The trip to school was pretty good, and it did make you get a little closer to Lemon as well, which was all sorts of good in it’s own. You are glad that you found her there in the bus stop, if not this would have probably turned into a pretty boring trip.
Why haven’t you hopped on your car and driver to school? The question to that my friend is a funny one… you have no idea where your car keys are, but there was no point in worrying about them right now. You would get to that problem when you are back home. You had classes to get to right now.
Lemon and you part ways once you were down from the bus, she was most likely going to meet up with the other Shadow 5, while you had pending matters with Twilight. She was probably worried sick for your freak out yesterday and since you had not explained anything to her, who knows what might be going through her mind? She does get a little paranoid after all. Ok, little is not enough to describe how worried Twilight gets about things.
Twilight… now where is your dear friend? You haven’t actually never met her this early in the morning before. You usually meet up with her at lunch time. Maybe she was at her little personal lab? No, she was most likely getting her stuff from her locker. Meh, you will find her eventually, better start by her locker.
Her locker was not so far away from yours anyways, so you could go pick up your stuff to yours in the way there. Inputting your secret combination to the lock you chose on your first day of school, you opened your locker and pulled out your books. Your locker was actually super boring. You had not decked it out with any sorts of decorations. No posters, no photos, no silly drawings, no stickers of any sort… Even in this school, all the students put their little personal touch to the inside of their lockers, small or big, they do something. Maybe you could put a photo of you and Twilight? Or maybe a photo of your little snake? You’ll figure something out. Your train of thoughts however was interrupted by what sounded like a heavy pile of books dropping on the ground followed by a familiar voice whimpering a little. You know who it belonged to, but come on, this early in the morning? Who could possibly be this annoying?
“Twilight” You said with a sigh, shutting your eyes close and followed the sound around the school, only to find out that your assumptions were right.
Twilight was on her knees on the ground, looking for her glasses with her books sprawled all over the floor. Right in front of Twilight was Gilda, who was laughing hysterically while pointing at her and making fun of how she can’t see or how clumsy she is. It made your blood boil when you saw her, but what irritated you even more is that no one, not a single student who noticed this, walked up to Twilight to give her a hand.
“Leave her alone” You yelled moving forward straight to Gilda and did something really stupid out of instinct. You shoved her with all your mighty making her stumble back until she lost her balance and fall down on her butt. Needless to say, she was not happy about this.
Gilda composed herself, stood up and glared at you “I’m going to let this one slide dweeb, but the next time you lay a hand on me, I am going to break your face” She said folding her arms and glared at you “You don’t want me to be against you, remember?” It made you wonder why she did not break your face in the spot. Maybe it was because you two were in school and Gilda wanted to avoid trouble or something? Whatever it was, you lucked out of this one this time, you would need to look out in the future.
She is right. It was a bold move from your side to do that, but you just could not stand anyone bullying Twilight like that “I know… about that… You should probably go to Lemon’s party?”
Gilda raised her eyebrow a bit suspicious and then squint her eyes at you not liking at all what you just told her almost smelling like you were trying to set up a trap against her “And why should I waste my friday night to go there?”
“Just… do it… I will do it… you know what” You said not really wanting to say anything out loud and just made a pair of scissors with your fingers. Gilda immediately understood what you said and her expression transformed completely, one from being annoyed, to a evil grin that spread from ear to ear.
“Well I’ll be damn. Alright dweeb. You better not disappoint me” She said pointing at you “But I’m serious. Touch me again, and you are dead. Consider yourself this a first and final warning… I don’t give them out too lightly”
“Right, right. I won’t”
“Good to know that you are a little bitch just like everyone else. See you next friday, dweeb” Her comment only fueled your anger towards her even more, but you had other things to worry about that Gilda right now.
Once she turned around and began walking away, you quickly turned over to Twilight, reached down for her glasses and then hand them over to her “Are you alright?” You asked in a soothing voice placing a hand on her back to try and show you are there for her. She jumped from the sudden physical contact, but then relaxed and took a deep breath trying really hard not to break apart.
