"Ya know Flutters, I never expected you to ask this of me." Rainbow said, as she sat cross legged on Fluttershy's bed. It was a hazy Sunday afternoon, and the sky hid behind whisps of white like a familiar buttercream girl so often hid behind her hair. The pale girl subconsciously blushed.
"I never expected it either." She mumbled. And it was Pinkie's idea, so she really hadn't expected it. Because, you know, who ever really correctly expects anything Pinkie does?
"So pick-up lines, huh?" Rainbow asked, a dash of amusement present in her eyes. She smiled suggestively. "Oh this is gonna be fun. Not very productive, but fun."
"Huh?" Fluttershy asked, looking up with shock blue wide eyes. The blush was reigniting across her cheeks once more.
"So would you like to know about flirting, or just coming on to somebody using pick-up lines in general?" Rainbow asked, laying down and making herself comfortable. She was pretty sure anybody else would've minded a stinky blue athlete in their bed, but she knew Fluttershy didn't.
Yet while she knew the other girl didn't resent it, she didn't really know all Fluttershy was feeling. Far from it. In fact Rainbow didn't question how Fluttershy felt about it. She knew, in that she realized the other girl didn't mind it. But what she didn't know, was that Fluttershy did mind it. Not necessarily in a bad way; she just kind've enjoyed it.
And that was why she was on the bed with Rainbow Dash, getting taught how to do pick-up lines. Because she enjoyed spending time with Rainbow Dash. No, that was an understatement. She loved spending time with her. In fact she flat out loved Rainbow Dash. Not that the rambunctious athlete would ever notice, for she was too caught up in her own little world.
"So do you want to know about flirting or pick-up lines?" Rainbow said, waving her hand in front of the pale yellow skinned girl's face. "You know I would've expected you to go to Rarity, but..." she raised an amused eyebrow.
Fluttershy snapped back to reality.
"...I'm not complaining," Rainbow finished, shrugging her shoulders.
"What was that?" Fluttershy asked softly, an embarrassed smattering of red cursing her fair cheeks at the thought of not hearing what the athlete had to say.
Rainbow restated, "Would you like to know about flirting or pick-up lines?"
"What does that mean?" Fluttershy asked, eyes darting like a seriously confused pendulum.
Rainbow face-palmed. "Wow, I need to help you, Pinks was right."
"What?" Fluttershy asked, panicking in the way she so often did. It took very little to set her off. And to her, this was a lot. Because Rainbow had always been a bit much. But only because she meant so much to Fluttershy.
"Wonder if she was right about the other thing too?" Rainbow said. Muscles contracting in a sudden flash, all of a sudden she was bolting upright and staring at Fluttershy.
Rose colored eyes stared at her now. Fluttershy nearly had a heart attack. Then again, Dash was a flatliner. Did Rainbow know?
"Nah, you didn't get a haircut." Rainbow aid before flopping back down on the bed, yet again seemingly oblivious to the other girl's plight.
Deciding that she couldn't stay painfully dormant forever, Fluttershy exhaled. "Let's start with pick-up lines." She said in a thin, crackling whisper. The pin that dropped on the floor somewhere in the world was louder than her. But Rainbow always knew just how to listen, just how to hear her. She couldn't help but hope the other girl wasn't so good that she heard her heartbeat.
Then again, silence can only survive for so long with a raimbow haired human megaphone in the room.
"Got it!" Rainbow yelled, and almost gave the buttercream skinned girl a heart attack. Well, maybe she just said it a little excitedly.
Either way, Fluttershy got so excited she started to fall off the bed. Of course, Rainbow was quick to action, and caught her before they went down. But then they both fell, in more ways than one. Arms and legs entangled, they lay a mess of bodies on Fluttershy's floor. Closeknit figures tighter than the last thing Fluttershy had crocheted. Bodies hotter than Angel's temper.
Shy could feel the roses of red creeping up and over the bridge of her nose once again. They were face to face, chin to chin, nose to nose. And she liked it. She was nervous, but she liked it. Maybe a little too much. Rainbow was getting closer. Oh sweet Principal Celestia, was this it? What was this? What was it? What was life?
