My Life is a Runway?

Chapters

A new start
No escape from Reality
Now that I'm a woman...
Omake #1

A new start

“BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!” Went the alarm before I slammed my palm down upon it’s snooze button. I tried to waste no time in getting out of bed and getting dressed. Canterlot high was counting on me being on time and ready to teach my class. Now a days it was all I really had to look forward to.

I gave my ‘suit’ (which was really just a pair of grey dress pants and a grey golf jacket over my one white dress shirt) a quick look over before heading to the bathroom for my shower. If I was fast I’d have enough time to give it a quick ironing before I had to catch the bus to work. A sigh escaped me as I stripped my sleeping garments off, which really only consisted of an old t-shirt and sweat pants. I can’t believe I still had to resort to the bus for transportation. I was never a very big fan of it, but given the circumstances, what choice did I have?

It had only been a month since I was given the job of English teacher for Canterlot high, giving some relief to fellow teacher Cheerilee who had been trying to juggle both it and Literature. While I was extremely grateful for the job, I’m surprised I was hired. I barely had any credentials to my name, and had been turned down from the last three schools I had applied for. I didn’t even have a car that could be used to get there, putting me at the mercy of any delays caused by public transportation.

That was why I was going to try very hard to fulfill any expectations Principal Celestia had for me. This was a chance to build myself a life, one where I wasn’t just working a pointless dead end job at some chicken restaurant. Drying myself off, I took at look at my reflection. Thankfully my black hair was short, so it didn’t require any combing. Taking a quick glance at my purple eyes I could just barely see the bags beginning to form. Just great, at this rate it wouldn’t be long before they were noticeable to anyone. I really hoped I managed to overcome this stupid insomnia. Guess I wasn’t over how lonely this place felt now.

Ugh, I didn’t have time for this, running a hand under my chin I took notice of the thickening line of stubble. It’d certainly make a better impression if I shaved that, but could I do it and still manage to catch the bus on time? I’d already wasted enough of it staring into this stupid mirror.

Well, much as I didn’t like looking like this I’ll have to put up with it. It’s not that big a deal if I have stubble, not like teachers can’t have beards. A wrinkled suit on the other hand would certainly stand out as sloppy. Guess I was spending my time with my suit. I began to set up the ironing board with a scowl. What I should have done was shaved last night. Then I wouldn’t have this problem. Why did facial hair have to grow in so quickly anyway? What I wouldn’t give to be rid of it for good.

The rest of the morning was spent in a rush. Ironing took way longer than I had hoped, and while I probably wasn’t late, it didn’t leave me much time for anything else, including breakfast. Still I made darn certain I brushed my teeth. Bad breath was not acceptable. While rushing out the door and checking my messenger bag for all my stuff, I grabbed a couple of bananas off the top of my fridge. They weren’t much, but it was something. With everything seemingly in order I was weaving around boxes in my living room and out the door, pausing only long enough to lock it behind me. It was a good two block sprint to the bus stop and if I missed it, it was a good hour wait. Well, time to see if I can eat and run in the literal sense.

* *

“Morning Mr. Evening!” Two students called as I strolled up the steps to make it to home room, one of my bananas still in my carry bag untouched. It would figure that I’d nearly choke on the first one as I tried to sprint to the bus stop. The experience hadn’t been pleasant, and it rather sullied my desire to have a second one. Maybe I had enough time to hit the teacher’s lounge and see if anyone brought doughnuts. Er, maybe I should give a greeting back first though.

“Good Morning Sunset, Rainbow Dash, ready for the pop quiz today?” It was a good thing they were students I actually learned the names to. It’s strange to think I’ve heard rumors of Sunset being a problem student. She was rather well behaved from what I saw. As I suspected, she wasn’t even batting an eye at my mention of a pop quiz. Rainbow Dash however.

“W-what!?” She screeched, dropping the soccer ball she had been bouncing off her knee. “You can’t be serious! The school year has barely started!” Keeping my face as straight as I could muster, I gave her a very small smile.

“Perhaps, but regardless you must understand that I was joking anyway.” Sunset grinned instantly at my words, though it took a few seconds for Rainbow to process it. When she finally caught on her eyes narrowed.

“That’s not funny Mr. E.” I almost began to laugh.

“You’re lucky this time Rainbow,” I said with shining eyes, “but there will be a pop quiz eventually, as well as actual tests. I do hope you’ll take some time from your physical activities to do some studying.” She rolled her eyes in response.

“Well duh, we both know I can’t stay on the soccer team with bad grades.” As she spoke, she turned away to go fetch the escaped ball. Turning my attention to Sunset I gave her a small nod, which she returned.

“You didn’t seem all that worried about a pop quiz.” I said, she shrugged her shoulders.

“It’s only been a month since you started teaching. I’m sure I can remember that far back.” I gave another nod. I definitely couldn’t see where anyone got that she was a problem student. Then again I had also heard that she had somehow been responsible for breaking the entrance way wall. As if a student of her size and stature could pull that off.

“You certainly haven’t wasted any time in becoming another boring teacher.” Rainbow commented as she rejoined us. Though this time she held on to the ball with her hands instead of bouncing around again.

“Rainbow!” Sunset hissed, but I waved it off. I was still learning the faces and personalities of my students, but when it came to Rainbow she was an open book. I knew she was just teasing me.

“Hey just doing my job.”

“Yeah yeah, can’t you at least wait until the bell rings?” I shrugged.

“Fair enough.” Getting a random thought, I reached into my bag. “Just to show there are no hard feelings, I couldn’t finish this. You want it?” Supriningly, her eyes lit up when she saw the banana.

