Papillon.

by Sugarcube66

First day at school

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A year later, school was beginning for all the new 6 year old foals. Bookworm was the most worried, thinking about grades and such, not even bothered about friends. She ran around the circle library, 10 times before Thistle managed to calm her down. The two year old had been there for half a hour when her older sister bolted in.

''But what if I fail an exam? Daddy would get annoyed!'' she yelled.

''Bookie, don't worry yourself. Your 6, too young to be thinking about that.'' said Thistle with a smile, just as Whistle came in.

''*Whistle* Thistle, *Whistle* Where were you?''

''Oh Celestia. Do you ever stop whistling?'' asked Thistle, getting a bit annoyed.

She never got an answer, as Twilight, Fluttershy and Nyx walked in. The alicorn teen had her hair up in pigtails now, she had gotten bored of her headband and choose to have a change.

''Come on, you three. Nyx, you better head to middle school already.''

''Alright, mom. See ya.'' said Nyx with a smile.

The alicorn ran out of the room, so she could get to middle school. And the rest of the Sparkle/Shy siblings followed their parents, to get Bookworm to school.

They walked down the mud path, and were soon joined by two mares who they hadn't seen in years. Rarity and Applejack, with Mel, Harm and Jewel, who was sat on Applejack's back. The mane six had broken ways shortly after their first foals were born, for no true reason.

''Twilight! Fluttershy!'' yelled Rarity.

''Ah, Rarity! And Applejack.''

''Howdy.'' said Applejack.

''Your foals are gonna be in school now?''

''Yep, first day. Is it the same with Bookworm?''

''Yep, and she's more nervous then our youngest and only colt, Whistle.''

''Oh, how many foals do ya have now, Twi?'' asked Applejack.

''4, with Bookworm being the second oldest. Whistle and Thistle, here are our two year old twins.'' said Fluttershy, with a smile. ''Where's Rainbow and Pinkie?''

''Hmm, last time I heard from Pinkie was two years ago, she was working at Sugar Cube Corner. Don't know about now. Sorry, Fluttershy.''

''Are you talking about me!'' came a yell, that they knew all to well. Pinkie Pie!

''Pinkie!'' came the yell of the pink mare's best friends.

Trotting along side Pinkie was Rainbow who had a colt on her head, clearly it was Bullet. While Rainy was doing loop-de-loops in the air, somehow carrying a small unicorn who could clearly been seen as Dizzy.

''Rainy, put Dizzy down. You could fall and hurt yourself and her.'' said Rainbow, scolding while Pinkie bounced over to their friends.

''Huggies!'' yelled Pinkie, hugging them.

The girls giggled while the five fillies walked over to each other.

''May I ask, how do our parents know each other?'' asked Rainy, bouncing up and down.

''Well, I don't know, do I?'' asked Mel, with slight annoyance in her voice, due to the sappiness going on.

''Mel, be quiet.'' said Harm. ''Maybe we should introduce ourselves.''

''Good idea!'' said Bookworm, with a smile. ''I'm Bookworm, daughter of Princess Twilight and Fluttershy.''

''Whoa, a princess and a alicorn filly!'' came Dizzy voice, with glee. ''I'm Dizzy, daughter of Derpy and Doctor Whooves.''

''And I'm Confetti Rain, but I prefer being called Rainy.'' said Rainy, flapping her wings and landed on a rain cloud.

She begin bouncing up and down causing it to rain, nearby. The fillies watched in awe. The twins glanced at each other and smiled.

''Our turn, I'm Harmony.'' said Harm.

''And I'm Melody.'' said Mel.

''And our parents are Applejack and Rarity.'' they continued in unison.

''Your twins?'' asked Bookworm.

''Yep!'' smiled Mel.

''Cool, my baby brother and sister, Thistle and Whistle are twins.'' said Bookworm, with a bright smile.

''Hey, I'm not the only one to be a big sister!'' yelled Rainy, with glee.

''We're all big sisters.'' said Harm, pointing to the 4 foals.

''Does anypony else have a big sister or brother?'' asked Bookworm.

''Nope, why? Do you?''

''Yep, I'm the younger sister of Princess Nyx Sparkle.''

''Nyx? Ah, my aunts are friends with her.'' asked Harm.

''Hmm, are you aunts names Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle or Apple Bloom?''

''Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom.''

''But my aunt is called Scootaloo.'' said Rainy, bouncing up and down more and more.

''Eh, I'm the odd one out, aren't I. But Bookworm, I'm a younger sister too.'' said Dizzy, with a smile.

''Cool, I had heard of Dinky Hooves from Nyx. Their in the same class.''

Dizzy grinned.

''My little ponies, time for school.'' came a yell, it was Cheerilee, also known as the twins' other aunt, thanks to her marrying Big Mac and having Apple Flower as their daughter.

''Go on, girls. We're gonna go to the spa.'' said Twilight.

The group of 5 blinked but nodded their heads. They ran to the door and walked in. In the classroom was about 30 foals, which made it good that three was 6 even rows with five seats on each. Cheerilee walked in.

''Everypony, go and find your desk. Your name is on it.'' she said, with a smile, as she walked over to her own desk.

