//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: "Tomboys Don't Fall in Love!" // by Luvbuttonmash //------------------------------// Tick Tock. The ticking of the clock was one of the only sounds of the classroom. Sighs came out of the teens' mouths as Ms. Harshwinny went over yet another lesson in math. There were many distractions in the room, ranging from boys whispering to each other to girls secretly texting on their phones. Rainbow just kept tapping her pencil on the desk. She didn't care about how to use variables and exponents to solve the area of a trapezoid. In fact, she didn't care for the math lesson at all. All she was thinking about was tomorrow's big game. So the pencil kept tapping, the girls kept texting, the boys kept talking, and the teacher kept teaching. "Rainbow Dash! Would you PLEASE stop tapping your pencil on the desk? It's very distracting,"Ms.Harshwinny said without turning around to face the rainbow-haired teen. Rainbow glared at her, then stopped tapping. Maybe she DOES have eyes in the back of her head, Rainbow thought. She looked at the clock. It was still ticking loudly. Only five more minutes, Rainbow thought, and so did the rest of the class. Some were rolling their eyes at the fact that they were forced to listen to this, while others rolled their eyes at the fact they were in Mr. Pletsch's class. He was the fun one. As the students groaned at the remaining time, Rainbow turned around to see Soarin behind her. They were in nearly every class together. "You hate this too?" she whispered. "Yeah. Can't wait till lunch time, though. They're gonna serve sloppy joes!" Soarin quietly squealed. Rainbow chuckled. "You always did enjoy sloppy joes," she said. "Okay class, please take out your agenda books so you can write the homework assignment for tonight. Miss Dash, please turn around," Ms.Harshwhinny said, rolling her eyes. Rainbow did as told and took her agenda book out. "Page 386 numbers 1-15. I hope you copied these notes down, because you'll be needing them for homework," she said, and the whole class widened their eyes, their pupils shrinking. No one copied it. Everyone, as quickly as possible, grabbed their notebooks and copied some of the notes down. Two minutes later, the bell rung for next class. "See you all tomorrow!" Ms.Harshwinny said. The whole class groaned and sighed heavily as they gathered their things and headed out the door. "Miss Dash, it's time to go. My class is waiting outdoors,"Ms.Harshwinny said. "Just give me a minute! I'm almost done!" Rainbow said as she scribbled the notes down as fast as she could. "C'mon, Dash. We gotta walk to the gymnasium. We got three minutes!" Soarin said. "You go on without me! I'll catch up," she said, copying the last sentence down. "You two have five seconds to get out of my classroom, or you will be sent to the office," Ms.Harshwhinny said. "Done!"Rainbow shouted. She closed her notebook and started to grab her things. "Five.." she started. "Hold on a sec!" Rainbow said, bending down to get her books. "Four.." "C'mon Dash!" Soarin said. "Three.." "Okay! Let's go!"Rainbow said. She grabbed Soarin's hand and ran out of the classroom. "Woah!" Soarin said. Ms. Harshwinny stopped counting. "Crazy kids," she said,"Come in!" Soarin and Rainbow ran through the halls as fast as they could so they wouldn't be late for P.E. "Just think of the people as our competition!" Rainbow said loudly so Soarin could hear. "Only you would relate it to soccer,"Soarin said. Each swiftly passed the other students and teachers, some yelling at them not to run. "Ten seconds and we're done for, Dash!" Soarin yelled. "We can make it! I see the doors!" Rainbow said, running as fast as she could. Finally, with four seconds to spare, they were right in front of the gymnasium. As soon as they came in, the bell rang again, signaling that everyone should be in class. The P.E. teacher, Mr. Knight, looked at the two class mates. "You're lucky you made it this time,"he said. They both smiled and ran to the gym locker rooms. "Ugh! I simply cannot stand these uniforms! And these shorts are so baggy!" A voice that sounded like Rarity said. Rainbow walked to see her looking in the mirror. "We told you to buy the extra small one, Rares. Those small ones look lile the basketball team's shorts,"Rainbow said. "EEWW!" Rarity shrieked, and Rainbow chuckled. She liked messing with Rarity when it came to clothes. "It's okay, Rarity. I bought the small ones too. I think they look great on you!" Pinkie said, trying to cheer up Rarity. "Yeah, me too. Now stop exaggeratin' drama queen," Applejack said. Rarity rolled her eyes. "Whatever," Rarity said. "So, should we wait for Rainbow Dash and come out together?" Fluttershy asked the group of friends. "I don't see why not," Applejack said. "Yeah! Me neither! Come on, Dashie! you gotta get dressed!" Pinkie said. "Uhh," Rainbow said. "What? What's wrong?" Pinkie asked. "That's Soarin's nickname for her, darling," Rarity said. "But-" Pinkie started. She stared at her othhe fun-loving friend. "Awkward," Fluttershy said. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I came up with that!" Pinkie yelled. "I met you when we were ten, Pinkie," Rainbow said. "So?!" Pinkie asked. "I was friends with him since we were six. Therefore, he came up with the nickname," Rainbow said. "OH when I see that SON OF A-"she cut off by Applejack putting her hand on her lips.She looked at Rainbow and told her to go with her eyes. Rainbow went to her locker to get her clothes out. She then went into a stall to get dressed in. "Girls! Hurry up!" Mr. Knight said. Everyone came out of the locker rooms to start.