Zap Apple and Lightning Blitz sat on the soft, brown sofa in the front room of the farmhouse. The sofa was the kind indescribable to those who had not previously basked in its glory. Sure it was old, faded and missing a few dozen springs but it was great. Okay!

Zap Apple was starting to fidget already- even though it had only been a few minutes. She had never been the patient type. Meanwhile, Lightning nursed his minor injury with a look of boredom in his eyes only a teenager could have.

They could hear the faint voices of their mothers through the walls.

"What do we tell them?" said presumably Rainbowdash.

"The truth," The pony who said this was certainly Applejack. Her southern accent was unmistakable.

"All of it?"

"Yep,"

"but that's really personal,"

"They deserve to know,"

"Why did you have to tell them? Couldn't you have just lied?"

"Rainbow ye know Ah don't lie,"

"Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhh!" Rainbowdash let out a deep guttural groan.

"Shhhhhhh" they might hear us cried Applejack; completely oblivious that every word they said was seeping through the generation-old walls that were plastered with teal paint.

Mere seconds later they trotted into the room as if nothing had happened. This was a bad habit of theirs; acting like everything was fine when it clearly wasn't.

"Well... um..." began Rainbow "When a mommy pony and a daddy pony love each other very much-" she then let out a cry. Applejack had hit her over the back of the head.

"They already know that stuff ya doofus. They wanna know what happened with us. Let me handle this,"

"Did you have to hit me?"

"Shut up Rainbow!"

She turned to her foals and spoke with a voice sweet like honey. "Now ye both know the story of how we started dating, right?"

Zap Apple and Lightning Blitz nodded. "Of course we do," answered Lightning ever the grumpy teenager. "Ye tell us this story every five minutes," Now this wasn't quite true. It wasn't every five minutes more like once or twice a day- more at family gatherings.

In their defence, it was a very good story: if a bit cliche.

It all started one damp Friday afternoon. Rainbowdash had just finished flight practice for the day and was returning home.

Her coltfriend, Soarin, was on leave with a supposed case of the feather flu. Mysteriously, Fleetfoot was also nowhere to be found. Could this be connected? No thought Rainbow shaking the thought out of her mind.

She stepped inside. There was a strange feeling in the air. She heard a quiet noise. A strange noise. Almost like the sound of snow under hooves. It was probably nothing.

It hadn't crossed her mind this sound was the sound of a cloud mattress.

"Soarin I'm home. I've brought some soup," shouted Rainbow up the stairs the flask she was holding in her mouth muffling her words slightly "Have you been taking your medicine? I don't want your moult on the bed,"

Yet, Soarin didn't answer. Maybe he was asleep. She really needed to make sure he'd remembered to take his medication.The excessive moulting the feather flu caused could be very painful.

She trotted into the kitchen and poured the soup from the flask into a blue mug. Mugs were the go-to container for earth ponies and pegasi because they were easier to hold with hooves or wings.

Walking upstairs she opened the door to her bedroom. She dropped the mug. What she saw shocked her to her very core. Burned into her eyes was the image of her coltfriend cheating on her. With Fleetfoot.

She couldn't believe it. Her coltfriend was a dirty goddamn cheater. She was more offended than angry. Fleetfoot wasn't even that pretty, clever or gifted at flying. How long had this been going on? She didn't know and she didn't care.

Instead of asking, she did what she did best. She flew away. She went to the one pony she felt would care. Applejack.

Applejack certainly wasn't expecting a crying Rainbowdash to turn up at her door. She certainly didn't expect her hooves to be spiked with ceramic shards that caused her to bleed.

It was then Rainbowdash spoke up "I should have just dated you, to begin with,"

And the world was never the same again.

Author's Note

Shameless Rainbow x AJ. I'm not sorry.