“For reals? Sure!” She said as I tossed it over. Even with my crappy aim, she managed to snatch it out of the air. Before I knew it, she had the thing peeled and half eaten as she made her way to the entrance way. Geez, she didn’t do anything slow did she?

“She eats nearly as much as my friend Pinkie.” Sunset commented with a slight chuckle.

“I’ve heard of Pinkie.” I said with a bit of a shudder. “Rainbow I can understand with how active she always is, but what I’ve heard of Pinkie… I’m not sure if it’s an exaggeration, or just another one of those silly rumors floating around.” The moment I mentioned the rumors, I saw Sunset frown. Probably wasn’t too happy about the ones aimed at her. Poor girl, I wonder how those nasty things got started?

“What… sort of rumors?” Yep she was definitely troubled by them, I could see it on her face.

“Really silly ones. Stuff like mind controlling pop stars, and zombified students. There’s been one or two about you, but I know better than to believe them.” I gave Sunset a reassuring smile, yet oddly it didn’t seem to make her feel any better. If anything I swear she looked spooked.

“Sunset? Something wrong?” I wanted to do more to reassure her, but as an adult male teacher, talking to a teenage student, I figured the best thing I could do was to just give her space. She looked up at me with confliction, struggling with something in her mind. After a few minutes, she opened her mouth.

“It’s just-”

BRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING! Damn it. Upon hearing the bell, Sunset quickly excused herself and ran for the door, me trailing behind her. I was a little worried, were their students who were bullying her? I had heard something about that from Cheerilee once. Maybe if there was time I could pull her aside to finish our talk.

A loud growl from my stomach brought me back to the present. Bleh, I hoped I survived that long. Why couldn’t I have grabbed toast to eat before leaving? I mean it worked for anime protagonists.

* *

“Finally! Lunch time! Note to self, remember to stock snacks in your bag next time!” I mumbled while trying to weave my way through a sea of students. Classes hadn’t been too bad, despite my hunger. I had even managed to snag some cheese and crackers from one of the vending machines earlier to take the edge off. It’s a shame all the peanut butter ones were gone. I could understand just one machine, but all of them? Well regardless the crackers were good, but certainly not enough. I was looking forward to a real lunch.

So of course I’d see a flustered student in an empty classroom as I darted past. I only got a glimpse before the door shut but she certainly looked troubled. Taking one last look in the direction of the cafeteria, I turned left and pushed open the door. The room was empty for the exception of one purple haired girl, frantically scribbling at a piece of paper. Whatever she was working on must not like her, as there were several crumpled pages all around.

Whatever she was doing seemed to be her only world right now, she didn’t even notice me when I walked in. Didn’t I know her? I think this was a friend of Sunset’s and Rainbow’s. It made me happy that regardless of what may be happening with Sunset, it looked like she had a great group of friends to help her through it. Perhaps this young lady could shed some light on that topic? Well, that could wait until after I was certain that this dilemma of hers was solved.

“Ah, miss Rarity I believe?” She jumped at my voice, looking frantically around till her eyes spotted me. Surprised at having company, she quickly bundled up the few un-crushed papers and began to try to clean up the area.

“Oh, forgive me, Mr. Evening. Is it time for the next class?” I raised my eyebrow.

“Next class?” I waved my hand at the wall clock. “It’s lunch time. Aren’t you hungry?” She let out a small gasp as she saw the time.

“Oh my! Is it really that late already! Oh I can’t believe I wasted my entire free period on this and have nothing to show for it!” She gave a frustrated stomp before sighing. Taking a few moments to collect herself, she turned to me again.

“Thank you for snapping me out of my trance sir. I’ll clean this up and get going.” She began to stuff the papers into a type of purse before I held up my hand.

“Hold on a moment, you looked rather frustrated. Is there anything I can do to help?”

“Oh really that won’t be necessary. I’m sure you have enough of a workload already.” I shook my head. It wasn’t just the fact I wanted to talk to her about Sunset, I really didn’t want to leave her upset like this.

“Rarity I know I’m new here, but I’m still a teacher. If there is anything I can help you with, I would like you to ask. I know it sounds corny, but my top priority is to help my students.” I flashed her the most genuine smile I could. She stopped, seeming to consider it for a moment, her hand fiddling with the papers in her purse.

“If you really don’t want to, I can respect that, just give it some thought okay?” I don’t know how silly it looked, but I actually gave her a slight bow. Whatever she thought of it, I guess it broke the ice enough as she pulled the pages back out.

“Well, I suppose asking the English teacher would make sense.” With a breath she lifted her head up to look me in the eyes. “You see-”

Grooooooooowl!! Went my still empty stomach, cutting her off. She stood there stunned before her own tummy made a much similar noise. It had to be my imagination, but I swear it was somehow soft and feminine coming from her. We stood there staring at each other in embarrassment, before I managed to find my voice.

“Perhaps we should continue this after acquiring something to eat?” She nodded in response.

* *

“So what has you down? You looked really troubled when I caught a glance of you in the classroom.” We had since hit up the school canteen for a couple of sandwiches and sodas and had retired to my classroom, as it was the most private place I could think of for a talk.

When we had gone to order our food, I had offered to buy Rarity her meal as a means to cheer her up. She tried to protest, but I told her it was a teacher's duty to look after their students. She still hesitated a moment, but decided to give in. Sadly being a teacher didn’t net me any sort of discount, so it’s a good thing I had a spare twenty for just such an emergency. Ugh, I had only gotten one pay check so far, and it had all been spent on moving in to my mother’s old home. I hoped I still had enough to buy groceries till my next pay check.

“Well you see, as you may know I’m part of the Rainbooms band that plays during certain events.” Rarity was saying as she laid out the papers. Having them up close like this, I could now see they were music sheets. I could still see some of the marks from previous erasings. She was certainly putting a lot of work into this.

