There I was, in the lunch room, sitting opposite the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, and what's more, is that she and I are friends. I couldn't believe my luck. “How in Equestria did I go from lonely stallion to luckiest guy in the world?” I whisper to myself, as I sit and watch her eat her lunch.
“Not gonna eat anything?” she asks me, as she looks up at me with those beautiful blue eyes and luscious long eye lashes of hers. I look down, and see that I hadn't touched my burger what so ever. I smile and pick it up to start eating.
I smile at her “This place seems so..strange” I say, munching on my burger and fries. “But you know, now that I am here, I wouldn't go back” I say, still gazing at her, I swallow my mouthful and put my burger down. “So Sunset, if you don't mind me asking, but, how come a beautiful girl like you is so lonely?”
She sighs as she puts her food down and looks away, “I'm not very well liked here, or in Equestria. You see, back in Equestria, my parents, or more like my father, pressured me to be at my 'best', and things just got worse when I was named Princess Celestia's student. My father pushed and pushed me to become the next ruler of Equestria...” she trails off, but I was lost in what she was saying.
“Go on” I mumble, trying to swallow my next mouthful at the same time.
“...I had no interest in friendship, compassion or even love. All I could focus on was my studies and becoming the next Alicorn princess...Celestia, as compassionate as she is, tried her best to get me to make friends and be more compassionate, but it was futile at that time. That is when she showed me the mirror, and I saw my future..or at least I thought I did. After a argument with her, I grabbed what little I had from my room and came through to here... And well..tried to take over the school.. so yeah...” she finishes, I gasped, I couldn't believe all this, no way could it be true.
I reach over and place my hand over hers with a soft smile “Well. I...I like you” I say, looking into her eyes, “Believe it or not, back in Equestria, my only friends were Twilight and the others. Not many ponies liked me, they always joked I was...slow and stupid. So I spent most of my time in Twilight's library.” I sigh.
She finishes her meal and shakes her beautiful long hair, “Even in Equestria, ponies can be cruel. Come on, I'll show you around.” she says getting up and offering a hand up, I smile as I gladly accept it.
Sunset started with showing me the classrooms and the library, I smile as I contemplate holding her hand, but then I thought better of it. She probably just wants a friend right now. As we continue to walk the halls of the high school, people started whispering and looking at me strangely. I notice a certain other guy with short slicked back blue and white hair glaring at me. That is when I decided to get closer to Sunset.
She looks at me then over at the other guy and shakes her head “Hey Flash, we broke up ages ago! Besides, shouldn't you be focussing on Twilight?” she asks him, and he rubs the back of his neck and nods.
“Y...yeah but.. who is this?” he asks, pointing to me, “I don't like the look of him”
Sighing I shrink back a bit and hide behind my hair again. Sunset then grabs my hand and pulls me away from Flash. I sigh both happily as I was finally holding hands with her, but also in sadness.
“And here I thought I could start a new life” I whisper.
“Come on, lets go to the soccer pitch. We can be alone there” she says, dragging me outside.
A...alone? I gulp, did that mean what I thought it meant? Just her and me, talking, perhaps even...cuddling? Did she..did she really like me like that? Only time could tell.
I couldn't believe my luck, Sunset was taking me to somewhere more...secluded so that we could, would you believe it, be alone. I smile as I allow her to hold my hand and drag me outside. At this stage, I couldn't care less about the whispers, and by the look on Sunset's face, neither did she. I nearly giggled as all of this happening.
We soon reach the soccer pitch and she sits down on the bleachers, petting the spot next to her. Happily, I sit down and look at her. “It is quite nice here, oh is that Rainbow Dash? You remember how I told you the Equestria version of her was the cause of me coming here?” I laugh
Sunset laughs too, “Oh yeah, to be honest, it doesn't surprise me that she'd do something like that” she smiles at me. “You know, it is really nice to have someone who understands what it is to be lonely to talk to.”
I nod in response “I know how you must have felt. Being ostracised and not having many, if any, friends to be around. It isn't nice” I say and out of impulse, I lift my arm up and drape it over her shoulder, holding her close. She didn't even flinch or try to get out of it, no, instead she snuggles closer and rests her head on my shoulder as we watch a match between one of the guys from the soccer team going against Rainbow Dash. I smile as I hold her closer to me, feeling the fluttering of her heart beat against my body and then, the unexpected happens. She leans up and kisses my cheek. I blush heavily and kiss her back, stroking her hair.
I do not know how I got this lucky, but I sure am not going to question it. Today was surely the luckiest day of my life, and it was just about to get better.