She quickly took her glasses, cleaned them with a little napkin she took from her pocket and then put them on “No…” She whispered as she slowly reached for her books.
You picked most of them for her, hold onto them tight so she would not have to worry about them and took her hand with yours “Come”
She did not hesitate to hold your hand back and then began following you around once you began guiding her across the hall, most likely scared of being left alone after whatever just happened to her. Knowing only one place that would be safe for her right now, you head straight to her personal lab where no one would bother you. Not many know about the lab, and those who know, don’t really care to get there.
She opened the door with the key she was keeping safe on a little chain around her neck and then head inside, never letting go of your hand, in fact, her grip got even tighter and she began shaking a little as soon as the door began creaking open. As soon as you were both inside and with the door closed, she buried her face in your chest, pressed both hands against it as well and simply began crying her heart out. Poor Twilight… she probably goes through something similar almost everyday, if not everyday, and you only just now realize about it.
Doing the only correct thing to do, you reached out to leave the books on the table, wrapped both arms around her body, hugged her tightly and began rocking her back and forward “It’s alright Twilight. I’m here now. Don’t worry” Trying to calm her down seemed to help her a little since her crying did slow down a little, but the tears kept on flowing down her cheeks.
It was a good 5 minutes of crying before she was completely dry, or at the very least, she did not seem to want to cry anymore.
“Feeling better?” You asked in a whisper. Her only response was a weak nod of her head “Twilight… what happened?”
Nothing. She did not answer. Maybe she was not ready to talk about this just yet and even though you were just trying to help her, you understood it was better to leave things as they are and let her come out whenever she is ready “It’s alright if you don’t want to talk about it, but you can trust me. I’m your friend” You said hugging her even tighter.
Twilight closed her eyes, took a deep breath and sigh “I’m… tired of being bullied. I don’t want to go to this school anymore” She confessed to you and wrapped her arms around you with a grip tighter than your python has ever given you. She was holding to you almost like if her dear life depended on it.
“Well… why don’t you change of schools?” You asked unsure of why she hasn’t done that before. She did not look like the kind of girl that would put up with a school like this for no reason.
“Because… all my family went to Crystal Prep. My mom, my dad, even my brother… all of them graduated here and they expect me to do the same” She said in a torned up voice about to break down again.
That… was a little stupid reason. But you could not say it just like that… how to put it? “Have you told them how you feel? How everyone…. treats you here?”
It took Twilight a moment to answer, but she finally whispered “No”
“Why not?”
“Because… I don’t want to disappoint them”
This is when you had to step forward and change things “Twilight… Tell me what’s more important. Pleasing your family or your own happiness?”
She did not answer. How could she answer? It’s almost like if you just dropped a huge bomb on her that she can not diffuse and she accepted her fate.
“Does your family love you?”
“Of course they do!” She said a little mad you would even question it.
“Then if they do, they will not care if you want to change schools. They will not care what choices you make. Twilight, I’m sure if they know the truth of how you feel and how everyone treats you, then they will transfer you in a heartbeat to a better school” Maybe not a better academic wise since Crystal Prep was the best school in this town, but they would surely send her to a more friendly school.
“But… not everyone treats me bad” She said clearly referring to you and you alone… Maybe Lemon fits here, but you have not seen Lemon treat Twilight bad or good before so you are not too sure, after all, looks can be deceiving.
Even Though this made you smile, it was not enough “Twilight. I promise you, I am your friend and will always be, but… you should not suffer like this. If you change schools, I’m sure you will make more friends. They will accept you the way you are and you will be happier than what you are here”
Twilight was in deep thought about this. She had never considered changing schools. Crystal Prep may be one of the best schools there is but no one should go there if it means suffering like Twilight does, not from your point of you at least.
