After school Sunset was laying on her bed with her phone in hands. She's been texting with her friends all afternoon. To her surprise, not a single message was about how Dash was acting today. Didn't they care?

Sunset switched to her private chat with Dash.

What was going on today? - Sunset

She had to wait a bit for the response.

Dunno - AwesomenessInPerson

Sunset rolled her eyes.

It's just that this was the first time you showed it so openly - Sunset

Wasn't on purpose - AwesomenessInPerson

I know that. But why was it so bad today? - Sunset

The weather. Hot, sunny and dry air. Do I need to say more? - AwesomenessInPerson

Sunset sighed. Dash was quickly annoyed with this topic for some reason.

No I get it. I was just wondering. - Sunset

Is fine - AwesomenessInPerson

Sunset switched off her phone and laid it next to her. She remembered the conversation she had had with Dash today.

What if she hadn't been so jealous back then? Would Dash be fine now? Would she had gotten it anyways? She'd never know.

She glanced over at her alarm clock and groaned. She still had homework to do.

While she was solving a math problem, her phone buzzed. She looked up and took her phone into her hand. It was a message from Dash.

Sorry for being such a bitch today - AwesomenessInPerson

Sunset raised an eyebrow. That was new.

I know you don't like talking about it. It's fine -Sunset

She waited a bit for a response but never got one. Shrugging she turned it off again and went back to do her maths.

* * *

On the other side of the text messages was Dash sitting on her bed, staring at her inhaler, toying with it in her hands. She had been thinking ever since school. Maybe she should tell the others.

What's the worst that could happen?

Her friends could forbid her to play sports.

How possible is that to happen?

Depends.

On what?

How they react.

Their reactions. That's what she was worried about the most. What would they do? What would they say? Would they be mad? Sad? Disappointed? Would they stop being her friends?

Dash shook her head. They would never do that.. right?

Well.. to be honest, they once did...

She thought back to her conversation with Sunset. Why, oh why did she tell her? She thought about how Sunset must be feeling right now. She's probably guilt tripping herself to hell..!

Without hesitation, Dash picked up her phone and started typing.

Sorry for being such a bitch today - AwesomenessInPerson

She almost glared at her nickname. If people knew, she wouldn't be awesome anymore.

She shut off her phone, not caring if Sunset texted back. Different than Sunset, Dash had her phone muted.

* * *

The next day was Friday.

Their team had another training session before the weekend and their final game against Crystal Prep Academy on Monday.

Since the other school was pretty good as well, they had beaten all other schools just like CHS, leaving only these two schools to compete.

The girls were on the field doing their stretching exercises. Dash's friends were all there of course, never missing any of her games or training sessions.

Sunset had made a mental note beforehand to talk to her before the game. She still didn't know why Dash didn't text her back yesterday, let alone even read her message. It was worrying her.

Was her knowing about her asthma putting their bond on thin ice?

"I'm just gonna go wish her good luck." Sunset said, Pinkie told her to wish her good luck from her as well, as did Fluttershy, Twilight, Rarity and Applejack. Sunset only smiled and nodded.

She went down the stairs from the audience seats to the field.

"Hey Dash!"

Rainbow straightened up from her last stretch. "Hey Sunset." She greeted. "What are you doing down here? Only players are allowed on the field."

"I know. I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Oh, and the girls and I wish you good luck."

"Thanks." She answered, not bothering to answer the question.

"So.. we are still friends, right?"

The question caught Dash off guard.

"What?"

"I mean.. I don't know... it's just.."

"Of course we are still friends! What made you think otherwise?" Dash asked completely surprised.

"I don't know, really.. I just thought since I knew.. that you didn't wanna hang out with me anymore.. and you never texted back.. I just got worried." Sunset explained with a heavy heart.

"Oh Sunset, I completely forgot about my phone. Honest. I didn't mean to make you feel like that!"

"I know.. I just.."

"Look, it's fine, we're fine." Dash said with a smile.

Sunset nodded and returned the smile. They gave a quick hug and the coach came, telling Sunset to please leave the field now as they were going to start training.

Sunset quickly rushed back up the stairs.

"What were you two doing down there? Did something happen?" Rarity asked.

Sunset was surprised for a moment. "Uh no, why?"

"You two were hugging! You two are always only hugging when something's wrong!" Pinkie chirped in.

Sunset barely suppressed the blush threatening to spread over her face.

"It's nothing, really. She was just worried that she wouldn't be at her best today since she didn't feel so well yesterday, remember?" Sunset lied. She didn't like lying to her friends but she had promised Dash that she would keep the secret.

And she wasn't about to break a promise when she was the only one Dash was trusting this with.

Author's Note

A non-asthma attack chapter for a change XD simply because I thought they were getting too frequent. Like I'm always only writing those scenes and it feels like she has them every ten minutes