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// Ch. 10 Notes and a way to amend 
// Story: School! Flying! Falling! Goofing! 
// by Lazydrill 
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Rainbow Dash stood in front of you, one eyebrow raised as she was looking confused at you as you kept staring into her eyes. She groaned in annoyance and broke eye contact with you, taking the seat directly to your right. As Rainbow Dash sat down, you gathered your senses, and shook your head lightly from side to side. You straightened yourself on your chair and turned your muzzle to the front of the class, only to be greeted by a white small ball as it hit the tip of your nose, and landed onto your desk. Looking around, you could not identify the pony that could have thrown it.

Glancing down to the little ball, you noticed directly that it was no ball, but a crushed white paper. You picked it up with both of your hooves, curious, you unfolded the piece of paper, which was empty. Confused, you turned the paper around, and found that a question was written on it.



Do you like Rainbow Dash? Y/N  
-S

  

You narrowed your eyes a bit at the question, knowing who the pony was that wrote it. You pulled your bag up and lay it onto your desk. Opening its flap, you began digging with your hooves through the still, in magical binders, unopened books, searching for a quill to write with. Not feeling one with your hooves, you dug with your muzzle into the bag, trying to look through the disaster that was the inside of your bag, it was something where the god of chaos would be proud of.

As you rummaged through your bag, you could hear a soft snickering coming from outside of the bag. Ignoring it, you dug a bit further with your muzzle, and found a worn out and damaged, but still usable, quill. Pulling yourself out of the bag, you dug in with your right hoof to the spot where you found the quill. Finding the point of the quill, you pulled it out and were greeted by an age old looking feather. Smiling to yourself, you brought the quill towards the crumbled paper, and scoffed at the feather as you began to write the first letter, and it broke in half.

Looking at the top half of the quill, it hung by the smallest bit onto the bottom part. Bringing you left hoof to the top half, you touched it very lightly, and sighed as the top part broke off completely and dwindled down to the cloudy floor next to your seat. Glancing down to the grounded feather, you heard soft snickering coming from next to you. Looking next to you, Rainbow Dash was sitting there with her chin on her crossed front legs which were laying on her desk. Her face not as much angry, she was not even looking at you, she looked bored. Although, not entirely at the same time.

"What are you looking at?"

You jumped slightly at the sudden voice. Glancing back to Rainbow Dash's face, you noticed her narrowed eyes looking you over.

"I asked you, what are you looking at?" she fumed again.

"N-nothing, Rainbow Dash," you said as you turned your muzzle away, and back to the paper in front of you.

Rainbow Dash murmured something through her teeth as she placed her chin back onto her front legs. You couldn't understand what she said, so you shrugged it off. Although, curiosity remained about what she probably would have said.

Focusing back at the question that was laying in front of you, you took the broken quill, and made a few, thick, circles around the 'N', before crumbling the paper back into a ball, and threw it to the mare in front of you.

The ball of paper hit the mare on the head, and fell onto the table. The mare in front of you gave you a small glare, to which you glared back at her with a smirk. Somehow though, that got a small chuckle out of Rainbow Dash next to you. Glancing next to you towards Rainbow Dash, you raised an eyebrow at her chuckle. She looked back to you and narrowed her eyes, "Stop looking at me," she said threateningly.

Complying, you turned your muzzle away from her again and back to the mare in front of you, who was writing on the paper, with Lightning glancing at it as well, while whispering into her friends ear. Not soon after the whispering began, Lightning glanced at you, and then immediately back to her desk.

"Why does this happen to me now..." you thought to yourself as the mare in front of you was done with scribbling down on the paper and threw it back to you. Catching this time in your hooves, you unfurled the paper and looked it over.



Why not?

Do you like Lightning? Y/N





You sighed as the next 2 questions were laying in front of you. Picking up your broken quill again, you answered the first question, by writing down your question.



Why not?
Why? Should I like her then?-__-




You snorted lightly as you wrote down the unamused smily on it to emphasize your interest on the subject. Going to the second question, you took a second to think about it. You've know Lightning almost as long as you have know Dust, she was a good friend of you, but nothing more than that, was she? You began to ponder how you would answer this one, if you wrote down the wrong thing, it might ruin your friendship, and it would probably hurt her deeply. Sighing to yourself, you decided on how to respond, bringing the quill down to the paper you began to write.



Do you like Lightning? Y/N
Come see me after school.



You gently crumbled the paper into a ball, and instead of trowing it to the mare in front of you, you threw the paper lightly to Lightning instead, the paper landing softly on her side of the desk. Lightning turned her muzzle towards you, locking eyes with her, you gave a nod to the paper that lay on her desk. She flattened the paper on her desk and glanced over it, she appeared to be staying on the last thing you wrote down for some time. The mares next to Lightning came looking over her shoulder to where she was staring at, and began whispering into Lightning's ear, with an occasional glance in your direction. 

