//------------------------------//
// A Couple Questions 
// Story: When I Cry 
// by Brony Hectic 
//------------------------------//

                          Thanks to NightShader for editing, thanks to multiple bronies for proof reading.

As the movies credits began to roll along the screen and the outro song began to fade in Rarity let out a soft yawn and asked, 

"So how did you two enjoy the movie? I thought it was particularly amazing as always," she waited a moment but with no response from either of them. Rarity was about to ask again until she turned and noticed the two fast asleep, Dim's hoof loosely around the back of Sweetie Belle's neck. 

"Aw," Rarity let out with a chime. A couch is not a proper place to sleep. Rarity thought. She then made the decision to nudge to two awake. She began to lightly tap Sweetie Belle on her shoulder until she awoke. 

"Hmm?" Sweetie Belle drowsily perked her head up and felt Dim's hoof gently slide off her.

"If you plan on sleeping now you should do so in bed, darling," Rarity whispered. "I'm going to go find your sleeping bag so Dim can sleep in it. Remember what I told you," Rarity said slightly narrowing her eyes whilst giving Sweetie Belle a stern look.

Sweetie let out an annoyed groan, "I know, Rarity," she huffed in response.

"Just reminding you." Rarity said before walking off.

Sweetie Belle let out a short yawn then looked over at Dim who was still resting, a small smile came upon her face. Sweetie Belle quickly looked left and right before quickly, but gently, kissing Dim on the cheek. She looked left and right again after she was done just to make sure nopony was there. She tapped Dim a couple times in effort to wake him up.

"Dim," Sweetie began shaking him but to no avail. "Dim Shadow!" she shouted, immediately waking Dim up and startling him at the same time which overall resulted in him falling off the couch.

"What?" Dim asked a little annoyed.

"Oh sorry, are you okay?" 

"Yeah I'm fine. So why did you wake me up?"

"Rarity says we can't sleep on the couch so she woke me up and told me to wake up you up to tell you we can't sleep on the couch."

Dim hesitated for a second, "What?" 

Sweetie Belle let out a frustrated sigh. "We have to sleep in my room, not the couch."

"Ah okay," There was a short awkward silence. "So where did Rarity go?"

"She went off to find a sleeping bag for you."

"So what should we do now?" Dim asked.

"Well, I'm pretty tired," Sweetie Belle said before a thought suddenly hit her. "But don't worry! We'll do a whole lot of fun stuff tomorrow!" she said. Sweetie Belle thought that since they were going to bed earlier than she thought, Dim would be disappointed. She didn't want to make Dim upset. Unknown to Dim, Sweetie Belle  was worried that if she slipped up Dim wouldn't want to be around her anymore. But now isn't the time for explaining this.

"It's fine, it's fine." Dim wondered why Sweetie Belle was all worked up. "I'm tired too."

Dim was about to continue but Rarity entered the room with an orange sleeping bag and turned his attention to her.

"I see you're up, here take this," Rarity tossed the sleeping bag from across the room to Dim, which hit him in the head. It was kinda a small warning from Rarity and Dim knew that. 

"Oh, I'm so sorry." Rarity said.

Dim rubbed his head, "It's fine, it was my fault for not catching such an easy toss." 

Rarity didn't argue. "Either way, I still apologize. You may want to head off to bed now if you're tired."

"Come on, Dim." Sweetie Belle said pulling at Dim's leg before she walked off to her room, Dim followed shortly behind her.

Upon arrival in Sweetie Belle's room Dim rolled out the orange sleeping next to Sweetie Belle's bed side. Since both of them were just kids they didn't change their minds about going to bed when they entered the room like most teens or older kids do.

"So... now what? We just sleep?" Dim asked.

"Well, yeah," Sweetie responded. "Actually we can still chat until we go to bed."

"Okay then, what do you wanna talk about?"

"Stuff," Sweetie said.

"What kinda stuff?" 

"Just stuff."

Dim wiggled into his large sleeping bag knowing that Sweetie Belle probably wanted to talk about something specific. Dim pondered on what she might want to talk about but he couldn’t make a final decision of what it could be about. After turning off the light and jumping into bed, Sweetie Belle spoke.

“Hey Dim, can I ask you a couple of questions?” she said a little cautiously.

“Sure, what’s on your mind?” Dim responded.

“What do you think Silver Spoon is gonna do?”

Dim chuckled, “Who knows, it probably won’t be that bad no matter what she does. She might even do nothing at all.”

“But what if she does something like, like… um, really bad like make us not see each other again?” She said as if even speaking about that would give Silver Spoon the idea.

“Sweetie Belle, nothing she could do could break us up. No threats or anything, she’s all bark and no bite. And even if she does go through with anything, I can handle it.” Dim said trying to calm down Sweetie Belle, hearing the worry in her voice.

Sweetie Belle was still a little worried, “But she said she would do her worst and she has money and money can do anything!”

“I don’t think she would go as far as what you’re implying, Sweetie Belle. Listen, lets see what she does first and then I’ll handle it.”

“We’ll.” she corrected.

“We’ll?” 

“Yeah, we’ll handle it. I don’t want you to go at it alone if it’s what I think it is.”

That made Dim smile. He didn’t expect Sweetie Belle to say something like that. Nopony ever said something like that to him, it was always just him in those situations. 

“Yeah,” Dim took a breath in, “we’ll handle it.”

“Okay, second question.” Sweetie Belle said with a little pride in her voice.

“Ask away,”

She hesitated for a moment. “C-can I sleep in the sleeping bag with you?” Her words fading as she said them.

Dim was a little shocked when she said this. “But didn’t Rarity say-”

“She said you can’t sleep in my bed, she didn’t say I can’t sleep in the sleeping bag with you though,” she said in a correcting tone.

“Don’t you think she would get really mad at us?” Dim knew he had no way out of this and he liked that.

“I don’t care.” Sweetie quickly said.

“I don’t have much of a choice, do I?” 

Sweetie jumped out of bed at the end of his sentence. She walked over to Dim and crawled into the sleeping bag after Dim scooched over. She immediately put him into a massive hug, one which he returned.

“Good night, Dim.” she said happily with a soft voice

“Good night, Sweetie Belle.”