Rainbow Dash fluttered to the ground and looked around. A few ponies around, but not too many.
Good. She didn't feel like talking to anypony right now. Not after... whatever just happened.
As she trotted across the pathway, she did her best to keep a straight face; not willing to let anyone see the awkwardness she was feeling in that moment.
Now... I remember that it was down this way... ahah!
Rainbow Dash smiled as she reached it; the Ponyville Library, otherwise known as 'Twilight Sparkle's House'. She hadn't been there in a while, what with the Wonderbolts traning and all, so she was just glad that she recalled the exact location.
Though walking up to it confidently at first, she hesitated to knock on the door.
Oh, geez... this is gonna be so weird. But, I gotta know.
Knock
Knock
Her ear twitched as she heard the sound of hoofsteps, and she tried to mantain her composure as the door opened up.
Screeeee
"Oh. Hey, Rainbow Dash. What's u-"
"TWILIGHT!"
Tackling her inside as quickly as she could, Rainbow Dash positioned herself in the same way she had been in earlier, though with Twilight Sparkle in Soarin's position.
"Y-you gotta help me! I think I'm sick or something!" she shouted.
After a short pause though, she blinked; she didn't feel weird like she had earlier.
"...Huh... it's not happening," she muttered, looking somewhat confused.
"Ugh. What are you talking about, Rainbow?" Twilight groaned, rubbing her head from the earlier impact with the floor. Granted though, she had somewhat expected it. Rainbow Dash had always been... impulsive.
"I... I dunno!" she admitted, getting off of Twilight and closing the door behind her. "I felt all funny earlier and thought that you'd know what was up!"
"...Funny?" Twilight questioned, looking intrigued as she stood up and stretched her wings. "Well..." After looking around for a moment, she magically pulled a book out from one of her shelves and shuffled through it.
"...Has anypony told you a good joke lately?"
"Not that kind of funny!"
Slapping the book out of Twilight's hooves, Rainbow Dash then glared her down; though it came across as more of a pleading glance than anything else. "I-I'm serious!"
Twilight merely blinked in response for a moment, then quickly let out a small gasp as a spark went off in her head. "You... you really are serious," she said, pushing the book aside. "I thought you were just messing with me..."
Rainbow Dash shook her head in reply. "I'm not! I mean..." Blushing slightly in embarrassment, she averted her gaze to the floor.
"O-okay, okay!" Twilight said quickly, realizing how serious the situation was. "W-what's wrong then? What did you mean by 'funny'? I'm sure I'll have a book about it somewhere!" she assured.
Rainbow Dash smiled slightly at her attempts to calm her down, despite still feeling awkward about it. "Well, I was with Soarin."
"The captain of the Wonderbolts?"
"Mmhm."
"Alright then."
"And we were just having a little race, but then I tackled him and..." She paused.
"...?" Twilight noticed her unsureness and chose to pursue the matter further. "And?"
"...a-and... well... I felt... funny... I don't know..." Rainbow Dash quickly averted her gaze from Twilight, feeling her cheeks heat up from remembering the moment.
"Oh?" Twilight asked, sounding disappointed with the answer. However, she got closer and noticed Rainbow Dash's blush, which suddenly became somewhat of a hint to her. "...You're blushing."
"Hmph. Am not," Rainbow Dash told her stubbornly, crossing her forelegs and looking away. "R-Rainbow Dash doesn't blush."
"I see," Twilight said, not sounding convinced in the slightest. Rather than getting Rainbow Dash to admit her act, she turned her attention to a bookshelf and briefly scanned over the books that rested inside. Upon seeing one that had a small heart-shaped sticker on the label, she pulled it out and gave it to her friend. "Here."
"Huh? What's-" Rainbow Dash paused as she noticed the sticker. Just what she didn't want to see.
"...No... no no no," she muttered, glaring at it.
"Rainbow..." Twilight said simply, gesturing her hoof out to encourage her to read it.
Rainbow Dash paused to stare at her for a moment, then sighed and reluctantly opened the book.