“Cheerilee mentioned your band once.” I said looking the pages over. “So what’s the issue? Are some of your songs being rejected for performance?” Rarity shook her head.

“Oh it’s not that, these aren’t actually songs. That’s sort of the problem…” Taking a bite of my cuban, I tried to decipher what she was saying. Since I wasn’t a music teacher the notes didn’t really mean much to me, but I did get the odd feeling something was off about them. She said asking the English teacher on this problem would make sense right? So how did that fit into all this? With a sudden jolt, I got an idea of what might be wrong.

“You’re having problems coming up with lyrics aren’t you?” She actually looked relieved I had figured it out.

“Yes! That’s exactly it!” She said with excitement as she nibbled away on her own tuna sandwich. I found it amusing how she was so careful not to drip any excess tuna anywhere. “I really wanted to write at least one song for the band, but it appears I’m just abysmal at coming up with rhymes! I mean look at this line! I love wearing this snuggly coat, so please come join me for a rootbeer float? It’s terrible! I’m just so terrible at this!”

Her voice raised to an odd pitch as she screamed that. I was half tempted to ask her if she had ever considered joining the drama club.

“Well what kind of song are you trying to write?” She shuffled in her seat.

“Oh I don’t know, just a song we can have fun playing really! Oh Sweetie Belle made this look so easy! Why can’t I do this?!”

“Who?”

“My younger sister, she makes up song lyrics all the time.”

“Oh, well somethings are easier for others. Like Rainbow Dash and soccer.”

“Hmm, I suppose you’re right, still I really want to do this by myself…”

“Well, how about this? Perhaps if you focused on something you liked?” I racked my brain trying to see if I could recall anything about her as a person. It’s not like I was very close to any of my students, being their teacher it was just kind of accepted that I did my thing, and they theirs.

“I’d love to deary, really I would, but I’ve seen what happens when Rainbow Dash does that, and her song is… let’s just say it really highlights her and no one else.” I grimaced.

“Ouch, okay but that’s Rainbow, and I know enough about her to know that she can become a bit…”

“Full of herself?” Rarity added helpfully. I let out a small cough.

“I was going to say overzealous, but I think you see the point I’m trying to make. You aren’t Rainbow Dash. I’d say trying to come up with a song that makes you happy could be a good step to take. Who knows? Maybe after it’s done you can show it to your band mates and they can help you improve it?”

I guess she was taking that into consideration, because she got really quiet right now. Oh well, it allowed me to finish my own sandwich. As I watched her sit there I couldn’t help but be impressed by the amount of time and effort she had to have gone into for her hair and outfit. She was going to be quite the heartbreaker when she grew up. Then again, for high school boys, perhaps she already was. It almost made me wish I was a good fifteen years younger. Bleh, probably best to stop thinking like that, it’s probably considered creepy. Still, she was rather elegantly dressed for a girl her age. Maybe that was the key to this problem?

“Perhaps something about fashion? You certainly seem to have a flair for it.” She blushed.

“Well it is something I’m rather fond of.” She adjusted the hem of her skirt. “I must say that you-” she looked over my outfit, most likely really seeing it for the first time, trying to suppress a scowl, “-are um, rather creative.” I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Trust me I know how I look, but it’s the best I can do at the moment.” Her expression softened.

“Well I didn’t want to say anything, but it could use a bit of work. Perhaps replace…”

“Everything?” I grinned, that got her to smile as well.

“Was I really so obvious with my reaction?” I nodded.

“Don’t feel bad. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t been called out on it by a fellow teacher.”

“Well you did take the time to iron it, that certainly stands for something.” Mentally I patted myself on the back. Score one for deciding to iron!

“Though please don’t take this the wrong way, but it’d work a lot better if you were um, clean shaven.” And we are back down to zero. Seriously I’m going to have to shave before bed from now on.

“Y-yeah, I’ll work on that.” Rubbing a hand absently on my chin I cursed just how fast growing this stuff was. I swear it felt twice as thick as it did this morning.

“Oh my, forgive me Mr. Evening I didn’t mean to sound insulting.” Her demeanor slipped back into a more professional state after I had gotten her to open up a little. Well we were teacher and student. Hopefully one of her friends might take notice and be able to help her more closely than I could.

“It’s fine, I’m just glad I could help you Miss Rarity. I wish you luck in coming up with a song that’s not only fun to play, but makes you happy personally.” She gave me another smile as she began to pack up her stuff, preparing to get to her next period before the end of lunch bell rang.

“I’m sure I’ll come up with something eventually now that I have a better handle on what to focus on. Thank you very much Mr. Evening.” I waved my hand.

“Just being a teacher.”

“Well if it’s any consolation, I believe you are a fine one.” I couldn’t help but feel a swell of pride at that comment. Maybe I could pull this job off after all. I just hoped Principal Celestia thought so.

“Still it’ll likely take a lot more work.” She sighed. “Writing music certainly isn’t as easy as making outfits.”

“Can’t say I know a vast amount of fashion.” I said tugging at my jacket, and earning a flustered look from her, “I’ll take your word for it though. I’m guessing there is more to it than just looking pretty and walking down a catwalk.”

“I prefer the term runway myself, but yes there is actually quite a bit of work that goes into it. The outfits have to be fresh, and designed to impress and awe the crowd. As for the model he or she has to make sure they step with just the right amount of speed and grace, all while dozens of eyes judge their every move. Watching like vultures for any slip up!”

“Ouch, sounds like high school.” That earned a laugh.

“I suppose it does sometimes. I swear it almost seems life is like one big-” She stopped suddenly, her eyes staring into nothingness before they lit up like a Christmas tree. “IDEAAAAA!”

