An Old Apple Friend

Applejack seemed mostly confused by Cookies statement; she wanted to ask both Cookie and Applebloom about it. But before she could utter a word, Applebloom zipped up out of the recliner.

“I gotta go work on my…” she stopped herself from saying too much and dropped down onto the floor “…Thing” she ran

towards the hallway “I’m gonna work on the thing in my room, nopony come in ok?”

“Thing?” Cookie asked.

“For the dance” She called out from the stairs, holding onto the banisters.

While Applebloom was gone, an uncomfortable silence fell over the living room Cookie and Applejack were in. until Applejack turned to Cookie and said “Fillyfriend?”

After explaining what had happened the night before to Applejack multiple times, she asked “So she thinks you’re her Coltfriend?” Applejack asked Cookie, knowing what his answer would be.

“Correct”. Said Cookie.

“But Y’aren’t?” she asked with her head tilted slightly, waiting for the answer she wanted.

“Well…” He went on to say.

“Well what?” Applejack inched closer.

“I didn’t want to break her little heart or anything, so I just said…”.

“Yeah?" Applejack asked.

“Yeah” Cookie confirmed.

“Well what’cha gonna do about it?”.

“Nothing” Cookie shrugged. “I mean it’s not like she ‘expects’ to do anything, right?”

Applejack nodded in agreement “I guess you’re right” she said. “But if she finds out you’re jus’ fakin’ this, she’ll be mighty upset”

“Don’t worry. I’ll treat her like my little princess”

“Don’t ya treat her like your lil’ princess already?” Applejack asked rhetorically.

A flattered smile appeared on Cookies face, at the same time Applebloom came back in to the living room, with glitter, glue, colour stains and pinkie purple fabric stuck to her hooves. She ran in trailing a glittery, shiny trail behind her.  She jumped up on the recliner Cookie was sitting on and dropped next to him.

“What in Equestria are you making?” Both Applejack and Cookie said simultaneously.

“It’s a secret” Applebloom stuck her sticky, shiny hoof in the air.

“Bloom, go take a bath,  you wouldn’t want to look like that if Princess Celestia walked in right now would ya’?

Applebloom slowly lowered her sticky, shiny hoof. “No”.

“Then go wash up and get ready to go out” Applejack Got up and off of the couch. “You, Granny and I need to get some things for the dance tomorrow”. She walked to the door frame to the kitchen.

Applebloom got up and went upstairs, again, leaving a trail of glitter behind her.

“Leaving me with Mac?” Cookie asked.

“Ya can ask him about something to wear for the dance”. She strapped a saddlebag to her side. “Ya can’t go like that” She smiled and walked out of the kitchen, and stood near the front door, waiting for Granny Smith and Applebloom to come downstairs.