Consense Lisabeth Lover was all alone on a nice sunny day. Her head down, looking at her feet as she walked down the street.
“Oh, how I wish I had friends to play with,” The girl said sadly to herself as she looked around at the other sirens playing with each other outside. Who knew there was so many kinds of sirens? There were emerald ones, garnet ones, amber ones, diamond ones were rare, pearls, opals, peridots, all kinds. While Consense was a sapphire siren. Those sirens were common. But in this neighborhood, you could hardly ever find any.
“OOF!” Connie was knocked to the ground along with another figure. She looked up to see another siren. Consense looked at her siren pendant to see what kinda siren she was. She was… sapphire? She had purple skin and dark purple hair with golden colored eyes.
“Aww! My banana flavored ice cream,” The girl pouted as she looked down at her now empty ice cream cone.
“I-I’m sorry! I’m so so sorry!”
“Nah, it’s okay! I’ll try to get some more!” She said assuringly, a huge smile spread across her face, “My name’s Nissy Silly! But people call me Niss!” She reached out and shook Connie’s hand, a bit too violently. Connie quickly snatched her hand away from the overly excited girl and looked down at her aquamarine high heels.
“Consense. Consense Lover. But… people call me Connie,” Connie replied shyly.
“Is there something wrong, Consense?” Niss asked.
“N-No, I’m fine,”
Niss raised an eyebrow in confusion, but her eyes then widened and she smiled again, “OOHHH! I see! You’re a shy girl, aren’t you? Don’t worry! I’m sure we can become bestest of friends in no time! Plus, what were you doing out here all by yourself? Don’t you have any friends?”
Connie blushed in embarrassment and shook her head no, “My mother. She kicked me out of the house again,”
“‘Again’? Wait! Your mother kicked you out of your own home? But why? Doesn’t she love you?” “No. My mother despises me, Only my dad actually loves me, When I do something my mother thinks is bad, she doesn’t ground me. She kicks me out of the house for a little while before I beg her to come back inside. I just walk around. Alone,” Connie explained.
“Why does your mother hate you?” Niss asked.
The was silence for a while before Connie responded, “I don’t have her red hair,”
…
“What?”
“I don’t have my mother’s red hair. She expected me to. She wanted me to look just like her. But instead, I came out a failure to her. I have my dad’s black hair,”
“It’s okay, Connie. Your mother, sorry if this sounds insulting, is really dumb. She really needs to know how genetics work. No one looks exactly like their parents. And if they do, that’s extremely rare. I mean, a lot of people say I look a lot like my mom because I have her yellow eyes and bubble ended hair,”
“‘Bubble ended hair’?” Connie asked, confused.
“Yeah! See?” Niss said as she turned around, showing her dark purple hair. Her hair wasn’t straight. It wasn’t curly either. Instead of her hair being flat at the end, it had a round end. It honestly looked good on her, “It’s a recessive trait. I’m lucky to have it. It’s really rare. Anyway, I’m gonna go back to the ice cream cart to get more ice cream. Wanna come with? I still have alot of money, so maybe I can get you some!”
“I… I’ve never tried any ice cream before,” Connie said nervously.
“WHAT?! Then I insist you’ll come with me then! You’ll love it!”
***
“Two cones, please!” Niss said as she handed the woman who was running the cart 4$.
“And which one of them do you want?” She asked.
“I’m just going for banana again. I accidentally dropped my first one,” Niss said as she looked over at Consense, “And you want…?”
“I don’t know what I want. I never even knew there was so many flavors of them either,”
“Well, then go with the basic. Would you like chocolate, strawberry or vanilla?”
“Hmm,” Consense looked between the three favors, really confused on which one she should choose, “I don’t know to pick the vanilla or strawberry,”
“I got it. Maybe you’ll try this,” The woman said as she pulled out a cone with both vanilla and strawberry on it. It had a swirl like design on it, “It’s vanilla and strawberry swirl. I hope you like it,”
“Thank you,” Connie said as she was handed the ice cream.
“Thank you, ma’am!” Niss said as the two walked away from the ice cream cart.
“Try it! You’ll love it! Promise! I never ran into someone who doesn’t like ice cream,” Niss said as she licked her yellow colored ice cream. (Yuck, how could she eat that?)
“I’m scared to try it,”
“Just give it one small lick. And if you don’t like it, that’s okay,”
Consense looked at her ice cream and did as she was told. And as Niss said, she liked it, “Mmm! This tastes amazing!”
Niss chuckled, “Told you! Hey, wanna go see my friend, Cobbie? She’s a bit mean, but she’s still my friend!”
“S-Sure!”
***
On the sidewalk, was another sapphire siren, about 14 years old. She had navy blue skin and darker navy blue hair in two pigtails. She also had beautiful orange eyes and an hourglass shaped body figure. She was reading a book when she heard footsteps walking towards her. Knowing who it was, she looked up from the book with an unamused look on her face. Until it turned into a look of confusion when she saw another girl.
She had pale white skin, dark brown eyes, and long black hair in a ponytail.
“Cobbie!” Niss yelled as she ran up and hugged Combob tightly.
