Silent Song in Canterlot High
Silent Song brushed the skirt of her dress before returning her gaze to the bathroom mirror. She wore her usual outfit, a white thin strapped summer dress and western boots that were a light brown around the foot but a light green around her calf muscles. She wore only two pieces of jewelry consisting of a necklace with three pendant charms, a pencil, a microphone, and a paintbrush, and a pair of earrings that consisted of August’s birthstone.
She brushed her long golden hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ears as if fell in waves past her waist. Song stared intently into the reflection of her peridot eyes that stood out against her pale white skin. Okay Silent Song you can do this. You only have one class left today; you can wear your hair back for that long.
The bell rang signaling only one minute left to get to class before being late. She quickly switched her hair back to it’s usual spot covering one eye, and walked out of the bathroom. While no doubt she was invisible to the students at Canterlot High, her teachers actually noticed her. Besides, art was her last class of the day and it was one she enjoyed.
As she took her first step out of the bathroom, a tall boy she recognized from her English class came running down the hall. However, he never noticed her and his shoulder slammed into her as he ran by. She stumbled back into the lockers before regaining her balance and absent mindedly brushing the bottom of her dress again with a sigh.
He didn’t even say sorry when he ran by. Oh well, I know it was an accident. She picked up her pace only to run into the reason the first boy had been running. Or rather, he ran into her.
The second boy came running down the hall and as Song went to turn the corner, he slid sideways with his arms stuck out to maintain his balance while slowing down his momentum. However, one of his arms had shoved Song causing her to fall. However, even after she fell the force from his push continued to push her and causing her head to slam back into the lockers. Like the first boy, the second continued to run down the hall without muttering the slightest apology.
She thought she heard a voice yell, but the sound was drowned out by the ringing of the tardy bell. Instantly her eyes began to fill with tears as thoughts raced through her mind. Great! Now I’m late for class! Now when the teacher calls role and notices I’m not there it’s going to happen again! She’s going to ask ‘has anyone seen Silent Song today?’ and everyone is going to start whispering about how we have a new student! Even if I could walk in right now, I would be counted tardy and everyone would be staring at me! That’s so humiliating! I just can’t-
“Hey are you okay?”
Song looked up and blinked twice allowing three tears to run down her cheeks as she noticed the boy knelt down in front of her. He wore standard jeans with a black shirt decorated with a silver gear of some sort and a blue screwdriver the same hue as his jacket. He had silver skin and a strong build, but was not over muscular like the boys who had ran into her. His hair was jet black except for the single neon blue streak that matched his eyes that were full of concern.
“Hey, don’t cry,” he said reached out and cupping her face as he wiped away the tears. It was at that moment she realized that during her fall her hair had swept behind her shoulders and was hiding none of her face. Instantly a faint blush rushed to her cheeks. “Don’t worry about those jerks.”
“No it’s okay,” she said softly avoiding his gaze. Gosh his eyes are really blue. “They just didn’t see me.”
“They must be really blind to not notice you.”
“What do you mean?” She asked looking back at him.
“Oh, um nothing,” he muttered as he sheepishly rested one arm across his raised knee and ran his other hand through his hair. “I’m Silver Gear by the way.”
“Oh, I’m Silent Song,” she replied in her usual soft tone as she absent mindedly reached for her necklace. When she didn’t feel any of the charms, she looked down to see her favorite piece of jewelry missing. “My necklace!”
She jumped to her feet and began scanning the floor. She spotted the thin chain but upon picking it up she noticed only the microphone charm remained. “Two of my charms are missing,” she said sadly.
“You mean these?”
She turned and saw a small paintbrush and pencil resting in the palm of his hand. “Thank you!” Her mood was instantly lifted until she slid the two charms back onto the chain. “The clasp broke!”
“Here let me see.” She handed over her beloved necklace and allowed him to inspect it. “I can fix this.”
“You can?” She asked looking up at him hopefully.
“Yeah, I actually have my independent study this hour, so why don’t I meet up with you after the bell rings?”
“Um, sure. How about outside the library?”
“Okay, I’ll see you then,” he said with a smile before walking away. Well, there’s no way I’m going to art during the middle of class. That would be far too embarrassing.
She decided to go to the library seeing as she was going there after school ended anyways. Upon arrival, she noticed the library was void of both students and the librarian.
She scanned the bulletin board, which was filled with the usual flyers for annual flu shots and after school tutoring. She noticed a new flyer and scoffed as she read, ‘Sign up to be the Fall Formal Princess!’ Yeah right. Nobody in this school is brave enough, or stupid enough for that matter, to run for the crown. Everyone knows Sunset Shimmer is just going to win again. While she hadn’t faced the torment by Sunset herself, she heard the whispers in the halls and occasionally gave herself a pat on the back for flying under the radar.
