Chapter 3 – First day of school
“BASS!!!! HURRY UP, YOUR GOING TO BE LATE!!!!” Mrs Primrose screamed up the winding stairs of the orphanage.
“YEAH, YEAH I'M COMING!” replied the pegasus.
“Now i’m going to be gone most of the day, so you’re not gonna have me to help you out.” Said Bass to his little colt friend, Static.
“Why do you have to go? Stay please!” whimpered the little colt, tears welling up in his little red eyes.
“I have to buddy, don’t worry anyone gives you trouble tell me when I get back and I will ruff them up” chuckled Bass as he started to leave.
“Okay Bass, have fun.”
“I wouldn't get your hopes up for that.”
“BASS, DONT MAKE ME COME UP THERE!!!!” shouted Mrs Primrose once again.
“ugh.”
Bass felt the small blue doors close behind him, he was on his own. The other pony’s went to Ponyville elementary, whilst Bass was going to Cloudsdale elementary, he lifted off the ground, took the Foalcandy headphones out of his satchel, which he had saved up for using his measly pocket money of 2 bits a week, and flew off, in no hurry, to his school.
Two beats were emanating from him this time, one from his wings and the other from the overly loud music coming from his headphones. He was dreading school, he hated interaction with other foals, except static he was an exception.
He landed on the front playground of the rather large looking school. The school its self was made up of seven class rooms, a teaches lounge and a head mistresses office, plus the 3 sectioned play ground surrounding the school. The little foal took off his headphones and placed them around his neck, he was dreading every single moment of this, it did not appeal to him. There were small groups of three or four foals, mostly same-sex groups them not yet realizing why filly’s and colt’s would EVER be friends. Bass found a quiet corner of the playground, sat down and put on his headphones once again until ushered in by a nice looking mare.
He entered a reasonably sized class room filled with exited four year olds, a.k.a. hell. The teacher lined all of the foals at the back of the class, one stood out more than the others though, she was a rather small filly with a cyan coat and pink eyes, but she had the most colourful rainbow mane.
The same mare as before stood at the front of the class, she had a light green coat with very pale blue eyes and a brown coat. “Okay class, I am Mrs Evergreen and I will be your teacher for the remainder of your time here. Now we are going to go along the line and introduce ourselves, say your names favourite colour and your hobby if you have one, you at the end with the rainbow mane, can you start please?”
The little filly spoke up “Hi, I’m Rainbow Dash, my favourite colour is red and I love to push my limits at flying.” She said in a cute and squeaky, yet extremely confident voice
A few more pony spoke, then the line came to a rather lanky filly with a butter yellow coat, blue eyes and a pink mane “H-h-hello, i’m flu....” the rest of the sentence was muffled by her hair as she had opted to hiding behind it.
“I’m sorry dear, could you speak up?” asked Mrs Evergreen in a sweet, loving tone.
The quite voice perked up a bit “I’m Fluttershy” she stopped there refusing to go further.
“I suppose that will be enough for now, thank you dear.” Said Mrs Evergreen “and next, the colt with the headphone around his neck?”
“Hi, i’m Bass Line, my favourite colour is green and I like to listen to music, alone.” Said the colt, in a deep and rather depressing tone.
“O-okay then, thank you.” She said with an uneasy smile on her face. “Next please, the Filly with the gray coat and golden eyes.”
The first lesson of the day was simple introduction activities that Bass hated with a deep fiery passion, especially because he didn't get to speak to this, Rainbow Dash filly, that he found himself strangely drawn to, she seemed to be loud and confident with whoever she spoke with, colt or filly she didn't care, “she is.... amazing,” Bass mumbled to himself and let at a small smirk.
Break didn't come around soon enough, as Bass when to put his headphones on Mrs Evergreen intervened “Bass, no tech is to be used on school ground, take them off please.” He slid the headphones off and into his satchel. He again found a quiet corner to sit and be alone; he just watched the other foals play around, not a care in the word. Soon his vision was blocked by a wall of cyan.
“Hey!” said the rainbow filly “Why are you over here all on your own?”
“I like it.” Were the only words that the filly got.
“W-what?” laughed the filly “You don’t like other ponies?”
“Not really.”
“Have you ever given them a chance?”
“No, and I don’t want to.”
“What about me?”
“What about you?”
“Will you give me a chance?”
The colt thought for a minute, he wanted to because of his fascination of this filly, but he didn't because he wanted to be left alone.
“Ugh, I don’t see why not.” Said the colt with a smile.
“Cool, come with me.”
“Where are we going.” Said the colt as he was dragged out if the corner he was so fond of.
“We are gonna go to the flying track and have a race”
“Erm, okay if we have to.”
“We do, now tell me about yourself Bass. I haven’t seen you around cloudsdale before.”
“I don’t live in cloudsdale, I live in a place called ponyville, on the surface.”
“Oh that’s cool, what are your parents like?”
“I erm..... I don’t have parents.”
“What? How?”
“I don’t know, I live in a big house with a bunch of other foals called an or-orphanage.”
“That sounds fun! I bet you have lodes of friends.”
“No, I only have one, who is more like a brother to me than a friend.”
“That sucks, well now you have two friends.” The filly looked behind her and gave a warming smile to the colt, who gave one back.
“Where here!” said the filly almost shouting it due to excitement, this was going to be her first race that wasn’t with her dad. She did have other friends but they didn’t have the same passion for speed that she did.
“Come on, come on, come on let’s go!” she shouted, her voice squeaking even more due to the shear excitement of a real race.
“Ok, keep your mane on!”
The two lined up next to each other, ready to race.
“Ready”
“Set”
“GO!”
The two shot off at fairly equal speed, the two were neck and neck round the first lap. Bass’s wings producing the Bass line that was now his trade mark noise, Rainbow herd this and started bobbing her head to it and smiling.
“wow, your fast” huffed Rainbow “but not fast enough” the rainbow filly let out a massive burst of speed, darting ahead of Bass, the was not a chance in hell he was going to catch up to her, not in a million years.
After the race the two walked back to Bass’s corner only to find that it was occupied by the nervous butter coloured filly from earlier.
“Umm, excuse me?” said Bass in a soft tone as not to frighten the filly that was not aware of their presence, she jumped anyway.
“oh, umm I’m sorry, is this your spot, I’m sorry I'll go.”
“WHAT?!?!” the loud words made Fluttershy shriek a bit “Na we’ll just sit with you, no bother.” Insisted rainbow.
“Oh, ok then.” Whispered the filly.
Rainbow and Bass started to talk about Bass’s orphanage and Rainbows parents.
“So what’s the surface like?” asked rainbow.
“Erm, did you say the surface?” piped up a small voice form behind the pair.
“Yeah, I live there” replied Bass.
“That’s amazing, I have heard that there are strange animals of the surface that have legs and no wings, is that true?
“Yeah, there are lodes.”
“Oh how wonderful, I would love to go there someday and see some.”
“Tell us more about the surface.” Demanded Rainbow.
For the rest of their forty-five minute break Bass told them all he knew about the surface ,and all about ponyville and its inhabitants, well all he knew from his not so frequent visits. But they soon had to get back into their class; this wasn’t that bad now as he had made a couple of friends that he could sit next to. The rest of the day went without a hitch. At the end of the day the three ponies agreed to meet at the same corner every school day, well two were, one was quietly declining to the offer but the other two drowned her out, but she desperately wanted friends so she made herself agree in the end .Fluttershy and Rainbow flew off in the same direction waving good bye to their new friend and he waved back
“What a story I have to tell Static today” mumbled Bass to himself as he slid his Foalcandies over his ears.