Always Smiling.

The next day I woke up sick. Rather really sick. Kaleido had come to my house, and came right in.

"Hey Rainbow, what's wrong?"

"Eehhh... I'm a little sick." Seconds after, I vomited into the bucket that I was holding.

He laughed. "A little? Do you want me to stay with you the entire day?"

"No, I won't need it. I'm almost better anyways." Puked.

"Are you sure?"

I wanted him to stay the whole day with Pinkie. He made her happy. "Yes. Now, go down to Ponyville and hang out with Pinkie! She'd love a friend. And if both of us aren't there for her, she'd flip out and be sad for quite awhile."

"Well... Uhhh..." He turned pink. "I don't know Rainbow, I tend to get awfully shy around people, and she doesn't, kind of the exact opposite."

"Kaleido-" I reasoned. "I'm guessing Pinkie will be lonely without a friend to spend the day with. And since I can't be there due-" I vomited. Gross.

"You okay?" He said when I finally finished puking out my small intestine.

"Yeah. As I was saying, she'll get lonely. I'll just be really gross and... Vomitey all day. Or at least for the first half I will be, and it won't be pretty."

"Well, um... I guess. I just don't know."

"Is it because of what we talked about?"

"Well... Kind of..."

"Kind of? Spit it out, before I spit my stuff out."

"I just don't know how she'll react. When she sees just me."

Kaleido had started talking extremely quietly at this point. He seemed more timid than when I had first met him. And he was extremely timid then.

"Kaleido, what are you talking about? She's been hurt in her past, but she isn't going to let her affect her friendship with another guy!"

"Rainbow..."

"I just don't see why. I'll be fine, and she won't be very happy with either us when we see her again."

"Rainbow..."

"Besides, this will probably only last a few hours, I'm fi-"

"RAINBOW DASH!" He yelled. He was shaking. What the heck was wrong with him? This was my best guy friend, we'd been through thick and thin together, the one who was insanely strong, both physically and mentally, and here he was, shaking beyond all belief...

"Kaleido, what's wrong?"

"I don't want to be just friends with her."

"Ooooooohhhh..." Everything clicked now. "I'm sorry."

He looked at me with a confused look on his face. "Why are you saying sorry? I don't even care if she feels the same. She's funny, pretty, got an infectious laugh, always gives to everyone, extremely smart, but isn't quite perfect." He let out a deep sigh and floated down to the floor, with a big cheesy grin on his face.

"Ummmmm... Who are you and what have you done with my shy friend Kaleido?"

"I don't know." He looked right at me. "But I like it." His cheesy grin was almost too much for me.

"Well aren'tcha gonna go and spend your day with her? Or are you just gonna lay on my floor and dream about it?"

"Oh!" He got up and... Giggled? "Bye Rainbow!" He flew out of my door fast enough to almost beat my record.

"Well... That was eventful." I rolled my eyes and laid back down on my bed.

I guess it was a good thing. Kaleido was a good colt. A secret gentlecolt. He was kind to every pony he met, even if he hated her guts. He was civil as well. Who knows, maybe Pinkie would end up liking him.

Ugh. But love was such a cheesy emotion. All it ever involved was Hearts and Hooves Day and romance... Not my life. I thought Kaleido and I were actually gonna be intentionally alone, forever, just as friends.

But deep in my heart, I thought it was kind of cute. She made him ridiculously happy... And vice versa. I wonder what they would do today without me. Maybe he would pull a move on her. Now- he wouldn't. He's much to cautious. If he did anything at all, he'd start off slowly. Maybe he'd hint it to her today. Just slowly. Maybe a compilation of lots of different hints. Pinkie wasn't stupid, either. She was so much smarter than she looked.

'Rainbow! Why in the world would you keep your mind on this! It's LOVE. You don't care.' My sick brain yelled at me.

So I took my brain off of it for the rest of the day. I had to get better anyways. I spent the rest of the day vomiting, every time getting farther apart between trips to my bucket. Well, the rest of the day until about 10:45, when Kaleido tumbled through my door. To tell me how his day went.

"Oh. My. Gosh." He almost picked me up and spun me around, before he realized that might make me vomit again.

"What happened?" I was WAY too interested in this for a pony who didn't like love. It was my best friends, okay?

"Well, first, I had to explain to her why in the world you weren't there. She was kind of depressed because of it, but she had made cupcakes for the three of us, so we just ate them outside the shop. Then we went to one of the lakes, and we tried a little fishing. Mostly we just scared all of the fish by laughing so much. Oh well. Then we decided to walk around the lake and just talk. We talked for hours, until it was almost dinner time. Obviously, we were a little hungry. I took her out for dinner! I literally did it! I was really scared though... I wouldn't know how she'd take it."

"Did she take it alright?" I had to interject sometime.

"Shhh, I was just getting to that." This colt was seriously in love. "It was fun, and we just talked the entire time. Until closing time, which was about 10. Then I walked her home, and she thanked me for the wonderful day, and then..."

"Yes?" I said. He started giggling to the point of no return.

"She leaned over..."

"Yes?" I was on the edge of my seat now. (Why was I doing this? Love is so stupid.)

"And kissed me on the cheek!" He erupted into giggles.

"And THAT'S what you couldn't tell me?" I didn't think it was funny at all.

"Oh Rainbow Dash, I could kiss you right now, I don't even care that you don't care..."

I shooed him out of my house.

What had happened to him?

I had to get my best friend back.