Chapter 1 - My name is Rarity and I love….

Everypony has their own little secrets, and I guess one could say everypony has two faces they wear. There is of course the everyday face we all wear, the public face that we let everyone see, our friends, our neighbours and our family.

But at night when no one is looking we can lower our masks and just for a few brief hours, enjoy ourselves without fear of judgement of those around us. I have to say for myself personally, after a long hard week at the shop there are but only two things that always help me to relax.

The first is a spa day with my good friend Fluttershy of course. To just sit in the soothing sauna and let my pours breathe, to enjoy a facial and a hoofecure and of course catch up on local gossip. The second form of relaxation always starts when the mailmare arrives with a package for me, just an innocent little package.

These packages have a tendency of arriving twice a month, though when I first started getting them they arrived on a weekly basis. They always arrive in a lovely lavender box and are always filled with so many amazing surprises. It’s a genuine surprise each I open on of these gifts as I never know exactly what kind of item I have been sent.

The most recent package however… arrived yesterday and is currently sitting in my closet hidden away from the prying eyes of my little sister. I would have opened it last night but I did not expect her to be dropped off so early. I had promised mother and father that I would watch Sweetie Belle till the weekend, and I never go back on my word.

I do adore my little sister I really do, but you can love something sometimes a little more when it is not constantly underfoot, so when she asked if she could stay with her friend AppleBloom for the weekend, perhaps I agreed to the arrangement a little too eagerly.

I was finishing up on an order from a new customer when AppleJack and AppleBloom arrived to collect SweetieBelle. I had been in such deep concentration with the order that I had almost not heard the arrival. It had been a very specific order as well as a little unusual request; it was a purple hooded robe with intricate embroidery work on the hem as well as a sapphire pendant to go with the outfit.

“Wow what a beautiful robe” my little sister squeaked as she stopped mid run for the door to greet her friends before dashing outside to greet the Apples, and once I was happy with leaving my work I headed outside to greet our guests and see my sister off.

“Thank you ever so much AppleJack for offering to take care of SweetieBelle this weekend” I smiled at my friend hoping that I wasn’t sounding overly happy about the time I would be having alone this weekend.

“Why it ain’t no big deal, after all we always have room for one more. Why last I checked we were having Scootaloo as well this weekend” the thought of having to watch all three of them made me cringe nervously. Just a month ago my sister had convinced me to let the girls stay the night and they decided to try and get their cutie marks in pet grooming, needless to say Opal is still growling at Sweetie every time she goes near her.

“You will defiantly have your hands full then, I do hope they don’t cause too much trouble.”

“Oh it ain’t nothin’ the Apples can’t handle” smiled Applejack as they got read to leave.

I waved a goodbye to the group as they left and slowly walked back into shop and started to prepare closing up for the day as it was already getting quite late in the afternoon. With a simple cleaning spell I had the work area tidied up pretty quickly, before heading to my kitchen using a levitation spell I brought my package down from upstairs.

If I am going to relax with my hobby I was going to do it right and to start things off right I needed a relaxing cup of tea so I put the kettle on and made myself a cup of tea.

With cup of tea and package in magical field and floating beside me I re-entered the shop and headed towards the last change room (which is mostly used for storage so is never used by clients) and pushed a button hidden behind the mirror. The floor began creak and rumble slightly as the hidden door and stairway below me opens, the passageway below also glows due to crystals in the walls underground that glow a soft turquoise light.

I never had a secret clubhouse as a filly so when I discovered by chance this crystal chamber under the boutique I explored it and made my very own secret base and for a time I used it as extra storage for the rarest of gemstones and fabrics I used in my designs. However when Sweetie almost discovered my hobby three months ago I moved everything down here, it was for the best I think.

I still remember how all this started, it was three months before the almost sister discovering my secret incident. A client who had come for a fitting, they had left a magazine behind in the change room. I didn’t think anything of it at first, it looked like a fashion magazine with a handsome colt all dressed up looking like a prince on the front, that being said I didn’t recognize the title of the magazine ‘Pon /y/ Boy’

Later that evening however after arriving home from a spa visit with Fluttershy I found myself bored of my own gossip and fashion magazines and remembered the mysterious magazine. I headed to my room to relax on my bed and decided to see if I could get any design ideas from the pages within, I didn’t get what I was expecting however as I opened the pages.

A few pages in however, I came to realize that all the colts in these pages weren’t in many pictures with the outfits on, even the princely looking unicorn on the cover seemed to lose the silk threads very quickly, and the pages showed other things as well.

It showed parts of a stallion that I had never seen on pages so clearly before. The prince from the cover especially was so tempting to me, all sprawled out on light fluffy pillows his front hooves seeming to gently stroke himself.

A part of me knew I should have been shocked by what I was seeing on those pages, to think some mare had been reading clop material in my boutique, or worse what if she had been… I didn’t want to think about it.

And yet something at the back of my mind told me to keep looking through the magazine and I began to read the story printed with the pictures. It told the story of a prince who was to be married the next day, but did not love the bride for his heart belonged to another. A childhood friend who had always been by his side, who had a kind and gentle heart, I sat there thinking to myself ‘why she must be such a lucky filly, this one he loves so dearly’

What I saw as I turned the page however, changed my view on the world from that day forward.

I arrive at the end of the corridor and reach my destination, a large locked door and as I unlock the candles within automatically light bathing the hidden room in there glow. The walls of the small room are covered with posters of various colts and stallions and there is a large bookshelf half filled with books and magazines.

I sit on a large soft cushion I have waiting for myself and place my cup of tea and package on a small table in the center of room. I cannot help myself as I look up at the most recent before this package gift I had received. On the poster was the prince from the story I had read in the magazine, lying on his back and resting on his chest was a beautiful slender grey earth pony colt cuddled up to the prince, their lips meeting in a tender kiss.

My name is Rarity and I’m a yaoi Fangirl.

Author's Note

re-edited version of the first chapter, i hope the grammar in this doesn't make too many of you cringe, that to those who let me know of the mistakes, if i have missed anything in your opinion please feel free to message me. I love to write so anything that can lead to self improvement is always a plus