Story time:This one takes place before Constance had admitted things to AJ.He worked with a travelling carpenter group that was repairing the town hall at the time. They were in Ponyville for a month before they moved onto wherever the next job would take them. Which meant Constance would be leaving Ponyville, and he would have to go with them to keep the job.But with Constance being maladapted to society outside of what he knows from home, and what little he knows of the world in Ponyville, he's scared senseless of leaving out further.There's only one thing that made sense to him in Ponyville, and that was the friendship he had with Applejack. The idea of leaving her behind scared him even more than anything, so he put a lot of thought into what he wanted to do.Seeing that AJ had recently suffered losing her apple stand to michevious thieves, he decided he would secretly deliver supplies to build a new one. He spent the only bits he had earned from the job, and delivered them on a cart to her place. But with Constance being bad at math and calculating risks, he packed the cart out of balance, and that cost him the surprise for AJ when it capsized out of the gate at Sweet Apple Acres. It left him helpless, hanging there until someone found and helped him.Of course, it was Applejack that found him there. Leaving him in a less than dignified and vulnerable position. He had no choice but to admit what he was doing there, and then admit his plans of leaving his job and staying in Ponyville, just so he could still see AJ and be friends with her.He admitted that Applejack was the only one that made sense to him in the crazy world he's come to find himself in, and that he was terrified of leaving her behind because he may not find others like her. Applejack being a good friend understood his concern, and was grateful for him thinking of her in a time of need.She gave him a job to work with her at Sweet Apple Acres and a place to stay on the barn, but only until he could find something else to take the place. He accepted the offer, looking for a new job in Ponyville briefly afterwards.But as they worked together, they slowly found themselves drifting towards each other, and finding something in each other that's a bit deeper than a friendship._____________Art done byStory by me