I smile as Rainbow flies Scootaloo up to bed, holding her like a toy plane so she can have a bit of fun before going to sleep.
"Now, I'll see you in the morning, kiddo," I hear her say, softly. Rainbow Dash stays upstairs for about a minute, during which I assume she tucks the filly in. "Sleep tight. And remember: tomorrow morning, you have to get up early for school, alright?"
"Okay..."
"Alright. See ya, Scoots."
Rainbow Dash comes back down the stairs, bearing a small smile. "Well, let's get to bed, sweetheart," she says, softly. I smile, and point towards the bathroom.
"I'm going to take a shower first," I tell her. "See ya soon, Dashie." With that, I hurry up the stairs, and gently close the bathroom door behind me.
In retrospect, I may have been acting a tiny bit too enthusiastically for a shower.
Which was probably why, about five minutes later, Rainbow Dash is joining me in the shower, a greedy smile and bright red blush on her face as she stares at my crotch.
"What are you doing in here!?" I demand, immediately covering my crotch.
Rainbow cringes, and her ears go flat against the side of her head.
"I was just taking your invitation," she mumbles, uncharacteristically meekly.
"What invitation!?" I demand, shaking my head at her.
"You...You said you would see me soon, and then you called me Dashie, which is like a pet name, and then you sprinted up the stairs, and I...I took it all as you being ready," she tells me, her voice climbing an octave as tears begin to leak from her eyes. "I...I thought you wanted to...To..." She begins to cry in earnest, and runs out of the bathroom. I immediately shut the shower, quickly and vigorously dry myself with the towel I had laid out, and don my clothing, before running down the stairs after her.
However, when I finally reach the ground floor, I don't see her anywhere. I frown, and check in the guest bedroom. However, she's not there. After a thorough sweep of the entire building, even the basement and Scootaloo's bedroom, I see that she's nowhere to be found.
"Oh, shit," I mutter, my heart starting to beat much more rapidly. "Oh, shit, Rainbow..."
I stand there, in the center of the library, knowing that the cyan Pegasus had left because of me...Because I rejected her...
I open the door, and step out, just in time to see that Fluttershy is approaching the library.
"Oh! Peter!" She says, shrinking back. "Rainbow wanted me to tell you that she, uh...went back to Cloudsdale..."
I blink, and shake my head. "I have to go see her," I say. Fluttershy frowns.
"She just went to go feed Tank," she says. "Why? Did you two get into a fight or something?"
I sigh. "You could say so..."
Fluttershy frowns at me. "Well, perhaps you should go talk to her in the morning...If that's okay, of course. I could, uh, get one of my friends to...give you a lift, if that's okay with you..."
I smile, and nod. "Of course, that's okay with me."
Fluttershy nods, and waves as she walks away. "Goodnight Peter. You should get some sleep."
I nod, and close the door as I retreat into the guest room.
However, I can't fall asleep. I'm so used to having Rainbow Dash by my side, breathing gently as we fall asleep...
"I miss you, Rainbow," I whisper to the air. I sigh as I toss and turn, unable to fall asleep without the cyan Pegasus by my side.
The next two days pass without incident. I wake up after a fitful sleep, eat breakfast, wake up Scootaloo for school, eat lunch, greet visitors to the library, play on my iPad, greet Scootaloo, make some dinner, talk to Scootaloo, play a game with Scootaloo, go to sleep, and...
Wait for Rainbow Dash as I stare up at the ceiling, progressively feeling more and more forlorn.
I don't want to go to Fluttershy to get a ride up to Cloudsdale. I don't deserve Rainbow Dash, not after what I did...
But, either way, I haven't seen her for the past two days. Today will be the third day I spend without her. And the third day I spend not knowing where she is, or how she's doing.
In all honesty, it's maddening.
So, in the end, it comes down to one thing:
I need to see her.
I jump out of bed, and check the time. The clock says it's about seven o'clock in the morning, which means that Fluttershy should be up.
I slip my sneakers on, and leave the library. I practically sprint to Fluttershy's cottage, and when I arrive there, I see that the butter Pegasus is idly tending to her garden.
"Fluttershy," I say as I approach her, "I'm going to need one of your friends to bring me up to Rainbow Dash's house."
Fluttershy simply frowns at me. "What took you so long? Oh, I'm sorry, was that mean?"
I shake my head. "No, it's true. I shouldn't have waited. But now, I've had time to think, and I know what I've got to do."
"And what's that?" She asks.
"I've got to step up to something," I tell Fluttershy. "I kept saying I was afraid to have sex with her, but the truth is that I...I was afraid to because, well...I'm an idiot. I should have never pushed her away from myself, and because of that, she's been in her house for the past two days, and she's probably hurt..."
Fluttershy smiles at me. "So, you care about her a lot..."
