//------------------------------// // (Celestia, I have no Idea how I should name this chapter) // Story: Lost, An AppleDash Story // by Zombie_God //------------------------------// Chapter 4 Applejack woke up at the next morning and smiled softly as she saw Rainbow Dash, curled up in a ball to stay warm. The fire had nearly burned down over the night and she needed to get some wood. But I don't want to leave her. Applejack thought. She looks so happy and cute. Before she could think any further she saw her friends wing flutter as Rainbow woke up slowly. "Good morning Sugahcube. How did ya sleep?" Asked Applejack warmly, smiling at her sleepy looking friend. "Uuugghhh how can you be awake at that time? It's like....like way to early to get up." Rainbow growled and turned around. A mistake what she realized a second later as she put her entire weight on her broken wing. With a painful scream she bolted up and on her belly, whimpering softly as she looked at her broken wing. "Oh Celestia, Dashie lay down and don't move." Barked Applejack quickly and jumped up, "Don't move until I'm back. I only need a minute." She said and looked at her friend before she ran off into the forest. Rainbow Dash could hear her dashing through the bushes and breaking off twigs. "Ahm back Sugahcube, don't worry. " she said quickly and sat down next to Rainbow, putting down several things she brought with her. A few twigs, a few long and small leaves and a long vine. "Ahm sorry Dashie but this'll hurt a bit." She said and a tear filled her eye. She hated it that she would have to hurt her friend. "What will hu-AAAAHHHHRRGG!" asked Rainbow but before she could say any more Applejack had already grabbed her wing with her mouth and pulled strongly on it to let it snap back in the socket again. "Ahm sorry Dashie but ah had tah do something." She whispered and pulled her closer, hugging her gently while she felt Rainbow Dash sob softly. "Ah promise ya it'll be better soon." Applejack whispered softly and smiled at her friend, nuzzling her tears gently away. Then she softly stroked her friends back to calm her down while she used the twigs, leafs and the vines to make a preliminary dressing. "See, wasn't that bad sugarcube." She said softly and nuzzled her friend again. Rainbow whimpered softly from the pain but Applejack’s soothing words and her gentle nuzzles helped her to calm down and after a few moments she even blushed at the though that she just cried. "Thanks AJ, you really are a great friend." She said and smiled at the mare. "You really are awesome." She mumbled and admired the bandaging on her wing. "Dashie, can Ah ask ya something? Somethin' more private?" said Applejack after she made sure that the leaves and twigs where secure and in place. Rainbow looked up, wondering what question Applejack could have but then noded softly and smiled at her, "Sure AJ, ask me what you want." "Did....did ya ever have a coltfriend?" asked Applejack softly, looking at her friend as she hoped that Rainbow Dash won't be mad at her for this question. Rainbow looked back for a few moments and then shook her head. "No..I...I never had one. I dated a few in school and later but.....they couldn't keep up with me." She said and looked at Applejack, "I know it's weird and all since I'm a mare......and I'm supposed to have coltfriend and be happy and all this stuff." she explained and blushed a bit at Applejack. "Sugahcube, " whispered Applejack softly, laying her hoof over her friends shoulders, "Who told ya that ya're supposed ta have a coltfriend and all?" She asked softly while she held her friend gently. “Ya don't have ta have a coltfriend to live happy and be normal, sugahcube. Whoever told ya that is wrong. " Rainbow looked at her friend with a soft smile and sighed softly, "I...I never really was happy when I dated these stallions and colts. I did it because my mother said it was normal. And I wanted to be as normal as possible. Everyone made fun of me because of my mane, so...I wanted to be normal in at least one thing." She whispered quietly and looked at Applejack. After a few moments she looked at her hooves, "But...I never really felt happy when I dated a stallion....or kissed one." Rainbow whispered softly. "Sugahcube, did ya....did ya ever think that ya might not like stallions at all?" Applejack asked her, holding her face between her hooves as they looked at each other. Rainbow blushed softly and looked down, "I....I don't know, AJ. I mean.....isn't that. ..wrong? Mother always said that colt-cuddling and filly-fooling is wrong, that....that Celestia finds it disgusting. But, I never understood why." She told her friend, more and more unsure if everything that her mother told her was right.She was right in so many things, always knew how to help, how can she be wrong in something? , asked Rainbow Dash herself while she leaned against her friend. “Dashie, just because she's yer mother doesn't mean that she is always right. My mother always told me, when ah was young, that I should think over everything she said. And if ah agreed with her, then ah should accept her advise but if ah don't, then a should make mah own experiences and find out what ah believe and who ah ahm.” Applejack whispered, pulling Rainbow closer for a hug, “Dashie, can ah tell ya something?”