I started to feel a wave of anxiety hit me as she turned around. "Oh, uh, hi." she said. The second she began speaking, I felt my brain go into overdrive as many thoughts ran through my head.
‘Oh my God, she's actually talking! Woah, take it easy, Blitz. Why are you freaking out about this?’
"Um...do I know you?" she asked with a confused expression on her face.
‘Crap. What do I say? I don't wanna make this weird, because this is already good, and I don't wanna screw up in making friends here!’
“Uh... no." I began, "I-I'm new here." I look at her, waiting for a response. She gives me an odd look, but doesn’t say anything. We walked together in silence awkwardly for a couple of seconds, before I decided to continue speaking.
"R-Rainbow Blitz." I quietly said as we slowly moved up to the doors.
“Huh? Can you speak up? I didn’t catch that.” She said to me.
"My name is... Rainbow Blitz." I said, more clearly this time. For whatever reason, the name caused her to smile a bit.
"Oh, cool! My name's Rainbow Dash!" she said.
'Really? Rainbow Dash? That seems pretty cool, you know, how we have the same first names... well, anyways...'
"Sweet." I said. "L-Like the name." I then gave her a small smile on the outside. On the inside, however I was slapping myself for saying the wrong thing. It wasn't until later that I realized that my face was red the entire time. She didn't seem bothered by it, though, which was good.
"Thanks." she said. "Your name is cool, too." I blushed a little harder, but I felt pretty confident regardless.
“Do you mind if I walk with you, Dash?” I asked her.
She shrugged her shoulders and said, “Fine with me.”
We walked together in silence, giving me a chance to try to get my blushing under control, and eventually entered the cafeteria, which was apparently where we were supposed to wait until all of the buses had arrived. After we had grabbed a table and sat down, Dash finally began talking again.
"So, uh, where did you come from?" she asked me.
"Fillywood." I said.
Rainbow nodded. "Just changed houses?"
My eyes widened when she asked that. "Uh..." I said, losing myself in trying to say words. It was far more complicated than just changing houses… it was because my parents were killed. Then again, should I really tell her that? I thought for a moment, then decided not to mention my parents.
"Well…technically yes." I said nervously. Right after I said that, Rainbow started to frown. I'm pretty sure that she knew something was up.
"What do you mean by ‘technically’?" she asked. I remained silent for a moment, hoping that I wouldn’t have to tell her about my parents.
"Did... something bad happen?" she pressed. "I mean, it'll be alright if you say it." At that point, I sighed. I could already tell that she wasn’t going to stop questioning me until I told her, so I decided to just get it over with. I took a deep breath, and told Rainbow my story.
"Yes, Rainbow Dash, something did happen. Y’see, back when I was living in Fillywood, I lived with my parents. They were great, always taking care of me, keeping up with my activities, that sort of thing.” I began. Rainbow Dash nodded her head, but didn’t say anything. I continued. “But one night, while I was walking home from a party a few blocks away with them…things went wrong.”
“Wrong? How so?” she asked.
“It all happened so suddenly… it's a little hard to remember everything, but… I heard shots ring out. Three shots. Next thing I knew, my parents were falling towards the curb headfirst. After recovering from my initial shock of seeing them fall over like that, I knelt down and looked at them. They both had bullet holes in their skulls. I turned towards the direction that the bullets appeared to have come from, and that was when I saw him. The killer.”
Rainbow Dash’s eyes grew wide. “What did he look like?” she asked worriedly.
“I... I do. The porch light was on, which showed, only for two seconds, the bastard himself. He had his silver pistol, had a black hoodie, and his face, well, all I could see was his silver earrings and his one green eye. It gave me chills just looking at him. I think he would’ve fired again at me, but right before he could do so, the sound of a siren sounded off in the night. The second he heard that siren, he immediately turned around and ran as fast as he could down the road behind him, disappearing into the darkness almost instantly. Soon after he fled, a police car arrived where I was standing. The officer inside the car took one look at the scene, and immediately called for backup over his CB radio. After that, he said to me, ‘Kid, what happened here?’"