She walked over and logged onto one of the library’s computers. She pulled up her school’s website and sighed. There were these three girls who called themselves some sort of crusaders who were notorious for trying to find their talents and who they were meant to be. Somehow, they had gotten a link to their latest video posted on the website and knew it would only end it disaster like all of their other ‘adventures.’
The bell rang and Silent Song quickly logged off the computer. She stepped outside of the library and watched as countless students rushed by ready to start their weekends. After a few minutes, the halls cleared and she found herself alone. I wonder where he is?
“Hey.” She jumped at the voice that appeared seemingly out of nowhere and turned to see Silver Gear holding his hands up in an ‘I surrender’ fashion. “Sorry! Didn’t mean to scare you! Just thought you might want this.” He lowered one of his hands and reached into his pocked and pulled out a single piece of jewelry.
She smiled as she noticed her necklace was fixed as if it had never broken at all. She momentarily forgot about her necklace as she wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug. Oh my gosh what am I doing I just met him today! “Oh, um sorry,” she apologized as she stepped out of the hug.
He gave her an assuring smile, “Here let me help you.”
“Oh, um,” she turned around and gathered her hair on one side. After he hooked the clasp together, she turned around with her hand placed delicately over the three charms, “Thank you for fixing my necklace, it really means a lot.”
“It was nothing, really,” he assured with a warm smile.
“Aww!”
The turned looked just in time to see two girls running down the hall away from them. Silver Gear sighed before explaining, “That would be my sisters. Um, I’ll guess I’ll see you Monday?”
“Um, yeah I guess so.”
“Have a good weekend.”
“You too.” With her last words, the two began walking down the hall in opposite directions. Huh, somebody actually noticed me today. Why am I not that embarrassed then?
“Um, hi Song.”
Silent Song smiled as she looked to her left and saw her one and only friend walking beside her. “Hey Fluttershy.” Like herself, Fluttershy usually unnoticed by the other students at Canterlot High. However, unlike Song, students typically chose to ignore her for her quiet demeanor, except for Sunset Shimmer who found her an easy target.
“Where were you at lunch today? If, um, you don’t mind me asking that is.” Fluttershy asked in her usual quiet voice.
“Oh, I had to finish an English paper,” she answered while naturally matching her tone, “did anything interesting happen?”
“Well, I met a knew student and she sat with me today.”
“Really?” Song asked surprised. Usually it was only the two of them who sat together, not including the few animals seemed to always have with her. “Did you get her name?”
“Um, she said her name was Twilight, I think. Twilight Sparkle.”
Author's Note
This is an idea that's been floating around in my head for about two weeks now and finally took the time to write it. I plan on leaving this story marked incomplete in case I come up with more ideas and people enjoy reading this. As always, comment below and tell me what you think!
Silent Song in Canterlot High
Silent Song set her tray down at her usual table in the cafeteria. She always sat with Fluttershy, except for days such as yesterday when she had a paper to finish, or other various reasons. She saw her animal loving friend walk in and smiled at her. She returned the smile, but proceeded to walk past her and sit with another table full of other students.
Oh, that’s okay I guess. Maybe she made new friends in a class today. I should be happy for her, but I’m still kind of sad that I have to sit by myself now. Where did she get that blue top? And where did she get those pony ears and tail?
“Hey Song.”
She jumped and tore her gaze from Fluttershy to Silver Gear standing in front of her.
“Sorry! Didn’t mean to scare you again! Do you always sit alone?” While at first his tone was apologetic, it changed to one she couldn’t quite place.
Is he worried just thinking that I might sit alone everyday? “Um, no. I actually sit with Fluttershy, but today she decided to sit somewhere else.” She explained in her usual soft tone.
“In that case,” he said setting down his tray and pulling out a chair, “I’m going to eat with you today. Oh, I meant to ask you this yesterday, but realized I never did, how’s your head?”
“Oh, um, it’s fine thanks.”
Silver Gear went to continue the conversation, but was cut of by two girls sitting a few tables away.
“Aww~” The two girls, who Song now realized to be twins, cried in unison.
Silver Gear sighed and shook his head. “It seems I can never get away from those two,” he said with a slight smile. “Do you have any siblings?”
“I have one older brother. He torments me a lot, but we still get along.”
Silver Gear went to ask her another question, but found himself cut off once again, but this time by someone hitting their lunch tray against what sounded like a table. Song looked over and noticed that Fluttershy was now hitting two glasses against a table and another girl began to clap. Five girls stood up and began to sing.
Hey, hey everybody. We’ve got something to say~
“Does this happen a lot?” Silver Gear asked in disbelief.
“More than you would think.”
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Silent Song walked down the hall humming a certain catchy tune she heard at lunch. She was rather surprised to see Fluttershy bold enough to sing in dance in front of the entire school, but no doubt her new friends gave her the encouragement she needed. She was a little sad that she didn’t even get to talk to Fluttershy today, but was happy for her as well.
