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// Chapter 19 
// Story: The Princess Escapes 
// by adorablesmiles 
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"I need in!" Celestia shouted.
"I'm... trying... my hardest! You just have to be patient, sister!" I shouted back.
I heard Celestia huff. "I don't have time for being patient. I have a very important call to take from the school board and it's at eight o'clock sharp!"
"Woo, someone woke up on the wrong side of the mattress this morning." I joked.
"Luna!" Celestia scolded.
"Fine, fine. Just trying to lighten the mood." I said.
"Vice Principal Luna! Do you need help?!" A voice shouted.
"No... I-" I said, but that was before I turned around. "...Sunset Shimmer?"
"Yeah... It's me." Sunset said.
"I would have expected to see you here this early." I said.
"There isn't anything wrong with being punctual." Sunset said.
"15 minutes from now, mind you." I said.
"LUNA!" Celestia said.
"Fine, but you're not very sunshiney like you normally are." I said.
"Are you sure you don't need help?" Sunset asked.
"No. It's perfectly fine, Sunset. My sister is just being a grump." I said.
"SUNSET! WHO VICE PRINCIPAL LU- Oh." Twilight said.
"Twilight Sparkle? Is that you?" I asked.
"Who are you?" Twilight asked.
"...Sunset?" I asked.
"Twilight can't remember you. She has amnesia now." Sunset said.
"Oh... that's a pity." I said. "Well, after I let my very impatient sister in, I will gladly reintroduce myself to Twilight."
"Get the keys, Luna." Celestia said.
"Alright, miss grumpy pants." I said
And then I heard her mumble a few curse words.
"That kind of language is not necessary." I said.
"Well, we both know why I did it." Celestia said, as she folded her arms over her stomach.
"And... it's unlocked." I said.
Then, out of nowhere, my sister ran into the school as quickly as she could, and that caught me by surprise.
"That's taken care of, I suppose." I said.
"Now can we talk?" Sunset asked.
"Yes, of course." I said. "I'm kinda confused about the whole thing as it is."
"Where do I start?"
"Well, can you tell me how Twilight got amnesia?" I asked.
"It... it was my fault." Sunset said.
"How so?" I asked.
"Well... that's a long story." Sunset said, as she rubbed the back of her neck.
"We have time." I said.
"But you said-"
"I know what I said, Sunset. But I will give you a note explaining why you were late, and you can give it to the teacher. Now, with that out of the way, can you please tell me about Twilight?" I asked.
Sunset nodded. "I still think it was my fault."
"Can you tell me why?" I asked.
"I feel like I told the story a thousand times already." Sunset said.
"If you don't want to, I don't mind."
"No... You deserve to know about this. You are my superior after all."
"What's superior?" Twilight asked. The first thing that popped into my head was that she was asking questions the way a little kid would, but it didn't take long to remember that she had amnesia.
"Twilight... I will explain it to you later. Right now, though, I think we should go somewhere private." Sunset said.
"We could go to my office. No one ever comes in there." I offered.
"What's privacy?" Twilight asked.
I could tell that Sunset was getting annoyed by the constant questions coming from Twilight. She didn't have to say anything about it though, I already knew just by looking at her.
"Come girls, let's go before someone does something they'll regret." I said, as I started to head to my office.
"What's regret?"



hai aj. hru?
I had been thinkin' about that one message, nothin' more, for... maybe thirty minutes? I can't be sure. That bad spellin' just rattled my brain.
listen, rainbow dash. i dont like it when you text like that, so can ya please explain what ya just said in simple terms?
I found it ironic how that was probably the thousandth time I've had to tell her that, and she still doesn't listen.
Hello, my dearest friend Applejack. What endeavor shall you be doing today? Picking apples out of trees, I presume? ...yeah. im not rarity. wats up?
"Again with the spellin'." I said, as I rolled my eyes.
we have school, dash.
It was silent on the other end for what felt like forever.
you know i hate school. by the way, your lucky i dont spam text you.
I didn't respond after that, because I knew she was going to do it anyway.



"So... where do I start, again?" I asked, as we finally got inside the office of Vice Principal Luna.
