Looking for Love (part1): Discovery

Looking for Love (part1): Discovery

By Dilectus Noctis

Chapter 1

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic franchise, hasbro does.

The door slammed open, and with a wail of sorrow the white mare flung herself onto her red sofa. Bawling like a newborn, she failed to notice her cat enter the room.

As the cat approached, she got swept up by Rarity and proceeded to get soaked with the mare's tears.

“Oh Opal, what is wrong with me?" cried Rarity "I am The.Most.Unlucky.Mare in all of Equestria.” Rarity blinked some of the tears from her eyes and came closer to her pet “Oh dear Opal am I an ugly pony?”

Opalescence faced Rarity with a look of disbelief and pity while she tried to wiggle out of the wet clutch of her owner.

“But there must be something that wrong with me! Why is it that every stallion that is interested in me turns out to be stubborn and selfish mule?” Rarity looked to the side with the corner of her eye and left out a deep sigh “Or as this last one that even don’t like mares at all…”

Opal had already slipped out of Rarity’s grasp and now tried to dry herself off on one of the rolls of cloth on the ground, no longer paying attention to her owner’s complaints.

“Thank you very much Opal.” the unicorn said sarcastically.

Rarity went upstairs to her bedroom and lay herself down in the bed. Sobbing into her pillow, she cried until sleep finally took her from that cruel day.

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The sun’s first rays of light illuminated the fashionista’s bedroom, bathing it in a warm golden light.

“ungh… sun go out… ow it’s already morning?” Rarity mumbled groggily.

She sat up in her bed, with a vaguely sad expression in her face  as she stared into nothing. She hadn’t had a good night of sleep in the previous night and her mane was in the sort of mess that more resembles a bird’s nest than a hairstyle, but for once she didn’t care at all.

As the unicorn’s mind returned to her thoughts the previous night, she began feel her sadness setting in again. She couldn’t understand why she had never found a stallion that really cared about her, instead of just her appearance. ‘Maybe that’s the reason…’ she thought ‘I am just beautiful and those stallions are too idiotic to see that i actually have a personality too’.

Rarity shook her head several times “No Rarity, don’t lose your head because of stallions again. Let’s think through this rationally. Maybe you are searching in the wrong places…”.

She put her hooves to her face “Who am I fooling? I’ll never find a stallion that REALLY loves me… maybe it’s not a stallion that I should be looking for... Oh look at yourself Rarity, now you are even considering being a filly-fooler…”

Before she could follow that train of through any further, it got derailed by a knock at the door downstairs.

“Who could it be at such an awful hour? Urgh, right now I don’t feel like talking to anypony. Maybe whoever it is will leave if I don’t answer…”

But her hopes of solitude proved to be wrong as another series of insistent knocks could be heard from the door. She opened her bedroom window and yelled to whoever was down there: “I am coming I am coming, just give me a minute”

The white mare slowly made her way to the door at pace that would have made Granny Smith seem like a track star.

Once she arrived at the door she adjusted her mane just it didn’t look too hideous to whomever was  at her door. Rarity opened it to find a lavender unicorn with a super happy grin in her face.

“Good morning Rarity!” Twilight Sparkle almost sang.

“Uh,  good morning dear Twilight…I’m sorry but what exactly brings you this early in the morning?” Rarity said trying not to be too annoyed at her friend.

“Sorry for that heh… but tonight's the night all of us scheduled a sleepover at my house two months ago.” Twilight then proceeded to pull out her everpresent monthly planner and pointed out the date which was circled in two different color inks and highlighted with a smiley face. “I had so much fun last time with just you and Applejack, so I can’t image the kinds of fun we will have tonight with everypony!” Twilight almost squee’d in delight.

“Oh my, I completely forgot about the sleepover. I’m sorry, it’s just that I had a rough night yesterday and I’m not in the best of my moods right now…” Rarity said with a slight frown.

Suddenly noticing that Rarity was emotionally distressed (never Twilight’s forte), Twilight immediately tried to talk to Rarity about it “What’s bothering you? Is there anything I can do?”

“Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing that I can’t solve out by myself. I seem to have had enough practice at it.” The white unicorn said avoiding her friend’s eyes. “I know we arranged this a while ago, but i just got a big order in. Hoity Toity wants 42 dresses ready for his next show in two weeks. Depending on how far i get today, I will let you know if I’m going”.

“Ok, please let me know if you can come” said a slightly disappointed lavender mare “I’m going home to clean up everything ready for tonight. So when you decide about going, please swing by to let me know okay?”

“I will Twilight”

“I’ll be waiting then… bye!” Twilight said shaking a hoof in goodbye.

“Goodbye…”

Rarity closed the door and sighed.

“Well… let’s get to work Rarity… Sweetie Belle is traveling in this week so use the time that you have”

She went upstairs to the bathroom and took a hot bath. Once she was cleaned up and styled, she went to the kitchen, drank a cup of tea and read the newspaper. Once she had finished her morning routine, she washed the dishes and headed over to her workroom.

Taking her materials out of storage, Rarity focusing on her order to try to distract her mind from her worries. It worked for a short time but the subject returned several times.

“I think that I should really attend to that sleepover tonight. Maybe it will help me forget all this mess…”

Once she made the decision, she put down the dress she was working on, and locked up the Boutique. Just getting out into the sun seemed to help lift her spirits as she walked to the Ponyville library.

When she arrived, she noticed that the door was open. She entered and was greeted by seeing her friend weaving between piles and piles of books. The lavender unicorn was apparently suctin all of the shelves and then reorganizing the books back onto them.

After a couple minutes, Twilight noticed her friend’s presence and greeted her happily: “Hello Rarity!”

“Hello Twilight… looks like you’re getting everything cleaned up, should I come back later?“

“No, don’t worry, I am just using the sleepover tonight as an excuse to get everything reshelved and organized into the new royal organization system...” Twilight then proceeded to ramble on for a bit on the benefits of the new double decimal book organization system.

Now knowing more about organizing books than she ever cared for, Rarity gently cut her off “Well, I actually came here to let you know that I will be able to attend the sleepover tonight” Rarity said with a smile.

Twilight seemed to suddenly get excited all over again “That’s great! I have a surprise for all of us tonight. I had brought a special item shipped here from Canterlot last month but I haven’t yet had the opportunity to share it with you all” Twilight said with a sly smile.

“I can’t wait to see what it is” Rarity said. The fact that it was from Canterlot piqued her interest. “I’ll leave you to your work then, I will go work on my order some more, and then I will swing by later for the sleepover”

“Okay, sounds good. Everyone else is coming at around six tonight. Does that work for you?”

“Sure. I’ll be here at six o’clock” Rarity turned to the door and waved a hoof in farewell “Bye Twilight”

“Bye bye! Oh and don’t worry about bringing anything okay? I have everything that we’ll need tonight” Twilight said while getting back to her work.

“Okay then. See you tonight”

“See you”

The white unicorn left the Library and headed back home. As the day went on, Rarity kept wondering what kind of surprise Twilight had for her and their friends.