Rainbow doesn’t know what made her want to move in with Applejack. She doesn’t know why everything feels so tender and touchy where it used to be quick and light. She doesn’t know why she gets pins and needles when she looks into Applejack’s eyes.

Could it really be so simple as she wants to be with Applejack? This whole emotional maturity thing is way more trouble than it’s worth.

Applejack has asked Rainbow a question, and Rainbow's answer changes everything. Or... does it?

Rainbow doesn't really have a plan on where she's taking this.

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A 1k word flash fic. Not related to whatever contests may or may not be going on. Inspired by the weird dance they do in their 3 second ending slide from the MLP movie where Applejack lasso's Rainbow and they make faces at each other.

The Fall Formal is over. The bully was beaten, and the strange but beloved pony princess girl then went home. A spontaneous sleepover is about to happen at Sweet Apple Acres, and so Rainbow Dash hitches a ride alongside AJ in Big Mac's truck.  Rainbow tries to process her feelings… as much about the events of that night, as other things. It is not an easy thing for her to do. For one thing, she is (after all) Rainbow Dash. But there's also how amped up Rainbow's feelings are in general, from dancing with friends, to trouncing a villain, to missing a new friend already… plus there are other stray and unsolicited notions. Still, Rainbow does her best to muddle through them all.  Meanwhile, the quiet, vigilant(e) romantic that is Big Macintosh is the one behind the wheel…

This story is a sequel to Secrets & Truths

Summer seems to bring out the oddest things for the duo, Applejack, and Rainbow. Today is no different. Today, Rainbow has a few peculiar questions for her marefriend, Applejack, who recently came out to her as Asexual. These questions are very evidently focused on Applejack's asexuality and are very odd, to say the least. Nonetheless, Applejack sits through them with Rainbow whilst bucking some apple trees.

Again, mild sex is mentioned. But I'm a sex-repulsed person, so nothing even close to unbearable

"I’ve made up my mind. Ya deserve the truth, and nuthin' but the truth. I trust ya, and I trust that ya love me enough to accept what I’m 'bout to say."

She took a long, deep breathe, closed her eyes and thought of the two little words she was about to utter.

"I’m…"

Light mentions of having sex, but as per usual, nothing on screen.

Thanks to TheHorseWriter for the edits after publishing!

“Hey, Rainbow?”

“What?”

“Are we gay?”

"...What?"

Written on a whim after a weird dream and a bout of insomnia. I am not sorry.

Now with a reading.

Rainbow and Applejack correspond over really long distances as a way to keep in touch after the girls move away from Ponyville.

An entry to the A Thousand Words contest. Editing help provided by Sunlight Rays

"See?" Rainbow had to avert her gaze, ignoring the way her voice was cracking every other word and how her face felt like it was going to burn right off. "It's, it's just really weird! Like, we already know each other and everything."

"But I don't get it," Applejack frowned, furrowing her brows, "If I like you, and ya like me, then ain't the answer plain an' simple?” She spread her arms like it was the most obvious thing in the world. “We go out."

(Or: Rainbow Dash and Applejack go on their first date. Rainbow has no idea what she's doing, but things work out, somehow.)

Rated T for mild profanity.

Applejack is determined for Rainbow Dash to get along better with Winona, even when her marefriend insists she's not a dog person.

Written for a 1k word contest.

Rainbow Dash and Sweet Apple Acres vectors by EStories, and Winona vector by AtomicGreymon.

Fanfic reading available by Pony&Wolf Productions on YouTube.