Scootaloo left the bathroom, still a little upset at her friends for how they acted in lunch. As she was heading to gym she bumped into someone.
"Hey, watch where your going crusader!", Diamond Tiara yelled back. Scootaloo just got up and walked away. Diamond look back at her, shocked. "Um aren't you gonna say anything back, ya know there's no fun in being mean if you don't get a fight", she said.
"I'm not in the mood for your antics, Diamond", she said flatly. With that she was gone, leaving Diamond Tiara in awe.
"Something's up", she whispered to herself,"and im gonna find out what." She went to look for the other crusaders to shed some light in this. No one but Silver Spoon and herself knew that Diamond Tiara trully considered the crusaders as her friends and she wasn't going to let one of her friends be upset if it wasn't her doing.
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Diamond and Silver ran towards Sweetie Belle's locker, figuring that she would be easier to talk to than Applebloom. When they saw her purple and pink head, they smiled as the went to talk to her.
"HEY SWEETIE BELLE, ITS SO NICE TO SEE YOU, ARE THOSE NEW BOOTS!", Silver yelled in a rather flat, awkward tone.
"Um...yeah...why are you yelling?", Sweetie asked. Diamond did a facepalm.
"OH IM JUST TRYING TO BE NICE TO MY GOOOO-"
"She has issues", Diamond answered quietly after elbowing Silver in the stomach. "Anyways, we were wondering if you could tell us what's wrong with Scootaloo", she said as perky as possible.
"Why? So you can pick on her for it, yeaaaaah...no", Sweetie said and turned to walk away. All of a sudden, Diamond pulled her hand.
"Please we want to help, I promise we won't try to use it against her", she pleaded. Sweetie looked at her as if to say 'really' and tried to wiggle out of her grasp."Please", she pleaded again.
"Fine. But if you hurt her, my sister will personally come to your house and slap you", she warned. She told them everything that happened in lunch and how they got her upset, both of them listening carefully.
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Scoots was in gym getting ready to run some laps. She had almost completely forgotten about everything at the cafeteria and even questioned why she was mad at her friends. But that sense of security only lasted about 30 seconds. Suddenly Rumble walked in the gym, late of course, and started jogging in place trying to warm up to run the laps. Scootaloo stared.
"Wow", she said in awe as he started practice running. He was faster than he seemed. He eventually stopped and got some water. He then went to sit next to Scoots. He really saw her as his only friend so far. But it was his first day, he didn't expect to showered by people.
"Hey Scoots!" He said smiling sheepishly. She looked at him, he was always funny when he seemed nervous.
"Hey Rumble, you were pretty fast out there. Good job!", she managed to say after a while.
"Aww that was just my warm up, get ready for the real deal in a bit! Bet I can beat you!" He challenged proudly.
"Oh really? You are so on!", she replied. They both ran to the starting line ,with everyone else of course, and took off with the blow of a whistle. Even though Rumble started off faster, she eventually caught up with him in their second to last lap.
"Hey Rumble! Try to keep up", she yelled teasingly as she zoomed past him. He sped up and was soon ahead of her.
They finished around roughly the same time, both out of breath and tired.
"See told ya I *pant* could beat *pant* you!", he said between breathes.
"No way *pant* I beat you! *pant* by a landslide!", she replied firmly. She then looked at him as he gulped down half a bottle of water and handed her one as well. She took it and drank some herself. "Well can't we just comprise and say that we tied?", she asked.
He looked around for about a second before turning back."How about no...?", he joked. Scootaloo lightly punched him in the arm. "Hey calm down warrior, I was just kidding", he said. He stared at her for a bit, she did so too. She then stopped and looked away as she felt herself turn bright red.
"You weren't bad out there rookie" she said finally. This kinda surprised him, but he smiled anyway.
"Neither were you". And with that he got his stuff and went to the showers. Scootaloo watched him until he disappeared into the boys locker room.
Maybe she was crushing....No she couldn't be, she still didn't know him enough she assured herself. Besides he was probably just being a good sport, right? Nothing romantic there, right? 'We're just friends, we are just friends' she thought to her self.
She sighed "Just Friends" she said quietly.