Chapter 3: Feelings Unfold
It's been around two months since Rainbow Dash and Musa's encounter. Musa felt a strange feeling curl up inside her grow ever so slightly each time they met. She didn't quiet understand the strange feelings. She even didn't have an explanation for it other than she is sick, but that's not possible... Her head soon felt like it was spinning with all possible things that it could be.
"Musa...? Musa? Musa!" A voice brought her back to Ponyville. She looked to Rainbow Dash, and a small pain on her rum started to form from the wooden bench they were sitting on.
"Sorry...what?" Musa asked, worried for how long Rainbow was waiting for her to snap back into reality. She totally stared off into space while she and Rainbow Dash were having a nice stroll, and relaxing.
" ' You okay?" Rainbow questioned, a little worried. Musa was staring at the small pond for a few minutes, blinking maybe a few times and fidgeting slightly at her head.
"I'm fine. Sorry, I didn't mean to worry you." Musa smiled nervously, noticing she was out of it for a while.
"Good, I'm glad." Rainbow Dash replied, putting her right hand on top of Musa's head and giving her a small noogie. "Don't scare me like that again...okay?"
"Yes, I'm sorry again." Musa apologized. Her stomach turned ever so slightly, and she could feel her cheeks heat up. What is going on with me? she wondered. Rainbow Dash then tilted her head a little, worry came upon her face again. Musa looked to her, confused.
"You sure your okay?" Rainbow fretted.
"I'm fine, Rainbow. Why do you ask?" Musa reassured her, confused of why she was asking once more. She then felt Rainbow's hand slide down to her forehead. Her cheeks heated up like there was a small fire on them.
"Good, not hot." Rainbow observed and looked to Musa with a smile. "Your cheeks were really red...so, I was worried." she then explained, taking her hand back up to noogie Musa once again. "Stop scaring me." she joked.
"I said I'm sorry!" Musa giggled, though inside she felt stupid, but confused. Why was she having these feelings? Why was her cheeks heating up so quickly? Rainbow Dash smiled.
"What do you want to do now?" she asked, leaning her head on her hands, her elbows rested on her lap.
"Hm..." Musa thought, she was enjoying their time together, but her butt was aching to get off the hard bench. "Want to walk somewhere? Maybe around the park?" Musa advised. Rainbow thought for a while, but then it seemed like she got an idea.
"How about we go watch a movie?" she offered, "It'll be on me."
Musa thought about it and then smiled, "That would be great. What movie?"
"I heard that the first Daring Do book was in film...Want to watch that?" she questioned, looking to Musa for her answer.
Musa pondered upon it, she did like the first Daring Do book, and there was nothing else she wanted to watch... "Yeah, that would be great!" Musa approved and the girls set off to the movie theater. The small feeling once again came up in her stomach as they neared the theater. What is going on? Why...what is this feeling I'm having? she thought as Rainbow purchased the tickets.
"Want popcorn Musa?" Rainbow Dash wondered; Musa looked to Rainbow.
"Popcorn sounds fine, Rainbow." she smiled, as a small heat built up in her cheeks. Through that one feeling, she automatically knew what was going on...But, it couldn't be! Why would she, Music Beats, like girls? And why would she like...no, not like...This is stronger than like, she like liked her best friend Rainbow Dash!
It was around a minute later when Rainbow came back with two popcorn buckets and two sodas. "The sodas were free if you bought this size, so I decided to get you one too...I hope you like Coke."
"I do!" Musa responded, taking her popcorn and soda as the two walked to the room. "How did you guess?"
Rainbow shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know...I just guessed." they made it inside and picked seats that were around the center of the screen, and just far enough to look straight at the huge screen. Just when they sat down, the lights dimmed and the advertisements started. "Stupid advertisements..." Rainbow Dash snapped quietly.
Musa softly giggled, "Well, how else would new movies get popular?" A grunt came from Rainbow, showing there was no comeback for Musa's remark. The show finally started and every pony quieted down. Around the middle of the movie, Musa moved her right arm to the arm rest, to go on top of another arm. She quickly moved it away and looked to Rainbow Dash. "Sorry." she quickly apologized.
Rainbow looked to her and smiled, "It's fine."
The movie finally ended and Musa and Rainbow Dash waited for the end credits, more so because Musa wanted to listen to the amazing music, and the other reason was to see if there were any spoilers at the end...but there wasn't any. The credits ended and the two made their way out of the room.
"What a great movie!" Musa exclaimed.
Rainbow smiled gleefully, "I loved the part where Daring Do swung in ..."
"And snatched the pearl right from their hands!" Musa finished with Rainbow Dash. The two looked to each other and laughed.
"We should do this more often!" Rainbow Dash smirked.
"When the next Daring Do movie comes out...Oh my gosh! I can't wait!" Musa announced. Rainbow laughed again, and Musa looked to her confused.
"Man, Musa. I haven't seen you this excited." Rainbow laughed. She was right, even thou she got excited when Rainbow did all her tricks. She was guessing that Rainbow didn't notice since she was flipping and spinning about.
"Hehe..." She nervously laughed, "Sorry." The two then left to Musa's house, and there the two said their goodbyes, even though they were going to see each other over the weekend at Pinkie Pie's party.