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// Chapter - 4 - Perfect Day For Fun 
// Story: Let's Rock 'n' Roll 
// by Hawker Hurricane 
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Forte was at in the kitchen eating his breakfast and watching the early morning news programme. It was now the weekend and after a successful first week at CHS he would soon be getting ready to meet up with the girls in Canterlot later on. Normally he would never be up at 8am on a Saturday but today was the exception. He had already showered and dressed. He was wearing his usual denim jeans, blue t shirt and a Wonderbolt fleece. He had also gelled his hair into a spiky look.

He was stuffing his face with cereal when his mother walked in.

"You're up early today sweetie."

Forte turned around, "Hi mum, yeah I'm off into town later to meet up with some friends."

Fioritura smiled, "Those girls we saw you with on Monday?" 

"Yeah. We're meeting at Sugercube Corner then we're going to have a look around town. We'll then be going to the cinema followed by pizza. Oh and they invited me to a sleepover tonight as well."

"You certainly have your weekend planned."

"We talked about it on Wednesday, I've been looking forward to it since."

"I can imagine, when do you leave?"

"I'll go around half nine."

Half nine came around rather quickly. Fioritura mentioned to Travertine about Forte's trip into town to meet his friends. He was rather pleased when she said his friends in question where the six girls from Monday. Travertine offered to give Forte a lift into town in his Mercedes-Benz S 65 AMG. Forte enthusiastically agreed. He was fortunate in that both his parents each had their own, beautiful, powerful machines.

Forte wouldn't mind having the new Bugatti Chiron but it's just a bit out of his financial reach. And that's before tax and insurance.

Forte would settle for his Citroen DS3 for now with a price tag at E$21,000. Still not cheap but more affordable than the E$1.9 million Chiron.

Half nine approached and Forte was getting ready putting his Legend of Zelda messenger bag over his shoulder. Inside where a few odds and sods for the day including a pair of pony ears just in case Rarity insisted in wearing them.

"Ready?" Travertine asked Forte.

"Yeah, I'm ready," he replied before shouting to his mother, "Bye mum!"

"Bye sweetie, have fun!" she shouted back.

Forte and Travertine walked into the garage and got into Travertine's Merc with Forte riding shotgun. Travertine pulled out of the garage and driveway and pulled out in onto the main road in the direction of the city centre.

"So, how's your first week at CHS been?" asked Travertine.

"It's been great. Everyone's been really friendly."

"I know, I've seen their friendliness," Travertine replied, "Especially that rainbow haired one."

"Yeah, she's called Rainbow Dash appropriately enough. Nice girl."

"Is she now, you'll have to invite her over some time for tea."

"Dad she's just a friend, besides it's not her who I'm interested in anyway."

Forte face palmed, he instantly realised what he'd just said and to who. He knew his dad wouldn't let up until he found out who it was Forte was interested in.

"Which one of the girls is it then?" he asked smirking.

"I....I....I'm not saying. It's just a little crush, nothing more. No need to go into details."

"Come on now, I'm your dad. You can tell me."

"It's nothing, really," Forte pleaded.

"OK, if you say so," Travertine replied surpassing a chuckle. He was Forte's age once and remembered well chasing the girls. They were good times for him.

They continued to drive into town and on the way talked a little more, mostly about football and the new Wonderbolts stadium that Travertine was Chief Engineer for. When completed it would be the largest stadium in the world and take Wonderbolts to even greater heights. It makes sense for the worlds' biggest club to have the worlds' biggest stadium.

Traffic was fairly heavy given that is was weekend rush hour. Travertine and Forte seemed to get held up at every red light and traffic was moving at a snails pace. Eventually though they arrived at the Shopping Centre Car Park and found a space surprisingly quickly.

They both got out and made their way to street level. As they did Travertine handed Forte a $20 note.

"Here you are lad, enjoy yourself."

"Thanks dad, I will do."

They made their way to the Shopping Centre's Food Court on the top floor. Here there was multiple options of food available. Pizza, taco, burgers, chicken etc. As they entered the food court, Forte noticed six familiar girls and walked over to them.

