The slow, steady clopping of hooves was the only sound the mare could hear from her hiding place under the bed. Looking through the crack between the blankets and the floor, all the young mare could see were the hooves of her assailant. As the mare lay there, fear gripping her heart, the mysterious pony turned to leave. The clopping sound began to drift away, and along with the sound of the front door, it stopped.
After several seconds of agonizing silence, the mare crawled out from under the bed. Taking a deep breath, she began walking towards the hallway, walking past the broken door frame. As she entered the hall, she could barely tell that anything was amiss. With small, short breaths, she began her journey through the silent house.
Slowly, she made her way through her house, her heart feeling as though it had completely stopped. Every creek the floor made scared her out of her wits. With a happy sigh, she finally reached the front door. Throwing the door open, the mare began to run for it. She barely made it ten feet, when a masked pony stepped out of nowhere. Without a sound, the masked pony lunged, shoving a knife into the terrified mare, causing her to release a bloodcurdling scream.
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"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!"
"Let's watch a horror movie!" she said, "Trixie will let you hold on to her if you're scared~" she sad. Twenty minutes in, and Applejack was already questioning why she agreed. As much as she loved her marefriend, this was getting a little old.
Trixie had been complaining to turn the movie off, nearly cutting all blood flow to her right hoof, and screaming at the top of her lungs.
Sighing, Applejack looked around the room in boredom. It was pretty plain, a simple T.V, her bed, and the small love seat on which they were currently seated. Covering the walls and shelves were multiple pictures, holding all her loved ones. Some of them held her very best friends in the world, while others held her family, and some of them even held pictures of her and Trixie.
It had come to a surprise to Applejack when Trixie came to her farm for help. She decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and let her work on the farm for bits. Applejack was even more surprised at how Trixie actually liked farm work. It gave something they could actually talk about. After weeks of the same routine, growing ever closer to each other, Trixie walked straight up to Applejack, confessing her feelings for her.
Applejack was speechless when that happened, and when she just sat there, completely silent, Trixie just about broke down crying. After some consoling, and a little hugging, Applejack decided to give Trixie a chance, to see where it would go. And now? Now she couldn't be more happy with anypony else.
The only issue Applejack had... was her friends.
Trixie had made Applejack promise not to tell anypony about her. And Applejack, being the element of harmony, couldn't break it. As much as it hurt Applejack to lie to her friends, she began to care for Trixie too much to break her promise.
Once the two got together, they figured it was time to tell her friends. And as much as they thought of the best way to tell her friends, none came to mind. And the more they thought, the more they were hesitant.
With another scream, and a death grip to her am, Applejack was broken from her thoughts. Trixie was holding her, shaking from head to hoof. With a small grin, Applejack pulled her marefriend into a tight hug.
Applejack looked at Trixie with a smile as she raised her eyebrow. "Don't worry none, ah'll protect ya from the scary ponies," Applejack said, in a mocking, yet caring tone.
Trixie glared at Applejack, pushing out of the hug. "Trixie isn't scared! She's just holding on to you incase you get scared," she claimed matter of factly, blushing furiously. After a few seconds, Trixie smiled at Applejack, giving her a little nuzzle. "I love you..."
Applejack looked down at Trixie, happiness blazing in her eyes. "Ah love ya too, my little showmare," she said softly, leaning in for a passionate kiss.
The kiss was broken as the movie made an unexpected noise, causing Trixie to yelp in fear.
"Mah poor baby! C'mon, ah'll protect ya," Applejack giggled out, rather uncharacteristically, stealing another kiss from her lover.
"Trixie says screw the movie. She'd rat-" she began, before being interrupted by a hoof on her mouth.
"Wah don'tcha say it like ya know ah like?" Applejack teased out, petting Trixies' mane.
With a blush, Trixie nodded knowingly. "I-I say screw the movie. I'd rather have a little fun with my mare."
Grinning, Applejack turned the T.V off and dimmed the lights. "Then let's have us a hoedown cowgirl." And with that, the two had themselves a long, fun night. ending the story there.
