Upon arriving to the woodwork class, Spike and Sunset found their fellow classmates already at work on some collaborative projects.

Most of male students were working together with the girls from Alicorn University, collaborating and building together, from making a flute, a small wooden sculpture, to a beautiful birdhouse.

Snips, also in the class, was all by himself. He was too busy ogling at the girls than paying any attention to his lessons in the class, and was stupidly hammering random nails on a misshapen contraption of sort, with a wrench.

“Mr. Snips,” The teacher, named Mr. Hoofield glowered. “What are you trying to make?”

Snips snapped out of his love trance, as he struggled to make up a good excuse, “Uh...I’m making a...coat rag?” He stuttered, much to Mr. Hoofield’s disapproval.

Without a doubt, the man is going to plant a big fat “F” on Snips’s failed project.

Sunset Shimmer followed Spike as they walked over to the boy’s workbench in the classroom. They first put on a pair of goggles and gloves for protections.

“A puzzle box,” Spike answered, as he showed the girl the schematics on all the parts for the said box, and his current progress. “These things are a lot of fun, but making them is a challenge.”

“Well, I’ve had my shares of puzzle boxes back in Tokyo,” Sunset commented. “Let’s see what we’ve got.”

“Hey Sunset!” A couple of voices greeted. Spike and Sunset looked up to see coming their way are two girls - one with minty hair and the other with moderate cobalt blue and light fuchsia.

The girl has moderate cyan eyes, a moderate cobalt blue hair with light fuchsia stripes that ends in curls at the top and bottom. For attire, the girl wears a white frilly dress with yellow stripes and blue ribbons, a belt at the waist with a ribbon in the shape of a wrapped candy, long white knee-high socks, and light blue slippers.

Her companion has brilliant gold eyes, scruffy pale, light grayish opal hair, with a red headband, decorated with a beautiful rose. For attire, she wears a gold necklace, with a bling in the shape of a heartstring, a magenta sleeveless top, frilly aqua blue short, orange socks, and rosy boots.

"Konnichiwa, Lyra. Konnichiwa, Bon Bon," Sunset Shimmer greeted the two respectively. "Nice to see you two are in the class together."

"Like I'd ever be in a class without Bon Bon?" Lyra asked, while she and the girl beside her shared loving glances.

"There's not a class I'd ever be in, without my biggest bestie in the whole world!" Bon Bon proclaimed, before she and Lyra took notice of Spike. "You must be Spike," She smiled. "Sunset and her friends have told us a lot about you!"

"Have they now?" Spike asked, turning to the fiery girl who looked away, hiding her blush and sad frown.

"And that you're their favorite boy to hang with!" Lyra added with a bright smile.

Spike blinked for a moment, before he shook his head, looking more uncertain, and quickly putting a hand to his forehead to ease an incoming sensation.

Seeing his distress, Sunset turned to the girls, "Uh, would you excuse us for a moment, Spike?" She insisted. "We'll be right back," The three girls soon walked to the other side of the room, where Sunset explained, "Girls, listen. I don't mean to rain on any parades or anything but... Spike's got amnesia and I think it's best of we don't aggravate him so much by mentioning anything about the past."

"Yeah," Lyra nodded in agreement, as she clutches hands with Bon Bon. "I can't imagine going on with my life, without remembering Bon Bon in my life."

At the description of such nightmare, Sunset grimaced and sadly frowns, "Believe me, I'd probably feel the same way if all of my friends had completely forgotten about me... or the good memories of me." Shaking her head, getting back on track, Sunset beckoned, "But listen, for Spike's sake, try not to stress him out so much by bringing up, or even mention something from his past. Okay?"

Lyra and Bon Bon both turned to each other to exchange glances, before they turned to Sunset and nodded in understanding, "Sure thing, Sunset," Lyra said.

"Great," With that, the three girls were on their way back to Spike, when who should happen to stop them but Snips.

"Well hello you lovely ladies~" Snips flirted, only to be pushed away by a disgusted Sunset. "I'm never washing my face again~" He sighed in content.

Spike was doing some work on his puzzle box, when the girls came back to him, "So Spike," Bon Bon began. "Watchya and Sunset making?"

"A puzzle box," Spike pointed at his schematics. "Although, Sunset's the expert at this, so I'm putting my trust in her that we'll make it work. What about you girls? What're you making?"

Both Lyra and Bon Bon turned to one another and giggled, "We're making turtle doves!" They said together.

"Yeah!" Bon Bon smiled. "Did you know that turtle doves are a symbol of friendship and love!"

