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// Never Saw it Coming... 
// Story: Alone Time 
// by Rose Quill 
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	“I don’t get it,” Sonata said. “A rock candy necklace?”

Pinkie grinned, hugging into Aria with a sigh of contentment, Rhapsody trying her best to get between the two. My niece loved hugs as much as Sonata and Pinkie did.

AJ spoke up. “As Ah recall,” she said with a drawl, balancing Windvane on her knee. “The Pie sisters all gave them to each other as gifts among sisters, signifying that they’d be best friends no matter what.” She sighed. “She made us help taste a bunch'a batches when Maud came home after her first semester away getting her ‘rocktorate’ degree. Mah stomach was upset for a few days, she made us taste so many kinds.”

“And for Limey to have given Ari one,” Pinkie said, rubbing noses with her daughter. “Meant that she wanted to try to make her feel welcome. Limey’s not good with her feelings.”

“No kidding,” I muttered, remembering the wedding. Sandalwood nudged me.

“Our turn, sweetie.”

I rolled my eyes.

“When this big lug proposed, I could have been knocked over with a feather.” I glanced over my shoulder at him. “Which he almost did, as a matter of fact.”

I smiled when the blush crept up his face.

“I know him pretty well, but I never saw what he had planned at all…”