The sound of my wings and the wind in my face helped me stop thinking for a while as i continued accelerating down the road, doing occasional ollies and grinds along rooftops and benches to avoid the ponies, fruit stands and, well, anything getting in my way. I once overheared Rainbow dash saying that when she flies fast enough, it helps her forget of the problems around her, so i figured it isn't too different from going really fast on my scooter.

Faster and faster i figuratively flew as i weaved my scooter through the morning rush of all the ponies trying to get here and there, saying "hello!" Or "good morning". Though, since it was Monday, the only ones actually having a chirpy attitude in their voice was that grey mailmare that i never learned the name of (RD calles her Derpy, but i doubt that's her real name) and Pinkie pie, who i could see running around town singing good morning to everypony and what seemed to be teleporting from building to box to my wagon.

"HI SCOOTALOO!!!" She yelled over my wings' noise. "You going over to sugarcube corner to get Applebloom and Sweetiebelle, right?"

"Yeah, we were gonna grab some muffins for the day before we go to school," i said, as if teleporting ponies were a natural thing in ponyville, which it is,"What kinds do you have today?"

Pinkie thought for a moment before answering "Well, we have blue berry, regular and strawberry as usual, but we have a super special treat we made last night that looks super duper yummylicious!!!" She yelled, raising her hooves into the air, nearly falling out of the wagon,"the cakes and i were making cupcakes, but silly little Pound Cake pounded the tray of mix into a pan i left on the stove and, oh we're here! Come on, I'll show you what lil poundy made!"

Screeching to a halt in front of the bakery, Pinkie decided to hop out in a somersault, using the scooter's inertia to fly straight through the swinging doors of the giant cookie house that strangely looked like a pirate ship if you stared at it the right way.

Hopping off my scooter, i parked it next to the window and took my helmet off, shaking my head side to side to flip my mane back to normal. As i did that i heared a small sigh from inside, a distant clatter of pots and pans and what sounded like Sweetiebelle giggling at whoever made the banging noise, though the first noise caught my ear the most since it was right in the window. Looking up,i noticed Applebloom leaning on the violet window seal, watching me with half closed eyes. When she realized i was looking at her, she grabbed some more poise and hopped out of the window, landing safely next to me.

"Oh hi Scootaloo!" Sweetiebelle called as she slid through the door, showing that the gang's all here,"poundcake made the best tasting... Thing ever! Ms cake already made five more in just three minutes!" She exclaimed, hopping in circles around me while Applebloom, who seemed to be waiting for me to follow her in.

"Yeah, Pinkie told me before i got here, but she never really finished, what is it excactly?"

"I'm not quite sure, you would have to taste it to understand." She explained "Pinkie calls it a flatjack for some reason"

"Yeah ok" i mumbled, my belly rumbling. I completly forgot to eat the food mom made, but these flat jacks sounded good. Walking in with Applebloom and Sweetiebelle to my sides, we all hungrily trotted to the nearest table, watching as pony after pony walked to the cash register, asked for something, then got their order in a flash. A few seconds of waiting and Sweetiebelle broke the silence.

"So, how are we going to get our cutie marks today" she asked, though i was too busy trying to picture what a flatjack could be and Applebloom was concentrating on something directly behind me.

"Oh, we'll uh..." Applebloom mumbled, trying to think of an answer,"well, Hearts and Hooves Day is in two days, so we could do somethin related to that" She focused her eyes on me and asked "anythin ya wanna do then?" In her southern accent that was too calm for Applebloom.

"The last time we tried that, we had to dig a 8 foot hole and our teacher almost married your brother!" I reminded them, using hoof movements to resemble a hole and a "tough love" potion.

"Well, this time we could do something less dangerous, like making our treehouse into a card making place or something like that" Sweetiebelle offered

"Or we could try datin?" Applebloom murmured, making both of us look at her. When she noticed that, she blushed and revised her sentence "ah mean we could get a cutie mark at being good at dates."

