If you are reading this chapter now, I am probably about thirty years old, and you may not know me as an author. If you want to know what happened, why I’m saying this? Read on.
-Flashback-
It’s Tuesday morning, getting off the bus I saw Ms. Snapple start coming up to the school behind me. I went over to one of the corners where the concrete started and waited for her.
“Good morning!” Ms. Snapple greeted.
“Morning.” I responded.
“How are you Crystal?”
“Well, other that waking up at 6:25 this morning, yeah it’s been and alright morning.”
Ms. Snapple went towards the trash can and threw her banana peel away.
“I don’t really like throwing away banana peels in the trash. It’s supposed to decompose! At home I throw them in the bushes for the bugs to eat. They have to eat too right?” She asked me.
“True.”
Inside at this point, I thought that she had lost her mind. But there was something in that conversation that proved a point.
“I believe that if I did it here,” Ms. Snapple continued, “They would say, ‘Hey! You shouldn’t do that!’ Then they would possibly fire me.”
Yeap, she has lost her mind. Well, today the sophomores were doing their writes test today and needed the 300 building where my first period was, and the freshmen would have to go into the 500 building.
“There’s Ms. Snapple! And there is Crystal.” Stardella greeted as Ms. Snapple and I walked in.
I went inside my backpack and pulled out one of the previews that I had finished that I was working on the night before.
“This chapter seems interesting! When will it be written?” every pony asked.
“Soon, not yet though.” I answered.
Just a few minutes before the bell rang; Ms. Snapple, Black Ninja, Stardella, Cora, Timeless, Icy, and I went outside in the cold cruel world. I snatched up Harmony Wing as Ms. Snapple went into the library. Harmony and I made it to our first period before the bell rang, thank goodness.
We were getting to talk about the book we have to read; To Kill A Mockingbird. I wish that the book was a Daring Doo story.
“Harmony?” I asked.
“What?” she responded.
“I want you to read my chapter for a few minutes.”
“As long as you read mine.”
“Why would I not?”
“True.”
I handed her my notebook and she handed me a sheet of paper. The story was very interestion. My character that I made showed up in the story rarely because she lived in Crystal Empire.
“Oh my Celestia!” I praised.
“You like it?” Harmony asked.
“YES!”
“I liked yours too so far Crystal. You have to keep on going!”
The bell rang for next class; Harmony and I had to go across the schoolyard, just to get to next class. I went into Journalism, seeing Pony Paint and Super Junior.
“PAINT! JUNIOR!” I called.
“Hey Crystal.” Paint responded.
“CRYSTAL!” Junior responded as well.
I worked on the daily reading Ms. Reelz had given us and then I worked on my article. The bell rang, ah finally lunch.
“Crystal!” Cora called.
I looked over at Cora. I could tell that she had something on her mind, but what it was, I didn’t know.
“What is it?” I asked.
“Ms. Snapple evidentially left early again. I think that she might have been sick earlier today. But I went inside and I didn’t see her.” Cora answered.
“Thanks.”
This wasn’t news to me; Ms. Snapple when she wasn’t feeling good, she would go home. But on a day like today? A Tuesday where she had peace and quiet her first period? Something was wrong. I went to the back doors and noticed the familiar brown Pegasus flying. MS. SNAPPLE CAN FLY?!
I had never seen her fly before, I stood there for a few minutes, trying to grasp on the events on what was happening in front of me. When I did figure it out, I flew just above Ms. Snapple then landed right on top of her.
“Crystal?! What the-“ Ms. Snapple tried to say before the both of us traveled all through time and space.
When we finally arrived at wherever, I landed on my face halfway across where Ms. Snapple and I were supposed to land. Then I heard a pony scream inn agony. Looking up with a headache, I saw that Ms. Snapple and I were at the school, or what was the school.
“Ow.” Ms. Snapple cringed.
Getting up from where I was and rubbing my head, I saw Ms. Snapple’s right wing dangling from her side.
“Are you alright Ms. Snapple?” I asked.
“Just a – ow – broken wing is all.” Ms. Snapple responded.
Things fell silent for a moment.
“Three – Two – One.” Ms. Snapple counted.
“YOU CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME?!” I yelled.
She placed her hoof to her head, like she was face hoofing me!
“WAS THIS SOMETHING YOU COULD DO WHEN YOU WERE A YOUNG FOAL?! IS THIS SOMETHING YOU DO EVERYDAY?!” I asked losing my mind.
“Don’t start asking me fifteen million questions on what had just happened!” she snapped.
“Can I at least just ask two?”
“WHAT?!”
I looked at Ms. Snapple, she didn’t look too happy, besides the fact of her broken wings and being in pain. She was right about me, I did have about fifteen million questions to ask her about what had happened. I had to only choose two of my fifteen million questions. Which two should I choose? What would happen if I said something stupid? Would we both be stuck here in this time forever because of her wing? Or would we be able to return home?
Swallowing, I looked at Ms. Snapple and asked, “One, where are we? Two, How will we get home?”
I started to hyperventilate.
“Calm down Crystal! We’ll find a way home. I just need to do something real quick. But I can’t see myse- wait.” Ms. Snapple tried to calm me down.
