Applejack and Rainbow arrived back a the farm around ten in the evening. The mattress Applejack had purchased was in the barn leaning against a wall just inside the door with a receipt on it and wrapped in cheap plastic that was already breaking from the temperature change between day and night. Applejack looked at it and sighed as Rainbow hovered beside her.

"AJ, did you buy a new mattress for the cellar?"

Applejack started walking into the barn and looked at the mattress as she reached the cellar door. "Eeyup."

She grabbed the rope and tugged it hard, popping it open and walking the door fully ajar before motioning to the new bed.

"Wait, ya want me to carry that thing? What about equal efforts and all that in a relationship?" Applejack frowned slightly at Rainbow Dash. "Okay, AJ. Okay, I've got it." Rainbow flew to the mattress and grabbed one side of it. Heaving heartily she struggled to lift it into the air and fell to the floor with it letting it go just before it landed with a large puff and a loud thump that echoed lightly through the barns interior. "AJ, it's too heavy."

"Now Rainbow Dash, ya know if ya can't fly with it, drag it. Just don't damage it none. I wanna see ya sweat some today and not from what we did on the train ride back or what we're gonna do in a few," Applejack said sternly with a little urgency in her voice. Rainbow groaned and went behind the mattress and began pushing it with all her might making descent progress to the middle of the barns secret door. Flapping her wings for more force she got to her destination with a light pant.

Applejack grabbed it in her mouth and pulled it effortlessly to the short stairwell leading to the cellar then to the kegs of cider that marked the secret entrance to their love room. "You don't have to show off your earth pony strength, AJ. You could at lease make it look tough."

"Where's the fun in that? You're already outta breath pushin' this fifty feet, what're you gonna do later when you're back to cloud bustin'?" Applejack dropped the heavy thing and turned to pull a stack of kegs from the wall showing the entrance. "Now, this' gonna be tough for even me, this' a tight squeeze for us so we gotta fold this in three before we can slide it in, lets get foldin'."

A few minutes of grunting and effort finally managed to get the new mattress stuck in the porthole they used to get in and out. "Push harder Rainbow Dash, it's almost there!"

"I am pushing, pull it inside harder! It's almost there, I can feel it moving, maybe we can turn it a bit in the hole and it'll slide faster."

Big Mac was walking back from a date with Cherilee when he heard the ruckus from the barn. The girls' sexcapades weren't unknown to him and several others, but he wasn't keen to hear about it. "Nope. Nope nope nope." He started to gallop back to the house trying to imagine anything besides what they were doing this time.

With a final push pull the mattress slid into the room and unfolded with a rough thud against the kegs in the room knocking several of them over to the floor. Empty. Applejacks eyes widened as she heard the extremely valuable kegs that were full a while ago clatter on the floor and bounce effortlessly around the cramped cool room.

Rainbow crawled in with a large grin across her muzzle which fell as soon as she saw Applejacks expression. Even the dancing rainbows in the room from the hanging gems that created the light couldn't hide the sorrow in her eyes.

"Rainbow, did you drink these dry?" Applejack asked with her voice almost cracking. Rainbow let her wings fall to her side and her lips moved helplessly, trying to make a word. "Rainbow, these are worth more than we make in an entire season selling cider, each of them," her voice was becoming more confident as she lowered her voice. "I trusted you and you drank 20,000 bits in a month!?" Her shout reverberated through the room and into Rainbows heart.

"AJ, I-uh, maybe. Ah," try as she might she couldn't say anything as she slowly backed toward the porthole, "I love you, I didn't think about the cost, honest! We were having an awesome night, can't we just pretend-"

"Pretend what, Dashing? That you didn't put in your belly, steal, money from my family?"

"I'm sorry," Rainbow began to cower next to the bed as Applejack approached her, "I didn't know how much it costed, I'll pay it back."

"It ain't about the bits, Dash. It's that you stole it and tried to hide it. I'm-I'm so disappointed in you Rainbow Dash. Get out, just go."

"But, AJ. Where?"

"Not here, not right now. I can't..." Applejack turned left and crawled out of the room punching a gem as she left shutting the dancing rainbow cascade of lights off. The sound of Rainbow sniffling in the room quieted as Applejack left the cellar and went back to the house broken hearted and alone.

Things seem sad, however there may be a good chapter coming up soon, check back and see!