"We'll always be friends forever!" The two girls said together, as they share a hug and made a heart shape with their hands.

"Neither do I," Spike nodded. "Sounds like a swell idea! Good luck with it!" The two girls soon took their leaves, when Spike called out, "Hey! Any chance I could get a turtle dove as well? I'd like to be friends with you two for a long time!"

"Absolutely!" Lyra and Bon Bon replied, before they went to work on their project together.

After woodwork class, Sunset and Spike returned to the cafeteria in time for lunch.

"You go ahead and get something to eat, Sunset," Spike said. "I'll go and find us a table to eat."

"Hai," Sunset nodded as she took her leave, while Spike went and grabbed an empty table before any of the other students could get to it.

He was by his lonesome, when a voice greeted him, "Well hello again," He looked up to see the Dazzlings walking over to his table.

Adagio chuckled lightly, "I'm flattered you remembered me," She smiled flirtatiously.

"We were looking for a table to sit and we couldn't help but notice you're here by your lonesome," Adagio replied. "So we thought you might need some company."

"Oh that's very nice of you," Spike replied. "But I'm actually waiting for Sunset."

"Oh, you're with Sunset Shimmer?" Adagio's smile disappeared into a disappointed frown.

"Oh, how nice," With that, Adagio took a seat besides Spike, while Aria and Sonata took the others, though Spike kept them away from the empty seat beside him.

Just then, Sunset Shimmer arrived, "Hey Spike! Sorry if I–" She gasped when she saw who else was sitting beside him. "Adagio?! Dazzlings?" She exclaimed in outrage.

"Oh hi, Sunset," Adagio waved confidently. "My sisters and I were just keeping Spike company until you get back."

"He was all alone, so we came to sit with him, before we could steal him away from you!" Sonata shouted gleefully, much to the annoyance of her sisters. "What?"

"Actually, Spike, let's find somewhere else to eat," Sunset began tugging on Spike's arm.

"Typical Sunset," Aria added. "Thinking she's so much better than everyone else, she gets to hog some other boys all to herself."

"I'm not hogging anyone!" Sunset glowered. “I just don’t want for Spike to get roped in with the wrong crowd.”

"Then don't keep him to yourself and share him with the rest of us," Adagio smirked. "Besides, it's not exactly your place to decide for him now, is it?"

Sunset growled, but relented, so as to not prove Adagio's point, as she sets her lunch tray down and took a seat between Spike and Sonata.

At first, there was an awkward silence, with Spike feeling tensions rising between Sunset and the Dazzlings.

Wanting to break the ice, Spike cleared his throat and spoke, "So, how are you girls?" He asked the Dazzlings. "Enjoying your stay at Phoenix Academy?"

"So far, it's alright," Aria grumbled. "Aside from the Auditorium, that little theatric funhouse of yours, the rest is okay."

"Most of you guys are okay," Sonata added. "Although, last class, there was this strange boy who wouldn't stop staring at me and my sisters."

"Never got his name," Aria grumbled. "All I know was that he was drooling like a dog before I knocked his teeth out."

"Hey look! There he is now!" Sonata pointed to a table, where Snails was having lunch with his neck in a heated wrap, and the security guard standing watch over him.

"Ouch," Spike grimaced. "Remind me to never get on your bad side," He pleaded to Aria, who could only chuckle.

"Now, now, let's not frighten the poor thing," Adagio said as she clings onto Spike, and smothered up next to him, ticking Sunset off on purpose. "Don't worry, sweetie. As long as I'm around, you won't have to worry about her."

"Hey! Lemme get some of that!" Sonata shouted, as she got out of her seat to wrap her arms around Spike in a loving embrace, only for Adagio to pull him away. "Hey!"

"Wait your turn, little sister," Adagio ordered, when Aria came to try and grab Spike away, mostly for the entertainment of making and watching the look of envy on Sunset's face.

However, Sunset wasn't the only one watching in envy. Many of the boys in the cafeteria were all outraged with jealousy as they watched Spike getting snuggled by, not one, or two, but three gorgeously attractive teenage girls.

"No, how could you Scorpio?!" Snails moaned. "Those girls were meant to be mine!"

Spike's whole face was blushing a shade of tomato red from the Dazzlings' combined advance on him. He was struggling to keep himself composed, which is a hard thing to do, considering some noticeable assets that were pressing against him from the chest up.

"Okay, Dazzlings," Sunset scowled as she tried to pry Spike out of their grips. "I think that's enough."

"Girls! Break it up!" The security guard said boomingly, when he left Snails for a moment to save Spike from the tangled web of the Dazzlings arms.

