“Jade, hurry up! You've been in there for an hour already!”
An elegant voice filled with charm rang out from behind the door. “Just wait a few more minutes! I'm putting on my makeup!”
The sixteen year old boy, who looked nearly identical to his father with his lightish gray skin and black hair, stood outside of the bathroom door and sighed as he leaned against the wall on the other side of the hallway. While he retained his father’s male bloodline in appearance, the one detail that made him different from his grandfather, uncle, and father were the blue sapphire eyes his mother had that he also shared.
“It's the first day of school and she already has to try and get the phone numbers of every boy in school so she can send them certain pictures...”
The bathroom door instantly burst open as the girl, dressed in only a towel around her body, ran up to him and gently hit him. Her normally styled black hair was still wet, as well as her white, ivory skin from her shower, and her bright green eyes were surrounded with various forms of makeup such as eyeshadow and eyeliner.
“How dare you accuse me of such atrocious acts, Altair!”
The boy laughed. “You're right, Jade. I apologize. You probably wait until at least the second day of school to start sending nudes.” He laughed again.
Jade glared at him again ready to smack him but stopped when she saw another girl walk past them in the hallway as she headed downstairs. Unlike Jade, she was already dressed and ready to start the day just like Altair, who just wanted to use the bathroom one last time before going downstairs.
Once she reached the kitchen downstairs, the second girl, who wore a simple loose shirt with a jacket and compression shorts that had pockets, made herself a bowl of cereal and sat beside the man already eating at the table. He was dressed in a casual polo with sweatpants that bore the emblem of Canterlot High.
“Good morning, Seryn,” said Clyde with a smile. “I see you are up early. You excited to start high school today?”
“Morning, Dad,” replied Seryn with a smile of her own. “I hope today is pretty easy. I heard the high school can get confusing for freshmen at first.”
Like Jade, Seryn had white, ivory skin. However, unlike her sister, Seryn had the deep brown eyes Clyde’s mother and brother had, as well as having a royal purple highlight scattered throughout her brown hair to look somewhat different from her siblings since they all shared black hair except for her. Her hair was in a ponytail as it normally was.
“I wouldn't worry too much,” said Clyde looking at the newspaper and eating a spoonful of cereal. “They normally have upperclassmen tour you around if you need it, plus, Jade and Altair can help you around if you run into them. And if that fails too, you can always come find me near the gym.”
Seryn smiled. “Thanks Dad. Did Mom leave already?”
“Unfortunately, yes. She didn't want to leave so early, but at least she only has to be in Manehattan for one day. She’ll be home late tonight. She did leave a note for you though.”
“She did?!” Seryn looked over at the counter and saw a note placed neatly to the side. She went over to it, picked it up, and gave it a read.
I'm sorry for leaving so early without wishing you good luck on for your first day of high school! I know you will do fine, dear! Jade and Altair will help you if you ever need it, and if they don't, you let me know so I can talk to them personally for not helping their dear little sister.
You’ll always be my little baby Seryn, but I know you’ll make Clyde and I proud! Tell your siblings and your handsome father I miss them already too!
<3 <3 <3 I love you all lots! <3 <3 <3
:)
Seryn put the note down and smiled. “Mom never changes, huh?”
“Nope, and that's why I love her.” Clyde laughed. “So, is Jade and Altair done bickering yet?”
“You heard them?”
Clyde nodded. “Everyone can hear them. Even Mittens.”
Seryn giggled as Jade walked into the kitchen, her hair fully curled and with her dressy outfit, composed of a simple skirt with a belt and loose shirt that was rather low cut to show some cleavage, as well as some jewelry. She smiled brightly at them. “Good morning. Sorry for the loudness earlier father. You know how Altair picks on me.”
Clyde chuckled. “It's because he loves you. He does it for fun, but you know too that he’ll protect his older sister.”
“I sure hope so, but luckily for him I have charm and seduction to protect me. I doubt any bully or thug would want to ruin this pretty face.” She giggled. Jade turned to Seryn and gave her a brief hug. “Ready for high school dear little sister? Your outfit could use a little work, however.”
“I think so. I just hope my classes are pretty easy,” said Seryn. “And for your information, I don't really think it's necessary to overdress for school. I'll dress up for events or dances, but not a regular day.”
“Fair enough, but anyway, freshman year is super easy! I'm thankful I'm finally in my senior year though!” said Jade with a smile. “Since most of my classes are pretty much done, I can just have a good time!”
“Heh, my senior year was only two classes during the spring,” said Clyde. “It was pretty great.”
A soft meow was heard as a small black kitten rubbed its head against Jade’s boot. She looked down and instantly smiled in joy. “Mittens, my lovely kitten!!! How are you handsome?” She picked him up and held him close to her face. “You are so adorable!”
