“Come on Michael where are ya taking meh?” Applejack walked with her eyes closed holding his hand with hoof.

“It won’t be a surprise if I tell you right?”

Applejack sighed and gave up, they walked like that for good ten minutes, and just when Applejack was getting irritated they suddenly stopped.

“Here we are.”

Applejack opened her eyes and looked forward, she was blinded by the sun for few seconds and after she regained her sight she looked on their destination. They were standing on the hill and under it she saw many humans going from place to place, she heard mallets working, then she realized something, they all were wearing western clothes.

“What is going on here?”

“This is “Country Festival” it’s organized by our city every half a year, and luckily it’s starting today.”

Applejack smiled wildly, she now realized they all were setting up some tents and small buildings, bigger ones were already standing there, they looked like bars from Appleloosa.

“T-This is amazing Michael.”

“So I take that you like it?”

“Oh Ah sure do.”

Applejack was smiling in joy looking down at the scenery, Michael also smiled seeing how happy she was, but that wasn’t only thing that made him excited, he also was looking forward to this festival.

“What are weh waiting for? Let’s go!” Applejack said and started walking forward only to be stopped by Michael, she looked at him with quizzical expression.

“Festival starts at 11 a.m. we still have 3 hours.” Applejack frowned and nodded in small anger earning few chuckles from Michael.

“What ya laughing at?”

“You look cute when you’re angry.”

Applejack tried to hide her blush behind her hat but to no avail, which only made Michael chuckle again.

“So Rebecca, I thought that perhaps we can kill this time in our city mall, I mean there are a lot of things to do there.”

Applejack nodded and they took off towards the Mercury city mall.

They walked through the city Applejack constantly asking him about attractions on the festival and she was growing more and more excited with each answer.

“Oh yeah and also my uncle’s family will be there, they will be selling some good food with apples.”

AJ ears perked up at the mention of her favorite fruit which didn’t go unnoticed by Michael.

They finally made it to the city mall, its size amazed Applejack just like last time, they walked inside and were immediately greeted by huge crowd of peoples going into every possible direction, yelling and pushing others away.

“What the hay is going on?”

“I suppose there must be some kind of promotion going on, come one let’s get out of crowd.” Michael shouted and took her by hoof pulling her out, they finally made it away from those people and Michael looked around to see where they were at.

“What is that?” Applejack asked looking forward.

“It’s a restaurant, kind of. But you won’t like it here.”

“Why? It has weird name, seems interesting.”

“Believe me, there’s nothing in McDonalds that you will enjoy.”

“What they don’t any salads?”

“They do but, you know what if you are hungry there are better places to eat at.”

Applejack nodded slightly disappointed and they left. Soon they were sitting in small restaurant Applejack waiting for her pancakes while Michael awaited his scrambled eggs.

“Sorry Rebecca, but I have to leave for a moment.”

“Where are ya going?”

Michael blushed a little.

“Toilet.”

Applejack chuckled and waved at him, Michael quickly walked away however he didn’t go to toilet, no he went inside a shop where he found something earlier that he wanted to buy, he walked through the city mall and he then saw something pink flashing before his eyes.

“W-What the fuck was that?”

“Andrea wait up!” Then he saw Brandy running past him, he stood there agape for few moments but decided to ignore it, thinking about any logical sense for those two was rather pointless.

Michael bought what he wanted to buy and hid it in his pocket, he walked back to the restaurant where their meals were already on the table and Applejack started munching on her salad.

“Swhory Micheh fhor nhot waiting.” Applejack said with mouth full of her meal, Michael laughed a bit and sat down.

They ate mostly in silence Applejack sometimes asking him about how farming worked on Earth.

After they finished they started going from shop to shop, looking at some clothes, Applejack found it especially funny when Michael was trying fit into extremely tight jeans.

After walking around for long time Michael looked at his watch and noticed that it’s already 10:42 p.m.

They walked out of the city mall and walked back to the Festival, when they arrived both smiled wildly at the sight in front of them.

Dozens of different stands stood proudly in line offering different goods, some people were offering caramel apples or other sweets, there were some games with winning prizes and many other things.

“So Rebecca what do you want to do…”

Before he knew it Applejack was already standing in front of stand with a throwing game.

“….first?” Michael sighed and walked up to her he followed her gaze and saw that she is looking at one of the prizes, a big teddy bear.

“Didn’t expect you to like these things.”

“Oh ya know, it’s just so… you know.” Applejack said sheepishly, Michael chuckled. In this game you had to toss the ball and fall over 3 pyramids made of glasses.