"And you girls say I'm hogging him to myself?" Sunset snarked in a snappy comeback, to which Adagio huffed, before exchanging disapproving glares at her two sisters.

Snails also took this moment to sneak away, when the man wasn't looking. Though, not for long when he didn't look to see there was a Wet Floor sign, and he winds up slipping and fell on the floor with a loud thud.

After lunch period was over, Spike, Sunset, and the Dazzlings were on their way to Study Hall, while poor Snails was taken to the infirmary.

On the way, Adagio began, “Again, I’m really sorry for that whole ordeal back there.”

“It’s okay,” Spike replied. “Though, let’s try and avoid repeating that again. Okay?”

“Oh puh-lease,” Sunset grumbled, as she pulled Spike to her. “Let’s just get to class before something else happens.”

“Oh Spikey-Wikey Chu?” The haunting voice of Cozy Glow called. “Where are you?”

“Like that?” Spike whimpered, as he frantically looks around for somewhere to hide.

Soon Cozy Glow appeared from behind a corner and was running pass Sunset and the Dazzlings, “Spikey? Where are you?” She called.

With that, Spike jumped out from Adagio’s hair, with Aria and Sonata helping him down.

“Phew, I thought I was goner,” Spike sighed. “Anyway, thanks for letting me hide in your, uh...hair, Adagio.”

“You’re welcome, Spike,” Adagio smiled flirtatiously. “Of course, I do enjoy that little snuggle you felt for my hair.”

“I wasn’t snuggling!” Spike blushed. “C’mon, let’s just get to Study Hall, and fast.”

Once they arrived into the room, Spike took a seat beside Sunset, at a table with their friends, Starlight Glimmer, and Trixie.

“Uh, excuse us,” The friends looked up from their books to see Twilight standing before them, with a girl next to her who sports a somewhat similar hairstyle as her’s.

In appearance, the girl appeared to be spitting image of Twilight, with the exception of wearing a thicker pair of glasses, and her hair is colored brilliant amaranth with moderate purple highlights. Her attires are a dark scruffy turtlenecks sweater with red plated socks and knee high socks colored the exact theme of her hair.

“Hope we’re not intruding or anything,” The girl spoke quietly. “But can we sit here? Everywhere else’s been taken.”

“Not at all,” Sunset smiled, gesturing to the three remaining empty seats at their table, two of which Twilight and the girl gladly took.

“I’m Maggie Mage, by the way,” The girl introduced herself. “But my friends call me Moon Dancer.”

“I know who you are.” Moon interrupted. “You’re Spike Scorpio. Twilight’s told me about you. And I’m happy to finally meet you.” She smiled.

“Other than that, how’ve you all been?” Twilight asked the rest of the girls, who all proceeded to exchange stories about how their days went.

While the girls continued to converse each other, Spike looked up and noticed Wallflower Blush was also in the room, sitting at a table, all by her lonesome.

A caring side to him kicked in as he got up and walked over to the shy girl, “Hey Wallflower,” Spike greeted the girl, who looked up.

“Oh, hi Spike,” Wallflower greeted quietly. “You noticed me!?” She asked, sounding rather surprise.

“Well, no one ever notices me, and I’ve kinda gotten used to it, so it’s fine...”

“No it’s not. Nobody shouldn’t have to be this lonely. C'mon! Come sit with me and the others. There's one seat left."

"You're not intruding, Wallflower. C'mon, they won't bite." With that, Spike started to walk back to his shared table.

"Spike! Wait!" Wallflower called, getting up from her seat. Unfortunately, one of her shoe was untied and she ended up tripping and falling towards Spike. "AAAH!!"

"Oof!!" Spike grunted, as he caught the girl in his arms, and the two looked at each other. This didn't go unnoticed, as the entire classroom all turned their surprise gazes on the two.

"What's going on here?" The classroom teacher, Professor Bill Neigh, asked, when he came walking over to inspect the scene. "Mr. Scorpio?"

"Oh nothin', professor," Spike replied as he and Wallflower broke apart. "Fiona here was tripping, but I got her."

"I see," The professor said before he walked back to his desk. "Well then, get back to doing your studies then."

Soon, Spike got back into his seat, with Wallflower following and taking a seat beside Starlight Glimmer.

For the rest of the Study Hall period, Spike and the girls were all studying over the notes they have taken from their classes, and finishing their given assignments, all the while exchanging conversations about their second day at Phoenix Academy. Much to Spike's relief, the third stooge, Zephyr Breeze, has not done any trouble for the day, since his sister, Fluttershy, came to the school and was doing a terrific job of keeping the boy in line. Especially for Rainbow Dash's sake.

