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// Chapter 4 
// Story: It's Not Easy Being In Love (Anachronic Version) 
// by Gutovi 
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Date: Two years after King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
Two weeks before “The Games”.
Location: Canterlot’s Train Station, Canterlot.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“Where the hay is that mare!? Why is it that every time I search for her in Canterlot, I can’t find her?” Rainbow Dash got to the station a few minutes after the train arrived. “And I can’t even look for her by the hat, because now I’m the one wearing it!”
She decided to take off and search for the Apple reunion. “It can’t be THAT hard to find bazillion cow-ponies with an apple-related cutie mark in a city full of snooty high-class ponies.”

After a while, she was able to find a group of Apple members, and she recognized one among them.
“Hey Braeburn!”
“Howdy Rainbow Dash! Welcome to Caaaaaaanterlot! How are y’a-”
“I don’t have time for that, have you seen AJ? I need to find her.”
“Uh… sure! Ah think mah cuz went to grab a drink right there!” He said, pointing to a bar nearby.
“A bar? I thought AJ hated alcohol! Well, I don’t think Braeburn would lie to me.” “Thanks Braeburn, see ya around.”
“Goodbye Rainbow Dash.”

As Rainbow Dash entered the bar, she noticed it was empty, excepting for the bartender, the band members, who were starting to play an old tango she used to hear as a filly, and an orange mare with a golden mane she knew all too well.
She noticed Applejack was drinking champagne, and decided she could use the song in her advantage.
The band was doing an instrumental version, and the lyrics where perfect for her, even if Rainbow didn’t like it that much, she was going to sing!

“Astonishing,
as if royale…
I found you drinking,
’Belle et Fatale’.” Rainbow Dash started singing.

“You drank the bottle dry
drowning sorrows in champagne,
numbing your brain
so you could laugh and not cry.”

By that time, Applejack’s head started rising off the bar.

“Sorrow,
I felt upon finding you
because as soon as I saw you
I was enthralled by your eyes’ glow
Those beautiful emerald pools,
like two little jewels
filled with lots of love,
more than you could think of.”

Applejack turned around and noticed Rainbow Dash was singing and walking towards her.

“I’ll drink with you, old mate,
until we fall from our chairs
and we can’t  walk straight,
I don’t care if they call us ‘The Tipsy Mares’
Tonight, you’ll become a part,
a part of the past I’m leaving behind.
Three things in my heart you can find:
Love, sorrow and hurt.
Tonight you’ll become a part,
a part of the past I’m leaving behind.
I’m breaking loose of this state of mind,
and I’ll start playing smart.”

Applejack looked at her, without saying any words.
“You love me, right?” asked the cyan pegasus, like it was nothing.
“Y-yes.”
“You’ve done for years now.”
“Uh-huh.” Applejack’s answer was short, but carried some sort of force in it.
“Have you ever dreamt of me?”
“Several times.”
Rainbow Dash, still with a deadpan expression continued asking “Have you ever… you know” she raised her front hooves and knock them twice, generating a ‘clop-clop’ sound as a wordless explanation of what she meant. “thinking about me?”
The cowpony’s emerald eyes went wide as saucers and her coat went pale, excepting her cheeks that were sporting a crimson tone, as she looked down and admitted “Eyup…”
“Several times?”
Applejack regained her courage and looked at her. “Yes, several times.”
“Have you ever wished for me to be in your bed with you in many lonely cold nights?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, my answer to all those questions is yes too.”
“Huh?”
“You were right Applejack, this is a new phase for both of us. My Best Friend Applejack is dead and buried deep in my past.”
Applejack’s eyes started watering but she seemed to be holding back the tears.
“Your Friend Rainbow Dash is dead too. But I really hope you have a place in your heart for Marefriend Rainbow Dash.”
“Oh y’all heartless feather-brained pony! Ah almost thought y’all hated me!” Applejack yelled hitting Rainbow Dash’s chest with her hooves, but soon she stopped and hugged her tight. “Of course Ah have a place fer y’all, Ah’ve been savin’ it fer years now.”
“Well, looks like waiting time is over AJ.” Rainbow Dash said before pressing her lips against the farm-mare’s. 



