The next day started pretty much like the first one, everyone else cleaned up and I didn’t even bother to care. I ate a bagel and went outside for a walk, I soon realized besides that 1 mysterious bagel that was in the pantry we had 0 food, all we had were cupcakes and brownies from the parties, that and a lot of alcohol.

On the way I couldn’t help but notice Rarity, mimicking her perfectly I went right up to her and tapped her on the shoulder. I was honestly glad to see she was happy to see me, we talked a little and agreed to go on a date, perfect! We agreed on a fancy restaurant in Ponyville called the “Gilded Truffle” tonight and I told her I had stuff to do. Just as we went our separate ways I felt like slamming my head against a wall, I only had 90 bits! Would that even be enough for a good night out? Let’s see, how many fancy restaurants go for 2 people under 90 dollars?

…

Shit

Worst off, we needed basically everything you would need for a house. Food, furniture (All the old furniture was shit), clothing, stuff, appliances (we only have the toaster and of course the oven), and everything from toothpaste to alarm clocks. I knew there was only one way I would manage to get enough money for this date, I needed a job.

Of course I’d be an idiot if I didn’t try and do it the easy way, I walked back into our living room.

“Mike can I have all your money, I kind of have a date tonight C:” I said

“No” Mike instantly said, I knew it. Then again would I give Mike any of my money? Hell no of course not! So job it was.

“Where you going to go now?” Mike asked, diverting his attention from the TV to me.

“Going to go find a job” I said

“Can I come?” Tyler asked

“Sure whatever” I said

“Okay man you have fun with that, hey did you eat that bagel in there?” Mike asked

“Yea, did you do anything to it?”

“No, I just wanted that god damn bagel” Mike said “It was the last edible thing in this house besides” He stopped to shudder for a moment “Brownies”

“You have money, go buy some” Tyler stated

Mike looked like he was in a predicament, spend his money or starve?

“Okay I might just wait” Mike said nervously.

I laughed and headed out the door, Tyler and I tried to make a list of things we could do for work, to be honest; the list was small, very small. What was worst was we needed something that was more than minimum wage and we could start right now.  We didn’t really find a lot of help wanted signs, and the few that we did find were…undesirable. I’m not sure how a high class girl like Rarity would react when she realizes she is dating a dude who works at KFC, it was disappointing.

“Is there anything left?” Tyler asked

“No clue” I said, there was 1 place I felt there could be a job waiting for us, there was only one problem. We did not exactly have the best relationship with this person “Want to go back to the farm?” I asked

Tyler looked at me funny “Applejack’s farm?”

I nodded

“Fine why not, the only bad thing that could happen is we get hit on the head with a shovel.” Tyler said. It didn’t take very long to find where the Apple family lived, we asked for directions from some people and they said the apple family lived on a farm right outside of town. Praying for the best, Tyler and I sallied out to see what would happen.

When we approached Sweet Apple Acres it looked exactly how I expected. In the front was a red and white rustic barn, on either side of the dirt trail were myriad amounts of apple trees, in the far corner of my line of sight there was a small house where the family lived. It didn’t take long for us to find Applejack; she looked exactly like the night we accidentally stumbled into her barn. She had a long yellow mane and the same brown cowboy hat on, she was next to a tree picking apples. Wait…then I realized she was kicking the tree. Why would AJ be kicking trees D:? What did the tree ever do to her?

“Errr hi there” Tyler said, the orange Earth Pony turned around

“Howdy I’m Applejack” She said “How can I help you?”

I blinked my eye in confusion, did that bucket to the head mess up her brain?

“Howdy, yea we were the guys who were in your barn that one time like 2 days ago” Tyler mumbled

It was her turn to be surprised “What now?”

Tyler and I exchanged a quick glance, time to forget that.

“Nothing, we were just interested in work and were curious if you needed any help” Tyler said

Applejack scratched her head through her cowboy hat (Weird just saying) “Well I’m not sure, I’d be nice to have some extra workers and all, but I- eh what the hay, I guess you can work for a lil bit helping me buck the red delicious trees”

All I heard was “rabble rabble rabble work rabble rabble rabble”

“So we are hired?” Tyler asked with excitement

“Sure, just help me buck the trees for the day“ Applejack said

When she said buck I almost heard “fuck”. I soon learned what bucking was, bucking was…well when you kick the tree until the apples fall off. It seemed simple enough; Tyler got it in his first couple tries, even though he hit Applejack in the face twice. Pretty soon those two bucked the tree trunks while I flied up above and got the few stubborn apples that managed to hang on.

The work was nothing short of tiring, we worked a full 8 hour shift. Considering we started at 10 we were done by 6, fortunately since we worked on an apple farm she gave us (you guessed it) carrots for lunch. I have no clue where she got the carrots but they were still some pretty good damn carrots.

After earning his carrots Tyler worked even harder, we bucked plenty of trees in this 1 day. That’s why I felt grateful when I earned my bits. 100 bits! 190$ for the date! God dammit would that even be enough?

“Hey Tyler want to flip a coin? If I win I get all your money, if I lose I get all your money” I said

“Deal” I pulled out a bit and flipped it, he called it heads. It was tails. Cool now I had 290 bits for the night!

“Y’all coming tomorrow too?’ Applejack asked

“Yup” We responded

I looked down at my sack of money, I was now 200 its richer.