Friendship Is Weird

by butboifranko

Chapter Two

The two mares trotted along the path to Rarity’s Boutique as the sun striked at their colorful coats with it’s warmth, making the two mares sweat as they continued the walk through town. Rainbow Dash was airborne, mumbling to herself about flying and how totally awesome the Wonderbolts were. Twilight did nothing but trot, and think.

All she could think about was this whole experiment, and how strange it was. She hadn't mentioned it to Rainbow when they had agreed to do it, and she agreed mostly because it gave her something to do while waiting for a new shipping of books to come in from Canterlot. Since she was the only one that ever read a book from the Library. The other inhabitants of Ponyville, or even visitors, barely ever read anything that Ponyville Library had to offer. Why did they back away from the power of knowledge? Why didn't they take the chance and learn something new? NO. Instead they’d rather go out with their colt or marefriends, or just friends in particular, and live their life to the fullest.

Twilight grinded her teeth at just the thought of it. Reading books of all genres, and studying as many topics she could get a grasp on, had practically in scripted itself into her life. It meant a big deal to her, and it saddened her spirit to know that somepony out there thought it didn’t matter.

Not to mention this topic; dating? Twilight had never had a coltfriend, or even…a marefriend. And why did Rainbow offer to be her “date”? She announced it so sudden too, she even brought up the fact that she believed that they wouldn’t be able to find anyone to go on a date with her. Didn’t the pegasus have any valid points to support her statement, or was she too lazy to do even that?

But, for some strange reason…Twilight didn’t feel any negatively toward the thought of Rainbow being her “date.” Why was it that she felt almost, flattered?

“Hey Egghead! Snap out of it, we’re here!” The cocky mare exclaimed, drawing Twilight out of her head.

“Th-that was fast,” The unicorn paused, “Lets see if she’s home.”

Twilight went up to the door and knocked with a firm hoof.

She waited for the sound of hooves coming to the door, but when nothing was heard, she knocked again.

“Ugh. She’s probably caught up with her stupid fabric! Let’s just go inside. It is a public place, ya know.” Rainbow explained as she went ahead of Twilight and opened the door, avoiding the chance of listening to the unicorn’s opinion. She wanted to get this out of the way, as soon as possible, or at least… that’s what she tried to demonstrate.

Dash strut herself with confidence into the Carousel Boutique. The entrance was lightened with rays of sunlight from the windows, as bright colors were displayed in different locations of the room. The sunlight piercing through the windows made the multicoloured fabrics burst out with intensity. Green, purple, red, snow white, yellow and more made the room painted with colourful fashion.

When the two mares saw no trace of Rarity in the entrance, they made their way to her Inspiration Room, also known as her Work Room. Apparently, the tidiest pony in all of Ponyville was inspired by mess.

As Rainbow and Twilight drew closer to her room, they began to hear music. When they were finally at the door, they heard music, but also singing.

Dash smirked at Twilight as she quietly opened the door, as a blast of music poured out.

“You're insecure, don't know what for, you're turning heads when you trot through the door, don't need make-up, to cover up, being the way that you are is enough,” Rarity was singing beautifully along with the radio as she worked on a dress. Rainbow had already entered a fit of muted giggles, Twilight was holding back.

Then the chorus came on.

“Baby you light up my world like nopony else! The way that you flip your mane gets me overwhelmed. The way you stare at the ground it hard to tell, you don’t know, oh oh, you don’t know you’re beautiful-”

Rarity began dancing across the room squealing like a little school filly, as the two mares hiding behind her door were laughing uncontrollably at the scene displayed before them. Never in their life had they seen Rarity out of her, classy state. Well except maybe one or two times, but this was impossible not to laugh at it!

“Hey there, Rarity.” Dash blurted out in between laughs.

The marshmallow coated mare stopped dancing, and turned around to see the two mares laughing their flanks off. Rarity blushed uncontrollably, opening her mouth to say something, but nothing came through. Until she swallowed,

“Wh-at? What in Celestia’s mane are you do-ing here? Haven’t you heard of knocking!?” The unicorn stuttered out with anger, still covering her face with her hoof to hide her intensifying blush.

Twilight made her way into the room, having had controlled her laughter. “Sorry Rarity, we just need to ask you about something.”

Rarity scoffed. “That is not a valid reason to barge into a pony’s home, Twilight.”

“Oh my gosh Rarity, that song is totally un rainbow!” Exclaimed the now hovering cyan pegasus, as she rolled her eyes before continuing, “The Wonderbolts are way better singers!”

“Rainbow Dash, that doesn’t even make any sense. ‘That song is totally un rainbow'? Honestly darling, you could try harder than that. Not to mention the Wonderbolts don’t even sing…and I’m sure they’d sound atrocious.” The blanc unicorn shot back.

Twilight stood between them, watching the two ponies fight back and forth about who was the better artist. One Direction, and the Wonderbolts. Mother of Celestia…

“-Not to mention that the sun follows them where ever they go! Haven’t you ever noticed how their eyes are always squinting when they take a picture? The Wonderbolts surely don’t have the sun following them, they’re the ones that follow the sun.” Rarity concluded her statement of why One Direction was better. Rainbow Dash’s face showed nothing but disgust.

