//------------------------------// // 10-Day Six // Story: I Don't Need a Love Potion to Love You // by Night Flight //------------------------------// “Dashie! There you are!” said Pinkie happily as she saw the rainbow haired girl that was getting closer. Then, she sat back on the sit and waited for her to get closer. They were sitting on one of the many tables in the yard. The weather was good and most of the students were outside. Others exchanged a worried glance as they saw Rainbow, but didn’t say anything and waited ‘til Rainbow got close enough. She had a big frown on her face and her hands were made into a fist. Anyone could tell that she was furious. Of what… well, no one knew. “Hey… Rainbow…” said Twilight carefully. “Hey,” she whispered angrily. “So… what’s up?” said Twilight. She tried to sound casual but she wasn’t that successful. Rainbow mumbled something inaudible under her breath that looked like some kind of grumble but that sure wasn’t what Twilight was expecting. “We… saw everything yesterday,” said Rarity carefully. What she said was exactly like a nudge to a super angry wild animal. The kind of nudge that makes the animal attack the one who touched it. “HOW DARE HE DID THAT? I WAS POURING ALL OF THE EMOTIONS I’VE EVER HAD FOR ANYONE INTO THAT DAMN SONG AND THEN HE JUST HAD TO COME UP AND SHOUT! AND THAT WASN’T ENOUGH FOR HIM. HE JUST HAD TO MAKE ME GO AND ASK THAT STUPID CURSED DARK NIGHT TO BE MY DATE. AND THAT WAS WHEN HE LET ME GO… I… I… HATE HIM!” Rarity looked at others nervously. Except from fear, anxiety was visible on her face. She was clearly blaming herself for her friends sudden burst. “Darling… I’m… I’m so sorry. I didn’t want to-” “I know Rarity. I feel much better now. I just had to say these all aloud,” replied Rainbow in a sad, low tone. She started sniffling and curled up to a ball just like how she did the day before in the music room. Others exchanged another worried glance and sat still, not knowing what to do. Just as yesterday, Fluttershy went by her side and put her hand on her shoulder. “Oh Rainbow… I’m so sorry this happened… I wish… we wish we could do something,” said Fluttershy sadly. “Actually, there is a way,” said Twilight. “Rainbow can just tell Dark Night that yesterday’s incident was just a misunderstanding and she didn’t mean what she said.” Rainbow looked up and glared at Twilight as she ended explaining her idea. “No way! I have to show Soarin I don’t care about him. I have to make him see that I don’t care about that idiot girl he’s in love with. This time, I won’t let him hurt me. You’ll see it!” “But sugercube, he’s yer best friend. Ya can’t be like that to him,” said Applejack. “Yes I can, and I will. You know why? He’s not my best friend anymore,” she said sternly. She wiped few drops of tears that had escaped her eyes earlier and spoke up in a determine tone, “I’ll show him. I’ll show you.” “But you still care for him,” said Sunset who was sitting silently ‘til that moment. “Are you kiddin’ me? Of course I don’t,” said Rainbow. At first her voice was determine but at the end of her sentence, it was more doubtful than determine. “Yes you do. Don’t deny it. Just say it,” insisted Sunset. “NO! I DON’T!” she shouted angrily. “Lying to yourself will not make things better. If you wanna lie to us, don’t lie to yourself,” said Sunset in a calm tone. Rainbow’s angry face turned to a surprised one as she heard what she said. Then she shifted her gaze to the solid ground with a sad and thoughtful expression. “You’re right… I do love him even now. I… I even love him more now…if that’s even possible. But just… seeing him getting angry because of the probability of me having a boyfriend… someone other than him… it-it makes me have a sweet feeling in my heart. Though at that moment, I didn’t care about that feeling and just started shouting…” she said as she trailed off at the end. “Wow, the potion had made her really girly,” whispered Twilight to Sunset. “Well, it’s obvious. She ate three chocolates. But this is not her girly part that’s making her like that. It’s the real love that’s making her like this. I never thought real love could be this strong…” whispered back Sunset. “Are you even sure this is true love? It’s the first time you’re trying the love potion you know.” “Yeah, I’m sure this is true love. Through my experiments I found out that hatred will weaken the love potion. It can weaken it to the point the potion goes away… almost. And that doesn’t matter if you really hate that guy you’re in love with or not. Once you say it out loud, the love potion will weaken. In Rainbow’s heart, the love potion is at its weakest point so, when she said that with all he did she still loves him… it was her true feelings excluding the potion.” “Wow…” “Yeah, I know. Right? Love is really strange but once you get to see and feel it even if you don’t do it with your own heart, you’ll find out how special and sweet it is. And as I said, you don’t really have to experience it yourself.” “Yeah… I guess,” said Twilight in a low tone. Her thoughts were quickly drifted to Flash. She wasn’t in love with him but she did have a crush on him and she knew it. But with what she saw from Rainbow and the things Sunset said… she was having doubt that even her crush was real! It was like… all of the feelings she felt toward Flash were nothing in front of the real love. ‘And they really aren’t,’ thought Twilight. She looked up to watch Rainbow. She could help her. She was in love. For real. Maybe at first it was only the potion that was effecting her but this lately, it was her own heart that was leading her. It was as if… the potion had only made her realize what had been hidden in her heart and the rest were only her real reactions. Rainbow, however, got bored after she saw that each of her friends were busy talking to each other and decided on some alone time, where she could sort all of her thoughts and emotions out. So she stood up and walked away with a sigh. She walked to the other side of the yard and sat down on a bench. She wrapped her hands around her knees and rested her chin on top of her knees. She tried to think of