!! That! Su...re…" Rainbow started with confidence and pride but then she realized something and with that, her voice went down. She suddenly remembered what happened yesterday. The girls looked at each other again and Fluttershy asked her pegasus friend: "Are you…Are you alright?" Rainbow didn’t want to disappoint her best friends and especially Twilight, since it was her niece's first birthday, but she also didn’t want to lie.
It's not lying Dash… she thought to herself. You just don’t tell everything…It's not lying… then she felt Applejack's honesty in her. Fine…I'll tell them later.
At that moment Rainbow jumped off her bed and exclaimed: "Yeah! Totally alright! I am excited as well."
Somehow the girls didn’t suspect anything. Or they just decided to not ask to much questions. They just shrugged again and smiled to their loyal friend.
"So, tell me darling, how do your practices go?" Rarity asked.
"Oh, they go great! I won't tell you a lot though. You know, not to ruin the surprise!" Rainbow dash answered and this time she tried to smile more naturally, so her friends won't suspect anything at all. At least so they won't read her that easily as Soarin did last time.
"Sure, but anyways we thought together that we could meet up and maybe talk about it in a picnic or something." Fluttershy said.
"Maybe tomorrow is a good choice?" Twilight suggested.
"Sure guys! Then…I'll see you tomorrow!" Rainbow replied and started to move towards the door to give a hint for the girls that they will better go by now.
Less questions, less suspicion. She thought
As Rainbow was walking to the front door, the girls seemed like they got the hint and approached to her as well. All four except Twilight who was a bit confused.
"So…I guess it's a goodbye for now?" she asked to be sure.
"Exactly! AHH I MEAN, see you later? Tomorrow?" Rainbow said and gestured to the open door.
"Bye…?" Fluttershy said quietly with a questionable tone.
"Bye guys!" Rainbow smiled and waved with her hoof as her friends were exiting her house. Suddenly Applejack stopped in front of her and asked: "Dash…"
"Yeah…?" Rainbow felt nervous.
"Did somethin' happened?"
Rainbow could feel a drop of sweat falling from her forehead.
"Eeyup! Tomorrow we are having a picnic or something right? Don’t you tell me that you have already forgot AJ!" Rainbow responded jokily and gave a light punch to her friend on her shoulder.
"Yeah…see ya' then." Applejack left the house and followed the others. Rainbow Dash exhaled with relief when then, out of the blue, pinkie looked at her in the eyes. She was so closed to her friend's muzzle that they barely touched. Rainbow gulped and she could swear that Pinkie was looking through her soul.
"What are you hiding?!?!" she asked with suspicion.
"Ehh…n…noth…nothing…?" Rainbow hesitated.
"Reallyyyy???" Pinkie asked again and glared at Rainbow's right eye.
Oh my gosh I swear one day she will kill me.
"Pinkie! Stop it! I'm not hiding anything!" Rainbow exclaimed.
Pinkie lifted her eyebrow and stretched her neck back so far, as only Pinkie knows how to. Then, her face suddenly grinned with a smile.
"Alright then!" she said while approaching to the door, and then all of a sudden again, she turned around and basically faced…nothing.
"We will see then!" she said and winked to the reader. Rainbow face hoofed at that, and Pinkie Pie finally hopped outside to join the girls.
Sometimes I really can't understand this mare…
"You don’t even have to try! Bye Dashie!!" Rainbow heard Pinkie screaming to her. She cringed at that comment, wondering how Pinkie does these things, but then she realized that, come on, it's Pinkie.
When everypony left and were out of rainbow's vision she slowly closed the door and exhaled in relief. Again.
Phew…