Growing Pains

by Wave_Chill

Rating: teen
Tags: Sex, Comedy, Suicide / Self Harm, Profanity, Violence, Slice of Life, Human, Narcotics, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Rainbow Dash, Other, Romance, Fluttershy
Length: 3576

Your teenage years can be your most difficult ones, but you can do it.

Closeted and ready for a change, those are the words to describe young Rainbow Blitz. He's your average Equestrian school athlete, seemingly bad at anything that isn't soccer, flying and track, rather tempermental and always filled with the need to be better than everyone else.

That, and that fact that he's gay, but only Fluttershy knows that.

His life is rather hectic and things rarely go his way, but that's okay, he has his friends there with him.

Published 2019-04-14 21:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2019-04-14 21:20:02 UTC

Do it Right or Don't Do it At All

Tick.

Tock.

Rainbow Blitz stared at the slowly moving clock, his rose colored eyes following the arms of said clock sharply. He was in math class, he never paid attention in math so he'd always pass the time by either staring at something or sleeping, but in just a few minutes it was going to be over and he could finally go to gym. He could hear the teacher's tired voice droning in his ear occasionally but he always managed to drown it out.

Blitz let out a heavy exhale, playing with the end of his rattail, often removing the hairband and redoing just so he could have something to do. Something in the back of his mind nagged him to listen, as he was currently failing math miserably and he needed his grades to improve, but he didn't listen, who listens to the logical side of their mind?

Just as he was about to doze off in class, he heard the ever so relieving bell, and almost instantly shot up off of his chair "before you go guys, don't forget to do the mock test sheet I put online for you, just go on the website I told you to and print it out" his math teacher loudly announced, Blitz could care less, opting to rush out of class as quickly as possible so he wouldn't be late to the only lesson he cared about.

As he made his way through the quickly crowding hallway, he saw an ever so recognizable female, who's hair almost reached the floor and whom more one of the largest sweaters Blitz had ever seen "yoooo Flutters!" he smiled with a wave, slowing down his walking as he reached her side.

She looked over at the tanned male, eyes lighting up slightly as her blank face morphed into a soft smile "Blitz, how are you?" She softly spoke, placing the remainder of her school books in her bag.

"I'm doing good, I got gym in a few, how about you?"

Fluttershy paused before scrambling for her schedule, the new school year had only just started though so he couldn't blame her for not memorizing it, even if he found her scrambling for it rather funny and very adorable "um, I have science apparently? That's odd..."

Blitz raised a brow "but we only have three science lessons a week and I'm in all of your classes... you might wanna go check with the counciler, probably a mistake"

She nodded, folding the sheet of paper and placing it into her pocket "I'll go when the bell rings, the less time in class the better"

"Okay little Miss Rebellious!"

"H-Hey! It's not like that!"

Blitz couldn't stop a cackle escaping his lips once he saw how flustered his shy friend had become, he ruffled her hair a little before beginning to walk "I gotta get to gym, see ya Flutters" He waved.

His pink haired friend simply waved in response, muttering a soft "goodbye".

"Were you just staring at my cock?"

As much as Blitz loved gym class, he hated getting dressed in the locker room. Being in a room full of already sweaty guys in theory sounded like a fantasy he would have in class but in reality it was a nightmare, he was constantly filled with fear and humiliation, scared he would accidently out himself to the whole room by doing something stupid, or scared that everyone secretly knew he played for the other team and were judging him. Currently, he had to deal with resident asshole Dumbbell and his squad of dickheads as they proceeded with their daily taunting.

Dumbbell's smirk got even more crooked and wide "yo guys, Blitz was dead staring at my cock!" He yelled, causing a group of boys to look in that direction, a few smirking and chuckling

"W-What!? No I wasn't!" He snapped, trying to tie up his sneakers as quickly as possibly so he could bounce, their staring was enough to make him want to leave and never come back.

"I doubt it, you always had faggish tendencies, but that just does it! Sorry dude but I don't swing that way" he shrugged, his two friends snickering behind him.