"Well," Luna started. "When we were in the hallway, you told me that Twilight had amnesia. How did that come about?"
"Because of me. I think I was the first one she came to, but that can't be very reliable because I'm confused about it. From what I can understand, she came here to get some peace and quiet from the life of a princess, and-" I said, but I got cut off when Twilight started to play with a stapler.
"Twilight, sweetie, don't mess with that. You could very easily puncture your fingers!" Luna warned, as she took the stapler away.
"What's puncture?" Twilight asked.
Great. Another awful reminder about what I did to Twilight. She doesn't know what anything is or means. I really wish this hadn't happened. If I hadn't opened my big mouth-
"Sunset, are you alright? Your looking awfully pale." Luna said.
"Huh? Oh... I'm fine. What were we talking about?" I asked.
"Twilight. Can you continue with your story?" Luna asked.
"Sure." I said. "So, Twilight came here so she-"
"Not trying to be mean, Sunset, but you already said that." Luna said.
"...Right. Sorry." I said.
"It's quite alright."
"So, after Twilight came to me and Applejack, who had somehow slipped into shock because she was unresponsive for a while even though I was pinching her cheeks, but that's not really the point of this." I said.
"Not really." Luna said.
"After we were both inside the room, I started asking a bunch of questions. I was just being nosy, and I had no right to do so." I said. "It wasn't any of my business why she was here."
Luna nodded.
"But I didn't know that then, because she got all stressed over her life in Equestria, and then she lashed out, and it was all on me." I said.
"I see. And what happened after she lashed out?" Luna asked.
"She walked out of the school. She was ashamed over what had happened." I said.
"I don't mean to intrude, but it doesn't sound like you did anything wrong." Luna said.
"How?" I asked.
"There isn't anything wrong with being curious, Sunset." Luna said.
"Oh... but I'm not done." I said. "I haven't explained why Twilight's hair isn't purple like it normally is."
"I noticed." Luna said.
"She dyed it so no one could find her." I said. "She was feeling guilty and she didn't want to face us."
"Wow... really?" Luna asked.
"I'm not a liar. Not anymore." I said.
"I know, Sunset." Luna said.
"It just sounded like that was what you were implying." I said.
"I wouldn't." Luna said.
"Getting back on track," I started. "It didn't take that long to find her, even though she looked different."
"Oh?" Luna asked.
"It was actually easier than you'd think. Twilight wasn't very good at hiding herself." I said. "I can't take credit for finding her, though. We split up and went to different parts of town, that was Pinkie's idea, and then Rainbow Dash was the one that actually found her. I... did nothing in finding her or bringing her back here."
"I see." Luna said. She didn't sound or look surprised.
"And then we had a sleepover at Pinkie's, but nothing very important happened there." I said.
"Do you want to skip ahead to when Twilight got amnesia?" Luna asked.
"Yeah." I said. "Twilight got hurt on a piece of metal from a broken locker."
"Hmm. That's alarming." Luna said.
"That's how my arm got like this?" Twilight asked.
"Pretty much." Sunset said. "How is broken metal alarming?"
"Well, it's easy for someone to get hurt on it." Luna said.
"Oh." I said.
"Yes, I'm going to have to see about getting that fixed." Luna said. "Is there anything else I should know?"
"I think so." I said. "After Twilight got injured, she tried to hide it from us. But as I said before, she's not good at it."
"Some people aren't." Luna said.
"We took her to the nurse's office immediately after we found out. And that... that was when it actually happened."
"Do you need a break?" Luna asked.
"No..." I said. "She didn't want to come to the nurse, and then she passed out for some reason, and she hit her head on the supply cabinet. And what happened after that, I couldn't say for sure, it's all a blur."
"It sounds like you've been through a serious ordeal." Luna said.
"Well, it's nothing new to me. I'm always messing something up." I said.
"That isn't true." Luna assured, or tried to assure me.
"Everyone says that." I said.
"Well, I wouldn't lie to you either." Luna said.
"I know." I said.
Riiiiiiiiing!
"It's time for class." I said.
"Very well. You may be dismissed." Luna said, as we headed out.