The sun gleamed over the horizon as morning arrived to Equestria. Creo was still sleeping on the bench in the park, and continued to sleep during most of the morning. Creo woke up a short time before noon. He yawned and stretched his legs, and he turned around so he was sitting on the bench upright. He rubbed his eyes with his front hooves. "Yawn...I can't say that was my best night's sleep," he looked around at the other parts of the park, and he smiled. "But it is nice to wake up to such a nice day," Creo got off the bench and began walking through the park. He passed by other ponies who had already woken up and were out enjoying the day, which made him happy to see everypony having fun. "What a pleasant town this must be to live in; it makes me wish I had grown up here instead. Ooh! That's something I could use in another one of my stories!" Creo then used his magic to take his quill, an ink bottle, and a scroll out of his saddlebag and wrote down his idea. Creo looked happy after he had finished writing down his idea, but then his smile went away. "No, no..." he said as he shook his head. "I'm not supposed to be thinking about work right now, or else I'll be right back where I started," Creo rolled up his scroll and put it back in his bag along with his quill and ink bottle. He began walking through the park once more. "What I need to do is do something to get my mind off of work. But what?" Creo pondered this idea. "Maybe somepony in town could help me. But who?" Suddenly, Creo heard a noise above his head. A noise that sounded like something quickly flying over him. He looked up, and saw a rainbow trail that zipped over his head, which surprised him greatly. "What is that??" He watched the rainbow trail continue until it stopped at the other end of the park. After it had stopped, Creo could see that it was Rainbow Dash who made the trail. "Oh, it's Rainbow Dash!" Creo's eyes then widened with shock. "Oh my gosh! I can't believe I forgot about her!" Creo exclaimed as he put his hoof on his face, embarrassed. "Well, maybe she can help get my mind off of work," he said as he took his hoof off his face. "She did seem pretty cool to me when I first met her. I'll go ask her!" Creo took off and ran towards Rainbow Dash, who was still hovering in midair. "Hey, Rainbow Dash!" he shouted when he got close enough.
Rainbow Dash heard his shouting and looked around in front of her to see where the voice came from. She then turned around and saw Creo running towards her on the ground. "Oh, hey! Creo!" she exclaimed excitedly. She then flew down and landed on the ground as Creo ran up to her. "I haven't seen you since yesterday! It's really awesome to see you again!" she then eagerly lifted out her hoof to do a hoof-bump with Creo.
Creo paused for a moment, then shook her hoof, thinking that was what she wanted to do. "It's great to see you, too, Rainbow!"
Rainbow's face lost its happy eagerness. "Umm, thanks," she replied. She then stopped shaking Creo's hoof and looked at her own. "You know, Creo, I didn't actually want to shake your hoof."
"You didn't?" Creo asked, slightly surprised.
"No, I wanted to do a hoof-bump!" she said as she lifted out her hoof towards Creo and hoof-bumped the air in front of him, then put her hoof back down on the ground.
"I've never heard of that before. How exactly do I do it?"
"Don't worry, I'll show you to do one right," she said proudly. "Now, just do what I just did. Hold out your hoof like this," she held out her hoof in the "hoof-bump" position.
"All right," Creo lifted out his hoof the same way Rainbow did.
"Okay, now we do a hoof-bump!" Rainbow then bumped her hoof into Creo's, then set her hoof back down on the ground, as did Creo. "And that's how to do a perfect hoof-bump," she said proudly.
"Thanks, Rainbow Dash!" Creo said gleefully. "That was pretty cool! I'll make sure to try it out more often!" he said as he winked.
"Awesome!" Rainbow then lifted out her hoof to do another hoof-bump with Creo, as it was a force of habit for her. Creo then lifted up his hoof and they both hoof-bumped each other simultaneously, making them both happy, especially Creo since he did it right this time. After that, they both put their hooves back down on the ground. "So, what's up, Creo?"
"Oh, not much right now."
"Have you been enjoying Ponyville much?"
"Yes, actually!" he replied happily. "I've been having—"
"Oh, really?" Rainbow responded in a condescending way. "Because, as I remember, after we first met you got carried away by Rarity, looking pretty freaked out about going to the spa," Rainbow laughed.
"Hehe...yeah..." Creo chuckled nervously while looking around. He then shook his head a tiny bit and regained his composure. "Well, it actually wasn't so bad once I tried it, even though I did feel pretty scared to try it out of fear of being mocked," he said sadly.
Rainbow looked sad but empathetic for Creo, then she smiled warmheartedly and placed her hoof around Creo's neck. "Don't worry about it, Creo. If you can believe it, I've been scared of being at that place, too."
