Among the Apple Trees

I stepped off the train onto the landing below. As I walked out of the station the train roared away into the distance. I pranced across the sparkling green grass to the little farmhouse on the hill. I stepped up to the door and knocked. A familiar orange pony answered. She opened the door and looked at me.

"Hi Sugarcube, what's going on?" She said to me.

"Is Apple Bloom Here?" I responded to her.

"She is doing some chores out in the orchard right now, want to come in and rest your hooves for a bit, Ah'll make you something to chow down on."

"Why not, the train isn't coming back for a while anyway." I walked into her house and sat down on the Apple's couch, just as comfortable as I remember. I layer back as the sweet smell of Apples and Cinnamon came to me.

"Sweetie Belle" I heard her yell "You want an Apple pie?" Applejack made the best apple pies I have ever had.

"Yes, thank you Applejack."

"Your welcome, Sugarcube." I heard her phone ring from afar. She trudged over to get it, covered in flour from the pie she was making.

"Hello?" She said into the phone. "Yes, Sweetie Belle is here." I looked over at her, why had the person on the phone mentioned me? "Look honey, Ah'll keep her for now, just grab her stuff and bring it here." She paused for a moment. "Your welcome, honey." She hung up the phone and walked over to me, she opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. After a moment or so she said "Um, Sugarcube, Ah need y' to stay here tonight, something happened to Rarity and she is in the hospital.  Ah asked a friend of mine to grab your stuff for school."

"What happened to Rarity?!" I immediately asked her!

"Well... Ah... Alright, somepony stabbed her." I almost cried. "But she is in the hospital right now. Ah think she will make it through, no promises though." I broke out into tears. Applejack hugged me, her sweet scent and warm tender hooves comforted me, just like Rarity did. Just then a exhausted Apple Bloom walked in and saw the hug.

"Trying to steal my sister again Ah see?" She joked. I broke free of the hug and layer facedown on the couch. After a few moments I lifted my head.

"At least you have a sister right now, mines in the hospital. She got stabbed." I broke out into tears again.

"She's staying with us until Rarity is out of the hospital. It may be awhile." I nodded at her, sat on the floor, and cried silently to myself. Now Apple Bloom was hugging me, Applejack joined in.

"Sweetie Belle, you'll be fine. If y'all need anything just tell us." I smiled and nodded at them, for now I had finished crying and gotten up. I sat on the couch. The door creaked open, Big Macintosh and Granny Smith entered the room.

"Hey" Big Macintosh muttered. He saw my half broken emotion. "What's up?" Applejack updated him and Granny Smith on the situation and they said it was definitely fine for Sweetie Belle to stay until Rarity is better.

"Ah guess if 'yer staying a while, we will give y'all a room. Take the room across from Apple Bloom. Set it up as y'all wish. Ah am going to be lenient this week for y'all. Normally Ah would make y'all work from the start while living here, but you need some time to yourself. Feel better, beautiful" Applejack said as she smiled. I walked up to my new room, it was empty except for a dresser and a bed.

When somepony came with all of my stuff, I set it up just as I normally would have it. I laid back on a bed noticeably more comfortable than mine at Carousel Boutique and looked out my window at the view of nature, apple trees, and a Big Macintosh falling on his face. After I spent the next 20 minutes laughing, I got up and went down stairs to sit on the couch. Once I sat Apple Bloom sat next to me and decided to use me as a pillow.

"Really?" I said to her.

"What? Is Rarity germophobic or something? Here everyone will want to use y'all as a pillow. You might as well use us as one too while you're here. Ahmma take a nap." She fell fast asleep. I laid my head on her mane and also fell asleep. My dreams were of Rarity in a hospital bed, bleeding profusely. After an hour of this I was woken up by a hoof shaking me. Big Macintosh had woken me up? He looked broken, like he heard something horrible and wished he didn't want to pass on the message.

"Sweetie Belle.... Rarity died in the hospital..." He said to me in his deep voice. My heart felt as if it had cracked in half. I started crying again. I used Apple Bloom as something to squish go get out my anger, her eyes bulged out their sockets and she woke up.  She looked at Big Macintosh and he told her. She hugged me softly, letting out a few tears herself. She stayed with me until I stopped crying, after she got up and brought me dinner. I tried to grin at her, but I just could not do it. My emotions were just everywhere. I just lost my sister to a stabbing... Whatpony did this? Why did this pony do it? I would get to the bottom of this if it was the last thing I did.