Blitz groaned before giving a mock sigh "come on Dumby, even if I did like guys, do you really think I'd stare at your cock of all things? I don't think I could see it with a magnifying glass"

The locker room was filled with a collective 'oooh', causing the bully to scoff "Don't get smart, I would punch you but I don't hit girls"

"That's a shame, seeing you punch yourself would be pretty entertaining, seeing as you're such a pussy you might as well have one"

Everyone watched as Blitz put on his hoodie before making his way out of the locker room, leaving the three the glare at him as he left. Blitz, once out of the locker room, ran to the field as fast as he could, trying to calm himself down fro what had just happened "that was waaay to close for comfort..." he muttered. Okay, he did stare at Dumbbell for a few seconds, but it was only because he was so openly flexing his body in front of him! He wasn't staring at his junk though!

Just the thought of seeing him naked grossed Blitz out more than it needed to.

He sat on the grass, watching as more boys started coming out of the locker room and sitting where Blitz was, barely anyone exchanged words, the incident from earlier being too awkward or suprising to talk about. Blitz didn't mind, silence was nice. It wasn't long until the gym teacher, Mr. Blaze made his way out and stood in front of the boys "alright y'all, today we're gonna be playing benchball, do y'all know what that is?'

"Isn't that like... a girl's sport?" a student blurted out.

Mr. Blaze chuckled "who ever said only girls can play benchball? Lemme explain the rules for y'all who have never played the game before, so you all get into two teams, and one of you has to be the 'Queen'- or 'King' in this case, whoever the King is has to go and stand on the other teams bench, and your team has to throw these various basketballs at you, if you throw one and the King catches it, you have to join them on the bench, the team who manages to get all of their members on their bench first wins, got it?" once he received multiple nods he continued "the catch doesn't count if the King drops the ball or falls from the bench, nor does it count if the ball bounces on the floor first, I'm going to put six cones to mark a line between both sides of the court, neither team is allowed to cross said line to throw nor get a ball, if you do somebody on your bench has to come off and the other team gets a free person in their bench, and remember, no wings or flying allowed!" Mr. Blaze then stared at Blitz and then at Dumbbell "you two will be the team captains, now hurry up and make some teams!"

Blitz groaned, how predictable. He stood up and went to stand in front of the class, Dumbell opting to choose first "okay I go with Hoops"

The brunette grinned "my guy!"

Blitz rolled his eyes "Thunderlane I guess"

"Score"

"Um... Open Skies?"

"Steller Eclipse my dude!"

The other winged male simply blinked "I don't know you but okay"

Blitz sighed, he didn't know any of these guys, which was weird considering he was on practically every team in school "Sunshower?"

"Windwaker"

"Come on Bulk"

"Short Fuse"

This continued until one boy was left, Blitz looked at him and felt an exhale escape his lips, his wings fluttering slightly. He had soft white hair that had multiple loose curls in it, he was rather pale but looked rather athletic if his arms were anything to go by, his eyes were a cloudy blue, appearing grey if you brushed passed them. His wings were much larger than average, spanning out at least twice as much as your regular pegasi, then again Blitz himself did have some massive wings. He was also quite tall, easily reaching at most six foot. He looked over at Blitz before standing up and approaching him "I'm assuming I'm in your team? Since, Dumbbell just picked and all..."

Blitz immediately dragged himself from La La Land before nodding "y-eeeaaah... you're in this team..." he let out, feeling his voice grow quieter as he spoke.

"Cool, the name's Mountain Haze by the way, you're Rainbow Blitz, yeah?"

"Yeah" Blit mumbled.

Mountain Haze nodded "nice to meet ya, cool hair by the way" he then turned to the team and jogged off "yo Thunderlane!"

Blitz was left in shock as the other left, he played with the end of his rattail, was it really cool? His father always egged him to cut it, claiming it was too long, and people always seemed to go at him for it's rainbow coloring. He couldn't help but feel really happy from the compliment, it seemed odd at first but he didn't mind.

He then looked back at his team, saluting before smirking widely, his competitive nature taking over his feeling of happiness.

"Come on team, let's go kick their asses!"

The sound of boys cheering could be heard from afar.

Needless to say, Blitz' team had won by a landslide, with tall people such as Thunderlane and Mountain Haze on their side, their Kings were easily able to catch the oncoming missiles of basketballs. Not only that, but their more capable throwers like Bulk Biceps and Sunshower outranked the other teams in every way.

So basically, they completely owned Dumbbell's team.

Blitz and a few others were conversing as they proceeded to get dressed out of their gym clothes, the conversation completely distracting him from the fact that he was surrounded by a bunch of half naked guys. The teen found himself laughing and speaking rather loudly with all of the other guys "yo but you can't lie, that catch Haze saved towards the end was so clutch and NOBODY can tell me otherwise" Open Skies shrugged, putting on his shirt as he did so.

