It Started on a Sunday Afternoon

by Bookmark88

It Started on a Sunday Afternoon

It started on a Sunday afternoon.

It started on a Sunday afternoon. I was lying on top of a nice, soft cloud, taking a nap, when I heard my best friend calling me.

“Dashie? Dashie? Where are you?”

So, somewhat reluctantly, I got up and few down to her. After a good yawn, I asked her “So, Pinks, what do you want?”

“I’ve got something really cool I wanna show you! Come on.” And with that, she started bouncing off, heading back to Sugar Cube Corner. I chuckled, and followed her. Even if it turns out to be nothing big, spending my day off with Pinkie was bound to have something interesting happen, just as long as none of those emergencies happened again. Gee, it’s like we get at least 3 a year for Celestia’s sake.

So after a few minutes of following Pinkie back to her place, I was up in her room, looking in a box of rocks. “So, what are these?”

“They’re Rainbow Rocks! Maud sent them to me. Aren’t they cool?” I rolled my eyes “they look like ordinary rocks to me.” Pinkie got this odd look on her face, almost like she was annoyed, but that can’t be it, this is Pinkie we’re talking about. “No Dashie, they’re not called Rainbow Rocks because they’re rainbow colored. They’re called that because they glow rainbow when the pony who owns them and the pony they love are looking at them.

“Oh. That’s cool I guess.” I looked back at them, “So why show them to me then” then the rocks started glowing. I turned, and Pinkie was looking at the rocks. “Oh.”

“Oh.” Pinkie didn’t look happy anymore.

“So, you… Like, me?”

“Yeah”

Talk about awkward situations.
“ So, um… This is awkward.”

“Yeah.”

“Look, I’m sorry. I-I… How long?”

“Always.”

“Always? How long is always?”

“It’s a bit… When I was a little filly, and I saw my first rainbow, I swore that if I ever met the pony who made it, that I’d love them forever and ever and ever. Then, years later, I met you. You were cool, and confident, and cute, and pretty. I just couldn’t help but fall in love. But, I know that there aren’t a lot of ponies like me, mares that like mares, so I decided that… If I could just be your friend, that it would be enough. But then I got to know you, and my feelings just got stronger and stronger. And then I learned that you made the Rainbow that stoked the flames of fun in my heart and led me to be a super party pony. I learned that you were the pony I swore I’d love forever. And that made my feelings just so much… I love you. So much it hurts. I just had to try something, even if it didn’t work. Then Maud sent me the rocks. I didn’t ask her for them or anything, she just sent them. She said, in her letter, that she thought I’d think they were interesting”

“But, I should have known that you wouldn’t feel the same way I do. I’m sorry I interrupted your nap.”

“Pinks…”

“I’d like to me alone right now.”

“But”

“Alone. Please”

So I just turned around and flew out the window. I figured I’d come back and talk to her later. I started flying back home, when I saw Twilight and Rarity sitting on a rooftop. Twilight had a pair of binoculars, pointed towards Sugar Cube Corner. I got a bad feeling about it, so I flew around and snuck up behind them.

“Hey girls”

Rarity jumped. “Rainbow Dash you brute! Don’t sneak up on ponies like that. Gave us such a fright.”

Twilight looked a bit startled as well, “Rainbow Dash. What are you doing here?”

“Oh, nothing much, just saw two of my friends sitting on a roof. With binoculars. Staring in to Pinkie’s bedroom. Really now, peeping is an odd hobby for a princess, don’t you think?”

Twilight blushed, and Rarity started stuttering. “D-d-darling, honestly. We aren’t voyeurs, and even if we were, really, spying on Pinkie? Really now, she’s just so sweet and innocent, stalking her would just be wrong.”

I glared. “How much did you see?”

Twilight spoke up “All of it.”

“So, why exactly where you spying on Pinkie, and why the hay didn’t you stop when saw she was talking to me about something private!?”

“Well, um, Rainbow, the thing you have to realize is that. Pinkie is really obvious about how she feels about you. I can see it, Rarity can see it, Applejack and Fluttershy can see it. The cakes see it. Zecora sees it.”

“I think the gentlestallions club has a betting pool on when Pinkie would confess her feelings to you.”

“Her sister Maud even asked if I noticed Pinkie acting a bit weird around you, when she visited”

“And Rainbow Dash, honestly, we’ve all seen how you look at her.”

“And seeing her suffer, trying to keep her feelings inside, it hurt us watching that. So, we all got together and we planned it out. We asked Zecora to brew a potion that would make anything that was coated with it glow-“

“-The rainbow color was her idea. It was a nice touch-“

“-yes, and I cast a spell on it so that the potion wouldn’t activate unless it was in the presence of you and Pinkie for a few seconds. That was hard, I had to get a good scan of both of you.”

Now I was kind of confused “When did you get a chance to do that?”

