Rainbow Dash hated staying in the town of Ponyville, being in the town, while all those other ponies walking around, stopping to give her weird stares, probably wondering why she was standing here, when she could be up in Cloudsdale with her own kind. This town was always something that made the cyan pegasus's stomach turn, and no matter how she tried, she could never shake the feeling that she didn't belong in this sickening town. There would always be something that she hated about it.

The pegasus would rather much be doing anything else, then spending time in this town that she never felt welcome in, but today that is exactly what she had to deal with, as she and Princess Twilight stood outside one of the small restaurants in the town, waiting for a certain unicorn to come and meet up with them. Rainbow Dash fidgeted a little, nervously looking to the ground, while she kept feeling eyes on her. She could tell a lot of the ponies were stopping to stare at her, after all the last time any of them had seen her in this town was when the separation happened.

It was normal to see a pegasus in Ponyville, but not one like Rainbow Dash, who always claimed that she hated the town, and everypony in it, just like many of the other pegasi from Cloudsdale had done back when the big fall out happened. Dash wanted nothing more then to fly up into the sky and hide away where none of these ponies would see her, but she knew she had to stand her ground, and stay here for at least until the unicorn her and the Princess were waiting on came to meet up with them, she only wished that Twilight had picked a more secluded part of the town for them to wait, where not so many ponies would be walking around.

Many of the ponies did give Dash weird looks, but they didn't stay around for long, after all once they saw Princess Twilight was standing right next to her, and woud talk to her every now and again, they guessed that there wasn't too much to worry about, but still they all kept their distance.

"Twilight why do we have to wait here?" Rainbow asked in a low voice, while she nervously looked to Twilight, not daring to even glance to the other ponies walking past them.

"I told you Dash, this is where we are meeting up with Rarity," Twilight answered simply with a smile to her anxious marefriend, she could see how nervous Rainbow was with standing in the town like this, and although there were the few ponies that would give strange looks, and whisper to each other, it didn't mind the Princess. Rainbow would have to get used to being around the ponies of this town, if she was really going to start over with them all, and even though the pegasus didn't seem all that ready for it just yet, the way Dash was acting at least gave Twilight an idea of what she was now like when having to be in this town, amongest all the ponies that lived in it.

"I know, but why do we have to wait in a place like this, doesn't this town have any dark alleyways where we can meet her instead?" Rainbow asked, as her voice was oddly quiet almost like she was scared to talk with all these ponies around her.

"Dash," Twilight raised an eyebrow to Rainbow, before she looked around at all the ponies that would stop and look to the cyan pegasus like she was some sort of unknown being that didn't belong here. The Princess sighed slightly, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to bring Dash into a situation like this one just yet.

"Come with me," Twilight said as she nudged Rainbow and started heading to be somewhere that was less 'out in the open'.

"Where are we going now?" Dash asked as she quickly followed Twilight and ran after her, wondering where the Princess was taking her to now.

Twilight led Rainbow around the back of the restaurant they had been waiting outside, hiding behind the back of the building, and deciding to wait there instead as to not worsen Dash's anxiety. Twilight looked out from behind the building, keeping a watchful eye out, so that when she could see Rarity she could simply just call to her, while Dash gave out a loud sigh of relief and relaxed.

"Hey you think that Rarity will be able to find us if we stay hidden behind here?" Rainbow asked as she thanked Twilight for removing them from that uncomfortable situation that she really didn't want to be in.

"Probably not, but when I see her, I can just call her over here," Twilight stated as she smiled back to Dash, and was glad to see that the pegasus seemed a lot more relaxed now that they were pretty much alone.

"Great," Rainbow said in a sarcastic tone, still not feeling good about having to meet up with this old enemy of her's. True she did talk to her a little at the party a few days back, but this time she wouldn't be able to just walk away when she couldn't bear to be around her anymore, and with this particular pony it was a little harder to try and be polite and kind all the time.

Rainbow didn't mind meeting up and starting again with the other ponies in the group, but when it came to Rarity, there was just something between the two that Rainbow believed they could never really get past. Maybe she could go just this one day without starting an argument with her, but she had no idea if that was something she could indeed promise, Rarity wasn't even here yet and the pegasus was already dreading seeing her again, just how in all of Equestria was she going to do this?

While the pegasus stood worrying, and feeling a little hopeless, Twilight turned to her, seeing that she was still looking a little stressed, but still more calm then she had been when standing in the middle of the town, where many of the ponies could see her.

