I awoke to the sun coming through the window. Aah, my head. My head was pounding. What happened last night? All I can remember is telling Big Mac about me needing to help Fluttershy today. Oh crap, today was Friday. I told my body to move, but it wouldn't respond. I was flat-line tired. Too tired to move, too tired to think straight, too tired period.

Where was I anyways? I had been to busy to to actually look around at where I was. I looked around and let it sink in. I was in a brown room, there was a table to the left of me, and a small TV on top of that. It looked western. I must be at Sweet Apple Acres. "A-applejack..." I called out, my voice was hoarse.

"Morning." I heard from Big Mac, as he came through the door. He was carrying a plate of food.

"H-hey, what time is it?" I asked.

"About 1 in the afternoon, I'd reckon."

"O-one in the afternoon? Fluttershy is going to kill me." I said aloud.

"Oh, don't worry about her. She came here looking for you earlier, telling us that she had to go get something and wouldn't be back in time for the you girl's date thing." He said.

"Really? Well that's a relief." I said laying back into the bed. "Say, you gonna just stand there with that food in your mouth, or are we gonna eat." He walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed. He sat the plate on my lap.

"Eat up, hun. You're going to need it. You look sick." He said.

"Thanks, it looks good." I replied. I began to eat. It was a plate of pancakes, eggs, and hash-browns. Until I took the first bite I didn't even realize how hungry I was. I paced myself while eating, I didn't want to choke after all. I finished, and thanked Big Mac.

"It was no problem, hun." He said and kissed me on the forehead. He left to go wash off the plate. My body felt very sore. My shoulder's ached, my ribcage felt bruised, and that's how my body felt all over. I laid back, it hurt on the way down, but once I was there it didn't hurt anymore. I just felt a wave of relief wash over me.

Big Mac entered the room again. "So what happened after I told that I needed to help out Fluttershy today?" I asked.

"Well we agreed it was late, and I said I would walk you home. On the way there you realized that you couldn't fly back up to your house. So I offered you the room here. You accepted, then fainted promptly afterwords." He explained.

"Why do I feel so sore?"

"You probably just tired yourself out from yesterday. It couldn't have been the club, though. Only one song had played before we met. How'd you get yourself so tired anyhow?"

"I have an audition for the Wonderbolts on the last Friday of next month. I had been putting together a routine for the audition all day yesterday. I flew all day, and stopped only to eat lunch, and drink water when I needed to."

"Golly, you must be very sore then. You're welcome to stay here as long as you need until you're ready to get back on your feet, hun."

"As long as I get to stay here with you." I said, it caught him off guard. I could see his cheeks flare a different color of red.

"Of course." He said. I rolled over on my side to have a better view of Big Mac. He was sitting at the edge of the bed. He began to run his hoof down my back, and it felt very comforting. I can't believe I'm here. I never thought a day like this would happen.

"Big Mac, lay with me." I said to him. He nodded and laid down in front of me. I placed one of my legs around his chest. I found the one spot to where we were both comfortable with this arrangement. Man, I'm tired. I thought as my brain began to demand sleep. My eyelids felt 10 times heavier than they were. I'll rest my eyes for a few minutes... I shut my eyes. I could just feel Big Mac there, and it comforted me. I've never felt this way before. It come over me softly. I could barely think, and then I slept. I've never slept so peacefully.

[Canterlot Stadium, 12:45 p.m.]

"Okay guys, we have a kick-ass performance today. We need to go out there and perform the 'Shock and Awe' maneuvers. This needs to be better than our last performance. Got that?" I asked to fliers.

"Yes ma'am." They responded in unison.

"Spitfire, what time do we go out?" Soarin' asked me.

"In 5 minutes, why?"

"Nevermind..." He was probably hungry. Like usual. Typical Soarin'.

"Alright we have those 5 minutes to run down the 'Shock and Awe' maneuvers." I announced to my 5 other fliers.

[Canterlot Stadium, 1:50]

"Miss. Spitfire! MISS SPITFIRE!" I heard someone call to me as the stadium was emptying out. I turned to see a Purple Pegasus, flying towards me. She had a red mane, and what looked like to be a thunderbolt colored green and red.

"What can I do for ya?" I asked.

"I wanted to know what was required for the tryouts. I'm going to be performing and I'd like to know what I should practice more on." The flying Pegasus said.

"Whoa, calm down real quick. I don't even know your name miss." I replied politely.

"My name is Thunderclap."

"Well Miss Thunderclap, the tryout is actually going to be a competition. Since we've had so many Pegasuses signed up, we thought that it'd be easy to just have 3 stages of this competition. The first stage is going to be basic maneuvering, the next one is going to how well you perform under stress. To which will be openly held to the public to attend. And finally the last on is going to be a freestyle. To where you can preform anything you want to do."

"So why have the first 2 stages then?" The purple pony asked.

"Well, its to clear off any ponies that may, and excuse me if this sounds rude, just be wasting out time."

"I see, so the first stage is still on the last Friday of next month?"

"Exactly."

"Well thank you for your time Miss Spitfire. I'll keep all of that in mind."

"It was my pleasure, I hope to see you at the tryouts Miss Thunderclap."

"Calm me Thunder."

"Well, Thunder I hope you have a wonderful day."

"You too." She said as she flew off.

[Sweet Apple Acres, 2:00]

I woke up to see nothing but red. I then realized that I had fallen asleep with Big Mac laying next to me. He must have fallen asleep too. My head had stopped pounding, and my body was not as sore as before. Now, I've got this big lug in front of me, I laughed a little, he's going to make it hard to get up. I laid my head on his neck.

