Writing Time: 30 minutes
Word Count: 769
Characters: Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack
Prompt: Applejack walks in on a romantic scene between Twilight and Rarity.
Disclaimer: I don't own MLP:FiM, I think Hasbro does, though.
Twilight wasn't really sure why Rarity wanted her at Carousel Boutique so early in the morning, but she wasn't one to tell one of her best friends that she couldn't come to help them out. From what she understands, Rarity just needs a little help organizing her shop. Twilight yawns as she reaches the door of the boutique before entering. She looks around. The bottom floor doesn't look too bad, but she'd imagine the other unicorn's work area would be at least slightly worse.
"Twilight, darling, is that you?" She hears her friend call from upstairs. Just then Rarity appears at the top of the stairs. "Please, come on up, I'm sorry to call you hear so early, but I simply couldn't wait any longer." Twilight follows up the stairs and into Rarity's work room where it didn't actually look all that disorganized, certainly not to the point where the white unicorn couldn't clean it up in just a few minutes. The white unicorn uses her magic to levitate a couple bolts of fabric into their correct locations as she speaks.
"This doesn't look too bad," Twilight states, examining the room closely, "Do you just need a new system? Are things hard to find?"
Rarity shakes her head, taking a deep breath that comes out in a heavy sigh. "No, no, you see, I had to bring you here under false pretenses." She looks back at the purple unicorn as she fights herself with what to say and how to say it. "I do hope you understand that I don't like lying to my very best friends, least of all you, Twilight, and I truly do feel bad. I need to tell you something rather important." She takes another deep breath, in and out. "I wanted to tell you, but it never felt right. I like you, Twilight Sparkle, no, I love you." Then she holds up a hoof, silencing Twilight's response before the purple pony even opened her mouth. "As more than a friend, and I wanted to be more than friends with you, but I really didn't want to do that to Spike."
Twilight almost doesn't say it, but she finds herself speaking before her brain can process the words. "I love you too, but I thought you were into, you know, stallions."
The white unicorn looked at her friend, amused, "Oh, Twilight, how could I wish for the presence of a stallion after 'Prince' Blueblood. Besides, I've always like mares, but I thought I also like stallions. I mean, after all the tales we hear of mares running off with the stallion of their dreams, you kind of start wanting the same, don't you?"
"I guess so," Twilight says, "But do you really think this could be a good idea? What if our friends-" Rarity jumps forward and kisses Twilight full on the lips, pushing Twilight back into a sitting position as her knees begin to go weak. "I- I guess they'll understand." Twilight says insecurely before kissing Rarity back.
"Oh, I know they'll understand." Rarity responds with an assuring tone, smiling as she kisses the purple unicorn. Twilight had never really thought about having any special somepony. She'd always been so absorbed with her studies. Maybe that was why she hadn't noticed that Rarity had feelings for her. After all, the white fashionista wasn't exactly subtle in anything. But that's okay, she doesn't have to be. They're together now and that's all that matters. Rarity's arms are around Twilight's neck and she feels the white unicorn pull away ever so slightly to speak. "Would you like to go to dinner this evening? I know a lovely little place-" Then the door opens and they see Applejack standing in the doorway, jaw dropped in surprise. Her eyes are watering and Rarity knows why.
The orange pony had confided in her that she had feelings for Twilight, but that was a month ago. Rarity had given her friend ample tie to act on those feelings and the earth pony chose to do nothing. Applejack was so shocked at seeing her crush and the pony with whom she shared everything wrapped up in such a loving embrace. At that moment she would've given anything to be in Rarity's hooves, but that was impossible.
She forgot all about Applebloom's old dress that needed to be repaired for the school play that would be in a few nights and she ran back out into the streets of Ponyville, unable to do anything but try to hold back the tears until she was safely in her room in Sweet Apple Acres.