//------------------------------// // Appleblooms...well blooming // Story: Fleeting Violet // by Violise //------------------------------// Applebloom opened a blurry eye and surveyed her room glumly. She scooted back onto the crux of her bed so that she was sitting. Liberated from her sleep; she took out a quill and a small book from behind the end table that was next to her. With the dream still lucid in her mind she scrawled a few paragraphs onto a blank page. Year 654, 5Th day of Aerodon I had another one of those dreams. Me and Sweetie were at some big event and she confessed to me, again. It's always the same, isn't it? We find that we don't want to be apart, she kisses me, and we live happily ever after. The same sappy shenaningans keep plagueing my mind each and every night. I know that we will never acutally be in any of those sappy situations, but is it so wrong for a filly to dream... probably. It would be jus my luck. Big sis always tells me that I'm too precocioos for my own good. Who woulda guessed that it would be in the love department? I hear Big Brother coming, so I'll write more tonight. ~ABL~ Satisfied that she made no spelling errors this time, she hid the book back in it's proper place. Bic Mac lumbered into the room and eyed her sister suspiciously. "Who were yah talking tah, Applebloom?" The filly in question eyed the room nervously. "Uhm, ah was just talking to...my pillow, yeah, mah pillow." She stared anxiously at her brother. Big Mac knew she was lying. That was one thing AJ and her had always had in common. He didn't pursue the point, though. He knew that if she had to resort to lying, then it must not be any of his business. "Alright. Granny says breakfast is ready." With that her slowly trotted back downstairs. Applebloom darted out of her head and rapidly started to brush her mane. "Ah hayfries. Ahm gonna be late for school at this rate." She drew another frustrated breath as she clambered down the stairs while she adjusted her bow. ~~~ Applebloom sat across from the other two crusaders outside of their tree-house later that afternoon. Scootaloo was just recount for the umpteenth time how she almost got her cutie mark in wing painting. "And I almost had the last gem on the wing when-" "She flapped her wing and it got all over Rainbow Dash..." The other two chided at the same time. Scootaloo narrowed her eyes at them. "You two are just mad cause I got to hang out with the Rainbow Dash!" The other two traded glances. "No offense, Scoots," Sweetie Bell said, "but we just wanted to get on with the meeting." Scoots continued her glare, but she waved her hoof signaling them to continue. "Anyway,"Sweetie continued, "I asked Miss Bonbon and she said that we can use her kitchen for the day so we can get our Sweets making Cutie Mark." "I still don't understand, Sweetie bell," Scootaloo interupted."I thought we already tried this." "We only made a few kinds of sweets but if you look a Twist, Bonbon, and even Mr. and Mrs. Cake; all their Cutie Marks were in different kinds of sweets, so maybe we haven't found our special candy that we are good at." Scootaloo mulled this over for a moment. "Maybe you have something. What do you think Applebloom?' Applebloom blinked at her name and blushed. She had no idea what they were talking about. She was to busy staring at Sweetie Bell's mane, the way each induviual loop seemed to accentuate her face, or how the colors seemed to make her eyes sparkle. Applebloom shook her head. She was getting off track again. She looked over at her confused compatriots and simply nodded. "Alrighty then, Operation Sweet Express is a-go!"Sweetie Bell exclaimed. "I think it should be called Operation Awesomely Good Sweetness." Scootaloo complained. "Sweet Express sounds better." "It doesn't sound as awesome, it sounds boring. I like mine better." The two of them argued as they proceeded to walk towards town. Applebloom took this opportunity to drift off again into her thoughts. ~~~ Oh, Sweetie Bell....Oh Applebloom Applebloom was greeted by a pair of confused eyes that met hers. She then realized that she was almost about to kiss a door. She backed up and grinned sheepishly towards her friends. "Are you feeling alright?" Sweetie Bell cautiously asked. I always feel good when your around... She snapped to attention, "Uhm, yeah. Just peachy!" "Alright Apple," Scootaloo said. With that Scoots knocked on the door loudly. After a few moments, a tall mint colored mare answered. "Oh, how may I help you?" The three of them looked at her puzzled." Did you get the wrong address, Sweetie Bell?" Applebloom said. "No, this is where I met Miss Bonbon yesterday..." "You here for Bonbon, I take it." The Unicorn smiled. "Just wait a moment..." The trio did not have to wait long before the mare returned with another one, this one a cream colored mare with a purple and cream colored mane turned just like Sweetie Bell's. "Oh Dear. you were completely right, Lyra," Bonbon said. "I am so sorry, please do come in.' The group all into the two story house, where the CMC was greeted to the smell of butterscotch. I took all their strength not to lift off the ground and follow the scent into the next room. It turned out that Bonbon was making a new vanilla and lime hard candy for Princess Cadences wedding. "I really thought that it was so nice of Rarity to invite Lyra, and when I heard that she was going to be one of Cadences Bridesmares; I simply had to try my hoof at making something to fit the occasion." Bonbon finished her statement will a light wink in Lyra's direction. The CMC looked at the display quizzically, but did not press the issued. At least not until they were left alone. "What was that," Scootaloo whispered. "I did really know, but something tells me that they are more than just friends. Maybe they're Marefriends" Applebloom responded. The other two gasped at the accusation. "Applebloom!" Scootaloo yelled in a hushed tone."You know that's not a nice thing to say. Beside you don't know that they just are really good friends." "Well," Applebloom returned, "do you remember when Big Macintosh and Miss Cheerilee got that look in their eyes when we gave them that potion." The other two fillies pondered for a moment on the memory. "Those two seemed to have the same look, didn't they? And besides, wouldn't it be just the sweetest thing the two best friends, who have spent their whole lives together became a couple. It's just like..." Appleblooms face fell. "Just like what," Sweetie Bells asked, after a few moments. "I-it's nothing." Applebloom turned to not show that she was about to tear up. Just like we could be... She turned back to her friends, but was puzzled when she saw their expressions. It had looked like somepony had taken and put their heads in ice cold water. Did I just say that out loud or something! She panicked mentally, but decided to ask her friends anyway. "Did I say something or...?" She looked at the two fillies. After a moment, Scootaloo raised her hoof and pointed it limply towards Appleblooms tail. "What, did I get some candy in my tail or somethin-" As she looked, she froze, shocked at what she saw. There on her side was a Cutie Mark. Not a picture of one, or a painted one. An honest to goodness Cutie Mark. From a cursory glance, it appeared to be a heart that was made out of a red delicious, which matched her mane perfectly. It was perfect in all but one aspect. Half of it was gone. "What the buck?"