Twilight was anxious. She was going to a new school, her very first "real" school, and she had no idea what it would be like. What if she didn't make any friends? What if other ponies wouldn't like her? What if, she gasped as the thought struck her mind, they didn't have a library?!
Oh, well. She would have to be a brave pony like her brother Shiny, and face her fears. After all, they might have a great school library, she thought just as she reached the school-building. Ponies of all colors were pouring in, rushing to get inside before the bell rang on the first day of school.
"Bye, Mom. I'll be fine, I promise!" Twilight said as she looked up at her mother, who had walked to school with her.
"Okay, Twi. Remember, have fun! I love you!" Her mom said as she squeezed Twilight tight, then waved goodbye and left.
After her mom left, Twilight gathered herself and entered the building. It was actually pretty inside, the walls painted a nice cheery blue, and the desks lined up in straight rows. Or, rather, as straight rows as could be, considering about twenty fillies and colts were trying to cram into desks close to their friends.
Twilight sighed, then spotted a desk near the back of the room. Perfect. It would be out of everyponies way, and she would be able to read and doodle back there easily. As she made her way to the seat, she was cut off by a rainbow-maned cyan pegasus.
"Heya! You knew in town?" The pegasus grinned at Twilight.
"Er..no. I just don't get out much." Twilight stammered.
"Well, anyways, I haven't met you before. So let me introduce myself. I'm Rainbow Dash, the best and awesomest-est flyer in this town!" the pegasus bragged.
"Uh..that's nice. Now I you'll excuse me, I need to get to my seat, so I can start studying." Twilight said.
"No way! Studying this early? Are you crazy?! For that matter, studying at all?!" Rainbow Dash seemed genuinely baffled.
Twilight just sighed and pushed past Rainbow to her desk.
Twilight sat down and arranged her pencils neatly. Hmm, Red, then Orange, then Yellow, then Green, Blue, and last Purple! Twilight thought to herself as she sorted the pencils, not noticing a pink pony standing by her.
"Omigosh you're new and I haven't seen you before so you must be knew, and I didn't know you were new earlier and now that I know you're new I can throw you a party 'cuz I love parties after all who doesn't love parties and it'll be so awesome ooh I could invite everypony and we could all meet you 'cuz you're new!" The pink pony said, somehow all in one breath.
Twilight jumped backwards before recollecting herself. "...hi?" She said to the strangely cheerful pink pony.
"Ooh did I scare you? I scare ponies a lot but I don't mean to cuz what fun is scaring ponies when you could be having fun instead of being a scary-scaredy-scary-pants!" The pink pony grinned. "Omigosh I forgot to tell you my name! I'm Pinkie Pie, what's your name?!" Pinkie Pie yelled in Twilight's face.
"...twilight. Twilight Sparkle." Twilight stammered out.
"Oh wow you sound just like James Bond! Or James Barn, like they call him here. Tee-hee, I keep forgetting not to break the fourth wall!" Pinkie Pie giggled as she hopped off.
Twilight sighed again. If she could just get through today without meeting any more ponies, she might make it. After all, meeting ponies was okay she guessed, but reading books was even better, right?
As class was about to start, the teacher walked in the room. She was a unicorn, with a white coat, red hair, and a quill pen dipped in a bottle of ink for her cutie mark.
"Hello, class." the teacher smiled. "My name is Light, and I will be your teacher."
A hoof was raised in the back of the class.
"Yes?"
"Do you give out candy for good grades?!" Pinkie Pie shouted.
"Er..no."
"Awww...."
"However, I do make it a rule not to give out much homework.."
"Yaaay!" The entire class cheered, except for Twilight. She waved her hoof frantically.
"Yes, dear?" Said the teacher.
"Ma'am? Could you please give out lots of homework to me?" Twilight sank down in her seat as she said it, feeling the confused stares of all her classmates on her. "I..I like homework, ma'am..."
"Why, yes, of course." Light smiled at Twilight. "Now, why don't we all introduce ourselves? You can start by telling us your name." She said, pointing at an orange earth pony in the front row.
"Ah'm AppleJack, Miss Light, ma'am." The orange pony grinned.
"Nice to meet you, AppleJack. Now, what's your name?" Light pointed at a white unicorn.
"Why, my name is Rarity!" Said the unicorn.
"A very pretty name. Now you?" Light pointed at Rainbow Dash.
"Rainbow Dash! I'm the best flyer there ever was an' ever will be!" Rainbow grinned.
"I'm sure. Now, you?" Light pointed at a butter-yellow pegasus.
"...i'm fluttershy." The pegasus squeaked.
And so it went on, with the entire class being introduced. There was AppleJack, Rarity, RainbowDash, and Fluttershy, of course. There was also a blue unicorn named Trixie, Pinkie Pie, Big Macintosh, Flim and Flam, Cheerilee, Derpy Do, and of course, Twilight Sparkle.
As the class started on math, Trixie leaned forward in her seat to talk to Twilight, who was sitting in the seat in front of her.
"Pssst."
Twilight turned around. "What?" she whispered.
"Pass this note to the seat in front of you."
"Uh..okay." Twilight did as Trixie asked, not knowing any better.
"Tea-cher! Twilight is passing notes in class!" Trixie yelled.
Twilight was flabbergasted. "B..but Trixie told me to!"
"That's ridiculous! If I told you to, why would I tell teacher?" Trixie snorted.
"I'm sorry Twilight, but unless you confess, you will have to have detention." Light said sternly.
"What?! That's ridiculous! It wasn't even my fault!" Twilight yelled, her temper starting to rise.
"Alright, that's it. Detention for you." Light said.
Twilight simmered through the rest of class. So far, today was most definitely not going well.
When class was about to end, the yellow pegasus named FlutterShy timidly raised her hand.
"Yes?"
"M..miss Light? I...I saw Trixie tell Twilight to pass the note." FlutterShy said, her voice quivering.
"Is that so? Well, then, Twilight, it appears I have misjudged you. You are free to go after class is dismissed. You, Trixie, will stay after class with me, and I will have a stern discussion with you about getting others in trouble." Light said. "But, may I ask, why did you wait till now to tell me, FlutterShy?"
"Oh...um, well, you see I didn't want to get Trixie mad at me...but I didn't want to let Twilight get detention for something she didn't do..." Fluttershy said quietly.
"Well, thank you for telling me now." Light smiled at FlutterShy.
After class was dismissed, Twilight walked over to FlutterShy. "Thank you so much for sticking up for me! You're so kind!" Twilight grinned.
"Um...well..it was nothing." FlutterShy stammered.
"Of course it was something! That was really nice and brave of you to do that for me!" Twilight said.
"Y..you really think it was brave?" FlutterShy said.
"Of course!" Twilight said, before hugging FlutterShy. FlutterShy hugged back, awkwardly at first, then stronger.
"N...nopony's ever called me brave before." FlutterShy smiled as she let go. "D..does this mean we're friends? I mean if you want to be of course..."
Twilight grinned at her. "I'd love that. Friends?"
"Friends." FlutterShy smiled back.
As Twilight reflected back on the day, she smiled again, thinking that maybe, just maybe, meeting new ponies was a whole lot nicer than just reading books.