My little dream girl

by Slick Dash


Not such a pleasant surprise

The next day we all receded back into normality. I myself, rather sluggishly after another batch of weird dreams filled with Soarin.’ I’d gone back to the picnic with AJ and to the delight of everypony, I showed them how the stereo worked. I still had some CD’s in my boot so I took them out, distributed them to each pony and had them make a request based on the song names. All in all, it made for an interesting end to the evening. Amazingly each pony chose a song which I could relate to them perfectly. But when it was rainbow’s turn, she requested a song and handed me the CD case back and blushed looking down at her hooves. I had stared at her in disbelief at her choice. “Areosmith’s ‘don’t wanna miss a thing.’ Are you kidding me! After how crap I felt that night the girl I love then asks for THIS song! I obliged her, and we had all sat listening to the slow almost sad song in quiet and thoughtful silence.

We stayed on that hill for a reasonable time, so eventually when everypony went home many were so tired they retreated to bed immediately. I tried to be one of them, but it wasn’t meant to happen. Twilight didn’t seem dampened by the late night at all, she simply sat on the sofa and began to unpack the basket while asking me about what I had been doing while they were away. I didn’t want to seem rude to my dear friend so I sat and spoke to her. I explained the work I’d been doing on Sweet Apple Acre’s, how me and Big Mac had finally spoken for the first time –or at least he’d spoken to me- Twilight squealed with happiness and clapped her forehooves together excitedly.

“You really are beginning to fit in around here!” I thought about it for a moment. I really was becoming one of the citizens of Ponyville now! The thought to ask about Celestia’s research crossed my mind, but I dismissed it. After all Twilight had only just returned and I didn’t want to upset her by making her think I wanted to leave.

The convocation continued, about random and needless stuff. I envied Spike who had been able to go straight up to bed from the picnic. Maybe it was because I was older than him that Twilight felt that we could stay up longer, the thought seemed to excite her. That made me feel wanted at least, after hearing about Soarin’s impending visit to Rainbow Dash I just needed to feel as though someone still wanted me around. AJ obviously did, and so did Twilight and that would have to do for now.

I was now outside Sweet Apple Acre’s, preparing for another day of work. The sun was shining brightly and warmly, so I just took my blue shirt for the day, leaving the coat on the hook in my room. I walked through the tree’s with ease, knowing exactly where to go now. I headed for the large barn that dominated the scene of tree’s and barrels scattered around. As I passed the farm house, I heard a scraping noise from above me. I looked up in time to see Applejack popping her head out of her room window that she had obviously just opened.
“Mornin’ sugar cube!”
“Morning boss.”
“Well I’m sorry but today we’re turning the apples into cider, so that means we aint got much work for yah down here. But it you’re still looking for sum’in to do I heard Pinkie Pie could use a hand at the bakery.”

I gave the country pony a joking salute –to her approval- and turned and headed back out of the farm. That was when I first felt it, a tickling on the back of my neck. It wasn’t a physical feeling, but more of a mental feeling. Almost as though my subconscious was trying to warn me about something. Was...I being followed? I turned around, and saw nopony there. Learning from past experiences, I then looked into the sky scanning for Pegasy, scanning the tree tops for the tell tale signs of somepony hiding in them. I didn’t find any. With a sudden sense of unease building in my stomach I turned back towards the town and walked over to Sugar Cube Corner, my pace suddenly a lot faster.

“Oh thank goodness you’re here!” yelled a flustered looking Pinkie Pie. The shop wasn’t particularly busy, but at the same time, the customers were ordering rather large amounts of products and the party pony was obviously struggling. I saw that her hair was dangerously close to falling limp, never a good sign with pinkie!

Wasting no time, I jogged over the room and slid under the counter. “So Pinkie, what do you need?” the pony rushed into the kitchen almost as fast as Rainbow could fly. She then zipped back out holding an empty white bag.
“We’re out of flour!” she squeaked miserably. “There’s a little hut outside the back door. It has everything we need, but seeing as Mr and Mrs cake aren’t here there’s no one to go get the supplies while I watch the ovens!” I threw my hands up in front of me to calm her down slightly, before saying very calmly.
“Pinkie, I’ll go get the flour ok?” Pinkie beamed at me, her hair suddenly regaining its bouncy quality. Her personality flipped from frantic to her usual care free self once again.
“Okie-dokie-lokie,” and she trotted back into the kitchen humming some song as she did so.

I couldn’t help but laugh at the random party pony. I went through the kitchen, and out the back door. Sure enough just like Pinkie had said there was a little hut situated just to the right of the back door. I turned the door handle, and it stuck. I juggled it a little and pushed harder. Still nothing, so I pushed myself up against the door hard and pushed with all my might. The door eventually gave in and I fell face first into the dark little room. I didn’t see the flour fall, but I did feel the bag fall onto my stomach knocking the wind out of me and coating me in the light white powder.

