Young love.

The end of the day came, after the class had a geography lesson, and some reading done. After Bash had left the school house, he was stopped by his new friends. "Hey Bash, come on! We wanna show you the clubhouse!" Scootaloo said. Bash rubbed the back of his head as he had started flying "I dunno guys, mom wants me to get home after school ends everyday now. Sorry, but my mom doesn't want me headin' anywhere without her knowing."

"Oh come on!" Sweetie Belle said "I hope you don't mind us asking, but who's your mom anyways?" Sweetie Belle asked, not knowing that what she asked would make Cloud Basher stop dead in his flying tracks.

Bash flew down to the ground, and closed his wings and said "Oh.... my mom? My mom's name is Rainbow Dash." As he placed one hoof behind another. He looked over at his friends, mainly at Scootaloo, who seemed to be the most shocked.

"YOUR MOM IS RAINBOW DASH!?" Scootaloo asked with excitement "WHAT'S IT LIKE?"

Cloud Basher backed up in fear, and for his personal space, and said "It's like having a mom, but without a dad....." Bash said, looking at the clouds above them and imagining who his dad might be. "Do you guys have a dad?"

Scootaloo nodded her head, Sweetie Belle said "Yeah, he's awesome! Most times anyways..." And Applebloom said "Ah don't have a pa, but mah brother Big Macintosh is like a dad to me!" Cloud Basher looked disappointed "They've got dads, except for Applebloom who's brother is like a dad to her, and I don't. What happened to him? Did he not love me and mom enough?" Cloud Basher began to shed some tears from thinking his sad thoughts. "Hey Bash, you ok?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Y-Yeah it's just... It's just..." Cloud Basher began "I gotta go!" He ended, flying off as fast as he could, trying to stop his crying so he could see where he was flying.

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Cloud Basher finally made it home, and when he opened the door, he flew straight to his room and locked himself inside, crying softly into his pillow. Bash heard a knock at the door, and then heard his mother's soothing voice "Bash, are you ok baby, what's wrong?" Bash went to his door and unlocked it, and went back to his pillow to finish his crying.

Rainbow Dash entered her son's room, and saw what was happening. Dash walked over to her son's bed and sat next to her son, and said "You wanna talk about it Bash?"  Thankfully, for Dash, her son lifted his head. Bash sniffled a bit and said "Hey mom.... Who's my dad?" This made Rainbow's heart sink "Oh buck! Why, of all questions, did he ask that?" Dash thought, then looked at her son and said "Well.... your father is a stallion, of course, and um........" She said, losing words "Well, you look like him, a lot. You have his red coat, and his blonde mane and tail, even though it's not exactly like his, you still have his mane and tail color." She said, as she hugged her son, who returned the hug and began to cry onto his mother's chest. "Come on, let's go eat dinner."

The two ate their dinner, which Dash made herself, and it was Bash's favorite meal. Dash made them rose bud salads with some water. "So, how was your first day of school sweetie?" Dash asked her son, who was now happier than earlier. "It was good at first, then this one filly made fun of me cause of my blankflank, and the fact that I stayed inside for 8 years, and she even asked if you were stupid or over protective!" Bash said, and went on explaining the rest of his day to his mother.

"Wow, sounds like you had a hoofful today. Come on, let's watch some T.V." Dash said, as she left the dining room table and went onto the couch and turned on her and her son's favorite show. Their favorite show was about ponies going across an obstacle course and somehow end up falling, with the two hosts poking fun and making jokes here and their. As the show came to the end, Bash had some more questions for his mom. "Hey mom, will I ever see dad again, and what's his name?" Bash asked, looking at his mother as she held her son in her arms whilst he was laying on top of her while the two were on the couch. "Well, you'll probably see him, and not know it's him, but I can't tell you his name." Dash began "It sickens me to even say it, so I never do, nor do I really think about it without thinking of how much of an ass he was." Dash said. Her son acted surprised to be funny "My dad's a donkey?" Bash said as he laughed a little.

Bash had gotten tired after a while, and went to his room to go to bed. Before Dash turned the light in the room off, she said "Good night kiddo. Have good dreams tonight." After that, she turned the lights off and went to her room to work on some paper work from her job she had gotten, something about firing a grey Pegasus mare with crossed yellow eyes.

After his mom left the room, Bash got out another notebook of his, and began to write in this one.

"So, apparently I look like my dad. Now I just gotta find a stallion with a blonde mane and tail, and a red coat. Hopefully I'll even find out his name, but I really want to know something more.

Why did he leave me and mom?"

After he was done writing, Bash put the notebook under his pillow, and his pencil in his bedside dresser drawer, and went to bed.