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// First Day of School 
// Story: Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny 
// by BlueSun52 
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Guardians of Equestria - Brothers of Destiny


Chapter 5
First Day of School


A week had past since Sparrow defeated Monnark with his new magical armor that Discord gave him and everything in Equestria was once again saved thanks to Twilight and her friends. But now, Sparrow must face a new challenge in life as he struggles to survive against the most horrible thing imaginable.
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Twilight's lecture.

Twilight was trying to teach everything about Equestria to Sparrow and wanted to give the young man a well educated process and who would better suited than the princess herself. She had gone over many parts of history in full detail and explained how these events came to be. Unfortunately for her, Sparrow was half asleep most of the lecture as he found it that she was too detailed and would trail off the subject into something else that wasn't necessary to learn. It had barely been an hour since the lecture started and already he wants to drop dead. Hawke was present as well and noticed that this wasn't going to help his brother anyway. He did wanted Sparrow to keep up with his education and Twilight is known to have great knowledge. But the problem was she gets carried away and forgets to make sure Sparrow was paying attention as she was apparently getting caught in her own lecture.

Hawke gave out a sigh and walked over to Twilight. "Eh, Twilight?"

Twilight stopped reading the history book and looked up to Hawke. "Yes, sweetie?"

Hawke pointed over to where Sparrow was sleeping on his desk.

"What, again?" Twilight disappointingly said. "He should be fully awake for this."

"Twiliy, I know you want to teach Sparrow everything but I don't think you're thinking like a teacher," Hawke said.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I'm no expert of being a teacher but usually they plan all this out throughout the entire year and teaches this stuff in small sections at a time. You however are trying to teach him everything in one day," Hawke explained.

"That's not true," Twilight defended. "I'm teaching him everything in one month. It seems reasonable"

Hawke furrowed his brow.

"Fine, Mr. Smarty Pants. What do you suggest we do?" Twilight asked in a mocking voice.

"We can send him to an actual school with Miss Cheerilee?" Hawke suggested. "I mean, Miss Cheerilee has plenty of experience  teaching kids and he would be with the crusaders for most of the day while making new friends."

Twilight's ears lowered. "I know, but I really wanted to teach Sparrow everything I know and it seemed like a good idea." She looked back at the sleeping Sparrow. "At least, it was at the time."

Hawke smiled and gently hugged Twilight. "Well, I think you got what it takes to be a good teacher. I just think you should learn how to teach somepony properly before you could do it." He then placed a kiss on her cheek. "But if you want to, you can still help him with his homework. That'll give you some ideas of how to be a better teacher."

Twilight's irises grew with joy as small sparkles of stars twinkle in them. "You're right! I can't believe I never thought of that before!" She then gave her beloved a hug. "I love it when you when you come with such great ideas."

"I know, its such a rare occasion for me to come up with something that good," Hawke said.

"That's not true," Twilight said. "You always come up with such great ideas. And I would still love you even if you didn't do most of the planning anyway."

"It's always been your sort of thing," Hawke said.

"That's true," Twilight agreed. "You know what we should do?"

"What?"

"We should plan to go out sometime. We haven't been on a date for a long while ever since I became princess because of all those meetings Celestia wanted us to come to and I had to make sure you be attending those meetings as well," Twilight explained.

Hawke rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish smile. "Yeah, I really should start going to those meetings on my own. And I think that's a great about us going out again."

"So what should we do then?"

"You know what? Let me do the planning. You don't have to do a thing, just give me sometime and I'll make the wait worth it," Hawke suggested.

Twilight smiled. "Alright, I'll let you do that." She then turned back to Sparrow as he was still sleeping. "I'll go over to the school sometime today and let Miss Cheerilee know that she's going to be having a new student coming to her school. I should probably wake him up too while I'm at it."

"Nah, let him sleep," Hawke said. "He's going to be busy this afternoon."

"What makes you say that?"

"From what he told me, he's going to be crusading with the crusaders."

"Celestia help him," Twilight dreadfully said.





-The Next Day-

Sparrow yawned as he was walking alongside Hawke early in the morning. Tired as he was, Sparrow was excited to go to school with crusaders and was glad to get away from Twilight's lecture. He had nothing against Twilight about, in fact he pretty much liked her being with Hawke, but her teaching him was a very big pain. The school was now in view and Sparrow looked over to his brother.