She looked straight at me. She had a look like she was mustering up a brilliant (evil) idea. Oh Celestia, I am dead meat.
“Do you want to see who you become when you get older? We are in the future after all?” Ms. Snapple asked.
“Well, now that I know that, yeah!” I answered starting to calm down.
“Okay, good! You can’t see yourself or you’ll disappear.”
“Well, thanks for telling me that?!”
“Anyways, it’s the same way for me. So I know what we are going to do.”
“Um. Am I going to be killed?”
“Why would I do that?!”
She was right, she would never try to hurt any pony. Unless her patience was tested.
“Yeah, you’re right Ms. Snapple. What is the plan?” I asked.
“Alright Crystal. To avoid disappearance from the universe, I need you to find me, and I’ll find you.” Ms. Snapple explained.
“But I’m right here.”
A face hoof again.
“No, no Crystal. No. I’ll find your older self, and you find my older self. I hate to say that.” Ms. Snapple responded.
“How will I find you then?” I asked.
Silence.
“Like this.” Ms. Snapple answered grabbing a hold of me. We landed close to apparently where she was at the very moment.
“Meet me back at the park, and tell me what happens and I’ll tell you yours.” Ms. Snapple ordered.
“Oki Doki Loki!” I responded.
Ms. Snapple disappeared as I looked at the brown mare. I followed her home, I entered behind her. It wasn’t until she turned around the third time when she noticed me standing there. My first thought was that she was going to freak out.
“YOU?!” older Ms. Snapple squinted her eyes.
The look she had was like she was wanting to kill me with her bare hooves.
“YOU RUINED MY LIFE?!” she screamed.
Ms. Snapple lunged at me with her hooves around my neck.
“Wait! Ms. Snapple! Calm down!” I screamed trying to get her off of me.
“NO! YOU RUINED MY LIFE CRYSTAL! YOU MUST SUFFER!” Ms. Snapple kept yelling.
Looks like we have to do this the hard way.
Using the only type of long, easy to tie object I could find; I tied Ms. Snapple’s front hooves around her back, and tied her back hooves together.
Soon she calmed down enough so then I could talk to her.
“Ms. Snapple. How did I ruin your life?” I asked.
“You know what you did!” she snapped.
“Listen.” I thought for a second on what lie I could come up with, “My memory is all fuzzy right now, can you explain to me what happened?”
Ms. Snapple took a deep breath, “When you and I returned back to our time, we had been gone for a whole three months. Because you wouldn’t fly to get us home. When my wing finally healed, my fiancé and your mom put a missing pony’s report out. By the second month, they all believed that we were dead. I couldn’t continue on with my life as a teacher, every pony that saw me would’ve thought that I was some kind of ghost! You became a drop out of school; and I never became a college professor so then I could become a vet technician like I had hoped to become. And if you had never come along with me back when you were young, I would be one! But because of you! I LOST EVERYTHING!”
She hid her face from me. It was her dream to become a college professor so then she could get enough money to be a vet tech. She didn’t want to be a high school teacher all her life. And because of me finding her and pouncing on her, that dream was destroyed!
I screwed up her entire life!
“Why do you want to kill me?” I asked trying to hold back my tears.
“To show you, to let you feel my pain! But, I hadn’t been able to find you at all. That’s why when I finally saw you, I lunged at you.” Ms. Snapple answered.
My heart froze for a second. If her life is this bad, mine could’ve been just as bad.
“Thank you Ms. Snapple.” I untied Ms. Snapple from my ransom.
I was surprised that she didn’t lung back at me. I didn’t want to face my Ms. Snapple again. Not after what I just heard. Her heart would be broken when I tell her what happened. How could I do that to her? Not like she wasn’t in enough pain already!
When I arrived at the park, Ms. Snapple was sitting on one of the benches near a bridge.
“Hey Crystal! How was my life?” Ms. Snapple asked me.
I looked over at her with a sad look on my face. She looked shocked. I knew that she was disappointed; she even gave me a disappointed look.
“Crystal, I – I hate to tell you this. But -, “She paused, “when I found you, you were not an author like you had hoped to become. And you ran away from me, so then I wouldn’t hurt you. You should know that I would never do such a thing to you.”
“I do know that. But me, n – not an author. WHAT UNIVERSE AM I IN?!”
My eyes moistened.
“Feather, it’s okay. If we go home now; we just have to come up with a way! A way to get home.” Ms. Snapple explained trying to make me feel good.
“I don’t know what we can do. I few don’t find anything; can I just make my last entry of my life. Before it is too late?” I asked.
“Yes, say your goodbyes to writing while you can Crystal.”
-Flashback ends –
Closing my notebook, I look over at Ms. Snapple sound asleep. Her wing was still dangling from her body. It didn’t even seem to be bothering her at all. I was still thinking about what had happened, and it being all my fault.
I really did feel sorry for her, maybe when we return home. I could get out of her life, I need to disappear for a while. Ripping out a sheet of paper from my notebook, I wrote my last letter to her.
Soon finishing, I folded the letter, and without waking her, I placed it in between 2 of her feathers of the broken wing. Getting up from where I was, I ran off, without my notebook.