I Hope you're Happy with Her: Chapter 5

“Are you happy now?” Silver Spoon asked. She still had her muzzle quite close to Rumble’s to the point where Rumble could feel her breath as she spoke, however it was still far enough so that they weren’t quite kissing yet.

“…Why would I be happy?” Rumble asked. “I just broke my fillyfriend’s heart.”

It was at that moment that Rumble finally realized he could move and talk again. He first off backed up to get some distance between himself and Silver Spoon. Next he snapped out his wings first, because they were giving a cramp. Finally he noticed Silver Spoon’s entire face and noticed that she was looking at him with surprise and she strangely enough had tears in her eyes.

“So you’re getting cold hooves now?” Silver Spoon asked. “After you’re fillyfriend catches you cheating?”

“After Scootaloo saw us?” Rumble asked. “If I had my choice I would have been out of here before Scootaloo got here. If I had a choice I would have been out of here as soon as you started flirting with me. But I didn’t. Because…I was too weak.” Rumble closed his eyes and slammed a hoof into the ground out of anger.

“Dang it!” Rumble yelled. “Why couldn’t I move?! Why couldn’t I scream?! Why couldn’t I do anything except for hurt her?!”

“You…couldn’t move?” Silver Spoon asked. Thinking about it now, he didn’t move a muscle while I was flirting with him. He just stood there completely still.

At that thought Silver Spoon noticed Diamond Tiara walking suspiciously into Town Hall through it’s entrance. On her side was a saddle bag that looked like it was full of something and when Silver Spoon squinted, she thought she saw some gold in there. After a few moments Silver Spoon eventually saw the glint of sunlight reflecting on something on the balcony of town hall.

Diamond, what did you do? Silver Spoon asked herself. Her thoughts however were interrupted by Rumble starting to flap his wings.

“Where are you going?” Silver Spoon asked.

“I don’t know,” Rumble said. “I guess I’m…going to find Scootaloo…say I’m sorry…and then after that,” Rumble shook his head “I…I’m not sure what I’ll do. She probably hates me so much now that she won’t take me back, and I don’t blame her. If the shoe were on the other hoof I wouldn’t. And besides…if I can’t be loyal to her, than I can’t be loyal to anypony.”

Rumble gave Silver Spoon one last sad look, without any attraction in his purple eyes, before he flew off leaving Silver Spoon wondering what just happened.

~

Rumble intended on going to find Scootaloo first before doing anything else, but the more he thought about it the more stupid that plan became to him. Where the pegasus filly was right now, Rumble didn’t know, but if he had any guess it would be at Sweetie Belle’s house since Rainbow Dash’s house, where Scootaloo lives, wouldn’t be an option for anybody that wasn’t a pegasus and Rumble knew for sure neither of them would be anywhere near Sweet Apple Acres. So it wouldn’t be difficult to find her at all. The problem was he would have no chance of getting around Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo would probably chew him out before he would be able to apologize anyways.

So instead Rumble decided to find somebody that he knew would be able to listen to him and maybe even help him.  And in order to do that Rumble landed on a street in front of a small light tan house with a yellow roof just like most houses in Ponyville and walked up to it. He knocked on the wooden door with his right forehoof and waited for a few seconds until the door opened.

“Aye Rumble, what are you doin here?” asked a white earth pony with brown spots over him and a brown mane in a Trottingham accent.

“Pipsqueak?” Rumble asked. “I could ask you the same question. I’m here to see High Score. What about you?”

“Same,” Pipsqueak said. “And if I’ve heard right we both have the same problem right now.”

“We both…what?!” Rumble asked. He didn’t think Pipsqueak could have possibly heard what happened so soon. They both were at town hall, and Rumble was sure a few ponies besides Scootaloo, Diamond Tiara, and Sweetie Belle saw him and Silver Spoon, but he couldn’t believe word traveled that fast.

“High Score and I both heard you got a kiss from Silver Spoon today,” Pipsqueak explained. “What ever happened to Scootaloo?”

