//------------------------------// // Omake #1 // Story: My Life is a Runway? // by videomaster21XX //------------------------------//         “So as you can all see,” I said while writing various phrases on the huge dry erase board in my classroom, “it is far better to show what happens when writing a story, then to just tell me.”         “You mean show not tell right?” Sunset asked. Though wearing a smile, I tsked her gently.         “Now Sunset we know we’re supposed to raise our hand before we ask a question.” I almost felt bad for her given how embarrassed she looked. Still good student or not I couldn’t treat her differently.         “Sorry Mr. Evening.” She said while raising her hand. I laughed it off.         “No worries, just remember for next time. Now keeping the hand raising thing in mind, anymore questions?” I was surprised at how well everyone was listening to me today. An entire class taking notes and eagerly hanging onto my every word! I must be doing an alright job of being a teacher after all! As I stood there looking them over, the hand of a boy in the front row shot up. Was he in my class? Confused, but eager to teach, I pointed at him.         “Yes? You have a question?” Now that I took a look at him, I swear he looked familiar. Had I met him before? I thought I knew all my students? Well, sure I didn’t know everyone by name and face, but he was in the front row! Also what was he wearing? It looked like a uniform with that visor of his. He was even wearing a nametag.         “Yes,” The boy exclaimed, apparently eager to hear my answer. “Do you have a boyfriend yet?” I blinked.         “E-excuse me?” To say I was taken aback was an understatement. Why would he ask that? In the middle of class no less! Wait no, not just that, but a boyfriend? I didn’t have a problem with such things of course, but I also didn’t swing that way personally.         “Sir I’ll have to ask that you refrain from asking inappropriate questions during class.” I replied as sternly as I could. Thankfully, he appeared to realized his blunder as he began to rub the back of his neck with a nervous posture.         “S-sorry, guess I should have waited till after class to ask you out.” I nodded.         “That’s right, you should ha- what?” I heard that wrong right? I had to.         “You’re joking right? I’m twice your age!” I shot back, feeling flustered. Damn it! What was wrong with me? If I kept acting like this, he’d get the wrong impression. As I was about to continue trying to explain to him why it wouldn’t work out, I saw Sunset once more raise her hand, now looking confused. Without thinking, I pointed at her.         “Twice his age?” She asked, tilting her head. “Morning you’re only fifteen!” Fifthteen? Is she crazy? There is no way I could pass for a fifteen year old! And who is this Morning person? That’s not my name, clearly it’s Morning Rain! Wait, that’s not right. That’s a girl’s name, I wouldn’t have a girl’s name! I meant to say I’m Morning! No! W-why can’t I remember my real name? Also, why are my legs so cold?         Looking down, I froze. This isn’t the body of a grown up man! It’s the body of a teenage girl! Worse yet, I’m still wearing that blue nightie I put on earlier! Petrified, I barely manage to look up at the classroom. The room full of nothing but males stare back at me. H-Hadn’t there been girls in this glass? Where did they go? With a chill I began to realize just how these guys were looking at me as well. A wolf longing for steak came terribly to mind.         “Yeah,” the boy from earlier said, standing up from his chair, “you’re only a year younger than me. That’s why I asked if you had a boyfriend.” He smiled as he got closer to me, my own body instinctively backing away till I felt myself reach the wall. Panicked I looked around for an exit, yet where once were walls now seemed like endless rows of desks and students.         “Because if you’re single, I’d really like it if we could go out.” He continued while kneeling down before me. Wait! Now I recognized why he looked familiar! It was that pizza delivery guy! As if my recognizing him triggered it, I watched as his clothing began to glow, changing from his work uniform into a suit of shiny silver armor, complete with cape.         “If it would please thy fair maiden.” He stated while reaching out and taking my hand. “I would be honored if you would become my wife.”         “You want me to WHAT!?” I screamed, feeling as if something was squeezing my heart. Not to be discouraged, he moved my hand to his lips, giving it a soft kiss. This isn’t happening! I screamed over and over in my mind. This was NOT happening!         “Well DUH of course she does!” Pinkie yelled suddenly from my left, causing me to jump. Despite the situation, I was momentarily distracted by her getup. I mean, she looked like Pinkie, except she was wearing a striped purple outfit, and had… cat ears and a tail!? She smiled at me with a wide and eerie grin before continuing to speak: “That way we get to throw a super duper WEDDING PARTY!”         “WHAT!?” I screamed what was quickly becoming my favorite word of the day.         “No time for questions!” Sunset yelled, appearing on my right. I did a double take upon seeing her. Instead of her normal outfit from just five minutes ago, she was now in what I could only describe as a set of white bunny rabbit pajama, complete with the ears. In fact they even twitched and wobbled as she sat there staring at her now golden phone. “You’re late! You’re late for your very important date!”         Sure enough she turned the phone toward me with had a clock with the large hand on the word ‘You’re’ and the small hand on the word ‘late!’         “Late? What? Huh?” I stammered, trying to make sense of all this. Before I knew it, we were alone with her dragging me by the arm through various rooms and corridors. “What’s going on?” I screamed as we sped around another corner. “Where did the pizza guy go?”         “Don’t worry about your beloved!” Sunset replied, flashing me a smile. “He’s waiting for you already! So hurry up! You’re late! So very very late!”         “Late!? Late for what?” I screamed back, trying in vain to slow us down. “Why are you dressed as a rabbit?” Instead of answering, she pointed to my left, allowing me to notice my reflection in a row of mirrors.  I was no longer in my nightie, but now sported a blue dress with what appeared to be a white apron over it. A single black bow tied upon my head.         “Why am I dressed like this! I look ridiculous!” I shouted as she dragged me into a nearby room, before finally stopping. As I stood there trying to get my bearings and catch my breath, I found that the room we had entered was not a classroom, but instead a large church, all my students sitting on both sides of the middle aisle. Still stunned, I stared at them. Each and every one of them having become a large white rectangle with various symbols upon them. Were… were those giant playing card costumes?         “There you are darling! How dare you keep us all waiting!” Rarity cried as she rushed toward me. Once again I could only stare in exasperation at the insanity before my eyes. It was Rarity all right, except she was wearing a large crown upon her head that was topped with the largest heart shaped ruby I had ever seen. It matched the dress she had on perfectly, which happened to be a large red gown, decorated with endless pink hearts. She even had a scepter in her hand that had a heart shaped ornament at it’s end.         “R-rarity?” I croaked. “What’s with that outfit!?”         “What’s with my outfit? Deary what’s with your outfit! That’s hardly befitting for the situation. Now rise my minions! OFF WITH HER DRESS!”         The moment those words left her lips, the students closest to me lept from their seats and grabbed my arms and legs as they went to work tearing the blue dress off my body. Frightened, I tried to scream, but no sound would come out of my mouth. Instead my body went numb as I saw them begin to dress me in a new garment. For a moment I could see only white. When I was able to move again, I could feel something big and heavy draped upon my body.         “There! Oh darling you look positively marvelous!” Rarity said holding up a hand mirror. W-what the hell!? The outfit they had put me in was the largest white dress with more frills and ribbons then I had ever seen in my life. Next a veil was placed over my head, blocking my vision. Without a moment of rest, I found myself walking down the aisle, being hurried along by both Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna.         “I’m so very happy for you!” Luna cried while wiping a tear from her eye.         “I hope you find great happiness with each other!” Celestia added with a warm smile. “And don’t worry, take as much time off as you need to celebrate!” She winked. I was quickly not liking where this was going.         “Celebrate what? What’s going on! Let me go!” I cried, a bouquet thrust into my arms. Why couldn’t I stop moving to where they were leading me!? I didn’t want this! I-I couldn’t be doing what I think I was!         “Congratulations!” Sunset said to my right, clapping her hands.         “Congratulations!” Pinkie repeated to my left, before throwing confetti at me. One by one each and every student in my class appeared to one side of me, all clapping their hands while congratulating me. Their clothing now fancy dresses or suits. Desperately hoping to find someone in the crowd that could help me, I passed by Rarity, still in her weird heart get up, who simply smiled while pointing her scepter at me.         “OFF TO BE WED! OFF TO BE WED!” She shouted. My heart sank at those words.         “W-wed!? B-but I’m not-” Stunned I finally saw what lay before me, and the front of the church. There stood the pizza delivery guy decked out in a full tuxedo. He smiled at me though his face was now hidden behind a white mask. For some strange reason he was wearing a top hat upon his head as well. Horrified, I noticed that I was no longer being led by anyone. Instead I was now walking on my own. My legs betraying my pleas for them to turn and run.         I barely noticed Pinkie playing a strange tune on a guitar as the the delivery guy produced a single red rose, holding it out to me.         “My dearest Morning Rain, I can not wait for you to be my Alice for all eternity!”         “AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” I screamed, suddenly sitting bolt upright on a bed. W-what was going on? Where did all the students go? Where was the pizza guy? Oh god was this after it? I was in a rather large bed… No! NO! I had to get out of here! I had to get out of here!         “Darling whatever is the matter?” Someone asked as a face popped into view to my left. The top of their head was huge and bright red, while two large green yet dull lifeless eyes stared at me, each one dotted with multiple black spots.         “EEEEEEEEEEEK!” I screeched, grabbing my pillow and giving the thing a good solid whack.         “ACK!” It screamed being thrown sideways as it’s eyes popped off of it’s head. Monster! I had to get out of here before it tried to eat my brain, or force me to get married!         “Morning! Morning!” Sunset was screaming from my right. Still gripping my pillow I spun around to face her, ready to smack her if it turned out to be another alien trying to catch me off guard. Instead all I saw was a very worried teenage girl in the same orange nightie she had gone to bed in.         “What’s wrong? What happened?” She cried, slowly reaching out to me. Confused I put down my pillow. Sunset? That’s right, she was sleeping in my room because I didn’t want to be alone. Wait, wasn’t Rarity in here as well? As if on cue, she popped up on my left, looking like something had impacted with her face.         “What was that for!?” She screamed rubbing her eyes with an arm as she fiddled with fixing the red towel wrapped around her hair.         “R-rarity?” I asked shaken.         “Of course it’s me deary, who else would I be?” Still rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she picked up what appeared to be two cucumber slices. “Now will you mind telling me what I did to deserve a pillow to the face?”         With a groan, I began to realize the ‘red skull’  was just the towel, and the eyes were obviously the cucumber slices. I had just assaulted Rarity for no other reason then I had a bad dream...         “S-sorry, I just…” My voice caught.         “Morning?” Sunset once again. “Did… did you have a nightmare?”         “M-Maybe…” I muttered, hugging my knees again. How pathetic. A grown man having a nightmare.         “Oh darling, now I understand.” Rarity said, placing her hand on my arm. I flinched but didn’t move away. My knees becoming wet. Was...was I crying? What the hell body?!         “Shhh, shhh It’s okay.” Sunset added, placing her own hand on my other shoulder. I-It was nice actually. Both of them sitting there comforting me. If only the part of feeling my boobs being squished could just be a nightmare as well.         That dream was a nightmare right? That feeling when I saw myself in that dress… no it was only a dream. Just a stupid dream.         “Do you want to talk about it?” I don’t know which one of them asked that, but I shook my head. Talking about that, was the last thing I wanted to do right now. Taking a peek at my clock I saw it now read nearly three am in the morning. I couldn’t let this affect my day tomorrow, though now I was ever so grateful to have it off.         “I-I’ll be okay. It’s late, we should get to sleep for… what we need to do tomorrow.” I could still feel myself shivering despite my protests. Great, at this rate I wasn’t going to get any sleep at all. Ugh, I’m such an idiot for letting it bother me this much!         