Sunny Swimming and Self-worth

We started walking on the sand towards the ocean, her hand kept a tight grip on mine. It was beautiful. It was like the scene out of a movie I’d seen once. Finally, we arrived on the shore, and obviously, the place was pretty crowded. The entire ruckus nearly flabbergasted her as we move off the final hill to relax on the beach. The sight of the sea of people that were there was disheartening to the point where I couldn't see any sand as it was being covered by the everyone. A whimper was heard behind me and a light squeeze on my hand let me know the origin of it.

"You alright?" I asked her. She gave me a small nod in return. I looked towards the multiple crowds of people and looked right back at her. “Why don’t we find a place that’s less packed?”

"S-Sure," she stuttered, allowing me to search for a less condensed and popular part of the beach for us. We kept moving and to help her with her current dilemma, I decided to talk to her to ease her state of mind.

"Hey, tell me about the animal shelter. How are things with the animals?"

I could practically hear the enthusiasm in her voice as she began to speak about one of her more favored topics of discussion, "The animal shelter? O-Oh, okay! Well… we often give out reports and background checks on the animals. We give them vaccinations on a timely schedule. We feed them. We even give them…" I knew how she got and was able to somewhat tune her out while we walked, still asking questions here and there to show her that I was paying attention and that I cared. The tension she held earlier had vanished as she continued to talk; if there was anything that she enjoyed the most, it was sharing her vast, infinite knowledge on animals with someone who would be willing to talk to her about. Eventually, we found ourselves at the bottom of one of the many cliffsides that were surrounding the town and since there weren’t many people around, we decided that this was a good spot. She took a seat on the sand, leaning herself on my arms while stretching her legs out. I sat down next to her, crossing my legs.

It was nice and peaceful for a moment before I remembered something. "Great. Zephie has all of our stuff. I gave it to him when I came to talk to you," I said as I stared out at the ocean.

"He does?"

"Want me to go get it?" I continued, glancing at her.

She looked at me, her eyes wide. "Oh, no. You don’t need to go back to that terrible crowd to search for him. We'll be fine without it, I'm sure." As she sighed, she closed her eyes, enjoying the bliss of the sun touching her skin.

I took off my shirt and place it next to me and laid back in the hot sand. We sat in silence for a moment, waiting for something to happen. It was peaceful and calm… that was, until I heard her moan cut the silence in half, watching her dig her fingertips into the sun heated sand. "Geez, it’s hot out… and the sun… it…”

"Hmm?"

"It hurts," she replied with a silent chuckle. I chuckled and looked at her, my eyes looking over her exposed skin. I couldn't see what her inner conflict was about; she looked perfectly fine to me. She’s not really big on the front, but it wasn’t terrible. She was gorgeous, and besides, there was nothing wrong with being average. What’s wrong with being normal anyways? Being normal was great since you are still pretty and hey, it just makes it easier for that one lucky guy to carry you and hold you tightly. It makes it even easier for that lucky guy to press you up against a wall and start some more… heated activities. I accidentally bit my tongue as my mind went wild, along with a small smile building on my lips.

Like a spider with hyper senses, she opened up her eyes and looked right at me, giving a slight jump. "R-Rainbow Dash, no!" she shouted, pulling at the sides, desperate to cover herself up. I looked directly at her with my eyebrows raised.

"What?"

"You gave me that look. Yo- you were- you- you were looking at me and- a-and- and-. Please don’t stare at me," she exclaimed, turning her head away from me, completely blushing. I smiled coyly at her blushing expression and hummed lightly before sliding my arm over and wrapping it around her waist

"But I like staring." I whispered teasingly, moving my lips towards her quivering jaw. She quickly shied away and resisted my advances by pushing against my stomach and squirming away.

