A Harmless Plague

I head out to see Rainbow flying around in the park. She had to be flying at least 50 MPH, but, again, I’m not very smart, but she manages to pull sharp turns at the fence. For a second I thought, Why are the Wonderbolts not on their knees begging her to join. Then I remembered the disease. I hated the disease even more than before, and I didn’t think that was possible.

“Hey Hex.” She says, sitting down on a park bench, sipping from a water bottle.

“Hey Rainbow.” I say sitting down next to her.

“Want a sip?” She asks, offering the water bottle.

“No thanks.”

“Suit yourself.” She continues drinking.

I’m staring at her beauty. She’s almost always alert so I almost never get the chance to stare, but she was relaxed. Great Celestia, she was beautiful. That rainbow mane, that wonderful face, looking at her made you think she was perfect, but you quickly learn otherwise when you meet her. I don’t really like how competitive she is. Being competitive is fine, but she overdoes it. I also didn’t like her tomboyish attitude. It’s kind of a turn off, but I don’t let that get in the way. Besides, I still wouldn’t change anything about her.

“Hello?” She says waving her hoof. I say nothing but instead blush and look away. How long was I staring? I ask myself. This isn’t the first time she’s caught me, but before I lucked out and found a reason as to why I was staring.
This time, I said, “Sorry, I was just trying to read what it said on your head band. The text is really small.”
She looks at it and says, “Oh, I’m still not sure what it says myself.” Rainbow is smart, in fact, I’m not sure how she doesn’t know about my crush yet, but luckily she doesn’t seem to realize the real reason for staring.
“So, my next fight.” I say. “When is it and against who?”
“Because of the constant delays with your fight, tomorrow is the day of the fight. When it comes to who you’re fighting, I’m still blank on that.” I nod.
I decided that telling her sooner than later was a good idea when I say, “Hey, could you come to the club tonight?”
She looks at me, confused by the out of nowhere question, and asks, “Why?”
“Well, some mare, I think her name was Pinkie Pie, was planning something at the club.”
“Pinkie!” She says ecstatically. “Damn, she knows how to throw a party. Whatever she has planned, I’m coming. When is it?”
“At 8.”
“Okay, I’m coming.” She then flew away.
I then started to regret my decision. Rainbow was the Element of Loyalty; she wouldn’t turn her back on any friends who might be in Canterlot. Even if she didn’t have friends, it was obvious she was loyal to the princess more than anypony. It was likely she’d try to fight back against the other ponies and, in hindsight, me. I had a small vision of Rainbow angrily throwing constant punches at me.
“You had this coming, Hex. You should have joined us when you had the chance!” She’d say. Suddenly, I didn’t see her as Celestia’s sister, I saw her as this ugly beast waiting to be let out of her cage… I didn’t like it.
“Dammit!” I say. I stomp my hoof to the ground. It was too late. I said to myself. Even if I try to stop her, she might come out of sheer curiosity. What did I hate more, the thought of Rainbow trying to kill me or myself for even thinking of this? It was a question I couldn’t find the answer to.

I got ready to go when I heard a knock at the door. I opened the door and Rainbow was standing there.
“Ready to go?” She asked, looking excited.
I decided to not even try to stop her, as she’d come anyways, so I said, “Yeah.” We walked out.’
We were walking for quite a bit, Rainbow insisted we walk instead of fly for some reason, so I ask, “So, Rainbow, about those things you said yesterday…” They felt like they were just teases, but I wanted to be sure. “Did… did you mean it?”
She looked confused and said, “Why, do you like me?”
“Uh, no…” I blush and quickly look away. “I was just curious.”
“Oh.” She seemed a bit disappointed. I just assumed she was disappointed that the teases didn’t go the way she planned.
It was an awkward silence the rest of the way there.
Luckily, I still had Rainbow as a friend for a bit longer as when we arrive, the bouncer said, “If you’re looking for Pinkie, she had to reschedule. Sorry.”
I give a small sigh in relief and, without another word, me and Rainbow turned away.
“Such a disappointment.” She says after a moment or two of walking.
“Eh, I’ll ask Pinkie when and why she rescheduled.” I say.
“So, Hex… um.” She stops moving.
“What is it Rainbow?” I ask. I was kind of nervous since she never talks nervously.
“Um… well I…” She blushed.
I knew what she wanted to say, but I decided to play dumb and say, “What? You can tell me.”
“Well, I… kind of…” Her voice lowers to a mumble.
“Sorry, what?”
“Well, I kind of like…” She mumbles again.
“You kind of lichen?” I walk over to her to hear her better.
“I kind of like y…” More mumbling.
“I still didn’t hear…” I’m interrupted by her kissing me. Her face was as red as the Big Mac’s coat. I honestly was shocked when she did that. I wanted to kiss her back, but something stopped me.
She breaks the kiss and says, “I’m sorry.” She then runs off.
“Rainbow, wait!” Too late, she’s already gone. “I love you too.” I whisper.

I should have been happy, but instead I feel like my heart was stabbed. I had even more guilt about me going with Pinkie’s plan. What would she think of me now? I ask myself. How would she react? I knew the answer, I just didn’t want to answer myself. I lied to Hex and now he was gonna suffer for it. If only I were wrong, just this once.