Creak! Startled, I looked up as my bed shifted to see Sunset getting under the covers next to me. Immediately my face went red.         “S-sunset! What are you doing!?” I hissed as I tried to move away. Unfortunately my legs were still too numb from sleep to allow me to get very far.         “L-Look don’t go thinking dirty thoughts okay?” She said, as she settled in next to me. “I-It’s just my mom use to sleep with me when I had a nightmare, s-so I thought maybe…”         “Seriously darling?” Rarity asked, seeming to share my mind frame. “Don’t you think we are a bit old for that?” Now it was Sunset’s turn to blush.         “I-I know, but Morning is dealing with being a new age, and sex so… well I don’t know how else to help!”         “S-Sunset it’s fine really!” I said, trying and failing to keep my voice level. “I-I’m sure I’ll be f-fine…”         I had just enough time to hear Rarity sigh loudly before she too began to get into my bed from her side.         “Rarity!” I squeaked, only to be met with a no nonsense gaze from her.         “Morning you are clearly distraught by whatever dream you just had, and I’ll not be the only one to sleep on the floor when you two get a nice big comfy bed…” She said while running her hand over the mattress. “Why do you have such a large bed anyway?” I flinched again. That was another taboo topic right now for me.         “M-My parents didn’t need it anymore…” Please don’t ask why, I thought desperately. Thankfully though she gave me a look, neither her, nor Sunset pursued that line of questioning.         “Well regardless, I’ll be sleeping with you as well. For support purposes only you understand.” She crossed her arms at that. “I feel one adventurous hand, and you can bet you’ll get quite the slap!” Horrified I shook my head.         “I-I’d never do that! Ever!” I protested, before the situation caught back up with me. “Hey wait! You can’t just get in my bed! I’m your teacher! I can’t be in bed with my students!”         “Morning…” Sunset said, once more placing her hand on my shoulder. She waited until I was facing her before continuing. “We trust you. We know you’d never take advantage of this, and that’s why we are doing this. To show you can trust us. Right Rarity?”         “Indeed.” She replied also gripping my shoulder again. “Look darling, it’s very clear whatever dream you had was a doozy, and while I do find this a bit… silly perhaps, Sunset does have a point. After having a nightmare, my mother use to sleep in the same bed with me as well when I was a child.” I must have made a face when she said ‘child’ because she quickly waved her hand at me.         “Now now deary. Don’t go thinking I’m insulting you. I was just giving an example. You’ve been through a lot today. Let us try to ease your mind at the very least.”         “I-If you really find it inappropriate, we’ll leave the bed if you really want…” Sunset trailed off, letting me consider the offer. I was about immediately decline this, but the thought of them leaving me alone on the bed actually caused me to hesitate. Stunned I just sat here. This wasn’t seriously what had become of me right? I wasn’t seriously considering the silly idea of sharing a bed with them, because having them close really did make that big a difference.         Taking a good long look at both Sunset and Rarity. I had to submit. Yes, yes I did feel that way. Right now I felt small, and scared. Would it really be so harmful to just admit it? Anyone in my situation would feel the same, wouldn’t they? I-I just wanted to be close to someone right now. I just wanted someone to hug me and tell me it was all going to be alright. It was okay to have just that right?         Again I could feel the tears dripping from my eyes onto the blanket. As if they could read my thoughts, I felt their arms wrap around me. How strange this all was. Did they even see me as Evening Storm anymore? Then again, right now, did that really matter? I was still me where it counted right? I had endured so much since… since that time four months ago. I deserved a break. I could deal with all this in the morning.         “T-thank you.” I whispered. Neither of them answered. Instead they just continued to hug me for as long as I needed, until I finally drifted back to sleep. This time I was quite positive there wouldn’t be anymore nightmares.         Still, one final thing did enter my mind as I lay there. The remains of that movie I had accidently snapped in half earlier in the night. Before the last of my consciousness left me, I made a vow for when I woke up the next morning.         I was going to take a hammer to the rest of that copy of Alice in Wonderland.