everything, but it was as if all the memories from previous minutes and the ones from yesterday had been cleared from her head. The only thing in her head was Twilight’s offer. Was it really the best thing to do? Should she really tell everything to Dark Night and make him forget everything about her? Maybe… After all, it wasn’t good to play with someone else’s emotions just to satisfy herself. But then again… she had to show Soarin that doing that to her was wrong. But how? How should she do it in another way? “I don’t know. I just don’t know,” she mumbled under her breath as she put her forehead to her knees and shut her eyes tightly. “Can I help?” asked Twilight as she sat next to Rainbow. “I don’t even know this. Everything’s just really complicated,” said Rainbow as she rested her chin on her knees again. “Why did you come here? I thought you and Sunset were talking.” “Yeah we were but our conversation ended,” said Twilight. “Oh, right…” mumbled Rainbow. They both went silent after that and thought of different things. For Rainbow, memories of yesterday and Twilight’s suggestion and for Twilight, things she was about to ask Rainbow. “How’s it like to be in love?” asked Twilight suddenly. Rainbow who was pulled out of her thoughts, glanced at Twilight with wide eyes and asked, “Being in love?” “Yeah. How’s it like?” “I’m… not sure. It’s kinda like when… you love someone?” “Huh?” “Like friends but much more. You see, friends get annoyed of each other from time to time. So does lovers, but it’s kinda different. When you get annoyed of the one you love… well, you don’t get that annoyed. You know, everything about him will be beautiful to you. Even when he annoys you because… well, he had made an effort to do it and he had done for you and not someone else. Even if what he had done wouldn’t be something good. If you really love him, you’ll take them all with pleasure and jump around the room just because he had given you that and not someone else.” “But that’s not possible!” “Twilight, not everything can be proved by science! Some things can’t be proved at all.” “Then… what about yesterday? I mean, he got angry with you but you got angry too. You didn’t seem happy.” “Yeah, I wasn’t happy on the outside but in the inside, it was the best thing I could ever receive. But from getting angry, I understood that my love isn’t really a real love because if it were, I would have felt happy and nothing else.” “Wow… you sounded really sappy…” mumbled Twilight. She sneered and glanced at Twilight who was watching her curiously. “Can you believe that I don’t care anymore? Me… Rainbow Dash… don’t care about being mushy… who thought that?!” “Yeah… who would have…” whispered Twilight. “So… is there any way to fall in love like… faster?” Rainbow snickered. “Yeah, you can ask Sunset to give you some of her potion. She’ll be more than happy to do so!” “Except she thinks I had drank that…” she mumbled. “Huh? Wait… you had drank love potion?” “No! I mean, that’s what Sunset thinks. She thinks the potion is making Flash and I fall in love but we’re both just acting. But I don’t want fake love. I wanna experience everything you said without some kind of crazy potion,” said Twilight with a frown. “All right, all right!” said Rainbow with wide eyes. “I guess… affection can make love… I don’t know. Has he ever stood for you? Like when some bullies went to you?” “Bullies? They… usually don’t come to me.” “How about you? Have you ever stood for him?” “Me? Why would he need me standing for him?” “You’ll never know.” “Well… no.” “I think it might work if you support him when there’s a trouble in the way. Maybe… you’re even in love and you don’t know!” “I… don’t think so. I don’t think I even have a crush on him…” Rainbow laughed a bit. “Silly Twilight! It’s obvious you like him like… A LOT! If you’re comparing your feelings with the things I told you then I have to say that even if you feel a little bit of any of the things I told you, you’re most likely in love.” “Maybe… I’ll check myself next time I hang out with him!” she joked. Rainbow and she shared a chuckle and then they both went silent again. This time, Twilight’s head was thoughtless. The only thing she was thinking about was when she would hang out with Flash again. She couldn’t wait to see if she really was in love or not. Rainbow’s mind, however, was completely different. Not only the thoughts in her head had lessened, but they had even increased after her talk with Twilight. They were so much that she felt like she couldn’t take that all in anymore. “Do you think your suggestion will work?” she asked suddenly. This time, it was Twilight’s turn to be pulled out of the daze she was in and stare at Rainbow with wide eyes. “Suggestion? What suggestion?” “You know, the one about telling Dark Night.” “Oh, that.” “Yeah…” “Why wouldn’t it work?” “It will most likely work, it’s just that I feel like playing with his emotions just to show Soarin what he did was wrong, isn’t the best way. But on the other hand, if not that, then what?” “You’re right about not playing with his emotions. And there are a lot of ways. You can just act cold around Soarin… I don’t know, maybe even do the things he hates. That’s what pisses him more. Though, if I were you, I would have just go ahead and find out that girl his in love with. Who knows? Maybe after you meet her, you’ll see what he likes about her and what he doesn’t and you can imitate that girl. Rainbow, you’re closer to him than anyone else. Even more than Spitfire. Maybe he would fall for you instead of her then. But still… the choice is yours…” “The thing is… now that I’m thinking, I miss him sooo much. I wish I wouldn’t say those things yesterday. I wish I’d just made him stop and told him he was the one I was singing about not an idiot stalker who had been after me ever since the school started…” “Then… I think apologizing is the best way. C’mon, life’s short! If you don’t do it now, then you would regret not doing it for the rest of your life.” “It’s hard Twi, it’s really hard. But… I’ll try. I just have to wait till the storm goes away.” “Storm?” Rainbow chuckled. “Yeah, storm. Last night Soarin’s