"N-No, Rainbow Dash, there are people out here!" she cried out, trying in vain to block off my advances. I just smiled and moved ever so listlessly, eventually catching her off guard with my lips and pulling her closer to me. She lightly shoved against me, weakly trying to fight me off before throwing in the towel, moving her hands up from my stomach to my shoulders and neck. I felt her tongue swirl around and around in my mouth, in the motion of a merry-go-round at an amusement park that will never cease. It nearly took my breath away as she started kissing every little inch of my body without stopping. After several seconds, we pulled apart, panting as I watched her catch her breath. She pressed herself forward a little; forcing her own forehead against mine and gave me a smile as I unzipped her jacket. "Gotta say, talking is fun and all, but," I whispered gently, moving myself even closer to her. "I like using my mouth for this a lot better." She said nothing as I pushed my lips against hers, being a little more rougher with her than last time. She started to moan even louder, curling her fingers up and scratching them across my skin with her fingernails. Suddenly, she was on her back, holding herself up with her forearms. She all of a sudden arched her back as her eyes almost bulged out of her head. "Ouch! Ouch! Hot sand, hot sand!" She tried to say through our pushed lips. I felt her smile in our embrace, and we rolled over with her laying on top of me. She sat up, frowning down at me as I stared back up at her. "You know that we’re on a public beach right? What if someone sees us?"

I just shrug, slyly moving my hands from her waist down to her thighs, slowly running my hands all over her skin and swimsuit. "I don’t see a sign that says we can’t have a little fun." She replied with a scoff and lowered herself on me again as she smiled.

"You are insatiable," she responded ever so softly before slowly pressing her lips towards mine, moaning sensually while my hands travelled around to her butt. I could hardly hold back the urge to grope her as my fingers began to move up to her breast, massage her all over with handfuls of her beautiful skin. She started to whimper louder as I arched my back when she pressed all of herself against me. As my hands were about to untie the top of her bathing suit, I could hear every moan escape from her body, clinging onto me more and more. I continued to kiss about every square inch of her, getting closer and closer every second as I was about to-

"Ewwwww…" She pulled her lips away from mine, looking up to see Zephy standing several feet in front of us, making a very rosy face. She quickly tied her top and put on my shirt, hiding behind me as I adjusted myself. "If the two of you were gonna have some ‘fun’ with each other…” he said with an over-exaggerated hand motion, "You could've at least left a sign up." I rolled my eyes at him and got up in a huff, completely slouching and leaning my head in his direction.

"Is something wrong, Zip?" she asked, covering her face with the blush that was growing on her face.

He gave me the same look that I gave him when he arrived. Guess he didn’t know after all.

"Oh, it’s nothing,” he replied with an annoyed shrug, lowering the bag down from one hand to another as he moved to our spot. "I was hanging out with a few of my friends when I noticed that you two suddenly disappeared, so I went looking for you... and here I am. If I interrupted you two and you need some alone time together-"

"Zip," she squeaked, her voice getting higher and her face growing redder as she cut him off. "I-I was just telling Dash that-that she shouldn't be doing that in a public area in the first place. It wasn't a good idea.”

I couldn’t help but let out a soft chuckle at that. He rolled his eyes and said,

"Yeah, because that's defiantly what it looked like from over there…” I rolled my eyes back at him as he set the towel down. He looked right at me and added, “Anyway, it’s a good thing that I came down here. You were really cooking,” he said, scrounging around the giant bag through all the other accessories before finding the small bottle of sunscreen for her. He tossed it towards us and I caught it straight out of the air, making Fluttershy sit up as she started to scoot down a little, pressing her little fingers on her cheek before hissing softly. Quietly, I popped up the cap on the bottle and squirted a small bit of the pale, white goo into my hand, slowly and gently rubbing and smearing it on her face and ears before moving down. "So tell me, why did you choose to be right here? I mean, if you two were planning on having ‘quality time’ with each other, I can see why you would choose this type of place… but still."

I could feel her tense up as he sighed, continuing to speak while I continued to apply the sunscreen to her back and neck.

