A/N: Alright, another story update! And it looks like the month of March has just hit, and I can't help but listen to Pink Floyd since it sorta is helping me with a few other bands write this story. They can't stop inspiring me! xD Other than that, school work and I'm seeing a band in concert on March 20th.

Night Shade1234: If I did put sarcasm in there, I don't think Twiley would be really happy with Brayden.

Summer time 10101: Nobody said they hated this, if they were going to hate... well let's just say they'd be anti-bronies. People just willing to criticize a bit of stuff I put in my story that I can correct, I'm okay with that.

GadgetCid: Ouch is right since you read the first chapter. But don't you worry, keep reading along. :)

godzillafan1: Hmmm, I did hear that song and it does give me an idea to have Brayden sing that for the next chapter. So thank you for bringing that song up. It'll fit for the next chapter.

I open my eyes slowly, with the alarm clock beeping next to me. I groan tiredly and slide to the right of my bed, turning to my alarm clock and pressing the Snooze button. Fluttershy must have got me one of them in my room and I didn't realize it. I placed my hand behind the small clock and turned it off. I could already tell that it was going to be another good day. I had already made plans for the day while I was sleeping, since I was thinking about all of my friends in Ponyville. I couldn't really decide to hang out with Twilight, since I already did last night and confessed my true feelings to her. I would have to wait a bit until she asks me about going out with her.

I had a friend in mind that I hadn't hung out with yet and planned on seeing her today. It would be Rainbow Dash that was the choice I was going to see today. I turn to look at my back and did give a look of slight disappointment, if only I had wings to fly with her. Unfortunately, I have to stay on the ground.

I slowly move the sheets off of me and start to slowly get up out of bed. I place my feet onto the wooden floor and sit on my bed. I could see the sunlight shining through the closed window blinds and onto the floor.

I had one thing in mind whenever I thought of Rainbow Dash. A memory of me back on Earth when I had experienced a lucid dream… Of me talking to her in a place, that resembled Trevor Phillip's home in Grand Theft Auto V. I was flying in the air over the clouds in the beginning of the dream, as I can remember. I did land on ground eventually after seeing Rainbow Dash walking along in a small dusty field. The only things I can really remember when talking to her was saying her name, telling her if she could bring me to Twilight and her face was really up close to mine. Unfortunately the dream didn't really go anywhere and it went off in a different direction since personal feelings I believe got in the way.

I get up off of my soft bed and pull up my bed sheets, making my bed. Once the bed was made, I turned my attention towards my bedroom door. Somepony was knocking at the door and I could tell by the knocking who it was. "Come in." I call out.

The door pushes open and I could see my best friend, Fluttershy standing there. In her mouth, she is carrying a wooden bowl of fruits and salad leaves. She was giving me my breakfast as she always did since I arrived in Equestria. She trots over to the small wooden cabinet on the left side of my bed and places the wooden bowl of fruit salad on top of the cabinet, still looking at me.

"Good morning Brayden," Fluttershy says to me in her sweet little voice. "Did you have your good sleep after last night's enchanted evening with Twilight?"

I walk steadily towards the small cabinet to grab my breakfast, but am looking at Fluttershy at the same time. "Good morning to you as well Fluttershy, and yes… I had a great sleep," I said to her. "I trust you also had a beauty's sleep as well?"

"Oh yes, I dreamt about all my friends and me having a great time," Fluttershy said, placing her gentle and soft hoof onto my hand. Her ears lower sadly and she emits a sad tone in her voice, lowering her smile. "But it felt like somepony had turned that dream into a nightmare."

I bent down lower on one knee, looking at Fluttershy. I gently place my right hand on her back and looked at her in question. "Somepony? Who was it Fluttershy?" I asked.

Fluttershy looked into my eyes and lowered her head. "It was Nightmare Moon." Fluttershy said to me sadly. "She was teasing me with whispers that my friends weren't what they are to me."

"But you defeated her, remember?" I said.

"Yes, but I'm not sure why she would enter into my dream." Fluttershy said, lifting up her head a bit.

"Nightmare Moon entered my dream while I was sick with the flu. She wanted to taunt me about my past since she seemed to bring them in," I confessed. "I have to be thankful that Princess Luna came to save me on time. If Nightmare Moon did win, she possibly would have possessed my body as her own doing and used to hide herself in. Only that fraction of her remains, but I fear something will happen if somepony isn't careful."