"Thanks for walking with me, bro. I appreciate it," Sparrow said.

"No problem, little dude," Hawke replied.

"And thanks for getting me out of Twilight's lectures too."

"I've been through those lectures myself and god help me if I let anyone else suffer the same fate."

"That's good to know. So did you come up with anything for you and Twilight's date?"

"Nothing yet, but I'm sure I'll come up with something at the end of the day."

"Did you talk to her about your situation about having s-"

"No, but I was going to talk to her about it when the date was over. I thought putting her in a good mood would help," Hawke said.

"That sounds like a good idea," Sparrow said. "Well, I'll take it from here, bro. If I come up with anything for your date, Ill let you know."

"Thanks, but I'm sure I'll come up with something before then," Hawke said. "Have a nice day at school and do what Miss Cherrilee says, okay?"

"Okay."

Hawke patted Sparrow on the head and walked away in the opposite direction from the school. Sparrow looked over to the school and saw all the other children walking into it or were playing around the playground. He let out a big breath. "Alright, lets do this."





"Good morning, class," Cherrilee said, greeting her students.

"Good morning, Miss Cherrilee!" the class said, greeting their teacher.

"I'm glad to see everypony here, because today we have a classmate that will be joining us."

All the students started to whisper and murmur excitedly to one another.

"What'cha think the new kid gonna be?" Applebloom asked her friends.

"I don't know. Usually we would somepony new would come here. You know, because of Pinkie Pie," Scootaloo said.

Sweetie Belle tapped her chin a couple of times and let out a gasp. "What if it's Sparrow!" She had a bright smile on her face.

"Ah don't want ta disappoint you but I'm pretty sure Twilight would teach him anything that she would know if he needed it," Applebloom pointed out.

Sweetie Belle let out a sigh. "Yeah, your probably right."

"Now I want you all to be on your best behavior and gave him a warm welcome to our school," Cherrilee said.

"Yes, Miss Cherrilee," the class responded.

Cherrilee faced towards the entrance. "Mr. Sparrow, you can come in now."

Sweetie Belle's eyes widen.

Coming out from the entrance was Sparrow who had a small smile on him and still had his backpack on his back. There was a moment of silence in the room and he looked over to Miss Cherrilee who had a smile on her. He then looked back at the class and said, "Umm, hi."

"YES!"

Everyone looked at Sweetie Belle with a surprised look as she shouted out and was standing up with her arms raised up. She suddenly realized at what she did and looked around to see everypony looking at her. She started to sweat a bit with nervousness and blushed. She slowly sat back down on her seat and was looking down at her table. "Sorry," was all she could say at the time.

Applebloom smacked herself in face and Scootaloo whispered over to Sweetie Belle, "Smooth." Sweetie Belle just laid her head down and covered her head with her arms.

"Umm, that's an interesting way to greet somepony," Cherrilee said. "Sparrow, why don't you tell us about yourself and pick a seat in the class."

"Alright," Sparrow replied and faced the class. "Well, my brother is Hawke that some of you already know."

"That so awesome! What is he like in person," Snips asked.

"Umm, he's a very nice guy?"

"Interesting," Snips said nodding at the answer.

"We already knew that!" said a girl with a pale purple mane with a white streak having a small tiara on her head. She then looked over to Sparrow. "Can you tell us about yourself? I'm very interested to find out," she asked giving a wink and twirling a strand of hair with her finger.

"Oh,no," Applebloom whispered quietly.

"Crud! We forgot to tell Sparrow about Tiara," Scootaloo whispered back.

"If that b**** tries anything-" Sweetie Belle started to say until she looked over to her friends to seem them with wide eyes on her. "I mean, if she tries anything, I'll tell on her," Sweetie Belle corrected herself. Her friends continued staring at her. "He's like my second crush, okay! I don't know how to act!"

"Fair enough," Applebloom said.

"I guess that makes sense," Scootaloo commented.

Sparrow continued to tell everypony about himself the best he could. After that, he was looking around the room for a seat and saw one that was available right next to Sweetie Belle, who had a very bright smile on her. Sparrow was about to head over there until he heard someone call his name.

"Hey Sparrow, why don't you sit over here with us?" Featherweight said sitting next to Rumble and Pipsqueak with a empty chair near them.

