She makes me feel like it's raining outside
The Ponyville Café, that was where they had planned to meet. Spike had already bought his tea, which he much preferred over coffee, as he patiently waited for his significant other to arrive. The clock hit one in the afternoon.
"Always late..." He said, sighing to himself. He knew this pony ever since he had moved to this small town of Ponyville, almost six years ago. Wow... Six years already? It seems like only yesterday this was an 'Orderly Checkup' and now look, Twilight was the Princess of Friendship and Spike was still her faithful assistant. He truly loved his so-called mother as, to be fair, she was the closest he had ever gotten to one. He had almost finished his tea when he heard somepony speak to him in a familiar country accent.
"Howdy, Spike!" The yellow-coated pony spoke out cheerfully "Sorry for bein' late again" She said while sitting down "Work on the farm y'know?" The waitress came around again, seeing the new pony sit down. She took the order of the farmpony, a simple glass of apple juice. The dragon was surprised she wasn't sick of the beverage yet she drank it so much. After the waitress had left, Applebloom began to wonder why her coltfriend, or drakefriend in this case, had called her to lunch. Before she could speak, Spike took a deep breath and said
"Applebloom, I need to..." His voice cracked a little and he cleared his throat "I need to tell you something." At this Applebloom got a tad giddy. There was a big dance coming up and she was hoping her Spike would ask her to go sooner or later, but why the local café? She was hoping for something a little more extravagant, but as long as she got to go she wouldn't complain.
"Yes, Spikey?" She wasn't one for pet names, but she felt this was an appropriate time for one. Spike had to take another deep breath to make sure he could spit these next words out. It was gonna break her heart, but he knew he had to do it...
"I think we should take a break." These were the words he spat out, he had softer ways of saying it in his mind, but for some reason this was the easiest way of saying it. Applebloom was distraught, she had been expecting the opposite of this. There was an awkward silence, Spike was nervously tapping his two index fingers together as the filly stayed silent, looking confused if anything. These few seconds felt like hours as the waitress soon came back with the Apple Juice.
"Was it something I did?" She finally spoke up "Is it how I look? Is it cause I'm not as pretty as those other fillies?" She said, frantically trying to find reasons why Spike would suddenly feel this way.
"No no no!" Spike said reassuringly "It's nothing like that! Trust me!" He knew he wanted to do this, it was why he was unsure of. "I just..." He stopped to take the final sip of tea "I just don't feel anything anymore." To be honest, he had never felt anything since the day she had asked him out "Does that make sense?"
"I mean, I guess..." The filly across from the drake looked at the ground, not even taking a sip of the drink she had ordered. "I... I gotta go" She said again to the now teenage dragon, clearly lying; Her family consisted of notoriously bad liars. She took out a few bits and threw them on table. "This should be enough for my drink." She then stormed off in a melancholy way "Goodbye Spike..." She whispered one more time before getting out of ear-shot.
Spike sighed, this did not go as planned. That's three? Yeah, three fillies now whose hearts he had broken. For the love of Celestia, why couldn't he just stick with a fillyfriend? He had tried, this previous one had lasted for almost two months, yet he always got nothing from these fillies. Was it because he hadn't kissed any of them? He didn't think so because in most love stories he had secretly read in his home, people know they love each other before the kiss and in each relationship he had been in he felt nothing. He soon paid the bill, with very little help from Applebloom, being a few bits short of her still full drink. He got up and started what seemed like a long walk home.
On this painful path towards his home, he noticed wagon after wagon painted with a familiar logo of a pony carrying a crate of some sort, in front of a previously 'For Sale' house. He decided to go off the beaten track to take a closer look at these new residents. He saw two male pegasi; The one clearly the older one was carrying most of the packages, and a younger one, about Applebloom's age, wore flight goggles on his forehead. They both seemed very content with their new home and the packing carriages soon drove away, leaving a cloud of dust behind them. Spike coughed because of that fact and soon the dust had dissipated, showing the younger gray pony now making eye contact with him. The pony looked at Spike very confused, to which Spike nervously smiled and waved in reply. The pegasus hesitantly waved back soon after, and he slowly turned back to go into his new home.
Spike face-palmed at the cringe-worthy moment and quickly tried to head home so he could get his mind off of it as soon as possible. When he arrived, he opened the door and quickly set his mind to going to take a nap in his room. Before he could get there he was stopped by his mother's words.
"So you met the new neighbours?" She said, closing a book she was reading on romantic studies. Twilight then looked at the purple dragon in a motherly fashion.
"Yeah, they seem nice." He said, trying to get to his room without being interrupted again.
"You should go introduce yourself!" Twilight says quite excited, "We weren't here for Pinkie's party so I'm sure it would be a nice action." The alicorn suggested, trying to urge Spike to go talk to them.
"Maybe tomorrow." He said yawning, and headed up to his bed. Twilight sighed, and decided to keep reading instead of giving a response. Spike thankfully reached his bed and got comfortable. He looked at the new neighbour's house across the street through the window.
"Maybe tomorrow..."
And when the storm's gone I'm all torn up inside
Author's Note
Currently looking for cover artist and proofreader, if anybody volunteers to do so, PM me!
Hope you enjoyed the story so far, more to come soon(?).
EDIT: Found a proofreader! Their name is ElementsOfVariousStuff and they can be found in the story description.
EDIT2: Found a cover artist! Their name is Talcom and they can be found in the story description
Thanks for reading!
