There For You

The bus was moving.

Wait, no it wasn`t. I pulled my face off the window and forced my eyes open. Shaking away the tiredness, I managed to figure out that we were at my stop. And even better, there was somepony there waiting for me....

I stumbled down the steps, somehow not tripping, and made my way over to my friend. She was standing with one hoof on her skateboard; obviously she had had fun riding down the hill to meet me here.

"Hi," I greeted her, smiling.

"Hey," she said, "the snow is probably all gone down in the forest; want to go see if the hut is still there?"

"The hut" was a little nickname for the tiny little structure we had started building last summer, way out in the forest on top of a huge hill. We had found a perfect circle of trees while exploring, and decided to construct a fort. We hadnt gotten very far, but we had managed to nail up some strong-looking sticks, and cover part of the roof with moss. What I wouldnt have given for a unicorn at that time... but we promised to keep it secret except from our closest friends.

"Yeah, sure!" I replied enthusiastically, "just let me drop off my stuff at home."

When we got to my house, nopony was there, so I threw my bag inside and quickly scribbled a note to my mom, telling her where I was. After that, we headed out. It was another bright, warm day, so it was quite pleasant to walk down the long hill, with the trees casting shadows over us, talking about nothing in particular. We went down to the creek first, debating whether or not to dip our hooves in. We decided against it, and turned back to climb one of the steeper hills to get to the hut. We were a little out of practice after the long winter, and a couple of times I almost fell, but we eventually made it. The little shelter was standing as strong as ever, with a few more fallen branches on the roof.

"Wow," I said, "we must have done a good job building this."

"Yep," Sky agreed, kicking one of the sticks. The structure shuddered, but otherwise nothing happened. I went out the "back door" and walked over to the cliff that overlooked a small valley.

"What a view," I said, "I'd forgotten." I turned around to see Sky right behind me, gazing out at the mountains in the distance. Canterlot was on the other side, and so there was nothing to disturb the peacefulness of the area. I found myself staring at my friend. The sunlight was making her eyes sparkle, and it really looked pretty. The slight breeze picked up slightly, and Sky's mane blew back in the wind. I couldn't tear my gaze away from her face... until she happened to look at me. Then I quickly shifted my eyes back to the scenery.

What is *wrong** with me?*

"Don't fall," Sky joked, right before pushing me toward the edge. Of course, I let out a shriek, and Sky erupted in giggles. I rolled my eyes and shoved her, then trotted back up to the shelter. I looked around at the many fallen twigs covering the ground, and said to Sky,

"Do you think we should clean it up a bit? I mean, we are going to finish it this summer, right?"

She laughed, replying sarcastically, "Sure, sure... just like last summer, when we were going to build a bridge across the creek."

"Whatever," I laughed, "I think we should clean up these branches a bit." I began scraping at the mess with my hoof, slowly pushing the debris into a neat little pile just outside the doorway. After a minute Sky started helping.

"You know this is pointless, right? We're probably never going to finish this," she said, carrying two large branches outside.

"Sure we will. It will just take a while," I said, grinning at her. "We just need to remember to actually, you know, work once in a while."

Sky snorted, rolling her eyes again, "Yeah, right. Have fun with that."

"I think the only problem would be getting you out of bed before two in the afternoon."

Sky laughed, "True."

~

An hour later, the floor of the hut was all clear, and there was a huge pile of sticks outside. We were taking a break before heading back home, just discussing random crap again. I flopped onto my back, and Sky did the same, and for just a moment my hoof brushed hers. I swear, it was like an electric shock ran up my foreleg. I jerked my hoof away, but I don't think she noticed anything.

This was so weird. The last time anything like that happened, it was when Thunder grabbed my hoof during capture the flag back in, like, grade five. I'd had a huge crush on him at the time, and since, in the game, you had to hold hands to get back from "jail", well... yeah. Of course, I'd pretended to hate it, but really, it was wonderful. But that was years ago.

What the buck is going- *oh*.

Oh, crap.

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A/N: Sorry for the short chapters. They will be longer, I promise! ^_^"