“Um… Who’s the chick you brought with you?” She asked, still staring at Connie.
“This is Consense. Consense, meet Combob,”
Combob smiled slightly, ”Nice to meet you,” Combob said as she stuck her arm out slightly, ready for a handshake.
“Um,” Connie hummed nervously. This got a chuckle out of the older girl.
“Don’t worry. I’m nothing like Niss with the handshakes,”
“Hey! I just LOVE meeting new people!” Niss yelled excitedly.
Consense giggled and shook Combob’s hand anyway.
“I’ve never really seen you around the neighborhood before,”
“That’s because her mom kicked her out of her house,”
“What? Why?”
Niss and Consense explained everything to Combob. Well, at least everything NISS knew.
“She’s having another baby,” Consense interrupted Niss, who just looked shocked along with Combob.
“YOU’RE MOM?! She’s literally proven to herself that she can’t take care of another kid by the way she’s been treating you! How could she have another one?!” Combob said, mad.
“She’s still trying to have a baby to look like her. Even though it’s not going to happen. I’m wondering what she’ll do to it once it’s born,” Connie replied, worried.
“Don’t worry, Connie. Everything will be okay,” Niss comforted her.
“If your mom is like this, what about your dad?” Combob asked.
“Don’t worry. My dad likes me. At least, he actually treats me like a daughter. He takes care of me, feeds me, puts me to bed every night. My mom is nowhere like he is,”
“Why is your dad still married to her?”
“He won’t be for long. He’s trying to get a divorce from her. But he doesn’t have the bravery to do it. My mother would kill him if he did. I love my daddy. I hope nothing happens to him. Or the new baby,” Consense explained.
Silence. But a good silence. The three girls just sat there on the sidewalk. They were so close, they were shoulder to shoulder. They enjoyed each other’s warmth in the sunlight and Connie enjoyed the warmth of her new friends.
“Packed your stuff, Lucy?” Connie whispered to her younger sister, who nodded. The now 9 year old girl had the same skin color as Consense, pale white. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of green and she had long, flowing red hair.
“Let’s go. Oh, but…” Consense said as she poked her head out of the bedroom door and looked into the hallway, “Mother might hear us. Hmm,” Consense looked around until she found that the window was wide open, “Lucy, on your sissy’s back, now,”
***
Niss was still awake, watching TV. Well, she had nothing else to do that didn’t disturb her parents in any way, shape or form. This was when she heard a knock at the door.
“Niss! Are you expecting someone at this hour?” Her mother walked in the living room as Niss walked up to the door.
“No, mother. Who could it be?” Niss said as she opened the door.
“Hello, Niss!” Consense greeted as she sat her bags down on the floor, along with Lucy.
“Connie? Lucy? What are you doing here? And why do you have your stuff?”
Connie looked at Niss with a sad look, which confused the siren a bit.
“Niss, we… We just can’t live with our mother anymore! She’s become more abusive than ever! We just couldn’t take it!” Connie confessed as she burst into tears.
“W-What about your father?” Niss asked.
“He,” Consense looked down at her feet, “He passed,”
“I thought sirens were immortal!” Niss’s mother butted in.
“They are. B-But if the siren loses a lot of blood, they perish. My dad got in a car wreck last month,”
“And you never told me this?!” Niss said, slightly mad that her best friend kept a secret from her.
“I’m sorry!”
“May we please stay here with you? We promise that we’ll not be trouble. And if we are, you can punish us as you do with Niss when she gets in trouble,” Lucy asked politely as Niss’s mother put a finger to her chin in thought.
“Hmm. But this means I have to take care of three kids now,” Her mother thought.
“Please, mommy! Can they please stay here?! Look at them, they’re helpless! Please, please, please!”
Her mother sighed in defeat, “Fine. They can move in,” The three girls cheered, Niss and Consense held their arms out and hugged each other, “But the two are going to have to follow the rules of the house if they stay here,”
“Yes, ma’am,” Lucy and Connie said in sync.
***
Consense woke up, the sunlight hit her face. She yawned she sat up on the couch and stretched. She started when she felt something squirm a bit in her lap. She looked down to see her little sister, Lucy, sleeping.
“Morning, Connie!” Consense looked up to see Niss, still in her white and yellow pokie dotted footie pajamas.
“Morning, Nissy,” Connie replied, groggily.
“I made eggs and pancakes for breakfast! Wanna try them?” Niss said quickly.
“Sure,”
“Then get out of bed, silly! Or should I say, ‘get out of couch’?” Niss smirked as she grabbed Connie’s arm in an attempt to pull her off the couch.
“Wait! Be careful!”
“Why?”
Consense pointed to her little sister, who was still sleeping in her lap.
“Oh. Well, you still need to get up. Who knows how long she’ll sleep for?” Niss said as she picked up Lucy and took her off of Connie’s lap and laid her on the other side of the couch. Niss gestured for Connie to stand up, which she obeyed.
“Now, let’s eat breakfast. It’ll be amazing knowing that my best friend will be living with me,” Niss said as she held Connie’s hand as they walked towards the kitchen. Niss gave her a warm smile, which the younger girl smiled back.