Mountain Haze waved a hand "it wasn't that great, but yo, are we just gonna pretend that the way Blitz practically jumped over Hoops to catch the ball when he was the King wasn't sick as hell? He didn't even fall off the bench when he landed!"

Blitz scratched the back of his head bashfully, feeling awfully flattered when Mountain Haze complimented him again "it was nothing, I guess playing no wings basketball a lot let me practice on my hops a bit more" he chuckled.

Haze stretched out his wings a bit, working out the kinks before scoffing "don't be so modest dude, ya did great! You were cool out there"

Blitz knew he would openly blush in front of everyone if he didn't hurry up, luckily he was practically done, so all he did was slip on his jacket and he quickly dashed away, leaving everyone else pretty bewildered "was it something I said?" Haze uttered out.

Blitz found himself by his locker, his face involuntarily getting warmer and more red as the minutes went by, he knew it was only a few minutes left until lunch was over and he could talk to Fluttershy but he was becoming rather frantic. The last thing he needed was a crush, the last thing he wanted was a crush, the idea of potentially having a crush on Mountain Haze terrified him to the core.

The bell then rang.

Since gym took up two periods and Fluttershy had missed the first one after break, he knew she would be in history. He opened his wings and zoomed down the corridor, he stopped when he saw Fluttershy's history class, in which she was walking out of, he then approached her "look Flutters I know this is really random but like I seriously need to talk to you, follow me quick" he blurted out before grabbing her wrist and stomping down the hall.

"Oh, um, alright" she stuttered, stumbling whilst Blitz practically dragged her.

He took her to the back of the school, looking around to see if anyone was there, before sliding on the back of the wall and sitting on the ground "fuuuuck" he groaned, sticking his head in the air.

Fluttershy sat beside him and tilted her head "what's wrong Blitz?"

Blitz looked into her eyes "I... think I like someone... and I don't like that I might like someone"

Fluttershy's eyes got wide, before she then nodded in understanding "who is he?"

"Mountain Haze..."

"You mean the kid that plays no wings basketball?" She giggled, placing her hand to her face "well, he is extremely cute"

"I know right? And I hate it!" Blitz buried his face in his hands "I don't know if I like like him but, I get tingly when he talks to me and almost freaked out over a compliment he gave me... I don't wanna have a crush! At least not yet! What if I fuck up and my dad finds out?"

"That won't happen, and maybe you don't have a crush, maybe you just... find him hot?"

Blitz rolled his eyes "Thunderlane's hot but I don't turn into a stuttering mess when I talk to him" he threw his head back "this is bullshit! I just met this guy like, an hour ago and he's already fucking with me!"

Fluttershy shook her head "not so loud! If a teacher hears you cursing-"

"I don't care! Fuck this!"

The pink haired pegasus watched as the teen ran his hands through his messily tied up hair, he began breathing heavily, attempting to calm himself down before speaking again "I don't know why but... when I realized that I might like him it scared me so much..."

"It's because you're scared of love" Fluttershy stated before continuing "um, what I mean is that your dad is always on your back about how masculine you have to be and how he doesn't want you to 'act gay' or 'make people think you're gay' but you are gay so the only way for you to find love is with another guy, which clearly isn't allowed in your household" she began rubbing his back softly, a sympathetic smile reaching her face "you're scares of the consequences, you're scared of rejection and you're scared of what your family might think"

Blitz snorted "wow Flutters, no need to call out my whole life like that"

His friend soon began blushing "w-wait! I didn't mean it like that I was just trying to-"

"Don't worry Flutters, you're right though" he stretched his legs out "you hit the nail right in the coffin, that is what I'm afraid of... my dad started talking to me about girlfriends yesterday, and I... I barely responded, he started accusing me of hiding something so I lied about having a girl I'm 'seeing but not really dating' and told him I'd tell him about her soon enough, he either thinks it's you or someone else" he snickered as she began blushing at the comment "knowing me I'm just gonna... instinctually describe Mountain Haze, a boy I barely know... I could just lie and say the relationship went south but... I know he wouldn't buy it"

The two went silent before Fluttershy brought out her boxed lunch "want some cookies? My mom made them yesterday and I brought them for lunch..."

