Among the Apple Trees

Don't you love getting invited to parties? Today was Apple Bloom's tenth birthday party. Me and Scootaloo were heading up to Sweet Apple Acres to celebrate with her and her family. Today was the day that we met a good portion of her family, which was apparently huge. I knew a lot of them from my two years living at Sweet Apple Acres. Rarity had an extended mission from the Mane 6 and she felt I should stay with Applejack until she returned. Me and Scootaloo walked into the house were I was instantly grabbed by two sets of hooves for a hug. Apple Strudel and Granny Smith. Scootaloo laughed.

"Hey... Guys..." I muttered as I was suffocated by their hugs. They let me go and Granny Smith looked at me.

"Ah wish we still had y' around. Ah miss all the fun we had" She said to me. We had went to amusement parks weekly, out to eat every other day. Nowadays they stayed at home and so didn't I. "Belle, are y'all staying tonight?" Granny Smith said to me.

"I am, but Scootaloo isn't." I responded to her.

"Well, y'all get 'yer old room back again" Granny said gleefully. I smiled at her. She stuck something around my neck. It was an Apple pendent. I had seen a lot of Apple family members wearing one. "Its 'yer pendent now. Ah hope it brings you good luck!" I hugged her and ran with Scootaloo to find Apple Bloom.

We found Apple Bloom in a crowd talking to everyone, right next to Applejack and Big Macintosh. She eyed my new pendent. "Y' have one of the pendants?" She asked me.

"Granny Smith just stuck it on me, told me to keep it and hoped it would give me good luck." I said as I looked down. The area where the pendant touched me felt very tingly. I thought it was just me getting used to it.

The party went on. We ate lots of food, gave Apple Bloom presents, and Scoots went home. After many hours of this, I laid down in bed and crashed. I woke up with my hoof on the pendant. I decided to take the pendent off so I could take a shower. I couldn't get it past my neck. My hooves wouldn't move any further. It was as if it was anchored to me, I let it drop, maybe I was just tired. After my shower I went downstairs, mane still slightly wet, and sat next to Apple Bloom at the table, to wait for breakfast. Applejack came into the room looked at me in confusion.

"Belle, 'yer up early, Ah have something to say." She sniffled and then broke into tears. "Ra-Rarity got stabbed this mornin', she died." I teared up and got hugged by Apple Bloom. My first thought was who would do such a thing, my next thought, where was I going to live?

"Wh-Why!?" I cried, Apple Bloom hugged me "Where will I stay?"

Applejack washed the tears off of her eyes. "'Yer with us. That room's 'yer room now." Big Macintosh and Granny Smith walked in as I walked up the stairs, oblivious to the whole situation. I heart Applejack start to explain to them what happened, Big Macintosh came upstairs with Granny Smith and they came into my room. By this point I was crying hysterically and beating my pillow until it was only a pile of feathers. Big Macintosh picked me up by the horn. I was squirming for him to put me down.

"Ah'm sorry 'fer 'yer loss, but can y' consider not taking 'yer anger out on the pillow." I was about to take it all out on him because of how little he seemed to care. I knew he cared, but to me at that moment, I didn't think he did. Holding me by the horn he brought me downstairs, than outside, than put me on the grass. "Even if. 'yer depressed 'yer gonna get some fresh air. Y'all ain't stayin' inside on mah watch." He walked back inside. I laid on the grass, looking up at the sky. Was Rarity watching over me?

The next week I didn't go to school, Big Macintosh laid me on the grass for some fresh air daily. After that week I got up and felt well enough to go back to school. I also decided to help out. Applejack said "Its not helpin' anymore, y'all live here so its chores. Y' usually did less than Apple Bloom, now y'all are doing the same amount. Y' can still do less than Apple Bloom, but if y' want, do the same."

I had a lot of fun doing things around here, I don't know why, but I just got a huge bit of enjoyment from it. It seems when I use my hooves and don't use magic to help me, I get more done and enjoy it much more. I got four baskets of Apples from the orchard, just like Apple Bloom. Applejack was impressed and told us to go out into the town and have some fun. We scared Scootaloo who was just walking around minding her own business. "I went to your place to find you Sweetie Belle and nopony answered. I couldn't find you in school, everypony was asking about you. Apple Bloom said she knew but didn't say. Where were you this week."

"I live with Apple Bloom now. Nopony answered because nopony was there. Rarity died a week ago. I was to depressed to even get up." I responded to Scootaloo

"Ah didn't want to say because its 'er privacy. And Ah would have laughed at the fact Big Macintosh kept picking' her up by the horn and putting her outside for fresh air." She laughed.

"He is so annoying." I said

"Well he's also 'yers now for life. And 'yer mine." She hit me on the side. I hit her back. Scootaloo looked at my pendent and tried to touch it. She jolted back.

"OW!" She yelled "It bit me" Me and Apple Bloom laughed until we saw a mark on Scootaloo's hoof.

"It didn't bite you, it burned you." Apple Bloom stated. "What the buck, how did it do that?" Apple Bloom and me said at once. Than we saw a mare come over.

"Swearing I see." He grabbed me, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo by the ears and brought us to Applejack. Who grabbed a paddle and proceeded to hit me and Apple Bloom on the bottom, but not Scootaloo.