Soarin had a smile on his face when Dash apologized. He put his hand on Dash's right cheek and kissed her. Dash's eyes widened and she said to herself, "Maybe his confession was true after all."
Soarin broke the kiss and hugged her. "I forgive you. I promise," he told her. "The second thing is this: I'm sorry for accidentally blurting out my confession yesterday. I was really, really nervous and thought you might kill me for saying it," he continued.
"It's...alright. I won't kill you... And to tell the truth I actually...um," Dash said in a quiet but audible tone.
"You actually what?"
"Iactuallyhaveacrushonyoueversincewebecamefriends," she said quickly.
Soarin's eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He asked her, "Is it true?"
She nodded slowly in response. She sat down and began crying again. Soarin sat down beside her, grabbed his handkerchief and wiped her tears. He kissed her cheek, which made her blush, and hugged her like he was her teddy bear.
"So, is it official?" he asked.
Dash looked at him and said, "What do you mean?"
"You know, us."
"Oh. As friends or romantically?"
"Both."
"As friends, yeah. As romantically..." Dash stopped for a while and thought. "I-I-I'm not so s-s-sure yet."
"How come?" Soarin asked. Dash remained silent. "Let me guess: it's your first time, isn't it?
Dash's jaw dropped. She asked him, "H-how did you know?"
Soarin shrugged. "It was quite obvious. You remained silent when I asked you." He rested his hand at the back of her right hand. "It's alright. It's actually my first time also. Let's go through it together, okay?"
Dash remained silent for a moment. She rested her head on his shoulder and said, "Okay."
"What are we gonna do to Spitfire and Fleetfoot? Are they still your best friends? And should we tell Principal Cadence?"
"First answer: report them. Second answer: let them face the consequence. Third answer: yes."
The bell rang ending lunch and Dash hung her lunch bag at her shoulder and said to him, "Maybe at dismissal?"
"Yeah. Let's go. We might be late at our next classes," Soarin said and they left the rooftop going to their next class which is geometry for Dash and physics for Soarin.
"Dash! Wait up!" Soarin called her.
Dash looked at Soarin when he called her. "I am, you idiot," she told him.
"My bad." Soarin gave her a smile. "And I thought we were gonna report them to Principal Cadence."
"We are."
They reached Principal Cadence's office and they told her about the incident from a few days ago.
"May I see or hear the evidence, please?" Principal Cadence asked. Soarin let Principal Cadence listen to the voice recorder of his phone. "So Rainbow, which between the two do you think had this plan?"
"I don't know, ma'am. But I think Spitfire is the one who came up with this plan," Dash replied.
"Hmm.... I will try to talk to the both of them seperately tomorrow. Dismissed," the principal told them.