A Rainbow Colored Heart

Chapter 5

Hours had passed since we had arrived at Matthew apartment; I had unpacked and set up my things in one of the spare bedrooms while Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy took the other guest room just across the hall from my room. Since I had arrived I had changed into a white long sleeved T-shirt, finally getting out of my leather jacket and adjusting to the heat Matthews’s apartment gave off. I laid down on the bed starring up at the ceiling at the fan that wasn’t rotating. I let out a sigh just as the door opened and Matthew walked in.

“You up?” he asked

I nodded not bothering to speak.

The two of sat there in silence for a minute, I figured Matthew was counting on me to make conversation as usual.

“So, about Fluttershy? How did you find her?” I asked

“She found me actually” he replied. “Last night when the power went out I thought I could go out and see what I could do to help, I guess I left the door open and she just kind of wandered in, I actually didn’t realize she was in here until around the time I woke up this morning”

“That’s all?”

“Pretty much”

“Well that’s uneventful”

“Sorry, the stunt coordinator and helicopter driver was out for the day so I had to make do with what I had”

“I hate you” Giving him a look of annoyance.

“I know” he replied giving me a smirk grin.

Suddenly his stomach growled loudly breaking the silence in the room. Immediately he looked at me.

“Let me guess, I’m on food duty while I’m here, aren’t I?” I asked

“You guessed it” he said

I smiled slightly knowing all too well Matthew was hopeless when it came to feeding himself, since he usually would order take out every other night and make a peanut butter sandwich whenever nothing else sounded good. Getting up from the bed, I walked into the kitchen seeing Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy on the couch nearby, both watching the TV before both turned to meet my gaze.

“You guy’s hungry?” I asked.

“Ya” Matthew answered for them.

Rolling my eyes I walked into the kitchen turning on the oven and removing a pack of pasta from the cabinet from the nearby pantry. Matthew leaned against the counter-top just as Rainbow Dash walked into the kitchen I could tell she was curious in what I was doing. It had been a while since I had cooked, like many of the things my parents had taught me it was one of the things I only got to do only every so often.

“Pasta, didn’t you make that last time?” Matthew asked.

“I thought beggars weren’t choosers” I said. Rainbow Dash laughed slightly at the joke making Matthew shoot her a look of annoyance.

Suddenly the phone rang which was right next to Matthew startling us both a little. Reaching over Matthew picked it up and put it to his ear. “Hello?” …. “Ya, he’s here, you want to talk to him?”… “Ok, let me get a pen” Matthew reached into the cupboard and pulled out a pen and paper then set in down on the counter-top and began to write something just as Rainbow Dash walked over to me.

“What is he doing?” she asked

It then hit me; I completely forgot to explain to Rainbow Dash the telephone, as well as other appliances I used that she was confused about.

“December 15th at five, okay I’ll be sure to tell him” …. “Okay, bye” Matthew said.

“I’ll explain later” I said gesturing for her to return to the living room which she slowly did disappearing from my view, she didn’t know about the cancer, nor did she need to, not yet at least. “Who was that?”

“Your Mom, she said that the hospital called, I’m pretty sure you can guess the rest”

I sighed returning to cooking; hoping Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy didn’t just hear our conversation.

“What do you think they want?” Matthew asked

“Probably to see if the transplant worked, I’d imagine they’d like to do some more tests as well knowing them”

There was an awkward silence in the room; both of us knew what question would come next.

“What if it didn’t work?” Matthew asked finally addressing the obvious “elephant in the room”

I sighed, I couldn’t find the right words to say, I shook my head as hoping he would get the hint that I wasn’t about to answer. Another silence came over the two of us; it remained there until I finished fixing dinner. Matthew got four bowls from the cabinet and set them in a row two-by-two as I placed and even amount of pasta in each.

“Chow time!” I called placing a fork in each bowl and bringing it over to the couches where the two ponies waited before handing one to Matthew then taking a seat on an open spot in the couch watching Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy examine the two bowls in their own way first the contents, then the utensils.

I rolled the pasta onto the fork and put it in my mouth, looking over to see them watching me. Fluttershy took the forth in her mouth and mimicked me as best she could getting a decent amount on the fork then stopped suddenly looking at food on the end, a confused look was on her face. I looked over to Rainbow Dash who attempted to do the same taking the fork in her mouth then trying to stab it to death before she too stopped only she set the fork down beside the bowl and without hesitation plunged her face into the bowl with an open mouth popping back up with a mouth full of noodles and a satisfied look upon her face. Matthew and I shared a long laugh as Rainbow Dash got a puzzled look upon her face.

“What?” she asked with a mouth full of food.

Fluttershy was oblivious to the whole situation, still trying to figure out how to get to the food. After he recovered from laughing Matthew walked over and sat by Fluttershy taking the fork from her mouth and then turning it around to present her with the food. She flinched at first then realized his intention, realizing he meant her no harm she leaned in and allowed Matthew to feed it to her. It finally seemed as though Fluttershy seemed to warm up to Matthew, finally relaxing and coming into terms with the situation she was in, just as Rainbow Dash had done before her, relaxing into the couch I looked at Rainbow Dash, then at Fluttershy. If these two were here, were there others, and what if there where were they?