I coughed a bit. "I could barely speak; I was still trying to get over the shock of seeing my parents shot. After a moment, though, I managed to tell him that a man in black shot both of my parents, and told him that the man had run away down Bondrop Avenue after hearing the siren. After I had managed to tell him this, the sound of several more sirens rang out through the night. The cop told me that an ambulance was on its way, and told me that they would get to the bottom of this before driving down Bondrop in pursuit of the killer..." I said before stopping for a second. At this point, I could feel tears beginning to build up in my eyes. I tried my hardest to hold them back before I continued to speak,
"After that, I was brought to the police station, where I was asked if I had any family I could stay with. I told him that I could stay with my older brother. He's a banker and lived by himself, but ever since the incident, I’ve been living with him." I laid my head on my arms, which were now sprawled across the table. I then looked up at Rainbow Dash, who had a look of complete shock on her face. Her mouth was gaped wide open, her eyes were wider than dinner plates, and she was blinking a lot, as if she had something in her eye. After roughly ten seconds, she finally managed to speak.
"Holy crap, dude…" Dash said somewhat guiltily. "I'm…I’m so sorry, I made you say all that, Blitz... I get a little too nosy sometimes, and… I’m sorry I had you recount all of that…"
I looked at her. ‘Better not make her feel guilty over this’ I thought.
"It's alright. Life is going good right now, and hopefully still will be in this school. Don’t worry about it, Dash." I told her. Once I said that to her, she seemed to relax a bit more. She still looked a bit tense and shocked, but at least she didn’t look guilty anymore. With that, I opened up my schedule to see what classes I had. Before I could check, however, Rainbow Dash snatched the schedule out of my hands.
“Hey!” I exclaimed to her. She didn’t notice, as she was too focused on my schedule to reply. Just before I could reach over and grab it back, she suddenly put it back in my hands.
"You have me in English, gym, and music tech!" she exclaimed. I instantly smiled, then wanted to hide it so I wouldn’t scare her or creep her out or anything. But on the inside, I was pretty excited. ‘Seriously, I have her for three classes?! AWESOME!’
"Really?" I asked her. She nodded before pulling her schedule out of her backpack.
"See?" she said, showing me her schedule. And yes, she was correct. English, gym, and music tech. So, I have her like four periods, or half the day (English takes two periods)! "This is gonna be awesome! You can meet some of my friends, too!" she exclaimed. Friends? Perhaps this might be a good start of getting friends, after all.
"What other friends?" I asked. "Are they nice? They aren't, uh, people like... Rush? You know him, right?" I was pretty sure that this girl, who I'm pretty sure was an athlete of some kind, knew who this guy was.
She shook her head. "No WAY! They are nothing like Rush Down!" she exclaimed. I asked her if this guy had the freckles, the buff look, and the rest of details. She nodded. "That's him. Yeah, let's just say this guy isn't exactly my friend."
I tilted my head. "Were you his friend before?" I asked. She immediately frowned at me, crossed her arms, and refused to say a word. I could take a hint, and didn’t press the matter any further. The teachers in the cafeteria then told us to go to our class, and we all got up and went. I walked towards my locker, where I discovered that Dash is my locker buddy! Er, neighbor, I should say.
As I prepared for my first period classes, I heard the sound of Dash sighing next to me. I turned my head towards her and saw that she was already finished preparing and was staring at me, apparently waiting for me to finish. When she saw me looking back at her, she spoke.
"Listen, sorry if I got rude there." she apologized. "It's just... Rush isn't really nice and he’s really not a cool guy. At first, I thought he was, but now, not even close..." she said. She seemed to be keeping kinda vague about the whole thing, and part of me wanted to ask her for an elaboration, but I decided not to risk it, instead just nodding at her. She nodded back, before heading off to her first class. Soon afterwards, I followed suit, arriving at my first class: Science. It was decent. I got introduced, sat next to somebody, and did what the teacher said. Nothing special, but still leagues above the bus ride that morning. After that was done, it was time for English class. One of the classes Dash and I shared.
I walked in the classroom with my English textbook and folder. I walked up to my teacher, Mr. Ink. I asked him where I can sit. There was eight round tables in the classroom, each having four students, and there were three tables with a spot not used. He pointed at the table in the corner. "You can sit there." he said. "Welcome to English, Mr. Blitz."
I nodded and walked to the table. Once I had arrived, I discovered that this was the same table that Rainbow Dash sat at! Lucky? Certainly. I sat down in the chair that was vacant. "Sup?" I asked Rainbow.
She did a slight wave. As I sat down, I took a look at the other students at the table. To my left was a girl who looked like a cowgirl. She wore a cowboy hat, blonde hair with a long ponytail, and was wearing an outfit that just screamed ‘cowgirl’. The girl to my right, on the other hand, looked like the polar opposite. She had violet hair, and looked very stylish in her outfit, which consisted of a simple looking shirt and a purple skirt that extended to her knees. She seemed to be a bit more careful with her appearance than the cowgirl, considering that she was currently holding a mirror and putting on lipstick. We made for quite an interesting group, no doubt.
