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// Chapter 3 
// Story: It's Not Easy Being In Love (Chronological Version) 
// by Gutovi 
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Date: The year of Nightmare Moon’s Return.
The second run, after the Running of the Leaves.
Location: White Tail Woods, Ponyville’s Outskirts.
Point of View: Applejack

“What did you say, AJ?”
Applejack’s eyes went wide. She shouldn’t have said that aloud. “W-what did y’all hear?”
“I… seriously didn’t catch anything you said,” said Rainbow Dash, trying to look both at Applejack and at the path she was trying to follow.
Applejack was seriously hoping there were no trees in front of her, because she could just look at her companion. “Great, she didn’t hear me say Ah loved her.” “Well… Ah’m sorry Sugarcube, but Ah ain’t repeating it now.”
“Aww c’mon, AJ! You know I hate being left out! And it was actually kind of your fault, I couldn’t stop looking at your colours. Did I ever tell you your hair looks awesome under the sunset’s light?”
“D-do I really look that good under the… Focus AJ! S-she didn’t mean it that way…” “N-no… Ah think y’all never told me that… thanks sweetheart, that’s really sweet of y’all…”
“Hey AJ… you don’t mind me asking you something a bit personal, do you?”
Applejack tried to notice malice in her face, but finding nothing, she decided to answer, “Nah, shoot out, RD.”
“How come you never had a coltfriend?”
“C-come again?”
“Yeah, I mean, how is it possible that you never had a coltfriend? What’s not to like about you? You’re honest, hard-working, very smart, you have seriously kicking curves… pun not intended, and, if you swear not to tell a soul, I’ll let you know you’re the most awesome pony ever… besides me of course.”
Applejack’s eyes went wide and she lost focus of everything around her. “Ah…” She looked away from the cyan pegasus, just in time to notice a tree an inch from her snout. 



Date: The year of Nightmare Moon’s Return.
The second run, after the Running of the Leaves.
Location: White Tail Woods, Ponyville’s Outskirts.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash



“Applejack! Are you okay?” Back came no answer “Applejack?” The rainbow maned pony walked to the orange pony. “Oh no,no,no,no,no,no! Please be alright.” she walked towards her and checked if she was breathing. “Thank Celestia… I still should make sure nothing happened”
Rainbow Dash managed to get the farmpony on her back and flew to Twilight’s house.

After an explanation and a ‘Body check spell she had been working on’ Twilight gave her verdict: “She’ll be fine, just get her a bed to rest and tell the Apples to give her some analgesics to ease the pain when she comes back.”
Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head and said “Actually… I kinda feel bad and responsible for this, so I wanna take care of her, can you do something to make her be on clouds? You know only pegasai can walk on them…”
“I believe there is a spell, but I haven’t found it yet, I’d say you should take her home Dash.”
“Darn. Ok, I’ll ask the Apples to let me stay and help her.”
“I don’t think they’ll object to that.” Twilight replied smiling.

After a short flight, both ponies were in front of the Apple family house on Sweet Apple Acres
Rainbow Dash knocked on the door. “Is somepony in?” she asked, trying to get some attention of the ponies inside.
A red coated stallion opened the door soon after.
“Miss Rainbow, have y’all see-” for the look in his face, Rainbow deduced he noticed the orange pony on her back.
“She’s alright, she just needs some rest.”
“Lemme take her to her room.”
“Actually Mac… I wanted to ask you something.”
The green eyed colt looked at her quizzically “What is it Miss Rainbow?”
“I… kinda feel responsible for it, can I stay her and tend to her?”
“Uh… alright, Ah can get the guest room ready in sum mins.” He said turning around.
“Can I just take a mattress to her room? I don’t want to be far if she needs something.”
“Okay, get her there, Ah’ll get the mattress.” He walked up the stairs and turned to the left on the first door. 
Rainbow Dash followed up the stairs, but turned on the left on the second door, Applejack’s room.
Dash tuckered Applejack in her bed, and waited patiently for her to wake up.
Big Mac entered the room, laid the mattress next to the bed and said. “Well, Ah’ll leave y’all two alone, Ah’m glad y’all are stayin’ here Miss Rainbow, Applebloom is with her new friends, and Granny Smith is visiting kin on Manehattan. N’ Ah was s’possed to go there n’ look fer her. There’s plenty of stuff in the kitchen to cook, if y’all feel hungry. Please take good care of mah sis, n’ tell’er where we are.”
“No prob Mac, see ya!”
“See y’all too Miss Rainbow”
“Please stop calling me ‘Miss’, I’ve been AJ’s friend for years, you must have seen me a billion times by now.”
“Sorry Miss Rainbow, that’s the way Ah’ve been raised. Goodbye.”
Rainbow Dash shook her head grinning at her friend’s brother’s manners, and went back to the ‘waiting patiently for Applejack to wake up’ mission.