"Sure, why not?" Sparrow said and sat next to them.

Sweetie Belle twitched her right eye and smacked her head against the table.





"-And that's how Star Swirl the Bearded gain the title 'the Bearded,'" Cherrilee finished her lecture.

"Wow. And you would've thought it had something to do with his beard," Sparrow commented.

"Yeah, me too," Rumble added.

The school bell ranged.

"Alright class, it's time for recess," Cherrilee said. "When recess is over, we'll be going over some basic algebra and finish class today with a science lesson."

Everypony nodded and started making their way towards outside.





Sparrow was sitting on top of bench table as he was surrounded by several ponies that were asking him all kinds of questions like, 'Are you really Hawke's brother?,' 'What's it like in your world?,' and 'What's it like being a brother to a hero?' Sparrow tried to answer their questions the best he could while trying to stretch his knowledge to its limits. The crusaders were watching all this from another bench table across from where Sparrow while Sweete Belle was laying her head down depressed.

Scootaloo looked at Sweetie Belle with a deadpan expression. "Sheesh, you really need to stop mopping," she said.

"It's just not fair," Sweetie Belle replied. Her words muffled by the table. "Why would he sit with a bunch of random colts, when he could have sat with us?"

"Ah'm pretty sure it's because he sees us all the time at the farm and is a member of our crusaders." Applebloom explained. "His just trying to make some friends here."

"I guess that makes sense. I'm just worried that he'll stop hanging out with us if he finds more colts like him."

"I somehow doubt that," Scootaloo said rolling her eyes. "What I'm more worried about is Tiara being all friendly to him."

"Yea- Wait, what?!" Sweetie Belle lifted her head up and looked over to see where Sparrow was and saw Tiara sitting right next to him having her hand on his. Her eyes squinted with anger and clenched her hands tightly. "She's dead." she hissed.

Scootaloo and Applebloom once again looked at Sweetie Belle with worried eyes.

"I mean figuratively," Sweetie Belle explained, sheepishly.

"I don't think so," Scootaloo said. "I think we need to have a talk about this when we're back at the club."

"Ah agree," Applebloom nodded.

Sweetie Belle let out a defeated sigh and continued to watch what was going on.

-Sparrow's View-

Sparrow was sitting on a bench with a lot of the other students surrounding him and asking him questions. He felt like he was the most popular kid in school. Though honestly, he didn't really like it that much. Hawke would always be the guy that would like to hang out with a bunch of people and always will try to make himself the center of attention, except when it's suppose to be someone else chance at being that attention like at a birthday party or some other special event. He was more of a loner type of guy and if he wanted to hang with others he would just stay in a small group of at least two or three people at a time. This was just making him all kinds of nervous. And Diamond Tiara wasn't making things anymore easy.

"So are you like a prince or something like that?" Tiara asked. See what I mean.

"Well, no not really," Sparrow replied. "I asked what position my brother had and he said that he was an ambassador for Equestria and just has a high status in the nobility branch."

"But doesn't he like, date Princess Twilight?"

"Yeah, but he would have to be married to her to be a prince."

"Would that make you a prince?"

"I guess so, yeah. It depends on how they handle royal linage here I guess."

"Well, I think a colt as handsome as you should be a prince. Anything less is unacceptable," Tiara said. She then placed her hand on Sparrow's. "So do you have a marefriend?" she asked.

"Ummm, well....no," Sparrow replied nervously.

"Would you like it if I was?" Tiara then got closer to Sparrow's face and was having a sly smile.

"It's a tempting offer but I'm not really that interested," Sparrow replied.

"What?!" Tiara shouted. "You do know that I'm one of the most popular ponies around here, right?"

"You are?" Sparrow asked, confusedly.

"Yes!"

"Even if that's the case, I don't really know you that well. I mean, I would like us to be friends but it is kinda too soon to be in a relationship with a random person," Sparrow explained. "Plus to be truthful, I'm already interested in someone else."

"WHO!? Who, can you possibly like more than me!" Tiara demanded.

"I rather keep that a secret right now," Sparrow said.

"Fine, whatever," Tiara said getting off the bench. "Let's go Silverspoon, I'm not interested in hanging out with a loser." She then walked off with her friend leaving Sparrow and the group of students

Some of the other just shrugged and left Sparrow alone except Featherweight, Rumble, and Pipsqueak.

