An Invitation

Solar rolled onto his back, his whole world seemingly flipped upside down. Those two strangers hadn't come out of Rarity's for a good hour or so. What could they possibly be doing? He sighed, and in doing so, blew a chunk of his cloud seat away. Solar was so wrapped up in his wondering about the actions of the two ponies and the dragon to notice a certain pink earth pony come bouncing along the trail with a basket full of envelopes attached to the top of her head.

Pinkie hummed happily to herself as she bounced along the trail, her old friend Solar was back in town and she was holding a party for him that very evening. She had just left Twilight's place to give out hers and Spike's invitations and found their residence to be empty. So she had decided to go give the rest of the invitations out and to check back with Twilight later.

Pinkie abruptly stopped and looked up at a cloud that was hanging over Rarity's house. She could see a bit of a red and black tail hanging over the edge of the cloud and she immediately recognized it as belonging to Solar. Pinkie stared at his tail for a moment and started to rub her front hooves together and broke out into a huge smile as an idea creeped its way into her mind. She took a deep breath, held it in for a few seconds and let out a big yell.

"!"

Her yell echoed and birds flew out of their trees, while Solar fell out of his cloud and landed on his back with a loud THUMP! "Crabapples, Pinkie Pie! What in Luna's name were you thinking?" Solar spat out, getting up slowly and winced a bit from the pain in his back.

Pinkie raised a hoof to her mouth and mocked deep thinking for several seconds until finally breaking this false meditation with a shrug and a grin. Before Solar could say anything, he heard Rarity's door open and he turned to see Rarity and the unknown pony and dragon standing there, looking at them.

"Solar…Pinkie Pie..? What on earth are you two DOING out here?" Rarity asked, looking back and forth between the two.

Pinkie Pie opened her mouth to stay something as Solar quickly placed a hoof over her mouth and said "I was helping Pinkie with…uh…with..." He heard Pinkie's muffled voice coming forth from underneath his hoof and he removed it to hear her saying "Handing out invitations to your party, silly nilly!" Solar quickly nodded in agreement. "Yeah! And yours was next, Rarity!" Solar said, looking into the the basket on top of Pinkie's head and found the one with Rarity's name on it and he plucked it out.

He hovered over to her and tenderly delivered it to her. "Oh…thank you, Solar." Rarity replied, accepting the invite.

Pinkie Pie bounced over to the trio in the door way and stopped in front of the unknown pony and dragon. "There you guys are!" she exclaimed, lowering her head as the purple unicorn and the dragon plucked an envelope each from the basket.

Solar's attention from Rarity was broken as he had just realized that he didn't even know this other pony and dragon pair.

"I'm sorry. I don't think we've met before! My name is Solar." He said.

The purple pony spoke first. "Well met, Solar. I am Twilight Sparkle, faithful student to Princess Celestia and this is my assistant, Spike!" she replied.

"Hey there, Solar!" Spike piped up.

Solar nodded at Spike and then said "Wow…so you know the princess AND you have a baby dragon for an assistant?" Solar asked with interest.

Twilight nodded and said "Yes. I hate to have to cut this short and I hope you do not think it rude of me but I need to get some more studying done if I want to attend your party tonight. Good bye, Solar." Twilight bid her farewell as Spike got on her back and waved good bye.

"I'll see you then!" he called back and turned his attention back at Rarity who had opened the letter and gasped.

"Pinkie! You can expect me there! I have the perfect outfit for this party!" She exclaimed excitedly, closing the door in such a rush that Solar barely managed to get out of the way to avoid having his wing clipped.

Rarity let out a breath of relief after she had slammed the door shut. Her heart was beating about 10 times the normal beats per minute. 'A party? In Solar's honor? ' She let out an excited squeal and then, quickly realizing what had spewed forth from her mouth, covered it with her hoof. She was a lady! Ladies did not make such childish noises like that! She cleared her throat as a fine coat of blush appeared on her snout.

Rarity pranced across the room and over to her closet where she kept all of the outfits she had designed and created. Her horn started to glow blue as she used her magic to sift through the different dresses in her wardrobe, trying to find the perfect gown for this evening's activities. She hummed as she searched through the bowels of her somewhat endless closet.

Each dress was shoved aside as she continued to search. She eventually stopped as a box had somehow found its way into her sea of dresses.

"I don't remember this being in here." Rarity mumbled to herself as she opened the box. She gasped as the lid opened. Inside was the fire ruby necklace that she had made when Spike gave her the fire gem as a gift. She broke out into a grin and did a little dance on the spot.

"Perfect! This is the perfect item for tonight!" Rarity announced to herself. She picked up the necklace from its resting place inside of the box and fastened it around her neck using magic. She trotted over to the nearby mirror and looked at her reflection and gave a satisfied smile.

Rarity flipped her mane and blinked a couple of times at her reflection. She really did not understand this growing feeling inside of her heart. This didn't happen with Prince Blueblood or any pony else before. Why was this different? Why was HE different?

She trotted over to her bed and flopped down, blowing a stray lock of her mane that had fallen in front of her face. She turned her head towards the clock that she kept on the nightstand nearby. The party was not for another few hours. She laid her head back down on the bed and sighed.

Opal, her cat, looked up at her mistress with wondering eyes. They say that animals can sense when their owner's moods change and if they like or don't like some pony. That was the case here at this moment. Opal could feel Rarity's emotions flowing from her. From the day Rarity took her home as a kitten to this very day, not once had Rarity been like this.

Opal licked her paw and returned to the bed that was directly next to Rarity's own.

Sighing once more, Rarity flipped over onto her back, staring up at the ceiling and day dreaming of the event that was in just a couple more hours.