“Well excuse me, PRINCESS. Oh wait. You’re not a princess…UGH, whatever. Thing is that the Wonderbolts could kick One Directions scrawny flanks. I bet if they even came close to the awesomeness of the Wonderbolts, they’d explode due to overexposure to pure radicalness!”

Rarity raised any eyebrow and sighed, “You’re making up words again Rainbow Dash. Radicalness is not a word, and don’t even GO THERE! Of course the Wonderbolts are strong due to their mass amount of training and expertise on flying, but One Direction have some muscles. And here is my proof!”

Before Rainbow Dash could say anything, a poster was shoved in her face. On the poster was a pony with a shaggy mane. She looked at it with disgust and noticed some muscles.

Twilight Sparkle had face hoofed through the past ten minutes that had pasted. This was seriously going way too far, “Girls!”

Rarity and Rainbow turned their attention to the annoyed lavender unicorn. They realized what they were doing, and Rarity grinned sheepishly, while Rainbow Dash mutter something inaudible.

“Alright. So Rarity, Rainbow and myself came by to ask you about dating.” Twilight explained as quickly as possible, now wanting to just get it over with and start the experiment.

A gasp came from Rarity, “Are you two dating now?” She asked with excitement.

“No. Rainbow is helping me with an experiment on dating. We aren’t…a couple or anything.” Twilight explained with a lump in her throat, for some odd reason. She had no idea why that question affected her so much.

“You’re experimenting on dating?” Rarity paused and thought it over before continuing, “I don’t really agree with this experiment of yours Twilight, but I’ll be willing to answer your questions.”

Twilight was confused that Rarity didn’t agree with them, and was curious to know her reasons, “Why don’t you agree with the experiment Rarity?”

“We don’t fiddle around with dating Twilight. Dating leads to love, and we certainly do not, and I mean never, play around love. It’s a very touchy subject, and a pony can get hurt.” Rarity explained, drifting her eyes toward Rainbow as she said her last few words, gaining a glance back from the pegasus, but being abandon almost immediately.

Twilight didn’t acknowledge it. “I understand Rarity, but I guarantee nothing will go wrong.” Twilight turned to face the now quiet pegasus, “Right, Rainbow?” She received a shaky nod. Weird.

Rarity bit her lip, “If you say so Twilight. Now, what is it you and Rainbow wanted to ask?”

“We were wondering what exactly ponies do on dates.” Twilight replied.

“Anything, really. You can go and see a movie, a walk through the park, have a picnic, go on a romantic dinner, which I prefer myself…and much more. It all depends on what kind of personality the ponies have, and what they’re willing to do with each other. You just have to talk with each other on what you and Rainbow would like to do together.”

Twilight thought it over in her head, and got the idea. “Oh, alright. So it just depends on what activities will match with our different personalities and interests. I understand, how about you Rainbow?”

Rainbow Dash nodded, “Yeah I got it. Dashing clear!”

Rarity shook her head, but smiled nonetheless. “Anything else you would like to know Twilight?”

The lavender unicorn shook her head, “Nope, that’s all we were uncertain about. Thank you very much Rarity, but Rainbow and me should get going now; we have a lot of work to do!”

Rarity nodded, “Of course. You two go a long now. I have work to get done anyway, and good luck with your experiment!” She turned to Rainbow and smiled, as the pegasus let a smirk creep onto her face.

“Come on Rainbow, we got a lot of work to do!” Twilight exclaimed as she lead the way out of Rarity’s Boutique.

“I’m coming ‘Twi!” Rainbow shouted back as she dashed through the doors and raced after the galloping unicorn.

Once the cyan mare got outside and continued her flight along with Twilight, she flew overhead of Twilight slowly, keeping pace with the not very active unicorn. They made their way to Ponyville Library to start planning their date for the experiment.

Hopefully nothing will get weird.

Author's Note:

I'm on Dash's side on that argument. eheh.

Comments

[Paradox949]

I read this on DA yesterday, will have to read it again here.

[SlightlyOnline]

Glad to see this here as well!

[Cedric Inuzuka]

DA ?
I assume this is not Dumbledore Army

Good start, It's seem Rainbow hide something ?

I'm can't wait for the next chapter.

Good luck

Cédric

[Rainbow87dash]

Friendship is indeed weird
I have a friend who has Sex constantly on his mind
I have a friend who's a complete troll
I have a friend who has a bit of an anger amangment problem
I have a friend that spends all his time studying and reading books ( seriously he might as well be the new Twilight)
And I have a friend who's actually pretty alright, BROHOOF to you my dear friend Mathew /) although you are not a brony hmm Brofist?

[butboifranko]

1845717 DA- Deviantart

[Timaeus]

You know, despite it's obvious applications to MLP, I never see the famous "Well excuuuse me PRINCESS" in any story here. And now I've finally seen it!

[michaelajunker]

If you need a proofreader, let me know.

[ausdrew96]

Why cancelled?

[Daring Cammie Do]

I'm on Dash side too. Also, why'd you cancel? Was it because you lost inspiration? And if so, is it OK if someone else where to pick up the story for you? Hint hint.