It was about to be 3:00 when I got back to my cloud house. I should get something to eat before I get back to work on my routine. Maybe some apples? Wait. What did I just think. Discarding that thought from my mind, and it was weird at that. Anyways, food did sound good right now. Especially apple pie. What am I doing? Why was all I could think about eating was apples? Maybe its just that time. Mind you I had always had a time of the year where I always wanted some apples from Applejack's farm, this started happening around 3 years ago. What if I could see Big Mac while I'm down there? I had this sorta surreal filling. I had to get apples.

I decided that I would get some apples, maybe I would stop have this weird feeling in my stomach once I did. I quickly took off towards the acres. Man, why do I feel like everything around me is a dream?

I found myself flying over the barn, what's making me do this? I landed in front of the house that was adjacent with the Barn. I began to knock on the door. My heart pounding. What is going on? I started to feel confused with what was going on. All I wanted was some apples.

I waited for about half a minute, then I heard the door unlock. It began to open, and it was Applebloom who had answered it.

"He 'ya Rainbow Dash." She answered with "What can I do for 'ya?"

"Hi, do you know where your sister is?" I asked, my heart still beating hard. Man its not like I had been flying hard or anything.

"Oh, she's out at the fields." She replied.

"Where at, do you know?"

"Probably down the path around the barn. What is it 'ya need so bad?"

"I just needed to ask her a favor." yeah, as to why I feel this way. Oh and to get some apples too.

"Yeah, just go down that way." She said.

"Okay, well thanks Applebloom." I replied. She closed the door as I began to walk towards this path behind the barn. I found it and followed the path for a good 10 minutes until I heard the rhythmic sound of applebucking. That must be AJ. I began to gallop towards the sound.

When I finally arrived it took me a few minutes to see who was actually applebucking. My heart nearly stood still when I saw it. I hadn't come here for apples. Maybe far from it.

As Big Mac emerged from applebucking, sweating like a real work-horse. That surreal feeling went away, but this weird feeling in my stomach stayed, and felt stronger than ever.

I came to this simple conclusion. I had Big Mac on my mind. Apparently I associated him with the apples from the farm. Does that mean everytime I wanted apples, I've just been wanting Big Mac. And the apples sufficed for it?

"H-hey Big Mac." I said aloud, my voice cracking from nervousness. He looked my way and nodded. "D-do you know where Applejack is?" I asked.

"Eeyup." He replied. That's really all I heard from him now isn't it?

"Where at?"

"She went down the path. About another 20 yards. You can't miss her."

"T-thanks." was all I could muster out. My face felt hot. I apparently was blushing hard. I continued down the path like he said.

"Hey, Applejack." I called out.

"Yeah?" was all I heard back, after a quick sound of what was her kick on a tree.

"I need to talk to you." I said.

"Alright one minute." She replied back. After a few moments of waiting, I started to think of what I was going to tell her. Because, I'm in love with your brother, wouldn't make her laugh. Man, some days I wish I was a guy. Its so easy to be a guy, not having to deal with all these different emotions all the time. "What's up, sugarcube?" she said as she left the trees.

"Well," This is surely going to suck "its really private." I said.

"Okay, well lets walk down the path and talk. Is that alright?" she asked.

"Its fine." I answered, my heart began to pound again. We left from where we had met and were now about 10 yards away from it. "Well y-you know how once or twice a year I come down here to get apples?" I asked.

"Yes, its always nice to have you come down sugarcube. Is that all you wanted to talk to me about?" She inquired.

"N-no." I answered quickly.

"Then what? You can tell me anything." She replied.

"W-well its about," I gulped "Big Mac."

She stopped "What about Big Mac."

"Its nothing bad. Well..."

"Oh its something."

"Well, I don't know who else to tell but his own sister."

"Tell me what?"

"Well AJ, I kinda have had this crush on Big Mac for the 3 years that I've come to get apples for."

"Wait, you have a crush on Big Mac?" She looked confused.

"Y-yes."

"Well," gosh I hope she doesn't get mad "that's swell darling." She said with a smile on her face.

"Look AppleJa-" I said without thinking "Wait, what?"

"I think that's swell." Something looked wrong. Was she lying? No, AJ never lies. Is she really happy for me?

"Y-you're fine with me liking Big Mac?" I asked.

"Of course sugarcube."

"A-and, you won't hate me or anything?"

"Why would I ever hate you? For dating my brother?" She began to laugh "Oh Dash. I would never hate you for anything like that." What a relief. That funny feeling felt dulled with the wave of relief that had hit me.

"D-do you think he likes me?" I asked, I felt stupid for asking such a childish question.

"I don't know sugarcube. You could always ask him."

"I-I'm to scared to..." was all I was able to mutter out.

"Don't think on it to hard hun. I'm sure what ever you tell him, he'd answer how he feels." She said in her caring voice. To be honest it felt really good to hear her say that. Why am I so scared to just talk to him?

"Okay," I said calming down "Well I'd still like to get some apples. Big Mac or not."

"Well sugarcube, I have some that I can give you if you wait just a moment." She said as she went back towards the trees. So that's, that. I wondered how I should tell him? How will he respond? I walked under a tree and waited for a few moments thinking on how to explain this to him. Gosh, this is just not what I had in mind. That would make things very weird for AJ and I. Not to mention Applebloom. What would everyone else think? Man oh man...One of these days I have to tell him though.

It was going to get dark soon, I thought after abandoning my efforts on trying to figure out what to tell Big Mac. I'd work on my routine tomorrow, then after that, the next day would be me having to help out Fluttershy. Gosh, it was only Wednesday? I had only just started my routine and the tryouts would be in three weeks from Saturday. I need to stop with all this drama and stuff. I laughed. Me? Drama? Those words are funny sounding together. "Hey Dash." I heard AJ say behind me.

"Heya Applejack." I said turning around.

"I got them apples you wanted."

"Thank you so much." Placing the apples in front of me "What can I do to repay you?"

"Be good to him."

"W-what do you mean?" I was dumbfounded.

"My brother. I don't know if he likes you or not, but if he does, take care of him. Would you do that for me?" She sounded more like his mother, than his younger sister.

"Of course AJ. I wouldn't do anything to hurt him." I said reassuringly.

"Okay, well you outta get going. Its gonna get darker out here than the deepest part of Froggy-bottom Bog." She said.

"Yeah, in that case I'm going to get going." I said picking up the apple sack in my mouth "Thank you again." It sounded muffled due to the bag.

"You're welcome, now get out of here before you hit any birds on the way home, sugarcube." She said smiling. And with that I was off. I waved goodbye while she could still see me. Okay, Dash you need to focus now. Focus on what you're going to be doing. What was I going to be doing? Training, I need to work on my training more than anything else. Working on my Big Mac problem would be nice too... Damnit, stop thinking like that. Go home, eat, go to sleep, wake up, work, eat, train, eat, train, eat, go to sleep. Rinse, lather, repeat. Except for Friday, that will be the only exclusion from my training schedule. Well, these apples won't taste as good as I thought they did, now that I know why I was eating them. I sighed. What can I do?

Author's Notes

Dusking. How was everyone's fine evening? Anything exciting happen over the past few days? Well whatever it is I hope it was enjoyable. I had my first Color Guard performance for JROTC today, and to be honest it was quite bad. I had fun, thought people could see my leg shaking and such, but nah it was a really good performance. Back to the ponies. I like the way this plot is coming, to be quite frank. I'm having a lot of fun writing this, and I hope you guys and gals are enjoying the read. Again, any suggestions, comments, constructive criticism, or just plain compliments are greatly appreciated. I love you all. You are awesome. Good night.

Mrhelmetman

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