I keep looking at Fluttershy. She still holds that sad look on her face. I gently pulled her towards me, putting my other arm around her to give her a hug. Fluttershy puts her hooves around me to share the comforting hug. "No matter what happens though, I'm willing to make sure that nopony hurts you or any of my other friends. Trust me… you wouldn't want to see what happens." I said gently to her.

I slowly let go of the hug and look down at Fluttershy, she has a small smile on her face now. "You will?" She asks.

I nod up and down, with a small smile on my face. I turn slightly left and move my hand towards the wooden bowl. My fingers bend and grab a hold onto it, lifting it off the small cabinet and towards me. I move my other hand to grab a hold of the silver fork in the bowl. I pressed down with the right hand to get a few bits of fruits and the salad leaves on the fork. I moved the fork of food towards my mouth and opened, letting them slide in.

"This food is delicious Fluttershy." I complimented.

"Well, got to make it to feed the animals and keep you in good shape." Fluttershy says to me.

"Today will be a… not-so-busy day for me." I said to myself.

"Why's that?" Fluttershy asks me.

"I'm going to go and chill with my friend Rainbow Dash." I said, standing right up. I dug the fork into another set of salad leaves in the bowl and place them in my mouth.

"Chill?" Fluttershy asked. "Won't that mean going to the arctic north?"

I realized that Fluttershy might be thinking of 'chill' in a cold way, and I said "Oh, no no… it means going to visit. I'll be spending the day with Rainbow Dash."

Fluttershy giggled and said "Oh. How silly of me to think you were both going to freeze."

I dug into the wooden bowl with the fork again and dug out the bits of apple and placed them into my mouth. I chewed slowly and with my mouth closed. I walk forward towards the door with Fluttershy following me, and I turn towards the stairs. Since I was almost done my breakfast, I figured that I could wash the bowl as soon as I was finished with it.

I dig the silver fork into the final set of salad leaves with the small bits of fruit. I raise the fork with the food attached and placed it into my mouth. I chew up the soft fruit and salad slowly and move forward down the stairs, turn right into the kitchen and towards the sink in the kitchen to wash out the bowl of germs. I turn both of the hot and cold valves, and watch the water come rushing out of the tap. I place my bowl into the sink and begin to wash it with the cloth hanging on the tap.

"You seem to know your manners and chores of cleaning up after yourself… well, even though I gave you the bowl." Fluttershy said, approaching me.

I turn to Fluttershy while washing the bowl. "Well, I do have a bit of experience in cleaning that comes back from Earth." I said, in a calm and happy tone. The bowl started to look clean, and I turned off the sink and picked up a dry cloth from my right to dry the bowl on the outside and inside from being wet. Once the wet spots had been dried out, I opened the cupboard above me and placed the wooden bowl with the other bowls inside.

I turned back to Fluttershy. "Fluttershy, do you know where I could find Rainbow Dash?" I asked.

"Well, she does have a home nearby where we are. You could check there." She tells me, pointing in the direction that Rainbow's home was.

I walk towards the front door and turned back to Fluttershy. "Thank you, and I think I'll see you later. We've got to do something together sometime." I said.

"Like errands, right?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yes, something like that. But we could also have lunch together, as a best friend to you." I said to her.

Fluttershy nods and says "Oh, and one more thing!"

I turn around from the front door and look at her, she comes trotting up to me. "Yes Fluttershy?" I asked.

"Well, it's that your gig at the Diamond Mare is tomorrow and I thought I'd let you know." Fluttershy tells me in her calm, informative tone of voice.

I nod my head and say "Alright, Fluttershy. Thanks for notifying me. I think I have a song in mind, but it's a surprise and for Twilight."

Fluttershy smiles and says "A song for Twilight?"

"Yes, but it's a surprise. If I told you or anypony else, it wouldn't be a surprise now, would it?" I said, smiling.

"I see. Well, you should get going now. Rainbow Dash could be anywhere if not at home." Fluttershy said.

