Twilight Sparkle (no not quite the princess) awakes panicking in a coffin of papers both crumpled and neat. Exhausted from filing numerous lab reports and reviewing various experiments' data, she completely spaced out submitting an essay on acoustic levitation, and she can't find it anywhere! No matter, she's Twilight Sparkle; she'll just rewrite the thing! After all, she has most of the notes!

What she doesn't have is the energy.

Coffee can't help either because she used the last of her stocked grounds working 'til sunrise, so she decides to stroll down to a super-close convenience store and make things conform to schedule.

However, her old crush from her freshman year in high school, Sunset Shimmer (no not quite the Equestrian), is there to greet her with an inordinately-annoyed attitude.

Sunset Shimmer is forced to reevaluate each of her core beliefs as everything she once knew comes crashing down before her. Proving painful to deal with all the others around her after her actions, she retreats inwards. Harboring hope to find some kind of reassurance in her own mind, instead she turns to questioning if her own mind is more painful to handle than the outside world. A few nightmares lead her to the few things she had never wanted to have dealings with.

A fun little first draft of a story 100% inspired by This Awesome Story made by This Awesome Author

Not just a first draft but, technically, the first narrative I ever tried writing, so feel free to let me know what you think of my evolving experiment here!

Pleasant days and thanks for reading even a word!