“But if I change now… I might lose the opportunity to go to the collage I want”
“Twilight… you are the smartest person I’ve ever known. I would bet all the money I have to say you are the smartest person in this whole city. If college is what you are worried about, you are just worrying for nothing. You will most likely get enlisted anywhere. You are probably gonna ace any exam that is presented to you”
Somehow, Twilight found the strength to hug you even tighter now. She closed her eyes and another streak of tears formed up on her eyes, but this were not tears of sadness. Instead, this were tears of happiness. No one has ever complimented her like this before, other than her family that is.
“Thank you Anon” She whispered.
“No problem Twilight. If Gilda ever gives you any sort of trouble, just call me alright, and I will come running as fast as I can”
“I will” She said finally letting go of you and let you breath once again… man, for someone as small and fragile as Twilight, she can sure hug you so tight that a simple breath is a huge relief on your body.
You reached out with your thumb and cleared a tear drop from her face and smiled “Now...I think I owe you an explanation, don’t I?”
This seemed to flip a switch inside of Twilight because she went from being happy, to shocked, to worried, all in one second. She opened her eyes wide open and nodded “Yes! I heard that you had some sort of break down yesterday during Mrs Harshwiny class! What was all that about, are you alright?”
“Relax… it’s fine… There was a little… incident, with Gilda” The simple calling of her name made Twilight mad and even more worried for you.
“What did she do now? Did she punch you? Are you hurt?” She said looking all over your body lifting your arms in the air and even your shirt to see if you had any stab wounds or anything, making you blush ever so slightly.
You quickly hold her hands to stop her and chuckle “Twilight. She did not hurt me. I thought she would hurt me just now after I pushed her away from you”
“You… did what? For me?” She asked surprised and confused… right, she can hardly see without her glasses.
“Of course Twi. I can’t bare seeing anyone hurt my best friend like that”
Twilight smiled and gave you another hug “Thank you for that… but it was dangerous”
“Yes it was… anyways… you have to promise not to tell anyone” You said a little worried that word might come out and you would get in trouble, not only with Gilda, but with the Shadow 5 as well.
“I promise” She said even though you can already tell she is going to make you tell Cynch or dean Cadance.
“Well… a few days ago… Sugarcoat kinda had a break down and began crying. I tried to help her to stop and Gilda just so happen to be there filming us in secret. Once Sugarcoat left, Gilda tried to use that footage as a blackmail on me, and told me if I told anyone about this, she would post the video” You began explaining. Needless to say, Twilight face was not a happy one with all this.
“Anon… We need to tell C-”
You quickly interrupted her “Twilight no… I… We already know how to solve this. Lemon, Sugarcoat and her friends already came up with a plan”
“Wait, so you told them?”
“I… kinda had no option. I accidentally told them a bit and then they wanted to know the whole thing…” You said poking your fingers together a little shy.
Twilight sigh and shook her head “Go on”
“Well… the deal I had with Gilda was simple. Either she posts the video, or I cut Lemon’s hair to ruin it”
“And you can’t do either” Twilight deduced since you were friends with both of them.
“Exactly… Lemon is my friend, and well… if I let this video get posted, I might lose her friendship and Sugarcoat trust”
Twilight looked away and nodded “Right… well I can’t really stop you from being friends with them” She said slightly annoyed.
“Why is that bad?”
“Nothing”
“Is it because you were friends with Sugarcoat?” You asked but as soon as the words came out of your mouth, you realized that might have been a mistake.
Twilight looked at you wide eyed “Who told you that?”
“Sugarcoat… that was the reason she was crying… she kinda regrets losing you”
Twilight frowned when she heard this, but then looked down and her face softened “I see…”
“What happened between you two?”
Twilight looked away and sigh “We just… grew distant”
“Why?”
