How typical. Somepony gets the guts to confess their love to you, you start to feel sympathy, and now you're falling to you doom. Great. Some luck AppleJack had. First, her crush decides to go get a marefriend. I mean honestly, why did they have to fall for each other in the first place? They had practically nothing in common what so ever! Then, lo and behold, some fashinista pony decides that she like AppleJack. Where does that put this young cowpony? Falling. She climbed all the way up a deadly dragon's back to save her lover, but now they only have a couple of seconds to live. Great.
How could Rarity have let something like this happen. She hadn't even wanted to cnofess to AppleJack in the first place. If she weren't so scared of dieing right now, magic would be an option. However, unicorn magic is not too reliable when it comes to situations such as... seconds from smashing into the ground. What was it about AppleJack that she found so attractive in the first place. They had virtually nothing in common. Yet, she just had a feeling like she wanted and needed to do anything and everything for her. Rarity always had a list of prince-like qualities, and she wasn't so sure just anypony would fit in that category. Charming, honest, reliable, trustworthy, loyal, and all in all a good pony. Yup, AppleJack was definitely Rarity's prince charming. However, she hadn't expected her prince to be a princess, let alone one of her best friends. Doesn't matter anymore anyway, she'd confessed and now it will all be over soon.
Why? Why did Rarity like her? AppleJack definitely wasn't any prince straight from Canterlot, that's for sure. She was just a regular country themed mare. In fact, they were polar opposites. Rarity was always well groomed and mannered. Whereas AppleJack was just AppleJack. How the hay can anypony like their exact opposite in the first place? Well, that was kind of why AppleJack wasn't sitting in her barn snuggling with Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash weren't exactly the most symmetrical of ponies, but somehow they got together. It was all in the balance of things. Rainbow Dash's fast and brash nature with Fluttershy's slow and timid personality just worked somehow. Maybe that was why. Rarity's.... Rarityness could balance AppleJack's.... AppleJackness! It all worked out. In fact, AppleJack had never even thought of anything like this. Perhaps she could take a leap of faith, and give Rarity a chance.
Too bad they might not have a chance. Two hundred meters from the ground, the two ponies took the liberty of taking in one last glance of each other. One hundred meters, they smiled at each other attempting to lean closer. Fifty meters, all hope was lost and so they began to close their eyes. Twenty meters, still nothing. Two meters, the drop was taking a bit longer than expected. Twenty meters. Fifty meters. One hundred meters, it was obviously clear now that something, or somepony, had swooped in just in time. The two opposites looked down at what they had landed on. A blanket. Rarity grimaced at the magenta tarp, for it was to same one used for when she was captured by Spike. Now she glanced to the pegasi holding the blanket. As if the memory couldn't get any clearer, the same pegasi from before happened to be their saviors.
Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy dropped the two mares off at the entrance of Ponyville. Once they were all safe and sound, they all said their thank yous and you're welcomes. Fluttershy and Rainbow left after a quick chuckle and discussing on how worried they (or Fluttershy) were about not being able to catch the two.
AppleJack decided she would walk Rarity back to Carrousel Boutique after such a long day since Sweet Apple Acres was all the way across the town anyway. Rarity, of course, gladly accepted this offering. The walk was fairly quiet since the chain of events that led them here were quite awkward. After a while AppleJack cleared her throat in order to get Rarity's attention.
There was something that was on her mind for quite some time now. Although during the fall AppleJack had her epiphany, she still wasn't quite sure what made opposites attract in the first place. Sure, Rarity was elegant, graceful, and truly beautiful, but if AppleJack was her polar opposite what did that make her? A filthy, mannerless, hideous creature. How could Rarity possibly love somepony like that? Now was her moment to ask the one question that had been throbbing in her mind since Rarity's confession.
“Rarity,” AppleJack began nervously, “ Why do ya love me?”
A/N; Sorry the length of this is crap. Tried making a chapter with less dialogue and I failed. One more chapter, thanks for reading, you know the drill :/