A trot through town [Dead]

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Eternity smirked. "Haha, I knew it," she laughed, shoving Knight a little off to the side playfully. "Well, you'll get yours sooner or later. It's not like you're gonna die without having your first kiss. We live long lives, and those lives are meant to be living," she said with a smile. "I got mine a little too early, wasn't ready for it at least. The pony I had fallen for wasn't meant to be with me, I guess. Destiny.. is such a weird concept to grasp."

After a little while, they got on the topic of making others feel special. E sighed at Knight's reply, shaking her head just a tad then looking at her. "If somepony wants to make me feel special then.. they can go at it. They just need to know I'm a tough nut to crack. I don't generally like feeling special, because I know I'm not. Unlike you.. you're an unlimited edition," the grey mare smirked in the last part of her sentence, knowing she'll get a reaction out of that. The next thing Knight said did surprise her enough for a little freeze. She thought for a second, trying to grasp the words that was thrown at her. "Ha, beautiful is not in my 'dudette' dictionary. And.. I'm just not a lady.. okay?" Eternity wasn't freaking out physically, she was freaking out mentally. What did this exactly mean? Did Knight think Eternity was.. beautiful?

Something warm rose on Eternity's cheeks.. something.. red. Her ears were burning up as well. Was the hoofball player losing her mind? "WHAT IS THIS SUDDEN WARMTH ON MY CHEEKS?" she suddenly yelled, panic rising over her. She didn't know it was just simply a blush, something she hasn't really gotten before.

Quickly turning away from Knight to stare at the train, she felt something.. bigger bump into her. Now the panic turned into anger, her feelings unable to calm themselves down. The rapidly upset mare turned around to see a stallion, who looked very familiar to her. She blinked, still trying to mask in the anger, but it bursted out anyway. "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" she yelled, trying to embarrass the dirty blonde unicorn. Knight seemed calm about it, but Eternity was exploding. "All the harm is done! Grow some eyeballs!"

(I'm back from school. I see that PerformanceMajor has joined, so welcome, welcome! Though I think the thread will end soon, the next will be in Cantorlot. Just sayin'. I'm working on it right now since I'll be starting it, but I won't post it until this one is done.)

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The unicorn had knocked over the one mare on her flank. She looked up at him. Oh no! he thought to himself.was this mare angry with him? Was she going to yell?Unexpectedly, she smiled at him saying there was no harm done. The she told him to be careful and explained that she was a guard in training.

The other mare was not so nice. Although she did not fall like the other mare had, she was even more upset. She turned around at looked at him and blinked. The unicorn though maybe she will show him the same kindness the other mare had shown him? He was wrong. Instead this mare yelled at him telling him to watch where he was going. She proceede to go on by saying that all the harm was done and that he should grow some eyballs.

His hooves were still extended. He put the one he held out for the gray colored mare with the green mane down, as she hadn't fallen. He blushed a little embarrassed about that. He did, however, continue to extend his other hoof to the purple mare with the blue mane, as she had not gotten up yet.

To the purple mare he replied "Yes! Yes! I'll be sure to be more careful next time!" To the gray mare with the green mane he replied. "I'm so sorry you're right! I wasn't watching where I was going! I feel awful! I hope I didn't ruin your day?" The unicorn's face was flushed with embarrassment.

(So sorry I took so long to reply, I am a bit of a multitask-er... and I may have spread myself a bit too thin today, but I will be better next time)

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"Eternity!" Knight almost yelled. She wasn't happy with how Eternity had acted in that situation. She heard the stallion ramble out an apology. She noticed that he had a hoof extended. She took it and stood up. "Thank you." She said giving him a warm smile. "Don't worry about it too much. I know how distracted one can get." She said with a little laugh. She then turned to Eternity, losing the smile. "Is that any way to act to somepony when they have already apologized?" She asked poking Eternity. "Is this how you act on the field? It was an accident and they said sorry. Your reaction was just too much." She looked at the stallion then back to Eternity. "I think you owe him an apology for that overreaction." Knight left it at that. It was up to Eternity to decided if she apologized or not.