I nod, and smile back at her. "Which is why I need to see her as soon as possible."
Fluttershy nods, and begins to flap her wings. "Wait here. I'm going to go get one of my friends who can bring you up to Rainbow Dash."
I nod, gratitude and hope surging up within me as she runs off towards the center of Ponyville. I smile, and walk into the cottage to sit by the hearth.
When she returns, she returns with a stallion pulling a chariot.
"Whoa, I bought you meant on a cloud!" I tell Fluttershy. She smiles, sheepishly.
"I decided I could get my own boyfriend to help you," she says, before lightly kissing the stallion on the nose. They smile, and blush at each other, before the stallion clears his throat, and waves for me to get into the chariot.
"Hop on in," he announces. I oblige, and he spreads his wings. "Next stop: Rainbow Dash."
I smile, and, with that, he takes off, leaving me to clench onto the sides of the chariot in fear as I'm pressed into the back of the seat.
Within a few minutes, we arrive, and I cautiously step off, and onto the clouds. Fortunately, the spell that Twilight had cast on my shoes is still working, which renders me able to walk on clouds. I approach the door, and gulp, nervous as to what Rainbow Dash will say.
I knock on the door, and stand there in the crisp, clean air, reflecting on what I had learned about myself during the two day absence of Rainbow Dash. Most importantly, I had learned that I, well...I love her. Yes, I know, it's quite the jump from not being able to have sex with her, but I realized it when I had noticed how much I missed her. And I realized that, if it meant so much to her, I would gladly have sex with her.
The door opens, and I'm confronted by a sight that tears my heart in half. Her mane is a mess, her eyes are puffy and red, and she seems to have gotten no sleep whatsoever. However, when she sees me, that is replaced by a frown, and an ire that burns deep within her eyes.
Almost immediately, I'm slapped in the face by a cyan hoof.
"What the fuck took you so long?" She demands, stepping back to let me into the building.
I nod with a small smile. "I've missed you, too, sweetheart."
She sighs, and closes the door behind me as I enter the building. Gesturing for me to follow, she walks through halls of beautiful architecture and outdoor cloud-courtyards, until we reach a small, airy spot, where we can sit and watch the liquid rainbow pour down from above.
"This is beautiful," I tell her as I sit down on the cloud seat. She nods as she sits across from me. "Sure is..." She sighs. We sit there in silence for a few ,injures before Rainbow finally asks a question.
"So, before you tell me why you're here, would you mind if I explain why I wanted to have sex with you so much?"
"Please, do."
She nods, and takes a deep breath. "Over the past few days, I've had a chance to think...and I realized something. I wanted to have sex with you so much because, well...I just wanted to be in a more intimate relationship with you. I wanted to...be in love with you. I wanted to know if I actually loved you, and I also just...wanted to be closer to you. And I felt like sex was the best way to do that, because when you gave me that wing massage in the stadium, I-" She chokes, and I reach across the table to grasp her hoof. "I felt so close to you, Peter. I felt like we had...I don't even know, but..." She begins to become increasingly distraught, and I immediately walk around the table to kneel before her.
"Rainbow Dash," I say, softly, holding her hooves tight. "Why didn't you just tell me?"
"I was afraid you didn't feel the same way," she sighs.
"Rainbow," I whisper, caressing her face as I draw closer to her, "I thought you were just horny. If I knew it meant that much to you, I would have had sex with you a long time ago..."
She looks up in surprise. "Why? You said the you were afraid of having sex with a pony..."
"Yeah, and I wasn't going to overcome that fear because I assumed that you were simply horny. But of I knew just how much it meant to you, if I knew how much it mattered, I would have ignored that fear for you..."
She frowns at me. "Why would it be so different if you knew it mattered to me?"
"Because..." I choke, but force myself to say those three infinitesimal, life changing words. "I love you, Rainbow Dash..."
I begin to cry, as I know that I've just lost her forever. I said it too soon, and she's going of hate me forever because of-
"I love you, too, Peter," she says. I look up, shock plain on my face as I watch tears of happiness roll down her cheeks. We both smile at each other, and we kiss. It's a long, passionate kiss, during which I bring her up to her hind legs, and dance with her tongue as she leads me to her bedroom.
I quickly throw off my clothes, and lay down on the bed with her, kissing her and caressing her. After a few moments, she pushes me on my back, and sits up. Once it's inside her, we begin to make love, our emotions running high and melding together as we kiss, stroke each other's sweaty bodies, and feel an intimacy unlike any other...
When we're done, Rainbow lifts her hindquarters up, letting it flop down on my chest, and lays down on top of me, a huge grin on her face as she snuggles up to me.
"I love you, Peter," she whispers.
"I love you, too, Dashie..."
We kiss again, before falling asleep, fatigued, satisfied, and feeling something that neither of us can even begin to describe...