Rainbow Dash knows it’s the rule that you should always be nice to service workers, but it’s getting really hard to keep it together when she’s about to be late for class and the blonde girl behind the counter insists on taking 30 minutes to make her order and keeps staring at her the entire time, and Rainbow desperately needs her Monday morning boost, like right now.

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Rainbow Dash's smoothie-related misadventures lead her to starting a new part-time job at Sweet Apple Shakes. Now she must face her super-weird new coworker, a girl named Applejack who probably hates her.

(Based on an EQG short, but not EQG. The cover is a temp thing.)

Rated Teen for swearing and talk of unhealthy lifestyle habits. Warnings to be updated.

Ah, the last year of high school, when students start pondering their futures and similar existential crises. 17-year-old Applejack has... other problems. She's a long way from home, for one, and she knows home is the only place she's going back to after high school in the big city. Applejack is okay with this, but when she sees Rainbow Dash, soaring ever high, achieving her dreams, that doesn't stop her from wondering what it's like to fly.

Oh, and she's also in love with Rainbow, who's leaving the country in less than a year. That too.

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Now with a new cover drawn by me!
Rated Teen for mild profanity, instances of underage drinking, and a couple suggestive jokes/moments.

"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.

It's been a year since a tragic accident took Applejack's parents. A year, and she still doesn't know what to do with herself. Encouraged by friends and family, she decides to spend the summer vacation at Fluttershy's beach house on Splendora Island. She's not sure if it's helping.

Then, one night, she finds something injured on the beach. No, not something. Someone.

What starts as good intentions steadily grows into something else. Whether that something else is good for Applejack is another matter entirely.

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Inspired 100% by the cover art. The idea jumped into my skull and refused to leave until it was written out.

Props to my wonderful pre-readers: SorenPixels, NaiadSagaIotaOar, and Wanderer D!

Cover art used with permission from LooknamTCN, verily one of the best RariJack artists ever. Check out their immensely enjoyable Tumblr.

Rainbow Dash attends this year's Sisterhooves Social with Scootaloo, and an impromptu bet with Applejack brings about an odd turn of events. During the aftermath, Rainbow learns something new about her best friend, and about herself.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash are two fresh-out-of-highschool, broke college students who are inevitably paired together as roommates in a scrawny apartment above a local café. The two girls, who have both nothing but nearly everything in common, survive through four years, struggling to make tight ends meet and comforting one another through tragedies and triumph. But throughout those years of living together, neither of the girls cease to reveal their mutual feelings towards each other.

That is until Rainbow gets accepted into her dream job in an entirely different city, leaving Applejack in the dust. Is it too late for her to confess her love, or will she never get the chance to get things off her chest?

inspired by one of the prompts here.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash are Canterlot High's most athletic, most competitive, and most stubborn students.
They're also the most oblivious.
Rainbow Dash is head-over-heels in love with her best friend, Applejack. Applejack has one hell of a crush on Rainbow Dash. And, naturally, neither one of them knows how the other feels.
Who knew saying 'I love you' could be so hard?
But they'll manage it in the end. And when they do, they'll go on to tackle the rest of the school year hand-in-hand, side by side. They'll laugh and cry; they'll be hurt and be healed; they'll live their life to the fullest with their best friends and encounter all sorts of surprises. They won't realize it, but their experiences - their love, their kisses, even their stupid competitions - will be documented by Pinkie Pie with her trusty camera, trying to immortalize the slow and sweet and sometimes stormy romance of her best friends.
And when she shows them her album at the end of the year, when they prepare to step out into the big wide world, Applejack and Rainbow will realize that, well...
It truly was their year.

Link to cover artist's page:
http://ranbluesue.lofter.com/post/39ebde_cf8e4b1

Rainbow Dash races to Applejacks farm, to ask the farmer a question that will change both of their lives forever.

This story is a sequel to Appledashery

After Rainbow Dash's many heroics, she reaches the lowest of lows. But then there's a glimmer of light. Freckled light.

This is the continually evolving story of two mares who--by fate or by felicity--are both inevitably drawn to one another. As a pair, they'll experience the highs and lows of life: the likes of which only they can share together.

Cover Art by DarkFlame75