Twilight walked closer to Rainbow, as she smiled slightly and rested a hoof under her chin, bringing the pegasus to look her in the eyes and not shy away from her,

"Promise me you'll be nice?" the Princess whispered in a quiet tone, guessing that she would have to make it up to her marefriend for putting her up to this.

"Well...I can't promise anything, but I'll try," Dash answered as she smiled weakly to Twilight, knowing that if she did make that promise, she would probably end up breaking it later.

"That's all I ask of you," Twilight replied, before she pecked Dash lightly on her forhead, causing her to cheer up a little, as she nodded to the Princess in a confident way.

Twilight soon turned back to look out for the pure white unicorn they were supposed to be meeting up with, looking around from left to right, just in case the unicorn in question came walking by. Rainbow really didn't want to go through with this, but she always knew it would happen, since her and the Princess started on this task to get the towns to get along again, one day she would have to at least try and make peace with this one pony. And she was hopeful that she would be able to do just that, even it proved to probably be one of the hardest things she's ever had to do in her life.

It seemed like Rainbow didn't have long to reflect on the subject, since she soon noticed Twilight smiling brightly, as she must have spotted the unicorn they had been waiting on. The Princess waved her hoof around, as she called out to the unicorn, causing Rarity to immediately notice her and smile, walking over to the two hidden mares a second later.

"Twilight, Rainbow Dash, how lovely it is to see you again. And may I ask why you are both standing behind this restaurant, looking like you're trying hide from somepony?" Rarity asked politely, clearing not having much of a problem with greeting, and looking to her old enemy with a smile, while Dash nervously kept her gaze focused on the ground.

"Sorry, we were going to wait for you in front of this place like we arranged, but Dash felt a little uncomfortable with all the ponies walking past, and stopping to stareat her, so I figured waiting here would be the better choice," Twilight explained as she galnced to Rainbow with a smile, and sighed slightly at seeing the pegasus nervously looking away from both her and Rarity.

"Oh nothing to worry about darling, I completely understand," Rarity smiled as she looked to Rainbow as well, looking hopeful as the pegasus glanced to her for a second, before she immediately turned away from her again, causing Rarity to sigh a little on the inside.

"Anyhow we're meant to be spending the day together right, so Rainbow Dash is there anything you'd like to do?" Rarity asked, trying her best to stay polite and kind to the peagsus, but that was only making Rainbow feel more uneasy since the unicorn would never noramlly act so nice to her.

"Well..." Rainbow paused as she lifted up her head a little, and did slightly glance to Rarity, before she looked back down at the ground again, and continued on, "I would like to go for a fly right now, but you don't have wings so that wouldn't work," she stated, as she looked to Rarity again, this time with a slight smirk playing on her lips, her voice starting to take a mocking tone to it, as it seemed like the only way she could address or even keep eye contact with this unicorn, was through her being like her old self, a pony that Rarity knew all to well.

Rarity felt her anger starting to rise when she saw that annoying smirk, which the peagsus always used to be wearing when she was around her back before the two towns fell out. But she didn't let it get to her and instead just took a deep breath and smiled to Rainbow again politely, causing Dash to raise her eyebrow at the unicorn trying to control the distaste she had for the arrogant pegasus.

"Rainbow Dash I would appreciate you not speaking to me in that way please,"

"In what way?" Rainbow kept up her act, speaking in a taunting voice, while she stood like she was talking down to an annoying foal, instead of a fully grown mare that was around the same age as her.

"Dash! Be nice," Twilight strernly told the pegasus off, as Rainbow immediately rolled her eyes and reluctantly backed down, galncing away from Rarity again, while the Princess gave her a warning glare, causing her to feel a little nervous again.

"Sorry Rarity, I did tell her to behave herself when talking with you," Twilight apologized on Rainbow's behalf, still giving the pegasus a warning glare, while Rainbow nervously avoided the Princess's gaze as best she could.

"Oh no, that's alright...really," Rarity smiled back to Twilight, seeming awfully taken aback for a little while. She expected nothing less from the pegasus really with her mockery, but the fact that Rainbow backed down so quickly to Twilight simply telling her off with a stern tone, was quite surprising and most definitely not something she expected to see from Dash.

"Is there anything that you would like to do Rarity?" Twilight asked, while she nudged Rainbow with her hind leg, causing her to stand up straight and shake off any uneasy feelings she had, now looking back to the Princess with a blank stare, and refusing to look at Rarity again.

