THE APPLE OF MY EYE
CHAPTER 4
Applejack watched the white unicorn put her fainting couch away in glee.
"When is he coming?!" She pestered twilight, her gorgeous dark blue eyes intent in finding out answers. "The day after tomorrow." The alicorn answered unfazed by the diva's questions. The fashionista Unicorn already had a plan in mind. "Alright then, can everypony stay tomorrow night as well, we'll have a double sleepover so we can greet him first thing at the train station!" The other 4 but Applejack agreed. "A'hm mightay sorry Raratay I have some chores on the farm to attend to, although I can come over tomorrow night in time for the sleepover." She apologised to her friend. "Oh that's fine darling, as long as you get here in time!" Rarity blinked her long eyelashes, making her light blue eyeshadow more visible. "Okay we should probably get to sleep now, especially if we are having two sleepovers in a row" twilight told everypony logically. "Yeah an awesome pony like me needs her shut eye!" Rainbowdash rolled over. Twilight turned out the lights. Applejack rolled over to face the wall. This was certainly going to be an interesting few days. She chuckled quietly and closed her eyes.
The farm pony woke to the morning sunlight spilling onto her face from the windowsill above her. She sat up looking about her, remembering where she was. She stood up and ran an orange hoof through her blonde mane, she than placed on her hat that only came off when she sleeped. She looked around her at the peaceful faces of her friends as they slept. She padded quietly out of the room, making sure not to trip or make any sound. She roamed the crystal halls, looking about the shiny walls,they reflected her own reflection back at her. She trotted into the main room, staring up at the golden oak library roots, each had a crystal hanging off them, reflecting a memory of her and her friends having good times. She stared up at the beautiful crystals till she heard a whoop for joy. she turned around startled and headed towards the sound. She trotted up to the room she had heard it from and opened the door a crack. A lamp was on, and next to it was spike, curled up in his bed reading a comic. Applejack grinned. "Ah certainty hope it's not one of those enchanted ones now" she padded up behind the busy dragon. He jumped and turned around "oh it's just you applejack, and no not this time." Answering her semi- rhetorical question. the earth pony sat beside the scaly reptile as he told her the plot of the story. "Sounds mightay fascinatin' spike." Applejack told him as he finished. "Yeah I know." They sat in awkward silence for a few minutes. "So spike are ya'll going down with us to greet this Fancypants fella at the train station?"
"Probably, twilight will drag me along anyway." "Besides if rarity wants me too then I'm going" Applejack rolled her eyes smiling, he was so devoted. The farm pony heard chatter coming down from the hall "oh, looks like the girls are awake, wanna go greet em' spike?" Applejack stood up, shaking her orange coat back into place. "Sure!" The dragon leapt up and followed the earth pony to the room where she and her friends had slept. "Goodmornin' everypony!" Applejack cried smiling. "Good morning Applejack!" The lavender alicorn replied, her usually straight mane all curly from sleep. "Morning darling." Rarity said not paying much attention, already brushing her curly purple mane. Rainbow dash was snoring. Her cyan coloured chest rising and falling abruptly. "Umm where's pinkie pai?" Applejack looked around noticing the party pony was missing. Fluttershy shrugged her, her teal eyes widening. "I'm right here!" Pinkie pie squeaked from behind Applejack's shoulder giving the orange mare a fright.
"Applejack sweetness, come here let me brush your mane, it looks like it got hit by a tornado!" Rarity frowned levitating Her mane brush. "Uh oh..." The farm pony backed out of the room, the Diva unicorn following after her. "Applejack skidded around and raced down the crystal halls, almost slipping. The fashionista racing after her, her purple curly tail streaming after her "oh no you don't!" The white mare wearing a face of frustrated determination. The earth pony slipped, skidding around and bumped her back into the wall. "Woah!" She cried as she slipped a bit more, bumping into something else, ending in her falling over. Applejack looked up. She had bumped into twilight, who had teleported, ready to stop Applejack from getting away. Rarity run up huffing. "Now that's more like it come on dearie!" She called over her shoulder as the farm pony followed to her her certain doom, her head trailing down.
Applejack sat in a chair looking grumpily at a mirror as Rarity levitated her mane brush. Rarity took Applejack's signature hat off with her magic and set it on the Applejack's green eyes widened and she reached for her het frantically. " oh, come on not darling you don't need that musty old hat on anyway!" Rarity yanked the brush down Applejack's scraggly mane, the orange mare wincing as her hair was pulled. Applejack stared in the mirror in front of her, comparing herself to Rarity. She knew she shouldn't have but she did, her brain was calculating all the differences between them despite Applejack's complaints to her brain. She was completely average compared to a Rarity, with her blonde ratty mane, tied up in a ponytail (literally) and her orange, dirty complexion with her white freckles on Either side of her cheeks. Meanwhile Rarity was gorgeous with her perfect face and long eyelashes,perfectly shaping her amazing dark blue eyes and light blue eyeshadow, she also had a perfect mane which was curled and a beautiful purple. Applejack frowned and moved her lime green eyes away from the crystal mirror in front of her.