"She's crazy! You're even more popular than she is!" Rumble said.

"Although she was never that popular anyway," Pipsqueak pointed out.

"Yeah......Why do we listen to her?" Featherweight asked wondering about his question. The other two shrugged.

"It's okay guys, I didn't take her seriously," Sparrow said.

"That's good to hear," Rumble said. "So who is it that you like?"

Sparrow blushed a bit. "I-I just said that so she could get off my back."

"Liar," Featherweight said. "I know when somepony is lying. Trust me, I'm chief of the journalist club."

"Come on, tell us! We're all friends here, right?" Pipsqueak stated.

Sparrow looked at the three colts that were eyeing him down with curiosity. He gave out a defeated sigh. "Mmmf."

"What?"

"Swmmf."

"You have to be clearer than Pipsqueak," Rumble said.

"HEY!"

"Alright, it's Sweetie Belle!" Sparrow quietly shouted while flustered.

"One of the cutie mark crusaders?" Featherweight said. "Why do you like her?"

"Well, it's because she's sweet, nice, and, to be truthful, she has the most beautiful eyes that I have ever seen," Sparrow explained.

"Why don't you ask her out then?" Rumble asked.

"I want to, but I have no idea where I would take her to."

"How about the carnival that's coming next week?" Rumble suggested.

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah, the carnival. You didn't know about it?"

"Well no, I did get here quite recently so I wouldn't have heard anything about it," Sparrow explained.

"That makes sense," Rumble said.

"Alright, I'll take Sweetie Belle to the carnival," Sparrow declared as he was standing up. There was moment of silence the group and nobody was moving a muscle. 

"Ummm, are you going to ask her then?" Pipsqueak asked.

"Yeah.......I am," Sparrow replied. His forhead was beginning to sweat a bit.

"She's sitting right over there," Feather wight pointed out.

"I know."

"Then why are you standing there?"

"I'm.....I'm too nervous," Sparrow confessed.

The three slapped themselves in the face.





Much of the school day had passed and it was now time for all of the students to return to their homes. Sparrow talked with his friends for a few minutes and made his way back to his and his brother's home. Along the way though, someone was shouting out his.

"SPARROW!"

Sparrow looked to see Sweetie Belle running up towards him. He stood still while Sweetie Belle was trying to catch her breath.

"Is something wrong, Sweetie Belle?" Sparrow asked, concernedly

"No, ever things fine," Sweetie Belle said slowly as she was still catching her breath. When she was better, she had small blush on her and tried to look Sparrow. "I was wondering if you were going to the carnival next week."

"I was sort of having some plans for it," Sparrow replied. "Why do you ask? Do you want me to come with you and the others there?"

Sweetie Belle's blush increased. "Well, yes and no."

"Huh?"

"What I meant to say was-" Sweetie Belle had her eyes closed and gulped. "Would you like to go out with me there?"

Now it was Sparrow's turn to blush and he froze up for a moment. "Y-Y-Yeah! Sure, I would like to go with you there," he replied calmly as he could.

Sweetie Belle had a wide smile on her. "Really!?" she asked happily.

"Yeah."

"O-Okay," Sweetie Belle simply said. "Oh! You need to have your brother talk to my parents about this. They said that it was okay for me to go out with a colt while we have a chaperone with us, so they need either Rarity or Hawke to do it next week. If you don't mind that is."

"Sure, it's no problem. I understand."

"Great! I'll see you tomorrow at school then," Sweetie Belle said. She gave Sparrow a light hug and started skipping along the round while she was humming happily to herself.

Sparrow had on a smile as he was walking his way back to his home and he was looking forward for what was in store for him next week with Sweetie Belle.





Sparrow got back home happily without any trouble and opened the front door. When he walked inside however, he saw that his brother, Hawke banging against the dinning room table while sitting down. In the back of Sparrow's head, he knew that Hawke would only do this whenever he has a hard time coming up with ideas and remembering this morning's conversation he had a pretty good idea what it was about. He let his bag down on the ground and went over to sit right next to Hawke.

Sparrow let out a sigh. "You didn't come up with an idea for Twilight did ya?"

Hawke slowly raised his head up showing the red mark on his forehead. "Yup."

