After having completed my chemistry test with no problems at all, I found myself in the comfort of my private spot! The winds of autumn were refreshing without making you tremble of cold, but thicker cloth were required. It was a bad idea leaving home with a short sleeved shirt. At least the sun was bathing the light of this earth and a sense of warm could still be felt. I started to reflect on the wonders of being young and unpopular thanks to a certain person!
Nobody comes to talk to you when you were average! You didn’t have to be bothered with menial conversations of the latest gossips of high school drama nor being bombarded by crazed individuals! They say that being popular is the maximum expression of happiness and youth! But for me, having a personal space and a sense of privacy was the best freedom of all! You don’t belong to the trends! You don’t belong to the merciless eyes of society!
In other words, popular people must be surrounded by popular people, and common folk must be with the common folk! That’s the irrefutable law! There are exceptions, of course!
Then…
WHY THIS POPULAR FASHIONISTA IS TALKING NON-STOP TO AN AVERAGE GUY LIKE ME!?
Also…
YOU ARE IN MY SPOT!
“It was horribly! HORRIBLY! You can't begin to imagine how I felt when I saw that horrible dress in that girl yesterday when I was in the Chocorette Plaza with Twilight! And did you know that her boyfriend was wearing black jeans with green boots!? Those abominations! WHAT CAN BE MORE ATROCIOUS THAN THAT!?”
Your mouth never shutting up was definitely something atrocious!
“I feel I could weep in sorrow right now…”
“Oh, darling! I knew you would understand my feelings! You truly look sad for an unfashionable couple you don’t even know.” Said Rarity while magically withdrawing a handkerchief from nowhere and cleaning her tears with it.
Your overlook of the obvious is inspiring.
“Anyway! Why are you here!?”
“Oh! Yes! I forgot!”
You recovered fairly quickly from your tragedy.
“Darling! I need you to model for one of my fashion desgins!”
“ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!?” I shouted at her.
“Don’t be so rude!” Said Rarity with displeasure. “And no! I’m perfectly sane, thank you very much! I need you to model for my new fashion line with Twilight! Last time, you both looked so adorable and it helped me with the sales of my still unnamed, fashion line. So I came to ask you to help me once again! Will you help me?”
What a big smile!
“No.”
“Do it for you, darling! I bet you could be pretty popular with the ladies if you use more stylish clothes! The last set I did for you definetly could have been better!” Said Rarity with a soft and ladylike voice.
“No.”
Besides, I love simple!
“Pretty please! For me!” Said Rarity while blinking her eyes with a charming posture.
Oh Rarity! The way you convey your desires is something that only the most beautiful and gifted of women could achieve! I don’t doubt it could make the most stubborn of people obey your commands! Your fabulous eyes! Your exquisite smile! Your charming posture worthy of a sophisticated, elegant and untainted lady! In other words, you possess beauty, looks, talent, pride, strength! You are the finest example of a lady that can achieve fame and glory by her own hand.
But you have a great and incorrigible flaw in your gift that made your persuasions completely useless on people like me!
“No!”
“WHAT!? H-how could you say no!? Don’t you have the desire to be more fashionable and amazing than this!?”
And that’s the fatal flaw of your technique over me! You possess ambition and the drive to improve yourself in the world of fashion! More admirable was the fact that you also desired to raise the people you wanted help from! But I lack that kind of ambition! I don’t want to be somebody! I love the way I am! But that’s not the fatal flaw I was talking about! It is something far more simple but formidable than the lack of ambition!
It’s a pain in the ass dealing with you!
“NOU!"
“I need you specifically for my fashion designs to work!”
“WHY!? There is a plethora of cooler guys in this school! Flash for example!”
Forgive me, Twilight!
“But Twilight doesn’t want to do this with anyone else! I need you for her to help me!”
“I said no! It’s final!”
“Please! Think of the dreams of a poor girl who wants to use new, seasonal clothes!”
“As far as I know, Twilight dislikes fancy clothes. Stop pestering me, queen of drama!”
I could see that her eyes made a dangerous but brief iris reduction. Never mind, she is not scary! I have faced worst threats during my time as a Champion in the academy!
“Think of her self-esteem, darling! She can turn into an unconfident and ungracious girl!”
Your drama levels are over the chart.
“She is already an unconfident and ungracious girl but you and your friends are doing an amazing job in making her more open to people! So shoo, shoo!”
“Help me…” Said Rarity with an ominous voice.
“No! Stop bothering me about it!”
“Please, darling.”
I’m starting to feel scared with that fake expression of serenity… But I am a man! I won’t be threatened by the likes of her!
“Damn it! I said no!”
“Please be a gentleman and use more appropiate words!”
“CAN YOU STOP FUCKING ABOUT THIS, YOU WHINNY DRAMA BITCH!?”
And just like the time I called her an overreacting drama bitch in her boutique, I was at her mercy once again within those delicate hands of hers!
