Chapter 6: Love is temporary, But Friends are forever

Love is temporary, But friends are forever

Great. Now Rainbow is getting dragged into all of this.

After Rainbow Dash overheard most of Applejack’s story, she has flown off somewhere in anger. There was a definite path she had taken though, since almost all of the clouds she had touched turned into storm clouds. The three ponies sat there in shock from Rainbow Dash's reaction.

"Not Rainbow now too" Applejack starts, lowering her head to the floor.

"It's not your fault Applejack, like you said, It was a long time ago right?" Cheerilee says, lifting the mares head back up. "I'll go see where she flew off to and have a little chat. After all, I help kids everyday right?"

She walks over to Rarity and gives her a hug. "Don’t worry, I'll be back in a bit. Besides, you two need to talk as well" She says, kissing Rarity on the cheek.

She closes the door behind her, and walks away. Rarity and Applejack are left alone in the house, and an awkward silence falls upon them. Rarity wanted to speak up, but couldn’t work herself up to do so. She knows a simple sorry is not enough for everything that has been going on. These past few weeks have been both the most happiest and sad time in her life. If she's going to speak up though, it's going to be right now, since the timing would be perfect. Before Rarity can speak up, Applejack is the first to open her mouth.

"Look", She sighs, "I'm sorry for yelling at you and getting all upset. I just know how much it hurts somepony you love very much, and don't want that to happen to you or Twilight"

"I know, and..I'm sorry for everything, I cant stress that enough" Rarity speaks up.

"So Rarity, Do you still want to talk to Twilight, or what?"

"Huh? Oh. Yeah, that would be nice if I could" She says.

"Well, what are we waiting for, you have a friend to talk to"

"Alright. Just give me a few minutes okay? I need to freshen up"

Rarity goes upstairs into the bathroom to fix her hair, makeup, and coat. Cheerilee's little cheer up had messed everything up, so of course she needed to fix it. Finishing up, she goes back downstairs, meeting back up with Applejack, and the two head out.

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The two arrive at the library, and hear the other mares inside the library laughing.

"Do I hear laughing? I wonder what they could be doing" Applejack asks

"They're laughing? Well, Let's go inside and see what they are doing then" Rarity tells her.

Applejack opens the door to see Twilight and Pinkie throwing pillows at each other, while Fluttershy is hiding behind a ladder, trying to stay out path fo the pillows.

"Hey girls, We're back" Applejack speaks up, stopping the pillow fight. The three mares turn their heads to look at Rarity and Applejack as they stand in the door way. Pinkie still looks mad at Rarity, giving her a pretty nasty look.

"Come on now Pinkie. That's enough, everything is okay now....and, I think She wants to have a serious talk to Twilight" She tells Pinkie.

"Okay!" Pinkie says, quickly returning to her happy state, prancing around the room, laughing. Not very much can or could upset her. After all, she is a party pony.

Applejack and Rartity advance inside, closing the door behind them. Rarity is trying her best to avoid eye contact with anypony right now, since she still feels sorry about everything.

"Could everypony leave? I would like to be alone with Rarity, if that's alright with you girls" Twilight says, looking in Rarity's general direction.

Applejack nods her head, signaling for the other mares to follow suite, and leave the library. Applejack knows that they need their time to talk, and don’t want anypony interrupting it.

"Twi-" Rarity starts, but is cut off by Twilight.

"No, it's okay Rarity. I understand"

"I know I really hurt you and...wait what?"

"Yes, You did hurt me, but, It looks like you found somepony that makes you really happy. And it makes me happy knowing that you are" Twilight says, trying to smile the best she can. "It's true that I love you, and that is the one thing I am sure of. But, like many things, Friends are more important then love, and I still want to be friends"

"Twilight.....?"

"I love you more as a friend that I ever would as a partner" She continues "So that’s why I want to apologize for everything too"

"But Twilight, you don’t have to, Everything is my fault, you did nothing wron--"

"It doesn't matter who's fault it is. What happened, happened, and its over." She says, cutting Rarity off once again.