I said softly "Big Mac. Its time to get up." He responded with a soft groan. "Come on, its the afternoon. As much as I want to, we can't stay like this all day. Applejack would be very cross with us."

"Afternoon, sleepyhead." He said in a soft voice.

"Who you calling a sleepyhead, you're the one I had to wake up." I said giggling.

"You're the one who made me fall asleep." He said laughing.

"Well sitting here playing the blame game isn't quite productive." I said.

"I guess your right." He said, sounding reluctant to get up. But after a few moments of laying there, he finally sat himself upright.

"That's the spirit." I said heaving myself back up next to him.

"What should we go do?"

"Well we should go ask AJ if she needs us to do anything for her."

"Alright lets go." He said as he got up. I followed behind him out the door. I've visited here enough times, but I never got to see the upstairs portion of the house. It was nicely decorated, it contained pictures of AJ as a young filly, along with pictures of the young colt Big Mac. He looked cute in his younger pictures too.

I followed him downstairs, to where we met Applejack who was sitting at the table. "About time you two got up, lazy ponies." She said as we came down the stairs.

"I'm sorry, I must have been hungover from last night." I said chuckling a little.

"Oh it ain't no big problem. I bet Big Mac offered this too, but you can stay here as long as you need to until your ready to go home." She replied. "And for you mister, where were you at?" She said as she looked towards Big Mac.

"W-well, ya see...uh, Dash wanted me to lay with her, and uh...we kinda just fell asleep." He explained.

She turned towards me, a small smile on her face "Is that so? Oh well in that case, I oughta put you two to work." I gulped, it was probably audible "Seeing it as though we ain't got no work though, I guess you off the hook." Whew, for a second there I thought she may have actually made us work. I'm not as sore as I was this morning but I wouldn't like having to do a lot of work. "Well I do have some work, but it's just your daily chores Big Mac. Don't worry about the ones for in here, I got a 'lil bored and decided to do them to kill time."

"Eeyup, I'll get to work right now." He said as he left my side, and walked outside.

"You two didn't do nothing, did ya?" AJ asked the second the door closed.

"What? No, no its only our second day being together."

"Oh well, how do ya feel?"

"Better than I look, I bet."

"Yeah, I was shocked because when Big Mac came home, he was with you. But what shocked me more was that you were out cold, darlin'."

"Yeah, I had a little too much to drink."

"I thought that he had gone out 'clubbing', instead of the regular kind. Well I'm glad that you two talked about how you two feel about each other."

"I am too. I never thought that I'd be here, with him."

"Well hun, Imma tell ya something that he'd kill me for. You have to promise me not to tell him though, or anypony for that matter." Really? What'd be so bad that he couldn't tell me himself?

"You have my word."

"Well the other day, we went out to start working. On the trip over there, I asked him who he'd liked. He said no pony, but I asked him if he thought about marryin'," Thats where it struck me, He wants to marry me? Oh my gosh! I mean, I'd always wanted to have that kind of relationship with Big Mac, but I never thought that he'd actually want to marry me. "And he told me it was you. To make sure he wasn't lying or nothing I had to tell him who I had liked though." Wait, did she just tell me that she actually liked a pony?

"Wait, who is this pony?"

[Sweet Apple Acres: 2:12 p.m.]

I gulped at the question presented to me. Should I just tell her? What if she laughs at it? Oh Dash wouldn't do that. "Well, err...um...He's...a, uh..." I trailed off, my face felt hot.

"Who, come on, I promise not to tell anypony."

"soarin'" It came out as a whisper.

"Who?"

"Soarin'" I repeated, loud enough for her to hear. If she hadn't been in a good mood, I think she would have fainted or something. Her face looked pale.

"S-soarin' from the Wonderbolts? Really?"

"Yup." I gulped.

"Well, why?"

"He's just really...cute...and nice."

"Well since you did me a favor, I'm going to do one for you, AJ." She replied after a few minutes.

"L-like what kinda favor?"

"Contestants are only allowed to bring 3 people as guests on their behalf to the tryouts. And I'm going to bring you with me."

"Really? Oh, well that'd be just swell Dash." I could actually go and see Soarin'? Golly, that'd be awesome.

"Yup, its a thanks for your hospitality."

"Well, thank you so much for your gracious gift."

"Oh, its not that awesome. If I knew him a bit better, I'd try to hook you up with him. While I'm there though, I'll try to get to know him better. I'll put in a good word for you too."

"Oh Dash, that'd be just amazing. Thank you again."

"Well since I'm not going to be doing anything until Monday, want to do anything?

"I feel up for a run, you know since the Running of The Leaves is the second week of next month."

"Oh, so you want to try or old bet again? You're so on."

"Over my dead body, I'm going to win." We dashed out of the house, passed a very confused Big Mac.

"No time to talk, beating AJ in a race." Was all I managed to yell out as we went by.

"Fat chance, sugarcube." She yelled back. We continued down the path into what seemed like the billions of Acres of trees they owned. Did it feel good to be part of a family.

[Author's Notes]

Evening everyone. I hope ya'll is having a less painful evening than I am. I went to the Weight room this last Monday, and my whole body feels like a big 'ol bruise. Its not very pleasant. Anywho, another chapter for you smexy, smexy people. I hope you enjoy this one. I had fun writing it, like I always do. Feel free to point out mistakes, or leave a suggestion or just a plain 'ol nice comment. I love you all, Nighty Night.

Mrhelmetman

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