The door was opened, by the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Time seemed to stop as the two locked eyes, Soarin's heart appeared to stop beating as he tried to begin speaking, but was stopped by Dash. "Soarin?" she looked up at him, her pupils seeming to grow larger by the second, Soarin's cheeks flushed a bright red as he tried speaking again.

"That's my name, don't wear it out!" he tried to say confidently, Dash's cheeks also looked as though they were going red. A deathly cold night breeze blew past him, making him shiver. The flustered stallion quickly pulled out a small cluster of flowers and gave her the bunch, he hoped she didn't ask where he got them (It was a long story involving a certain pink earth pony) She looked at the multicolored flowers as if they were some sort of foreign animal and then spoke.

"Smooth move, smart guy!" she said, slapping the flowers out of his hooves and sending them flying towards the ground. "Out of all the sappy stallions I've met, you take the cake!" She teased "or in this case the pie!" she finished, playfully jabbing him in the rib. "Either way, what do you want Soarin?" He gave her a confused look "It's not everyday a wonderbolt just turns up at my doorstep at 8:00pm!" she chuckled "Especially you!"

"I wouldn't mind coming in thanks" He said bluntly, still shivering from the breeze.

"Sure! But don't get any ideas slim!" she said, playfully joking around and wiggling her tail seductively.

The first room he walked into was clearly the main room of the house, cloud furniture was scattered throughout the room. She clearly wasn't a mare fond of cooking, pizza boxes and slices were lying around. Like the furniture, all of these pieces of food and their respective storage were everywhere, he quickly looked up at a piece of pizza stuck to the cloud ceiling. "Wow Rainbow, for a mare that usually looks so clean, you sure don't act that way with your house!"

"Well I don't usually have guests over, so I see no reason to keep it tidy!" she replied "Especially wonderbolts!" she finished, giving him a wink. Soarin's stomach suddenly made a loud rumbling noise and he went to sit down on a nearby chair.

"Hey Dash, could you grab me something to eat?" he asked as politely as possible, whilst not trying to sound demanding.

"What did your last slave die of?" she asking, cutely giggling at her own joke "Sure, I have some food lying around"

"Hopefully it is more sanitary than that!" he joked, gesturing to the pizza on the ceiling.

"Shut up!" she said playfully. "Does an apple sit well with you?" she asked, grabbing a red apple off her counter.

"Yeah sure!" he said, holding his front hooves out.

"On one condition!" she said, running upstairs and returning a few minutes later with a phone "Call Spitfire and tell her whats happening to you right now!"

"You are so evil!" he said, jabbing her in her ribs and punching a few numbers into the device. The dial tone sounded in his perked up ear as he called his captain.

"Bonus points for loudspeaker!" she said, chuckling.

"Out of all the mares I've met, you're certainly the most evil!" he retorted, pressing the loudspeaker button on the phone. A raspy voice picked up on the other end.

"Hello?" the voice asked simply, it was definitely Spitfire, nopony's voice was that scratching and raspy.

"Hi cap!" Soarin said brightly, all he could hear that was the voice on the phone was Dash's soft and cute giggles through his other ear.

"Soarin?" she asked. Realizing the situation moments later she suddenly yelled "WHERE ARE YOU!?"

"Look, Spitfire it's a long story and at the moment I don't feel like explaining myself, I just thought I'd call up to tell you that currently I'm at Rainbow Dash's house.

"Trust you Soar!" she giggled, Soarin's face suddenly relighting a shade of red as well as eliciting a confused look from the Pegasus sitting opposite him.

"Yes I know!" he said, hoping Dash wouldn't be too suspicious.

"You're just so predictable" she responded, letting out a small laugh "What happened to you Soar?"

"Like I just said, I don't really want to explain myself right now" he replied, "I'll tell you later!".

"Look Soar, it was nice talking to you but I have to go now!" she said,

"See you too" he said, approaching the end of the relatively short call.

"Bye" she finished hanging up the call.

He let out a long sigh as he fell into deep thought "Hey Dash, could I by any chance have that apple?"

"Sure Soar" she called, returning moments later.

"Here ya go!" She handed him a plate of what looked like apple pie and gave him a cute smile. Soarin cautiously picked up the plate, being careful not to knock the food off it. After gently examining the food he asked a simple question.

"Why?" He asked bluntly, he noticed her smile fade away as he asked.

"Soarin, You're a wonderbolt" she began. "I know well enough that when having a guest over I need to respect them, especially a celebrity"

"But Dash, something you don't know is I don't like being put on a pedestal" Soarin assured her "You don't have to treat me like some sort of god"

"Either way" she began "I won't let you say you aren't special. after all, you're still a guest"

"Ok" Soarin told her "Speaking of that phone call" he began, immediately shifting the mood and his tone. "You said something about 'bonus points for having loudspeaker on', I'm assuming that equated to nothing?"

"No, it equated to this!" she said, slowly moving towards him and kissing him on the cheek. He winced quietly as his pupils shrank and his cheeks burned a bright crimson. She gently pushed herself away from him and lowered her eyes "You're a lucky guy Soar" she said, batting her eyes. Soarin awkwardly returned to a sitting position on the couch next to her.

"I thought you said you weren't sappy?" he teased her.

"Shut up!" she said, playfully hitting him on the shoulder as she sat next to him. An awkward silence lasting for about 5 minutes was broken when Rainbow Dash asked him a question.

"Hey Soar! Up for a scare?..."

Author's Note

I just can't get away from my keyboard!

This most probably will be the shortest chapter I'll write for this story as I'm trying stick to a minimum of 1000 words per chapter :)

Also get ready for more long waits! School begins again for me on Tuesday of next week, so as a consequence I will write not as often. I will try and keep this updated though, as I feel this will be a very long story and I don't want to keep people waiting!

I will try and get a chapter done by Monday, but that isn't a guarantee. -Lava Blaze Out