Okay, I Did Read It
Lunch so far had been uneventful for Canterlot High’s resident Rainbooms, but that was mostly because everyone was still tuckered out from helping set up the play before and after school.
Applejack had sprained her thumb thanks to a mishap with her attention being divided from her construction work courtesy of Sunset Shimmer, who ironically had been commenting on how she hadn’t hurt herself yet.
But Rainbow Dash had came to the rescue, and with her super speed, had build the set Applejack had been previously been working on before her injury.
Rainbow had followed AJ’s vision to a tee. It was almost like the space that she has designed in her mind had come to life. It had come to life.
But something else had came to life too. Her annoyance at Dash for reading her diary. Every once in a while she’d glare at the rainbow haired athlete, and it didn’t go unnoticed by the rest of their friends either.
“ Uh, did something happen between you two?” Sunset Shimmer asked, eyeing the both of them.
Rainbow seemed to slide down in her seat while Applejack let out a small ‘hmph’ and crossed her arms.
That was all the answer Sunset needed. She folded her arms. “Alright, what happened?”
“She read my diary! It was a complete invasion of my privacy!” Applejack shouted, pointing at Rainbow Dash.
“It’s not exactly an invasion if you leave it open on your desk!” Rainbow responded, slamming her hand on the table.
“So what exactly was in it that’s got you both in such a tizzy?” Rarity asked, raising an eyebrow. “Surely it can’t be something of mundane circumstances if it offended Applejack just so.”
“I ain’t sayin nothin’!” Applejack barked, folding her arms again.
Pinkie Pie groaned. “Oh come on! You can’t just bring up something like that and then just expect us to forget about it! That’s not fair and you know it!”
“I’m going to have to agree with Pinkie Pie on this one,” Twilight Sparkle said, nodding. “I’m a bit curious now as to what was in it too.”
“Well, Applejack won’t say anything, and I’m pretty sure she would be upset if Rainbow told us,” Fluttershy said, twirling. “So...um...I think the only way we can know is if Sunset you know...”
“Does her freaky eye glowy thing and sees what Rainbow saw?!” Pinkie finished for her, using the donuts that had been on her lunch tray as an example of Sunset’s power.
“Nuh uh! No! Sunset’s not laying a finger on me!” Dash rejected, scooting away from the older girl.
“But we won't know how to fix this friendship problem unless we have a little context,” Sunset reasoned. “Besides, how bad could it be?”
Rainbow’s eyes darted to Applejack, who’s scowl could make a grown man piss himself in that moment. “Fine! Fine! Just, don’t say I didn’t warn you!”
Sunset took Rainbow’s hand in hers and her eyes glowed white.
Rainbow had just skirted into Applejack’s room so fast that she was sure she had left skid marks on the hardwood floor.
She searched around Applejack’s room for her vision board and grinned when she found it. “Sweet!” She was about to leave out of the room and zip back to Canterlot High when she saw the open red leather bound book on the desk beside Applejack’s bed.
“Jackpot,” Dash said, giddily, sauntering over to the desk and picking it up. The page it was open to had the that day’s date on it, but nothing written under it.
“Lame,” Rainbow grumbled, flipping though the rest of it. Some of the pages had boring things, the usual embarrassing stuff like walking in on someone in the bathroom or tripping in front of someone.
Dash groaned. Where was the good stuff? The big one? The one thing that she could probably hold over Applejack for the rest of their high school, and maybe the entirety of their proverbial lives?
Her eyes came to rest on a particular page, one that was from about a month's worth of entries back. “Thursday, May twenty fifth,” Rainbow read to herself excitedly.
She looked about herself to make sure that none of the Apple family were around to interrupt her, then continued. “Today was really exciting, I was able to get the ropes just right,” Rainbow frowned, upset. Applejack was probably just talking about being able to tie up a new animal or someth—
“Oh hello,” Rainbow giggled, reading the next paragraph. “I had to teach Fluttershy how to do it correctly, she was so afraid she was going to hurt me that I had to assure her that I was okay a bunch of times.”
“Huh? Why is Fluttershy mentioned?” Rarity wondered allowed, breaking Sunset’s concentration.
Fluttershy slid down in her seat as Applejack turned redder than an apple.
“It gets worse,” Rainbow replied, nodding at Sunset to continue.
Sunset nodded back and again placed her arm on Rainbow.
Still reading through the entry, Rainbow’s expression morphed from curiosity to confusion. Why was Fluttershy around when Applejack was using the ropes? And why was Fluttershy scared? She flipped the page to find out.
This entry was from a few days later, which Rainbow realized to be about a week ago. “She looked so cute in her ball gag. The helpless look on her face as I tied her arms behind her back was almost too good to comprehend.”
Dash’s eyes bulged. Her confusing was now shoved out of the way for shock and realization. Applejack wasn’t tying up any animals, she was tying up Fluttershy!
“Oh my goodness,” Fluttershy mumbled, her head in her hands. “Oh my goodness,”
Pinkie had a tub of popcorn from seemingly out of nowhere and was munching handfuls of it intensely. “Don’t stop now! This is getting good!”
Rarity fanned herself. “I agree with Pinkie Pie, this is too good not to finish!”
She turned the page to another entry, her eyes scanning for some instance that this whole thing was a joke and a prank was being pulled on her. That maybe Applejack wrote this kind of stuff on purpose to throw unwanted readers and prying eyes off.
But alas, it seemed everything in that diary was the real deal. What really put the nail in the coffin was the entry she had settled on, one that was from the day before.
“For someone as submissive as she is, Fluttershy seems to have a dominant side to her. She asked to be on top last night and oh boy, the sparkle in her eye the moment she pinned me down.” Rainbow’s eyes widened even more.
“Girl could have every boy at her door if she’d just come out of her shell. Turns out she’s into hair pulling too. The scream she let out almost got us caught. Told Big Mac I had stubbed my toe or something. Gotta admit though, it was pretty hot. Wonder what she’d sound like if me and Dash double teamed her.”
“I was expecting the whole crush on boys, embarrassing stuff thing! Not a sex journal!” Rainbow said in her defense.
Rarity finally closed her gaping mouth and turned to Applejack. “I always wondered why you were so into ropes, darling,” she said, eyeing the girl.
“Wowie! Flutters is a closet dom!” Pinkie giggled, surrounded by tubs upon tubs empty of their popcorn. “I should have seen that coming! My Pinkie Sense must be out of whack!”
Applejack banged her head on the table.
Twilight wiped her glasses and chuckled nervously. “Guess that’s why they’ve been missing study group after school,”
Pinkie giggled. “Yeah! Cause they were too busy studying each other!”
“Pinkie!” The other girls yelled at her.
“Whaaat?! You were all thinking it! I just said it!” She protested, crossing her arms.
The bell for lunch to end rung, and everyone, mostly Applejack and Fluttershy were happy to hear it. They all got up and threw their lunch trays out, heading into the hallway to walk to their next class together.
Rainbow straggled along behind the girl’s subtly pulling Applejack aside. The farm girl seemed surprised by the gesture, but didn’t say anything.
Rainbow cleared her throat, blushing. “Aheh. I’m not much for teamwork but I could make an exception in this case.”