mom called my mom. She was pissed off about Soarin’s breaking up with Fury. Though my mom calmed her down, she said that she would come to school today to see ‘how the things are’… Soarin’s in hot water, oops!” “Ooh…poor him…” said Twilight with a chuckle. “Thanks for the help Twi. I would have been Rainbow Mushy if you weren’t around!” said Rainbow as she stood up. “No, thank you. I would have gone crazy if I didn’t talk to you. I hope everything will go fine,” answered Twilight with a smile. “Thanks. I wish the same for you too. I’m gonna walk for a bit. See ya later!” said Rainbow as she started to walk away. “See you too!” shouted Twilight after her. She smiled and stood up. Now she knew what to do. She wanted to spend more time with someone she liked like… A LOT! Rainbow poked her head into the gym and scanned the students there. Some were playing soccer and the others were either watching or cheering them but one thing was for certain; no Dark Night. “Do you want anything?” asked one of the students who was passing by and saw her. “Have you seen Dark Night around?” Rainbow asked. That girl grimaced and looked at Rainbow with surprise. “Dark Night? Why would you want to see him?” “I… need to tell him something. But… why did you made that face?” asked Rainbow curiously. “No one wants to see him. He’s so… scary. Mysterious. All of the students in his class know it, but if you’re still eager to find him, I last saw him in the library. He was… after a girl,” said that girl with a low tone. Rainbow’s eyes went wide at the mention of another girl but kept herself from asking any other question. “Thanks,” she said. Then she left the gym. Maybe she was lucky enough and caught him with that girl. Then there would a good reason for her to end that stupid date thing. She ran through the hallways and muttered ‘excuse me’ whenever she bumped into people. Some students pulled apart as they saw her running, the others either glared when she bumped into them or stared at her with surprised looks. Eventually, Rainbow reached the library and stood behind the doors to catch her breath. After few deep breathes she opened the doors slowly and closed them behind her. Library was silent and the only sound was sound of pages that were flipped from time to time. When she started walking, her shoes made quite loud sound that echoed through the library. No one seem to mind it but it was still awkward. She tried to be as quiet as possible as she peeked at each bookshelf to see if the person she was looking for was there or not. Finally, she found Dark Night at the very end of library but as soon as she saw him, she wished she wouldn’t have done that. The scene in front of her was just… disgusting. Rainbow grimaced after seeing that and poked her tongue out as that scene played in front of her eyes again. How could he do such thing? It was so… gross! She didn’t know how could he do this but she knew that if she were instead of the poor girl he was kissing, she would kill him first and then herself for being trapped in that kind of situation. The thing was that girl didn’t seem so disinterested either and that made it much creepier. Eww! ‘C’mon Rainbow. This is your only chance. If you don’t go out there right now, you’ll miss your only chance,’ she thought. She took a deep breath and stepped out. She wished that he would notice her soon. She didn’t want to watch that scene. It just made her feel sick. Unfortunately, the two seemed to be so busy with each other that they didn’t even feel the presence of someone else there. She frowned and felt her breakfast was starting to come back to her throat…. The last thing she could think of was clearing her throat to get their attention, and she did so. They quickly perked up when they heard the sound from Rainbow. Dark Night’s eyes went wide as she saw Rainbow’s disgusted look. He quickly let go of the other girl and stood straight. “I… I can explain!” “No need to do so. I saw enough. That was what I was going to tell you anyway. That I would never in a million years go to the party with you,” said Rainbow with a frown. “But-” “No buts. That’s my finale decision.” She turned around to leave. She shuddered as she remembered what she saw there again. She would never ever choose that kind of boy as her date. The kind that cheated behind your back and wanted to show themselves innocent when you caught them red handed. Rainbow was making her out of library when someone grabbed her wrist form behind and yanked it to the opposite direction. She turned her head and saw that it wasn’t anyone else but Dark Night. “What the hell are you doing?” she whisper-shouted because they were still in the library. “Taking my date back,” he whispered back with a frown. “I don’t remember you asking me if I wanted to be your date or not.” “Now I ask.” “And my answer is no.” “Sorry but I got my answer yesterday.” “Hey, genius, I just said that yesterday to run away from Soarin and you know it too, so now let go of me.” “C’mon Dashie, don’t deny it, I know you love me,” he said with an evil smile. Rainbow’s eyes went wide. Dashie? No one dared to call her like that. Only her friends and Soarin when they were alone… Soarin… if he were here, he would have definitely show this jerk who’s the boss. And what did he say? She’s in love with him? What kind of idiot would think so? Rainbow and Dark Night? That was ridiculous! “Me? In love with you? Sorry, but I haven’t gone crazy yet,” she said with frown. She pulled her hand away from his and hardened her glare at him. She was starting to get a little scared too. At that moment, they were in one of the study rooms around library. Unfortunately, those rooms had a spell that made them sound proof from inside and outside. And it meant that no voice could get out of that place. “Now let me go. Even if I had just a little bit of interest in you, it all went away after I saw what you were doing,” said Rainbow as she struggled to get free. “Let you go? Why would I? It’s just you and me here… I would never miss this opportunity…” he said with an evil smile that scared the life out of her. She was dead. There was no doubt. “Let me go