Time To Model

by Jhoira

Mourning Minuette (June 8th, Saturday morning.)

Rarity yawned as she sat up in bed, frowning as she saw that Minuette was missing. Rarity grinned as she stretched a little, that was somewhat uncommon but not unheard of by any means, sometimes Minuette got a little restless and went out in the morning for a walk. But much to Rarity’s surprise Minuette pushed open the door to the bedroom. Grinning Minuette floated two plates of breakfast into the room, climbing up onto the bed and floating one in front of Rarity. “Breakfast in beeeeeeeeeed.”

Rarity giggled absently as she lifted a piece of toast and nibbled at it. “Still extolling the virtues of having you move in darling?” Minuette grinned as she made a kissy face at her marefriend before starting to eat her eggs. Rarity giggled a little as she continued to eat her toast before leaning over and kissing her marefriend on the cheek. "It's cheating if you don't talk quiet Minuette." Minuette grinned as she silently continued to eat her eggs. Rarity rolled her eyes slightly but couldn't stop her smile. "Yes, Minuette."

Minuette grinned even wider and in a flash was suddenly holding an engagement necklace and raising an eyebrow at Rarity. "Oh, really Rarity? I didn't think you'd be interested in moving so fast..."

Rarity flushed, though she knew it was a joke to Minuette the possibility for even a moment that she wasn't joking did throw Rarity off. "Don't make me retract my offer for you to live here, darling. Why do you even have that?"

Minuette grinned and put the engagement necklace aside, smiling at Rarity, though Rarity could detect that it was a little less carefree than usual. "I told you I've had special someponies before Rarity..."

Rarity nodded but gave a very slight scowl. "Yes, but you never said you were engaged darling, that's a slightly large oversight."

Minuette let out an uncharacteristically harsh laugh. "I'll do you one better for the oversight Rarity. I've been married before."

"Min...!" Rarity's response started off harsh until she saw her usual up and at 'em marefriend looking a bit deflated, looking out the window. Rarity scooted over to Minuette, cooing to her gently. "Darling... What happened?" Rarity nuzzled up behind her marefriend, wrapping her forelegs around one of Minuette's.

Minuette looked at Rarity with a sad smile. "Oh, it's not a very fun story Rarity."

"But it's an important one isn't it darling?" Rarity leaned in, gently pressing her forehead against Minuette's neck, just in the crook of her neck.

Minuette chuckled and leaned down a moment to nuzzle Rarity in return. "You're getting better at this."

Rarity couldn't help but grin at the compliment. "I have a good teacher."

Minuette took a deep breath, leeting out a resigned sigh. "We met about four years ago. Swift Gold was a royal guard and I was a knight. We instantly started competing against each other to show off our orders superiority. He'd win some, I'd win some. We went back and forth like that, though I had the slight lead it was only about 6/10." Rarity smiled as she laid down, next to the sititng mare, allowing Minuette to go at her own speed. "He looked quite dashing in his guards uniform you know." She smiled as she leaned down, nuzzling gently into Rarity's mane.

"We started dating on a dare really. One night Shining Armor took the knights and the guards out in one of his many inter-departmental 'get to know each other' things. I was the newly minted Grand Master of the Knights Of The Early Stars." Minuette chuckled at Rarity's raised eyebrow. "I didn't pick the name Rarity. Anyway, I was, and still am, its only member, so defacto I'm in charge. So I might have drunk a little too much in celebration and challenged anyone who could out drink me to dinner! Only Swift Gold was stupid enough to take me up, I'm still not sure who ended up winning, there were conflicting stories."

Rarity couldn't help but giggle, it would be hard to think of a less dreamy and romantic first date than one that resulted from a drinking contest. Minuette looked down at her raising an eyebrow, but smiling, relieving Rarity's immediate concern that she had offended her marefriend. Rarity smiled up at her in return, "Oh, it's just not the most romantic start darling."

Minuette chortled as she shook her head, raising a hoof and gently running it through Rarity's beautiful mane. "Right you are there Rarity. But we enjoyed the dinner, much to our surprise." Minuette stopped petting the other, much to Rarity's chagrin. That was until Minuette nestled down, resting her neck over the other mare's. "We had a lot in common, which is probably why we tried to compete so much with each other." She grinned a bit wider. "Then we got engaged in secret."

"Secret darling?"

"Yes, his parents weren't exactly ecstatic about him dating "a common mare" but he didn't care."

Rarity frowned. "But... So you kept it secret? That must have been..."

Minuette snickered. "Oh no, dearheart, I wasn't offended. There were political reasons to keep it quiet, and it's not like we needed the world to know. If we were just dating and didn't end up spending our lives together, why should we cause fighting with his family? His parents were jerks, but they were his parents." Minuette smiled as Rarity made soft cooing sounds up at her, scooting back a little Minuette leaned in to nuzzle her marefriend before finishing her story. "Well, we got married in secret, hoping that announcing it to his parent at the Friendship Festival might be the best way to soften the blow."

Minuette took a long pause there, causing Rarity to snuggle in a little closer to her, closing her eyes as she let out a small yawn. Nuzzling into her marefriend and waiting patiently for the conclusion. "Well, we never got to make the announcement." She sighed, pushing Rarity over making her meep slightly but it Minuette grinned down at her, letting her roll back over. Rarity chuckled and poked her marefriend in the side, assuming Minuette was distracting herself from the story. "He died during the attack by the storm king."

Rarity leaned up, kissing her marefriend on the cheek. "I'm sorry darling."

Minuette took a long moment looking out the window before she turned her head, grinning at Rarity, though after a month Rarity could tell it was a little forced. "Well even though it wasn't public knowledge all the papers were filed. I still get his pension."

Rarity gasped, taken aback before giggling gently, shaking her head. "That was terrible darling!"

Minuette smiled, kissing her marefriend gently. "He's in a better place now dearheart. And I have a beautiful new prospect to spend my life with."

Rarity smiled in return, she could tell that Minuette wasn't quite as at peace with it as she was claiming to be, but she obviously had accepted it and moved on with her life. "And who you're now living with. Well, partially living with."

Minuette grinned a bit wider, this time completely genuine. "Dang straight, and I have to say." She leaned in whispering to Rarity. "You're a lot hotter than Swift Gold." Minuette grinned as Rarity blushed, and Minuette pushed her over onto her back again, climbing over her marefriend.