Her patience lasted for five whole minutes, and then she started poking the blonde earth pony with her hoof “AJ… Wake up”
She repeated the whispering and poking, until half a minute later it proved to be a not-at-all useless method, since the orange farmpony woke up, batting her eyelashes.
“Finally!”



Date: The year of Nightmare Moon’s Return.
The second run, after the Running of the Leaves.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Applejack

“Finally!”
Applejack’s head was spinning and she couldn’t focus. “H-huh? Wha…what happened?” She started noticing her surroundings “Why am Ah in mah bed?” Then she noticed Rainbow Dash, and her hoof “N’ why are y’all pokin’ me?”
“You hit your head with a tree when we were running and blacked out. Guess it was kind of my fault, shouldn’t have distracted you, sorry.”
Applejack looked deep into Rainbow’s eyes, she could notice the guilt present in those rose pools and smiled tenderly “No problem Sugarcube… How long have Ah been out?”
“Just a couple hours. Oh and I had Twilight check you, she said you will be fine, with some anagel… angale…painkillers to ease your headaches.”
It was in that moment that Applejack felt a sharp pain and she cringed. “Talkin’ ‘bout headaches… Ah feel like that tree avenged all his brothers Ah’ve bucked. N’ Ah think we’re plum out of painkillers.” 
Her eyes were closed because of the pain, but she could hear Rainbow Dash trotting out the door and saying “I’ll go look for something to improvise!”
Applejack tried not to think about the pain, so she thought of Dash. It was always a pleasurable thought. “Can’t say it doesn’t feel good to be tended… A girl could get used to this… No, y’all are not a lazy gal. Y’all are an Apple, y’all will get up and continue with yer chores” She tried to get up, but her headache got worse. “Or maybe tomorrow… Ah won’t be able to do no chores this late anyways… N’ Ah shouldn’t miss the chance of bein’ this close to Dash”

Some minutes later she felt hooves walking up the stairs. Each time the hooves touched the floor hear head felt a sharp pain, but her heart fluttered a bit. She looked up to see Dash, but something in her face looked strange.
“Uh… I found something that will ease your pain!”
“What is it Sugarcube?”
Dash showed her a bottle and two glasses.
“Hard Cider! There’s no better painkiller, trust me.”
“Uh… Ah don’t meant to doubt y’all nor yer gut, ‘cause Ah know y’all have experience, but Ah don’t like alcohol… N’ Ah really don’t think drinking hard cider when yer head is killin’ y’all is a blue-ribbon idea.”
Rainbow Dash seemed a bit offended at the comment, but it was most probably just  acting. She proceeded to pour some cider in the glasses and give one to Applejack.
She then raised it as in a toast and proclaimed “For your fast recovery!”
And down went the drinks.
“Gah! Ah really don’t like alcohol, Ah prefer regular cider.”
“Meh, don’t be a Fluttershy and drink another glass.
“Hey! That’s rude! Both to me, n’ to Flutters.”
“I’m just kidding… but seriously, have another glass, if we’re going for the ‘painkiller effect’ then one glass won’t do.”

After several glasses were drunk, Applejack was feeling a lot better, maybe a bit dizzy, but no more headaches at least. 
Dash was now resting her front hooves and her head on Applejack’s belly, while her flank was still on the floor.
Applejack thoughts weren’t very clear, but she had Dash very close, and suddenly her inhibitions were disappearing.
“Ah… Ah luv ya Dashhh” she slurred.
Dash smiled, closed her eyes and said at a louder volume that was necessary “D’awwww how swe-hic-et… I love you too Applejackie” 
Applejack sobered up a bit after hearing those words, shook her head and asked “Y-y’all do?”
“Yur my best fri-hic-end in the whole wide wro… uh… world, Apples!” Rainbow Dash said, with exaggerated hoof motions. “Of course I love you.”
“Oh…” those words hit the blonde cowpony like a bucket of cold water. “Well… it’s get-hic-getting’ mighty late RD, Ah think we should stop drinkin’ n’ go to bed.”
“Yes ma’am!” Said the cyan pegasus trying to do a salute but failing. “I… I’ll just lay here in the mattress.”
“Wait!”
“What’s wrong?”
“Mah bed is big enough, why don’t y’all… uh… sleep here. Ah’d feel better with y’all here.”
Rainbow Dash tried to focus and look into Applejack’s eyes, seemingly pondering what to do. Finally she smiled and got into bed with Applejack scooting close and cuddling with her. “Why not… Most of my nights are lonely, I won’t complain if you want company.”
“Thank y’all Dashie.”
The daredevil mare smiled and gave her a little peck on the forehead. “G’night Sugarcube.”
Applejack froze in place with eyes wide as plates but soon fall asleep.



