(Takes place after "Hard To Say Anything".) Cheerilee is crushed to hear that Big Macintosh has found a new special somepony, but convinces herself it's for the best. That is, until Big Mac meets with her to share an important confession.
Big Macintosh, wishing for some peace and quiet after a long season of Harvest—and a variety of problems he'd rather not touch on—heads north to stay by his lonesome in a wood lodge.
The Apple family farm is in trouble, and Big Mac has only one day to get three hundred and fifty bits together. He’s only got one chance. It’s just a roll in the hay— it doesn’t mean anything…
When Cheerilee catches wind of Big Mac and Marble Pie's fling over Hearth's Warming, she begins to question what her friendship with Big Mac really meant. Was there ever something more to their relationship?