The Misunderstood Pegasus

RING! RING! RING!

Thunderlane stood outside of his fourth class, Home Ec. He didn't like the class, but it was so much better than Biology. He opened the door and walked in the classroom seeing tables and mini kitchens. He looked around and noticed some small note cards in front of the seats. Oh no, he knew what that meant. It could only be one thing and one thing only... A SEATING ORDER!!!

"Oh no not a seating order, not on the first day of school!"

"Hey calm down! it's just today's recipe for what you're going to be cooking."

"Oh uh sorry sir. Heh I guess I overreacted a little bit."

"It's alright. I deal with that every year. I'm Mr. Cake."

"I'm Thunderlane. I'm sorry I just added another year to your list of bizarre shout outs on the first day of school."

"Oh don't worry about it Thunderlane. Maybe one day that will stop."

Thunderlane walked over to a seat and sat down then flipped over the recipe to read what he was going to make. He did this out of honest curiosity and a little bit from hunger. He did have lunch today, but the portions are so small that he was still hungry.

"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"

"Ow. are you trying to make me deaf? I was curious about what the class was making so I took a peek at the recipe."

"That is unacceptable! You were trying to cheat for the test tomorrow!"

"I was not! How could I cheat for the test if this is the first time I'm hearing about it?"

"Well you do have a point there. Fine you will make something else while everyone else makes triple chocolate fudge cupcakes."

Mr. Cake went back to his recipe book and started to search for another recipe that Thunderlane could make.

"Hey Mr. Cake, where are the other students?"

"You are the only student in this class Thunderlane."

Thunderlane was stunned that he was the only pony in his school that had a class all alone. To make things worse it was a class the entire school despised. None of the staff members liked the class and students hated the class even more than the teachers and staff members did. Once Mr. Cake found another recipe he walked back out to the classroom and handed the paper to Thunderlane.

"Get in your kitchen and read over the ingredients, utensils, and directions. If you need any help after that then just ask me."

Thunderlane got up and went into the small kitchen and started to read over the recipe. He got out everything that the recipe called for and went to work making it. He went back to his seat and sat down once the cupcake batter was in the oven and timed out thirty-five minutes.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Thunderlane got back up and went to check on his cupcakes. He inspected them thoroughly with a tooth pick (a trick that he learned from his grandma who sadly is now gone) and determined that they needed to bake a little bit longer. He went back to his seat and timed fifteen more minutes. As he sat there he could smell a slight burning smell and he realized his cupcakes were almost burning. He jumped up and ran into his kitchen taking out the cupcakes and sitting them on the stove to let them cool off before he put the frosting on them.

RING! RING! RING!

"Darn it! I didn't even finish my cupcakes today. Oh well maybe next time."

"I will see you tomorrow Thunderlane. Nice Job today."

"Thanks Mr. Cake and yeah I'll see you tomorrow too."

Thunderlane walked outside of the Home Ec building and took out his schedule. The fifth class read Equestrian Economics. He looked at the classroom number and discovered it was the same one as his Equestrian History class.

I hope that Prince Artemis is teaching this class too. I don't know why, but I can't stop thinking about him.

Thunderlane shook his head and walked to his class. Once he arrived he went and sat in the same spot that he had chosen in his Equestrian history class. He sat there nervously waiting for the bell to ring and signal class to begin.

RING! RING! RING!

After the bell stopped ringing and the class was full of ponies The professor introduced himself.

"Hello, I am Prince Artemis, and I am your professor."

Thunderlane was secretly smiling just as he had done in his History class. Why was he smiling so much? He never really liked school, nor did he have any real friends. He even dropped out of the hoof ball team this year because it was the same thing over and over again. He sat in his seat and took notes of all the important information that was being talked about. He tried to be oblivious with his giant smile and just get through the class.

RING! RING! RING!

Thunderlane gathered his things and started to head to his last class, English. He was almost to the door and on his way to English when...

"Can thou cometh here and talk for a moment?"

"Yeah sure." Thunderlane turns around and walks over to Prince Artemis' desk.

"What did you want to talk about Prince?"

"We wanted to talk about thou smiling in class."

"It was a funny joke I remembered from one of the guys on the hoof ball team from last year." Thunderlane spat out immediately answering the Prince's question.

"We do not think that to be true. did thou forget that we can go into thou's dreams?"

"Even daydreams?!" Thunderlane blurted out a bit embarrassed.

"Yes even daydreams. Thou may want to clear his mind before class tomorrow."

"Yes sir. I will not smile in class anymore."

"We did not mean that thou could not smile anymore, but rather that we wanted thou to clear his dirty thoughts." Prince Artemis looked back at Thunderlane with a small smirk on his face.

"W-well I should get going. Don't want to be late to class again." Thunderlane ran in the direction of his next class as fast as possible to get away from the smirking Prince that had found out his guilty pleasure.

Darn him! I tried to not think those kinds of thoughts in school and I do it more! Darn him and his dream magic! I will not be caught like that again!