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// Chapter 5 
// Story: It's Not Easy Being In Love (Chronological Version) 
// by Gutovi 
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Date: Two years after King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
First day of the new year.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Applejack

“H-hey Applejack!” slurred Rainbow Dash while throwing a hoof over her neck.
Applejack realized the alcohol smell in her breath and decided to carry the pegasus’ weight on her back. 
“Easy now cowgirl, don’t try to be a hero n’ come with me to that hay pile.”
“W-why wool…wood…w-why?” the rose-eyed mare asked trying to focus on the earth pony’s eyes.
“ ‘Cause y’all can’t stand on yer own four hooves, let’s jes lay down fer a min.” She noticed the mug on Rainbow’s hoof, and took it from her. “N’ let’s make this one yer last fer tonight”
“Don’t be a Mc Meanie Partypooper Pants AJ!” chirped Pinkie Pie, who was as cheerful and energetic as always in such a way nopony would believe she had downed twelve mugs of hard cider already.
“Pinkie Pie, the fact that you can hold your liquor in an absolutely intriguing and exceptional way does not apply to the rest of our friends, sadly.” Rarity said looking up, probably wishing she had Pinkie’s ability. Rarity’s love for alcohol was no novelty.
Applejack looked at the scenario in front of her. The mane six decided to spend New Year’s Eve together in Applejack’s barn, and it all went well until the clock hit twelve o’ clock and the hard cider was brought for the toast.
The orange farmpony now realised that saving six barrels for six ponies wasn’t the wisest of ideas.

Fluttershy was out for good. She drank four mugs in the first five minutes, blabbered something about how she loved everypony but nopony ever loved her, and then blacked out on a pile of hay.

Rarity had had her fair amount of mugs, but was still ok. Unlike Twilight Sparkle. Pinkie Pie discovered she never drank before and decided to change that. Now the lavender unicorn was dancing in a very embarrassing way, even worse than on her birthday. The pink mare was dancing with her happily, but by the look on her face, a look Applejack knew all too well, was soon going to take her to a bale of hay nearby and put her to sleep. Pinkie Pie loved to party, but she knew when somepony needed her rest.

But not with Rainbow Dash, she thought that since Rainbow Dash was so fearless, active and daring, she was able to drink and party ‘til sunrise.
Luckily, Applejack never liked alcohol and was sober enough to tell when Rainbow Dash was getting more than just tipsy. Another amazing thing was that, despite being sober, Applejack was not worrying about the mess the girls were causing in her barn.
After observing what her friends where doing, she finally got Rainbow Dash to rest on the hay, but only after lying next to her. Soon after, the cyan pegasus cuddled with her. Feeling the daredevil pony’s fur brushing against her neck and chest was pleasing and relaxing, and it seriously helped her forget about the rest.
Sadly, she knew it was just the alcohol, but she would enjoy it while she could.
She looked at the pony by her side and smiled “Ah never took y’all fer a cuddlebug Sugarcube.”
Rainbow looked at her and with half-lidded eyes, she said. “Well… you don’t know eerie-vary thin…uh, all about me. But if you promise not to tell I… I’ll show two oth…er things.”
“Ah won’t tell a soul, sweetheart.”
“Blinkie Prey Miss?”
Applejack guffawed and answered “Ah don’t know ‘bout that, but Ah do Pinkie Promise.”
Dash smiled slyly “I’m also a closet biter, and I always dreamt of doing this.” She whispered and lunged forward.
Applejack’s first reaction was to freeze in surprise, but she soon relaxed and enjoyed the ride. She ended up enjoying it a bit too much and let out a moan.
Everypony stopped doing what they were doing, Pinkie Pie stopped the music and asked “Hey, you heard that too? What was it?”
Applejack hastily blurted “It was nuthin’ important enough to stop the party!”
Pinkie Pie pondered for less than a second before saying “You are right!” and resuming the music.