"Well then, who here has experience in dating somepony, cause i don't" i said bluntly

"Me neither" Applebloom said,"ah don't like fancy dates much"

"Oh, well i have." Sweetiebelle chimed.

"Really?!" Me and Applebloom said in unison.

"Yeah, well, it wasnt a real one, but Rarity incisted on me learning, so she took me out and demonstrated the steps to a proper date. She said something like 'The best way to understand it is to experience it.'"

Applebloom thought for a moment before responding,"So ya saying scoot and ah have to date somepony to get experience in it to help others?"

"Pretty much, though i don't know any colts that are avalible for you two, sorry."

Applebloom seemed as content with that as i was, though before i could tell Sweetiebelle i wasn't into colts, Pinkie Pie materialized next to us with a huge grin on her face "HI GIRLS!!! Sorry to keep you waiting, Ditzy asked for 20 muffins again and when she wants muffins, she wants MUFFINS! Anyway, your flatjacks are ready, here you go!" She chirped exstaticly, revealing three plates with what seemed to be unfrosted cupcakes that got stampeded by elephants.

"Oh thanks, I'm starving!" I said, biting a chunk out of the side. It was crunchier than a cupcake, but chewier than a muffin. An interesting taste of cupcake in the inside made me realize it was just fried cupcake mix flattened, but that made it all the better. Cupcakes for breakfast? That was a dream come true. After savoring the taste for a bit longer, i noticed a slight predicament,"it tastes like a fried cupcake, but there isn't any icing on it."

"You can't have icing in the morning silly filly!" Pinkie explained as she watched us eat, "that will get you a tummy ache before lunchtime, and tummy aches never feel too good! Like this one time, poor Spikey wikey decided to eat abunch of strawberry ice cream while twilight tried to stop the fake apacolypes, and he got a huge tummy ache convinently at the same time as Twilight stopped the impending disaster! I went along with them because it looked like alot of fun sneaking into canterlot and since when was the last time you have seen a dragon wear latex!? I mean, it looked hot on twi as well but spike was just the CUTEST thing ever and-"

"Okay, okay, no icing in the morning," she was obviosly getting off topic,"but is there anything else that's sweet that you can put on breakfast food?"

"Well, i still have some maple syrup from applejack's farm, ima go get some, be right back!" To that she sped off, though there was a small line at the register so she hopped to the morning costumers first.

"Sthees 'r stha brs..." Apple bloom tried to say, though her mouth was too full to speak so she attempted swallowing down the flatjacks, failing terribly for a while.

"We can plan the rest of the H&H day cutie mark plan at recess today, for now we need to test this maple syrup and flatjack combo, it sounds delicious!" I yelled.

"Speaking of recess, how much longer before we have to head to school?" Sweetiebelle asked

Checking the clock above Pinkie, i was relived to see that we still had some time, "We have about 20 minutes left, we got here early! Though, so did everypony else."

We spent a few minutes watching as pony after pony came and went, every once in a while i'd see a familiar face. Vinyl and octavia came a few minutes after that doctor stallion came, again asking if they saw a blue box lying around. Poor fella lost some big ponybox thing a week ago, hope he finds it sometime.

Aside from them, a few interesting faces came by as well, such as soarin the wonderbolt (gotta tell rainbowdash later!) and a flock of bluejays and a bit of yellow under them, prabobly just RD's old friend fluttershy.

"Well, I'm bored! As long as we have to wait, we might as well plan some of the dating thing now. So me and Applebloom just have to date somepony?" I asked Sweetiebelle as she swallowed another bite.

"Well, would you want to take advice from a pony that doesn't know what they are talking about?" She implied

"True, true"

"Right, so we just need to find you two dates! You girls have any ideas?" She asked, slightly more chirpy than before.

"Uh" Applebloom said, now without being stuffed besides a little bit of flatjack on her muzzle, "remember when ya had said ya had a fake date with Rarity ta learn?"

"Yeah, it was a bit odd but she's my sister and she INCISTED on guiding me properly since I'm 'growing to be a fine, young woman'" she said, trying to impersonate Rarity's accent, causing us all to laugh.