Twilight closed her eyes and frown “I… don’t wanna talk about it”
Damn, Twilight is avoiding the topic just like Sugarcoat? Something big must have happened then “Alright, I won’t ask again”
“Thank you” She said with a smile since you understood “I… might tell you later I just… I don’t want to think about it at the moment”
“Alright. Well, anyways… me and the girls are gonna go to the party and ambush Gilda there. I’m going to pretend to cut Lemon hair in front of everyone, and Indigo will take care of Gilda somehow”
Twilight sighed and looked down “Alright…”
You hate seeing Twilight sad like this “Twilight. No matter what happens between both of us… you might leave the school, you might turn into a demon or whatever, but I will still be your friend”
Twilight giggled at the idea of being a demon “You know that demons are a myth created in the old times to excuse the things that religion could not explain or found to be ‘evil’ right?”
“I know… It was just a joke. There is no way that you would turn into a magical demon”
Twilight laughed and went to her computer to start working “Good one. If I ever turn into a demon, I will rip holes all over reality, I promise”
You laughed at her and pat her head “Then I will be right there, trying to stop you… probably falling through one of this holes you opened up”
Twilight looked up at you and nodded “Alright. It’s a deal, but I am not catching you if you fall”
As the ring bell echoed outside the door, you looked at the watch in the wall and sigh “Gotta run. If I’m late to Chrysalis class again, she is going to be mad”
Twilight waved at you and laughed “See you later Anon”
Few hours later, the day was already over and your mind was blowing with all sorts of new things you had to learn today. School might be good to learn things, but man they sure give you headaches.
Right in the front door of the school, Twilight stood, rocking back and forward not really going anywhere. Since you had nothing better to do, you sneaked up behind her, quickly tickled her belly with both hands on each side, making her jump both from the surprise and the tickles themselves. As soon as she realized it was you who was tickling her, she turned around and tried to push you away while laughing.
“Anon! Stop that! I’m really ticklish”
Not wanting her to have an accident, you let go and giggle before getting punched in the chest, making you lose your air for a moment. “Alright… I deserve that one” You said holding your chest and looked down at her “What are you doing here? I thought you would have already head home by now” You are pretty sure she finishes her classes before you do.
“I was wondering if you wanted to go and walk around with me” She said playing with one of her locks. Was Twilight crushing on you? You did not have feelings for her that way… this could be bad. Say no. Say no.
“Sure. Where would you like to go?” D’oh!
“Well, I haven’t taken Spike for a walk yet, so wanna go to the park?” She asked as she began heading towards it.
“I could go to the park. It’s been a while” One of the advantages of having a snake pet was that you did not have to take it out for a walk or anything.
“Awesome… so hey… I was wondering… what would you do if I transfer to another school?” So she did consider what you talked about earlier.
“I would be a little sad of course, but if it makes you happy, then I wouldn’t mind” You replied with a shrug. Twilight might be your best friend, but if she is unhappy and you deny her happiness by not letting her move schools, how could you ever call yourself her friend?
“Oh… Well… I…. gave it some thought… and I might… I might transfer schools” She said poking her fingers together.
You smiled at her and laid your arm over her shoulder for half a hug “That’s great Twilight… have you thought were you might want to go?”
Twilight shook her head and sigh “I don’t know… I have to find a school that is friendly and well… has a good education level”
“What about CHS?” You asked thinking about it. Your cousin Vinyl does go there and she had told you all sorts of stories that are a little hard to believe, but Vinyl does have quite the imagination.
“Canterlot High? I don’t know. Do you think the students there are good?”
You shrugged and smiled “Well, my cousin does go there, and she did tell me that students there are really friendly, especially now that the ‘bully of the school’ is gone, besides, she is quite popular, I am sure if I can get her to help you out, you will fit in before you know it”
Twilight thought about it and looked down “Well… Maybe I will see after this friendship games”
That’s right. In only a few weeks from now, you would be facing your cousin and her school on the friendship games. That was a good idea. She would be able to check out the school plus see how friendly the students are and all.
“Awesome” You said with a smile before Spike would pop his head out of Twilight’s bag and began barking.
“Oh, I’m so sorry Spike” She said reaching for her dog and pulled him out from the bag in order to put him down on the ground and kiss his snout.
“Oh I’m sorry, do you two want some privacy?” You said jokingly.