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
Before “The Games”.
Location: Ponyville’s outskirts.
Point of View: Applejack

“Y’all know what day is it today Rainbow?” Asked Applejack, lying in the grass with her marefriend.
“The day we suddenly and unexplainably lost our friends and family?”
“Apart from that… it’s the sixteenth anniversary of our first ‘date’.”
“You mean the one when I met you?” inquired the cyan pegasus.
“Eeyup… Who would’ve thought we would actually end up together huh?” Said the orange mare giggling.
“Yeah… I… I don’t want to sound rude with you AJ, but… what for? I mean… we’re together, but we lost everything that we loved and that loved us back.” Said Rainbow Dash, looking away.
“Not everything Sugarcube.” Applejack made her marefriend look at her again and kissed her passionately. “Y’all still have me, n’ Ah swear Ah’ll never leave y’all. No matter the circumstances.”
As soon as the words left her mouth, the place around the two ponies started twisting and bending.
“THE HAY!?” Both ponies exclaimed simultaneously.
Everything started changing, and the two soon found themselves in a very dark cave.
“So… You’re back. I guess I lost my bet” a strange voice was heard. It sounded deep and twisted.
“I told you!” Another voice retorted, it was even deeper, and somehow darker. It was like hearing death itself talking. “You should have killed them like I told you.”
The two mares hugged each other, hoping for some kind of protection against the unknown menaces.
“Well… they had a one-in-a-billion chance to do it, I didn’t expect they would!” The first voice answered the other. “You two little ponies really take the ‘love against all odds’ thing to another level.”



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
First day of the New Year.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

The incoming sunlight assaulted her eyes, and her current state seemed to be totally against it.  It stung like a thousand bees, which mixed with the pounding inside her brain, was not a pleasant feeling. She decided the best thing to do was to turn her head and face the other side, but when she was in the middle of it her snout was stopped by something. Something soft, furry and very comfortable.
“Wait… Clouds aren’t furry… Where am I?” She was about to open her eyes, but she felt far too comfortable, she decided to face away from the daylight and rest her head on the unknown pleasant surface, while trying to remember what happened last night.
“Oh, New Years Eve… right. We spent it on AJ’s barn, but last time I checked, hay isn’t furry either, nor the bed in the guest’s room, next to Appleja-”
Her eyes opened wide and she raised her head. She was lying on top of the mare of her dreams, her hind hooves were between Applejack’s in a very intriguing position, to say the least. She decided that waking up Applejack was the best way to clear things out, but as she was about to talk, she heard a cheerful voice.
“Hey Twilie, we had our share of fun last night, but these two seemed to have raised the bar.”
“Shhh!”
Applejack stirred and bated her eyelashes, waking up from her slumber. Apparently the first thing she set eyes on was Rainbow Dash and she calmly said.
“Hello there Sugarcube. Had a fun night, huh?”
“Aha! I knew it! They totally did it!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed behind the Best Young Flyer.
“WHAT!?” both recently awake ponies exclaimed at the same time with eyes wide at saucers.
“Yeah! Having a ‘Fun night’, sleeping together in a very suggestive way… Applejack even has bite-marks!”
Instinctively, the pegasus jumped to the side, and landed in the hay, next to her best friend. “This is totally not what it seems!” “Or is it!?”” Her face went a bit pale as she looked to her side with a worried look and an uneasy smile “R-right?”
“Y’all mean y’all don’t remember?”
“Oh no…”
“Ah thought y’all weren’t drunk enough to forget stuff… No, nuthin’ happened, y’all just tried to prank me or sumthin’ n’ when Ah was about to get up y’all apologised n’ went all mushy thanks to the cider, n’ asked me to sleep here with y‘all.” She then chuckled and continued “N’ before Ah could tell y’all ‘yes’, y‘all collapsed n’ fell asleep.”
Twilight gently hit the back of Pinkie Pie’s head with her hoof. “See! You shouldn’t go around saying what you think that happened. You could, instead, tell me what happened last night! I remember you giving me a mug after I told you I’ve never drank before, I remember there was music in some moment of the night, and the next thing I know is that I’m lying next to you, smiling at me with a too wide smile.”
Pinkie Pie gave Applejack and Rainbow Dash an apologetic smile and then looked at Twilight, inhaled deeply, and started explaining. “Well… we were dancing all night long, and in one moment you confessed you were having these feelings whenever I was around, and then I told you it was love, and that luckily for you, I loved you back.”
Twilight’s eyes went wide as saucers as Pinkie Pie continued telling everypony what happened.
Rainbow Dash could notice how a yellow veil covered the lavender unicorn, while a green aura surrounded the pink earth pony. A third colour surrounded everypony, it was pink “Now the girls too? What is that colour?”
“Then I kinda half tackled you, half hugged you, throwing us both to the hay bale where we slept, and I kissed you, and you kissed me back, and then we made out, and then you traced my back with your hooves, until you reached my cutie mark and the-”
“OKAY!” Twilight exclaimed shoving a hoof into Pinkie’s mouth to shut her up. “I believe this was enough explanation… here, in front of the girls…”
“Listen to Twilight, Pinks, I believe that’s kinda… intimate to tell in detail.”
“Oh no, we didn’t get to that, don’t worry, what I was about to-”
“No Pinkie, stop it. That’s something you should tell in a different place.” Twilight said, suddenly blushing and looking away “Like say… the library, taking advantage of Spike not being there and all… I’ve read in some books that a good way to remember things, is doing them again… So maybe you can make me remember what happened last night…”
“Heh… I won’t complain to that! See you girls later!” Pinkie Pie replied before prancing towards town, quickly followed by the lavender unicorn.
Rainbow Dash looked at Applejack and asked “You… you saw that coming?”
“Well… Not really, though we both saw them last night, even if y’all don’t remember.”
“Yeah… I’m gonna slow down on cider… Only the hard one though.”



