Thanks to PennTheWriter-Is-Fucking-Magic and SpellCleaver for reviewing!

PennTheWriter-Is-Fucking-Magic: Thank you so much! I hope you like this one!

SpellCleaver: Thank you! I love writing Thinder so much, they're so amazing as best friends! And the descriptions of the ball were mostly by rowaelinfeyrhys, who really appreciated your words! I hope you like this one!

This was… hard to write, to say the least. It came at the end of a long and tiring day, and I honestly didn't know if I would finish it. I wanted to write some Scarlet/Thorne BroTP, especially since I've been neglecting Scarlet for most of this series, and I love their interactions, so here we have a short, fluffy story featuring the whole Rampion crew. Props to AvocadoGoddess for encouraging me to write! If you haven't already, go check out her series of one-shots, Collecting The Stars! There's some really sweet stuff! I really hope you like this one, please review!

Pairing: Scarlet x Thorne (BroTP)

Theme: Non-Themed

"Remind me how this is a good idea?" Cinder said, looking into the distance.

It was one of those golden days in Rieux, where it was sunny but not hot, with a very light breeze whipping through the area. Cinder was at Benoit Farms, along with the rest of the Rampion crew, just to have some fun. Of course, their idea of fun entailed the three pilots in their group, Scarlet, Thorne, and Jacin, have a podship race. Despite herself, though, Cinder was looking forward to it.

The three of them were already in their podships, and everyone was wearing headsets so that they could all communicate. Scarlet claimed it was for safety reasons, but everyone knew she just wanted to trash-talk Thorne. The rest of them were seated on a bench in Benoit Farms, and the three podships were a mile away, out of sight.

"It'll be fun!" Iko said. "Personally, I'm rooting for Scarlet, but I wouldn't mind if Jacin won." Thorne responded with a variety of cursing, causing everyone to laugh.

"You guys are going down!" Thorne said, pumping a fist emphatically.

"In your dreams, flyboy," Scarlet retorted, and Iko cheered.

Jacin, as usual, was not responding to any of this. Cinder could imagine him staring stoically ahead, preparing for the task to come. Winter, of course, was holding up a huge poster lettered with sparkly paint, saying Team Jacin! The rest of the poster was covered in rainbows and hearts and other small, cute, Winter-ish drawings.

"Don't worry, Scarlet-friend," Winter had said, winking at her. "We both know who I'm really supporting." Scarlet had laughed, knowing that Winter was only saying that to make her feel better.

"Cress!" Thorne's voice came over the intercom sharply. "Why aren't you cheering for me?"

"I don't want to put my faith in a losing cause," Cress replied smoothly.

Cinder grinned at Cress. "I see I'm rubbing off on you." Cress grinned back at her.

"Hey! Cress, that's not very nice!" Thorne whined, sounding hurt.

"Don't worry, I still love you," Cress smiled.

"I love me too, Cress," Thorne said, causing Cinder and Iko to roll their eyes.

"Are you folks ever going to get started?" Cinder said.

"Just as soon as Thorne finishes his bragging and turns on his ship!" Scarlet exclaimed indignantly.

"Get it together, Carswell!" Cinder said, then turned to Iko. "Where are Kai and Wolf?"

"Fetching refreshments," Iko sighed. "As if I need to be reminded of what I can never have." Cinder and Cress patted Iko's arm sympathetically.

"I'm ready!" Thorne shouted, causing everyone to wince. "You're going down, Scarlet."

"You are so dead," was Scarlet's only reply. No one doubted her words.

Then, silence. A swooshing sound from the headset was Cinder's only indication that the competition had started.

"Scarlet is cheating!" Thorne complained.

Scarlet zoomed past Thorne with a maniacal grin on her face. Now, this was life. Flying a podship and getting to beat Thorne at something? It didn't get much better than this.

"You're just a sore loser," came Cinder's voice, which was then followed by loud shushing.

"Shush! Let me listen to their trash-talk!" Cress said, which promptly shut Cinder up. Trash-talk. They wanted trash talk? Oh, it was on.

"Thorne is awful! He's losing so badly! " Scarlet taunted, continuing to speed forward. Thorne pulled up to her, and she stuck her tongue out at him. She was still ahead.

"I am not losing!" Thorne retorted, speeding past Scarlet. She bit her tongue to stop herself from cursing, but made a vulgar gesture at his ship. She could tell he noticed it, though, because that smug grin on his face just grew. Screw him.

She felt a surge of righteous anger. "If anyone is cheating, it's you, Thorne!" Scarlet snapped.

"You want me to cheat?" Thorne said. She looked out of her window, and there he was, still wearing that self-satisfied smile, raising his eyebrows. "I'll show you cheating."

Oh, no.

Thorne's ship surged towards hers, making no attempts at stopping as it got closer and closer. Seeing what he was attempting to do, Scarlet turned her ship around at the last second and moved out of the way.

He wanted to play dirty? Fine. So would she.

Moving her speed up to full, Scarlet turned her podship to face Thorne's. She gave him a wicked grin as her ship charged towards his. There would be no stopping this.

She could see the horror in his eyes as he watched his impending doom coming. Good. At the last second, though, his expression changed to determination. He started to bring his ship forward to meet hers.

What?

He was going down, she thought, with a grim determination. She swerved ever so slightly as her ship neared his. He gasped and shrieked as his ship was bumped by hers, and shaken off course.

"Hey! Cress, Scarlet is cheating!" Thorne screeched indignantly.

Cress only laughed from the other end. "This is entertaining," she said.

Yes. Satisfied, Scarlet turned her ship around towards the finish line and started to zoom forward again. Jacin was ever so slightly ahead of her, but she could still beat him. She could still win.

And then she felt a huge crash as something hit the back of her ship.

Startled, Scarlet turned around, refusing to let herself scream. Through the back window of her podship, she could see Thorne in his ship, which was plummeting to the ground. Even as his ship hit the ground, he was still wearing that cocky grin.

"Thorne! You idiot!" Scarlet yelled, as she grabbed the controls to try to prevent her ship from falling. It was too late, though. The ship was sinking faster than she could handle. Sighing, she just held onto the arm rests with all her strength, holding on for dear life as everything shook around her.

"Hey, if I have to sacrifice my ship, I might as well take yours out with it," Thorne replied.

"That is not how it works, Carswell!" Cress screamed through the headset. "You both could have died!"

Her ship finally landed with a large bump. Letting out a breath she hadn't known she had been holding, she started to climb out of the ship. The door still opened. Phew.

"Don't Carswell me, Cress, I'm fine!" Thorne said. "And so is Scarlet! Plus, I managed to stop her from winning, which was the point, wasn't it?"

"Well, you didn't win, either, Carswell," Scarlet retorted furiously.

"Hey, uh, guys?" It was Kai. Scarlet tilted her head, surprised.

"Jacin won," Wolf finished. This was promptly cut off by a round of emphatic squealing. Winter, presumably.

"Of course he did," Thorne grumbled. "But we all know who the better pilot is."

"Yes, we do," Scarlet said. "You know, I'm going to beat you in the rematch." She raised her eyebrows at him.

"No, I'm going to crush you into a pulp," Thorne replied, grinning.

"In your dreams," Scarlet snorted. Thorne was completely delusional.

Cress sighed, watching her friend and boyfriend argue like complete maniacs. The two of them were still standing around their slightly smoking ships, and were teasing and taunting each other with a variety of facial expressions and gestures.

Looking at them, no one would guess they were friends, but they were, and stars, she loved them.