//------------------------------// // Interlocking Pieces // Story: Upgrade your grades // by Verzeih Turncoat //------------------------------// Silver Spoon gawked down the hallway. She had just left the classroom at end of class. Students were flowing out of class behind her as she awkwardly standing in everybodies way. "Silvy what is wrong with you?!"- said Diamond Tiara pulling her away from the door. -"Do you want to get on everybodies bad side? You are so lucky you have me to chaperone you. Sometimes I have to wonder what is going on in your..." Silver Spoon freed her arm and disappeared into the crowd. Leaving her friend dumbfound looking behind. Stepping on others feet, pushing and pulling made the girl her way through the masses of pupils on their way to their next classes. Gathering curses and angry gazes along with her. She stopped infornt of the trophy case. Gone. Her braid flew from side to side as she looked hectically around her. "You are acting weird, Silvy!" "She was here!" "Who?" "The girl who that had safed me! She was here just a moment ago." "Well, she is no longer." Diamond Tiara said in a disapproving tone. "Help me find her!" Diamond Tiara pulled her frenzy friend into the girls restroom and pushed her against the wall. The room looked empty so Diamond Tiara had no reason to act like a well educated girl of a good household, instead she could be as forward as she wanted to her friend. "You sure you don´t have a crush on that girl?" Silver Spoon starred into Diamond Tiara´s deep blue eyes. What was that look in her eyes? Worry? Anger? Disgust? Pity? This gaze so very similar to the one she put on Applebloom but yet different. Silver Spoon could not take the guts to encounter the stare. "I just..." "I am NOT going on a demented search for a person, because you JUST want to express your gratitude towards her. And neither should you! That Twilight Sparkle is going to change school. THEN we can get her name, her adress and maybe what she likes so you can thank her. Running around like a maniac will get you nothing!" Diamond Tiara let her loose and made her way to the next class. They had politics and the teacher had his own politic with tardy students. "I hate you!" Silver shouted at her as she left the restroom. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon had not been talking for the rest of the day. Silver Spoon was angry on her for letting her hanging. For not supporting her. For devaluing her feelings. So what if she had no crush on the girl, it still matters to her. What is even worse about it is that Diamond did not care how much it bothered her. They were sitting in mathclass next to each other as always, but unlike yesterday they would not whisper during class. Silver Spoon was really pissed at Diamond´s behavior and Diamond Tiara... she just lived her life like always. beep "Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, please report to the main foyer." The speaker interupted the class. The teacher looked annoyed at the speaker over the door before he turned the back to the board. "Okay ladies, you have heard the vice principal." Diamond Tiara had already stand up and was smothing her clothes. She looked confident about what to come. Silver Spoon on the other hand was still sitting there, wondering what will happen to her this time. On the hallway Sliver Spoon finally talked to Diamond Tiara: "What´s going on? Are we in trouble?" Diamond Tiara did not look at her, but she could feel her that suppiror smile around her lips anyway. "I told you that I am not going on a lunatic hunt for your chase for your waifu."- Diamond snorted with laughter about her repeated teasing, but since she was not looking at her friend she did not noticed the annoyed look behind her glasses as she continued. -"I signed us both up as volunteers for showing new students around school. It was really unpleasant to convince Pinkie Pie to let us handle the welcoming. She kinda lives for this boring stuff and I really hope I can give it back to her after this one." "I don´t... Huh?" "Ugh, Silvy really! Twilight Sparkle changes school. We are the Welcoming Committee. We see her when she is introduced to the school. YOU get your chance to talk to her about that girl without anybody else listening. A much more elegant way of problem solving than losing your mind." It felt as if her throat constricted, unable to speak out a single word of apology that she wanted to say was Silver Spoon standing like she was pinned on the floor. How could she mistrust Diamond for just a single moment? Diamond was always there to protect her, to guide her, to support her even if she does not understand why. The reason why Silver Spoon was so often hiding behind her. The reason she so often followed her drum, because her attitude led to success and a feel of safty because there was always Diamond Tiara that got her back. Diamond Tiara had finally noticed that her friend was no longer behind her and looked back at her. "Come on Silvy! I am not going to work through this alone." Her moist eyes firmly hidden behind her glasses Silver Spoon nodded silently. They met up with the older girl as she was looking at the throphy case as she had done yesterday. Twilight was wondering about this tradition of Canterlot High. She could have easily get here at morning and start with the classes right away. Instead she was ordered to get her before lunch so some student can show her around at school. It was also completely unnecessary. She had been here for the Friendship Games and yesterday as well. In Crystal Prep such a waste of school time would not fly. A clear indicator of the different mindset of this new school she was now attending. The two students introduced themself. The girl with the lightpurple hair with white highlights was smug and had an upperclass way of talking something Twilight was familiar with from her old school. The second girl was not shy, more retiring maybe even... scared? It made Twilight uneasy to see this girl afraid of her as they walked through the hallways. Diamond Tiara was the one mostly talking, reintroducing this Twilight Sparkle to alot of the rooms and rules she already knew, while she simultaneously tried to push Silver Spoon to ask her already. All three girls were relieved as Silver Spoon finally had asked about the white haired girl with the red glasses. It was at this time this walk had become less of a formality and less awkward. "Sugarcoat?"- Twilight wondered over the question how she was connected to the girl, that hugged her the day before. The question was clumsy at best and the detail of Silver Spoon´s waifu embracing another girl made Diamond Tiara giggle internally. Twilight was running that incident in her mind again and again. The warning about the school. The concerned sound of Sugarcoat´s voice. The weirdest words slipped out of her mouth that she herself could not really comprehend. -"We are... friends... I guess..."