Silent Song set her tray down at her usual table in the cafeteria. She always sat with Fluttershy, except for days such as yesterday when she had a paper to finish, or other various reasons. She saw her animal loving friend walk in and smiled at her. She returned the smile, but proceeded to walk past her and sit with another table full of other students.
Oh, that’s okay I guess. Maybe she made new friends in a class today. I should be happy for her, but I’m still kind of sad that I have to sit by myself now. Where did she get that blue top? And where did she get those pony ears and tail?
“Hey Song.”
She jumped and tore her gaze from Fluttershy to Silver Gear standing in front of her.
“Sorry! Didn’t mean to scare you again! Do you always sit alone?” While at first his tone was apologetic, it changed to one she couldn’t quite place.
Is he worried just thinking that I might sit alone everyday? “Um, no. I actually sit with Fluttershy, but today she decided to sit somewhere else.” She explained in her usual soft tone.
“In that case,” he said setting down his tray and pulling out a chair, “I’m going to eat with you today. Oh, I meant to ask you this yesterday, but realized I never did, how’s your head?”
“Oh, um, it’s fine thanks.”
Silver Gear went to continue the conversation, but was cut of by two girls sitting a few tables away.
“Aww~” The two girls, who Song now realized to be twins, cried in unison.
Silver Gear sighed and shook his head. “It seems I can never get away from those two,” he said with a slight smile. “Do you have any siblings?”
“I have one older brother. He torments me a lot, but we still get along.”
Silver Gear went to ask her another question, but found himself cut off once again, but this time by someone hitting their lunch tray against what sounded like a table. Song looked over and noticed that Fluttershy was now hitting two glasses against a table and another girl began to clap. Five girls stood up and began to sing.
Hey, hey everybody. We’ve got something to say~
“Does this happen a lot?” Silver Gear asked in disbelief.
“More than you would think.”
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Silent Song walked down the hall humming a certain catchy tune she heard at lunch. She was rather surprised to see Fluttershy bold enough to sing in dance in front of the entire school, but no doubt her new friends gave her the encouragement she needed. She was a little sad that she didn’t even get to talk to Fluttershy today, but was happy for her as well.
She swayed her hips slight as she walked to swish the blue and gold tail tied around her waist. The rest of the school, even the teachers, had continued to wear the tails as well as the pony ears for the rest of the day, and Rarity had been swarmed with orders for her sweaters. Silent Song had ordered one herself, or rather asked Silver Gear to place the order for her, which he kindly did.
Speaking of Silver, he stood at the end of the hall concentrating solely on his phone. Song saw and opportunity and felt too bold to let it pass. Not making a sound, which came quite easily to Song, she slowly walked up before jumping right in front of him.
“Hey Silver!”
Silver jumped at the sound of a whisper-shout and looked to see Silent Song standing before him smiling and giggling. No doubt was she proud of herself to have finally turned the tables.
“Hey Song,” he replied with a smile. After all, he caught her guard several times so it was only fair she finally did the same.
“Why were you staring to intently at your phone?” she asked recalling how she was able to scare him in the first place.
“My parents texted me saying that they are painting the downstairs portion of the house and I have to keep myself and my sisters occupied until later tonight. I literally have no idea what to do for that long.” He admitted.
“Well,” Song offered pausing before continuing, “You three could always come over to my house. My parents are still at work, but my brother is home and we can watch movies, play video games and stuff…”
“We would love to.”
“Song turned around to see the owners of the two voices that had spoken in unison. The first was a girl with light silver skin that appeared to be almost white. Her hair was an electric blue that fell in a sharp cut bob with lavender highlights that perfectly matched her eyes. The girl next to her, who was no doubt her twin, was her complete opposite as well. She shared the same skin tone, but her hair, which was styled the same, was dominantly lavender with electric blue streaks that matched her eyes.
“I’m Lavender Grace,” the first girl announced. She wore a silver turtle neck dress, whose color closer resembled Silver Gear’s skin tone, layered underneath a knitted lavender poncho accessorized with silver hoop earrings and lavender knee high boots.
“And I’m Cerulean Flair,” the second girl declared. She wore an electric blue halter-top with a straight cut dark silver and black mid-thigh skirt paired with black knee high boots. Like her sister, she wore silver hoops, but paired them with several silver and blue bracelets on her wrist.
“That’s so sweet of you to invite us over,” Lavender Grace said sweetly.
“And we would love to accept your invitation,” Cerulean Flair finished in the same tone.
Silver Gear shook his head and Silent Song smiled. She couldn’t remember the last time she had friends over, so she could only assume this would be fun.
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“And this is my room,” Silent Song finished as she motioned towards her door which was decorated with a small sign consisting of a pencil crossed with a paintbrush in front of a microphone. They had been amazed by her house when they had arrived and demanded a tour. She noticed the two share a mischievous look before dashing inside her room.
“Wait!” Silent Song cried, but the two blatantly ignored her and they took in their new surroundings. Song’s room was very frilly and elegant consisting of mostly white adorned with gold and occasional peridot green.
“Lavender! Cerulean!” Silver said in a warning tone.
“We just want to check out her closet,” Lavender said sweetly as her sister threw open the closet doors.
“Check out this skirt!”
“Look at this sweater!” Lavender gasped pulling down a chaimpaign colored cardigan earning her sister’s approval. “We should share clothes with each other! You can totally borrow anything of ours anytime.”
“What’s this?” Cerulean asked as she pulled down a hanger partially hidden by the bag that concealed its contents. Silent Song dashed forward and took the hanger back and returned it to the closet and shut the doors.
“That,” she explained, “is my dress for the dance.” When she saw Cerulean about to speak, she answered her unasked question, “I rather not show anyone until that night. Why don’t we go to the game room? I’m sure my brother has the game set up by now.”
The two girls nodded and walked out of her room and down the hall. As she exited her room and closed the door, she noticed Silver waiting on her.
“So,” he started until he noticed Song’s questioning gaze, “can I see what your dress looks like?” She gave him a pointed glare and walked towards the game room leaving him to catch up.
}i{
“Thanks again for letting us hang out all afternoon,” Silver Gear said as he stood on the front steps with Silent Song. The sun had sat hours ago, and his two sisters waited impatiently in the car.
“It really was no trouble,” Song admitted, “it was nice having friends over.”
“Um,” Silver started hesitantly. “Seeing as you’re going to the dance, and I’m going to the dance, I was wondering if,” he paused and took a deep breath, “If you would go to the dance? With me?”
Song blushed slightly before answering, “I would love to.”
“Great!” he said with a huge grin. “I guess I’ll pick you up around seven?” The sound of a car horn behind him honking twice made him sigh. “And I’m going to have those two with me.”
“Seven is fine with me,” she answered with a soft laugh, “and it should make for an interesting evening.”
“With those two, I’m not sure if interesting is the right word,” she said shaking his head in defeat. “Goodnight Song,” he said looking back up at her.
“Good night Silver.” She watched him get into his car and waved as he drove past before going back inside with a smile.