Forever and Always

Rainbow Dash

A few flaps of my wings to get the wind started, and my section of the storm is set in motion. I wasn’t the only one working on it. It’s going to be a gnarly night.

Time to go warn Fluttershy.

Shy is awesome. I feel kinda bad for all the times I make fun of her for being such a scardy-pony. In the moment though it’s really easy to forget how she sees the world. I always say I'm sorry, and she always forgives me. Shy’s awesome like that. It doesn’t hurt that she’s easy on the eyes either.

I look around to make sure no one heard me think that.

Duh! Dash! Nopony can hear your thoughts except you. Dork!

Oh yeah. That’s right.

Plus, you and Rares talked about this. You’ve talked about it over and over and over.

I remember waking up that first morning. Of course, the first thing I noticed was the smell. I always expected Rarity to smell like chemicals, because of all the bottles and sprays and stuff she uses on herself; but that’s not how she smells at all. Rarity smells like soap and flowers, and...sexy. Not sex. Just sexy. Rarity is what sexy smells like; and not crazy in my face sexy either. It’s like- softer. She smells like a pretty kind of sexy that a pony can be all the time without seeming like she’s asking for anything. I had a smile on my face and ruffled feathers before I opened my eyes that morning, because of that smell.

I did kinda freak out of a minute, because I was in bed with RARITY. I mean, I’d always thought Rarity was hot, but she’s not the kind of pony you end up in bed with just because she’s hot. Plus, I remembered all the totally not awesome, uncool things I’d done the day before.

Who asks if they can put their wing around somepony they’re on a date with? I mean- honestly, could have been a bigger goober? But Rares just said it was ok and we moved on. I kept thinking she’d pull away. Especially at the party when that stallion definitely wanted to talk to her, but she just leaned into my side like there was no reason at all all those ponies shouldn’t think we were together. That was cool.

Then she watched the show with me. I mean she really watched. I thought she was just being nice when we were walking over and I rambled on about all that Wonderbolts stuff, but then when we were watching the show she’d say little things:

“Oh, look darling, that’s Spitfire’s signature move you were telling me about, correct?”

“So, that’s a ‘wingtip’ formation looks like. That’s simply divine.”

“Effortless. Breathtaking and effortless.”

Plus, she drank cider! She could have had whatever frou frou fancy drink she wanted, but she just had cider with me all night, and always made sure I had a cold one. She said something about it being homey and whatever.

She liked the play part better than the high speed stuff, which was cool. It was fun to watch her. Plus the cuddles. I really liked the cuddles.

That part of the show was awesome, but not mind consuming like the fast paced stuff. So, I tried to think. It had been an awesome day. I kept waiting to Rarity to freak out and rush me off to some fashion thing or up tight swankfest, but we just hung out doing Wonderbolts stuff all day. Maybe that’s why I never felt like I had to try and be cooler or braver than I felt.

Then she took a shower.

I’m not going to even try and pretend like I hadn’t thought about having sex with Rarity. Everypony has at least thought about it once, right?

When she walked out of that shower though...I didn’t even want rush her or anything. I just wanted to look at her. That would have been enough to get myself off for days. Then she drop the towel smiled.

She did that on purpose!

And there she was: a gorgeous sparkling white unicorn like something out of an old ponytale. Rares is slim, because she takes care of herself and doesn’t eat like crap. But I hadn’t ever noticed her muscles before. I mean she keeps up when we go gallivanting on whatever the friendship quest of the week is. She’s even saved our tails more than once. But I hadn’t ever thought of her as an athlete until that moment when I could see that she totally was.

About a month after that I realized why she has all those muscles and is quite possible the strongest pony I know (even stronger than AJ). Gems. Rarity goes rockhounding for at least an hour everyday. It is her special talent. Fashion is her thing, but gems are what got her that cutiemark. When she’s working on stuff for Sapphire Shores, she goes even more. Even though she uses magic to find the gems, and usually talks Spike into helping her dig them up, she carts them back. Plus she it basically means that she goes on a long hike everyday. Sometimes when the rocks won’t cooperate with her magic she has to just bust them open herself. Now that is hot.

So, that morning when I woke up with her smell I also woke up with her body. I totally expected to be holding her, right? Wrong. She was holding me. I was curled up against her like a foal, and there were these awesome soft and strong legs everywhere just holding me like a cloud, but better.

Oh crap! I just passed Fluttershy’s house. Good job featherbrain.