“What now?” I said completely confused. She didn’t stop to explain.

“Oh it’s perfect! Why didn’t I think of it before! I must get to work right away! Thank you Mr. Evening! Thank you!” She screamed before bolting out the door and down the hall.

“Um, you’re welcome?” I said to the empty classroom. Sunset sure had a colorful set of friends. I nearly facepalmed when I thought that. Sunset! Bah, I had completely forgotten to ask Rarity about those stupid rumors. Oh well, while I’m not sure what I did, it looked like it helped Rarity out of her funk. At least it was time well spent.

* *

I stretched my arms while walking down the hall. What a day that had been! It figures I’d have a couple of jokers in my last two classes trying to start trouble. Oh well, who had ever heard of a perfect class of students? The only thing that really bothered me, was I still hadn’t had a chance to talk to Sunset. Well if her friends were like Rarity, I’m sure she’d be just fine. They could probably help her better than I ever could.

As I exited the building, I could see Rainbow Dash and the rest of her friends hanging out by the front statue. I think it was their hang out spot, why there of all places? I was still learning all the students names, so I only recognized a few faces. Besides Rainbow Dash I knew Applejack and Sunset Shimmer. There was a pinked haired girl with them who I remember being rather shy the one other time I saw her. The only other girl with them was another pink haired girl, though hers was a much darker pink, who was seemingly eating an entire box of cupcakes by herself. I wonder if this was the infamous Pinkie I kept hearing about?

I wonder why I didn’t see Rarity with them? Guess she had gotten too caught up in that song. Man, Sunset was right there. I could easily just walk right up and pull her aside to talk, except I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Seeing her standing there talking and laughing, I just didn’t want to ruin that moment. I could always try again tomorrow.

Without realizing it, I found I had been staring at them for a lot longer than I had really meant to. Even when I was in high school I had never gotten that. Sure I had the occasional friend here and there, but never a nice group like this. It must be nice, heck I didn’t doubt for a moment they had something fun planned for later. What I wouldn’t give to have that now. Unfortunately I was still the new guy in a sense, and only really talked to Cheerilee from time to time. I tried asking her out as a friend, but she had to decline.

Well no sense in mulling over it, I had tons of boxes at home that needed unpacking. Perhaps I’d put on a movie while I worked? No, I’d probably end up just watching it again like I had the last two nights.

“Mr. Evening?” A familiar voice called from behind me. Turning around I was rather surprised to see Principal Celestia walking straight toward me. Aw crap,I hadn’t screwed something up had I?

“Y-Yes Principal?” I squeaked, mentally scolding myself for that. She was kind enough to give me the job. Surely she wouldn’t just outright fire me without at least a warning first right?

“I’m glad I caught you!” She said with a smile. Well that put me a bit more at ease. She wasn’t the easiest person to read, but she was usually rather straightforward with her intentions.

“Are you free for the next hour? I was hoping I could invite you for a drink so we could talk.” My heart actually skipped a beat. S-she wanted to invite me to a drink? Me!? How could I turn that down!

“I-I was just on my way home, but I don’t have any plans.” I managed to stumble out. The relief I saw on her face made my breath catch.

“Excellent! I’ve been hoping to set something up like this all week! Come I know the perfect place. It’s not too far, so we can walk.” Nodding I simply followed along like a lost puppy. I couldn’t believe this! I’d get to spend the afternoon with such a beautiful woman like her? What luck!

Again I had to mentally scold myself. As amazing as she looked, I had to remember this was my boss. Besides, she only said she wanted to talk. This could mean anything really, though it didn’t hurt to dream right?

Twenty minutes later found me tenderly sipping a cup of cocoa in a cake house, a small piece of chocolate fudge upon my plate. I was beginning to get nervous, was this the sort of place you went to just to talk? More and more this was feeling like a date! Then again…

I could only stare in amazement at the several different types of cake in front of Celestia. Did she just grab one of everything? She couldn’t possible eat all that could she? Or was she related to Pinkie Pie in someway? I’m pretty sure she didn’t have a daughter.

“Mmmm, that’s wonderful! Are you sure you don’t want to try a cup?” She asked sipping a cup of what I believe she called Lemon earl grey.

“N-No thanks, I’m enjoying my coco.” I blew on my own beverage some more, waiting for it to cool down. Truth was I hated tea, but I was terrified of telling her that. While waiting to see if she’d start the conversation, my eyes wandered around the shop. Huh, the place was oddly empty with only the occasional couple tucked away in a corner. As for us, we were more near the center, though far enough away that people wouldn’t hear our conversation. Guess this was just a business chat after all.

“So, Mr. Evening. Tell me. What rumors have you heard?” I spit out my drink, having finally been able to cool it enough. That was rather out of the blue. I wonder why she was bringing this up now? Was it really just because I was trying to talk to Sunset today? She certainly didn’t look like she was joking with me. I better not lie.

“Nothing much. Just that ‘spooky things tend to happy around here’ Stuff like zombie students and soul sucking music. Your basic nonsense.” I took a bite of my fudge. Wow! That was good! “The only rumors that really concern me are the ones about Sunset.”

“I see.” She said placing her cup back upon its saucer. For some reason that response concerned me. I mean, I figured she’d laugh off the first two. Instead she looked even more serious than before. It had to be about Sunset. Most of the rumors always came back to her. Why?

Without warning, her eyes bore into my own, catching me off guard. All I could do was stare back at her, shivers running down my spine. I felt whatever she said next would be something heavy.

“Evening do you believe in magic?”

The entire world seemed to stop as those words sunk into my mind. I stared at her, my mouth hung open, but no she didn’t appear to be joking. Either she was seriously asking me that, or she had the best poker face I’d ever seen.

