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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Broken 
// by Sinful Pickle 
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	Lyra trudged into the classroom. Upon seeing Bon Bon, however, there was much more pep in her step.
“Hey Lyra!”
While not quite as hopelessly head-over-heels as Colgate, Lyra was still seemingly under the effect of a love potion.
“H-Hey Bon Bon!”
Colgate, watching from her own desk, smirked at Lyra. Lyra didn’t notice until she’d passed Bon Bon.
“Shut up.”
“I didn’t say anything,” Colgate said innocently.
Lyra stuck her tongue out at Colgate.
Colgate stuck out her own tongue right back.
Then Vinyl Scratch trotted in.
“Hey guys! I heard you were fighting yesterday. What’s up with that?”
“Oh, it was nothing. We just had a little argument, that’s all,” Lyra said.
“Not from what I heard, it wasn’t. Somepony told me it took ten teachers to pry you guys off of each other.”
“That’s not true! It only took two.”
“Still.”
“Yeah, whatever.”
Colgate tuned out of her friends’ discussion, for there was a much more pressing issue at hand.
Time Turner had just walked in in, and was approaching her.
“Hey.”
Vinyl and Lyra stopped talking. Vinyl narrowed her eyes at the colt.
“What do you want?”
“I wanted to talk to you,” he said to Colgate. Vinyl sat in her desk in a huff, irritated that he had completely ignored her.
“Yeah?” Colgate said nervously.
“I was wondering if you were free Friday night.”
Colgate’s thoughts ran a mile a minute.
Ohmygoshohygoshohmygosh did he just ask me out I think he did are you sure yes I’m sure maybe he just meant as friends or maybe-
“Aren’t you dating Derpy?” Lyra questioned.
“We broke up. So, Colgate?”
“Yeah?” she said dreamily.
“Are you free Friday or not?”
Colgate nodded her head so fast it should have fallen off.
“Yes.”
“Awesome.” 
Time Turner trotted out of the classroom, pausing to wink at the filly, who practically melted.

For the rest of the day, Colgate daydreamed even more than usual. The teacher, a light blue pegasus named Helping Hoof, had to repeatedly remind her to focus.
“Colgate, what has gotten into you? You’ve always got your head in the clouds, but this is ridiculous.”
The class giggled. They all knew what had happened. Some of them had been watching when Time Turner had asked out Colgate, and, well, gossip travels quickly. 
Colgate blushed. "I... uh..."
"Do we need a parent-teacher conference?"
"NO!"
Helping Hoof smiled. That always worked.

~

Colgate walked into her apartment with the same dreamy smile she'd had all day. Jitterbug noticed.
"What happened today?"
"I've got a date! A date, mom!
"That's wonderful, sweetie! Who's the lucky colt?"
"It's Time Turner! This is going to be great! Unless... Unless..." Her horn glowed pink as she levitated the phone to herself, frantically punching in digits.
"Hello?"
"LyraIneedyouto-"
"I'll be right there."

Lyra was there in ten minutes.
"What's wro-Oh."
Colgate was a nervous wreck. Jitterbug was nowhere to be found, probably having a panic attack of her own.
"Let's go to Vinyl's."

The door was opened by none other than the party-loving unicorn herself.
“Hey guys, come on in!”
Lyra trotted into the house, with Colgate trudging in behind.
“What’s wrong, Col? I thought you’d be excited, considering what happened today.”
“But what if it goes terrible? What if he thinks I’m a loser and goes back to his ex or something or if-”
“FIlly, you won’t get anywhere with that attitude. Today is Wednesday, you have until Friday. In those two days, we are gonna turn you into a-*gasp* MO-OM!”
Vinyl had walked into her bedroom to find her little brother practically tearing it apart.
The colt stopped everything as soon as he saw his sister and her friends.
 "Colgate!" he exclaimed, rushing towards the blu unicorn. She embraced the toddler, smiling wearily.
"Nice to see you, too."
Vinyl Scratch had already started putting her things back the way they were before when Fleur-de-lis walked in.
"What is it this time?"
"Mom, Pip was in my room messing up my stuff again."
Fleur sighed in exasperation. 
"Pipsqueak, you know you're not supposed to be in your sister's room-"
Vinyl blew a raspberry at her brother. "Ha!"
"-And Vinyl, you shouldn't be so hard on your brother."
"Oh, what!" 
"You heard me."
"Ugh, fine."
Fleur picked up her son, who was hiding behind Colgate. He promptly started screaming, reaching towards the blue unicorn. The sound of Pipsqueak's screaming stopped abruptly when his mother encased his head in a magical soundproof bubble. He didn't even notice, silently screaming as his mother carried him out of the room.
Vinyl Scratch smiled. "Now that that's outta the way, let's get started. As I was saying, we are gonna turn you into a mare deserving of any stallion's affection."

~

"Don't let them fall!"
"You told me that already!"
"But they're leaning!"
Colgate staggered around the room, trying to keep the pile of books on her head. Tripping over her own hooves, she stumbled into a wall, scattering the books everywhere. Lyra leaned back on the unmade bed, laughing. Colgate shot her an irritated look. "Shut up."
"I didn't say anything."
Vinyl interrupted her friends' bickering. "Col, stand up straight."
Colgate did as instructed. Vinyl levitated the books back to her friend's head.
"Now walk."
Colgate took a few cautious steps forward, then walked determinedly to the wall.
"Now turn around."
Colgate turned back around, groaning when the books fell down again.
"Let's try this again."
This time, the books stayed put the entire time she walked the length of the room, turned, and walked back.
Lyra groaned. "Finally! I didn't think you'd ever get it."
"Hey!"
Vinyl grinned.
"Now on to kissing practice!"

~

Colgate trotted out of the house with Lyra.
"That was weird. Did you know Vinyl had that mannequin in her closet?"
"No, but watching you make out with it made my day."
"I didn't even want to!"
"You certainly looked like you did."
"Somebody sounds jealous."
"Am not."
"Are too!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Yeah huh!"
The fillies glared at each other, then busted out laughing.