As Rainbow woke up, her first image to her eyes was the stallion she fell asleep next to. She watched him sleeping, thinking how cute he looks right now.
As Lightning slowly began to wake up, Rainbow smiled. Before he could fully wake up and open her eyes, she kissed him.
As their lips separated, Lightning opened his eyes smiling. "Good morning, Rainbow."
"Morning."
The two of them wished this moment wouldn't end. But they both knew it couldn't.
Lightning gave her a peck then got up. Rainbow followed suit as they left the room.
He went straight to the window, "Looks like the rain and wind stopped."
"Is that so?" Rainbow looked down a bit sad. "I guess that means I have to go back home?"
"I never said you had to go home." He walked over to her, "But don't you have work to do?"
"I do, but I don't really want to leave."
"How long would it take you to work today?"
"Like an hour or two, why?"
"You go to work, and by the time you get back, I'll have something special for you."
"What is it?"
"It's a surprise. Go work."
"Alright." Rainbow left the house.
Lightning walked into his kitchen, searching through the pantry. He took out a bag of powder. He looked at the ingredients on the bag and started taking them out, then started preheating the oven.
An hour and a half later, Rainbow knocked on the door. Lightning walked to the door and opened it, "Hey Rainbow."
"Hey Lightning... Is that, cake?"
"It might be." Lightning chuckled as he walked away from the door, "Pinkie Pie isn't the only one that can make sweets."
Rainbow walked in and closed the door, "The cake smells great."
"Well then that's going to bother you throughout the day."
"What do you mean?"
"The cake, it's not gonna be eaten right away."
"Why not?"
"Because, it's a reward."
"A reward, for what?"
"For if it goes well tonight."
"What goes well?"
"The date tonight. Remember, you're suppose to set up a date for us. Didn't we agree to this yesterday?"
"We're still going through with that?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't we be."
"Well I thought after last night, it wasn't needed."
"It was already agreed so of course it's still going on."
"Alright... I guess I'll be back."
"I'll be here."
Rainbow left the house to find a place to hold the date.
Lightning went back to the kitchen to ice the cake. He chuckled to himself, "I wonder what she'll think when I tell her it didn't matter how the date went."
Around an hour later, there was a knock on the door. As Lightning opened the door he said, "Back already?"
"You expected me to be out longer?" Rainbow asked.
"Not really, just figured it would have been longer. It's only been an hour."
"It may have been an hour but I've already set everything up. However, it won't happen until tonight."
"Why tonight?"
"So then it would be dark out. Not everything is great in the morning."
"What makes you think I like the dark? Maybe I love the morning." Lightning actually did like the night, he just wanted to know what Rainbow would say.
"Well, considering how you always wake up around noon tells me you stay up till like 1 in the morning. Not to mention how much you loved the atmosphere last night."
"Okay, you got me. I do like the night. So, what did you plan?"
"I can't tell you, then it won't be a special surprise."
"Keeping secrets huh? No way I can get it out of you?"
"Nope. I'm not gonna tell you. You'll just have to wait."
"Not even if I," Lightning started tickling her with his hoof, "tickle you?"
Rainbow started laughing uncontrollably. "S-S-Stop it." She said, barely able to get it out. "I'm no-ha-ha-t saying."
Lightning stopped, "Alright, if you say so." He started walking away.
"Hey, where are you going?" Rainbow returned the favor and started tickling him.
"H-Hey, no fair." Lightning started laughing.
"You can tickle me but I can't do it to you?"
"B-But it tickles! I can't s-stop laughing."
Rainbow stopped tickling him, and he tried to catch is breath. "Better?"
"Yeah. Don't do that to me, I couldn't breathe."
"Well now you know how I feel."
Lightning looked at her, "Fine, I won't tickle you anymore... Unless the situation calls for it."
"What is that suppose to mean?"
"It doesn't mean anything," Lightning said, kissing her cheek.
Hours passed as they enjoyed each others company. They realized it got dark out. Lightning said, "So is it time yet?"
"Yup, why don't you follow me."
Rainbow left the house, leaving the door open and flew off fast. "Hey wait for me!" Lightning walked outside and shut the door as he quickly followed.
As the two of them landed, Lightning said, "A picnic late at night?"
"Yeah, something wrong with that?"
"No, I just, never expected something like this."
"Well what did you expect for something at night?"
"Hmm, maybe some sort of restaurant thing. But what fun would it be if you expect everything."
"So, shall we eat?"
They sat down and started eating the dinner that Rainbow had made.
As the two of them started cleaning up their mess, Rainbow asked, "So, am I allowed to eat the cake now?"
"I knew it." Lightning responded putting away an empty wrapper.
"Knew what?"
"That the only reason you did this was to get the cake."
"That's not the only reason, it was just a side reason." She chuckled. "You're the main reason."
"Well, what if I say, there is only one way you can have a slice of the cake."
"What the condition?"
"You beat me back to my house, starting... Now!" Lightning quickly flew backwards towards his house laughing, then turned around and flew forward.
"Hey, no fair!" Rainbow followed with the picnic basket.