"We just wanted some quiet time with one another, that’s all." Afterwards, she started to relaxing a bit and slowly gave him a knowing smile.

"Sure… the noise was the problem..." he responded as he plopped right down next to us. "Well, you’re gonna be disturbed by me all day. So what do you girls wanna do now?"

We looked at him and then to each other, smiling. We couldn’t care less that he interrupted us. We were just happy to be with each other. It was all that mattered to us. We got into the water and played with each other for a bit. Eventually, I went underwater and had some fun.

"Ah! Rainbow Dash, no!" She yelled in shock as I appeared out of the water below her, positioning her onto my shoulders so she could stay on there fairly easily. I gave a small laugh while she was above me, yelling and flailing her arms, doing her best not to fall off. Zephyr laughed loudly, as he spun a beach ball on his finger, waiting to launch it towards us.

"Hey, Fluttershy!" he called out, gaining her attention as he carried the ball on his head. "Catch!" He threw the ball right into the air, sending it flying into our path.

"Oh, I got it! I got it!" she shouted, firing her arms straight up and leaning back with the ball as it flew over her head. He burst out laughing again as she fell backwards, dragging me into the salty water with her. She had to prop herself up and wipe the salty water from her eyes as she rose, holding the ball triumphantly above her head. I rose back up, removing my goggles and slightly shaking the water off of them before putting them back on. As usual, she apologized for the actions of her brother and shot him that familiar fiery scolding look that at this point had no effect on him since he was still giggling and snickering like an idiot.

"It's fine," I said, looking over to her.

She smiled back at me, holding onto the multicolored, rubber beach ball in while doing so. Her shirt completely soaked, clinging ever so slightly to her frail, but beautiful body. I saw her float along with the tide, joined by her wet, pink hair clinging on to her forehead. She was breathing excessively from everything that happened today, but she still held onto that smile of hers. I was happy. She was actually smiling. Those bad feelings and tears from earlier today were washed away with the tide of the ocean and she was able to break out of her shell for a few hours and be happy. Zippy gave out an exaggerated sigh as he removed his goggles, putting them back into the bag while we gazed at the sunset. He frowned, turning back to us.

"Hey," he called out, getting Fluttershy's attention. "It's getting late now, you girls want to stay out, or should we head back home?" We looked at each other, he asked me a question but I simply shrugged back as an answer.

She nodded and turned to him, shrugging. "Yeah, I guess it’s getting late,” she mumbled.

He nodded and we made our way back to the warm sand of the beach, our bodies shivering and teeth clattering from being in the water for so long and being used to its temperature. I looked to her, and she held out her hand to me. She gave me that beautiful smile, blushing slightly as she tucked away the beach ball under an arm. I grabbed her hand as we walked away. Once we reached our bag, Fluttershy deflated the ball and I began to dry off. Once we were dried and the ball was deflated, I held the bag open and she placed it in delicately. As the sun dipped further into the horizon and baked our backs less and less, we made our way back to their house, our hands intertwined. The peaceful silence was broken by Fluttershy as she cleared her throat glancing up me. "I, um, thank you." I looked down at her and I saw her face was completely flushed from the entire day. She looked like she had something to say. "I-I appreciate you getting me out of the house. I wouldn’t have left if you hadn’t talked me out of it… and I really had a good time with you and Zeph today, so… thank you for helping me."

I replied to her with a nod. A few seconds had passed before any words were exchanged. I spoke up and said, "I meant what I said."

"Hmm? Oh, yes. I believe you. It’s just… that…”

I put my finger on her lips, preventing her from speaking any further.

"Don’t sweat it.” I said as I pressed a kiss on the top of her forehead. “Besides, you know I love you and I would do anything to keep you happy.”

She returned that same, sweet smile as she leaned herself onto my shoulder. "I know you would. That's why I love you too."

We walked back to her house with Zeph, completely tired from today. It was a special day today. Getting to spend time with her. I really wish that could last forever…