Mac groaned as he got up, his body was sore and he was tempted to just la in bed, no. I have to get my lunch made. Gotta fight the pain. He went downstairs, he was careful as he went down the stairs, he could barely see. He went into the kitchen and began cooking, the light in the stairwell came on and Luigi came into the kitchen. "Mac, what are you doing?"
"Cooking." He said in response without even looking at him as he cut the vegetables as he spoke.
"I didn't know you could cook Mac." Luigi said, hands on his hips and a smile on his face.
"Fat camp. They taught me to cook healthy." He said, his face half turned to him.
Mario suddenly appeared from around the corner, he looked to Luigi who looked back at him, "Mac you are gonna have to do some of the cooking around here."
Mac shrugged, "okay, whatever." He finished cooking and packed it up and went up to his room to get dressed. He came back and found Luigi had eggs on the table. "That was fast."
"I used to be a chef, I can keep up with the best of them," Luigi stated.
Well, he doesn't have time to eat it, we gotta get him to school and fast! Mario stated as he got up leaving his food on the table.
Luigi quickly put his breakfast in a bag, "you can eat it on the way, Mac." He said as he handed him the bag. They all went out to the van and got inside and went off to Canterlot high.
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“Hi, Mac!”
Pinkie said to him as he walked into the school, she pulled him into a hug, in response Mac simply pat her cheek.
“Hey Pinkie.”
“What happened to your face?”
“I got into a fight, it’s fine.”
Pinkie proceeded to poke his face. This made him grunt and flinch from the pain.
“Don’t do that! It’s tender…”
“Sorry! I hope you feel better soon Mac, with that, she skipped off as if nothing happened.” Pinkie said smugly before skipping off.
Mac walked to his locker and put his stuff inside, after getting only what he needed for his first period and went off to math. He sat down and waited for class to start. He gave a smile to Fluttershy as she walked by him.
“Mac what happened to you?!” She asked with a gasp of shock.
“I got jumped yesterday on my way home from school.”
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah, I wouldn’t be here if I weren’t.” Fluttershy looked unsure, Mac smiled. “Hey I’ve had worse done, okay? Besides the people who jumped me look just as bad, trust me.” Fluttershy handed him a flyer. He took it and looked it over, it was to the animal shelter, for volunteer work. “I’ll consider doing this, thanks,”
“Really? Oh, that’s wonderful! I hope to see you there sometime.”
“You will.”
“Are you walking home again today?”
“Yep.”
“But why? After what happened yesterday?” Before he could answer the teacher walked in, and class started.
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Mac walked into the lunchroom and looked around, he sat down next to Flash and all his friends.
Flash smiled at him. “Hey dude, whatsu- Woah dud, what happened to you?” Flash asked him surprised by his bruises.
“I got jumped.”
“Cool!”
“Dude that’s crazy, those bullies jumped you didn’t they? You should be more careful around town they’ll probably try again. Why don’t you hang with us?
“Yeah, if they try it again, we’ll have your back.” one of them said punching his fist into his hand.”
Mac shrugged, sure why not. Flash pat him on the back, another guy hugged him, Mac looked at him with an uncomfortable expression.
“He’s a hugger, sorry about that,” Flash said.
Mac pushed him off, “look lay off the hugging okay?”
“Oh uh, yeah sure my bad.” He said to him.
“Dude, did you make that?”
“Yeah
“Where’d you learn to cook like that?”
“Fat camp.”
They all laughed at him, but it died down fast when they realized he wasn’t joking. “Jeeze dude, were you really that fat?”
Mac took his wallet out and showed them a picture of himself, “this was two years ago.”
“Dude, how do you have fat on your forehead like that?”
“Shutup,” Mac said.
“Sorry.”
“I was three hundred and fifty pounds before I went to fat camp.”
“Damn. you lost a ton!”
“Yeah I know, I’m one-ten now. “
The bell suddenly rang ending lunch, Mac got up and walked out of the lunchroom, pushing by the hoards of people he made his way to his next class, he sat down next to Twilight and she stared at him surprised.
“Mac what happened to your-”
“I got jumped, spread the word I’m tired of explaining it.” He said annoyed.
*****
School soon ended, he was on his way to the outside world when he heard someone talking about the wvba. He stopped in his tracks and turned to them. He quickly went over to them, “how do you know about that?”
“About what?”
“Who are you?”
“The wvba! How do you know about it?!”
“Oh um… everyone knows about it, most schools around here participate in it, Canrterlot high even used to do so.”
“But not now?”
“Nope.”
“Why not.”
“Principal Celestia just banned our school from it, and she doesn’t talk about it so we never really hear much about it.” They walked off after that, leaving Mac standing there in thought.
He went off to Celestia’s office, I want to know more and damn it I will!