//------------------------------// // What's So Amazing That Keeps Us Stargazing? // Story: Lazy Eye // by Peridork //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash had a problem. A rather minor one when compared to a lot of other friendship report type problems that seemed to pop up in Ponyville every week or so to fulfill Twilight's need to never be tardy on the Princess's demands. And Rainbow liked Twilight as a friend but after the whole Discord week followed by the Smarty Pants Incident- that egghead had to be a tad unstable. That's what living in a literal book fort does to the head. Rainbow wished she was in a book fort right about now. Better than being on cloud eight with a slight updraft towards cloud nine. Rainbow brushed her prismatic hair out of her face with a hand and tried to get comfortable in the bush that she was trying to hide in. Sure, it was not a great moment for sure. The girls would just lecture her about what she was doing was literal stalking. Not the 'I didn't plan for this restraining order' stalking, but the 'Rarity's favorite movies' kind of stalking. The romantic kind. Rainbow gagged even thinking about that term rolling around in her head. She quickly noted down to later try to wrestle Fluttershy's bear to erase that feminine thought in her head. It's not that she didn't enjoy a few feminine things but maybe she had been staying a bit too much at Rarity's Boutique lately. Rarity was so pushy with trying different clothes on her or something. Relax. Rainbow straightened out her clothes and fixed her hair. Being in a bush was hard. Being in a bush while the person you like is delivering a package with your name on it. That's much more difficult to keep calm and just be awesome. Rainbow Dash knew this as a fact- she had studied for her awesome degree in the college of awesome. Well okay. Maybe Twilight then said she got scammed by a computer quiz, but the principle of being the town guru in awesome and feeling butterflies in her stomach? Not cool. "You okay, Rainbow Dash?" The secret lady of her crush stared at her flustered face. And also slightly looked in another direction. Like people knew of the whole looking in different directions thing and just ran with it- people were accepting here in Ponyville. At least she hoped so. Rainbow hadn't heard of things that could be bad- and Ditzy was a nice person. Rainbow shook her mind to action. Especially since Ditzy had been just quietly standing and waiting for an answer. Dash just tried to act cool. "Yeah. Just you know out for a jog to keep in shape for the coming Wonderbolt tryouts. My whole flight skills are totally awesome but, uh, I heard they now have a running portion on the ground and since pegasi are light, I thought a good leg day or two in my normal routine can't be all that bad of an idea." "Yeah that's nice and all, but why are you in a bush?" Shoot. Think, think, think. "Well I tripped and fell into this bush right here and just got out now. You now do big deal." "That's pretty neat. Well I was just on my rounds around town and saw you and thought to myself that I could shave off the couple minutes it usually takes for me to get up to your house. I mean you somehow have a pretty awesome house for the whole weather position you have and all and while its a mansion compared to mine- I don't always enjoy lugging up some of your larger things you get." Derpy sighed and crossed her arms, her mailbag hanging limply at her side and her uniform snugly fitting over her. Rainbow Dash groaned. For two reasons and not just the one she wanted- first of all, yeah her family loved sending her care packages of some ridiculous sizes. And secondly, Rainbow Dash realized that she might like Derpy in uniform better than normal clothes. That or she liked Derpy's pout. She'd have to think about that later. "Oh yeah, sorry about that. I thought I told the delivery company to just not make mailmen deliver those to my house. Maybe I forgot. Well can I make it up to you somehow?" "I mean you could and all but I don't really mind that much. It let's me kind of quietly think about my day and usually because those are so heavy, I try to put it either the first or last delivery in the day. Makes it easier for me since its close to my house. And I like the whole look of those times of day with how the sun hits your house made of clouds and makes it like shine all around you." "Uh. That's great." "Oh sorry. Sometimes I get a little bit carried away with stuff like that but I'm free this weekend." "Oh. Okay. Where do you live anyway?" "Like a block away from Sugarcube Corner. It's in a good school district and really close to muffins. And I got a good price on it too." Rainbow blinked. "You do know there's more than just one- wait. You have kids! How is that possible?" "Well you know, the usual way. And yes I do, my two little muffins. Don't you have a kid Rainbow? I see one with you all the time." Rainbow blinked. Was that what the town thought of her and Scootaloo? I mean that's okay- Scootaloo never talked about her parents and Rainbow never asked. But Rainbow liked the kid and she needed a mentor to help her fly. It's not that weird. It can't be that weird. Celestia dang it, she was supposed to be a Wonderbolt in Training soon- not a surrogate parent. But why did she like the idea of raising Scootaloo? Oh no, she was becoming her mother and her mother was totally uncool. "Nope. Not related- I guess you could say we are more like awesome sisters not related by blood or something. No wait that doesn't make sense. I know. Its like a mentor program or something. That might be better to say." Rainbow breathed a sigh of relief as she regained her awesome card in her mind. "Oh that's just too cute. Oh shoot forgot I have to go get my muffin from school soon. My watch tells me so. See?" Rainbow blinked as she saw Ditzy hold up her arm and showed that she had a drawn on watch that always said that it was muffin o'clock. That had to be the most useless clock ever, but after opening up her own phone, Rainbow noticed that it was actually three pm. "How did you do that?" "Oh a lady has her secrets, Rainbow. Here's your package though. My boss would be so mad if I forgot one. He'd be all 'Ditzy I told you to deliver all the packages. No bonus for you' and that totally would be bad. See you tomorrow, Dash." And with that Derpy flew off in a spiral pattern, her eyes making it a bit more dangerous to fly in a straight line but not bad enough to make it impossible. Then Dash realized that she had a date for tomorrow with Ditzy. Staring at the care package in her hands, she had an even worse thought. Did this mean that her mother helped her break the ice with the person she liked? That had to mean that she had lost some awesome points but maybe it wasn't that bad. Though she was surprised that Ditzy had two kids. She looked Rainbow's age. Her mind boggling with possibilities, she turned to the next best pony to ask for romantic advice- Twilight. Maybe she would get the whole mess she was in. That or she would know Cadance's phone number. What's the worst that could happen anyway?