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// Chapter 15 
// Story: Summer In Cloudsdale 
// by Marli_Lin 
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"HEY, what are you listen?"
Dash hear  cheerful voice and full of spirit. AJ, her cousin the same age, went to her room and immediately lay down on her bed. Before Dash replied, AJ has been reached  CD which is being held by Dash.
"He’s Handsome," she remarked when looking at the front cover CD whose Soarin’s photo. "Why you got signatures of there? It's a real signature of the singer? You meet him before? "
Dash laughed and took the CD back. "Yes. "
She saw AJ just grinned and shrugged. There are times when she wanted to be like her cousin. AJ is a happy girl, relaxed, and talented. See, despite spending most of her life in Povyville with her father and only occasionally visited his mother in Philidelpia when on vacation.
"Do you have plans today?" Dash asked. "How early you come here?"
"I get bored at home," said her cousin lightly. She sat on the edge of the bed and tidying Dash hair. "By the way, you are suddenly bobbed in Ponyville. Make everybody shocked. Broken heart again? "
"What?"
"Are you have a crushes?" AJ replace the question.
"What's crushes?"
AJ eyes widened. "Ugh ... you really don’t understand or what… must I speak Indonesian to you?" She said with a chuckle. "I mean, have you got a guy? Already have a boyfriend? You know. "
Dash smile. "Already," she said, pointing to the front cover picture CD. "This is him."
AJ grimaced. "Yeah, also Wave Chill is my brother," she said quickly. "What the heck, I asked nicely."
Dash  has also been estimated that AJ would not believe her. She looked at Soarin face at the CD cover. Already one week she was in Ponyville, and during a week that she could not see the photos and articles about Soarin in the tabloids and on television. But Spitfire still frequently send massage-the latest news. Also Soarin sometimes send message to inform the situation.
"AJ, could I borrow your phone?"
"Why? "Asked AJ pulling cell phone out of her purse.
"I want to send a massage to my friends in Cloudsdale. I want to say after tomorrow I'm going back to there, "Dash explained. AJ shook her head and sighed.

"Here, already send it," AJ said, and then she got out of Dash bed. "Now we should go!"
"What? Where are you going?"
AJ looked at herself in the mirror hanging on the wall, turn left, turn right, then leaned close to the mirror, as if to check if there is a speck of dust on the tip of her nose. "We'll go to Disneyland? " 

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"So you definitely come back today?" Asked Spitfire. She thanked the clerk who handed groceries and refocus Spitfire who was talking on the other end.
"Mm," said Dash. Her voice was less clear for international connections. "Now I'm on my way home. Two hours I will go to the train station. My train leaves at midnight, so I think I'll schedule until tomorrow morning. "
Spitfire pushed the glass door and exit the store. "Okay. I'll meet you at the Station later. "
"No need. I can take a taxi alone. Don’t you have to help your mother? "
"Usually there are no customers coming in that hours," argued Spitfire. "Soarin was in the Canterlot, so he cannot go to pick you up."
"I know. He came home today. "
Spitfire grimace. "I see you still in touch with him. Did your mother not angry? "
Spitfire hear Dash chuckle on the other side, and Dash said, "No, actually she was not really angry. My mom just sad because reminded of  Scootaloo."
Spitfire nodded, even though she knew Dash could not see the nod of her head. "Yes, Soarin've done. Somehow. At least now he is busy. "
"Oh, pleasan-AHH!"
Spitfire stopped running. She frowned. "Hello? Hello? Dash? "
No answer. The telephone connection has been lost. Spitfire looked at her cell phone, then she try to call Dash phone, again. Cannot.  try again. Still cannot.
Initially Spitfire was not so troubling about disconnected, but when she could not find her at the Station when she picked the next day, she began to worry. She again tried to call Dash, but still cannot connect.
Spitfire confusion. She did not know the phone number of Dash's house in Ponyville. She had to call anyone? Suddenly she remembered the massage received from Dash by using her cousin phone. Spitfire checking her cell phone. Hopefully her cousin phone numbers was still there.

