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// 48. Book - by TheRealRainbowDash 
// Story: RariJack - The Compilation of Prompts 
// by Titanium Dragon 
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TheRealRainbowDash


Book





It was the third Sunday of the month. Which meant that it was Applejack's unofficial day off. Unofficial, only in that Applejack had no choice in the matter whatsoever. Big Mac and Applejack had come to a loose agreement - one whole day that they normally wouldn't take off, they would spend not even thinking about working the orchards or the stall.

To Applejack, who'd been literally dragged from the orchard by her brother and  girlfriend, it was a torture worse than Fluttershy asking her to babysit Discord. Sitting on Rarity's too soft couch, she held a book in her grip so tightly that her fingers were white, as she tried to force herself to pay attention to the words that swam across the page. Slowly reading every word she tried not to look up and out the window, where she could see people bustling and moving about the market square. She knew if she craned her neck and leaned back she'd just be able to see her brother at their stall.

Shaking her head, she tried to get back to her novel. With a sigh she slammed it closed, not even bothering to mark her page - she had no idea what was going on anyways.

"Sherlock being insufferable again?" Rarity asked from the doorway, her hands moving automatically as she worked on a particular part of her latest dress that needed to be hand sewn.

"It ain't that Rares," Applejack began, as she leaned back into couch, "Ah love to read these kind of stories, but Ah'm used to stealing time, iffin' you know what I mean."

"I think I may have an idea..." the seamstress mused, her tone prompting Applejack to continue.

"Ah work from just after dawn to just before supper, then I help Granny with the food, Applebloom with her homework, Mac finish any chores he couldn't get to, spend time with you iffin' you stay the night - not that Ah'm complainin' by any stretch of the imagination mind you - but I'm saying if I have time to read, it's because I make that time and I steal a little bit for myself here and there, between work, adventures, dates and everything else. This today, well, I'm just sitting here like a bump on a log, with all this time, and nothing to do, and the outside is just calling me painfully and I'm just... stagnating. "

"Stagnating?" Rarity asked, placing her work to the side and coming up behind Applejack. Cupping Applejack's cheek, she pulled her head back to meet her eyes. "Really, darling, stagnating?"

"Ah got one or two words from mah book," Applejack replied with a shrug, her hands reaching to pull Rarity into a kiss.

Rarity pulled away and climbed over the couch. "Well, then darling," she said, sitting herself right on Applejack's lap, "why don't I take a break too, and we can do something more stimulating."
Reaching across the coffee table in front of the couch, Rarity reached for the steamy romance novel that she had recently started, as Applejack adjusted her position around her.

Pulling her girlfriend tightly into her arms the farmer leaned her head on Rarity's shoulder in an attempt to see the novel better, and reminded herself just how nice a day off to read really could be.





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