Mittens stared at her before rubbing his face against hers as Jade laughed.
“I'm surprised we actually got a cat,” said Seryn. “I thought Mom was really depressed about losing her Opal many years ago.”
Clyde nodded. “Oh, she was. It was a few years after we got married and she was early in her pregnancy with Jade.” Clyde looked at Mittens. “Opal was always a good cat, but it got really sick really fast and we had to put her down since there was nothing we could do. Rarity couldn't handle that so I had to take Opal into the room myself while she stayed in the car... That was a pretty sad day for the both of us. It wasn't until Jade kept talking about us having a pet that she began to accept the fact Opal, even if she was gone, would always be with us and it's okay to get another one.”
Seryn frowned. “So that's why it took so long for us to get one...”
“I know Mittens and Opal would have been the best of friends, isn't that right?” Jade giggled as Mittens licked her face and meowed.
“Morning, Dad,” said Altair as he walked into the kitchen behind everyone. He quickly grabbed a pack of small donuts from the counter and began eating them.
Clyde smiled. “Good morning. Hopefully you're excited for practice today.”
“Hell yeah. I'm ready to begin the new football season Friday night.” Altair smirked. “Football and basketball is what I live for. As the quarterback and point guard of CHS, I have to make Mom’s father and my own father proud. Although... It does kinda make it hard to focus when you help coach football and are the head coach for basketball, Dad...”
Clyde laughed. “Nothing like some pressure to help make you focus. It might be difficult at first, but it’s hard to make me not proud at any of you.”
“Ooh, I can't wait for basketball to start too,” said Seryn. “Hopefully I can make the girls’ varsity team this year, even if I'm a freshmen.”
“You’ll make it, Seryn,” responded Altair with a confident smile. “You’ve improved your game a lot in the last few years.”
“I agree,” said Clyde. “If you keep practicing with me or Altair, you’ll have nothing to worry about.” Clyde looked at his phone and then to his teenage kids. “You all ready to go?”
“Yup!” said Seryn as she put on her backpack.
“Of course. Time to start my junior year,” said Altair as he strapped his backpack on one of his shoulders.
Jade was still playing with Mittens before she carefully set him down before he ran into the next room. “Hmm? Oh yes. I'm ready to leave.”
Clyde nodded as he and the kids walked out of the house and headed to the car. Clyde locked up the house before getting into the driver seat. Once the kids were ready, he drove off towards the school. After the short drive through Canterlot, they reached the school grounds and Clyde parked into his normal spot as Seryn looked at Altair and Jade.
“Can one of you give me a quick rundown of where to go?”
Altair took her class schedule and gave it a quick read. “Hmm... Seems to me you have geometry first period. Try not to fall asleep.”
“I don't really mind math class,” said Seryn with a grin. “I'm pretty good at it.”
“I'm not bad at it either, but still, math in the early morning? No thanks.” Altair laughed and got out of the car. “Ready to head to astronomy class Jade? I hear it's pretty easy and we do a lot of group projects. You can team up with me if you want. I love astronomy.”
“Very well! You can do the actual project and I will present the information!” replied Jade happily.
Altair nodded. “Sounds good. I'm not one for speaking in front of the class.”
“I wonder who you got that from,” said Clyde with a smirk. “Anyway, I'll see you guys later. Have a good first day and good luck on your first day of high school Seryn!”
Seryn hugged him. “Thanks Dad.”
Clyde smiled and hugged Jade and gave Altair a pat on the back as he headed into the school.
“See ya after lunch Dad!” called out Altair.
“Bye! We love you!” chimed Jade as she waved.
Seryn looked at her schedule and tried remembering the classes and room numbers. After Geometry, her first class of the day, she was to head to Art, and English after that. Once those three were done, she had a free period before going to History which led to the lunch period. After lunch came Gym which ended the day. While she had no problem remembering the order of her classes, she still had no idea where to go.
“So, you want me to help guide you to that math class of yours little sister?” asked Jade with a smile.
Seryn nodded. “I'd really appreciate it. Thanks Jade.”
“Of course!”
Altair adjusted his backpack as he gave them a wave. “I'll see you in Astronomy Jade. I'm heading to my home room.”
“Alrighty! Bye! Be sure to tell your friends I said hello just to tease them!”
Seryn gave her brother a nod. “See you later Altair!”
Altair grinned. “That's right! Other than lunch, we have Gym together! We can play basketball together and dominate.”
“I believe I have Gym as well,” stated Jade, “but I doubt I'll even do it. I can't be bothered getting dirty or sweaty during school.”
Altair shook his head and laughed. “Whatever. Good luck and have fun today Seryn.” He smiled and headed into the school.
“Now, ready to head inside too?” asked Jade.