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Beep Beep Beep Beep Be-
Applejack lay there, sleepiness in every fiber of her being. With a sad sigh, she turned to give her sleeping lover a peck on the cheek. She never quite understood how Trixie could sleep through that alarm. Which, after rubbing her eyes, she could see read six-fifteen. Oh no! Ah've gotta get to the market! Ah'm runnin' late!
Jumping out of bed, she rushed to take a quick shower, washing the smell of last nights fun down the drain. Still sleepy, Applejack quickly rushed out of the shower, grabbing her necessities for her stand. Without even a single drop of coffee, Applejack galloped out her door, grabbing the nearest hat she could get.
Rushing through the town, she neared her stand, two minutes to spare. Relief flowed through her as she made it, and with nopony else there, she sighed and opened her stand up.
"Whewie! Ah don't know what ah woulda done if I was late," she yawned out, staring at the other fruit stands.
"Where is everypony?"
A near half hour passed of absolutely no sign of life, and Applejack couldn't help but start getting a little worried. Where was everypony? Was anything important happening today?
Another few minutes passed when finally a pony rushed by. Applejack called out to her, causing the pony to stare at her like she grew an extra head.
"Ummm... Can I help you?" she asked, raising an eyebrow in confusion.
Ignoring the ponies stare, she looked around. "There's nopony 'round, where'd they all go sugarcube?"
"You don't know? The pony in charge of the 'Ponyville Day Festival' is going to be revealed today!"
Applejack groaned, how could she forget!? Giving the pony a quick thanks, she locked up her stand and began rushing towards the town square. On her way, she couldn't help but feel as though something was off. Nothing big of course, just something.
As she grew closer, she could easily recognize everypony in town. And considering she sold most of the towns main resource of food, she knew everypony. As she grew closer, she noticed Pinkie blow up and float away, ignoring the strangeness of her friend she stepped next to Twilight.
"Sorry ah'm late, ah completely forgot about this thing," Applejack said, slightly embarrassed.
Without even looking, Twilight nodded. "It's alright, they're about to vote the organizer now," she whispered, staring intently at the town council.
Several intense, heart speeding seconds later, the council finally stood up."This years host is..."
Time stopped for Ponyville, rather ridiculously actually. Every single pony just stared, nopony moving a muscle, waiting for the name of this years Ponyville Day Festival host.
"...RARITY!"
The crowd broke out in applauds, running to give Rarity their congratulations. As the crowd thinned, Rarity made her way over to her few friends who actually cared to show up. Since Pinkie turned into a balloon and flew off, besides Applejack, only Fluttershy and Twilight decided to show up and support her friend. Rainbow Dash must be napping somewhere.
As Rarity neared her friends, she looked right at Applejack, stopping abruptly. She looked right at Applejack, a look of pure shock on her face.
Ignoring Raritys stunned expression, she trotted forward, issuing her congratulations. "Ah knew ya could do it Rarity... What are ya'll lookin at?"
Her other friends joined Rarity in staring at Applejack in confusion. Each of them raised an eyebrow, trying to figure out why she was wearing that of all things.
Applejack continued to stare at her friends quizzically. "Girls?" She waved her hoof in front of them, frowning at their actions.
Rarity was the first to shake out of her stupor, she looked up slightly, mouth agape. "Umm... Applejack dear, why are you wearing that... magic hat is it?"
Applejack froze, her heart stopping at the Raritys words.
"W-Whatcha mean?" she asked, faking a smile, hoping her friends were just playing a practical joke on her.
"You look like you're wearing- Trixies?- hat," Twilight chimed in, staring intently at the top of Applejacks head. Using her magic, she pulled it off, showing the hat off to everypony.
Applejack began sweating at the mention of her marefriends name. She walked backwards, stuttering like mad.
Before anypony else could speak, she snatched her hat from Twilights grip and began galloping back to her barn. As she ran, the only thing that crossed her mind was how stupid she had been, not looking when she grabbed her hat.
Ah’m sorry Trix… look’s like the secret's out.
Author's Note
How was it? Alright? Tell me if there's any problems with it, all feedback is appreciated!
Any suggestions for the names? I tend to suck at them zzz.
Thanks for reading ^^ Hope you enjoy.