¨You’ve got a what?!” Niss asked, shocked at what Connie just said to her.
“I’ve got a girlfriend!” Connie answered again, blushing.
“How, actually? We are the only two people you really hang out with! Well, me, Niss, Lucy, and that bad girl, Gella,” Combob explained, spitting out Gella’s name like it was venom in her teeth. Gella was terrible. She did illegal things, steal, graffiti. You name it, she did it. And she never got caught doing those things, which really annoyed Niss and Combob. She was just an innocent normal little girl for others. Connie knew she did those things but dated her anyway. Looks like Connie liked the bad girl/boy type.
“You’re saying that like she’s bad,” Connie whined a bit.
“WHAAAAT? NOOOO!” Combob forced a smile.
“Okay?”
“I didn’t know you were bisexual,” Niss smiled.
“Yeah,” Connie said nervously.
Niss just giggled, “Don’t worry. I and Combob are too,”
Combob just rolled her eyes, “Yeah,”
Connie sighed relieved.
***
Combob and Niss walked down the street together on a starry night. Combob looking around to see if that no good Gella was walking around here.
“Can you stop worrying about Gella. Maybe she’ll take good care of Connie,” Niss assured.
“Yeah, in jail,” Combob rolled her eyes.
“Hey! I'm sure she's not that bad! She does look like Connie's type after all,”
“Yeah, Connie's a shy, insecure, sweet and smart young girl and Gella’s a rule-breaking, punk-like, self-centered, vain woman. Connie's type, huh?” Combob corrected Niss, who blushed nervously.
“Okay, maybe not exactly her type,”
“This is Connie's first relationship, period. She doesn't know how to please a girl whatsoever and all this leads to is Connie doing whatever Hella wants just to make her happy!” Combob argued again, making Niss roll her eyes.
“It's ‘Gella’,” Niss corrected her.
“It should be Hella because hell is all she is,”
“She says she'll love Connie with all her heart! Why can't you just believe her? Just because she breaks a few rules, doesn't necessarily mean she won't be a good girlfriend!”
“I don’t believe a word that little b*tch says,” Combob stopped in her tracks when she saw Gella. But with another girl.
The girl had light green skin and pink eyes. Her hair was hot pink with a green bang in it. She had a little pink heart on her cheek, two nose piercings and two lip piercings. She had on a black shirt and over that was a leather jacket. One side of it was green while the other side was pink. She also had one a skirt with different shades of pink, a green bow on the side of it and green high heels.
“Oh, no,” Niss whispered softly at the sight.
“I knew it!” Combob growled angrily and was about to march straight to Gella and teach her a lesson until Niss stopped her.
“Maybe she’s a friend!” Niss reassured. Then Gella kissed the girl on the cheek, “Oh…”
“There’s nothing friendly about that!” Combob and Niss walked up to Gella, both mad at the emerald siren for cheating on their best friend. Gella smirked evilly when she saw the two.
“Cut the act, Gella! Who’s the lady you’re with?” Combob said, glaring to the girl Gella just kissed.
“Her name is Angella. She’s my friend,” Gella replied, wrapping an arm around her.
“Yeah. Friends don’t kiss other friends on the cheek,” Niss pointed out.
“They do if they're really close!” Gella pointed out.
“Yeah, close as in a romantic relationship! Which you are already in with Connie. But it seems like there's a secret relationship you're hiding from her. Also known as CHEATING!” Combob sneered, narrowing her eyes at the hot-pink haired girl.
“Okay, so maybe I am. But Connie isn't gonna find out anyway. She's too much of a retard for it,”
“For your information, Connie has straight A's in school and gets A's on all of her tests! So, she's a bit smarter than YOU,” Niss glared at Gella as well.
Gella was about to open her mouth to speak until Combob cut her off, “Save your lame excuses! We're gonna your 'girlfriend’ this and trust me. She would never wanna go near you again,”
“Uh, aren't you forgetting something?” Gella smirked.
Combob cocked an eyebrow in confusion, “No. What are we forgetting?”
“I am Connie’s first romantic interest. And you, Combob, seem to have a strong dislike to me which Connie’s knows about. So if you tell, it’ll only look like you’re lying just to stop her from seeing me,” Gella mentioned, chuckling a bit.
“Celestia damn it. She’s right,” Combob looked down in defeat.
“No, she isn’t. I heard everything,” A familiar soft voice came from behind the three sirens and human. They turned around to see Connie, tears streaming down her cheeks.
“Connie? How did you find us?” Combob asked worryingly.
“I was looking for you and I saw Gella with… her,” Connie cried harder, “Gella, how could you? I thought you liked me,”
“Connie...” Niss frowned.
“Hey! At least Angella wants to be in bed with me,” Gella smirked seductively.
“You can’t force me to give my body to you! I’m not ready!”
“So, you were just using Connie for the sex?” Combob asked angrily, ready to pounce at the girl with all the strength she had in her 14-year-old body.
“Angella’s better in bed though,” Gella rolled her eyes.
“I DON”T WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU!” Connie yelled angrily, surprising the two sapphire sirens.
“It’s not my fault Angella’s prettier than you!”
