//------------------------------// // Chapter Seven // Story: A Life Filled With Pink // by My Only Weakness //------------------------------// Chapter Seven "Wakey, Wakey, Silver," a soft voice says, shaking you slightly. You open your eyes halfway and look over to the where the voice came from. You spot Mrs. Cake looking down at you with a small smile. "Come on; up, up, up. It's time for your first day of school," she says, still smiling down at you. You let out a little sigh and sit up on the bed and yawn while stretching your forehooves. You jump of the bed and rub your eyes. "I've got breakfast already made for you, so come down after you're finished brushing your mane okay?", Mrs. Cake says, as she trots out of the bedroom door. You give a nod and walk over to the mirror in the room. You take a look at yourself and see that your mane was a right mess. You grab a brush and start to run it through your mane. You let your mind drift off imagining of how you imagine your school experience will end up. I am probably going to be bullied... just like usual... After your mane looks neat, you head downstairs and into the kitchen to see a bowl waiting for you on the table. You trot over to the chair and climb onto it. After seeing the oats inside, you happily eat your delicious treat quickly. After you have finished, you find your saddlebag resting on the front counter of the shop. You check inside, out of curiosity and see a lunch box and typical school supplies. Wow, Mrs Cake was really prepared for this, you think to yourself as you grab your bag, and strap it to your back. "Ready to go?", Mrs. Cake asks cheerfully. You take in a deep breath and give a nod. Mrs. Cake and you walk through Ponyville, heading towards the school house. As you reach closer and closer to the school, you walk past happy fillies and colts running toward the school. Three fillies you easily recognize chat away as they head into the red school house. One thing is for certain; you didn't want to talk to them or be anywhere near them. You finally reach the school and look up at Mrs. Cake. "Mr. Cake or I will be here to pick you up after school, okay?", she says with her friendly smile on her face. She proceeds to nudge you with her nose. "Now go on Silver, have a nice day!" You gingerly walk to the front door of the school. A part of you really wanted to just turn around and run, but you know that Pinkie must've tried really hard to get you into this school, and you didn't want to disappoint her. At the door you were greeted by Ms. Cheerilee. "Good morning, Silver Wave," she greets you happily. "M-Morning," you reply shyly. "Come on in," she says, walking you into the classroom. You follow in behind her to see a bunch of desks occupied with fillies and colts who were talking to each other. "Can I have everypony's attention please?", began Ms. Cheerilee, everypony stopped what they were doing and look towards the school teacher. "We have a new student joining us today. His name is Silver Wave," the three Cutie Mark Crusaders' faces light up with smiles and some of the other students start to talk to each other quietly, but stopping once Cheerilee starts to speak again. "Silver Wave, would you like to tell the class a little bit about yourself?" You freeze up at the sudden spotlight. You look over the expecting crowd of foals and begin to shrink back and shiver in response. Cheerilee chuckles tenderly at your behavior and begins once more. "He can be a little shy, but be nice to him and treat him the way you would like to be treated." When Ms. Cheerilee finished, she looks down at you. "Now why don't you take a seat." You walk towards an empty seat in the middle row between a gray pegasus colt with a slicked back mane and a skinny golden-colored colt with an aquamarine mane and tail. You take the seat and try not to look at the other colts sitting next to you. "Now everypony, I want you to take out your assignments," Cheerilee announces to the class. You begin to hear papers rustle and then see the entire class place a single piece of paper on each's desk. "Now, who would like to read out what they did for the weekends?" "I will Ms. Cheerilee!", a squeaky voice calls out. You look over to see Sweetie Belle has her hooves in the air. Ms. Cheerilee gives her a nod and Sweetie jumps out of her seat and walks to the front of the class. The unicorn clears her throat "'What I Did This Weekend'. My weekend was a mix of happiness and frightfulness. Me and the other Crusaders tried to get our cutie marks in sailing in the river, but it didn't work the way we wanted. Since we got all wet, we were headed back to Apple Bloom's house to dry up, when we overheard Pinkie Pie talking with Applejack. Pinkie said that she was throwing a party for a new colt that moved in by the name of Silver Wave.” Sweetie Belle stops reading for a second and smiles at