I lay there enveloped in the softness of my warm velvety bed… I felt somepony behind me holding me in their hooves, but I didn’t really focus on that as I stayed deep in thought on several things as I lay there, with my eyes shut… Like, how did I get here? What happened? And why am I loved? Perhaps it doesn’t need a reason? That might explain why love is often a one-way street, wouldn’t it? I mean, we can all love somepony who’s bad for us… Maybe it’s because this other pony seems to care about me? That seems to be often the case with the more mutually beneficial relationships, and yet, I always wondered why such a thing eluded me? Why not me? What is wrong with me? I often pondered to myself and finally, I just gave up… I decided that love was simply not for me… I decided that since it hadn’t happened yet, that it probably wasn’t going to happen, and so I stopped worrying about it… I resigned myself to the idea that I would inevitably die alone, and so I decided to simply let it rest at that… I had chosen to let it rest, and yet, there was somepony in here with me anyway… Holding me lovingly from behind, but I also know that she wasn’t always there… Why me? I thought to myself, as I lay there… There’s clearly something wrong with me, so there must be something wrong with her! Okay, so uh, wait! Am I only creating problems that aren’t there? I continued to question myself and the motives of this other mare as I lay there, in her snuggly warm embrace… What changed? I began to ponder to myself… This is Silver Spoon, right? I can’t help but snicker at the mention of her name in my head as she was literally, the big spoon at this point! A big Silver Spoon…
I finally open my eyes while lying there on my left side with my head on the big soft pink velvety pillow… I look down and as usual, I see gray hooves wrapped around my body, holding me, and giving me comfort… I briefly wonder if this is really such a good idea before one impulse suddenly strikes me, and I look up with a start! COFFEE!
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Diamond sits there, sipping her blond coffee at the table when she begins to set the cup down after taking the first cautious sip and stares at the silver mare across from her, “So uh, you love me!”
Silver Spoon keeps her violet eyes wide behind her sky-blue fashion spectacles and says, “Uh, didn’t we go over this already? Pretty sure we’ve covered this!”
Diamond smiles and snickers back, “Yeah! We sure did, right?”
Silver narrows her eyes and lowers her gaze while saying at a lower volume, “I swear, I’m dating the most stubborn mare in all of Equestria!”
Diamond raises her right eyebrow, “I’m stubborn?”
Silver giggles back, “Believe me, baby! Applejack doesn’t have shit on you!”
At this point, Diamond can only lower her gaze as she begins to chuckle hysterically!
Silver widens her eyes, “Are you alright? Was it something I said?”
Diamond stares back at Silver Spoon with wide eyes, “I don’t know, Silver? I think I’m losing my mind!”
Silver worriedly keeps her mouth agape and raises her left eyebrow, “Do tell?”
Diamond shakes her head and stares back, “Well, I was just thinking about it earlier, and um, for a bit, I was convinced that there was something wrong with me and that’s why love never turned out right, you know? I mean, I’m pretty bisexual like most mares, but even so, I mostly dated stallions because well, I always had this idea of a brave mighty steed just taking me away and sweeping me off my hooves, or whatever!” she adjusts her blue eyes straight to the other mare, “But I got a mare, instead!”
Silver smiles and shakes her head before saying, “Things rarely work out like we expect them to!” she leans forward, “But how about this! Instead, you’ll have a brave and mighty mare who strongly carries you over the threshold one day, before taking you to our bedchambers for passionate and romantic fun and adventure?”
By this point, Diamond can barely contain her laughter and she can only stammer out, “Shut up, Silver Spoon!”
Silver widens her eyes and frowns, “What? I thought it was romantic!”
Diamond sighs, “It is, but uh…”
Silver sighs too, “But you’re stubborn and still hanging onto this absurd notion that you need something else, even though I’m right here and more than enough for you, is that right?”
Diamond widens her eyes and narrows her mouth, “N-no!”
Silver smiles and chuckles, “In other words, yes…”
“No!” Diamond repeats herself while narrowing her mouth and blushing slightly…
Silver snickers some more, “It’s okay baby! I think it’s cute!”
Diamond frowns, “I’m not cute! You’re cute!”
Silver shakes her head, “Shut up and drink your coffee baby! I’ll make us breakfast, but then, I gotta go to the office!” she raises her gaze, “What do you want, anyway, dear?”
Diamond widens her eyes as she can only stammer out, “Uh, pancakes, please! Could you make us some pancakes, Silver Spoon?”
Silver nods, “Sure thing, Diamond! But finish your coffee! I need a batter pony!”