Date: After King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
The Mane Six are back on Ponyville.
Location: Ponyville’s Train Station, Ponyville.
Point of View: Applejack

“Rarity, Ah think yer lil’ plan jes got her angry.”
“Ah, but have you thought why would she get angry by you ‘hitting on me’?” Rarity said smiling slyly.
“Ah think she jes think Ah’m spendin’ more time with y’all than with her, n’ want that to be the other way ‘round.”
“But was not that what you wanted?”
“But as mah marefriend, not mah best friend!”
“Well...” Rarity pondered. She always bragged about how good she was at match-making and ‘the art of love’, she couldn’t let that reputation fall, and less with two of her best friends. “You could come home this afternoon and we can think of something to do.”
“That sounds good, see y’all later then.” As applejack turned around to walk home, she heard somepony calling her.
“AJ, wait!”
As she turned around, she noticed Rainbow Dash running towards her.
“What is it RD?”
“Hey, I need to talk to you.” She stated.
“Sure, what y’all wanna talk ‘bout?”
“Look… I’ve been thinking, and I wanted to know if I could uh… go to you to the Acres and spend some time with you… working and helping you around the farm.”
Applejack was very surprised about what she heard “Are y’all serious?”
“Yeah! I wanna spend more time with you, and since most of the time you’re not hanging out with us is when you work, I wanted to know if I could work with you!” She then puffed out her chest and grinned. “Besides, applebucking is going to be a great workout! We all can see the wonders it did on your fla-I mean on your health! You’re always in good shape and rarely sick!”
Rarity walked behind Rainbow Dash so she could make signs to Applejack without the pegasus noticing. The first thing she did, was to nod repeatedly.
“W-well, yeah! Ah guess an extra hoof won’t hurt on the farm, at all.”
“So… what do you say if we start today!”
Rarity started pointing herself.
“Well… Actually Ah was gonna hang out with Rarity today… y’all know, jes the two of us.” After she noticed the look Rainbow gave her, she understood what Rarity was after. “But… fer y’all Ah could jes tell her we’ll do it another day.”
“Yes!” Rarity exclaimed.
The two other ponies looked at her surprised, and she quickly explained, though Applejack knew it was a lie “Sorry, I just remembered that uh… tomorrow I receive the new ‘Fashion Weekly’ issue... and uh, you know how much I love fashion!” Her smile started quivering, she then turned around and ran toward the boutique “See you girls later! Have fun at the farm.”



Date: The year after Discord’s return
The day after the Equestria’s Rodeo Competition.
Location: Outside the Train Station, Dodge Junction.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“Change of scenery! Can you girls believe that!?” Rainbow Dash said sighing angrily.
“I’m sure that’s not the reason, Rainbow. As I said before, she seems to be hiding something.” Twilight exclaimed.
“Well and that just makes me feel even more uncomfortable, why would AJ hide something from us? Why would AJ hide something from me!”
“Well Rainbow, I am sorry to break it to you, but we also are her best friends and the world does not revolve around you so I believe that your last statement was completely uncalled for.” Rarity said, a bit annoyed by the pegasus’ attitude.
“I still believe she just met a nice stallion… maybe he’s from here, so AJ came here!”  Pinkie Pie insisted.
“Pinkie, I highly doubt that.”
“I say that we should go to the cherry lady and ask her to work there for today, and while working we ask her if she met a nice stallion… or maybe a mare… who knows.”
“Pinkie, could you stop saying AJ found some special somepony!” Rainbow Dash demanded.
“But Pinkie is right in one thing though, we should go there and ask her during work, it’s our only way to approach her right now.” Twilight stated, it seemed to the cyan pegasus that she was already planning what to do.



