PEN PALS

AN UNUSUAL LETTER

Morning came all too early as it did most days for the farm pony. She pulled the sheets over her head to block out the sun glaring through the window.

“Come on Applebloom, rise and shine there, surgarcube!”, Applejack could be heard saying as she walked into the room. She pulled the sheets off the filly, who shivered in recoil as the comfort of her warm blankets was stolen from her.

“Give me five more minutes...”, the sleepy filly replied drowsily with her eyes still closed. She reached down with her right front hoof, in a vain attempt to grab the sheets and pull them back over her head.

“Up and at ‘em, sleepyhead! Ya got your mornin’ chores to do and then it's off to school with ya”, the farm pony replied.

She left the room afterwards, only to stick her head back in a few moments later, to see the filly slowly reaching down with her hind hooves to pull the blankets back up.

“Ah guess Ah'll be keepin’ this here letter Ah got from your cousin yesterday, then...”

Upon hearing this, Applebloom’s eyes shot wide open and looked as if she was completely awake and alert. “Babs sent me a letter?! Why didn't ya give it to me yesterday?!”, she exclaimed as she jumped out of bed and ran over to her older sister, who chuckled.

“You were out all day with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, doin’ that crusadin you always do, and when ya got back you went to bed without so much as a good night”, Applejack replied, looking at the farm filly with a knowing look.

“Oh yeah, Ah guess Ah did”, Applebloom remarked sheepishly before her eyes lit back up again. “So ya gonna give me the letter or what?”

Applejack hesitated for a moment, as if she was debating on whether or not to hold the letter over the filly's head in order to give her the incentive to do her morning chores. However, she ended up handing it to her instead.

“Ya best be gettin’ to doin’ those chores soon”, the farm pony said sternly, watching the filly run over to her bed and begin to open the envelope.

“Ah will, after Ah'm done readin’ and writin’ her back, Ah promise!”, Applebloom replied as she pulled the letter out.

“Alright, Ah got mah mornin’ chores to be doin’ mahself, so Ah'll let ya get to readin’ your cousin’s letter”, Applejack said, leaving the filly to read the letter.

To my cousin Applebloom,

How has the country life been treatin ya? It's been the same here with the exception of a few other fillies who are wantin to become cutie mark crusaders over here. Things have been pretty dull without you around though.

Though last night was interestin though. See I was hangin around with those fillies I told you about who are wantin to become cutie mark crusaders and one of them started goin on about their cousins. It started out like just some harmless gossip and all dat but then she started goin on about walkin in on the two doin the bunny thump and I mean really describin it. I didn't really think about it much till I got home dat night. Then it just stuck itself in my head and wouldn't go away. I soon found myself all hot and bothered and had to relieve myself. It started out as the usual ya know? Rubbin myself down there, workin myself up for the big gush but then somethin strange happened.

Your face got stuck in my head somehow and before I knew it I was really gettin into it as I stroked myself. And I mean REALLY gettin into it. I was already soakin the bed by the time I was half way to the big gush and the more I pictured you and me doin it, the more I got into it and before I knew it my big gush hit me so hard I could have sworn that my body felt like the Manehattan express had just hit me!

I think I'm deveopin a crush on ya cuz.

Anyways, I'm gonna send this letter off to ya before I change my mind.

Lookin forward to your reply,

Babs

Applebloom laid the letter down with a crimson red blush on her face. “She was fantasizin’ ‘bout me?!”, the farm pony remarked aloud in a hushed voice, nearly unable to believe what she had just read. In fact, the more she thought about it, the more she thought it was some kind of joke.

“That's all it is! It's just some big joke. Bet it’s the new big thing goin’ on in Manehattan these days. Well, two can play at this game!” The farm pony exclaimed with a devious grin as she began to write her reply on a separate piece of paper.

To my cousin Babs Seed,

Wow, you too? I guess we both got it bad then! I was fantasizin bout you just last week and I thought I was plum crazy for it. Say, why don't ya give me some pictures of ya? Ya know, so I can see more of that side of ya, if you get my meanin, hehe
.
Your cousin,

Applebloom

“Heh heh... This'll teach her to play a prank on me. Next letter Ah get will be her sayin’ it was all a joke and laughin’ along with me for gettin her back,” the filly remarked aloud with an audible giggle as she folded up the letter, sealed it, picked it up with her mouth and ran downstairs.

“Well, that was fast! Ya done writin’ back to her already? This had got to be some kind of record here,” Applejack remarked with a smirk when Applebloom handed her the sealed envelope.

“Lay off me big sis, Ah got chores to be gettin’ done”, she replied quickly and ran out the door.

“Never saw her in a hurry to be doin’ her chores before. Hmm...”, the farm pony remarked curiously as she looked at the door closing behind her little sister.

LATER THAT DAY AFTER SCHOOL...