"You do know that it's been one day, right?"

"I know, but I really wanted to do something special for my Twily very soon," Hawke replied.

"Well, I found out that there is a carnival next week. You can take to that," Sparrow suggested.

Hawke's eyes quickly widen up with shock. "Wait, there's a carnival?!?" he asked, confusedly.

"FINALLY!!!"

Hawke and Sparrow looked out an open window with Pinkie standing outside of it.

"Pinkie? What are you doing here?" Sparrow asked.

"I've been following Hawke all day giving hints to take Twilight to the carnival!" Pinkie explained.

"You did?" Hawke asked.

"Yeah and I have to tell you, you're not that observant of a pony," Pinkie said. "This is basically what happen-"





It was late morning and Pinkie was working in the kitchen of Sugarcube Corner making a new batch of cupcakes. She was in the super happiest mode as she could be as she was working in the greatest place in Ponyville. She then heard the ringing bell coming from the store counter.

"I'll be there in a second!" Pinkie announced, cheerfully. She removed the new batch of cupcakes out of the oven and bounced over to the counter. "Heya friend, how can I- Oh, Hey Hawky! Whatcha doing here today?"

"Hey Pinkie, I was just coming by to see if I can have some of your bagels today," Hawke replied.

"Well lucky for you, I just made a fresh bakers dozen of them a few minutes ago," Pinkie said.

"Alright, I'll take'em," Hawke said. "I also needed your help on something. Do you have a minute?"

"Of course, Hawky. Just give me a few minutes and I'll help out." Pinkie bounced back to the kitchen to finish up some of her duties and to grab Hawk's order. After a few minutes, Pinkie came over to where Hawke was sitting while he was waiting and placed the box of bagels inf front of him. "Here ya go, Hawke." Pinkie took her seat across from Hawke and rested her arms on the table. "So what did you need my help with?" she asked.

"Pinkie, you've been great with helping me with taking Twilight on dates, right?"

"Yupper do! Been telling ya to take her to all the best places in Ponyville," Pinkie replied.

"Will I need your help again," Hawke said. "I'm taking Twilight for an extra special date and I need your advice on where to take her this time."

Pinkie was making a humming sound as she was tapping her chin a few times. "Sorry, I got nothing," She replied giving a shrug.

"I think that's a perfect- Wait, what?!" Hawke said, dumbfounded.

"Sorry Hawky, but I got nothing today."

"You can't be serious right?" Hawke said, worriedly. "You always come up with the best ideas. In fact, I was positive you would never stop coming up with any ideas at all."

"Well I'm sorry, but I don't have anything," Pinkie said. "Guess you're on your own on this."

Hawke let out a defeated sigh. "Thanks anyway, Pinkie. Kinda wish you would've help out a bit more though."

"You can't expect me to always watch your back, Hawky," Pinkie said putting more effort into the word back.

"Yeah, you're right. I have to be the one to come up with this. If I want it to be anymore special, then I have to be the one to come up with," Hawke declared. "Later Pinkie, I'm going to walk around town for a while."

"Alright. Hope you come back soon," Pinkie said still putting more effort into the word.

"I will, thanks." Hawke grabbed his box of bagels and went out the front door.

Pinkie let out a sigh as she was disappointed that Hawke didn't catch her meaning when there was a poster of the carnival right behind him. Pinkie would have told Hawke right away to do that, but he had asked her so many times that she knew that he needed to stop doing that and to start thinking of ideas for Twilight so he wouldn't be too depend on others when it comes to coming up with dating ideas. 

Pinkie got up from the table and removed her white kitchen robe. In one sudden moment, she spun around and she was now covered in a black latex ninja outfit. "Mr. and Mrs. Cake! I'm going to spy on Hawke again!"

"Alright deary, just make sure that you don't give him a heart attack again," Mrs. Cake replied from upstairs. "And come back before four! We need you to watch the twins while we're going out to make a delivery."

"No problem!" Pinkie shouted back and used a smoke bomb to make herself disappear.

In the streets of Ponyville, Hawke was just walking while he was thinking of places to take Twilight. He thought about taking her to Canterlot and treating her to one of the best restaurants there, but the nobles would probably bother them with trying to gain favor with them, so that wasn't much of a choice. He would've taken her out of the country to somewhere nice and exotic, but it seemed like an overkill for a date and he was saving that for more long term if they both get married or....move things along with relationship quickly. Plus he was using this date as a chance to talk to her about that anyway.