The rose-eyed pegasus looked at AJ and asked her worried “I’m sor…sorry, was I too rough? Want me to stop?”
“No!” Applejack exclaimed, but soon corrected herself “Ah mean… y’all can continue if y’all wanna…”
Rainbow looked like she was trying to look straight at her. “Y-you sure?”
“Please yerse-” “That may sound weird, won’t push my luck with a drunk Dash” “Do as y’all want.”
“Okay, but I’ll be gentler.”
“But first… Can Ah ask y’all a question?”
“Uh… yeah?”
“Why nibblin’ mah ear?”
“I don’t know… I just gotta tell ya it’s even better in real life.”
Applejack chuckled and said “Ah must say Ah don’t feel bad either.” She then went back to observing the scene in front of her.
Rarity seemed to have decided it was time to summon her trusty divan and pass out ‘in a fashionable and lady-like way.’
Pinkie changed the record into a much slower song and lowered the volume, like setting a mood. It made Applejack suspect if Pinkie had discovered a new combo, because as soon as she did that Twilight got closer to her and started talking. Luckily, the music was low enough to let the orange cowpony get every single word the lavender unicorn slurred.
“You know Pinkie… I kinda always, uh… you know, I kinda feel better whenever you… uh, when you’re around and… and I start having all these symptoms. Weak knees, heart palpitations, I feel uh… short of breath…” She rested her front hooves on Pinkie Pie’s shoulders, probably to get some stability. “I’ve looked those up in my, you know, my medical books, but… but there’s no explanation of why, uh… why I only get like that with you.”
Pinkie Pie giggled and smiling harder than Applejack ever saw her smile said “Awww, that’s very easy Twilie! You’re just in love silly.” The party animal lowered her eye lids and looked at the Canterlotian mare seductively. “Luckily for you, I love you too.” 
What happened next surprised Applejack and made her smile. The pink pony tackled her lover into the hay and kissed her quite roughly. Twilight didn’t seem to be complaining or planning on doing so anyways.

“Hey… look at those two go” Applejack heard the pony who was previously gnawing her ear say. She turned to face the cyan mare and found the pony looking at her with sultry eyes and a wolfish smile. “Don’t they give you any ideas?”
“She’s drunk n’ a prankster, Ah know it’s hard but y’all gotta stay strong n’ don’t fall fer it!” Applejack inhaled deeply and said “Ah believe it’s mighty late n’ y’all had one to many mugs o’ cider.”
As she was trying to get up, Rainbow managed to get her back on the bale of hay and pin her, getting on top. “Please don’t leave me! I swear I won’t say that again. Just… stay here please.”
“Now y’all have hit the ‘emotive drunk’ phase? Alright Sugarcube, Ah won’t leave. In fact, if y’all don’t care we can rest right-”
The cyan pony let herself fall on top of the orange farm-mare and drifted off to sleep. 
“…here…” a smile formed on the Element of Honesty as she caressed the rainbow mane of her best friend. “One day Rainbow… one day y’all will be mine… 



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
First day of the New Year.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

