Maybe I'm Dreaming

by Night Flight


CH 20-Happy birthday!


“Happy birthday Rainbow!” said Soarin with a kind smile. After him others shouted, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”

I looked around myself. Those confetti, those happy ponies, that decoration… that was… that was… AMAZING!

All of those ponies… they all knew that, that day was my birthday. That was why I felt like I was mentally sick. I thought my family and friends and others had forget me and the most important day of my life but now… they were all there smiling at me.

I felt like a bulge was in my throat. It was amazing. I didn’t want to cry but… but… it was wonderful! I looked at Soarin. The stallion that caused all of these. I just felt that I should do something or at least I had to say something to him.

Wait…

Do something for him? Do what?

I couldn’t thank him by doing something unless…

I really wanted to do it but it was just so… girly and… and…

OK, I had to admit that I felt shy doing this but in the other hoof, I wanted to do it soooo badly. Anyways, it wouldn’t hurt just to try, would it? I mean, it was my first time after all and it was normal to be nervous.
Finally, I decided what to do with a voice in my head saying: ‘Next times it’ll be easier for you!’

I bite my lower lip and looked at Soarin who was looking at me with his warm smile that I really loved. I stared right at his eyes.

Something was in them that took all my doubts away. I didn’t know what it was but it truly was something… special. Very special. I smiled as I thought of the thing I wanted to do.

Without no more waiting, I put my arms around his neck, leaned in closer and…

KISSED HIS CHEEK!

I, Rainbow Dash, really, truly kissed Soarin! I blushed but I didn’t put my arms away from his neck. I hugged him tighter and said, “Soarin…you’re the BEST! Thank you.” Then I grinned and hugged him as tight as I could. Soarin how seemed was in the space for last few seconds, chuckled and hugged me back. My grin turned to a smile. “Thank you. Thank you so much,” I whispered.

I pulled away from Soarin and looked at him. He had the smile that I loved so much. “Anything for you.”

It was true that it was just a simple sentence but that 14 word sentence he said, made my heart like it was burning or… like I’ve just ended a huge marathon around Equestria. This little sentence made me feel super happy along with a strange feeling. Like… a good feeling of being loved by somepony… Well… not exactly, but it was something that I couldn’t put my hoof on it. Whatever it was it made me feel tingly and good.

At that magical moment, a song started playing and drew everypony’s attention:

It made them forget all about Soarin and I cause they all had started to sing the lyrics along with the singer.

As I stare at Soarin’s eyes and music was playing, I knew something was for sure. If I couldn’t figure out this feeling by listening to my heart, like what Spitfire said, then I had to have another conversation with Rares. But for that moment, I had a stallion who was staring at me and a beautiful song that was playing around us.

* * * * *

Soarin’s P.O.V.

I stare at Rainbow’s beautiful eyes as I thought about everything that had happened in the past few seconds.

I still couldn’t believe it. Rainbow Dash, the mare I fell in love with at the first look and then deeper by knowing her personality, the mare that I was ready to give my life away for, kissed me!

It just suddenly came out of nowhere that my mind was still filled of it. All I wanted was to grab her and kiss her deeply but unfortunately I couldn’t because of guests and the fact that I had to pretend that all my feeling toward her was just a simple crush.

She smiled at me while she was staring at my eyes. I smiled back and thought that it was time to break this gaze. “Don’t you want to say hello to friends?”
She broke her gaze with an awkward smile. “Yeah, sure. Let’s go.” I looked at her with one last smile as I imagined myself telling her, ‘I’ll make you all mine one day. I’ll make you feel the same way that I do my love…’

That was all till a very annoying voice shattered all of my imaginations…

* * * * *

Rainbow’s P.O.V.

“Look who’s here?! Hey fellow Soarin-teaser!” screamed a voice from above and it belonged to a certain happy Wonderbolt.

I looked up. “Hey Fleet!” I said with a smile toward her.

“Hey Rainbow. Happy birthday!”

“Thanks.”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop it there! Soarin-teaser huh?! Would you please don’t enter my fiancée into your crazy works?” said Soarin with a fake frown toward Fleetfoot.

In return, Fleetfoot poked her tongue out for Soarin. “Your dear fiancée was the one who give me the greatest details about you.”

Soarin rolled his eyes. “Whatever.”

I chuckled at their arguing. Instead of staying there and listening to them, I walked up to guests and greeted them.

It was truly wonderful! Everypony I’ve known for so long or just met were there. Such as Wonderbolts, my friends, my family, Soarin’s family, Cloudy’s family, my brother and speedy and some of citizens of Ponyville.

“HEY EVERYPONY!” called Pinkie. Everypony looked at her. She grinned at shouted, “LET’S PARTY!”