“I’ll…talk about it when we get inside,” Rumble told him as he walked in the doorway. “But how did you even hear that anyways? That only happened a few minutes ago.”

“News always travels faster than you do,” Pipsqueak said as he followed Rumble inside. “Trust me, I learned that well from when I got that chance to sail Maneterranean Sea thanks to Luna.”

They both continued into the light tan house until they reached the area where their friend was. Sitting on a brown couch with a hand held gaming device was a brown earth pony with a mane that’s two different lighter shades of brown and a red/white hat with a green propeller on it. The colt seemed to have a fierce look of concentration on his face as he played whatever it was that was on his handheld.

“Hey High Score,” Pipsqueak said. “Rumble’s here.”

“Just a sec, I’m busy,” the colt nicknamed High Score by his friends said. His hooves were mashing buttons like it was nopony’s business to the point where the clicking sound was resounding all across the small room.

“Busy mashing buttons Button Mash?” Rumble asked, trying his best attempt at humor using Button Mash’s real name. Unfortunately his joke was only half voiced because he didn’t really feel into making the joke now.

“I don’t think you should really be making jokes right now,” Button Mash said. He sighed, “Why is it that I’m the only one here that hasn’t ended up cheating on somepony?”

“I didn’t ‘cheat’ on Scootaloo by choice,” Rumble said.

“So you and Silver Spoon snogging right in front of Scootaloo’s eyes is not you cheating on her?” Pipsqueak asked.

“I said by choice,” Rumble said. Rumble walked over to the couch Button Mash was sitting on and sat down on it next to him. “What happened was I was just going to ask Silver Spoon were Scootaloo was, since we sort of had a fight before, but then Silver Spoon started flirting with me. I wanted to get away, but I just couldn’t. And I wanted to scream when I saw Scootaloo walking up, but I wasn’t able to. There was nothing I could do. And no, we did not kiss!”

“You…couldn’t move?” Pipsqueak asked. “How is that possible exactly?”

“I don’t know,” Rumble said. “I was just completely stuck there. I couldn’t move my head, I couldn’t move anything…”

“You don’t need to repeat yourself,” Button Mash interrupted. He still had his eyes on whatever game he was playing, but at least he was listening.

“I feel so weak right now,” Rumble said. “I couldn’t do a thing to stop Silver Spoon from flirting with me, even though I tried. I was just stuck there. I wish I knew why I couldn’t move. Is it my fault somehow that I couldn’t move?”

“You’re not going to spontaneously get paralysis out of nowhere,” Button Mash told him. “Something must have caused it.

“So you don’t like Silver Spoon?” Pipsqueak prodded for self reference. “I’ve heard she looks like a real beauty.”

“Well she does looks good, and she definitely smells good, but that’s pretty much it,” Rumble said. “I don’t know a thing about her. And when it comes to looks versus personality, well you know which one I’m going to pick.”

Rumble looked up to stare Pipsqueak in the eye and even Button Mash looked up from what he was doing to give Pipsqueak a look. Pipsqueak took a step back knowing exactly what the looks his friends are giving him and the words Rumble told him mean. “Yes I get it guys,” Pipsqueak said. “I know exactly how you both feel about my situation. But this is my choice, not yours.”

“Anyways, what are you going to do now Rumble?” Button Mash asked as he went back into looking at his game.

“I don’t know High Score,” Rumble said. “I want to go and apologize to Scootaloo and try and explain myself, but what is there to explain? ‘I’m sorry I hurt you Scootaloo but I was completely frozen in place and couldn’t stop Silver Spoon from flirting with me?’ Yeah I’m sure that’s believable. Plus Sweetie Belle probably took her over to her house, and I highly doubt I’ll make it past her.”

“Knowing Sweetie Belle as much as I know here you have no chance at that,” Pipsqueak said.

“So you’re just going to give up then?” Button Mash said.

“No I’m not giving up I just…I just don’t know what to do now,” Rumble said. “I wish I knew why I couldn’t move.”

