Roommates [Old Version]

"I said I was sorry!" Rainbow Dash groaned, floating a few inches from the ground behind me.

"Dash, bug off, I'm busy" I spoke sourly, heaving the bar above my chest, groaning in strain before setting it down, throwing more weights on.

"Uh, Walter?" Big Mac, the stallion working out beside me spoke up, tapping my shoulder.

"What?" I asked, glancing over at him.

"That's over four-fifty you're packing on there, pal. You need a spotter?" he offered, looking at me with slight concern.

"No, I'm fine" I replied stubbornly, as I began to pull the weight bar above my head slowly, letting out a slight growl of strain.

"Are you sure?" Big Mac spoke, dropping his weights, prepared to aid me.

"I'M. FINE!" I groaned out, causing the red stallion to respectfully back away, shaking his head with a sigh.

"If you say so" Big Mac sighed, returning to his set.

"Walter, you're being a stick-in-the-mud, it was just a small accident!" Rainbow Dash pleaded.

"Just a small accident?" I growled, tossing the set back onto the rack, shaking it tremendously, causing everyone around to flinch.

"Falling off the second story buck-ass naked into the pool is just a small accident? Need I remind you that you actually pushed me?" I spoke, causing a bunch of whispers to trail around.

Rainbow Dash rubbed her arm, letting out a sigh, her ears splaying back. I glanced back, thinking for a moment, sighing myself while I dried the sweat off my face with my workout rag. I then walked by Rainbow Dash, giving her shoulder a gentle pat. I knew she felt bad about what she did, I sometimes just let my anger carry me further than I really anticipate it to sometimes. Dash is a good friend, out of all the trouble she starts with me, she also helps me quite a lot.

I remember about a few days after I moved into the dorm, I had little to no stamina, as well as an eating disorder. I ate quite a lot, I'm not going to lie, I'm a big bastard. But, ever since Rainbow Dash started helping me, I've been getting a lot better results: more energy, less cravings, and I sure as hell felt a lot better too. Before I moved to Equestria from Earth, my family was rather poor. We never really had food, let alone a house; one-third of a bread loaf was considered an entire meal. After mother died, and father moved me to Equestria along with my little sister, he got a job and pretty much picked up a lot of what we couldn't carry back on Earth. However, once he started to reel the money in from his construction business, I began to pack on the pounds, scared of starving like I have before.

I still remember the day I told Rainbow Dash about my issue. Of course, she had a strong feeling about it, but how I came to tell her was rather... Well, dramatic.

I thrusted my fist forward, landing it on one of the four stallions' jaws, knocking a few of his teeth loose. I let out a roar of anger, seeing nothing but red as I mopped the alley with the four delinquents that were stupid enough to try and jump a guy nearly three times their size, underestimating me because I was human. The tallest one of the four stallions was roughly five foot eleven, which was way inferior to my six foot six physique. Growling, I reared back my arm, swinging it forward with tremendous force, clothes-lining two of them to the hard concrete ground with a loud thud.

The story behind this is, I was having a bad day, and these jackasses just strolled up to me and started pushing me around. I just hoped that they would talk shit for a few minutes then be on their way, but no, they wanted to start a fight. I tried my best to talk my way out of it, but after a few remarks about my size... I'll admit, I over-reacted.

I started the whole back-alley brawl by grappling the first stallion by the throat, lifting him up a good three feet into the air before throwing him at an angle into a dumpster, he landed against the edge, slamming his spine against the metal frame, falling to the ground in throbbing pain. While he recovered, his three goons jumped me, thus explains how it lead up to this point.

Sure, the upper hand was pointing at me for the time being. However, I didn't notice that the one I threw against the dumpster was now on his feet, and was approaching me from behind with a knife held tightly in his grip. The second I noticed the knife, there was a cyan flash followed by rainbow trail swooshing past me. Rainbow Dash tackled the stallion across the alley, sending him flying into a wall with a loud crash. I dropped the three I was currently pummeling, assuming that they've had enough since they lost consciousness about three seconds after Dash tackled the one with the knife.

"Walter..." Rainbow Dash spoke softly, her rose-hued eyes filled with concern.

"What...?" I glanced down at her, panting heavily.

"You're bleeding..." she spoke, pointing at a large gash along the back of my left shoulder.

"He must have grazed me when you tackled him..." I spoke, glancing at it, then back at her.

"Come with me, I'll get you patched up" she spoke tenderly, grasping my hands, pulling me along.

I glanced back, casting one last scowl at the scum I dominated in the alleyway, spitting in their direction out of pure hatred before returning my eyes forward. It was about fifteen minutes later when we both finally arrived back at the dorm. She removed my flannel long-sleeve that she held tightly to my wound to stop the bleeding, tossing it into the garbage, frowning at the amount of blood that had soaked my white undershirt. Ever so gently, she removed my undershirt, making sure not to bother my wound as she peeled the damp cloth from my flesh. She tossed it aside in the garbage as well, and began to clean my wound with a wet paper towel.

