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// Misunderstandings Abound 
// Story: Not everypony will be happy 
// by Lenora Goff 
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~Rainbow Dash~

Of all the places I could have landed, I had to land here. 

Where was here?

I actually didn’t know! There were trees of some sort, so that lowered it to one of only a million places. Since I didn’t know where Twilight was able to send me, she had sent me to my cloud house before, it could have been anywhere with trees. It might have been better if I had been paying attention when I had been falling.

If Applejack were here, she’d be able to tell me where I was based on the bark of the tree or something.

But she wasn’t, and I wasn’t in any position to be able to see much more than the bark of the tree that was three feet in front of me.

There was only one thing that came to my mind, to keep it focused. I had to figure out why Twilight had bugged out so much. If I figured it out, then maybe I could do something about it. Even if she had gone crazy, or seemed to have gone crazy, she was still my friend. She was my friend, and Spike was my special somepony.

Or was it special somedragon?

Either way, they were both a part of my life.

Some time later

I still had no clue.

Not only that, but I didn’t know how much time had passed. I knew that it felt like forever, but that’s because I had developed this itch that I just couldn’t scratch. It was times like this that I wished I could do magic. I could have magicked away the itch, that would have been awesome.

Either that, or maybe I could have stopped this from happening. One of the two might have happened.

I needed to know what it was that had caused Twilight to freak out. That thought was still on my mind, stronger than ever. It didn’t make any sense to me. I could only remember one time when she had freaked out like this. 

The two didn’t mesh in my mind, though.

More time passes

At least the itch was gone.

I still didn’t know what it was that I could do. There didn’t seem to be an easy answer for the Twilight problem, and I had gotten bored trying to think of one. The only thing I could think to do now was take a nap and hope I could move whenever it was that I woke up.

That was a good answer for just about anything, really. Sleep solved a lot.

There was actually one new thought, before I nodded off to sleep. I wondered how Fluttershy was doing, if she was still mad at me.

~Fluttershy~

I felt awful.

I looked in the mirror, and it just made me feel worse. Part of me really wanted to go talk to Rainbow Dash, to figure out what had happened, but I just couldn’t. I couldn’t even move out of the house, even though I knew that I needed to go get some things from the market.

Rarity had even come over a little earlier, even she hadn’t been able to cheer me up.

I felt so awful about feeling so awful.

A rumble of my stomach told me that I needed to eat. Another thing on the list of the things that I needed to do that day. I needed to plan another date with Rarity, with the hopes that it might have brightened my mood. I needed to go find Rainbow Dash and I needed to talk to her. I needed to go get my animal friends more food, because we were running low.

All of these things, and yet I couldn’t find the will to leave my bedroom.

I looked at the door, I had to do at least one of those things. If nothing else, I had to get some food for my animal friends. I knew that my friends, even Rainbow Dash, would understand if I didn’t go see them today. Rarity was busy with one of her orders, and that meant she probably had enough to deal with. She also probably had Spike to deal with, who I partially blamed for my current problems.

No, no, I shouldn’t have thought that.

“I have to do this. You can do this, Fluttershy. You can do this.”

I slowly opened the door, and looked out. It wasn’t as if there was anypony there, even my animal friends were out and about. Even Angel-bunny wasn’t there, but it was probably because I hadn’t gone out to get him food yet.  He’s normally really supportive, but I knew how he got when he was hungry. Step after step, and it only took five minutes for me to get to the door.

I had gotten there even faster than I thought I would have been able to.

Before I opened the door, I went through my list. I needed to get very specific vegetables, and some bird seed, and some eggs. I also needed to get some cherries, since that was something that I knew Angel-bunny liked. After I got back, maybe I could head over to see one of my other friends. It would have been good if I could have invited Rarity over, but she was busy.

I probably should head over there tomorrow, she probably wouldn’t be busy then.

~Three hours later~

I never wanted to leave my house again.

I just felt so nervous out there, and everypony was staring at me. They saw that I had been crying, they had known. I thought I heard a couple of ponies say something, and it wasn’t nice. Or maybe they had been talking about something else. Oh, I might have just over-thought everything. That would be just like me, I always did that sort of thing.

At least I had the groceries, and I didn’t run into any of my friends. I just needed a couple more days, then I would probably be able to go out again.

At least, I thought it would only be a couple more days before I would be able to go outside again. 

For now, though, I had a few things I needed to do. I needed to set up the food for my animal friends, and then I needed to take a nap. Today had been one of the most tiring days this month, but I was sure that tomorrow would be better.

~Rainbow Dash~

The sound of ponies woke me up. 

Well, okay, it didn’t wake me up at first. At first, I was able to ignore it. I would have rolled over and went back to sleep, but I couldn’t roll over at that point. There was some movement, I could feel it, but some things were still beyond me. Actually, this time was going to be another of those times when I just did my best to go back to sleep.

I was actually able to move this time.

I didn’t even bother opening my eyes this time, I just went back to sleep.

I awoke, this time the sight in front of me was something awesome. I hadn’t known where I had been, all I had seen was the tree. Apparently, if this is to be believed, it was a tree that was close enough to where Spike was. He probably even said something to Twilight for me, it was awesome. 

How do I know this?

I ended up waking up next to Spike. He was a such an awesome special somepony-dragon-whatever. I actually still didn’t feel like waking up, so I snuggled up close to him and gave him a kiss on his cheek.

Strange, he felt hairy. I wouldn’t have expected that.

“WHAT THE HAY, RAINBOW!”

That definitely wasn’t the voice I had been expecting. It only took a moment for me to realize what voice I had just heard yell that out. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who heard that. Well, that actually made sense. Applejack had yelled really loud, loud enough that her sister had soon opened the door to see me in her sister’s bed.

“Oh, hey there Rainbow. Whatch-” Applebloom’s expression quickly changed, as if she had just seen a ghost, and then she walked away. I didn’t want to know what she saw, though it was probably just the wind with something that was in the room.

I rubbed my eyes, and looked over at Applejack.

“What was that about?”

“Ah don’t wanna know. What ah do wanna know is why you thought it’d be a good idea to kiss me.”

“Ehhh...” I wasn’t sure what I should tell her. If I told her it was a dream, she might have asked what it was about. Of course, that didn’t mean that I had to tell her about what was in the dream itself. I just had to give her something that would explain everything. “Sorry about that, AJ, it was a dream. I didn’t even expect to be here, really.”

Applejack didn’t look amused, or even very satisfied, by that answer. “Well, ah saw ya out there in the South Field, and ah just thought somethin was off. So ah took ya in here and ah thought the bed was big enough to where ah could squeeze in there too.” 

I looked over to my side to see about half of the bed left. Apparently, I had moved while I was asleep. I just hadn’t realized it.

“So, why were ya here anyway? Doncha have a house of yer own?”

I rubbed the back of my head, and let out a chuckle. There wasn’t any time for me to think of some better response, so the truth seemed to be the only thing. “Well, Twilight might have teleported me here... after she para...” I normally knew this word, but I was too tired. “Made it so I couldn’t move...”