//------------------------------// // Discoveries (edited) // Story: Getting Back to Good // by FlufferNutters //------------------------------// Luna's office is dark as what little light enters it from the window on the doors and window behind her desk as Peanut Butter starts to stir from his sleep. He rubs his eyes and sits up groaning from waking up. As his senses start to kick in his door opens as Celestia walks in. Peanut Butter jumps, his body tense before relaxing and letting out a sigh. "Good morning Celestia." Peanut Butter mumbles. "Good morning to you too P.B.." "Where's Luna?" "Getting breakfast for you and her, after that she'll give you a tour of the school." "Why is that?" "Well you will be attending here." Peanut Butter looks away his eyes look blank and distant. "I don't know if that is a good idea, you've probably heard of my temper hell you saw it front row, it’s just that me being around other people might not be the wisest of ideas." "We all make mistakes P.B., you just have to learn from them." "You do have a point there I'm just unsure about it." "It will be fine, I'm surprised you opened up like you have so quickly." "Talking, yes, spilling the beans on my personal life, not even close." "Don't worry about that with time you might open up." "Don't get your hopes up." "You know, you sound like Sunset when I first took her in." "I do?" "Yes you do though you're more introverted than she was." "I have my reasons." "I wouldn't doubt it." "Things sure have changed since I left." "Well five years is a long time." "I guess so, I'm not sure if I can keep up." "Give it time." Celestia sips her tea as Luna enters and sees Celestia standing at the door. "Are you two having a nice chat?" Luna asks. "Yes we are." Peanut Butter nods as he goes silent. "Well I have to get ready for my meeting so I will see you two later." "See you later sister." Celestia leaves to her office and Luna enters hers and places two bags on her desk and another bag towards Peanut Butter. He looks into the bag and pulls out a blood glucose meter and a small notebook. He looks at Luna confused tilting his head to the side with a raised eyebrow. "You are to carry that with you and use it before and after any meal you have and write down the results in this book, do I make myself clear?" Luna asks. Peanut Butter nods as he takes out the meter and strips he looks at the picture and mimics what it looks like on the picture. He reads the instructions that came with it. As he reads his face starts to look fearful. "You know I don't like needles so why make me use one?!" Peanut Butter exclaims. "Its for your own safety I also asked if they had any that are painless and they did, remember what we did at your appointment?" "Yeah." "Try that with this." Luna turns the meter on and holds Peanut Butter's hand. He closes his eyes and turns his head as Luna sets the strip on his finger. "Just listen to my voice okay?" Luna says as she pushes the button. Peanut Butter braces himself, tensing himself up. "It's done." Luna says. Peanut Butter opens his eyes and blinks a bit. "That's it?" "Yes that was it." Luna writes in the notebook as Peanut Butter looks at his fingers. "Not even a mark." "Yep now make sure you don't mix up the numbers and write down what you ate too," Luna writes down what she got for Peanut Butter and shows it to him. "Just like this, okay?" "Okay, can I eat now?" "Yes you can, I'll give you a tour of the school after everyone is in class for next period." "Works for me." Luna gives Peanut Butter his breakfast, a breakfast sandwich and hash browns. He sees a pack of syrup and opens it before dipping his hash browns in it. Luna looks at him confused before she tries it herself. Peanut Butter smiles seeing her trying his idea. She bites into the hash brown and raises an eyebrow before having a smile on her face. Peanut Butter chuckles before he continues eating. Half an hour later they finish eating as the bell rings for the next class. "We'll leave when the bell rings again." Luna says as she wipes her hands clean. "Okay." Peanut Butter cleans his own hands off and does the test again and writes down the results. Luna smiles as he writes down the results. After he is finished they both stand up and leave the office. They enter the hallway as Peanut Butter notices how quiet it is. Luna guides him through the halls as Peanut Butter peeks into a couple classrooms through the door window. Luna sees this and smiles. "Curious aren't we?" Luna asks. Peanut Butter blushes and looks down. "Um, no, not at all." Luna chuckles at his obvious lie. "If you say so, where are we heading to?" "The gym." "Why?" “It’s closer and we can do the tour in one big circle.” Peanut Butter follows Luna to the gym until he sees a cabinet with trophies with pictures next to them and sees Sunset Shimmer in one of them for the track team. He looks curiously through the other pictures while Luna watches. His eyes go wide as he looks at a picture from years ago and sees a younger version of his father in a photo of a baseball team. "Something catch your eye?" Luna asks. "I didn't know my father went