That comment broke Connie’s heart. She sobbed as she ran away from the 4 figures, not turning around to the one who made her love life now a nightmare.
Consense and Niss were packing their stuff, At this time, Consense was finally 18 while Niss was 19. Niss’s mother came in the room and hugged both the girls.
She sighed, “I can’t believe my babies have grown up into beautiful young women,”
“Aww, thanks, Mom,” Niss smiled.
“Thank you, ma’am,” Connie smiled also.
***
The girls were walking down the street to their new apartment.
“MOM!” A voice yelled. the two looked to see Combob walking away from her mother.
“I love you, sweetie!” Her mother yelled.
“Ugh! Love you too,” Combob groaned and looked to her two new roommates.
“Ready, sweetie?” Niss smirked.
“Shut up. And yes, I’m ready,”
“Should we get some new clothes? These sweatpants and hoodie are pretty tight,” Connie suggested, wiggling a bit in place from discomfort.
“That’s probably a good idea. And I know just the place,” Niss smiled.
***
The girls walked into the shop as the little bell on the top of the door rang at their entrance.
“Ooh~ The shop is so pretty!” Connie exclaimed.
“I don’t know what to choose!” Niss smiled brightly,
“Eh, they’re okay,” Combob said after, not amused.
Suddenly, a girl walked up to them. She had white skin, just like Connie’s. She also had pretty blue eyes and curly dark purple hair.
“Hello. I’m Rarity. How may I help you?” She greeted the sirens.
Niss giggled, “We’re looking for clothes that work with our style. Maybe you can help us,”
“Of course! Come! Right this way!” Rarity smiled as she guided the sapphire sirens to follow her, “What would you girls like?”
“We just one some jeans,” Connie and Niss said in sync before they looked at each other and giggled.
“I just want some dark clothes,” Combob said.
“The jeans are right over there,” Rarity pointed to where the jeans were.
“Thank you!” Both Connie and Niss said before they walked away.
“What kinda dark clothes do you have in mind, darling?” Rarity asked Combob, who rolled her eyes.
“I was thinking of a gray and black theme,”
“Okay,” Rarity said as she looked at Combob’s body, “Hmm. You’ve got a nice hourglass shape,”
“My eyes are up here,” Combob growled.
“I-I’m trying to see what kinda size you are,” Rarity blushed, embarrassed.
“Whatever,” Combob growled as she walked away.
‘Why am I staring at these girls? I mean, they’re pretty but… It feels like I’m under a spell of some kind,’ Rarity thought as her attention was now switched to Consense and Niss.
Niss had a cute inverted triangle shaped body, beautiful lean legs, small B cup breasts and a nice plump bottom. The same goes for Connie on the butt, but Connie had a normal triangle shaped figure and a small C cup breasts. As for Combob? As Rarity said, beautiful hourglass body shape, nice plump butt, and pretty small C cup breasts.
‘I feel so hot for some reason,’ Rarity thought as she stared at the three beautiful women until she felt a slight tug of on her arm. She looked down to see her little sister, Sweetie Bell.
“Rarity, you didn’t tell me you had customers!” Sweetie Bell whined.
“W-Well, yeah, but--”
“And you said the next time we had customers, I would help!”
Rarity almost forgot. She did promise that. Well, she was a woman of her word after all. She looked around. The other three girls seem to be fine until she saw someone Sweetie’s age, who looked confused.
“Why don’t you help that young lady over there?” Rarity suggested as she pointed to Lucy. “Okay!” Sweetie smiled and began to run to Lucy, only yo stop to admire her beauty. She was beautiful. Sweetie blushed as she walked to her and tapped her shoulder. Lucy turned around in response.
“Hello! I’m Sweetie Bell! Can I help you?”
“Lucy Lover. And yes, kinda. I’m looking for some kinda dark purple shirt. I just can’t find one,”
“I know where all the plain shirts are! Your friends are in that aisle anyway! Come on!” Sweetie explained as she skipped down the shop with Lucy. The girls looked around for the shirt as Connie and Rarity were searching for one as well.
“What colored shirt is it again, darling?” Rarity asked Connie.
“Aquamarine,”
“Found it!” Niss exclaimed as she held up and long-sleeved aquamarine shirt, “Will this fit you?”
Connie walked over to Niss and looked at the piece of clothing carefully.
She then smiled softly, “This is perfect! Thank you, Nissy!” Connie said as she wrapped her arms around her best friend in a hug.
“No problem!”
“Now, let’s find you that belt,” Rarity said as she held Connie’s hand, leading her somewhere else.
***
“Do girls normally take this long to get dressed, sis?” Sweetie asked her big sister, growing a bit impatiently on how long Lucy took to just put on a shirt and pants and walk out. She really wanted to see Lucy in that cute outfit she picked.
“You’ll understand when you’re older,” Rarity replied.
“Finished!” Connie called from the changing room. She walked out and Rarity squealed with amazement.
Consense was wearing a long-sleeved aquamarine shirt that showed a tiny bit a cleavage. She wore blue jeans, a black belt with a square, golden buckle, and black high heeled boots.