or I-” “Or you what? Call your hero? He’s away now. He will never come around you again. He wouldn’t do anything either. Why would he? You’re with someone you love.” “No…” whispered Rainbow. She was terrified now. She shouldn’t have looked for him. She shouldn’t have even fought with Soarin. If she just stopped Soarin yesterday, he would be there to protect her. But it was late and there was no time for regret. “HELP!” she shouted but she know it was useless. The small study room was sound proof… “Yeah, shout! No one will hear you here anyway…” he said with a laugh. But of course he was wrong… Door flung open to show a furious boy that was standing there. Rainbow felt like the entire world was given to her as she saw him. Dark Night though, stepped back with wide eyes. Soarin walked up to him and gritted his teeth in anger. “What the hell were you about to do?” he said in a dangerously calm voice. Dark Night who had sorted the events in his head, smirked and said, “Both you and I knew what I wanted to do. But if you want me to explain, then I’ll do this happily.” That punch that went straight for his jaw was what he really deserved and both Soarin and Rainbow knew it. Dark Night though, went wild with that. He was about to punch Soarin when he grabbed his wrist and squeezed it with all of his power. Soon, Dark Night was whimpering in pain. It made Soarin smile at him teasingly and squeeze his wrist even more. “There they are!” said a voice from behind. Soarin soon recognized it as her sister’s voice. “Mr. Skies and Mr. Night, end it now!” Voice of Vice Principal Luna boomed from Soarin’s back and he quickly let go of his wrist. Dark Night fell to his feet as he started massaging his wrist. Form above, Soarin looked at him with disgust and smirked teasingly as he thought of how weak he was. “As we said Vice Principal, it was clearly Dark Night who was trying to… abuse Rainbow,” said Fleetfoot as she shuddered at the last part. Her calm voice was nowhere near as Spitfire’s panicked voice or Soarin’s angry actions. She always knew how to control herself in difficult situations. Vice Principal kneeled down beside Rainbow who was sobbing and shaking in fear. “Is she right Ms. Dash?” she said softly. Rainbow looked at her and shook her head slowly. Then she went back to her sobbing. Vice Principal Luna stood up with a big frown on her face and looked at Dark Night who was now glaring at Soarin. “You, Mr. Night come with me now. My sister has to know all about this, so you’d better not waste a second.” Dark Night looked at them for last time and followed Luna with gritted teeth. When they left, Spitfire who was resting her back against the doorway, slid down and put her head in her hands. Fleetfoot let out a sigh of relief and sat beside Spitfire. But Soarin who had been staring at Rainbow ever since Luna talked to her, quickly ran to her. He didn’t waste a second and hugged her tightly. Rainbow who was still sobbing, squeezed herself into Soarin. She wrapped her hands around him and let him comfort her. After few minutes, Soarin helped her stand up. Slowly, he helped her get out of library with Spitfire and Fleetfoot right behind them. He led them all to cafeteria where they could sit and get something for Rainbow to eat. The cafeteria was completely empty when they entered. The only person was Granny Smith who worked there. Soarin quickly sat Rainbow on a table nearby and sat next to her himself. “Fleet, go grab something sweet from Granny. Hurry up!” he said nervously. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer. She rested her head on his shoulder and looked at him curiously. Fleetfoot was soon back with a chocolate bar in her hand. She looked nervous as well but it was more like Soarin’s hurry had made her twitchy as well. Soarin grabbed the chocolate and gave it to Rainbow. She chewed the chocolate and felt the lost energy went back to her body. After few seconds, she put the chocolate away and looked at Soarin. “Thanks,” she whispered. “It was nothing,” said Soarin as he squeezed her tighter. “Are you okay now? Do you need anything?” “Why do you ask?’ said Rainbow as she lowered her head and put on a small frown. It wasn’t that she wasn’t enjoying it. No, in fact, it was like a dream come true, but she couldn’t forget events of yesterday either. “Oh… that…” he mumbled. “Look, I’ve been looking everywhere for you to tell you that I’ll do whatever you say, just to get back what I said. You can punch me, you can make me do whatever you want, just please, please, forget whatever I said to you yesterday. I’m so sorry that I said those. Please forgive me,” he said quickly. “What made you think so?” said Rainbow with her frown but her tone was incredibly calm. He scratched his head and mumbled, “Well…” (Earlier That Day) “I thought he got over it,” Fleet whispered to Spitfire. “He was about to, if mom let him,” answered Spitfire with a frown similar to one on her brother’s face. “What was it this time? Another girlfriend?” she asked. “Huh! I wish!” said Soarin with a big frown. “That idiot Fury had told her everything. She said she’ll come to school to see my new ‘girlfriend’ and as she said, I’d better told Fury the truth cause if not, I would be stuck with that idiot again.” “But you don’t have a girlfriend. You ruined everything yesterday. No offense though,” said Fleet. “None taken,” he said with a roll of eyes. His expression went sad immediately and he continued, “But yeah, your right. I did ruin everything. Now that I’m thinking, that boy might have been me myself if I just waited for her. It was obvious that she chose Dark Night randomly.” Fleetfoot gasped. “D-dark Night? WHEN? HOW?” she shouted with fear. “How come?” asked Spitfire. “Well, you went out ‘cause you ‘didn’t want to see mushy scenes’ but you missed the fight between Rainbow and I. I know I told you everything but I think I forgot to say that she choose Dark Night as her date for party,” said Soarin sadly. “But it was completely obvious that she did that on purpose. Rainbow would never ever choose that jerk for anything,” said Spitfire quickly. “Oh no. OH NO! Does she know that she had