-IDKWTTH
All the small things,
5 o'clock. Precisely the time the doorbell rang, which startled poor Rumble. He had been in his room, doing some final moving adjustments. He really liked his room; Unlike his old house, he could truly express things he loved and, more importantly, who he was. He loved the small things, like the small rainbow flags from the pride parades he used to go to in secret. Honestly, he kind of enjoyed those moments of secrecy, things were much more peaceful that way. The gray pegasus shook his head, trying to get back on task. He soon left his room and closed his door.
He quickly headed to the door and opened it. It was that dragon from earlier and Princess Twilight Sparkle! Honestly, he wasn't sure who he should be more surprised by. He smiled and bowed down, and as he did he spoke.
"Good Evening Princess." He said in a rather polite tone, it was almost courtesy to greet royalty like that. Rumble soon got up from his bow, looked at both of them and cleared his throat. "My name is Rumble, my brother Thunderlane is probably still in his room. Please come in." Rumble opened the door further so they could be let in. Twilight giggled. Even though she had been royalty for a while, she would never get used to being treated this way.
"Please, just call me Twilight." The lavender alicorn said to the young colt. She continued "This is Spike," she said, gesturing towards the tired looking dragon "But you two already met didn't you?" She said with a bit of a giggle at the end, walking into the home. Spike looked at the similarly aged pegasus and smiled with a small wave as well. Before Rumble could say anything else, Thunderlane came out of his room. As he saw the princess, he bowed, saying the formal greeting to which Twilight sighed and told him the same thing she told his younger sibling.
"Is there any reason you have come here Twilight?" The older brother asked, making sure that nothing was wrong. The princess shook her head and smiled.
"Just meeting the new neighbours, this isn't that far from where Spike and I live." She smiled "We live in the Golden Oaks Library." Rumble's ears had perked up when he heard the word library. He loved reading, it was truly one of his favourite pastimes. He had to hide some books like 'Colt meets Colt' and 'Two Colts Kissing' from his family when he was younger, in fear that he would get caught. He still loved those books to death though. "Spike," Even though it wasn't his name, Rumble snapped out of his daydream. The Princess continued "Why don't you and Rumble go to his room? I have something I need to talk about with Thunderlane." Spike nodded and headed towards Rumble.
"Lead the way!" The dragon said to the gray pegasus in a very friendly tone. Spike was significantly taller than Rumble, about a head or so. Rumble stared up at the dragon and smiled, he then walked back to his room. He opened the door for Spike, who thanked him as he entered. Rumble headed in soon after and sat on his bed. Spike took this as an invitation to do the same. The door slowly closed itself. Rumble was feeling a tad nervous and didn't know how to start a conversation. Spike spoke up "So, where you from?".
"Cloudsdale" Rumble smiled, remembering his old town, his old friends, his old school. He missed it all. To be fair, it was a great town.
"Cloudsdale huh?" Spike smiled as well, even though he was unsure why. "That's cool! Why'd you move here?"
Rumble cringed at the question. "Uh... Long story." He said a tad nervously, looking back up at Spike. He was met by comforting eyes looking down at him.
"That's fine." Spike continued with a smile, finally analyzing the room around him and noticing the small details. "Hey, why are there so many rainbow flags in here?" Spike asked as an innocent question.
"Cause I'm gay," Rumble said, still smiling. He honestly couldn't care less who knew now.
Spike was shocked, not because Rumble was gay, but because of the fact he could just outright say it. "You..." He paused, "You're gay?" He tried to smile reassuringly, showing that he was okay with it.
Rumble looked at him with soft eyes "Yeah...? So what?" He smiled, knowing that the drake meant no harm. "I'm still Rumble."
"Yeah yeah!" He said nervously, carefully picking his words "I get that," He replied rather quickly, "But..." He had to think of how the best way to phrase this would be. "You can just say that?!" This was not the best way to phrase this.
"Yeah?" Rumble said with a small laugh "It's just as easy for you to say you're straight, so why would it be hard for me?" Rumble smiled again as he laid down his back onto the bed
Spike was quiet for a little bit after he had said that and finally replied with a small laugh. He understood what Rumble had meant, and his example had worked however it struck a chord in Spike. Why wasn't it as easy for him to say he was straight? He didn't know. Spike had also laid his back on Rumble's bed. Spike soon turned his head to look at Rumble. The pegasus did the same thing. Spike started blushing a little bit, and he soon got up off his friend's bed as he heard a voice from another room.
"Spike!" A familiar voice called. "We're leaving now!"
"Sorry, gotta go." Spike stretched and walked out the door looking at Rumble before he went. "See ya around?"
Rumble smiled as he looked up at the drake. "Sure, see you around..."
True care truth brings.
Author's Note
Hey! Hope you enjoyed the New Chapter!
Just a quick note for all Blink-182 fans. The song names used for each chapter isn't saying what will be happening in each chapter per-say, however, the lyric snippet at the beginning and end, usually has meaning if you interpret it around the story. For example this chapter, 'All the Small Things' is reffering to the small things in life and in Rumble's room and 'True care truth brings' is reffering to the part where Rumble says something truthful about himself (Truth care), and it Sparks something in Spike to help find the truth of himself (Truth Brings).
Honestly, out of the 2.5 chapters I've written, this is by far my least favourite... It felt sloppy, please stick around, it can only go uphill from here!
Please leave criticism in the comments, and like if you liked it and dislike if you didn't! It helps either way!
Thanks for Reading
-IDKWTTH
P.S. I'm still looking for a cover artist! If you are willing, please PM me.
EDIT: Found a cover artist! Their name is Talcom and they can be found in the story description
Thanks for reading!