“Hey mister, how much for a round?”

“3 Dollars for 5 tries my friend.”

Michael took out 3 dollars of his wallet and gave them to the seller. He gave Michael 5 balls, he took aim and threw, he managed to make one of the pyramids fall over, with two throws he got second one, he aimed his fourth shot and missed totally.

Michael took his last ball and aimed, he used all the strength he could muster and threw it making the last pyramid collapse.

Salesman congratulated him and gave him a big teddy bear, which he then gave Applejack as a present earning a small kiss, since it was almost her size Michael decided to carry it himself.

Their day went great, going from one stand to another, then they finally stopped at the stand Michael wanted to visit the most, his uncle stand.

“Hey Michael, how are ya doin boy? Ya have grown a lot since we last met huh?” His uncle spoke with same accent as Applejack

Michael chuckled and shook his uncle Wayne’s hand in greeting.

“Maybe a little, hey uncle Wayne, there’s someone I want you to meet.” Michael moved away and motioned towards Applejack.

“This is Rebecca, my girlfriend.”

Wayne stared at Applejack for few minutes, since she was under effects of Twilight illusion he saw beautiful cowgirl standing in front of him.

“Well my boy, Ah have to say ya found yourself a very nice lookin lady.” Wayne bowed and took his stetson off in a greeting manner.

“Mighty nice to meet ya mister Wayne.”

They talked a little about how Applejack and Michael met, how did they got together, then they proceeded in tasting Wayne’s Apple pies and Applejack had to admit those there one of the best apple pies she ate, and she ate a lot of those.

After they left Wayne’s stand they continued to have fun on the festival, playing many games which most of the times they won. It was getting late and Applejack decided that she wants to try one last thing before coming back.

“Seriously? You want to ride on that rollercoaster?”

“Oh come on Michael It’ll be fun.”

“I-I’m not sure, besides where the hell did this thing come out from? It wasn’t there few hours ago and I never saw them placing it.”

After few minutes of Applejack pleading Michael finally agreed, they waited in line until it was their turn, they sat down and their drive started.

It began slowly, but Michael knew it always starts like that, after they got to the top of the rails it stopped for a few seconds and then dashed towards the earth, Michael could hear others screaming, he looked over to Applejack, she seemed to be enjoying herself even though she was screaming with others, to his surprise he also was screaming.

Ride ended and they left their car, Michael legs almost gave up on him when he tried to stand still, adrenaline that left his body made him tired, but after all he enjoyed this ride anyways.

He looked at Applejack only to find out that she is completely fine smiling wildly and motioning him to follow her.

“Come on, it’s dark already Twilight’s, I mean Tara’s spell will stop working very soon.”

He nodded and they left the festival, a place where both of them had great fun and made amazing memories, which was a good thing considering that soon memories will be last thing for them to enjoy.

Michael sighed in sadness, they started walking towards his house, when they walked inside city park he stopped Applejack by placing his hand on her shoulder.

“What is it Michael?”

“Applejack, you see, yesterday I was thinking, that in three, well more like two days from now we will never be able to see each other again.”

“Don’t say that sugarcube, Ah’m sure we will find a way to..”

He stopped her by putting his finger on her mouth.

“That’s why I thought that I want to give you something, anything that would make you think about me when you look at it.”

Michael put his hand inside his pocket and he pulled out long silver necklace, with shining heart-shaped emerald as its center.

Applejack gasped, it was amazing, in Equestria emeralds weren’t as expensive as they were on Earth, and she knew it, buying her something like that here surely wasn’t easy.

“B-But Michael, Ah can’t accept it it’s..”

“I found it by accident when I went to the city mall for some grocery shopping, I saw in at the jewelry store and it’s beautiful color immediately reminded me of your breathtaking eyes.”

Applejack blushed slightly at the compliment, she looked at the necklace and finally took it with her hoofs placing it over her neck.

“Here let me help you.”

Michael kneeled and used his hands to put necklace on her, when he was done he stood up and backed away a little, he gasped at the sight, her already amazing eyes were in breathtaking synergy with the emerald in necklace it was simply stunning for him.

“Emm Hello? Michael? Is something wrong?”

He shook his head and said.

“You look amazing.”

She blushed again, motioning for him to get down a little bit she stood on her haunches and gave him a deep and passionate kiss, they stood there beneath the moonlight in city park showing each other their affection and feelings, after good couple minutes they decided it’s time to go home.

Michael was happy, he got rid of the thoughts about his beloved girlfriend departure as they walked together towards his house in order for her to meet his parents.