Twilight Finally Writes Back...

...And then Applejack pulled Rarity by her delicate waist and dragged her into a romantic, soft, and passionate kiss. It was so adorable! She wrapped a hoof around her new girlfriend’s neck and had both of their eyes slowly close as they drifted further into bliss. Both of their heads were spinning uncontrollably and they both lived happily ever after.

The End

Written by Pinkamena Diane Pie!

Twilight lowered the book into her lap as she rested herself comfortably on the couch in her living room of the castle during the whole read through her friend’s hoofmade-written book. A smirk softly landed on her lips with flying hearts circulating above her head as she drifted into the imagination of the two shipmates. Sighing flirtingly, she quickly snapped herself out of her envision and turned herself back into reality.

‘’Wow,’’ she uttered. ‘’That was actually good than I have expected, especially when she’s...I mean she’s great! And nice hoofpicked for shipmate choices and the descriptive writing was spot on.’’

Then Twilight found herself humming as she tapped on her chin to ponder to herself. ‘’Since this book was so good and Pinkie Pie is an excellent writer, then I suppose it wouldn’t hurt for having a spell to copy these for all Equestrians to read?’’

But then a thought struck her. ‘’Wait, no! Spike can’t read this! He has a crush on Rarity for Celestia’s sake and his feelings are as fragile as ever! Not to mention Trenderhoof’s crush on either Rarity or Applejack.’’

‘’Who are you talking to, Twilight?’’ came a familiar voice which made Twilight turn around to a shadow outside the opened door and getting nearer for it to trot in.

‘’Oh!’’ Twilight quickly adjusted herself, sliding the book under a pillow and hopping herself from the couch. ‘’No one, Starlight! Just reading a book.’’

Starlight came inside the living room and raised an eyebrow to see Twilight forcingly push a book underneath a pillow. ‘’But you’re not reading anymore? And why are you hiding that... from me? Am I not allowed to see it?’’

‘’No!’’ Twilight burst out but then cleared her voice. ‘’I- I mean...’’

Starlight didn’t buy it as she wasn’t easy to fool but a master to fool others. She trotted over and used her magic to levitate the book from under the pillow and started flipping through the pages and took a glimpse of the cover and blurb.

‘Crap!’ Twilight thought to herself. ‘I forgot she could use magic to do that.’ She let out a startled whimper as the lavender unicorn started nodding at her observation on the pages.

‘’This is actually good,’’ she commented. ‘’And it’s written by Pinkie Pie?’’

‘’W-Well, she does have good descriptive writing a-and nice choice for shipmates b-but I-’’

‘’True.’’ Starlight nodded meekly. ‘’But don’t show this to Spike because you know of his undying unrequited love of Rarity.’’

‘’I... was just talking about that.’’ Twilight smiled crookedly, her eyes twitching and ears flopping.

‘’Show me what?’’ came another voice from the halls of the castle, drawing nearer to the living room door.

Twilight squealed. ‘’I- uh... nothing, Spike!’’

A baby dragon walked into the room with an eyebrow raised confusingly.

Starlight quickly brought the book float behind her, having the dragon glance at her from left to right as Starlight kept moving the book to the other direction of where his eyes were following.

‘’Um...okay?’’ Spike scratched his head but shrugged and walked out of the living room, leaving two unicorns in the room dropping a sigh of relief.

A few moments later, another figure made its way into the room but it was to the unicorns’ displeasing surprise that Starlight had to dematerialize the book and place it in her bedroom alongside herself. The country figure glanced at the alicorn, confused, who put up a sheepish smile.

‘’W-What are you doing here?’’ Twilight questioned.

‘’I came to bring the apples that you wanted for an apple pie baking contest?’’

Twilight widened her eyes. ‘’Oh, shoot! That was merely an hour ago and I was so absorbed in reading that I completely forgot about it.’’

Applejack chuckled. ‘’Is that really a surprise?’’

