Reflected

I was so lost... I split up with CometSwirl, seeing as our we weren't in the same dorm. She seemed really nervous, but also excited to meet a new friend. I couldn't say the same for myself.

        I was told that I was sharing a dorm with another pony taking Studies on the Magic of Boredom. What if she was weird? What if she was an egghead? What if she was a bully? Or even worse, Popular.

        I was walking down a hall when I saw my number; 196. I took a deep breath and pushed open the door. There was an explosion of confetti. My first thought was, 'PinkiePie?'. But then I saw a pretty red pony that had a white swirl on her cheek with short green hair and unaturally blue eyes. She said, "Oh! Hello! My name's Pavaratti! You must be SkySparkle!" She threw the words at me in a high pitched voice. I was tempted to think it was Pinkie in disguise, but something told me eitherwise.

        "Yup. That's me." I saw one side of the room had ballons and streamers everywhere. It was also plastered with Vinyl Scratch posters and pictures of her and her Dad... I think. I also spied a pink pony with short blue hair that I saw in the hallways, singing a pretty song. I saw the other side of the room, which was completly bland, and I threw my bag onto my bed. Then I emptyed it to find many posters and pictures. I smiled. Okay, so mabey my parents aren't like those parents that don't think of stuff. I posted my posters, placed pictures and filled my bookcase.

        Then I sat down and decided to try and get to know 'Pavaratti'.  "So..." I started. "What's your cutiemark for?"

        It was obvious, but I wanted to make conversation. Her cutie mark had a soccerball, a football, a hockey puck and a baseball all squished together and covered with a white swirl like the one on her face. She giggled. "Being an athlete! Teeheehee! Obviously silly!"

        I tried to laugh. I was still pretty depressed that my parents had sent me away, seeing that they packed everything i wanted them to. Then she asked me about my cutiemark, which was four stars. One of them resembled my Auntie Twilight's, just Silver and Gold, not Pink and Purple. I remembered the day well...

I was sitting on my mother's lap in the Empire. We were on the balcony that overlooked the kingdom. She was brushing my mane while teling me stories about the constellations in the night sky. I remember looking up at her, wearing my big circular glasses and asking, "Can you count the stars?"

        She laughed. "I don't think you can count all the stars... But if you set your mind to it, you can do anything. Even count stars."

        Then, when she left, I took out a notebook and began scetching out a picture if what the night sky looked like, dotted with little stars. I fell asleep on that balcony, and when I woke up, my cutiemark had appeared.

        I said flatly to Pavaratti, "It's stargazing."

        She stared at it. Then she smiled. "Oh yeah!"

        A pink pony barged in. She was the same pony in the picture, with the blue hair. She also had blue eyes, though they didn't look as unatural as Pavaratti's. She said in an impatient voice, "Ratti, do you have my study book on SFM? I can't find it."

        Ratti (fun nickname, mine's just Sky,) blinked then searched through a large black bag. "Mel... I believe you are in luck!" She emerged from the bag, holding a textbook in her mouth.

        This Mel character sighed with relief and took the book. Then she spotted me. Then she glanced at Pavaratti, giving her a look that clearly said,

Aren't you going to introduce me?

        Pavaratti smiled and said, "MelodyBreeze, SkySparkle. SkySparkle, MelodyBreeze! MelodyBreeze here is my twin sister, and SkySparkle's-"

        "Your RoomMate." She gave me a smile that didn't reach her icy blue eyes. The she leaned into me and whispered, "If you hurt her, I'll have your horn." Then she leaned back and smiled again. "Agreed?"

        I didn't know who she thought she was, but I felt like the smart thing to was to agree. She marched out after uttering a "Farewell."

        After she left, I slouched immediatly. I haddn't realized how tense I was! I said, "That's your sister, huh."

        She nodded. I was about to point out that She was as similar to MelodyBreeze as a Dragon is a Zebra, but she interrupted, "I'm adopted. Mel and I happened to be the same age, so we changed my birthday to the same day as her's."

        I let that sink in. "Okay. Cool." Then I asked, "Just a question... Are you a cilon, or an Earth Pony?"

        Pavaratti stared at me blankly, like I was speaking a different language, but then she mumbled, "Earth Pony. I think... No one ever knew my parentage. And I'm pretty sure if my mom was an almighty alicorn goddess, she would keep me in her care, not dump me in Ponyville on some random pony's doorstep."

        I lay down on my bed, staring at the ceiling. "Sorry if that was uncomfortable for you, it's just... I've never- really had any friends that are mares. My friends are my parents and the captain of security's son."

        Pavaratti gasped then turned around onto her belly. "Ooooh. A colt-friend?"

        I hoped the heat in my fase wasn't visible. "Nononononononono. Not like that... We're just friends."

        "Uh-huh."

        "What?"

        "You're a terrible liar."

        "I was telling the truth!"

        "You sure bout' that?"

        "Forget it."

Later, after a great supper, we trotted back into our dorm areas. I trotted through a colt hallway and heard many of them wolfwhistle and stuff. Then One stallion, a pure black one with a green spikey mane grabbed my hoof. "Let's go some place quiet, sweetheart..."

        I tried to pull away, but he was too strong. Then another colt slapped his hand away. He was a light grey pegasus with a red and orange mane that was blown back. He had a cutie mark with a comet on it. "ShockFlare, leave her alone." He said. His voice was deep, but not like Morgan Freemule.

        ShockFlare did back off, into a room behind the colt and said, "C'mon Thunder! I was just playin!"

        I clenched my teeth and growled, "It didn't seem like you were just playing."

        He stepped forwards. "Why I aught to-"

        I used my magic to levitate him in the air and clamp his mouth shut. "What?" I tilted my head teasingly. "Hit me?" I threw him into the dorm he was going into. Then I turned the the grey colt. "Thanks."

        He nodded. "Don't mention it."

        I held out my hoof. "SkySparkle."

        He shook it. "I'm ThunderRunner." He looked at me. "SkySparkle... Hey! You're in Understanding Wingpower!"

        I smiled. "Yup. That's me. I believe Unicorns and Pegasi and Earth Ponies should all have equal

Knowledge, be it math, science, arithmatic or wing power."

        By his look,I could tell he hadn't understood a word, but was eating it up. He said, "I can't get into the Wonderbolts unless I take this course so, you know."

        I nodded. Then I said, "I'll see you then."

        He smiled in return. "See ya."

Once I returned to the dorms, I saw Ratti on her bed, reading a magazine of some sort. She looked up and grinned. Then, still looking at her magazine, she said, "You see... Fleck?"

        I blinked. "Wha- what? No? What are you..."

        Then she said, "Because it looks like you were struck by the cupid pony!!!"

I gasped in mock offense. "How dare you!?" I chucked my pillow at her. "Take that peasant!"

        She threw it right back. Soon we had a fully fludged pillow war. Then a teacher came round amd said lights out. It was a bummer, but I was happy, because for the first time in forever, I had experienced true laughter.