“Do you think a unicorn would have anything to do with it?” Button Mash asked.

“I…don’t know,” Rumble said. “I couldn’t tell if there was a magical aura around me, but I doubt there would have been if Scootaloo didn’t see any. Is it possibly to hold somepony with magic and not have a magical aura surround them?”

“Don’t look at any of us,” Button Mash said. “We’re not unicorns. You could try asking Twilight, but with the situation that’s going on with her she’ll probably be too busy to help you.”

Pipsqueak sighed. “I’ll…I’ll ask Dinky if she knows anything.”

Both Button Mash and Rumble looked up at Pipsqueak at the same time with surprise evident on their faces. “Are you sure about that?” Rumble asked. “You know she probably isn’t happy with you. And that’s even if you get to her. I’m sure that Time Turner is even less happy with you.”

“Yeah I know but…well she’s the only unicorn I know besides Sweetie Belle so…if you want help it’s the best I can do,” Pipsqueak said.

Button Mash put his handheld on the small table to his right, perfectly putting it on even though there was a lamp on the table. “I’ll ask around town hall as well.”

“Thanks you guys,” Rumble said. Both him and Button Mash got off the couch at the same time. “Let’s see if we can find out what happened.”

~

What did I do? Silver Spoon asked as she sat in front of Town Hall, completely confused. I…told Diamond Tiara that I would only continue flirting with him if he didn’t do anything to stop me. I thought that would be a good way to stay friends with Diamond Tiara, and not force a breakup that didn’t need to happen. But something happened, and I’m guessing Diamond Tiara has something to do with that, and now it all fell apart.

Silver Spoon walked into Town Hall to see just what Diamond Tiara was doing up there. She quickly went through town hall to the back side of it where the staircase to the balcony on top is. After a quick trot up the stairs and around the balcony she eventually reached over to where Diamond Tiara was.

“So how did you do it anyways?” Silver Spoon heard Diamond Tiara ask.

“It wasn’t that difficult,” Silver Spoon heard from a voice that she could tell she heard before today. “All it took was a paralyze spell and a silence spell so that nopony notices my magical aura around him. That colt couldn’t do a thing even if he wanted to. I’ll admit though, he definitely fought it. I had to cast the spell a few times just to make sure that kid didn’t break free of it.”

“Should I ask why somepony who specializes in throwing disks knows a paralyze and a silence spell?” Diamond Tiara asked but at that point Silver Spoon was no longer listening.

The dark gray earth pony ran up to see Diamond Tiara holding up a bag of bits and giving it to the unicorn they meant earlier at the high school track, Discus Toss. They both turned around when they heard the sound of Silver Spoon’s hooves on the wood approaching them. And when they both turned over they got to see the angry face of Silver Spoon.

“You bribed somepony behind my back?!” Silver Spoon asked. “You seriously did this Diamond?! I thought I told you I didn’t want to flirt with Rumble unless he agreed with it! And now look what happened! Scootaloo is hurt and Rumble is blaming himself for hurting her even though it wasn’t his fault!”

“Why do you care?” Diamond Tiara asked. “Do you actually like Rumble now or something? Well if you do then I did you a favor by breaking him and Scootaloo up.”

“Like him?” Silver Spoon asked. “I’ve known him for like half a day, and even in that I know next to nothing about him. Yeah sure he seems like an ok guy, but I don’t know enough about him to suddenly like him. I care because I didn’t like the fact that I hurt both him and Scootaloo. I hated every second of flirting with him, and I hated it even worse when I heard Scootaloo yell!”

“Since when did you care about what Scootaloo feels? Didn’t you help me torment her before you transferred out of here?”

“Yeah before I knew what it was like to feel tormented!” Silver Spoon said with as much force as she could muster. “Before I knew what it was like to be on the receiving end of the bullying!”

Silver Spoon turned around and started walking away. “Where do you think you’re going?” Diamond Tiara asked.

“To find some way of fixing this mess,” Silver Spoon said without looking back.