I coughed and spluttered for a long time. It felt as though I was suffocating! My hand eventually found the frame of the door way, I gripped it and pulled myself up. Now back in the light of day, I saw how ridiculous I looked. Ironically I had been wearing my pink shirt today, but now it was more white than any other colour. I was thankful that I hadn’t been wearing the gang’s coat. I had taken to not wearing it every day now, heart breaks a funny thing like that. Something you adored and treasure on day can suddenly become not as appealing as it once did. Not wanting to focus on my feelings about Rainbow and Soarin’s meating this week. I grabbed two bags of flour –not the one that had burst all over me- and tucked them under my arms. Closing the door with my foot, I went back inside to the bakery to give my pink friend a hand.

Inside the kitchen was chaos, the pony was zipping from one station to the next at break neck speed. I was worried that she was going to hurt herself, she was building up a tremendous sweat as she, took out the cookies from one oven, left them to cool on the windowsill, while she bolted over to the icing station and topped the ones that had only just finished cooling themselves. Then taking them away to the packing station and wrapping them so fast I was amazed to she didn’t give herself a hundred paper cuts!

I took the flour over to the mixing station, placing them as close to the wall as possible so pinkie had the smallest chance of tripping over them. She turned and looked overjoyed! “Oh thank you! I really don’t have time to stop though. Reeaaallly busy, but that’s all I needed I’ve got all the rest covered.” She zipped to the window and took a tray of cooling cookies off and into the oven once again. As she turned to go back to the mixing station she realised what she had done! With a loud “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK!” she wrenched open the oven, and saved the delicious treats with a quick sigh of relief.

I moved back out of the back entrance, trying to think of how to help the party pony... but what could help? If orders, were coming in fast, then surly they needed to be made packed and delivered fast. I realized how to help. I ran out from around the back and headed for the centre of town, if I had to find her, there was a high chance she was there. I pelted into the town square, scanning the few clouds in the sky, hoping to see her napping on one of them. DAMN! She wasn’t there. I turned, racking my brains to think where she may be. Rarity’s parlour? No, Rainbow wouldn’t ever go near that fru-fru place. She wasn’t at Sugar Cube Corner, or Sweet Apple Acres. So that left two places, either Fluttershy’s home or the library. Rainbow never went home unless it was night time, so I ruled out her house immediately. Which would be the best place to go? Well I was in the town already, so I may as well go to the closest one, I turned and ran for the library receiving some startled looks from ponies who I passed.

As I approached the building adapted from a large tree, I looked through one of the windows. I thanked Celestia, Rainbow was in there. She seemed to be speaking to someone inside, probably Twilight. I reached the door at a phenomenal pace. I skidded to a halt just outside, whirling up dust and dirt from the dry ground all around me. I waited to catch my breath, when I was under control once again I stood up straight and began to open the door.

“I just don’t know Twilight, I don’t know what to do! He’s just so... different from me. And yet I...” It was Rainbow speaking, I didn’t want to interrupt at first so I had opened the door slowly. But now I hung there with the door only slightly agape as I looked in on my dearest friend and the girl I loved as they continued speaking.
“Well maybe it’s for the best you realise you two are different... after all, if you don’t have much in common then what is there behind a relationship like that?” Twilight was trying to console the distraught Rainbow who was pacing up and down the centre of the circular room.
“Nothing! That’s the point!” Rainbow turned and said desperately. “But then why the hay do I still feel like this about him?” My stomach did a tumble roll, they were...talking about me. Did Twilight know about how I felt about Rainbow? Or was she her version of what Applejack was to me? “Out of the two of them, he is the one I have the least fun with. I just sit around being quiet around him, ‘cos I have nothing to say. A stone plummeted into my stomach, it WAS me they were talking about.

“So when are you going to tell him it’s never going to happen with you two? You know it’s going to destroy the guy.” So Twi did know! Why was she just standing there? Just being that usual calculating unicorn she always was! She was practically signing my death warrant!
“The day after Soarin’ gets her. No point in draggin’ it out huh?” Rainbow finished coldly. That was all I needed to hear. This world had deceived me, showing its bright colours and happy inhabitants but it was all the same as earth, still filled with heart ache. Still filled with disappointment...it was no different. I felt that last little sliver of my heart begin to break away from my soul. Soon it would be gone forever. But first i needed to make sure I used it to help Pinkie.

At some point I had fallen to my knees while listening, I now stood tall once again. And opened the door wide. The two Mares stared at me in shock as I entered. “I... thought you were at AJ’s working...” it was Twilight who had spoken in nothing more than a whisper. I didn’t bother smiling, I just rubbed the back of my neck, hoping they didn’t think I’d over heard them.
“Uhhh, actually I was helping Pinkie, she... uhhh is a bit buried under the work. So I thought... if you two could help pack up the goods and send them out to the customer’s ... she could... you know focus on the baking.” The two looked at me for a moment, I could tell they were wondering if I had heard them. “I just ran straight here from the shop, she really needs help!” I said a lot stronger this time. The two of them shook their heads to clear their minds then cantered out of the room to go and help pinkie.

As I stood there in the doorway, a chill crept down my spine. That same feeling of being watched was welling up inside me. I didn’t bother looking this time. I knew no one was there, I just hung my head, and proceeded to Sugar Cube Corner miserably.

Next 2 chapter's kick the story up a knotch! Can't wait to see what you guys think! hope you're enjoying it all so far!