"Hi girls," he said whilst waving at them.

The girls looked up and saw him approach.

"Hi Forte," they replied in unison.

"It's good to see you darling," Rarity added, "And I must say I like the fleece you're wearing. Wonderbolts no doubt."

"Yeah it looks good on me."

The girls rolled their eyes. Clearly they were unamused at Forte's self evaluation. 

"So Forte, who is it who brought you here?" asked Rarity.

"My dad, Travertine," he replied standing aside so the girls could see him.

"Pleasure to meet you young ladies," Travertine said as he stepped forward, "I'd love to stay and chat but I have business to attend to plus I wouldn't want to keep Forte from you all. Cheerio."

"Bye Mr Heldentenor," replied the girls.

"Bye dad."

Travertine walked away to whatever it was he needed to do, leaving Forte with the girls. They noticed he was just stood there and not doing much.

"Are you going to sit down?" asked Sunset.

Coming back to his senses he noticed the girls staring at him.

"Something wrong?"

"You're just stood there," replied Sunset.

"Oh, sorry. I'll find a spare chair."

"No need," replied Sunset, "There's one here."

Sunset moved over to allow Forte to sit down with the gang, though not too far away.

"So, where are we headed first?" asked Forte as he sat down.

"We were going to have a look around the shopping centre first and treat ourselves to a few things, then lunch back here before going to the cinema to see the new Daring Do film."

"Cool. I've never seen a Daring Do film actually."

What was an entirely innocent statement came as a huge shock to one girl in particular.

"You've never seen Daring Do?!" asked Rainbow Dash.

Forte shook his head, "Are they any good?"

Rainbow's eye twitched, "Are they any good! ARE THEY ANY GOOD!" she repeated, "They're Daring Do films of course they're good!"

"Oh," replied Forte, "They sound good."

Rainbows' eyes twitched again, "You're just messing with me aren't you?"

Forte nodded stifling a laugh, "Yeah, I've seen all six so far."

"So you are a Daring Do fan?"

"Yep. Have been ever since my mum wrote the scores for the first three films."

Rainbow's jaw hit the floor, "Your mother wrote the scores to three Daring Do films?"

"Yep."

Rainbow wanted to do nothing more than hug the stuffings out of Forte. She could hardly believe one of her friends was the son of the woman who wrote the scores to three Daring Do films. She wondered that if his mother was musically inclined then he might be also, depending on what he played there may be a way to make him a member of the Rainbooms.

"Forte, do you play anything?" Rainbow asked.

"Like musically?"

"Yeah."

"Guitar, piano and saxophone."

The girls were impressed. To learn how to play one instrument can be a challenge but to be able to play several is something else. 

"What kind of guitar do you play?" asked Rainbow again.

"I have an Ibanez RG3770DX in laser blue and an Ibanez SA360QM in Sapphire Blue. Damn fine pieces of kit too."

"Wow!"

"Wow indeed," repeated Forte, "We'll have to have a jamming session sometime."

"About that, we girls have our own band called the Rainbooms. If you're good enough you might just become a member playing on rhythm guitar. If you're interested."

"Definitely. I prefer lead guitar but I suppose I could settle for rhythm since I'll be the new guy."

"That's good to hear. I am unsurprisingly the lead guitar and awesome at it."

The other girls rolled their eyes at hearing Rainbow brag yet again at her guitar playing skills.

"Yer a good guitar player, we get that. Now will ya stop yer braggin'."

"Oh come on Applejack like you haven't bragged about your bass playing skills."

"Maybe once or twice but you brag about it at every opportunity."

"Girls please let's not start arguing," Fluttershy said, hiding behind her hair slightly. 

"Sorry Flutters," replied Rainbow Dash.

"Sorry Fluttershy," Applejack added.

"So girls, are we off shopping?" asked Forte.

"We certainly are darling," replied Rarity as she slipped on her coat.

