Sweetie Belle didn't want to get up. Her bed was feeling so soft and comfy, like she was a tasty cinnamon bun. She licked her lips thinking of that and tried to roll over but she was stuck. She tried to kick the sheets but it was to no good. She tried to move the covers but something was in the way. She opened her and her eyes and let go a long shriek.

*****

“Thank you again for your help, dear,” Rarity said, levitating a trash can.

“I´m happy to help, Rarity,” Fluttershy replied, swiping the last trays of spiderweb. “How´s Sweetie Belle?”

“Still a bit angry at me,” Rarity sighed. “But it wasn't my fault! I didn't instruct the spiders to cover her room!”

“Well, you can't actually give instructions to spiders. They follow their natural instincts and go to the highest place to call it their home,” Fluttershy explained while upstairs Sweetie was heard complaining while cleaning her room.

“I don't know why things turned out this way. I thought that spiders will be as helpful as caterpillars. I could have made some wonderful pieces with their spidersilk but they keep on fighting!”

“Spiders are very territorial animals, Rarity. They don´t lie to share,” Fluttershy continued her lecture while separating two spiders that were fighting.

“And even one spider gives me trouble!” Rarity whined some more as a spider rejected the lettuce leaf she was offering and even (somehow) blew her a raspberry.

“I know you are only trying to improve your dresses but maybe spiders aren't the best solution. They belong in the forest and not in such a nice place.”

“I suppose you're right, Fluttershy. My dream of a Spider Silk Collection is nothing but that, a dream,” Rarity lamented in her over the top fashion and freed the poor Opalescence that had been captured by the spiders.

*****

Later that day, Rarity was strolling around the market, trying to find a substitute for the fabrics but nothing was as good as spider silk.

“Come here! Yes, you!” a vendor called her from a strand. “Come closer, Rarity, was it? Trixie remembers you.”

“And I remember you. You have some nerves for coming back again.”

“Please, Trixie learned her lesson and now just want to help other ponies. You, for example, I overheard your problem and I believe to have the solution,” Trixie said and took a jar from under her cape. “Behold! A Star Spider, the most rare kind of insect!”

“Haven't you learnt your lesson about dealing with star animals? And a spider isn't an insect, it´s an arachnid.”

“Enough! You want the spider or not? For only five bits you'll get the arachnid,” Trixie felt the need to add quotation marks to the term, “that produces the most wonderful and delicate silk in all of Equestria!”

Rarity knew better than to trust Trixie but the offer was too good to pass. Besides, one tiny spider had to be easier to handle than an entire colony of them, right?

*****

“Rarity, are you here? Oh goodness!”

Fluttershy lost her breath, the interior of Carousel Boutique was shining in a ethereal light. For a second Fluttershy fought she was floating in space but after she blinked a few times realized the entire room was covered in fabrics. Sparkling, glowing silk fabrics. They shine like stars and were soft as clouds to the tact.

“This is wonderful…”

“Isn't it, darling? I usually try to sound humble but this is without a doubt my best work!” Rarity exclaimed coming out her workroom.

“It is splendid, Rarity. But how did you manage to do it?”

“Oh, it´s all thanks to the help of this little friend here,” Rarity said, levitating a box with the Star Spider inside.

“Oh goodness, is that…”

“Now now, I know what you're going to say but I learned my lesson. I gave this lovely creature her own place in the house. She is sharing Sweetie´s room and having her own cornet to spread her webs all that she want,” rarity explained.

“That's great, Rarity. But you should have asked me before for help. You see, Star Spiders… “ Fluttershy began but Rarity interrupted her again.

“I had no need to ask you, dear. I got all the answers from her. More flies?” she asked the spider and levitated a jar to the spider who gladly took a bite. “I ask my dad for a few of his fishing baits.”

“Yeah but you forgot to ask me if I wanted a roommate…” Sweetie complained, passing by with cobwebs on her horn.

“Rarity, that's great but hear me out…”

“I know what you're going to say but we find a perfect working relationship. She provides me with all the silk I need and I gave her all the space and attention she wants. Now, we're the best of friends,” Rarity said, rubbing the spider in a surprisingly honest gesture of affection.

“Rarity! You need to hear me! You know why she is eating this much and producing this much silk?”

“Because...she is being friendly and is hungry?”

“No! Because this is Star Spider Season!”

“When you say season dear, you mean season as in…”

Just in queue, a hundred star spiders came down the Everfree Forest and crashed through the roofs and ceiling, covering the entire house and dragged the ponies around.

“As in mating season,” Fluttershy finished the sentence.

“Rarity!” Sweetie cried while being dragged by a dozen of potential suitors searching the affection of the Star Spider.

Rarity blushed, admitting she did needed an extra hoof when dealing with animals while the spiders made a heart in the silk above them as the Star Spider picked a mate.