As much as the farm pony tried, without school to detract her, her cousin's letter was on her mind now as she lay on the porch of her house basking in the sunlight. “Ah've heard of pranks, but to actually be describin’ herself bein’ soakin’ wet and picturin’ me while...”, Applebloom thought to herself, but trailed off in her thoughts with an audible shudder. “It was just a prank... right?”, the farm pony remarked aloud nervously.

“What was just a prank? You been pullin’ a few jokes on some ponies little sis?”, Applejack asked casually as she walked out of the front door, causing the filly to nearly jump out of her skin.

“Y-Yeah... heh”, Applebloom replied nervously. Her sister gave her a stern glance.

“Nothin too extreme, Ah hope. A prank is all in good fun, but if ya overdo it... things can get out of control mighty quick”, the farm pony warned before she walked past her little sister and towards the orchards. “Ah'm off to do some applebuckin’, stay out of trouble ‘till Ah get back, ya hear?”

“A-Ah will!”, the filly stuttered and though she hadn't been asked what the prank was about, she somehow felt more nervous than ever. Her sister's words haunted her now like a specter that never left your bedroom and kept you awake all night with its constant racket. “Oh please let it be a prank, because if it's not... Ah just opened a can of worms the size of the Sweet Apple Acres!”

ONE WEEK LATER...

An uneventful week came and went for the filly and for the most part, the letter her cousin sent her was the farthest from her mind. But when it did manage to creep its way into her thoughts, she would immediately find something to take her mind off it.

That is, until today.

“Hey Applebloom, got another letter addressed to ya from your cousin!”, Applejack exclaimed when the filly came home from school.

“Really?!”, she replied excitedly, the events of last week not even close to her mind when she quickly grabbed the letter with her mouth and rushed upstairs to open it.

Applebloom quickly tore the seal off the envelope and poured the contents of it out... only for more than a letter to come tumbling out from it.

“What in tarnation?!” The filly exclaimed as her eyes scanned what turned out to be about five photographs of her cousin.

But these weren't your normal pictures.

The filly's face went beat red and her chest ice-cold as she looked at each photograph of her cousin in different provocative positions, with a hoof between her hind legs and a saucy expression to boot. Seemingly unable to tear her eyes away from them for a time, her senses eventually caught up with her, at which point she immediately picked up the attached letter and began to read it.

Hey cuz,

I can't tell ya how happy I am to hear you feel the same way about me! It really sent my heart aflutter I tell ya. Anyways, I got some great news for ya!

I'm comin over to visit ya all this weekend! Ya know what this means right?

Me and you can catch up on a lot of stuff and if your feelin up to it we can even have some fun after Applejack and Big Macintosh go to sleep, if ya get my meanin, hehe.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the pictures I took of myself, I can't tell ya how hard it was to ask my parents to let me barrow their camera and develop those pictures in the bathroom! Lost a full nights sleep gettin those pictures taken and developed for ya, but it was worth it! Hope you enjoy them, hehe!

Your cousin,

Babs Seed

P.S. I sent another letter along with this one for Applejack and Big Macintosh. Don't let them see this one or those pictures!

“Oh.... buck!”

“Applebloom! Language!”, Applejack’s voice came from down the hall. “Ah know you weren't brought up with that kind of potty-mouth!”

Suddenly a sound of trotting could be heard, which was growing louder by the second. The pictures of her cousin baring it all for her immediately came to the front of the filly's mind. In a panic, she quickly grabbed them the best way she could and shoved them under her pillow along with the letter, mere moments before her big sister showed up in her doorway.

“What in tarnation would make ya use profanity for?”, Applejack asked, stepping into the room to see the filly looking really nervous. It struck her as odd. “Somethin’ goin’ on here, surgarcube?”, the farm pony asked suspiciously, staring at the filly as if she was attempting to read her mind.

“N-Nope! Nothin’!”, Applebloom replied a little too quickly.

“Uh-huh... ya mind showin’ me what ya stuffed under that pillow of yours, then?”, Applejack asked. She walked over to the filly's bed, only to get a letter shoved in her face.

“Babs is comin over to visit! See?!”, Applebloom exclaimed, hoping this would distract the farm pony from searching her bed.

“Well buck me into zap apple harvest, so she is. Guess we better make preparations”, Applejack replied as her eyes scanned the contents of the letter, at which point Applebloom yanked her big sister by the tail.

“So come on! We need to get those apples bucked, so we can spend all weekend with her!”, the filly said, doing her best to continue to drive her big sister’s mind away from wondering what was under her pillows.

“Alright, alright, no need to yank mah tail, surgarcube”, Applejack replied, turning about-face and following the filly out her door, much to her relief.

Though as the two walked out to the apple orchard, the filly gave an audible gulp when the situation completely settled in on her mind.

This is gonna be a long weekend....

Author's Note

Okay something to cover since EVERYONE seems to think this: Babs refers to Applejack as "Aunt" since she is closer to Applebloom's family than the rest of the apple family since it's so large. I figured this would have been obvious at first but I once again assume too much of my readers. So my bad on that one. ^^;

Chapter proofread by: ZuTheSkunk