The incoming sunlight assaulted her eyes, and her current state seemed to be totally against it.  It stung like a thousand bees, which mixed with the pounding inside her brain, was not a pleasant feeling. She decided the best thing to do was to turn her head and face the other side, but when she was in the middle of it her snout was stopped by something. Something soft, furry and very comfortable.
“Wait… Clouds aren’t furry… Where am I?” She was about to open her eyes, but she felt far too comfortable, she decided to face away from the daylight and rest her head on the unknown pleasant surface, while trying to remember what happened last night.
“Oh, New Years Eve… right. We spent it on AJ’s barn, but last time I checked, hay isn’t furry either, nor the bed in the guest’s room, next to Appleja-”
Her eyes opened wide and she raised her head. She was lying on top of the mare of her dreams, her hind hooves were between Applejack’s in a very intriguing position, to say the least. She decided that waking up Applejack was the best way to clear things out, but as she was about to talk, she heard a cheerful voice.
“Hey Twilie, we had our share of fun last night, but these two seemed to have raised the bar.”
“Shhh!”
Applejack stirred and bated her eyelashes, waking up from her slumber. Apparently the first thing she set eyes on was Rainbow Dash and she calmly said.
“Hello there Sugarcube. Had a fun night, huh?”
“Aha! I knew it! They totally did it!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed behind the Best Young Flyer.
“WHAT!?” both recently awake ponies exclaimed at the same time with eyes wide at saucers.
“Yeah! Having a ‘Fun night’, sleeping together in a very suggestive way… Applejack even has bite-marks!”
Instinctively, the pegasus jumped to the side, and landed in the hay, next to her best friend. “This is totally not what it seems!” “Or is it!?”” Her face went a bit pale as she looked to her side with a worried look and an uneasy smile “R-right?”
“Y’all mean y’all don’t remember?”
“Oh no…”
“Ah thought y’all weren’t drunk enough to forget stuff… No, nuthin’ happened, y’all just tried to prank me or sumthin’ n’ when Ah was about to get up y’all apologised n’ went all mushy thanks to the cider, n’ asked me to sleep here with y‘all.” She then chuckled and continued “N’ before Ah could tell y’all ‘yes’, y‘all collapsed n’ fell asleep.”
Twilight gently hit the back of Pinkie Pie’s head with her hoof. “See! You shouldn’t go around saying what you think that happened. You could, instead, tell me what happened last night! I remember you giving me a mug after I told you I’ve never drank before, I remember there was music in some moment of the night, and the next thing I know is that I’m lying next to you, smiling at me with a too wide smile.”
Pinkie Pie gave Applejack and Rainbow Dash an apologetic smile and then looked at Twilight, inhaled deeply, and started explaining. “Well… we were dancing all night long, and in one moment you confessed you were having these feelings whenever I was around, and then I told you it was love, and that luckily for you, I loved you back.”
Twilight’s eyes went wide as saucers as Pinkie Pie continued telling everypony what happened.
Rainbow Dash could notice how a yellow veil covered the lavender unicorn, while a green aura surrounded the pink earth pony. A third colour surrounded everypony, it was pink “Now the girls too? What is that colour?”
“Then I kinda half tackled you, half hugged you, throwing us both to the hay bale where we slept, and I kissed you, and you kissed me back, and then we made out, and then you traced my back with your hooves, until you reached my cutie mark and the-”
“OKAY!” Twilight exclaimed shoving a hoof into Pinkie’s mouth to shut her up. “I believe this was enough explanation… here, in front of the girls…”
“Listen to Twilight, Pinks, I believe that’s kinda… intimate to tell in detail.”
“Oh no, we didn’t get to that, don’t worry, what I was about to-”
“No Pinkie, stop it. That’s something you should tell in a different place.” Twilight said, suddenly blushing and looking away “Like say… the library, taking advantage of Spike not being there and all… I’ve read in some books that a good way to remember things, is doing them again… So maybe you can make me remember what happened last night…”
“Heh… I won’t complain to that! See you girls later!” Pinkie Pie replied before prancing towards town, quickly followed by the lavender unicorn.
Rainbow Dash looked at Applejack and asked “You… you saw that coming?”
“Well… Not really, though we both saw them last night, even if y’all don’t remember.”
“Yeah… I’m gonna slow down on cider… Only the hard one though.”



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
First day of the New Year.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Applejack

“So… what happened last night? Why do you have bite marks?
“Y’all should tell me, y’all are the one who told me doing it had been yer dream fer quite a while.” Applejack stated smiling at the pony by her side. They were still lying on the hay.
“Oh… so I guess I told you I’m a biter… You can’t tell anypony about that”
“Ah know, y’all made me Pinkie Pie promise it last night… well, y’all tried.”
“What do you mean I ‘tried’?”
“Y’all were so hammered y’all couldn’t even say the sentence right. Ah believe yer exact words were ‘Blinky Prey Miss’.”
“Yeah… I’m definitely not gonna drink cider anytime soon. So… anything else I said last night?”
“Well… y’all tried to kiss me and get me to sleep with me.”
“WHAT?” Rainbow’s eyes looked like they would pop out of her eye-socks.
“Ah’m jes kiddin’, Ah mean y’all just made what Ah suppose it was a sleep-deprived, intoxicated bad taste prank when we saw the girls making out.”
“Ah… yeah, it was probably just a prank hehe.” Rainbow Dash said giggling worriedly. 
“W-why don’t y’all look so convinced when y’all say that?”
“I’m… thinking that I do pretty crazy stuff when drunk. Never touching alcohol again.”
“Why don’t we keep this… ‘under the wing’ like y’all say.” Applejack suggested with a little wink.
“Thanks Apples, you’re the best.” She suddenly started blushing and looked away. “S-say… would it be too weird if I… uh…” she started fidgeting with her front hooves.
“Y’all can if y’all wanna Sugarcube.” Applejack stated simply, opening her hooves and moving her head slightly to the side, presenting her ear to her polychromatic friend and secret love.
Rainbow Dash blushed a bit more but a wholehearted smile full of joy and glee appeared on her face. “You truly are the best AJ.”