Seryn nodded and looked to the school. “Yeah, let's go!”
Jade led her inside and walked through the already busy morning hallways. Seryn looked around as they walked to help her remember where to go and to mostly know a basic layout of the school. Seryn also noticed many of the boys that walked by them stopped and stared at Jade who gave them smiles and winks back. As the two sisters took a corner on the first floor, three boys standing by the lockers stopped them.
“Hey, Seryn, Jade!”
“Hello.”
“How's it going?”
Seryn looked at the boys for a moment but soon realized who they were. She smiled brightly. “Hey, Jingle! Hey, Jangle! Hey Kringle!”
“Good morning,” greeted Jade with a smile. She looked at Seryn and then to her phone. “I should really be getting to home room since it's on the next floor. Your math class is down this hallway, a few doors to the right.” She hugged her and waved to the three boys. “Take care of yourselves! Bye!”
“Thanks for the help Jade!” said Seryn happily as she waved until Jade disappeared into the crowd of students.
“Oh, that's right. It's your first day, huh Seryn?” asked Kringle.
“Yep! Sure is!” Seryn pulled out her schedule. “Geometry. Hopefully it's not too bad. My dad said it’s pretty easy.”
“I have that too!” exclaimed Jingle. “We can go find a seat together!”
“After home room, you mean,” stated Kringle.
“Yeah, Jingle. We should get going or we will be late,” said Jangle with a yawn. “Maybe I can catch a quick nap during that before classes.”
Jingle looked at his phone for the time. “Oh, that's right! Home room is about to start! See you guys there, and I'll see you in Geometry Seryn!” He gave a chuckle and quickly ran off down the hallway.
Kringle shook his head with a sigh. “He's always so full of energy.”
Jangle chuckled. “Someone has to. See you later Seryn.”
“Bye guys! Maybe we can sit together at lunch?” asked Seryn.
“Yeah, totally. We can do that.” Jangle yawned again and headed down the hallway with Kringle.
Seryn gave a chuckle at seeing her good friends before looking at her schedule and went to her home room. Other than attendance, nothing exciting happened for her so once the first bell rang, she quickly made her way back to the hallway where her Geometry class was at. She walked into the room and saw Jingle already sitting at a desk with some empty seats near him.
“Pick your seat,” said Jingle with a laugh as he outstretched his arms to show off the desks.
Seryn smiled as she took a seat to his left. As she sat down, a girl to Seryn’s left looked at her and quickly flashed a big smile.
“Hello! Nice to meet you!”
“Hi!” greeted Seryn. “Is this your first day of high school too?”
“Yep!” said the girl happily, “my name is Sunday!”
“Heya Sunday!” said Jingle with a wave. “I'm Jingle and this is one of the coolest girls I know, Seryn.”
Seryn scratched her head. “I’m not that cool.”
Jingle gasped. “Nonsense! You’re a great basketball player! You and your brother always can beat my brothers and I! Plus, you're so chill, so of course you're cool!”
Sunday giggled. “Nice to meet you Seryn! I tried basketball once... It didn't go so well...”
“Oh? How so?” questioned Seryn.
“Everytime I throw the ball, it bounces off the rim and hits me in the face! I think my dad’s luck with sports rubbed off on me.” Sunday laughed.
“That sounds terrible!” replied Seryn in shock.
“It's all good! At least I don't get super hurt, so I don't mind if balls slap against my face!” Sunday gave an innocent smile.
“Uh... I don't think you want to say that like that,” stated Jingle.
“Huh? Why not?”
Jingle shook his head and coughed. “N-Nevermind.”
“Oooookay...” Sunday looked back to Seryn. “So, do you think this math class will be fun?”
“It shouldn't be too hard,” said Seryn, “I'm sure my parents or siblings can help me out if I get stuck on topics.”
Sunday smiled brightly. “Same! My mom will totally help me out! I can even ask to see if she can help you guys out too!” She gave a giggle.
“Good deal!” cheered Jingle before his eyes darted to the door and watched as a woman, wearing a professional looking outfit with a skirt, walked into the room and looked at the class. Her red and yellow hair was tied neatly in a hair tie as she put her hands on her hips.
“Good morning! Welcome to Geometry! I am Mrs. Shimmer and I am super proud to be able to have class with all of you this semster! Before we do any introductions, let me take attendance first so I won't forget.” She quickly read down the list of students. After the first few names were called, she eventually got to latter half of the class.
“Seryn Belle?”
Seryn raised her hand. “Hello.”
Sunset smiled at her. “Hello there! It's wonderful to see you again, Seryn.”
Seryn smiled as Sunset looked back down at the attendance list.
Next is, Shooting Star?” She looked around as did the class as no one raised their hand. “Shooting Star? Strange... Normally no one ever misses the first day of class...”
