Single Awareness Day

by Forever Fangirl MLP

Table for one please!

Rarity continued on her way, hoping to find at least one of her friends that weren’t busy with their significant other. She had already been to Pinkie’s, and Apple Jack’s and she didn’t have to check Rainbow Dash’s since she and Applejack we’re together. She didn’t have to check Twilight because, well she lived in Canterlot, And she didn't have to check herself because, well she knew she was free. That meant there was only one pony left.

And it was a short trip, since both AJ and Fluttershy lived in adjacent Ponyville. She walked her way up the forested path, making sure not to get her hooves covered in any sort of muck or dirt. Once she finally reached the small vine covered cottage, she knocked gently on the old wooden door. Hoping that for once, one of her friends would be home, and able to spend some time with her. She waited at the front porch, and waited. Until suddenly the door opened with a sudden slam, and a small pegasus like creature flew out of the door at the speed of light.

The filly, as it turned out to be, hovered best to Rarity, a large, smile plastered across her face. She had the body type of a pony, that was for sure, she had a pink mane which faded from being very dark, to very light. She had a light tan coat, two griffon claws as well as a light tan wing, she had large mint green eyes, and well that was everything pony about her... She had a very small set of mismatched horns, and one dark blue bag wing. She had two eagle claws, and a long, snake-like tale, with a tuft of pink hair at the end, and by far her most notable feature; red, diamond like pupils in the center of her bright, pale green eyes.

Recognizing the peculiar foal, she reacted immediately. "Oh My,darling, how have you been?" Despite the filly only being a year or two old, Rarity talked to her as she would any adult, as she believed that young , impressionable minds shouldn't be looked down upon, and that children shouldn't be trying to reach up.

"I was good, miss wawity" the young filly said with a strong lisp.

"Is that so, well I'm glad, for I too have been good as well." Rarity added to the young foal, realizing just how good she was at talking to foals, despite having none of her own.

Suddenly Fluttershy came rushing out of the cottage door, flying over to the young foal, and wrapping her hooves around the child in a loving embrace. Fluttershy was the foal's mother, and considering the foal's appearance it wasn't much of a stretch to know that Discord was the filly's father. The two had been married for a year, but had decided that they wanted foals a few years before, hence their daughter Disarray was born, although the two year old filly more commonly known as simply; Ary.

"Oh Ary sweetie, you shouldn't do that, you could hurt yourself, or someone else or..or...-well don't do... whatever it was that you did."

Fluttershy looked up from her filly and to the mare standing next to her

“Oh, hello Rarity!” She said joyously “I don’t believe I’ve even seen you since the last council meeting”

Rarity laughed nervously and remarked “ah, well there has been so much going on in the fashion business lately, I’ve been ever so stressed and was just lucky enough to be able to take a small vacation in Ponyville”

“I’m sorry to hear that you’re stressed, do you want to talk about it?” Fluttershy calmly responded.

Rarity simply nodded. The three walked inside the cottage, Ary flew off and Rarity and Fluttershy sat down on Fluttershy’s couch. As soon as they knew they were alone, Rarity faked fainting on the couch, placing her hoof over her eyes and sobbing, her mascara ran down her face. “IT’S THE WORST POSSIBLE THING!” she screamed.

Fluttershy stared blankly at the over dramatic pony before her and simply grumbled under her breath, “you’d think she’d be less dramatic as she got older...”

The white unicorn, whose face was now a mess of mascara smudges, opened up on her feelings, “I have so many boutiques that I always have to be at, and I never have anytime to myself anymore, and I really wish I did, because then I could spend more time with all my friends, but Pinkie’s always busy with her family, Apple Jack is always with Rainbow now, and vise versa, And Twilight’s always in Canterlot, plus she’s married now too, and whenever she’s not doing her duties she spending time with him, and even you! You make time for me, as you are doing right now, but you have a family too, you’re married, you even have a daughter, so what am I doing with my life! I’m so busy with work, I have no future, I’m too late in my life to get a coltfriend, but I want to have a family too...”