Twilight deadpanned. ‘’Thanks, A.J.’’ She trotted solemnly out the door with the apple basket hovering in the air by her magic, but Applejack rubbed her neck sheepishly and interrupted her trotting.

‘’T-Twilight?’’ the southern pony called, getting the alicorn’s attention. ‘’I... actually have a question to ask. Or rather, questions.’’

The violet alicorn raised an eyebrow and turned around to face her friend. ‘’About what?’’

‘’W-Well, it’s goin’ to be Hearts and Hooves Day soon and I’m thinkin’ of askin’ somepony out.’’

Twilight’s eyes widened in shock. ‘’Wait. Really? Who’s that special somepony if you don’t mind me asking?’’

‘’R-Rarity?’’ the cowgirl shrieked which was very unlikely for her and more of a Fluttershy thing.

‘’...’’

‘’Twilight? Is everything okay?’’ Applejack questioned as she shook the frozen Princess Twilight Sparkle until she shook herself out of it.

‘’S-Sorry, but what was that?’’ Twilight asked again.

Applejack looked at her, confused. ‘’Rarity?’’

Twilight immediately fell to the ground, shivering to herself.

‘’Twilight?’’ The cowgirl quickly trotted up to her and kneeled herself down to her friend’s level.

‘’C-Called it,’’ Twilight hesitatingly stated as she continued shivering.

‘’Huh?’’ Applejack uttered in confusion but shook it off and left the basket of apples by the door and trotted out of the living room to trot through the hallways to exit out of the castle’s entrance.

But soon, Twilight got up from the ground and immediately teleported herself in front of the cowgirl.

‘’If you want some advice,’’ she started, ‘’go to Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, also known as the Princess of Love.’’

‘’Uh... thanks.’’ Applejack shifted her hat backward.

‘’But if you’re too lazy to travel all the way to the Crystal Empire just for that, then I wouldn’t mind writing her a letter.’’ Twilight shrugged, smiling softly at the cowgirl who gave a nod.

‘’Thanks again, Twi.’’ And with that, the cowgirl trotted away from her friend and the castle and went in the direction where Sweet Apple Acres led to.

Twilight sighed. ‘’It’s like Celestia read our minds.’’

Starlight unexpectedly was standing next to her and gave a nod of her own head.

* * *

Through the isle of tall trees and woodland creatures on the farm of Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack scrunched her nose to inhale the soft scent of sweet apples as she trotted by.

Later on, she reached the destination she was trotting to: her family’s barn. She slowly creaked open the door and entered herself in. Ascending her staircase to reach her bedroom, she opened the door and closed it behind her as she leaped herself on her comfortable, apple-printed bed.

But Applejack stood herself back up and looked at a picture frame that was sitting nearby on a nightstand, which had two figures; a white unicorn with a fancy purple mane having a hoof around an orange earth pony.

She smiled contentedly as she picked it up to examine it. This was a picture frame she had got from her unicorn friend in the picture when it was Sweet Apple Acres’ 1000th Anniversary.

The cowgirl laid herself back on her bed with the picture frame being hugged to herself and tightened by her grip. Her green emerald eyes slowly closed until they shot open again as realisation had finally struck her.

‘’W-What’s happenin’ to me?’’ she asked herself aloud. ‘’Since when have I ever-’’ she trailed off and covered her mouth before saying anything else. ‘Dear Sweet Granny, what happened to me?’

She stared around her room until a knock occurred on the door.

‘’Applejack? Are you in there? Can I come in, dear?’’ called the voice from out the door.

Applejack glanced at the picture frame and tucked it underneath her bed pillow. ‘’Yes, Granny,’’ the cowgirl allowed. ‘’You can come in now.’’ The door creaked open, revealing a wrinkled green earth pony holding a tray of apple fritters which urged the filly to lick her lips.

‘’Pooey!’’ Granny Smith exclaimed as she trotted in with the tray of scrumptious apple fritters. ‘’What have you done here, A.J? It smells like out-of-date apples!’’

