Applejack felt the heavy drops of sweat leak from her pours and slide down the fur on her face as the heat risen that one afternoon.
Applejack sighed as she got in a ready position to buck the large apple tree in which its leaves hanged atop of her, shading her from the sun. She bucked the tree with a loud Thud!
She half-smiled at the relief of hearing most of the apples drop into the baskets she carried on her back and her sides. When she hears this, she always feels relived that she is one tree closer to being done and being able to do more important things. As she raised a hoof about to walk up to the next tree on her agenda, she suddenly stopped short.
Plunk!
A hard red apple fell straight towards Applejacks noggin and succeeded on its target, landing right in the middle of the her hat, creating a crease where it then lied. Applejack sighed and lowered her head, and watched as the apple rolled off her hat and plunked onto the ground with a quite thud. She picked up the apple with her hoof and placed it on top of one of the small mountains of apples building up in her baskets. She looked at the sky and saw the sun was nowhere near leaving yet. It was only about 30 minutes after lunch. She grunted and lifted up her two baskets back atop her back and began to walk over to a tree nearby that resided many red and green plump apples. Just before she could reach it, her ears perked up to a voice coming near her.
"Hiya, Applejack!" The voice neared. "How are you?"
Applejack looked over and suddenly relaxed as it was just Pinkie bouncing towards her. She raised a hoof "Howdy Pinkie!"
Pinkie giggled and stopped in front of her friend and said "I need your help with something."
"What is it?" Applejack asked.
"It's about my new cupcake recipe..." Pinkie started "It's a cherry flavored cupcake with cherry and vanilla flavored pink icing."
"What about it?"
"I kinda sorta..." Pinkie rubbed her hooves in circles in the dirt underneath her. "Need your help pinking some." She finished.
"I don't know about that Pinkie Pie, today is a busy day at the farm."
"Pleeeeaaasssee?"
Applejack sighed "Let me check with my brother first," She turned around and strained her eyes as she looked for Big Macintosh on the other side of the farm. When she saw him, she quickly yelled over "Hey Big Mac! Can you take care of my trees? I'm helping a friend-"
She was cut short when she heard the loud and assuring "Eyup." echo towards the two mares. Pinkie heard this and started happily hopping up and down.
"Aw, here it is," Pinkie hopped down a dirt trail leading down a small hill that led to nothing but acres and acres of cherries. She hopped all that way down and looked up at Apple jack. "Hurry up!"
Applejack went from walking to trotting as the pink mare continued onwards eagerly.
When the two were finally in the middle of one of the cherry fields, they both quickly equipped their baskets. Applejack used the same basket as she had carried her workload of apples just about and hour before. Pinkie crouched down and pulled a couple cherries off their firm stems.
"This is going to take a long, long time," Pinkie sighed. "And that's why I needed your help, Applejack.
"How many cupcakes you gonna make?" Applejack questioned.
"About 80." Pinkie stated.
"80? Why the hay do you need to make that many?"
"Because I do."
"Because why?"
"I do."
Applejack groaned and began to pick cherries as well.
As the sun started to climb down, it began to claim the spot of the two mares with boiling heat. Applejack had already been sweating from even before they got to the field, but Pinkie Pie hadn't. Pinkie Pie had a few miniature water falls streaming down her face as she continued to pick, pull, and place cherries into her basket.
Applejack put out her hoof to grab onto a plump cherry she laid her eyes upon. As she did so, she suddenly froze. She felt the soft warm fur of the hooves on the other mare touch hers. She blushed and immediately pulled away.
Darn it! She thought. I just hope she didn't see that. Why can't I just tell her? Why doe it seem so hard?
Pinkie not seeming to noticed continued in the chore, looking almost under a trance until she heard Applejack clear her throat.
"Pinkie," She began. "There is uh-" She paused. "Something I gotta tell you."
"Yes?" She smiled up at her friend.
Applejack looked at the mares sweet innocent smile of interest. She couldn't deny Pinkies absolute cuteness. Whenever she would look at her happy and hyper friend and she would always seem to find herself at a lost for words. She would melt inside and coward out of every time she would attempt to tell Pinkie one of her most embarrassing secrets ever. But as the element of honesty, she felt she needed to live up to her own element in which she bared.
Pinkie patiently stared at Applejack while she was in deep thought, not noticing Pinkie get up on her hooves and walk up to Applejack. She placed her head near Applejacks and eagerly asked a little louder "Yes?"
Applejack immediately snapped out of thought and looked at Pinkie. She sighed "We have known eachother for awhile now and," Applejack began sweating even more than before. "Feelings can evolve over time." She looked down.
Pinkie noticed her nervous tone and sweating face and realized what was going on. She placed her hoof on Applejacks chin and slightly tilted her head up to face her.
"You can tell me anything." Pinkie slowly smiled.
Applejack stuttered "I-I think- That- I-I" She continuously stuttered and sighed one last time. She looked into her friends eager eyes and slowly said looking her in the eyes;
"I love you."
Pinkie gave a sweet smile and moved her head slightly forward. "I-" She said before moving her head even closer and pausing. Their lips were only a few centimeters apart. Both their hearts raced, as if both had no idea what to expect next. Pinkie closed her eyes and quickly moved her head forward the remaining distance between them until she meet her lips on Applejacks.
Applejacks eyes went wide and her heart beated the fastest it had ever done. But slowly she adjusted and closed her eyes ad returned the sweet kiss.
Pinkie pulled away, and happily smiled "-I love you to." And then she remembered and jumped "Oh yeah! And those cherry cupcakes-" She started "They were going to be the way I was going to tell you."
Applejack blushed and kissed Pinkie on the cheek.
"Thank you."