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Silver Spoon leaves for her office and Diamond is left alone with her thoughts later that morning.
She sips her coffee and reads the morning paper. She smiles when she thinks about how she can get her morning papers again, and suddenly frowns when she remembers that she was avoiding Silver Spoon, the mare who loves her…
She takes another swig of coffee when she thinks about all the resistance she’s put up in the face of this love and affection… She says lowly to herself, “Silver Spoon must really love me?”
Her eyes widen when she has a sudden thought… She raises her mug to her snout to take a long slow sip of the warm caffeinated beverage before lowering it back down again with her forehooves, and a sudden moment of clarity happens behind the pink mare’s blue eyes without any apparent warning or discernible reason…
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Diamond Tiara opened the glass door to the jewelry store with her right forehoof and proceeded to trot in before turning her body to the right to shut it again with her left as she exited the bright outside with the midday sun high overhead. She adjusts her direction to the front counter and trots inside the brightly lit room with its many ornate display cases and shelves full of various baubles and jewelry. With determination in her cobalt eyes and as her wisteria purple and white mane shook on her shoulders with each decisive step, she approached the white earth stallion clerk behind the register with his brown mane as he smiled at her with the neatly styled 5 o’clock shadow on his face…
“Greetings Diamond Tiara! How may I assist you today?” He says to the mare in a calm masculine voice full of inquisition.
Diamond stops trotting just 2 feet shy of the counter and smiles at the stallion, “I need something special…”
The stallion widens his green eyes and frowns, “Special? Well, uh, that depends on what kind of special?”
Diamond lowers her gaze, “How about a symbol of love from a mare who doesn’t want to be without this other pony?”
“Oh?” The stallion asks before opening his eyes all they will go and stammering, “OH!” He shakes his head and adjusts his body to the far wall on Diamond’s left and says, “Well, our wedding bands are over here!” before nodding his head further to the right and away from Diamond at the glass counter, “Uh, is this an earth pony, unicorn, or pegasus? It’s important that we know what sort of jewelry they can wear!”
Diamond smiles widely and confidently, “Oh, I already know exactly what to get for this mare!”
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Silver Spoon trots to the grandiose two-story cottage’s red door and stops to reach towards her left saddlebag with her neck to get the key, when suddenly, the front door opens partially with a slight squealing noise to reveal a darkened room…
She lifts and corrects her neck before frowning, and breathing in deeply through her mouth and then, she lifts her right forehoof to open the door all the way inward to the left and she trots inside the tan structure.
As she trots inside, she can’t see anything and she says, “Diamond? Are you in here?”
The lights suddenly glow to brighten the room and she can’t help but smell the scent of warm hay cakes, but that leaves her attention quickly as she sees the pink mare, currently on her haunches and holding an open dark blue jewelry box in her forehooves with a distinctive silver bangle inside the slightly darker blue cushy interior…
Diamond smiles back at the gray mare, standing 10 feet from her as she sat there in the living room and stared at her openly with wide blue eyes underneath her wavy mane, “Look, Silver Spoon! I don’t know why I already knew what size bangle to get you and I don’t know why I can’t seem to live without you or even get you out of my head, but I do know this much…” Diamond stares into the violet eyes of the other mare tenderly with her blue eyes and smiles slightly as she says sincerely, “I don’t want to be without you anymore… Will you marry me?”
At that point, Silver can only widen her eyes as tears begin to envelop them and stammer out, “Oh Diamond! Celestia, yes! Yes, I’ll marry you!”
Diamond smiles wider, “Come here, baby!”
Silver trots to the other mare and stops timidly just a foot shy of her.
Diamond soon uses her forehooves to try to get the bangle out, but she almost drops it as she says, “Oh crap! Uh…” before recovering and finally, stumbling to get the bangle to Silver’s left forehoof and then, clasping it around the leg with a resounding click! She stares up into the purple eyes of the other mare, behind those same sky-blue fashion glasses. Silver smiles back at her lovingly and Diamond can’t help but notice that with the locking of that bangle, she somehow seems different now… She notices the bright radiance that seems to glow from Silver Spoon at this point and this only warms her heart even more and all she can do is say those three simple words at this point, “I love you!”
Silver smiles as deep and warm as she ever has before and leans down towards the pink mare to chance a nuzzle before happily giggling and then, lovingly smooching her on the lips…
Diamond feels the electric energy coming from this other mare’s mouth as her eyes begin to close and a warmth and longing begin to form in her own heart.
(To be continued…)