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
The night before “The Games”.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Applejack

“Can’t say is not cool to be back home AJ, but I still don’t understand why we’re back two weeks before the date you were supposed to come back.”
“Well, Ah don’t know exactly either. Ah was with mah cousins talkin’ ‘bout the apple stuff we were sortin’ out, n’ then they asked me if I was in a relationship or anythin’, Ah suppose they were jes trying to lighten the working mood. So Ah told’em Ah was with the sweetest mare ever, y’all.”
“Aww… You’re so sweet AJ.”
“N’ Ah know y’all are too, y’all jes try to look tough to keep yer ‘badass’ reputation.” Applejack said tickling her marefriend and making her let out cute little squeals to prove it.
“Stop it!”
“Anyways, when Ah told’em that, they all stopped… like frozen, n’ told me at the same time, which was a bit creepy, that they didn’t need the Sweet Apple Acres presence anymore, ‘cause the stuff they’d talk ‘bout later was not related to us.” Applejack shrugged and looked at her marefriend, nuzzling her. “Y’all know Ah usually love spendin’ time with them, so Ah would’ve stayed there a bit more, but this time Ah wanted to come here to tell the girls n’ the family ‘bout us.”
“Well… we’re in your living room’s couch, snuggling together. I believe your family already knows.”
“Well… it ain’t that different from what we used to do when we were jes friends, so maybe they don’t.”
“You know you can’t talk about all the times I’ve snuggled with you and bit your ear.”
“Ah know, Ah’ve sworn secrecy n’ y’all have yer reputation. Don’t y’all worry, Ah won’t tell a soul.”
“Well, we should get some sleep so tomorrow we can go to town and tell the girls.”
“Ah guess y’all are right.” As Applejack tried to lift herself from the couch, she collapsed back on it, trapped by the hooves of a cyan pegasus, needy of love. “We ain’t getting to the bedroom if y’all ain’t letting go.”
“Yes we are”
“Care to explain how, Sugarcube?” 
“It’s easy…” Rainbow Dash grinned at her and wrapped her four hooves to her lover’s back. “You carry me.”
“Y’all ain’t a slug, walk up the stairs!”
“I’m not a slug… but I’ve just become a sloth, now carry me while I enjoy my snack.”
“What snack are y’all tal-” she felt her marefriend nibbling her ear, sighed and smiled. “Y’all know… y’all keep doin’ that, n’ y’all are gonna tear mah ear apart.”
Since the rose-eyed mare wasn’t responding, too busy biting Applejack’s ear, the orange farmpony decided to give up and start walking.



Date: The year of Nightmare Moon’s Return.
The day after the Running of the Leaves.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“Ugh…” Rainbow Dash groaned as she woke up.
“W-wha?” she heard a voice, right in front of her.
She decided to open her eyes to figure out who was it, and found Applejack opening her eyes too. They were very close together, their muzzles touching. 
Suddenly, all her sleepiness disappeared, as she moved away from the orange mare, ending on the floor, tangled in the bed sheets.
“Ouch! My head!”
“Don’t tell me about it… y’all can’t realise how much mah head is poundin’. Ah feel terrible! Remember me to murder y’all with a wooden spoon when Ah get better...” hissed Applejack between her teeth. “ ‘Hey Applejack, why don’t get hammered! It’s gonna be great for your headache!’. Why do Ah even considered listenin’ to yer advice regarding health n’ care.”
“Hey, it didn’t hurt last night, did it?”
“Yeah but Ah gotta suffer thrice as much this mornin’. Ain’t no deal!”
“Okay, okay. I’ll be right back.” The cyan pegasus stated, as she flew out the window, just to be greeted by the unforgiving sunlight, and a great difficulty to fly straight.

“Gotta make it to the drugstore… I don’t remember hangovers being this harsh… I must have had a few more than I should last night. Oh, I gotta talk to AJ about it when I get back.”
After a few minutes at the drugstore looking for something for Applejack’s pain, she flew back to the acres, a bit less disoriented now.

