Chapters Coming to terms with things.
Chapter 2.)
Rainbow Dash began to panic. Applejack? Seriously? She always knew she was a filly fooler. She had never had any attraction to the other stallions and colts. She would get teased in school because of this. Thankfully, all of her friends now knew about her sexuality and they were ok with it. But Dash never suspected that she'd fall for one of her best friends!
Applejack stared at her for a minute.
Rainbow suddenly realised how long she'd been gone.
"RAINBOW!" Applejack said again, "You've been staring at me like that for ages now... you ok?"
Dash quickly shook the thoughts out of her head. She wasn't going to let them ruin her day.
"Oh, yeah I'm fine! Sorry AJ, I spaced out there for a minute I guess!" She said, blushing slightly.
"Good! Because your gonna need all the energy you can get! We still got 12 more trees to buck! I was gonna leave 'em 'cos the apples on 'em are a little soft. But now your here, I got an extra helpin' hoof!"
"A little soft?" Dash asked, plucking an apple from a tree. Most of the bad apples had fallen from the trees amongst the Autumn leaves, but this apple had stayed on. It was still ripe and crunchy. "They're perfect! ...just like you..."
"Uh... come again?" Applejack said looking a mixture of confused and embarrassed.
"I said um... They're perfect! There was no need to leave them!"
"Oh, ok... that's what I thought y'all said... alrighty! Lets get started!!"
The two ponies spent the rest of the afternoon collecting apples. Applejack kicking them off the trees with her back hooves, and Rainbow Dash flying around catching them in buckets. By the end, they had twice as many apples then Applejack had expected they would collect.
"Ah'll get Big Macintosh to collect them later in the cart, just leave 'em buckets on the hillside." Applejack said smiling.
"Come on Rainbow Dash, lets be going!"
They headed off down the hill back towards the barn. Rainbow Dash knew she should be flying off to go and collect Scotaloo from The Crusader's tree house, but for some reason she wanted to stay a little while longer, just to be with this entrancing mare.
"It's turned mighty chilly tonight, 'ey Dash?"
"Here, I'll warm you up!" Dash giggled, wrapping her arms round AJ's shoulders and rubbing up and down.
"Well, ah should really be goin' it's gettin' awfully dark. Applebloom had a detention after school for missin' some homework, an' ah'm sure you'd better be gettin' to Scootaloo-"
"AJ. I don't know if you feel the same way but... I have a crush on you."
"Oh... Rainbow Dash... 'ah... 'ah really gotta go..." And with that she pushed Rainbow away and rushed downhill towards the farm. Dash looked on after her in sadness, part of her wanted to go after her, but she knew she should just leave her alone. With a huge feeling of sadness and embarrassment, she flew away to pick up her baby sister.
Chapter 3.)
Big Macintosh sighed as Applejack sped past him crying. Mares. He could never understand them.
Applejack sat on her bed for a very long time. She just sat there thinking. Replaying the scene in her head over and over again. Rainbow Dash standing above her smiling, her magenta eyes sparkling as she said it; 'I have a crush on you....' .
Applejack looked at the photo's on her nightstand. One was of the apple family standing proudly outside their orchard. Another was at one of Pinkie Pie's parties, but her favourite was of herself and Rainbow Dash lying on the ground at the fall weather friends competition. She laughed at how foolish they were back then, and how much they had fought. In the picture Dash had just tackled her and they were on the floor fighting. Because of their anger toward each other they had lost the race. Everypony else had beaten them! Applejack didn't want to fight with Rainbow Dash again. She just couldn't let it happen. So, summoning all of her strength together, she stood up off her bed and went to find Rainbow and apologise.
Rainbow Dash sat on her soft cloud bed and cried into her pillow. She had forgotten how long she had been there. Was it hours? Days? Weeks? Dash had no clue, and what's more, she didn't care. She never wanted to leave her bedroom. She hadn't eaten anything for a while but she wasn't hungry. She just sat and sobbed. She pulled a picture of Applejack off the wall and sighed. She was so embarrassed. She should have known confessing her feelings was a bad idea. Suddenly there was a knock at her door.
Chapter 4.)
Applejack was about to go outside when she was stopped by someone.
"MORNIN' SLEEPY HEAD!!" Applejack woke up with a start, something was jumping up and down on top of her duvet!