Date: The year of Nightmare Moon’s Return.
The day after the Running of the Leaves.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“Ugh…” Rainbow Dash groaned as she woke up.
“W-wha?” she heard a voice, right in front of her.
She decided to open her eyes to figure out who was it, and found Applejack opening her eyes too. They were very close together, their muzzles touching. 
Suddenly, all her sleepiness disappeared, as she moved away from the orange mare, ending on the floor, tangled in the bed sheets.
“Ouch! My head!”
“Don’t tell me about it… y’all can’t realise how much mah head is poundin’. Ah feel terrible! Remember me to murder y’all with a wooden spoon when Ah get better...” hissed Applejack between her teeth. “ ‘Hey Applejack, why don’t get hammered! It’s gonna be great for your headache!’. Why do Ah even considered listenin’ to yer advice regarding health n’ care.”
“Hey, it didn’t hurt last night, did it?”
“Yeah but Ah gotta suffer thrice as much this mornin’. Ain’t no deal!”
“Okay, okay. I’ll be right back.” The cyan pegasus stated, as she flew out the window, just to be greeted by the unforgiving sunlight, and a great difficulty to fly straight.

“Gotta make it to the drugstore… I don’t remember hangovers being this harsh… I must have had a few more than I should last night. Oh, I gotta talk to AJ about it when I get back.”
After some minutes on the drugstore looking for something for Applejack’s pain, she flew back to the acres, a bit less disoriented now.