“Or maybe they got lost!” gasped Jingle. “This is a large school after all!”
The students began chattering about as Sunset looked at the next name and she gave a chuckle.
“Moving on, next, we have Sunday–”
- - - - -
As Seryn was busy with Geometry, Jade and Altair were sitting beside each other in astronomy class. Altair was looking through the class textbook as Jade was texting on her phone.
“Miss Belle, you know we have a rule against texting in class,” stated the teacher from across the room. He looked at her with nonchalant eyes.
“Oops! Sorry Mr. Comet Tail!” Jade put her phone away and put her hands together on the desk to look innocent.
Comet Tail sighed. “At least put your phone away until we actually start getting into the course. I know phones these days are much faster than school equipment, so unless we need to do research, please leave the phones out of sight.”
“Will do!”
Comet Tail nodded and began writing down course objectives on the whiteboard. Altair read over them and began thinking how easy this class was going to be until he saw many of the projects in class were for a group of four.
“Hey, Jade... Do you want to work together on assignments?” He whispered to her.
Jade smiled. “Of course dear brother! I figured that's what siblings are for!”
Altair rolled his eyes and looked around. “Sweet. We still need two others though...”
Jade looked around and smiled. “Oh, that shouldn't be a problem.” She leaned over her desk to poke the two boys in front of them in the back. As they turned around, she smiled at them and lowered her eyes. “Hello. Do you two fine young men mind helping my brother and I with future projects?” She batted her eyelashes.
“Uh... Sure,” said one boy who looked confused.
“I-I don't mind helping you out...” replied the other clearly nervous.
“Wonderful!” Jade sat back into her seat and smiled at them as Altair looked at the two boys with a small wave as they gave him a chuckle or wave back.
“Alright, so like I have written here,” bellowed Comet Tail, “many of your grades in this class will focus on group projects after we finish a chapter in the book. If you all do your work, it should be an easy grade. You can have the same groups all semester, or switch it up some weeks, it matters not to me. So, for the rest of today, I'll let you all talk to each other and all that jazz.” He sat in his chair and sipped coffee.
Altair looked at the two boys. “Alright! So, you guys up for forming a team? I'm Altair by the way. This is my sister Jade.”
Jade waved. “It's a pleasure to meet you both.”
“I'm Blaze,” stated the first boy, “and sure, we can work together. I didn't really have anyone to work with in here other than Nova here.”
“Nova?” asked Altair.
“I'm Nova,” spoke the second boy. “Nice to meet you both.”
“With a name like Nova, I bet you will breeze through this class!” said Altair with a laugh.
Nova chuckled. “Same can be said for you. Your name is a star, which is weird since my younger sister's name is Star.”
Altair nodded. “Yeah, my dad has a whole explanation of why my name is what it is. I like it though. It has uniqueness.”
“Something our mother strives to have in all of her designs after all,” said Jade.
“Oh, so your mother is Rarity? The famous fashion designer?” questioned Blaze.
“Indeed! I am her successor and plan to follow her footsteps!” Jade grinned. “Fashion has been in my life since I was born. Years and years of watching my mother in action has shown me a love for it like she has!”
“That's pretty cool. I'm not sure if I want to follow my dad’s footsteps,” said Blaze. “I love what he does, but I’m not sure yet...”
“There's no need to rush any rash decisions,” comforted Jade, “you are still young and have plenty of time to figure something out.” She gave a warming smile.
“Yeah... You're right.” Blaze gave her a smile back. “I can tell why you're a popular girl around here now. You're very nice.”
“A-And pretty,” stuttered Nova quietly with a faint blush.
Jade giggled and waved her hand. “Oh, please. I'm nothing special. But you have heard about me before?”
Blaze nodded. “Yeah, some boys in my home room were talking about you, and even some boys in the hallways. I didn't know who they were referring to at first, but now I know.”
“I never imagined I was that popular!” exclaimed Jade with a slight giggle.
Altair rolled his eyes as he thought to himself. “That's complete bullshit and she knows it. She strives to be the Queen here all the time...”
“S-So, can we talk about the projects then before the class ends?” interrupted Nova nervously hoping to change the topic.
“Oh, sure.” Blaze took out a notepad. “So, I was thinking we–”
“Don't worry boys, for I have the best idea!” Jade took the notepad and Blaze’s pen as she wrote a few things down. After a few sketches, she put the notepad down so Altair, Blaze, and Nova to see. The three of them were associated to research, planning, and writing while Jade was associated to presentation.
“You're joking, right?” questioned Altair. “You want us to do all the work while you just present it? That's hardly fair!”
