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// Waking Up In Some Other Pony's Bed  
// Story: The Secrets Zap-Apples Tell 
// by Commodore64 
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	For Rainbow Dash, this morning wasn’t very different from any of her mornings in college. Dim light slowly let itself into the begrudgingly opening eyes of the cyan Pegasus; Her light blue coat felt rustled and uneven; and, possibly the most important factor, she had woken up in some other pony’s bed. 
The distinct scent of cotton candy flooded Rainbow’s nostrils, which brought a smile onto her face. She opened her eyes fully and there, lying in her forelegs, was a familiar, pink mare. Her usually bouncy mane created a cloud like surface for the blue mare’s head. Her forelegs were wrapped tightly and comfortingly around Rainbow’s stomach. But what stood out to her the most, was Pinkie’s smile. It was calm, relaxed, like she knew she was in just the right place. It was so perfect. Rainbow couldn’t resist the urge to kiss the pink mare on the forehead before snuggling closer into her partner.
Then she realized something. Her smile. It was perfect. A little too perfect.
She then noticed the pink pony’s eyes. They weren’t moving under her eyelids. Either Pinkie wasn’t dreaming or…
Rainbow softly nudged Pinkie’s cheek, “How long have you been awake?”
The smile on the pink pony’s face grew even wider as she giggled and softly whispered, “2 hours, 14 minutes, 11 seconds.
“12
“13
“14
“15
“16”
“Okay. I get it. You can stop counting now.”
“Good morning, Dashie.” Pinkie finally opened her eyes and stared soothingly into the rainbow-maned pegasus as blue met rose. 
Rainbow giggled, “Mornin’, Pinks.”
They both snuggled closer into each other. Rainbow loved snuggling with Pinkie. She loved pranking with Pinkie. She loved baking with Pinkie, even when she was really bad at it. She love flying with Pinkie, which was surprisingly possible most of the time. She love being with Pinkie. She loved Pinkie. And, fortunately for her, the feeling was mutual. 
She slowly rubbed her hooves along the pink back of her partner and started to nuzzle her shoulder. Pinkie returned the gesture and the sheets that covered them started to twirl and contort in odd shapes and angles. 
“Hey, Pinkie?”, Rainbow said in a calm and relaxed voice.
“Yeah?” Pinkie’s eyes were again closed at this point, her voice was nearly a murmur, which was pretty odd for Pinkie.
“Do you wanna get out of bed?” Rainbow’s tone was sincere, but not at all forceful.
“Nopey-dopey” Pinkie slowly shook her head back and forth.
“Do you wanna go back to sleep?”
“Nopey-dopey”, she continued shaking her head.
Rainbow chuckled, “Then what in the hay do you wanna do?”
Pinkie’s eyes opened suddenly, her eyebrows then lowered slowly into a seductive grin. “You’re about to find out.” She threw her forelegs around the cyan pegasus’s neck and kissed her passionately. Rainbow slowly started to caress Pinkie’s mane and neck as the two pushed their muzzles together, each getting a feeling of euphoria out of it.
Their moment of complete tranquility was then interrupted by the sound of knocking coming from the locked door of Pinkie Pie’s upstairs apartment of Sugar Cube Corner.
Mrs. Cake’s voice then came from the door, “Pinkie, it’s time to get up and work the front desk. And your friend Fluttershy’s here to talk to you about something.”
Both pony’s eyes widened and dilated at the sound of that sentence.
“Crap” Pinkie Pie quickly exclaimed as she flailed out of the bed. Rainbow scurried off the bed in panic, leaving a trail of linens on the floor. She pulled the sheets off her hooves and headed for the window, which faced the back of the bakery. 					She opened the window and started to climb outside when Pinkie came over to say a proper farewell.
“Wait” She then place a quick kiss of the blue mare’s lips and said, “Goodbye, Dashie” in a soothing, peaceful voice.
“Bye, Pinkie” Rainbow Dash began to climb out of the window when she stopped and faced Pinkie.
“Wait” she reluctantly blurted out, “Pinkie”
Pinkie turned around, a look of genuine curiosity on her face, “What?”