here." "What was his name?" "Home Run." Luna's heart skips a beat at the mention of his name. She manages to keep her composure before speaking. "I used to have class with him growing up, he was only here for about two years before moving away we were good friends." "What was he like back then?" "Sarcastic, laid back, kind, pretty irresponsible at times and knew when the gloves had to come off." "Sounds like him alright, mom told me that they traveled a lot after graduating, they were high school sweethearts from what she told me." "He always had a bit of adventure in him." "Yeah, I remember the random road trips we went on during the weekends we usually got ice cream at the end of it, I don't remember how many times we got lost mom would get mad at him for not asking for directions, he'd laugh it off and say that it's the journey that matters not the destination." "Sounds like him how about we continue with the tour before classes let out." "Yeah." Peanut Butter pulls himself away from the display and follows Luna to the gym. As they walk Luna explains how the school functions and all the clubs and after school programs there are. He smirks when she mentions a sparing club. She opens the gym doors and walks in with Peanut Butter behind her. He notices how big the gym is with the high ceiling and the length of the stadium. TA class is in session, Peanut Butter jumps as the sound of a whistle echos through out the room. Peanut Butter sees a large muscular man in blue shorts, a white t shirt, a blue baseball cap, and sneakers head in their direction. "Ah Vice Principal Luna, what brings you here?" The man asks. "I'm showing a new student around, his name is Peanut Butter but just call him P.B.." He looks at Peanut Butter and extends his arm to shake hands. Peanut Butter extends his as well and shakes it. "Nice to meet you P.B., I'm Iron Will but you can call me Mr.Will." "Nice to meet you Mr.Will." “So what do you do here?” “Well I teach the importance of fitness and I’m a motivational speaker on the side.” “I think I’m plenty fit.” “Is that so?” “Yeah, Manehatten was my playground, running from rooftop to rooftop, running ten blocks in less than five minutes, and I know how to fight.” “Impressive, when you’re in my class care to put some meat to those bones?” “Would be glad to.” "I’m looking forward to it, I'll let you two get back to your tour." Mr.Will goes back to his class before Luna and Peanut Butter leave the gym. They make their way to the second floor of the school as they make their way past the science lab as Peanut Butter looks through the window on the door. He sees a man in a mismatched outfit with a white goatee and slicked back hair mixing liquids together before ducking away as not to be seen. As he catches up to Luna the door opens as the man looks out and sees them. "Ah so there's the curious mind looking into my classroom." He exclaims. Luna turns around. "Why hello Mr.Discord, I'm just showing around a new student around, his name is Peanut Butter but you can call him P.B.." "Nice to meet you P.B., hopefully I'll see you in my class, you look like a curious person who likes to test and experiment, I'll tell you that you'll find lots of that in my class just last week I accidentally made the whole second floor smell of old cheese during an experiment it was quite the laugh." He and Peanut Butter shake hands. "Even though it took over three hours to get rid of the smell." Luna mentions. "I said I was sorry." "We need to finish up the tour so we will see you later." "Alright then, it was nice meeting you P.B. maybe our next encounter will be in my classroom." "It was nice meeting you too Mr.Discord." Luna and Peanut Butter make their way back down to Luna's office and enter it. Peanut Butter sits down on the couch as Luna sits on her chair behind her desk. "So what did you think?" Luna asks. "Its not bad, but it'll take some getting used to." "That's to be expected I have a few things to take care of, in the meantime I want you to stay in here and look over the handbook for the school rules." Luna hands Peanut Butter a small booklet to him. Peanut Butter rolls his eyes and opens it. Luna sighs at his expression before she leaves. As she shuts the door she closes her eyes and pinches the bridge of her nose before going to see Celestia. Her mind races with questions and memories. She makes her way to Celestia's office and knocks. "Come in." Celestia acknowledges. Luna opens the door and enters shutting the door doing so. Her expression is tense, though frantic at the same time. Celestia picks up on this and gets her kettle and two cups of tea. "Why didn't you tell me?" Luna asks. "Tell you what?" "That Peanut Butter is Home Run's son." Celestia stays silent. "How could you not tell me?" Celestia looks away still in silence the look on her face regretful. "Say something Tia, why didn't you tell me?" "Because I know you would react like this if I did tell you you're still not over him after all these years, you know well that we both were friends with him even now I still miss him every once in a while." "Is this why you gave Peanut Butter a choice?, because of Home Run?" Celestia nods as she pours the water into the cups and puts the tea bags in the cups. Luna stays silent as she takes the cup and sips it. She is more confused and upset now than she was only a minute ago. She stares at her tea as her mind fades back to her first meeting with Home Run.         