You did Something to make Her Love You
Chapter Three
By MixA4
Another Wednesday, another crappy Doctor's Academy meeting to sit through during lunch, thank God it's over. You head down the hallways toward the Cafeteria, glancing at your watch just before walking inside.
"Leave it to a Doctor's Academy teacher to drone on for thirty-seven minutes about renewing your CPR cards..." You mutter, annoyed because you've almost pissed away another lunchtime. "If I really book it, I might have just enough time to-"
"Blu!" Rainbow Dash stops you halfway to your destination.
"Oh, hey Dash!" You feel a tinge of happiness when you see her. So much for having to book it.
"Where were you?" Her expression seems a bit hurt. "I was a bit worried when I couldn't find you today!"
Worried? About you of all people?
"I have to attend a Doctor's Academy meeting every Wednesday during lunch," You explain. "It unfortunately tends to take up most, if not all, of my lunchtime."
Rainbow Dash relaxes a bit, but still seems slightly sad.
"Oh, well I was wondering if you wanted to come and sit with me again?"
"I'd love to, sorry I couldn't be here sooner." Rainbow Dash brightens up and leads you to a table where her friends are seated. As you approach the table, you're met with a warm greeting by Dash's friends. Despite having only known these people for a little more than 48 hours, you can't help but feel a sense of acceptance around them.
"Nice of you to join us again, Blu." Applejack says.
"For a minute, we thought you found other friends to spend your lunch with." Sunset Shimmer comments.
"Nah, I had a Doctor's Academy meeting. Every Wednesday, the group meets together for almost an hour to waste everyone's time."
"Sounds delightful." She replies rather sarcastically. You shrug.
"If certification and fundraising are your thing, then I'd guess so." You say. "But anyways, what did I miss?"
"We were talking about how Pinkie is hosting a school wide dance this weekend." Sunset Shimmer says.
"Sounds fun." You lie. Honestly, you've never really cared for dances, especially not ones held by the school. You'd go if you were asked out, but it is not something you'd go to on your own decision.
"It's going to be so much fun! We're going to have music, streamers, cupcakes, punch, and so much more!" Pinkie Pie's talking is almost too fast paced for you. "Plus it's a Sadie's dance, it's always fun to place a new spin on an idea, wouldn't you agree? Are you going to go?"
"I-I don't know, I don't even have someone to ask to the dance." You reply.
"That's the fun of the Sadie Hawkins Dance! You don't have to ask anyone!"
"Yeah, right." You say, still unsure of the entire idea.
Pinkie Pie continues rambling on about this Sadie's Dance, but you wind up just tuning her out. It could partly due to the fact she's talking so fast, you can't understand her. The whole time she's talking however, you catch Dash staring at you several times. You notice her eyes seem to spark a bit when she looks at you.
Soon, what's left of lunch ends, and you head off to your second-to-last class.
"Dammit, Blu! How do you always forget your locker combination?" You mutter quietly, jerking on the lock with no resolve. "What are you going to do when you become a Paramedic? Forget where you left your patients?"
"Hey Blu!" Rainbow's voice tears your attention away from your lock.
"Oh, hey Dash," You reply, still fidgeting with the lock.
"How's my big, strong paramedic doing?"
Instantly, you forget what you were doing.
"W-wait, what?" You turn to Dash, she's standing there with a big, cute smile on her face, a minor blush is apparent under her eyes.
"What?" She asks, smiling bigger. "Aren't you my big, strong paramedic?"
Big, strong paramedic. The phrase feels adorably wrong to you. It's cute, but it sounds as though it shouldn't be said.
You fight the urge to start smiling like a moron, but it only serves to make your screw up your face further. You feel the heat of a blush for on your cheeks.
"I, uh, didn't exactly think that was the case." You stammer, searching for words that seem nonexistent. Dash giggles.
"Well you are, don't forget it!" She says. The bell for your next class rings, prompting you to hurry up and get your books for your next class.
"I gotta go to my next class, I'll see you later Blu!" Dash waves to you as she walks off to her next class. As you watch her disappear through a mass of students, you suddenly remember your locker code.
Three, thirty-one, eighty-three
Click! Your lock pops open with minimal resistance. You open your locker, almost getting caught off guard by the wave of papers and books fighting to escape your atrocious locker.
"That girl is giddier than a rat in a cheese shop." You recognize that accent. Behind your locker door, Applejack leans against a locker, her arms crossed.
"Who? Dash?" You ask, still trying to contain the natural disaster of your locker. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, she's got eyes for you, sugarcube. She likes you."
"Likes me? I'd really doubt that, especially from someone like Rainbow Dash."
"I don't know, the way she's been staring at you, talking to you, it's no secret that she acts much differently around you than any other person in the school. I've known that girl for almost seven years and I've never once seen her act the way she does around you."
"But we're just friends, though. On top of that, why would she like me? I'm in no way athletic like she is, and outside of the medical field I don't really have any discernible traits."
Through all of your shuffling in your locker, a small, nondescript hardback book falls out of the locker, knocking you on the head before falling to the floor. Your eyes widen in horror as you recognize the shape and color of it.
Applejack picks it up and reads the cover.
"The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Reproductive Systems?" She does not seem amused. You swipe it out of her hands and jam it into the locker.
"Purely for research purposes, I swear!" You say, feeling heat surge to your face.
"Uh huh." She replies. You can't tell if she's believes you or not. "Look, my point is, she really likes you, a lot in fact. I don't know why, or how, maybe you did something to make her love you, but she does."
Thinking back, you start to realize how she has been acting around you. To say the least, it's odd.
"Well, then what do you propose I do about it?" You ask.
"Well, the way things are going, you may not have to do anything."
"I won't?"
"Dash is not the type of girl to just let something go. She'll probably end up asking you out."
A brief moment of silence passes. You spot the book you were looking for and rip it out, shutting the locker in the process.
"I suppose I should ask if you even like her back?" Applejack asks.
"Do I like Rainbow? Well I mean, she's really beautiful, and her athleticism can certainly be appreciated." You freeze, looking for an appropriate phrase. "I'd guess this is all just so unbelievable because no one like Dash has shown interest in me before. It's kind of new to me."
Applejack says nothing; instead she looks right into your eyes, as if looking for any trace of a lie. Another moment passes, before she finally smiles.
"Well, I suppose Dash has found who can treat her right." She turns and starts heading down the now nearly deserted hallways. Before rounding a corner, she calls back to you one last time. "Just make her happy!"
Your last class is entirely occupied with thoughts of Dash. Thankfully it was a lecture session because the only thing you could really focus on was the mental recording of Dash calling you 'her paramedic' and your recent conversation with Applejack. Eventually, the school day draws to a close, and you're walking your usual route back home.