“You look absolutely stunning! I never knew plain can be so fashionable!” Rarity complimented.
“Yep!” Niss replied as she walked out of the dressing room. She was wearing a black and white, horizontal striped shirt. It was large, because one of the sleeves on the shirt hang down slightly, showing Niss’s bare shoulder and a pink strap of her pink bra. She was also wearing blue jeans with black flats.
Combob walked out next, wearing a gray T-shirt, matching gray pants and black high heels. She also had a black sash with white spikes worn over one shoulder.
“Doesn’t that hurt?” Sweetie asked the 19-year-old woman.
“Nah. It’s fine,” Combob replied. She then looked at herself and frowned slightly, “Are you sure these are the only goth clothes you got?”
“Yes. Take it or leave it!” Rarity said, annoyed,
“It’s okay. I guess I can make this work,”
Finally, out came Lucy. Lucy was wearing a dark purple, off shoulder shirt with red legging and red and purple sneakers.
“Aww! Lucy! You look so pretty!” Connie smiled as Lucy ran up to her and hugged her.
“I can finally wear an off-shoulder outfit without Momma telling me to take it off,” Lucy sighed, making the older girl giggle.
“You girls look beautiful,” Rarity smiled.
“Thank you!” The four replied in sync.
***
After the girls left and Sweetie Bell went to her room, she couldn’t stop thinking about Lucy.
‘She had such a pretty name. And eyes, and hair. AND EVERYTHING! Why can’t I stop thinking about her?’
Sweetie Bell, one the members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, was in love with Lucy Lover.
“Yes, ma’am? You called us?” Connie asked with a straight face as she walked into the Principal's office with Combob and Niss, who also had straight looks on their faces.
“Yes. As you know, one of your jobs as the principal's helpers is to show new students around the school,” Celestia began to explain, The three girls nodded their heads, letting the principal know that they were listening.
“But some old students are now returning to this school and they have a horrible reputation. And we are giving them another chance to act right. To warn you, these students are still dangerous. Keep a close eye on them and be careful,” Luna finished.
“Yes, ma’am! But if I’m allowed to ask, what did they do?” Niss asked as the two principles looked at each other then back at the sapphire siren.
“They are magical creatures that tried to take over this school with their songs. They feed on negative energy, which made our students argue, except for 8 students, who defeated them. We even got under their spell,” Celestia said.
“You mean… like sirens?” Connie asked. The two nodded their heads.
“Which is why we’re telling you to be careful. They are still capable of doing harm,”
***
“I can’t believe sirens tried to take over this little school. How stupid is that?” Combob rolled her eyes as the three walked down the hallway to meet the returned students.
“Well, look around! Even though this school is small, there is a huge population of students! Which meant it was the perfect source of magic for them,” Connie corrected.
“But we’re sirens and we didn’t try to take over the school,” Niss asked them, confused.
“Because we feed on positive magic, idiot. And when they’re under our spell, they don’t argue. They hug and love each other,” Combob shivered with disgust, “It’s sickening,”
“Is that them…?” Connie whispered.
“Uh, Connie? Why are you blushing?” Combob asked.
“She’s just really pretty,” Connie said quietly, staring at one of the three girls. She was way taller than Connie. If you could put the two side to side together, Connie would be up to her shoulders. She had pale yellow skin, long, orange and yellow curly hair held up in a ponytail. She also had wine colored eyes and on her neck was a ruby siren pendant.
What really caught Connie’s attention was what the girl was wearing. She was wearing a lavender vest above a purple romper and with that was a large, orange, spiky belt. Under the romper were lavender and purple triangle patterned leggings. And to top it off, she wore purple highed boots with spikes on the back of the heels.
“Really, Connie? You're not about to fall for someone else again, are you?” Combob narrowed her eyes at her friend, who blushed nervously.
“No,”
“Cause you know what happened the last time you fell for someone. She cheated on you,”
“Combob! You’re not deciding who she dates!” Niss interrupted.
“I don’t like her!” Connie reminded.
“Okay, okay, Fine,” Niss rolled her eyes playfully.
“Ahem,” They heard from behind them. They turned around to see Adagio and two other girls standing behind her, little evil smirks on their faces, “Are you the girls that are gonna show us around the school… again?”
“Yes. Yes, we are,” Combob muttered, glaring at Adagio slightly.
“Then show us,” Aria rolled her eyes impatiently.
“Right this way!” Niss said cheerfully as she skipped down the hallway. Sonata began to skip behind her until Aria grabbed her arm and pulled her back.
“What? I like her! She’s just like me!” Sonata reassured.
“Something's wrong with Connie,” Niss told Adagio as calmly as she could sound.
“What do you mean?” Adagio replied, as she looked up from the book she was reading, now sounding extremely worried. Well, that didn't help.
Niss chuckled nervously, “Well, you know that Connie got a C on her science test, right?”
“What's that gotta do with anything?” Adagio said, annoyed.
“E-Ever since Connie got that grade, she's been… obsessed lately,” Adagio raised an eyebrow at this, still not understanding where Niss is getting at, “Connie’s been taking her school tests really seriously now. She's been studying at lunch, free time in class, at home, on the bus,”
“She must want a really good grade then,” Aria interrupted, rolling her eyes, “Plus, isn't that where people don't mind you studying at?”
