Now let's see what Rarity was up to this Monday morning.
Rarity was sleeping soundly in the morning at Carosuel Boutique. As soon as a streak of sunlight can in through the window (like Twilight Sparkle) the heat of the sunlight touching her forelegs woke her up. As soon as Rarity opened her eyes she couldn't see anything with her sleep eye mask on. "Wait? Is it still night?!" She shrieked "or did I sleep for a whole day?!" However right beside her bed was her little sister Sweetie Belle. "No Rarity, you've got that sleep eye mask on" Sweetie promptly answered. "O..." Rarity started, as she began to lift her sleep eye mask off her eyes. "Oh... sorry, I keep forgetting that I even wear this to bed." "Come on Rarity. You're late,you slept in. You have customers waiting outside your front door." Sweetie Belle begged "Thats why I came up here."
Rarity then gasped really loudly and then spat out "I'm late? I slept in?" She then pulled back her doona covers and climbed out of her bed, giving a long glare at Sweetie Belle. "Why didn't you wake me up earlier?!" She yelled. "Because you never let me wake you up." Sweetie Belle retorted, however she looked like she was on the verge of crying. "Well if im late you d..." it was then that she noticed a tear streaming down Sweetie Belle's cheek. "Aw, I'm not mad at you sis" Rarity said giving her little sister a hug. "You're not?" Sweetie Belle asked as her face began to brighten. "No" Rarity quickly replied "but go and feed Opal a can of tuna from the fridge! I need to go tend to the customers!" "Okay" Sweetie Belle replied, but before she could move Rarity asked "Also shouldn't you be in school? It's Monday today." "Well actually no" Sweetie Belle replied "Miss Cheerilee said on Friday that Monday was a curriculum day. So I have no school today." She then galloped out of Rarity's room and downstairs. Rarity promptly walked out of her room and down the stairs.
As Sweetie Belle navigated the fridge for the tuna she couldn't find it and was looking everywhere in the fridge. Where is the tuna? She wondered almost speaking that out I can't find it anywhere. Sweetie Belle then walked over to the workroom to find the whole place packed with costumers. Rarity was at a small table tending to her costumers with her dresses. It was hard to get around and it was very noisy because of all the talking, so Sweetie Belle had to shout "Rarity! Where's the tuna?!" But Rarity couldn't hear her. "All of you! Shut up!" She yelled, But everypony ignored her. Sweetie Belle had to then push through all the customers just to get to Rarity. Once she was next to her big sister she retorted "Rarity where is the tuna?" "Sweetie Belle how rude" Rarity groaned "I am in the middle of tending to my customers and you just come in and barge next to me?" "Well yeah, I want to know where the tuna is." She offered. "I told you, it is in the fridge" Rarity shot at her. "Where in the fridge?" Sweetie Belle asked "I looked everywhere and I can't find it." "Oh, silly me" Rarity said with a smile on her brightening up face "on the top shelf behind some bottles of cider."
As soon as Rarity said that, Sweetie Belle quickly pushed through the customers back towards the kitchen. She got back to the fridge and started at the top shelf. "I don't know if I'll be able to make it up there. It looks too high" she said worringly. Sweetie Belle then remembered that ladder that Rarity had once used to climb a tree and rescue Opal from being stuck in the tree. "Ah ha!" Sweetie Belle bellowed "That ladder will work perfectly." Sweetie Belle then ran into the pantry and grabbed the extendible ladder and took it with her into the kitchen. She placed it against the fridge and extended it to the height of the top shelf. Sweetie Belle then climbed the ladder and pushed the cider bottles aside and found the can of tuna sitting right there. She pulled the tuna out with her and stepped back down the ladder. She stowed the extendible ladder away in the pantry, back where it belonged then shut the fridge door. Sweetie Belle then snapped the can open with her hooves, but in doing so got a cut from the lid across one of them. "Ow!" She screamed.
In the workroom every single customer was leaving Carousel Boutique after purchasing some astonishing dresses. "Bye bye, thank you all for stopping by this place" Rarity called out to everypony that was leaving. "Rarity!" Sweetie Belle yelled as she stepped into the workroom. "Coming Sweetie!" Rarity called out in a giddy way. Rarity then stepped towards Sweetie Belle and immediately asked "So Sweetie, what is..." Rarity started but instantly spotted some blood on the floor. Sweetie Belle showed her cut hoof to Rarity which turned Rarity's face from excitement to shock. "Oh" she replied softly "how did that happen?" "I cut myself why trying to open the tuna can" Sweetie Belle spoke. "Aw, I will go treat you with a band aid sister" Rarity said as she galloped up to a first aid chest with different kind of medical kits. Rarity pulled out a band aid box with her magic, opened it and pulled one out of the slip. Sweetie Belle held up her bleeding hoof and Rarity slowly applied the band aid to it. "There now Sweetie, don't try running because it will hurt" Rarity said "so did you feed Opal?" Sweetie Belle's mouth opened, a sign of forget. "N..." She started, but then turned her head towards the kitchen to find Rarity's cat Opalescence feasting on tuna from the can. That's when Sweetie Belle's answer changed "Yes."