The other girls also got to their feet, Forte also. He felt somewhat a little lucky given that he was spending the day with six girls. Before coming to Canterlot he couldn't even spend time with one girl. At his last school one girl laughed in his face when he offered to let her sit down next to him in the canteen. 

If only she could see him now.

Bitch.

Forte felt himself being shook gently. He looked to see it was Sunset.

"Forte, are you OK?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Are you sure, you zoned out on us again."

"Yeah yeah I'm fine. Just......glad to be with you girls."

"Thank you darling," replied Rarity as she hooked her arm around Forte's arm, "And we enjoy being with you. I foresee many adventures together."

"Do you girls see a lot of action?"

The girls looked at each other knowingly. Much was said without the need for many words.

"We've seen a bit of it lately," replied Rarity, "Some more than others."

Forte looked at each girl and noticed Sunset looked a little uneasy, like she was feeling guilty about something. Forte didn't know what it was, but he guessed it might have something to do with some of the glares he'd noticed Sunset receive from the other CHS students. He figured something must have happened before his arrival.

"Which store are we headed to first?" asked Forte.

"There's a new fashion parlour that's opened up here, why not go there first?" suggested Rarity.

"There's the music emporium on the lower level, we should go there so I can check out the hardware," added Rainbow Dash.

The rest of the girls rattled off somewhere they'd like to visit leaving Forte to say were he'd like to go. 

"What about you Forte, where'd you like to go?" asked Sunset.

"Wherever," he replied shrugging his shoulders, "It's the first time I've been here so I don't know what's here and what isn't."

"Well if ya see a place ya like, jus' holler and we'll go over," replied Applejack.





After an excruciating two hours of looking around girls clothes stores against his will, interspersed with looks in music and game shops, the motley group of Wondercolts headed back to the foot court for some well needed lunch. Sunset and Fluttershy had margarita pizza, Forte had fried chicken while the others had cheeseburgers. 

Rarity had bought the most and had about six bags of new clothes and materials for her to work with later. Fluttershy bought a few things for the animal shelter and Angel, Rainbow and Forte bought some spare guitar strings while Sunset bought a new smartphone, a red iPhone 6 to match her hair.

Coincidently or deliberately the girls' phones' colours each matched their skin or hair colour. Rarity had a purple phone, Rainbow had blue, Fluttershy had cream, Pinkie had pink, Applejack had peach and Forte had electric blue.

"How's the new phone?" asked Forte to Sunset.

"It's great," she replied as she tapped and swiped the screen, "Here's my new number by the way."

Sunset gave out her new number to her friends who put it in their contacts list. Forte also had the numbers of the other girls and they had his. They said they'd try not to drag him into girl talk but wouldn't promise anything, though Rarity did suggest a rather girly girl thing that made Forte shiver. And Rainbow and Applejack for that matter. A luxury deluxe spa treatment.

The mere thought of even entering a spa made Forte shudder.

"What time does the film start?" asked Forte.

"About half one so we've got an hour yet," replied Sunset.





SEVERAL HOURS LATER

"THAT WAS AWESOME!" yelled Rainbow raising her arms into the air in delight.

"Course it was, it was Daring Do," Sunset added, "Did you notice who wrote the score?"

Forte tried to make himself invisible but with six girls surrounding him that would be an impossible task to accomplish.

"No," replied Rainbow, "I must have missed the name. Who was it?"

Sunset walked over to Forte and put an arm around him, "Forte's mum."

Forte averted his eyes elsewhere, trying to look at anything and anyone except Rainbow Dash. He tried slowly moving away also but Sunset's arm around him was really firm. He wouldn't ever say it out loud but it felt nice having her arm around him.

Rainbow looked at Forte and her stunned expression slowly morphed into a huge grin that filled her face. 

Forte felt Sunset's arm move. Turning to see her and the other girls move away, he was about to ask what they were doing until a blue blur piledrived into him, hugging the stuffings out of him.

