Equestria Girls: A Friend For Life

Since the Fall Formal, and by Twilight's encouragement to learn about friendship, Susan kept a diary that she carries with her everywhere she goes. Within that diary lay every lesson on friendship Susan had learned and cherished. It started rather simple, and over time she found friendship meant more that what she previously taught, and why Princess Celestia valued it so.

Two days had passed since the incident at the Cake's and Susan was meeting Talia at the library of a study session an hour before school started. It was a routine with which she was not unfamiliar with, she was Princess Celestia's star pupil after all, once upon a time. She was writing in her diary while waiting for Talia to show up. When she did show up, she put her diary aside so they could focus on their studies.

"So tell me," Talia begins while their were completing the homework for their respective math classes, "Paulina tells me that my Welcome Party after school is also a 'We Forgive You Susan Shelby'," Glancing at Susan before continuing on her work she asked, "Forgive you of what?"

Susan just scratched her cheek thinking of an excuse, "Well its kind of a long story."

"Does it have to do with the hole in the front of the school?" Talia asked still focused on her math homework.

Smiling nervously, Susan just said, "Yeah." Checking the clock and seeing it was ten minutes before first period began, "Class is starting soon, gotta go!" she excused herself, grabbing her books and getting up to leave.

Checking the time herself Talia agreed and began to gather her own books. Saying their goodbyes and going on their separate ways neither of them did notice the notebook left behind on the table.

It wasn't until after second period when Susan first noticed her diary was missing. Retracing her steps and asking everyone in her past classes, Susan eventually came back to the library. She was getting worried too, the further back she went to look for her diary, the more likely it would be long gone leaving her to hunt down whoever had it.

Despite looking around the table she and Talia used to study, she still couldn't find it and asked the Librarian, "Have you seen a notebook that was left behind on the study table by the Classics section?"

Grimacing, 'cause she clearly felt she wasn't being paid enough to deal with student's problems, the Librarian thought about it for a second before replying, "I believe I saw that little henchman of yours, Mr. Taylor, was around that area before leaving for second period." Susan thanked the librarian and calmly leaving the library, the moment she left she ran to where the girls usually met up for lunch, and explained the situation, agreeing that the contents of the diary would make things worse for Susan, not better the set off looking for the amateur magician and former henchman.

"Susan, darling," called Rowellina as the 'sailor scouts' followed Susan as she stalked the halls, "Calm down, I'm sure Stan and your diary will turn up sooner or later."

"Sooner or later?" breathed Susan turning around on the girls, "That diary contains everything I learned in the past four months! If any of that got out I would die!" Pausing and taking a deep breath she continued, "We have to find Stan before my diary disappears again."

Looking between the rest of them Rowellina nodded, "Very well, seeing as its lunch why don't we break off in pairs and look for the diary that way?" Susan agreed and was paired up with Faith and each pair went their separate ways looking for Stan or at least Steve.

After ten minutes of searching they found him with Steve coming out of the boys restroom on the other side of the school. Immediately, Susan grabbed Stan and pushed him against the wall and glaring hard she asked. "Where. is. my. diary?"

"I got it! I got it!" answered a panicked Stan, "please don't hurt me." reaching into his bag he pulled out the object in question and moved to give it to Susan. When she held it in her hands she let go of Stan and sighed in relief.

"Is there a problem here?" asked a new voice. Turning around and hiding the diary behind her back, Susan saw the new student teacher looking at them questioningly.

"None at all, Ms Amritzi" lied Susan gently elbowing Faith, who nodded in agreement, while sending a look to Steve and Stan that said, 'say anything and I'll go fire and brimstone on your asses.' Seeing as the two were at least possessed a sense of self-preservation they kept quiet. Ms Amritzi looked suspicious, but just shrugged it off and let them go their way. In fact the moment she turned the corner, Stan and Steve broke out running in the opposite direction.

Turning to Susan, Faith asked, "Um was that really necessary?" looking at the retreating backs of Stan and Steve as the rounded the corner.

Susan nodded, waving her diary in front of her, "This can't possibly fall into the wrong hands, and they were definitely the wrong hands."

Suddenly the diary was snatched out of Susan's hands accompanied by a voice clicking, "The wrong hands, eh?" turning around Susan glared at a girl with dark cerulean hair. "Then you won't mind if I take a look at it then?"

"Christina," Susan growled and even Faith seemed to glare at the girl as she held the diary with a elegant, but sinister grip. "Give that back."

"Oh, I don't think so, Susie." taunted Christina, who broke into a run for the cafeteria when Susan jumped at her intent to retrieve her diary.

Looking at Faith, Susan said, "Call the others and tell them Christina has my diary and is headed to the cafeteria." Nodding Faith pulled out her phone and began to text the others while Susan went after her diary.

Susan met up with Amelia and Roxy first on the way there while the others made headed directly to the cafeteria. They did find Christina waiting for them at the doors with the diary still in hand.

"Give it up Christina, don't make us come over there." threatened Roxy as the three made their way cautiously towards her.

"Oh don't worry, I will" smirked Christina who laid a hand on the cafeteria door's push bar. "But first I'm sure everyone is curious at what secrets, Miss Fire-n-Brimstone are keeping to herself."

"Don't you dare!" yelled Susan making a direct shot for Christina, who entered the cafeteria and quickly closed the door behind her.

"Oh, but I do." laughed Christina, backing off from the doors as it was clear Susan, Amelia and Roxy meant to burst in. Christina positioned herself near an empty table in the centre of the cafeteria as she was surrounded by the girls and Felix, "Well, if it isn't the 'sailor scouts'" she observed, "and our resident Tuxedo Mask! I'm deeply honoured," giving a brief laugh, "is this the part where you shout Pony Prism Power or what ever it is?" she mocked though they were having none of it.

