"So how'd last night go Soarin? What you get for me?" Spitfire asked once she and Soarin were in the sky together the next morning practicing for the Wonderbolt's next show coming up in a few weeks.
"I didn't get you anything because before I was caught I was busy dancing with the captains daughter and forgot all about your dumb dare." Soarin said.
"Wait a sec." Spitfire went out into the sky, gathered as many clouds as she could, cocooned them inside so not a lot of sound could get out and ....
"YOU WERE DANCING WITH THE ENEMY'S DAUGHTER AND THEN YOU REVEALED TO THEM ALL WHO YOU ARE?" Spitfire screams being muffled by the clouds.
"I didn't know who she was alright." Soarin returned, kicking the cocoon open and out of existence "It was a masquerade party remember."
"So... So how come you're here again now? Alive? And not a scratch or scar on you?" Spitfire asked taking Soarin's head and looking for injuries.
"Will you get off me?" Soarin asked pulling himself away from his cousin. "I don't know how I'm here alright," he said sorting out his hair "They let me go, only saying and I quote to: 'leave and never come back. Neither you, nor your flying group is aloud here. And don't you ever come face to face with our daughter ever again'." he said landing on a cloud and turned to face the Everfree Forest.
"Well... You know cuz," Spitfire said landing next to him "If you like her, for some crazy reason, then I'm not going to stop you trying to get to her. And to show how nice and loving and ...."
"What do you want?" Soarin asked sighing.
"A way out of dinner with Canterlot's hot head snobs at the party after the show we're doing this for in a few weeks." Spitfire said "But I wasn't doing this for that," she said getting Soarin's attention "I was going to say I'm not going to say anything about this to anypony. From you going and getting caught, to you dancing with their daughter."
"Thanks 'Fire" Soarin said smiling "And I'll see what I can do about Canterlot too... Now come on, even if you might not be there for the party, we all still have to go for a show."
And with that they set back off into the sky and practiced the show they would be doing, the best they could with Lightning Strike and Fire Blitz missing.
For almost the whole day Rainbow Dash stayed alone in her room.
All she came out for was to get new tubs of ice-cream. She wasn't even in uniform.
After the third time she did this, Fluttershy and Pinkie followed her back to her room.
"Ya?" Rainbow asked once she was on her bed tub open.
Fluttershy walked forward and placed a yellow and blue mask on the bedside table.
"Just because you can't see each other doesn't mean you can't remember him Rainbow." she said in her kind voice.
"Yeah remember how you were dancing with him and how obvious it was that you liked him and then he turned out to be the Wonderbolt Prince..." giving one of her exaggerated gasps Pinkie then said "This is just like that story that... um... Shakes Pony wrote about those two family's and the heirs fell in love and then they started meeting in secret and then the boy's cousin dies and then the girls cousin dies because of that then the prince gets banished, and then the girl fakes death so she could run off with him. But... He doesn't know she's faking it and kills himself, then she finds out and kills herself and everypony's dead!" she said panting eyes wide and nostrils flaring.
"What was that Pinkie?" Rainbow asked setting down the ice-cream getting an idea.
"This is just like that story that Shakes Pony wrote about those two family's and the heirs fell in love?" Pinkie asked.
"No after that."
"He doesn't know she's faking it and kills himself, then she finds out and kills herself and everypony's dead?"
"No before that. The... the thing right after the the heirs fall in love?"
"Oh... They start having secret meeting because that was the only way they could see each other." Pinkie explained.
"Oh but you can't do that Rainbow!" Fluttershy said seeing an idea zoom into Rainbow's mind at hearing this.
"How else will I get to see him Fluttershy?" Rainbow asked rushing into her closet and finding a hooded cloak.
"But... But you don't know where he lives, where to find him." she tried to add.
"We all know Wonderbolts live in Cloudsdale, and he said something about Ponyville when I asked him about his life last night." she said counting out some bits into a money bag.
"But... But..." Fluttershy said trying to think of something to stop her friend from leaving.
Suddenly as if Luna had heard her pares, a knock came to the door.
'Knock' 'Knock'
"Err... Come in," Rainbow said after hiding the mask away.
Skye Storm came in and pulled down her goggles so she could see Rainbow properly.
"Hey Dash," Skye Storm said "You feel better today? I'm going to pluck all the feathers off that Wonderbolt's wings. Thinking he can come here. During your birthday no less and then making you cry."
"Yeah I'm fine 'Storm," Rainbow said standing tall, showing she has the higher place in the family. "Nothing a few tubs of ice-cream, some friends, and some alone time in the fresh air away from the castle can't solve any way." she said.
"Well if you say so cuz," she said stepping aside to let her go first "But remember I'm here for you. You and Scootaloo are like sisters to me. And don't worry, next time I see him, I'll make him pay for what he did to you." And with that, Skye Storm took a different corridor letting Rainbow and her friends continue for the door.
"That was close," Rainbow Dash said as they continued. "So, first I'll check around Ponyville, and see if he is there, and if he does want to keep seeing me."
"But won't it just bite you in the tail Dashie?" Pinkie asked bouncing along. "I mean you're not really all that hard to not pick out. What if somepony sees you and they know it's Soarin too?"
"You're right Pinkie. Maybe Ponyville's not the best place then, unless...." At this she turned to Fluttershy.
"M... Me? Oh Rainbow no, I... I can't do it. I hardly speak to hardly any Shadowbolt's as it is, and now you want me to talk to a Wonderbolt for you?"
Finding the mask she wore last night still, for some reason, on the floor Rainbow got an idea.
"You don't have to talk to him 'Shy," she said flying over picking it up, then going to the burro and getting out some parchment, ink and a quill and wrote...
To Soarin, I'll be waiting to see you again in Whitetail Wood.
I'll make sure no one but my friends know I'm there, think you should do the same,
from R.D
After she finished she blew on it to dry the ink, rolled it up and slipped it on to the back of her mask. After packing the burro back up, she turned and flew back to Fluttershy holding out the mask.
"Just give him this."
"But... But... Ok." she said sighing taking the mask jumping a bit with shock at a sudden hug she was getting.
"Thank you Fluttershy," Rainbow said.
"You're welcome Rainbow." she said.