She swayed her hips slight as she walked to swish the blue and gold tail tied around her waist. The rest of the school, even the teachers, had continued to wear the tails as well as the pony ears for the rest of the day, and Rarity had been swarmed with orders for her sweaters. Silent Song had ordered one herself, or rather asked Silver Gear to place the order for her, which he kindly did.
Speaking of Silver, he stood at the end of the hall concentrating solely on his phone. Song saw and opportunity and felt too bold to let it pass. Not making a sound, which came quite easily to Song, she slowly walked up before jumping right in front of him.
“Hey Silver!”
Silver jumped at the sound of a whisper-shout and looked to see Silent Song standing before him smiling and giggling. No doubt was she proud of herself to have finally turned the tables.
“Hey Song,” he replied with a smile. After all, he caught her guard several times so it was only fair she finally did the same.
“Why were you staring to intently at your phone?” she asked recalling how she was able to scare him in the first place.
“My parents texted me saying that they are painting the downstairs portion of the house and I have to keep myself and my sisters occupied until later tonight. I literally have no idea what to do for that long.” He admitted.
“Well,” Song offered pausing before continuing, “You three could always come over to my house. My parents are still at work, but my brother is home and we can watch movies, play video games and stuff…”
“We would love to.”
“Song turned around to see the owners of the two voices that had spoken in unison. The first was a girl with light silver skin that appeared to be almost white. Her hair was an electric blue that fell in a sharp cut bob with lavender highlights that perfectly matched her eyes. The girl next to her, who was no doubt her twin, was her complete opposite as well. She shared the same skin tone, but her hair, which was styled the same, was dominantly lavender with electric blue streaks that matched her eyes.
“I’m Lavender Grace,” the first girl announced. She wore a silver turtle neck dress, whose color closer resembled Silver Gear’s skin tone, layered underneath a knitted lavender poncho accessorized with silver hoop earrings and lavender knee high boots.
“And I’m Cerulean Flair,” the second girl declared. She wore an electric blue halter-top with a straight cut dark silver and black mid-thigh skirt paired with black knee high boots. Like her sister, she wore silver hoops, but paired them with several silver and blue bracelets on her wrist.
“That’s so sweet of you to invite us over,” Lavender Grace said sweetly.
“And we would love to accept your invitation,” Cerulean Flair finished in the same tone.
Silver Gear shook his head and Silent Song smiled. She couldn’t remember the last time she had friends over, so she could only assume this would be fun.
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“And this is my room,” Silent Song finished as she motioned towards her door which was decorated with a small sign consisting of a pencil crossed with a paintbrush in front of a microphone. They had been amazed by her house when they had arrived and demanded a tour. She noticed the two share a mischievous look before dashing inside her room.
“Wait!” Silent Song cried, but the two blatantly ignored her and they took in their new surroundings. Song’s room was very frilly and elegant consisting of mostly white adorned with gold and occasional peridot green.
“Lavender! Cerulean!” Silver said in a warning tone.
“We just want to check out her closet,” Lavender said sweetly as her sister threw open the closet doors.
“Check out this skirt!”
“Look at this sweater!” Lavender gasped pulling down a chaimpaign colored cardigan earning her sister’s approval. “We should share clothes with each other! You can totally borrow anything of ours anytime.”
“What’s this?” Cerulean asked as she pulled down a hanger partially hidden by the bag that concealed its contents. Silent Song dashed forward and took the hanger back and returned it to the closet and shut the doors.
“That,” she explained, “is my dress for the dance.” When she saw Cerulean about to speak, she answered her unasked question, “I rather not show anyone until that night. Why don’t we go to the game room? I’m sure my brother has the game set up by now.”
The two girls nodded and walked out of her room and down the hall. As she exited her room and closed the door, she noticed Silver waiting on her.
“So,” he started until he noticed Song’s questioning gaze, “can I see what your dress looks like?” She gave him a pointed glare and walked towards the game room leaving him to catch up.
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“Thanks again for letting us hang out all afternoon,” Silver Gear said as he stood on the front steps with Silent Song. The sun had sat hours ago, and his two sisters waited impatiently in the car.
“It really was no trouble,” Song admitted, “it was nice having friends over.”
“Um,” Silver started hesitantly. “Seeing as you’re going to the dance, and I’m going to the dance, I was wondering if,” he paused and took a deep breath, “If you would go to the dance? With me?”
Song blushed slightly before answering, “I would love to.”
“Great!” he said with a huge grin. “I guess I’ll pick you up around seven?” The sound of a car horn behind him honking twice made him sigh. “And I’m going to have those two with me.”
“Seven is fine with me,” she answered with a soft laugh, “and it should make for an interesting evening.”
“With those two, I’m not sure if interesting is the right word,” she said shaking his head in defeat. “Goodnight Song,” he said looking back up at her.
“Good night Silver.” She watched him get into his car and waved as he drove past before going back inside with a smile.
