"Well, I've enjoyed our short time together today as 'companions', if you will, around town. It seems like such a whirlwind of a day. I mean I stumble into your store and here we are out to dinner."

She giggled, perhaps a bit too loudly, but it was funny to think about it.

She wondered if it could be like this always?

Would he want to take her out on a real date someday?

"Maybe after you get to know each other better, you really don't know a lot about him and he definitely doesn't know a lot about you to permit a date."

But how much would they need to know about each other to permit it?

Perhaps you should just wait for him to ask , and cross that bridge when you get there.

"So what's your favorite color?"

"Oh yea, surely that would permit an invite*eye roll*"

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He smiled and even chuckled a bit at her question.

"My favorite color is my coat color: deep blue. Right after that is my mane color, black."

"Yup. She takes an interest in you. And because you take an interest in her, better return the favor."

"And you..?"

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"Well let me think, Sapphire is such an elegant color how could I not love it? But seeing as I hear it all the time, I grow quite tired of it. I'd have to say it's the teal in my mane. It's light and airy but something about it is so...so..beautiful."

"Oh yea...he's into you. Lets keep the ball rolling."

She waited patiently for his next inquiry, seeing as she made plenty of her own earlier in the day she saw it only fitting for him to reciprocate.

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"Interesting... it isn't the white of your coat..?"

He also wondered why her name was Sapphire, yet she was white... He wanted to ask her next. Sapphire was such a nice name...

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"No, white has never really held any special meaning. My family have white coats but different colored outlines. For example, my father is white with an emerald outline. My mother has a ruby one. I am the only pony who didn't get an outline and I can only suppose it's because of my light teal hair."

As she thought of it she realized that her name and coloring didn't quite add up...her name should really be Amethyst instead of Sapphire.

She decided to give him an explanation to this as well because she could see it confused him.

"You're probably wondering why my name is Sapphire? Well the story goes that when I was born my mother didn't want my first name to be a gem cut like hers and my fathers. My mothers name is Marquise Ruby and my fathers is Asscher Emerald. So she decided that she was going to try and predict my cutie mark by naming me Sapphire and then Gem is our last name. So technically I don't have a middle name. But when my cutie mark showed it had a purplish blue tint, so my parents freaked and rushed me to the nearest jeweler and he assured them that my name and cutie mark matched up as some Sapphires have a purple/indigo tint. So it just stuck."

She realized she had been rambling.

"Sorry if I bored you."

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"No, no, I was just going to ask why your name is Sapphire. It is a really nice name..."

He blushed a bit.

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"Well thank you. And that's about it really"

She noticed him blushing and it made her blush...

and there was an awkward silence.

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The awkward silence didn't help his blush.

"Have you designed anything recently..?"

"Perfect. Just perfect. Wait, no, not perfect, bad."

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Designed? Lately?

In the midst of moving and unpacking she really hadn't had much time to.

But she wasn't going to say that, it sounded unprofessional and non-dedicated.

"Some things here and there but with the moving a lot of my design utensils are packed away."

"Good cover, the truth."

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"Right. Of course. You told me you were moving here."

He facehoofed.