Partying

Applejack sat in her room, sighing pleasantly after enjoying a filling breakfast. She’s been in that position on her bed for about a solid ten minutes, just enjoying the feeling and mentally planning how her day would go. The biggest thing on that list, Pinkie Pies’ party. There was nothing else to do besides that, just make sure Rainbow had a good time.

‘Come to think of it,’ she thought to herself ‘Rainbow should be finished with breakfast by now.’ She stood up from the bed and stretched her muscles out. Something told her that today was going to be a great day, and nothing would change that.

With a smile, she opened her bedroom door and walked into the hallway, making her way towards the closed door of Rainbows room. She knocked firmly.

“Rainbow? You in there?” she asked, waiting for a response. She could hear some shuffling and sounds of movement on the other side of the door, but it didn’t open for a few more minutes.

“What’s up?” Rainbow Dash said as she finally opened the door, looking up at Applejack with red eyes.

“Hey sugarcube, you ok?” Applejack asked, worried her friend might be having an allergic reaction to something she ate.

“Yea, uhh, why?” Rainbow asked, her voice more sullen than usual.

“Yer eyes are red. You been rubbing ‘em or something?” Aj said, leaning in to get a better look.

Time seemed to pause from Rainbow Dashs’ point of view. Applejacks face was directly in front of hers, framed by her golden-blonde locks. Their eyes were on level and locked with each other. She could feel her cheeks heating up and her heart beat getting faster. Wasting no time, she pulled away.

“Yea I’m fine. I sneezed and poked my eye, so I was rubbing it and it got all red. No worries.” she said. It wasn’t the best lie, but it had some merit.

Applejack looked at her shorter friend for a few more moments, analyzing her face. “Well, alright. But you tell me if anything is wrong, alright?” she said, receiving a nod in response. “Well, ah actually came to ask you if you wanna go help Pinkie get ready for the party today.”

Rainbow didn’t even so much as hesitate. “Yea sure! Just gimme a sec to get dressed.” she said, pretty much pushing the blonde out of her room.

The door closed behind Applejack and she couldn’t help but smile. “She must be excited to see the girls.” she said as she went to her room to get dressed as well.

It didn’t take long for the girls to get dressed and make their way out of the house. Applejack thought the look Big Mac gave them as they left was a bit weird, but she figured it was because she left all the chores to him today.

It didn’t take them very long to reach Sugarcube Corner. They should have actually gotten there sooner, had they not stopped to look at their old preschool. Everything looked so small compared to how they remembered it.

Applejack pushed the doors to the store open and entered it, the air conditioning felt good against her skin. “Howdy everybody.” she said.

In the store were three girls. Blowing balloons behind the counter was Pinkie Pie, her hair as frazzled as always, adorning a pink and blue skirt. Sitting at a table organizing the party favors was Fluttershy, wearing a yellow sundress. Her hair was held in place with a butterfly pin.

Last, but not least, was Rarity. She was staring up at the streamers and ribbons hanging around the store, analyzing everything with a designers eye. One would notice that all the streamers seemed to match the colors she had on, white and purple.

“Hiya Applejack!” Pinkie said, suddenly popping out from behind the farm girl. “And a biiiiiig welcome to you Rainbow Dashie Dash!” she said, enveloping the girl in a big hug as music began to play out of nowhere.

The look on Rainbows face seemed to read “Need. Air. NOW!” but Applejack was sure she’d be fine, at least until someone else says hi and Pinkie let go of her. That didn’t take long though, as both Fluttershy and Rarity went to finally meet their friend in person.

“Hi Rainbow Dash. Um, nice to finally meet you.” Fluttershy said meekly, her hair falling down and covering her face.

“Hey Shy.” Rainbow was able to say, after she finally caught her breath of course.

“Welcome to Ponyville Darling!” Rarity enthusiastically said as she spread her arms wide, as if showing Rainbow the room they were in.

Rainbow couldn’t help but chuckle at that, she had already gotten used to the other girls mannerisms through their online chats. “Glad to be here Rares.” she said, using a nickname she knew the fashionista wasn’t exactly thrilled to have.

“So Pinkie, we were wonderin’ if ya’ll needed any help here.” Applejack said from the side, seeing that the meet and greet was now done.