Rainbow stared into the sapphire eyes of the party pony for several seconds. That’s when she decided that now wasn’t the right time. “Nothing” she said, leaving Pinkie with a smile before she took off.
Pinkie gave a short-lived look of confusion at the window, which was quickly replaced with a regular Pinkie smile as she trotted toward the door and down the stairs into the lobby of Sugar Cube Corner, where another pegasus had been waited patiently at the counter for her.
Pinkie bounced into the lobby with her usual energetic poofiness. Fluttershy was slumped against the counter with a forlorn look on her face. That is, until she saw Pinkie of course.
“Oh. Um. Hi, Pinkie” Fluttershy softly greeted.
“Hiya, Shy. How have things been going?”, the pink party mare replied, taking the glass lid off of some cupcakes and handing one to the pink-maned mare.
“Well”, Fluttershy picked up the cupcake and fidgeted it in her hoof for a few seconds. “It’s actually not that great. Me and Mac just had a umm… a fight” She looked distantly into the cupcake.
Pinkie got a look of deep concern on her face “OH NO!! What happened? Tell me everything.”
“We were talking about whether we should move in together or not. I mean, we have been dating for almost two years now, so living together wouldn’t be that bad of an idea. So, I asked him if we would move in with me, but he didn’t want to help take care of the animals and he also had farm work to do. But when he said he didn’t like my animals that much, I just kinda stormed out on him. I know, I was probably being a total bitch, but I still don’t get why he has to stay at that musty old farmhouse.”
“Well, he has lived there his whole life. And somepony like Big Mac is just kind of afraid of change. Except when it came to the whole Discord thing when he started going around a licking ponies and stuff like that. Remember that? That was really weird. Maybe he’s still a dog like Discord wants him to be, in which case you’ve been dating a dog for the past two years. Have you asked Big Mac about this yet?”
Fluttershy let out an amused chuckle, “No, Big Mac’s not a dog. I do think he’s afraid of change though, which I understand. I don’t want to leave the animals either.”
“You two are just a bunch of scardey ponies if you ask me.”
“I am not.” Fluttershy let out a slight gasp of denial
“Oh really?”
“Yes.”
Suddenly, a flat-maned, lifeless, and red-eyed Pinkie was leaning on Fluttershy’s shoulder talking in a deep, ominous voice, “Is that so?”
Fluttershy leapt out of her standing position and clung to the ceiling, looking down to see a now poofy Pinkie Pie, rolling on the floor laughing like mad. 
“That… Wasn’t… Funny.” Fluttershy put out her sentence in small little chokes of high-pitched breath.
The bell on the door rang as a red stallion walked into the lobby of the store, looking back and forth as he trotted along. “Hey Pinkie, have y’all seen Fluttershy around? I kinda need to…”
He was cut off by deciding to quickly look up. His eyes were locked on Fluttershy’s body rocking back and forth across the ceiling. And when he looked down, he saw Pinkie, just beginning to regain her composure.
Big Mac smiled as he pulled Fluttershy off of the ceiling, “And me without my camera”
The yellow pegasus clung to the red stallion as tight as she possibly could, still shaking from Pinkie’s sudden decision to play psychotic medical practitioner. Big Mac kept a calm and determined smile on his face as he slowly stroked Fluttershy’s mane. He began to murmur comforting words to his lover, “There there. It’s all okay. Mac’s here for ya.”
Pinkie slowly slid back up to the counter and supported her face by placing her elbows on the counter and her hooves directly in your cheeks. She then grew one of those ginormous smiles that only Pinkie Pie could possibly produce.
“Awwwwwww”, Pinkie said rather loudly, “You two are so cute together.”
“I know right?” Big Mac responded. By this time, Fluttershy had calmed down and was now just taking comfort in the presence of her stallion. “So, how’s the single life? Anypony y’all’re interested in?”
“Well” Pinkie hesitated to answer. Nopony was supposed to know about her and Rainbow Dash. Everypony thought that Pinkie was into stallions and Celestia knows what others thought of Dash’s orientation. She then looked out the window to see a streak of rainbow zoom by followed by a small dot of bright blue. A calm grin came to her face. “Yeah, I guess you could say that.”