//------------------------------// // The First Morning // Story: Equestria Girls : Tale of the Silver Pen // by nicojaller //------------------------------// Oh for god's sake ! Of course, it had to happen. Of course destiny had to screw us again. I look at my friend from the corner of my eye. Well he doesn't seemed to be as annoyed to this as I am, because he was already standing up with a smile on his face. - '' Hello to you all, my name's Solace Wings, I am very glad to ba able to attend this school, I love sports, which is why I'm so excited to be here, I'm sure we will all go along. '' Good old classic from him, well, he still has way more charisma than me. His presentation was received with a bit more warm than earlier, I can swear than I saw some of the girls smiling and looking with a bit of curiosity. Yeah, I'm sure he will be fine. Now, I realize that all the eyes in the class were turned toward me, oh lord, if I could become invisible, I would do so right now. I'd rather do anything right now. I take a huge breathe before standing up. My legs are made of jelly right now. - ''...My name's Silver Pen, I like to write things, pleasure to meet you all...'' As soon as I said the last world I sat down again and I avoided the eyes of everyone in the room, keeping my head on the desk, embarrassed. There are reasons why I hate oral presentations, I keep embarrasing myself. I lift my head up, to recompose myself. I look around me, to only see Solace grinning at me, with a thumbs up. He must be feeling good about all of this, good for him, because I don't. I look around me to have my eyes meet with the one girl that was on my right. She had a blue skin, purple eyes, blue and white hair. She was kinda cute I will admit that, in her own style at least, she looked like a cosplayer. I don't say a word and turn my head ahead towards the teacher. During the rest of the class, I accidentely look at the girl by the corner of my eye. I don't know why, I guess I'll have to talk with Solace about that during dinner, he'll probably know. He has way more experience with the fairer sex than myself. The class finally ends, I look at the girl exiting the class, I don't even know why I focus so much of my time talking about her. I have to find Sol. I exit the class to see him waiting for me outside, still smiling. He gives me a friendly slap on the back. - '' You see, that wasn't so bad wasn't it ? '' - '' Talk for yourself, dude. You basically won them over. '' - '' You say that because you sheltered yourself, if you watched, you would have noticed that some of the girls seems to have a weakness for shy guys. '' Yeah, he likes to tease me quite a bit, but it's in good fun, I know that he looks over me, so it's all good. - '' Shut up man, anyway, we aren't supposed to interact too much with the girls. '' - '' I think you really misinterpreted the directives, bro, she said no harrasment and things like that. She never said anything about getting a girlfriend or a girl whose also a friend. My point is, let's do the most of this opportunity. We have one year here, let's make it as memorable as possible, don't you agree ? '' He's right, I am probably too gloomy about all of this, it doesn't make our popularity any better right now, but our situation won't get any better if we don't try. I'm not really worried about him, he was always popular anywhere he went, I'm sure he will win the girls of this school by the end of the week. As for I, I'll do what I can, meaning not much, but we'll see how the situation evolves. Oh, I almost forgot why I wanted to speak with him. - '' Oh, by the way, earlier, I may have found a group we could join to eat with. '' He looks at me with surprised, with an raised eyebrow, before grinning again and high-fiving me. - '' Good job dude ! I really didn't expected that from you, who are they? '' - '' I don't know their names, heck, I don't even know if they'll agree, but from my observations, they're the only one who doesn't want us kicked out, they're our best shot. You'll find them pretty easily, they're the gang that has a girl with rainbow hair. I don't know much other than that, but still, shouldn't be that hard. '' He smiles at me and promises me to be on the look for them, I had one last class before lunch and it was Free Writing, so we had to part ways, I don't like the fact that we're separated so soon, but it had to happen, I'm probably more nervous than anything. I never really liked first days, having to know an entire new group of people isn't an easy task to me. I arrive in the class, and huge shocker, it was still miss Cherilee, I swear, this teacher is everywhere. I mean, it makes some sense since she is the English teacher and Free Writing isn't exactly a class in itself, it's more of an option than anything. Thankfully I do not need to present myself a second time, from what I gather from her explanation, this class is basically a showcase of our abilities at writing, the goal isn't to be the best, but to improve throughout the year. I can get behind that. I go back to reality when she announced that the first project would be a team project, teams