Blitz brought his head up and smiled "sure, your mom's cooking is the bomb"

Blitz was pretty good at English, better than he had expected at least, he was the third best in his class, something that he didn't at all understand how he achieved. He felt himself smile when his teacher, Mrs. Clear Waters told the class it was a creative writing lesson, where he could basically write whatever he wanted. "Now that we've gone through multiple different writing structures and language devices I now give you free reign! Remember, the story must link back to the idea of Mythos and how the idea of mythical gods and creatures can affect people and or the characters you'll write about, if you need any help be sure to put your hand up and I'll come over BUT do not yell out, anyway, onward my mini authors!"

Blitz huffed with determination, wanting to write the best story ever!

Except he didn't.

He was constantly scribbling out sentences and even full paragraphs, editing words so much his whole page looked like a scribbled mess. It wasn't long until he ripped out the page and slammed his head on the desk, feeling his patience wearing thin, why wasn't it going his way, first he wanted to do a generic love story but he kept instinctually writing two guys, then he decided to write an adventure story but couldn't think of anything that wasn't ripped straight from Daring Do, then he wanted to write a slice of life story but it was so boring.

He couldn't even make up a story, he felt like such a loser.

Seeing his obvious distress, Mrs. Clear Waters approached him "Blitz dearie are you okay?"

"No my stories are all shit, excuse my language"

His teacher giggled at his response "what do you mean by that?"

He sat up and attempted to crack his neck as he spoke "they're either boring, generic or waaay too personal for me to write down..."

"I see, so why aren't you brainstorming? Or at least giving it another shot"

"What's the point of doing something if you can't do it properly?"

His teacher frowned "that is... a horrible motto to live by" she then folded her arms "anyhoo, I want you to give story writing one more chance, and if it still doesn't go well, then try again! No giving up!"

"But miss-"

"No buts! I better see at least a paragraph Rainbow Blitz" she said with a smirk before walking to her desk.

Blitz didn't end up writing that paragraph.

He was finally on his way home, after a long and rather stressful day, he had to go home to an equally as stressful family. He felt his chest constrict, his dad was going to ask about his imaginary girl, and he was going to have to either lie and say she exists or lie and say they broke up, which both would end in either a needless lecture or needless explanation on his part and he couldn't tell which one was the lesser of two evils.

He flew upwards, his home coming into full view, which in turn made him land on the fluffy clouds below, he inhaled, collecting himself before walking through the door "I'm home" he stated.

The first thing he saw was a rather tanned woman with short auburn hair wave at him "Blitzie, welcome! How was school?"

"It was fine mom, where's dad?"

Windy scowled "he's at work still, stupid fucker lied about his damn hours again like a right nutter..."

Blitz winced, his father's schedule was always something that ticked off his mom, due to it being the main reason he was hardly home "he spends so much time in that work place ye'd think he's married to the boss or something... anyway, I heard apparently me boy's got himself a little lady...!"

Of for the love of-

"Y-Yeah, totally!"

Windy clapped her hands with excitement "ooooh, tell me about her! What's she like?"

"Um... she's- uh.... she's really... nice! And um, cute and... yeah..." he stuttered out.

"Come one Blitzie, there's gotta be more! What does she look like?"

Blitz gulped "she's uh.... tall and... has curly hair and blue eyes... she's... sporty and... yeah, I only just started seeing her so... still getting to know her..."

Windy swooned "how sweet! I cannot wait to meet her, what's her name?"

Okay Blitz, you can do this! Just don't say anyone's actual name and you're good "Mountain Haze"

Fuck.

"Well, tell this Mountain Haze that I cannot wait to meet her, she sounds like a treat!" She smiled before making her way into the kitchen, Blitz stood there before walking to his room and closing the door, slumping onto his bed and bringing out his phone, he dialled Fluttershy's number.

"Hello? Oh, hey Blitz"

"Flutters..." he groaned.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Blitz sniffled a bit, his faced red from humiliation "I... ended up describing Mountain Haze"

Author's Note

Self indulging and projecting on my comfort character's is my favorite hobby-

Seriously though, this story is sort of based on my personal life experiences and I thought writing a story based on them would help me deal with them better, this probably isn't that good but hey at least I tried dkdkdjdjdjd

Critique is always appreciated, be sure to tell me why you did or didn't like this fic, however do keep in mind that english isn't my first language so there may be a few grammer hicks here and there, but be sure to point them out as I'm always trying to improve!