When we arrived at the house, I wasn't in a very good mood. Dash seemed to notice when we walked in because she looked concerned.

"Y'know, you we don't have to do anything tonight if you don't feel like it." She said.

"No, it's fine, Dash." I said, lying a bit. I really didn't feel like going anywhere, but I wanted to spend time with Dash somewhere other than home.

Dash gave me a worried look. "Well, do you want me to help you clean up?"

I forced a halfhearted smile. "No, I'm good. You just go get ready and brush your mane or whatever it is you girls do." I said in a joking manner.

"Alright." Dash said, happy to see me smiling. She walked into her room while I headed for the bathroom.

I walked in and looked in the mirror. I looked like I just got beaten by the mafia. The bandages completely covered the top part of my snout and there was dried blood all over my nose. I looked down to the sink and turned the faucet. I dipped my hooves in the flowing water and splashed it on my face. The blood was still glued to my face. I reached over and fumbled for a roll of toilet paper. I had been getting better at grabbing things with hooves, but it was still nearly impossible. I finally managed to get the roll on the counter, and it took me a minute or two just to get a couple squares of toilet paper. When I finally had it in my hooves, I wiped one part of my face, but by then the toilet paper had fallen from the grasp of my hooves. I sighed in exasperation and I heard a giggle from behind me. I turned around to see Dash smiling in the doorway.

"Are you sure you don't need help?" She asked.

"Maybe a little." I said.

Dash walked over to me and grabbed the squares of paper I dropped and started wiping off my nose. She stuck her tongue out of the corner of her mouth as she tried her best to get all the blood, making the most adorable face of all time. She stopped and looked over my face.

"There we go! Back to your normal cute self." She said.

That made me smile, causing a dull throb of pain in my snout.

"Oh, does it still hurt?" Dash asked.

"Kinda." I said.

She leaned in and gave the top of my snout a kiss. "How about now?"

My face got hot. "A little better." I said. "Those pain pills would help too."

"Oh yeah, I'll go get them for you." She said, and walked out of the bathroom.

Dash is being really lovey tonight. We've only been dating for two days, I wonder if this is normal. Not that I care though. I like all of this attention.

Dash came back with two pills and a glass of water.

"Here ya go." I took the pills in my mouth and grabbed the glass of water to take them. Once I swallowed them, I felt the pain in my snout gradually stop a few moments later.

"So, what are we doing that you're so excited for?" I asked.

"Well, I thought we could go somewhere for dinner with the money that we were gonna get from clearing the sky, but-"

"I got kicked in the face."

"Yeah. So I figured we could just go for a short flight around Ponyville together and call it a night."

"Sounds fun." I said.

"Alright then." Dash said. "Let's go."

We walked to the door and took of into the light golden evening sky. I couldn't believe it was already evening. We must have spent longer on the sky than I thought. I flew next to Dash as she admired the sunset.

"I swear, the sunset in Ponyville is better than anywhere else in Equestria." She said. "Don't you think?"

"Yep." I said. "It's pretty amazing."

Dash looked over to me. "Are you sure you don't want to just go back home? You looked a little tired."

"No, I'm fine. It's probably just the pills or something." I yawned. I was beginning to get really tired. I felt as exhausted as if I had ran a marathon.

Dash looked concerned. "Are you sure? I don't want you falling asleep in midair."

"I'm okay, really Dash. I want to spend time with you so I will." I said as I swayed a bit. The doctor didn't tell me these pills had a slight side effect of absolute exhaustion. My eyelids grew heavy.

"Well you know, we could always go back to the house and-" I didn't hear the end of her sentence before I passed out.

SPLASH

I quickly awoke in ice cold water. I swam to the surface and caught my breath. I looked around and realized I was in the same lake that I almost died in. That's twice now. I looked up and saw Rainbow Dash grinning from ear to ear.

"Still think you're okay?" She yelled down to me.

"Maybe we should go home." I said. I flew out of the lake and shook off the water. Dash flew down to me and giggled.

"Come on, let's go."

Before we took off, I could've swore I heard distant yelling of a New Jersey accented voice followed by a flurry of curse words, but I dismissed it as my imagination. Who would be out and yelling on such a nice evening?