Twilight blushed and quickly stood up to slap the side of your arm “Anon! Don’t make jokes like that” She said mad and then looked away “Besides… I don’t exactly like boys”
“You don’t like boys?”
“Yes… I mean no. I don’t like them… you know…” Twilight said shyly not knowing what to say.
“I actually don’t understand. You like me, don’t you?” You said playing dumb even though you clearly know what she means.
“Yes I like you, but I don’t at the same time… I mean… I like you as a friend, I don’t like you like you like… ummm…” She was getting quite worked up over this topic, and it was kind of cute seeing her struggle with something she doesn’t know how to explain.
You could not help but to begin laughing at her.
“What?” She questioned you not really sure why you would laugh at her now.
“I understand Twilight, I’m just messing with you” You said in between giggles.
“Oh” She said blushing slightly and frown “Well, why would you do that then?!” She said pushing to to one side.
“Because it was funny” You said sticking your tongue out and began running before she could do anything else to you like punch or slap you again.
“Hey! Come back here” She said going after you with Spike barking right behind her.
In the end, Twilight was not crushing on you, and this does give you a little relief on this situation. You honestly would not know what to do if you end up with another girl and had to see Twilight heart crushing because you didn’t choose her. Not that you have anything against Twilight. She is cute and all, but you are not too sure if you want to date her.
Once you reached the entrance to the bark, you slowed down for Twilight to catch up to you, and man she sure doesn’t exercise at all. She was already panting and huffing even though you run for what, 20 meters or so?
“What’s wrong Twilight? Was this too much exercise for the week?” You asked playfully and to your surprise, she nodded.
“Yea… I don’t really… exercise that much… or at all really”
“Not at all? Really?” You could have never guessed. Someone like Twilight is the kind of person who would do 100 pushups, 100 squats, 100 sit ups and run 10 kilometers a day.
Twilight nodded and composed herself rather quickly as she looked around inside the park “Yea… Ever since I was allowed not to take P.E. I kind of been slacking a little” She said with a giggle as her little purple dog run ahead and began rolling around in the grass without worries in life.
Twilight and you giggled and kept on walking down the path next to each other “So Twilight… you are not into boys, I get that… but how about girls? Have you seen anyone that caught your eye?”
Twilight looked over at you and her face almost turned red like a tomato before she would look away and giggle “Well… There is this really good looking girl that I kinda like”
“Oh? Do I know her?” You asked trying to figure out who this mysterious girl might be, but Twilight shock her head.
“I doubt it… She doesn’t go to our school” Bummer, that makes it impossible for you to help Twilight to try and get a date with this girl.
“Ahhh, well, who is she?”
Twilight looked down and hold her hands together “I don’t… really know her… I just see her jogging ever so often”
So Twilight was into a random girl who just happen to be jogging near her sometimes. You don’t really know any girls who jog other than Indigo, and since your curiosity was quite big, you simply had to ask “Alright, then how does this mysterious girl look like?”
Twilight blush deepen a little by the sheer thought of this girl “Well… she has golden skin, with light teal eyes… her hair is both red as a flaming fire and yellow like the bright sun” She giggled and look forward “Now that I think of it… it kind of looks like bacon”
A girl with bacon hair, now that is something funny “Like bacon? Are you sure you were not just hungry when you saw her and you just wanted to eat her hair?”
Twilight rolled her eyes and stick her tongue out “No, I had already eaten a salad that day. Anyways… She usually comes around here while I go take Spike for a walk”
“Then that means we might see her?”
Twilight poked her fingers together and nodded shyly.
Then that’s why she was eager to come to the park. She did not want to go and take Spike for a walk or anything, but instead she did not want to miss her mysterious crush “Have you ever talked to her?”
“Me? Oh no… I couldn’t… I wouldn’t dare. What if she doesn’t like me? What if she finds me weird? What if-”
“What if she likes you, and you will never find out because you keep holding back?”
