Minuette tossed the ball of yarn in the air again, catching it in her hooves as she watched Rarity work on her dresses. It had been a month and Minuette had almost moved in with Rarity, for the times Minuette was in Ponyville, which was more and more recently. She’d been streamlining her generic duties to be able to spend five days a week in Ponyville. She was technically always on call but when nothing happened that was that. And she much preferred being here near Rarity. Truly a gem in Minuette’s eye the other mare was truly beautiful, talented, and kind. She was also very easy to flatter and fluster which gave Minuette no end of fun. She also couldn't rule out that Rarity was more... Open minded than Minuette would have thought coming from Ponyville. ”How much longer Rarity?”
Rarity rolled her eyes but smiled as she looked back at the pretty mare on her bed. "Darling, just because you don't have to work doesn't mean that the rest of us don't. Why not go and see Pinkie Pie?"
Minuette grinned as she looked at Rarity. "Because I don't like staring at Pinkie's flank. At least, not as much as I like staring at yours."
Rarity let out a little chuckle and stuck her tongue out at her marefriend. "Oh, you're terrible darling. If for a moment I thought you were serious..."
Minuette grinned and rolled over, bouncing off the bed and walking over to Rarity, leaning up over her shoulder to see what she was doing exactly. "And besides... You didn't seem to be so jealous last night wh..."
"Stop right there darling!" Rarity blushed brightly and glanced around the room despite knowing there weren't randomly other ponies lurking in the shadows. "What happens in the bedroom should stay in the bedroom!"
"We are in your bedroom."
Rarity flushed a little brighter but couldn't help but giggle. "You know what I meant Minuette!"
Minuette grinned but let it go, teasing was all fun, but she didn't want to beat too hard on that drum, Rarity was open-minded, but she very much had things to her that were proper and improper, and poking her on them made her very grumpy. "This is pretty, what's it for?" Rarity was using her smaller sewing machine in the bedroom to put the finishing touches on the dress. Minuette couldn't help but grin, it was quite cute. Rarity wouldn't admit it but she was in here instead of her design room to spend more time with Minuette. She figured she shouldn't tease Rarity too much since she was putting in that extra effort.
Rarity smiled at Minuette, she always liked talking about her work. "Oh! Oh! Well, you see Coloratura is looking for something a bit fancier than what she'd been having recently, but still not overly dramatic like what she did when she was "Countess Coloratura." So I came up with this..." Minuette smiled as she walked back to the bed and climbed back up, letting Rarity go on with her explanation. She got very into the clothes she made and while Minuette appreciated that she didn't really get all the minutia of details that she could go into when Minuette asked about them. Rolling back onto her back she patiently waited for Rarity to finish.
"So, what's the big deal with the party this afternoon? Coco wouldn't stop talking about it."
"Oh, they're going to announce their engagement."
"WHAT!?" Minuette sat up instantly, a rather impressive feat as she had been laying on her back moments before.
Rarity giggled. "Oh yes, they think they're keeping it a secret but I know all the jewelers in town darling. It didn't take long for talk of Applejack buying an engagement necklace got around... Though of course only to the most discreet ears."
Minuette grinned. "Wow, Applejack works fast."
Rarity giggled and shook her head. "I'd put it more down to Applejack being -very- upfront. Where we haven't yet spoken of a few important things, like an interest in foals, Applejack got all that out of the way before the first date. I'm pretty sure that this is a lot less impatient and much more practical in Applejack's eyes."
Minuette nodded and fell into contemplative silence as she watched Rarity. Waiting for her to finish up with her current work. Minuette was planning on ambushing Rarity but not in the middle of her work, that would not only risk the dress but put Rarity in an extremely bad mood because of it. And Minuette wasn't one to waste time. She smiled and snuck down off the bed as Rarity finished with her dress, leaning back with a sigh she grinned to herself and turned around to find an empty bedroom. "Minuette? Oh, she must be getting water or some... EEK!"
From underneath Rarity's desk sprang a blue blur tackling her and rolling a few time to end up with Rarity stuck under a triumphant Minuette, grinning down at her. "Hello there beautiful!"
Rarity giggled gently. "Really darling, must you do that? Or could you at least be predictable about it? I mean once a week and I forget that you do it!"
Minuette grinned widely as she climbed off her marefriend. "But that's the point! If I did it too much you'd know to expect it, then I couldn't be ambush Minuette!" She grinned and crouched down like Opalescence stalking a grasshopper.
Rarity got up smiling faintly at her silly marefriend. "Mhmm, you know ambush Minuette seems a lot like silly Minuette if you ask me."
"Nonsense! I wasn't silly earlier I was ambush Minuette this entire time, you just couldn't tell because of my amazing stealth skills!"
Rarity couldn't stop her faint giggle at Minuette's antics. "Very well ambush Minuette, I concede your point. However, might I make a request?"
"Of course, my beloved, beautiful, most radiant marefriend. You who are the light of my eyes. See? That was ambush Minuette pretending to be poet Minuette."
Rarity smiled and leaned in, rewarding her marefriend with a gentle nuzzle. "I know Minuette, I know. But since this party is so important to Coco and Applejack could I request that serious Minuette come out for the rest of the day?"
Minuette smiled and nodded. "Of course! Serious Minuette I shall be!" The glint in her eye, however, said that Rarity had just opened up an unexpected can of worms on herself.