The halls are filled with the sounds of conversations of students as classes switch for next period. A young woman with blue hair pulled back in a pony tail and in a over sized dark blue jacket with jeans and white sneakers rushes through the hall to get to her next class. As she runs she sneezes before crashing into someone causing them to both fall down. She looks to see a scrawny young man with dirty blond hair and hazel eyes wearing ripped jeans, a flannel jacket with blue plad on it, sneakers and a Purple Lloyd concert shirt on. "I'm so sorry about that, I'm just in a rush to class and I wasn't looking where I was going." Luna flusters trying to apologize as she stumbles on her words. The boy gets up and offers his hand to help Luna up. She blushes slightly as she takes his hand and gets up. "It's okay, I was in a rush too I'm new here so I got lost trying to find my class, my name is Home Run by the way." Home Run says as he picks up his book bag. "My name is Luna nice to meet you, what class are you looking for?" "Biology." "You're going to go down the hall and make a right, go up the stairs and it's the first door on your left." "Thank you so much Luna I have to get going, hope to see you later we should really hang out sometime." "Yes we should, see you later Home Run it was nice meeting you." "Nice meeting you too." As Home Run makes his way through the crowd. Luna smiles and blushes before picking up her things and heads to her next class thinking about him and smiling. As the memory fades out she smiles slightly. The warmth of the nostalgia make her feel better. "Having fond memories?" Celestia asks softly. "Yes, I just don't know for certain if I can ever move on Home Run was, different than the other guys that have hit on me or asked me out before and since." "Yes he was different, I can remember how buzzed up the school was when you two became an item." Luna blushes. "When I heard he moved back here I was happy, but when I heard he married and had kids my heart sank now that he's been gone for five years the feeling is still there, but it is less heavy each time." "At least it's healing, have you tried meeting new people?, I gave you names of some sites to help you." "I don't like to use those Tia and you know that, with P.B. in the picture it will be less possible." "The new history teacher looks cute, maybe you can ask him to join you for tea or coffee after classes." "He is cute but I don't know, I just feel that part of me still isn't ready." "I understand but just don't wait too long." "I know." As they sip their tea they turn their attention to the door after a loud crash can be heard outside the door followed by shouting. Luna and Celestia open the door to find Blue Blood on top of Peanut Butter punching him with his fist. They can see Peanut Butter covering his face with his arms. Just as Celestia and Luna go to pull Blue Blood off of him Peanut Butter raises one of his legs. "Man check!" Peanut Butter shouts before landing a blow to Blue Blood's groin. Blue Blood tenses up as Peanut Butter raises both legs and brings them close to him and kicks Blue Blood in the gut to get him off of him. He turns around and gets up stammering at first. Luna tends to Peanut Butter by helping him sit down her eyes widen for a second before relaxing as she looks him over. "Are you alright?" Luna asks. "Yeah, just a couple of bruises and a few scratches, I’ll be fine though." "I thought I told you to stay in my office." "I was thirsty and went to get a drink of water and come back in, as I was about to come in he showed up and jumped me, I swear." Luna looks at the secretary. "Is this true?" Luna asks. "Yes, he told me what he was doing and did just that." Luna sighs and helps Celestia with Blue Blood. Blue Blood gets back up and looks at Peanut Butter with an angry expression on his face. "This isn't over street rat, you hear me?" Blue Blood threatens. "I'll be waiting Blue Balls." “Enough, both of you.” Celestia scolds. Luna looks at Peanut Butter as she get Blue Blood on his feet. "Don't say anything P.B.." Peanut Butter looks away pouting as Blue Blood goes into Celestia's office. Luna returns and checks Peanut Butter over again before taking him back into her office. "Were you really getting water?" "Yes I was, is that so wrong?" "It resulted in a fight when you did." "Not my fault Blue Balls picked a fight with me." "Still you should be more careful." "Fine I will, but don't think I'm defenseless all the time." Peanut Butter lays on the couch and looks away. Luna sighs and goes to her desk and does work while looking at Peanut Butter occasionally as he drifts off to sleep. She smiles seeing him sleep so peacefully. "Don't worry Home Run. He's in good hands now." Luna whispers to herself before she continues looking through forms and emails.