Chapters "You know, you've got an obsession with that book. You should stop reading it"
"Hey! If I read it, it's because I like it. Plus, what's not to love about supernatural creatures? Hippogriffs! Chimeras! Unicorns!!"
Just sitting in the lunchroom, talking as usual. Nothing special there. I had of course woken up late and Bonbon had to come in and be a good friend. I still can't believe that she got in trouble just for me! We got to school late, of course, and we had to part ways and each find our own excuses. I had Latin class that particular morning, so I didn't get into that much trouble. But Bonbon, however, had English and, man was the teacher angry! I wasn't there, but Bonnie's explanations are enough to make me shiver.
Well, we could finally talk. And boy, are we talking. It's so much, I can hardly take it in: Math teacher, the next movie coming out, what the next biology test is going to be, etc. But, of course, like most of our conversations, we eventually talked about my book and my obsession.
"I'm telling you,"says Bonbon, an angry look in her eye,"Those beasts don't exist"
"Well, my dear Bonnie," I retaliate, intent on defending my hobby,"Just because something isn't right in front of you doesn't mean it doesn't exist!"
"Plus, I thought that you already have enough supernatural things happening around here,"replies "my dear Bonnie", "What with the Fall formal fiasco and the battle of the bands. I'd say you have enough stuff here to worry about and admire, instead of getting your hopes up with that old book of yours."
I knew she would say that. A smirk is now on her face: she had practically won. She had used that "rainbow magic trump card" since the Fall Formal, and every time she uses it, she wins. But, not today. For today, I have finally got a comeback, something that would make her know that I am right.
"Well," I start carefully, holding my breath (which is very hard to do when you're speaking), "The rainbow power must be some kind of telepathic energy that -(Oh great! She's rolling her eyes at me! I need to try to make sense, or else I'll never hear the end of it) -then, there was the part where the grow wings: this part is very complicated, so listen careful-(Oh, man, I'm really not making sense now! Come on, Lyra. Think of what you've read!)- agical realm where there are unicorns that make rainbows! Oh, and a possibility of other
No response.....
"Hello, Bonbon! Bonnie? Sweetie drops? Hey, do you understand?
No response...
"What, did you blow a fuse or something?"
Finally, a reaction! She slowly turns her head towards me, her eyes glues to mine. Then, in practically a whisper, she says:
"OK...........I'm taking that darn book away from you!"
Weird! Am I sleeping? Was all that a dream? Should I wake up, or not? My alarm hasn't rang yet, so I guess I can just stay here, on the...cold floor? Why am I sleeping on the floor? Was I actually not dreaming? I'll open my eyes and see.
Wow! Everything is blurred! I can't see anything strait! I'll look at my hand, just to see... It looks like a greenish blob, with this lighting and my blurred vision. It looks normal enough, for now, but I can't seem to move my fingers. Probably part of a concussion I got by falling down. It'll be fine in a few hours.
Now let's look at where I am... I can't recognize this place. It's to blurry to make sure, but I think that it's some kind of auditorium... No wait...those are books on the walls: this must be a library! But where...? The cold floor, the crystalline walls...crystals...for walls...? This must be a dream.
Well, I won't figure anything out just by laying here doing nothing! Time to get up! I start to stand up slowly...I try to keep my balance with my hands on the ground, before I finally stand up straight...and fall! It might be the disorientation of the fall, but I have trouble keeping my balance. I guess that I'll have to resort to crawling on all fours.
My eyesight is starting to get better. I can actually see objects now. I can see every individual book on the shelves, every piece of furniture in the room. Now, I can actually admire what this place has to offer. It actually is all made out of crystals! The texture, the look, the color, it must have taken a lot of time to hand-chisel all of th-
Did I just see something move out of the corner of my eye?......Yes, I think I did.
"Who's there?", I half-heatedly yell, still absorbed in the beauty of the structure that I am currently in.
No answer.
However, there's a figure standing right there in front of me and, as my sight finally stopped looking like a Monet painting, I realize what I was looking at!
T-This is amazing! The greenish fur, the practically athletic stature, the beautiful mane of light green and white! And lets not forget the coup de grace, the cherry on top, the horn, right in the middle of the forehead, in all of it's mint green glory.
Wait, something's not right! I'm actually looking at one, but, there's something familiar about it, as if I've seen it before............I finally see................I'm actually looking into a mirror
I'm just standing here in awe in front of this revelation! I cannot believe it! I'm hardly even questioning it, but...
