The Struggles of a Bent Relationship

The Struggles of a Bent Relationship

Written by: Alex A.

Chapter 2:  Complications Start

The warm morning air made it’s way into the small cottage located on the outskirts of ponyville. The home itself was peaceful during this time of morning, as all its animal inhabitants were still fast asleep. Currently lying fast asleep on the bed was Fluttershy who was dreaming happily.

The silience of the room was broken by the the soft sound of fluttering wings. Suddenly from the nearby window in the bedroom a cyan mare appeared.

Dash smiled and hopped into the bedroom. She slowly trotted over to her sleeping marefriend and laid on the bed as she snuggled up against her. Fluttershy started to murmur as she began to waken, she looked behind her to see the cyan and rainbow coloured mare laying by her side with a content smile. Dash leaned over and kissed the yellow mare before speaking, “Hey Flutters, you ready for today?”

Fluttershy nodded with a bit of uncertainty, which Dash had been expecting from the mare. Rainbow placed her hooves on the mare’s sides and gently began to move them around in a casual way as she spoke up, “You know they won't mind Flutters, they’ve been our friends for years now,” she said in an almost calming tone, which was unusual for the normally brash and confident mare.

Fluttershy smiled a bit at the words of her marefriend. “I know Dashie but, I don’t think I’m strong enough to do it all,” she said letting the truth of her fears out into the open.

Dash only smiled a little wider as she put a hoof to her marefriend’s cheek. “No Flutters, you are strong enough. I know you can stand in front of our friends with me when we tell them the truth and stop hiding it from them.”

Fluttershy smiled at Rainbow’s words of confidence, it was one of the many things she’d come to admire about the brash rainbow maned mare. She smiled and nodded in acceptance, which was followed by another deep and passionate kiss.

After a few moments they broke the kiss before Fluttershy spoke, “Would you like me to make you some oatmeal, Dash?”

Rainbow chuckled slightly before kissing the mare on the cheek. “Nah, lets make it together,” she said, grabbing the mare’s hoof with her own as they made their way downstairs and into the kitchen.

It was now midday over Ponyville. A light summer breeze wafted its way over the grassy landscape on the outskirts of the small earth pony town.

On one of the small hills a checked blanket was laid out with all kinds of confectionaries. Beside the blanket sat a lavender unicorn along with a purple dragon. They were currently wandering around the blanket checking off items.

The purple dragon sighed, “Why do we have to check off so many things, Twilight! It's just the weekly picnic,” he complained.

Twilight turned to  face the complaining dragon. “I know Spike, but we need to make sure we haven’t forgotten anything,” she said before going back over the items once again.

Spike rolled his eyes and went through the checklist again.

Luckily for the dragon it was only a few moments before everypony started to show up. Applejack was first on the scene followed by Rarity and Pinkie Pie before the arrival of the last of the bearers of harmony, Rainbow and Fluttershy.

Twilight smiled. “Great! Now that everypony’s here, dig in!”

Spike sighed happily, “Finally!” he said before diving into the basket, all the other ponies laughed.

The rest of the afternoon seem to fly by as the six ponies - and dragon - talked about various events and adventures that they each had encountered over the week.

Rainbow wanted to tell the ponies about her relationship and was starting to become more and more anxious by the minute. She kept looking at Fluttershy, trying to tell if she still felt alright with the plan. She could see the shy Pegasus was also becoming nervous with each passing moment. The cyan mare wanted nothing more than to comfort her marefriend at this point, but she was held back by the invisible line of secrets and promises.

Rainbow Dash felt as if she had one last shot to tell the group as the ponies began to die down from their conversations. Rainbow took the moment of silence to speak up, “Guys, I have something I wanna say,” she said, nervously rubbing the back of her neck.

The rest of the ponies turned around to face Dash, the brash pegasus quickly turned to face Fluttershy who was by now cowering away slightly at the thought of what she might say. Dash felt a bead of sweat run down her face as she found herself caught in a mix of emotions.

Finally backing down Rainbow sighed, but she had something else that she wanted to share. “I’m leaving with the Wonderbolts in a few months to be on tour with them for the rest of the year!,” she said happily.

Everypony around the mare gasped in shock, however whilst the other four ponies congratulated Dash and her efforts and giving her comforting smiles she saw that her marefriend was still shocked and was looking at the cyan pegasus with wide eyes.

Soon the sun began to dip towards the horizon all the ponies started to leave to tend to the rest of their duties for the day.

Fluttershy was one of the last ponies to leave. Dash was immediately concerned when she noticed the saddened look on the yellow mares features, and quickly trotted after her as the mare trotted off down a dirt road path.

When the cyan mare caught up to her marefriend they were both out of sight from the rest of the town. Dash took this opportunity and leaned in nuzzling Fluttershy’s neck getting her attention, the mare looked up to the rainbow maned pony.

Dash turned a worried look. “You okay Flutters?” she kindly asked.

Fluttershy lowered her head and mumbled something inaudible to her lover.

Dash was confused. “What was that?” she asked, leaning in so she could hear her marefriend better.

Fluttershy stopped and looked towards Dash.

The yellow mare sighed, “You didn’t tell me you were leaving?” she said dejectedly. Dash could feel her heart swelling as a pang of guilt hit her chest. She leaned in and kissed the mare softly on the lips before replying.“I only found out yesterday and I wouldn’t leave you, you can come to Cloudsdale with me,” Dash said happily, however the reply from the mare was a simple shake of the head.

Fluttershy sighed, “I can’t go with you Dashie, I have to care for all the animals here and help for hearths warming and be here with all my other friends. I can’t just up and leave,” she said with a sad tone.

Dash lowered her head. “I know Flutters it’s just, if we told everypony about our relationship then we could spend more time together, right now we can’t do anything and it will be even more worse when I leave,” Dash said if almost begging for her marefriend to tell the truth to their friends.

Fluttershy again sighed, “I need to think about it,” she said before trotting off in the direction of the cottage.

Dash watched the pegasus leave, a part of her wanted to follow and comfort the pegasus, but she knew that the mare would rather be left to converse over her options. She would visit her later on, but for now she had to clear the skies for the day.

Sighing Dash soared into the sky, she hoped that this mess could be resolved soon.

To be continued...