Forte gasped for breath as his rainbow haired friend continued to hug the life out of him. After a few seconds Rainbow realised what she was doing and released Forte from her death hug, blushing a little from her display of affection.

"I take it you're pleased then," wheezed Forte.

Rainbow nodded vigorously, her face showing a huge toothy grin.

"Well then I'll have to see if you girls can visit my place sometime, I'm sure my parents won't mind. Anyway, what are we doing now?"

The girls thought for a few moments before the sound of thunder reverberated throughout the shopping centre. The girls and Forte looked at each other with grimaces. From the sound of things it was raining very heavily and Forte, like the rest of the girls, hadn't brought a raincoat. 

"We could hang around a little more until the weather clams down a bit," suggested Rainbow.

"Could do, this place stays open 'till late," replied Sunset, "Hey, isn't there that new pancake restaurant across the street from here?"

The girls eyes lit up in realisation. There was a new pancake restaurant that recently opened that has had rave reviews in the press and is proving to be really popular. All of their pancakes were freshly made with three different types of flour from the homeland of the owner.

"Yeah there is," confirmed Fluttershy, "I've been wanting to go there but I didn't want to go on my own."

"Then I'd say now is the ideal time," said Rarity, "Finish the night off with a nice fulfilling meal."

The rest if the gang all agreed to go as well and so the group made their way over. The rain had calmed a little so the group rushed over before it got heavy again. 

They went inside the pancake restaurant, aptly named The Pancake House, and were very quickly seated. There weren't too many people in tonight surprisingly. After being seated the waiter handed them each a menu and there was a reasonably wide choice available. 

All of them went with the chocolate option.

The service was brilliant and the restaurant was very clean and the staff very polite. But best if all the pancakes were very filling. Being CHS students they were entitled to student discount much to the delight of Forte and Co. They paid their bill and thanked the owners, telling them they would definitely visit again. This place may very well be another place to visit in addition to Sugercube Corner.

It was now around 8pm and the rain was falling heavily. They booked a taxi to take them to Rainbow's, fortunately the taxi company had a vehicle large enough for them to all go at once. The fare came to E$8. Forte gave the driver E$10 and told him to keep the change which delighted to cabbie.

They rushed up the front door of Rainbow's house and went inside, getting out if the increasingly heavy rain. Forte's Wonderbolt fleece was damp but would easily dry out on the radiator.

"Hey dad, I'm home. I've brought friends as well."

"Hey there my little Dashie," replied her father as he walked into the hallway. 

"I've brought a new friend as well, he's the new kid at school."

"Pleased to meet you sir," Forte said nervously. Rainbow's dad was quite tall, just like his dad.

Rainbow's dad looked at Forte, "No need to be nervous lad, you're welcome here. Call me Blaze."

"Nice to meet you Blaze," he said shaking Blaze's hand, "I'm Forte."

Blaze's eyes lit up in recognition, "Forte? You're Travertine's lad aren't you?"

Forte's eyes went wide in surprise, "How did you know?"

"I went to school with him and over the years stayed in touch. I'm not at all surprised he's the Chief Engineer of the new Wonderbolts stadium construction."

"WHAT!"

Everyone jumped in fright and turned to Rainbow Dash.

"Your dad is the Chief Engineer of the new Wonderbolts stadium!?"

Forte nodded, "Yeah, didn't I tell any of you."

The girls shook their head.

"That would explain why you were in the VIP section last week," said Sunset.

"Yeah, both my parents are well known in their respective fields but I try to keep out of the limelight."

"Don't worry darling, we won't tell everyone who your parents are, and even if the students at CHS found out they wouldn't tell anyone either," said Rarity reassuringly, resting a hand on his shoulder.

"Thanks," Forte replied simply.

"Any of you hungry?" asked Blaze.





Forte and the girls were sat in Rainbow's bedroom. It was fairly large with plenty of room for the girls and Forte to sleep in their sleeping bags. The girls had all already changed into their pyjamas and had their sleeping bags out ready for later. Now it was his turn to change (in the spare room), Forte got his pyjamas out of his bag and as he did his pony ears headband fell out also. He quickly picked them up hoping none of them would notice.