Aside from the school's troublesome trio's antics, the girls' second day of visit was going along quite well. Starlight Glimmer, especially, who had gotten the chance to meet and catch up with an old friend of hers at the school.

"So you're friends with Sunburst?" Spike asked. "As in Luke Starburst, the tech wizard?"

"Yep! That's the one!" Starlight smiled. "Luke and I go way back when we were kids. We used to design and build lego robots and he's very smart and is very knowledgeable with the codings and the engineerings of a technician. He once took apart a TV when he was five."

"Anyway, he and I used to keep in touch, until we lost contact with each other," Starlight sighed. "So now, here I am. Apparently, it seems he was on the breakthrough of some newly developed robotics engineering, but went through a minor setback."

"Yeah," Spike nodded. "Sunburst may be a smart guy, but his enthusiasms gets him into a lot of trouble. So he definitely needs all the help he can get. But, if you two were that close back then, I'm confident you two can make it together. And without a doubt, I think he's happy to see you again, Star. A wise person once said, 'absence makes the heart grow fonder.'"

Starlight Glimmer smiled happily at hearing such positive words from Spike, though not nearly as happy as Twilight, Sunset Shimmer, and Wallflower Blush.

Though, Wallflower was more sad than happy, "Or forgetful," She muttered under her breath. 'Why did you have to forget all about me?'

For his last class period of the day, Spike has calculus with Button Mash, Moon Dancer, Fluttershy, and Twilight. The teacher of the class is a man named Doodle Jack, whom Button Mash nicknamed as Cranky Doodle for his curmudgeon demeanor. Cranky Doodle has a light black hair, and a five o'clock shadow that compliments the sour expression on his face. His attires are a light muddy brown sweater with red jeans and dark shoes.

"Okay, pencils ready," The man instructed in a gruff voice. "Let's begin by reviewing what we've learned in this subject, from both schools," He said to the boys of Phoenix Academy and the girls of Alicorn University, before he proceeds to write up his first formula and math variables on the board.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

"First off, can anyone tell me what this is?" Cranky asked, to which Twilight responded by raising her hand up. "Yes, Ms. Sparkle?"

"That's the Pythagorean Theorem," She answered. "It's a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of the right triangle."

"Correct," Cranky congratulated the girl. "But this is only the first question. Now let's take it up a notch, shall we?" With that, Cranky erased the formula before he proceeded to write a more complex type. "What is this formula?"

x=\frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}

Twilight shot her hand up again, only for Cranky to shot her down, "How we let another bright student answer this one, Ms. Sparkle," The man insisted, to which Twilight lowered her hand down, and Moon Dancer raised her hand up. "Yes, Ms. Mage?"

"That's the quadratic formula," Moon Dancer answered. "It's the formula we use to find the answer in a quadratic equation (ax^2 + bx + c = 0)."

"Very good," Cranky replied, before he asks, "Now, my final question to prove yourself, gentlemen," He said directly to the boys. "Let's see if any of you have paid attention and could tell me what this is?"

lim _x➡cf(x)=L

"Can anyone one of you boys answer this?" Cranky asked. At first, none of the boys were willing to answer, when a hand raised up, "Yes, Mr. Maximus?"

"That's the limit mathematics we went over in class, last week," Button Mash stated. "It's used to define the continuity, derivatives, and integral."

All of the boys looked shock at Button Mash, while Spike looked less surprise at his friend's surprising knowledge in mathematics.

Mr. Doodle appeared to be rather unfazed, "I still say you looked off your notes at the last second, Mr. Maximus," The man huffed. "But, I'll accept your answer."

"Well, when you're into video game designing, you gotta know these things like the back of your hands," Button Mash smiled proudly, to which Twilight smiled in agreement.

"Alright, alright, you've convinced me," Cranky said. "All of you here must be pretty smart, unlike some of you, Mr. Breeze," He glared, guiding everyone's attention to the tall stooge in the room, who blushed and sank a little deeper in his seat.

Fluttershy could only shake her head in utter disappointment at her brother, before turning her attention to the teacher as he continued, "Perfect. Then I can assume all of us men are on the levels with all of the ladies in the room," Cranky said. "Now let's see if you can all try and figure out these four math problems of the day I've put together for all of you." The man said, as he turns on his projector to display the four math problems of the day.

"And now, I want you boys and girls to work with your fellow classmates at your tables to find the answer for each of these problems," Cranky instructed, before he started off. "Begin!"