“Nonsense!” objected Jade. “I’ll take extra time to make a very neat and elegant presentation! I can talk to people for hours, and I'm sure all of you don't want to bother talking about the topic after doing the more boring research and writing work.”
“I mean, I don't really mind that,” said Nova defending her. “Research comes pretty easy to me since I know my mom can help with that.”
Blaze nodded in agreement. “Yeah, that's fine with me, too.”
Jade gave them a smile and looked back to her brother. “So... Altair! Majority of us have agreed!”
“Fine. Whatever.” Altair leaned back in his chair.
“Excellent!” Jade took the pen again and began writing down more notes on Blaze’s notepad. “Now... We need a group name!”
Altair shook his head and chuckled.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
It was the last class before lunch already as Seryn and Sunday headed to their next class. Seryn found out that she and Sunday shared many classes together which was rather nice since she had at least one person she knew to help her with the class and actually finding it.
“You ready for Biology?” asked Seryn as they walked through the busy hallways.
“Yup! Sounds like a fun time! Hopefully we learn about–”
Sunday bumped into a person as they both fell to the floor. Seryn quickly rushed over and helped the other girl up.
“A-Are you okay?” asked Seryn worryingly.
“I'm sorry!” apologized Sunday.
“I-I’m f-fine...” replied the girl softly. Her hoodie covered most of her face as she frantically grabbed the books and notes she dropped.
Seryn helped her out as she grabbed a textbook. “Here. I'll help you.”
“T-Thanks...”
Seryn and Sunday helped the girl up and even picked up the books and notepads for her. As they handed them to her, the girl showed a slight smile before nervously looking away.
Sunday flashed a large grin. “Here you are... Uh...I'm sorry, but I don't know your name.”
“I...s Q.....” the girl spoke quietly that made it completely impossible to understand her.
“Huh? What was that?”
“I-Iris Q-Quiver...”
“Oooooh!” said Sunday. “Nice to meet you Iris!”
Seryn nodded. “Same! Are you a freshman too, Iris?”
Iris nodded without saying a word.
“Well, if that's everything... We should get going Seryn! Biology is about to start!” Sunday ran past them into the classroom down the hallway.
“Well, I guess have a good rest of your day Iris,” said Seryn with a smile. She took a few steps before the soft voice of Iris spoke back.
“I-I have B-Biology too... C-Can I s-sit with you too?”
“Of course you can!” stated Seryn happily. “Let's go!”
Iris gave a small smile before following Seryn into the classroom. They found Sunday already sitting at a lab desk near another girl who was already deeply involved with her textbook. Seryn sat across from her before the girl looked up.
“Hello.”
“Hi,” greeted Seryn. “You don't mind if we all sit here do you?” Seryn looked back to see Sunday was busy trying to look at Iris’s earbuds that were hidden in her hoodie’s hood.
The girl shook her head. “Not at all. I'm Rhoda by the way.”
“Hello Rhoda! I'm Sunday!” cheered Sunday while holding Iris’ earbuds victoriously.
Iris snatched her earbuds back before hiding them back into her hood. She gave Sunday a mean look before she turned to Rhoda. “H-Hi... I-I’m Iris...”
Seryn waved. “Seryn. It's nice to meet you, Rhoda.”
Rhoda gave them a smile before looking back to her book. “Hopefully we can all enjoy this class together. To be honest, this was the main class I was looking towards this year. I plan on taking all the Biology classes here.”
“Oh? You do seem really interested in that book,” pointed out Seryn.
Rhoda nodded. “I've been reading it all morning. Even in the car when my dad dropped off my little brother for his first day of middle school.”
“Oh, wow,” commented Seryn. “Does your family associate with Biology or other science careers then?”
“My mom does, but I've always enjoyed medical science and the sorts,” stated Rhoda flipping a page without looking up. “Helping my mom with animals always helped, but medical science expands a lot and there's many things to learn, see, and do.”
“Cool. It seems like you found a future career then!” said Seryn with a smile. “Does your little brother want to be involved with that too?”
Rhoda stopped reading for a moment. “Hmm... I'm not sure what Aster wants to do. Truth is, he's still way too young to even think about that, so he still has plenty of years to think about the future. It's his time to just enjoy life and make some friends.”
“Yeah, I guess you're right. Even I don't know what to do yet.” Seryn looked at the lab table.
“Don't worry too much about it,” said Rhoda, “just take life as one day at a time.”
“Yeah! Like me!” shouted Sunday with a smile. She had Iris’ earbuds in her ears. Iris looked at her with distaste before gently punching Sunday in the shoulder and ripping the earbuds out of her ears.
“Stop taking my stuff!” shouted Iris, causing everyone to look at her. She immediately saw everyone staring before she hid in her hoodie and zipped it up to close her face.
