"Hey, sis, can I help you make the dresses?" Sweetie Belle smiled, hoping for another chance to help her older sister for the first time in forever!
"No, that's fine, just stay over there in the corner, where you can watch me do my work. I heard that someday you wanted to be just like your older sister, hmm?" Rarity said, while she continued to work on the dresses at her workbench.
"I guess so." Sweetie Belle played with her hooves as she fell down on her flank, sitting in the corner she was banished to. She looked around the room and got an idea. "Hey, what if I help you with getting your supplies?"
"I'm just fine, Sweetie. But thank you for the generous offer."
Sweetie pouted. After a few minutes of sitting, Sweetie finally got up and quietly left the room, leaving Rarity alone to continue to quietly work.
"Now, Apple Bloom. You know that I can't have you selling apples with me no more. Remember what happened last time you tried to advertise live while we were selling apples?"
"I know, sis, but I wanna try again! Maybe I can sell apples better this time! Please?" Apple Bloom put on her puppy dog face in hopes of succeeding in her plea to help her sister sell apples.
"I'm mighty sorry Apple Bloom, but I said no, and that's that."
"But--"
"No buts this time. I'm sorry little sis, but that's the way it has to be." Applejack said, watching Apple Bloom sadly and slowly nod her head before turning around, and slowly and sadly walking away towards the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse.
"Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo stopped calling for Rainbow Dash for a little bit.
'Where could Rainbow Dash be right now?' She thought to herself. Just then, a ginormous gust of wind assaulted Scootaloo's mane, making it messier than it was originally. She whipped her head all over the place, to find out where that mysterious gust of wind came from.
"Sorry, squirt. Didn't mean to mess up your mane that badly." Rainbow Dash chuckled a bit. "What're you doing here?"
"I was looking for you!" Scootaloo jumped up. "I wanted to see if you could hang out with me today!"
Rainbow frowned. "Sorry, Scoots. I just came back from cloud busting for the day, and i'm really tired." It was true, Rainbow had been very tired from cloud busting all week, considering that all week, there were scheduled rain showers every morning. Dash also had visible circles around her eyes, not quite black, but questionably dark.
Not even Pinkie Pie's special coffee recipe had been enough to give Rainbow enough energy each day (Which is weird, considering they both have an almost unlimited amount of energy, must be the EXTRA special coffee).
"Oh. That's okay maybe we can hang out next week!" Scootaloo beamed.
"Sure, maybe next week. See ya, Scoots!" With that, Rainbow took off toward her mobile cloud home, leaving Scootaloo in her dust and ultimately, alone.
Scootaloo sighed, and dejectedly trotted off back towards Sweet Apple Acres. As she continued on the path, she noticed her fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders heading towards the clubhouse as well. As did Sweetie and Apple Bloom.
"Hey, guys, wait up!" Scootaloo exclaimed.
"Apple Bloom, Scootaloo? What're you guys doing here, I thought all of our meetings for this week were cancelled because of all the rain?" Sweetie Belle stopped her trotting to allow the other two to catch up.
"I could ask you the same thing." Apple Bloom raised her left eyebrow.
They all sighed in unison.
"I left Rarity's house while she was working, she just wouldn't let me help!" Sweetie Belle pouted.
"Applejack said that I couldn't help her sell apples anymore because of what happened last time."
"What happened 'last time'?" Scootaloo looked at Apple Bloom.
"Don't ask."
"I came here because Rainbow Dash is so busy with her work, and after she finishes her work, she's so tired she doesn't have the energy to hang out with me!" Scootaloo pouted.
Now, they're all pouting. But then, they stopped, they all noticed that they were all standing outside, and that there was an uncomfortably loud silence. So, they all headed inside the clubhouse, and sat in a circle.
Continuing the earlier conversation outside, Sweetie Belle spoke. "Well, what can we do about it? It's not like we can just switch sisters!"
They all thought about what Sweetie had just said, and suddenly, they all got the same 'brilliant' idea.
"We should all switch sisters for a day!" They all shouted in unison.
"Then, we can all see what it's like for each other!" Sweetie Belle added.
"Yeah!" Apple Bloom and Scootaloo agreed in unison.
And so, each set out to gather each of their sisters, and get them on board with the plan all of the fillies came up with together.
Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo all dashed out of the clubhouse together, all three faces filled with mischievous cheer.
The fillies didn't have it all figured out, but they were very confident they could get their sisters on board with this idea, and they were determined to do it.
But first, Scootaloo had to figure out how to wake Dash up.
.....
"And that's why we've decided to switch sisters!" Apple Bloom finished explaining what their entire plan was for today, that didn't involve cutie marks. The three fillies had gathered all of their sisters in the town square to discuss this.
"Well, I think that's a swell idea." Applejack winked at Rarity and Rainbow Dash. "I have just one question. Who's going with who?"
The CMC all collectively tapped thought for a second before coming to an answer.
"How about I go with Rarity, Apple Bloom goes with Rainbow Dash, and Sweetie goes with Applejack?" Scootaloo elaborated.
"Fine by me." Dash smirked. What the CMC didn't know, was that all three of the sisters were plotting something to get the Cutie Mark Crusader's heads straight!
Author's Note
The beginning of the story!! 