"Oh horse-apples!"
I turned to see Firewall toying with a small computer. He saw my distressed look and stopped bothering the device. “What’s wrong World?”
"I spilled lemonade all over Zone Blitz's jersey. I'm already the laughing stock of the school. This will be the biggest blunder since the mascot incident like fifteen years ago. He'll notice me now, but for all the wrong reasons." I slumped down to the bathroom floor. I’m not sure if Firewall really understood what I said in my panic but he trotted over to me and offered a shoulder to cry on. I started to cry quietly, when the bathroom door opened, and I heard the voice of an angel.
"Umm... World Wide." The voice said quietly.
I opened the door to find Zone Blitz standing there. "H-hi." I whispered nervously, faintly blushing. Firewall looked awkward between us and started inching towards the door.
"I'm sorry about the team picking on you." Zone Blitz said.
"Let me guess, it was Line Backer's idea." I said with a sneer.
"Yeah. He thought it would be funny to push you into me for some stupid reason, so he got the other teammates involved." Zone Blitz said.
Firewall slipped on the floor but we didn’t look at him.
"Why you, why not somepony else?"
"Turns out he was just using me to get popular." He said. "When he turned away, your friend Tarot pulled his ear and took him in the hallway for a beat down."
I couldn’t help but laugh at that.
“Before she left she yelled over her shoulder that I should grow a backbone and comfort you…actually she said to cuddle you…which is weird…”
I was blushing to a rose-red and somehow I felt so comforted by him. "She’s been bugging me for a while to finally talk to you face to face."
“What?” Tarot had been bugging him? Did she tell Zone Blitz about my crush!? He was blushing too, and tapping his hoof against the floor.
“Well, I’ve wanted to ask you out for a long time now, but I wasn’t sure if you wanted an old guy like me. Tarot said that you wouldn’t care but…you know…”
"Oh." I couldn’t stop the grin from forming on my face; he wanted to ask me out all this time?
"Yeah, I’m such a dork" He said, his red face getting darker and darker. "I-I kind of think you are cute."
"Really. I-I wouldn't have expected..." I tried to say until he put his hoof over my mouth.
"No one would have it’s not anypony else’s business" Zone said. "I don’t need to be pushy, but I’ve liked you for a long time now..."
Feeling brave I planted a kiss on his lips. Fireworks went off in my head like the Fourth of July. Suddenly I heard a weird squeak and I saw another pony, Sunshine, running out of the bathroom. Zone Blitz looked so worried, and yet so cute at the same time. His jaw dropped to the floor, and he must have felt extremely embarrassed. "Zone Blitz, are you alright?" I asked, but all I got was a blank stare. "Zone?" Again silence. Then an idea popped into my head. I faced him, grabbed his neck, and planted one big kiss on his lips. Then just like that he snapped back into reality.
"Huh... what?" He mumbled.
"Are you okay? I know you aren’t a closet case but Sunshine isn’t the most private pony ever." I said frantically.
“World?” He asked, giving me a strange look.
“You should go clear your name” I said sadly, “I mean; you don’t want to go out with a lowly geographer.”
Before he could say anything I ran out the bathroom, still feeling the kiss on my lips. Once I got pretty far, I slowed down and saw Tarot in the distance beating some pony up. It was Line Backer. I walked near, and saw that she gave him a black-eye, a chipped tooth, and a bloody nose.
"Hey World, me and Line Backer were just talking, right?” She flashed her fangs at the earth pony and he nodded frantically.
"That's okay; I think he learned his lesson." I said feeling winded.
"Good. Now listen here Line Backer, if I catch you picking on any one again, you'll wish that you hadn't. GOT IT!" She said angrily. Line Backer nodded again and ran away scared. By that time, Tarot became her cheerful self again and gave me a weird look. "What are you doing here?”
I knew she was wondering why I wasn’t with Zone Blitz but I decided to play dumb, I could damage his reputation…I just couldn’t.
“What do you mean?”
She gave me a weird look but thankfully didn’t say anything.
"Nothing. Oh hey, the big pep rally is soon, I’m going with some of the other bat ponies and the guys, you should come.”
I knew that she was trying to get me to see Blitz Zone, but I didn’t want to see him right now. I didn’t, however, want to seem suspicious since I go to all the games.
"Sure, save me a seat" I said. Tarot left with a nod, leaving me to my thoughts. Zone Blitz said he liked me, but he was a jock, and I was just a geographer. He needed someone on his level. I felt sad by this thought, but it wasn’t a new one. I decided to walk to the park for a moment before heading over to the pep rally. As I walked to the park, coming down the street the other way was none other than Mayflower Blooms, Ivory Keys, and Berry Crumble. ‘This could only stir up trouble.’ I thought to myself.