Twilight shut up and looked down “Do you think she might like me?”
“Twilight… you are pretty cute you know. Especially when you can’t solve something. That little panic face of yours is just adorable” You said poking her cheek. Twilight quickly pushed your hand away.
“Stop it, you are making me blush”
“You were already blushing as soon as you began talking about this bacon hair girl”
Twilight face turned even more red after this and she closed her eyes “That’s not true!”
“Should I take a picture and show you?” You teased reaching for your phone, but Twilight hold your arm to stop it from moving and yelled “NO!”
Twilight was such a cutie when she panics like this.
At this point, Spike came back covered in dirt, wagging his tail from one side to the other, barking up at the two of you. The owner of the little puppy let out a frustrated groan and covered her face with both hands “Spike, why?” She complained at the little dog who began running in circles around both of you.
As soon as Twilight tried to reach for him, Spike quickly run away and in his excitement, he did not see a person going in their direction in the paved path. The person sadly did not react in time either, and both of them collided, the person running fall to the side on the grass, while Spike stumbled forward and ended on his back.
“Spike!” Twilight yelled running after her puppy ignoring whoever tripped with her dog. Spike was luckily fine and unharmed. In fact, he even seemed happy and just licked Twilight face, making her giggle “Silly dog, you need to look out where you are going”
You of course followed Twilight, but instead of going for the puppy, you went for the person and reached out your hand to them “You alright?” You asked checking if they were fine.
The person on the ground was a girl. She was wearing a black sports bra, black leggings, a pair of purple arm sweatbands on each arm, and her hair tied up in a ponytail. You may not work out and you are in a pretty good shape for doing little exercise, but damn you can’t help but feel jealous when you see this girl. She has quite the muscles and if she wanted, she would probably knock you out with just two fingers…
“Yea, thanks. It was my bad, I was not paying attention” She said as you helped her up and she looked over at Twilight and Spike “is your dog alright?” She asked concerned for the little animal.
“Yea he is…. fine” Twilight’s voice almost cracked with that last word as soon as she realized who she was talking to. Golden skin, red and yellow hair, light teal eyes.
The mysterious girl chuckled and looked at Twilight “You look like you’ve seen a ghost” She said reaching out to help Twilight out this time around. Twilight took her hand and stood up. “I didn’t know you would be visiting us” The girl said going for a hug, leaving a very confused but happy Twilight.
Once the hug was done, you raised an eyebrow and pointed at both of them “You… two know each other?”
Twilight shook her head “I… don’t know...do we?”
The girl chuckled for a moment thinking that Twilight was joking, but then realized something. “Oh… Oh I’m so sorry! I thought you were a friend of mine, you two look identical” Quite literally. “My name is Sunset Shimmer” She introduced herself and shake your hand.
“Hi, I’m Anon” you said returning the smile.
Twilight hesitated for a moment and then came back to earth “O-oh. I’m Twilight Sparkle”
“I know” The girl accidentally said and giggle “I… know it’s time for me to go… I’m a little late for… something. It was a pleasure to meet you” She said and quickly run away before the questioning could began.
“Well that was weird” You said as soon as Sunset left. She seemed to know an awful lot of Twilight for some reason, but… who knows. Maybe they were child friends and Twilight simply forgot?
“Well Twilight…. there it is. You talked to her and introduced yourself, how are you feeling?” You said patting her back but Twilight did not show signs of being alive. She was holding still like a statue “Twilight?” You called out for her.
Twilight shook her head and looked at you “W-what?”
“I said, how are you feeling?”
“Fine… Fine, I don’t know why I wouldn’t be fine. Are you fine? I’m fine… it’s a little hot in here or what? I think I’m gonna go home now, bye” She said quickly walking away, presumably to her house with Spike on her arms.
You just rolled your eyes and looked in the direction that this Sunset Shimmer went “Who are you Sunset Shimmer, and why do you have such an impact on my friend? I mean… you are hot as hell, but I feel there’s more to it than what meets the eye”