“Magic? As in abracadabra and all that? Rabbits out of hats?” She shook her head.

“No I mean real magic. Spells, mystical creatures. Would you say any of that could be real?” I must have sat there for a good ten minutes before I rolled my eyes.

“...Am I on candid camera?” I asked looking around. “You’re not going to tell me I’ll always have a friend wearing big red shoes are you?” I smiled, but it quickly faded when I saw that Celestia’s own expression remained stone set. She really wasn’t joking around.

“I… are you serious?” Again she nodded.

“Very, and I expect an honest answer if you would.” She sipped her drink again, her posture reminding me of mafia bosses from the movies. Now I was definitely confused, and a little worried.

“Well, it’s not that I don’t believe in it, but come on! Magic? If it does exist, it has got to be one of the rarest, most elusive things out there.”

“You would think so.” She replied, finishing her cup of tea. “And what if you saw it with your own eyes? What would you do?” I threw my hands up in the air, I couldn’t believe this line of questioning.

“I don’t know! Freak out? I’d like to know what this is all about please. If this is some elaborate way of saying I’m not working out-”

“Oh it’s not that! In fact, I feel you’re working out perfectly!” She said with a sudden smile. It was like a switch was flipped and she had gone from serious interrogator, to a kind mother.

“R-really?” Honestly I was stunned. I wasn’t use to being praised like this, and twice in one day.

“Very, I saw you helping Rarity earlier with some project during lunch break. You’re just the kind of person I want to see working here.” I shuffled in my seat. None of this was making any sense. She was apparently happy with the job I was doing, but takes me out to ask about magic?

“How has your move been?” She asked suddenly, once more catching me off guard.

“Oh… I’ve managed to get it all to the house.” My expression immediately sullened. There was no way Celestia didn’t notice.

“Having trouble unpacking? I can see if any of the teachers can aid you in that.” I quickly shook my head.

“No, no! I’ll be fine, it’s nothing I can’t handle I just…”

“I understand. It’s a difficult situation that you’re in. That’s why we’re here Evening Storm. I want to make sure you fit in, and by extension of that I need to know you can handle the special… requirements of this job.” I almost scoffed.

“Like believing in magic?” That was probably said a bit more sarcastically then I meant, but if she noticed she paid it no mind. Wait a minute didn’t she have a lot more cake than that just a few minutes ago? Maybe that’s the magic she was talking about. The fact so many could eat enough to feed an entire swim team and not gain a pound.

“Mr. Evening, please understand that I am most sincere when I say that the circumstances involved with some incidents you’ve heard in the past are a lot stranger than the ‘official’ reports say.” Once more she became the strict business woman from earlier. Tired of being led on like this, I decided it was time to get to the point.

“Like...what?” A sigh escaped her lips as she placed her fork down upon her plate, the last of her cakes now gone. Seriously how did she do that?

“It’s a bit hard to explain. I might be able to arrange something with the girls, though I’d hate to use them in such a way.”

“Girls? What girls?” My mind immediately thought of Sunset and her friends. The reason for the rumors had to be connected, I just needed to know how and why.

“Let’s just say some of our students would be ideal in helping me get my point across, it’s just I don’t really enjoy having to make such a request. If only-” She paused mid sentence, her gaze turning toward the door. Whatever it was she noticed, I did not. A grin once more crept upon her face.

“Well,, it looks like an opportunity just popped up. Would you mind accompanying me outside?” Stunned I simply nodded my head and followed her out. For a moment I worried about our bill, but the owners simply nodded at Celestia. What did she have a tab here?

Stepping out onto the road, I could see a few students from our school milling about. Far off to my right on the other side of the road was a student named Derpy happily eating a muffin by a muffin stand. (This town had muffin stands?) Elsewhere were a few other students I recognized but didn’t know the names of. I did know the couple near Derpy were really good friends. I think one was called Sweetie Drops? Heck the only reason I knew Derpy’s name was because she kinda stood out, though I wouldn’t say in a bad way, she was just a little clumsy.

“So uh… what am I looking for?” I asked scanning the road. Seriously everything looked normal. Celestia just smiled and pointed to the end of the street where a teenage girl with purple hair was just coming into view, singing and dancing as she walked. How in the world did Celestia notice her while still in the shop? Squinting, I could just make out the fuschia dress she was wearing. It was decorated with diamond and musical note patterns. Given her style, and hair color, I quickly figure out who it was.

“Rarity?” Celestia nodded.

“Seems the talk you two had really inspired her. However I want you to take a closer look at her. Notice anything different?”

“You mean besides the dress?” With a smile she just waved her arm in Rarity's direction. With a sigh I turned my attention back to the songstress. She had a pretty nice voice for it actually, but what was different? Okay yeah the dress was rather wild, but it kinda seemed to fit her. Her hair wasn’t much different. I really couldn’t see… wait was that music? How was she doing that? I couldn’t see anything on her that could be making it, especially not that loudly. Trying to listen I was just able to hear the lyrics.

“Life is a runway! Listen here’s what it’s all about! I’ll tell you life is a runway!” I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. So that’s what she meant by ‘idea’ earlier. Well I I’m glad I could help. I still didn’t get what Celestia was talking about tho-

I blinked. Then I blinked again and rubbed my eyes. I couldn't’ have just seen that. It’s impossible right?

Rarity was still walking toward us down the road like nothing had happened, except now her hair extended out into some sort of pony tail, and even weirder, a pair of pony ears adorned her head. One moment she was normal, and then these weird white sparkles flashed, and behold, ears and a tail.

“W-what?” I managed to stammer, turning back to Celestia. Her grin just widened.

