Two years later......

A digital alarm clock on the nightstand began to flash 7:30 A.M. and made its usual loud stretched pitch beeping for about 20 seconds before a hand reached over and pressed the alarm shutoff button. Paul made a complaining groan as he lay in his bed before getting up. He stood in his boxers blinking a number of times before he went to his closet to retrieve his clothes for school that day.

There was a big hub bub when he had first arrived, after all he did end up slamming his van into the Apple Family barn. There had been shock at his arrival but not as much as one would have thought. Princess Celestia was already on hand not long after he arrived and revealed to Paul (once he had accepted the fact he was in universe of talking pastel colored ponies) that he was not the first Human to arrive in Equestria; that honor belonged to another human named Joe who had arrived a number of years prior to him. Like Joe, Paul had been given employment at Sweet Apple Acre's so he would have some bits of his own and to pay off the damage done to the barn. Paul had heard that Joe had a relatively easy time adapting to life in Equestria. Paul would have no such luck. This was due to his own personal reasons. He had grieved for a while at the likelihood that he would never see his family or home again but after a while he just bottled up his sadness and put on an aura of aloofness and anger. He was not very friendly with many ponies, but he was civil to most including his employer's: The Apple family. They all treated him well, Big Macintosh, Applejack, Granny Smith, and Apple Bloom. His thoughts shifted when he thought of Apple Bloom. The family had been more than friendly and hospitable to him but Apple Bloom always seemed to go the extra mile. He also could have sworn that he had seen her watching him while he worked with Big Mac, Applejack, and Joe in the apple orchard but he never found any evidence to indicate that she was. She was always eager to help him and to be around him but he never thought anything of it, he just assumed that she was being friendly toward him. He was never friendly per say in return, just civil. He was polite but he never was as warm to her as she was to him. He just didn't feel that he had the capacity to do so.

He had however managed to develop a very close friendship with Joe, Due to him being the only other human in Equestria, he was also the only one that Paul was ever truly friendly with, but he still kept all of his thoughts to himself. He never spoke to anypony about his feelings and that was just the way he liked it. He'd also managed to make enough money to be able to have his own house. In sort of a way of recapturing the life he had lost, he had it made to be a perfect replica of his old home.

Paul opened up his closet and retrieved a grey T-shirt that read: "You read my shirt, that's enough social interaction for one day.", a dark blue collared shirt, and his father's grey corduroy sport coat. 'Just another god damn fucking day at school' he though to himself as he retrieved socks and a pair of blue jeans. After putting on his jeans and socks along with his pair of blue and black Nike's, he put on his T-shirt, then put his collared shirt on but left it completely unbuttoned, and put on the sport coat. He went to the bathroom to continue his morning routine. He looked in the mirror and though 'Jesus Fucking Christ....I look like hammered shit' before he continued by retrieving an electric razor and trimming his beard and mustache back to stubble, before brushing his teeth.

After he had finished he let out a deep sigh as he returned to his bedroom and picked up a black baseball cap which he wore backwards, a pair of Ray-Bans Aviator Sunglasses which he hung on the neck of his t-shirt, his Timex Digital Watch, a pair of fingerless gloves, and pair of military style dog-tags that he'd received as a present for his 14th birthday.

He took another deep sigh and said to no one, "Well, now that I've finished putting on my mask of sanity, I'd say it's time for a damn coffee and a bagel."

He went down stairs and into the kitchen where he made himself a very LARGE cup of coffee and a cream cheese bagel. After he finished his breakfast, he looked at his watch to see it read 8:00 A.M. He grunted and said, "Well...no sense in delaying the inevitable." With this he grabbed a pair of keys from a basket along with a Zippo Lighter with the words "Like A Boss" emblazoned on it, put on his Ray Bans and walked out the door.....

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Two hours earlier at Sweet Apple Acres....
The sun was just beginning to rise over the nearby hills as it's light reflected off the earlier morning dew. Slowly the beams of light reached the Apple family homestead and cast themselves inside the window to Apple Bloom's room. The beams slowly crept along the floor before climbing her bed and casting themselves upon her face, almost making it sparkle, when a loud knock came at the door before it opened.

"Apple Bloom! It's time tah get up!" Big Mac said as he stood in the doorway.