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
Two weeks before “The Games”.
Location: Sugarcube Corner, Ponyville.
Point of View: Applejack

“N-no! Y-you can’t go away for that long!” Rainbow Dash frantically said.
Applejack couldn’t make out what was wrong with Rainbow Dash “What’s wrong with her? Ah knew she would be a bit surprised, but this?”
“Why are you so worried, darling?” asked Rarity, there was a certain sparkle in her eyes, like she was expecting something, and she was very happy about it.
“I just... Uh... C’mon aren’t you girls worried, too?”
“Well... maybe a month is a bit of a long time, but she has to do it, Rainbow. And she will come back, it’s not such a big deal,” Twilight replied.
Fluttershy was frozen in place, her gaze frantically moving from Rainbow Dash to Applejack.
“I’m with you, Rainbow. How can you leave us this way, AJ?” the pink mare said, looking at the green-eyed farmpony.
“Ah’m not leavin’ y’all, Pinkie, Ah’m jes goin’ to Canterlot fer a month fer an important Apple Family Meeting. It’s not the same as the other family meetings, there’s some ‘important things to discuss’ n’ Ah gotta go in representation of the Sweet Apple Acres’ part of the family. Don’t y’all be so exaggerated, it’s jes a month.”
She noticed Rainbow Dash was still looking worried so she got closer and hugged her. “Darn it, Ah hope nopony notice how much Ah’m blushin’. What am Ah gonna do without y’all fer a month, Rainbow? Ah hope I get to build up the courage to tell y’all how Ah feel... N’ Ah hope nopony makes the move first.” That thought made her gulp loudly. 
She noticed the rose-eyed pony was hugging her back, and judging by the wetness Applejack was feeling in her shoulder, she was crying.
No, it was time. She had wasted too much time building up courage, it was time for actually saying something. She barely moved, just to get her mouth next to Dash’s ear and she whispered so the only pony that could listen her words was the cyan pegasus.
“Ah love y’all Rainbow Dash. Ah’ve always had, n’ Ah always will. Ah cherish every second we’ve spent together. N’ even if Ah’m going fer a spell, Ah believe it’s a good moment to tell y’all. Ah sense this is a new phase in mah life... N’ Ah hope y’all will be part of it, but Ah understand if y’all don’t wanna. Ah must go, don’t forget me in this month, would y’all?”
She un-wrapped her arms off Rainbow Dash, raised her hoof up to her hat, taking it off and resting it on Dash’s head.
“Would y’all take care of this fer me till Ah come back, sweetie?”
She gave her a quick peck on her cheek that luckily, nopony saw. She then walked away from Rainbow and looked up to the rest of her friends, with tears in her eyes. 
“Ah love y’all girls, all of y’all. N’ Ah won’t let sumthin’ like the Rodeo episode happen again.” She chuckled at her old mistakes and gathered all of her friends, except Rainbow Dash, in a group hug. “Now Ah must go, the train’s leaving in ten minutes, n’ Ah gotta look fer mah stuff at home. See y’all in a month.”
A choir of “Goodbye and good luck Applejack!” was heard as she walked out the door, with tears in her eyes.