Ah, have not been removed. Thank God.
Spitfire quickly dialed the number and waited impatiently.
"Hello?" She got an answer from the other side. Women's voices. Dash Cousins or not? It looks like it's true.
"Hello," she said uncertainly. "Is this Dash 's cousin?"
"Yes," the woman replied. His voice sounded strange. "This is AJ. Who 's speaking? "
"My name is Spitfire. Rainbow Dash 's friend from Korea, "said Spitfire introduce herself. "I need to ask you something. Dash told me that she would arrive in Cloudsdale today, but I couldn’t find her at the train station. She couldn’t make it?"
Upon hearing the answer Dash cousin, Spitfire's eyes widened. "What?! I "m sorry ... what was that? Can you say that again, please? "
Spitfire feel her body relaxed instantly. Once disconnected, she immediately contacted Soarin through Ben Bear phone because she did not have Soarin phone number. Not connected. Perhaps Ben Bear and Soarin was still in the plane that brought them back to Cloudsdale from the Canterlot.
She ruffled her hair with despair. She must immediately notify Soarin what has happened to Dash.

"Tired," Ben muttered as he got into the car that was waiting for them at the front door of the airport.
Soarin leaned his head back into the chair. Dash should have been returned to Cloudsdale today. Really have almost a month had passed since the last time he met her? Today he would be able to see her. Soarin felt his spirits restored once thought he could see Dash.
He wondered to himself since when the girl was to be one reason for through his day. Because you want to see and with her, so he persisted, still wake up in the morning, keep breathing. Soarin now understand what it means when someone wants to stay alive for the sake of others. He often watched the drama which the main character is a deadly serious disease, but he wants to stay alive for the sake of his loved. Prior to this, Soarin did not really understand the feeling like it until now, although are not suffering from any disease, he wanted to stay alive. Because in this life, there is someone very precious to him. Because in this life, he wanted to always be able to see and with that person.
"Strange. Dash friend named Spitfire's already called me a dozen times. "
Soarin reverie was interrupted by the sound of his manager. He turned and saw Ben was frowning staring at her cell phone.
"Spitfire?" Asked Soarin.
Ben nodded. "I just found out after turn on my phone back."
Soarin participated pulled his phone and activate it. Suddenly Ben phone rang.
"Spitfire," said Ben and immediately answered.
Soarin watched his manager talking with Dash's friends.
"Spitfire, speaking slowly. I do not understand what you're saying, "said Ben. "Soarin? ... Yes, he's here ... Want to talk to him? ... Okay, wait. "
Soarin frowned. Suddenly he felt unwell. What to do with Dash?
He received a phone from Ben. "Yes?"
"Soarin, I want to tell you earlier, but Uncle mobile phone  inactive and I do not know your number." Soarin hear the voice of Dash friend was a bit nervous and confused.
"Me and Ben is on the plane, so we were both inactive our cell phone before," Soarin explains. The feeling increasingly uneasy. "Why are you looking for me?"
"Dash..."
Why did he suddenly found it hard to breathe?
"What's wrong with Dash?" He asked. His hands began to feel cold. He himself began to panic. "Where is she?"
"Dash still in Ponyville."
"She did not go home today? Why?"
Spitfire silent for a moment. Soarin will call her when she spoke again. "She had an accident."
"What?"
This time Spitfire explanation flow smoothly. "I already called her cousin in Ponyville because Dash phone cannot contacted. She had told me Dash in a traffic accident. The taxi she was traveling was involved in a pileup on the freeway. "
Soarin feel his chest heavy, trouble breathing, his blood froze as if granted. "How is her condition now?"
"Not consciously." Spitfire's voice began to break. It looks like she began to cry.
Still unconscious ... Oh my God ...
Soarin tried hard to catch his breath. "In which hospital? ... I understand ... Thank you. "
Dash was lying unconscious ...
"Soarin, what happen? Dash entered the hospital? "
Soarin hear Ben, but he did not have the strength to answer. His mind was frantic.
"Hey, Soarin!"
"I must be there," he said quickly regardless manager. "I have to go to Ponyville."