She entered Applejack’s room through the window, just to find the bed empty, and no sign of the orange mare.
“She shouldn’t be out of bed yet, where is that pony?” “Applejack, where are you?” after looking around for some short time, she realised that they were alone in the house, so any little noise would give away the country pony’s whereabouts.
She decided to test the ninja skills she learned by reading all those comics. “The closest thing to a book I’ll ever read. Let the eggheads like Twilight read the big ones with lots of text.” Sadly for her, she couldn’t get to test them, because as soon  as she sneaked out of the room, she heard the shower running in the bathroom. 
A sly grin formed on her face as a prank came to her mind “I should be helping her because I got her hurt twice in less than two days… but I can’t let this slip. Pinkie told me that chances to scare a friend in the bathroom are close to none, and the reward is great!”
Once again, the daredevil pony decided to use stealth to accomplish her goal, and finding the door not closed but a bit open, seemed to be the best opportunity she could ask for.
She slowly and silently got next to the door, and turned all of her body to be parallel to the door, she lowered her body and stretched out her neck, trying to quietly open the door just enough to get her head in, and take a look inside.
When she did, she was glad to see that Applejack wasn’t looking at her. In fact, the mare had her eyes closed, probably relaxing under the shower to ease the pain. “Oh this is great, she’s so relaxed and… vulnerable, she’ll jump out of her skin!
She was preparing to yell something and scare her friend when she noticed her a little more. Huh? I never realised, but this is the first time I saw Applejack with her hair loose. It… looks good on her actually, I wonder why she never wears it this way.” she then started noticing other parts of her best friend’s body. “Huh, I never noticed how well her body mixes beautiful features and a strong build, or how good her hind legs look. I suppose is all that applebucking." 
Her eyes started tracing Applejack’s hind legs and her flank “ Oh, I’m so jealous, how can you have such a well toned plot? I spend half of my day flying and practicing and I don’t have half the plot you have!” Rainbow Dash was feeling both taken aback and jealous of Applejack’s body but she kept looking, completely forgetting the whole prank. Her eyes moved from the legs to her stomach. “Awww, she’s in the perfect pose for me to give her belly rubs and tickle her! Wait… belly rubs and tickles? That’s cute, not cool, and I should be cool not cute!”
Finally her eyes started wandering lower and lower, until she could look at Applejack’s-
*POMF*
The bathroom door opened suddenly and violently hit the wall.
Rainbow Dash’s eyes went wide at saucers as she realized her wings had decided to spring wide open and getting as rigid as planks, ruining her whole stealth plan and instead leaving her in an awfully embarrassing situation. Applejack had indeed jumped out of her skin, but not for the same reason as she had planned, and obviously not in the situation she had expected.
“Rainbow!?” Applejack yelled as she spotted the polychromatic pegasus while grabbing a towel and covering herself.  “W-what are y’all doin’ in mah bathroom!” She then seemed to be realising Dash’s pose and added “W-were y’all peeping when Ah was in the shower!?”
Both ponies had a terrified look in their faces.
“N-no, that’s totally not what I was doing! I swear!” She soon realized her words didn’t sound convincing at all.
“Y’all weren’t sneakily lookin’ at me through a door gap while Ah was havin’ a private shower!?”
Rainbow Dash’s pupils shrank “Th-that’s exactly what I was doing” “Well… Yes, but it’s not what you think! I wasn’t peeping at you to look at your kicking curves!” “Wait… no, that didn’t sound right nor convincing.” She noticed Applejack blush as her eyes went even wider. She was probably not sure if be flattered or crept out by the daredevil mare’s words.
“Uh…”
“W-what I meant was that… it’s not like you usually wear clothes anyways!” “Dammit that sounded even worse! She must be thinking I always check her out! Wait… was I ‘checking her out’?”
Applejack’s blush faded completely and her pupils started shrinking as she clenched at the towel covering her.
“No, sorry I didn’t meant that I uh… I’m just saying that I didn’t even got to see your-”
Applejack’s eyes started twitching and she hastily closed her hind legs and grasping the towel with even more strength.
“WHY DO I KEEP SCREWING UP WORSE AND WORSE? The worst part is that it was a lie, and she knows it, which means I’m looking like a total perv!”
“Okay wait!” she took a deep breath and decided to confess was better than her current situation. “I was looking at you in the shower, but it wasn’t for what you think it was.” she noticed Applejack relaxing a bit, probably noticing it wasn’t a lie.
“I was peeping because I wanted to scare you, because Pinkie told me that pranking a friend in the shower was really funny and having a chance to, was very hard. So when I came back and noticed you were here I tried to scare you, but to do so I had to wait for the exact perfect moment, that’s why I was Uh… ‘spying’ you.”
After some seconds of doubt, Applejack relaxed significantly. “It’s okay Dash. But why didn’t y’all tell me that at first? What’s with the strange excuses that made everythin’ sound worse?”
“It’s ‘cause I didn’t expect to scare you with that! I wanted to jump and yell, or something along those lines” she looked at her wings “But this rebellious little girls decided to spring for a reason I still don’t get, and opened the door.”
“Oh… Okay.”
“I’ll… leave you to finish your shower and I swear I’ll never going to try to do this again.”
“Okay… b-but Rainbow!”
“Yeah?”
Applejack blushed a little bit and asked “D-do y’all really think Ah have… uh,  kickin’ curves?”
Rainbow Dash’s eyes went wide as she pondered what to do.
“No matter what y’all say, Ah won’t be mad at y’all.” Applejack assured her.
“Well… yeah… I’m kind of jealous of your body but don’t tell anypony else.” As Rainbow walked out the door, she remembered something “Oh, I brought you some painkillers. Ah, and when you’re done with that, I wanna talk to you about last night.”
“Okay… Ah’ll be ready in a min… wait for me in the kitchen!” 



Date: The year of Nightmare Moon’s return.
The day after the Running of the Leaves.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

