Can I Adjust To This Colorful New Life?

Chapter 4: Confusion

You wake up the next morning to a surprising sight, not unwelcome, but surprising. A sleeping Ditzy, sprawled out on your lap, a fact that made you more than a little self conscious, realizing that this is one of the few times a female your own age has ever done this, and the fact that she's a pony doesn't help. Your attempts to get up are met with a tough resistance, as she swats you back down or moves closer to you in what looks like an attempt at a hug. Thankfully she wakes up when one of her hug attempts was aimed the wrong direction, and ended up sending her to the floor. As she got to her hoofs she was able to make out what had happened, guessing by how red your face was. "Oh I'm so sorry, did I do something I wasn't supposed to, I didn't mean it, it just happens every once and a while with me, I just do things without noticing, and-". Yet again you had to hush her, mainly out of the dear that she might start hyperventilating with how fast she was talking.

A quick glance at the clock on her wall changed her attitude in an instant, as she now knows she was late for work, and still had to go have a shower. After showing you to her fridge, which was unsurprisingly filled with muffins of all shapes and sizes, she dashed of too what you guessed was the bathroom. A few minutes passed with nothing really happening, other than the occasional noise from the bathroom, until someone knocked on the door. Unsure of who it might be, you decided to go and answer it, and tell them Ditzy was busy having a shower, but what you saw instead was something you would have never expected.

It was Rainbow, here at Ditzy's with a note, and what looked like a box of blueberry muffins. "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be getting better at the hospital! And where's Derpy?!". That wasn't what you were thinking would happen when you opened the door, but at least it was a "friendly" face, but that could be debated. Before Rainbow can continue her interrogation Ditzy waltz out of the bathroom, not wearing a towel. Rainbow almost immediately tried to cover your eyes, nearly poking them out in the process, and all she could manage to say was 'DERPY! PUT A TOWEL ON!" Of course the grey Pegasus didn't see the issue, but didn't want to fight either, so she did as Rainbow asked. Sadly for you, what the fandom guessed at, about ponies looking more suggestive the more they put on, was true. Luckily you had time to say something about going to Twilight's before you got what was dubbed a "wing boner", as you now being a pony, meant that the stimulus would act the same as if Ditzy had been a human female in the same situation.

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As lucky as you were, part of you wanted to figure out why Rainbow as there with muffins and a note, and something nagged in the back of your mind, partly trying to make you remember they are ponies, and that you may be leaving Equestria soon. The other part was suggesting that the fanon was right, and Rainbow was into mares, something that made you feel something you could only describe as fear, but you couldn't figure out why. Before you could come up with a reason that you were okay with, you heard some loud galloping coming from the right of you. Unlucky for you, or lucky, depending on how you want to view it, the galloping was Applejack coming to open up the morning stall, but her speed made you hazard a guess that she was running late. You decided to attempt flight once more, hoping that maybe being in this body for a few days has given you the knowledge of flight.

Thankfully you were right, as you got up into the air rather easy, but only one thing was wrong, you didn't know how to move while in the air. Then you thought of riding a bike, you have to lean to turn, so maybe that would apply here too, and your luck payed off again, as you slowly figured out the mechanics of flight. Just as you figured out every last detail of basic flight, you saw an orange blur pass you, and you decided against all reason, to try and catch up. To say that it was easy was an overstatement, you've never worked that hard before in your life, but when you caught up, you got to learn exactly where the Apple family's stall was. Sadly the first thing to learn this, was your face.

"You all right there sugarcube?" Thankfully it looks like Applejack didn't mind that you had just toppled the stand and possibly broken the sign, but was more concerned that you might have to be carried back to the hospital. "I'm fine, I think, although it does feel like someone hit me in the head with a shovel" you manage to groan while massaging your now aching head. This managed to get Applejack to laugh, either at the stupidity of what you just said, or at you in general, it was all the same to you. "Well sorry dear, but that shovel you mentioned, was just my apple stall, and if you don't mind, could you help me set it back up?" "Sure, on one condition though, you let me fix anything I broke, and work off anything I might have cost you." Of course Applejack was a bit more worried that you might have hurt yourself than she was about any amount of bits she might have lost, but with a quick nod, you and her got to work.

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After three hours of selling apples to what seemed like half of Ponyville, a orange hoof was all you needed to let you know it was break time. Just as you were going to ask what else you could help her with, a big red stallion, that you recognize as Big Mac, showed up, with what looked like a disappointed frown on his face. "Sis, what is this guy doing here? Why are you making him work the stall while you talk with friends?" That brought up a good point, ever since you got the hang of things, it seemed as though Applejack had disappeared, nowhere to be seen, certainly not with you at the stall. Just as Applejack went to speak up, you said something that caught both her and Big Mac off guard, "I wanted to help, seeing as I had crashed into the stall this morning, that and it didn't seem fair to have her working all by herself." With a look of bewilderment from Big Mac, and a blush from Applejack, you suddenly felt a strong red foreleg wrap around your neck. "You hittin' on my sis or something. Cus if you are, I'm tellin' ya, you're gonna have to go through me first."

This brought something to your attention. Why were you helping her for the entire morning, you only hit your head, and the sign was sturdy enough to stay together even if Big Mac had been the one to run into it, so why did you do all this work? Was it out of kindness, or was there something you didn't even know of making you do it? Before you could say anything two forelegs were wrapped around you, both to your surprise, and what was going to be your worst nightmare. Applejack had hugged you, maybe even nuzzled your neck, but before you could figure out what was going on, a big red hoof hit you in the back of the head.