‘’Can apples even get out-of-date?’’ Applejack questioned quizzically.

Granny Smith considered it. ‘’No,’’ she replied. ‘’But if they’re rotten then I guess you can call ‘em that... but anyway, seriously, what have you done here?’’

‘’I’ve done nothin’, Granny. I was outside deliverin’ apples to Princess Twilight.’’

The elder mare moved the curtains to the other side of the room to let sunlight absorb through the translucent displayed glass. She then picked up the tray from her back and placed it on her granddaughter’s nightstand as she took one from it to take a bite out of it.

Then she just stood there, staring intently at her eldest granddaughter.

‘’Aren’t you gonna go, Granny?’’ Applejack asked, confused.

Then a ‘’yelp’’ was heard from the young mare as the elder mare yanked her flank. ‘’Ya need ta learn manners, ya hear?’’ She looked at her crossly, seeing a nod from her granddaughter. ‘’Now, tell me. You haven’t been opened up to us lately so mind tellin’ me what’s goin’ on?’’

‘’What do you mean?’’ she asked, perplexed.

‘’Quit foolin’!’’ Granny Smith stated. ‘’The loss of appetite, goo-goo eyes. I’m started to see what’s goin’ on here.’’

Applejack sighed. ‘’Is it really that obvious?’’

‘’Don’t get me wrong, hun,’’ said the elder mare, ‘’yerr great at hidin’ away from yerr feelings but ya can’t fool this old mare.’’

‘’Yerr not that old, Granny.’’ The cowgirl smiled softly.

‘’I appreciate you bein’ nice, hun, but you and I both know that I haven’t looked the same since yerr parents had given birth to all three of ya.’’

Applejack took a bite from her apple fritter and gulped it down guiltily.

The elder mare sighed and took a seat next to her granddaughter. ‘’Yerr parents were inseparable and their love was, even more, stronger than Princess Cadence and Shinin’ Armour’s defeat at the Canterlot weddin’.

‘’Yeah...’’ the cowgirl nodded softly, having her grandmother pat on her back. ‘’B-But did you sometimes solve their love problems?’’

Granny Smith laughed. ‘’You’re a hoot! Now I don’t believe that there have ever been arguments between ‘em. Why you ask, A.J?’’

Applejack gulped. ‘’No reason.’’

Granny Smith stared at her fixedly, then she finally got it. ‘’Ya have a crush, don’t ya?’’

‘’What?’’ Applejack spat, having her eyes spread out.

‘’Uh-uh-uh!’’ Granny Smith taunted. ‘’What have I said about you can’t fool me?’’

Applejack swallowed the last apple fritter and nodded. Granny Smith raised an eyebrow and stared at the plate with no remaining apple fritters left.

‘’Wow,’’ she uttered, nudging her granddaughter. ‘’Ya really do have a strong appetite like yerr father.’’

Applejack was saddened a bit but blushed.

‘’Hmm. I’ve never quite seen you acting so girly before,’’ the elder mare observed. ‘’Mind tellin’ me who yerr in love with? Is it that Rainbow Dash fella?’’

Applejack spat the whole apple fritter, that she was chewing on, out of her mouth. She stared at her to see if she was joking but then groaned. ‘’For Celestia’s sake, Granny! Rainbow Dash is a girl!’’

‘’Alright...’’ Granny Smith smirked.

The younger mare rolled her eyes, then sighed. ‘’It’s Rarity. Yes, I know that’s unexpected because we always argue but...’’

Granny Smith laughed. ‘’And you think couples don’t?’’

‘’What?’’ Applejack muttered in a quiet tone. ‘’But you said my parents never-’’

The elder mare shrugged. ‘’They did argue, but they would always make up at the end of the day. Much like ya and Rarity.’’ She smirked, nudging her granddaughter in the side.

‘’Huh.’’ Applejack stared blankly in space as her grandmother continued looking at her with a grin. ‘’What should I do about it then, Granny?’’