Knight turned back to the stallion and smiled again. "Don't worry about her. She can be a nice pony. My name is Lunar Knight, but you can call me Knight." She nodded her head. "I hope you didn't lose your ticket." She knew he was a Unicorn and was probably using magic to carry it. She also knew that if a Unicorn lost concentration their magic could fail. "Are you alright? I know I don't like getting yelled at in such a public place." She added the last part as she glanced around. Eternity had drawn the attention of the ponies on the platform, so quite a bit of ponies were staring at them.

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Eternity was furious. Obviously. Every time she did get run into, she did get mad. Very, very mad. She hated it, even if it did happen often. She needed to get used to it, but she never could. Still, the grey mare felt like a forest fire, destroying everything in her path. Once look from E and they'd be screaming or trying to get away.

The unicorn seemed embarrassed for something silly, though Eternity couldn't get in her head that she needed to calm herself down. She was in fact attracting attention. The stallion then moved to help up Knight, to which she took his hoof and stood up. Once the contact hit between the unicorn and Knight, and small growl appeared out of E's throat. One thing flew through her mind, saying 'Don't you dare touch her!' but the thought disappeared after he started apologizing.

The grey mare kept a glare at the unicorn stallion, making sure he was sorry. Eternity just wanted to pounce onto his face and punch him, not caring what others thought of her actions. Good thing she thought before doing anything, because she ended up pulling herself away from the dirty blonde pony. She simply snorted, biting her lip to keep from yelling more. Though those actions were easy to control, she still couldn't hold in from yelling more. "You totally ruined my day!" she growled, still annoyed from the whole ordeal.

Knight seemed mad at Eternity now, which kind of made the hoofball player a little.. upset? Was that the word? Either way, she stilled was annoyed, and Knight didn't seem to make anything better by questioning her about how she reacts on the field. Eternity bit her lip, then opened her mouth to show her pearly white teeth. "Well, yeah I have to act that way on the field to show my toughness!" she said, trying to keep her voice together. "And I'm not apologizing. He deserves to feel sorry, so he'll be sorry. I did nothing wrong," she continued, now turning away.

She then looked at the other ponies looking at her, whispering to whoever was near. "Look away now you I'll show you something to be whispering about!" she yelled at the other ponies, trying to make them look away. They did just that, making Eternity mutter under her breath rudely then glare at the train.

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The gray pony with the green mane looked furious telling him that he had ruined her day. He frowned and his ears flopped. "Sorry again about that, I didn't mean to..."

The purple pony with the blue mane seemed to yell at the gray pony with the green mane. Then the purple pony took his hoof and he helped her stand back up. The purple pony said thank you to him and gave him a warm smile. "You're welcome" The unicorn replied smiling as well. She told him not to worry about it and related to how easy it is to get distracted. Then she laughed a little. The purple mare turned to the gray one. She asked the gray pony a question about acting rude to a pony who apologized and poked her. She asked her if that's how she acted on the field. Field? Performance thought to himself. The gray mare explained she needed to act like that on the field to show her toughness. She also said she wasn't going to apologize because she'd done nothing wrong. "She's... she's right, I'm the only one that needs to be sorry, I bumped into you" The unicorn stallion turned to the gray mare. "You don't have to apologize, it was my fault" The purple mare went on to tell the gray mare that she reacted poorly.

The purple mare turned back to him and told him not to worry about her. She introduced herself as Lunar Knight, but asked to be called Knight. The unicorn stallion smiled and said "Nice to meet you Knight, my name is Performance Major" She said she hoped he didn't lose his ticket. His eyes widened. "Oh no!" He looked around frantically, but it only had blown a few feet. He grabbed it with his magic and wiped his forehead. "Phew! Thanks for reminding me!" He chuckled. Knight asked him if he was alright and told him she didn't like getting yelled at in public. She looked around at the ponies staring at them. The unicorn looked around too, blushing a bit. The gray mare yelled at the ponies staring, making them stop.