AJ hugged a basket with one hand. A basket of food that will be given to Dash parents who have been waiting Dash overnight in the hospital. AJ who told her mother brought food to them.
She stepped through the front door of the large hospital and walked to the elevator. AJ plans to persuade uncle and aunt in breaks. If she could keep the uncle and aunt want to go home for a while. AJ felt sorry for them both. Yesterday her mothers and fathers crying also had cried after seeing Dash lying in a hospital room with a full body and facial injuries.
Ting!
Tara flinched tinkling bell that signaled the open of the elevator doors. She exhales loudly and out of the elevator. When will veer towards Dash room, she stopped. At Dash's room she saw two men she did not recognize were standing face to face with both Dash parents. AJ saw the old one embrace aunt who occasionally wiping tears with a handkerchief, nodding a little.
AJ squinting. Looks like she had seen one of the two men. Not the old one, but standing next to him with his head bowed. The look on the face of the man looked disheveled. Wait ... is not the same man with the men in the picture on the front cover of the CD has ever been demonstrated Dash to her? AJ watched more carefully. Right ... indeed that person. That means ... the artist?
Then AJ saw Dash's parents march to the man wearing glasses. The artist bowed to Dash's parents, but he did not go. He remained standing at the door of the room where Dash was.
The man was holding the handle of the bedroom door for a moment. Not moving. Then slowly he opened the door and entered.

Soarin felt himself tired. He had never felt like this. All his energy seemed to have absorbed. His chest felt so heavy. He climbed the first train he could get to Ponyville, then straight to the hospital where Dash was. Everything went like a dream. When he met Dash's parents for the first time, when he spoke to them, asked that he be permitted to see Dash, she was still in a state of semi-conscious.
He went into her room and Dash seemed kneaded so strong when he saw Dash lying with her eyes closed. Soarin went to bed and watched Dash bruised face. Her head was bandaged, as well as elbow and a leg.
Soarin pulled up a chair and sit on the side of the bed. He smiled weakly.
"It's me," he said quietly.
Dash remained motionless.
Soarin reached out and touched the hands of Dash. "Have not seen you. You know, I almost forgot your face. If I forgot your face, I could never do anything right. You know why? Because I'll be too busy trying to remember your face as to not being able to think of other problems. Pretty bad, right? "
He stroked Dash cheek with his fingertips. "Now seeing you, I just remembered. Ah, right ... Your eyes are like this ... your mouth like this…your nose ... forehead ... and hair. "
He held her hand gently. "How could I forget your face?" Soarin sighs. "My memory is bad, I know. What do you think, what should I do? I think, I have to see you every day so I would not to forget. That means you should always at my side, with me. What do you think?"

AJ approached Dash bedroom door and hesitated. She had no thought or purpose whatsoever. She just wanted to know what the man in Dash room doing. She therefore strengthen the heart and opened the door slowly.
She saw the man sitting on the side of the bed. The man was not aware of her presence behind the door. AJ saw Dash's hand with one of the man hand. AJ stunned to see how the man looked at her cousin. Never before has anyone looked at her that way. AJ is not a romantic type of person, but she felt the gaze was so sincere. She would have been crushed if anyone gave her a feeling like that.
The man is talking As he spoke, the man touched Dash's face with his fingertips. Only with the fingertips, and very slowly, as if afraid of hurting the girl lying on the bed. Unconsciously, AJ held her breath, amazed to see him and Dash. The man's voice was soft and deep.
The man sighed heavily. He stared at Dash's face and then AJ heard him whisper, "I Love You ..."
AJ esophagus somehow choked and tears rolling down. Which made AJ touched is the way the man say: with all the feeling, as if he no longer have the energy to utter another word. With a simple word an only three word.
I love you....