//------------------------------// // CH 35- The Start Of A New Life // Story: Maybe I'm Dreaming // by Night Flight //------------------------------// Another scream was heard from the fanfillies. Ugh! It was really getting on my nerves. What would they do if they saw Soarin himself? Probably they killed themselves! “The train can be here any second,” said Cloudy excitedly. A wave of excitement washed over and I grinned like a little filly. Was this really happening? It was just like a dream! Oh my gosh! What should I do? What should I say to him when he arrived? Should I call him? No, he wouldn’t hear my voice through this chaos. Or maybe I should… My thoughts were interrupted as Cloudy nudged me. I snapped back to reality and looked up to see why was she poking me? My question was answered as soon as I raised my head. There, in front of me was the train itself! My breath got hitched in my throat and my eyes widened. “When did it get here?” I asked with a surprised tone. “It arrived when somepony was busy daydreaming about somepony else,” said Cloudy with a wink. “I wasn’t dreaming about him,” I said with a frown and a blush. “Oh yeah? Well you’re face-” she begun but didn’t get to end her sentence. Instead she spoke in an excited tone, “Rainbow! Look!” (This is the background song for this part. Keep listening to it till the end of the part. I'll tell you where to stop.) I quickly turned my eyes to where the train was. Fortunately, I did that in the right time cause as I looked, I saw each Wonderbolts get off one by one, starting from Spitfire. After Spitfire, Fleetfoot stepped out with a smile. Then Rapid Fire and the other Wonderbolts. Well, all except from a certain stallion. I was almost losing my hope when I noticed a pair of very light blue hooves came out of the train. My head shut upward and I looked at him with wide eyes. There he was, standing there, just like a strong stallion that he was. He slowly started walking to the aisle we were standing at. All of the fanfillies started screaming as they saw him. To me, there was no sound around. All I could sense and see was Soarin, walking down the aisle just like when I wanted to ask him for autograph. My breath quickened as I saw him getting close and closer. A light blush appeared on my face as I watched him. With a light punch from Cloudy, I snapped out of the trance I was in and whispered, “Soarin…” Suddenly, I realized the situation. I was there, only a little away from Soarin. And he was there, after a long time and for the first time after I realized my true feelings for him. And the only thing I had to do was just calling his name. “Soarin!” I called louder. “SOARIN! SOARIN!” I shouted but he didn’t notice at all. He… got passed me and didn’t notice me. How could he?... No. Maybe he didn’t notice me. It was possible because there were all sort of sounds there. I had to do something else. Like… like… running toward him. That was good enough, right? I stepped closer to where Wonderbolts were passing but I was quickly stopped by the guards. “Ma’am, you can’t go further,” said one of the guards sternly. I looked at Soarin who was now signing a pony’s poster. ‘For Soarin,’ I said in my mind and made my decision. In a quick motion, even before two guards could stop me, I got past them and started to run after Soarin. Behind me, guards were shouting, “Ma’am, stop!” I didn’t care about them even a little and repeated the action I had done earlier. I shouted, “Soarin! Soarin!” This time however, Soarin stopped walking. Behind me, guards were still shouting and if I didn’t make a move, they would have caught me for sure. Soarin was about to turn around when I throw myself at him and wrapped my arms around his neck quickly. Tears came down from my eyes and I whispered, “Soarin…” Two guards who saw Soarin didn’t make a move, were about to take me off of him but suddenly a pair of very strong arms were wrapped around me and held me tightly. Soarin squeezed me tight to him and whispered, “Rainbow… I thought you’ll never come.” I said nothing and just lay my head on his muscular chest. Suddenly, somepony said, “Why are you two still standing here? We can’t all stand here forever you know!” It was Spitfire who said that with a smile. I looked around us in awe. The Wonderbolts were all surrounding Soarin and I so nopony, especially no paparazzi could catch us together. Soarin glanced at me and nodded. I nodded too and we both started flying fast to somewhere far away from the station and crazy screams. When we were far enough, he turned to me with a smile and said, “How do you feel about some walking?” “Awesome!” I replied happily. We slowly landed. Right as we landed, he extended his hoof and wrapped it around me. I blushed at the motion but smiled and accepted the side hug happily. I rested my head on his neck and let his heat warm both my body and heart. He led me through the town and to one place I knew very well; the shore. After a short time we arrived there. I wasn’t sure if the distance was really that short or just time seemed to pass by when we were together? Whatever it was, I was happy that Soarin and I were finally together because that was the real point. The shore and bay seemed just as I left it. Clean, beautiful, shining in the moonlight. The color of water always reminded me of Soarin’s mane. Maybe that was how I survived for such a long time. Whenever I felt like I needed Soarin beside me, I just went to the shore and talked to the bay as if