gotten herself in deep shit?” said Fleet with wide eyes due to fear. “Fleet, what do you mean?” asked Soarin. “You guys probably hadn’t heard that but all of the students in his class, including me, know that any girl that gets close to him has to be either idiot or willing to do any kind of… thing,” she said. “Wait… if Rainbow did that yesterday then…” mumbled Soarin with wide eyes. “Uh-oh…” said Spitfire with wide eyes. Three friends glanced at each other but didn’t say anything. That was until few seconds later Soarin suddenly shouted, “WE HAVE TO FIND RAINBOW. NOW!” They all ran in different direction as they all thought of the same thing; Rainbow was in trouble. (Present) “It was Spitfire who saw you. She thought that maybe, maybe, maybe you might be in there and she checked there. She got in time though. She saw how Dark Night was pulling you to that room while you tried to get free. She called me before anyone, and I ran there as fast as I could. She, herself, went to Vice Principal’s office and got her there and… you know the rest,” explained Soarin. “Wow… but that still doesn’t answer my question. What made you think you’re sorry?” said Rainbow. “I was an idiot yesterday and I understood that the moment I stepped out of that room. Today, when I came to school the first thing I wanted to do was apologizing you. I know you’ll never ever forgive me because it wasn’t even my place to talk but still… I’m extremely sorry,” he said with regret visible in his eyes. “And what made you think that?” asked Rainbow with a raised eyebrow. “Rainbow, I told you I’m-” “I meant, what made you think that I wouldn’t ever forgive you?” she said again. This time along her raised eyebrow, there was a smile on her face. Soarin looked at her with shock but after few seconds, a huge grin broke on his face and he hugged Rainbow tightly. She smiled while she was there. She couldn’t have ever find a feeling better than the one she felt when he hugged her. “I never said I forgive you, you know,” she said with a smirk that was invisible to Soarin. “Ha! You can’t trick me this time. I know you did. You’re can’t fool me again!” he said happily. She giggled too and rested her head on his shoulder as she hugged him back. After few seconds, they separated and looked at each other with a smile. “Soarin, mom!” said Spitfire with an urgent tone. That single word was enough to make Soarin’s eyes wide and look quickly at his sister who had her eyes locked on her cell phone. “She said she wants to have lunch with you and her after school. She knows that today school will end before lunch time.” “Soarin and… who?” whispered Rainbow. “Well, that’s the problem. Idiot Fury had told my mom about that girl Soarin was talking about at Sugercube Corner and now she wants to take me, Soarin and that girl out for lunch but the thing is that such girl doesn’t exist,” explained Spitfire. “So you mean everything you said yesterday at Sugercube Corner was just a lie to get Fury out of your face?” said Rainbow with happiness that came from the hope she had. “Yeah… kinda…” mumbled Soarin sheepishly. He shifted his gaze back to her and stared at her beautiful, magenta eyes with his own pleading eyes. “And now your best friend needs your help. Do you know any girl that’ll be willing to act?” he asked. She hummed for a few seconds as she thought about the perfect idea that had entered her head. She smiled and looked back at him. “I might have. I’ll just need time, then I’ll tell you result before the end of school.” He looked at her with a thankful smile that almost melt her heart. She stared back into his eyes with visible love in her own. Too bad Soarin didn’t understand the feeling that lay there. “So…” said Rainbow suddenly. “I’ll go to… find that girl I told you. Meet you soon!” “Okay. See ya,” he said with a smile. “Come in,” said Ms. Firefly to the person who knocked on the door. She was having a good time relaxing after work. Her job that day wasn’t hard and she had spent most of her time in her office, resting. It was really good that school got everything easy for students at Hearts & Hooves Week. Although it was going to be over soon but it had been a fun, relaxing time for both teachers and students. However, she was getting kinda bored of sitting in her office alone so she was more than happy to have a visitor. The door opened up and Firefly’s daughter stepped inside. She had a thoughtful expression. Like she was thinking of something really hard. “Rainbow! What are you doing here? Have you hurt yourself or anything?” said Firefly with a worried face. “Hurt myself? No, I didn’t. It’s not like all your visitors are the injured students, mom!” said Rainbow with a raised eyebrow. “I just came here to… talk.” “About?” “Things.” “Like?” “I don’t know. Boys… maybe?” Firefly raised one of her eyebrows. “Boys? How come the great Rainbow Dash wants to talk about boys?” “Mom!” said Rainbow with a fake glare. “I thought you knew everything.” “About you being in love with your best friend… yeah, I know everything. Even more than you,” she said. “So what do you wanna talk about? Your feelings?” “No. It’s just that… Soarin needs help and… and…” “And the girl in love with him will do anything to help her love, right Dashie?” said Firefly with a wink. Rainbow flushed and answered, “Um… yeah.” “So what does he need?” “You know, Ms. Cloud, Soarin’s mom had gotten angry last night because of Fury. Soarin had broken up with her yesterday and she had went to his mom and told her everything. It’s just that Soarin made a fault and told Fury that he loves someone else to get her away. Now Ms. Cloud wants to take Spit, Soarin and that girl, that doesn’t exist at all, to lunch. He asked me to help and I…. well, I thought that maybe… maybe…” “Stop right here. You wanna act as Soarin’s lover? Cloud will definitely suspect it since Soarin and you had said no about being girlfriend and boyfriend before. She wouldn’t believe you.” “Why? Am I not in love with him now? What’s the difference?” “Rainbow, I know you love him but most likely, Cloud would find out her son had lied to her the minute she see you together. Go and tell Soarin