The flight to Sweet Apple Acres was exhilarating, every second made me feel better as the cool air washed over me. Speed was good; I am speed around here and everybody knows it. As soon as my destination was in sight, I descended to the ground, my head looking around for helpful ponies. I started to look around and heard Winona barking. I floated up out of her reach as she jumped up at me, her tail wagging wildly.

"You know where Mac is?" She stood still for a moment before barking again and running off. I followed her with ease as she ran around all the trees soon she stopped and barked.

"There you are Winona, where in tarnation have you been?"

I sighed; the dog had taken me straight to AppleJack

"Ah, Rainbow Dash. You're the reason she wasn't here?"

"No, she found me. I asked for your brother but she brought me to you instead."

She laughed at me before pointing behind her.

"Nope; two birds, one stone. Hey Winona, come on girl. Oh and Rainbow, whatever you did ... it made him happy, he even started work early this morning."

I shrugged "I don't know what I did, but you all work early to me" She trotted off, glancing back at me once before her and Winona moved out of sight. I took a breath before flying up into a tree above Mac and looking down at him. I bounced a little making a few leaves fall onto him. He looked up, and smiled when he saw me.

"Well, good afternoon, Rainbow Dash." I grinned down at him.

"You know you have a few leaves on you, right?" He gave me a playful glare before shaking them off, leaving one in his mane.

"Ooooh I love this part, it's my favourite in the whole story." Pinkie's squee rang through the room.

"Pinkie, let Rainbow finish. She's not telling it for you, remember?" Twilight said, as she shot a look toward Pinkie.

"It's fine Twi. Now, where was I ..." I tried to think.

"You were telling us that Mac had a leaf in his mane, darling. Now come on, some of us haven't heard this story before." Rarity looked at Fluttershy who smiled.

"Well, I was busy when she first told it. It's ok, carry on Rainbow" All eyes turned to me as I carried on, still aware that one pony in the room was staying silent.

I flew down to pick the leaf from his mane and saw him blush, even though it was hard to see against his red pelt.

"That's better." I landed next to him and looked at the pile of apples under his tree.

"Wow, you guys have so many apples. I've never really paid attention when I fly over."

"Well, we need more to sell more, to plant more. An apple cycle." I laughed, it did sound funny.

"Well OK then, I better let you get back to work before Apple Jack kills you ... oh and Mac" He smiled at me, expecting me to carry on. "Um ... what are we?" He stood for a moment puzzled then gave the one word I needed to hear.

"Dating."

*A/N*

Sorry for such a short chapter, but I wanted to give you something ... yup, most of this is a flashback, didn't see that coming did you

I want to make them all quite small-medium sized for now, up until the point of the "Silent" character - who some of you DA users know of. ^^

Another thanks to my Beta, who fixes my bad spellings XD