"Really?" Creo asked, surprised.
"Yeah," Rainbow nodded. "I'm not exactly much of a 'spa pony'. It just seems so—nyehhh," she murmured with her tongue sticking out.
"Yeah, that's pretty much how I felt at first, but I really do enjoy it now. Sorry of that makes me not so cool..." Creo said sadly, lowering his head a little bit.
Rainbow then looked sad, as she felt bad for unintentionally making Creo feel bad. "Well, I'm not too big a fan of that place, but it's cool if you like it, Creo," she said as she pointed at him with her right hoof and smiled.
Creo looked at Rainbow Dash, and he smiled. "Thanks, Rainbow Dash. I think you're cool for thinking it's cool that I like the spa," he said as he pointed at her with his left hoof.
"Thanks, Creo. I am pretty cool, aren't I?" she said smugly as she took her hoof off of Creo, turned to the right, and placed her right hoof on her chest.
Creo chuckled. "You sure are, Rainbow Dash. In your own special way."
Rainbow's face than became blank, her eyes widened, and her pupils got smaller. "What exactly do you mean by that?" she asked in a slightly upset tone as she turned her head towards Creo.
Creo looked a bit frightened by her sudden change in tone. "Well, Rainbow Dash, I just meant that you're cool in your own special way, like with your other friends."
"But you don't know any more about them than you do about me!"she said in her same slightly upset tone.
"Actually, I do," Rainbow looked quite puzzled, so Creo decided to elaborate. "You see, I visited each of your friends at their homes, and spent much time with each one so I could become better friends with them. That's how I learned more about them, and that's how I found out about each of their special qualities," Rainbow's face looked blank as she listened to Creo. "So, when I say you're cool in your special way, I mean it the same way as I do for all of your friends," Creo then lowered his head in sorrow. "I'm really sorry I upset you by not telling you that. I wasn't thinking about it at all..." Creo said sadly as he hung his head lower and closed his eyes.
Rainbow Dash then looked sorry herself for making Creo feel even worse than before. "Hey, Creo, don't feel so bad about it. If anypony should be sorry here, it's me," Creo opened his eyes and looked up at Rainbow Dash. "I just got upset because of my whole thing of acting like I'm better than everypony else. I'm really sorry," Rainbow said with a sorrowful look on her face.
Creo looked sorry himself as well, but then his frown changed to a smile and he walked up to Rainbow Dash and placed his hoof around her neck. "It's okay, Rainbow Dash. I'm not upset with you."
Rainbow looked at Creo. "You're not?" she asked, sounding a bit surprised.
"No, not at all," he said as he shook his head. "You're much too cool of a pony for me to get upset with; especially since you cared how I felt."
"Really??" Rainbow replied, sounding a lot happier already.
"Yes," Creo said contently as he nodded. "Caring about how I felt, in my opinion, makes you much cooler than you already are," Creo looked at Rainbow, and could see she was already looking a lot happier, so he decided to try and make her feel even better. "In fact, it makes you plain awesome!" he exclaims as he throws his front legs in the air, then gets back down on all fours.
"Thanks, Creo," Rainbow said happily, feeling 100 percent better. "You're a really awesome friend," she said as she put her hoof around his neck.
"Thanks, Rainbow Dash," Creo said as he put his hoof around Rainbow's neck at the same time. "And speaking of awesome, there's one more really cool thing about you that I've noticed."
"Seriously??" Rainbow replied mostly ecstatically, eagerly wanting to hear what Creo was going to say.
Creo nodded. "You see, the especially cool thing about you that I see is that you know how to be cool, but you're also very nice on the inside. I'm sure there are a lot of ponies who prefer being only cool over being nice, but you do both. That shows what a great friend you are, and what an awesomely cool pony you are, too!" he exclaimed as he took his leg off of Rainbow's neck and threw his front legs up in the air again.
Rainbow was smiling the whole time she listened to Creo, as she really liked what he said about her; and when he finished with those last words, she blushed a little. But then she realized she was blushing, and stopped doing it immediately. "Woah, that was weird," she thought to herself. "Why did I do that?" She thought about this for a little bit, but then decided to just forget it. She then looked at Creo again, and smiled at a new idea that just came into her head. "You know, Creo," Creo was back down on all fours when Rainbow talked to him, and he turned his attention towards her. "Since you've been so cool to me, I want to show you something."
"Really?" Creo said ecstatically. "What is it?"
"I'll show you," Rainbow looked around. "But not here. Follow me," Rainbow motioned with her hoof for Creo to follow her, and the two left together.