The Nobody Next Door

by Glitzy Glow


Prologue (Twilights P.O.V)

“Nerd!”
“Freak!”
“Loser!”
“Moron!”

Laughs, chuckles, giggles. Sneers, glares, and frowns. I see and hear it every single day of my life. I never get a break. Sometimes I wish I could just disappear. Run away. Say goodbye to everything. This endless mind game other students like to play is, well, endless. There’s something about me that makes them wonder just how far they can actually go before I break down. Before I collapse. I don’t know why. People at this school just don’t except anyone apart from their little circles. No one steps out of them. Those are the rules of Canterlot High. If everyone sticks to their own kind, no one gets hurt and no one bothers you.
If you’ve been here since freshman year, then you would know that. If not, then you don’t belong anywhere. You’re not treated like a true Wondercolt by the students. Your treated like a fly on the window that should not be there. And therefore, needs to be squashed. Terminated. Cast out. I should know, because when I moved here just last year and started school, that’s how I was (and still am) treated. With no clique to protect you, you’re on your own.

I don’t need friends. I never have, and I thought that I never would. But at this school, it’s a requirement if you want to survive. It makes things easier when someone has your back. But I’m always on my own, so my survival is at stake. The thing is, nobody even cares. Teachers seem to be nonexistent besides during class hours. People here treat bullying as an essential routine. They believe in the motto “Sticks and Stones will break your bones but words can never hurt you.” But their wrong. Oh, so very, very, WRONG. Because words do hurt. A lot. Ever since I entered middle school, I have been made fun of and laughed at just because I’m different. I’m not out-going like everyone else. I don’t believe in that stupid saying. When I went to Crystal Prep I wasn’t even close to being accepted by others. It was a private school, filled with a lot a of fancy kids who take their education to the next level of seriousness. It made them pretty stuck up. The kids at Canterlot High are even worse, the only difference being that they couldn’t care less about their grades. Instead, they care about who’s the coolest and why, who’s dating who, and of course, who doesn’t fit in. CHS is a kingdom. Commit treason or break the rules and you get beheaded. So, I’m pretty much being made a laughingstock because apparently, I don’t follow the rules. I am an outlaw that doesn’t belong anywhere. At least that’s how I see it. If there is another reason, I have no idea what it is. I never bother anyone. I’m usually able to just hide out in the library. If I don’t, either they don’t see me and I remain invisible for a few hours, or they do see me, and I basically get verbally tortured, all throughout the day. I literally mean nothing to them. I’m just that nobody who lives next door, the one who doesn’t fit in and who never will no matter what happens.

Not only that, but when I come home things aren’t easy either. My parents died six years ago, and since then, my older brother, Shining Armor, has been looking after me. Every day he is worried about something new, usually something to do with his job. He’s a police officer, and it seems to be pretty stressful. He’s not usually there when I come home from school because he works late, but when he is there, he’s usually really tired or really busy with some sort of paperwork that needs to be looked at, or bills that need to be paid. When mom and dad died he promised he would take care of me, and he is taking his new job very seriously. With hardly anyone there to help him since his wife, Cadence, is gone most of the time, he has to do it alone. We moved to Canterlot so that he could be closer to work, so I don’t to complain, even though I don’t like it here. I try my best not to make things hard for him, and I’m positive not having any friends makes things easier. He never has to worry about making sure I get good grades, because I’ve been a straight-A student since I started school. My brother loves me a lot, and I think he is so protective because he doesn’t want to lose me and end up breaking the promise he made. Shining Armor hates breaking promises, especially when there towards someone he cares about, like my parents. I don’t tell him about the things that happen in school, since it will only cause more trouble. If he asks how school went, I just say it was fine, it went well, splendid, blah bah blah.
I don’t like lying to anyone, let alone someone as special as Shining Armor, but I’d do anything to get him to not feel the need to worry about something. Besides, I don’t need him coming to school with me and complaining to the principal on my behalf. He has enough to worry about, and it would only make things at school more unbearable for me. Even though I can act like I can handle the taunting, it does hurt. I have stayed up late multiple times, crying until I fell asleep, thinking about how much better things would be for me if I was respected and adored by everyone. If I had more power than any of them ever could have dreamed about. If things weren’t so difficult for me, and so stressful for Shining Armor. How much better it would be if my life was perfect. How much better things would be, if I was one of them.

Or better…