Home was you

"They've always been inseparable."

Everyone at Canterlot High knows Applejack and Rainbow Dash as the duo that comes as a package deal. They've been best friends since they were kids-always arguing, always laughing, always finding their way back to each other. To everyone else, it's just who they are.

Then Soarin transfers to CHS.

As the newest member of the soccer team, she quickly becomes friends with Rainbow Dash, giving her a front-row seat to a friendship no one else seems to question. The lingering glances. The instinctive touches. The quiet understanding. The way one always reaches for the other without thinking.

The others don't notice.

They've grown up with it.

But Soarin has fresh eyes.

And the more she watches, the more one question refuses to leave her alone:

"Do best friends really act like that?"

Sometimes, it takes a stranger to see what everyone else has missed-including the two people living it.

A slow-burn AppleDash story filled with friendship, soccer, jealousy, fluff, angst, late-night conversations, misunderstandings, and two hopeless idiots who don't realize they're already halfway in love.