An Inconvenient Attachment // Appledash

chapter 54

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As soon as her phone awoke and played its traumatising tune that disrupted her mindless dreaming, Applejack forced herself out of bed and tried her best to ignore the daily troubles of morning cold and sleep deprivation. Her path to black-out sleeping was rough and she felt herself tossing and turning with flashes of strange scenarios coming and going, she faintly remembered Rainbow being in one sequence but the rest was a blur. Carrying herself to her shared bathroom with Apple Bloom who rightfully remained asleep, she splashed some water on her face to wake herself up, the cooling effect shocking her body into motion. Grasping a face cloth from its hung position on her wall, she wet it and cleaned the rest of her face in-depth, washing away beads of sweat that had dried from the odd events she experienced last night. She went through the rest of her morning routine as normal, or what she thought was normal, before she prepared to dive into her studies. 

About 3 hours later, another startled awake by their ringtone struggling to announce itself for the third time in the new day. Rainbow sluggishly reached over to press the snooze button on the screen again, despite the time reading how she's missed her scheduled slot to wake up and prepare for the day of essay writing and short question answering. Instead of her hand meeting her phone though, it found a familiar texture on its way up to her nightstand, the cool shell of her tortoise huddled right at her bed head on the floor. The poor thing seemed almost scared. Her soft spot being for her dear pet, Dash forced her tired form to sit up in it's spot and pick up the little guy, placing him on her lap as she noticed the slight ray of light sneaking into her room strike over his back. Giving Tank a slow pat and a stroke, the only thing he could feel being the vibrations, she then held him closer and gave his delicate head a little scratch which receiving a loving glance up at her. 

"What happened buddy?" She asked him, initially reminding herself she was crazy for talking to her illiterate pet. When he only snuggled in closer to her warmth, she concluded the guy had maybe been startled by something that happened in the night, possibly her spasmodic snores her friends had commented on in their sleepovers. Gingerly putting her tortoise on her bed, an unusual spot where he normally wasn't allowed, she let it slide for just today as she lifted the sheet to rest over him. She had no clue if that would help or if she was just making an inconvenience for him, but he didn't seem to mind as was indicated by his eyes closing shortly after.

Standing up and opening the curtains to let in some of what the day brought, she sighed as she gazed up at the sky which was mostly clear yet in the distance she noted the overcast cumulonimbus (my only application of learning i've taken from geog at school LMAO) looming in. Without her knowing, it was oddly metaphorical of the unknown slight chaos that was to descend upon them. 

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Finals week had arrived. Many schools across the globe had been kind enough to spread their exams out for their students so they got gaps of time to study for each subject before the test, yet Canterlot and a few others such as Crystal Prep preferred to let the students smash it all in one go and relax after burning out. Students began pulling into school at 8am on Monday morning for their Language and Literature exams that they all partook in, the final was to begin at 9am but the invigilators just wanted everyone early so they could start on time, supposedly preventing the cohort from contacting other schools for cheats. The Mane 7 had begun to arrive, Twilight scurrying into the school with a textbook open in her arms open about halfway, Sunset close behind seemingly nonchalant and prepared, Rarity nervously combing her fingers through her hair in a way of calming her down, everyone had their own way of dealing with the first big day that could alter their future pathway.