I nod with a smile, and turn back to the front door. I place my hand on the doorknob and open up the front door revealing the outside world. I step outside onto the soft dirt and grab the doorknob on the other side of the wooden door and close it shut. I walk forward and cross the small stone bridge and make my way to the right direction of the trail.

While I was walking along, I was a mixture of thoughts that were going through my head of previous events in Equestria. One thought kept coming to me though about Nightmare Moon, the mare in the moon. Even though it was dispelled from Princess Luna, a thought came to me that Nightmare Moon in her only fraction could build up and become one in self once again without Princess Luna being the host.

I remember reading a fan fiction back on Earth when a few ponies were trying to bring back Nightmare Moon, but it was foiled and created a filly Nightmare Moon almost look-alike. The ponies found her and managed to restore her completely and separately as Nightmare Moon in her true self. But it turned out that it was the evil in one of Nightmare's followers that was actually Nightmare Moon within.

I could hear the sound of dirt rolling behind me below. I turned around and could see a recognizable gamboge filly on her scooter coming up towards me. I put on a soft smile, glad to see a familiar face coming by.

Scootaloo comes up towards me riding on her scooter and passes by me, slowing down to match at the speed I was going at. "Hey Scoots." I said to her, while she looked at me.

"Hey Brayden." Scootaloo says to me in a greeting voice. "I just wanted to ask why you were crying yesterday and to see if you were okay."

I couldn't just lie about this time now that everything had been revealed to the very best of friends, so I said "It was something between me and Twilight because I… well, Pinkie told them all about me being from another world which is true. Twilight was only disappointed in me. I guess I took it a little too seriously."

"So… it's all better now?" Scootaloo asked.

I nodded my head and happily said "Yes Scootaloo. It is."

"And what's that bandage on your right arm?" Scootaloo asked, pointing at the bandage.

"Oh… that." I said, trying not to sound like I was in shame for having that. "Well, a Timberwolf leader scratched me while in the Everfree Forest."

"Are you sure you're okay from that?" Scootaloo said, sounding a bit worried.

I stopped walking, bent down on one knee and looked at her in the eyes with the calmest tone of voice coming from me. "Yes, Fluttershy put medicine onto the wound. It was poisonous though, if Twilight and Fluttershy didn't come to rescue me… surely either the Timberwolves would have eaten me or the poison would have killed me."

Scootaloo calmed a bit and said "Well, I'm glad you're okay."

"And what do you know? Something special also happened last night after being saved." I said, trying to change the topic from the injury I got.

Scootaloo smiled and probably knew what this meant. "You mean… you told Twilight?" She asked.

I nodded up and down, and said "Yes, I've told Twilight my true feelings. And she understands."

"Awwww!" came out from Scootaloo's mouth when I said this and she giggled. A large pink blush comes onto both of my cheeks. Scootaloo laughs a little more when she sees how pink my cheeks are.

"Oh stop it you…" I said jokingly still having my smile on my face.

"Brayden and Twilight sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Scootaloo teases while giggling.

I chuckle a bit and say "Okay, Scoots. That's enough…"

Scootaloo continues to jokingly tease me. "First comes love, and then comes marriage…"

"Please, please! Don't finish that!" I said, still chuckling a bit.

"Well you did tell her." Scootaloo said with a teasing accent.

"Brayden told Twilight, eh?" A voice says above us. I knew the accent of that voice and turned up towards the sky to see my rainbow-maned friend flying above me and Scootaloo. Rainbow Dash. She flaps her wings and lowers down to the ground, landing all four hooves onto the ground.

"Well, yeah." I said, now sounding like I was trying to hide it.

Rainbow Dash trots forward towards me and gives me that sort of suggestive look. "You must have pulled off some real moves with her last night, didn't you?" Rainbow Dash says to me, and nudges me on the right arm, unaware of my bandage.

"Ow." I said and softly held onto my right arm briefly. Rainbow Dash seemed to look like she was taking back what she did from nudging me.

"You alright?" Rainbow Dash asks me.

"Well, a Timberwolf scratched me. That's all I need to say and I don't want to talk about it anymore of how I got this." I said, trying not to worry my friend.

Rainbow Dash gives a sigh of relief and places her cyan hoof onto my hand. "Well you got to be careful about them next time when entering the Everfree. And don't go running off like that again, you worried all of us." She said to me.

