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// Friendship Is Magic. 
// Story: Forging Romance 
// by Diamond Sparkle 
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Silver Spoon's mouth was watering at the feast that awaited her. There were apples and apple pie and apple slices and apple juice and soft cider, there was watermelon and every kind of fruit, there was bread and nuts and cake, and there was a replica of the Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness with a figure in marzipan of Silver Spoon herself at the top. However, she had to wait, not something she was used to doing, until the feast formally begun. Already the guests were coming thick and fast. Some were adult friends of her family who she knew little or nothing of, others were colts and fillies her own age who were friends, but not really good friends, not the sort that she thought she could share absolutely everything with. And then the Rich family showed up and she got her first good look at Diamond Tiara. She looks good, no doubt  her parents have cleaned and gilded her to make sure she looks her best  at such a special event as my cute-ceanera just as my parents did to me. But what is her personality like? Is she like me? Does she only date colts? 

At the same time Diamond Tiara got her first good look at Silver Spoon. She looks a beauty. Of course she does, it's her cute-ceanera so of course she looks good. Look at the way her gilded cutie mark shines. But what is her personality like? Does she hang out with blank flanks or tease them like I do? Are enough of her views mine for us to one day date and be a couple as my parents want? Or will we end up being not able to stand each other? She went over to Silver Spoon, a wrapped present in her mouth, and laid it at Silver Spoon's feet. "Happy cute-ceanera, Silver Spoon. Your name matches your cutie mark perfectly. I'm Diamond Tiara, and I hope that you enjoy your present." 

Silver Spoon tore it open and grinned. "A dress from Rarity's Boutique-how lovely. Soft blue silk, with an open bit so that my gorgeous cutie mark can still be seen by everypony whilst I'm wearing it. That is lovely. Thank you." And I don't have to fake it either, that really is a wonderful present. I've had plenty of presents already...make up, jewelery, books, but that is the best dress I have ever seen. Her father called everyone to the table and made a speech about Silver Spoon that made her blush, and then said, "And I will now say grace...Good food, how sweet, thank Celestia, let's eat." The feast begun and Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara gorged themselves as much as everypony there  but still remembered to talk to each other. And the more they talked the more they realized that they had a lot in common. Both ponies now despised blank flanks and saw them as inferior, for example. Both saw riches as the most important thing in life. Although neither pony would have admitted it to anypony, they were both excessively spoilt by their families. At the end of the party, with Luna's moon high in the sky, Diamond Tiara told Silver Spoon "Goodnight, my friend, I was enchanted to meet you," and gave her a light friendly kiss on her cheek.

"Mum, Dad, I think Silver Spoon will be such a good friend. I don't have to fake it either as she's so much like me," Diamond Tiara told her parents happily as they walked back home. "And she's in my class at school too. School will be so much more fun with a friend in the class who I can relate to. And yes, when the time is right she will become my marefriend as long as I take things slowly."

Over the next few weeks and months Diamond and Silver got along tremendously well. They helped each other with their homework, heartily wishing that Celestia had abolished it at the same time as she abolished the cane. They came up with a little "Bump, bump, sugar lump, rump" dance. They bulled and humiliated the blank flanks at every opportunity, and when Diamond went too far and annoyed Granny Smith and was forced to humiliate herself by jumping over watering cans, Silver had voluntarily humiliated herself too. It was embarrassing, but it might provide the chance to get closer to Diamond, as her parents wanted her to. 

That evening the two of them were lying on their backs along, watching the sky and the clouds as the sun set, looking for pictures in them. "There is a pony's head," Diamond said, pointing with a hoof.  "That one looks like a heart," Silver replied,

"So tell me," Diamond asked her best friend "your parents didn't make you jump over the watering cans singing to them, so why did you do that?"

"Because if you were in trouble, I wanted to share your pain with you. You...you've become more of a friend to me. We...we should become a coupledom." 

Diamond turned to her and kissed her on her cheek and Silver replied with a kiss on the lips. Diamond made no move to pull away and wipe the kiss, instead returning it and adding a kiss to Silver's forehead. "Yes, we should. You and I , together like Lyra and Bon Bon. If you want, we can keep it secret if you think your family would mind." 

"Oh, my family won't mind," Silver replied, whilst thinking That's because they set this whole thing up. They'll be overjoyed when they find out that we are together and in love. And, Diamond, I think that I do love you. I never thought that I could love another filly but now I do. "But are you really sure that you want to have a relationship with me."

Diamond kissed her again and smiled at her. "I would not be kissing you if I was not sure, would I?"