My Point Of View

I set down my coffee and looked out the window, idly listening to the birds as one flew by. Absentmindedly, I identified it as a cardinal. I blame Fluttershy for me knowing that. She’s actually pretty cool once she gets out of her shell and she taught me a few things about birds. I’ve always liked birds. We can both fly and uh, that’s about it I guess. I don’t eat worms because gross.

I always did like watching the sun rise. I’m always up early like this. I will admit, the Wonderbolt Academy is to blame for that. Soarin is quite fond of making everypony wake up at the crack of dawn and do exercises. Stretches first which I excel at. I’m the most flexible of the Bolts and most ponies. And then comes the flying exercises till eight am for breakfast. Everypony who says Spitfire runs a tight ship hasn’t seen Soarin in a bad mood like he’s been recently.

Anyway, back to the flexibility. Blossomforth is the only pony I know who can rival me in flexibility and she can get into some pretty crazy positions. I still remember tornado duty. That mare is practically part pretzel.

“Morning,” I said and turned to look at Rumble who had fallen asleep on our couch. I had faintly heard him moving around. “Thunderlane does know you’re here, correct?”

“Morning. How are you Cloudy?” Rumble asked and rubbed his eyes as he sat up with a messier mane than usual. I should let Flitter go crazy on his mane again. That was entertaining watching the colt try to flee by running in circles around the room with Flitter flying after him with a scowl as I laughed on the floor. “Yes he does.”

“Good except waking up to a snoring colt on my couch when I wanted to watch TV. You do know the spare room is always available to you, right?” I faced him as he nodded briefly and yawned. “Where is Thunderlane anyway?”

“He had to pull the night shift on the weather team for Rainbow. He talked to Flitter about it yesterday afternoon and asked if he could drop me off.”

Oh. I could see that. Rainbow didn’t really have much of set schedule when it came to work. I had pretty much passed out pretty fast after I came back from Pinkie’s party.

“There’s donuts and we got orange juice along with chocolate milk in the fridge. You can have whatever you want,” I gestured with a hoof as I set my coffee cup down.

I almost called for Flitter to get up before remembering she had long since left for work before I even got up. I had glanced in her room as I trotted to the shower, idly noting her room was empty with her sheets all tangled up. For a pony who cared about her appearance and her bow collection, she surprisingly didn’t give a damn about her room or sheets.

I pushed the bathroom door open and stepped inside, shutting it behind and locked it as the sounds of Power Ponies worked it’s way upstairs and I snorted.

That kid was obsessed with that show. He pretends I don’t notice, but he is definitely in love with the angry pony. I forgot her name, Saddle something. I turned the water on with a wing and closed my eyes contently as the warm water poured out over me and I fumbled for my shampoo and mane conditioner.

“Thank fuck for warm water,” I sighed happily and slid down in the tub, closing my eyes.

I stood on the edge of my cloud, watching my sister directing her weather teams with a proud grin.

“Those go over there near Sparkle Shower,” Flitter pointed at the tan pegasus stallion. “And be careful, those are full of rain. We don’t want to kick off the storm too early.”

“Yes ma’am,” Cloudcover gave a lazy salute and the mare fell backwards off a cloud before spinning around and spreading her wings to reach the clouds below her.

“Show off,” Flitter muttered with an eye roll.

“Having fun yet?” I asked with a smirk and her head snapped up with narrowed eyes. “Or not?”

“More like not. This job is way harder than I thought. Half my team called in sick,” Flitter moaned and flopped into my cloud on her back, sinking a few inches into the fluffy surface. “The other half quit to be Wonderbolts. Thank fuck I have Derpy. She’s smarter than most ponies give her credit for.”

I nodded along. I remembered going to flight school with Derpy. She mainly helped me and Flitter out with our school work. Us, Dash, Fluttershy and Cloudkicker were her only real friends.

Derpy honestly didn’t deserve all the mean comments said behind her back. At least Berry Punch aggressively defended my mail mare friend. Berry Punch honestly scared the piss outta me.

Berry Punch is from a rough area of Manehatten and she isn’t afraid of getting physical apparently. I’ve more than once heard stories from Derpy about Berry’s teenage years in Manehatten and my Celestia, she got into some shit growing up. Being in a gang like she was would do that, I imagined.

“Some days I think you’d have been a better weather manager than me,” my twin broke me out of my musing. “I don’t have the charisma Rainbow Dash does or your leadership abilities.”

“You’re actually better than me,”I rested a hoof on her shoulder.

“No, I’m not. Ponies always noticed you more than me growing up. You just have a presence that I don’t have, Cloudy,” Flitter rolled onto her stomach and her ears flattened against her skull. “At least Sunshower is a good assistant manager. I need a drink.”

“Nah, what you need is to come home,” i lifted her head with a hoof. “Me and you are gonna talk. You are a damn good pony, a damn good weathermare. Even better than myself, honestly. You have a fine attention to detail, are gorgeous as all hell and kind hearted. Do you know how many heads you turn when you go into town?”

Flitter was pretty damn athletic looking. I knew for a fact a certain dragon was head over hooves for her. How Flitter didn’t know was beyond me. Spike was always with her now. I naturally interrogated him, of course. Gotta make sure my sister gets the best partner, after all.

Anypony interested in hooks up only with her gets an immediate right hoof to the face. And I hit hard, believe me. Just ask Rapidfire after he tried hitting on me at the Academy.

Granted, that did get me in Captain Spitfire’s office, but worth it. I suppose I was lucky Blaze and Soarin were there to break it up.

“Now boss lady,” I smirked at my sister. “What do you need done? You order it, I’ll do it.”

“Wow. I uh don’t know? Maybe push clouds? Morning Glory could use some help. It’s his third day,” Flitter and I glanced at the gold stallion near us. He could definitely use some pointers on cloud pushing.

“Yeah, I’ll help him out and make sure he’s okay,” I agreed readily and fluttered my wings. He kinda reminded me of that Sunset Shimmer mare I met the other night.

Oddly enough, I kinda hope I see her again. I should talk to Dash about her later.