"Fluttershy." Rainbow whispered, biting her lip and looking cuter than anybody should ever look. Shy was hopelessly excited, and her heart was humming. But she still managed to keep her dignity intact. Sort of.
"Why are you on top of me?" Fluttershy breathed, trying to pretend like she wasn't infatuated with the prismatic haired girl.
"'Cause it's where you are." Rainbow said confidently, tickling her ear with her breath. The red roses spread, creeping benevolently, taking over the pastel skin on her face. Red was clearly winning the battle. And Rainbow noticed. "Aw, you're blushing." She said, laughing. "Guess the pick-up line worked."
And all at once, Shy's vision cleared. "Huh?" she squeaked, like Scootaloo being told for the first time that she was a barnyard animal.
Rainbow darted off top of her with a mischievous sparkle in her eyes, and said, "Now that, my pupil, was a pick-up line."
"Oh." Fluttershy said, but her blush wasn't fading. The memory of Rainbow Dash on top of her was all too reminiscent in her dizzy mind to fully retire her face to its normal shade.
"Since you are my student, let's make this more fun." Rainbow said, sporting a devilish smirk.
"How?" Fluttershy gulped. Of course she wasn't really afraid of what Rainbow would do. Not really. What she was afraid of, was what the other girl wouldn't do. That she would crush her. On accident. She wanted to be more than her supposed student. And little did she know, that Rainbow was well aware.
"You're going to be fine with it, don't worry." Rainbow said self-assuredly. "Well, hopefully you will be." She added, shrugging. But no matter how confident she was, or tried to be, she was still hesitant. She didn't want to hurt her.
"What?" Fluttershy asked, the wine colored assault on her cheeks returning full force.
"Just let me explain it, and I'll try not to freak you out." Rainbow said, taking Fluttershy's hand. This was a tender side of Rainbow, a side that only the rose haired girl could see.
"Okay," Fluttershy said calming, but feeling the heat in her cheeks intensify. The way Dash was looking at her didn't exactly dull the tingles.
Rainbow let go of her hand, averted her eyes, and started to explain. "Now if this makes you uncomfortable, we can stop, but I won't want to." She mumbled the last part, something which she kicked herself for. Confidence, Dash, she told herself.
Wait hold on, did I hear what I think I just heard? Fluttershy thought as she continued to listen with baited breath.
"Anyway," Rainbow said, and after a moment of indiscernible hesitation, she was continuing onward. "Here's the plan. I pretend to come onto you. It's works every time, sorta. The last few girls Pinkie told me to teach were all making making weird bodily noise, and batting their eyelashes." Rainbow rolled her eyes. "I just don't get it."
"You pretend to come onto me?" Fluttershy asked, cocking her head in a way even the rough and tumble athlete had to admit was freaking adorable. In fact it was adorkable, which was a word Pinkie made up to describe something adorable and dorky. Which Fluttershy was. And Flutters felt the same way if the pink party girl was correct.
"Great, then let's get started!" Rainbow said enthusiastically with an expression that made her look like Celestia when she was high on too much cake. But then she started to root around for her phone.
When she got on it, she frowned.
"What's wrong?" Fluttershy asked.
"There's something wrong in my contacts." Rainbow said.
"What is it?" Fluttershy asked, her innocence making Rainbow inwardly giggle. Taking the bait, her eyes widened even more in a concerned fashion that was just simply adorable.
"Well the name by your number reads Fluttershy, and not girlfriend. Isn't that a problem?" Rainbow asked, winking.
Fluttershy turned as red as the eyes that were teasing her.
"Ya know Fluttershy." Rainbow said casually, as she put her phone away. "I would like to invite you over more often. But you're so hot I wouldn't be able to afford all that air conditioning."
Fluttershy turned crimson.
Dash plopped her phone down on the bed, and moved in, coolly sliding her hand over Fluttershy's sweaty fingers. She continued, eyes half lidded. "There's only one thing I want to change about you, and that's your last name."
Fluttershy's face ignited. Even redder than before. She was dying inside, but she had never felt so alive. If this was a dream, she didn't ever want to wake up.