"So... What happened?" Rainbow Dash asked, her voice rather soft.

"They started it, I finished it... Well, you sort of finished it..." I replied, wincing as she began to apply peroxide to my gash.

"How did it all begin?" she pushed on, causing me to groan.

"They started talking shit, I figured I'd let them tire themselves out and move on... But they just kept going on and on, so, I lost my patience, and I threw one of them by the throat against a dumpster, the one with the knife" I replied, biting my lip, clenching my fists as I felt the sting of the peroxide.

"I see... Any deeper, and this cut would've required stitches" Rainbow Dash spoke, as she began to place bandages along the wound, wrapping gauze around my chest at a diagonal alignment so it would hold the bandages in place.

"Thank you..." I sighed, lowering my eyes.

"You're welcome..." she replied, gently resting her small gentle hands on my back.

"Walter... I heard what they said, I heard what started the fight..." Rainbow Dash spoke, as she gently began to lean forward, hugging me closely to her chest.

I blushed darkly at first, feeling her breasts push against me. Though it stung bandaged cut, I didn't really mind, they felt kind of nice. I looked away, hiding my red face from the cyan mare while her arms found themselves fastened around the barrel of my chest. She rested her chin on my right shoulder, pressing her cheek against my own stubble face.

"S-So what?" I replied, looking down.

"You seemed to have kept your cool until they mentioned your weight..." she replied, pulling my face up to meet hers.

"What does it matter?" I replied, my eyes becoming teary.

"Walter..." she sighed, staring into my eyes.

"It doesn't matter what I do, I just can't help it. You're beautiful athletic, healthy, you couldn't possibly understand what it's like... How the food eases your pain, even though it only makes me miserable in the end... I hate myself... I..." I continued to babble until eventually I just began to silently weep, lowering my head once more.

"It's alright, Walter... I'm here" Dash whispered into my ear, now hugging my head into her chest, sitting on the armrest to get a better position.

For what seemed like an hour, I laid there in her embrace, letting my tears soak her shirt. The next day after that, we started doing a few more things together; riding bikes, jogging on the track, swimming laps, and afterwards she would treat me to this nice restaurant a few blocks away from Sugar Cube Corner. It was a vegan restaurant, I wasn't surprised considering all ponies here in Equestria were vegetarian. It took me a while, but I eventually lost my junk-food addiction. I still took protein pills and drank protein shakes to feed my crave for meat, but overall, it was rather nice. That all happened during my first week here at the academy, and now, it seems she reverted back to her old troublemaker self.

Rainbow Dash glanced up from her guilty splay, her ears perking up as she noticed my smile.

"Hey, it's okay, really... I was just giving you a hard time, I'm sorry" I spoke, earning a warm smile from the cyan mare.

"Why don't you two just kiss and make up already?" I heard one of the other freshmen stallions call out, chuckling and snorting.

"Okay, sure" Rainbow Dash spoke, smirking.

"Wait, wha--" before I had much time to react, Rainbow Dash turned my face towards hers, used her wings to hover at my height, and pressed her lips firmly against mine.

Silence filled the room, every pony and every human in there dropped what they were doing and gazed in awe. One of the most popular mares on campus, and one of the most professional athletes in Equestria (as she so elegantly put it), kissing a freshman like me smack dab in front of the public eye. I could immediately feel my face burn a bright crimson red, this wasn't my first kiss, but god damn it was a good one! Her lips were tender and soft, her breath smelled like a cool refreshing mint breeze, even her saliva tasted sweet.

Her tongue explored my mouth, wrestling my own for dominance for quite a long period of time before she decided to pull away, and leave me standing there frozen in shock. She grinned, her eyes filled with tenacious mirth, giggling at my stupified visage.  Whispers were audibly traded among those who witnessed it all as the cyan pegasus began to walk away, teasingly shaking her rump my direction, glancing back at me with a suggestive wink before leaving the gym. I could feel drool seep down my chin, causing me to snap out of my daze. I quickly wiped my mouth, hiding my face in embarrassment while I heard multiple footsteps approach me from all around.

"Dude! Rainbow Dash, the Cyan Bolt, the Rainbow Wonder, she just kissed you!" one stallion exclaimed, grasping my shoulder, speaking to me as if I looked like I was disoriented... Which I was, to a certain degree.

"Yeah..." I mumbled, my eyes wide open as I continued to try and processed what had just happened.

"How was it, how did it feel!?" one of the human guys asked, shoving his head into the small crowd that had gathered around me.

"W... What?" I asked, looking up, still a bit dazed.

"How was it!?" they all repeated for me.

"It... It tasted sweet" I replied, feeling my lips.