"Well we haven't had out breakfast yet" Rarity stated "I wonder what..." Rarity glanced at her dresses that were patted with gems. Sweetie Belle did the same. "I need to get an order ready on time for Prince Blueblood" Rarity said, remembering. "But Rarity... breakfast" Sweetie Belle reminded. "Breakfast can wait until later for me. This order needs to come in by eleven o' clock and I'm already late" Rarity said stepping towards a work desk. While Rarity is making dresses what should I have for breakfast? Sweetie Belle asked as she walked into the kitchen. Sweetie Belle opened the fridge again and examined the options. "I am not going to have anything on the top shelf" Sweetie Belle said "There's no way I'm getting that ladder again." Sweetie Belle the. examined what was on the other shelves, on the second shelf was some milk, cheese, yoghurt. None of which Sweetie Belle felt like. So examined the third shelf which had orange juice and lettuce. I will have some orange juice to drink Sweetie Belle decided as she grabbed the orange juice with her hoof. After her lessons in Twilight Time though, she was uncertain of using her magic so better to use her hooves. And I'll have some oats to eat Sweetie Belle decided as she closed the fridge and stepped into the pantry. Sweetie Belle got the oats out of the pantry, grabbed a bowl from a cupboard and sat down at a small dining table while pouring her orange juice into a glass.
While Sweetie Belle snacked on her breakfast, Rarity was stitching some gems up in a dress. However her glasses slipped off her muzzle which caused her to lose concentration with her magic, causing the gem being stitched up to fall. Rarity had her mouth open however and the gem slipped off the side of her tongue. Rarity spat out in reply to the gem on her tongue, but took a few seconds to realise what the gem had tasted like. "That gem..." Rarity begun "It tasted wonderful." Rarity then picked up the gem using her magic and licked it. "I never knew gems actually tasted this good" she said. Rarity then licked the gem a few more times and then immediately decided to eat it. She put it in her mouth and started chewing. "Mmm" Rarity mumbled. As soon as she swallowed she realised something. "I thought dragons only eat gems, but it turns out that ponies do too!" Rarity then got another gem and ate it. "These gems will be my breakfast" she beamed, then ate a few more.
Sweetie Belle was finished with her oats and had drank all of her orange juice. Rarity then unexpectedly galloped into the kitchen with excitement. Sweetie Belle got down from the table and looked towards Rarity. "Sweetie Belle, how is your breakfast?" She asked. "Well... good" Sweetie Belle replied not looking too intrigued. "Would you like some desert sister?" Rarity asked. "Nope, I'm full" Sweetie Belle replied "Those oats were mouth watering and that orange juice refreshing." "Come on sister" Rarity insisted "Haven't you got just a little more room in there?" "No, I'm too full" Sweetie Belle replied "look." She then stood upright on her hind legs and showed her huge bulging belly to Rarity to prove her point. "Well just a little bit?" Rarity offered. "Fine" Sweetie Belle concluded. "Okay Sweetie" Rarity started "I have found out that not only dragons eat gems, but ponies can too. I had myself some gems for breakfast." "Wait, so you ate some gems?" Sweetie Belle asked, with her face starting to beam. "Yep" Rarity replied. "Well okay, I guess it was a lie my whole life that only dragons ate gems" Sweetie Belle conceded "I want to eat gems." "Okay Sweetie" Rarity said "I'll give you just one gem for dessert considering how full you are."
Rarity then levitated over a blue gem to Sweetie Belle. Sweetie Belle opened her mouth and gem went in. Unlike Rarity though, Sweetie Belle couldn't chew the gems as she had trouble trying to chow them down. "Sweetie Belle, what's wrong?" Rarity asked. Sweetie Belle spat the gem out and replied while panting. "I can't chew gems, they're too hard" she replied "can you give me a smaller one? I'll have to swallow them whole." "Sure thing sister" Rarity replied while levitating over a smaller red gem half the size of the one Sweetie Belle was trying to eat. Sweetie Belle opened her mouth again and the gem went into her mouth. Once Sweetie Belle closed her mouth she took a few seconds to get used to the taste of the gem. She then swallowed the gem down whole and on her face was a very loving expression. "So how did it taste?" Rarity asked with a smile. "I'd say, it tasted like a very hard strawberry" Sweetie Belle replied "because it was hard and it did taste kind of like a strawberry." "Oh Okay" Rarity replied with a giggle "I guess different coloured gems have different tastes."
Rarity then picked up the blue gem that Sweetie Belle tried to eat off the floor using her magic. Rarity then ate the gem and used a napkin to mop up Sweetie Belle's saliva off the floor. "How can you chew gems but I can't?" Sweetie Belle asked. "I guess grown ponies have stronger teeth than fillies sister" Rarity replied "when you're old enough, you'll be able to chow down on a gem in no time." "Yeah okay can't wait" Sweetie Belle said "But I'm gonna eat gems every single day for my breakfast my lunch and my dinner. Because of how good they taste and I want to find out which colour gem is my favourite to eat." "Yes, same" Rarity said "because we both have a craving for gems."
Then for the rest of the day Rarity and Sweetie Belle enjoyed snacking on some gems for their lunch and their dinner. Rarity chewed the bigger ones, Sweetie Belle swallowed the smaller ones whole. This was Rarity's strange and new habit.