Fundraisers at the Pet Center always came bundled with all kinds of emotions for Fluttershy. She knew all her little animal friends needed homes, but she couldn’t deny she was also a bit sad to see them go. Thankfully, Pinkie Pie was there to help.

Twilight wasn't one to sit alone in bars and stare at an empty glass. On the one rare occasion she found herself in that position, however, she thought to herself that though breaking up with somepony hurt, it was far worse when it didn't hurt at all

Twilight Sparkle is not a princess. Rarity loves her anyway.

An initiative is made in Ponyville inviting ponies to write their autobiographies, but Rarity simply doesn't have the time to write one. Or she thought she didn't, until Twilight insisted on it, and... how could she say no to her adorable marefriend?

When five foals asked Princess Twilight Sparkle to please try and paint the moon purple, she only agreed because she thought she couldn't do it. She wished she had been right.

How can you return the affections of whom you love knowing it will break your best friend's heart?

After Rarity finds Twilight's fake crown, Twilight realises that decorating the Hearth's Warming Eve tree is a rather difficult task when Rarity is too busy pretending she's a princess to do any decorating.

Days before Twilight's birthday party in Canterlot Castle, Rarity resigned herself to the dawning judgment day of the single most harrowing challenge of her life: finding the perfect present. It couldn't be all that difficult, could it?

Twilight wasn't really one to get overly-emotional about songs. Rarity, on the other hoof, was an entirely different story.

Rarity liked the tale of The Four Princesses as a filly, even if she knew it wasn't real. Princesses fighting against a spirit of chaos? A library under a tree? Please. But then she grew up and found out some bedtimes stories were quite real.

If Twilight had learned something from her relationship with Rarity, it was that even if she was hopelessly in love with the other unicorn, she wanted Rarity to fulfill her dreams -- even if it meant sacrificing their relationship.

After a recently thwarted assassination attempt against Rarity, Twilight and Rarity discuss the soldier's uncertain future as the queen's private bodyguard.

There comes a time where every princess must chose her lifelong bodyguard. Princess Rarity finds the entire process dreadfully boring... At least until she notices a cute soldier who simply can't put her book down.

Queen Rarity constantly rejected the advances of other noble ponies - after all, her bodyguard Twilight was already her secret special somepony. Unfortunately for them both, Sweetie Belle is intent on finding out who is her sister's secret crush

For Twilight, the increased lifespan that came with princesshood had forced her to outlive her friends, but thanks to Rarity, she will learn that centuries could be lived in but a single day.