Author's Note
This is the purest amount of silly fluff. Logic has been suspended for those purposes.
A Pink Solution
Rarity groaned and covered her eyes with her foreleg. She hadn't put on her sleeping mask last night. She fervently wished she'd had a hangover. That way she could blame her fit on alcohol but sadly she now had to blame it on... Oh about half herself and half her cursed life. Frowning she adjusted her mental numbers to be 40/60. It had to, of course, be someone else's fault more than her own. Rarity grinned slightly at herself, she knew what she was doing. But she'd still do it, it made her feel better.
Rarity was about to head off to get ice cream to drown her sorrows but noticed a small table set up with a vase of roses. She frowned but walked over to the table, picking up the card. "For the most beautiful mare." Rarity couldn't stop herself from smelling the arrangement. It was a most beautiful arrangement of red and white roses together. A small smile crept over her face before she realized what exactly she was interacting with.
"What!?" She stared around the flowers and looked around as if expecting to be able to demand an answer from someone nearby. She had been dumped last night, why did she have flowers now!? And why were they in her room!? She let out an annoyed growl. "Someone is teasing me... Sweetie... No." Rarity's next smile was genuine. "No, she's too sweet for that. Hm... Too mean for Dash..." As Rarity continued to think, the door to her room opened and Pinkie Pie walked in. "You...!?" Rarity was at a complete loss for words as she put together that it was her happiest friend who thought it would be fun to mock her heartbreak!
Her loss for words turned into outright befuddlement as Pinkie Pie walked up to her and leaned up, kissing her on the cheek. Pinkie Pie broke the silence, not Rarity. "I'm sorry I took so long to notice your feelings, Rarity." As Rarity continued to stare, Pinkie Pie took the moment to adjust the roses. "I hope you like the roses. Rose Luck said that this would look best."
Rarity's upper brain functions still weren't working properly, so she answered the question she could comprehend. "I... Yes... Thank you, darling." Rarity was still reeling from the combination of, for a moment, thinking Pinkie Pie was teasing her. Then the far more astonishing part, that it wasn't teasing.
Pinkie Pie grinned as she walked over to Rarity's bed and reaching up into her mane, pulling out a pink pillow, nestling it next to Rarity's pillows. "There. Now I'll have a pillow tonight." Motioning her hoof to the throw pillows on the bed. "Because these are those types of pillows you don't actually use right?"
"T-Tonight darling?" Rarity's brain was still churning away, trying to process the series of events that had brought her to this point.
Pinkie Pie smiled and nodded. "Oh, I'm sorry did you not want to move in together yet?" She walked over and gently nuzzled into Rarity's neck. "I thought you'd like to get back on pace with a quick engagement. Like you were saying you were getting last night."
"I.. Last night... Engagement...?"Rarity took a few moments but then slowly nodded. She had, foolishly, told everyone that her most recent relationship was about to become an engagement. But then it had ended last night.
"Yes. You said your stallion friend was going to ask you, but didn't? And you said that you were done with stallions."
Rarity blinked slowly but nodded, she had indeed said that. She hadn't really been serious... Or maybe she had been.
"And then you said that if I hadn't let you go you'd never have had this problem." Pinkie Pie smiled as she pressed up against Rarity's side. "I'm really sorry about that, Rarity. I never noticed you liked me that way. Or mares in general for that matter."
Rarity simply stared as her brain finally processed the events happening around her. "I... Pinkie... You... Have feelings for... Me...?" She also hadn't ever picked up on that. Though the entire town knew Pinkie Pie went both ways.
"I love all my friends!" Pinkie Hummed happily as she produced a cupcake from her mane and left it in front of Rarity. "But you're the only one who needs my 'luv.'" Giggling Pinkie Pie trotted over to the door and smiled. "Do you want me to bring my stuff over today or do you need time to make room?"
Rarity was still agape. Despite now understanding the situation it was still so... So Pinkie Pie logic... "D-Darling... You're... Moving in?"
Pinkie Pie nodded like it was the most logical situation. "Mhmm! I'll send to mother for the family engagement necklace. You'll love it! It's so pretty!"
Rarity twitched slightly as Pinkie Pie just continued. "But... Pinkie Pie... We just... If... I-If we are a couple... We can't jump to engagement."
Pinkie hopped back over, pressing her nose against Rarity's. "But we aren't just on our first day silly! We've been together nine years, we just didn't know it!"
Rarity couldn't believe that actually made sense to her. "And... You want to be... With me...?" After Rarity's many, many failed relationships, that seemed to be a novel idea.
"Of course I do Rarity! You're far too nice a mare to go through all those bad relationships again! So now I'm here for that!" Apparently that was enough logic for Pinkie Pie.
Rarity stared but slowly smiled. She had never dated a mare but Pinkie Pie was her friend. They got along well and Pinkie Pie seemed all gung-ho for her plan. "I think we can get you moved in, darling. I'm happy that you are... My marefriend."
"Fiancée, Rarity." Pinkie Pie gave Rarity a peck on the lips before hopping out.
Rarity could only smile at her new situation. Nothing with Pinkie Pie in her life would be normal. But it'd no doubt be pleasent.
Rarity huffed as she pushed over one of her mannequins in anger. The sarcasm laced into her voice had an edge in it she would never use on another pony. Or in public. Thankfully in her own boutique she could yell all she wanted. "Oh yes Rarity! He's going to propose! You're so inept at reading your special somepony you can't even tell when he's going to dump you! You tell everyone he's going to ask you to marry him!"
She stomped through the shop and up her stairs. Letting out a simple guttural scream as she got to her door. "I'm done! I'm done with stallions!" She didn't care anymore. Keeping herself up was too much work. Meeting eligible stallions was too much work. It was all just too much work! She was going to retire and eat ice cream for the rest of her life! She let out one final scream as she opened the door to her room.
Pinkie Pie was in the middle of tossing something out the window when the door had been opened. Pinkie had managed to get rid of almost everything she'd brought, including the other girls. The last thing remaining was the large banner that said 'congratulations Rarity.'
Rarity's eye twitched as Pinkie quickly grabbed the banner, rolled it up and tossed it out the window as well. Rarity grabbed the pink party pony as she too tried to jump out the window. Using her magic Rarity lifted Pinkie Pie by the tail and floated her over. Raising the earth pony up to look in her eyes. "Congratulations what, Pinkie Pie?"
Pinkie smiled, though it was a bit hesitant. "Uh... Well... For giving up on stallions?" She realized that was probably not the best answer.
Rarity nearly tossed her friend across the room in a fit of rage. But she resisted the urge and shook her head. Putting the other pony down Rarity let out a small sob. "L-Leave Pinkie."
Pinkie Pie nodded, frowning slightly but starting to head to the window. "The door Pinkie! For the love of Celestia... Don't hurt yourself..." Rarity didn't even look as she stumbled over to the bed and climbed up. Growling as she started to wrestle with the covers. "Dang it bed! I want to sleep! I will... I will... Even my bed is rejecting me!" At that, she simply laid down on the mass of throw pillows and started to cry quietly.
However, a few moments later the covers seemed to start to obey her mental orders. Sliding down into the covers Rarity let out a small whine. "Now you're here. Where were you earlier...?" She snuggled into her bed, hugging her pillows close and mumbling. "If you hadn't let me go I'd never have had this problem..."
Pinkie Pie stood there staring at Rarity. Tucking the covers around her friend. She nodded and leaned in, leaving a gentle kiss on Rarity's forehead. "I understand Rarity." Pinkie Pie smiled as she left, to plan.
