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// Avarice - matcha cheesecake 
// Story: Pink Diamonds: A RariPie Prompt Tag Collab 
// by Starlight Shadow 
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~By matcha cheesecake~


“I think we shouldn’t tell anypony.”

I pulled away from listening to my partner’s heartbeat to peer at her face. She was lying on her back and staring at the ceiling. Even with the moonlight seeping through my curtains, I found it hard to make out the expression she wore.

“May I know why you would suggest...?” I paused. Something deeply troubling was adding up in my mind. “Oh no, you’re regretting.”

“No!” She almost yelled in my ear, but calmed herself almost immediately. “Noppity-nope to that. Tonight’s the best night ever, yessir!”

“Then why?”

“It’s just a silly and selfish little thing. Sillfish? Sillyfish? Anyway, I’m just being a little-wittle bad greedy Pinkie Pie.”

I put a hoof over her lips. “Stop. I will not listen to you debase the mare I love.”

“Sorry.” She rolled to her side to look me in the eyes. I could see her eyebrows furrowed together. “I don’t want to share you with anypony.”

“Well, that goes without saying, love...”

“No. I mean, it’s like, um...” Her face scrunched up even more as she struggled with the words. “You know how when your stomach’s all growly-rowly and you bake a dozen of the perfectest yummiest cupcakes ever, but you don’t tell your friends about it because you want to have all twelve or thirteen for yourself. Does that make sense?”

“That’s not being greedy.”

“Yep. I mean, nope. I mean, that’s not what I mean.” She tried to make some demonstrative gestures, but that’s rather hard to pull off with somepony in your embrace. “You know how everypony have so many different kind of smiles? Like how Applejack has a different smile for when she’s applebucking than when she’s with us during pet play dates than when she sees Dashie and Fluttershy nuzzle when they think nopony’s looking.”

“So, you don’t want anypony to be jealous of us? Is that it?”

“No. Well, maybe a little. I don’t want our friends to act like we’re different ponies just because we’re together. But more than that, I just don’t want anypony else to see all the secret smiles you make. Just like that one you’re wearing now.”

I almost instinctively turned away to hide the blush threatening to bloom all over my face. Then I remembered who I was conversing with, and that the darkness made my hiding pointless anyway.

“If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re just making excuses for being ashamed of our relationship.”

“Why would... I-I’d never! Rarity, you’re the beautifulest and most wonderfulest...”

I stopped her with a nibble on her upper lip.

“But I do know better, don’t I?”