Leisurely bringing her hand up to rest beneath Fluttershy's chin, Dash let this be the one time in her life she went slow. "You wanna know what's beautiful? The first word of what I just said is the answer to that."
They were now face to face, chin to chin, nose to nose. Contrasting eyes staring at each other. Lips hadn't even met, yet it felt like they were already long introduced. And Fluttershy let herself like it. And so did Rainbow.
But just to seal the deal, Rainbow threw out one last line. "Hershey's makes millions of kisses a day." She whispered alluringly. "So why can't I have one from you?"
Fluttershy gasped, breath exploding out of her mouth into the air. But it wouldn't be alone in oxygen for too long. Because Rainbow Dash closed the distance. Lips clashed, fighting for feeling and tying.
This wasn't like all the other girls Pinkie had asked her to teach. Because she saw them as people. Just people that happened to live in her world. Nothing more. But Fluttershy was her world.
And while all the other girls may have wanted her, she hadn't really wanted them. She hadn't flat out kissed them either. No, she really wanted this one. She wanted this one bad. And she wanted to let it show, so she did. Twisting her fingers through Shy's hair, she just wanted to see how far she could get before they had to stop. Before she had to stop.
And after a good minute, they had to stop.
"That was- that was good.", Rainbow said, slightly winded from stealing the other girl's breath.
"Not just good, amazing," Fluttershy mumbled, and twirled the lock of hair that Rainbow had touched around her finger, panting with satisfaction as well.
"Now you try a pick-up line." Rainbow said, lying on Fluttershy's bed with the same playful aura as always, blissfully aware that she had just given Fluttershy the best kiss of her life.
"Okay." Fluttershy said shyly, but with a newfound resignation, and decided to go for something her brother always said. "Did you just fart? Because you just blew me away!"
Rainbow just lost it, rolling around on Fluttershy's bed. "Priceless!"
Fluttershy looked insulted, so eventually, Rainbow just told her to try again. And so Fluttershy did.
She decided to try another pickup line her brothers used frequently. "Are you a booger, because I could pick you all day." She said, quietly with some semblance of confidence.
Rainbow had just stopped laughing, but now fell off the bed laughing. This time around, Fluttershy was just happy to make Rainbow amused.
"Wow. Just wow!" Rainbow managed to get out through all of her snorts.
Fluttershy waited for Rainbow to quiet down, and climb back on the bed, before talking again. "I guess it wasn't that good huh?" She asked after staring for some time at the apparently very interesting wall.
"Good. No. It was basically horrible." Rainbow deadpanned.
Fluttershy held back tears. "I see your point." She said, in a porcelain voice that held tears at bay behind glass eyes.
"But do you wanna know something?" Rainbow asked, turning her head to look Fluttershy in the eyes.
"What?" Fluttershy said sniffling.
"It doesn't matter what you say, because no matter what you say, your voice is still beautiful."
Fluttershy smiled with shy liking, moving to intertwine her fingers with Rainbow's calloused hand.
"And even if your voice was gone, you would still have the cutest mouth around."
Fluttershy looked up at Rainbow and her cute mouth formed a perfect o.
Bringing her finger up to rest on the other girl's wet lips, Rainbow brought her mouth up to her ear. What was it she whispered? Well whatever it was, the roses on Fluttershy's cheeks came back with a vengeance.
And in no time at all, Rainbow had her tongue inside that cute little mouth.
A couple minutes later Rainbow just had to ask a question. "Tell me. Did it hurt?" Her breath was hot on Fluttershy's sensitive neck, and the other girl shivered.
"When I fell from Heaven?" Fluttershy asked, a laugh prevalent in her soft voice.
"When you fell for me."
Suddenly insecure about Rainbow's feelings, she had to ask. Nerves firing, she asked the one question that had been burdening her tongue like acid for so long. "Do you want to be with me?" Fluttershy asked shyly, brushing her hair out of her eyes.
"Why would I pass up the chance to be with an angel?" Dash asked as she wrapped her arms around 'Shy's waist, kissing her head.
And needless to say the next day at school Pinkie knew her Pinkie sense was correct, because the two lovebirds were grinning like crazy.
Because sometimes pickup lines do work...