"Well I thought having a nice dinner here at this restaurant would be nice," Rarity suggested.

"Too many ponies around," Dash quickly turned the idea down, as she stil avoided Rarity's gaze, but was now being careful of what she said for the most part.

"We could go to the spa, there will be less ponies there,"

"I doubt I'll be welcome there,"

"How about simply walking around the town for a bit then?"

"And get stared at by more ponies, all probably wondering what a pegasus like me is doing in their town? No thank you" Rainbow sighed as she shot down every suggestion, or idea that Rarity made, making it seem like there was nothing they could do in this town without Rainbow complaining about something.

"Well what would you suggest then?" Rarity asked, giving up on trying to think of something that the pegasus might actually be okay with.

Rainbow Dash stood silent for a moment as she thought over what the three of them could do together, which wouldn't involve being around a load of ponies from the town. Twilight sighed a little as this meeting didn't look like it was going all that well so far, she couldn't just step back and let the two work it out for themsevles like she did with Applejack a day before, leaving the two alone together could easily lead to a disaster. The Princess only hoped things would turn out better soon.

Rainbow knew that she was meant to be spending the day with Rarity, but she really didn't know how either of them were going to get through their tense relationship, and enjoy today. There would practically be no way of that possibly ever happening, so instead Dash just said what was really on her mind right now.

"I want to go home," Dash sighed heavily, while she now looked to Rarity, and actually seemed like for once she was showing the unicorn what she was really feeling right now. She wasn't speaking in her mocking voice, or acting stubborn and nervous, this time she was just plainly speaking her mind, which in return made Rarity drop her guard as she smiled to the pegasus.

Rarity gave out a small sigh, as she walked up to Rainbow. Dash looked to Rarity feeling a little uneasy and unsure of how the unicorn would respond to her,

"Listen Rainbow Dash, I know we aren't friends, we never have been, and to be honest I don't think we ever will be. So maybe it would best for you to just go back to your home after all," Rarity smiled looking a little sad, she did want to try and make up with Rainbow Dash, but it just seemed like something that just wasn't going to happen.

"Really?" Rainbow asked, seeming relieved that Rarity had understood why Rainbow had said that she just wanted to cut this day short and end it here, before things had the chance to get worse somehow.

Rarity just nodded, before she turned to Twilight,

"Twilight can we talk for a moment?" she asked, knowing that the Princess was more then surprised and maybe a little disappointed at the unicorn chosing to for now leave things as they are, rather then trying to fix something that would no doubt take a lot more time then just one day to actually accomplish.

Twilight nodded as her and Rarity walked away from Rainbow Dash for a moment, while Rainbow just stood looking to them, but knowing to let them talk alone and stay back for now.

"I don't get it Rarity, don't you want to make up and possibly start over with Dash?" Twilight asked, knowing that Rainbow probably didn't really want to make peace with the unicorn, but she thought she was fairly sure that Rarity had wanted to fix things between them, and just forget about the past, so that they could both move on finally.

"I did, but it seems like something Rainbow Dash just isn't ready for yet, and to be honest she may never be ready for it, so for now maybe we should just leave things like this. I know the relationship that her and I have right now isn't good at all, but as long as we stay away from each other it should be fine. Besides, I really have been trying, but I'm getting tired of putting on this act every time I see and talk to her," Rarity explained while Twilight looked a little downhearted about the fact that maybe this was one plan that just wasn't going to end with a happy ending like most of her previous one's had.

Twilight glanced back to Rainbow for a minute, and realized that Rarity was right. Rainbow Dash and Rarity were a pair that might never get along, and so there was no use in trying to force it. And no matter how much Twilight wanted the two to finally make up, and actually start trying to get to know each other better, instead of just fighting all the time, it probably wouldn't turn out that way for long, long time.

Twilight sighed deeply as she turned back to Rarity, "Maybe you're right," she thought out loud as she hung her head low, and felt like she shouldn't have gotten her hopes up, she knew that there was always going to be that very likely possibility that Rainbow wasn't going to get along with everypony from Ponyville, and Rarity was just one of those ponies unfortunately.

"Maybe one day, her and I will learn to settle our differences, but that day seems far from now I'm sad to say," Rarity smiled as she knew that Twilight had hoped for Dash to make amends and start again with all of the ponies she had made enemies out of, but this one would clearly time much more time.