Soarin was in front of me. (The end of background song) Soarin took a deep breath and smiled as he felt the fresh breeze. His smile crept my lips up too. Then, he looked me in eyes with so much emotion that was pouring from his eyes. But a feeling seemed brighter than all. That… strange look that I didn’t know the meaning of. Now… it seemed like something I knew. But… how? Was it really love I was seeing in his eyes? “I missed you so much,” whispered Soarin as he caressed my cheek with his hoof. I blushed instantly and tried to look anywhere but his eyes. I let out a sigh after few minutes. “So did I. I missed you much more,” I mumbled. “Well, now I’m here. You have to suffer me again,” he said with a chuckle. “That… sure wasn’t a good joke,” I said with a small frown. “And you-” I pointed to him. “-have a lot to explain.” “I’m fully ready to answer whatever you want. I deserve whatever you call me afterward. I really am a bad pony,” said Soarin with a serious tone and face. I’ve never seen Soarin this serious. I actually expected him to laugh and say that it was just a joke. But unfortunately he didn’t. “You’re joking, right?” I mumbled, hoping and praying that answer would be ‘yes’. “No.” All of the hope I had was gone with this simple word that came out of his mouth. “As I said, you have the right to know everything and ask whatever you want. So… go ahead,” he said. “Why don’t start with this? The mare you used to love,” I asked with a small frown. I just couldn’t help it. Thinking that another mare exists that had stolen his heart made me wanna look all over Equestria and kill that mare. “Saw that coming,” said Soarin with a weak smile. “So?” He sighed and said, “Guess I can’t run away this time huh? Well, it’s okay. I’ve been preparing for this for a long time anyway. Let me start from the very beginning. When I ended another boring show. Just like all of the other ones. I won’t bother you, I know you know what happened. “But I actually didn’t expect her to do this. She was unlike any other pony I’d ever seen. Unlike all of the Wonderbolt fans I’d seen. Instead of shouting she just said, ‘excuse me, could you please sign my paper please?’. She didn’t even noticed that she said ‘please’ twice! But that was the last thing that was on our minds. I was frozen by her beauty and she was waiting for her autograph. “After I gave the autograph to her, I said something that I thought I’ll never say. I wished that I could see her again. When I got to my teammates, they all said that I looked too happy and Fleetfoot teased me a lot but who cared? She was the most important thing! “My entire world was filled with beauty once she entered my life. In all of the shows, I performed the best I could and I waited the entire show and season just to see her. In return she appeared in any of the shows she could come to and waved at me. Although I really liked to go over there and hug her tightly, I couldn’t do anything but smile at her. “However, one day this beauty ended. She didn’t come to the show. Not that show not any other of them. I was heartbroken. I couldn’t do anything at all. I even wanted to kill myself! But at that moment what stopped me was her beautiful face that was smiling at me. “That day I realized something very important. I realized that I should repeat this action only when I was sure that she was actually taken. So I started to search all over the Equestria for her. That wasn’t that hard though. I knew that she only appeared on Ponyville and Cloudsdale shows so she had to live in one of these cities. I already lived in Cloudsdale and I’d never seen her around so most likely she lived in Ponyville. “Good thing was that I knew her name and it was my luck that absolutely every pony knew her. However, everything changed when I reached her home. I saw her brother. He was my teammate! One of my friends actually and that made it super hard to see her again. “I was literally shaking when I wanted to talk to him. I remember starting the topic with shaky words. Not to mention that his serious face didn’t help me either. But when I ended, I saw him looking at me with a smile. He told me that he had known this from the first place and that he’d help me make her mine. “From then on, I felt happiness came back to my life. But… I did something bad. I… lied to her. When her brother wanted to tell her about this, I made his wife lie. I… felt really bad. She had the right to choose whoever she wanted but she was forced to be with me. “At first I thought she’d hate me or just want me for my fame but none of them happened. She was a true angle by the way. The beauty of my world was back once again the night I proposed to her and she said ‘yes’. And everything went perfect. Just perfect,” he ended with a smile. “But that’s a happy story. How’s that possible?” I said with a small frown as I tried to put other missing puzzle pieces into their places. “Nopony said it’ll be a sad story,” he said with a smile. “But… what?... how?” I asked with confuse. “Do you really wanna know who’s she?” asked Soarin. I hesitated for a second. Did I want to? I could just leave it and live my new life with him. But… there was something odd about his story. It seemed kinda… familiar. With a deep breath I answered, “Yes. I wanna see her. I wanna know who this mare is.” “But you gotta promise something first,” said Soarin. “What?” I said. “You should promise to don't do anything to my love when you found out,” he said with a wink. I raised an eyebrow. What