‘’Now I’m not the Princess of Love to say this but,’’ Granny Smith started, ‘’you do what your heart tells you to do. Make the first move since you’re masculine than that Rarity fella.’’

‘’Do what my heart tells me to do?’’ Applejack repeated. ‘’What does that mean?’’

‘’It means to just go with the flow that your heart is intended to do.’’ Granny Smith tapped on the younger mare’s shoulder, then left the room, leaving her to ponder to herself.

Applejack then got off from her bed and trotted towards her desk table and pulled out a chair for herself to sit in. She grabbed a pencil and paper from a drawer that was underneath the desk table. Her eyes stared fixedly at the paper as she started scribbling down words on the piece of paper.

Dear Princess Cadence,

My name is Applejack - one of your sister-in-law’s friends and also a bearer of the elements of harmony. I’m sorry if I’m interrupting one of your royal duties but I’m having a love crisis and everyone told me to ~~speak~~ write to you as you are the Princess of Love.

I hope you can reply to this short letter back and hand me over some tips.

Your Humble Subject,
Applejack

P.S. The pony I’m talking about is Rarity.

Applejack smacked her forehead with a hoof, regretting to write that last part but she shook it off instead and placed the letter inside her saddlebag, and descended her staircase to exit out of the barn. She walked through the isle of trees again until she exited out of the gates of Sweet Apple Acres.

She trotted through the streets of Ponyville with all the plants withering through the cold wind but slowly blossoming into a huge, beautiful flower, and the Celestial sun gleaming bright high in the sky which had distracted her vision so increased her speed to reach the post office in time.

Once she had reached there, she found a sign with the description as ‘closed’ which made the cowgirl frown. Luckily, she got an idea and turned around to resume her trotting.

This time she led herself to Twilight’s castle, and knocked on the door, revealing a unicorn in the way with a book out in front of her until she lowered it down to glance at both sides but spotted the cowgirl in front of her.

‘’Oh,’’ Starlight said. ‘’Hey there, Applejack. What can I do for you?’’

‘’Hi, Starlight.’’ Applejack peaked inside the castle. ‘’Is Spike around?’’

‘’Uh, yeah. He’s in the library dusting off the bookshelves,’’ Starlight answered. ‘’I swear Twilight pressures so much work on that poor guy and doesn’t do them herself, maybe ‘cause she’s a princess, but still be modest.’’ She rolled her eyes and resumed her trotting out of the castle.

The cowgirl looked at the trotting unicorn in confusion, then she looked forward and entered inside the castle. She trotted through the castle's corridor until she stopped at a halt as she found a door leading to a library. She opened it and entered herself in.

‘’No. A little to the left. No, that’s not right. Wait, no. Left, not right. Ugh!’’ Twilight groaned as she smacked herself on the forehead, leaving a mark as she had done that multiple times on this day. Then she turned around to look at her cowgirl friend entering in.

‘’Hi, Applejack.’’ Twilight trotted towards her solemnly. ‘’What can I do for you?’’

‘’What are you doing?’’ Applejack asked, glancing around at the place.

‘’Well-’’ Twilight trailed off as she got interrupted by Spike.

‘’Twilight wants to create a ‘welcome to Ponyville’ party for Princesses Celestia and Luna and she wanted to do it in the library since it is her favourite place, and Pinkie Pie couldn’t make it to decorate for us since she’s traveling around Equestria with her boyfriend Cheese Sandwich and you know how well she takes that for.’’

Applejack flattened her eyes, then blinked. ‘’Wow,’’ she uttered. ‘’I think you’re overdoing it, Twi. I mean the princesses are not all that sophisticated as we thought they were since we are practically their friends now.’’

‘’Yes, but Celestia told me how she’s been feeling sad lately and wants to talk it out so I invited her to Ponyville to have a break along with her sister,’’ Twilight explained as she darted her eyes back and forth.

