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// Chapter 1 
// Story: The Pretty Pink Offer 
// by Glitzy Glow 
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Rarity, Sunset Shimmer, and I were all walking through the hallways of Canterlot High. We had just come out of our last class and were talking about what to do next. But then, suddenly I slipped and dropped all my books everywhere in the hall. Rarity and Sunset gasped. I looked up and saw Poppy smiling smugly.

"Whoops", she said sarcastically, her wavy blonde hair swinging from side to side as she shook her head, "I'm soo sorry Twisight. It looks like I dropped something."

I had slipped on a piece of paper that Poppy "dropped". “It’s Twilight, not Twisight,” I said, searching for my glasses that had fallen off when I slipped.

“Whatever.” She replied before walking away.

“Things can’t possibly get any worse.” I thought, but as I looked up to glare at Poppy, I saw Flash Sentry, the coolest and most popular boy in school, lead guitarist in his band, and my ultimate crush since the seventh grade. We never speak to each other, unless I bump into him in the hall, which I somehow manage to do a lot of, even though most of the time I avoid him to avoid a conversation, much like I do with the rest of the school. I personally don’t really think he knows my name, I’ve had to remind Poppy my name on plenty of occasions, like this one, so maybe he picked up. I have no idea. He was smiling at me too when I looked up, but instead of just laughing like everyone else, he bent down and started to pick up my papers that had fallen down from the hallway. Rarity helped me up as Sunset Shimmer cleared the hallway, telling people that the show was over.

"Are you quite all right, darling?" Rarity asked me worriedly.

"Yeah, that was a pretty hard fall. It's amazing what a piece of paper can do." said Sunset as she came back to help us pick up my books.

"I'm fine girls, thanks," I said, as I adjusted my glasses and then turned to Flash. "And thank you for helping."

"No problem. After all, I can't just let your books go flying away, now can I? Your gonna need them if you plan on doing any schoolwork this year." he replied, handing me the papers he had gathered before smiling and walking away. Well, that sounds super humiliating doesn't it? Well, that was just the beginning.

All of that week, people would not stop talking about me. Everyone at Canterlot High enjoys a good laugh now and then, especially when it means seeing someone low class sprawling on the floor. And yes, people seriously consider me low class. Everyone stuck to their own kind at this school, so if you don’t fit in with one group of people, you don’t fit in anywhere. What group am I in? I should be with all the other nerds and techies who like books and computers. But that’s for the ‘normal’ kids. I’m not like them. I hate any attention, and I’m super shy. My brother says I’m anti-social, and I guess I am, but I don’t think that group is really for me. Everyone thinks those type of people will never interreact with others, and they usually don’t, but they totally talk to other people outside their group way more than I do, which is… let’s see? Never. Usually I just hang around in the empty library, with Sunset Shimmer and Rarity, and like I said, I never get attention from other people unless Poppy makes up some big scene that I don’t want to star in. Now, just to clear things up, I am not being bullied by her, or anyone else, in fact, half the school doesn't even know that I exist. Even though I've been here for a while, I'm still referred to as the new girl. (How sad is that?) When it comes to Poppy, it’s more of a rivalry or competition to see who can be smarter or better at something. Usually I win the smarts challenge, and she wins getting attention. It started a while ago, when I beat her in a big statewide competition. I guess she never got over it. She hates people who are better than her at anything, which usually isn’t anyone except me. But anyway, we don’t like each other, so I never take what she does seriously. We are nothing more than rivals. I wouldn’t say that we are opposites. We are both good pretty good at remembering things, and pretty smart. But I use my education more than she does. Poppy is more focused on popularity.Our personalities are nothing alike, and not just our clothes and looks. She likes all the attention, I like none. She’s super popular, and I’m not. Referring to looks: I wear thick black glasses, have long, straight indigo colored hair that I usually wear in a bun with one hot pink and one purple streak in it and straight bangs. I also have purple eyes. I prefer to wear a simple blue and white striped short sleeved shirt with a purple skirt and purple boots.

Poppy on the other hand, has blonde hair and bangs similar to mine, and she has one large pale pink streak in her wavy hair that’s in an upside-down V shape in her bangs and goes down to the end of her shoulder length hair. She wears her hair in a high ponytail. It goes perfectly with her baby blue eyes. She wears a hot pink leather jacket and white undershirt with a swirly heart on it, a pink skirt, and white boots with 2 pink and 2 blue diamonds at the top forming a diamond shape. Talk about extra. The perfect look for the perfect girl that everyone loves and wants to be, right? Ugh. Enough about her.

You might be wondering what my friends are like compared to me. I’m a really bookish girl, and don’t hang out with anyone except Sunset Shimmer and Rarity. Both of those girls look more like they belong in Poppy’s group than mine. Rarity has long perfectly curled purple hair, and dark blue eyes. She wears a white shirt with a purple skirt with three blue diamonds on it and a dark purple belt. Sunset Shimmer wears a short black leather jacket with a long teal shirt that’s ruffled at the bottom, with blue jeans and thick heeled black boots. Her hair is also curled, but less that Rarity’s. It has red and yellow stripes in it, and she has aquamarine colored eyes. In case you were wondering what Flash Sentry looks like, here’s a description: Flash has spiked blue hair, wears a black leather jacket and a white T-shirt with a shield that has a lightning bolt through it, grayish-blue jeans, and blue eyes. Well anyway, it’s about time we stopped focusing on are looks and more about the real topic, my series of unfortunate events, one after the other. And it all started with me looking for a job.