Several days later... It was wedding go time.
Every pony who knew Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich were all invited... Well, almost every pony.
Applejack and Rainbow were relaxing on the highest hill watching the festivities getting prepared down below.
"Weddings are dumb anyways." Rainbow grumbled as she saw a small team of stallions rising a bouncy house triple the size of a normal house.
"Don't be so down Dash." Applejack tried to comfort her but even she didn't believe her words. Everything was calm and still as they watched the hustle and bustle below, until...
"There you two are!" Rarity huffed up the side of the hill and dropped near her two confused friends.
"Rarity, what are you doing here?" Applejack asked, as she and Rainbow disentangle from their cuddling state.
"Shouldn't you be at the wedding getting ready?" Rainbow added, floating over to Rarity to help her.
"I was," Rarity breathed. "But Pinkie Pie was talking about how she felt guilty about something then she told Fluttershy and I what happened at the bachelorette party. She now is locked in the bathroom and won't come out until she sees you two at the wedding." Applejack and Rainbow looked at each other shocked.
"If you can forgive her for uninviting you then I'll go with." Applejack said softly.
"But after what you said to her?" Rainbow questioned remembering Applejack's harsh words.
"I'll apologize if need be, we're in this together Eagle. Whatever you decide, I will follow your lead." Applejack smiled as Rainbow kissed her.
"You're the best." Rainbow grinned then turned to Rarity. "We'll gladly come to the wedding." Rarity looked relieved as she beamed at her friends.
"That's wonderful news," She quickly hugged them before rushing and saying "Well, we all better hurry then." And with that, they all hurried down the hill towards the joyful wedding that was being set up.
But when they arrived into the dressing room, it was anything but joyful.
Pinkie Pie was sitting in her white wedding dress looking out the window. She may have been the most beautiful bride ever to be, if it wasn't for the tears streaking down her face and her deflated mane. Fluttershy was sitting beside her, brushing her mane even though it was straight and fine. Fluttershy too was crying and repeating over and over how it would be find and that she, Pinkie, would get through this.
"What's wrong, Darling?" Rarity asked hesitantly, breaking the nearly unbearable silence. No pony said anything as Pinkie Pie got up, trotted to a table, grabbed a note then gave it to Rarity who magicked it in front of her face to read it properly. She read the note quickly then tears formed in her eyes too and tried to hug Pinkie but Pinkie just pushed her away, mumbled something about wanting to be alone and went into an adjacent room. "This is horrible." Rarity lamented quietly while hugging Fluttershy.
"What in the hay is going on here?" Applejack asked, scared and worried. Rainbow picked up the note from the floor and read it out loud:
'Dear Pinkie,
You are the best party pony and friend I know, I just wish the same could be said about me from you. I love you dearly but I can't marry you.
I am so sorry Pinkie.
I wish I could stay but there are just too many parties to be had and I don't want you to be waiting at home for me for months or even years on end. It would break your heart as much as mine. So, to save both of our hearts, I am stopping the wedding before it begins.
Please tell every pony that I'm sorry and to forgive me if they can. I am leaving Ponyville's Party Kingdom with you as it's queen.
Pinkie, just know that you will make a wonderful bride, wife and mother.
Too bad it won't be me to be apart of it.
Sincerely,
Cheese Sandwich'
Rainbow let the note fall again as angry tears rolled from her eyes.
"That bastard." She managed before tossing herself out the window and propelling herself high up to see if she could spot Cheese. She saw many things: the wedding preparations near and in town, she saw ponies in their finest and goofiest, she even saw the parents of the bride and, what she assumed, the groom, but no sign of Cheese. "He must have left before any pony even woke up." Rainbow whispered as she let her wings flap from vigorous to barely able to keep her up.
"Pinkie? Sugarcube? Will you let me come in?" Applejack asked hesitantly, knocking on the closed door that wouldn't open.
"Go away." Pinkie said flatly.
"I can't do that Sugarcube." Applejack shook her head and tried to open the door again.
"Go away." Pinkie spat again with more venom and malaise in her voice than before.
"Sugarcube, you need your friends right now. You can't push us away like this." Applejack said as she got in position the buck the door down. Just as she was about to kick, the door opened; Pinkie looked defeated.
"I just wanted to live happily ever after." Pinkie mumbled dishearteningly into Applejack's shoulder as Applejack hugged her.
"I know you did Sugarcube, I know." Applejack cooed as Pinkie fell apart.
"No pony even knows the worst part about this whole mess!" Pinkie moaned as Applejack her helped to the bed to sit down.
"What's that, Sugarcube?" Applejack asked softly, raising a tissue to Pinkie's eyes to stop her make-up from running even though there was no point in keeping her beautiful any longer. Pinkie drew in a deep and shaky breathe before muttering:
"I'm pregnant too." The tissue slipped from Applejack's frozen hove and floated to the floor. Applejack continued to shake her head at the unfairness of it all as Pinkie went on. "I was feeling sick after the party but then I remembered it had been awhile since my period and Cheese and I did it when he first came back into town. So, I went to the doctor and he congratulated me." She placed a hove over her belly. "It was suppose to be a wedding present of sorts." She sighed, the tears renewing. "But, things changed..." She paused to let out a gasp. "And now I don't know where to go! The Cake's is too crowded with me as it is and with another mouth to feed, it'll be too much. Cheese and I were suppose to get our own place but I don't have enough money on my own." She turned her distraught face to Applejack. "What am I going to do?" She wailed, the adjacent door opened slowly, revealing the rest of their friends, now including Twilight and Spike.
"You have us, Pinkie." Twilight reminded her softly as the others gathered around and hugged each other.
"You all would be willing to share your homes with me and my baby?" Pinkie questioned. A chorus of affirmation answered her. "But will there be enough room?" Pinkie asked coldly, to which there was no reply. Spike and Rarity's was filled to the brim, Rainbow's was in the sky, Applejack's was out of the question-
"You're more than welcome to stay with me." Fluttershy piped up. Every pony looked at Fluttershy in shock, to which, she blushed. "There is always a share room or two amongst me and my animals, two more ponies would be no trouble at all." Pinkie didn't know what to say.
"Thanks Fluttershy, it won't be any trouble?" Pinkie hesitated.
"None at all." Fluttershy's blush intensified.
"That's awful kind of ya Sugarcube, to let Pinkie stay with ya." Applejack informed Fluttershy as every pony helped pack up the wedding, including the guests.
"It's nothing really." Fluttershy blushed again. Little did any pony know or could even guess, Fluttershy had other motives in having Pinkie stay...