//------------------------------// // Friday Part 5 - History is a Matter of Perspective // Story: Equestria Girl. Wait, What's Equestria? // by Bysen //------------------------------// Lunch was… nice. That’s the only way she could put it. It wasn’t great, it wasn’t bad. It was just, well… nice. Silverspoon had taken Diamond Tiara’s advice and stopped trying to force her into the conversation. Instead, the two just let Twilight sit with them and listen. And if she ever felt she had something to add to the conversation she spoke up. It only happened about twice in the full twenty minutes but each time lasted a good minute or two of conversation that Twilight not only took part in but took the lead in. The two girls she was with mostly talked about what classes they had and when, what they planned on doing this year and of course Die threw in the occasional jab at Twilight and her stud of a coltfriend Flash ‘Brad’ Sentry. Also the topic of why everything in this school seemed to have some horse-based word equivalent to it. And that’s how Twilight learnt the principles nicknames: Sun Butt and Moon Butt. Not sure what that had to do with horses though. The most telling part of them having a good time was that after seemingly no time at all, the bell rang marking the end of first lunch. Thanks to their little talks about classes, Twilight already knew she had History up next. Also that Sil had I.T. [goin’ on!] and Die had Biology. Not that it was important in anyway, but she knew it still. As the three parted ways, Sil called to Twilight “Same place to meet up again at big lunch, k?” “Okay, I’ll see you both then.” she called back. Getting a pretty positive response from Sil and an expectedly neutral response of a silent wave while not even facing her from Die. Despite that though, she was pretty sure Diamond Tiara had enjoyed her company for the last half hour. At the very least the rich girl had someone to poke light-hearted fun at. It wasn’t exactly the best of company but sure as hell beat those other six crazy girls. Speaking of Crazy, where was Trixie? Eh, also doesn’t matter. Twilight made her way to her class. She didn’t get lost in the slightest and was finally starting to feel like she understood the layout of the school. Of course with the exception of Discord, she was about to go to the class of one of her crazier teachers and with easily the freakiest of those six crazies. She took her seat, only one desk over from where she had sat in this class the last two times. Not that it really matter with this class’s crazy layout. The guy sitting next to her in the seat she’d have ideally taken herself was talking to the guy next to him and though Twilight tried not to listen in, it was kinda hard not to at this close of a proximity. “Did you hear what happened on the back oval yesterday?” the further away one asked. The one next to her replied back with “Yeah, there was so much drama that the whole team collapse. We only have two soccer teams now.” in a manner akin to when something happens in a TV show and then is quickly summed up by two random no-name background characters who may not even have been given faces they're so important offhandedly mentioning it near the main character. Sunset arrived not long after Twilight had and taken a seat one desk over from Rarity who had a seemingly very interested in everything she had to say boy on one side of her and a seemingly very interested in everything she had to say girl on the other. [and I can't remember if Twilight ever heard the name Coco Pummel] Sunset made eye contact for a brief moment with Twilight before both of them looked away. After that however, the class went on normally. Well, again, as normal as you could get in this school and it's weird teachers that seemed to come straight out of a bad anime that was trying to hard to be something it wasn’t. “And with that, the tension between the Buffalon people and the Appleloosen settlers was finally quelled by the party thrown by Cheese Sandwich and it is still considered to be the bestest best party ever... of all time, by the majority of the academic world. Now, if there aren’t any further questions then we have three minutes and forty-seven second to spare until lunch begins and you may spend it as you wish. Starting…….. now.” As Star Swirl mentioned the exact amount of time until the end of the class she remembered what Discord had said about how they kept track of time. Star Swirl was certainly not wearing a watch. It really perplexed her. Nevertheless, she had a few minutes of free time to fill and had no real idea of how to do that. She could mingle wi- “Hey Twilight.” Sunset said as she approached. “Mind if I take a seat?” The person sitting beside her had gotten up already leaving the desk next to hers open. “Uh, sure. Go right on ahead.” Twilight answered as she watch the redhead pull out the chair and sit down beside her. Sunset made herself comfortable and pulled the chair in, giving the impression she planned on staying there for a couple of minutes at the least. “So… what’s up?” Twilight asked after a brief moment of silence. “Sorry about this. I said I’d lea... we’d leave you alone. I just wanted to give you a bit of a warning is all. After lunch, you’ve got English with Rainbow Dash right?” asked Sunset as she turned to face Twilight. “Um… I think so. Let me check.” she replied. Twilight then reached under her desk and pulled her backpack up onto her desk. She opened the front zip and pulled out her time table. It was about time she got a reminder of what it looked like. [and that I wasn’t just making up that she had x class at x time on the fly while writing. I mean technically I did make it up but you know what I mean] Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday English Biology Physics Biology Chemistry Chemistry Physics English History Geology Physics Geology History Sports History Geology Chemistry Biology Sports English “I just wanted to give you a heads up on it is all. Rainbow Dash is in… a bit of a ‘mood’. Some stuff happened yesterday and she’s been upset about it all day.” “Something happened yesterday huh?” Twilight said, with just the slightest tinge of mockery in her tone. “Yeah.” Sunset said. Twilight wasn’t entirely sure if she had picked up on the mockery and was salty about it, understood it or had missed it entirely. There was a pregnant pause there before she finally said something more. “Guess you’re not the only one who had something from their past come back on them this week.” Twilight just sighed. “It’s not MY past, remember.” “Right. Sorry.” Sunset Shimmer replied as she fidgeted with her fingers just a little. “Well, I just wanted to give you that heads up is all.” she finished, leaving a pause once more. After a moment when it became clear to her Twilight wasn’t going to say anything back she added “Okay then. I’m going to go back to my… seat…” she trailed off as she turned to see Rarity, and subsequently her seat as well, swamped by boys walking to speak with the fashionista. Twilight chuckled “Heh… good luck with that.”