“These would be some of those special requirements I was talking about.”

“I-It’s a trick right? It’s got to be!”

“Just keep watching, I have a feeling this isn’t over.” Shaking my head in disbelief I went back to watching the show of Rarity happily singing her new song as a few of the other students took notice. To my confusion I didn’t see them reacting to her new found ears or tail in the slightest. It was like they saw this kind of stuff every other tuesday! What kind of place was this? Maybe my tea had been spiked. I didn’t really peg Celestia to be that kind of woman, but how else could I explain this?

Just as I was coming to accept that I had probably been drugged, Rarity switched things up, thrusting her hands toward Derpy while firing a wave of the white sparkles at her. In a flash Derpy’s entire outfit and hair style had changed. In addition to her hair looking a lot more wild, red highlights adorned it, giving it this firely look. The outfit was even stranger. Red gloves, white black striped pants, and a black shirt with white arrows on it. One pointing up, the other down. I think even her footwear had changed, at least I don’t remember her having boots on.

Rarity seemed just as surprised as both Derpy and I at the transformation. Though unlike myself, who was feeling a bit faint from all this, Derpy simply smiled and started to follow Rarity as they walked. As for the singer herself, she looked in amazement at her own two hands before grinning even more and thrusting them at who I think was Cheerilee.

I was hard to tell as I only saw her for a moment before a teenage girl with her hair in two ponytails began to follow Rarity as well. What was once a brown dress vest and large green skirt with flower patterns, was now a cute white blouse along with a much shorter green skirt that was now only patterned with small bubbles.

As they got closer, Rarity shot her sparkle wave at two more girls, changing their outfits and hair as well, the two friends I recognized from earlier. The one I believe was Sweetie Drops, or was it Bon Bon? She now supported a purple dress with a blue frill over the skirt part. Her hair had gone from being modestly combed, to being a masterpiece of curls. She looked simply amazing. As for the friend with green hair, her’s had gone from being wild to perfectly combed, which oddly added something nice to her image. Her top was similar to her friends, though her skirt was orange and a lot less poofy.

“I’m...I’m not drugged am I?” That actually earned me a giggle from Celestia. It was an amazing sound to hear. I only wish I wasn’t having the foundations of my world shaken so I might actually enjoy it.

“No I’m afraid not. What you see is very real. I’ll tell you more about it in my office if you’d like. It’s… a bit of a long story.”

“I-I think that might be best.” I felt a pat on the back as Celestia stepped away from me.

“You’re handling it a lot better than I thought if it’s any consolation. Please try and relax. The occurrences around here are a bit odd yes, but I assure you, there’s nothing to worry about Rarity’s little show here.”

I could barely nod my head as I watched Rarity leading the group of girls down the street, singing all the while. She finally caught notice of me and gave a short wave. Too stunned to stop myself I gave one back, as another student from one of my classes began to walk between us. Roseluck I think was her name? With a bit of a smirk I saw Rarity zero in on her.

“You can be the girl that you want to be! With a little love and some accessories!” She sang, thrusting her hands out once more, the white sparkles flew toward Roseluck who at that very moment, saw a penny and ducked to pick it up. Because of the slight elevation on Rarity’s side of the street, the sparkles went right over Roseluck, impacting me directly in the face. I had just enough time to see the look of horror on Rarity’s face before my world went white.

It felt like I was in a void, my body non existent. I couldn’t even turn my head or hear any sort of sound. About the only thing I could feel was a strange warmth all over. It actually felt kinda nice. I’m not sure how long I was like that, but just as suddenly as I was there, did I realize I was once again standing on the side of the road, everyone looking at me as if I’d grown a second head.

“Oh no! I’m sorry! I’m so sorry!” Rarity was screaming as she ran up to me. “I didn’t, I never thought. Oh darling are you alright?” She and Celestia were both by my side, looking me over with worry. Trying to ignore how magic was real aside, what was the problem? Whatever that was just changed your outfit and hair style right? Even Celestia said it was harmless. I tried to wave them away.

“Rarity I’m-” I immediately shut my mouth. That wasn’t my voice. That was no where near what my voice was suppose to sound like. It was like I had swallowed helium almost. Was that a side effect of the dust? The second thing I noticed was my arm and hand. For one, I no longer had a sleeve, but for two, there was something really off about my arm. Wait was I wearing nail polish? Ugh, I’m in a dress aren’t I? Well it’s no wonder everyone was looking at me weird- Wait, when did Rarity get as tall as me?

Looking over to Celestia I nearly gasped. Where I was once eye level with her, she now stood at least a foot and a half taller! How could I have shrunk!? Slowly the memory of Cheerilee looking like a teen after the sparkles floated back into my mind. I was getting a real bad feeling about all this.

“W-what happened?” I winced at my new voice. It sounded almost like Rarity’s. That only made me feel worse. “Why am I so small? Why does my voice sound so weird!?”

“Now Mr. Evening, please calm down.” Celestia said, her voice once more stren and commanding. “We’ll head to my office to discuss this recent turn of events.” While I could tell Celestia was used to having to take control of situations with her voice, I could still hear the slight shakiness of her tone, which didn’t help my rising panic.

“What event? What are you talking about?” The longer I stood there, the more I began to notice just how off everything felt. First of all my suit had not only lost its sleeves, but suddenly felt a lot smaller on my body. Second of all, my pants had vanished if the cold air against my legs meant anything. There was also an added weight upon my head, though I wasn’t wearing any sort of hat. Something long and silky brushed against my back and shoulders in the breeze. Lastly my entire center of gravity felt weird, including a rather strange weight in my chest area.

“I-It’s nothing to get worked up over deary, just, don’t look down, or in the window at your reflection.”

