Saturday passed fast. The rainy, wet day seemed to slip by in only a few hours, and suddenly it was Sunday - cloudy, cool, and time for their picnic.

Sometime around noon the group gathered together in a loose knot on an outstretched blanket with a food basket nearby. Everyone took their seats: Pinkie sat next to Twilight and Rainbow, Rainbow sat next to Fluttershy, Fluttershy sat next to Rarity, Rarity sat next to Applejack, and Applejack sat next to Twilight. Somepony started passing out food until they all had something to munch on.

Small talk bubbled up, but Fluttershy and Rainbow felt removed. They were waiting, and dreading, the upcoming. Any minute now....

"So, Twilight," Applejack was saying, "What have you been up to this week?"

"Oh, you know, studying mostly. Had a bit of a turn with a little something, but I got it resolved in the end." Her eyes flickered over to Rainbow and Fluttershy.

Fluttershy opened her mouth to maybe say something, but Rarity cut her off, "Oh, I hope it wasn't anything too serious."

"Oh, uh, nothing really."

"Well, okay. Did I tell you what Opal did this week? She threw up all over my brand-new one-of-a-kind silk shawl that was a gift Fancy Pants mailed me just this week. It was awful! The pains of removing cat vomit from fine cloth-uh! I could write a book."

The conversation rambled on, until a lull came up. Everyone was quiet for a second. Rainbow knew it was the right time. It was perfect. She swallowed and her stomach plunged down out of her body in a panic. She could feel the sour words form on the back of her tongue, and for a second she thought she might throw up instead of talking.

"S-so," she choked out, "Me and Fluttershy have some news."

"What's that?" Applejack asked.

"We, uh," she turned to Fluttershy, who was trying to hide behind her own mane. Her foreleg fell over on to hers near the hoof. "Well... we're dating."

"Dating who?" Rarity asked.

Really? Really? Was it not enough to just say- "We're dating each other. We're... we're dating each other." That was all that would come out.

Fluttershy could feel the change in the air instantly. It went frigid and strained, and when Applejack stood up, Fluttershy was already cowering below.

"You sure?" It was cold and didn't seem to belong to the warm farmer from whose mouth it issued.

Rainbow tried to make light of it. "Well, yeah, I think I'd kind of know something like that."

"Good. Fine. You two can just do that and sit here and be gross together, but don't you come around me anymore. I don't want to have anything to do with this, this mockery of affection. If I see you on my farm I'll run you out, and if you put ONE HOOF on Apple Bloom you won't make it out of the hospital in one piece, ya' hear?"

Everypony sat shocked, and Fluttershy cried silently into her hooves.

"Good. I'm leaving."

"But Applejack!" Rarity was the first to find her voice. "How can you jus-"

"Just what Rarity? Just realize that this is wrong? Because it is! It's taking somethin' sacred and pure, love, and corruptin' it into a twisted-"

"No it's not!" Rarity was on her hooves, a fire in her eyes and tears licking her face. She swept over to Rainbow, who was hunched over between getting up and attacking AJ and staying close to Fluttershy so she could protect her, and curled a foreleg around her. "Applejack, if I know anything it's that love knows no bounds. If-"

"Then ya don't know anything! You don't, RARITY. This is wrong and unnatural and disgusting and all of y'all should be ashamed of your selves." Before Rarity could say another word, Applejack turned abruptly around and started walking in the opposite direction. They could just hear her mutter under her breath, "Fagots coming into my life, try to...."

Fluttershy burrowed her face lower down in a feeble attempt to hide her sobbing. Rainbow, with slow-moving tears leaking down her face, put a wing over Fluttershy and joined her head on the ground.

"It's okay, 'Shy," She whispered in a cracking voice that jumped roughly up and down in volume, full of rage and melancholy, "I promise. It'll be alright, it will."

