Rainbow Dash groaned groggily as she realized she was kinda sore upon waking up in the morning, but she figured that’s just what she gets for sleeping on the floor of the library. She hadn’t quite gotten her eyes open as she adjusted her body a little bit, bumping into some firm resistance really quickly.
She only wondered what it was for half a second before remembering the night before and that it was Applejack.
Rainbow’s entire body tensed up. Applejack was sleeping right next to her! She didn’t dare open her eyes to see the position of Applejack’s body relative to hers, but she was thankful that both of them still had clothes on at least—they didn’t go that far last night.
Rainbow let her eyes flutter open just a tiny bit, but as she saw Spike indulging in a bowl of ice cream on top of the reception desk, she shut her eyes super tight just as quick. And thankfully, Spike wasn’t looking at them so he still didn’t know that Rainbow was awake, but him being there did mean he saw Rainbow and Applejack sleeping together, and that was mortifying.
Rainbow had to move before she somehow got embarrassed even more… right? That is, did she even want to move? Sure, being seen sleeping next to Applejack was super embarrassing—being seen sleeping at all was pretty embarrassing, to be honest—but like… who cares?
Was Rainbow honestly embarrassed about the night she spent making out with Applejack? It was a great night, and once they’d finally stopped making out and settled down to go to sleep, they both decided to sleep next to each other on purpose, because they wanted to be near each other.
What was so embarrassing about that?
Because Rainbow put a lot of investment and effort into building this shell of coolness and confident detachment, and she couldn’t just let the whole thing fall apart by letting everyone see what a lovestruck idiot she was, sleeping next to her crush.
Rainbow’s wings fidgeted as she prepared to move, cuz she just couldn’t let anyone think that she was like, really into Applejack, could she? Sure, she had a crush, and Applejack was super cool and super hot and whatever else, but Rainbow didn’t have feelings for her!
As Rainbow’s wings brushed against Applejack’s chest, Applejack groaned quietly. Rainbow bit her lip, worried that she woke AJ up, but Applejack just moved her body a little bit to make herself more comfortable.
Unfortunately for Rainbow, this meant wrapping her arms around the nearest, softest thing in the room—Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow nearly gasped as she felt Applejack’s sleepy arms tugging her a little closer to Applejack’s chest, but then she took a sec to really feel Applejack’s arms around her, and… it was nice. It was… safe, and comfortable. And cool, and like, hot… and nice.
Rainbow’s fang was still pressed against her lip, and as she instinctively scraped it across, she felt a little bit of blood streaming down her face. As she moved to wipe it away, she remembered when she bit herself in front of Applejack, and AJ took a cloth and wiped the blood away from her lip. That was really sweet of her, especially since it had happened right after Rainbow had totally flaked on—
Wait.
Had Applejack been crushing on Rainbow all this time? When Rainbow said she’d show up but then didn’t that night, was Applejack mad at her the next morning not cuz Rainbow was a loser and a flake, but because Applejack had really been looking forward to spending the time together?
Oh.
OH.
Rainbow sighed, and let her body ease up in Applejack’s arms, squirming a little bit further into Applejack’s embrace with a smile on her face, a smile that only widened as she heard Applejack’s sleepy sigh of contentment.
Rainbow suddenly didn’t care about the embarrassment or her ‘cool guy’ shtick anymore; all that mattered was Applejack’s embrace, and how warm and safe she felt in it.
Today was a good morning.