"I'm a UNICORN!!!", I cry out, prancing around the chamber, not bothering to think about how I even got here in the first place....(wait, aren't these my thoughts....nevermind)"I'M A UNICORN.........A UNICORN!!!"
"Yeah, well when you're done stating the obvious, can you please explain what you're doing in here, Lyra?"
A voice? Here? It sounds odd, as if it's speaking a language that I haven't learned, but understand.
"H-h-how do you know my name?"I reply, trying in vain to hide my shaking voice
"Well," the voice said, this time with a friendlier tone," I'm your friend! I should know your name... You do remember me, right?"
With that, a pony...flew....out of the shadows.....Wait, FLEW! A FLYING PONY!
"A FLYING PONY? THIS DAY IS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER! I SHOULD LEAN AGAINST STATUES MORE OFTEN!"
"Umm..." The multicolored pony tries to reply before I start bombarding it with questions.
"How do you have wings?"
"Well, I'm a..."
"Are you a complete different species then me?"
"Well, I th-"
"How are you able to stay off the ground with that small of a wingspan?"
"Hey! I.."
"OHHH, I have sooo many questions for your, I don't even know where to start!"
"Well," the pony said, a hint of annoyance in it's voice, "how about I start with one.."
"Go ahead..." I answered, hardly hiding my excitement!
"WHAT THE HAY ARE YOU DOING IN HERE AND WHY ARE YOU ASKING ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW!"
I just stood there, taking in that sentence. And then, it hit me...
"Oh, that's right, you think I'm a pony," I said, " You must learn this kind of stuff in pony school! Hah, silly me! No, I'm actually a.."
"Let me guess, a human!"
................
"You're wondering you I know that, right?" The pony, which I'm sure is a female, said after seeing my reaction." It's because you're always so obsessed with them! Come back to the real world, Lyra! You've got friends here that care a lot about you and you keep on letting them down!"
"B-but..."
"No buts! I'm taking you back home. Bonbon must be worrying about you..."
"Wait....Bonbon is he-"
Before I could say anything else, the pony picks me up and carries me out of the window.
No need for an airplane: you've got ponies!
I'm flying! I can't believe I'm flying! The wind in my hair....or should I call it my mane..., the ground whizzing by as if it where the one moving.......I can't believe it!
Well, now that my wonder and amazement is out of the way, I should try to find out more about this magnificent world I am currently in.
"Hey!"I shouted over the sound of the wind,"Do you have a name?"
I am of course talking the the winged equine that's helping me live that magical experience, who replied:
"Wait? You don't know who I am? I'm Rainbow dash., the fastest Pegasus this side of Canterlot! I am also, coincidentally, your friend, So you should know my name!"
Friend? "But...I've never been here in my life!"
"Hmmm.....It could be amnesia...but you do remember YOUR name...right?"
"Of course! Why would I forget my name?"
"The same way you forgot mine," Rainbow says cynically "Well...I know that Bonbon can help you get back on your hooves!"
"Wait...BONBON?"
"Yeah...she's your roommate.....You do remember her, at least!"
"How could I ever forget her! I can't wait to talk to her! I wonder how long she's known about this world? I told her time and time again that ponies were scientifically possible...and now....."
I let what Rainbow Dash said sink in....Roommates?
"I-it's not her is it? It's not MY BONBON...Is she?"
"Of course......well we're here, so you can see for yourself...I hope she knows what can help you!"
She sets me down and we trot towards a small cottage....
Suddenly...for the first time before coming here...I feel scared. Absolutely terrified about the prospect of meeting someone else called Bonbon...She wasn't MY Bonbon....was she? I needed somebody to help me if I fell to pieces...so I had to turn to the only person.....pony...... who I knew in this place:
"R-Rainbow D-dash......."
She was about to knock on the door of the aforementioned cottage..but she stopped as soon as I finished stuttering.
"Yeah...what is is Lyra?"
"C-can you stay with me for a while.....just until I meet this new Bonbon...."
"Uhhh,"She said, slightly uneasy for a moment,"Fine! You are in a pretty bad shape, so you'll need the help of the fastest Pegasus this side of Canterlot to help you....!"
Just as I start to think that she's full of herself, Rainbow knocks on the door. After a few seconds... a pony answers. She is (somehow) holding a sandwich in her hoof. I look at her, and she looks at me, and I can't help but notice something familiar about her hair-(mane-)style, her colers and even the way the walks......she IS my Bonbon!
