My Life Is A Lie

In high school, Blue Book had strange signs that something was off. Perhaps the first of these signs was when he was in magical education class, the class for unicorns to work on their magic in much the same way as physical education (gym). Normally, Blue would be taken out of the class due to his apparent disability in magic, but then he would be put in special needs classes and be separated from his friends. Aware of his problems fitting in and the occasional Sand Stone issue, his parents insisted that he stay in normal classes in order to keep his and his friends' schedules in a reasonable unison. They also hoped that he would improve as time moved on.

On one day in particular, in the first month of freshmare year, something rather weird happened.

The class was starting on its unit on sleep spells. These are usually advanced and reserved for Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, but due to a shift in the school board's administration and pressure from the Gifted School's recruiters, the class was assigned the spells. Blue Book was supposed to sit it out, but...

"Aw, the little blank flank wants to act his age and sit back like the loser he is while the big colts do some real magic. It's just such a cute moment, really."

A certain somepony was attending the same class.

"Blue, just try to ignore him." Star Gazer tried to tell his friend.

"Oh, so this who you turn to when your special little filly isn't here to protect her baby blank flank." Sand Stone ranted on.

Blue Book had it. He trotted up to the teacher and demanded for his turn.

"Blue, both you and I know this is too advanced for you. If you sit this one out, I won't have to give you a grade."

"Mr. Parchment, I'm doing this. I'm not going to improve if I just sit here."

"Fine, it's your call. You can go next"

The assignment is that a volunteer from the board is the test subject. To pass, the student must at least cause drowsiness in the subject and then an overseer counters the spell and the next student goes up. Before Blue took his turn though...

"I volunteer to be the test subject Mr. Parchment." Sand Stone said raising his hoof.

"Sand, why in all of Equestria do you want to volunteer?"

"If he wants to, then I don't see why not." the overseer said.

Sand Stone trotted up next to Blue and said in a low whisper, "I just want my face to be the first thing you see when you fail, loser."

Sand took his place and waited for Blue to attempt to cast the spell.

"Remember, channel your magic and think of fatigue and drowsy things." Mr. Parchment encouraged.

Try as he might, Blue just couldn't muster up the magic. It simply refused to obey him. He became desperate not to make a fool of himself. He searched the deep recesses of his mind for an answer. What he found was warm and comforting. Something in the back in his mind assured him that this is what he seeked. He began to draw out this feeling from it's resting place. He felt warm all over. He felt safe and secure. His horn glowed and Sand almost fell over.

"Sand, are you feeling ok?" Mr. Parchment asked.

"Nnneevveerrr beetteerrr..." Was what he managed to say before collapsing.

"Sweet Celestia, you knocked him out!" the observer exclaimed.

It took until next period to wake Sand up. This made an amusing tale for Sweet Cakes when she came in next period. Blue's parents were proud, but nopony could figure out why did he cast a high level spell and not cast any other spell. Blue still has no cutie mark, but that's not important right at that point.

Hearts and hooves day was coming up then.