I rolled my eyes with a smile. ‘Typical Pinkie Pie’ I thought. Although her behavior was known for everypony, all of ponies there cheered as she turned the music on.

I walked to one of the couches as other ponies there gathered for a dance. I really wasn’t in mood for dancing. Maybe later… and with Soarin!

Just thinking about dancing with Soarin filled me with so much happiness. I’d danced with him before but it was just a party for Cloudy’s back to her family but this one, was the most important day of my life.

My birthday was always important for me and I always danced at it with the ponies that were truly important for me like my friends. Sharing a dance with a stallion that was important for me, and also not only any stallion but Soarin, was the best thing I could ever think of. Even imagining it was wonderful…

‘Soarin is staring deeply at my eyes and I’m staring at those endless pools of emerald. He’s smiling at me but I don’t see him. All I see is his eyes. His wonderful eyes… even his eyes are smiling at me.
‘We’re dancing to the slow, love song and although I don’t know anything about how to slow dance, Soarin is guiding me slowly and whispering the instruction in my ear.
‘I close my eyes and listen to his soft and firm voice which is like the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard. And as the music ends he leans closer and closer and…’

“RAINBOW DASH ARE YOU LISTENING TO US?!” A loud, angry voice pulled me out of my dreamland. I yelped and looked for the owner of voice.

‘Oh, dammit. I went into dreamland at wrong time again!’ I thought as I saw a super angry egghead who was glaring angrily at me. I gulped and smiling nervously. “Hey Twi!”

“Hi? HI? We’ve been talking to you for 5 straight minutes. Do you understand how idiot I felt when I asked for your opinion and you didn’t even bother to look at me?! WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU DOING?!” said Twilight angrily but her angriness fade away slowly as a mischievous grin formed on her lips. “Was he close to kiss you again?”

This time, it was my turn to get angry. “YES, AND IF YOU DIDN’T INTERRUPTED IT…” I quickly covered my mouth as I realized what I said.

My friends who were looking at me with wide eyes burst in laughter and I couldn’t do anything but blushing and frowning. I’d almost reveal one of my deepest secret to ALL of my friends. Before this, only Rarity and Twilight know it and then, all of them know about my crush on Soarin.

“HEY, STOP IT!” I shouted as my friends continued laughing.

Rarity grinned devilishly. “She’s right. Stop. By the way, don’t blame her. She was just thinking about her stallion.”

I frowned as a huge blush appeared on my face. “No it’s not this!” I said angrily. I wasn’t angry of Rarity or what she said because what she said was something that all my friend knew because of my accident comment. Well, not to mention that what Rarity said was completely true. I was mostly angry of myself for thinking about him at the wrong place.

“Oooooh! Look at her! She’s blushing!” said Applejack with a big grin. Her sentence only made me blush more and made others giggle.

“I SAID, STOP IT!” I shouted while I was frowning an also with my blush still on my face. If they didn’t stop right there, I would embarrass myself more and more. I knew that they won’t stop so it was my responsibility to change the subject. “So, what were you saying anyway?”

“Oh, we were just congratulating your birthday,” said Fluttershy.

“And asking if you wanna come and dance with us,” said Twilight after Fluttershy.

“But of course we all know that we all have to dance alone while you get to dance with your beloved body guard who turned out to be Soarin’s best friend darling!” said Rarity to Twilight with a smirk.

This time it was Twilight’s turn to blush and my turn to giggle at her. It was great that all of my friends were finding their loves slowly. Well, not all but at least Twilight and I did. Soarin wasn’t my love but at least we were engaged.

Thinking of Soarin being my love made me smile and daydream about him more. Fortunately this time I didn’t blush.

“OK now Rainbow, don’t go to your dreamland again!” said Twilight with a chuckle. I frowned at her. It was getting to good parts again! At least before Twilight interrupted AGAIN! Twilight giggled as she saw my frown and said, “I mean why daydreaming while the real one is right here?”

What? Since when Twilight was turning into a second Rarity? Nope! I just had to embarrass like she did, TWICE. “Oooooh! Twi, I hear new things from you today!” I said with a smirk.

Others helped me with their giggles and their loud “Oooooh”s! Twilight blushed. “It’s none of your business!” she said angrily.

“Ooooh, it is darling! I think it is effects of being with a royal guard darling, isn’t it?”

“NO, IT ISN’T!” said Twilight with a frown.

“Yep it is sugar cube!” said Applejack as she bounced her eyebrows at Twilight.

The embarrassed Twilight who was blushing hard, walked away while she was muttering something like, ‘I think it would be better if I go and spend my time with him than staying here!’

It just made our “Oooooh”s louder and after she went away we all burst in giggles.