"...Warmth..."
"...Shortness of breath..."
"...Feeling the need to be around said-pony at all times?" She gave Twilight a questionable look at that. "I don't have that."
"You don't?"
"N...no..."
"Rainbow~" Twilight raised a brow at smiled somewhat; it was amusing to see a pony so flustered.
"...Oh, ponyfeathers." Rainbow Dash muttered, putting a hoof to her face miserably. She had it bad.
"It's nothing to be ashamed about."
"I'm Rainbow Dash! RAINBOW DASH!" Hitting the floor with her other hoof, she then avoided Twilight's gaze. "I'm not supposed to be all lovey-dovey over some other pony!"
"Why not?"
"'Cause it's not cool! That's why!"
Twilight stopped for a second to absorb the spoken words, then grinned. "You mean like how reading wasn't cool?"
Rainbow Dash flinched slightly. Oh, she went there...
"W-well... I... I mean..." Giving into her friend, she sighed once more. "What do I do, Twi?"
Twilight giggled. "Isn't it obvious? You tell him!"
"W-WHA-"
"I know. I know. That's not your style." Scoffing a bit at the word 'style', Twilight chuckled a bit and moved over to a few blank cards laying on a table.
"Why don't you give him a card? It might seem a little overdone, but if you don't want to say it-"
"I'll tell him."
Twilight quickly jerked her head towards Rainbow Dash. Such confidence all of a sudden...
"Just like that?"
"I'm a Wonderbolt now! I can make anything look cool!" Her smile seemed then to waver for a moment. "E-even though it's... something like this..."
"I believe in you, if that helps," Twilight said, smiling to reassure her. "Be sure to tell me how it goes, okay?"
Rainbow Dash simply nodded in response. "I will," she promised, promptly flying out of an open window and taking to the skies.
Admittedly, she felt a little better; maybe she came to the right pony after all, despite all of her doubts.
"HEY! RAINBOW DASH!"
She blinked. "Scootaloo?"
Looking downwards, she quickly noticed the orange filly waving at her.
"Hey! What's up?" Rainbow Dash asked, stopping and landing next to her favorite crusader.
"Not much, but whoa! I haven't seen you in Ponyville for so long! You had some business to take care of around here?" Scootaloo questioned.
Rainbow Dash quickly became flustered at the question. "O-oh! Uh..."
How do I tell her that I like somepony!? She'll disown me as her idol or something!
Scootaloo seemed to notice her troubles and softened her expression. "Is it that big of a deal? You can tell me!" she told her, almost in a pleading manner.
Rainbow Dash tried to choke out an answer, but only managed to make a few words audible enough to hear. She was barely loud at all, which seemed to catch Scootaloo's attention twice as fast. She might've been young, but she wasn't naive.
"Huh?" Scootaloo questioned, her ear twitching as it tried to hear the full of Rainbow Dash's sentence. "...wait... you... what?" she asked, a spark going of in her eyes as she seemed to catch enough of the words.
"I... I-"
"Is he cool?"
Rainbow Dash paused. It seemed like a rude question, but... not the way she had said it. "H-huh?"
"Is he cool?" Scootaloo asked again, a teasingly playful grin crossing her face.
Rainbow Dash stared blankly at her for a moment, then grinned and sat down, pulling Scootaloo close to her and ruffling up her purple mane. "You bet! He's cooler than cool! Cool as you can get!"
"And you're gonna tell him, right? I don't care how cool he is! Nopony can reject your coolness!" Scootaloo exclaimed, grinning wide.
"Hah! 'Course I'm gonna tell him!" Rainbow Dash told her, gaining a boost of confidence from the conversation. She then flapped her wings and flew into the air a bit. "In fact, I'm gonna go right now!"
"Ohhh! Tell me how awesome your confession is when you're done, okay?" Scootaloo asked.
"Heh, you bet."
And with that, she was off, now brimming with a new confidence.
Ponies don't give that filly enough credit.