When you get through the door to your home, you immediately throw every bit of your school crap into some unforeseen part of your home.
"Mom...?! Dad...?!" You scream out and hear nothing but the sound of your own voice. Shrugging your shoulders, you immediately head over to the refrigerator and take out a couple of your favorite sodas and chips, take a look at the time, which reads 2:30 in the afternoon, and let a smile grow on your face. As you start laughing, you place your goods on the coffee table in front of you, slamming down your smartphone onto the table and let the music begin blasting throughout the home while you start dancing around like an idiot.
You don't care though. You're happy. Unbelievably happy. Tonight you're gonna get the opportunity to actually talk, meet, and get to know that purple haired girl. The girl you've like for so long, that you never had the nuts to go up and talk to, and you're gonna get to actually meet up with her. And at her house none the less! If there was ever such a thing as a victory lap, then you finally understood what it meant.
Besides... It didn't really get bad until it got to the next song...
You smile to yourself at the irony of your phone's next choice of music before getting ready to start your next stupid dance. Just as your about to startup dancing, you get the hell scarred out of you as a loud banging echoes through the house. "Hollies?! Oh grandpa, what poor taste you have!" Says an all too familiar voice behind your door. "We all have our own tastes, Rift... Besides..." You begin as you begin to open the door, wrapping your hand around the knob and slowly opening it. "I've got somewhere to be..."
As you look through your door, you see the person who you've known a good majority of your life, Shadow Rift, smiling as he helps himself in and keeping his hands deep in his pockets. "Oh, you have somewhere to be?" Shadow asks as he points to you, his hand barely going above his waist line as he points at you. "Actually yeah... Speaking of which, You can hang out here with me for a little, but as soon as I get going, you gotta go too. I don't need my parents riding my ass about my friends thinking they can stay for as long as they want..." You say as you shove your phone back into the pocket, the last few notes slowly fading away inside your pocket and then finally ending.
"Damn... I actually invited Astra over here with us. I figured we'd have a night on the town...?" Shadow said as he set himself down on the couch, a large THUMP sound being audible through the house as you continue packing your stuff. "Night on the town? Who's the grandpa now, huh?" You sarcastically reply before suddenly remembering what he had said. "Wait... You invited Astra, too?"
"Yeah... He wasn't doing anything after school anyways and, like I said, I thought we'd have some fun tonight. Enjoy ourselves. I mean, come on! It's the beginning of the weekend! Friday night! After all..." Shadow says as he leans forward in his seat, "all the cool kids are doing something tonight..." He finishes, sounding like one of those cheesy 80s VHS PSA film actors for drugs. "Very funny... But like I said... I got somewhere to be." You say, finally shoving away a couple books and extra mechanical pencils into your backpack before setting it down near the door and plopping yourself on the right hand couch near the window.
"Yeah... Speaking of which, where in God's name are you going that has more of your attention on than a night with your friends?" Shadow asks, slumping back into the couch and folding his arms together. "Look, if I told you, you'd say not to get my expectations so high..." You say as another audible thump on the door is heard, presumably your other friend. "Oh my god, you're going to a strip club..." Shadow says, trying his hardest not to laugh at his own stupid joke. "Strike one!" You say as you open the door and allow your friend, Astra, a blue haired and Australian accented guy you've known almost as long as Rift, enter the house. As he does, however, a clearly confused expression is on his face at what the 'Strike one' expression meant before looking at Rift, an unsurprised look on his face.
"Do I even want to know what's going on right now, Windy?" He asks in an equally unimpressed tone before Shadow finally answers his question. "Windy here is going to a Strip club tonight..." Shadow says with a sarcastic smile on his face, making you look back at him with a look that says more than words ever could. "No... I'm not. I just got done telling Rift here that we can't exactly... Go out tonight, like he had planned. I'm supposed to meet someone tonight." You say as you whip out your phone and check the time, now reading 3:00 in the afternoon. "Oh really? Well, if I may ask, who else are you planning on meeting tonight and for what purposes?" He says as he walks through the door and onto the couch, with you immediately closing the door and locking it.
