Part 6: Twilight Sparkle
Goddamn Rainbow Dash. She dropped you off somewhere in the city, leaving you to walk back. The worst part is that you can’t go home, not yet. There is one stop that you need to make.
Twenty-four minutes it took you to get back to school. The sun is wasting away in the outskirts of the city. You’re worried that Twilight might rip you apart for being late. With any luck, she could at least forgive you that Rainbow ditched you somewhere in the city. You run through the school and try to open up the library doors. Locked. They don’t keep it open for the entire day. Looks like you’re screwed for that test tomo— ”Anon?” A voice comes from the other side of the door. It’s Twilight and she is wearing a zipped up jacket. ”I didn’t expect for you to show up.”
“It’s just like you said, I needed this grade so badly and I can’t pass it without your help.”
She pushed the doors and lets you in. You follow her into the library and sit at a secluded table in the far end of the library. ”Oh! I almost forgot.” She runs behind a bookshelf to bring out something covered in a tarp. Let’s see what her plan is.
“What is it?”
”I wanted to get some results on how the human heart reacts to certain predicaments.”
“…okay, how?” She pulls off the tarp to reveal a heart rate monitor. This wasn’t the standard miniature armband that measures it with pressure; this was the bulky hospital version. “Where did you get it?”
”Does it matter? I just said it was for research, so they lend it to me.”
“You stole it, didn’t you?”
”I’ll give it back, I promise!”
You sigh and roll up your sleeve. “Alright, let’s do this tog et it out of the way.”
”Yes!” She fist pumps. “I mean, that’s great.” She grabs two wires with suction cups at the end. ”You may want to bring up your shirt." You roll down your sleeve and pull your shirt up. ”Okay. One will go here and another right beside it.” You can sense some pressure on the left side of your chest. It continues once more at the center, not too far from where she started off. ”Now, to make sure this is functional.”
“You didn’t turn it on before I arrived?”
”It was last minute.” Sure it was, you think to yourself. Twilight flicks the power switch and adjusts the knob to get a reading on your heart. ”Yes! That leaves the experiment.”
“And remember about my study session?”
”Huh? Oh, soon enough, just when we are done with this.” The heart monitor followed the steady beat inside your chest and called out with a beep every moment. ”Now, just hold still while I trigger some key elements with different instruments.” She unzips her backpack to bring out a pen, notepad, a lighter, and a bottle of hot sauce from the cafeteria.
“Are you sure this is for science?”
”Yes it is. Just relax, and let me do all the work." Twilight grabs out the pen and clicks it. She scribbles something down on her notepad and then sets it down. Without warning, she jabs the pen onto your hand. You jump and grunt in anguish. The steady beat from the monitor accelerates. ”Good.” She says while jotting down something into her notepad.
“How was that good!?”
Twilight taps the monitor that is now lowering the beeping’s pace. ”That is one out of the way, four more to test out.”
“Oh joy.” You sarcastically say.
”It won’t be much. Just sit back and allow me to do everything else.”
“You better be sure about this.” She nods. You slump back in the chair and await her surprise.
Twilight grabs the bottle of hot sauce. She twists off the cap and approaches you. ”Open up.”
“Please tell me that this one is a joke.”
”It will enter your body one way or another.” From her unbending attitude, you open up your mouth. Instead of a few drops or the sum of a tablespoon, she pours the bottle down your throat. You chug it a few times before pushing her back and unplugging yourself from the monitor to run off. You find a water fountain right beside the entrance. Smash the button to suck each and every drop from it. For a couple minutes, you don’t get interrupted, that is when Twilight finds you draining the pipelines dry. ”Even though this one came across with insufficient results, I’ll take it that it exceeded the standard rate.”
You stop drinking and wipe your mouth. “Anything else you would care to tell me?”
”I won’t do anything hurtful from this point on.”
“Do you promise?” She puts one hand to her chest and raises the other. “Whatever that means.”
”Yes, I promise.” You follow her and get strapped to the monitor once more. ”Alright, test number three.” She picks up the lighter and flicks it a few times. When a small flame emits from it you start to sink in your chair.
“Remember our promise?” You try to get her reminded for your safety.
”I know, just stay where you are.” As the flame approaches you, the steady beeping on the monitor rises once more. With each moment that the glowing fire gets bigger, the speed of the pinging sound continues to grow. When you can feel the heat coming from the flash of light, it goes out. ”See? Nothing bad happened.” Twilight goes back to her seat and writes down her report. The pounding of your heart settles down, so does the rhythm of the monitor.
“Okay, what’s next?”
Without a word, Twilight drops her pen to unzip her jacket. She reveals her chest, bounded by a thin bra. You are betrayed by the cardiac monitor, as it allows the rate of beeping to rise. ”As I expected.” She comments when writing down on the notepad. There is no way this could get any worse. ”Now for the last test to this experiment.” Maybe it can. She zips up her jacket and gets up from her chair. Twilight crouches down to sit on your lap. ”Don’t worry about a thing. This is part of our little test.” She serenely says. While her forehead touches your own, she grabs your shoulders and looks down. The beeping from the monitor fades away when you can hear nothing but her breathing down your face. ”Anon… I…”
“Am done?” You interrupt.
Her eyes shot open and directly looked at you in surprise.
”I thought…”
“About what? Can we study now, because it’s getting late?”
She slides her hands off your shoulders to unplug the suction cups from your chest. ”Yes, just let me put this away.” She sounds miserable, almost as if she knew that this was all her. When the cart with the monitor is pushed back to its spot, she grabs out a textbook and flips to a page holding a bookmark. ”We’ll recap chapter seven, and then I’ll ask you some questions. When that is over, I’ll…” You did it. You know what you have done. Tomorrow will be the most difficult day of this week. These girls will demand answers from you and you aren’t even sure yourself if this was all worth it. Not just for them, but for yourself. Each one was tossed aside, where you could have picked one and this would have been over. Even now, you realized you tossed out any chance of having a potential girlfriend. It’s too late to take any of that back. When the time comes, they will understand, but will you? ”Anon? Anon!”
“Yes?”
”Did you hear what I said?”
“Yeah, a brief rundown of the chapter and then you will question me.”
”And…?”
“And, what?”
”We will do the same for the next two chapters.”
“Oh, right.” For now, you just need to pay attention and last for a few more hours. At least Twilight seems more forgiving than the other two.