Because
I planned for a picnic today.
It was something simple in the orchard as we usually did for one of these dates. I say simple but if you know Rarity you know it’s anything but. I don't mind none, just so you know. It’s time with my wonderful girlfriend and we both enjoy it to the fullest every time.
Rarity has me ask her a question every day, it’s a silly thing, really. At first, I just rolled my eyes when she proposed it, but let's be honest, how can I not humour her?
Today, though, she had a question for me instead.
“Why do you love me?”
Rarity’s question hit me like a biting cold breeze in the middle of a summer afternoon.
It wasn’t unlike Rarity to ask me strange questions. ‘Did I gain weight during Hearth’s Warming?’ or ‘Does this hat match my eyes?’ Some questions hit you harder than others, though, but none hit me harder than this one.
“Beg your pardon?” I asked as I held my eyebrows back from jolting upwards.
“Why do you love me?” Rarity repeated. “I know why I love you, Applejack, but honestly, I don’t know what could you see in a pony like me.”
“I could make you a list, but what’s this all about? We’ve been together for years, why are you asking me this now? It ain’t like you to be insecure.”
You see, for a farm pony such as myself, it’s hard to read between the lines sometimes. But being with Rarity had taught me things I thought I wouldn’t ever be able to understand otherwise. In the past, I would have said I love you because I love you and left things there, it would have been enough for me, but not for Rarity. Now I understood that Rarity wanted more, no, needed more.
“I’m vain, and selfish, and bossy, I’m honestly a nightmare girlfriend and—”
“Rarity, I love you.”
The words halted Rarity’s rambling and she stared silently at me when I lifted her chin with a hoof. When our gazes met, Rarity's mouth opened and closed; caught for words.
“But why?” The question finally slipped out.
“I love you,” I echoed with a beaming smile as bright as the sun itself, “because you are generous, because you are selfless, because you’re hard-working,” I listed all the things I saw in Rarity, still holding her chin up. “I love you because whenever I look into your eyes I gaze on my future—our future. I see us together then, but you know what else do I see? I see all we’ve been through.”
Now if you know anything about me, you know I’m the kind of pony that cries on the inside. But even my walls can crumble when I lay my heart bare for the mare I love, I reckon.
Rarity blinked once, twice, thrice; the final blink causing tears to run down her alabaster cheeks as a smile tugged up at the corners of her mouth. “But… why?” she said in a trembling voice.
I chortled, locking my eyes onto Rarity’s. “Because your eyes tell me that I’ll never be alone.” I reached for my stetson and took it off, flipped it over and showed Rarity the inside of the hat, showing her the one thing that I kept tucked into the band.
A photograph of Rarity.
“Because you’re right here, always with me.”
Being with Rarity for so long let me know what the fluttering of her eyelashes meant, or what she was thinking when her mouth hung agape.
“I love you,” I said again after putting the stetson back on, “because I am a better mare because of you. Rarity, to me, you are more than family. In you, I found a soulmate.”
Black streaks painted themselves along Rarity’s cheeks now, but her smile kept dazzling through them. “Oh, Applejack! Darling! You’re just saying everything I wanted to hear you say.”
“Yeah,” I admitted with a hearty chuckle. “But that don’t mean none of it is true. It’s been tough, that's for sure, you ain’t an easy mare to please and I’m stubborn to Tartarus and back, but I’d be a fool to deny you are my heart.” I took in a deep breath and sighed, remember what I said about crying on the inside? “Rarity, you’re perfect to me, how could I live without you?”
Rarity smiled and made a playful roll of her eyes. “I’d like to see you try!” she chirped and giggled in a way that made my heart soar as she wiped her tears away with a tissue.
“I darn well couldn’t.”
We looked at each other, then lost ourselves in each other’s eyes. Rarity in a sea of green and I in a sea of blue. I could look into those sparkling sapphires for hours, and she said once to me that she could gaze upon my ‘effulgent emeralds’ until the end of time.
“And you can ask me again tomorrow if you want,” I said, breaking the silence as I winked and gave Rarity a knowing smile.
Rarity simply lifted a hoof to giggle loudly behind it, amused beyond words.
Reminding myself that we were in the middle of a date, I realised that now there was no greater sign of my love than to ask what I was about to.
"So... with all of that said, Rarity, are you gonna marry me today?"