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Knight was surprised with the reaction that Eternity had. She looked at her worried. It seemed to be more then just a simple accident. Knight turned to Performance and smiled a little. "Well it is nice to meet you." She said politely. She was glad that he was able to regain his ticket before the winds had claimed it. Knight looked at all the ponies around them. Since Eternity had yelled at them, they were trying to not appear to be staring. They were still curious about what was going on, but obviously they didn't want to get Eternity too upset.

Knight turned to Eternity. It seemed like something was wrong with her. "I agree." She walked around to the front of Eternity. "He should feel sorry for not paying attention to where he was going." She smiled a little before adding. "And he was and he still is. That doesn't make what you did right." She shook her head. "You both did wrong." She glanced at the line, hoping it would move faster. "I can tell it is more then just being bumped into." Knight started. "But sometimes you just have to take a lump and say sorry." Knight had a feeling that Eternity might not want to say sorry, not matter what she said. Suddenly Knight got an idea and smirked. "Our conversation before, about what is a reward, has given me an idea." She looked at Performance then back at Eternity. "Apologize for yelling and we could work on a reward for that." She smiled at Eternity. "I mean we are clearly going to be riding on a train together. Might as well try to be civil about it." She then turned to Performance. "So, Performance. Why are you going to Canterlot?" She asked curiously.

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Eternity kept her eyes on the train, not wanting to talk to anypony at the moment. Not even Knight. She just wanted to lock herself in the closet, just like she did when she was little. She would lock herself in her closet when she was mad so she could hide herself from the world, afraid of hurting somepony, or afraid of somepony hurting her. Now she was a grown mare, but she had to grow up mentally now. No more fiver year old stuff.

The grey mare ignored everypony who was talking to her. She just stared at the train, waiting for the growing line to move forward. Her red eyes seemed to be glaring, trying to get everything out of her head. She wanted to scream, but she just told herself not to. 'Stop acting like a child,' she thought, twitching her ear. 'Grow up.'

Knight insisted on telling her to apologize, but Eternity kept ignoring her. She finally decided to speak apon her actions, still being mad at what seemed like the world. The mare just shook her head, thinking of what to say. The words then formed into her head, creating noise to come out of her mouth. "I- an apology isn't in my vocabulary. Saying the 'S' word, isn't anything I'd put up with," she finally said, keeping her eyes on the train. She then glanced at Knight, then looked back at the train. "You can introduce me though. I don't want to speak to him," she admitted, taking another step forward as the line got shorter. "Even if he was to sing at the hoofball game, I refuse to speak words to him."

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Knight turned to Performance and smiled. She told him it was nice to meet him. Then she looked at all the ponies around them. She then turned to the gray mare with the green mane and tail. She had told her that she agreed that Performance should feel sorry. This made Performance's ears flop again. Then she continued, saying that he was and still is. She said that it doesn't make her reaction right though. She stated that we both did wrong. Performance frowned even more. She started talking to the gray mare about some kind of reward. Knight tried to convince the gray mare to apologize by offering a reward. She added that we would be riding on the train together, so they might as well act civil. This is true, but I have a feeling it's going to be a bit uncomfortable. Performance planned to sit as far away from the gray mare as possible once they boarded the train.

The gray mare stared at the train and ignored everypony around her. Then she told Knight that she doesn't say sorry, that it wasn't in her vocabulary. She said Knight could introduce the gray mare if she wanted because she refused to speak to him. Then the gray mare went on to say even if he was going to sing at the hoofball game, she didn't want to speak to him.

Performance eyes widened at this. Did she know? How? Knight then turned to Performance and asked him why he was going to Canterlot. Performance gulped and sweated a bit. Um... I'm... I'm just visiting, I've... always wanted to go to Canterlot... yeah..." Performance chuckled nervously. "Well uh... we... uh better get in line" Performance forced a smile trying his best to hide how nervous he was. Then he practically darted to the end of the line. Oh man, if that gray mare knew I WAS going to sing at the hoofball game...