What have I done. She really did love me, and I just went a head and stuck an arrow in her heart

"You know Twilight, I really did care about you too. It really hurt me as well, you know that?" Rarity begins. " But, everything was all new to me, and I thought it was going to fast an--"

Twilight walks over to Rarity and puts a hoof on her mouth, stopping her from finishing her last sentence. "It's okay Rarity. Like I said, I understand, and I’m okay with things now."

Twilight wraps her hooves around Rarity giving her a hug. Quickly returning the hug, Rarity wraps her hooves around Twilight, holding her tight.

"Thank you Twilight. For everything"

"It's alright Rarity. So tell me about your fillyfriend, if you don’t mind me asking"

"Are you sure, I mean..wouldn't you get upset?" She asks her

"I might a little bit at first, but we are still good friends remember?" Twilight tells her, reassuring her that its alright

"Okay well, if you insist. Anyways, I met her that night we broke up. She found me crying on a bench that night, with a tub of ice cream I had just bought from the store" She begins. "Well, after all that, we decided to make a date, and everything took off from there. She is so wonderful Twilight, I wish I could only describe how perfect she is"

Upon hearing the word perfect, Twilight lowered her ears, and looked towards the ground a bit.

Perfect. Who am I to say who is perfect. Now look what I did, come on Rarity, you can fix this!

"What I mean is that I just really like her alot Twilight. She actually reminds me a lot about you, and I like that" She continues, trying to make her feel better from the last comment.

She is a lot like Twilight...Maybe I still..no, stop it Rarity, it's over, you're with Cheerilee now.

"A lot like me?" Twilight asks, looking back up at her with interest

"Yes, I mean like, she has a lot of books, and has a lot of the same interests as you. She cares about me also, and wouldn't want to do anything to harm that either. Much like you Twi" Rarity tells her, flashing her a smile.

The two hug again, but at that moment, the door is kicked open. Applejack is standing in the doorway.

"Oh hey, looks like you two made up, that’s great. Anyways, we cant find Rainbow dash, or Cheerilee!" She shouts, still leaving the two hugging mares in shock.

Rarity and Twilight both look at each other, then back at Applejack. At the same time, they both say the same time, "Huh?"

"No time to explain. We went to go find what Rainbow was up to, and if Cheerilee had found her yet, but we cant seem to find either pony, and we are all worried!" Applejack tells them.

Rarity and Twilight both look at each other again before breaking the hug, and walking towards Applejack.

"Come on you guys! Hurry up, we need to go and find them...now!"

Rolling her eyes, Twilight opens her mouth to speak, but decides it best not to argue with Applejack, and shuts up. Rarity goes through the door first with Applejack, followed by Twilight once she closes the door.

"Where is Flutterhy and Pinkie?" Rarity asks.

"Out looking. Now come on, let's do the same" Applejack says.

Twilight and Rarity nod, and begin to follow Applejack as they walk through the town.

"So where could they have possibly gone to. It's only been about an hour since she left" Rarity speaks up.

"So wait, what happened to Rainbow Dash?" Twilight asks Applejack

"Long story short she flew off after hearing some terrible news, and Cheerilee went after her to cheer her up"

"What kind of news could possibly do that?" She says curiously

"That doesn’t matter right now. We all just need to find them first" Applejack tells her, as they continue to walk along, picking up the pace.

They continue to walk through town when they spot a familiar face. It's Applejacks brother, Big Mac. They walk over to him as he continues to lift barrels of apples onto a cart.

"Hey Big Mac!" Applejack shouts. "Have you seen Rainbow Dash or Cheerilee?"

"Eeeyup"

"Well do you know which way they went?"

"Eeenope"

"Well thanks for being helpful" She mutters sadistically. " Hey girls.. I have an idea"

"Oh? What's that Applejack?" Twilight asks her

"Have we checked Cheerilee's house yet? I mean, that is probably the last place anypony would look right?"

