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// The Dinner (May 11th, Saturday night.) 
// Story: Time For Fashion! 
// by Jhoira 
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Rarity flushed when she came down the stairs after Minuette's mandated five minutes of waiting. She hadn't expected... To be frank anything, you couldn't transform a room in five minutes but as she walked into her kitchen she blinked in amazement. There was a fancy table cloth, candles, a fancy spread from... Well, she wasn't sure where it was from as none of it had bags or anything, everything had been put into her own dinnerware. She looked over to see Minuette standing next to the table in her trademark grin, and Rarity couldn't help but smile back. "Darling, how did you do... This?"

Minuette smiled and used her magic to pull out a chair for Rarity. "A knight never reveals her secrets, milady." Rarity couldn't help but giggle, beaming at Minuette as she walked over and sat in the chair, letting Minuette push her chair in. She looked over the spread in front of her. Fine dining indeed, it was all prench food, and the only thing more unlikely that this all was set up in five minutes was that Minuette cooked all this in five minutes. Minuette sat up in the chair across from her.

"Did you ask Applejack to send this over?" Rarity started to serve herself up some of the lighter foods, she didn't want to get a belly now that she had a marefriend after all. She always made sure to make herself look her best, but now she had to be extra conscious of that fact since she had a pretty marefriend to look good for. Minuette seemed to have no similar compunction taking generous helpings of everything in her vicinity and two chocolate souffle's, at first Rarity was annoyed but then she saw that there were six on the table! Why and how did she get her hooves on so many!?

Minuette grinned and shook her head. "Nope, I wouldn't interrupt their date with having them order something else for us! Silly filly."

Rarity rolled her eyes at her marefriend. "If I'm going to have a pet name I much prefer dearheart to silly filly please." 

Minuette smiled a bit wider. "Oh I would never downplay such a noble personage as yourself with such a demeaning pet name."

Rarity smiled a bit as well. "Cute, but I would be more interested in speaking to serious Minuette over our first dinner date please?"

Minuette raised an eyebrow. "You were speaking to serious Minuette. I wouldn't dream of demeaning your beautiful self with such a lowly nickname."

Rarity blushed a bit. "Minuette! You need to... I just... Dang it Minuette! How many marefriends have you had!?"

Minuette leaned back in her chair, happily eating her souffle. "Enough to know that I'm one smooth operator."

Rarity snickered a little and shook her head. "I see there's also confident Minuette. How many more girls are you hiding in there?"

Minuette grinned. "Dozens. Quite a few you'd probably like to meet."

Rarity was not entirely positive that Minuette wasn't being literal in her description, but odds were she wasn't. "Oh, like who my dearest?"

Minuette finished off her first souffle then started to levitate fries up to track her list. "Girly Minuette, quiet Minuette, athletic Minuette, knightly Minuette, masseuse Minuette..."

"Masseuse?"

"You've never had one of my massages, they are pretty amazing."

Rarity giggled and nodded. "Any others?"

"Oh tons, bookish Minuette, romance Minuette, flirty Minuette," Rarity couldn't help but blush faintly at that one, only for her blush to get far brighter moments later, "seductress Minuette... Lusty Minuette..." Minuette trailed off, making purposeful eye contact with Rarity.

Rarity could only hold eye contact for a few moments before having to look away. "Goodness Minuette! Are you being seductive Minuette already or are you usually this good at this?"

Minuette giggled. "No, I'm just that smooth, like I told you." She tilted her head and surveyed Rarity. "Can I ask a personal question?"

"Of course darling."

"You've never actually had a marefriend have you?"

Rarity sputtered indignantly. "What? I... Well... Of course...! I-I mean... Not officially but... But I've had plenty of interest!"

Minuette smiled as she started to eat her second souffle, having finished off the rest of her meal while Rarity was busy picking at her food. "Of course you have, but only Minuette measured up to your standards."

"Oh don't start referring to yourself in the third person!"

"Oh, sorry, that was Trixie Minuette getting out for a second." That comment caused them both to start to giggle.

"Though seriously darling, how did you get all this food?"

Minuette shrugged nonchalantly. "Oh, I just knew that Pâturage De Fleurs would be busy during the dinner rush so I made a deal with their head cook, they'd make me this food in exchange for a little time magic, they get all caught up, relieves a bunch of stress on their staff, and we get food. Also one other small thing."

Rarity was agape. "Time magic!?"

Minuette raised an eyebrow. "It's my special talent dearheart, did you think this hourglass was because I could time things well?"

"But... But... But Twilight said that time magic is dangerous!"

"Oh psh, only if you try to change the past. Freezing time in a bubble is not dangerous to anyone. Though it is very demanding on one's energy supplies."

Rarity was still a bit... Non-plussed by Minuette's blase opinion of time magic, but she supposed that since it was her special talent she'd be the authority on the topic. "What was the other thing?" Minuette just grinned and after a few moments, Rarity realized she wasn't getting an answer. "Fine. Keep your secrets secretive Minuette." Minuette smiled a bit wider at their ongoing joke. "So, you used up a lot of energy? Is that how you eat all those donuts and chocolate souffle? I take one is for me and five are for you then?"

"Well, if you only want one, but you're welcome to two."

Rarity shook her head. "I can't burn calories with magic so easily darling."

"Ahh." Minuette got up and took her plate over to the sink.

"Well, I'll be fascinated with watching a single pony eating five chocolate souffle." Rarity giggled, it was a novel idea, though without the explanation of how much energy time magic took she would also be slightly horrified.

Minuette grinned and took the perfect chance to trot over to the door, Rarity couldn't have set the timing up better if she had been trying. "Oh those three aren't just for me, I also got you a present let me go get it."

"Oh, well that's perfectly splendid of you darling! But what about the extra souffle?"

Minuette smiled and started out the door, answering over her shoulder. "Oh, they're for us, later tonight."

Rarity blinked, her mind taking a moment to process when her eyes flew wide and she blushed crimson. "Minuette!?" The other mare had already closed the door behind her. "MINUETTE! What did that mean!?"