“AAAAAAHHH!!””
“I’LL RIP YOU TO PIECES!”
“I‘LL HELP YOU IN ANYTHING YOU WANT!”
“OH! I knew you would help me from the bottom of my heart!” Said Rarity with a charming, little voice while releasing me. “Let’s meet today after classes at my boutique, okay? Be there around four o’clock so I can have everything ready! WUH! This is going to be fantastique!”
And she happily left in a sophisticated manner. As for me, part of my manliness was greatly injured after this occurrence…
…’sob’ I hate her.
Once classes were over and the appointed hour was at hand, I arrived to the boutique of doom to get this over with. As I opened the door, there were some people I recognized from the school there. Applejack and her brother, Twilight, Spike, Rarity, and… who was the cute, little girl again?
“Rarity! This was supposed to be a simple clothing fix! Not another of your nonsensical fashion things”
“…yep.” Said a defeated Big Mac.
Poor guy… He was in the same shoes like me.
“Oh, Applejack! Don’t be ridiculous! I plan to make more than a simple fixing to your usual garment! As a matter of fact! I already designed your new dress for the autumn season!”
“Believe us, AJ!” Said the cute girl. “You will love the new design! Applebloom and Scootaloo saw part of the sketch in the morning and they say that it will look good on you!”
“Sweetie Belle! Don’t go around showing my fashion designs like that!”
So that was her name! I'll remeber it forever!
“I’m sorry, Rarity! But it looks so Applejack to let this pass…!”
I’m starting to think what Applejack considers good is something vastly different from Rarity’s vision. Her frowning expression was a marvel to behold!
“Anyway, please, let’s get this over with!” I said with great sourness.
“You are right! Thank goodness the first test period is over so I can finally focus on my new line! Let’s start the magic!”
“Uhm… Can I go, Applejack?.” Said Big...
HE CAN TALK!?
“Don’t be so unassertive, Big McIntosh!” Said Rarity with a cheering expression. “I’m sure Cheerilee will love to see you in fabulous, new clothes!”
And then, my suspicions were reinforced. Big Mac made a sudden and inconspicuous expression with the name Rarity spoke of, and after a brief moment of reflecting the possibilities, he stood in the stool table.
I understood his reason to do what he did…
Once again I was standing in this stool table for fashion uses and Big Mac was beside of me. His serene face was just a façade for his inner weariness of what he was doing right now. No doubt he could be repairing something in the farm or he could be relaxing in whichever his favorite spot was...
He could be with Miss Cheerilee’s in this moment…
But we cannot always spend time with the ones we developed an affection. As I was hopelessly sinking in my thoughts, I started to think of why we were charmed with a loss cause. Only those who fall in a romantic crush at first sight tend to have the projection of a long-held fantasy deep inside them. In other words, love at first sight was not real! At least, that’s what I believe.
It’s just a foolish dream we as people want to achieve. We put all our hopes in that person, all our expectations, all our-
“Darling!”
Rarity woke me from my trance, gently waving her hand in front of me. She had to stood on her toes to reach my face… it was cute.
“Sorry, what you need of me!?”
“All is done for today! I already have the updated measures for your clothes… Have you been eating properly, lately? You are a little bit thinner in a bad way than before! Anyway, thank you for your continuous help, Nitpick! Big Mac, you too can go!” Said Rarity with a grateful and elegant voice.
“Eeyup!”
“Finally it’s over!”
“You both speak like if you don’t enjoy trying new clothes!”
I won’t say anything… I don’t want to die.
Big Mac and I left the place leaving the boutique that suddenly burst in laughter and livelier atmosphere. They were having fun, not laughing at us, but enjoying their selves at the fullest! It’s not that we were really unwelcomed with them… we simply didn’t belong in that ambient.
We were just there, impeding... forget it. You know when people start to reflect about everything, they must be crazy inside! I talk about reflections with my friends from time to time, and although we enjoyed speaking and bitching about things… it didn’t last long.
I want to talk with someone of these things I want to express until we were sated of them with a sense of satisfaction… or we left each other's company and hated the exchange, wishing it never happened.
Big Mac made a small grump, he pointed out that the next turn was his destination to his way home. I bid him farewell and we went our separate ways. On my walking to reach home, a girl catched my interest in one of the small parks of the town. She was surrounded by critters and the birds were singing for her their last song of the day.
Fluttershy was apparently sleeping under the comfort of a tree, but she looked pale and tired.
I overheard at school that the shelter had some extra patients in recent weeks. Could this be the reason for her current state… or my actions really had a repercussion to her morale and esteem? Thinking of my past deeds for a minute, I came to an incomplete reasoning…
Was I truly wrong back then?
I continued my path… I didn’t have in me to say something that I don’t believe completly. Apologizing just for the sake of it produces an even worse result than not apologizing at all in the long run.
If there is a reason to make amends with her... please let it come soon!