‘’Uh-huh,’’ Applejack uttered. ‘’Well, you do you I suppose. And Spike? May you send this letter to Princess Cadence?’’ She got out a letter from her saddlebag that was on her back.

‘’Sure thing, A.J!’’ Spike flew himself down from the ladder he was standing on and took a deep breath to blow green flames on top of the letter to make it swiftly dematerialize out of the window.

‘’Gee, thanks, Spike.’’ Applejack shifted her hat back in place.

‘’No worries.’’ Spike shrugged it off. As the cowgirl was about to leave, he followed beside her. ‘’Uh, may I ask what was written in that letter and why you sent it to Princess Cadence, the Princess of Love?’’

Applejack stopped her trotting and froze. She would have answered and told the truth but since she is talking to the dragon who literally admires a pony she also admires, then she stood there with no words spoken out.

But Spike making a pleading face almost made the cowgirl burst out of cuteness.

Spike was confused as to why the cowgirl wasn’t answering his question until his cheeks puffed up with a scroll spitting out of his mouth. Applejack ducked herself, having the scroll swiftly come floating between her head and her jumped-off hat until it fell back on her head. She shifted it properly on her head and snatched the scroll from Spike’s hold to prevent him from reading it.

‘’What’s the big deal?’’ Spike questioned crossly.

‘’Nothin’.’’ The cowgirl had her eyes skim through the words on the parchment.

Dear Applejack,

I would be so grateful to have you learn some tips from me, and not going to lie but everyone would have already guessed it was Rarity you were crushing on...

Applejack looked up from the letter with a blush, having Spike stare at her in confusion, but then she resumed her reading.

...but I would be most honoured to share some advice with you. I am the Princess of Love after all so the ones who told you to go come to me did the right thing.

So, number one: always listen or watch carefully what your crush really likes to do.

We already know that Rarity likes to create clothes for her customers, but Twilight told me how you are not good at that so I advise you to give something else that she would like, like a type of jewelry.

Number two: when you’re talking with them, have eye contact with them so it wouldn’t be an awkward conversation and you’ll be confident enough to ask her out in the future. But you’ve already gone past through the friend stage and you’re trying to ask her out so just give it a shot and ask her.

I remember when Shining Armour felt nervous to ask me out. It’s normal to have butterflies in your stomach, it’s one of those symptoms of love.

Number three: don’t think they will return your affections?

You might be thinking this because you two would argue a lot but that’s a normal thing friends have to suffer through to fight for your friendship. This mostly happens in relationships, like take me and Shining for example. He sometimes forgets to change Flurry Heart’s diapers or close the toilet lid and I would get so frustrated but then at the end of the day, he shows me that he really can be useful for me.

That’s the thing. Real friends - or true couple goals in this case - will argue but at the end of the day, they try to fix their problems, or else if they don't then they will never know what’s bugging the other.

Well, if this had helped you out so far then I’m pleased to hear it! If this doesn’t work and want to hear more from me, please write back to me. I’ll make sure to come by to ask how the process of asking your crush is going.

Yours Only Equestrian Princess of Love,
Cadence

At the side of her eyes, she noticed that Spike was peaking through to read the letter as well. At first, she merely rolled her eyes but then a shiver went down her spine and quickly put the letter down.

She examined a disheartened look on the poor baby dragon’s face.

‘’S-Spike, I-’’ Applejack began.

A soft stifle sob came from the baby dragon until he burst the library doors open and ran out into the hallways of the castle. Then a violet alicorn trotted in, confused.

‘’What happened here, A.J?’’ Twilight asked as she tilted her head in confusion.

Applejack looked at her violet friend with a saddened look and got no words out of her, making Twilight even more worried and curious to know.

* * *

Applejack grumpily landed herself on her bed which now felt like a rock as she wasn’t in the mood right now.

‘’Great,’’ the cowgirl said. ‘’You fucked his emotions up, you varmint. Now, are you happy?’’

She stared fixedly at her pillow then used it to groan inside it and slammed her face repeatedly on it.