"Well actually, Rainbow… I want to hang out with you today." I said to try and calm her about the situation.

Rainbow Dash stops talking for a moment and thinks quickly about this. "Well, why didn't you say so? I've been waiting for you to chill with me since I was introduced to you." She says in a happy tone and puts a smile on her face.

"What about me?" I could hear Scootaloo say. Me and Rainbow Dash turn our heads towards Scootaloo. The little gamboge filly seems rather excited to be with her 'big sister' and friend hanging out.

"Of course you can chill with us, Scoots!" I said, raising my arms a bit and then lowering them, and I had a smile on my face.

"Alright!" She says, jumping up and down.

I turn to Rainbow Dash. She seems really happy as well. Finally she turns to me and says "So what do you have in mind Brayden? Is it seeing my most awesome moves?"

"Well, I can't exactly fly, Rainbow Dash. I don't have wings." I said, seeing how I look at my wingless back.

"Oh, that is alright." Rainbow Dash said to me.

"Why not go swimming?" Scootaloo says excitedly.

"Swimming? That does sound like a good idea." I said sounding a bit excited about having to go into water again.

Rainbow Dash chuckles a bit and says "Alright, swimming it'll be. But better look out, you never knew how big a splash I could make."

"Well, here you go." A voice said and a swimming bag went flying forwards into my hands. I was wondering who said that and when I turned around, Pinkie Pie was standing there. Was she just standing by the whole time and I didn't notice her?

"Pinkie? How did you appear here, and how did you get me a swim bag?" I asked, raising an eyebrow while Pinkie kept her innocent smile.

Pinkie giggles a bit and says "Oh silly! I have swim bags hidden all over Equestria in case of emergencies. And you needed one, so I got one for you with the stuff you need." She goes trotting off down the trail, just humming a happy tune. I just roll my eyes with that smile on my face. It was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie.

I turn my head towards my two other friends and say "Well, it seems like I'm ready now."

Rainbow Dash waves me and says "Well come on then, or are we just going to stand here all day and talk?"

I walk forward towards the two of my friends and begin on our way towards where will probably might swim. Was it going to be the same small body of water in "Too Many Pinkie Pies" or something completely different? Well, by the looks of it I was going to find out. I just walk between Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash, and walk forward with my feet on the trail of soft dirt.

Me, Rainbow and Scoots arrived at a large building in Ponyville. Well, probably as large as the local recreation centre back when I was at Earth. The building outside was layered with coloured bricks of red and orange, looking very peaceful. I could see the windows that sort of showed the pool from the inside. The windows in the day seemed to block out what it looked like, but I didn't mind. I could tell how large all four of the windows were in size that it was the pool area.

My feet step off of the soft dirt and onto the stone tiles of the recreation centre while I was walking forward. I already knew that there would be a door to enter through, and decided to give my two friends the respect that they needed. We approach the black iron windowed door and walk forward a bit faster than Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo to get the door for them. They give me a look of curiosity at first.

"Mares first." I said, smiling at them. I grab onto the handle on the door and pull it open in front of them.

Scootaloo trots forward ahead of Rainbow Dash and says "Thanks Brayden." I nod happily and also let Rainbow Dash in who also thanks me as well. I walk in behind Rainbow Dash and close the door behind me.

The centre seemed to look large on the inside, with observation windows to view the pool and who was swimming in it. The three benches that seemed just cleaned from the mess the janitor must have done were shining on its mahogany carved wood from the finish. The vending machines full of snacks stood alone near the green and white walls, humming quietly. There were a set of stairs also that led towards the pool gallery, to watch the swimmers from an upper level of floor.

At the desk, there was a young lime coloured earth pony with glasses that seemed like she was an intern at the conference hall waiting for a meeting, with an orange mane. She was typing on a typewriter of most likely details on the visits and payments made. Even the money they made from the fillies and colts coming to swim. I walk forward slowly towards the desk and she stops typewriting and looks up at me. "May I help you?" She asks a tone of voice that sounds like an American accent.

"Why yes, miss. Me and my two good friends Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were hoping that we could have ourselves a swim and have a good time for a few hours." I said to the desk clerk with a meek, innocent smile on my face. Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were looking at me with awkward faces, wondering probably what the hay I was doing.

