Secret Crush

Scootaloo had hoped to see Joe in swimming trunks, or at least perhaps take his t-shirt off, but once again her wishes didn’t come true. They had parked the car at the end of the dirt trail and walked through a forested area to a more secluded lake.

Joe propped open a lawn chair and sat down, putting his cup of coffee beside him on the arm rest and reading the daily newspaper. “Hey Joe, want to come for a swim with me? I mean, well just come for a swim?” Scootaloo asked, stammering a bit after she asked if he wanted to go swimming with her. He flipped the page of the newspaper, “No thanks, you go ahead” Joe replied bluntly. Scootaloo walked up and pulled the newspaper down from in front of his face and gave him a pouty look, “Pretty please?” she asked and Joe shook his head.

Scootaloo sighed and trotted off to the lakeside, she wasn’t sure where Rainbow Dash had darted off to but she was positive that Rainbow Dash was somewhere nearby. Scootaloo flew up into the air “Hey Joe, watch this, this one is for professionals only” Scootaloo boasted. “I’m watching, I’m watching” Joe replied as he read through the news articles. He set the paper down for a moment and watched as Scootaloo dive bombed into the water and made a small splash.

She surfaced momentarily and her teeth were chattering. The water was cold due to the mild weather recently even though it was still early autumn and it still should be hot weather. “Hey… J… Joe… come in… the waters… great” Scootaloo said through chattering teeth. Joe flipped his paper up again, “No thanks” he replied and began to read through his paper. ‘What nerve, to agree to come swimming yet not even get wet… I’ll show him’ Scootaloo thought as she swam back to shore.

Taking back a mouthful of water, holding it in her mouth as she crept up to Joe, who paid her no mind and continued to read his paper. She snuck up in front of him and pulled down his paper, “Hey kid what the hell…” Joe began but Scootaloo sprayed the water into his face. He just sat there, expressionless and gave her an annoyed look. “Oh Joe I’m so sorry” Scootaloo apologized quickly, realizing that Joe didn’t really find it all that humoress. Joe got a terribly mischievous grin on his face and lept up, laughing in a friendly voice her began to chase her back to the lakeside “Yah, you’re right you’ll be sorry, once I get my hands on you” Joe laughed. Scootaloo let out a playful scream as Joe gently grabbed her and tackled her lightly into the water.

As Scootaloo surfaced Joe splashed water at her, “Haha, take that” Joe laughed. “Oh yeah… take this” Scootaloo laughed and using her wings she splashed water back at Joe. He laughed and one again tackled her to the ground gently, laughing all the while. Now on top of her Joe held her down gently as he tried to reach for something to splash in her face but couldn’t reach the water. Scootaloo looked up to Joe and her heart began to beat rapidly. Scootaloo wrapped her forelegs around Joe’s neck and Joe gave her a flirty look as she fluttered her eyes at him. “Uh… Scootaloo… you’re giving me that weird look again” Joe informed her but she already knew that. She began to lean upward to kiss Joe and a small wave came up to shore.

Scootaloo began to close her eyes as she went to kiss Joe but suddenly a large splash of water filled her face. “Haha, got yah” Joe laughed and rolled off her body and began to prance around like a 4 year old that had just pulled of the best of pranks. Scootaloo gasped as she realized what he had just done. “Oh you’re on” Scootaloo laughed, forgetting her romantic thoughts and thinking only of ways that she could get Joe back for what he just did.

For the next half hour they ran around and played together like kids at the beach. Finally Joe settled down and laid down on the lakeside, letting the water wash up onto his body. Scootaloo laid down beside him and let out a sigh of relaxation as the duo laid there and watched as the sun began its afternoon routine where it would get that perfect orange haze. “Beautiful isn’t it?” Joe asked and Scootaloo looked to him contently then back to the sunset, “Yeah… really beautiful” Scootaloo whispered. Scootaloo’s thoughts became romantic again, “Joe… I want to tell you something really important” Scootaloo said and Joe looked over to her.

“Yeah go ahead, I’m all ears” Joe replied. “Joe… I’ve only known you for a short while, and I know we only went out to lunch once but” Scootaloo began but suddenly Joe shot up. “Shit” he swore, Scootaloo lost the whole romantic esteem boost. “What… what’s wrong?” Scootaloo asked and Joe raced back to his lawn chair and picked up his cup of coffee and took a sip. “Shit, it’s cold” he muttered, sighing to himself as he flopped down in his lawn chair and took another sip of the cold coffee.

Scootaloo tried to find that feeling of personal esteem that she had during the sunset but couldn’t and she had lost her courage to ask Joe to be her coltfriend, or technically he’d be like a human friend or something, ‘What do they call it back in his world man-friend?’ Scootaloo thought to herself and simply trotted up beside Joe and laid down beside him. “Oh hey… sorry for cutting you off back there. What were you saying?” Joe asked and Scootaloo made up an elaborate excuse. “Oh well I was just wondering if you ever wanted to hang out with me, you know like do things that friends do together” Scootaloo replied. “Well why not?” Joe laughed and Scootaloo’s heart skipped, ‘He just agreed that easily, maybe he is interested in me’ Scootaloo thought to herself.

“Really?” Scootaloo asked, Joe shrugged “Well sure, I mean isn’t that what we’re doing right now? Just chillin like villains” Joe laughed. Scootaloo sighed in relief, at least he hadn’t thought she was strange due to her sudden advances back on the lakeside. “Well I’m going for another swim… wanna come with?” Scootaloo asked and Joe shook his head. “Nah, gotta finish my coffee before it becomes way to cold” Joe replied as he sipped his coffee.

Scootaloo nodded and trotted back to the lake. She began to swim casually but suddenly Rainbow Dash yelled out to her. “Hey Scootaloo… this one is for the real professionals” Rainbow Dash called out and darted down at an incredibly high speed. Joe tilted the paper forward so he could watch as Rainbow Dash performed her iconic sonic rainboom. Joe chuckled and lifted the newspaper back up and began to read it again.

Rainbow Dash splashed into the water with so much might that it was like a huge tidal wave. Joe heard the water coming at him and tilted his newspaper back down, only to see the humongous tidal wave coming right for him, his eyes grew wide and he gulped as he hid his face behind the newspaper like it would shield his body.

The tidal wave engulfed him and the water flooded through the forest and brought Joe along with it. Eventually the water evened out and Joe laid on the ground, absolutely soaked, his newspaper was ruined and his coffee was gone, along with his jelly doughnut. He stood up and grabbed his lawn chair and spat out some water in his mouth. He gave a disgruntled look as he could her Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash laughing, he sighed in exhaustion “I think that’s enough fun… for one day”