The Kids

"Hat?"

"Check."

"Boots?"

"Check."

"Love fer yer Momma?"

Apple Marmalade giggled, "check."

Applejack was helping her daughter pack everything she needed for school, when in reality, she didn't want Apple Marmalade to go. But Applejack knew that her daughter had to go to school, and that it was her old school.

"Momma? Are ya alright?"

"Yeah I'm alright. Jus' wonderin' where the time went."

"What time?"

"Ours." Applejack said as she sat on her daughters bed, knowing it would be the last time she'd be standing in the room for the next four years.

Apple Marmalade nodded and sat next to her mom. "I love ya. Yer my best friend, and ya know that, right?"

Applejack hugged her only child. "Of course I do. An' I love ya too," she said as she wiped away the tears, "we should finish packin'"

Apple Marmalade nodded, and stood up. Applejack went downstairs to get some cider.

Apple Marmalade grabbed her favorite picture off of her window. She looked at it and smiled. "I'll make ya proud, pa," she said as she put the photo in the bag. When Apple Marmalade was about four, her father was killed in a tractor accident, and her mother was there to see it. Apple Marmalade only remembered bits and pieces of her dad, but the stories that her mother had told, Apple knew that her father loved her very much.

"Ah got cider." Applejack said as she opened the door to Apple Marmalade's room.

"Cool. Ah finished packin'."

Applejack nodded, "lets have some cider, then be on our way, sound alright?"

Apple Marmalade nodded and took the cup from her mother. She knew that she was going to miss her moms cider, and her baked goods. Apple Marmalade looked almost exactly like her mother, with some brown streaks in her hair, which somehow she got after her father died. She was a hard worker, just like her mother, and mostly kept to herself. It made Apple Marmalade nervous about going to Canterlot High, because she knew nobody.

"Sugarcube, ya alright?" Applejack invaded Apple Marmalade's thoughts.

"Wha'? Yeah," Apple Marmalade chuckled nervously, "I'm fine. Should we get goin'?"

Applejack nodded, and the two went outside.

"So, you excited?" Applejack asked as she loaded the luggage into the truck.

"Ah guess. Ah don't know." Apple Marmalade looked down.

"Well, if it helps, ah went there." Applejack smiled

"Ya did?" Apple Marmalade beamed.

"Sure did."

"What's it like?"

"Pretty great, they got a great agriculture program there."

"Farmin'?"

"Farmin'"

Apple Marmalade started to get excited. She whistled for Winona, the trusted farm dog, who came running with her puppy, and the two dogs jumped in the truck. Applejack gave a look to Apple Marmalade, who smiled.

Applejack got into the truck, and started it. Apple Marmalade turned on the radio, which was playing her favorite country song.

"Apple Marmalade, since yer startin' school, I want ya to have this." Applejack pulled out a cellphone.

"Mah own cell phone?" Apple Marmalade's eyes got big.

Applejack laughed, "yep. It's already activated an' everything."

"Cool!"

As the two arrived to the school, Apple Marmalade's stomach sunk. This big building with a bunch of people, she started having an anxiety attack. A woman and her twins came over to Apple Marmalade and Applejack.

"Applejack!" The pink haired woman waved.

"Pinkie Pie? Is that you?"