you can’t help. Tell him it’s better for him to ask one of those many girls that are head over heels in love with him. It’s better for both of you.” “Mom, why can’t you understand? See him introduce another girl as his girlfriend? I can be the one he introduces and you say another girl? Then what’s the difference of Fury and that new girl?” “What if he didn’t love you? What if he introduced you as his girlfriend and left you afterward? Did you even thought about how he’s supposed to act? He might be something more than a friend to you but to him, you’re still just a friend. Don’t forget that,” explained Firefly calmly. Rainbow’s expression changed to a thoughtful one as she thought it over. Her expression changed to a determine one as she finally made up her mind. “Not if there’s no other girl he can’t take,” she said firmly. “What’s in your mind?” asked Firefly cautiously. “He left me in charge to find a girl for him. If I just tell him there was no one good enough, he would act along,” explained Rainbow. “But-” “Mom, this is the best way! I just have to be that girl.” “If that’s what you’ve been planning on from the first place, then why did you come to me exactly?” said Firefly as she rolled her eyes playfully. Rainbow frowned comically but quickly smiled and added, “You helped a lot Mom. Thanks.” Firefly smiled lovingly at her daughter. “Of course Dashie. Just… tell me what happened when you got back home, okay?” “Yeah, sure. I’ll need help for things that’s gonna happen after this so I have to tell you everything,” she said with a smile. This time, her smile was sincere because finally, she was going to get something she’d been dying to have; Soarin. “Bye girls!” said Twilight as she waved her hand for them and walked away. The day was perfect and filled with incidents. Both good and bad. She winced as she thought of some of bad things that had happened. Like how Rainbow was trapped in a study room with a jerk. But she smiled as she recalled what her friend had been telling them. About how Soarin had apologized and how she was going to act as his girlfriend. Rainbow sure was getting things planned. But sooner or later the potion had to get out of her body. While Rainbow had been away, girls have met up with Bluey and she said she could help. Eventually with different suggestions from girls and the ones that came through messages from Fleetfoot, they had found a good main plan and a plan B. But to tell the truth, not only they had come up with a plan B, but also they had plan C, D, E and F! Therefore, everything was planned and perfect. For Rainbow, at least. Twilight had just told them that she’ll do it herself. But in fact, she had no idea about this. She was completely stuck and didn’t know what to do. She was still hopeful though. Flash and she had met each other earlier at school and Flash had asked her to a second date. Therefore, she had some time left to think about the things she was about to tell him. She sighed and tried to organize things in her brain. There was just a lot there. She just couldn’t go up to him and tell him they have to kiss each other just so others will believe that there was no potion inside of them anymore. It was just so… awkward! So embarrassing! They could easily act like they were doing it, but even thinking about it made Twilight blush. She just hoped Flash would be smart enough to find it out with the signs Twilight wanted to give. Before she would have to say the exact sentence. She took a deep breath and raised her head to see if she could Flash or not. It was at that moment that she bumped into something hard. “Ow!” she mumbled. She looked up to apologize that person but she was left there stunned when she saw Flash’s smiling face. He chuckled. “We should really stop bumping into each other or one of us will end up in ER!” Twilight chuckled awkwardly and scratched back of her neck. “I’m sorry, really.” “Don’t be,” he said with a smile. Twilight’s eyes went wide at this and he chuckled at this. Then he pointed to the school’s entrance with his head and said, “We’d better get going before another accident happens!” She flushed but followed Flash. Her blush deepened when Flash wrapped an arm around her. She bite her bottom lip and smiled as she glanced at him. He was smiling as well. Twilight looked up to see where they were going. They made their way out of school when suddenly Twilight stopped in her track and didn’t move anymore. Flash looked at her with a raised eyebrow to see if anything was wrong. Both of his eyebrows were raised when he saw her staring at something with wide, terrified eyes. “Twi, is everything alright?” asked Flash. She didn’t answer. She didn’t move an inch either. She just stared at where she’d been staring. Finally, Flash had to follow her gaze to see where she was looking at. It was led to an angry, young man who was glaring at them. “You’re dead,” mumbled Twilight under her breath as she kept staring at that boy. “Twilight Sparkle!” said that boy with gritted teeth. She gulped and tried to smile. Though it looked very awkward. “Hey… big brother…” Flash’s eyes went wide immediately. He knew that it wasn’t his place to stay. Not anymore. Too bad he had nowhere to go and nothing to do, so he just gulped and waited for whatever was about to happen. “Well, well, well… what do I see? MY SISTER LYING?” he said angrily. Twilight winced and frowned. “I didn’t lie to you. Don’t make a fight Shining Armor.” “Well, can you explain this?” he said as he pointed to Flash with disgust. “That ‘this’ has a name, Flash Sentry. And he’s my boyfriend,” she said as she stood beside him. Flash glanced at her and then looked at the angry Shining again who seemed more shocked at that moment. “What did you say?” he said in a dangerously low tone. “You heard me. Now don’t make trouble and let us go to our date peacefully,” she said sternly. Flash’s eyes widened at this. He had never seen Twilight this furious, this serious, this… determine. Shining cocked an eyebrow. “Excuse me? Date? As if I’ll let you go with this… this… jerk!” “And how did you recognized that his a jerk while you hadn’t even heard his name ‘till