Hearts and Hooves day always was busy for Rarity even before the sun was rising, as she was frantically going everywhere looking for laces and ribbons and other things. Sweetie Belle was walking down the stairs.

“Rarity? Why are you up so early?” she asked.

“Why Sweetie Belle, don’t you know what today is,” Rarity said smiling maniacally, picking up and making Sweetie Belle uncomfortable.

“Uh… Wednesday?” Sweetie Belle answered questionably.

“No! today is the one day where I sell the most dresses and get the most orders on any day of the year!” Rarity said dropping Sweetie Belle and working on one of her dresses.

“The Grand Galloping Gala?” Sweetie Belle said in an even more questionable way.

“No, Hearts and Hooves Day,” Rarity said annoyingly. Sweetie Belle looked at Rarity with an expression like Rarity was overreacting.

“Well, I need to go to the clubhouse for our next cutie mark problem,” Sweetie Belle said going out the door.

“Okay, have fun,” Rarity said, not paying attention.

Rarity was just opening the door and many mares came in running on Rarity and searching for the perfect dress and so many questions like “Do you have this in another size?” or “Can I get this in pink?” and she also made some suits for the stallions, but many of them just took the suits, paid, and left without a question, Rarity always loved seeing everypony leave with smiles on their faces, but she also saw ponies being together, which made her a bit lonely, but she knew she wouldn’t be lonely all day, she and her friends made a pact to see each other and enjoy the festival maybe she would see one of her dresses on somepony.

“Excuse me miss Rarity, but I need to know if there are any suits left,” Rarity turned and saw a tall colt with white fur and black pulled back hair, Rarity blushed and didn’t even pay attention to the pony who asked, “Excuse me, do you have this in another color?” and just lifted her hoof saying “Oh, yeah, yeah, I’ll get to it,” and went back to looking at the colt, she didn’t even remember what he asked and was blushing so much she was as red as one of the satin dresses she made.

“Um, miss rarity?” He said again, bringing her back to reality and remembering what he asked.

“Oh, um, yes, they should be in the back,” Rarity said, they both walked to the back of the Boutique and found a huge mess, all of the dresses and suits were laid all over the floor, then a little Sweetie Belle popped her head along with Applebloom and Scootaloo. Rarity was so embarrassed she was even redder than before.

“SWEETIE BELLE! Why are you back here messing up all of the hard work I made,” Rarity shouted, she heard the stallion chuckle a little and she felt like he was laughing at her.

“I am sorry, my annoying sister and her friends must have done something to mess this up, I will try to find the suit you’re looking for,” she said trying to be as calm as she could, she went into the huge mess and got out a ruffled suit and brought it out to the colt.

“I see you are going to have to swim for everything you need,” the colt said jokingly, Rarity laughed in the most sophisticated way, completely forgetting the huge mess on the floor.

“Well, if you get done with that before tonight, then maybe I could take you out for the festival later,” the stallion said, Rarity was surprised,

“Did he just ask me out on a date to the festival of hearts!” she thought, she couldn’t believe that somepony had asked her out, she couldn’t resist the thought of having a nice outing with this colt who obviously took interest in her.

“Oh, yes, I would love to go to the festival with you,” Rarity said so excitedly she clapped her hooves, she couldn’t think of anything better. Her thoughts were interrupted as she remembered the pact she made with her friends. Rarity couldn’t believe she had forgotten about her friends! Rarity turned to face the stallion but was too late, he had already put the bits on her counter and was heading over the hill.

“Oh Rarity, how could you forget the pact you made with your friends... and not to mention you don’t even know his name!” Rarity said looking out her window grimacing over why she had accepted too early, then she had an idea.

“I know, I will go with my friends to the festival of hearts, but I will also go find the stallion and be with him, it’s the perfect plan!” Rarity said with lots of enthusiasm while clapping her hooves together

“Now, to see what’s going on with Sweetie Belle and her friends,” Rarity said going to the back and getting the story of what they did.

The busy workday was almost done and Rarity’s plan was going to take action, she got into one of the dresses she was going to wear and heard her doorbell and saw Pinkie Pie, then they got everypony else and started to go to the festival, Rarity was looking for the stallion while the Applejack told a certain story, then she spotted him and asked her friends if she could get a drink.

“Rarity, I’m so glad you could come,” the stallion said with cheer, Rarity still didn’t know his name, but didn’t want to ask straight out

“It’s good to be here, um…” she said, hoping her plan to get his name worked.

“Oh, Golden Arches, hence the mark,” he said, pointing to his flank. she looked at his mark and saw none other than 4 golden arches interlinking to each other over a river, no doubt he was from Canterlot.

“Ah, so, Golden Arches, shall we be off,” Rarity said, feeling giddy over the name already.

