As soon as Silver Spoon saw the mouth writing on the reply, she wanted to give a whinny of pure joy. She recognised it from all the notes they had passed to each other in the past since they were young blank flanks. It was the writing of Diamond Tiara. Under what she assumed to be a layer of green paint, was her favourite mare in Equestria, the love of her life. She decided to talk openly to her as soon as they could do so in private without blowing their cover to everypony around them. She had a lot of kisses that she had planned for her loved one, and she also wanted to ask how Diamond was coping with her new life undercover. She and Diamond had so much to talk about. Normally the two of them were together far more often then not, so being forced to be apart was seriously annoying for them. As soon as the school day was over and they had the chance they went to a nearby alleyway and looked around a few times to make sure that they were indeed safely alone.
"Diamond Tiara! What have they done to you? Did they think some green paint and a curly mane, and taking away your tiara would stop me from recognising you?"
"Silver Spoon! Yuck-that disguise is so not you, but under it all you are still the wonderful mare that I love. So how are they treating you?"
"I have to toil away on a rock farm. It's not as bad as it could be, as they let me keep some of the jewels that I find, but still, a rock farm! So not me. I belong to a very important pony. I should not be having to get my hooves dirty. And worse, Shining Armour had me transported to Canterlot bound and muzzled! Outrageous. He may be the Captain of the Guards, but I am an heiress and should be treated with respect. What he did was guard brutality. So how have things been for you? Are they treating you any better?"
"Not really. They have me bucking apples with the rest of the Apple Family. Me, an apple-bucker, imagine that! There are compensations, Applejack is much sweeter and more affectionate then my mother is, but I still missed you so much."
The two ponies gave each other a big warm kiss, and then more hungry kisses of love that had been denied them for far too long. Whatever might happen to them in the future, at least they were now together again. "If they were going to place us together but disguised, they might as well have done so anyway. It's not as if we are the only marefriend couple in Equestria. Maybe there are no gangsters after us? Perhaps it's some kind of elaborate prank to try and make us into well behaved, hard working ponies?," Diamond Tiara asked.
"I'm not so sure of that," Silver Spoon replied. They showed me a pony that used to be a model, who had her ears cut off, both of them, and her wounds were most certainly not faked. And her cutie mark had been slashed as well. It must have cost quite a few bits to get us properly disguised, renamed and sent here. We come from rich families as well who could have afforded bodyguards to watch over us, at least in the short term. Whoever is after us must have the strength and the weapons to even penetrate a bodyguard screen. And be determined as well. So I suppose all this is worth it just to keep us safe. I wish they had not put those dreadful doubles in our place."
"I could almost wish that our doubles end up getting hurt," Diamond Tiara said "except that we need them to help trap our would-be foalnappers. I wonder how mine is coping with my mother getting angry with her?" She grinned at the thought.
"They may be in the lap of luxury now, but they are most likely in fear that something will go wrong and they will end up foalnapped for real and having their ears sawed off. At least we can comfort ourselves thinking about that. In public, we can't be a couple, but in private you and I have a lot of marefriend time to make up."