Minuette hummed happily to herself as she sat in her new dress letting Rarity stick pins into it for all the tiny changes that still needed to be made. If she’d have asked Minuette there would have been no question that she was perfectly content with the outcome of the dress, but Rarity insisted that everything be perfect. Minuette wasn't a fan of that style of thought. She preferred to get something done well, but after that, you go and so something fun! No need to get all up in your own head about making it completely perfect. But since Rarity was giving her such a nice dress she could sit still for Rarity to get it to the level that she wanted it. Well, at least mostly still.
”Really darling must you squirm so much?”
”We’ve been sitting here for like... An hour!”
”Darling it's only been thirty minutes.”
”Well that's still a long time!”
”Not a long time for perfection darling. And I'm almost done, five more minutes.” Minuette grumbled but managed to go back to sitting still. Rarity smiled at the back of the other pony. Minuette was a bit impatient but she could sit still when needed. Rarity seriously considered telling the pretty mare about her little crush. Minuette was a bit... On the Pinkie Pie side of the spectrum but that wasn't bad, she did enjoy Pinkie Pie's antics, most of the time. Also she was from Canterlot, obviously of superior breeding. She didn't know what Minuette did for a career though, but if it was something as simple as office work Rarity was more than successful enough to support them both. Minuette could stay home with the foals and... Rarity had to snap herself out of that line of thought, that was well down the line, she hadn't even decided to ask the other mare out for goodness sake. "There, we're all finished up darling."
Minuette grinned widely. "Oh great! Does that mean I can run around again?"
Rarity giggled, Minuette's boundless energy was very endearing Rarity had to admit. "In a moment dear, let me get the dress off of you." Rarity grabbed the dress in her magic, still thinking to herself about Minuette's qualities as a potential suitor. The largest downside is that like Pinkie Pie the girl seemed oblivious to the finer points of courting. She couldn't be sure, she didn't know Minuette well but she didn't seem overly interested in having a relationship. She'd seen a few mares and stallions attempt to break through to the pretty blue mare but got nowhere. Rarity started to tug the dress up over Minuette's head. Really, she wasn't usually one for the frontal assault but she might have to approach the other mare. That really put a crimp in her plans of being the one being wooed, however that aspect of ladyness was dying off, perhaps she could be a pioneer and take the bull by the horns, show the world...
"Hey Rarity."
That a proper lady need not wait for others to approach her and...
"Rarity!"
That they themselves could choose to claim their part...
"RARITY! It's stuck!"
Rarity blinked and looked at Minuette, with the dress up around her head, and it, indeed, stuck there. "Oh, darling, forgive me! My... Mind wandered." She frowned as Minuette started to giggle. "Darling, this isn't your doing is it?"
Minuette shook her head, causing Rarity to shriek and take a few hurried steps back as a mad dress began to flail wildly as if it was some living creature. "Nope! I'm not doing anything Rarity." Rarity grumbled but took the other ponies word, growling lowly as the giggling continued.
"It's not polite to laugh at other ponies Minuette."
"I'm not... Ok, I'm only kinda laughing at you, it's funny!"
"It is not funny! I've never had a dress betray me so!"
"Your dress is doing exactly what it's supposed to."
"No it's not!"
"Yes it is!"
"Dang it Minuette! If you don't stop being such a pill I'm just going to leave you here like this!"
Minuette fell silent for a moment before sighing. "Sorry Rarity. You didn't undo the back laces."
Rarity frowned and pulled the dress downs lightly before blushing brightly, apparently, she'd been too caught up in her own thoughts to remember to undo them so the dress could be taken off. After a few moments Rarity did let out a small chuckle, smiling a bit more as she undid them and pulled the dress off of Minuette. "I suppose the dress was doing exactly what it was supposed to do, wasn't it?"
Minuette grinned widely and hopped to her hooves. "There ya go!" She grinned as she rolled onto her back and kicked up into the air before rolling back to her feet. "We have a free Saturday now! Wanna go get a snack? I'm hungry!" Minuette was ignoring one of the most important things that Rarity had zeroed in on, however.
"But darling, your mane is a mess!"
Minuette glanced back and shrugged. "Oh, so it is." She grinned and jumped into a pose like she was about to rush out the door, her front low to the ground with her hindquarters in the air ready to pounce. "So snacks? I'll race ya!"
"But darling! You can't go out like that!"
Minuette frowned but sat up, not jumping out the door. "Why not?"
"People will talk!"
"So? We're just getting snacks."
Rarity cleared her throat absently. "Well... Uh... Darling... It looks... A bit like... Bed mane..."
Minuette tilted her head then burst out laughing, rolling onto her back. "So, so, so, so people will think you and me...?" She burst out with another roil of laughter at all the gossip that might start.
"I'm glad the concept of sleeping with me amuses you so... Darling." Rarity's voice was like a dangerous blade coated in poison, warning even Minuette to tread carefully.
To her credit Minuette managed to get herself under control, standing up and shaking her head. "Sorry Rarity I didn't mean it like that really. Just... People will gossip about anything won't they?"
Rarity sighed and shook her head, slightly chagrined at herself. "Sorry, darling I knew you didn't mean it like that. But do let me fix your mane?" She pulled over a brush from a nearby stand with her magic and Minuette nodded, turning around and sitting in front of the other mare. Rarity brought it up and started to brush it through Minuette's beautiful main. She was so jealous, she wished she had a dual colored mane, they were all the rage currently.
In a sing-song voice, Minuette started to chant, "Brushie brushie brushie."
"Darling?"
"Oh, sorry, it's something my mother and I used to sing when she brushed my mane."
"Oh... Well, don't let me stop you darling."
"Brushie brushie brushie." Rarity twitched slightly, maybe she shouldn't have given Minuette the go-ahead on that, her mane was an absolute mess, this would take a few minutes to fix and that... Was not going to stay charming for very long.