“Yes, right after I go and take care of business,” he said walking towards an outhouse, this gave Rarity a chance to go back and see her friends, Applejack was just finishing her story when Rarity jumped in laughing with the others

“Ha, ha oh, that is hilarious, I have never heard of something so funny,” she said with bits of sweat running down her head, though they were tiny enough her friends couldn’t see. Her friends looked at her like she was faking it all, little did they know she was, Rarity knew she had to see Golden Arches soon, so while they were watching the Wonderbolts, Rarity slipped away and saw him near the outhouse.

“Well, shall we?” he asked, holding out his hoof and taking her to a booth where they ate, Rarity felt so happy and didn’t want this to end, but then she heard a loud boom and was reminded that she needed to get to her friends.

“I need to go take care of something really quick,” Rarity said getting up and walking away.

“Well alright, but when you get back, I need to tell you something,” Golden Arches said, making Rarity nervous and impossible not to think about, so when she went to see her friends, she couldn’t stop wondering what he would say, in her mind, she kept thinking “Is he wanting to say if we can be together, or does he not want to and thinks I am somepony who is going to strong, or he feels like we should go strong and asks to go on another date!”

“Rarity? Are you ok?” Pinkie Pie said, sinking her back into reality.

“Yes, I’m fine Pinkie, but I really need to know,” Rarity said. Her friends eyed her with suspicion,

“What did you say?” Rainbow Dash asked tiredly, Rarity looked worried, she hoped her friends wouldn’t try to find out.

“Oh, did I say know, I meant to go,” Rarity said stepping backward, then running to the photo booth.

“No doubt about it, that girl is hidin’ somethin’,” Applejack said

“Should we follow her? Fluttershy?” Pinkie said while Fluttershy’s head was down, also looking like she was thinking about something.

“Fluttershy?” Pinkie said again, making Fluttershy look up and remembering what she asked.

“Huh? Oh, yeah, let’s do that,” so they all went the way that Rarity went to find her.

Rarity found Golden Arches near the photo booth and smiled at the sight of him,

“Finally, that took longer than I thought,” he said with cheer in his voice and a smile that Rarity could promise almost made her faint.

“Well it was hard to slip away,” Rarity said, Golden Arches looked at her confused.

“What did you mean, ‘slip away’,” he asked Rarity, looking worried, she tried her best to look professional.

“Oh, I meant I had to go do something and remembered what you said, so I had to ‘slip away’ to see you,” she answered while more sweat ran down her face, but she saw that he understood while nodding.

“Well, then I wanted to tell you, I think you should come to Canterlot with me.” Rarity couldn’t believe it, she was blushing at the thought of going with him to the highest place in all of Equestria, and having the best life she ever had.

“Oh my, that would be the best ever, I can just see us with a lively family in the best part of Canterlot and…” Rarity was interrupted by a hoof going to her mouth.

“No what I mean is a business, you should move your Boutique to Canterlot to get even higher sales every day,” Golden Arches said with the same smile he had but it made Rarity look at him in a different way.

“So, you wanted to see me tonight, just so you could discuss business on Hearts and Hooves day?” she said, annoyed at what she thought of him as wanting her, now only wanting her business.

“Yes, that is what I do, what did you think I did,” Golden Arches asked oblivious to her feelings, making her angrier.

“I knew you probably ran a business, but I thought you had a heart and liked me, or something,” Rarity said mad.

“Well, I came here to ask you for business, but I see you don’t want anything to do with me,” Golden Arches shouted.

“I don’t want anything to do with you or your business!” Rarity shouted so loud almost everypony could hear.

“Well then, I’ll just go,” Golden Arches said walking away.

“Good, I was just about to say the same thing,” Rarity said in anger, she glared at him until he was gone, then she heard a rustle in the bushes and knew exactly who it was.

“Alright, I know you’re there, come on out,” she said, the 4 ponies all came out and looked sorry for what they did.

“Were sorry for you and what happened,” Rainbow Dash said.

“Yeah, we’re really sorry, right Fluttershy?” Pinkie Pie said, she looked and saw Fluttershy looking out of the festival, Pinkie stepped on her tail which made Fluttershy shriek and turns her head.

“Oh, um, right,” she said, stopping and looking back to where she did before.

“Is everypony out of it today?” Applejack said annoyed that she didn’t know what was going on.

“Thank you darlings, I don’t know what I would do without you,” Rarity said hugging her friends, they all spent the rest of the night together until it was getting late and everyone left.

While going back home, Rarity thought about her fight with Golden Arches and how she thought he liked her. Maybe she was just being herself and how she saw everypony that was male liked her, but now all she wanted to do was go to bed and sleep the night away, she opened the door and saw Opal on the chair purring. She felt like doing nothing at the time so she flopped on the chair and let out a big sigh from the night. Opal scurried off while she closed her eyes and thought about the stressful day, a lot had happened but it was nice just to let it all go out with another big sigh. While she loved relaxing, she still wondered, “I wonder how everypony else’s Hearts and Hooves day went.”

Author's Note

I forgot to mention that there will be OC's in this, mostly because of the reason that I don't really ship Rarity with anyone anymore.