The earth pony smiles and says "Of course, for a few hours it'll be 10 bits total. The little fillies get to swim for free." I'm not looking at Scootaloo, but I could tell that she was probably jumping up and down and smiling with glee. I reach into my pocket and take out the ten golden bits needed to pay for the swimming day.

"Here you go." I handed it to her. She takes the bits and places them in the cashier, and presses a button to open up the double doors towards the change rooms.

I nod my head to the clerk and walk with my two friends towards the small hallway. I slowly turn my head and have mixed faces looking at me. Scootaloo is obviously smiling as I had predicted, but Rainbow Dash seems to be giving an unimpressed look.

"You could have just told her to let us swim for a few hours with explaining it." Rainbow Dash said, trotting up next to me.

I lowered my head a bit. "I'm not sure why I even decided to do that though, Rainbow. I do think it has something to do with my… disability." I said, going from a happy tone to what I think was a mix of normal talking and sad.

"Disability?" Rainbow Dash asks me.

I sighed and said "I don't want to talk about it though."

Rainbow Dash nods in understanding, but seems to give a look of wondering what it might be that has caused me to act so awkwardly when introducing myself. Even I had gone up to people in school to introduce myself, but in the end… it'd always end up being so awkward and I wouldn't really make any friends out of them, unless they had similar tastes which were something that I rarely ran into any people on Earth who did so.

I turn back forward to face what was in front of me and I bump into somepony unexpectedly. Goodness, so many ponies I am starting to bump into all the time. I really need to stop doing that; it's becoming quite a habit. Well, I bumped into a light amberish gray coated earth pony with a two tone blue mane and tail with light cyan eyes. I thought I recognized that pony from one of the episodes I watched.

"Sorry about that." She says to me sheepishly when she was on the ground. I move my hand towards her and offer her hand to help her up. She places her hoof onto my hand and I help her up slowly.

I chuckle a bit and say "It's no problem. It's a habit that I'm always getting into."

"A habit, eh? Well alright," She says to me and I begin shaking her hoof with my hand in greeting. "My name is Coco Pommel."

"Well, it is nice to meet you Coco. The name's Brayden." I said to her after shaking her hoof and then letting go. "And I suppose you were swimming for an exercise?"

"Yes, it was all part of my spare time." Coco nods and said. She looks about to see my two friends waiting for me and looks back at me. "Well, seeing how you are busy with your two friends… I hope we can talk sometime later."

"Alright Coco, I'll see you later then." I said to her and I watched her walk out of the hallway and turn back to my two friends. "Alright, so we were going swimming you two?"

"About time we started too!" Scootaloo said in an excited tone.

I walk between the two of my friends through the short hallway and make a turn towards the left. I could see the change room doors and each of them had a symbol of which gender that each pony had to go into. It's pretty obvious that I couldn't walk straight into the mares room, so it looks like I'll have to go into the stallions room in order to change into my swimsuit.

I watch both Rainbow and Scootaloo enter the mares room and then I turned towards the stallions room and pushed open the door gently. I walk through into the room and take a look at the wallpaper. It has a summer type with a few lone islands with palm trees on them. The benches have a few stallions changing in from their swimsuits to go back to normal. Two of them I recognize as Big Macintosh, and the other being Sugarcube Corner's Mr. Cake.

I walk forward towards the nearby bench and sit down, while using my hands to zip open the swim bag. My swimsuit was in the two colours of red and purple. Pinkie pretty much knows what my favorite colours are when she got the swim bag out of complete nowhere even though she explained already.

I look up at Big Macintosh while getting my swimsuit on. He is giving me the most standard look that he has on most of the time. I decided to try and make a bit of conversation with him, even though he isn't that much of a talker. "So, did you come here to go swimming Big Macintosh?" I asked him, sounding a bit encouraging.

"Eeyup." He says to me, still giving me that standard look on his face. I swear that he would be perfect for a picture of a parody of 'American Gothic'. …Oh wait, never mind. I saw that when I was back on Earth.

"And you just so happened to see me come in when I was getting ready to swim with my two friends?" I asked.

"Eeyup." He says yet again.

"Well alright then." I said, and placed on my swimsuit and tied a knot to keep the suit on me. "And you're done for the day?"

