Being Lyra

"Ah, shit," I said negatively.

"What's wrong?" Bon Bon replied.

"See for yourself," I said as I pointed my hoof back to the center of Ponyville.

There were posters posted against walls on pretty much every street corner, they were wanted posters. Several of the guards from the hospital were patrolling throughout Ponyville; they really were taking this seriously.

The security guards were not ones to give up easily; almost every guard pony held a picture of us in their mouth and asked questions relating to where we were to all the locals, one after another, after another, nonstop.

"Have you seen these mares?"

"Sir, have you seen these mares?"

"Ma'am, have you seen these mares?"

Given my assumption, they will probably give up patrolling Ponyville soon. I'm led to believe that crazy psychopath knows where we are headed to.

"Oh no, we're fugitives, we better turn back before we get into serious trouble," Bon Bon said as she panicked.

"No, we can't stop now, since we're fugitives, everypony in Ponyville will try to turn us in, so we can't risk going to the train in Ponyville, we have only one option, we must go through the everfree forest," I said.

"But it's dangerous, especially at night when you can't see," Bon Bon said nervously.

"Look, no matter where we go they'll find us, your house and Lyra's house is two hotspots they'll come looking for us in. We have no choice but to get a move on while we still can," I said confidently.

The forest entrance, it looked much darker inside than it did already out here. I knew I wasn't prepared for whatever was in there but it was something we had to do. Bon Bon looked as if she was going to fall to the ground from her shaking her four limbs rapidly in nervousness.

"Well, this is it, the everfree forest, Bon Bon, before we risk our lives on this journey, I've always wanted to tell you something in case of something goes wrong or if we get separated," I said.

"What is it?" she asked.

My muzzle slowly closed in towards Bon Bon's, we were face to face until my head got even further. Soon both our muzzles touched and my lips locked onto hers. It took ten whole seconds until I took control of myself and quickly withdrew my muzzle away from hers. Trying to gather my thoughts and say that the kiss was unintentional but when I opened my mouth, my brain decided to use the incorrect phonemes, but I truly wanted to use the incorrect phonemes.

"I love you," I said romantically.

Do I truly love Bon Bon? No I don't! Why won't my mind let me decide who I love and who I don't?! Then I realized, my new mind is taking over, Lyra's memory of her relationship with Bon Bon... It's making me want to fall in love with Bon Bon! I can like her as a friend but my mind is transforming me to want to take it to the next level, which was beyond me, at least for the moment. My mind made me want to agree with it and just let it take control over my emotions, deciding when and where I should use specific emotions, it succeeded. I now longed for my brain to finish the job and no longer fought back, it was only moments before I was no longer able to see her as just my friend, but as somepony that I've loved for my entire life.

Bon Bon hesitated for a moment trying to process what happened. For a second, she looked like she was frozen in ice, unable to move or blink.

"What? No round two?" I questioned.

"Lyra?" she tested me.

"Yeah?" I responded.

"This is bad, you've already forgotten your real name and you've nearly put me into a seductive state because of Lyra's true love for me," she said as she acknowledged me responding to Lyra's name.

"Oh, we're roleplaying in third pony now?" I asked.

"No we're not, now let's go before any more of your memory gets erased," she rushed me.

We entered through the forest entrance and walked around for five minutes being nearly lost in the dark until Bon Bon spoke.

"Lyra, please tell me you can use your light spell," she pleaded.

"Of course," I replied.

Light emanated our path through my horn, it was still pretty dark and scary, but it was helpful nonetheless.

"Hey, Bon Bon, what are we doing out here anyways?" I asked.

"I'd answer your question but you'd have to answer my question first: 'How fast are you going to lose relevant information?'" she replied.

"No need to be a dick," I replied.

"How unfortunate that one of the only things that still remains in your mind is your constant swearing," she said as she sighed.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Just follow me, and try not to get lost," she continued.

"Alright," I sighed.

"Look out!" I said as Bon Bon slipped into a crevice, it was at least six stories deep and a hundred yards wide.

"I got you," I said as Bon Bon hooked onto my two hooves.

"Lyra, you've got to levitate me out! There's no way you can just pull me out!" she said as she panicked.

"Okay, but I don't know how to make you levitate," I replied.

"You're a unicorn, unicorns do magic, and magic consists of levitating things!" she said as she started slipping.

"I... I don't know how, I am sorry," I said as a tear slipped right though my eyes.

Bon Bon then slipped out of my hooves, I lost her grip and Bon Bon started falling.

"I'm sorry, Bon Bon," I muttered.

Phonemes - A single sound created to form part of a word

Ex: ah, a, o, oo, s, ch, c, r, n, p, l, w

Since I spent nearly two hours revising the paragraph after 'Lyra' said 'I love you', trying to make it easier to understand what was going on without making the protagonist making a complete fool of himself (technically he already did), I felt like explaining it here was easier.

Shane was being tricked by his mind into thinking that he should want to love Bon Bon and since his brain presented him with the opportunity, he agreed. Your mind controls your memory, and since Lyra's memory includes having specific emotions for Bon Bon, those memories can link up to the other part of his brain that is the control station of your emotions, allowing the memory to take over his emotions. His mind was as if one entity was being forced to want something to happen to him, thinking it was a requirement to have Lyra's memory stored into him, so he did not resist and let it do its job.

When he tried to say what he wanted to say at the moment he said he loved Bon Bon and truly didn't, he himself did and didn't want to say it. Think of it like a computer, you have to look up the data you have on the computer to retrieve it, so when he looked up what to say in his mind, nothing there said that he didn't love her or just 'liked' her enough to unintentionally kiss her. So his mind used what Lyra would say in a situation like that.