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
Two weeks before “The Games”.
Location: Sugarcube Corner, Ponyville.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“If I didn’t know you two better, I’d say that was the cutest, most romantic act I’ve ever seen!”
“Huh?” asked Rainbow Dash, getting out of her trance and searching for the source of those words.
Pinkie Pie was closing the door of Sugarcube Corner and was looking at her over her shoulder. “Yeah, I mean, she hugs you, whispers something into your ear, leaves you her most precious possession and then she walks away into the sunset… In fact, I think I saw her give you a peck, but that must be me imagining things. You know how much I love to do that!”
Rainbow Dash let those words sink in, and she touched her cheek, relishing on the on the sweet memory of that kiss. “It WAS the cutest and most romantic thing anypony ever did for me…” Then her eyes opened wide. “But she also confessed her feelings for me, opened her heart like a book! And I let her walk away just like that!? The hay is wrong with me? I gotta find her now!”
Pinkie Pie started counting her six front hooves, seemingly putting two, and two, and two together and then she looked at Rainbow Dash and said, “Wait… She..? And you..! Awww, that’s so romantic, and sweet, and cool!” She then struck a dramatic pose and said, “Go get her Dashie! In the name of love!”
Dash smiled at her, adjusted her new Stetson and flew out the open window towards the Friendship Express Station.
When she got there she noticed there were no trains on the station. But she did saw Fluttershy sitting there, shedding some tears. 
“Shy? You alright?”
Fluttershy noticed her and hugged her strongly. “Oh Dashie! This is so sad! M-many things could happen in this month! W-what if she… And you? What would you do if she… Oh my!” and the dams broke again.
Rainbow Dash let her cry, hugged her back and patted the pony’s back. “Hey, don’t worry Shy… She leaved a long time ago?”
“J-just some minutes ago…”
“Then I gotta go catch that train.”
Fluttershy looked at her and said, “B-but, Rainbow! It was one of those new super fast trains, you won’t make it before she arrives!”
“Well… then I’ll go to Canterlot, how hard can it be to find a huge crowd of members of the Apple family, on a city as classy as Canterlot?”
“Y-you may be right… B-but why are you going anyways?” asked Fluttershy, finally realising what her friend was saying.
“She told me Flutters… She confessed she loved me and I let her go just like that!” Rainbow Dash heart was pounding hard, half with pain, half with excitement. “After all this time? After all my doubts and suffering? After spending so many nights hoping she would tell me those words? HAY NO!”
“S-so you’re going there to tell her?” Fluttershy’s tears ceased falling, and a smile crept in her face.
“No, I’m going there to start spending the rest of my life by her side.”
Fluttershy started crying once again.
“Aww come on, now what?”
“N-no… this ones are tears of joy Rainbow. Please, when you see her, tell her I send you two my best wishes.”
“Sure thing Flutters,” Rainbow Dash said, smiling.
Fluttershy stopped hugging her and pointed a hoof toward the silhouette of Canterlot on the horizon. “Now go!  I’ll tell the others the good news… And I’ll tell your bosses on the weather patrol that you’re sick and getting treated on Canterlot, I’ll take your place.” Her face looked stern and she said, “Don’t you dare come back before she has to.”
“No Shy, I can’t ask you to cover me while I-”	
“Shush and go.”
Rainbow Dash realised she was one comment away from making the shy pegasus use her infamous Stare. And she knew it was not a pleasurable experience so she decided to just smile and take off, heading towards Twilight’s hometown.



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
Two weeks before “The Games”.
Location: Canterlot’s Train Station, Canterlot.
Point of View: Rainbow Dash

“Where the hay is that mare!? Why is it that every time I search for her in Canterlot, I can’t find her?” Rainbow Dash got to the station a few minutes after the train arrived. “And I can’t even look for her by the hat, because now I’m the one wearing it!”
She decided to take off and search for the Apple reunion. “It can’t be THAT hard to find bazillion cow-ponies with an apple-related cutie mark in a city full of snooty high-class ponies.”

After a while, she was able to find a group of Apple members, and she recognized one among them.
“Hey Braeburn!”
“Howdy Rainbow Dash! Welcome to Caaaaaaanterlot! How are y’a-”
“I don’t have time for that, have you seen AJ? I need to find her.”
“Uh… sure! Ah think mah cuz went to grab a drink right there!” He said, pointing to a bar nearby.
“A bar? I thought AJ hated alcohol! Well, I don’t think Braeburn would lie to me.” “Thanks Braeburn, see ya around.”
“Goodbye Rainbow Dash.”

As Rainbow Dash entered the bar, she noticed it was empty, excepting for the bartender, the band members, who were starting to play an old tango she used to hear as a filly, and an orange mare with a golden mane she knew all too well.
She noticed Applejack was drinking champagne, and decided she could use the song in her advantage.
The band was doing an instrumental version, and the lyrics where perfect for her, even if Rainbow didn’t like it that much, she was going to sing!

“Astonishing,
as if royale…
I found you drinking,
’Belle et Fatale’.” Rainbow Dash started singing.

“You drank the bottle dry
drowning sorrows in champagne,
numbing your brain
so you could laugh and not cry.”

By that time, Applejack’s head started rising off the bar.

“Sorrow,
I felt upon finding you
because as soon as I saw you
I was enthralled by your eyes’ glow
Those beautiful emerald pools,
like two little jewels
filled with lots of love,
more than you could think of.”

Applejack turned around and noticed Rainbow Dash was singing and walking towards her.

“I’ll drink with you, old mate,
until we fall from our chairs
and we can’t  walk straight,
I don’t care if they call us ‘The Tipsy Mares’
Tonight, you’ll become a part,
a part of the past I’m leaving behind.
Three things in my heart you can find:
Love, sorrow and hurt.
Tonight you’ll become a part,
a part of the past I’m leaving behind.
I’m breaking loose of this state of mind,
and I’ll start playing smart.”