Twilight just nodded as she sighed again and thanked Rarity for trying anyway, before she walked off slowly back to stand in front of Dash, smiling to the pegasus slightly, "Are you going back home then now?" she asked, Dash clearly seeing the disppointment behind her eyes.

Rainbow looked to Twilight, before she glanced to Rarity, and then looked back to Twilight again, sighing deeply as she didn't feel like is was right to just let things end like this, although she wasn't ready to make up with Rarity yet, she did want to at least make things a little bit better between them, and so she reluctantly shook her head to Twilight.

"You head off back to the library, I'll see you later okay?" Rainbow smiled as she rested a comforting hoof on Twilight's shoulder. Twilight just nodded in reply, before she left with waving goodbye to Rarity and Rainbow Dash, feeling defeated and a little ashamed of how today had gone comparing it to the other plans that had always seemed to turn out okay in the end, she was sad to say that this one wasn't going to be the same.

Rainbow watched Twilight go, and waited until she was pretty much out of sight, before she looked back to Rarity, and took a deep breath, 'Well here goes nothing, I guess,' she thought as she slowly walked over to the unicorn, and caught her attention, as she had started to turn to leave.

"Hey wait, Rarity before you go I...I need to talk to you about something," Rainbow stated nervously, as she looked to the unicorn feeling a little awkward, but was confident that she could talk to this old enemy of her's if only for a little while.

"Sure, what is it?" Rarity wondered why Rainbow Dash had stopped her, and also why she wanted to talk to her, but it didn't seem like she was going to start an argument or anything, so she decided to stay and listen to what she had to say.

"While it may never be possible for us to actually get along and become anything close to friends, I would like for us to not be fighting everytime we're together," Rainbow started to explain the idea she had thought of for the two of them to at least try and act normally around each other, and not argue all the time.

"So what are you suggesting we do then?" Rarity asked with a raised eyebrow to the pegasus.

"I'm suggesting that we make a deal, I won't start anymore arguments, or make rude remarks, or anything, just as long as you drop that annoying act when you're around me," Rainbow explained what she had in mind, while she believed it to be the best course of action her and Rarity could take right now.

"What 'annoying act'?" Rarity asked, looking a little offended.

"The one where you act like everything is fine between us, because we both know that its not. I mean you're a nice pony and all, but I guess there's just something I can't stand about you," Rainbow explained, while she smiled at the eye roll Rarity gave her in return.

"Well I can't say I like you all that much either really, I don't think I ever have to be honest,"

"Good, so we're on the same page then?" Dash chuckled a little, always knowing that Rarity and her shared a strong hatred for each other, which the two probably wouldn't be able to overcome.

"I guess, but what would we do when seeing each other then, I mean since you're going to be in this town a lot more often now, we're going to have to get used to the fact that we will probably end up walking into each other at some point," Rarity pointed out that this town was a small one, and with Rainbow Dash now being in it more often, seeing ponies like Rarity will probably be amongest the things she will have to just start getting used to.

"We don't have to talk to each other, but if we can learn to be around each other without always fighting, then maybe someday we can actually have a casual conversation, without it turning into some heated argument that somepony has to break us apart from," Rainbow propsed that the two simply find a way to cope while being in each others company as being their first step, into making things between them better then they currently were.

Rarity was a little hesitant to go through with Rainbow's idea, yes it was probably the best they could do for now, but she still wasn't sure if this was all going to work out that well.

"And might I point out that we are talking right now, and it is a fairly normal conversation, which neither one of us are turing into an argument of some sort," Rainbow smiled as she made Rarity realize that this may have been the longest time her and Rainbow had talked for without it turning into something troublesome.

"Well then maybe we can make this work after all," Rarity smiled back to Rainbow, seeing now that even if things might be a little awkward between them now, at least they wouldn't constanly be fighting over such small things.

"So are you in then?" Rainbow asked, hoping that Rarity would agree to this plan of her's without any problems.

"I'm in!" Rarity replied happily with a nod, causing Dash to sigh with relief and smile back to the unicorn.

Although it may be true that Rarity and Rainbow Dash would never really become good friends, at least this showed that they could at least be around each other, and be civil, and maybe this meant that someday they might just become friendly acquaintances if nothing else. And even that at this point would prove to be a true miracle.

Author's Note

You can't be friends with everyone right?

Thank you ever so much for reading

KillerChainsaw ;)