As Lightning walked into his home, Rainbow was right there behind him. "I'm 5 seconds slower than you in clearing out clouds, yet I can beat you back to my house."
"You cheated, you took a head start."
"It took about a minute to get back to my house, and I only left 5 seconds before you. If my math is correct you should have beaten me by like, 20 seconds. Have you gotten slower?"
"Me? The fast pony in all of Equestria, getting slower? Yeah right."
Lightning walked into the kitchen and got two slices of cake, giving one to Rainbow. "Here you are."
"I thought I couldn't have one, since I didn't beat you to your own house."
"You would have gotten the cake anyway, Rainbow. I've been joking this entire time. I mean seriously, I made the cake for you."
"All that hard work, for nothing."
"That was hard work? It was only an hour of preparation."
"It's not like you have ever done something like that before."
"Prepare something for somepony I like? I have done something like that before. Where did you get that food?"
"Well, I bought most of it."
"I made the cake. Not from scratch, I mean I had cake mix."
"Alright fine, you got me. You prepared more than I have."
"Relax, it's not like it's a contest."
"You moved in like a week ago right?"
"Yeah."
"And you got the job on the weather team for bits right?"
"Yeah, I did. Why?"
"Then how could you afford all this stuff. It must of been about 1,000 bits."
"Well, when I first came here. I mean, through that teleport thing. I got to pick where my house would be, and I chose Cloudsdale. And everything was here when I arrived."
"Really?"
"Yeah. However, what I've always been wondering..."
"What?"
"Why I chose to be a Pegasus."
"Why do you wonder that?"
"This may sound strange, but before I came here. I was afraid of hights."
"No way, seriously?" Rainbow said, holding a chuckle.
"Laugh if you want, I don't mind it. I guess the actually reason I chose to be a Pegasus, is so that I could be with you."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because I know you love to fly, you love to soar as high as you can go. So if I was a Unicorn or Earth pony, I'd just keep you grounded, and I wouldn't want to do that to you."
"It wouldn't matter if you were an Unicorn or an Earth pony. As long as you would have the same personality, I'd be in love with you either way."
"Heh, I doubt that."
"What do you mean?"
"The only reason why we met, was because I needed a job. So if it weren't for me being a Pegasus, I would never have met you. And, if I never found out about that other stallion, I'd be with Roseluck. Though it wouldn't have lasted long."
"Who knows, maybe we'd meet some other way. Get to know each other the more Pinkie Pie threw her parties, that's actually how we met."
"True, but it really kicked off when I flirted with you and almost beat your time with the clouds."
"Yeah, almost beat my time."
"Are you saying I'm not capable of beating your time?"
"Yup." Rainbow had a smug smile on her face.
"If I train hard enough, I can improve my speed. Like how Fluttershy did with the tornado duty."
"Yeah, sure. Have fun with that."
"Rainbow, can I asked you a question?"
"Yeah, sure."
"This may sound a bit odd coming from me, but before I came here, was there anypony you had your eye on?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Just a question. Could you please answer?"
"Well, yeah I did have an eye on somepony on the Wonderbolts team, Soarin'."
"Really? The reason why I asked, is because back where I'm from. There's a lot of 'shipping' between you and him. I just wanted to clarify that in my head."
"Okay...? Can I return the question to you? I mean, besides me, was there somepony you had an eye on, well besides Roseluck."
"To be honest, I had back ups for if I couldn't get you, or if it doesn't work out between us."
"Like who?"
"It was Applejack, believe it or not."
"Applejack, really? Why her?"
"Well, I've always liked the country. Though I'm not a country boy myself, I have wished to be one."
"Hmm, well if you'd like to, I wouldn't mind testing out something with her." Rainbow said that last part in a sort of whisper tone. She had actually been told by Applejack that she wouldn't mind dating Lightning.
"Testing out something? What do you mean?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing." Rainbow said that lying.
"Alright..." Lightning took the now empty plates and threw them away.
"Anyway, it's getting pretty late, I think I should get going." Rainbow walked over to the door and tried to open it. "The door won't open again."
Lightning walked over to her and looked out the window. "There's not even a slight breeze out, what do you mean it won't open?"
He looked over to Rainbow who was grinning. "Oh I see... You're stuck here again. So I guess if you want to sleep, you'll have to sleep in my bed again."
Rainbow smiled and walked over to his bedroom. After cleaning up their mess, he joined her.
After a minute of laying there, he said "Rainbow."
"Yeah?"
"Don't you think it's a little childish to pretend to be stuck inside a house, just to sleep in the same bed as somepony else. Instead of just simply asking to do so."
"Who said I was pretending."
Lightning rolled over to face her. "It seems like you actually want to sleep with me."
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't." Rainbow smiled at him.
"Well, if you do want to sleep here. Why not just move in with me?"
"Are you serious?"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"But, are you sure about that?"
"Why not?"
Rainbow slightly blushed. Lightning lightly chuckled at the sight. Rainbow pecked him and said, "Yeah, I'll move in with you."
Lightning smiled and kissed her.
(quick) Note from the author: I noticed that every chapter (starting at 4) has ended with a kiss. Just pointing that out.