As Hawke was walking, in the nearby bushes Pinkie was wearing her camouflage suit that matched the same colors as the leafs and had a pair of binoculars in her hands. She looked through them and a wide small appeared on her. "Target sighted," she said quietly and hid back within the bush.

Hawke was about to go by a neighborhood but before he did, Pinkie quickly grabbed some of the posters for the carnival, a bucket of glue, and a large brush. She brushed the walls with glue and place the posters to cover them. After she was done, she hid in a nearby trashcan and took a peek to see her progress. When Hawke was about to go by, he had his head lifted towards the sky and watched it while he was moving. He kept on pondering on what to do and thought looking up in the sky might give him an idea. He walked by all the posters and finally let his head down in defeat.

Pinkie stayed hidden until Hawke was out of sight and she slapped herself in the face. "Well this is going to be harder than I thought," she said to herself. As she was climbing out of the empty trash can, she accidentally stepped into the bucket of glue and her feet were trapped in it. "Ah oh." She tried to wiggle the bucket off of her but it was stuck on her and caused herself to trip and fell into a nearby dumpster.





"-And that pretty much had the day went," Pinkie finished.

"Wait, you kept on gluing posters all day?" Sparrow asked.

"No, I kept on falling on the dumpster all day!"

Both Hawke and Sparrow raised an eyebrow.

"After I did that, I tried using hot air balloon with a big sign hanging on it but Hawke was looking down on the ground and I accidently fell into the dumpster again."

"FROM THE AIR BALLOON!?" Sparrow panicked.

"Don't worry, this stuff happens all the time," Pinkie cheerfully said.

Sparrow looked at Hawke with a worried expression.

"It's true," Hawke simply stated.

"So after that, I tried putting up a billboard, dressed up as a spokesmare, placed ads on the newspaper, I even hired the wonderbolts to fly up in the sky to write 'The Carnival is Next Week!'" Pinkie explained.

Sparrow looked at Pinkie confusedly and looked over to Hawke. "How did you not notice any of that?" he asked.

"Didn't know we had a billboard, I don't trust what spokes people have to say, I only read the newspaper for the funnies, and....what time did the wonderbolts came in?" Hawke asked.

"They came around two."

"Yeah, I was at home at that point," Hawke finished.

"Hmmm, should have stopped at that point," Pinkie said to herself.

"Anyways, I really think the carnival is a great idea," Hawke said. "I'll go over to Twilight's and see what she thinks about it."

"Hey Hawke , there was something I needed to-"

"Man, she's going to love this idea so much!" Hawke proudly said.

"That's great, but I need you to-"

"Not now, Sparrow. I need to head over there asap."

"Did you just call him a sap?" Pinkie asked.

"No Pinkie, it means 'as soon as possible.' Asap," Hawke explained.

"Well I think you're a sap!" Pinkie accused.

Hawke rolled his eyes. "Well anyways, I'm heading out."

"But-"

Before Sparrow could say anything, Hawke went out the front door immediately and closed it right behind him. Sparrow gave out sigh and was left alone with Pinkie.

"So how was your first day of school?" Pinkie asked.

"It was good. I made a few new friends there."

"That's great! You can never have too many friends," Pinkie exclaimed.

"I know, it's great to get to know somebo- I mean, someponies here."

"So what was it that you wanted to talk to Hawke about?" Pinkie asked.

"Well um....Sweetie Belle asked me to join her at the carnival and her parents wanted either Rarity or him to watch over us," Sparrow explained.

Pinkie eyes widen up. "WHAT!?! SHE ASKED YOU OUT?!?!" 

"Y-Yeah, she did."

"OH MY CELESTIA, THIS IS AWESOME! I have to tell everypony about this!"

"Wait, What?! No, you don't have to-"

Before Sparrow could finish, Pinkie jumped through the same window she came in and disappeared from sight. Sparrow let out an irritated sigh and looked up to the ceiling. "Why doesn't anyone let me finish?" he said to himself. He laid his down on the table and closed his eyes for a moment. A small smile crept on his face as he was thinking about what was going to happen next week.


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