Six Broken Hearts

Chapter 6: Awkward. Just awkward

It has been a few weeks when I woke up again, at 4:00, I am getting tired of this, but I live on! I do the same routine. When I opened the door, Rainbow Dash had her hoof in the air, about to knock on my door.

"Hey RD, what's up?" I ask, she doesn't move. I knock on her head. "Hello? Any pony home?" I ask. She shakes her head.

"Huh? Oh yeah, um, I'm home," I feel a sense of irony, but where? I shrugged it off.

"Oh, good, want to go get breakfast?" I ask, she nods. "So, what do you want?" I ask. She shrugs.

"Something good I guess," She looks away. I look at her weirdly.

"You okay? You're acting differently," I said. Normally she would be bragging about her awesomeness by now.

"Huh? Oh um, yeah yeah I'm fine, just thinking," I shrug. We walk towards Sugarcube, silently. When we get there, Mr. Cake looked at us and smiled.

"Hello Sam, and Rainbow Dash, what would you like?" He asks smiling. I ordered the triple chocolate doughnut. I feel like I need the sugar today. I look at Raunbow.

"Hey Rainbow, what're you getting?" I ask. Rainbow snaps back into reality.

"Huh?" She looks at me. "Um, whatever he said," she answered. I raised an eyebrow.

"I have a code red, RD is not bragging or being prideful!" Rainbow chuckled.

"I can be unprideful," she says.

"There's the RD I know and love," I say jokingly. She blushes.

"Sam, are you and Rainbow together?" Rainbow and I blushed.

"N-no, we're n-not!" I almost yell. Mr. Cake laughs.

"I was just kidding Sam!" He says. I still have a blush. I find out that I'm going to be late. thus we get our stuff and get to the work place as fast as possible, which took seconds. I got in my office immediately. Rainbow went off to do whatever. It turns out, I had to file every bad thing that happened, so I did so, which took two or three hours. I was interrupted of my nap when a buzzer went off in the lounge. I hurried over and turns out, the vending machine's buttons were all mix matched. It took me seemingly hours, but I finish and head back to my office. I filed it, which took no time at all since I immediately found the filer. After my nap I heard a knock a on the door.

"Come in!" Rainbow Dash came in, while looking down. "Hey Rainbow Dash, what brings you here?" I ask. She's biting her lower lip. I have a bad feeling. "Am I being fired?" I asked. She shakes her head.

"No, I just wanted to tell you something," she says. I look at her. She then smiles. "I have a good video to watch," she says giggling. I look at her with a raised eyebrow.

"How was that hard to say?" I ask. Rainbow smiles.

"I was kind of afraid what you would think of your co-workers. Just watch," She puts in the tape in my TV. What I saw made me laugh. Cloudchaser and Thunderlane were kissing in it. After it was over, RD said bye and went off.

Meanwhile

Rainbow Dash had left and is in the hallway hitting her head.

"Come on Rainbow, just three words, three words," Thunderlane walks by.

"Hey Boss, what's happening?" He looks at her confused.

"You know Sam right?" He nods. "Well, I kind of have a crush on him."

"Woah. There you were two to three weeks ago, saying you'd never get a coltfriend," he says laughing.

"Dude, I had a back-up plan when I tried to tell him," she smiled victoriously. His smiled faded.

"No."

"Yep." She trots off. She gets to her office. Strangely enough, it's a place where she can think clearly. She wants to tell her feelings to Sam, but she can't just spit it out. She puts a hoof to her mouth. "What should I do, I want him to know, but what if he takes it the wrong way, or maybe, what if he doesn't have the same feeling for me?" She groaned. She shook her head. "No, he's a nice guy, maybe he'll let it on me easily, then again, his friends said that sometimes he freaks out," She covered her head, straining to think what to do. "I know! I can ask one of his friends for help!" She thought about it. So far, Jacob has been the closest one to Sam. They seem like best friends.

A few days later

"Hey Jacob!" She said. Jacob looked up from his book and smiled. He was at Fluttershy's cottage, helping with the animals.

"Hey Rainbow, what's up?" He says.

"Well, there's um, someone I like, and you know him best. So, I thought maybe I could get advice from you," she smiled as big as she can.

"Really? Well, who is it?" Rainbow twirls her hoof in the dirt.

"Sam," she says blushing. Jacob smiled.