The way Rarity's face lit up made my belly flutter.
"Ask me again tomorrow." The usual singsong response, but it was one that made us both smile.
"I always do." I took her hoof in my own and smiled. “Did I tell you that I love you?”
Rarity wiped the tears from her eyes and grinned. “Yes,” she said, “but say it anyway.”
Now, you may think me a fool, or a silly pony, but trust me when I say that I wouldn't change a single thing.
“I love you”.
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Yeah, well you know, that's just like your opinion, mare.
I don't think this is the fic for you then :b
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If you don't like romance stories, or romance stories between certain characters, then don't read them. When you go and leave a gratuitous, undeserved dislike on someone's hard work because just you don't like the subject or the genre, you're not "sharing an opinion", you're just shitting on someone's love and labor for no reason. It's as if people rang on your doorbell to tell you they don't like your face or the color of your house. If they don't like that, it's not your problem, is it? So if you don't like stories about the mane 6 having romances with each other, then consider just not walking up to the people that do and making it their problem. Yeah? Consider just finding something you like instead going out of your way to try and make someone else feel bad over what they do like.
i just joined today and everybody hating on me i just shared an opinion sheesh
plus i'm new and...tired
Well that was a familiar question and conversation.
And one that makes rather a lot of sense for those two. Nicely done.
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" would you like that? Would you feel like I did something for you? "Oh, it's just an opinion", right?
If "everyone's hating" you out of the blue without any experience with you, then maybe look back and see what you're doing that may cause people to "hate" you. I'm not hating you here. But you just went into someone's story that they just posted and you left a dislike for no reason. Imagine if I just went into your profile right now and just left a comment saying "I'm sorry but I don't think avatars should be made in MS Paint
No, that would not be just an opinion, that would be me being rude and mean. You can have an opinion. But if your opinion isn't going to help anyone, then maybe keep it to yourself. Yeah? Maybe don't leave a public dislike on a new story and make it look publicly bad just because you don't like romance. Maybe don't be mean. And then maybe people won't be angry with you, call you out on it on your first day, and you won't have to whine about it when they do.
It's okay to have an opinion. But before sharing it, ask yourself this: is it going to help them be better? And then, ask yourself, is it something they could have already thought about? And only then consider sharing your opinion.
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It's only familiar because it's natural for these two!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, it took me a bit of work to capture their essence here but I think I did a good job of it.
also i didn't say it in a mean way all though u can't rlly tell it's a comment box
I'm an absolute sucker for these two! They're too damn adorable
also how exactly do ppl make the stories i'm just asking anyone cause i am very much clueless
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You may wanna have a look here
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thx sorry if i sounded mean
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Same, they're my OTP and I absolutely need to write more of them.
adorable as usual. Good work!
this is a mashup a made a while ago hopefully it can do some good for authors with no inspation or ideas a mlp mashup
This was so sweet and adorable!
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I had a good time writing this, even if making it all fit in exactly 1000 words took a bit of work.
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... ppl still don't like me? no one else gets this type of treatment
This was a nice sweet story, good job!
This is some quality Rarijack fluff for the most part, but sometimes you lip into purple prose that I just can't imagine Applejack thinking. The photo in her hat, that was pitch-perfect AJ that I may end up using myself sometime, but some of it is just too sappy to be believable.
That said, this was still very sweet throughout. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.
aww, that is such a cute little thing! and hehe, "let's be honest", because it's Applejack!
augh yeah, that kind of insecurity is all the more surprising and saddening on Rarity here :(
aww, it's the little things like this that really get across the length and depth of their relationship here
augh, that is just so sweet! of course this is what Applejack would keep under her beloved hat, augh, i love that! i am definitely stealing it
"more than family" really means a lot more, coming from Applejack of all ponies!
and all this is just so RariJack and true it is perfect!
ehehe such an overwrought Rarity line, love it
love Applejack's voice throughout this! it is just so very her, and i could just about hear her voice in every line of narration.
the story illustrates how well their contrasting personalities complement each other, and how that can make their relationship work wonderfully. complementary not to mention just a lot of great fluff. great stuff!
Greetings. I hope you don't mind, but I did a reading of your story which can be found below. I hope you enjoy.
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I'm honoured, thank you! ♥
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Huh-hah-wha-how!
I'm floored, I'm honestly floored.
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Yeah, double the readings! 😁