You rolled your eyes at their behavior. The thoughts of how you will talk to Lightning about it lingering around in your head, making you question if you really didn't like Lightning in that way, until today, you've never really seen her differently than just a good friend.

Your attention was taken by the sudden feeling of something softly hitting you on your crossed front legs. Glancing down to the spot, you saw that the paper ball was back once more. Flatten it out again, you noticed that there was a response under what you had written. It looked to be a bit...odd, like it had been written with a shaky hoof.



Do you like Lightning? Y/N
Come see me after school.
Okay, where do you want to meet?



Thinking a bit, you thought it would be best to meet at the fountain in front of the school. Since your mom would come to pick you up to go towards Ponyville and get your sisters, it would probably be better if you could be visible when she would arrive so that you would not miss the opportunity to pick up Summer and Gloom from their first day. You smiled a bit at the thought that they would most probably have done something to steer up the class, or Cheerilee.

Coming back from the thought, you wrote down the answer and crumbled the paper back into a ball and threw it back again. Lightning looked back to you as the ball landed gently on her desk. She straightened the note on her desk and looked at what you had written down again. She glanced up from her paper and looked towards you, giving you a small nod before turning he muzzle forward again and the mares on her side began peeping on the paper.

Sighing at the moment that was about to come later today, you took a look out of the window, hoping to clear your head a bit. Glancing over Cloudsdale and into the sky where the blue air and fluffy clouds were greeting you with the sun shining high in the sky, your eyes began to close by themselves as your thoughts ran freely.



There was a knock on the door, rousing you from your short nap. You slowly opened your eyes, blinking a few times as your eyes felt heavier than ever. Your ear flicked as you heard muffled voices coming from the front of the class and the slight screeching of a chair next to you. Turning your muzzle to where Rainbow Dash was seated, you noticed her seat was empty and she was picking up her bag, an irritated expression her muzzle. 

Turning your head forward, you saw Mr. Slate standing next to the door, Miss Pi standing next to him, both looking to the mare that was slowly making her way to the front of the class with her ears drooped to the side of her head. As Rainbow Dash made her way down the aisle, she made one last eye contact with you, one of hostility. 

Your ears drooped down to the side of your head as you saw her expression, guilt building up inside that you had brought this upon her, while it could all have been avoided if you had just let her inside through the window. 

Rainbow Dash stood now in front of Mr. Slate, sharing a few words with each other before Rainbow Dash was shown out of the class room, Mr. slate following closely behind her as he shut the door behind them. Miss Pi simply shook her head as the door closed in front of her. She made her way to the screen which played the documentary, she turned the projector off with the small remote before burying it inside her desk drawer and rolling up the screen with the cord that was hanging on the side of it.

Miss Pi turned towards you and the rest of the class, "Alright class, seeing the circumstances, and the fact that this documentary seemed to be more of a Lullaby than anything else, I decide to end the class early, so you all can have a longer break. Don't think this will happen more, this is an one time event, so enjoy it while it lasts." 

As soon as she was finished talking, half of the class poured out of the room with the speed of the Wonderbolts with Dust dive bombing into the vacating herd, leading into a small traffic delay at the door. You were the last one to stand up from your seat. You picked up your broken quill from your desk with your left hoof as you slowly got off of your chair, putting it back in your saddle bag and closing the flap. Brining your saddle bag onto your back, your ruffled your wings a bit as it slide past them. Your ear flicked at the sound of hooves coming towards you, craning your head to the aisle, you noticed Miss Pi walking towards you, a somewhat questioning look spread over her muzzle.

She stopped in front of you, glancing at you for a few seconds before sighing and speaking up, "Mr. Static, please tell me what it is between you and Miss Rainbow Dash?" she questioned you.

"Uhm, what do you mean, Miss Pi? There is nothing between us," you answered.

"Mr. Static. Do you think I wouldn't notice her harsh glares? Or your, somewhat, fearful or quick reactions towards her?" she caught you a bit off guard by this. Her professional tone shifted down to a gentle, "I have been teaching for a few years. And trust me if I inform you that I've seen my fair share on what tension like this brings, and those never ended well. So, please tell me, Static. You've my word that I wouldn't tell this to anypony. Unless you want me to," Miss Pi softly smiled to you, something she did so rarely, it was a complete surprise to see her like this. 

Your mouth opened and closed a few times, trying to get a grip on the gentle approach of your teacher. Sighing, you broke eye contact with her and stared at your hooves, looking a way to explain the situation you were in.