"Good, the guy needs a girl, well, mare in this case," Rainbow gave a questioned look.

"Why?" Jacob kept grinning.

"Well, Sam has never been on a date before, and never had a girlfriend," Rainbow was shocked.

"Sam? The guy that I usually hang out with, the guy who I think is pretty cool? The guy who managed to make me feel good?" Jacob nods.

"He's not really one guy that can make someone swoon over him," He says.

"Well, can you tell me what I can do to tell him how I feel?" Jacob nods.

"He's a nice guy, that and he has been talking about you in a good way," he says. Rainbow blushes.

"Really?" He nods again. "Cool! Oh, and, can you not tell him? I want to tell him myself," she says.

" Sure, and if he does say no, he'll let you down easy," he says. Dash nods and flies off.

"Alright, think, when should I tell him though?" She thought. "Maybe I'll tell him at the next Wonderbolts show, yeah that's it!" She decided.

Meanwhile

I was working in my office when Thunderlane came in. I tried to hide my face with the news paper at my desk.

"Sam, I know that you know about me and Cloudchaser, okay?" I put down the paper, and had a huge grin. "Dude, it's not funny," he says with a snort.

"What's funny is that you didn't even know cameras were around," I said still smiling. He rolled his eyes.

"Wait, now that I think about it, do you have a special somepony?" I shook my head.

"No, never really thought about having one," I said. Thunderlane laughed. He saw that I was serious and stopped.

"R-really? You don't have anyone special?" I shook my head.

"No, because no one loves me, that simple," I said. He shook his head. He then had an idea, a great idea.

"We need to change that, I do think you should be with someone," he says grinning.

"Oh yeah? Who?" I ask he keeps smiling.

"Rainbow Dash," He says simply. My eyes went wide and I blushed.

"What? What makes you think she'll like someone like me?" I ask.

"Well, I have a hunch," He lied.

"Well, just tell me why," he smiled bigger.

"What's her favorite food?"

"Hayburgers."

"What color are her eyes?"

"Magenta."

"What's her favorite color?"

"Red."

"Her favorite kind of music?"

"Rock and roll."

"Favorite holiday?"

"Heart's Warming Eve, which I still think is Christmas."

"Do you really think you don't love her?" I thought about it.

"Well, yeah I do, but she doesn't love me though."

"Dude, just, trust me, my hunches are usually right," I sigh.

"Maybe this time it's wrong, but I'll try."

"Good human," I slightly growl.

"Don't say that," He backs off, while chuckling.

"If it makes you feel any better, I can be your wing-pony," I thought about it and nod.

"Alright, well good luck!" He trots off. He's right, I do love Rainbow. Speaking of the devil, Rainbow trots in.

"Hey dude, how're you?" She asks. I smile.

"I feel good, you?" She smiles.

"I feel great! I found out when the next Wonderbolts show is, and I wondered if you could join me?" She asks hopefully. I nod.

"Sounds fun!" I say.

"Cool! Well, see you!" I saw that we were the only ones here. I chuckled nervously.

"Hey, uh, can you give me a ride home?" I ask. She nods. We get to my house after a short flight. I got off her, thanked her then did the first thing in my mind. " Hey Dash?" Would you like to have dinner with me?" I ask. I was also blushing slightly. She nods. I sat her at the table and started cooking dinner. "I'm not the best, but I hope you like it," I served hayburgers. It was the first thing on my mind to cook. I got a couple glasses and filled them with some soda. I didn't have anything else to drink besides water. I gave one glass to Rainbow and one glass to me. When Rainbow took a bite, she smiled.

"It's good!" I smiled and served myself a cheeseburger. I had learned that she doesn't mind me eating meat, so I do it sometimes. The griffons that sell it were nice too. I broke my chain of thought so I could focus on what was happening. "So, Sam, what kind of jobs did you take before getting this one?" I shrugged.

"Well, a cook, nurse, and the last, and shortest, an engineer, I did learn good stuff about it though," I said, she nodded. The silence had turned into an awkward silence. When Dash was finished, she thanked me and head out. "Bye! Goodnight!" I said. She waved bye and went home. I went into the kitchen, cleaned up, and went to bed. I mentally slapped myself. "Come on Sam, that was terrible, now she think you're boring, try to be more interesting!" I yelled mentally. I soon yelled myself to sleep, which took some time.