As our giggles ended, Rarity looked at me devilishly. “OK, it’s your turn now!”

I stood up immediately. “No thank you. I’ll leave without humiliating!” I walked away from them and they’re loud “Oooooh”s followed me from behind.

When I got away from them I chuckled. Maybe sometimes they teased me like that, but we all know we didn’t mean any of them. Deep inside we were all happy that one of us was happy. It made all of us happy and that was why they were as close as sisters I never had.

However, I decided to go to where Soarin was. By the way, I didn’t have any other place to go. I found him talking to his best friend. The one that was Twilight’s secret love! But his friend walked away as I got to Soarin.

“Where did he go?” I asked Soarin.

He chuckled. “To meet his secret love!”

“Secret love?”

“Yeah. You know, your friend… I think it was Twilight Sparkle. Right?”

“Oh! Twilight?” I chuckled. “Just a moment ago I was thinking that what does Twilight’s secret love’s doing with you?”

Soarin smiled at me. One of those special ones. “Well, maybe we just have a lot of things in common with each other.”

I smiled. “Yeah. Maybe.”

“Hey, Rainbow?”

“Yeah?”

“Wanna dance with me?”

I grinned. FINALLY! He finally said it! I’ve been waiting for that since the moment I realized that party was for me. “YES! OF COURSE YES!”

“Hey, you look like I just ask you for marriage!”

“Well when you asked me for marriage I was so unsure about it that I didn’t even bother showing any excitement. You know, mostly because I wasn’t excited even a bit. But I did get excited afterward!”

Soarin chuckled. “Yeah. I wasn’t too happy about it that time too. I mean, it was kinda hard for me to kneel down in front of anypony except from princesses!” we both laughed. “It’s also the first time I ask a mare for dance.”

“Then what about last time?”

“Last time what?”

“Last time we danced.”

“I didn’t asked you for dance. It was Cloudy who throw us there! Don’t you remember?”

I giggled as I remembered the memories of our last dance. “Yeah, you’re right.”

“So… wanna dance now?”

“Sure. Let’s go!”

We walked to where everypony were dancing and waited until the song that was playing ended and next one started. We went to dance floor as soon as that song ended.

Some of ponies quitted dance floor and some entered. Twilight and her secret love were the ones that entered and because they were at the edge of dance floor, my friends welcomed them at the dance floor with a loud “Oooooh”! Twilight couldn’t do anything but glaring at them.

As soon as they saw me entering the dance floor they did they’re “Oooooh”s for me too. Dislike Twilight, I poked my tongue out for them.

But their last “Ooooh” seemed to drag more attention than last ones so when other ponies saw Soarin and I there, they cheered and clapped their hooves.

“OOOH! I HAVE TO FIND A SPECIALL SONG!” shouted Pinkie. After some minutes of searching through her songs, she finally picked one and let it play:

It was a beautiful song and it was good for a good dance. It was as if the singer was saying my feelings through the song and when song ended I couldn’t do anything but to smile. If anypony asked me what the best dance you ever had was, I would definitely say this was the most amazing dance I’ve had.

It was when I suddenly decided to go for another round of dancing with Soarin. It would be awesome if the next song and dance would be like that one.

“You still wanna dance?” Soarin asked me.

“Sure! What about you?”

“Of course!”

We waited for next song to start. What we expected was a good, happy song. A song that make you dance even if you don’t want to. But… the song that played was exactly opposite. It was a slow, love song. A perfect song for couples but for me… it was way too sappy.

In the other hoof, I was the one who told Soarin about another dance so I just couldn’t pull away and say that I don’t wanna dance anymore. Not to mention that I really liked to try it with Soarin.

“You still want to dance?” said Soarin with a smile. Not the kind of smile that wants to tease you. A warm smile which was saying, ‘If you want to dance I’ll be with you.’

That smile turned something in my heart on. Something that was never there before. When I looked at that smile, my heart was beating faster than any time before.

Once again, I felt like my cheeks grew hot. Typical sign of blushing. I was sure something was wrong with me. I never blushed or feel like this when I was around a boy. I just had to tell somepony about these new changes in me and I was sure that this time my heart can’t help with this.

I shook my head to clear the swirling thoughts in my head and blushed again. “Sooo…?” asked Soarin.

“Um, I really like to but I don’t know how,” I said while I was blushing.

Soarin smiled again. One of those special smiles. “I can show you if you want.”

I raised my head and saw him still smiling at me. One of his hooves was in front of me. I put my hoof on his and stared at his eyes with a smile. He pulled me toward himself and held me close. Then he told me to put my hoof on his shoulder. He put his hoof around my hoof too.

