Girls and I are a lot like two angles that don’t add up to 180 or 90 degrees. The relationship isn’t complementary or supplementary. I’d rather not explain it right now. It’s complicated.

Anyway, with that in mind, let me get on with what happened next. As the two of us walked to the theater, we discussed various topics, when, suddenly, something hit me.

“Wait!” I shouted, stopping suddenly.

“Mark? What is the matter?” Rarity asked, turning around to look at me.

“I just realized I left my backpack at school!”

“Oh, Mark, there is no need to worry so much about it. I’m sure somepony found it and brought it to the lost and found. You can simply stop by and get it after the movie,” Rarity reasoned.

I sat there in silence for nearly a minute and a half, pondering how to respond to that.

I think dating Rarity was starting to get to my head, because I shortly replied with, “Yeah, you’re probably right. I doubt anyone would steal my backpack,” completely disregarding the fact that Levi had probably woken up by now and seen my backpack, deciding to take it. Yeah. Of course it’ll be fine! No one would take it or anything, especially not Levi! Perfect reasoning.

We continued to walk in silence, succeeding only to magnify the moment’s awkwardness.

Finally breaking the silence, Rarity asked me something. “So, how are you doing right now? Is there anything you’d like to discuss?”

I quickly replied. “Well, I’m a bit confused, worried, and stressed out. I feel like an idiot- it has nothing to do with you, of course. I also feel like a socially awkward dork who does nothing but sit in his basement reading creepy fanfiction all day after school, and I feel friendless.”

“What was that?”

“I feel fine, thanks.”

“Alright, then.”

After a few more minutes of awkward silence, we finally reached the movie theater. As we walked in, we looked at the list of movies playing. Upon reading the last one on the list, Rarity tilted her head in curiosity.

“Equestria Girls?” She turned to look at me. “What’s that?”

“Two tickets to Equestria Girls, please,” I said slowly, slamming my money onto the counter.

Giving me a deadpan look, the man slowly took my money and slid two tickets over to me. I smiled weakly and took the tickets. “Thanks.”

“Theatre Two… Enjoy the… movie?” he replied unsurely.

The whole time, Rarity had been bouncing up and down excitedly.

“Uh, Rarity? Are you alright?”

Suddenly, Rarity snapped out of it. “Oh, um, of course, I’m just fine…” she answered, blushing. I grinned back at her.

“You know, I could have easily just gotten tickets to a completely different movie, and you wouldn’t have noticed…” I mumbled to myself.

“What was that?” Rarity asked.

“Oh, um…” I blushed.

Rarity giggled at the sight of me blushing. She briskly pecked me on the lips.

“What the-!” shouted the man behind the counter.

I only blushed harder at the kiss. “It-it’s nothing, Rarity. Don’t worry about it. Let’s just go in.”

“Of course, that’s probably a good idea,” Rarity said, nodding her head in agreement.

I smiled. “Ladies first,” I said, turn sideways to allow her to pass by me.

“Why, thank you, Mark!” Rarity laughed slightly as she said that, which was extremely adorable. She trotted in front of me. Once she was in front of me, I followed her into the snack bar.

While waiting in line, I asked Rarity what she wanted.

“Oh, well…” Rarity took a few seconds to look at the display above the counter. “Just a small popcorn and a small soda would be fine, thank you.”

“Alright, that should be fine…” I reached into my back pocket to get my wallet, only to find nothing. “Oh, no…”

“What’s wrong?” Rarity asked.

“My wallet was in my backpack,” I informed her, worried.

“Oh, that is a problem…” Rarity went into deep thought.

“And I spent all of my pocket money on the tickets…”

“Wait, how did you pay for the tickets if you left your wallet in your backpack?” Rarity asked, completely oblivious to what I had just said.

“I used my pocket cash for the tickets…” I restated.

“Oh, of course. How silly of me!” Rarity giggled. I grinned at her. I remembered the problem at hand, and the smile vanished.

“Do you care if we don’t get anything to eat or drink during the movie?” I asked Rarity.

“Well, my throat is rather dry, but I don’t want to-”

“Alright, so I’m gonna have to wing it.” I immediately looked at the water fountain I knew was right next to the snack bar. I picked up Rarity by the waist and ran over to the fountain.

Rarity screamed out of shock. “Mark! What in the world are you doing?! Put me down!”

The crowd of people by the snack bar all turned to look at us, and the entire room broke into a panic.

“What is that guy doing?!”

“Is that a unicorn?!”

“OMIGOSH OMIGOSH OMIGOSH OMIGOSH It’s Rarity from MLP! How did that happen?!”

“Where’s my camera?”

“Dang it, Jobs! Why is it so difficult to get to the dang camera on this thing?!”

Rarity was still losing her mind as I sprinted over to the fountain. When I got there, I set her down and pushed the bar, allowing the water to flow. Rarity blushed. “Was this what that was about? Well, thank you, I suppose, but you didn’t have to-”

“You said you were thirsty, and there’s a water fountain right here, so I brought you over here for a drink.”

Rarity scowled slightly at the interruption. This was the second time I had cut her off, and she was beginning to get sick of it, though I was unaware of it at the time.

Irritated, Rarity took a drink from the fountain to shut me up. By now, everyone had stopped looking and returned to their snack-buying business. When Rarity was done, I took her hoof and escorted her to Theatre Two where the movie was.

“I’m fairly excited to see what happened to Twilight after she-”

“I know, I haven’t seen it, either, so this should be a fun experience for both of-”

“-after she went through that portal,” Rarity continued her statement, countering my interruption.

“-us,” I finished, having been awkwardly cut off by Rarity. “Rarity, don’t interrupt people like that, it’s rude.”

Rarity gave an exasperated sigh. “What’s wrong, Rarity?” I asked, completely clueless.

Rarity deadpanned. “What’s wrong? What’s wrong?! Oh, I’ll tell you what’s wrong! You can’t go five minutes without cutting me off! It’s getting rather annoying, and I’m sick of it!”

I blushed sheepishly. “Oh, have I been interrupting you? I didn’t mean-”

“Yes, you have been interrupting me continuously, and I’m sick of it!” Rarity exclaimed.

“I didn’t mean to interrupt you so many-”

“I mean, honestly, how annoying can you be?!”

“Um, Rari-”

“Not only are you constantly interrupting somepony, which is bad to begin with, but doing it to your fillyfriend?!”

“Rarit-”

“That’s simply ridiculous! I mean, seriously, your fillyfrie-”

“Rarity!” Rarity froze, realizing she had been interrupting me all of this time.

“Y-yes?” she stuttered.

“You’re doing it now,” I reminded her.

Rarity smiled sheepishly. “Yes, of course, I should have realized that sooner. I apologize for that. Can you forgive me?” Rarity pleaded.

I simply smiled at her. I held out my arms. “Come here!” Rarity smiled and leaned forward for a hug. She wrapped her hooves around me, and I did the same with my arms. The hug lasted for nearly a minute before we backed away from each other.

“I could never stay mad at you, Rarity,” I finally said.

“So, shall we go into the thea-”

“Let’s go into the theatre now,” I interrupted.

Author's Note

Is it weird that I prefer the British spelling of 'theater' even though I'm American?