you. She said the he was an orphan and she'll be taking care of him and asked us if we wanted to help. Of course we said yes!, Not only will we be going to a party, but we'll be meeting a new friend. After walking back to Sugar Cube Corner, we headed straight upstairs. We had to really quiet because Pinkie wanted it to be a surprise. As we were walking up the stairs I glanced into the kitchen to see Silver Wave cleaning up and noticed he didn't have a cutie mark. When we got into Pinkie’s bedroom we had to hide. After everything was in place, Pinkie went downstairs to retrieve him. We tried to stay as quiet as we possibly could, but we couldn’t help but giggle a bit. The door to the bed opened and we watched as Silver Wave walked into the room slowly, looking at the decorations. As soon as he got close enough we all jumped out and shouted "SURPRISE!". After Pinkie introduced us, that's when Fluttershy tackled him into a hug, started to hug him so tight that he squeaked. It had to be one of the cutest things I have ever heard. She stops reading to smile at you again. You can also hear some giggles come from the fillies behind you, causing you to cower in embarrassment. “After the party began, we slowly made our way to him to ask him a question. We asked Silver if he wanted to join the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and he said yes. We told him to show up at clubhouse tomorrow. “That's where the happiness stopped and the scariness started. “The next day we waited for Silver Wave and Apple Bloom to show at the clubhouse. After we finished the ceremony for Silver’s initiation, we tried thinking of what we could do to gain our cutie marks. I said, "Maybe Silver’s special talent was squeaking", as a joke, but then we found out it was one of the things Silver was bullied for. We tried to get more info from him without realizing how much it would hurt him. When we pushed it too far, he ran off. We tried to go after him, but he was a really fast runner. We stopped as we thought it would be best if we let him cool off and then we would apologize. After a couple of hours, we went to Sugar Cube Corner to see if he would accept our apology. That's when we found out that Silver hadn't came home yet. Pinkie started a search party and looked everywhere. Eventually, we had to go into the Everfree Forest to look for him. “We waited for what seemed like days, but after a few more hours, we saw Pinkie and the others come out of the forest with Silver on her back. We were so happy that he wasn't hurt. After a group hug, we all headed home. "And that Ms. Cheerilee, was my weekend," Sweetie Belle says, finishing off her assignment. "Well done, Sweetie Belle," Ms Cheerliee says, before Sweetie takes her seat again. "Now everypony," Ms. Cheerliee begins, taking some paper out of her drawer. "We will be continuing on our lesson about the History of Ponyville" -- Finally it was lunch time. It felt like the lessons went on forever. You've already eaten your lunch by yourself and are now currently walking around, shifting your eyes, looking about but keeping your head down, as well. "Hey Silver Wave, wait up!", a voice shouts from behind you. You look over your shoulder to the three fillies trotting over to you with smiles. You keep walking, but you can hear them trotting faster to you. You start to gallop faster as well to try and get away from them, but you know that they're still following you. You begin to get annoyed. You would think by the fact that you keep walking away from them, that they would figure you don't want to talk to them. Suddenly the bell rings, and everypony starts to head back to class. You also head towards the door to another couple of hours of learning. -- The bell rings and everypony darts out of the class to go back home. You head out the front door to see Mrs. Cake waiting for you. "How was your day, Silver Wave?", Mrs. Cake asks as you get closer to her. "I-It was okay, I g-guess,” you respond. "Oh! Mrs. Cake," the school teacher mare shouts from the school entrance. "Hello, Ms, Cheerilee," Mrs. Cake greets her. "Can I speak with you for a moment?", Cheerilee asks. "Of course," Mrs. Cake replies as they walk into the classroom, leaving you outside to wait. You walk over to the swing set and sit on one of the seats and swing back and forth slowly. " Hi!", a voice exclaims from beside you. You look over to see a gray unicorn filly, with two different shades of yellow for a mane. "H-Hi," you greet back, not looking at her directly. "I'm Dinky Doo! You're Silver Wave, right?" You respond with a nod. Her face suddenly becomes disappointed. "You don't talk much, do you?" You shake your head in response. The filly then gets on the swing next to you and joins you in swinging. Some silence falls as you and this filly swing back and forth like a metronome. "You're friends with Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom right?", Dinky asks. "I-I really wouldn't c-call them my f-friends", you explain. "Huh? why not?" "B-Because friends are s-suppose to laugh with you, not at you," you utter, staring down at the ground. -- "What did you want to talk about Ms. Cheerilee?", asked Mrs. Cake as she took a seat in front of the school teacher’s desk. "Well, Silver seems to be having trouble writing," explains Ms. Cheerilee, taking the seat behind her desk. Mrs. Cake response with a tilt of her head in confusion. "I would like to show you some of Silver Wave’s work he did today," Ms. Cheerilee continues then hoofing over a piece of paper to Mrs. Cake. Mrs. Cake took the paper and attempted to read what was on it. It was rather difficult to read because some of the words were hard to read and some of the letters didn't even look like letters, they looked like lines. "I see what you mean." Mrs. Cake places the paper down on the desk. "But I think I may know of a solution," suggests Cheerilee. "I believe a tutor might help with writing and spelling" "That sounds like a good idea, but who is this tutor?", Mrs. Cake questions. "This tutor is a very good friend of mine, in fact I think you know her." -- "So why are you sitting out here by yourself?", Dinky asks. "I-I'm waiting for Mrs. Cake," you reply, slightly getting annoyed from Dinky’s constant questioning. "I thought Pinkie was taking care of you?", she asks in confusion. "S-She is in Canterlot," you answer with a sad sigh. "Why?" "Because she is there on some b-business." The two of you sit there swinging in silence once more. Suddenly the door to the school opens, and Mrs. Cake walks out Ms. Cheerilee. You jump off the swing and trot over to her. "See you tomorrow," Ms. Cheerilee calls out, as Mrs Cake and you walk away from the school. -- Pinkie, Twilight and the Sun Princess wait in the throne room for something, or rather, someone really important to show up, bringing the adoption paper for a certain little colt. The door to the throne room opens up and a big brown coated stallion walks in with a folder in his mouth. "You must be one of the caretakers from the orphanage of Vanhoover?", asks Princess Celestia "That's right your highness," the stallion replies, placing the folder on the floor and then taking a bow to show his respect. "And you have the adoption paper for a colt name Silver Wave, correct?" Celestia asks The stallion nods his head and picks up the folder of papers and hands it to the Princess. Celestia checks over the files to make sure that everything is in order. "Can I just ask something?", Twilight asks the stallion. "Sure," replied the caretaker. "What exactly was Silver Wave like in the orphanage?", Twilight questions. "Quiet, he was very quiet," the stallion begins. "The only time we had to discipline him is when he refused to do something that we told him to do." Pinkie leaned over and started to whisper into Twilight's ear. "Do you have lie detector spell?" Twilight nods to the question. Twilight horns starts to glow in it’s normal light purple aura. "And what would you do when Silver didn't do what he was told?", Pinkie questioned while raising an eyebrow. "We would either send him in time out or send him to his room." Twilight horn glows green, meaning the stallion was telling the truth. "Did you happen to ever hit him for disobeying?" Pinkie asks in a serious tone of voice "No of course not, I would never lay a hoof on such a young colt," the stallion exclaims in defense. Suddenly, Twilight’s horn glows red, indicating that the stallion was lying. Princess Celestia notices this and shoots a glare at the stallion who proceeds to back off a little. She raises from her chair, setting the adoption papers on her throne. "You've been hitting this colt?!", Celestia roars in her Royal Canterlot voice. "No.. er... Ye-.” The stallion gets cut off by Celestia who stamps her hoof which echos throughout the castle. Guards march through the door and halt in front of Celestia, waiting for orders. "Take this Stallion to the ‘Waiting Room’. I'll figure out what to do with this stallion after we're done," Celestia orders. The guards nod and grab the stallion and drag him out of the room, while he fights to break free. Celestia turns back to Twilight and Pinkie. "I'm sorry you had to see that.” Celestia snaps back to business grabs the adoption paper with her magic and levitates it over to Pinkie. "Pinkie Pie, once you sign that dotted line it will become official that you'll be the guardian of one lucky colt," says Twilight with a little smile. Pinkie immediately signs the dotted line with her signature without hesitation. The paper was quickly placed back inside the folder and handed over to Princess Celestia. "Pinkie Pie" Celestia begins with a smile, catching Pinkie’s attention. "You are now the official guardian of Silver Wave."