now?” she said with a raised eyebrow like her brother’s. Shining was about to open his mouth when Twilight hold out a hand to silent him. She continued, “You don’t even care who he is or how he’s with me; all you care about is that your little sister is grown up enough to fall in love while you don’t want her to.” “Because you’re not grown up enough to fall in love. I’ve never had a problem with you having boyfriend. It’s just that you’re way too young for this,” he said with his previous glare. “Open your eyes Shining Armor. You had your first date when you were my age too. And don’t think I don’t know, I know you had it with Cadance. And now look at you; Cadance and you are still together, so why Flash and I can’t do so?” said Twilight with a winning smile. There was no way for her brother to complain anymore. Well, as she thought though. He crossed his arms and continued glaring. “And how can I make sure that he’s a good guy, not some jerk who only wants you for… for…” “Well, let me tell you a little about myself big brother,” said Twilight. She said the word ‘brother’ purposely in a mocking way to annoy him. “I’m Twilight Sparkle. Everyone had known me with the names ‘bookworm’ and ‘egghead’. Not that I complain, but it’s the truth. I’ve always had my nose in different books and didn’t try anything else. Do you know what do bullies call these kind of people? Dorks! And guess what? No one, and I mean NO ONE likes to hang out with a dork. I was super lucky to have Flash by my side. I was lucky that he liked me enough to ask me on a date,” said Twilight angrily. “So you don’t know?” asked Flash with shock after hearing what she said. “What?” she asked curiously. “Probably that he had been with you just to get some cheating in the exams,” mumbled Shining under his breath. He was quickly shut up by Twilight’s hard glare. “No, I don’t want anything from her, but it’s just that I think that you don’t know what’s going on behind your back. I thought your friend would have told you about this. At least Soarin might have told Rainbow so she would pass the news but looks like it hadn’t been like this,” said Flash calmly. “Okay?” said Twilight impatiently. “Guys in the school are all in love with you. You might think you’re a dork, which you aren’t, but you’re beautiful. Very beautiful. And that makes them kill themselves for you,” explained Flash. Twilight flushed lightly when Flash called her beautiful and smiled as she listened to the rest. “HUH! Did you hear him? He confessed it himself! He’s one of those guys who only wants you for your beauty and he just said it himself,” insisted Shining stubbornly. Flash cleared his throat to draw their attention. “Actually sir, I never said that I’m only dating her because of her beauty. She’s smart, kind, caring, funny and beautiful. So I have more than one reason to love her.” Twilight’s blush deepened and she grinned as she heard him. Wiggling her eyebrows for Shining Armor was something she really wanted to do at the moment but Shining’s voice stopped her. “This still doesn’t mean that you can get my baby sister,” he said with a frown. “Shining Armor, I am not your baby sister so stop it! I’m mature enough to know what’s good and what’s bad and I don’t need your help in this so just go away,” said Twilight angrily. “Ms. Sparkle,” called someone from behind. Twilight quickly turned around and found Vice Principal Luna standing there. Her arms were crossed and she was looking at the scene in front of her with a straight face. “Would you please explain what’s this shouting for? Especially in front of school.” “Um… well…” she mumbled. “Vice Principal Luna, we’re very sorry. We were just leaving,” said Flash calmly. “Well, I’m afraid to say that you need stay,” said Luna. “Excuse me?” asked Twilight curiously. “Let me make myself clearer; you two both need to stay for detention,” she said simply. Flash sighed and crossed his arms. But Twilight… her eyes got wide after the words sank in. She was about to open her mouth when Luna hold out a hand and said, “No excuse accepted. Be in the backyard within fifteen minutes.” Then she walked away and left. Twilight was still there frozen like a statue. “D-Detention?” she mumbled in a low voice. “Yeah. So what?” said Flash calmly. “Flash, it’s detention! It’s not some park you play in!” she said. “Except it is,” he replied. “What? Have you ever been to detentions?” she asked. “Have you?” asked Flash with a smile. “Well, no! That’s what I’m angry about. I’ve never ever been to any kind of detention,” she said with anger. “Wait… never?” he asked with a bit of shock. “Never EVER!” she said. “Well, then I understand you. Don’t worry, it’s nothing to worry about. We’ll just go there together and do this,” he said. Shining Armor who was watching things quietly, suddenly perked up with a certain word from Flash. He shouted, “Wait, TOGETHER?” “Well, you heard our vice principal. We’re both on detention,” said Flash. “Twilight Sparkle, I will not let you go anywhere with that jerk,” said Shining Armor with a big frown to Flash. Twilight glared at him but spoke up in a calm tone, “Do I look like I care?” Shining’s face was filled with shock after she was done talking. He looked at his sister and opened his mouth several times but nothing came out. She just rolled her eyes and grabbed Flash’s hand. “Come on Flash. Let’s go.” “Alright?” he said doubtfully. As soon as the words came out of his mouth, she dragged Flash inside with her. When they were finally somewhere out of Shining’s sight, Twilight breathed a sigh of relief. “Wow, it was quite a show,” said Flash. “Yeah. And guess what? We have to do that for a while. At least till tomorrow night,” she said. “Is everything alright?” he asked doubtfully. “Yeah, except from the fact that Sunset had find a cure for this… thing!” “Well I sure don’t wanna drink some crazy potion that’ll blow my head.” “I wish it was just a potion. Then everything wouldn’t be so complicated.” “So… what’s the cure?” Twilight flushed and mumbled something under her breath. “I don’t think I got it.” She just blushed more and didn’t say anything. He was starting to get impatient