All Twilight wants is to feel appreciated. With her marriage on the rocks and loneliness tugging at her heart, she's desperate for some kind of solution. So when she spots an ad in the paper hinting at a potential romantic rendezvous... well, how could she not be curious? Thinking about it and committing are two entirely different things though, and now that's she's arrived she wonders if this isn't all a big mistake.
That's when an old friend walks through the door.
Inspired by Escape (The Piña Colada Song).
Other stories inspired by music:
Ordinary World
Bed of Roses
Bulletproof Heart
Drops of Jupiter
How to Save a Life
Forgive Me, Friend
Time for Tea
New Cover art commissioned from the ever-awesome NekoJackun, who generously agreed to do the job despite technically not taking commissions anymore. Go visit his site and enjoy his Aria pics.
Now with a Ukrainian translation by volkov!
Continue?
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Sorry, not planning on it.
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Ah well, just thought I'd ask.
It’s lovely to see Lucy-tan’s artwork popping up on here
This was a nice read. It showed an interesting side of both characters, though I do wish there’d been more shown of their respective failed relationships than them talking about it.
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While I agree with the general sentiment, I wanted to keep this below 5k words and felt dividing it up into multiple scenes for that would have made for a challenge I wasn't ready to deal with. So yeah, we're stuck with this.
Sometimes I wonder what bits trigger the downvotes.
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On the one hand, I do believe that there's someone out there I've offended who makes a point of downvoting everything I've written on principal, though I have no idea who that someone is.
As for this story, I think it at least partially has to do with Rarity's and Twilight's infidelity on display here. I can see some people taking offense to that in the story's context.
And of course, there's always the possibility thre's some element of how I wrote the story that they don't like.
There’s a typo where it says ‘were married’ it should be ‘we’re married’
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Heh. Like the story, Paul.
An excellent, heartfelt tale of good people making bad decisions for reasons hoth right and wrong. Not my usual cup of tea, but still very well done. Thank you for it.
Though I have to ask, what's Sunset's relationship status in this timeline?
(Also, a typo you'll only find in Equestria Girls stories: In that first paragraph, Twilight's eating hay fries.)
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Is it odd that this story is more likely to get Margaritaville in my head than Escape?
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I totally missed her, didn't I? Any answer I give would be a spur-of-the-moment one, and then I'd feel obligated to keep it true if, for some reason, I ever did expand upon this AU (although that remains unlikely). Still, I suppose it woulnd't hurt... right now I envision her as single and not looking. For this story only, of course.
Really tearing feelings there. As was said, bad decisions for good and bad reasons. And I'm glad Twilight at least got Rarity to end things properly instead of making a disaster.
Oh, ouch. Twilight really almost did something there and lightened some of the sad, but it certainly came back in full force.
I liked how you showed just how differently Twi and Rarity were going about the whole deal, and gave a clear enough picture as to what was going on in the homes of both women. Rainbow and Rarity have clearly grown apart, but there's no bad blood between them or anything more malicious until Rarity's actions here. She was shockingly predatory, and her unwillingness to communicate or listen to Twilight when she was pointing out how she could make positive attempts to salvage things was so creepy. Twilight's situation feels more complicated, with Corona's existence and Timber's behavior really fitting that something psychological is going on, and something logical, sensible Twi doesn't seem to relate to, even if she had emotional access to Timber still. It was a more bittersweet thing to see how Twi did tell Rarity about the things she was trying to do, even if it was as simple as making sure her daughter had a sitter, and that there was still a chance for old friendships to be used as a starting point. Seeing her so ready to back out but unwilling to take her own advice at the same time did create such a false sense of hope. Like, maybe she would look into counseling, if not for herself and marriage, but at least try and help Timber out. I don't think she will now, since she's really fallen into the perfect pattern of avoidance here.
I have to wonder how the rest of the girls are managing now, and if they're going to get dragged along for the crash. It's certainly going to blow up with Rarity and Rainbow. Rarity was just despicable in how she described what she was doing to Rainbow by saying she'd know how Rainbow would never leave, no matter what she did. It's really depriving Rainbow of what might be the only mercy in this situation for Rarity to exploit that so much instead of splitting things off herself or taking a different route.
Oh... Damn, just... Ouch
Glad I finally got around to this. That was definitely a matter class in emotional tension. Not even my usual type of genre and I loved it. Looking forward to the next part.
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it aged like fine wine
It's a good thing this isn't the song, but instead a story inspired by the song but rather different.
Found this via a tweet from the artist who did the cover art! Def. gotta read this asap. :D