High School, Where Friendship Kinda Sucks

High School, Where Friendship Kinda Sucks

Chapter One
Well, this kinda sucks

"How in hell did I go from Canterlot Academy to this?"

Twilight Sparkle stood in front of a rundown brick building, staring at a sign just above the doors that read, PON VIL E H GH SCHO L.

Her eyes trailed down towards the glass doors.

"At least they wash windows well. The school is probably full of 'I'm-too-lazy-to-go-to-college-so-I'll-just-live-off-of-my-parents/the-orphanage-I-live-in-and-live-life-to-the-fullest-by-selling-drugs-behind-the-local-library' futures just waiting to be destroyed, so it's best they know how to."

She sighed.

"And I can't wait to meet the teachers."

"If you really wanna meet the teachers that bad, why are you standing out here?"

Twilight nearly jumped out of her skin and turned to face a pink-haired girl about the same age as her.

She was wearing a pink skirt and white shirt that had three balloons on it.

Twilight put her hand on her heart.

"Jesus, are trying to give me a heart attack?!"

The girl stopped for a second.

"I don't think Jesus likes killing people."

Twilight held back a scream and instead took deep breaths.

"Just an expression."

"That makes sense. Anyway, I'm Pinkie Pie, and I'm supposed to be the school tour guide, but I can't find the new girl-wait a minute..."

She stopped to read something on her hand.

"Are you Twilight Sporkle?"

Twilight paused. She didn't want to get stuck with this random girl, who was probably on drugs, but she didn't want to get lost either...

"Um, yes. And it's Sparkle."

Pinkie reread the words written on her left hand.

"Sorry, Applejack's 'o's look just like her 'a's, and I just guess half the time."

Twilight held back the "Who's Applejack?' that was on the tip of her tongue.

"Right. Can you just show me around now?"

Pinkie grinned.

"Sure! Let's go!"

Grabbing the unprepared girl by the arm, Pinkie dragged Twilight into the shabby school.

And at that moment, Twilight Sparkle knew this was going to be the longest day of her life.

"And this is science class 2B, and this is history class 2B, and this is the girls' locker room, and this is-"

"Okay, I think I know where everything is, can you just let go of me now?"

Pinkie stopped and unhanded Twilight, albeit unwillingly.

"Sorry.... Oh! What's your first period so I can help you get there?"

"Pretty sure you took so long we missed first period."

Pinkie rolled her eyes.

"Then tell me what your second period is. Duh!"

Twilight, deciding she couldn't win this one-sided argument, began to search her bag for her schedule.

After coming up empty-handed, she mentally slapped herself.

"I haven't gotten it from the principal's office yet."

Pinkie began to drag her towards the office, but Twilight quickly came up with a plan.

"Why don't you get to your class, and I'll find the office myself?"

Pinkie stopped, a thoughtful look on her face.

"Well.... I am already in hot water with Mr. Waddles..... Alright! Bye, Twilight!"

And with that, she was gone.

Twilight smiled for the first time that day.

"Thank God. I don't think I would've been able to listen to her anymore today."

She took a good look at the desolated hallway.

The old, blue lockers clearly needed a new paint job, and she noted that locker 167 had 'Touch this locker and you die FAG!' written on it in permanent marker.

"How incredibly inviting.... And a fan of 'The Breakfast Club'." Twilight muttered.

She had only started trekking towards the direction Pinkie had begun to drag her when she realised how lost she actually was.

"Shit. Well this sucks."

"You're telling me. One second I'm happily blowing up some freshman's locker, the other I'm running from the school's prefect."

Twilight spun around to come face to face with a slightly shorter mulatto girl.

"Ah, Jesus! Who in hell are you?"

The girl stuck out a pierced tongue at Twilight before pulling down her blue hood, revealing her rainbow (probably dyed) hair.

"Wouldn't you like to know? Now move over little girl, you're standing in front of my locker."

Twilight took a quick step to the right and turned to see which locker she owned.

"Ah, so you're the Breakfast Club fan." She mused.

The girl lifted a pierced eyebrow.

"Yeah? Well you're the only one who's dared to go more than a foot close to it so it's working."

The girl quickly began putting in her locker combination and began putting books and a plastic bag inside.

Twilight watched with interest, and waited for her to finish, as she wanted to ask where the office was. However, her train of thought suddenly stopped when she realised something.

"Did you say you were blowing up some freshman's locker?"

The girl continued putting things in her locker, not sparing Twilight a glance before she answered.

"Yeah. Well, I think it was a freshman's. It was in the freshman locker hall, but sometimes they assign sophomores and juniors there. I just hope it wasn't Bulk's locker. I can outrun him as much as I want, he'll still beat me to a pulp next time he sees me."

The girl stopped for a split second and listened.

"If he catches me."

Twilight nodded, taking everything she said in.

"You wouldn't know who Applejack is, would you?"

The girl stopped again and turned to face her.

"Why? She want me for something?"

"No. Pinkie mentioned her earlier and..." Twilight trailed off.

"Ah. In that case, not really. I think we're in the same Maths class, but I wouldn't really know, since I never go to Maths class."

Twilight nodded once more.

"So you're the school's renowned delinquent?"

The girl slammed her locker closed and blinked.

"Yeah... I suppose so. Why, you new here?"

"Yes, actually. And I was looking for the principal's office."

The girl smirked arrogantly.

"I could show you, but if you wait a minute the prefect could bring us both in his personal carriage. If he doesn't stop for fast food on the way here. The name's Rainbow Dash, by the way. And I'm sure you'll hear the name plenty of times while you're here."

Twilight rolled her eyes and went to brush down her knitted vest and straighten her tie out of habit.