Fluttershy pulled her head up with visible effort, her nose still pointed at the dirt, and choked out, between gasps of misery, "I - hhh - I'm not... b-broken, but - hhh - I just need to c-cry... right now." She slumped back down, thick, hot swells of liquid pouring out between her eyelids into the grass. Rainbow, crying with her, slumped down by her side and pressed her head against Fluttershy's wet cheek. Rarity cried as well, but her tears trailed down silently and bitterly. Together they wept while Twilight and Pinkie watched helplessly.

Eventually they managed to pull themselves together. They straightened up with puffy red eyes, looking around at their friends. Rarity was standing just behind them, her own eyes red at this point, and the first thing they did was hug her together.

"It's okay, girls," Rarity said, hugging them back, "We'll get through this."

Then Pinkie and Twilight joined in and they hugged there for a while.

The air in Sugar Cube corner was light and sweet. The group sat around a table, nibbling rather numbly on chocolate-chip cookies. Fluttershy and Rainbow sat together with their wings over each other. Fluttershy was trying not to cry again, but Rainbow was getting mad. Rage was building up to her throat, and once it burned out onto her tongue there would be nowhere for it to burst except into Appljack's face.

How can she, Rainbow thought, just - just do that? Have I ever been anything except a friend to her? No! Have I ever done anything to hurt her? NO! She's just stupid and narrow minded and a good punch would fix that, I fucking know it.

Everypony tried to console the two as Rainbow brooded and Fluttershy stared at the table. But it was hard, even for Pinkie, to be any kind of happy right now.

"I was afraid of this," Twilight said, "but I can't say I was prepared for it. Maybe I can look back through my books..."

"Twilight, It's going take a bit more than books." Rarity said.

Pinkie had a look on her face, and finally she said, "Guys, can we please deal with Applejack being a jerk later? I wanna celebrate!"

"Pinkie," Twilight rounded on her, "this is not time to--" Pinkie grabbed Twilight by the ear and dragged her away, "Pinkie what are you doing?"

When Pinkie had her away from the group of confused friends behind, she whispered, "Twilight, trust me." She looked uncharacteristically serious; her blue eyes bore hard into Twilight. "They need this. What Applejack said was horrible, and we definitely need to talk to her, but we can't right now. Just look at Rainbow, if we get her anywhere near AJ we'll have maybe two seconds before they kill each other."

Twilight glanced over at Rainbow Dash, and sure enough she was steamed, grinding her hooves and teeth together in a way that was painful to watch. "Well-"

"And Fluttershy just lost a friend, like not in an almost okay way of just not talking forever until you drift apart naturally, she lost a friend by having that friend scream at her for being herself! No matter how brave she tries to be and how much Rainbow tries to comfort her, I know it's eating her up inside. If we don't do something to show her we all are one hundred thousand million percent in support of who she is, she'll drive herself mad with worry!"

"That... that actually makes sense, Pinkie Pie," Twilight said, mulling through everything Pinkie said.

They rejoined their group at the table, and Pinkie quickly whispered what she had told Twilight to Rarity.

"So guys," Pinkie said, immediately turning back to Fluttershy and Rainbow, "You have to tell us your story. Who kissed who first? Have you cuddled, like proper under-the-covers cuddled yet? What was your first date? Do you have pet names yet? Who's really the big spoon? OH, OH, OH!" She leaped forward and pushed her face right up next to them, just barely still in her seat, giving them bedroom eyes, "Have you, you know... said 'I love you' to each other yet?"

"Pinkie!" Rainbow said, snapping out of her angry, self-righteous inner monologue and pushing Pinkie back into her seat. "Some of that's privet you know."

"I- I've been big spoon a couple times," Fluttershy whispered with a small smile. "Rainbow likes to let me nibble her ear when I am."

"Fluttershy! Don't tell them that!" Rainbow said, blushing profusely and shrinking down in her seat. Everpony giggled, except her. It was a good kind of giggle, not demeaning but uplifting.

"Okay, okay," Rarity said, calming down. "We don't have to hear everything, dears, but do at least tell us how it all started."

