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// Apology 
// Story: Shadow Darkwing 
// by Bro-Pony 
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It was early in the morning when I woke up.
The light was shining through the window next to me which woke me up, even though it was early and I didn’t sleep till late last night I slept really well; I guess that’s what you get when you sleep on clouds!
As I started to rub my eyes and get out of bed, I started to feel dizzy again; before anything happened, I decided to try and fight the dizzy feeling by running straight into the shower and rinsing myself down in cold water.
To my surprise, this actually worked and I didn’t pass out.
“Is that you Shadow?” I heard a voice ask from the room next to the shower.
“Ya it’s me, who else would it be? I asked sarcastically.
“Ha, ha, you’re freaking hilarious.” Rainbow Dash said in an equally sarcastic voice.
“It’s what I’m here for.” I said jokingly as I dried myself off, and walked out of the shower to greet Rainbow Dash.
“Morning.” I said smiling to her.
“Good morning.” She said as she walked into the kitchen.
“I never took you for an early pony” I said with a surprised tone.
“Ya, well I never like to sleep in when I have guests over.” She said as she poured two cups of coffee.
“Oh how polite of you Ms. Dash.” I said in a jokingly manner.
“Oh shut up you!” She said as she laughed and smiled.
“So, Dash… guess what.” I said with a voice that said I was going to say something cocky.
“What Shadow?” She said bracing herself for whatever comment I was going to say.
“I stayed the night at your house and I’m not in love with you.” I said with a big smile as Dash realized where I was going with this. “You know what that means right?” I said in a cocky voice and with her trademark grin.
“Whatever, you know you can’t resist this body!” she said turning in a seductive manner jokingly as she knew she lost the bet.
“Oh ya, let me tell ya!” I said jokingly as we both laughed and drank our coffee.
“So what are you going to do today?” she asked in a curious voice.
“Oh you know the usual, try to regain some memories.” I said with a laugh until I remembered Twilight.
“Sounds boring, want me to help entertain you while you do that?” She said with a grin.
“Naw, I need to do this alone” I said in a casual voice.
“Oh, ok.” She said in a bit of a surprised tone, not expecting me to say that.
“Ya, beside, I’m sure you have things to do anyways.” I said.
“Oh ya, of course.” She lied in a sheepish voice.
“Well, I should be going. Thanks for letting me stay the night.” I said as I grabbed my guitar and walked over to offer a hoof shake.
“Ugh, ya… anytime….” She said in a bit of a letdown tone reaching for my hand and giving me a limp hoof shake.
“Bye” I said cheerfully.
“Ugh, bye” she said looking slightly down in the same tone.
Flying Around:
“Now time to go visit Twilight.” I said to myself as I was flying down towards Ponyville.
“I wonder what I’m going to do. I can’t just waltz on in there and act nothing happened.” I said to myself as I was thinking about what I was going to do.
As I was flying towards the library I saw a poster that said “Come to the newest and biggest club in all of Equestria, Pony Scratch, and see the famous Vinyl Scratch!”
“That’s perfect!” I said to myself as I landed down to the library.

I knocked on the door and waited for a reply.
“Come in!” I heard Twilight yell.
“Hey Twi, how’s it going?” I said as I opened the door and walked in.
“What do you want.” She said slightly angrily.
“I just wanted to apologize about last night.” I said sincerely.
“Oh, ok.” She said still slightly angry, I took this as a cue to begin my apology.
“Look twi” I said, “I’m really, really, REALLY sorry about last night.” I said with emphasis on the last really. 
“I’m listening.” She said a little less angrily.
“I shouldn’t have bailed from our plans to hang out last night and it was wrong for me to just leave your house to win a bet with Rainbow.” I said sincerely, trying to avoid telling her my suspicions of her feelings for me.
“Thank you.” She said, with just a small hint of a smile appearing on her face.
“And to make it up to you, I got two tickets for you, and whoever else you want to bring, to go see Vinyl Scratch at ‘Pony Scratch’ tonight.” I said revealing the two tickets to her with a small smile, hoping she would accept the apology. 
“Wow.” She said in awe at the two tickets bestowed upon her.
“How did you get the money to afford those tickets? They are like 100 bits each!” she said with a shocking voice.
“Well-” was all I could say before she interrupted me.
“Where’s your guitar at?” she said with a suspicious and curious tone.
“Don’t worry about it, what’s important is that you have fun with one of your friends and hopefully forgive me.” I said trying to avoid the question of my guitar.
“Please tell me you didn’t sell your guitar to apologize to me!” she said in a guilty voice.
“Well, I don’t even remember how to play so why not use it for something important?” I said trying to reason with her.
“Shadow!” she said in a complaining voice.
“That was the last thing you had that could help restore some memories!” she said with a guilty look on her face.
“It’s ok, really.” I said putting a hoof on her shoulder.
“Thanks, that was really sweet of you, but you didn’t have to go through all that trouble to get my forgiveness.” She said with a bit of a sad tone.
“It’s ok, I don’t mind. Just go with a friend and have a good time, don’t worry about me.” I said with a happy smile, which seemed to cheer Twilight up.
“Ok, would you like to go with me? I mean, you did buy the tickets and all.” She said with a happy smile.
“I would be honored to go with you.” I said returning the smile.
“Great, well we better go shopping and get some things before tonight!
“Ok” I said as we walked out the library and headed into town.