Rainbow Dash, seeing she wasn't in the mood for jokes, sighed.

"It's down the hall and to your left. Good luck...?"

"It's Twilight, and thanks."

Rainbow winked at her, looked over her shoulder and began sprinting down the hall.

"RAINBOW SPECTRUM DASH! IF YOU DONT COME HERE THIS SECOND ILL-"

"Get diabetes? Hurry up, slowpoke!"

Twilight found the young delinquent's directions were quite right, and soon found herself in the principal's office, sitting in a wooden chair and waiting for Principal Celestia to return with her schedule and locker number and combination.

As she waited, she scanned the room. Nothing was too out of ordinary, except for a series of photographs hung up on the wall, all of which were of the same girl, who had pale moon blue hair, except the last one, which was of a beautiful girl with purple hair and dark skin.

Her smile was dazzling, and even through the picture, Twilight felt a slight attraction towards the girl.

"I see you've found our prom queen photos."

Twilight turned in surprise for the third time that day. Principal Celestia stood tall beside her and handed her a schedule and piece of paper with two series of numbers on it.

"Here's your combination and schedule. I hope you have a great school day. I hope Applejack was inviting?"

Twilight looked up from her bag as packed her schedule inside.

"Applejack? No, Pinkie showed me around."

Principal Celestia looked slightly shocked.

"Really? Did she do well?"

Twilight blinked.

"Let's just say I know where everything is."

Principal Celestia smiled understandingly.

"Maybe I should ask her to do it in the future. You run along to lunch now. And don't forget to make friends."

Twilight gulped as she stood in front of the vast sea of students, holding her lunch tray and searching for an empty table she could sit at. Old habits don't die easy.

Unable to find one, she considered going to the bathroom, but knew she would probably find someone having sex in one of the stalls, so decided against it.

"Maybe I could go to the library-"

"Twilight! Over here! TWILIGHT!"

Twilight saw two hands waving in the air and instantly knew it was Pinkie.

"Better than the bathroom..."

She followed the hands and found Pinkie sitting with a tall boy with a short, green Mohawk.

As she set her tray down across from them, he gave her a small smile.

Pinkie, however..

"Hey, Twilight! Bet you were worried that you would have to eat in the bathroom while listening to some random couple having sex!"

The boy, who was drinking milk, started having a coughing fit.

"Oh, sorry, Spike. The idea of eating in such unhygienic conditions makes me feel like choking on milk too."

Twilight found herself laughing, as did Spike. Pinkie stared at them, confused, before laughing herself.

"What's so funny?"

Pinkie looked up and smiled.

"Dashie! So how did the meeting go?"

Rainbow Dash put her tray down beside Twilight and grinned.

"Just detention, 'cos they couldn't prove I did it."

She looked at Twilight.

"Hey, Twilight," she nodded at Spike." Spike."

Twilight looked around, but noticed that the lunch line had gone down and only three people needed to be served.

"So where's this legendary Applejack I heard so much about?"

Pinkie shrugged.

"I don't know, we don't hang out much. Spike?"

Spike shook his head.

"Nah. Haven't seen her."

Pinkie grinned brightly and began waving some other girl over.

"Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Over here!"

Twilight turned to look at the pale pink-haired girl, who was steadily avoiding the table.

Rainbow Dash sighed as she ripped her buttered roll in half.

"She's never gonna come over, Pinkie. She's gonna do what she always does."

Dash dipped her roll into her chicken soup.

"First, she's gonna look for the emptiest table around."

Twilight watched as Fluttershy neared an almost empty table.

"Then, she's gonna sit as far away as possible from the people sitting on the table."

Fluttershy sat at opposite end of the table.

"She's going to eat her chicken salad, but leave the chicken on the side 'cos she's a vegetarian, and then she's going to get up, empty her tray, and go to her next class ten minutes early."

Fluttershy began picking out the chicken from her salad and gingerly placing on the side of the tray.

"Geez, Dashie, you really know her well."

Dash's cheeks tinted pink, but she hid it by turning around and changing the subject.

"Oh, look. There's Rarity. D'ya think she'll sit with us like she used to when she first came here?"

Spike looked hopefully at the ignorant girl, who Twilight recognised as the one in the picture with the beautiful smile.

Her smile wasn't nearly as real now, and came across as forced as she made her way through the entourage that seemed to surround her.

Twilight then noticed how quiet the table had become.

Rainbow's words seemed to hang in the air, and created a tension around the table no one could miss.

Pinkie's hair seemed to flatten, and Spike just mixed his tomato soup gently with his spoon.

Rainbow Dash herself had gone quiet, and began drinking her soup.

Twilight, going against all of her instincts cleared her throat.

"Who's Rarity?"

Spike seemed like the only one who was able to answer her, and moved to sit beside her.

"Rarity came here in our sophomore year. She didn't have any friends at first, so she hung out with us. We became really close until.... Last year's prom. She decided to run for queen and won. The school's quarterback started making moves on her, and she just stopped hanging out with us."

Rainbow Dash slammed her bowl down.

"You know that's not it Spike. What really happened was AJ went to warn her that Trenderhoof wasn't that great of a guy, and had made moves on her before. So Rarity told her that she was just a 'stupid, jealous ruffian', and that she should just move on with life."

"AJ... That wouldn't stand for Applejack, would it?" Twilight pondered.

Rainbow gripped her plastic spoon.

"It does."

"Then why did you tell me you didn't know her?"

Rainbow bit her lip.

"I don't. Not anymore."

Twilight then realised there was a clear history here, and knew there was much more to situation than met the eye.

She then made the biggest decision she would ever make. One that would change her life forever.

She was going to find out what happened between them, and she promised herself she would fix it.

She had no idea what she was getting into.