Chapter 2.)
Rainbow Dash began to panic. Applejack? Seriously? She always knew she was a filly fooler. She had never had any attraction to the other stallions and colts. She would get teased in school because of this. Thankfully, all of her friends now knew about her sexuality and they were ok with it. But Dash never suspected that she'd fall for one of her best friends!
Applejack stared at her for a minute.
"You OK there sugarcube? You've been awful silent the whole way up."
Rainbow suddenly realised how long she'd been gone.
"Huh? Oh yeah!" She quickly shook her head. She was just imagining everything. It's not like Applejack was particularly attractive. What with her long blonde mane and her cute cowgirl hat. Not to mention those adorable freckles on her cheeks. She wanted to reach out, to touch them...
"RAINBOW!" Applejack said again, "You've been staring at me like that for ages now... you ok?"
Dash quickly shook the thoughts out of her head. She wasn't going to let them ruin her day.
"Oh, yeah I'm fine! Sorry AJ, I spaced out there for a minute I guess!" She said, blushing slightly.
"Good! Because your gonna need all the energy you can get! We still got 12 more trees to buck! I was gonna leave 'em 'cos the apples on 'em are a little soft. But now your here, I got an extra helpin' hoof!"
"A little soft?" Dash asked, plucking an apple from a tree. Most of the bad apples had fallen from the trees amongst the Autumn leaves, but this apple had stayed on. It was still ripe and crunchy. "They're perfect! ...just like you..."
"Uh... come again?" Applejack said looking a mixture of confused and embarrassed.
"I said um... They're perfect! There was no need to leave them!"
"Oh, ok... that's what I thought y'all said... alrighty! Lets get started!!"
The two ponies spent the rest of the afternoon collecting apples. Applejack kicking them off the trees with her back hooves, and Rainbow Dash flying around catching them in buckets. By the end, they had twice as many apples then Applejack had expected they would collect.
"Ah'll get Big Macintosh to collect them later in the cart, just leave 'em buckets on the hillside." Applejack said smiling.
Rainbow Dash loved the way AJ smiled. She was so cute so-
"Come on Rainbow Dash, lets be going!"
They headed off down the hill back towards the barn. Rainbow Dash knew she should be flying off to go and collect Scotaloo from The Crusader's tree house, but for some reason she wanted to stay a little while longer, just to be with this entrancing mare.
"It's turned mighty chilly tonight, 'ey Dash?"
"Here, I'll warm you up!" Dash giggled, wrapping her arms round AJ's shoulders and rubbing up and down.
Applejack laughed and they began to playfight rolling down the hill in the twilight hours. They laughed and shrieked as they rolled faster and faster. They landed at the bottom of the hill, Rainbow Dash lying on top of Applejack. Both of them were covered in mud and leaves, and both were heaving to get their breath back. They gazed deep into eachothers eyes for what seemed like hours. Rainbow had to use all of her strength to keep from kissing her tempting, soft lips. She stared a little while longer.
"Well, ah should really be goin' it's gettin' awfully dark. Applebloom had a detention after school for missin' some homework, an' ah'm sure you'd better be gettin' to Scootaloo-"
"AJ. I don't know if you feel the same way but... I have a crush on you."
"Oh... Rainbow Dash... 'ah... 'ah really gotta go..." And with that she pushed Rainbow away and rushed downhill towards the farm. Dash looked on after her in sadness, part of her wanted to go after her, but she knew she should just leave her alone. With a huge feeling of sadness and embarrassment, she flew away to pick up her baby sister.