The Pink enigma touched a finger to her chin as she hummed, thinking of anything else she might need help with. She smacked a fist into her hand and smiled. “Hey Applejack, can you help Mister and Misses Cake bake in the back?”

“Sure thing Pinkie.” Applejack said as she pushed her way through a set of swinging doors that led to the kitchen of the store.

Pinkie turned to Rainbow Dash. “Hey Dashie, d’you mind helping me with more streamers?” she asked, getting a nod from Rainbow Dash, and a look of horror from Rarity.

“Pinkie, darling, don’t you think the streamers we have now are fine? They perfectly match my….vision for this party. Plus, you don’t want too many streamers” Rarity tried to make an excuse for not placing anymore streamers.

Pinkie Pie let out a giggle, but there was something about this specific giggle that was different from any previous giggle before. This one sent a shiver down the spine of the fashionista, she knew she had lost this battle.

“Silly billy, you can never have enough streamers!” Pinkie exclaimed before.throwing a handful of colorful ribbons into the air. They somehow all landed neat and even in various places around the room.

Rainbow let out a laugh as she watched her friends interact with each other. She grabbed a handful of streamers as well and the two of them spent the next few minutes going crazy with them.

It didn’t take long for things to liven up at Sugarcube Corner. No one missed a Pinkie Pie party after all! Music was reverberating throughout the shop as various people danced to the beat. Food was being served at the front counter and hard apple cider was on tap for all to enjoy, unless the authorities showed up of course.

Rainbow Dash was rocking out with a girl wearing shades, her electric blue hair bouncing with Dashs’ prismatic locks. The two had met earlier, before the party had actually officially begun. The girl, whose name was Vinyl, was an assistant to the DJ and came with him to help set up the speakers. The DJ himself, Neon Scratch, didn’t seem to be much older than the girl, but appeared to be well known by all the people in attendance.

“This is so awesome!” Rainbow shouted over the loud rock music.

“Just wait til I start doing parties! You won't even remember this guys name!” Vinyl shouted back, a manic grin plastered on her face.

The music sped up a bit as one song faded into the next, effortlessly becoming a rock/techno mix. The two girls kept dancing, until Rainbow felt a tap on her shoulder. It was a bit rough, but didn’t feel aggressive. She turned and was met with the sight of Applejack,her cheeks slightly red and her breath smelling of apple cider.

“Hey Aj, hitting the cider pretty hard huh?” Rainbow said jokingly to the farmer.

Applejack gave a small chuckle. “Ah...ah’ve never had hard cider be*hic*fore.” she said as she gulped down more of the sweet liquid in her cup.

Rainbow shook her head and held her laughter in. “Can’t hold your liquor Aj?” she questioned.

“Ah can hold m...my own!” Applejack said as she gulped down the rest of her cider. She grabbed two more cups that were ready at the counter and handed one to Rainbow. “Here. Drink.”

Rainbow looked at the cup that was placed in her hand. The smell of apples and vodka permeated from the frothy liquid. She gulped once, she wasn’t the strongest when it came to drinking. It was probably due to her small size. She nodded her head once, one thing Rainbow Dash never wanted to be known for was refusing a challenge.

“You’re on.” she said to Applejack, readying her drink to be gulped down.

Rainbow watched as Applejack held up three fingers and slowly put them down one by one to countdown when they should start drinking. Once the final finger was down, the two girls gulped down the entirety of their cups. The liquid burned Rainbows throat and left an uncomfortable heat in the pit of her stomach. She couldn’t help but cough and sputter a bit as Applejack grabbed another pair of drinks and handed one to her. The process repeated once more, the uncomfortable heat growing a little bit more.

Applejack came back with a third set of drinks and Rainbow decided to poke some fun at her. “You might wanna go easy on the drinks Aj, don’t want you passing out on me. I can’t promise I’ll keep my hands to myself.” she said, her mind hazy. Applejack paid no heed to the girls teasing and just handed her another drink.

The two girls kept on drinking, neither wanting to give up. They were in their own little competitive world, while everyone else was dancing and enjoying the party. But, no matter who was doing what, everyone had the same thought in their heads.

“Tonight is going to be fun."

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