"That's what I got done telling Rift. If I told you guys, you wouldn't believe me..." You respond, placing your phone back into your pocket and planting yourself on to the couch. "Well... How are we to form a conclusion on whether or not you're telling the truth if you don't tell us anything?" Astra asks as he leans forward, Shadow rolling his eyes and shaking his head.
"Look, let's stop beating around the bush here. Where the hell are you going Windy?" Shadow says bluntly, causing yet another sigh to escape your lips and an accompanying shake of your head. "Alright fine... You guys know that purple haired girl Rarity, right?" You say while holding your temple, looking up to see both of your friends nodding as an answer. "Well... Ms. Luna paired us up for a project and we were supposed to meet up tonight."
"So?" Shadow asks, "You guys are gonna meet up, okay."
"It's not like that... It's where we're going to meet and probably work. Her house." You finish while looking up at your friends, both of whom seem to be frozen in place from what you said. "You're crapping us, right?" Shadow says, the only response you give is the note in your pocket with her address on it, displaying it to your friends. "I don't think I need to tell you guys what this is..." You say as Shadow reaches out and grabs it, looking it over and nodding before saying, "Looks legit", and handing it over to Astra, who also confirms it with a nod.
"I know where this address is, I walk by there every day on my way to school. Two story house, green lawn, it's extremely hard to not recognize the house. It's nothing spectacular, but it is extremely hard to not notice it..." Astra says as he passes the paper back to you, taking it and immediately folding it up and placing it deep into your pocket. "So... The girl you've had your eye on for a while now is your partner and your gonna meet up with her at her home..." Shadow began, crossing his arms and smiling at you, "What're you gonna do about it?"
"I'm in agreement with Shadow, what is it your going to do?" Astra asks, making your hand immediately have contact with your temple. You had forgotten about that... The one thing everyone on earth should remember when it comes to situations like this is that you're best friends know everything about you. Especially if it involves a girl you like and has something to do with you both meeting together...
"I'm just going to her house to work on the project we have for Miss Luna's class. That's it!" You say defensively, Shadow immediately chuckling and moving over to you, slapping his hand on your shoulder as he takes a seat next to you. "Don't get so defensive... Only teasing you, dude..." He says, shaking your shoulder a little roughly as he went on, "Besides, Astra and I both know you. And we know you well enough to know that you're not gonna do anything."
"What's that supposed to mean...?" You asked as you brow furrows, you're gaze turning to Shadow as you see his freshly imprinted grin. "Oh nothing... Just that you'd be too scared to actually try anything." He says in a seemingly mocking tone. You begin to formulate a response, but immediately opt out of it seeing as how you barely have a proper retort to that, because for the most part, it's actually true.
You all sit there in silence for a while until the alarm on your phone rings, immediately reminding you that you need to get going. "Crap, I'm gonna be late!" You shout, jumping up and out of your seat and racing towards your junk. "Jeez, slow down dude, you're gonna hit something going that fast." Shadow says, watching you race all around the place for your stuff, "No, tell you what I am gonna be, late!" You shout from across the house, grabbing an extra charger and your copy of your house's keys. "Well, in that case, we ought to leave then, Shadow." You hear Astra say as you throw the remaining items you need into your bag. "Oh yeah, you guys can stay here for a little but try not to break anything. My Xbox is in my room, stay offline cause I don't want to get kicked off again like last time, and uh..." You trail off, opening up the door with your fist tightly gripping the strap of your backpack, "Oh! No parties here! Alright I gotta go-" you say as you head out the door before you hear a "Wait!" Coming from your home.
"What?" You asked as you head back inside, seeing Shadow waving the small slip of paper in the air. "Oh, the address. Thanks. Gotta go." You say, quickly swiping the slip of paper out of his hand and racing down the street like a madman to Rarity's home, all the while just hoping and praying you'll get there on time.