//------------------------------// // Look, I Just Want My Sandwich Part2 // Story: 30 Days/ 30 Stories // by Fenton //------------------------------// The bell rang, and almost every foal and filly rushed out for the door, the anticipated break finally coming. Flurry Heart put back her stuff carefully into her saddlebag before going to Pound and Pumpkin, still sitting at the back of the classroom. “Hey, Pumpkin, hey Pound,” she said to the twins. “Flurry!” they both greeted before exchanging a quick hug with their friend. “That’s so cool we’re in the same class,” said Pound. “Totally,” added Pumpkin. “We’re gonna have the best time, and —” “Flurry,” interrupted Cheerilee. “I know you want to spend some time with your friends, but I’m afraid to tell you these two are in detentions.” Flurry Heart looked back and forth between her friends and her new teacher. “Why don’t you go meet your other classmates outside, hmm? You’ll can see them after class.” With a pang of regret, she left the twins and went outside, grabbing her lunchbox on the way. Once outside, she looked at all the groups of kids. Some were playing the skipping rope, some with a ball, and several groups were simply chatting. She was wondering which one she should go first, each one promised to be a lot of fun, without taking account meeting her new classmates and befriending them. However, a deep growl came from her little tummy, and she knew what she needed to do first. She sat on one of the bench, and grabbed from her lunchbox the sandwich Twilight had prepared. She sniffed it: potato bread with mashed peas, her favorite. She was almost drooling from the delicious lunch she was about to have, when she felt somepony poking at her shoulder. She had barely the time to turn her head and recognised the grey pegasus from earlier, that her sandwich was snatched from her hooves. The snatcher was her other class neighbor. “So,” said the unicorn, holding Flurry’s sandwich. “You’re the new teacher’s pet.” Flurry Heart knew exactly what it meant, Auntie Dashie had warned her about this. She had to stay strong if she didn’t want to be their ‘doormat’, as Auntie Dashie had said. “Give me back my lunch.” She had gathered all the assertiveness she could, but it didn’t prevent her voice from quavering. “Or what?” said the pegasus. “You’re gonna tell Mommy? I thought princesses were strong and independent mares, but I bet you still wet your bed.” “I don’t wet my bed,” shouted Flurry Heart, standing from the bench. “As if,” giggled the unicorn, pushing her back on the bench. “You’re just a cry filly, and you wet your bed at night.” The two fillies singsonged. Despite all the lectures about violence and its pointlessness, Flurry Heart was thinking more and more about giving these two bullies a first experience of what her magic was capable of. She lit her horn, but before she could cast any spell, two blurry points came from the school at a very high speed. One jumped on the unicorn, and the other on the pegasus behind Flurry Heart, resulting into two messes of screams, kicks, and bites. The alicorn saw her sandwich falling and barely caught it with the magic she had channeled. She then recognised the twins and heard them threatening the two fillies. “Do that again and I’ll break your horn,” said Pound to the unicorn, his hoof slowly pushing on it. “Try to lay a hoof on our friend and you won’t fly for a month,” growled Pumpkin to the pegasus, showing all of her teeth. “Guys! Stop!” The twins released their prey, who immediately ran away to a safer place. “What?” asked Pumpkin. Still frantic, Flurry Heart’s voice was coloured with both relief and anger. “I appreciate what you’ve done! But violence isn’t the solution! What were you thinking, threatening these poor fillies?” “Poor fillies?” Pound rolled his eyes. “Yeah, right! Said the alicorn who was ready to blast them with whatever powerful spell she could come up with.” “Yeah,” added Pumpkin. “I said we did them a favor by not letting you turning them into a pile of ashes. We saved their flank and yours.” The twins hoofbumped,  and Flurry blushed a bit, her heart having finally slowed down. “I swear I've got this, but… thank you.” The Cakes went to each side of their friend, each one putting a leg on her neck. “No problem, Flurry” said Pumpkin. “We’ve got your back.” “With us by your side, nopony will cause you any trouble,” added Pound. “Pinkie Promise.” Flurry Heart looked at them. “Speaking of troubles, weren’t you supposed to be in detention?” Suddenly, Cheerilee’s angry voice echoed around the schoolyard. “POUND! PUMPKIN!” The twins shuddered. “Uh oh.”