“Ow...” said Sunday rubbing her shoulder. “I'm sorry, geez.”
Seryn looked at Rhoda and whispered. “I'm sorry for her. She’s kinda crazy sometimes.”
Rhoda chuckled. “It's fine. I think Biology will be interesting with her around.”
Seryn laughed and gave a nod.
Eventually, the famous and awaited lunch period came as students rushed to the already buzzing cafeteria. Instead of waiting in the long line for food, Seryn found a table with Sunday to sit at to wait for the line to dwindle down.
“Is this table fine?” asked Seryn.
“Yeah, it sure is!” Sunday flopped down in a chair and threw her backpack on the table.
“Sunday? There you are!”
Sunday and Seryn looked around to see Blaze running up to the table.
“Blaze! Hey!” said Sunday. “How was your day, bro?”
Seryn blinked. “Bro?”
Blaze sat down at the table and nodded. “Yes, I'm Blaze, Sunday’s older brother. Is this your new friend, Sunday?”
“Yup! This is Seryn!”
Blaze smiled. “Nice to meet you Seryn.”
“Same!” Seryn returned the smile as another boy she didn't know sat down beside Blaze.
“I hope you don't mind if I sit here either.”
Blaze shook his head. “Not at all, Nova. Sunday, Seryn, do you mind?”
Sunday looked at them. “Nope!”
“I don't mind,” said Seryn as she looked at the lunch line. “The line is getting shorter, I think I'm going to go ahead in get in line.”
“Blaze and I can keep the table,” stated Nova.
Seryn got up. “Awesome! Let's go Sunday!”
“Right!”
For the next few minutes, Seryn and Sunday waited in line together for their food. As they returned to the lunch table, they could see more people were already sitting down.
“Hey girls!” shouted Jingle happily. “Me and my brothers are here!”
“Hey,” mumbled Jangle as he was chewing on a double bacon cheeseburger.
“Hello,” replied Kringle after taking a gulp of milk. “I didn't know you knew Blaze and Nova, Seryn, but seeing how your friends with Blaze’s sister, it makes sense.”
“Yeah! Sunday shares a lot of classes with me which is great!”
Sunday nodded. “You betcha!”
“Is Jade or Altair coming Seryn? I haven't seen them at lunch yet.” Kringle looked around.
“Jade and Altair?” questioned Nova. He looked at Seryn and after a few seconds smiled. “Ah! You must be their little sister! You look similar to Jade after all.”
Seryn nodded with a grin. “I am indeed the youngest child. You know my older sister and brother?”
“We share Astronomy together,” said Blaze.
“And they are our other partners in our group for projects,” added Nova. “Altair is nice and cool while Jade is... well, she's something else.” Nova blushed slightly.
“Who are you getting all flustered about?” Another young girl stood at the end of the table with her hands on her hips looking straight at Nova.
Nova looked away. “N-No one Star! Leave me alone!”
The girl stuck her tongue out. “Make me!”
“Star?! Wait!” Sunday stood up. “Are you the same Star from Geometry class who didn't show up today?!”
“You better believe it.” The girl chuckled before grinning and putting her foot on the lunch table and making a heroic pose. “My name is Shooting Star! Making people's dreams come true like it's nobody's business... but just call me Star for short.”
Nova sighed. “My little sister everyone...”
“Can it, Nova!” Star sat down at the table as she looked around. “Sorry about him being no fun, but anyway, I was in fact supposed be in Geometry first period but that's way too early for me. I can't do math super early!”
“Oh, that's a shame,” said Jingle, “our class is pretty easy and seems chill.”
“Yeah! Jingle, Seryn, and I are all in it! We had a lot of fun today just playing games to know each other!” Sunday flashed a large smile.
“Hmm. Maybe I'll give it a shot.” Star shrugged.
“Woohoo!” Sunday hugged her tightly as Star laughed.
“Alright, easy!”
“Now Seryn, you, and me can make the ‘Stellar Girls Geometry Group’, right Seryn?” Sunday chuckled as she scratched her head. “I'm still working on the name though.”
Seryn laughed. “Sounds good, Sunday! Nice to meet you Star! Do you have any hobbies or anything?”
“Nice to meet you, and yes! I love sports, karate, and kendo.”
“Oh, cool! I play basketball so maybe we can play against each other!”
Star dropped a competitive smirk. “Bring it. I'll take on any challenge with full gusto!”
“Heh. Seryn is pretty good though,” defended Jingle. “I'd like to see this. I think today at gym would be a good time to do it.”
Seryn nodded and looked at Star. “Yeah! let's do this at gym class. I'd love to have a rival.”
As the girls looked at each other with competitive and friendly determination, Jade walked by and looked at everyone. “Oh my, Seryn! Look at all of your friends already! Hello everyone.” She sat beside Seryn and opened up her small salad box.