“You don't understand! Connie's been doing this non-stop. She doesn't have time for her animals, her cat, Tasha. Me and Combob even asked her if she wanted to take a break to ride with us to the movies: Connie quickly said no and kept studying,” Niss sighed, “Me and Combob are trying to make her take a break for once and relax. Because this whole test thing is making her go,” Niss to a finger to the side of head and swirled it around in circles, making the ‘She's gone nuts,’ gesture.
“And how do you want me to help?” Adagio asked.
“Could you please talk to Connie to take just one small break and hang out with us?” Niss pleaded.
Adagio raised an eyebrow and looked down at her high heeled boots in thought, “I'll see what I can do,”
***
Adagio looked down at the sleeping Connie. Consense had her head on the desk, a whole bunch of papers stacked right under her head. Her hair was a mess and was almost out of it's ponytail holder. Her makeup was slightly smudged but not by much. And she had a pencil her right hand.
“You're right. It doesn't look like she'll stop studying anytime soon,” Adagio said, looking over the sleeping siren.
“Me and Cobbie are going to the park. You can come with us if you wake up Connie,” Niss explained getting her white jacket.
“Where IS Combob?” Adagio said, a bit annoyed as she looked around. Her and Combob never really got along.
“She's already at the park,” Niss said as Connie started to finally wake up, “Gotta go! See ya later!” Niss walked out the door and shut the it behind her.
“Hey, Connie. How'd you sleep?” Adagio greeted the sleepy siren as Connie woke up from her deep slumber.
“W-Wait… What time is it?” Connie asked groggy.
“2:37 pm,”
Connie's eyes widened, “WHAT?! WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS WAKE ME UP?! I have a science test tomorrow! I need to study for it!” Connie yelled as she quickly went through her papers, trying to find her science study sheet.
She found it, but Adagio grabbed her hand before she can pick it up, “Hold it, Ms. Lover. You gonna have to stop studying for a minute and hang out with us, you know. You immortality doesn't revolve around studying,” Adagio explained.
“But, I need to pass this test! Considering my last grade, it shows that I need to study harder!” Connie replied, getting a bit mad at herself for her last grade on her science test.
“Connie,” Adagio began as she bent down to Connie's height, trying to meet her eye level, “We all know you want good grades, but there's more to life than school. Like your friends, your animals… me,” Adagio whispered the last part to herself, blushing.
“What was that?”
“Nothing!” Adagio blushed harder, “Anyways, a 'C’ on your test is okay. I know you usual get ‘A's or more but no one's perfect all the time,”
Connie frowned, “You are,”
This caused Adagio to blush more, “N-No! No, I'm not!” Connie giggled, “So, what do you say? Me and the others are coming to the park. Wanna join?”
Silence filled the room after that question. Then, Connie smiled, “Anything for you,”
A normal day, well for Combob that is. It was Sweetie Bell's 13th birthday, almost everyone, especially Lucy, came to the party. Lucy, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, The Humane 7, The Dazzlings, Niss, Consense. Not Combob though. She just wanted to stay home. Away from…
Clowns.
Yes, that's right. Clowns.
Combob hated clowns. Their painted-on smiles, their laugh, their stupid little tricks, just made Combob uncomfortable and mad. Every time she saw a clown walk towards her, she'd just wanna kick it in the face. She never wanted to see one again for the rest of her immortality.
*FLASHBACK 86 YEARS AGO* The 12 year old girl looked around the place with wonder. Bats and moths filled the night sky as the clouds covered the moon's horrid bright light. It was just her and the darkness.
‘Who knew the night could be so beautiful?’, Combob thought as she looked around the streets more. Suddenly, she saw something out in the distance. She narrowed her eyes and walked closer to get a better look.
It was a human. But her looked weird. He was dressed up in a orange jail uniform, and a scary clown mask on his face.
“Hello?” Combob called out to him quietly. But what he did would haunt her for infinity.
He pulled out a chainsaw and started it. He gave out a high pitched evil laughter and started to walk towards the young siren with the working chainsaw. Combob screamed and started to run away from the human in fear.
“HELP!” Combob screamed at the top of her lungs. But it was useless, no one would hear at this time night. She then saw her house straight ahead, causing her to run faster.
But the clown picked up his pace, Combob basically hearing his heavy breathing again her neck. She took a giant leap forward. She was at the door. She quickly opened it and right as the clown hopped onto the pouch, quickly shut the door behind her. She heard footsteps walk off the pouch and she sighed in relief.
‘I don't ever wanna see another clown again!’ Combob thought she softly tucked her knees into her chest in fear.
END OF FLASHBACK
Combob's thoughts were interrupted when she heard a knock at the door.
“Combob, open up!” Aria's voice could be heard from the other side of the door. Combob sighed in slight annoyance as she got up from the bed and opened the door to see none other than Aria Blaze.
“Why are you here?” Combob asked the siren annoyed.
