The weekend was mostly relaxing. Dash was with all her friends, since they know how important this game was and how it put pressure on their athletic friend.

They had pajama parties, spending the free days together as much as possible. It had become a tradition of some sort.

"And he said: what did you say? And I said: did you listen to a single word I just said?" Rarity told.

They all broke out laughing.

"I swear that guy has his head in the clouds!" Rarity complained.

"Oh come on, Rares. At least you made him travel on cloud seven when you're with him!" Applejack joked, earning another round of laughter.

"Well it's not my fault that all the guys are falling for me, I suppose." Rarity said, waving a hand through her hair.

Applejack smirked. "Well, at least your spell didn't work on my brother."

The weekend was spent with laughter to say the least.

It was nice to be at peace for a change. Not having to worry about training, school, homework...

Just laying back and relaxing.

That worked best by chilling in the hammock that hung between two trees in Sunset's garden.

Or well, what the girls call it, their club house. When Sunset became their friend and they visited her, they were shocked to see the house so empty. Each of them added a simple touch to it and made it a paradise to retreat from the living for a while.

It was another pretty hot summer day and Dash would have stayed inside if the air conditioners weren't worse to breathe than the air outside. She was laying there for who knows how long, in the shadows of the trees while swinging slightly from the wind.

Life can be so nice...

"Dash?"

The sudden voice almost startled her to death and her frightened jump caused her to fall out of the hammock with a surprised yelp.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" The voice she now recognized as Sunset said surprised.

The fiery girl stretched out her hand to her fallen friend to help her get up. Dash accepted and got pulled up to her feet again.

"Sorry." Sunset said sheepishly.

"It's fine. I'm not normally this jumpy..." Dash trailed off.

"I know. Are you still nervous about those girls?"

"Maybe..."

"It's gonna be fine. You'll see. Anyways, I came over to ask if you wanted to join us in the pool. It's pretty hot today." Sunset explained.

"Uh, sure. Why not." Dash shrugged and went in to change her clothes.

When she came back outside she was halfway surprised to see all the others already in their swimsuits inside the pool, splashing each other and laughing.

For a moment she just stood there awkwardly in a way that looked like Fluttershy when she had to ask a stranger something.

Even though her body was in perfect shape of an athlete, Dash secretly hated showing anything more than her arms and legs.

"Dash, come on in!" Sunset called her over.

And even though her friends were more than familiar with her muscular body, they couldn't keep from staring every now and then.

Hesitantly she climbed in and was surprisingly splashed from behind by Applejack.

"Come on, loosen up, sugar cube." She gave her a gentle smile.

Oh this so called for revenge!

Dash got that mischievous smirk and the two of them got into a splash fight that drowned almost all the grass around the pool.

One splash from Applejack had the bad timing of hitting Dash right in the face when she was breathing in.

The sport star turned away, embarrassed to have a coughing fit in front of her friends.

Sunsets alarm bells rang. It was one thing when Dash had them on land, but in chest deep water?
She quickly went over, the water pushing against her movements and she tried to help hold Dash upright. She was in real panic now, thinking that any second her friend would just fall over or worse, faint.

Dash tried not to panic. It was just water. Nothing she couldn't deal with. It took her some time but she got her breathing back under control. (Honestly who can just breathe normally after inhaling water?) Every single second feeling like hours to Sunset.

The way Sunset was panicking made the others uneasy to say the least. But suddenly Dash turned back around and hit the water hard with one hand and shoved a huge wave of water on Applejack, the girls hair completely soaked when they could see her again.

To Sunset's surprise, Dash laughed. In fact, all the others laughed. And her heart was still busy racing from the sudden panic.

"You're so getting that back, Champ!" Applejack yelled and they continued as if nothing happened.

Dash knew she had to talk to Sunset later on about it, but on the other hand already knew that that wouldn't change anything. It's just not the same when they know about it. They fear the worst when it's no big deal.

And that was one more reason why she didn't want anyone to know.

Author's Note

The calm before the storm.......