She entered Applejack’s room through the window, just to find the bed empty, and no sign of the orange mare.
“She shouldn’t be out of bed yet, where is that pony?” “Applejack, where are you?” after looking around for some short time, she realised that they were alone in the house, so any little noise would give away the country pony’s whereabouts.
She decided to test the ninja skills she learned by reading all those comics. “The closest thing to a book I’ll ever read. Let the eggheads like Twilight read the big ones with lots of text.” Sadly for her, she couldn’t get to test them, because as soon  as she sneaked out of the room, she heard the shower running in the bathroom. 
A sly grin formed on her face as a prank came to her mind “I should be helping her because I got her hurt twice in less than two days… but I can’t let this slip. Pinkie told me that chances to scare a friend in the bathroom are close to none, and the reward is great!”
Once again, the daredevil pony decided to use stealth to accomplish her goal, and finding the door not closed but a bit open, seemed to be the best opportunity she could ask for.
She slowly and silently got next to the door, and turned all of her body to be parallel to the door, she lowered her body and stretched out her neck, trying to quietly open the door just enough to get her head in, and take a look inside.
When she did, she was glad to see that Applejack wasn’t looking at her. In fact, the mare had her eyes closed, probably relaxing under the shower to ease the pain. “Oh this is great, she’s so relaxed and… vulnerable, she’ll jump out of her skin!
She was preparing to yell something and scare her friend when she noticed her a little more. Huh? I never realised, but this is the first time I saw Applejack with her hair loose. It… looks good on her actually, I wonder why she never wears it this way.” she then started noticing other parts of her best friend’s body. “Huh, I never noticed how well her body mixes beautiful features and a strong build, or how good her hind legs look. I suppose is all that applebucking. 
Her eyes started tracing Applejack’s hind legs and her flank “ Oh, I’m so jealous, how can you have such a well toned plot? I spend half of my day flying and practicing and I don’t have half the plot you have!” Rainbow Dash was feeling both taken aback and jealous of Applejack’s body but she kept looking, completely forgetting the whole prank. Her eyes moved from the legs to her stomach. “Awww, she’s in the perfect pose for me to give her belly rubs and tickle her! Wait… belly rubs and tickles? That’s cute, not cool, and I should be cool not cute!”
Finally her eyes started wandering lower and lower, until she could look at Applejack’s-
*POMF*
The bathroom door opened suddenly and violently hit the wall.
Rainbow Dash’s eyes went wide at saucers as she realized her wings had decided to spring wide open and get as rigid as planks, ruining her whole stealth plan and instead leaving her in an awfully embarrassing situation. Applejack had indeed jumped out of her skin, but not for the same reason as she had planned, and obviously not in the situation she had expected.
“Rainbow!?” Applejack yelled as she spotted the polychromatic pegasus while grabbing a towel and covering herself.  “W-what are y’all doin’ in mah bathroom!” She then seemed to be realising Dash’s pose and added “W-were y’all peeping when Ah was in the shower!?”
Both ponies had a terrified look in their faces.
“N-no, that’s totally not what I was doing! I swear!” She soon realized her words didn’t sound convincing at all.
“Y’all weren’t sneakily lookin’ at me through a door gap while Ah was havin’ a private shower!?”
Rainbow Dash’s pupils shrank “Th-that’s exactly what I was doing” “Well… Yes, but it’s not what you think! I wasn’t peeping at you to look at your kicking curves!” “Wait… no, that didn’t sound right nor convincing.” She noticed Applejack blush as her eyes went even wider. She was probably not sure if be flattered or crept out by the daredevil mare’s words.
“Uh…”
“W-what I meant was that… it’s not like you usually wear clothes anyways!” “Dammit that sounded even worse! She must be thinking I always check her out! Wait… was I ‘checking her out’?”
Applejack’s blush faded completely and her pupils started shrinking as she clenched at the towel covering her.
“No, sorry I didn’t mean that I uh… I’m just saying that I didn’t even got to see your-”
Applejack’s eyes started twitching and she hastily closed her hind legs and grasped the towel with even more strength.
“WHY DO I KEEP SCREWING UP WORSE AND WORSE? The worst part is that it was a lie, and she knows it, which means I’m looking like a total perv!”
“Okay wait!” she took a deep breath and decided to confess was better than her current situation. “I was looking at you in the shower, but it wasn’t for what you think it was.” she noticed Applejack relaxing a bit, probably noticing it wasn’t a lie.
“I was peeping because I wanted to scare you, because Pinkie told me that pranking a friend in the shower was really funny and having a chance to, was very hard. So when I came back and noticed you were here I tried to scare you, but to do so I had to wait for the exact perfect moment, that’s why I was Uh… ‘spying’ you.”
After some seconds of doubt, Applejack relaxed significantly. “It’s okay Dash. But why didn’t y’all tell me that at first? What’s with the strange excuses that made everythin’ sound worse?”
“It’s ‘cause I didn’t expect to scare you with that! I wanted to jump and yell, or something along those lines” she looked at her wings “But this rebellious little girls decided to spring for a reason I still don’t get, and opened the door.”
“Oh… Okay.”
“I’ll… leave you to finish your shower and I swear I’m never going to try to do this again.”
“Okay… b-but Rainbow!”
“Yeah?”
Applejack blushed a little bit and asked “D-do y’all really think Ah have… uh,  kickin’ curves?”
Rainbow Dash’s eyes went wide as she pondered what to do.
“No matter what y’all say, Ah won’t be mad at y’all.” Applejack assured her.
“Well… yeah… I’m kind of jealous of your body but don’t tell anypony else.” As Rainbow walked out the door, she remembered something “Oh, I brought you some painkillers. Ah, and when you’re done with that, I wanna talk to you about last night.”
“Okay… Ah’ll be ready in a min… wait for me in the kitchen!” 