The girls looked around for their seats. Bookworm got the middle seat on the front row, literally in front of the teacher. The twins got either unlucky or lucky depending on what day, as they were sat together on the far left of the back row. Dizzy got the seat two rows behind Bookworm, with Rainy to her left.

''Alright, everypony. Settle down.'' said Cheerilee with a smile. ''First off, I like you to turn to the pony to your left, or if your on the row closest to the door, turn behind you.''

Bookworm smiled and turned to her left, sat there was a colt with a light blue coat and a three-colored mane, which was red, white and blue. He's eyes were blue too. She blushed, despite not knowing why.

''Um...I'm Bookworm...'' she mumbled.

''Oh, hi.'' he said, with a smile. ''I'm Fresh Teeth, but please just call me Fresh. Wait, are you a princess?'' he asked, eyeing her wings.

''Yeah, daughter of the princess of friendship.

''That's cool, I won't brag or anything, but being next to a princess is so awesome!''

Bookworm giggled, though her normally cream colored coat was flashed with a bright blush.

Behind her, Dizzy was chatting with a random filly, who the twins recognized as their cousin, Apple Flower. The twins were having different chats, Mel having a chat with the colt in front and Harm had the one next to her. And Rainy was almost flying when she found out the pegasus colt next to her loved Rainbow Dash.

''Now, everypony. Please introduce yourself and say something interesting about yourself.''

Bookworm didn't really listen over then to her friends. Her turn came quickly, straight after Fresh's. ''I'm Bookworm, treat me like any other foal, please. And I love reading books on animals''

Whispers went around the class, about Bookwork's princess hood, much to her dislike. She hated being treated differently just cause she had both wings and a horn and that she had a mark of being a princess.

''Class, settle down. Bookworm will be treated like everypony else, I'm not having somepony being treated any different, just cause of her background.'' said Cheerilee, calmly making Bookworm settle a bit.

Next on the list of her new friends was Rainy. ''Hi, I'm Confetti Rain, though I prefer being called Rainy! And my 'daddy' is Rainbow Dash!'' yelled the energetic filly.

Then, it became Dizzy's turn which was almost as eager as Rainy to say. ''I'm Dizzy and I love muffins! Muffin!''

Bookworm had a hold a giggle, which was noted by Fresh, who whispered. ''Quite the energetic one, isn't she?''

''Yea...she's one of my mom's friends' daughter's best friend...so I know her.'' she whispered back.

The last fillies to say their names were the twins and like before they did their introduction together. ''Hi, I'm Harmony!''

''And I'm Melody.''

''We're twins, and we love music.'' said the pair, in unison as their pendents began glimmering catching Bookworm's attention.

'Their pendents...there like mine, just shaped like a music note...instead of a book' she thought, gripping hold of her pendent.


After class ended, the fillies stayed behind for a brief second to met up so they could leave together.

''Hey! Hey! Who wants to do some skipping?'' asked Dizzy, grabbing a skipping rope. ''There's even a rope.''

''Sure, I'll play.'' said Mel.

''Count me out, it involves a muddy floor.'' said Harm.

''Ugh, clean freak.'' groaned Mel.

''There is no way that I am hopping on mud.''

''How about if I drag you on.''

And no pony put it passed her, as Mel grabbed Harm by the hoof and dragged her into the mud pile, covering her usually prim white coat in filth. Everypony begin giggling, though kindly.

''You seriously think this is funny!?'' growled Harm, getting up and hit Mel on the head for pulling her into the mud.

''Ouch! Harm!''

The other fillies stopped laughing, as the two began fighting both verbal and physical.

''Maybe we should stop them.'' said Rainy, watching the pair attempt to beat each other up.

''Yea, I have never seen twins act like this. Come on, Harm gonna get hurt.'' said Bookworm.

She ran over and gripped onto Mel, who was attempting to beat her sister up badly. While Rainy and Dizzy helped Harm up.

''Mel, calm down.'' yelled Bookworm, struggling to keep grip on the tough filly.

''....'' Mel didn't say anything as she finally loosen up and realized that her sister was coated in more bruises then mud.

Tears fell from her eyes, she didn't truly wanna hurt her sister. Her emotions just got the better of her, like the incident that happened when they were five, and Harm skipped out of chores.

''I'm sorry...'' she cried, before making Bookworm let go of her and she ran to one of the farther ends of the playground.

Harm watched as Mel left, she knew that the orange unicorn would never fully hurt her. ''Bookworm, heal me...'' she mumbled.

''Ah, sure.'' said Bookworm, lighting up her horn and healing the bruises on Harm's body.

Harm got to her hooves, didn't even wipe the mud away and ran to where Mel had ran off to. She saw Mel sat along, with her head in her hooves, though she could see tears.

''Mel?''

''Go away, Harm....'' she muttered, as her sister got closer.

''No, you didn't mean it.'' said Harm, before reaching out and hugging Mel.

Mel was shocked when the hooves wrapped around her, and a couple more tears leaked from her eyes. ''I'm so sorry, Harmony!''

''It's alright, Melody. It's alright.''

The other 3 fillies had ran over and saw the comforting scene, and began smiling. Twins, who normally got along so well but had their off-days but made up pretty quickly.

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