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// A change of perspective 
// Story: My little dream girl 
// by Slick Dash 
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I watched the car hurtle into the distance. What had happened? Had I done something to upset him? I felt my eye’s mist over, but I didn’t cry, that was stupid! Why cry? It’s not cool to do something like that. But yet... I dreaded what my gut was telling me. That he wasn’t coming back. He had been wearing what he came to Equestria in. And he hadn’t worn those clothes since all of us had given him his new outfit, so he had obviously a reason for suddenly adorning those rags again and leaving his new threads behind. 

APPLEJACK! She knew something! She HAD something from him meant for me! I turned towards the distant farm, and rocketed into the sky as fast as I could! I was soon over the top of the farm, I angled myself into a dive, and moved straight towards the barn. I wondered if AJ knew what had happened. Or had she began her working day as normal? As I descended, I saw her. Sat on the bank just by her house, overlooking the entire orchard. 

I landed a few feet behind and walked up next to the unusually still country pony. She looked over at me, with sadness in her eyes. “He hightailed it outta here didn’ he?” I nodded miserably. AJ sighed and looked back over the tree’s just beginning to shimmer in the rising sun. There was something she wasn’t telling me, I knew her too well for her to keep me in the dark.
“You know... why he left I mean. You seem as though you were expecting it, so... what did he tell you.” Applejack stood up and turned in the direction of the big red barn. She let out another disappointed sigh,

“He told me a lotta thin’s Rainbow, others I guessed for mahself. But eventually it all came out yesterday. So yeah... I do know why he’s gone.” My heart rose slightly, 
“Really?! You know?!?! Then what’s he doing? How long is he gonna be gone?” I gulped nervously, “I-is he ever coming back?” Applejack hung her head in misery, and that was all the answer I needed. “H-h-he’s never coming back...” It hurt me deeply to admit what my gut had already told me. Applejack reached the barn door and nudged it open slightly so she could enter. I followed suit slowly, as I was halfway to the door I remembered why I had come here in the first place. “Uuuuhhhh AJ? This might sound strange, but do you have anything of mine I don’t know about?” The hat topped pony stuck her head out of the open door, she looked puzzled. 
“Uuuhhhmmm... I don’ think so sugar cube, why?” She grew serious, “You aint planning on hightailing outta here too are yah?” 

“NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOO!” I quickly exclaimed, shaking my forehooves at her to dismiss her hasty assumption. “It’s just, I saw him... just before he left. I tried to tell him...” I stopped myself quickly before I gave it away to one of his best friends. “Something, and he started acting really strange, and he said... that I should come here. That I should come here and tell you he said you had something of mine from him.” Applejack’s jaw dropped in disbelief, she began to mutter under her breath, seemingly wrestling with herself to decide what she should do. “Well?” I asked, rather impatiently.
“Naaaawwww, listen sugar cube. If he means what I think he does, then you don’t want it. Trust me. It’ll hurt too dang much.” She looked genuinely concerned at this point.

I dreaded what would come next, but I opened my mouth and told her, “It’s my choice Applejack, I want to see what he left here.” Applejack clenched her eyes tight at my response, as though it caused her pain to hear me say it. She turned as though to head back into the barn, I almost shouted at her not to ignore me. But then I saw her dip her head out of sight for a moment. When she came back into view she had something in her mouth. 

It was large, black and curled into a roll. The country pony placed it on the floor, then nudged it forward with her nose, causing it to roll and unravel. I stared in shock, as his coat lay there at my hooves. “W-why... did he say...” I couldn’t think straight, all I could feel was my soul screaming out! This was mine? So... he didn’t want it anymore, he didn’t want anything to do with me anymore. Why? What had I done? 

“Now there’s no use denying it Rainbow, I know you care about this feller mighty strong like.” The orange pony began to approach me, “So what’s been going on? What’s all this stuff about with Soarin’?” I looked into her eye’s, there it was again, a glimmer of something being hidden from me. What did she know?
“H-he came here to spend some time with me one-on-one,” I began slowly, “at the derby he told me, he... was into me, and he would have loved to see me another time away from all the Wonderbolt life.” I began to choke up slightly, “But I... At any other time I would have been over the moon! But... he was just so...so...” I couldn’t find the words, but Applejack wouldn’t help me, she tilted her head to me, egging me on. “He, hates the country, he doesn’t like the idea of living without a lot of money. He’s just so... different from me. And... whenever I’m with him I can never relax, I’m always worried about slipping up. I never have any fun with him.”

Applejack’s eyes grew wide with astonishment as she seemed to realise something.
“I’m not the first pony you’ve told this... am I?” I was slightly taken aback by how strange she was acting.  
“Uuuuhhh, no? I told Twilight the other day.” Applejack closed her eyes and breathed deeply. I still didn’t understand what was going on. 
“And what did you tell Twilight you were going to do ‘bout all this?” she sounded as though in pain, she almost growled the question through gritted teeth, but she still kept her eyes closed.
“Well,” I wasn’t sure where this was going, but I obliged my friend. “I told her from the very beginning that I’d made up my mind. That when Soarin’ got here, I would tell him I didn’t think of him in that way. That we were too different, that there was someone else I cared about more than him, someone who I had far more in common with.”

“Oh no,” Applejack groaned softly, “And... then... did someone walk in on your little talk?” The realisation hit me like Manticore tail. 
“H-he, heard me saying... and he thought that I meant...” Applejack finally opened her eyes and nodded at me glumly. I was still confused though, “But if he left because of that... but why would he do that? Why would he...... care?” The last word hung on my lips, as I realized. Applejack was smiling now as she saw me figure it out.
“He loves you too sugar cube, and he left ‘cos he couldn’t stand you sending him packin.’” I fell down onto my haunches and sat there dazed. He... loved me too? 
“I tried to tell him, this morning. That I...” 
“Come on now Darlin’... say it!”
“...I... I love him.”


So give me your opinion on this cahpter! My next story is most likely a 1st person from RD's perspective. want to know if i got her attitude right xD
So? what do you think is going to happen next? Next chapter at 9:00 PM