//------------------------------// // I'm A Sucker For Love // Story: Lazy Eye // by Peridork //------------------------------// Twilight loved the quiet that happened after a friendship letter. With every possible thing that could have gone wrong all fixed thanks to the magic of friends and whatever else they could figure out a nice case of silence usually fell over the town as it went back to relative normalcy. And after the whole Applejack mess that was her being stuck in a cherry farm with a southern belle stereotype its just better to move on and not think about how weird these messes can get. It's like Discord liked having a mess of chaos fan out and annoy her. At least he'was encased in stone again. That level of insanity and blatant disregard for every law of physics ever devised made her a bit miffed at what Pinkie termed "his lovable tricky ways" which just, ugh. Picking up the latest copy of the banned list of books she quietly teleported through the stacks to pick up the books to transfer them to the restricted section. A librarian's work was never done. Just as she was balancing the final book on top of her stack, a loud bang came from the front and startled her. Trying to compensate for the surprise, she wobbled slowly back and forth before she misjudged a nearby step down to the lower level of the library and the books came tumbling down with a wordless crash. Picking herself up, Twilight glanced around to see Rainbow Dash try to hold in her laughter and failing. Trying to utilize Cadance's breathing techniques, Twilight counted to ten and tried to smile as she tested out her limbs for any painful spots. Falling down stairs hurt more than people realized sometimes. Finding nothing wrong and quickly straightening out her glasses, she turned to her athletic friend and tried to be somewhat cheerful. She liked her friends but having a general lack of coordination and little social skills made her rather wary in dealing with som of her friends' strange requests. And if Rainbow Dash was in her library, it had to be a strange request. "Hey Twilight, got Cadance's number or something?" "Rainbow, you know that I don't just give out the number to a Princess of Equestria on a whim- there's protocols for this, procedures, lists, and if I had to rank my friends need for the Princess of Love's phone number I would have to put you further down the list than the others." "Why is that anyway. I like doing girly stuff too sometimes. I hang out with Fluttershy a lot and Pinkie too." "Well going by the level of involvement that you share with the others, of course you hang out with Fluttershy- while childhood friends can be lost over the years, you two have stayed close. You and Pinkie bonded over pranks. . ." "You goof. I didn't need my life's story put into one of your graphs. Don't tell me you graphed out my life or something." "No. Haven't really had time to ask Cadance how she gets her charts to be so thorough and accurate yet and with the whole mess of the Changelings and all, I haven't planned out a template yet. I mean I've been trying to expand the whole definition of friendship so I've been asking Pinkie to supply me with slang terms that contain the word friend. I guess I could see that friendship could become a relationship by accident but I haven't figured out the variables just yet. "Okay then. I should not have asked. Of course you've planned out that. So you got Cadance's number or not?" "Sure I do but Celestia told me to not give it out just yet. She said the Changelings really messed up Cadance." "Pssht. Like what's the worst that could happen in that whole thing? That wasn't terrible." "Not to you Dash, but having your wedding almost ruined and finding out that things that worship and feed off your general thing you have sway over can mess up anyone. And from what I've heard, the diplomatic sessions between Cadance and Chrysalis have gotten rather weird." "So bored. Twilight, I'm sorry if this sounds not very great and all but I don't care about how your old babysitter is dealing with her fear of insect alien things. Should have gone to Fluttershy. She gets relationship things better than this." Twilight groaned. "Seriously Dash? Not again." "What? I like a person and that makes total sense right?" "Yeah sure if you think brain chemistry is a joke and everything. You aren't in love because its love, it's probably one of your random flings again." Dash scoffed and crossed her arms pouting at Twilight. She thought about this. Being rather close to Ditzy after City Hall got wrecked, primarily thanks to Ditzy to be sure, and the whole Ditzy falling on Rainbow Dash made her pretty sure. And usually the whole egghead jerkwad head thing that Twilight's talking about would have worn off by now. It had been a good month of probably illegal stalking or something. "No it's not Twilight. I have a date with them tomorrow. That automatically makes it much better than what you are hinting at." Twilight raised an eyebrow and frowned. "I have two years of data to back up my point. And in that time you had five relationships with people. You've been shipped with nearly everybody in Cadance's computer program and I got so worried that I actually had to call up Cadance to figure out why." "Yeah and so what? I rather like the idea of being in a relationship. Sometimes they just don't always work out. You know sixth times the charm and I'm still good friends with the people I have been in relationships with for the most part." "Nothing came of my search though. I guess you could say I'm just being cautious is all. For some reason, attraction likes to play games with you. I just want to make sure this is real and not going to cause a problem." "Twilight, you are being silly. It's probably just a stupid computer error and I'm fine. I've already checked if I'm sober, dreaming, or if Scootaloo moved on to using love potions on me yet to ship me with people. Which while I'm thinking about it- you should really have a talking to with the CMC about that." "Yeah. That's on the list of things to do after fixing City Hall. You and Ditzy really messed that up." "Uh yeah. I guess she didn't notice where she was going when she backed up. And then City Hall did kind of fall apart. At least I didn't get hurt." "Yeah. Don't know how that happened since you do tend to push yourself and then go to the hospital a lot." "Low blow, Twi. Low blow. I mean that's true but I don't like having that brought up, miss I turned my parents to plants." "I didn't mean it that way. But yeah I guess bringing up your past could be a problem." "Yeah. That's pretty sweet and all I guess. See you later, Twi. Thanks for the tip." Snatching the paper from Twilight, Rainbow Dash silently walked out of Golden Oaks Library. She thought she had gotten past her past. But words and jokes could trigger bad memories and stuff like that. But she was still there and kicking and her awesome card was still okay if a bit more full of those nice stamps that food places got to hand out for a nice free sandwich or something. Shouldn't have told the other girls about her past in that truth or dare slumber party girls night thing a while back. She was Rainbow Dash and no bad news could bring her down. Just think about Ditzy. Stupid Twilight saying she dated too much. Cloudsdale was far behind her and nothing would change that. And she had a date. Pulling out a piece of gum, she quietly chewed it and looked up at the stars. "Good job, Luna. Looking pretty sweet up there." Stretching her limbs, she hummed quietly to herself all the way home. Have to come to terms at some point but tonight was not that night.