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// Fashionable Stress 
// Story: Fears 
// by Short Stories 
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"Oh, this room is so..so drab!" Rarity complained as soon as her eyes cracked open. "I need some windows here, a table would look lovely here... Is that my cutie mark?!" Her attention immediately swiveled to the off-white door with three blue diamonds imprinted on it. "Oh, thank Celestia! I do hope this leads to my store..." She started walking towards the door that held her fate, innocently believing it contained some supplies to help perk up the room she was in.

"Ooo! Maybe Twilight and the others will be there too, to help me fix this..." She looked around as her hoof rested on the door handle. "..mess." She finished, having trouble finding a polite way to put it.

She walked through the door and..

"There she is!" An angry pony shouted and, in a clamoring instant, twenty ponies were there, mad as can be, with horrible looking dresses and shoes.

"She's the pony responsible for this!"

"No wonder! She looks stingy!"

"The gala is tonight! There is no way plausible we can go there now!"

"Calm down, everypony!" Rarity shouted over the commotion. As soon as everypony calmed down, Rarity regained her composture. "now..." she cleared her throat, "what seems to be the problem?"

"What seems to be the problem?!" Somepony mocked. They stepped forward. It was Sapphire Shores, wearing what looked like a table cloth as a dress and tissue boxes for shoes. 

How odd, Rarity thought, maybe it's the seasons latest fashion trend?

"What seems to be the problem?!?" She repeated; she looked anything but happy. "This...this thing you made for us is. Is..UNBEARABLE, to say the least!"

Rarity took a step back, about to go back into that bland and boring room to calm down before stepping outside again. There was only one problem: It was gone.

"I--I--" Rarity's voice cracked as she tried to fight back the tears. "I have no idea what I did wrong...I-I can try to fix it, if y-y-you'd like..." She backed up against a nearby building wall as Sapphire's shadow appeared over her. "I'll make sure not to make the s-same mistake again!" It proved difficult to not stutter in front of a large crowd of very angry and annoyed ponies. The last sentence she said sounded meek compared to Fluttershy's normal voice.

"It better be." Sapphire snarled, getting up in Rarity's face. "Or else Canterlot Boutique will be closed."

Rarity took a gulp of air, finding it hard to breathe. "I-"

"FOREVER!" Sapphire interrupted. 

Rarity was left in a huge pile of trashy dresses and wound-up stress. She knew one thing for certain. She took in a shaky breath to calm her nerves as another thing popped into her mind. Then another.

No sleep for Rarity tonight.
No gala for Rarity tonight.
No sanity for Rarity tonight...

Or ever.