[Canterlot Stadium, 1:00 p.m.]
Big Mac and I waited for the tryouts to start. This would be the second exciting part of my day. The first was for later. Golly, they need to start this sooner rather than later. Folks like myself are getting rather antsy. I looked over to my older brother, he looked calm and collected. I reckoned he didn't care how long it took for it to start, just that he got to see Rainbow Dash perform.
I zoned out for a few moments thinking about what the routines of the Pegasuses were going to be, when the dome to the stadium began to close. The stadium's noise level went down quite a few notches when this started to happen. The announcer took the advantage of this moment and began to speak, "I'd like to welcome everypony here today, and thank you all for supporting the Wonderbolts. Along with your flier of course."
"How much more do you reckon we have to sit through?" I asked my brother.
"I'm sure that they'd have the princess come out to do a speech or something like that." He replied. I turned back and looked down towards the field of the stadium. The crowd around me started to get very silent, the Wonderbolts began to walk out from dugout where they were sitting. The crowd then erupted into cheering and applause. The team just continued to walk straight to were they were going. One of the Pegasuses walked up to the microphone that was in the middle of the field.
"Like the announcer had said I, too, would like to personally like to thank you for coming out. These ponies that are here today are some of the finest in Equestria. This is the course that decides who gets to go to the finals. All of the Pegasuses here have been taught a standard flight routine, and are going to perform it in front of all of you." She told the crowd. "Are you ready!" She asked, the crowd erupted into a burst of cheers and shouting that they were ready. "Get out here fliers!" She yelled out to where she had come from.
The Pegasuses came out of the dugout flying fast, they were a blur. If you weren't paying attention, you would have missed it. They went directly up, and started doing some flips and barrel rolls. Executing everything with precision, they looked as good as the Wonderbolts themselves. I saw Dash specifically, she was the head-flyer of the group. Everything was centered around her. She must have been the happiest pony in all of Equestria at that moment...
[Canterlot Stadium 3:00 p.m.]
What a relief... I thought to myself as we flew back into the team rooms. Alright, well that's it for today. I should go see if Spitfire or Soarin' want to talk about anything. I waited around for a few minutes, and sure enough Soarin' showed up. I looked over at him, and we made eye contact. It already took the signal and started towards were I was. "Anything you want to say about the performance?" I asked him.
"Only that you guys did better than any other pony that's ever tried." He said with a smile "So, you ready to leave?"
"Yeah, I just want to ask your sister on her opinion about this." I told him.
"Whatever you need, I'll go catch up with Applejack and Big Mac to tell them that you're staying behind to talk to her." He responded. I nodded back to him, and we set off towards what we were going to be doing. I walked towards the door that led into the field of the stadium, Spitfire was just landing and coming in from were she was talking to the crowd, there was still cheering coming from the stadium.
"Hey what's up Dash?" She asked.
"Nothing much, before I leave I wanted to know what you thought about our performance today." I told her.
"It was pretty good, not much wrong with it at all. All of you will do great with your performances tomorrow, there is no doubt in my mind about it." She responded "Where are you guys going anyways?"
"No where too fair, probably out to the beach or somewhere. We haven't really decided yet." I answered, she sighed and nodded.
"Well you guys have a good time, if you could though..." She posed as a question.
"Could what?" I asked.
"Bring me back something? I've never been to the beach before..." She asked.
"Oh come on, a pony like you no going to the beach? That's like saying you've never flown before. Tell you what, come with us." I told her.
"But isn't it supposed to be a date thing for you and Applejack?" She questioned.
"It won't if you've never been to the beach before. Tell the team they have a day off from practicing. I'm sure everyone would be pretty excited for that." I assured her.
"Really? Okay, wait for me here let me go tell everyone. I'll be right back." She said excitedly, she started to walk off with a sort of spring in her step. I sat around for a few more minutes, occupying my thoughts with how ponies such as Spitfire and her brother have never been to the beach before.
"Heya, what you doing waiting here?" I heard a familiar voice call to me. I turned around to find Applejack walking up to me.
"I was waiting around for Spitfire..." I told her.
"What do you need from Spitfire sugarcube?" She asked.
"Well she's...uh...well...coming with us." I replied.
"What now?" She asked confused about what I had just said.
"Spitfire is coming with us AJ. She said that she'd never been to the beach before, and I invited her to come with us." I answered.
"Wasn't it supposed to be a date between the 4 of us?" She questioned.