They did. 

Rarity was the first to pounce, "Forte darling, I see you've brought your pony ears." 

"I packed them just in case I needed them," he said sheepishly, "But as it turned out they weren't needed at all so that's why I kept them in my bag." 

Rarity's gut feeling told her there was something else and she only needed to dig a little deeper, "You wouldn't have packed them unless you intended to wear them." 

"No really," insisted Forte, "I brought them just in case."

Rarity smirked. She had a feeling she knew why he brought them but was too embarrassed to admit why, "Come now darling, we're your friends; you don't have to hide it from us."

"Hide what?" asked Forte. 

"That you like wearing them."

Forte blushed, "No I don't."

"Yes you do, admit it darling. You like wearing them but are too embarrassed to admit it."

Forte sighed and looked down, "OK, it's true. I like wearing them."

"And do you know what's wrong with that?" asked Rarity, "Absolutely nothing."

The other girls all agreed.

"So you don't think I'm weird or anything?" asked Forte.

"No, why should we?" asked Sunset.

"Because I like wearing pony ears?"

"Forte dear, spend some more time with us and you'll see just why we're not bothered about it."

"Have you worn them at home during the last week?" asked Fluttershy.

"Yeah, only when I'm on my own though. They do match my fleece though."

"It certainly does," agreed Rarity, "Is there a reason why it's too small for you though?"

Forte froze, how could Rarity see that? He deliberately chose a slightly too small fleece for a specific reason. Seeing that he wouldn't get out of not answering, he decided to answer. The girls were nice enough he felt and wouldn't poke fun. 

"It's because.......I get lonely so I wear a slightly too small fleece so it feels like I'm getting a cuddle."

Each girl blinked before they 'Awww'ed in unison. Forte felt himself in the middle of a group hug.

"That is so sweet," Fluttershy said softly.

"Indeed darling," added Rarity as Forte was released from their embrace, "It's so nice to know a young man is so gentle and caring."

"I'm just being myself," Forte replied trying to be modest.

"We know you are, and that's why you're our friend," replied Fluttershy.

Forte felt relieved. He was making a whole song and dance over nothing. Who cared if he liked wearing a pony ears headband, there are far worse things to enjoy. After getting more reassurances from the girls he went to get changed into his pyjamas and returned to Rainbow's room wearing his head band, much to the delight of Rarity......and Sunset.

After a short while they set about doing things to pass the time, Applejack and Rainbow where playing against each other on Rainbow's game console, Rarity was sewing some fabric with the assistance of Fluttershy, Pinkie was updating her social accounts. Sunset was busy watching Applejack and Rainbow.

Forte however, wasn't really doing anything. 

"Forte are you OK?" asked Sunset.

"Yeah I'm OK, why wouldn't I be?"

"Well.....you're just sat there doing nothing. You can join any of us, you don't have to ask."

"I know, I just wasn't sure what though."

Sunset thought for a moment, "I know, why don't we watch another movie together."

"That's a great idea Sunset," Pinkie said excitedly, "Rainbow has loads of films to choose from."

Sunset turned to Rainbow, "What about it Dash, you up for another film?"

"Sure, come on AJ. While were getting snacks and drinks Forte can pick out a film."

"You're letting me choose?" asked Forte surprised.

"Course I am, you are the only guy in this sleepover. Unless there's something you're not telling us."

The girls giggled as Applejack and Rainbow went downstairs.

"Just for the record I am male."

"We never said you weren't darling," Rarity replied as she put away her sewing kit.

Forte walked over to the DVD shelves and had quite a collection to choose from. Most of them we're action, unsurprising given that they we're Rainbow's DVD's. He saw a film he hoped would be well received.

Daring Do And The Quest For The Sapphire Stone. The film was excellent. It was the Directors Cut with about fifteen minutes of extra footage. The film itself was considered one of the best in the series and was one of the one's which Forte's mother had written the score to.