"Well anyway," AB continued, "Why don't we just go together?" She implied, blushing and looking at me with either happy or longing eyes, though I'm not good with reading that.

Why is she blushing to the thought of a fake date?, I thought to myself Is she wanting me to want to go as well, i mean, i have no problem with fake dating Applebloom, but i doubt we will get a cutie mark for that.

Wait, she blushes while around me and doesnt mind dating me... If I'm not wrong, that kinda sounds like she-

"HEY! I'm back with the syrup!" Pinkie shouted, demonstrating a glass jug holding a deep brown liquid.

-Aaaannndddd there goes my train of thought, great.

Pinkie began to pour the dark gold sweets over my flatjacks, giving them a new, intensely delicious scent to my face. From the looks of the others (including Pinkie), the smell hit them just as strongly. Needless to say, i could not scarf down the flatjacks fast enough. Sweetiebelle and Applebloom seemed to of had the same problem. Applebloom dug in with hoof and face and Sweetiebelle licked her plate, consequencely covering all four of us in sticky maple syrup.

"Well that was fun!" Pinkie concluded, shaking her mane to splatter all of us in syrup.

"You weren't eating any, how did you get sticky?" I asked while she was using her sticky hooves to walk on the wall.

"Well, you girls were having so much fun with getting that syrup on you that i dumped the rest on my head, and now look at us!" With that, she grabbed me and Applebloom by both of her hooves and threw us in the air.

For a pony that only eats candy, she was fairly strong, tossing us all the way up to the roof. Applebloom was somehow able to accidentally kick my tail, instantly sticking us together. I collided with the roof back first thankfully, though Applebloom swung onto me and got stuck on my arm.

As for Sweetiebelle, she got stuck in Pinkie's cotton candy tail at one point and they began trying to untangle each other. Looking next to me, Applebloom had wrapped her arm across my shoulder and laughed as she pushed both of us around the roof, so i decided to fight back, getting red and purple mane in both of our faces.

Rolling around enough, the stickiness gave way to our weight and we free fell into a table, smashing it to bits. After about three more minutes of laughing and playing around, the two of us were worn out and covered in syrup, splintered wood and bruises from the fall.

Sweetiebelle amazingly escaped pinkies forest tail and had stepped back to take a break from her escape trick. AB and i were still stuck together, though we somehow ended up stuck at the chest, faces inches from eachother, giving me a good look of her eyes. They were a bright shade of orange-red, shifting between the two colors in harmony. Though she was covered in the debris of an intense sticky war, those beautiful orbs shown in so much happines, i could still hear her giggling, sending warm breath to my face.

After staring into each other's eyes for just a bit longer, i blushed, realizing it might be akward for us to be stuck like that, and tried pulling away, though was quickly reminded we were still stuck together. Pinkie noticed the problem and laughed, picking us onto her back and walking us outside, followed by Sweetiebelle.

"Now you three wait right there and ill get us all nice and shiny!" She said as she set us down in the grass running off to get something to wash us off.

"We need to get to school as soon as we get this stuff off", Sweetiebelle said, though i wasn't really paying attention again. Looking into Applebloom's eyes, i decided that fake dating her for a day would be easy to accept. Not because of how she looked though, it just seemed fun to hang out with her alone for once.

Snapping out of the staring contest we were having, i tried again to push us apart, but the stupid syrup just stuck us closer together. After a while i noticed Applebloom blushing again and looking at me funny.

"What?" I asked

She blinked a bit then looked away,"nothin, you just got some flatjack on your cheek."

"Really? Where?"

"Well, don't move, ah'll get it". Leaning a bit to the side, she licked my cheek softly and quickly then pulled back, smiling happily.

Out of instinct i pulled back a bit, my face hot, "You could have warned me you were gonna do that!" I grumbled as if i were annoyed, though in the back of my mind i wished the crumb was bigger.

"Well it's not like ah can just wipe it off with my hoof!" She yelled, making us look at our hooves that were attached to eachother from our previous struggle to escape.