Rainbow Dash was waiting for her friend to come down, sitting on the Apple’s kitchen table.
“I can’t believe I did that! I’m not a perv for looking at my best friend showering… r-right? In my defence, her body is too good for me not to watch it…” She surprised herself with that train of thoughts “Wait, do I find her attractive? Well let’s see, there’s that beautiful blonde hair, those cute little freckles, those sexy green eyes, and I have no words to describe her body…”
Rainbow felt a bucket of frozen water fall over her “Oh dear Celestia, I have the hots for AJ.”
“What was that Sugarcube?” a voice behind her asked.
Blushing furiously she turned around to find Applejack, drying her mane with a towel. Once again, she wasn’t wearing her iconic hot, nor the mane ties and part of it fell down her shoulder in a very alluring way, and some beads of water were still dripping down her coat.
“You gotta be kidding me! Darn girl, you can’t tell me it’s my fault now.” “Uhh… nothing.”
“Were y’all thinkin’ ‘bout me?”
Rainbow blushed a bit more and breathed “Maybe…”
“Look Ah’m gonna save y’all from any embarrasin’ moments, so we won’t mention this ever again. A’ight? Now what was that y’all wanted to talk ‘bout?”
“Oh yeah, that. But first you gotta answer a question that’s been lingering since I saw you uh… in the shower.”
“What is it?” asked Applejack smiling.
“Why do you always have your mane tied? It looks really good when loose! I swear you could have any stallion you could want if you do so.”
“Ah can’t, it would be too troublesome when workin’ at the farm. Wearing it loose would mean bits of woods and leaves getting stuck in it, n’ it would be a pain to clean it every day.”
“I guess you’re right.”
“So…”
“Oh yeah” Rainbow Dash remembered the reason she asked the orange pony to talk in the first place. “Look, yesterday we said stuff and did things we shouldn’t. You see, I never cuddled with you and slept in the same bed.”
“N’ Ah never told y’all Ah loved y’all.”
“Me neither.”
“Y’all didn’t kiss me goodnight.”
“And I definitely didn’t call you ‘Sugarcube’.”
“Well… Y’all know Ah can’t lie, so Ah could say it was almost like every other sleepover.” 
“Well, that’s not a lie, and since the girls don’t know what we usually do on our sleepovers, that’s like… the best we could ask for to keep our reputation intact.” Rainbow Dash said with a wink.
“Sounds good to me.”



Date: The year after Discord’s return
The day after the Equestria’s Rodeo Competition.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“So…What are we waiting for? Let’s go find her!” Rainbow Dash said, dashing out the main door of Sweet Apple Acres’ barn.
“Don’t worry, we will search all of Equestria if we have to. We will bring her back!” said Twilight Sparkle to the Apple family members.
“Y’all are the best,” Applebloom said grateful.
“Thank y’all girls,” said Granny Smith with tears forming in her eyes.
After they left the barn, Rainbow Dash asked, “Why would Applejack stay there?”
“Well… maybe there’s some trouble with the trains and she can’t come back, or… Uhm…” Twilight pondered.
“Or maybe there was certain trouble with the competition, maybe it rained in Canterlot and they had to re-schedule it for another day, or there is a problem with the contest juries or the money. I have been in some contest, of fashion of course, and there is always a problem with the jury or the prize money.”
“I just hope she’s not hurt, in trouble… o-or worse.” The yellow pegasus prayed.
“Maybe she just met a nice stallion and now they are coltfriend and marefriend and they are living together in Canterlot!” Pinkie said.
“NO! I mean… she wouldn’t do that, right?” Rainbow Dash was surprised of her own reaction. “Where did that come from? Since when did I care so much if AJ gets a coltfriend or not… I mean, I have the hots for her… but nothing more right? No, I said it because she couldn’t leave us like that… yeah, that was why. Nothing to do with my feelings for her.”
Rarity smiled nervously and said, “Oh no, no. I am pretty sure that didn’t happen.”
“What, are you saying Applejack’s not good enough to get a colt?” the speedster pegasus stopped mid-air. “Wait, what?” “Seriously, what’s wrong with me today? 
“Are you okay, Rainbow?” asked Fluttershy who was flying behind her.
“I… I-Argh, I don’t know! I’m stressed with AJ running away I guess.”
“Anyways,” Twilight said trying to save everypony from the recent awkward moment. “I’m quite sure Applejack didn’t leave us just to be with a colt in Canterlot.”
“Yeah, you’re right, those fancy ponies aren’t good enough for her. I mean… Ugh what is wrong with me!”
“Well, we all know you prefer AJ, Dashie, you’re obviously more worried than us, that’s all,” Pinkie Pie said, smiling at her.
“I-I don’t prefer her over you guys! You’re all my best friends!”
“Oh puh-lease, Rainbow, like you would come help me with my dresses or going to the spa, over going to Sweet Apple Acres to play or even work, with Applejack,” Rarity exclaimed. 
“Or going to the library.”
“Or pranking! Oh, wait, you do like pranking… ok, or baking!”
“Hey, it’s not like I choose being with her over you guys, it’s just…” Rainbow tried to say.
“Save it darling, it is not the only reason we know it. Your smile never gets as big when I enter the room as it gets when you see Applejack enter the room.”
“In fact, if I didn’t knew you two better I’d say you two wer-” Twilight Sparkle was stopped by both Rarity and Fluttershy at the same time.
Rarity and Fluttershy stared at each other and Rainbow could notice an orange aura all around, even around her. But soon, the orange in Rarity and Fluttershy disappeared, and as the two looked at Twilight and whispered something, Twilight’s too.
“What? You thought what, Twi?”
“Nothing, don’t mind me, I was just being silly.”
“Oh! I love being silly!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie, but then she asked, “Wait, weren’t we hurrying to get in a train to Canterlot?”
“Right! We should go now!” said the pink-maned pegasus, the purple unicorn, and the blue-eyed unicorn, while running, trying not to look at Rainbow Dash.
“Hey, wait for me!”