Rarity sniffed, as Fluttershy simply looked over at her friend and smiled, “Rarity, yes we’re always busy with our families now, but we too, are jealous we don’t have a huge, famous company that has spread across the world, we wish every creature would know us as entrepreneurs, and that we would have the glory of being renowned for our aspirations, but as you know, owing a huge company takes a lot of commitment and almost all of your time, that’s what it’s like having a family, once you commit yourself to a relationship or a child, or anything like that, that becomes your life above all else, and although it seems like the greatest joy in the world, it’s a lot of work too, and requires a sacrifice of your time, you of all ponies understand that,”

Rarity wiped her tears, smudging mascara all over her hoof as she did. Fluttershy reaches out to grab a picture of her, Discord and Ary. “And remember you can make a family out of anyone, It’s never too late to find that somepony that makes your life complete,”

Rarity nodded, half listening to her friend's advice, knowing Fluttershy was done with her ‘speech’ she dashed to her friend’s kitchen sink, to wash off the mascara from her hooves and face. Once she was almost completely soaked with water, and the black eye makeup was nowhere to be seen, she joined her friend once again.

“So, if you're not busy, would you be interested in going to dinner with me tonight, I’ve already asked to meet up with AppleJack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie this evening, and I believe a dinner would be a great way to talk to each other once again” Rarity added. “That sounds like a wonderful idea, And, I’m pretty sure Twilight is free tonight as well, since there usually isn’t any meetings, signings,boards or anything princessey on Friday nights,” Fluttershy responded. “In fact, I could probably just invite everyone, if that’s easier for you,” she added. “That would be wonderful!” Rarity exclaimed. “How about we meet at eight ‘o clock, that way Ary, and Lil Cheese are asleep so you won’t have to worry about them,'' Rarity asked. “Sure thing, Rarity, we’ll see you then!”

Rarity waved goodbye to her friend before leaving the cottage and making her way to Ponyville once again.

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It was eight thirty at night. Rarity sat at an empty table with five other chairs, No one had shown up, not even Fluttershy. She sat alone, coming to the realization that her friends weren’t coming. Tears started to form within her eyes, Why would they stand me up? she thought. Well, that makes it sound like a date...I’m sure they left so they would go on dates with their significant others and they left me here, because-

Her thoughts were interrupted by a waitress coming up to her. “Hello Miss, what can I get for you?”

Another pony calling me ‘Miss’ why can’t I just have a somepony to love? she thought to herself before responding,

“I’ll just get a salad,” she said in her most joyous tone, for a pony who was just betrayed by her best friends.

“Ok miss, your order will be up in a minute!”

Rarity didn’t listen, she was too busy staring at the ceiling, feeling like she didn’t belong, time seemed to stop, and she seemed to lose herself, letting her mind ponder over her friends motives, as well as her own course of action. She didn’t even notice when her salad arrived, she simply just stabbed her fork through the spinach leaves, too upset to even eat. After a while she did eat a few of the tomatoes, and even some of the spinach, but she still left most of her food untouched.

After about a half an hour or so, the waitress came with her bill.

Suddenly Rarity remembered why she hadn’t eaten at the particular restaurant for years.

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The waitress had came back to collect to bill, Rarity, used her magic to grab the money, and she was about to hand it to her when-
An earth pony with a dark tan coat, and a dark brown mane with light green accents dumped a pile of bits on the table.

“I’ll be covering for her tonight, Miss” he said to the waitress.

“Why thank you sir, that was very generous of you,” Rarity responded.

“You betcha ma’am, I noticed you were sitting at a table with more than one chair, and I assumed you probably got stood up, and right before Hearts and Hooves day too!” The pony said with a thick Winneapolis accent.

Rarity wanted to correct him on the fact that she wasn’t going on a date, but he wasn’t completely wrong, her friends did leave her there, so she left it at that.

And then an idea struck her.

“You single?” She asked.
“Yes ma’am” he responded.
“Well let’s fix that, Tomorrow, we meet her six ‘o clock, it’s a date,” she replied
“A date?”

“A date.”

Author's Note:

As for the first part of this, I’ve seen a lot of fanfiction in which Rarity gives relationship advice to Fluttershy, and I kinda wanted to do something with the opposite of that, so yeah that’s my reasoning behind that.

Also, this story is gonna have 4 chapters in total, in planning to get the finale out my Valentines Day, or the day after, I really can’t predict how fast I’ll finish it but soon enough where it’ll make sense as a Hearts and Hooves day fanfic

Comments

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This isn't bad of an idea and the execution isn't terrible, but small grammar mistakes and formatting issues are driving me up the wall.

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[Forever Fangirl MLP]

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THANK YOU!!!
I'm sorry about the grammer, I'm literally so horrible at it, so thank you for the group recommendation

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