He set the film on next to the games console and waited with the other girls for Applejack and Rainbow to return. After another minute or so they did and handed each of the gang a bowl of popcorn each and bottle of Pepsi Max each. Rainbow put the film in the Xbox One and went over to lay on her bed, laying on her belly with her head at the foot end of the bed.

Forte's head was beneath her and he was flanked by Rarity and Sunset. The other girls had sat to the side slightly so as to not block the view of the TV. With the exception of Rainbow, the others were inside their sleeping bags to keep warm, and just in case they fell asleep before the film finished.

As the film was loading, Forte started to laugh a little which gained the attention of the girls.

"Something funny Forte?" asked Sunset.

"I was just thinking how funny it would be if I actually grew a pair of real pony ears as opposed to having just fake plastic ones."

The girls looked at each other knowingly. Much was said without the need for words and they decided to not say anything and wait and see what would happen when they either, grew their own pair again for whatever reason or he actually did grow a pair if his own.

Either way it would be interesting to see what happens.





The film had finished and it had just passed midnight. The girls were very tired and were very much ready for bed. Rainbow took the disc out of the console and put it back in its case. As she did she heard Sunset whisper.

"Hey girls, have you seen this?"

The girls all looked at Sunset and saw Forte already fast asleep against Sunset's shoulder. The girls all 'Awwww'ed at the pleasant sight before gently lowering him flat on the floor in his sleeping bag and gently placing a pillow under his head.

"We seem to have gotten ourselves quite an interesting friend," Rarity said quietly.

"One who likes pony ears," said Sunset, "I wonder how he'd react when he finds that I'm actually a pony myself."

"I'm not sure," replied Rarity, "But what I am sure of is that he likes you."

"Huh? Forte likes Sunset? You mean like like?" asked Rainbow.

Rarity hummed in acknowledgement, "Didn't you see how he kept looking at her or how he deliberately sat next to Sunset in the cinema. He likes her and I believe Sunset likes him. Why else would she sit close to him earlier in the food court, the Pancake House or tonight setting her sleeping bag next to him."

The girls looked at Sunset who was starting to blush a little, "There's not much that escapes your attention is there Rarity. Well he's cute and funny, good looking, charming. What's not to like about him?"

"Sunset I do believe you're falling on love," replied Rarity teasingly.

Sunset rolled her eyes, "It's a little early to say that. Anyway it's late and I'm tired, can we save all this smoochy romance stuff for another time?"

"Sure thing darling," replied Rarity, "But you do realise we will do everything we can to get such a sweet couple together?"

"I wouldn't expect anything less," replied Sunset with a smile.

The girls each said goodnight and settled down for the night. Sunset moved her sleeping bag a little closer to Forte's and made it parallel with his. She couldn't deny she liked Forte in that sense. Over the past week he'd settled in nicely at CHS and gotten on with the other students really well. Most of them anyway, one of the students by the name of Gilda started to give him a hard time. She would keep calling him a 'dweeb'. 

Forte was insulted. Not because she called him a dweeb, but because she called him a dweeb i.e. it was such a pathetic and childish name he felt insulted that was all she called him. At his old schools he'd been called far worse by arse-wipes even lower than Gilda.

She didn't bother him though, as far as Forte was concerned she was just looking to get a reaction out of him.

Sunset though decided to see how things played out with herself and Forte. Maybe something more would come of their friendship, she'd just have to wait and see.

Whatever happens though, Forte is going to be in for several wild rides at CHS and with the upcoming musical showcase he would be involved in their own activities as well. She couldn't wait to introduce him to Twilight. She'd have to wait until the portal opens again though but it'd be worth it.

For now though, she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep, looking forward to tomorrow. Wonderbolts were playing at home to Terraville AFC. A small town club not too far from Canterlot. They were struggling at the bottom of the table and their form had been terrible all season so far so a big win was expected.

She rolled over to her side and smiled as she looked at the sleeping Forte, still wearing the headband.

I wonder what he looks like as a pony.