[author's note]
For completeness' sake, I've moved the whole story into the first chapter. And I've added about four more paragraphs throughout the fic. This is quite different from anything I have written in the past, and I thank you for reading!
Here's a song with the title, Les mots d'amour. It might be the song mentioned in the story, it might not... feel free to decide for yourselves :D
So... maybe if I think of more things I'll notify you all here.
[on the numbering]
Since someone asked, I thought I'd put this here :)
18 and zero are red. 6 is pink, and 3 is blue.
I used red, the color of a heart (or just some color associated with roses or something), to signify well, love, and beginnings. The beginning of Twilight writing her sorrow, and their new beginning together.
6 is when Twilight thinks about her cutie mark (six points on the star), and 3 is Rarity's cutie mark (3 diamonds). 3 says that Twi had a silly notion that 6x3=18, so 18 is a special number for her (yes it's so very subtle, It's mostly just sentimental hooey, in truth).
Hence the countdown starts from 18.