It was a beautiful spring day in Ponyville, too bad a certain unicorn wasn´t looking at it.

"Come on Twiley, take your snout out of that book! That´s no way to spend your only day out with your big brother." Shining Armor said, using his magic to overcome the one of her sister and take the book away.

"Said the brother who drags me all the way to Ponyville to a boring inspection instead of a trip to the Palace Library like he promised." Twilight Sparkle said, pouting.

"I´m sorry but this was a direct order from the Princess, I can´t say no to that. You understand, right Twiley?"

She didn´t said anything and kept pouting.

"COme on, I´ll buy a dandelion sandwich. I know is your favourite."

Still pouting.

"And I´ll take you later to the Golden Oaks Library."

"...I want a hay juice with my sandwich."

*****

In another part of town, two siblings were collecting the afternoon apples.

"Big Bro, can ah buck the trees?"

"Eeeenope."

"Big Bro, can ah pull the cart?"

"Eeeenope."

"Big Bro, can ah use Papa´s hat?"

"Eeeeenope."

Applejack had enough and jumped at her brother's neck. "That´s all yah said! Can´t yah said something else?!"

"Eeeeyup."

"Big Bro!!"

"Listen apple seed..." he said, while putting her back in the ground. "Yah too small for doing all the manual work. Why don't yah better go help Grandma on the kitchen?"

"Don´t wanna! Wanna help yah with the farm, big bro! That´s an apple duty!"

Big Mac smiled at the little proud filly. "Ah have something yah can help with."

"Really?"

And he placed the hat on top of her head. The hat fell to the side, covering her face.

"Yah can keep an eye on this while ah work the trees."

Applejack adjusted the hat the best she could and basically beamed.

****

This was boring. The pink haired mare kept bringing scroll after scroll and despite how much she loved office work this office was such a mess that Twilight just give up trying to fix it. She wanted to go to the library.

"Shining..."

The mare kept throwing so many scrolls that Shining stop using magic and was forced to hold them on his hooves.

"Shining!"

And the scrolls kept coming and coming...

"I´m going to the library. Pick me up there!"

****

Big Mac was finishing loading the last cart while Applejack rested atop the piles of apples. Suddenly a squad of pegasi passed by carrying a cloud storm, one of them, an enthusiastic rainbow maned one, flapping so fast that a gust of terrible wind hit the ground, causing the Stetson to be drag away. Applejack jumped after the fleeting hat.

"And that´s the last one. Time to go home and get dinner. Are yah hungry, Applejack? Applejack?"

****

The librarian mare shook her head. Twilight wasn't there. Once he realized his sister was missing, Shining rushed to the library. It was the obvious guess but Twilight was prone to get distracted and had never visited the town before. There was no way to know which way she took. If only Cadance was here, she could fly over town and...

"´cuse me?"

Shining looked down at the small orange filly who tugged his arm.

"Can yah help me, mister?"

****

Big Mac rushed across the edge of the Everfree, unable to said a word. He usually was a very quiet pony because he wanted to, he prefered to only said what was necessary; but right NOW, when he needed to speak up, he was too scared to actually said something.

Thank Celestia he saw a glimpse of brown hat behind a tree.

"Applejack!"

But the little purple filly wasn't his sister.

"Oh...howdy."

The filly backed down. That happened sometimes, Big Mac keep forgetting he was pretty big for his age. He slowly sit down and smiled at the filly.

"Yah found mah hat. Thank ya."

She slowly got closer. "...I found it near the stream."

"Alone?"

She nodded.

"And,,,yah alone too?"

"I saw a firefly. You don´t see those in Canterlot. I followed it but I got lost." she was almost in the verge of tears. "My big brother will get mad at me."

Big Mac finally got close enough to pet her head. "Don´t worry. Everything will be fine."

She slowly smiled and wiped her tears.

****

In the town square, two stallions that carried two small fillies happened to find in the exact same spot.

"Big MacIntosh!"

"Shining!"

The fillies jumped to hug their brothers. Applejack began to apologize over and over again but Big Mac simply put the hat back on her head and hugged her.

Shining kept looking at Twilight with a stern look but when she looked up again found a big red shiny apple floating in front of her.

"The restaurant is closed." he said and then gently smiled.

Twilight smiled back and held the apple in her hooves. "I like apples too."

****

Later that night, two stallion shook hooves.

"Thanks for looking up after my little sister." Shining Armor said.

"Thank ya for keeping after mine, partner." Big MacIntosh said.

"Well, we better go back to the carriage. Sure you don't want to join the Guard? We can always use a big strong guy like you."

"Thanks but ah have a family to take care of."

"I understand. Come on Twilight, said goodbye to...oh, she´s already asleep." Big Mac looked at his back where Applejack was also snoring with the hat on. "Too bad, I bet these two will be the best of friends."

"Ah think the same."

Shining and Big Mac shared a brohoof and went their separate ways while their sisters smiled on their sleeps.