Author's Note

This chronicle of friendship-with-benefits continues with everyone's favorite background pony! Honestly, When did AJ start getting that meme?

Applejack's not one I would say is one of my favorites, but I still don't understand all the hate she seems to get.

P.S.: this is a short one, and there's no sex here, there doesn't always have to be sex for something to be adult. You can just have two friends sitting around talking about life and that's just as good, for me at least.

An Apple a Day

TwiStar: An Apple a Day

Aaawhn!

The orange farm horse stretched her hooves until she felt a very satisfying crack in her spine. She opened her pretty green eyes as the sun was just peeking over the apple orchard outside her bedroom window. With nary a word, she rolled out of bed and fetched her iconic brown stetson off the bedpost. She fixed her hat upon her head then gazed outside upon her family's beautiful apple trees. She opened her window then stuck her head out to breathe in that sweet morning air. With a big exhale and a hearty "Hoo-wee", Applejack proclaimed "Today is gonna be a great day!"

After combing her long blond mane, then tying it up in that big braid of hers, Applejack made her way out. She stopped in the hallway when the bathroom door opened, accompanied with the sound of a toilet flushing.

Apple Bloom yawned sleepily before seeing her big sister, "Oh, good mornin', Sis!" She rubbed her right hoof over her sleepy eyes, "Sorry if ah woke ya, had ta use the facilities." The yellow filly stumbled her way sleepily back to her own room.

Applejack smiled. She shrugged before continuing downstairs. She stepped out of her house just to breathe more of that fresh morning air. It was way early for work to get started, but AJ always liked to get an early trot around yard going, just to give herself a workout.

It was while she was having her walk that her alert ears picked up an unusual noise coming from the barn. If it were anyone messing with the farm animals or some wild critter eating the pig feed, she'd have to go straighten it out.

She carefully nudged open the barn door, just enough that she could stick her head in, "Hello?"

A sound, very similar to snorting came from inside.

Applejack was becoming nervous as she went in, until she recognized the purple and green lump sleeping in a pile of hay. "Spike?" She nudged him.

The dragon mumbled, "T-Twilight... take my woman..." He snored some more.

Applejack shoved Spike more and he still wouldn't wake up. Then, she had an idea. She ran back to the farmhouse.

AJ came back with a bucket of water clinched in her teeth. She held it between her front hooves then she splashed Spike with ice cold water straight from a garden hose.

"Ah!" Spike screamed as he was shocked awake. "Who's there?!" He looked up and he saw Applejack standing over him, "Oh... uh, good morning, Applejack."

The orange pony was not amused, "Spike..."

...

Applejack had let Spike into her home.

The dragon sat in the living room, wrapped in a towel.

Applejack came up to the couch Spike was sitting on, then she sat with him. She gave him a glass of apple juice before she asked "Now, if you'll excuse mah language, jus' what in th' hell 're you doin' comin' into mah barn in the middle of th' night?"

The little purple dragon sighed, "Ah, I'm sorry, AJ. I've just been really upset for this last week... Rarity, Twilight and Starlight have been spending so much time together lately... it's making me upset to hear her, you know... and I can't do anything about it."

Applejack nodded, "Ah! I shoulda figured that's what this is all about."

Spike looked at AJ, "Applejack, what do you think about-- you know, Twilight and Starlight being a couple now?"

The farm pony smiled, "I'd say they're about the cutest couple I've seen since I was at my cousin's weddin'."

Spike nodded, "You don't mind that they're both mares?"

AJ chuckled, "That stuff's never bothered me. I don' ever say anythin' about Big Mac an' his trips to see Braeburn."

The little dragon was confused, "But I thought Big Mac had a thing with Cheerilee."

Applejack nodded, "He does, but she also lets him roam. A prime stallion like mah brother's got so much energy pent up in him, it's probably best to just let 'im fuck his own brains out."

Spike thought that was strange, "Okay..."

AJ patted Spike on his head, "So, Rarity's in there too?"

Spike sighed, "Yes, she came over one day to check on Twilight, that's when she found out she and Starlight had been fooling around then I guess one thing led to another and now she comes over more... so she can fool with Twi and Star."

Applejack chuckled, "Pinkie Pie sure comes up with the cutest nicknames for couples, TwiStar." She petted Spike, "But, ah can see why yer upset. Ya been helpin' Rarity all this time, doin' chores an' tasks for her an' now Twilight gets to have more fun with her. But you know what? Ah understand you perfectly, Spike."

The dragon leaned in to her petting, "You really do?"

The farm pony hugged a foreleg around her friend, "Of course ah do, after all... I mahself have had this fondness for this one guy I happen to know, but I just see him show so much attention to two other ponies who happen to be friends of mine. I'd say I'm even a good friend with this guy and maybe, if he were a little older, I wouldn't feel so guilty in likin' him."

Spike gulped. Applejack couldn't have dropped a bigger hint if she were dragon herself. He looked up and saw AJ looking down at him in the same way she always had, "You like me, AJ?"

She sighed then nodded, "I do, maybe at first I kinda saw you like a little brother. Then, there was that one day ya wanted to be my personal assistant because o' yer dragon code, whatever that was, an' to be honest... it really felt pretty nice to have someone helpin' me in all my chores for a change."

Spike stared blankly at nothing in particular, "Well, this certainly went somewhere I wasn't expecting."

AJ nuzzled him, "You don't feel the same way?"

Spike shrugged, "Well no, but I do like you, AJ. You're funny, you're a great friend and yeah, you are pretty in that folksy way."

Applejack snickered, "That's enough for me. Thanks fer listenin'." She pecked him softly.

Spike blushed when he was kissed, "Um, you're welcome?"

Hoofsteps could be heard coming down the stairs.

Applejack heard the rest of her family stirring for the day, "Well, the family's awakin'. You wanna come help me in the kitchen?"

He smiled, "Yeah, sure, anything for a friend, AJ."