“Hey Jade,” said Kringle with a wave. Jingle and Jangle were too busy eating to reply back.
“Hi,” said Nova quietly before Star elbowed him in the side. “Oof. H-Hi Jade.”
“Hello. Altair isn't here?” asked Blaze.
“I'm right here!” Altair quickly ran up to the table as he quickly ate something and took a deep breath. “Phew. I was so hungry.” He looked at Jingle, Jangle, and Kringle before grinning. “What's up guys? You guys ready to ball at the park again?”
“Altair! You know it!” they all said simultaneously as they high-fived him.
Seryn turned to everyone. “In case you didn't know, this is my sister and brother, Jade and Altair. I think most of you already know, but I know Sunday hasn't seen them.” She turned to Sunday to see she was in a complete daze.
“He's so dreamy...”
“Sunday?” Seryn peeked over to see Sunday’s eyes were locked on Altair. Altair was too busy talking to Jingle, Jangle, and Kringle to notice, but Seryn and the others could see clear as day Sunday was completely love struck by Altair’s appearance. “Oh great... Someone snap her out of it before she tackles him.”
Sunday slightly cooed. “Ooh... I'd love to do that~”
Seryn gasped. “Quick!”
Star quickly and lightly punched Sunday in the stomach causing her to cough and snap out of her daze. “Better?”
“Y-You...” Sunday stuttered as she coughed.
“Meh. It's whatever.” Star laughed.
“I’ll take Sunday to the snack bar!” said Seryn getting up and dragging her away with her. As they were earshot away from the table, Seryn looked at Sunday. “You like my brother?!”
Sunday smiled and nodded. “He's so hot! Do you think he’ll like me back?!”
“I don't know!? Don't ask me!” Seryn shook her head. “You’re lucky he was talking to the triplets or else he might've been freaked out you were staring at him.”
Sunday slyly smiled. “That's okay. I’ll be freaky if he likes that~”
“Stop talking like that!”
“S-Sorry!” Sunday giggled as she looked back at the cafeteria. She was going to look at Altair again but she saw both Iris and Rhoda at different spots of the cafeteria. “Ooh! Idea! Let's go see Iris and Rhoda from Biology want to sit with us! Our table can be huge!” She quickly ran off.
Seryn chuckled for a moment. “She's crazy, but you gotta love her for that.” She quickly ran off after her.
After lunch and gym class, school had ended and everyone cheered as the first day of school ended. Normally, the day was meant for students to meet their teachers, classmates, and to get ready to learn for the semester starting the following day, so everyone made no hesitation to leave school at all to prepare for the next day.
Altair wasn't able to leave school at the closing bell as he had football practice along with the team which always ran after school ended. Eventually, after hours of tough practice and a few breaks from the nearly retired Iron Will, many of the team’s favorite Coach “T”, and his father, Altair leaned back in Clyde’s car on the way home as he sighed.
“Tough day, bud?” asked Clyde with a chuckle.
Altair shrugged. “Only because it was super hot out. I can't wait to get a shower and change into clean clothes for the night.”
Clyde smiled. “I feel you. I remember the basketball practices from overseas was like military training compared to Iron Will’s. They definitely helped though.”
“Old Iron Will’s last year is this year, Dad. Are you sad about that?”
“I've always had a good relationship with him,” said Clyde with a frown. “Of course it’ll be sad to see him go, but he helped me a lot when I was your age and even out of high school. I just hope I can keep his legacy going by making sure our teams are still great when he's gone.”
“Heh, but you have Coach T with you, too. That’s two of the players on the school’s greatest team in history! We’ll be dominate!” Altair raised his fist and grinned.
Clyde laughed. “Yeah.” He looked at the time in the car’s dashboard to see it was after seven. “Hmm, your mother should be home soon. I hope her day was wonderful. I haven't heard from her since lunch.”
Altair rubbed his stomach. “Yeah, and I'm starving too...”
Clyde pulled into the driveway after a few minutes and pulled up beside a purely white SUV since the garage was already filled with two cars. Clyde smiled and quickly got out of the car as Altair fetched his backpack from the back seat. As Clyde reached the front door, it quickly opened as Rarity jumped out and hugged him.
“Hello, darling! Glad to see my handsome boys are home in time for dinner!”
Clyde hugged her tightly and kissed her on the lips. “I’m glad to see my beautiful lady too. How was Manehattan? Anything happen at that emergency meeting?”
Rarity flashed a large smile. “Oh! It was incredible! I have big news to share! The meeting was for me to find out that my stores are opening up on the west coast! My sales are at an all time high this year and people want a chain of shops in the west since many of my stores are around the Manehattan area and eastern cities!”
