[After eating the cake, Big Mac runs out the kitchens]

[Two weeks later]

Perhaps I was rude? I ran out like that, oh what will he think of me?! Ah, I'm sure he'll forgive me, he is a nice man after all. No! I mustn't take advantage of him like that! But w-

The excruciating pain emerging from my shoulder socket was to be blamed on Applejack. I looked questionable at her and winced.

"Aww, big bro, stop being such a wimp! T'was jus a pat on the shouldar!"

I grimaced, still in pain. If there was something I would never come to understand, it was where Applejack's supendous strength came from.

"Big bro, whats wrong?" Applebloom emerged from the bushes in front of me.

Applejack placed a hand on her sister's head, "Big brothetha! Yer he'ads bin in the cloud all day! H'as Rainbow Dash gotten to ya?"

I cocked my head questionably.

"What I mean is, you've been standin infron of grandma's apple pai like their's somethin sooo fasinatin about it!"

"Yeah! It's been like hours!"

"No need to bash your brother that much, let's make it twenty minutes."

"Ar ya hungry big bro?"

I simply stared at the pie, oh how it reminded me of my time with Shining Armor. Even now I can feel him, the brush of the finger tips against my elbow, the breath caressing my ear, and his chest rising and falling as it was firmly pressed to my back. I shook my head furiously and looked down at Applebloom who was tugging at my pant leg.

"Brother, are you sick?"

Applejack only nodded at her companion's remark.

"Brotha, yer definatly in sick"

"Y-you think so?"

"Yes"

Applebloom added to the conversation, "Oh look Applejack, brother's ears be turnin red... "

"See littlebloom, he is sick!"

"Is there anything we can do to make him better, Big Sister?"

"Les see..."

Applejack investigated me from head to toe. She checked my pulse and temperature by placing her palm on my forehead.

Ahh... like Shining Armor...

"Have ya got any trouble doin chores?"

"Y-yeah..."

"Irregular heartbeat?"

"Sometimes..."

"Sweat?"

"Yeah"

"Discomfort?"

"Yeah"

"Depressed?"

"Yeah, S-sometimes"

"Anxiety?"

"Yeah!"

"Ahh I know what you have!"

"W-what?!"

"Love Sick"

Both sisters chortled and giggled at my embarrassment.

"I-I am not i-in l-love..."

"Ah, aren't you glad Applebloom, big bro has finally found a special someone!"

"I-I h-have not!"

"Aw no need to be embarrassed! Come in before the sunsets, grandma made her special candy apples!"