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// School Days 
// Story: Breaking Free 
// by VioletMichaelis 
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NOTICE

This chapter is a filler that I wrote during a free period. The next chapter will be coming soon. For now enjoy your filler. 

I strongly recommend reading this chapter. It provides insight into Twilight's life before the first chapter.

Twilight sat at her desk, trailing her hooves along it. 
She was bored. Very very bored. 
Class wouldn't start for another ten minutes, and she couldn't take out her sketchbook here. Her hooves tapped at the desk gently, making a quiet rhythm. She got carried away tapping this little beat, eliciting a glare from one of her fellow students. She knew him well, a brown Pegasus with ugly hair. 
He strode over to her and sat down on a seat in front of her desk. "What exactly do you think you're doing?" He asked with a sneer. 
"Oh I believe what I'm doing is called none of your business." Twilight answered, stopping to look at him. 
"You're such a freak, Twilight Sparkle! I heard from my father that you got caught drawing a month ago." He teased. "But then the book was dropped into the lake and swept away. How convenient for you." 
Twilight grimaced, shuffling in her seat. "Yeah, well there was no evidence to say I was doing anything wrong." She smirked. "Besides, who would believe that rat of a father anyway?" 	The Pegasus got to his hooves instantly, taking a threatening step towards her. "What did you just say, freak?" 
"I said 'your dad is a filthy rat.' Didn't you hear me? I always knew you were dumb, but not deaf." 
Twilight had no time to react as a hoof connected with her face, throwing her backwards with a shot of pain. She wiped her face with a hoof, looking at the blood on it. She summoned her magic and began warming it up before a teacher entered the room, glaring at the two students. 	
Twilight lost concentration as her magic dissipated and watched frozen as the teacher approached them. the teacher was a tall brown mare with dirty orange hair, and a look of contempt. She grabbed the Pegasus by the ear and pulled him out to the front where he sat at a desk in front of everyone. Afterwards she glared at Twilight. "Get that fixed up. Now." Twilight exited the room, leaving the stifled giggles of her fellow students behind her. 

Twilight stepped out into the hall, moving as fast as she could on the legs, her right forehoof covering her nose. The blood on her hoof was sticky, and there was a lot of it. She sighed. 
“This is the second time this term, Twilight...” She chastised herself with a groan. Her hooves carried her up a flight of stairs and through a short hallway, a door at the end of it. She pushed the door open gingerly and peered inside. The room consisted of one printer, one desk and one wheeled chair, with an earth pony mare sitting upon it. 
Her eyes widened as she turned, gaze falling on the bloody mess that was Twilight. She got to her feet instantly and rushed over to the opposite side of the room where she fished some paper towel off a shelf. Returning to Twilight she handed them to the shaking filly, leaning down face to face with her. 
“Did you get into a fight again?” She asked gently, patting Twilight's mane with a hoof. 
The filly, still shaking slightly nodded and buried her head down into the paper towel. 
It stings. She thought, holding the towel hard on her nose. It stings all over. I can taste the blood in my mouth. I'm an idiot. 
The mare turned around, revealing a cutie mark with a stethoscope and band-aid on her flanks. She strode over to the desk and shuffled through some papers, pulling out a small form. She laid it on her desk and guided the bleeding filly over to a chair close to her desk. 
“I've got to fill this out. Give me a second, alright?” She said with a light pat on the filly's mane punctuating her statement. 
Twilight nodded slightly and looked at the Nurse's desk. It was truly a thing of wonder. Filled with messy papers, half filled out forms and scrawled notes to self. 
One note was in purple pen and simply had the words: “order aspirin.” Twilight looked around the room for other ones. They were plastered upon the walls, like a collage that had been attacked by a cyclone. 
“File papers for Sweet tune.” Twilight read aloud softly, the older mare either ignoring or not hearing her. “Find phone. Feed cat.” Twilight giggled at the ridiculousness of some of the notes, wondering why someone on the hive could ever lose their phone or forget to feed their cat. 
Twilight thought about the hive mind, her thoughts drifting off track. About the uniform way it operated. Everyone had folders, branches, files, documents, all stored within the hive. And every brain controlled it directly through thought. It never controlled them, however. That's what school was for. 
By the time you had reached the age of 20 you were considered a fully fledged adult member of society, free to do as you see fit, which for all but a few was their job. 
“Miss Sparkle?” A voice brought the filly out of her daze, allowing her a few seconds to pull away the towel. She had stopped bleeding for now, at least. 
“I'm gonna let you take the rest of the day off. We'll say you got seriously hurt or something. Wash yourself up a bit and head home, alright?” The older mare smiled. She paused, her smile fading. “I'm worried about you...” 
“I'll be fine.” She assured the older mare, climbing off the seat she was on. “I'm just a bit roughed up.” 
“If you say so...” 
“I know so. See ya!” Twilight called, exiting the room with undue haste.