“I should be asking you the same thing. Why aren't you with you friends? They were looking for you,” Aria replied, making Combob roll her eyes.
“Tell them I'm home. See you later,” Combob was about to close the door but Aria's foot in the door prevented her from doing so.
“Hold it. Why can't you at least hang out with them? For one day? I thought were going to Sweetie's party,”
“Why are you there is a better question. I thought you hated those chessy birthday parties,”
“I just come for the food,”
‘Good point,’ Combob thought as she rolled her eyes again, “Well, go! And stop wasting time with me,”
“I'm not leaving until you tell me why you're not at the party!”
“Why do you even care?”
“Pfft. I don't! You can stay home! Adagio and the others just forced me to ask you until you answer,” Aria lied, “So, could you let me in?”
“Fine,” Combob grumbled and opened the door all the way so Aria could get in.
“Okay. What's up?” Aria said as she walked in and turned to Combob as she closed the door.
“Just because I let you in doesn't mean it's your business all of a sudden,” Combob replied coldly.
The two just stared at each other. No words were said, no gestures were needed. Aria just looked into Combob's orange eyes as Combob looked into Aria's purple ones.
Combob began to blush, hoping Aria wasn't noticing this. She sighed in defeat, “Fine. But if I tell you, you better not tell anyone else. I know where you live,” Combob warned.
“BECAUSE! THEY'RE TERRIBLE! AND U HATE THEM! I wish clowns never existed,”
“Uh, I don't like clowns because their childish. But I didn't know you didn't like them that much,” Aria said in a bit of a surprising tone.
Combob slightly glared at her crush, then looked down at her black high heels. Aria didn't know why Combob didn't like clowns. Most people don't like clowns either, but at least they stayed at people’s parties when they put on their act. Then it hit Aria what was wrong and she gave a little smirk to the fellow siren.
“Ohh, I see what's going on. You're afraid of clowns, aren't you?”
Combob's eyes widened and she blushed in embarrassment, “WHAT?! No! Me? Scared of clowns? Never!” Combob lied, making Aria raise an eyebrow and gave Combob a 'really?’ face. She sighed in defeat, “Fine. You caught me. I'm sorry. They just creep me out,”
“Why though?”
“THEY JUST DO, OKAY?!” Combob growled, frustrated.
Aria just stared at her as Combob crossed her arms and turned her back on her. Aria blushed and smiled at her softly as she got an idea.
“Hey, tell you what? Why don't you and me stay here and I can text the others saying why you're not coming. I mean, if you're not coming, I might as well stay too and give you a bit of company,”
Combob slightly blushed and thought for a moment. Alone with Aria. Just for one day though. One day alone with her crush. But at 1east the two got to be alone. Combob looked back her and smiled and nodded her head in agreement. Aria gave a small smile back, the thought of her and Combob alone for the day clouded up her brain. Today was going to be amazing.
Consense blushed nervously as Pinkie Pie brought her coffee and vanilla cupcake with strawberry icing.
“Thanks, Pinkie,” Connie thanked.
Pinkie smiled widely at her, “It’s no problem!” She hopped her way back to the counter.
Connie was about to drink the coffee until someone caught her eye in the booth in front of her. It was Adagio. She had a book in front of her, a cup of coffee on her side and a croissant on the other. Connie began to blush at the sight of her. Her secret crush on Adagio has been recurring for 4 months now.
She didn’t have school today. Maybe she could small talk with Adagio this morning if she was cool with it. She raised her hand slightly and waved it, trying to get Adagio’s attention. Nothing.
“Adagio,” Connie quietly called, making Adagio look up from her book to look at Connie. Once Adagio saw her, she gave a soft smile and waved back. She then scooted over and patted the seat next to her, making Connie blush more.
‘Come on, Connie. This is it! Go talk to her! You’ve done it before. Millions of times. What could go wrong?’, Connie said as she walked over to Adagio sat next to her.
“Hello, Connie,” Adagio greeted calmly.
“Morning, Adagio. What are you doing here?” Connie greeted back, a hint of nervousness in her voice.
“I should be asking you the same thing,” Adagio teased. She picked up her coffee and took a long sip while looking a Connie with a flirtatious look. She blushed heavily at this, “I’m messing with you. I just needed to get away from those two idiots once in a while,” Connie raised an eyebrow, “I mean, Aria and Sonata. They argue all morning and I just need to get out and have some peace. You don’t know what it’s like,” Adagio said as her eye glanced down at her book.
“Actually. I do,” Adagio looked up from her book and looked at Connie with a slightly surprised look, “Combob and Niss are friends and all. But they argue almost all the time. It’s hard to live with them when they do that sometimes. Combob even punched Niss in the arm once,”
Adagio’s eyes widened, “Oh, my. But don’t those two get along sometimes? They make jokes about me and everything, anyway,” Adagio rolled her eyes and looked back at her book.
Consense looked at her with a frown, “What are they saying?” Connie asked as she scooted closer to Adagio.
She sighed and looked back up at Connie, “They’re always saying things about my hair, voice, about how I look, how I dress… about you and me…” Adagio explained sadly but blushed when she said the last part, so did Connie.