Rarity's eye widen in shock, because in fact Applejack is right, they havn’t checked there, or planned on it. The three mares nod, and start at her house. It's going to be a good 20 minutes before they reach there, so they pick up the pace a bit to make up for some time.

"Do you think they will be there?" Twilight asks the two other girls as they work there way to Cheerilees house. They had picked up their pace so much, they have started to run at this point. The girls pass both Fluttershy and Pinkie on their way to the house, and figuring they had a lead, Pinkie and Flutter joined them.

"Be where?" Pinkie asks her, while running along with the group.

"At Cheerilees house!" Rarity speaks up, looking at Pinkie as they run along.

"Ohhh, that's such a good place to look! Why didnt we think of that before!" She giggles, as she thinks to herself that it should have been the first place to look.

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Upon reaching to the house, there is some obvious shadows in the windows as they get closer and closer.

"This is it girls!" Applejack shouts out, "Whoo hoo!"

Reaching the door, Applejack is first to barge into the door, with the rest of the ponies coming in as well. Pinkie had knocked everypony down since she was the last one to enter, and of course she didnt stop like the rest of them. After getting up, every single pony turn to the worst thing that could have possibly happened. Something Applejacks knows all to well. Rainbow Dash is standing there, grinning from one side of her face to another, while Cheerilee is low to the ground, staring at the floor in shame.

"No." Applejack starts. "No, you didnt do what I think Rainbow....Rainbow!"

"Applejack, what do mean?" Rarity asks her being pretty confused.

"Rainbow Dash. Out of all of the possible things you could do to get back at me, you do it like this, hurting another friend aswell?"

"Yeah, like you care!" Rainbow speaks out "You didnt care about my feelings!"

"What is she talking about Applejack!?" says the white mare, getting no response from Applejack, or Rainbow Dash. Cheerilee also just stands there, listening to the two bicker.

"It was a long time ago Rainbow! I already told you this!" Applejack continues to argue with her friend "And besides, how was I supposed to know you liked Sorren! We
wernt even friends then! And what do you decide to do about it? Trick one of your best friends fillyfriend into sleeping with you out of pity?! How pathetic!"

Rarity's heart sunk so low from hearing that, she also fell to the floor before Twilight had caught her. Catching her breath, she tries to say something the best she can.

"Wait. What are you? Rainbow did you just? Cheerilee...how..could you." She manages to say. "After everything I have been through, after knowing the things I have sacrificed to be with you. And you Rainbow Dash, why are you smiling about this!?"

"Pfft, well since you can go around and sleep with anypony you want, I thought I might as well and go do the same thing!"

"Rainbow, It wasnt even her fault, let alone Twilight's why the things that happened happened! After hearing what I had went through with Soarin, you go ahead and do this?! That's not what friends do!" Applejack says, cutting back into the conversation, taking another shot at Rainbow Dash.

This..hurts so much. Is this what Twilight felt? What is going on, im so scared.

"I'm sorry to cut into this..but Applejack, Soarin is that wonderbolt right?" Asks Twilight

"Yes he is, why do you ask?"

"Well, when I still lived in Canterlot, I would hear stories on how this wonderbolt had made a terrible mistake and hurt the pony he loved, and still loves. He tried everything he could to get her attention, but nothing worked. I never thought that the pony in that story was you."

"He...he loves me?" Applejack lets out, falling to the floor, but catching her self, and taking a seat. "Even after...he..Soarin? Loves me?..."

"Um, you okay Applejack?" Twilight says, lending her hoof to her, helping her stand back up.

"Oh..yee uh, im alright. But anyways. Rainbow, you should be ashamed of yourself. Apologize to Rarity right now."...."Rarity?"

Rarity had disappeared from the room, unable to take everything that is going on. There has been so much drama in her life that she cant take any of it. First the break up with Twilight, now this? After everything she put Twilight through, are things going to end with Cheerilee as well? All because of one single jelous pony wanted to get back at another friend. Though Rarity is unsure of what is going to happen, all she can think of is how her life is falling right in front of her eyes.