Applejack looked at her, without saying any words.
“You love me, right?” asked the cyan pegasus, like it was nothing.
“Y-yes.”
“You’ve done for years now.”
“Uh-huh.” Applejack’s answer was short, but carried some sort of force in it.
“Have you ever dreamt of me?”
“Several times.”
Rainbow Dash, still with a deadpan expression continued asking “Have you ever… you know” she raised her front hooves and knock them twice, generating a ‘clop-clop’ sound as a wordless explanation of what she meant. “thinking about me?”
The cowpony’s emerald eyes went wide as saucers and her coat went pale, excepting her cheeks that were sporting a crimson tone, as she looked down and admitted “Eyup…”
“Several times?”
Applejack regained her courage and looked at her. “Yes, several times.”
“Have you ever wished for me to be in your bed with you in many lonely cold nights?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, my answer to all those questions is yes too.”
“Huh?”
“You were right Applejack, this is a new phase for both of us. My Best Friend Applejack is dead and buried deep in my past.”
Applejack’s eyes started watering but she seemed to be holding back the tears.
“Your Friend Rainbow Dash is dead too. But I really hope you have a place in your heart for Marefriend Rainbow Dash.”
“Oh y’all heartless feather-brained pony! Ah almost thought y’all hated me!” Applejack yelled hitting Rainbow Dash’s chest with her hooves, but soon she stopped and hugged her tight. “Of course Ah have a place fer y’all, Ah’ve been savin’ it fer years now.”
“Well, looks like waiting time is over AJ.” Rainbow Dash said before pressing her lips against the farm-mare’s. 



Date: Two years after King Sombra’s Failed attempt to take Crystal Empire back.
The night before “The Games”.
Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville.
Point of View: Applejack

“Can’t say is not cool to be back home AJ, but I still don’t understand why we’re back two weeks before the date you were supposed to come back.”
“Well, Ah don’t know exactly either. Ah was with mah cousins talkin’ ‘bout the apple stuff we were sortin’ out, n’ then they asked me if I was in a relationship or anythin’, Ah suppose they were jes trying to lighten the working mood. So Ah told’em Ah was with the sweetest mare ever, y’all.”
“Aww… You’re so sweet AJ.”
“N’ Ah know y’all are too, y’all jes try to look tough to keep yer ‘badass’ reputation.” Applejack said tickling her marefriend and making her let out cute little squeals to prove it.
“Stop it!”
“Anyways, when Ah told’em that, they all stopped… like frozen, n’ told me at the same time, which was a bit creepy, that they didn’t need the Sweet Apple Acres presence anymore, ‘cause the stuff they’d talk ‘bout later was not related to us.” Applejack shrugged and looked at her marefriend, nuzzling her. “Y’all know Ah usually love spendin’ time with them, so Ah would’ve stayed there a bit more, but this time Ah wanted to come here to tell the girls n’ the family ‘bout us.”
“Well… we’re in your living room’s couch, snuggling together. I believe your family already knows.”
“Well… it ain’t that different from what we used to do when we were jes friends, so maybe they don’t.”
“You know you can’t talk about all the times I’ve snuggled with you and bit your ear.”
“Ah know, Ah’ve sworn secrecy n’ y’all have yer reputation. Don’t y’all worry, Ah won’t tell a soul.”
“Well, we should get some sleep so tomorrow we can go to town and tell the girls.”
“Ah guess y’all are right.” As Applejack tried to lift herself from the couch, she collapsed back on it, trapped by the hooves of a cyan pegasus, needy of love. “We ain’t getting to the bedroom if y’all ain’t letting go.”
“Yes we are”
“Care to explain how, Sugarcube?” 
“It’s easy…” Rainbow Dash grinned at her and wrapped her four hooves to her lover’s back. “You carry me.”
“Y’all ain’t a slug, walk up the stairs!”
“I’m not a slug… but I’ve just become a sloth, now carry me while I enjoy my snack.”
“What snack are y’all tal-” she felt her marefriend nibbling her ear, sighed and smiled. “Y’all know… y’all keep doin’ that, n’ y’all are gonna tear mah ear apart.”
Since the rose-eyed mare wasn’t responding, too busy biting Applejack’s ear, the orange farmpony decided to give up and start walking.