"Eeyep. Need to get back to the barn." Big Macintosh says to me, finally saying a noun. He finally starts moving towards the door to leave.

"But we'll talk more again soon, right?" I called out to him when he was leaving.

"Eeyup!" I could hear him say before the change room door closed. I really need to catch up on a few friends of mine when I can after the gig.

I proceed towards the pool room door and grab the iron doorknob and give it a turn to let its handle face down. I push the door open and could see the pool now. It wasn't that busy, there were a couple of fillies and colts in the pool, playing with each other. But other than that, it was not too busy and not too deserted. It was just right.

I turn to my right from the pool. Two other things also caught my eye; it was a waterslide and a large hot tub with a couple of the adult ponies relaxing in. The mares' room door opened behind me and I turn around to see Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo in their swimsuits.

"Alright, what shall I do with you both first?" I asked them, moving my right hand a bit.

Scootaloo said "Why don't we both start off with diving into the deep end?" Her tone of voice gave it away that it was something for all of us to do.

I shrugged with a smile and said "Why not?" I turn to Rainbow Dash to see what she thinks of starting with Scoots first. She nods with a smile and trots forward past me. I begin to follow along behind both of them and join them at the deep end. All three of us look and observe the empty diving board. It's not even in use after a filly with white and brown spots had used it.

"I'll go first." I said to both of them and climbed up the tall steps onto the white board. I walked a bit forward and began to feel a bit nervous. I hadn't done swimming in a long time, and it was probably because I was more of an indoor person. Once I reach the tip of the board, I turn around to see how much progress I was making from what my two friends were judging me fairly on.

"You can do it Brayden!" Rainbow Dash cheered. She was giving me that same smile that I had remembered from my dream and I turned around with the confidence that I needed to jump into the water.

I kneeled down with the power to pounce forward from the board and placed my hands together, facing down towards the water. Something inside me made my body spring forward and I felt myself going down towards the blue liquid. My ears go past the water's edge and I could already hear the water rushing from the dive I made.

I've never seen it so clear under the water before, I could see the rippling of water that the other ponies were making in the water and the sound of the underwater resembled to the one back on Earth. I swam forward slowly through the blue, feeling like I was moving through space. Bubbles formed from my breath that I held in for as how long I was underwater.

I slowly rose up out of the blue and onto the surface, taking a few breathes when I rose up and broke through. I turn back towards the diving board and could see Scootaloo trotting up on the diving board. She takes a few steps back and then begins to gallop forward.

"Cannonball!" I could hear her yell when all four of her hooves jumped off of the board. She falls forward, folding her two front hooves together as fast as she can and the splash from the impact flows right towards my face, getting me all wet from the splash. I was already wet from jumping in, so it didn't really matter to me.

Scootaloo is under the water's surface for a few moments, and then rises up from under. She pokes head out from the water and takes a few breathes. "How's the water Scootaloo?" I asked her, just floating to keep myself from going under the water and turning to look at her.

"It's not too cold." She tells me and paddles forward with her four hooves towards me to join me in watching Rainbow Dash make her jump. Her mane drips a bit with the clear water.

I turn back to the diving board and could see Rainbow Dash trotting up the ladder onto the board. She trots forward and looks at the both of us from the diving board. She has that look that can tell she is planning something sneaky for both me and Scoots, but I don't realize this.

"What'll it be, Rainbow? Or is it something special?" I called out to her at the board. Her ears perk a bit to listen to what I called out.

"Oh, it's something surprising!" Rainbow Dash calls out to both me and Scoots and starts to slowly back away for a few steps on the board. She finally gallops forward from the board and without opening her wings, she leaps forward with the assistance of her two front hooves.

"Rainbow-Ball!" She calls out, and I finally realize what she means by that after it happens.

Rainbow Dash hit the water and the impact she made on the dive, had created a big wave of water that came towards me, Scootaloo and few of the other ponies. The wave blew against us on impact and I was flown backwards a bit, almost hitting my head on the nearby iron railing. Scootaloo flew onto my chest from the wave and seemed to look a bit dazed from landing onto me. I'm just lucky that she didn't hit her head as well.

