I went to my big sis's room last night when I was supposed to be asleep. I don't know why I went and creeped up on the door all quiet. I'm guessin' it was because I was a little scared. I didn't know what the squeaky noises were and when I heard my big sister Applejack's voice whisperin' it sounded funny, like she was tauntin' and teasin', only it sounded like it hurt a bit. All I knew was it didn't sound right and I was afraid I'd get in trouble.
The door was open a crack and I saw she and my brother were lyin' together on her bed, on the same bed, with Applejack on top! My heart beat so hard! I know it ain't proper to spy and I didn't know if I'd get a shoutin' at if I told them I saw whatever in the hay they were doin', but I'm lookin' and I notice weird things like, they were putting their tails up. Granny says that if somepony sees your dirty place then you have to get married, and I hope she was jokin' because I saw it all! Not that brother and sister and sister can get married, but I saw everything. I even saw what a stallion dirty place looks like now and it's like a tree branch what got smoothed off at the end, and it's all wet and drippy. Applejack was drippy, too.
Maybe, I thought, maybe Applejack woke up with a goopy dirty place, and asked Big Mac for help. I woke up with a goopy dirty place before, after some weird dreams. I was really scared Granny would find out, so I washed it real quick. Maybe Applejack called Big Mac for help.
But why is his dirty place out, too?
Things got even stranger. Applejack reached down and touched her dirty place, putting her hoof in the wettest spot and rubbing it, then taking some of that wet stuff and putting it right on Big Mac's thing. She even went and rubbed her dirty place right up against it. I saw her eyes were closed, but she looked like she was hurtin', her eyebrows were all pinched up.
"A-Applejack?" I said.
"Applebloom!?" shouted my big sis.
I was only going to ask her what was happening! I didn't know I would get yelled at! I stepped away from the door and shouted, "I'm sorry!"
But my sister was right there in front of me lickety split, aimin' to head me off and tell me, "Ssh. Keep your voice down, don't wake Granny."
I looked up, I thought I was gonna get it good for sure, but I saw Applejack, strongest and toughest pony I know, blushin' somethin' fierce and tremblin' like a leaf in a tornado!
"I'm sorry I was gonna get some milk and I heard you making noise and I didn't mean to spy, I swear!" I yammered on and choked up a little.
"Don't worry Applebloom you... You didn't do anything wrong, okay?" She lowered her nose almost all the way toward the ground and took a deep breath. "Oh Celestia," she said, whisperin'. Then she whispered a cuss I never heard from her. She looked like she was thinkin' hard. "It's okay, you just..." She got quiet.
Big Mac came up behind me, and I started to feel trapped between them. I turned back and saw he looked almost as worried as Applejack, which is something I ain't never seen in my life, him bein' scared.
"What were you doing?" I asked.
"Come on," said Applejack, gently head butting my shoulder. I stiffened up, I thought maybe she was going to shove me, but she just guided me gently into her room. Big Mac quick and shut the door behind me, then leaned against it and held his head.
Big sis brought me to the bed, sat me down and said, "You really don't know what we were doing?"
I pinched up my face all confused, and shook my head fast.
"You can't tell Granny." she told me. She looked me in the eyes real hard and real worried. She was beggin' me. I looked away but she put a hoof on my shoulder. "You're my sister and I love you and I'm askin' you. Don't tell Granny."
"Because," said Big Mac. I turned my head around quickly to look at him. "We don't want to hear her tauntin' and fussin' about dirty places. You don't want to hear her talkin' about how we'll go blind or we'll lose all the fur off our hooves, right?" He looked at Applejack, then looked away, almost talking to the floor. "We just bumped into each other, touched tails on accident. Weren't nothin'. You wouldn't want granny makin' fun an makin' us feel bad."
I felt real tiny between those two. They were all focused on me. I just wanted to get out, really bad. I didn't want to promise nothin', I just wanted them to let me go, but they weren't gonna let me go. I peeked back at my brother, then nodded downward. "No," I said, agreeing.
I looked back at Applejack. She was burying her face in one hoof, now. "We were just cuddling. It feels really nice to be close, that's all."
"Weren't nothin' weird about it. We were just hugging."
I asked, "Because Applejack had a weird dream, and it made her dirty place all goopy?"
Mac perked up and smiled, and I felt relieved at his change in expression. "Ee-yep! Just like that! Huggin' them weird dreams away!"
I picked at the edge of the bed.
"Don't be scared, or nothin'," said Applejack. "Ain't nothin' for you tah feel bad or scared about."
I nodded some more.
"So you're not gonna tell Granny?" she asked me.
I shook my head.
They both seemed really relieved, and Applejack even gave me a kiss on the forehead, making me wiggle. She moved back, and let me stand up and I was soon makin' my way toward the door, turning back to see my brother and sister smiling weakly at each other. Big Mac patted Applejack on the back, and whispered something I couldn't hear. She was nodding and whispering back when I left the room.
I went straight to Granny's room and woke her up.
