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// Engagement 
// Story: Shoot For The Stars 
// by Burritoburger 
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Chapter 18: Muffin making

I got my weekly payment and finally got at least 5,000 bits. I went to the Carousel Boutique and knocked on the door. Rarity opened it up.
"Welcome to the Carousel Boutique, how can I help you?" Rarity asked.
"Do you sell engagement bracelets of any sort?" I asked.
"Oh, who's the special somepony?" She asked. I blushed.
"Uh, Derpy Hooves." I replied. She looked a bit shocked.
"I've always seen her as a bit of a..." She trailed off.
"Idiot?" I finished, frowning.
"Yes- No! No, she's, uh..." She trailed off again. I sighed.
"Do you have engagement bracelets or not?" I asked.
"Oh, of course! Come in, let me show you some." I followed her in.
"I have silver ones with rubies on them, gold with sapphire, bronze with diamonds..." She went on as I skimmed through the assortment of bracelets.
"Wait." I saw a silver one with a Topaz jewel in the middle.
"That one." She looked over at it.
"You know, darling, that is very pricey." She said.
"How much?"
"3000 bits." She replied.
"Are you serious? I have 5000!" I said. I gave her the bits and she gave me the bracelet along with the case.
"Thank you." I said, and walked out of the door, towards Sugarcube Corner. I walked in to be greeted by the bouncing pink wonder, Pinkie Pie.
"Hi! Welcome to Sugarcube Corner! Oh, what's that? Some kind of case for a present? Does it have to do with a party? Oh! I know! We should throw another party! One with-" I covered her mouth.
"The first party was fine, Pinkie. I actually want to know how to make muffins." I said. She nodded, and I took my hoof away from her mouth.
"Follow me!" She bounded into the kitchen happily, ready to make some muffins.
"Okay, first, you need the recipe." She said.
"Can I make my own?" I asked, looking through all of the materials to make the muffins.
"Sure! I'll help with the amount of each ingredient, you just write down what you want in it!" She said. She grabbed a peice of paper and a pen and brought it to me. I wrote down all of Derpy's favorite foods, blueberry, razzleberry, strawberry, fizzleberry, and a lot more. Fizzleberries were a problem, though.
"Oooh, you want fizzleberries? Those are pretty rare, and they are deep in the everfree forest." Pinkie Pie explained.
"What do they look like?" I asked.
"They are bright yellow, and they usually grow in packs." She explained.
"I'll be back." I dashed out of the building, heading to the forest as fast as I could. Time was running out, and I need to do this tonight.
{Don't rush, you might miss some of them.}
Ah, thought you would never speak up after the incident.
(Don't wanna talk about it.)
I flew into the everfree forest, as the fear and doubt started to rush over me. I shook my head and walked inside the forest, with the thick canopy above. I could hear strange sounds, like a ghost, but much more...terrifying.
(How do you know what a ghost sounds like?)
Shut up.
After about thirty minutes of looking, I finally found a patch of the yellow berries. I picked them all, about six of them, about twenty of them should be enough. I flew directly up, and looked around. I saw Ponyville in the distance, and sped towards it. I walked back inside of Sugarcube Corner, and Pinkie Pie had already gotten the ingredients together.
"You have them? Good! Now give me them." She ordered. I gave her the berries, and she mixed them all up, including some sugar and flour, and popped them in the oven.
"I'll only make one, we need some of these berries, and you grabbed a ton of fizzleberries. I'm sure we could use them!" Pinkie said.
"One is perfect." I said. I looked out the window. Sunset.
"Hey Pinkie, remember the party you were talking about? Let's get it set up." I said. She jumped with joy, and brought out a pink cannon. She pulled the string, and balloons and confetti shot from it, and landed themselves in perfect spots on the walls and tables.
"Nice touch." I said.
"I'll invite everypony!" Pinkie Pie said. With that, she shot out of the door. I followed, but split up as I went to Derpy's. I kept the bracelet out of view as I knocked on the door. She opened it and smiled.
"Hi Stargazer! Is there something wrong?" She asked.
"Follow me." I said. She told Dinky that she was leaving, and we went to Sugarcube Corner. Everypony was already there.
(Holy fuck! That mare can rack up a crowd fast!)
{Wait, that isn't even possible! How did she-}
Don't question her methods.
"Uh, Stargazer, didn't we have a party a few days ago?" Derpy asked.
"Yes, but this one is special." I said.
"Well, I don't care!" She replied. She started dancing to the song that was playing. I went up to Pinkie.
"Is it ready?" I asked.
"Three, two, one..." A ding was heard from the kitchen.
"Done!" She dragged me into the kitchen, and I took the muffin out, having it cool down. After it was cool, I walked out of the room, and walked up to Derpy.
"Okay, Derpy, this is important." I said.
"Okay." She said. Everypony snapped to attention towards us, and I felt, well, worried.
"How do I do this... Okay. Derpy, I always thought you were different. I never believed a]what anypony said about you being an idiot, or you not being allowed to do something just because of your eyes. Those eyes, those beautiful eyes, means that you are special. Not a wall-eyed freak. I realize that you had a special somepony that died, and I know it was unbearable. I also know that you are only necessarily happy when you are around me, as news from Dinky, but that's not the point. The point is, I love you. Nothing will change that, not even the fact that I might be treated like dirt just because I am friends with a pony that is supposedly 'retarded'. So, on that note," I opened the case, revealing the bracelet. "Will you marry me?" She was in a state of what looked like pure happiness, with a tear forming in her eye.
[This is so...so beautiful!]
(Oh, give me a break.)
"Yes." She said. I smiled.
(And, against all odds, Stargazer got the girl that he is madly in love with!)
What do you mean, 'against all odds'?
I put the bracelet on her hoof, and leaned in for a kiss. Everypony in the crowd "Dawwwwwwwwwww'd" and Vinyl started playing slow, romantic music.
"I made a muffin for you, too." I said after we pulled each other apart. I went into the kitchen and handed(hoofed? heh, see what I did there?) her muffin. She took a bite out of it, chewing slowly.
"What do you think?" I asked.
"It's the best muffin I have ever-" She froze.
"Derpy?" She fell on the ground, in a state of shock.
Oh god!
"Somepony call 911!" Somepony from the crowd yelled. What only lasted for a few minutes of waiting for an ambulance to arrive felt like days to me, watching the love of my life tremble on the ground in a state of shock.
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Random Picture Time! From now on, this will be at the end of every new chapter, where I post a picture that is completely random. So, here it is!

And to those of you wondering, this is what the bracelet looks like.

Just imagine it a bracelet, and not a ring.