Rainbow Dash was sound asleep on the couch in the living room of her cloud home. She mumbled incoherently in her sleep, which meant she seemed to be having a dream, but it wasn’t just any dream: it was a dream about the newly found love of her life, Soarin. Ever since she joined the Wonderbolts, Soarin was all she could think about. She had fallen in love with him at first sight before she even became part of the team. Now that she was an official Wonderbolt, she had spent every training session with Soarin, Fleetfoot, and all of the other Bolts.

Spitfire, who was the captain of the Wonderbolts, came down with a cold, and she had made a call to the team earlier today letting them know that there was no training for the rest of the week, which meant all of the Bolts had the day and the rest of the week off. Now, without anything important they needed to do, Rainbow decided to sleep in a little bit. Soarin, however, was wide awake and using his marefriend’s shower. He wanted to take Rainbow out on their very first date together, and he knew exactly where they should go to celebrate their day off. After all, this was only their first of many perfect dates to come. Hopefully.

“I just hope I don’t buck anything up,” Soarin said to himself as he dried himself off. He had finished his shower not too long ago and was now using one of Rainbow’s towels to dry his coat, mane, and tail off. Once he was finished, he hung the towel up on the rack and gave a relieved sigh, heading downstairs to the living room.

Not to his surprise, Rainbow was sound asleep on the couch. He chuckled lightly and trotted over to her, gently sitting down beside his marefriend and running a hoof up and down her back. Slowly, he leaned down and kissed the top of her head, causing the cyan Pegasus to groan in her sleep.

“Mmm… Soarin, why are you so hot?” she mumbled, unaware that Soarin was sitting there next to her and trying to wake her too.

“Hmm… maybe because I am,” he whispered in her ear. “But you’re hotter.”

Those three words caused Rainbow to immediately sit up on the couch and turn to face the stallion. Soarin smiled in response, wrapping a wing around his marefriend’s body and pulling her close.

“You better have a good reason why you woke me up at the wrong time, Soarin,” Rainbow said with a yawn. “I was having the most awesome dream.”

“Oh, I’m sorry to wake you,” he said. “I wanted us to go out on our very first date together, and since we have the day off, I thought that today would be the perfect day to make it happen.”

Rainbow glanced up at him, her eyes widening in realization at what he just said. She had been spending most of her morning sleeping on the couch that she completely forgot about her date with Soarin.

“Oh!” she exclaimed. “I forgot about our date, didn’t I?”

Soarin chuckled. “No, no,” he said with a smirk. “You were just very tired, and I understand that. But you still wanna go out on a date with me, right?”

“Duh.” Rainbow nodded and kissed her boyfriend’s lips. “Of course I do,” she said after pulling away. “So, what are we doing first?”

“Well, it’s close to lunchtime,” Soarin replied. “Wanna hit the Hay Burger?”

“You mean, that really cool fast food place?”

“Don’t forget awesome!”

“Of course not!” Rainbow grinned. “Besides,” she said, winking at him. “I’ve been wanting to share a meal with you.”

“Glad to know we’re on the same page.” Soarin grinned and kissed his marefriend on the cheek. “You slept really late,” he said. “I guess last night was awesome, wasn’t it?”

“Of course,” Rainbow replied. “It was totally awesome. I never brought a date home before… until now.”

Soarin smiled. “I’m glad to be your first,” he said, running a hoof through the cyan mare’s rainbow colored mane. “So… you ready to go?”

“Hold that thought,” Rainbow said, standing up from the couch. “I need to take a shower before we leave.”

“Good idea. I’ll be waiting for you.”

Rainbow nodded and slipped out of her robe, purposefully tossing it into Soarin’s face. “Oops,” she said, winking back at him. “Sorry.”

“Don’t worry about it, Rainbow Dash,” he said as he took her robe off of his face. “My revenge will come later.”

Rainbow laughed and kicked off her Tank slippers before flying upstairs to her bedroom. The cyan Pegasus had to admit: she was so excited to go out on a date, and this was her very first date in her entire life. What made it even better was the fact that she was going out with a Wonderbolt. Not once in her life did she expect to go out on a date with one of the top elite fliers in all of Equestria. It was a dream come true. Literally.

The cyan pony hummed a tune as she turned on the shower and stepped inside, closing the curtain behind her. Standing under the pleasant warm water, she closed her eyes and allowed her mane, tail, and coat to soak.

“I’m ready!” Rainbow shouted as she trotted down the stairs to the living room. “You better be ready to get a look at me, big guy.”

Soarin glanced up and stared slack-jawed at the sight of his marefriend. The cyan Pegasus was wearing a rainbow colored dress with a golden crown that sat atop her head. He smiled when he realized that the dress Rainbow was wearing was actually her Grand Galloping Gala dress. Sure, the gala was fun, but it was also a disaster: a fun disaster to be exact, and it was one of Soarin’s favorite memories of Rainbow Dash when she saved his pie from falling to the ground and splattering all over the shiny, beautiful floor.

“You’re gonna wear that?” he asked.

“Duh!” Rainbow replied, sticking her tongue out at him. “It’s a date, so I wanna look awesome for you today.”

Soarin smiled and stood up from the couch, walking over to her and wrapping his forelegs around her neck. “You have no idea how happy you made me, Rainbow Dash,” he whispered in her ear. “I love that dress. It makes you look hot.”

“Thanks!” Rainbow said, blushing as he kissed her cheek. “Now stop kissing me. You’re gonna ruin my makeup.”

“But you’re beautiful even without makeup,” he said as he kept kissing her face, making the cyan mare giggle.

“Okay, you win,” she teased, rolling her eyes. “I’ll go wash it off. All I did was apply a slight blush and some eye shadow anyway.”

Soarin laughed as he watched her wipe her makeup off with a napkin. “Maybe you should lose the dress too,” he said. “Don’t want it to get all dirty.”

Rainbow sighed and slipped out of her dress. “Can I keep the crown though?” she asked, batting her eyelashes at him. “I think it makes me look awesome.”

“The crown can definitely stay,” he replied. “And I think it looks awesome on you, too.”

“Thanks big guy, but I don’t think I need the crown either.” She shook her head and allowed the crown to fall off. “I think you love me the way I am,” she said, smirking at him.

“Yeah,” Soarin said, smiling at her. “I do.”

“I knew it,” Rainbow said, stepping towards him. “So… you ready to go get some lunch? I’m starving.”

“Ready when you are,” he replied, taking her hoof and following her out the door of her cloud home. “I hope you’re ready for our first date because I have lots of things planned for us to do.”

“And will I find them awesome?” she asked as they took off and flew through the air.

“Maybe,” he said, winking at her.

Rainbow could only grin in response. She inched closer to the Pegasus flying beside her and nuzzled his cheek, making him blush and nearly match the grin on her face.

”Oh Celestia,” she thought to herself as she continued to fly with the stallion of her dreams. “This is gonna be great!”

Author's Note

Hey everypony! Long time no see!

So I’m gonna be doing something a little bit different for this story: instead of being just a sweet little one-shot, this story will have two chapters!

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