Apple Bloom walked over to the oven and placed her surprisingly well made casserole inside. She deftly gave the knob a quick, but powerful spin and left it to bake.
30 minutes later, a massive explosion alerted the citizens of Ponyville, as nearly the entire town crowded around the newly decimated Sugarcube Corner. As the smoke settled, a small figure crawled out from underneath the rubble, revealing itself to be Apple Bloom. She walked slowly towards the crowd, realizing what she had just done.
Two hours later, at Ponyville General Hospital, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were pronounced dead
Apple Bloom had just killed her two best friends.
Diamond Tiara looked over at Apple Bloom, and couldn`t help t feel a bit of sadness for her fellow earth pony, no matter how strange it felt to her. Diamond Tiara knew what had happened to Apple Bloom. She knew that her two closest friends had died, and she still considered it to be her fault, even after the police had figured out that it was caused by a faulty oven.
Diamond Tiara walked over to Apple Bloom and sat beside her.
"You know that what happened wasn`t your fault, right?"
"Stop tryinta lie ta me. Ah know that it was mah fault, and nothins gonna change it. So just make whatever little jokes you want. Nothin` can change that it was mah fault."
Before Apple Bloom could walk away, she suddenly felt a warm pair of lips pressing against hers. She looked around, still in shock, only to find that the aforementioned lips belonged to none other than Diamond Tiara, her former mortal enemy.
"What.. What just happened?"
"Can anypony explain the mystery of love?"
"Is this some kinda sick joke!? Cause for some reason, ah really hope it isnt."
"Its not. Ive... Ive always had a little of a crush on you. You know, that way you just walk around, not caring what anypony else thinks about you. And youve never had to rely on anything other than yourself to know youre beautiful. You have that... That natural beauty. And thats one of the main reasons I fell in love with you. But I just was always scared you wouldn`t feel the same. You do, right?"
"Ummm... What kinda question is that!? If ah didn`t like you too, I woulda knocked you away as soon as you kissed me."
"You know, Apple Bloom, I think this is going to be the start of something beautiful."
As Apple Bloom walked along the road to the Golden Oaks Library, one would have thought that she was unreasonably happy since Diamond Tiara was following her. In truth, this was going to be the first time that anypony found out about them. The two earth ponies stopped at the door, as Apple Bloom knocked.
They were greeted, of course, by a greatly confused Twilight Sparkle, who almost seemed to think that the fillies were trying to prank her.
"Umm... Hey! Hows it going, girls?" Twilights voice was filled by a combination of confusion and surprise at seeing the two together, happy nonetheless.
Apple Bloom was the first to speak up.
"Ah just wanted to stop by and say hi, and Diamond here thought she might wanna come too."
"Is this some kind of joke? Because I thought that you two hated each other. With a passion."
"Well, there is a passion, but not a hateful one."
"If you two could excuse me for a minute, I need to go think about this for a minute." Before Diamond Tiara or Apple Bloom could protest, the library`s door was slammed shut in front of them.
Finally, Twilight thought, I can think this through. So. Diamond Tiara and Apple Bloom are in love. Either that, or they`re just pulling some kind of cruel joke.
No, if that were the case, the couldn`t even feign that level of happiness knowing that they were within four feet of each other.
I guess they found some way to see past their differences.
With a long inward breath, Twilight walked back to the door.