"Fluttershy seems to want to talk," Rainbow said irritably.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Fluttershy said, turning to her, "I shouldn't have said that. Kiss?"

"Yeah, I guess it's okay." Rainbow sat back up in her seat, "Kiss."

Everypony watched with different faces as Rainbow and Fluttershy kissed each other real quick on the lips. Rarity with a smile, Twilight with only with a hint of a grimace, and Pinkie Pie with a huge, goofy grin, rubbing her hooves together in an almost fan-girly way.

"Hey," Rainbow said as she pulled away, "this is our first public kiss."

"Oh yeah," Fluttershy said, "It is."

They smiled at each other, and after a moment began their tale.

Rainbow Dash started, "So, um, Fluttershy and me have been best friends since we were, like, I dunno, five? And a while ago me and Fluttershy well actually Fluttershy wanted to tice on kissing so you know we did and you know our dates soarin and big Mac? well they kinda well um liked each other so I kinda started crushing on her.

"When I ask her out, she was totally fine with it and said yes. Then we dated for a while, kinda without you knowing..." Rainbow said this a little sheepishly, "Because Fluttershy was afraid that you guys might react like, like Applejack did."

There was a dark lull in the air before Fluttershy cut back in, "Rainbow, we wereboth scared."

"Well, yeah, but you were the one who kept putting it off."

Fluttershy let this slide, but she gave the others a look that said this was not the whole truth.

"And then we went to Clouds Dale yesterday and told my parents and Fluttershy's mom. Then that night Twilight caught us making out-" Twilight blushed and looked away briefly, "-and we resolved to come out the next day. And today AJ happened." She left it at that.

Pinkie said, "Come on guys, what about my questions? That hardly answers anything! Have you two tongue wrestled yet? Said 'I love you'? Have you said it yet?"

Rainbow looked at Fluttershy and let herself be swept up in a hug. "Yes," Fluttershy said, "we have. It was very special, and the moment was absolutely perfect."

"OOOOOO, you're so cute together!" Pinkie was absolutely beaming.

"Um, thanks I guess." Rainbow said, with a smile, as she and Fluttershy stopped hugging.

Twilight spoke up, "How, um, did you know you were, you know, gay?" Rarity gave Twilight a look. "I mean, does it feel different? Is it like, uh...," she petered out.

Rainbow spoke, a bit of a blush playing at the corners of her face, "It's just like liking stallions, really. Except with mares. I mean, it's not like colts are gross, it's just kind of not finding them hot like everypony says they are. And, uh, I knew I guess since I was around fourteen. But not for sure. It was just kinda noticing all the mares around me were really hot, but I never did anything about it. Until I started crushing on Shy, that is."

"A-and it's scary," Fluttershy said now, "Because you know you're not normal and you're constantly scared of how ponies will react." She shuddered when she thought of Applejack. "It's awful when... when it goes bad."

Twilight just nodded. An awkward film settled over the air. Rarity broke it up, "We should go out to the cinema or some such, to celebrate this new found relationship."

"But what about AJ? Shouldn't we-" Fluttershy was cut short by Twilight.

"We can talk to her tomorrow. Maybe it'll help if we let her have some time to get used to all this." But they all knew it wouldn't.

"Maybe," Rainbow said, "It'll help to give a good bu-"

"I HEAR there's a good showing in an hour or so," Rarity cut in.

Much later they were all walking away from the theater, heading home. It hadn't been much of a surprise when Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash shared a kiss, but it had been a surprise when Pinkie Pie had, more than once, stuck her forelegs through the seats behind them and pushed them together, whispering, "Okaythisisagoodtimetokissdoit!"

Rainbow walked Fluttershy home, after saying goodbye to all their other friends.

"That was fun," Fluttershy said, watching the sun set in the distance.

"Yeah, it wasn't bad. Pinkie sure can be annoying though."

So I waaaas wondering I think that I should make some chapters for that story called
A Color Divided yas or nah should I make more chapters for it?