"Matt, wake up." A small whisper enters my dream. I ignore it, trying to re-enter the realm of sleep. "C'mon, get up!"

"What?" I mumble as I slowly open my eyes. I look to my left through my blurry vision to see Emily in her pink pajamas bouncing on my bed. I look up to see Rainbow's face directly in mine, still snoring up a storm. I quickly press up against her lips to wake her up. Normally I would find some prankish type of way to stir her from her rest, but its Christmas, so what the heck. I don't even care that Emily is watching.

"Is this my gift?" Rainbow says with a yawn as she stretches her wings out to the side.

"Not even close." I say as I pull her back in for another one.

"Ew, lovey stuff." Emily mumbles with a giggle.

"C'mere you little..." I laugh as I pull her over to us. Rainbow wrestles with her on the bed as I stand up and stretch. I quickly change shirts and brush the hair out of my face. I should probably get it cut soon, my bangs are starting to reach down to my eyebrows. I clap my hands before speaking again.

"So, who wants to open presents?" I say with a smile on my face. I didn't think it would happen after Rainbow vanished, but here we are, Christmas day, together as a family. Then it hits me. Do I consider Rainbow to be part of my family? She certainly isn't related by blood, and we aren't related by law either. We're so close though, that if we weren't head over heels for each other, I'd probably consider her to be something like a sister.

"I do!" Emily quickly opens my door and runs down the stairs while giggling Rainbow laughs and trails behind her just a few seconds later. I pull out the gift from under my bed and hide it in a bag from my closet. I got the rest of my family gifts too of course, but they didn't even compare to what I got for Rainbow. I make my way down stairs where the rest of my family is waiting in the living room with Christmas music slowly playing in the background. I see Rainbow clearly for the first time now that my vision has cleared up.

"Holy... I think something is eating Rainbow's face." I say with a smirk as I sit on the floors next to the tree. Everyone else is sitting on the couch except for Emily who is next to me.

"What? What does that mean?" Rainbow quickly starts batting a hoof around her face.

"I mean your horrible bedhead. It looks like the janitor at the crayola factory dropped his mop into a color mixer. You need to brush that like, really badly."

"Matt, you should know not do make fun of a lady's hair!" My mom says as she fixes her own hair.

"Your mother is right Matthew. You have to wait until they aren't around, then you talk about it!" My father laughs as he finishes sipping his coffee. Both of us burst out into laughter, but the three girls are less than amused at our immature behavior. Oh course, all of that stops when I catch a pillow with my face.

"Haha VERY funny." Rainbow says as she rolls her eyes. "Can we get on with it? I'm too excited!"

"Yeah yeah, lets get to it guys." I say as I pick up the first present. "To Emily, from Mom and Dad." I say as I read the tag. The box feels rather light to me. I toss it over to Emily, who in turn shreds the wrapping paper open. She gasps in excitement when she pulls out what is inside.

"I love it! I love it, I love it, I love it!" She yells as she clutches the shirt to her chest. She pulls it away and unfolds it for all of us to see. On the front is a picture of a very familiar blue pegasus with a rainbow trail behind her, flying through the air.

"No! That'll only boost her ego more!" I say with a laugh as I cover Rainbow's eyes with a hand.

"What? Are you kidding? That's the best thing ever! Who wouldn't want one of those!?" Rainbow says as she breaks free. Ah, so close.

"And there's the ego... Anyway, next gift." I grab a box and toss it to Rainbow. It was labeled that it was from everyone in the room, except for me! Way to go guys, leave me out of it why don't ya? Make me look like the bad guy.

"I wonder what it is." Rainbow squeals as she rattles the box around. I have to help her open it since its taped shut. I grab the pocket knife that I had left out a couple of days ago off of a stand and cut the box open. Inside is a poster of the Wonderbolts that looked to be pretty huge. Where the fuck did they find something like that? Rainbow lets out a cry of joy before pushing the poster over to me.

"Matt, PLEASE let me put this up in your room!" She says with the biggest smile ever plastered on her face. I move the hair out of her eyes and laugh at how big they are.

"Alright, alright! Chill out hyperactive pony."

We go through the rest of our gifts until only two remain, and both have Rainbow's name on them. The only thing is, one says "From" and the other says "To".