Applejack hurriedly dropped Applebloom off at school. She needed to leave quickly- she had buisiness to attend to.
Applejack ran through Ponyville as fast as her hooves could carry her. She knew one pony who was intelligent enough to help her with her problems- Twilight.
Twilight sat in her library amoung countless numbers of books. Spike was dusting the bookshelves and she was trying to come up with some ideas of a letter she could write to the Princess this week. The perfect idea had just come into her head when out of the blue, an orange pony came crashing through her door.
So Applejack explained the whole situation to her, about how Rainbow Dash had confessed that she had a crush on her, about how she had just left her without even giving her a proper reply.
Chapter 5.)
The next day Applejack woke up bright and early. She stopped off at the flower shop on the way to Twilight's house to buy a bouqet of flowers for Rainbow Dash. She was nervous and excited at the same time. She was really hoping Rainbow Dash would forgive her. She arrived at Twilight's house at 8:00 sharp.
"How the hay do ah fly this thing!" yelled Applejack as the hot air baloon swerved side to side in mid air. The baloon did a massive loop and she nearly fell out!
AJ waved a quick goodbye to Scootaloo before stepping into Rainbow Dashes house. It was brightly coloured and very homey. Applejack went up the stairs and saw Rainbow Dashes room almost instantly. All over the bedroom door were pictures of the 'Wonderbolts'. AJ knew how much Rainbow Dash longed to join them. It made her smile, it was kind of sweet, she thought. She hesitated a moment before knocking on the door.
Chapter 6.)
"W-wait... are you sure you want to do this...? This isn't because you pity me... is it?" Rainbow asked, feeling slightly unsure.
20 minutes later...
The two ponies lay together in blissful silence. After a long moment of holding each other, Rainbow Dash finally broke away.
Twilight was delighted, "I'm so so happy for you guys!! This is great! And you're just so perfect for each other!" She started jumping up and down in excitement and squeeing. The two mares just stared at eachother awkwardly.
When the Apple family found out they were very supportive. Big Macintosh hugged his sister for a long time.
Pinkie Pie's reaction to the news was the best. She squee'd and said;Dash , we're all really sorry about how we were to you in high school... your relationship with Applejack is actually kind of...sweet." One of the colts said to her.
The party drew to a close and the couple were asked to go onto the stage.
Twilight's letter to the Princess.
Epilogue- Twilight's letter.
The party was over and Twilight rested in her library. She suddenly remembered that she still hadn't written a letter to the Princess! Luckily, she knew just what to write about.
"Spike! Take a note."
"Dear Princess Celestia, Sometimes you can be unsure of yourself. This week something important happened to Applejack- she accepted herself. It took her a while, and as a result; she nearly lost someone very close to her. Sometimes it's important to be true to yourself to get the things you really want. Accept yourself and others will accept you too!
Your faithful student, -Twilight Sparkle."
Chapter 1.)
It was an Autumn day in Ponyville and Rainbow Dash trotted through the town with a smile. Everypony she met greeted her warmly. She saw many of her friends pass her by, yet none of them seemed to interest her. No, today she had her heart set on one pony- Applejack.
Meanwhile, Applejack was busy towing the last cartful of apples into the barn. Winter was coming and there were few good apples left. If they wanted to make any profit over the next few months before winter wrap up they’d need to collect as many Apples to sell as possible. Each cart had natural preservatives sprayed on them using the secret apple family recipe so that they would last longer.
“There we are! Ah reckon that’s about a whole barn full there!”
All of a sudden, there was a flash of colour behind her, and out of nowhere stood Rainbow dash. Applejack spun round quickly.
“Oh hey Rainbow dash! Ah didn’t see you there! Is there anythin’ ah can help you with?”
“Hey Applejack!” Rainbow smiled, feeling almost excited being in the very presence of Applejack, “I was just wondering… umm… is there anything I can help you with…?”
“Oh, well, ah was jus’ about to take off actually. But if you like, you can come with me an’ maybe help me buck a few extra apples?”
“Haha, that’s what you call ‘taking off’?!... I mean… uh… sounds great, sure!” Dash said, realizing that teasing might not be the best approach with this mare.
They walked slowly together up to the Apple family orchard. Applejack chatted away to Rainbow Dash about the history of the orchard.
