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// #29 - Slowly, the words dripping from your tongue like honey 
// Story: Ways to Say "I Love You" 
// by Frost Flower 
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It was the end of the day when she said it, both wrapped in each other and the covers. The end of a particularly difficult day for Rarity, having to deal with more rude customers than she’d like, and more redesigns than she cared to design. 

“Why?” she asked the world, the universe, Twilight too.

“Why what?” Twilight asked, a hint of amusement in her tone, snuggling up against her beloved, content in ways Rarity wasn’t. 

“Why should I put up with another day of living in this terrible world?” Rarity asked, and she didn’t mean to be dramatic--well, she did--but really, she meant it. Why?

There was a pause, long as the world itself until finally Princess Twilight Sparkle spoke, and every word was weighted, every word was sincere, every word dripped from her tongue like honey sweetening the bitter tea of Rarity’s life. 

“Because I love you.”

And there was another pause, and Rarity whined, helpless to refuse. 

“Fine. Fine! Fine, fine, fine, but that’s cheating! Cheating!”