"You... got me something Rainbow?" I ask as I pick up the small bag that had my name on it.

"Well yeah, I couldn't just get you nothing."

I open the bag and gasp lightly as I pull out the contents. I hold up a framed photo of the two of us on the beach during a sunset. Its a top down selfie, but it really captures the moment. Its been one of my favorite pictures since I took it. When and how did she get it framed though. On the back is a message written in pen.

"I love you until the end of time. -Rainbow Dash." I read out loud as my eyes start to water up slightly. Its such a simple gift, but I couldn't have asked for anything better. I quickly pull Rainbow into an embrace as I hear a camera click. Ugh, I guess moms will be moms.

"Okay, I got you something too." I say as I pull out the bad that was labeled for her. She grabs it slowly, and squeals before she even looks inside it. She pulls out its contents, but just stares at it with a confused expression.

"Um, what is it? Perfume?" Emily asks as she eyes it curiously as well. In Rainbow's hoof a bottle with a light blue liquid in it.

"Actually, its for me." I say as I take it back from Rainbow.

"Wait, what!?" She asks, even more confused.

"You'll see what I mean in a little bit. First help me clean up all this wrapping paper.

"Okay, so what the buck did you mean that it was for you?" Rainbow asks as we walk into my backyard.

"I had Twilight make this yesterday. Its going to allow us both to live out a dream today."

"What?"

"Remember how we've always wanted to fly together?" I say as I pull the cork out of the bottle. I chug down the contents which taste like liquid cotton candy.

"Wait..." Rainbow mutters as I throw the bottle down behind me.

"Well now we can." I jump up into the air about two feet, only there's one thing different. Gravity doesn't take effect. I hover up and down about two or three feet off the ground and hold my arms out, giving Rainbow a smug of a smile. Rainbow's eyes go so big, I think they're going to explode. She immediately takes off from the ground, and the next thing I know shes in my arms, and her momentum makes me sore up into the air. We're about a hundred feet over my house, and Rainbow is whooping and hollering in pure joy as we spin in circles. It feels a little surreal for me, but I quickly learn how to control my balance and flight direction.

Rainbow lets go of me and hovers a couple feet in front of me with her hoof over her mouth. "I can't believe it, we can finally go flying together!?"

"Yep, and its all thanks to Twilight. She made the potion for me when I told her about how we'd always wanted to be able to fly together. I figured skydiving was good, but its nothing like the real thing. We have twenty-four hours of flight time before it wears off."

"This is... I can't believe..." Rainbow quickly rushes up and plants one right on my lips, and she presses in hard. We start spinning slowly around like something out of a Disney movie. She pulls away a minute or two later, and puts on her game face.

"So, how fast can you go Green?" She says with a cocky smile.

"I don't know. Why don't we find out, Dash!" I say as I immediately take off as fast as I can. I have to think of it like falling horizontally, as in I have to tilt my body to control where I am going. There's what feels like a mental gas pedal in my mind that lets me controls how fast I'm going, and right now, I'm flooring it. The suburbs flash by under me as I must be going at least a hundred fifty.

Rainbow quickly catches up to me, obviously being at least ten times faster. She matches my pace and gives me a warm smile.

"I can't believe this is happening!" We both shout at the same time. This only causes us to laugh as we flash through the air. Its freezing cold, but I'm warmed up by the pure rush of adrenaline coursing through me, as well as the feeling of doing something this amazing with Rainbow. We reach the downtown area in no time, and we start swerving around skyscrapers like they were nothing more than obstacles on a course. We fly just inches above the Saint Johns River, and watch our reflections as we sore over the water. I'm sure people can see us, but since Rainbow is right next to me, they probably won't question the flying teenager next to her. I skim my hand through the surface of the water before bringing up a handful and throwing it at Rainbow. She giggles as she dodges it and tries to throw her own water at me.

We land on top of the tallest building in the city, and look out over the skyline together. We don't say anything as the wind whips past us due to being up so high. I look down at Rainbow, and she looks up at me, and I can't even find the words to describe the feelings that I have at that moment. Love? Nah, that doesn't even begin to describe these feelings.

I pick her up and hold her close to me as we enjoy each other's presence. Her head goes over my shoulder, and I can hear her whisper something in my ear over the rushing wind.

"I love you."