Out of the corner of my eye, i could see Sweetiebelle try to wipe some of the syrup from her face, but now had her hooves stuck to her head. "Where's Pinkie with the cleanup stuff?"

"Well it seemed you girls got in a sticky situation!" An all too familiar and annoying voice said from behind me.

"What do you want?" I asked the voice that sounded too much like diamond tiara for it not to be. Looking around, fighting the syrup stuck to my neck, my suspicions turned out to be right.

"Oh, just walking to school when i noticed you three losers, so i figured i had some time to say hello. I was also wondering what you were doing for hearts and hooves day... Heh, you girls could find a date as easily as a Cutiemark!" To that she laughed, though it also reminded me of a way to get the last laugh.

"Well, Applebloom and I have dates, were both going out on hearts and hooves day to... somewhere" we didn't yet plan a place or a time, but i figured we'd get to that at recess.

"Oh really, both of you are going out with someone at the excact same time and place?" She smiled and looked evilly at me. "Well i call your bluff, who would even date you two anyway?"

You couldn't guess it's the pony I'm pasted to?

"I'll give you a hint: the pony has a country accent and red eyes." I said, making it as obvious as possible by looking at the answer with as friendly as a look as i could make, which wasnt too hard.

She thought for a moment before answering "Big Macintosh?"

Sweet Celestia she's an idiot.

"Big Mac has green eyes! She means me!" Applebloom said, looking straight into my eyes to make it seem she was trying to see my brain. "Ya do mean me, right?"

Before i could respond, there was a blast of water as strong as a waterfall that had decided to change to attack mode. The aquarush left me sliding down into diamond tiara and Applebloom off into the sugarcube corner stairs. Sweetiebelle swiftly and elegantly faceplanted into a tree.

After a few seconds of spinning, screaming and pushing (or hitting, matters on who's reading) diamond tiara as far away as possible, i was able to regain my balance and rise, drenched but free of the syrup previously restricting my movements, which made me a bit happier.

Diamond tiara wasnt so happy. She stood with a face of pure hate and slimy makeup washing down her face, huffing and puffing as the big bad wolf should. "What was that?! Who ruined my makeup just before school?"

The questioned was answered by the sight of pink pony equipped with a canon that was dripping with water. "Sorry, but there was too much shipping going on".

"Shipping?", I asked,"We aren't on a boat, so what does that mean?!" At that moment a bell rang at the edge of ponyville, a fairly loud bell considering we were in the middle of town. I was starting to get tired of having life interrupt my questions.

"Oh no, We're gonna be late for class!" Sweetiebelle yelled, but didn't get a lot of moving herself considering her horn had stuck in the tree on impact.

As me and Applebloom started to tug our friend out of the tree, diamond tiara trotted away, not wanting to confront Pinkie on the matter of time and that Pinkie was refilling the canon in some new materials. Sweetiebelle's head popped out of the oak, sending my companions down the hillside, but I wasn't really paying attention, watching Pinkie shove random cleaning stuff into the cannon. The multi-use weapon was now full of mops, brooms, Colty Cleans spray and tons of assorted soaps were tossed in and started to bubble like a gypsy's brew.

"Uh, Pinkie? What are you doing?"

"Need to clean up the store somehow, right?! I could add more brooms, but last time i tried that a cupcake was speared to the wall, though it was a really yummy in your tummy cupcake still!"

"Is shooting a cannon indoors a good idea?" I asked, but never got my answer AGAIN due to the ring of the bell. "Oh no, hurry up Applebloom!"

"Comming!" She shouted, her and Sweetiebelle running to the scooter's wagon.

"Sorry about the mess, Pinkie." Sweetiebelle said as they hopped into the blue wagon.

"It's alright!" Pinkie chirpped,"i was the one who gave you girls the syrup to start with, have fun at school, and don't forget to come back for more flatjacks later, oky doky?!"

We all said our farewells and i accelerated us towards the schoolhouse, sure to be late