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Knight was not too happy about the way Eternity was acting. Knight just didn't know why that Eternity would act in such a bullheaded way. Knight was going to take her advice and just introduce her to Performance, but then he said something. Knight was a little sad when Performance decided to move to the back of the line. Knight looked at Eternity. She wasn't too sure how she should react to what had happened. Knight glanced around at all the other ponies on the platform. They all had decided the drama was over and were all back to minding their own business. That is when the line started to move again. They were now finally getting on the train.

"So." Knight said as they walked onto the train. She looked at Eternity. She had a look that was worried, which was true, but she was more worried about Eternity. "Do you want to talk about what happened?" She asked in a soft voice. She wasn't trying to sound like she was accusing Eternity of anything. She hoped that she got the point that she was just worried about how the whole interaction had happened. "If you want to talk that is." She added as the two of them sat down. Knight watched Eternity as she waited for an answer. She hoped that Eternity would talk about it, but it was well within her right not to say anything. Knight just found Eternity's reaction to be a bit too extreme. That is when the ticket pony stopped at their seats. He needed to punch their tickets before they could ride the train.

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Eternity noticed the line finally moving, so she started to walk into the train. She turned around to see that the stallion went to go to the back of the line. She snorted, looking forward again. She had to stop though, seeing that the train ponies were going to punch their tickets.

A voice then appeared in her ear. It was soft, sweet, gentle. It had a tiny bit of worry, which is what caught E's attention. Moving her head, she looked at the violet mare next to her. She wore a worried look, which made Eternity kind of jumpy. She blinked her eyes, then linked them up with Knight's green ones. Her heart was thumping again. Why did it always do that? Whatever, she tried to ignore it as much as possible.

Knight suddenly asked if she wanted to talk about the situation, but Eternity shook her head lightly. She wanted to get her mind off of it pronto. "No, mind you're own business would ya?" she snapped under her breath, looking away immediately. Her ear twitched, suddenly feeling guilt. 'Buck. You need to calm yourself down. Snap into reality and get over it!'

Eternity stared at the window, then when the ticket pony came by she took out the train tickets. The ticket pony punched their tickets, then they went into the train. Eternity sat down on a two pony seat, sitting next to the window. Knight sat next to her, making her flinch a little. She still felt guilty, yelling at Knight for no reason. Why'd she do that? She needed to keep herself in check.

She looked at Knight, biting her bottom lip. "S-sorry," she mumbled, looking away afterwards. "I'm a jerk, I know." She shook her head, looking out the window again. "I just get so.. caught up in the bad feelings. I just-" She stopped, taking a deep breath. "Rudeness is a weak ponies imitation of strength, so I, the most ungrateful pony in this whole universe is weak."

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Performance Major felt bad for having to leave Knight, but he didn't want to make the gray mare with the green mane and tail more upset than she already was. If he had told them the REAL reason he was going to Canterlot, the gray mare would have gotten so much more upset... Wait a minute... what did him performing the Equestrian Anthem at the hoofball game have have to do with her anyway? It's not like that's where she's going... right? He took a deep breath and let it out slowly trying to calm himself down. Just breath Performance, there is no chance that they're going to the hoofball game too. Just... relax

He watched the ticket pony punch Knight's and the gray mare's tickets and watched to see where they sat. OK, if they're sitting there... then I'll sit there He thought to himself pointing to where he planned to sit. The line kept moving forward. It was moving pretty quickly, but for some reason time seemed seemed to be moving slower for Performance. He waited anxiously for his turn to turn in his ticket. He wasn't sure whether he was feeling more excited about his performance at the hoofball game or nervous about being on the same train as the gray mare. He didn't know why exactly, but she intimidated him. Finally he got to the front. He gave his ticket to the ticket pony to get punched. The ticket pony punched the ticket and told him to enjoy the ride. Performance nodded. "Thank you sir, I will" He smiled and entered the train. He looked for the mares. He saw them sitting not too far away, then he quickly went in the opposite direction sitting in the seat farthest away from them. He hoped they hadn't noticed. He took a deep breath and smiled looking out the window. He was excited.

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For some time now the Canterlot Express's route had gone smoothly. The usual passions that marked many an unbearable separation at the quay were soon forgotten, most broken hearts and guilty relatives losing themselves to the landscape passing by, entering a state of deep melancholy.

