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Of Parties and Rainbows

by Donny's Boy

Chapter 13: More Than Cupcakes

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"More Than Cupcakes: A Love Story in Five Drabbles"

Synopsis: Snippets of a lifetime.


Act I: Unquestioned

No one questions it. No one questions just why it is, when they need someone to wrangle Pinkie Pie, they all immediately expect Rainbow Dash to be the pony to do it. No one questions just why Pinkie will shut up when Rainbow yells her name in that particular tone of voice, when the excitable pink mare won't for anypony else. No one questions why Rainbow Dash seems able to tolerate Pinkie Pie's Pinkieness more than any other pony in town.

No one really questions it, as it all seems as right and as natural as the sun rising in the east - and Pinkie and Dash probably question it least of all.

Act II: Lies of Omission

"Somepony tell the truth!" Applejack's voice rings out, loud and strong, through the town square. Dead silence follows. "Somepony! Anypony!"

I love her. The words pop into her mind almost immediately, and she has to bite down to keep them from tripping their way out of her mouth.

"Yesterday I told Mrs. Cake that I ate two corn cakes," is what she says instead. "But I really ate three."

It frightens her, this love she feels. And it frightens her that she doesn't quite understand just why it scares her so.

"Okay, six!" She can feel sweat trickle down her face. "I ate six corn cakes!"

Because she is stupidly, hopelessly, recklessly in love with Rainbow Dash.

"Make it stop! Oh, make it stop!"

Act III: Inevitable

It was inevitable, really. Inevitable that the Element of Laughter wouldn't be able to take very much seriously, not even a romantic relationship. And just as inevitable that the Element of Loyalty couldn't help but take a romantic relationship all too seriously.

It was inevitable, but still, Twilight hadn't seen it coming. She's not sure what she would have done differently, even if she had, though. Because that was the thing about inevitability - there wasn't anything you could do to stop it. That's what made it inevitable.

She should have stopped it anyway.

Act IV: More Than Cupcakes

It was forever remembered as the night that Ponyville exploded. After endless days of gloomily overcast weather came a night that was as clear as cold, clean spring water. And on that night, just as the sleepy town began to settle down for the evening, the entire heavens erupted into a thousand sparkling colors.

"Fireworks," said somepony in an awed tone, as the villagers gathered in the square to watch the unexpected show.

Slowly but surely, the fireworks spelled out letters, then whole words, as they burst in the air:

Rainbow Dash
I'm so sorry
I love you
I love you more than cupcakes

Down below, one of the pegasi in the assembled crowd began to shake her head at the sight. But there were tears in her eyes and a tiny smile on her lips.

Act V: Ebb and Flow

They ebb and flow like the tides, sometimes spending days on end solely in one another's company, sometimes going for nearly a week without seeing each other at all. But just as water always flows towards the sea, they always come back to one another, drawn together by forces neither of them fully comprehend.

Laughter and Loyalty. It doesn't make sense. They don't need one another in the way that Honesty needs Kindness to temper its blunt edges, or how Magic needs Generosity to prevent it from giving in to dark temptations. They don't make any sense at all, really.

So they've had to create their own kind of sense - and while nopony else seems to understand, somehow it works for them. It's worked for decades now, and they have no reason to think it won't work forever.

"Foreveeeeeeeeer!"

"You are so random."


Author's Notes: If you do a word count for these, you'll see that they're not drabbles in the technical sense of the term. But they're the closest I've ever gotten to writing a proper drabble, so what the hey, I'm calling 'em drabbles.

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