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// 2. Bullies, Books, and Betrayal  
// Story: Grief: A Neverending Pain 
// by Jazz 
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	As the hours ticked by after classes, it was finally lunch time. Nightfall sat down at her table and ate her apple at her outside table when Lightning Shot came to sit down and eat his sandwich next to her. His large wings hugged Nightfall as she kissed him on the cheek and ate her apple next to him. "So, I have a surprise for you tonight," he said. He grinned as he popped a pretzel into his mouth, crunching it viciously in his mouth. 
"I can't wait," Nightfall said as she ate her sandwich after her apple and smirked. Suddenly, a mysterious earth pony with a white coat and a brown mane appeared. Nightfall had never seen him before, but way back when, Lightning Shot and him were friends, and Lightning knew him very well. It was Jean Thread who came up.
"Hello, everypony," he said putting his arms around the necks of Nightfall and Lightning Shot. "Eating lunch with this... strange goth bitch, are we now, Lightning?"
"She's my marefriend, Jean. Leave us alone," he said, making Nightfall blush. He was so hot when he stood up for her.
"Oh, really? Well, I guess I'd better not interrupt your precious date. We wouldn't want that now would we?" he smirked as he left them alone.
"Who was that?" Nightfall asked Lightning Shot as the colt walked away. She rubbed her mane softly from where Jean's front hoof had been.
"Jean Thread. I used to be friends with him in Elementry," he said, pointing a hoof across the street to where the elementary school, Oak Wood Elementary School stood firmly on the ground. In fact, it was probably still lunch time over there, but fillies and foals were meant to stay inside while eating (security policy) their lunch of whatever so happened they were eating at that time, so Nightfall could never tell, since they kept switching lunch times. "He was alright in fourth grade, but he was a bad influence on me. My parents didn't like him- especially my mother. I hung out with him until the end of fifth grade where he beat up a younger foal. Anyways, that was a while ago."
"Oh. I see," Nightfall said plainly. She took another bite of her sandwich when suddenly, the bell rang and it was time to go back inside. Nightfall and Lightning Shot held hooves while walking through the halls to History class. On the metal door read: Professor Tock History Room 48 which had the couple walk into the correct class. They sat down at their desks, pulling out their homework so when it was time to turn it in, Professor Tock would have ease collecting it. Professor Tock was a pegasus pony with a crimson coat and a green mane.
"Alright class, please have your books on your desks, ready to be opened and read!" she said fairly audible. Professor Tock had a loud voice she often used even louder when students misbehaved.
Nightfall took a quick glance at the chalkboard and sighed.  The Wonderbolts! Let's see if you can use your mind to it! was scribbled down on the chalkboard. Nightfall opened up her history book on page 52 to exam Spitfire in her Wonderbolts outfit. "Can anypony tell me," Professor Tock continued, "Why Wonderbolts are so important?"
Cookie Crumble raised his long, nimble hoof. Once called on, he answered, "To be celebrities and perform shows for Equestria! Oh, and to represent Cloudsdale along with the pegasi."
"False, yet correct. Yes, Nightfall?"
"Because without them, Princess Celestia wouldn't have enough strength to run the day and night. Once Princess Luna was banished, the Wonderbolts helped Princess Celestia with her duties as Princess. Yes, as princess she should have been able to handle it, but the emotion of the thousand year banishment held her back. Without the Wonderbolts, Equestria, let alone Princess Celestia, would be a joke! A fairy tale. A  bedtime story," Nightfall answered, leaving half the class in good shock.
"Very well answered, Nightfall. A B+ for good effort, but still much more to earn today! So, please open your books to page 52 and raise a hoof for who would like to read first. Yes you, Miss Dazzle. Please read from the first paragraph. After that, Mr. Thread, you may read. I suppose then Lightning Shot, Diamond Cloud and then Nightfall, would you care to read? Excellent! Star student at the end of the day will receive... a day off of History Class!" Professor Tock said, nodding over to Nightfall. Nightfall had already missed alot of History Class, but hopefully she'd have Monday off.
As the class read about the Wonderbolts, Professor Tock came around quite a bit to collect homework and grading it at her desk. Monday they would receive their grades, since today was Friday. Suddenly, the bell rang and the class stormed out of their seats, some dashing to the chalkboard to reveal Nightfall's name once more. "Bitch's probably fooled him with money or something," Diamond Cloud whispered to Dazzle.
The class left and Nightfall went to the bathroom to wash her hooves from the chalk on her hooves. "Well, well, well... Look who's all alone," Dazzle Sun grinned.
"Hey, Dazzle. Hey, Diamond Cloud. May I help you?" Nightfall asked, getting ready for English Class.
"I don't know. Have my blade tell you," Diamond said, nodding to Dazzle when she understood to swiftly attack Nightfall. She pinned her to the wall as Diamond Cloud began to inch the blade closer to Nightfall's left wing. She began plucking feathers of Nightfall's wing, her screams inaudible by Dazzle's hoof in front of her muzzle.
Nightfall could only buck the two in the face to escape. But when the lights went black, Nightfall felt a heavy tug on her mane, tail, hooves, and wings.