"Hey, Blitz." Dash said. "Welcome to English. How was science?" I shrugged.
"Decent." I said. Really was, to be honest.
Soon after I said that, the cowgirl tipped her hat. "Who's this round-em-upper?" she said in a legit Southern accent.
"Rainbow Blitz." I said. Once I said it, however, I noticed that Rainbow Dash was going to tell her for me. The cowgirl extended her hand out for a handshake, which felt awkward.
"Name’s Applejack!" she said, giving me a half-smile. "How do ya do?" I simply shrugged.
"Fine. I'm just a newbie here. You know, just got here and stuff." I replied. I didn't wanna talk about why I moved here again. It was such a painful memory for me, like a nightmare that was in reality; one that I could never escape. It's the entire reason why I was here, and that is not a happy memory to say out loud. I nearly cried when I told Dash, so I decided to just tell these girls that I just moved. "Just moved here." I told them.
"Ah." she said. "Well, welcome to the herd- uh, I mean group!" I chuckled a little bit, then turned to the diva. Surprisingly, she was still putting on her lipstick. Applejack introduced me to her. "And this here is Rarity."
Once her name had been uttered, Rarity finished her with her lipstick. She put it away, then looked up at me. She gave a small wave. "How do you do, darling?" she said. "Your name is, uh, Rainbow Ritz, right?"
I shook my head. "Blitz. Rainbow Blitz." I said.
“Blitz. Right. Sorry, Rainbow Blitz, I’m not the best with names, I’m afraid." Rarity said somewhat sheepishly.
I shrugged my shoulders. “It’s fine. Are you Rarity?" I asked her.
She nodded. "The one and only! The fashion diva of the school!" she said.
"And the drama queen." Applejack said with a slight grin.
"I am not!" Rarity said in a huff. "I... oh, never mind. I'm not going to start this again."
"I'm just kiddin' around, Rarity." Applejack said with a laugh before turning towards me, "Don't worry, Blitz. She's a nice person." Rarity nodded.
"We all are!" Dash said. "You'll do just fine as a friend of ours." I then paid attention to the teacher, who was starting to get class up and ready.
"Alright, class!" Mr. Ink shouted. "Let's get started here!"
We then started to talk about how our weekend was, he introduced me to the class, and I said some things about myself, like my profile on SoundCloud. After that was done, we started to talk about a project, where we were to write a story of some sort. A short story with teens involved, with ourselves as the main character. It doesn't matter what genre the story is, but he wanted it to be well-written. Now, these guys have learned a lot about story developing, but I didn't. However, I did know how to write stories since I did write some stories back then, and the actual good people liked it. The ‘cool people’, not so much.
So, I prepared my story idea. I was going to write a story called 'Depressed and Alone', which I planned to be about a teen suffering from depression in his life. I planned for it to be morbid, but very emotional, and heartwarming at the end. I felt I knew enough about the subject to pull it off. I was sure Mr. Ink would like it. After I finished planning my story out, I asked Dash what she was going to write, but she hasn't decided yet. Applejack said that she was going to write a book inspired by 'The Longest Ride' or something like that, and Rarity was going to write a 'better Twilight' story.
I started to write my first draft down. Rainbow was still scratching her head throughout, unsure of what to write. It wasn’t until I was two pages in that she got an idea.
“I GOT IT!” She shouted out, startling everyone in the classroom. Mr. Ink looked up from the papers he was looking over, and said, “Ms. Dash, don’t yell in class.” Rainbow Dash blushed nervously, and then lowered her voice as she told us her idea.
"Rock For All!" she said excitedly. "It’s a story about a guitarist! That's simply amazing!" she said giddily. For some reason, AppleJack and Rarity rolled their eyes after Rainbow stated her idea. I have no idea why. I mean, it sounded neat to me. Regardless, Rainbow Dash either didn’t notice or just didn’t care, and immediately started writing her idea down.
The time I spent writing flew by, and before I knew it, the bell rang, ending 3rd period. We had to move out to the next period, which was... Gym. Great, just great. Well, Dash was in gym; hopefully she could make it tolerable. Yeah, I'm athletic and stuff, but gym has always been a sickle to the neck for me. I sighed, crossed my fingers, and walked down to the gym, hoping that Dash’s presence would make the class go by quickly…