But enough of that, decreed whichever superior force ruled this world, for worried looks and suspicious hooves had been designating a single upside down cardboard box at the edge of a wagon's corridor since the beginning of the trip. Eventually, a brave ticket inspector volunteered to investigate it. Brave, one says, for this inspector had been informed of peculiar properties of said item. However rough the ride had been so far, the prop hadn't gotten knocked other. It didn't even flinch at jolts and bumps.

Closing in, the stamper was only inches away from the box and about to lingeringly uncover its secrets, when she got knocked over as the infernal prop came to life. Or, rather, was flinged in her general direction by that which had been hiding under it for interminable minutes.

Emerging from his makeshift hiding place, Baldoire Pertuisane assessed the situation. The pale stallion was wearing a full vintage hoofball sportsuit, composed of a white short sleeved t-shirt with the number 4 printed on the front and the name "Shock Goal" printed on the back, black shorts stretched out for decency's sake and old rusty spiked shoes that didn't adhere to anything but sap and glue anymore.

Unknown to the Everymane and the deaf of ears and the blind of eyes, however, the sportsmane of yesteryear turning up out of the blue was no sportsmane at all. In fact, Baldoire's flawless logic led him to the conclusion that to infiltrate a hoofball stadium, one was to dress up like a hoofballer. A real hoofballer, though. Not one of these wannabes wearing so called "optimal Equipment" and not sticking to what worked 50 years ago. Silly them.

"Why go through all that trouble ?" The witty of mind and sensible of logic would ask. To that question, Baldoire would've answered in two quatrains and an equal amount of tercets that it was none of their business. But aside, he would've unraveled to the inexistent public the true nature of his endeavours : rescueing amateur hoofball player Love Eternity Doovey from the ruthless clutches of capitalism and technology.

For Baldoire was informed and knew that the crème de la crème of Manehattan would be attending the competition. Surely they were planning something devilish, and who else but the youngster he himself had been stalking for the past four weeks to execute their malicious deeds upon ?

Oh also Lunar Knight was there. Noticing her at the other end of the wagon, Baldoire searched his cardboard box and extracted a familiar conducive to possessions by demonic spirits chestplate from it. He then sneaked his way to his friend and showed her the armour piece. "I brought this as I began my quest. Thought of excusing myself later for borrowing it, but apparently you're here, so it's all good." He whispered, handing the gigantic piece of rust and metal over to her.

He then turned to Eternity. "Morning stranger." He saluted. He just couldn't afford to reveal his secret mission yet, even to his protégé of the day. Then he turned to a sheepish purple coated and blond maned unicorn. Deeming him irrelevant to the plot he had imagined, he quickly looked away. And everypony was looking back.

In a brilliant attempt to befriend everyone to calm things down, he beamingly declared "Fear not, riders of this train ! I, the great "Shock Goal", legend of hoofball, am merely joining the competition that any self-respecting competitor will attend."

In his superior intelligence and sense of pragmacy, he ignored the oldest folk's questioning of whether Shock Goal was supposed to be turning eighty today and sat next to Eternity. "So, unknown stranger, what is your name ?" He asked him as casually as he could.

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Knight felt for the other pony. Most of the strongest ponies wind up being easily hurt. Knight touched Eternity's shoulder. "Hey now." She said with a small smile. "I know that there are a lot of different meanings for "strength." So just because you think you are weak, doesn't make you weak." She smiled wider. "Besides who says there is anything with being weak. We are all weak at some point." She glanced up and noticed Performance take a seat far away. She turned to Eternity and smiled once more. Suddenly there was commotion from the front of the train section they were in.

Knight looked up at the front worried, and a little hopeful. Knight wondered if this was a situation that she could prove her worth and show the Royal Guard that she would be a good guard. Knight noticed who the pony was, Baldoire. He was a pony she had a small adventure with one time. It had been interesting, mostly because of what happened. There had been thieves, possessed armor and a giant whole in her roof. Knight wasn't all that surprised when he started walking towards her, what really surprised her was what Baldoire was carrying. He had her chestplate. Knight was curious how he got his hooves on it. He hadn't changed. He went on about a quest and sat down, pretending to be someone else. Knight was upset. She didn't like anyone touching her armor, she liked showing it to otherponies less. She found it embarrassing, since it had Luna's mark on it.

