The Truth About Girls (Vol. 1)

Rainbow Dash moved the straw in her glass, watching the bubble of her reddish beverage going up to the surface, rubbing against the plastic. Why did her father insist for her to come at the airport, she had no idea. As if he was away all the time...

Usually, he wouldn't bother asking her anything... He would partially open her room's door when she was still asleep and would leave a note with a credit card, and gone he was at the break of dawn.

She took a glimpse at him, standing next to the counter in his pilot uniform, busy chatting with the cafe's employee. Even when she was by his side, he was doing his best not to look into her eyes, and barely told her a word. Was it her fault if she looked so much like her mother?

It has become some kind of routine. Him trying hard not to spend time with her, and her behaving as if she had no parent - at least, as if she had not the remaining one - and handling things on her own, the way a seventeen years-old girl could handle things on her own.

"I'm probably expected", he told her, staring at the shoulders of her denim jacket rather than inside her own eyes. "I'll see you soon. Your drink has already been paid."

Rainbow Dash nodded speechlessly, while his mouth twisted in a kind of fixed grin, right before he put on his cap and left the cafe hurriedly. In the end, everything had been going on fine, though they hadn't said a lot. They hadn't say much to each other for too many years, anyway...

She sighed, and pushed her glass away. Searching through her bag, the teenage girl grabbed her phone, and patted a message on the touch-sensitive screen, sending it to her four friends at the same time. Tonight, she really didn't feel like being all alone in that immense cold house, so she invited them to join her for a movie and pizza party, like they enjoyed from time to time.

Not even finishing her soda, Rainbow Dash left the cafe too, and hands in her pockets, her favorite band to the max in her headphones, she rushed into Canterlot airport's swarming crowd. Head low, she hurried straight forward, not daring to look around her... but cannot help feeling attraction when a plane took off through the huge bay window.

Not so long ago, her dream was to integrate a famous professional aerobatics troop, thus follow her mother's footsteps, as she used to be a pilot famous for her many exploits. It also was "because of her" that she gave up on that dream. Since she was gone, the iron monsters which fascinated her so much as a child, and kept on captivating her in a certain way, made her feel dizzy, if not nauseous.

Once that dream vanished away, Rainbow Dash made a promise to herself, a promise she had swore never to betray, whatever might be on her way - to make the most of her adolescence, and to never hold herself back. Too bad if some adults could hardly understand that cherished vow... It wasn't her problem.