Happiness and Tears
RDcrystalheart
Chapter 12: She's Just a Little Bit Crazy
Spectrum Skies knew everything about was going on in his house.
Usually.
But how would he have knowledge on his son's playful antics of dragging a quite flustered cyan mare back to their house? Especially considering his feelings of hatred towards her.
"Why am I here again?" Rainbow Dash asked Soarin as they stood on his balcony. Soarin smirked.
"Why? Don't friends have these little playdates with one another every now and then? Aren't they usually at somepony's house?" he asked her with an innocent smile. Dash grumbled.
"Well, you didn't have to be so... over the top about it. We're just friends, you know," she replied with a smart gaze. Soarin rolled his eyes.
"Yeah. Just friends. Keep telling yourself that, Princess," he said. "It's bound to change sometime soon anyway."
"It is not!" Dash exclaimed with a slight blush. Soarin gasped dramatically.
"Oh? Is the amazing Rainbow Dash blushing now?" he teased. "Is it because of her profound feelings towards the co-captain of the Wonderbolts, or is he just bugging her?"
"Oh shut up," Dash said with a roll of her eyes. Soarin giggled under his breath, and raised his eyebrow as he saw her flare her wings out.
"Leaving already?" he asked her. Dash shrugged.
"Yeah."
"If you'd like, you can stay for dinner."
"I doubt your father would approve."
Soarin grimaced. She was right. He had even deliberately left out the small detail of the cyan mare's visit to his father.
"Maybe you can stay in my room? So Dad won't notice," he suggested. Dash shook her head.
"I'm not sure I'd like to take that risk, to be honest," she replied with a sad smile. Soarin suddenly grinned.
"That smile tells me otherwise," he said cheekily. Dash rolled her eyes again, before fluttering into the air in one swift flap of her wings.
"I'll see you around, Soar," she said, before quickly taking off into the night sky of Cloudsdale.
Soarin's jaw dropped. Had she really just called him... Soar? His cheeks flushed red as he recalled the last time someone had said that to him.
"Nice to see you finally alone," somepony spoke up from behind him. Soarin's eyes instantly widened as he quickly turned around in fear of seeing his father. What he saw though, game him quite a small surprise.
His mother.
"Mom?" Soarin asked her curiously. "What are you doing here?"
Cloudy Quartz sighed, as she trotted up to her son.
"You know you can tell me anything, right?" she asked him with a pained expression. Soarin raised his eyebrow, and nodded.
"Yes," he replied. "Of course I do."
Cloudy gave him a frown.
"Then tell me who that girl is."
Soarin's did a double take. Had she really been spying on them? Of course she was, how else would she have knowledge on the rainbow maned mare?
"Uh... what do you want to know about her?" he asked cautiously.
"Lets start with her name?"
"Rainbow Dash."
"Her age?"
"Twenty-one."
"Where does she live?"
Soarin paused.
"Ponyville."
Cloudy sucked her breath in, her mind grazing over to her husband.
"How did you two meet?" she asked. Soarin's looked off in thought.
"Actually, it was when Dad sent me to get medicine for Grandma," he started. "When I arrived in Ponyville, it appeared as if I had stumbled in on a wedding preparation party. There was a lot of singing and dancing, and right in the middle of it all, Rainbow Dash."
Cloudy smirked as her son revealed his story.
"I don't know exactly what it was about her, that made me want to just... I don't know, go up to her? I wanted to talk to her, to dance with her, to just... get to know her, I suppose." Soarin smiled. "Later on, when I did get my chance, she ended up making a big fool of herself, not knowing who I was."
"Wow..." Cloudy mumbled.
"Yeah," Soarin said, looking off into the distance.
"What a meeting..." Cloudy said.
Soarin hummed in response, before the two stood in silence for a few minutes. Soarin suddenly then leaned on the railing of the balcony, and gazed out into the city with a love struck expression plastered on his face.
"I love her."
The words had come out of his mouth so smoothly, Cloudy had to make sure she had heard him right. Soarin smiled cutely, before continuing.
"I really really love her..."
Cloudy gulped. Now that she knew about her son's feelings towards this mare, it would be even harder on him once Spectrum revealed the news.
No.
Now that she knew, she'd do anything in her power to stop her husband. Her son deserved happiness; even if it did involve a few tears.
"She is a little crazy... no, scratch that. She's completely crazy," Soarin piped up again. "But... I guess that's what makes me even more in love with her."
Cloudy walked up to him and placed a comforting hoof on his shoulder. She'd support him through and through.
"And... Spitfire?" Cloudy knew she was treading on dangerous paths here, but she needed to know.
"What about her?" Soarin asked, his smile faltering slightly.
"What do you think of her?" Cloudy asked again. Soarin bit his lip, and somehow, Cloudy knew.
"What do I think of her? She's great, she really is. But... my love for her is completely platonic. It's friendship, nothing more. I doubt we'll ever be more than friends..." he said. "I just... don't see us together, you know?"
"Yeah..." Cloudy sighed, closing her eyes. "I know."
"Why did you want to know anyway?"
"What?"
Soarin shrugged. "Why did you want to know about how I felt for Spitfire?"
"Oh... no reason..." Cloudy said, before turning around.
"Night, Mom," Soarin said softly. Cloudy gave him a small smile, and nodded.
"Goodnight, Soarin."