You heard a chair move, looking up to the sound, you saw Miss Pi sitting on the chair that was on the other side of the aisle, she gestured with her hoof to the chair Dust sat before, "Take a seat, It'll help you collect your thoughts."

You gave her a nod and turned the chair to Miss Pi before sitting down. Surprisingly, it indeed helped a bit, easing the feeling of apprehension that came as you thought back at the looks Rainbow Dash gave you.

You opened your mouth again, hesitating a moment before beginning to explain what went between you and Rainbow Dash, "Well, Miss Pi..."

You were interrupted by the mare sitting in front of you, "Please, Static, if it helps you, you may call me Square," she said, smiling, while folding her glasses and putting them in the pocket of her suit.

You nodded, feeling comforted in the openheartedly approach of Square. "Well, uhm, Square." Miss Pi gave you a slow nod. "There is nothing special between me and Rainbow Dash... We actually met today." Square got an intrigued expression as you continued, "We didn't met really under the best of circumstances..." you letted out a small chuckle. "We did get along though. When the class was in session, she tapped the window next to me," you said as you turned your muzzle towards the window behind you, a transparent Rainbow Dash appearing there for a second before disappearing again as you thought back about it. "I don't know exactly why, but I didn't open the window for her. It seemed fine to me to tease her a bit like that," your ears drooped to the side of your head and you looked down to the cloudy floor.

"That was until I became distracted for a moment, when I turned back to open the window for her this time, she was gone. I glanced out of the window to see if I could find her, but Mr. Slate had called her down, they talked about her having already had a talk to the Headmistress this summer, and that she would get into real trouble this time. Since that moment, she has not spared a single look to me that was something other than annoyed or angry. If I knew... I would not have second thoughts to let her in... If I had, she wouldn't be in trouble right now," you planted your fore hooves gently against you forehead, silently cursing and hating yourself for letting this happen to Rainbow Dash.

A soft touch reached your shoulder. Removing your hooves and glancing to Square, you saw her soft, understanding look. "Don't blame yourself, Static. You couldn't have know it, teasing each other is something we all do. Although, teasing like that while you two only just met, tells me you see possibly more in her than you say." You wanted to say something back, telling her that was not true, but Square stopped you before you could even begin, "As I said, Static. I've been teaching for quite some time now. To you, I might look like a boring teacher who is as cold as ice," again you wanted to dismiss what she said, but just as before, she didn't stop, "And that is true, when giving class. But apart from helping with math, I also help ponies like you who might have it a bit difficult at the moment, you've never seen me like that, and that is what creates that image of that I am nothing else but a stern teacher. If you would have stayed a few times over the years, instead of zipping out of the door, like today. You would have seen that I have had some ponies that stayed longer, and had a talk with me about similar situations, and the not so similar ones."

"So, it may now not come as much of a surprise when I say, I know the looks certain ponies give one another when they show more interest in each other, and your looks, if I may be so blunt, are quite... obvious," Square gave a little chuckle as she finished.

"W-what do you mean with... obvious?" you asked uncertainly.

"Well, I guess Dust has already pointed this out to you, but when Miss Rainbow Dash entered the class and stood next to me as I introduced her to the rest of the class, even though you were talking to Dust, your eyes glanced towards her quite a few times. And I'm quite certain she stared at you as well, maybe for different reasons, but nonetheless, she was gazing at you."

You shifted a bit uncomfortable in your chair, a light warm feeling gracing your cheeks. "I-I-I..." you stammered, fiddling with your hooves while trying to find the words you wanted to say.

"Don't worry, Static," she said as she patted your left shoulder lightly a few times, "I won't tell anypony about this, you've my word," her right hoof moved to her chest where her heart was. "Now, I'm sure that if you explain it to Rainbow Dash, she will forgive you for this," Square said in certainty.

Your certainty only plumbed. Ex-explain her? Explain her what?! That I didn't open the window just to tease her?! That I got her into, I don't know how much, trouble, just because I like her?! Like she will ever forgive me when I say it to her like that... 

Your muzzle must have made signs that you were struggling with what Square said to you, since it didn't go unnoticed by her, "You think that it wouldn't help, do you?"

You said nothing, and gave a silent nod in return. Square pondered for a moment, rubbing her chin with her right hoof in thought, "Well, you could always try to to talk to the Headmistress, try to see if you can plead for Miss Rainbow Dash, and let her see it through the feathers this time."

You liked that option better than the first one in every way, except for the 'going to the Headmistress's' part. But if you had any chance of bailing Rainbow Dash out of the trouble, you would happily oblige.