"Alright big brother, I'm up." She said as she slowly removed her covers and sat up on her bed.

Big Mac gave her a small smile before he shut the door to give her privacy while she changed and headed downstairs.

Apple Bloom yawned for a second before getting up to use her shower. Entering her bathroom, she quickly took off her trademark bows, her undershirt and her panties as she got in. As she went about her business, she thought about the possibilities of her day. She thought about meeting up with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo during lunch and after school and about what assignments might be handed out that day. When she started think about Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, her mind ventured to how they both had very-special-some-pony's, namely Pipsqueak and Joe respectively. She began to feel a bit sad when she remembered that her relationship with Bane didn't work out. The relationship had ended on amicable terms, but it still felt like a deep wound in her heart. Her mind then wandered to Paul and she started feeling a little bit better.

Apple Bloom had been friendly to Paul ever since he first ended up in Equestria. Her family was polite and kind to him sure, but she put in the extra effort to make him feel welcome and to adapt to Equestrian life because she knew what it was like to not have many friends and to be socially isolated. Her feelings had initially only been friendly, but as time went by she developed strange feelings regarding Paul. This had caused reactions ranging from that warm sunny feeling to the drastic need for some alone time. However, nothing ever happened because of Paul's aloof nature, and while he was polite and nice to her, he never returned her feelings. It was because of that, she decided to move on and ended up starting a relationship with Bane. When that relationship had ended 4 weeks ago, her feelings for Paul had returned....and with a vengeance.

She began to recall seeing Paul without his shirt on, when she had spied on him while he was working the orchards with her brother, sister, and Joe 3 weeks ago. As she recalled all the details of his fine sculpted form that could only come from bucking apple trees she slowly reached her hoof down towards the lower half of her body and she began to....

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After she had finished, being thankful she was already in the shower, she shut the water off, dried her self off, and went to the bed room and put on her usual outfit of a striped plaid flannel shirt, blue jeans, and a new pair of underwear. After that she stepped in front of the mirror in her room and began putting in the bows in mane and tail before loosening her shirt a bit. She wanted to make herself look just a little bit extra sexy in the hopes of gaining Paul's attention.

"APPLE BLOOM! Grub's on!" Big Mac called from the kitchen below.

"CAHMING!" She replied, before turning red at the realization of the connection between what she said and what she had been doing in the shower. Quickly, she shook it off and headed down stairs.

As she finished descending the steps and headed towards the dining table, she saw Applejack and Granny Smith sitting while Big Mac was in the kitchen making breakfast.

"Mornin' sleepin' beauty." Applejack said happily to her little sister.

"Mornin' Applejack, Granny." she replied as she took a seat at the table.

Big Mac came back from the kitchen carrying a large plate of pancakes before setting them down and taking his place at the head of the table and dishing out food to everyone before they began eating.

"Yahr looking a little extra nice today Apple Bloom. There somethin' special goin' on?" Big Mac remarked

"Ah bet there's a new colt she's got her eye on." Granny remarked. Apple Bloom blushed profusely, her family was like the Abwher of keeping secrets.

"Well that solves that riddle. Who is he?" Applejack inquired, happy that her sister was starting to get over her past relationship.

"Just someone at school, but ah don't think he notices me. He's polite and all but he never shows if he's interested or naht." Apple Bloom replied.

"Any colt'd be lucky to be with ya Apple Bloom," Big Mac said comfortingly, "Although ah am gonna want tah meet him eventually if you do get together with 'em."

Apple Bloom smiled lovingly at Big Mac before looking up at the clock to see that it read 8:00 A.M. The school carriage would be at the end of her road in a few minutes.

"Dang! Ah got tah get going!" she said as she quickly finished eating. She got up, picked up her backpack, and hugged her brother for his earlier remark, "Thank yah Big Mac." She gave a hug to Applejack and a kiss to Granny before hurrying quickly out the door.

Mac watched his kid sister run out the door and chuckled to himself, "Guess she doesn't want to keep her crush waitin'........"

Author's Note

This is how Apple Bloom looks now:

Now just imagine her wearing jeans and a flannel shirt that looks like that neckerchief she's wearing in that image and your set.