chapter 33

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"Let's go AJ!" Rarity told the danced-out girl, as she mindlessly followed her friend to the group. As they were passing through the centre of the room, travelling from one side to another. Applejack felt a hand grab her arm, assuming it was Rarity, she just kept moving forward, until the hand stayed strong and held her back. She turned around with blurred vision to meet the eyes of a spectrum-haired girl. 

"Hey there Dash," She said drunkenly leaning forward and then back as if testing the bounds of her balance at the time. Rainbow's eyes widened, "AJ are you...drunk?" 

"Hell yeah sugarcube. I see why you like this." She replied, continuing to sway and unable to maintain consistent eye contact with her brain all foggy. Dash gaped at the girl, and started shaking her head at her, "No AJ, alcohol's bad, you said so yourself."

"Well, maybe meself was wrong." Applejack misspoke, clearly not thinking properly. Rarity noticed AJ's hold-up and came back to the two girls, about to offer for Dash to join them when a small sneeze escaped her body and announced her presence instead. 

'Achoo'

"Oh hey Rare...are you drunk too?" Rainbow questioned, tilting her head down to try and look her in the eyes for the same disorientated symptoms as AJ. 

"No I'm cold darling, that's why people sneeze! Didn't you know that?" Rarity replied with an elongated vowel on 'cold,' missing the questions specificity. Dash rolled her eyes and observed Rarity was rubbing her arms with her hands and without a second thought taking off the shirt she layered over the top of her tank top and passing it to the girl, providing some form of coverage. 'Wow if this is what I'm like when I am drunk, I'm never drinking again. Not a lot of brain cell activity going on here.' Dash thought as she watched Rarity nod thankfully and pull the shirt over her instantly. 

"Are you guys going to go join spin the bottle...?" Rainbow then asked with slight hurt in her voice as she prepared herself for the worst. 

"Yes darling! Come join us!" Rarity replied, tugging on the rim of the girl's dark tank top. 

"I don't think its the best ide-" Dash began to reply before Rarity cut in. 

"We're going to go play then! Bye bye!" She ended abruptly, Rainbow narrowing her eyes at the girl pondering how she couldn't be that drunk if she knew what Dash was trying to prevent. Unable to stop anything from happening and not wanting to cause a scene, she frowned at Applejack as she was dragged away by the girl, thinking of all the possible terrible scenarios that could happen if AJ were to kiss someone else, again.  

"Wait what's happening." AJ tried to ask Rarity as she was pulled in a new direction and away from Rainbow who was making their way back to the corner to lean against the wall with Fluttershy, resuming their people watching. 

"A game darling! A fun game!" Rarity replied, a circle forming around a bottle that had appeared, that who had called the game unidentifiable among the crowd. Those in the crowd were made up of those reckless enough to play, the athletes, some members of other instrument bands and some pairs of friends, including AJ and Rarity. 

"Who's going to spin first?" Someone questioned, initiating the beginning of the game readily. Many of the people sitting in the circle also brought drinks with them, insinuating they were also as drunk as the two girls. 

"Me me me!" A familiar voice called. A pink-toned girl leaned forward and spun the olive green-tinted bottle, Rarity's gaze following the hand to see her friend Pinkie sitting opposite them with a half-empty beer in her hand. 

"Pinkie darling I didn't see you there!" Rarity called to her, giving a sluggish wave, to which Pinkie mirrored as the bottle slowly came to a stop pointing at a girl next to Applejack. Pinkie shrugged and crawled over to her who was sitting anticipatingly, her skin light yellow with a brown mullet of curled hair. Everyone began to cheer the two on as Pinkie grew closer, awaiting the kiss. Keeping it short, Pinkie leaned into the girl who reciprocated, resting a hand on the girl's face and pushing into the kiss, tilting her head slightly to get a better angle. Upon their contact the cheering got louder with a whistle being heard from one side of the circle. Pinkie pulled away first yet the girl was close enough that Applejack could smell the alcohol on her breath as she retreated to her spot, leaving the willing victim next to AJ flustered and giggling with their friends next to them. 

"Your turn Applejack!" Pinkie squealed, notably going in order of the circle from the person next to the one she kissed. AJ still not aware of what was going on, unused to this feeling, just copied what Pinkie was doing, the consequences still unplayed in her mind. As she watched the bottle spin in its place she slumped her head down every now and then, feeling a tiredness settle upon her, but forcing herself to stay sentient for the bottle's result. It eventually began to slow and seemed as if it was going to be pointing towards one of the athletes, yet just as it was about to stop, a green glow faintly erupted around the head of the spinner and twisted it to face Rarity somewhat enchanted. AJ's eyes followed the direction and looked at the girl next to her, realisation not settling in yet. Once again the people in the circle egged them on, potentially also surprised at the double girl-on-girl spin. With pressure slammed at the back of AJ's head with her unable to hear herself think she leaned towards the girl and asked, 'What are we doing.'

"Applejack we have to kiss." Rarity replied. 

Applejack's brain flooded with sudden sensitivity to the sound around her, she was not comprehending who replied to her, ears function suddenly depleting. She tried to focus her eyes to see who she was next to as faint words of 'kiss,' from the surrounding people were the only vibrations picked up by her auditory nerve. Trying her best to focus her eyes, she looked at the girl she believed the crowd was pressuring her to meet lips with. Eyes drawing from bottom to top, she could take in the blue shirt of a person, the dots slowly connecting in her mind. 'That's Rainbow's shirt. Do I have to kiss Rainbow?' 

As seconds passed felt like minutes, she didn't want more attention on her than there already was. Not thinking about who was watching or what was happening, she leaned into who she thought was Rainbow and pressed a kiss on their lips softly to begin with. But unplanningly, the girl seemed hungry for more, placing a hand at the nape of Applejacks next and deepening the kiss. AJ who had shown a lot of affection to Rainbow recently was surprised at her sudden okay with kissing in front of everyone, but she wouldn't turn down an opportunity to kiss the girl she liked. She pressed back, placed her hand under the girl's waist and leaned forward more, slightly above the girl, causing Rarity to tilt her head upwards in the kiss. The circle's misplaced celebration grew louder as if wanting them to continue. With Rarity not breaking the sensation, AJ didn't either, her brain not thinking for itself and letting the other guide it. Their kiss slowly melted into a makeout which some people in the circle reacted with 'woahhohoooo' or another one of the catchall whistles they gave Pinkie. Despite Applejack wanting to continue her contact with Rainbow's lips for some reason them feeling different than past times, blaming her broken alcohol perception, she had to come up for air. Seemingly the feeling was mutual so when the two pulled apart they were breathless and cheeks heated redder than they were before from the alcohol flush. In response to the spicy kiss ending, the viewers clapped for them as if the indecency was something to be rewarded and moved on to the next person to spin. Applejack was shocked by Rainbow's desire to kiss her so passionately, resting her head on the muted blue shirt she identified earlier and letting her eyes close as the sleepiness overwhelmed her. 

"I didn't know if you'd want to do that in front of everyone Rainbow," Applejack said into the girl's ear. Yet to her regrettable shock and harsh realisation, the girl gently pushed AJ off her shoulder to look her in the eyes, forcing her to take notice on her own.  

"Applejack darling, I'm Rarity..."

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