My Time With the Farmer: Three Years Later

It had been nearly a week since Joe had become a pony and he had to say, he was enjoying it. His strength had come back almost immediately and his Chest pains had subsided to a dull ache and then disappeared all together. He was living with the apple family and helping out around the farm. At first big Macintosh had been skeptical, but after I proved to him that I could work and work hard as well as faster than him and applejack he welcomed him like a brother. After he had eaten breakfast, he headed out to help applejack tend to the trees in the east orchard. He spread his wings and took off. The new ability to fly was amazing. He could go from walking on the ground to soaring through the sky with the wind in his mane in the blink of an eye. He landed on a branch of a tree and looked down at applejack who was still waiting for him to show up.

"What in Tarantino is taking him so long?" She said. "He must ju- GAAAAAHHHHH!" She screamed as something heavy landed on her shoulders. She crumpled to the ground under its weight. They wrestled in the dust for a little it before the brown Pegasus pinned her to the ground. Applejack opened her eyes to see a brown Pegasus standing over her with a slight grin. She swatted at him playfully and he stepped off of her.

"You need to pay attention to your surroundings, applejack." He said with a hint of laughter in his voice.

"And you need to stop cheatin' and using yer wings." She said shaking the dust from her coat and casting a glare of mock anger at him. He looked back at her and her serious expression melted away and they both started to laugh uncontrollably.

As the scene unfolded below her, rainbowdash stared dreamily at the brown Pegasus. Applejack doesn't know how good she has it. A family to support her, a great farm to work on with a steady source of income, and a handsome Pegasus to love her. As rainbowdash thought to herself, another Pegasus appeared behind her. It sat next to her and looked down as well. The Pegasus prodded rainbowdash in the ribs, supposing the pony and nearly making her fall off the cloud.

"Gaaahh, fluttershy, don't do that to me." Rainbowdash said, recovering her composure and blowing her rainbow mane out of her eyes.

"Are you spying on Joe and Applejack again." The cream and pink pony asked her with a mischievous grin on her face.

"I am not!" Rainbow said, the blood rushing to her cheeks.

"Rainbow, this is the third time this week, if you like him, tell him. Or I'll tell him for you." She said.

"I-I do like him, nut he likes applejack. And I'm pretty surre she likes I'm too. I can't tell him. I wouldn't do that to applejack." Rainbowdash said.

Down on the ground the applejack and Joe heard voices coming from a cloud hovering above them. Applejack pointed app and made a gesture with her lips. Joe nodded and spread his wings and took off silently and made his way to a spot under the cloud. He nodded to applejack who had a grin on her face.

"Hey ya'll, how ya doin up there." Applejack waved a hoof and the two mares looked over the edge and blushed at their friend. They waved back to her and began talking. Joe sat under the cloud waiting from the wink from applejack. There it was, subtle but it was there. Joe plunged his head up through the cloud in front if the two mares.

"Hello there ladies.!" He said as the two mare jumped back in fright. Joe punched the underside of the cloud and watched it disperse into water vapor. The two mares fell from the cloud and into thin air. Joe watched them fall. After they didn't open their wings and were getting dangerously close to the ground, Joe took off at top speed toward the mares.  He flew under their frozen bodies and picked them up and lowered them safely to the ground. Applejack and Joe were sputtering with laughter while the two mares sat there dumbfounded. Fluttershy was the first to regain her composure and stood up and walked towards Joe. She stopped in front of him and kissed him on the cheek.

"That's for saving me." She said. She then pulled a hoof back and slapped him across the face. "And that's for putting me in danger in the first place." She said.

"I guess I deserved that." He said running his cheek. Applejack was now rolling on the grass laughing her flank off. Fluttershy began to walk off but then rembered something. She turned around and walked back up to Joe and whispered something into his ear that made a blush come to his face and his tail stop moving. Fluttershy turned and walked away with rainbowdash who cast a look back at Joe who was now standing there stunned. His ears stood erect and his cheeks were red.

"What did you say to him?" Rainbowdash asked the cream colored mare.

"That you think he is a sexy hunk of a stallion." Fluttershy said taking off and flying away quickly. Rainbowdash took all as well at speeds close to a sonic rainbow and headed back home to cloudsdale.she was to embarrassed to speak to Joe for the rest of the week.  And Joe stood there for a good five minutes, stunned at what he had just heard. He turned to look at applejack who was now starting to stand back up and wiped a tear from her eyes. She looked up at the sun swing it was almost noon and they sat down under the shady trees like they did every day at noon and napped.