“Remember three months ago, when I was doing that research about different pony tribes and their inherent magic? When I asked you girls to volunteer? That was a lie.”

“Anyway, we sent the potion to Maud, and she poured it on some rocks, and mailed them to Pinkie, making up that story about how they glow when lovers look at them.”

Okay, now I was just, wow. “Okay, I guess somepony else could find out how she felt about me, by why would you do this? Why would you assume I felt the same way?”

At least they had the decency to look ashamed. Rarity spoke. “well, like I said, we’ve seen the looks you give her, so we, um, that is, Twilight, myself, the others, a few ponies from around town, we all thought that you were in love with her. And then we figured that if you and she were in love with each other, then you just needed a little push… Please don’t be upset, darling.”

Okay, that stopped me for a minute. For them to just assume… Yeah, I admit it, I’d looked at Pinkie. She was wrong, I do like mares. I like stallions too, but I can appreciate a good looking mare. And Pinkie is certainly a good-looking mare, though really she’s more cute than hot. I’ve checked her out, but that’s it, I’ve never thought about doing anything with her, or going out with her. To be honest, I’ve checked out all of my friends once or twice. Except Fluttershy, she’s like a sister to me. I’m getting off track, the point is I’ve looked, but I’ve never even thought about touching.

“Okay, I get that you were trying to help, but Pinkie is very, very sad right now. Even if she likes me, and that’s awkward as all hay right now, but she’s still my best friend, and she’s hurt. Now, I know she’d try to cheer me up if this was the other way around, so I need to do something to cheer her up. You can help, or you can go home. Got it?”

After that they kind of look upset and left. Even as mad as I was at them, and how bad I felt about the situation with Pinkie, I couldn’t help but be a teensy bit impressed with how good Twilight’s getting with her wings. Just a little bit, though. Can’t be too impressed, I’m mad at her

I got up and flew back to my house. I needed to think up a way to make this right.
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It was about an hour later and I was still thinking about it. Celestia, why do things have to be so hard? I went over the details again. Pinkie likes me. She thinks I don’t like her, and she’s upset about it. The other girls came up with a plan to get us together that’s more complex than the plot of Daring Doo and the Mystery of the Reaper’s Notebook, and Pinkie’s upset. Pinkie has these beautiful eyes and she’s upset. Wait where did that come from?

Well, Pinkie does look nice, I said that before. I know I said that I’d never thought about it, but I guess if Pinkie wants to try a relationship… She’s cute, she’s fun to be around, and she like me. No. she loves me. She said as much. I checked my clock, about 4:30. Plenty of time. I flew back down to Sugar Cube corner

I knocked on Pinkie’s window. She opened it, and oh Celestia it hurt. She looked like she’d been crying, and her mane had deflated a bit. Not all the way, like on her birthday, but it still didn’t look to good.

She looked surprised to see me. “Dashie? I-I said I wanted to be alo—oomph!”

She didn’t’ get to finish, because I pulled her into a kiss. After a few seconds, she started to kiss back. We stayed like that for about a minute, flying, kissing, Pinkie hanging half out of a window, before somepony in the street below whistled up at us. Embarrassed, I broke the kiss, pushed Pinkie back inside, followed after her, and closed the window.

“Dashie? Why, after earlier? I thought you didn’t like mares.”

“I never said that. It was a bit awkward; I really wasn’t expecting you to confess that you loved me, but… I left you alone, because you asked me too. I thought about it for a while, and, well, you’re a nice looking filly, and it’s fun spending time with you. If you love me, then I don’t really see why we can’t be together. There are other couples out there with less going for them.”
Pinkie just gave me one of her biggest, goofiest, Pinkiest grins before she pulled me into a warm hug. I smiled and hugged back. We stayed like that for a few minutes, before a big rumbling sound snapped us back to reality.

Pinkie was blushing. “Sorry”, she said. “I was really nervous earlier so I kind of didn’t eat lunch cause I was anxious and working up the courage to ask you to look at the Rainbow Rocks with me and then after that I was too sad to eat and then you came here and the-oomph”

Another kiss to quiet her. Afterwards, I looked right into her eyes and smiled. “It’s okay Pinks, I understand. It’s about five o’clock, how about we go out and get something to eat? My treat.”

“Are you asking me out on a date?”
Now it was my turn to blush, “well, not a “date” date, I don’t have much on me, but I think I can afford something from the Hayburger or something. Um, if that’s okay with you?”

Pinkie giggled. “With you, anything is okay.” We kissed again, and I flew her downtown to the Hayburger, we ate, spent a few hours hanging out, I ended up crashing at her place. We still had a lot to talk about. I still had to explain about that Plan Twilight and Rarity cooked up, and we still needed to work out how to tell everypony. But, all and all, that day had been a pretty good day.

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