"Yeah, but I don't want to let anypony miss out on a wonderful experience just for some stupid dates. If it will make you feel any better you and Soarin' can go off somewhere else to have your date, we'll watch over Spitfire and get something to eat. We'll meet up with you two somewhere else." I proposed to her.
"O-okay, well sure then I reckon..." She answered, and honestly she looked a little happy and sad at the same time that me and her brother weren't going to be watching over them while they were out on their date. I nodded to her, and she turned to go tell the others of the news.
I waited for just a little while longer, then I finally heard the door at the end of the hall open, cheering started to fill the hall. I saw the yellow Pegasus walk out with her face blushing, and accepting the thank yous and all that good stuff from the rest of the team. There was something that I had not been able to quite comprehend just at that moment. Something was different, the atmosphere something like that. I was sent into a daze, my perception started to get all hay-wired.
I was starting to take in things and dismiss them as nothing important. Everything seemed too clear to me. As the yellow Pegasus approached I saw something I didn't see, I saw her as happy for the first time. Spitfire always looked a kind of sad serious tone to the way she looked. My mind started to slow down and regain thought over what was happening, I started to come out of this small daze that I had put myself into. If you thought it took me a little bit to figure out that she was happy, it took me even longer to find out that she was with another pony.
"Well well, who do we have here?" I asked jokingly.
"Oh, sorry Dash. This is uh...Lighting Bolt. He served with me during the war." She told me.
"And she invited me to come along, well as long as its fine with you miss..." He kind of asked, kind of told me.
"Sorry if I invited one to many ponie-" I cut her off.
"Its all good, it seems you'll have even more fun now huh?" I said.
"Oh thanks so much Dash, I'm sorry for not asking sooner." She thanked me.
"Not a problem, it seems your brother and Apples are going to be going somewhere else for the day but then meet up with us when we get something to eat." I told them of our plan.
"Sounds excellent, say I'll catch up there is just someone I have to talk to really quick before I leave." Announced Lighting Bolt.
"Just don't be late Bolt." Spitfire said. After that the white Pegasus left to go back towards the room, leaving me and Spitfire to walk back towards the exit of the Stadium. I glanced over at Spitfire to see her blushing and grinning happily. We kept walking, and I finally thought to talk to her about it.
"You like him don't you?" I asked.
"Who? Lighting Bolt? Well...uh...there is a...its just..." She started to stammer out.
"How long have you liked him?" I questioned.
"Third year of working with him in the company." She answered without hesitation.
"So, why today? Why this day of any other day?" I inquired.
"After I told the team they had the rest of the day off, everyone grew in excitement, and I guess he had been thinking of taking me out for sometime. He walked up and asked me if I wanted to go get lunch, so I invited him to come with us." She replied. We walked out into the bright light, my eyes hurt from being in the low-lit hallway that we were just in. Once my eyes adjusted I focused on Big Mac who was waiting over by the fence.
"So you looking forward to your big date with Lighting Bolt then?" I asked.
"More than ever. I never thought that we would be going anywhere, that it was just me being imaginative. But now that it's going to happen, it feels too real to be true." She said to me. I walked up to Big Mac and gave him a kiss, turning back to Spitfire after.
"Well we'll wait here til he comes out. That reminds me what do you want for Lunch?" I asked.
"I haven't had any really good pasta in a while, and pasta is my favorite of all food." She replied.
"Alright, pasta it is. Sound good to you Big Mac?" I asked Big Mac.
"Sure does." He answered. We waited in a little silence for a few moments, and then the exit doors opened up to Lighting Bolt walking out. He probably had the same effect happen in his eyes happen because when he looked closer at us he looked confused then sorry.
"Sorry to make you all wait, I'm ready to go now." He said.
"Not a problem at all." I said "Everypony ready to leave?"
"Yup." Spitfire answered.
"Lets go then." I announced. We all started to walk off towards the beach. It was going to be a very long day. Full of fun and all that good stuff. I wish I'd be able to have more of these kinds of days. The ones where you and everyone can go out and have fun as friends and/or couples. Perfect days...
[Author's Notes]
Aye, evening everyone. I'm sorry between all the lapses in my posting, school is really getting out of hand for me. I started getting really stressed and didn't have anyway to outlet it, so I turned back to writing. Since I've finished this chapter, I've decided that there are going be about 2 more chapter's maybe 3 in this story. Thank you all who continue to read this, it means a whole heck of a lot to me. And one last thing if I may, could you be so kind as to follow me on Tumblr? Its mrhelmetman(dot)tumblr(dot)com
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