//------------------------------// // Schoolwork // Story: The lovely life of Emerald Isle // by SweetyBelleluvsu //------------------------------// Emerald and Chaos were sitting in the living room of Emerald’s house; they were working on schoolwork. Ever since Emerald met Chaos, she had been excelling in all of her classes; he just managed to make things easier. Today Emerald was working on the first homework assignment of eleventh grade. Chaos, who was in twelfth grade, was helping. “Are you sure that’s what happened?” Emerald asked. “I’m positive!” Chaos said, “Princess Celestia accidentally threw a banana peel at the king of Saddle Arabia and he thought it was on purpose! I’m telling you, that’s what started the war!” “That’s utter nonsense!” Emerald said for she didn’t believe him one bit, “There is no way that the king of Saddle Arabia would do that! They are trained to be sophisticated, poised, and in control of their emotions; it has been a tradition for hundreds of years!” “Oh yea,” Chaos said as he wrote down some answers to some of his problems, “How do you know that?” “Well,” Emerald said in a bored tone, “When your Aunt gives you the entire collection of, “The Entirety of the Laws and Facts about Saddle Arabia in Ten volumes” You are expected to read it all.” “Ouch,” Chaos winced, “That sounds like so much fun.” “You got that right!” Emerald said as she put her papers in her finished folder, “It was no fun reading that instead of my science book.” “Yea,” Chaos agreed, “But just think, you will be graduating next year; you get to study whatever you want!” “Not next year,” Emerald contradicted, “This year. I don’t care if I don’t have to take school through the summer.” “What-chya-doin?” Red Raven said as she came through the door. Raven was Emeralds seven year old sister. She was a white Pegasus with a red mane and blue eyes. “Not much,” Emerald said as she grabbed her coffee before Raven could get to it, “You did your homework?” “Yep,” Raven said as she sat down, “If you have a minute, can you draw me a dress I can color in?” “Let me see your paper,” Emerald said as she was handed paper and a pen, “Now, imagine that this is a white dress, what colors would you put for accents for a blue pony.” “Wow,” Raven said, “I thought you would give me something hard!” Raven took the picture to her room to work on it later. “Do you think that you could help me fly again?” “Let me guess,” Emerald said, “Mom is working at the opera and dad is on weather patrol?” “Yep,” Raven said with a grin, “You’re good!” “Alright,” Emerald said as she took some papers out of a folder, “I’ll help as soon as Chaos here finishes his homework.” “I don’t get it!” He exclaimed, “How do you do this?!” “What,” Emerald asked, “Number ten?” “Yes!” Chaos exclaimed, “I don’t get it!” “I thought you were supposed to do this,” Emerald said as she took the paper, worked the problem, and got the correct answer. “How-, “Chaos stuttered, “How did- how did- how did you do that?!” “Like this!” Emerald showed him, three times. “Oh,” Chaos said, “I see. I feel stupid now. Hey! That’s how you can get done this year! I can do my homework here or you can do your homework at my place and then you can get both grades done at once!” “Hey,” Emerald said considering the idea, “That might work! I will have to ask mom though, you know, to get her approval.” “He’s fine with it!” Raven interrupted, “Can you help me now?” “Raven!” Emerald scolded, “Fine, fine. Here, take this book and go study.” “Study?!” Raven said disgustedly, “I would rather go eat sand.” “Then why don’t you do that?” Emerald asked getting a stern look from Raven. “I get the hint,” Raven said as she headed out of the room, “I’ll go work on the picture now.” Emerald and Chaos decided to work on the next few lessons; it’s not like they had anything else to do. They managed to get three days ahead when it was time for Chaos to go home for dinner. When he left Emerald decided to work on diner. They were having mashed potatoes, hay-steak, and green beans. As Emerald was frying the hay-steak and Raven was setting the table Rumble came into the house. “Daddy!” Raven exclaimed as she ran to hug her father, dropping the silver-wear in the process. “Hey Raven!” Rumble said as he picked her up, “How was my favorite seven year old filly?” “Awesome now that your home,” Raven said as Rumble put her back down, “Can you help me fly after dinner?” “Of course I will!” Rumble said to Raven, “But we need to get dinner ready first.” Rumble told Emerald to work on the potatoes and green beans while he did the hay-steak. Raven put the glasses on the table and filled them with water. When Rumble and Emerald put the food on the table, Sweetie made it home. “My, my!” Sweetie exclaimed when she saw the food ready, “Why do you guys need me? It looks like you can handle it here.” “Aw mommy,” Raven exclaimed as she went to hug her mom, “We do need you around here; How am I supposed to do my math when Chaos and Emerald are concocting plans to get Emerald out of school a year early?!” “Emerald?” Sweetie asked, “Is this true?” “Well,” Emerald hesitated, “We did figure that if we do our schoolwork and homework together I am learning both at the same time.” “Well,” Sweetie said as she put Raven down, “I don’t see why you can’t do it together. As far as I know it works for you.” “You mean it?” Emerald gasped, “We can do our schoolwork together every day?” “I don’t see why not,” Sweetie said as they all sat down, “As long as Twilight and Discord agree, you may. But remember, you have to promise not to get sidetrack.” “Oh,” Emerald exclaimed, “We will mom! We managed to get ahead three days.” “Alright,” Sweetie said as she started serving up food, “If you manage to do two a day, you can be done by Christmas!” Emerald was excited, she was going to be doing school with her best friend. She knew that this would be an awesome thing.