Rainbow Dash’s POV: First Person

I toss and turn in bed, unable to sleep for some reason. I mean, I don’t have work tomorrow but I’d still like to be able to sleep. After about what I guess is 10 minutes, I kick off the blankets and walk downstairs and out the front door of my cloud home, taking off into the night sky.

Maybe a fly will tire me out. At least enough to fall asleep.

I start it off simple, just flying around; a few laps around Ponyville to warm up. After about 6 laps, I spice things up with a few tricks; spins, loops, zig zags, nothing too special. I end up doing this for an hour before I finally feel like it’s time to go back to bed.

Something catches my eye as I’m about to head back home, and at first I think my eyes are playing tricks on me. Underneath a tree, I spot a huddled mass barely lit up by the moon. I squint my eyes as I fly a little closer. Is...is that… is that Tots? What’s he doing out here late at night?

I fly down until I’m right in front of him. I raise an eyebrow when I notice the guitar laying next to him. When did he get that? I shake my head. That’s not important right now. Doesn’t he have a home? Everypony has a home! Even animals! I mean I know he isn’t an animal; he can talk and all that, but still…

I notice he’s shivering a lot. Ignoring him for now, my attention turns to his bag. Alright, what’re you hiding… I wonder to myself as I open his bag and start looking through it. Bread? Not my first choice of food….Water canteen. Simple enough. Some drawing stuff, and a book…. Inside are a few small doodles, all of which are of my friends. He even drew me? It’s not that good; it’s like a kids drawing but the thought is still there. Why tho?

I feel bad for him now… I didn’t know how bad his situation was. And… I was so rude when we first met. I feel like an asshole. Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t trust him, but that’s no reason to be mean. I put his stuff back the way I found it, and I’m about to turn and go back home when I hear some shuffling. My heart stops for a moment as I see him starting to wake up. I’m frozen in fear and can’t move. Please just go back to sleep! I don’t wanna get caught!

“Mngh…..” he grumbles as he starts to pick himself up. He stretches and the cracks that accompanies it makes my skin crawl. That didn’t sound too healthy…. as he stretches, his eyes land on me and my heart sinks.

“Rainbow Dash? What’re you doing here?” surprisingly, he doesn’t sound angry. In fact, he just sounds confused. He looks around. “Shouldn’t you be in bed?”

I find myself speaking before I can think. “I could ask you the same thing. Why are YOU out here? Shouldn’t YOU be in bed?” I clap my hoof over my mouth, cursing myself for talking instead of just running.

To my surprise he just shrugs. “Haven’t got one. I sleep out here.” He says as he rubs his arms and shivers a bit.

His response really throws me through a loop. His shivering also concerns me. If he’s cold now, he’d never make it through winter. And it’s the middle of fall right now.

“Why didn’t you tell anyone how bad your situation was? How’d it even get this bad!?” I don’t know why I’m yelling at him. Pity? Like a older sibling yelling at their younger sibling when they did something wrong even if it doesn’t affect them; like you want them to do good even though it doesn’t help you? Maybe.

His face falls into a frown and he looks down. “It never came up. I didn’t wanna bother anyone with it. It’s not even that big of a deal; really it’s not. I don’t want people to know. I don’t want people to pity me, to feel bad for me, to try and help me when my troubles aren’t their own. As for how…” he looks away at the horizon. “I don’t know. It’s just been this way. I woke up under this tree one day, and that’s all I know. But again it’s not that bad.” he looks back at me. “Please, don’t tell anyone.”

I’m stunned. Never had a home? Not a big deal? Not that bad? Is he bucking crazy?! And on top of all that, he wants me to keep it a secret!? Though… I suppose it’s not really my place to say anything anyways… I sigh. “I won’t tell anyone…” I glare at him. “But you better tell the others at some point. This IS a big deal, whether you think it is or not. A friend of mine learned this the hard way, but there’s no shame in asking for help. Especially if you NEED it. And right now, you do.”

He seems to think over my words for a moment. “Rainbow, all I want is to have friends and for those friends to be happy. I know you said no the first time, but can we be friends?”

Again, I’m stunned. All he wants is friends? How can what he want be so simple? I shake my head and look at him again. “I’ll think about it… but YOU need to think more about what you NEED instead of what you want.”

He nods and I find myself yawning. “It’s still pretty late… I’m going back to bed, but you should think about what I said.” I tell him as I turn and prepare to take off. “Goodnight Tots.” I throw in, almost as an afterthought.

He says his goodnight as well and with that, I take off and fly back to my home. Home… my stomach sinks at the thought of it now, knowing that someone else doesn’t have one.

Author's Note

fun fact, I got the last chapter out lil under a week ago, the day before spring break started (for me at least). I did this so I could go all spring break without having to worry about uploading a chapter. yet, here I am. middle of spring break. cranking out another chapter. Way shorter than the others, but i did this late at night (about midnight to 2 am.) I did this because I found myself itching to write, and this just sorta happened. soooo......Bonus chapter? *jazz hands shrug*

in case you're confused, this takes place right after he wakes up from his talk with Luna.

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