"Just give my diary back Christina, you're cornered," Susan said as she and the rest closed in on her.

"Cornered? Yes, but I still hold all the winning hand," With a triumphantly malicious smirk Christina stood on a table with the diary in her hand, opening it to a recent page she began to read, "Listen to this everyone! Of all the landing sights of D-day, The Canadians' site of Juno Beach was one of the most heavily..." When she saw that everyone was confused, Christina took a good look at what she was reading and said, "What is this?"

"That," a voice called out from across the cafe, "Is my history notebook." Turning around the girls looked perplexed as Talia walked up to Christina and snatched the notebook from out her hands. "And if you needed it you could have just asked." She and Christina had a brief staring contest before the latter huffed and walked out of the cafe, without so much as a how do you do.

Sighing in relief, Talia went over to Susan while placing her note book back in her bag and pulled out a identical notebook and handed it to Susan, "Here, you left this in the library when you went to class."

Grateful, Susan took her diary back and asked, "You didn't read it did you?"

Shaking her head, Talia said, "Of course not, it was clearly private, I would never do anything like that without your permission."

Thanking her Susan then asked, "Wait, if you had it all this time, why didn't you call me?"

"You never gave me your number." shrugged Talia as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. You could hear a pin drop from the self realization. Face palming, Susan, and all the girls really, finally exchanged phone numbers, so something like this didn't happen again.

Paulina then pulled both Talia and Susan into a hug and shouted, "Yeah! Now that its over with, come on we have a party to prepare for!" Jumping and cheering Paulina and the rest of the girls started to leave the cafeteria, while and Felix, Susan and Talia looked on confused.

"Girls!" called Felix getting their attention, "Its only lunch! School doesn't end for another two hours."

As realization crept on the girl's faces, they had the decency to look embarrassed, "Oh yeah. Oopsie." admitted Paulina rubbing the back of her neck.

The party at the Cake's was in full swing and as usual Paulina was in top form with planning the celebration. Since out of all of them only Felix, Susan and Talia, did not have the final period of the day as a spare, the girls were able to leave early enough to prepare the upstairs rooms of the shop for the party.

After a while Talia was chatting with Faith on how to better take care of Spike, when she noticed something, well someone to be honest, was missing. Looking around she asked, "Has anyone seen Susan?"

Looking around as well Felix answered, "Last I saw her she said she had business to attend to in private."

Concerned for her new friend Talia excused herself to look for Susan.

"Susan?" Talia asked, finding the young blond red head sitting quietly in the corner, "What are you doing here by yourself?" Looking down on Susan's lap, Talia raised an eyebrow, "What is in that diary anyway?"

Closing the diary in her lap Susan tried to wave it off, "Its nothing really," seeing that Talia was still curious she tried to change the subject, "Um, shouldn't you be enjoying your party?"

Chuckling Talia sat down by Susan's and put a comforting arm on her shoulders, "It's your party too, you know." Glancing back at the banner, with the words "Welcome Talia Sparks/We Forgive you Susan", that hung over the shop, she chuckled, "What ever you did, it had to be a doozy for them to forgive with a party like this!" Pulling Susan into a hug, Talia added, "You have some really great friends. You know that right?"

Smiling and thinking back on the past four months, Susan nodded, "Yeah, they are pretty great." But she looked at Talia with a sort of apologetic look and said, "But they're your friends too!"

Shaking her head, Talia took her hands off Susan's shoulders and turned to face her directly, "Not really," but did concede, "Not yet, anyway. I'm friends with you, and they're friends with you. Therefore they're not really my friends. More like friends of a friend" The two of them shared a smile and just chatted for a while.

When the music started playing a smile came over Talia, "Come on," taking Susan's hand and dragged her over to Felix who was chatting with Rowellina and Paulina. "You free to dance?" she asked while Susan was wondering why she was dragged over.

Ignoring the looks he was getting from the girls he answered, "Uh, yeah, why?"

Devious smirk still on her face Talia took Felix's hand, dragged him and Susan to the centre of the dance floor and said, "Because you are going to teach me and Susan that dance you did with my clone."

Surprised Felix barely managed to say, "I-I-I am?" Switching his gaze between Talia, who beamed, Susan who shrugged and the "sailor scouts" who just gave him thumbs up.

"Yes you are," nodded Talia, before a smirking, "Unless you're too embarassed?"

Calling her bluff, Felix smirked, "Not at all," he said going down on all fours, "I'm just worried you won't be able to keep up."

Sensing a challenge Talia nodded to Susan and both got on all fours and followed Felix in dancing like a certain pony in a girl's body. Of course it didn't last thirty seconds before they all collapsed into a laughing pile, regardless they seemed determined to learn that dance. Off in the corner both Paulina and Rowellina both shared a conspiratorial smile. "Paulie, Darling?"

"Yes, Rowie?"

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Valentine's Day Party?" Asked Paulina pulling a pen and pad already planning the party in her head.

"Exactly!" she nodded beaming widely.

"Your Place?"

"Perfect!"

"Seven Minutes in Heaven?"

"A Must!"

"Rig it so those two end up together?"

"Why else?"

As the two matchmaker's made plans to bring two close friends together, Amelia looked over to Roxy and Faith who seemed nonplussed about the whole affair. "Should we be worried?"

Roxy just shrugged, "Its not my ass their looking to pair up." Amelia then looked over to Faith who softly shook her head and then focused her attention on her shake.