so he took a deep breath and spoke up again, “Twilight, it’s okay. Just say it.” This time, she took a deep breath and mumbled, “A kiss.” It was barely audible but Flash’s sharp ears caught it and when they did, he blushed too. “Oh…” he mumbled. “And I guess Sunset will be following us everywhere till we… do that,” said Twilight. “But since we were just acting it all this time, I guess we can act this too.” “Yeah. I hope so,” he muttered. “But let’s just forget it. We’ll find a way for it when the time came. For now we just have to go that detention.” “Oh, about that. What is it? Are they gonna lock us in a class room? Or we have to do a lot of paper work or something?” she asked with a little bit of fear of what was coming for her. He chuckled. “What? No! Of course they won’t lock us in a class. And about paper work, they won’t make us do it. The students with higher crime… maybe. They’ll probably only make us color the fences or something like that.” “Yeah, I hope so,” she said with fear. Flash just chuckled and shook his head. Together, they went to backyard. Some other students were also there, waiting. As he said, some bottles or color and a few brushes were there waiting for them. “Okay, now what?” she asked. A girl there answered her, “We have to color the fences. Principal Celestia will be watching us from her office.” She pointed to a big window that was on the second floor. Principal Celestia stood there watching them. “PRINCIPAL CELESTIA? I’m so dead!” she said. “So what are you guys waiting for?” asked Flash. “Oh, for fun of course!” that girl answered with a big grin. “Fun?” asked Twilight. “Yeah fun,” she said as she pointed to a girl who was coming in their way. “DJ Pon-3?” “Yeah. Her listening to songs finally got her in trouble but it has a benefit for us. She will play some songs for us while we all work.” “But what about Principal Celestia? She’s watching you know.” “Well, I guess she’s gonna have some fun as well,” said that girl with a wink. Then she turned to others and started, “Let’s start the fun!” “Soarin! It’s good to finally see you!” said Soarin’s mom cheerfully. “Hey mom. It’s good to see you too, even though the last I saw you was this morning,” he said with a smile and roll of eyes. Ms. Cloud chuckled. “So where’s this girl Fury and you’ve been talking about? I really wanna see who’s the girl that found her way in the great Soarin Skies’ heart?” He rolled his eyes again and answered, “She’ll be here in a few.” The way he said it, made Spitfire believe that he had a girlfriend, even though Rainbow never came back to them or called them after Soarin told her everything at Cafeteria. Sure, it looked like he was calm and confident but in fact he was sure he would die if that imaginary girl wouldn’t show up in a minute. “I’m here!” said someone between her panting. Soarin’s eyes went wide as he recognized the girl’s voice. “Rainbow?” he whispered in a low tone. “Rainbow? Wow, I wasn’t expecting that,” said Ms. Cloud excitedly. She went up to her and hug her tightly. “I’m so happy you’re the girl he was talking about. From the way he talked of you, I can tell that he’s head over heels in love with you.” This time, Soarin’s smile seemed more natural because her mother was completely right. When she had asked about the girl he loved, he couldn’t stop himself and said all of the things he had told Fury with so much love that even dropped Spitfire’s jaw. And now, the one he loved was right beside him. Well, at least he didn’t have to lie to her mom about it. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer. “Of course I am,” he said with a smile. Rainbow’s cheeks turned pink as he said it. It was like a dream come true to her. Not only she was in the arms of the boy he was dreaming of, but also he had said that he loved her, even if it were fake. “Aww! You two are so cute together!” said Ms. Cloud. “Um… mom, don’t you think we should get going?” asked Spitfire. “Oh yes! Of course! We can’t be late for lunch. Come on everyone, get in the car,” she said happily. She walked up to her car and unlocked it. As soon as she walked away, Soarin breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Wow, I thought if I kept this up for another second, I would slip up.” Rainbow looked at him with guilt and said, “I’m sorry that I made it hard for you.” Soarin’s eyes went a bit wide from what she said. He turned to her and smiled at her. “I never said such thing. It was just unexpected, that’s all. I’m really happy that you’re here. It’s a lot easier to act because of you.” He smiled more at her. But suddenly he flushed a little and continued, “Just… don’t get offended of the things I’m gonna do. By the way… well… you know, we should act as lovers.” Rainbow flushed as well but smiled and replied, “It’s okay. I’m prepared for the worst.” Soarin chuckled and scratched the back of his head. After few awkward, silent moments, Ms. Cloud called, “Soarin, Rainbow, Spitfire, what are you guys waiting for?” They quickly put themselves together and rushed to the car. Spitfire who reached the car before anyone, took the front seat while Soarin and Rainbow were forced to seat at the back. Soarin wrapped an arm around the girl beside him and smiled at her lovingly. Rainbow blushed slightly at the touch but snuggled closer to him with a small, cute smile. He, also squeezed her tighter as she rested her head against his shoulder and sighed happily. Ms. Cloud was watching them from the mirrors. She smiled to herself as she saw them like that. It’s always been a dream of hers, to have Rainbow as her son’s girlfriend. Someone he would love and care for the rest of his life. Seeing love radiating from their eyes and every single of their motion, filled her heart with pride. Spitfire, also, couldn’t help but grin. Rainbow sure wasn’t aware of this but she had chosen the exact right girl for Soarin. Seeing them together happily was made her happy as well. She didn’t know if things would stay like this or not. Maybe Fury would come back again. Maybe things would change, but at that moment, she knew nothing and nobody could ruin the happiness these two had together.