//------------------------------// // School Suspicions // Story: Princess Applebloom // by meme-asaurus //------------------------------// Despite Twilight’s persuasions, Applebloom wanted to keep her newfound royalty a secret as long as possible. Fortunately for her, she convinced her family that the residents of Ponyville “won’t be ready fer th’ news.” And honestly, who could resist the abyss of Applebloom’s puppy-eye face? So, with a slight adjustment of the bangs in order to hide the horn, along with a certain Crusader cape; Applebloom, “mild-mannered Earth Pony,” was ready to face a normal day at school! (…Okay, so she’s not that mild-mannered, but the public would be suspicious otherwise!) As she handed in her late slip to Miss Cheerilee, (that vaguely stated something about an “apple pie emergency,”) Applebloom noticed that her two best friends, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, wore the same Cutie Mark Crusader capes as she had. What if… Nah. Scootaloo already had wings, so even if she became an alicorn, she had no reason to hide them. And if Sweetie Belle became a bona-fide princess, Rarity would be rubbing it in the face of everypony in Canterlot. So why were they wearing capes? Something didn't add up. Applebloom had to find out, but she couldn’t risk asking them directly without drawing attention to herself. It was time get creative: note-passing style! Applebloom readied her pencil as she wrote the first note: {Hey, Sweetie Belle! Ain’t it wurderful that we all wore our custum-made capes 2 skool on the same day?} Applebloom waited momentarily as the note got passed down to Sweetie Belle. Finally, the response came back to her: {Yeah, I know! It’s like we’re connected or something. CUTIE MARK CRUSADER PSYCHICS! YAY! P.S. Your spelling is really louise.} Applebloom vigorously read the letter over seven times. Well, nothing really out the ordinary, except that they tried the whole mind-reading thing last Fri- “Applebloom?” Miss Cheerilee said, interrupting Applebloom’s train of thought. “Yes Mam?” “Since you like taking notes so much, how about you tell us the answer to this problem?” Cheerilee gestured to a ridiculously long algebra equation that what looked far too advanced for even the great scholars of Canterlot to decipher. Or at least in a kindergartener’s head it was. In short, Applebloom had no choice to take a complete shot in the dark and hope her answer wasn’t too embarrassing. “Ummm……..uhhhhhhh……..is it forty-two?” “Very good, Applebloom! For that, you win a gold star!” Cheerilee exclaimed. Applebloom beamed. “Lucky guess,” snorted Diamond Tiara. “Pst!” Applebloom perked up. It was Snails, passing a note from Scootaloo. It read: {Come to the clubhouse after school. We’ve got something 2 show U. P.S. Nice job on the question! I bet even Twilight Sparkle would have trouble figuring that one out!} Applebloom was taken back. So, her friends WERE hiding something from her! But she probably shouldn’t worry about it. Because it was probably something good, like… a surprise party! Yeah. It HAD to be something like that. It just had to be. Because her friends wouldn’t hide anything bad from her. Right?