Date: Ten years prior to Nightmare Moon’s Return
Rainbow’s first sleepover at Applejack’s house.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville
Point of View: Applejack

“Y’all are coming with me.”
“AJ, I just met you, I don’t wanna impose by-”
“Ah invited y’all, y’all are not imposing.”
“You just invited me because Shy couldn’t let me stay, and I told you I can fly home.”
“Ah’m invitin’ y’all ‘cause Ah had an unforgettable day with y’all, n’ since Ah’m not sure if Ah’ll ever see y’all again, Ah want it to last a little longer.” Applejack said, looking at Rainbow Dash with a look that showed both loving care, and stern resolution.
The cyan pony smiled tenderly and nuzzled her new friend’s neck “Thanks Apples.”
Applejack just froze in place by the sudden surge of affection showed by the pegasus.
“Oh, sorry! Did you have any personal space issues or something? I’m sorry if I did something that bothered you!” Rainbow Dash asked concerned.
“N-nah, its okay… jes… sudden.”
“Heh… it’s just that I’m not used to be treated this nice by ponies. I mean, I’m not usually treated bad, except the occasional bully, but I don’t see many sudden acts of kindness neither.”
“Well get used to it. Mah granny raised me to be a dependable gal, n’ Ah’m gonna try to be the pony that will help every other pony. So if y’all need sumthin’, jes come and ask me. Even if y'all decided to do a giant contraption for a fancy trick… Ah’ll be there to help y’all!”
“Thanks AJ, I will keep that in mind…”
After a few minutes of walking, Dash seemed to be getting a bit nervous.
“We’re almost there Sugarcube, don’t get like that.”
“Where do you live anyways? We’ve left town some time ago… You’re… you’re not taking me to some obscure place to kidnap me or anything… right?” Rainbow Dash seemed genuinely preoccupied.
Applejack couldn’t help but to laugh at her friend’s silliness. “Y’all gotta be kiddin’ me! Haha, kidnap you?” She then stopped laughed and continued “Ah’m a farm-gal… Ah live in a farm, n’ farm aren’t next to town, they are a bit farther.”
“So… how big is your farm?”
“The orchards… Well, y’all tell me, we’ve been walkin in mah family’s lands for a while now.”
“Huh?” asked Rainbow Dash dumbfounded.
“Noticed where the trees became apple trees?”
“Yeah…”
“That’s where our land starts.”
“Wow, you guys have quite the place huh?” Rainbow Dash exclaimed while looking around the place.
“Eyup, n’ next year Ah’ll start working on applebucking.”
“Huh? What’s that?”
“The way we recollect them apples. We buck the trees, apples fall, n’ we sell’em later or use’em in food.” Stated Applejack smiling broadly.
“Cool! So… are we there yet?”
“Actually, yeah!” said Applejack pointing to the Apple Family’s household. “Ah present y’all mah house.”
“It looks… good I guess.” Replied Rainbow Dash with a fake smile on her face.
“What, y’all don’t like it?”
“It’s not that… it’s just that, being used to cloud pegasus houses, I can’t really ‘enjoy’ an earth pony house, they are very different.”
“Oh… Ah understand, Ah guess… well, come on in! Ah’ll check if the spare room is free.”