“That's incredible, Rarity!” exclaimed Clyde happily as he smiled at her. “I'm so proud of you. You've been hard at your fashion even before I met you. You've come a long way and now all that success is showing.”
Rarity giggled and hugged and kissed him. “All because of your support. I'd have never reached this point without the support of my loving husband and wonderful children. Which is lovely, since I’m definitely taking all of you with me to Hollywood when my shop opens there! I will attend the grand opening, but I'm still staying perfectly fine here in Canterlot with my beautiful family!” She turned to Altair and waved a hand at her nose. “Although... Altair, dear, please get a shower. You stink.”
Altair chuckled. “That was the plan, Mom. Welcome home. I'm glad you had a nice trip.” He walked past them and headed to his room.
Rarity smiled then turned back to Clyde. “Anyway, darling, Jade and I nearly have dinner ready! Because of my wonderful news, we decided to treat you and Altair with our family’s favorite homemade pizza to the long day of practice!”
Clyde smirked and lovingly held Rarity by her hips. “Wonderful. I sure am lucky, huh?”
“Indeed you are,” she purred back with lowered seductive eyes. “Just wait until tonight since the news today really made me excited~”
Clyde kissed her for a few seconds as he smiled. “I love you so much.”
Rarity smirked and playfully ran her hand past his cheek. “I know you do.” She turned and went inside to the kitchen.
Clyde entered the house and put his car keys on the first of the five small hooks by the door along with the others. They were all filled now with car keys except for the last hook since Seryn wasn't old enough to drive yet. Clyde headed to the kitchen to see Jade and Rarity decorating the pizza together by the stove. On the counter near them was Mittens wearing a small chef’s hat licking his paw.
“Hello, father!” greeted Jade joyfully. “Doesn't Chef Mittens look like the cutest kitten ever?” She giggled.
Clyde laughed. “Hello, Jade, and I do enjoy his little hat. Where's Seryn at?”
Rarity checked the oven timer. “Oh, she's playing some game on the computer with some new friends from school today and the triplets.”
“Ah, I see. I'm glad she found some new friends today. She was a little worried earlier.”
Clyde walked over to the girls and put his hands on their shoulders as he peeked over them to see the pizza with cheese, pepperoni, ham, bacon, peppers, and mushrooms. Some sections were lighter with ingredients than others as many of them only liked certain ingredients on their pizza. Clyde himself was the only one who would eat the pizza no matter what was on it.
“Doesn’t it look absolutely tasty?” asked Jade.
“Indeed.” Rarity smiled. “I think we did an excellent job, dear.”
Clyde grinned. “Looks good ladies.”
Jade finished up the decorating before putting the pizza in the oven. As she and Rarity soon began cleaning up their preparation mess, Seryn walked in and sniffed.
“Alright! Family pizza!” Seryn looked to see Clyde and she laughed. “Oh, sorry Dad. I guess the pizza was calling to me more than me noticing you.”
“That's alright,” said Clyde with a laugh. “I heard you had a pretty good day at school?”
Seryn nodded with a grin. “Yep! Met some pretty nice and cool people! I was just playing with them on my computer before we all got mad at one guy using cheap tactics and got off in rage.”
“Oh, I heard you yelling earlier, young lady,” said Rarity crossing her arms. “Young ladies should not be saying harsh profanities like that.”
Seryn flinched. “I-I’m sorry, Mom!”
Clyde laughed before helping Jade with putting away the pizza materials. Seryn quickly helped set the table as Jade would check the oven, giving Clyde and Rarity some time to relax a bit at the kitchen table. Eventually, the pizza was done and Altair walked into the kitchen with a simple shirt and gym shorts on shaking his head to dry his wet hair from the shower.
“Just in time,” he said with a smirk.
“Which means you are cleaning up the table and doing the dishes,” replied Jade.
“What? Why?!”
“Because Seryn helped set the table while I helped cook.”
“Seems pretty fair to me,” stated Seryn. “Sorry, Altair.”
Altair sighed. “Fine. Whatever. I don't mind. I'm just starving.” He quickly grabbed a plate and snatched a huge slice of pizza.
“You're such a vulture,” said Jade with a shake of her head.
“He really is,” said Seryn with a laugh. She turned to see Altair already half done with his pizza slice.
Rarity looked to Clyde and they shared a laugh before they went to get some pizza to soon enjoy the wonderful and loving family dinner together.
“Family dinners,” said Clyde with a laugh and huge smile, “I wouldn't trade this for anything.”
“Indeed,” said Rarity lovingly as she hugged him.
As the family enjoyed their dinner together, they talked about random things and future plans for the coming days and weeks like any family would do.
One thing was for certain though that would forever be true. They all had tremendous joy and love for being part of such a fabulous family.