"Baldoire." Knight said in a bit of an annoyed voice, not caring about the fake name he had used before.. "How did you get your hooves on this?" She asked. Crime wasn't a big thing in ponyville, but there were still laws. She watched Baldoire, waiting for his reply. "Why did you take this?" She was still holding the chestplate. She didn't really have anywhere to hide it. There was a blush on her face, since Baldoire had brought a lot of attention to them.

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A sigh reached out into the air from Eternity. There was a lot of things wrong with her at the moment, things she didn't know how to deal with or get away from. Maybe they'll just stick within her until she explodes, like usual.

Still, she was feeling a little down. Her red eyes glanced at the stallion whom she yelled at before, already annoyed from the look of him. He seemed a little glum, sitting by himself over there. Nopony was talking to him or anything, he had nothing to do but sit and rethink about how monsterious Eternity was to him, which made the hoofball player uncomfortable.

She was starting to get a headache, something she got quite often. She wanted to get her thoughts away from her head, but that was impossible. All she needed was something to keep herself occupied and less annoyed, so when a strange pony came over and sat down, she was relieved. He seemed to be carrying Knight's chest plate, the one Eternity saw at her house. Suddenly it hit E, he knew Knight. But another thing came into view. How did he get into her house, go to the corner of the room and grab the Luna engraved chest plate from her house and to the train station? How did he know where Knight was anyway? And from how Knight was reacting, she wasn't too pleased with what was happening.

The stranger stallion held up the plate, showing anypony what it looked like from the way it was laying. He asked what Eternity's name was, so she simply said, "The name's Eternity kind stranger." She had a tad of annoyance still in her voice from before, but she tried to put a little more sarcasticness into it.

Knight was starting to get a little embarrassed, her face red from what her chest plate was showing. E was getting a little put off at this, now wanting to slap the other pony in the face for having it with him. She just wanted to stand onto the table and yell at him for making Knight seem so uncomfortable, but she couldn't build up the courage.

Eternity put her red eyes on the stranger (or apparently Baldoire as stated by Knight), and started to glare at him. Wait, did he give a fake name to Eternity? What was wrong with him? "Hey," she hissed at the grey stallion, now showing a lot of annoyance and anger. Her heart was thumping again, but that didn't stop her. "Keep your hooves off her chest plate," she hissed again, taking the plate and putting it in between herself and Knight to hide it. She was behond annoyed now, even more then before.

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Performance's thoughts were interrupted by a commotion on the wagon. He looked over to see a gray stallion with a blue mane and tail. He was wearing a very peculiar looking hoofball uniform. What is a hoofball player doing on a train in his uniform? Performance watched as the stallion sneaked over to Lunar Knight carrying what looked like a chest plate. He watched the strange stallion turn to the gray mare. Uh oh... here we go Performance braced for the gray mare to yell at the gray stallion. Almost as if he sensed his thoughts, the gray stallion looked over at Performance. Performance's eyes widened. Could this stallion hear what he was thinking? Performance shook his head and chuckled to himself. No, that's just silly, ponies can't read minds To Performance's relief, the gray stallion looked away from him. Performance wiped his forehead and continued to watch the three of them and the events that were unfolding. Apparently he was the only one watching them. Practically everypony on the train had their eyes on the strange stallion. He made a very boastful declaration that his name was Shock Goal he was going to the hoofball game. Oh no... he's going to the hoofball game? He sagged down in his seat at the thought.

He looked back over to them and Knight looked annoyed. She was holding the chest plate now and blushing red. Much to Performance's surprise, the gray mare didn't immediately chastise the gray stallion Shock Goal. That quickly changed. She started yelling at him to keep his hooves of Knight's chest plate" Poor Knight... as if she wasn't embarrassed enough...