Date: The year after Discord’s return
The day after the Equestria’s Rodeo Competition.
Location: Canterlot Rodeo Arena, Canterlot.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“Are you absolutely sure you haven’t seen her?”
“I told you I saw her, but I don’t know where Applejack went!”
“Wait… Caramel? What are you doing here?” asked the daredevil pegasus.
“Well… my cousin over there, the one over there talking to Pinkie, works as a Rodeo Clown and he asked me to come along.” He shifted weights and continued “He hates being alone in places he’s not familiar with. Besides, the pay is good for moving these barrels around.”
“Well… thanks anyways, if you get to know something, tell us.”
“Yeah, see you… Rainbow right?”
“Rainbow Dash, yeah.”
The rainbow-maned mare walked back to where the other four ponies were waiting.



Date: The year after Discord’s return
The day after the Equestria’s Rodeo Competition.
Location: Outside the Train Station, Dodge Junction.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“Change of scenery! Can you girls believe that!?” Rainbow Dash said sighing angrily.
“I’m sure that’s not the reason, Rainbow. As I said before, she seems to be hiding something.” Twilight exclaimed.
“Well and that just makes me feel even more uncomfortable, why would AJ hide something from us? Why would AJ hide something from me!”
“Well Rainbow, I am sorry to break it to you, but we also are her best friends and the world does not revolve around you so I believe that your last statement was completely uncalled for.” Rarity said, a bit annoyed by the pegasus’ attitude.
“I still believe she just met a nice stallion… maybe he’s from here, so AJ came here!”  Pinkie Pie insisted.
“Pinkie, I highly doubt that.”
“I say that we should go to the cherry lady and ask her to work there for today, and while working we ask her if she met a nice stallion… or maybe a mare… who knows.”
“Pinkie, could you stop saying AJ found some special somepony!” Rainbow Dash demanded.
“But Pinkie is right in one thing though, we should go there and ask her during work, it’s our only way to approach her right now.” Twilight stated, it seemed to the cyan pegasus that she was already planning what to do.



Date: The year after Discord’s return.
The day after the Equestria’s Rodeo Competition.
Location: On the Friendship Express, Ponyville’s outskirts.
Point of View: Applejack

“I still can’t believe you did that.”
“Rainbow, Ah told y’all six times now, Ah thought y’all would be ashamed of me, n’ Ah didn’t want to get back empty hooved.”
“You being empty hooved for not having prize money? And what about me? I would be without my eternal friendly rival, my best friend, the best mare I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, the pony I l…I… the pony I prefer over any other…” Rainbow Dash spurted, tears threatening to roll down her checks. “The mare that saved my life! And all you were worried about was some stupid mon-”
Applejack suddenly tackle-hugged the polychromatic pegasus. “Ah missed y’all too Rainbow.”
And with that, the tears started flowing freely down both mares’ cheeks.
“Thank Luna we had this compartment for just the two of us.”
“Y’all jes started crying ‘cause Ah almost left y’all, but y’all still try to keep yer cool n’ reputation?” Applejack laughed.
“Oh shut up.”
“Are you mad at me?”
“I can’t be mad at you… not anymore.”
Applejack raised her eyebrow at that “N’ why not?”
“I just realised something important.” 
“N’ that is?”
“Not telling ya!” Rainbow Dash said while suddenly grabbing Applejack’s head and giving her a noogie.
“Ouch, stop that!” the mare responded between giggles. 
The two ponies shared a good laugh and soon they were resting together in the compartment’s floor.
“It’s getting late don’t you think? We should get some sleep.”
“Ah’d like that, but y’all ain’t letting me get up.”
“Oh no, after this little ‘escapade’ you pulled, you’re gonna have to repay me by sleeping here with me.”
“Can’t say no, can Ah?”