was with the wink? “Okay. I promise,” I said with a roll of eyes and obvious jealousy in my voice. He chuckled and said, “I bet you know her. And I bet you’ll instantly recognize her when I give you a clue. By the way, she’s really important here. She can do really wondrous things. Things that nopony will even dare to think about!” After that, he turned to me and looked at me with one of his special smiles. “By the way, when my life was nothing but a storm, she suddenly came and take the storm away just like a rainbow. Literally. A girl with a mane as beautiful as sun when it’s setting and ocean when it’s shining in the sun. Now, do you know her?” In a second, all of the energy in my back hooves were gone and I fell right on the ground. My eyes were widened and I couldn’t even say a word. That stallion right in front of me… did he just said that the ‘mysterious mare’ wasn’t that mysterious at all? The mare I wanted to kill… the mare that Soarin loved all this time… was it really… me? “I’m just dreaming,” I murmured. “No you’re not. I’m right here, you’re here and everything is perfect. Just perfect,” said Soarin with a smile as he helped me get back on my hooves. He gazed at me with his ‘special’ smile that now I knew it was nothing but a love filled smile, and softly spoke up, “I know you’re confused. I know you might hate me now but all I can ask for is to stay on the promise you gave me and stay with me. I know this is way too much to ask for but I’ll try my best to show you love so you can feel what I’m feeling too. I-” “Would you say it already?” I said with a small giggle. Soarin stopped talking and chuckled awkwardly. “I guess all of those blabbering was to say… I love you Rainbow Dash,” he said softly. My heart was filled with a warming fire as he said the words… he said it! He really said it! “I don’t expect you to even like me. All I can ask for is just a chance. That’s all. If you hated me one day, I’ll leave right away. I promise,” said Soarin with a serious face though a tint of sadness could have been seen in his eyes as he said the last sentences. “Well, you’re right,” I started with a casual tone even though there was a huge party inside of me! “I don’t like you. I don’t even love you.” Soarin’s eyes saddened as I said the second part but he still had to wait for the grand ending. “Do you know why?” He shook his head no. I smirked. Here was the grand finale for a pony who surprised me a lot me through the day. “Because you can’t name it love when you’re crazy for somepony,” I said softly. I couldn’t believe the words really came out of my mouth! That sure wasn’t Rainbow Dash who was standing there. It was more like Rainbow Sappy who was standing in front of Soarin! “What… did you say?” asked Soarin with wide eyes. “Well, you heard me. Now decision is yours,” I said with a small smile. I really contained myself to not grin even more than Pinkie. “I think this time it’s my turn to say, say it already!” said Soarin excitedly. “Do I have to?” I whined. “Well, somepony made me say that. Would it be fair if that somepony don’t say it herself?” he said with a wink. “Fine, whatever,” I mumbled. I turned my gaze upward till it landed on his eyes. They were shining more beautiful than any time before. I bite my lip and whispered, “I love you too.” Phew! Now it looked like a something heavy was pushed off of my chest and was replaced with tons and tons of happiness. However, the happiness was doubled when a very tight grip surrounded me. I gave up to it and let him squeeze me as hard as he wanted. Even the tightest grips seemed really nice. As long as I knew he was the one doing it, it couldn’t feel any better. “I can’t believe you actually said that!” he said happily. “I can’t believe it myself either!” I answered. He let go of me and stared at my eyes with love. “You can’t believe how happy I am now! I feel like I can take over Equestria now that I know you love me back,” he said as he caressed my cheek. I gazed at his eyes that were getting closer with every passing second. We both know what was about to happen and there was just no way to resist it. Not that we’d do it if there were any! Before that minute, I couldn’t understand the beauty of world that Soarin was talking about but the minute his lips touched mine, I instantly found out what did he really mean. The kiss was sweet, love-filled and in a simple word, wondrous. World really did seem beautiful when I imagined it with Soarin. And fortunately, I wasn’t going to spend even an hour without him. After few seconds, Soarin broke the kiss and kissed my forehead softly. He smiled at me and said, “I know you already said that you love me but I’ll promise you that I’ll make you fall in love even more than what you already are.” “Make me love you more than what it is already? That’s not possible,” I said with surprise. “Yes it IS possible. I’ll show you,” said Soarin confidence. “Is that a challenge?” I said with a competitive tone. Soarin chuckled. “I don’t know. Let’s just wait and see if it’s really possible or not,” he said as he wrapped his wing around me. He turned his gaze to horizon, where bay and sky was connected with an orange line. It was already sunrise and wow, that was the most beautiful sunrise I had ever seen! As the beautiful sun came up to start another beautiful day, I watched how it lightened up my new life, filled with love and seconds of being with Soarin. The sunrise at that day started a new day and a new life at the same time.