A Diamond Finds an Apple

By huntersunday

As she walked down the dusty dirt road, she could barely enjoy the beautiful scenery around her, with the thoughts in her head keeping her focus on the new development that had occurred. She couldn’t believe that Pinkie, the super crazy and hyperactive pony beside her was able to not only trick her into trying to court one of her dear friends, but was also able to convince her that one of the best ways to spend time with Applejack would be to go to the apple farm and ask to help buck apples with her.

She glanced at the bouncing pink mass of joy beside her and let out a sigh. “Pinkie, dear are you positively sure this is the best of ideas? Don’t you think Applejack will figure something out?“ She said, watching Pinkie smiling before shaking her head.

“Now now, Rarity you’re not trying to get out of your end of the bet are you?” Pinkie took this time to lean in close, practically putting her face only inches from Rarity’s giving her a stern look. Rarity let out another sigh, before shaking her head. Pinkie jumped away from her spot with a grin, before speaking. “And don’t you worry that pretty little head of yours, Rares there is no way Applejack will figure it out cause its foolproof! Almost as foolproof as Twilight's amazing time mission, which entailed a lot of super fun things we….”

Pinkie’s voice had slowly turned into the sound of white noise to Rarity’s ears, with her nerves getting irritated the longer it took to get to Sweet Apple Acres. Finally seeing the famous apple barn’s roof, she let out another sigh. She was really hoping Pinkie’s plan would work out, but she had her worries but she was a lady after all and a lady always kept their word. No matter what was to come of the little adventure she would take it in stride. She would be lying to herself if she didn’t admit that there was a big hope in her heart that it would work in her favor. Now that Pinkie had made her realize how much Applejack matched her perfect stallion she couldn’t keep her mind off of her friend’s beautiful, muscular, and well-toned body. It also didn’t help that Applejacks honesty and warm heart only made her more attracted to her.

She was pulled from her heated thoughts by a loud outburst from her friend. “Look, Rarity I can see Applejack over there by the barn!” The pony in question looked up at Pinkie’s shout and smiled before waving them over to her. Rarity swallowed hard, it was now or never as she shook her head in hopes to get all the negative thoughts out and smiled.

“Why, hello Applejack! You were just the pony we were looking for,” She slowly made her way towards Applejack while chanting Pinkie’s idea in her head so that she didn’t mess up the plan.

“Well hay gals what y’all doing out here today?” Applejack smiled, always happy to see her friends swing by. Rarity at the moment was having what could only be explained as stage fright. She just couldn’t bring herself to speak now that she was right in front of her new crush, it seem that she had a frog stuck in her throat. Luckily a certain pink mare came in to save the day.

Breathing in a bunch of air Pinkie spoke “Well, to tell you the truth Applejack yesterday I was up in my room bored and I thought to myself you know what Pinkie Pie? You should make new flavors for some cupcakes, because you know you can never have enough cupcakes or enough flavors for them. So I got super excited and made like twenty different types and eat a good amount and went, ‘damn, these all taste amazing!’ , but then I realized I like all things sweet and it made me think hey there Pinks you should go get one of your friends to try these with so I was like boom I know exactly who would be picky about these here sweets and made my way over to Rarity’s” She stopped to take another huge breath “ So then I was like tell what you think of them and Rarity being so generous and all that ate the whole bunch with me which was super-duper of her but afterwards she felt her stomach was a little bulgy and was worried about her lady like figure, So I was like let's go meet up with Applejack so we could help do some apple bucking cause what’s more exercising than bucking and now we're here.”Pinkie then smiled as if the giant amount of info she just said was nothing.

Applejack just rubbed her head trying to piece together all the info she heard before turning to Rarity and speaking. “So let me try to sum this up... y'all ate too many sweets and want to help me buck some apples to help you lose weight? Am I in the ballpark here?” Pinkie and Rarity just nodded their heads in confirmation. Applejack let out a small chuckle. “Well, shoot I ain't one to turn away free help. I’m sure you gals can help me buck. Heck I was just heading to the northeast orchard to buck some early bloomers, not much to do besides that today,”

Rarity was just about to give her thanks when she was interrupted by a loud gasp. “Ooh, I just remembered the Cakes needed me to help watch the twins! I’m so sorry girls, I’ll have to come back another time,” She then turned and gave a small wink to Rarity but before Rarity could complain there was already a dust cloud from where the pink mare once stood.

“Well shucks, Rarity it looks like it’s just you and me now,” Applejack beamed while throwing her leg over Rarity’s shoulder. “Whelp let’s get to bucking,” Rarity could only swear under her breath while trying not to blush at the sudden contact.

It had already been a couple of hours and a certain pink mare would probably run for the hills if she only could hear the thoughts that were going on in Rarity’s head. She was sweaty, dirty and tired from her constant bucking, on the plus side though she was able to spend some time with her Apple. Wait did I say my Apple damn you Pinkie I can’t get her out of my head. She was pulled from her thoughts by Applejack’s voice “You ready for some lunch sugar cube?”
Rarity smiled at the nickname “Yes I am, quite famished darling, it sounds like a great time for a snack,” Applejack smiled before trotting over to her discarded saddlebags she brought and started to pull out a quilt and two wrapped sandwiches. She then spread the quilt on the ground and placed the sandwiches in the center before smiling at Rarity and patting the spot she was supposed to sit. Rarity smiled before sitting down and elevating the sandwich towards her and went to dig in but stopped mid bite at the stern look upon her friends face.

Before she could ask what was wrong, Applejack spoke. “Rarity do ya think I’m dumb or something?” Rarity dropped her sandwich in shock at the question before speaking.

“Why on earth would you even think that dear?” She was really hoping she hadn’t offended her new love interest by doing something stupid.

“Ah know you’re not here for exercise, Rares I know you. You always have a great body and a few cupcakes ain't gonna ruin it. So now yall stop acting like I’m stupid and tell me why you’re here?”

Rarity hung her head in shame she knew this idea was a long shot but she had hoped it would have lasted longer. "To tell you the truth I used Pinkie's idea to get a chance to spend time with you. You see, I realized we don't spend much time together and I don't really know that much about you outside the few times we hanged out with our friends and wanted to rectify that."

She didn't want to raise her face in fear of Applejack’s reaction to her confession but stilled her nerves and looked anyways, only to be shocked at the smile on her friend's face."Well shucks sugarcube all ya had to do was asked me. I would of talked to ya!"This time Rarity didn't try to hide her blush of embarrassment and smiled. "So what ya wanna know?"

Author's Note

Another great shout out to my editor DeltaNutmeg, hope you guys liked it