“W-what do you mean?” With each passing moment I felt a knot forming in my stomach. There was also something about the way she was addressing me. “Why are you talking to me so casually now? What am I going to see in my-” Unable to help myself I turned toward the window, the light conveniently just right to show a clear reflection.

For the second time that day, I felt my world grind to a halt.

Standing there, looking very scared and confused was a teenage girl with long black hair and rather striking purple eyes. She wore a long black dress that looked a bit like one of my tank tops for the top, except it turned into a frilly skirt as it reached her hips. Long purple stockings ran up each one of her legs, which both set into a pair of black shoes with a single purple flower decoration set in their centers. Finally, one of the same purple flowers, what I finally recognized as a lily, adorned a single hair clip in her hair.

“I-Is that?” I asked, already knowing the answer as the girl in the reflection mirrored me exactly.

“I-I’m afraid so darling…” Rarity said placing her hands on my shaking shoulders. “When the spell hit you, it sorta… turned you into a teenage girl…”

“O-Oh…” I said, before my body slumped backward, the world going dark.

Author's Note

Hey everyone. So this is a silly idea I got when I saw the music video "Life is a Runway" After dealing with writer's block on Royal Duties: Inheritance, I needed a break, and decided to write something silly. Hopefully with this I can get back into the swing of things.

As for this fic, I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen an idea like this used already. (I saw one fic use the idea of the Music video, but it's a fetish fic I'm not into)

Now I know in the original MV Rarity was just daydreaming about her walk down the road, but I decided to run with their powers growing as time goes on. Hence why she grows ears while singing to herself in this fic.

So what exactly is this story? Well that depends. I do want to write more of it, and it'll probably be what I turn to when I feel I need to write something silly. As for what will happen? Well, let's play a game. What do you want the new girl to do? Give your idea in the comments, and hey, maybe I'll use them. Let's just have fun with this shall we?

I am going to try and keep it from becoming a clop fic though, so keep that in mind. Also no Dark stuff please. I want this to remain a comedy.

Well I think that's it. I hope you enjoyed this little thing from my weird, weird mind.

No escape from Reality

Ugh, what did I do yesterday? I mean my entire body felt wonky. Weird, I don’t remember going home last night. In fact from the feel of the hard surface beneath me, I don’t think I even got to my bed. Did the Principal really spike my drink? Well that would explain the weird dream, Rarity using a magic spell to turn me into a teenage girl. How absurd.

Ow, whatever it was she put in there it sure packed a punch, this was some headache, and why did my chest feel all heavy? Light flooded into my eyes as I slowly cracked them open. Huh? Where was I? That wasn’t the ceiling of my room. A feeling of dread began to flow through my body. What did she do to me? Where did she take me?

“Looks like she’s awake.” I heard a voice say to my right. Was that Sunset Shimmer? What was she doing here? Oh I get it, I bet this was all some elaborate prank set up to properly induct me into the school staff. Whew, I was really starting to get worked up there. I shifted my position a bit when I felt something on my chest jiggle. T-that was just my muscles waking up right?

“Oh thank goodness!” I heard Rarity’s voice exclaim from my left. Before I knew it, her face was hovering right above mine. I could feel my heart began to hammer in my chest as I saw her wearing the same dress I had seen in my dream. M-Maybe it was just a coincidence! I saw her in that and dreamt about it. I mean that white sparkly thing couldn’t have really happened.

“Are you alright Mr. Evening?” Celestia said as her face also came into view. I didn’t want to speak, I didn’t want to even move. The memory of that reflection was burned into my brain. It wasn’t real. It couldn’t be real!

“I can’t imagine how you must feel right now.” Celestia continued, her eyes drilling into my own. “But please remain calm. We have already taken measures to fix this.” I could only stare at her blankly, her words rattling around in my head. This must be her office I was in. Now that I felt for it, I could tell I was on carpet. I can’t keep fooling myself. I-I have to know.

Moving ever so slowly, I began to shift my gaze to my chest. Two fleshy mounds met my eyes. I could even see them slightly wiggling underneath my dress as I breathed, only now did the sensation of this begin to reach my brain. I couldn’t pretend anymore. I’m not hallucinating, and I wasn’t drugged. Magic was real and boy had it ever done a number on me.

“N-No way…” I said, flinching at the sound of the very girlish voice that emitted from my lips. Now that I wasn’t actively trying to ignore it, I noticed just how different everything on my body felt. Not just obvious things like my new… ‘assets’ but I mean my arms, my legs, even my feet felt weird. Attempting to sit up caused me to shudder. Yeah my body moved when I told it to, but at the same time everything just felt so foreign, I could barely wrap my head around it.

“Oh this is all my fault!” Rarity cried, guilt clearly plastered upon her face. “I just thought the magic would make people look fabulous! I never dreamed it could do this!” I couldn’t quite tell, but I think she had been crying I was still too shocked to really absorb all this. Just staring at my hands was enough to overload me.

I’m guessing it was due to the spell, but besides looking a lot more feminine, they sported long elegant nails that were a rather lovely shade of blue. Wait, lovely? How would I know what colors of nail polish would be considered nice? I mean yeah they did look great upon my whitish skin, and they complimented my black hair rather nicely- Ah! Stop that! What the hell is wrong with me? I mean besides the fact I’m in a body I was never meant to be in?!

“W-what have you done to me?” I could hear the panic rising in my voice. It was so strange hearing this… this girl speak instead of me. A beautiful alto, instead of my gruff baritone.

“Oh no…” Rarity whispered as she came to kneel by me. “Oh please no…” I felt her hand upon my arm. My now smooth hairless arm. It tingled where she touched, Why was it so sensitive? Did the lack of hair really make such a big difference?

