Gold

Morning sunshine creeps through Fluttershy’s windows, across her bedroom, all the way to Rainbow Dash, waking up the mare. She woke up with a hint of depression on her face after what happened between them.

“Rainbow Dash, are you awake?” Fluttershy knocked.

“H-huh?” she responded, “Uhh…yeah.”

“I’ll be going to Applejack with Discord, if you don’t mind” she said, opening the door.

“Yeah, it’s alright.”

Rainbow Dash turned her head away from the sun, being careful with the wing, and trying to go back to sleep until Fluttershy spoke.

“Oh, and by the way, somepony wants to see you.”

“Hey, Dashie!”

“What, oh, hi Pinkie.”

“Sorry about what happened.”

“It’s alright; it’s not your fault. She just, well, misunderstood me too much.”

“And did you tried to explain it to her?”

“I did, but she won’t let me.”

“And how’s the wing?”

“It’s a bit…fine.”

“Say, maybe you could help me at Sugarcube Corner and then we could work it out. I can even ask Twilight for some help.”

Rainbow Dash nodded as they both left the cottage and went on to Sugarcube Corner. Coincidentally, Twilight was just in front of the said bakery.

“Hey Twilight, what’s up?” Pinkie Pie said.

“Where’ve you been? I thought you promised to help me with the preparation of winter” said Twilight.

“Don’t worry, I just went to Fluttershy’s cottage. I thought it’ll be fine to visit poor Rainbow Dash there.”

“Poor? What happened?”

“Oh, you know, it’s just a ‘problem’ with Applejack.”

“Maybe I can help.”

“That’s why we’re here. After she help me with the bakery, we thought we’ll go to you for some advice just to brighten up Rainbow Dash here.”

Twilight just nodded and then went inside for the preparations for winter. She and Pinkie had quite a conversation while Rainbow Dash just sat there, attentively listening and not opening her mouth to say even a single word.

“Say, Rainbow Dash, you haven’t been talking for a while.”

“What…oh, it’s just that, uhhmmm…”

“Well?”

“It’s just that…uhm…Applejack…me…her…”

“Don't worry; I already know.”

“Wait, you do?”

“Well, yeah, Discord told me and…”

“Discord knew!?”

“Well, yes…I mean, no…I mean, I don’t know.”

Silence impelled within the three ponies for a while, and then Twilight spoke.

“Did you try to talk with Applejack alone, I mean, ‘ALONE’ alone?”

“Why should I? She won’t even speak to me every time I go near her. In fact, she even tries to get away from me.”

“Maybe she needs to cool down. Try talking to her again, besides, it’s not like she’ll be mad at you forever (and if she is, well, that’s another thing). Look, everypony has a right to be angry at somepony, but at the same time that anger will just, well, fade down and then you’ll get back to it, I mean, she’s still that mare, right? And if she really loves you, she’ll be like running towards you and then apologizing.”

Rainbow Dash nodded and then though for it for a second.

“You know, she right” she said in her mind “She’s still that mare after all. And if she really loves me, she’ll forgive me no matter what.”

“That’s it!” she said, her mood brightened up, “Thanks a lot for the help Twilight!”

“You don’t need to compliment.”

“I have to go to Applejack” she then trotted out of the bakery.

“Go get ‘em Dashie!”

She was about to look for AJ until…

“Rainbow Dash!”

“Applejack? Is that…?”

Applejack ran towards Rainbow Dash, pushed her aside, and kissed her on the cheek.

“Rainbow, ah just wanna say that I’m-“

“I’m sorry too, Applejack. This is partly my fault, I mean, if I just haven’t…”

“Rainbow, listen, you did nothing wrong. Ah’m supposed to be the one saying that, not you.”

“I know. Say, I need to go back to Fluttershy. I have to tell her something” she then ran (remember, she can’t fly right now) away from AJ and went to Fluttershy.

Meanwhile, inside Sugarcube Corner…

“Geez, Twilight, do you really need these books?” Pinkie said, staring at the tall seven stacks of books.

“Yeah, of course; I need them to know how to prepare for winter properly.” Twilight answered.

“Why does it have to be this many? I mean, you could just use two or three from these.”

“The more resources I have, the easier things get.”

“Yeah, right” Pinkie said, rolling her eyes.

“Well, we can’t sit here doing nothing all the time” Twilight said, using her magic to lift two of the stacks. She went outside and saw Applejack chuckling. She went near her (too near, if you ask me) to talk.

“Hey, Applejack, I heard what happened and I just wanna say that I’m-“

Her sentence was cut off by Applejack turning around and accidentally kissing Twilight (I told you she was too near). Twilight suddenly dropped the books by the event.

“Hey, Applejack, have you seen where Flutters…”

Applejack suddenly broke the kiss to prevent the rainbow-maned pony to see them, but it was too late.