As usual, Spike proceeded to work with Button Mash on solving the problems, while Twilight worked together with Moon Dancer, and Fluttershy was left to work with Zephyr, since he was all by his lonesome and no one else was interested in working with him.

"Now Zephyr, for once in your life, please try and actually work on these problem, on your own!" Fluttershy said sternly. "I may be helping, but that doesn't mean I'm going to do all of the work. Do I make myself clear?"

"Aw, c'mon, sis!" Zephyr whined. "Mr. Cranky's mathematics, calculus, or geometry aren't like your typical ones from your school. They're killers! They hurt my brain."

Back with Spike and Button Mash, the young gamer did the works and found the answers to the limit equations above, while Spike managed the quadratic formula a bit, but struggled the Pythagorean’s theorem.

In the meantime, both Twilight and Moon Dancer were working together and judging by the relaxing and confident look on their faces, they seemed to know what they were doing.

The whole class continued to work on solving the math, until Cranky announced, “Time’s up!”

With that, each of the students began to exchange their answers to the teacher, before he revealed the correct answers.

With that, he congratulated on the students who got the answers right, while berating and correcting the rests who got the answers wrong.

“Phew,” Spike breathes a sigh of relief. “Glad that’s over. Calculus is stressful, but it’s a good thing you’re a wizard for this subject, Button.”

Twilight simply giggled, while Moon blushed in response, “Aw, thanks Spike,” Twilight smiled.

“Do you ever pay any attention to anything the teachers say?!” Fluttershy shouted angrily, as Zephyr went running out of the room, holding his hands over his ears. “Do you have any idea how much money our parents have put into funding your enrollment, and you couldn’t make it all worth it?!”

After she was done ranting, Fluttershy turned around and was greeted by the astonished look from her friends.

Composing herself, Fluttershy apologized, “I’m sorry you had to see that. I’m just so peeved about Zephyr and his slacking way.”

“Don’t worry, he ain’t our favorite guy to pal around with either,” Button grumbled. “You’re not alone.”

“Still, seeing the way you two interacted,” Spike began, “I’m guessing he’s always like that even before enrolling?”

“I’m afraid so,” Fluttershy frowned. “Before coming to this school, Zephyr’s always been so...unsupportive of himself and he’s always been trying to get others to do his work. He couldn’t take, even the most simplest of tasks seriously.”

Fluttershy breathes a frustrated sigh as she continued, “He’s have had a long history of unemployment and as always, winds up bunking and freeloading at mom and dad’s place.”

“Yikes,” Spike frowned, feeling pity for the girl and her folks. “So how’d you got him to come here then?”

“It was my idea, actually,” Fluttershy answered. “I wanted Zephyr to be the least independent when he grows up and finishes a job for once. But I can see now, it didn’t go the way that I had hoped,” Fluttershy cringed as she covered her face. “If Zephyr fails again in his finals, then—“

“Don’t worry, Fluttershy,” Twilight coaxed to the stressed girl. “I’m sure we’ll figure something out.”

“And we’ll handle Zephyr and the other Stooges,” Spike added. “Besides, Uncle’s been wanting to give him a lesson he’ll never forget for a very long time, and he’ll be pleased to hear your thoughts about it.”

“Oh, I don’t know,” Fluttershy whimpered. “I know Zephyr can be a little pathetic at times, but... Headmaster Scorpan won’t be too hard on him, will he?”

“I know uncle can be so uptight sometimes,” Spike shrugged before he reassured, “But he means well.”

“Absolutely!” Button Mash added. “And then we’d have one less stooge to worry about.”

“I think they’re right, Fluttershy,” Twilight said. “If Zephyr’s gonna learn, then he should have to face the consequences for his actions.”

Fluttershy pondered at the thought for a brief moment, before she nodded, “Okay,” Still, she looked doubtful until a hand took her by surprise, and she turned to Spike gently grasping her fingers.

“It’ll be okay, Fluttershy,” Spike reassured. “I can come and offer you some supports if you’d like.”

Fluttershy couldn’t help but blush at Spike’s words, before finding herself lost in his loving green eyes, triggering flashbacks of memories that Spike didn’t remember of.

Out of impulse, Fluttershy wrapped her arms around Spike and pulled him in for a hug.

“Thank you, Spike!” Fluttershy cooed, kissing the boy on the check, much to his embarrassment and Twilight’s ire.

Watching from around a corner, another pair of eyes watched with seething jealousy.

A Love Story in 30 Days

by Phantom-Dragon

Day 2, pt. 2 - Woodwork, Study Hall, and Calculus