It was the first time I was so close to him. That only made me blush more but deep inside I know that I had to admit that I loved it and wanted it to last forever.

At that moment the song that was chosen by Pinkie, started with a soft tone. I didn’t usually listen to love songs but it truly was the most beautiful love I’ve ever heard:

Although my cheek was burning and as I expected a big blush was on my face but I was smiling.
Soarin was whispering the instruction in my ear and I was trying to do all of it correctly. At the same time I was resting my head on his shoulder and enjoying the tingling feeling under my skin and butterflies on my belly. It was exactly like what I imagined.

If it was up to me, I never wanted to leave where I was. I did knew if any of my friends see me in that way, they would tease me a lot but that wasn’t important. Who cared about them? The only important thing was Soarin and I.

Whoa…that was weird. Even weirder than the time I had crush on Soarin and I didn’t know. It was super weird and also better…

I had to have a talk with Rarity right after that dance. But for that time, I just wanted to enjoy the great dance with Soarin. A chance that I would never loose…

* * * * *

“RARITY! RARITY! HELP ME!” I shouted as I ran toward her.

She stood up from the couch she was sitting on. “WHAT HAPPENED?!! HAS A MAGICALL CREATURE CAME TO TOWN?! TELL ME, I WON’T PANIC!”

I laughed at Rarity’s frightened face. “No silly. I just need your help for one of… well… how I say?… one of… that things you know.”

“You mean, love problems?” asked Rarity with a smirk.

“Well… yeah. Kinda!”

Rarity frowned. “You pulled me out of my gaze just for such a thing?” I just looked at her confused. “I mean… come here and see!” I went to the couch she was sitting on and sat beside her. In front of her wasn’t much pony except Soarin and his friend. Twilight’s famous secret love!

“OK?”

“Just look at there.” She pointed to Soarin.

“Soarin?”

“Yes darling!”

“OK?”

“Don’t you think he’s so handsome and good-looking?” said Rarity with a dreamy tone but she was completely right.

I sighed happily and smiled. “Of course he is. There’s no stallion more handsome and good-looking than him in the world.”

Rarity seemed a little surprised by what I said. In fact I was surprised by what I said too! But what I told her was all true and from my heart. “Rainbow Dash, start now and don’t miss even a word,” said Rarity with a raised eyebrow.

“Start what?”

Rarity rolled her eyes and said, “Your love problem.”

“Oh… that! Well, things got much stranger since the last time we talked about these… stuff!”

“Like what kind of strange darling?”

“Well like you saw today, my daydreaming got more and more. Not to mention they’re getting more awkward every day. Last time I said I’m dreaming about Soarin, I just meant imagining him still with me when he wasn’t around but now, I daydream about… things that has never happen to me. The things I never experienced before.

“I can’t even control them like I used to. Sometimes I don’t even understand what other ponies say. Just like tonight. It happened to me TWICE.

“Also, I blush too much these days. I don’t know why but it just happens whenever Soarin’s with me. And before I forget, I don’t know why I wanna be with Soarin all the time. Rarity, they’re all making me crazy. I really want to stop it but it’s just IMPOSSIBLE!”

Rarity who was listening carefully to what I said tapped her chin as she thought deeply. Suddenly she grinned happily. “Don’t worry Rainbow, Dr. Rarity, the expert doctor of love problem will explain everything to you.”

“OK?”

“I think that your crush is not only deepened on him, but also started to go to a newer level.”

“Wait... do you mean I had fall for him?” I said with wide eyes.

“No, still not.”

“Then…”

“It’s just beginning of it. We no longer can call it a crush but it’s not love either. It’s something in between. You can call it… umm…”

“Hey, how about dashiefection? Oh, oh, oh, or something better! How about dashtuck? As in dashie in love stuck because that is what their current relationship is!” said Pinkie Pie who suddenly popped out of nowhere.

“Pinkie, darling, these aren’t words. But anyways, you were right about something. We can call it a kind of affection. Yes, I think you can call it that.”

“Thanks Rares and… thanks Pinkie, I guess.”

“No problem Dashie!” said Pinkie Pie as she bounced away.

“My pleasure Rainbow.” said Rarity as she started to walk toward a snack table.

At less than a minute, I was standing there with my own thoughts that most included Rarity. Like the last time, I wasn’t thinking about what Rarity advised me.

This time my thoughts were about the thing she said about Soarin. Why was she staring at Soarin for no reason? Last time, I didn’t get to think about too much cause I was so confused about my crush but this time I kinda expected this.

But I was sure about one thing. She wouldn’t mean it in that way. All of it had been gone away at the night of my engagement. She didn’t have feelings for him. I mean, it would so crazy if she had but I was so sure that she didn’t. No, she didn’t…