Applejack was sitting in her room for at least three hours before Big Mac finally poked his head in to check on her, what are big brothers for if not to look after their little sisters after all. "Hey AJ, are you gonna come down for dinner?" she shook her head and turned over so that he couldn't see her face.
"Ah come on Applejack, Granny made your favorite, roasted apples." again she shook her head.
"Just leave me alone." she mumbled and turned her back to him. Big Mac looked on in surprise, Applejack this upset was unusual in it's self, usually Rarity would be the one to react like this, but Applejack turning down food, this was worse than he first thought. He walked out with a sad shake of his head as his answer to a curries look from Apple Bloom, who had already started eating.
It's been two hours since Big Mac had left Applejack's room, for the third time, and he was honestly begging to worry about her. Big Mac heard hoof steps on the stairs and spun around, only to find that it was Apple Bloom. "Is she gonna come down?" he asked and she shook her head.
"Nope, poor Applejack, she's really upset about this." Big Mac nodded and sighed. Applejack was usually the strongest willed pony he knew, who would have thought that all it took to upset her like this was for Twilight to say that she had a crush on somepony?
"I wish there was somethin' that we could do to, hey now wait a minute." Apple Bloom raised her eyebrow. It was unusual for Big Mac to meddle like this, but she guessed if Applejack could mope, then Big Mac could meddle, at least a little.
"What is it?" he turned to her with a smile, and hopefully the answer to their problem.
"Why don' we try to hook Twilight and AJ up? I know it's not normally somethin' I'd do, but at this point I'd try anythin' to cheer AJ up." Apple Bloom nodded enthusiastically, "Alright let's ask the other girls to help us." the two ran off, not noticing the elderly green pony standing in the background smiling.
"Now that's my grandchildren," she murmured, "Willin' to go out of their way, and out on a limb, to help their sister."
Apple Bloom and Big Mac had to work fast, they spent all night getting in touch with all of Twilight and AJ's friends, all of them more than willing to help. They met up in the park the next day and Big Mac explained everything again.
"Of course we'll help darling, they're both our friends, and poor Applejack must be devastated." Rarity stated, and all the others nodded in agreement. Big Mac smiled and nodded his thanks.
"So how are we gonna pull this off?" Rainbow Dash asked, as she flew around in lazy circles.
"I have no clue." Big Mac told them honestly, "I was hopin' y'all would have some ideas, other wise Apple Bloom is talkin' to the crusaders now, and we all remember what happened when they last tried to set up two ponies." the girls all nodded as Big Mac shivered at the memory of the love potion that the cutie mark crusaders had used on himself and Miss Cheerily.
"Well, we could always get them together for a picnic." Fluttershy suggested. Big Mac shook his head sadly.
"That won't work, Applejack wouldn't even come down for dinner yesterday." they all gasped, as he nodded with a frown.
"You mean Applejack turned down food!" Pinkie Pie gasped out in a combination of horror and shock, again Big Mac just nodded his head.
"Well now what?" Rainbow asked from her new position on the ground. When the red stallion had mentioned his sisters lack of an apatite she'd crashed to the ground and had just sat up.
"I think a picnic is a lovely idea Fluttershy," Rarity stated, "And she'll come even if it means dragging her here by her tail." the others nodded in agreement as they started working out their plan.