of two to be more precise. Why ? Why in the world would a WRITING project be in team ? This kinda pisses me of, what was the point then ? Sharing creative styles and perspectives, yeah right. Not like anyone's gonna want to be in team with me. I sit at my desk, watching teams already getting formed, of course, when the word team project comes out, the teams are almost all formed, because friends go with friends, they don't even need to speak to know they're going to do it together. I know that because I did that with Solace a lot back then. A hand on my shoulder makes me jump on surprise, I turn myself to see a girl, her skin looks lavender-ish, she had purple hair with a streak of pink, it looked interesting. She a blue shirt and a purple skirt. She was smiling at me, making me at a loss of words. - '' Euh... d-do you need anything ? '' - '' Yeah, I was wondering if you would be willing to partner up with me ? '' WHAT ?! If I had any water to spill, I would do so right now, I was not expecting that. At all. Wait a minute, stop the press. I think I recognize her, she was in the Rainbow Group ! Yeah, I'm gonna call them that because I still don't know there names. - '' R-really, don't you have friends to team with ? '' Ok, I realize this could of sounded really mean and harsh, oh boy, I should probably think before I speak sometimes. - '' Yes, in fact I do have two friends in this class, they teamed up together and as you know we can only team up in teams of two, and I found you really lonely. '' I looked at the friends she was pointing, there was a procelaine girl with purple hair and a yellow girl with pink hair. Yeah, it really was the group I was thinking about. What luck ! - '' T-thank you very much... So...what's your name ? '' - '' My name is Twilight Sparkle, pleasure to meet you. '' Then of the amazing things ever written in the history of ever happened, I smiled. Okay, I may be exagerating a bit, but really, that random girl that I've just met, who wanted to be nice made me smile, I should put that on a calendar. - '' Same '' The rest of the class isn't so interesting to tell, I can basically sum up what happened during that class. We shared in what aspects we were good, she is good to planify things, I am good to invent things and I think we're both pretty good at writing. So we shared the parts each of us would have to do. The assignment is to write a short story, at maximum 3000 words. My job will be to create the basic plot and characters. Twilight will plan out the story, from beginning to end, then we'll write. To be honest it was quite fun, I got along pretty well with her, she has a pretty organized mind, a really methodid girl. She definitively has my respect. We gave ourselves tips and other things like that. At the end of the period, we had finished the planning for the story and were ready to start on the writing. - '' Thank you a lot, for be whiling to talk to me, by the way, would it bother you if me and my friend eat with your friends at lunch ? '' She nods. - '' No problem, for both things, and anyway, there was a certain someone I know that was very excited at the idea of meeting you both. '' - '' Oh...ok, I guess I'll meet you at the table, I'll see you there. '' She makes a sign of approval. I put my stuff in my backpack and exit the class. This went...surprisingly well. For once, I met someone that I can actually talk to, it's a really great start. I should still stay prudent though, most of the school won't be nice like that to me, so I should take what I can get. If we can get Twilight and her friends, to at least not hate us. Going through the hallway, I still get some hateful stares, but fortunately, most were just indifferent to me, they just tended to ignore me. I guess the initial shock passed for them, but I wonder, weren't they warned that we were coming ? I guess they were aware of it, it probably didn't meant they accepted that fact. I arrive in the cafeteria, go through all of the line to get my food. It looks pretty good, for school standarts at least. Okay, now, let's find the others. If I didn't find Sol before, I'll guess he's already with them. I'll go with the standard I decided earlier, find the one group the features a girl with rainbow hair. Well, I found the girl from earlier in class, she was eating with two other girls, she notices me looking at her, so I continue my search, it takes a few looks left and right to spot them. I go towards them, while avoiding noticing the looks people gave me. Solace that was already at the table, looking tired. There was also a really, really pink girl that noticed me and started waving at me with excitation. I will have to guess she is the one Twilight was talking about. I sit next to Solace, he smiles at me. - '' You seemed to have survived by yourself, how was that class ? '' - '' It was fine, how was yours ? '' - '' Tiring, but cool '' - '' Wait, tired ? You, tired ? Now that is a story I want to hear. '' He laughs and he points at the Rainbow girl, that was laughing herself. - '' Well, since we're still waiting for everyone to arrive, I may as well tell what happened. ''