“Whoo-whee!” Applejack hollered, sighing as the last box of apples were finally sealed and ready to be delivered. She wiped the sweat off her forehead with the back of her hoof and watched as Caramel bid farewell to Big Mac when the colossal stallion started making his way to the selected destination. She tried not to snicker at the recent memory of how the little stallion’s hooves were quivering as he loaded the last box onto the carrier. However to his credit, Applejack did make a bet that he couldn’t lift less than a quarter of those boxes but he had been the one to show her up lifting around half of them throughout the job.
 
She trotted over the smaller pony and smiled at him, “Not bad partner, out of the 52 we were supposed to package ya’ managed 27! Pretty damn impressive” Caramel looked at her, opening his mouth and closing it repeatedly while his face steadily changed to a soft shade of pink. “Ah-eh- W-why thank y-you…” He suddenly had deep interest with the floor, prodding at playing with the dirt with his hoof. Applejack blinked.
 
“Is something wrong Caramel?” she asked.
 
“Nope!” Damn, he said that way too quickly, he cleared is throat, “I…I mean no. No, of course not.” S*** his legs were quivering again. Whyisshesogoddamnniceandbigandbeautifulandamazingandgorgeousandhavealltheworld’sgoodneesinherheart? It’s not fair!
 
Applejack stared at him weirdly but a sudden idea came to her head. She took off her hat, dusting it off a few times before carefully placing it on the smaller stallion’s head.
 
“Hm?” Caramel seemed confused.
 
“Ah well, you see the thing is you just looked a little sick… ma pa used to wear a hat just like this one and so ah always wear one since it reminds me of him; ah guess you could say ah see it as a good luck charm.” She looked sheepish, rubbing her hoof behind her neck. Caramel gazed at her in some sort of daze, the pink flush still ever present and his legs quivering more than ever before.
 
“Uh, Caramel?” She reached and her hoof briefly touched his skin.
 
It was at that moment…
 
…His legs gave out.
 
“Caramel?!”
 
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Phew! Alright everyone, here’s just a little story I thought about Caramel and Applejack’s relationship. I like to think during Winter Wrap Up Caramel wanted to make it up to Applejack, for his little mistake, by helping around with some of the work and occasional odd jobs around the farm.
 
From there looking at Applejack working hard, being a good friend and being e̶f̶f̶o̶r̶t̶l̶e̶s̶s̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶a̶u̶t̶i̶f̶u̶l̶ nice started a dopey crush in Caramel on the mare. Here is just one example from the many times stuff like this has happened.
 
Also the background of the apple farm is from the MLP wiki, I didn’t draw it but I did draw Applejack and Caramel.