But then a lightbulb struck above her head, she hopped out of her bed and trotted back to her desk table and grabbed the pencil that she left on the table earlier and got out another piece of paper.

‘’But... Princess Cadence told me to do it face-to-face or else I’ll be seen as a coward.’’

Applejack tapped the pencil on her chin and landed her face on the table. But she brought it back up again.

She shrugged. ‘’I’ll do it anyway, I suppose, because what if I look like a fool if she rejects me? It’s better to do it by letter. And love letters are more often used during Hearts and Hooves Day.’’

She picked her pencil back and started writing on the blank, wordless piece of paper.

Dear Rarity,

In all ~~my~~ our years for knowing each other, we would always constantly bicker.
Others would try to reconcile us, but we would make it even more of a fuss.
These past few days, I have been thinking of what to say,
I think I’m more into you, even if you don’t feel the same way too,
I hope nothing becomes awkward between us, and you wouldn’t put this friendship in reverse.
To learn from each other afresh, I’ve already tried so hard to mess.
Without you, I cannot be able to see those crisp blue eyes that you hold.

But what I’m trying to say is, Rarity... I love you.

Yours Stupid-Enough-To-Write-This,
Applejack

Applejack slouched herself on the table one last time.

* * *

It was finally Hearts and Hooves Day and everyone was enjoying their lovely time bonding with their special someone. Ponies or no ponies. The wind swiftly went past them all.

Applejack observed from a familiar mint-coated unicorn exchanging gifts with a beige-coated earth pony to a red, muscular stallion sharing a kiss with his new fiancee that he proposed a year ago now.

The cowgirl sighed in despondent, realising that she, herself, still didn’t have a special somepony. Until she was grabbed from the back and pulled through the door to enter inside a boutique.

‘’What the-’’ Applejack started. ‘’Rarity?’’ She glanced at the unicorn looking at her with a soft smile on her face.

‘’Oh, Applejack!’’ Rarity pressed onto her to hug her. ‘’This perhaps may be the best thing that anypony could’ve ever done for me!’’

‘’What?’’ Applejack spat.

Rarity pulled away and looked at her with suspicion. ‘’You did send me that love letter, did you?’’

‘’I- uh...’’ the cowgirl stammered.

Rarity’s lips quivered. ‘’B-But the ending said it was from Applejack a-and-’’

The unicorn’s stuttering stopped as the cowgirl softly placed a hoof on her lips to prevent her to do so.

‘’Yes, I did.’’ Applejack stood confident, looking into her sapphire blue eyes.

‘’R-Really?!’’ Rarity’s eyes sparkled with intense satisfaction that refracted with the brightening sun from out the window absorbing through it.

Applejack nodded, stepping closer and pulling her waist closer towards her...

...this made Rarity’s heart stop a beat, yet she didn’t move away.

Applejack brought herself closer to land her soft, moist lips on the unicorn’s ones. Both of their eyes widened out of shock, not believing what they were doing to each other, but they liked it.

They slowly closed their eyes and peacefully dived into a deep and passionate kiss. Wrapping a hoof around the unicorn’s neck to drag her closer into bliss, the cowgirl didn’t feel any urges to push away. She felt that this was right. It was like they were destined to be together. There was a lightning strike orbiting around the two pairs which made their manes flow ever so slightly in the air.

Then a few seconds later, they slowly pushed each other away.

‘’Yes, Rarity. I like you.’’

From outside a window displayed on the boutique, a tall, pink alicorn was peaking through with a smirk as long as a violet alicorn beside her. They were smirking happily at the newly-made couple.

Cadence sighed flirtingly. ‘’We did a great job, Twily. The Rarijack ship no longer has holes in it.’’

Twilight nodded. ‘’Pinkie Pie would be even prouder. Although, do you know which ship we are forgetting still?’’

Cadence tilted her head in confusion. Twilight opened her mouth to speak.

‘’PinkieDash!’’

Cadence beamed in delightful agreement.