“Getting inside was supposed to be the hard part?” Rumble said as the two roamed the halls hand in hand.
“It was to me, but then again i was by myself before.” Scootaloo said.
“Well your not alone anymore,” Rumble booped Scootaloo’s nose, “get used to it.” Scootaloo smiled in response and giggled adorably. Rumble smiled back.
“You know...i’m really glad i came out tonight. I was nervous about it at first.” Scootaloo said.
“You? Nervous? If anypony was nervous about tonight, it was me.” Rumble scratched his head.
“Really? Am i that hard to talk to?”
“No not at all. It’s my fault for not being able to talk to any attractive mares and since you're beautiful, it doesn't help my case.”
“Oh? How beautiful?” Scootaloo smirked devilishly
“Well, where do i begin? On a scale from one to ten, you would be a twenty. Your looks always leave me wondering if i’m stuck in a dream and you have inner beauty too. As long as i’ve known you, you’ve had this welcoming attitude and determined spirit. Every minute i’m around you i can feel my entire day getting better. I could go on and on.” Rumble looked down at Scootaloo with a smile. His answers must have been more than satisfactory because that devilish smile was replaced with a quivering lip and tears forming in her eyes. Suddenly she hugged Rumble and held tight. tighter than she had ever hugged anypony. Rumble hugged back.
“That is the nicest thing anypony has ever said to me.” Scootaloo said.
“And i meant every word.” Rumble replied and wiped Scootaloo’s tears of joy from her face. The two stayed in each others arms for a while before entering an area where the movies were being shown. The first movie entrance read Monstrous Mares 2, The Relocation. Rumble gulped nervously he hated horror movies. You might say he had a bad experience when he was a little colt. His older brother, Thunderlane, found a mask of one of the super zombies involved in the movie and proceeded to scare, surprise, and startle little Rumble every chance he could for two weeks in a row. Thunderlane jumped out of closets, from behind curtains, even from under his bed. That was probably the worst thing to a colt his age.
“Lets go see that one!” Scootaloo broke Rumble’s train of thought.
“Why uh why that one...exactly?” Rumble tried to hide his fright but was failing.
“Monstrous Mares is my favorite movie series. What are yah, scare?” Scootaloo teased
“N...no. It’s just that i have uh already seen that one. Yeah, that.”
“Please please please Rumble?” Scootaloo began to plead. As she was pleading her voice began to sound really sweet to Rumble’s ears. Her eyes almost had sadness in them and that made Rumble feel really bad for being afraid. Why should he deny his marefriend anything?
“Okay. I guess i could sit through it one more time for you.” Rumble answered. Scootaloo jumped for joy.
“Thank you so much Rumble.” Scootaloo kissed Rumble on the cheek and headed speedily into the movie room. Rumble blushed and followed at a less-than-eager pace.
His wings always straightened when she kissed him. Do you have any idea how hard it is to hide a wing boner? Not to mention how hard it is to sit down with all the hard bending going on. The whole ordeal made for a long ten minutes or so.
Scootaloo had rushed to the front row and by the time Rumble caught up, she was already in a seat with one saved for him. Rumble was still a bit ‘straight’ at the moment so shuffling past ponies and sitting down took some doing. Once he was in his seat, or at least situated around the seat, he remembered his main problem. The movie was about to start and he was starting to shake.
“Oh celestia! I hope that Scoots doesn’t notice this. Last thing i want to do is look even dumber in front of her.” Rumble was pretty sure Scoots was gonna notice but he would try to play it off anyways. The room became as dark as Luna's flank and the title showed brightly on the screen. In a few seconds it faded and the movie Rumble dreaded began.
Thirty minutes in. So far so good. Rumble had a couple false alarms but he hadn't been truly scared anytime. His hands were still diggiing into the arm cushion on the seats but he was for the most part ok. He just kept telling himself it is worth it, it is worth it. Suck it up for her. Rumble glanced over to see the most joyful smile on Scootaloo's face. That smile kept him going most of all. But he couldn't shake this one question: why was she smiling? The movie was currently the most graphic movie in Equestria with no budget for special effects. It was so gorey in fact that Rumble almost puked a couple times.Scoots must really be enjoying herself.
Fifteen minutes later and Rumble was starting to remember why he was terrified of this movie. That main antagonist i spoke of earlier was basically a super zompony with no lower jaw and a broken neck. The characters referred to him as Harken. Harken just got done hunting and killing two survivor ponies, a mare pegasus and a unicorn colt no older than twenty. The way Harken ripped them apart made the entire theater exclaim "eeeeugh!". Scootaloo, however, didn't even flinch just watched in amazement. Rumble was so scared he was shaking uncontrollably. Every sound became danger in one way or another. A random pony chewing his popcorn too loudly turned into a zompony chewing up the bones and flesh of a survivor pony, a ringing cellphone was a city wide alarm. All these things put Rumble in a severe state of paranoia that made his eyes dilate. Scoots looked over for a sec at Rumble and back to the movie but back to Rumble when she noticed the terror in his almost violet eyes.
"Rumble...are you okay?" Scoots' words broke his trapped state.
"Huh? Oh yeah....im...im ok." Scoots could tell he was lieing.
"We can leave if you want."
"No no no. Im fine Scoots, t...trust me." Scootaloo found it sweet that Rumble was willing to go through this much stress just so she could have a good night. She leaned toward Rumble and kissed him on the cheek.
"Calm down, ok?" The shaking had stopped the moment Scootaloo's lips hit his face.
"Yeah. I can do that." Rumble sat back in his seat for once not gripping the armrests for dear life. Scootaloo rested her head on rumbles shoulder and from then on, during the movie, nothing scared him. Nothing would force him to jolt while Scoots was so close to him. That movie stopped scaring him for good that night.
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"That was THE best movie in the entire series!" Scootaloo shouted excitably as she did a backflip in the air.
"It was OK." Rumble replied
"How would you know? Your face was buried in your wings the whole time."
"Oooh harsh Scoots."
"I'm just yanking your feathers. I really did have a great time." Scootaloo held Rumble's hand.
"Me too Scoots...me too." Rumble kissed Scootaloo sensually for a minute and began the walk home, hand in hand. Neither of the two wanted to fly because they didn't want the night to end to soon.
The two reached Scootaloo's house a short time later. They each let out a sigh.
"Well here we are." Rumble said with a fake smile on his face.
"Yeah...truth be told, i'm kinda sad."
"The night had to end eventually..."
"Your too great Rumble! I don't want to be alone in my room after the fun we had together." Tears where starting to form on Scootaloos face. Rumble wiped them away gently.
"Hey don't think like that. I will see you at school tomorrow and ill never let you be alone. We have all the same classes remember?" Scootaloo had forgotten but she cheered up thinking about it all.
"I actually forgot that...now i feel stupid." Scootaloo tried to hide her face but Rumble quickly grabbed her around the waist and kissed her deeply. This kiss was a way of making Scoots feel better so it meant more than the other kisses. When he released Scoots face was pretty red. She didn't expect Rumble to get so forceful all the sudden so it took her a sec to realize her wings were really stiff. Rumble giggled and Scoots put her back close to the door.
"Ill see you tomorrow Ok?" Rumble exclaimed with a smile as he turned around to leave.
"Yeah. Totally."
"Good." Rumble smiled widely and brightly then flew off.
Scoots headed straight to her room ignoring any words that might have been spoke to her by her family. She slammed onto her bed stomach first cuz her wings were still stiff and muttered to herself in a longing tone. That colt.