"BONBON! YOU'RE HERE TOO! ISN'T THIS PLACE AMAZING! WHERE'S YOUR HORN? ARE YOU HIDING IT SOMEWHERE WITH MAGIC? CAN I DO THAT TOO?"
"Uhhhhhhhh"
"HOW DID YOU EVEN GET HERE? I FELL INTO A STATUE BACK AT SCHOOL THEN...I'M A PONY! WHAT ABOUT YOUR DAD: IS HE HERE TOO?"
"Wellllll......"
"LYRA! PLEASE! WE CAN ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS LATER!"
"Oh..."I stopped shouting, blushing, "Sorry, Rainbow dash..."
"Just let me talk now!" She turned to Bonbon, "I found her in the castle. I think she may be suffering from amnesia....but she does remember you and her name. She woke up thinking she used to be a human: I think she's going crazy from all that crap!"
"Sh-she's not the only one!"
"Why...what is it?"
"W-well, you just brought me Lyra right here....but she's right now inside eating lunch"
Suddenly, a more than familiar voice shouts from inside the cottage:
"Hey Bonbon? Who is it? I'm not done rambling about the possibilities of the human world existing!"
I need to wake up. I'll be late. I only put the alarm clock on snooze, that isn't enough. I can't contain it. It'll ring again eventually. I can feel it coming. I should just get up. Or should I? Is it a Tuesday or a Sunday? I'm never good with dates. If only Bonbon was here, she could tell me.
OK, stop joking around! I need to get up. It's Tuesday: I can feel it. The alarm just rang again. Put it in snooze, or silence it and wake up? I can see myself doing it. I'm reaching my mint green hand towards the clock. On the back, there's a button that will silence it. After I press it, I just need willpower to lift myself off my sheets and go downstairs to have some OJ and toast, like I always do. Then, I'll get my stuff, get dressed and get out of my front door, where Bonbon will be waiting for me: my best friend. There, we'll talk about the day ahead of us, how one of us has math, the other history and that it's so unfair that we can't be together for English class, to shield one another from the terrible teacher we've got. She would help me study for the upcoming pop quiz the French teacher gives us every Tuesday and I'll help her go through the trauma of talking to another one of her ex-boyfriends. And then, at lunch, we'd sit down and talk about how our day went in contrast to how we thought it would go. Oh yes, how I love talking to Bonbon....Bonbon...Bonbon...Lyra...no, wait! That's my name, Lyra heartstrings. Why did it suddenly pop up in my head?
"Lyra...Lyra...wake up! We're late"
"Late for what, Bonbon? It's a Saturday, right?"
"So, how did you survive this time?"
"Oh, I read the mystical creatures book on my lap while making believe that I was writing to make sure she didn't call on me."
"Nice!"
I have just finished my turn in the English teacher's torture chamber and am now heading home, with Bonnie at my side. That wasn't such a big day, compared to any other day at Canterlot high, but I still think it was a productive one. Now to talk about more things with my very best fri-
"Oh wait... I forgot!"She said, turning to me "My dad is coming to pick me up today..."
Instant heartbreak! I didn't know what to do if I wasn't in her company! She was always at my side, laughing with me, crying with me, complaining with me... Stop it, Lyra! You can do this! Whenever I leave, Bonbon never has a breakdown! She always is fine with my decision! Time for me to be fine with her's!
"Alright,"I say, covering my chest so that she doesn't see the two parts of what used to be one heart,"I'll catch you tomorrow, I guess..."
"Don't stay up to late, again..."
There she goes, walking away...far away...towards her dad's car...and I'm still just waving...waving...waving...I can stop waving now.
I put down my arm. I watch as she gets into the car and it drives off. Then, I can finally take the fake smile off of my face. Why, though, can I never stand seeing her go? Is it true friendship or is it something else... Do I...love...No, I can't! My parents, being the traditionalists they are, would kill me if I were to be like that! They already hate me for not getting a boyfriend yet, so I can't imagine what they would say if I said I would prefer a girlfriend. So, it must be true friendship.
I start walking across the courtyard. Nobody's here anymore: just me...alone...me and my thoughts... I guess I could just read my book a bit. My parents work late, so I can walk home when I want to, anyway. But, should I sit on our bench? No, I wouldn't feel right without her! I guess I'll just lean against the statue in the middle of the courtyard. I open my bag, take out my book, open it to the page explaining the science of unicorns and lean against the statue...
Except, there is nothing to lean against. The statue is there, but I don't lean on it. I feel like I'm falling through it, as if it didn't exist! I'm just falling, falling, falling...Then I bump to the ground...and pass out...