“I’m sorry, Adagio. I… I don’t know why,” Connie lied. She knew exactly why. Niss and Combob are so protective of her love life. They knew Connie liked Adagio. They’re trying to push Adagio away from Connie, scared that because Adagio was evil, that she would turn out just Gella. That and they might just like making fun of her.
“No, it’s okay, Connie. People make fun of me all the time at school. Niss and Combob are no different. So why should I care?” Adagio assured calmly, trying to read her book. She froze as she felt warmth on the side of her body. She looked to her side to Connie cuddled up to her.
Consense blushed and giggled at Adagio’s blushing face, “I know how to feels. I get bullied too. Alot. For years now really,” She admitted, her smile turning into frown and looked down at her feet sadly.
“Why?”
Connie looked back up at the older siren and shrugged her shoulders weakly, “They just do…”
Adagio frowned and gave her a little side hug, which Connie returned gladly. The two just sat there, eating their food, drinking their coffee and cuddling each other until their orders were gone. Soon, Adagio asked Connie if she could walk her home, which she said yes to.
“Thanks for taking me home,” Connie said as they reached the door of the apartment.
“You’re very welcome, Connie,” Adagio smiled a bit. (Something that she hadn’t done for years)
“W-Well, I gotta go. Bye,” Connie said as she began to reach for the--
“Wait!”
Connie stopped in her tracks and looked back at her crush, “Yes, Adagio?” She asked, a warm look in her eyes that always made Adagio's heart flutter.
Adagio blushed more, “I was wondering,” She took a deep inhale and exhale, ‘Come on, Adagio! You're the leader of The Dazzlings and a fearless leader! So why is Consense… scaring you?’ Adagio thought. Why was Consense scaring her?
She was Adagio Dazzle: The leader of The Dazzlings, Adagio wasn't scared of anything! She got defeated twice and she still kept her dignity.
Consense was just a normal, sweet, gentle-natured siren. She wouldn't hurt a fly. Literally. She loved every single living thing on this strange little world and it was amazing how she saw the beauty in every plant, insect, animal, human and even siren. Which was probably some of the reasons Adagio liked her. So why was telling Connie this so scary for her?
It was just one question. One simple question that she was some reason so scared to ask her. She really wanted to ask her. She did! But the thought of telling her, was scaring her. Terribly.
Now that she thought about it, she was coming up with a realization she would never thought would happen to her in years. Sure, Adagio does flirt with some people, but that's only to get more magic for her pendent. But whenever she flirts with Connie, she, somehow. really means the words she says. Whenever she saw Connie, she felt different. She wasn't like any girl or siren Adagio has met. She was beautiful, sweet, smart, funny, adorable, caring. When Connie smiles at her, she blushes. When she looks at her, her heart feels like it'll beat out of her chest. When Connie cuddles her, or hugs her, or even touches her, she wishes the moment will last forever. She feels like Connie is the only who understands her. Who gets her. Who actually cares about her. Who actually wanted to be her friend despite her having such a horrible and evil past. Was she actually falling in love? With a girl?
Adagio has had some relationships in the past, but never with a girl. She didn't even know if Connie even liked girls that way. This was all so new to her. She never remembered what love felt like in about a thousand years. And since Connie is immortality instead of mortal, she and Adagio would be perfect for each other. All she needed to do was ASK. THAT. ONE QUESTION. Adagio blushed at the realization. She wasn't scared of Connie.
She was scared of rejection.
“ADAGIO!” Adagio was snapped out of her thoughts and looked at a very worried looking Connie, “Adagio? You okay? You looked like you were thinking of something,”
“Yeah! I'm okay! Don't worry!” Adagio smiled a bit.
“What were you gonna say?”
Adagio's heart pounded in her chest. She took a deep breath again but not before she signaled Connie to come closer with alluring finger. Connie blushed and obeyed Adagio, walking over to as Adagio grabbed Connie's hand softly.
“C-Connie. As I was saying… You do know prom is coming, right?” Adagio said quietly, which Connie nodded to, “Well, I was wondering if you… If you… like to… be my date?”
Connie's face glowed a sudden red as she heard what Adagio said. Adagio wanted her to be her prom date?
“Adagio, I--”
“IT'S OKAY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO! IT'S JUST A SUGGESTION!” Adagio quickly added, ‘You fucking idiot. You should've just waited for her answer! Nice going! I thought you weren't a coward!’ Adagio thought, her face heating up with embarrassment.
Silence.
All you could hear are the birds chirping, cars driving by and soft breathing of a very flattered Connie as the two of them stared into each other’s eyes, not saying anything.
“Look, Connie. If you just wanna stay friends, that's okay. I totally understand if-- HMPH!”
Adagio was cut off by a pair of lips smashing into hers. They were Connie's. Before Adagio could react, Connie pulled away with a large blush on her face.
“I'd love to~ Pick me up at 6~ Kay~?” Adagio smiled and nodded, “Does this mean you're my girlfriend now?”
“Maybe. But not after our first date. This'll be our first date. I promise,” Adagio said warmly as she stared into her chocolate brown eyes and held her in her arms, never wanting to let go of the one who finally adored her.