The wave dispersed quickly and Rainbow Dash rose out of the water close to us, with an evil-looking smile on her face. Her face changes to a relaxed look in her eyes with her smile remaining the same. She chuckles a bit and gets a bit closer.

"You should have seen the looks on both of your faces." Rainbow Dash says to me, and gives me a nudge on my right shoulder with her left arm. It doesn't hurt me just like with my left shoulder has my bandage.

"Wow, Rainbow Dash! That jump was amazing!" Scootaloo says, looking up at her. A few of the mares and fillies nearby who were splashed by Rainbow Dash just roll their eyes in annoyance and continue to go about and play in the water.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go for a ride on the water-slide." I told the both of them and turned to the pool ladder.

I swam towards the pool ladder and grab onto one of its iron handles, holding onto it when pushing forward. My feet climb onto one of the soft ladder steps. The water remaining on me is in the form of tear-like drips. I step steadily off the ladder and gather myself from being cold again, walking forward towards the slide.

"Come on now, one at a time." The lifeguard says to the fillies and mares going down on the slide into the water. I stop in front of a small filly in the back, but ended up accidentally bumping into her.

"Watch it mister!" The small earth pony says to me in a rather rude tone.

I gather myself and say "Sorry about that." But now seeing her face, I could tell that it was one of the ponies that I liked the least. It was the school bully Diamond Tiara.

"Well, you should be sorry for bumping into me! Especially since you don't have a cutie mark because you're different." Diamond Tiara says to me in a rather snobbish accent.

I really didn't want to start a fight with her, seeing how it would be impossible for her to stop acting like such a brat. So I just kept quiet and didn't make any response back to her. She just says "Hmph. That's what I thought." And she turns back around to wait for her turn.

A few fillies sliding away later, and it soon is time for Diamond Tiara to slide down from the red waterslide with me behind her. The lifeguard helps her get up onto the slide, and gives her a push down into the water.

The lifeguard signals for me to climb up onto the slide and I nod to him, smiling. He smiles back to me and watches me climb up onto the red slide. I look down at the water and could feel the lifeguard's hoof push me down.

The force of the push starts off slowly and I start to slow slide down in the spiral waterslide with the drift of water helping to push me towards the water's surface. My feet hit the water first and my head rushes through under the water again. I gently push my hands forward, letting me flow forward through the water. The sound underneath the water seemed to be relaxing with the kicking of the other ponies in the pool heard as well.

I just keep swimming under the water and push forwards toward the two of my friends who were watching me the whole time. I break through the water's surface once again, and reach for deep breathes, having held my breath for a bit of time under the time.

Scootaloo swam towards me after I caught my breath once again and she seemed rather concerned. "Are you alright Brayden?" She asks me.

I got curious and then asked "What do you mean?"

"Well, you bumped into Diamond Tiara, the one with her friend Silver Spoon who's been teasing me and my two other friends about us not having cutie marks." She said.

I look down a bit and said "Well, she told me that I should be sorry for bumping into her and stated that because I'm different, I do not have a cutie mark."

Scootaloo raised her right hoof softly out of the water and placed it onto my left shoulder. "Brayden, if at any time that Diamond Tiara or her friend is teasing you and putting you down, you can let me, Sweetie Belle or Apple Bloom know about it anytime. We'll do all we can to help you." She tells me.

I decided to change the topic after being taunted. I could already see that it was pointless to keep the topic of being bullied going.

"How about a race to the shallow end?" I suggested, perking up both of my friends' ears.

"Well, alright!" Rainbow Dash says cheerfully, rising a bit out of the water. I smile and place my hand onto Dashie's left shoulder. I had already known she'd have the confidence to accept this race for fun. Both me and my friend are sharing smiles at each other, but not in 'that way'. Both me and Rainbow already know that Twilight is my special somepony or rather in words 'mare-friend'.

Both me, and my two friends faced the shallow end from our current position. "Last one there has to shine Rainbow Dash's hooves!" Scootaloo called out jokingly and proceeded to speed off through the water. She seems to have gotten an early head start from the both of us.

Me and Rainbow Dash just look at each other, nodding our heads at each other and both of us move forward and go straight under the water. By the looks of it, it's gotten all fun and games here with two of my best friends.

But the real concern for me was getting the song right for tomorrow's gig.