Middle school: Vinyl Scratch & Octavia

The first day of the 7th grade. "Hopefully it will be just as good as the 6th" thought Octavia. She was assigned the Blue team, a category of which ponies were assigned for all of the school year, used to organize classes. the red were to never have the same classes as the blue and vise-versa. And as fate had it, all the friends that Octavia knew happened to be on the opposite team. and the minor ones who were on her team only had one class same, and sat on the other side of the room. So this meant that new friends were to be found. The first day went by fast, as the first three were always the best. it was the time to get to know the new regiments, and classes. and the first class was advisory, with the new teacher Mr.Hoff. A unicorn who wore a vest with a bow tie, and sat at his desk with nothing to say. the room was silent, very sound disturbed. Octavia feared that Mr.Hoff would be the usual boring and nothing but teach, kind of teacher. but cut short of that thought, the teacher smiled and got up. with a glazed smile he said "Hello class" and all worries were dropped. he already had a great first impression on the class. yet everyone seemed bored and starved of summer freedom.

But, of course, Octavia never had this feeling. each and every summer was the same. She would sit at home and practice her cello, and go to the Y.M.C.A for a program every morning to noon. every other night she would do martial arts, not out of free will. summer was just something that made her look forward to school. And school wasn't any different as the silent class seemed to suggest.

Mr.Hoff's smile started to fade as with the classes interest. in attempt to cheer them up, Mr.Hoff  spoke "come on class, it's school! aren't you pumped to learn?" and the silence was broken by a single voice "why should we be? summer's over." but the teacher had a smart remark "Well why wouldn't you be? summer was fine, but school is just a new start!" He'd shown the class the advisory's schedule. Monday-reading, tuesday-freetime, Wednesday-silent ball, thursday-music video's, and friday "Unicorn fun time"

The last two didn't interest Octavia. she wasn't interested in much music, and what she was interested in surely didn't make any "music videos" not only that but the "unicorn fun time" seemed a bit cautious because of the name. what would happen on unicorn fun time, if there was a free time on the schedule? Though it didn't matter at the time, all Mr.Hoff said about it was "we'll find out when time comes"

And, like always, the first day went by pleasingly, the new middle schoolers roamed the 6th grade halls and the upper grades went about classes. all the new teachers seemed pleasingly fun and nice. There was Mr.McC- literacy teacher, Mrs.Kibben-math and science, and Mrs.Russ-Social studies. (All blue team teachers, for the record) Octavia would always help a pony find their way or get around the school when asked, knowing the school in and out.