Something Happens

*Flashback*

    Rainbow Dash flexed her muscles and stretched to one side, then the other, warming up for her daily basketball match. These matches were held in the Cloudsdale College gym an hour before classes started.

   Rainbow Dash wasn't like any other mare, fussing about messing up her mane, wailing if her lipstick was smudged (in fact, the very idea of wearing makeup made her feel like barfing), or swooning over the hunks in her class.

   Anyway, Dash was just finishing up her Warm-Up when a baby-blue pegasus stallion came flying in. His mane was blown back and his emerald-green eyes still looked liked they had some sleep in them.

   The technicolor maned pegasus frowned and rolled her eyes at the stallion.

"You're late again." she said, raising an eyebrow.

"I can't wake up so early." Soarin yawned.

"Couldn't wake up, or you were scared?" Rainbow teased.

"Hey, Soarin Skies isn't scared of anypony at all."

"Soarin Skies isn't scared of anypony at all," Rainbow mocked. "But he loses to Rainbow Dash in basketball everyday."

"I won't lose today."

"You say that everyday."

"We will see." Soarin grinned.

"We will see." Dash smirked.

   So far, the match had been a success. For Rainbow Dash. She had managed to effortlessly score four baskets. Soarin groaned each time the ball went through the hoop.

    After the fourth basket, Soarin managed to grab the ball and bounce it for a while, until a multi-color blur swooped it out of his hooves.

"UGGGHHH!" Soarin moaned.

   Rainbow whistled casually and nonchalantly and bounced the ball while jogging over to the net. She jumped up, ready to spring, when she felt a hard push on her back. It took her a second to register what happened. Soarin had pushed her!

  Soarin smirked and grabbed the ball and threw it into the basket before Dash could get up and do something about it.

"YESSS!" Soarin yelled happily.

   Rainbow got to her hooves, feeling boiling mad.

"If you don't know how to play, you don't have to cheat!" Rainbow spat angrily.

"Hey, don't call me a cheater."

"That's what you are. Cheater, cheater, cheater!"

"Dash, don't call me a cheater."

"Soarin is a cheater. He is a cheater. Cheater. Cheater. Cheater. Cheater!" Dash chanted, while stepping towards him.

"I'm not a cheater!"

"CHEATER!" Rainbow roared. By then they were muzzle-to-muzzle. Suddenly, Soarin grabbed Rainbow's hooves and twisted them around.

"OOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!" Rainbow squealed. Soarin cringed at the noise.

"Stop crying like a prissy little mare!"

"Hey, don't call me that." Rainbow pouted. Soarin let go of her sharply.

"Actually, you're right. You're not even a mare!" he grinned.

"A least, better than those stupid mares you run after!"

"Oh, excuse moi. I don't run after mares, they run after me!"

"Oh, waaoooww," Rainbow said in a high-pitched voice, while batting her magenta eyes. "Soarin's so cute, so sweet, so polite, so handsome, isn't he?"

"I'm not as handsome as you. You have a better mustache!" Soarin sniggered.

"Oh, hahaha." Dash said sarcastically. "That was a joke, huh?"

"Yeah so?"

"I don't like jokes." Rainbow said, while pushing him back with her muzzle.

"I don't like you." Soarin retorted.

"Hmmmph!" they both stormed off, then returned to the same spot.

"SHUTT UPPPPPPPPP!" the pegasi both roared in each other's faces.

   "Dash and Soarin had another fight!"

   "Dash and Soarin had another fight!"

   "Dash and Soarin had another fight!"

   "Dash and Soarin had another fight!"

   "Dash and Soarin had another fight!"

   Word got over the school quick, even though it was nothing new. Rainbow Dash and Soarin were everypony's favourite Best Friends.

They had  childish, silly fights all the time, but the student body encouraged them to make up.

   After they apologized, they slapped each others hooves and gently flicked each others' muzzles. This was their special ritual, called "The Make-Up Hoofbump".

   Yessiree, Soarin and Dash had been best friends since the first day of college.

   Dean CloudWeather sighed as she walked through the mares dormitory. All the pegasi in the room were either carefully applying cosmetics, slotting curlers into their manes, or gossiping about stallions.

  "You girls are all crazy." Dean Cloudweather said, shaking her head. "You aren't going to attract any boys with the paint all over your faces and mountains on your heads."

"Then how are we supposed to attract stallions, Dean CloudWeather?" one pegasus cooed.

"I'm not telling you silly fools anything! Try to figure out something yourselves!"

   Suddenly, Rainbow Dash came flying into the room, knocking some perfume bottles down in the process.

   Dean CloudWeather shook her head at the tomboy mare's unkempt mane and flushed cheeks.

"Ah, Rainbow Dash. Try doing something girly for once, will you! Not like these buffoons, but still a little."

Rainbow Dash wrinkled her muzzle, making it plain what she thought of the idea.

"How'd you get in such a state anyway?"

"Just another basketball match with Soarin."

"Soarin! Haven't you seen him, flirts with all the girls in the college. I think you should stay away from him."

"Why? He's my best friend."

"If you don't watch out, this 'best friend' buisness will turn into something more romantic. Not o mention that you'll get a reputation if you stay with him."

Rainbow gagged at the thought. "Soarin! Naaahhhh."