“What have you done to me!?” I repeated hands now rubbing the upper parts of my arms, mesmerized by these new sensations. “I’m a guy. I’m a guy!” My entire body began to shake, as I came close to hyperventilating. It was all too much, I can’t handle it! What was I supposed to even do like this!? I’d lose everything I had! No one would believe who I was! I had no identity!

“Don’t!” Rarity cried, trying to hold me steady. “Don’t you’ll hurt yourself!” I tried to push her away, failing to be free. She did this to me! I had to get out of here! I don’t know what I would have done, had it not been for Celestia’s voice ringing out like a gunshot.

“BE STILL!” I froze in place. I had never heard such a tone used by her before, and judging by Rarity’s own expression, neither had she. Something about it demanded that you do as it said, and I was powerless to deny it.

“Mr. Evening Storm, believe me I know this is a difficult time, but you have to be strong. You aren’t hurt, you aren’t in any danger. Your body has just gone through a sudden metamorphosis, one that could very well be reversible.” I latched on to that final word.

“Reversible? Y-you mean I can be changed back?” I could hear the hope in my voice. If it was reversible, then I had nothing to worry about right?

“Well that’s what we are hoping to hear.” Sunset said, reminding me of her presence. Absently, I turned my gaze toward her, getting a better sense of my surroundings. I was definitely in her office, seated on the floor near the entrance. To my side sat a pillow, having supported my head till I woke up. As for Sunset, she was sitting in one of Celestia’s chairs that sat alongside the wall. Why bring me here? Why not the nurse’s office? For that matter, why was Sunset here?

“Oh why can’t Twilight hurry it up?” Rarity fumed impatiently, “I can’t bear this waiting!” She clenched stressfully at the hem of her dress as she spoke. The look on her face really struck me then. She looked so lost, so hurt and ashamed. How could I be so insensitive? Of course Rarity was upset on having done this, and here I go and have a panic attack like that in front of her. A memory of a similar situation tried to surface, but I beat it back down. No, no I didn’t need to remember that to know I had to be strong. I had to remain calm.

“R-rarity…” I said, trying not to wince anymore at my voice. She jumped as I spoke, watching me with dread. She probably expected me to tear into her, and honestly a part of me still wanted to, but… I couldn’t. Celestia was right, I wasn’t hurt, and we didn’t know how long this would even last. Right now I had a job to do as a teacher. If… if I just focused on that, I think I could do this.

“L-Look, I know you didn’t mean to okay? S-so let’s just focus on fixing me. Who’s this Twilight?” I think she was so surprised by my sudden change in attitude that it knocked her speechless. Luckily Sunset was there to aide her.

“It’s a long story, but the gist is that we have contact with someone who knows more about magic then even I do, and I’m able to speak to her through this book.” She patted an old looking tome currently sitting upon Celestia’s desk. Okay, I didn’t really get how that worked, but hey I was just turned into a young lady. Contract through a book didn’t seem that far fetched anymore. Still, it begged a question.

“Can’t we just call her or something?” Sunset shook her head.

“She doesn’t exactly live in this world, so this is the only way.” Wait what!? I guess she could tell what I was about to ask, because she held up her hand. “Principal Celestia, I know you wanted to ease him into all this, but given the circumstances-”

“I was just thinking the same thing.” Celestia said with a frown. Concerned, she placed a hand upon my shoulder. It was rather nice to see her this worried about me. Looking at her face though, I felt something was off. Not with her, but still me. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but something about looking at her now felt different.

“Are you okay to sit in a chair? We have much we have to tell you.” Slowly nodding my head I attempted to actually stand up, Rarity helping me out every bit of the way. I flashed her a smile of thanks. She still looked weary, but smiled back. Once I was seated, Rarity took a seat besides mine, while Sunset continued to sit to the right of the desk. She also wore a troubled look on her face, and I had a feeling it wasn’t about my situation. Could it be I was finally getting some clarification on those rumors?

“Well, I guess I’ll start at the beginning.” Sunset sighed as she gripped her knees. I wish I could tell her it was okay if she didn’t want to talk about it, but I knew if she didn't, Principal Celestia would probably have to instead, and so I sat there as the three girls told me their story.

Now had it still been this morning, I doubt I would have accepted anything they told me. A world full of sentient ponies? Banished creatures? Magical rock band battles? Even sitting here in a body I shouldn’t have, this felt hard to swallow. Except I was in a body not my own, I had seen magic envelope me directly. Hard as all of this was to imagine, I could tell they weren’t lying to me.

“S-so, Sunset you’re from another world entirely, as are these siren girls, except they don’t have power anymore, and now when you guys play music, you get pony ears and a tail, like I saw Rarity do earlier today?” Why couldn’t this just all be an elaborate joke? Even knowing this as the truth, I was having a hard time believing these words just came out of my mouth.

“Well that’s a rather odd way of condensing it all darling, but that is about the gist of it.” At some point Rarity had put her hand on my arm for support. How strange that I had wanted to do the same for her earlier, yet didn’t feel it appropriate thanks to me being a grown up male. Now though, it just didn’t seem as big a deal.

I paused. Was it because I was a girl her own age? I suppose seeing me like this, it was hard not to treat me as such. Did anyone here even see me as a teacher anymore? One thing for certain, when I stepped out of this office, no one was going to see Evening Storm, a teacher in his mid thirties. No, all they’d see is a young girl just hitting-

My eyes widened. P-Puberty… in this body I was- No! No no no, don’t think about it! Do NOT think about that!

“You seem to be taking this rather well.” Celestia commented. Oh yeah, I was taking this so well with almost having multiple mental breakdowns!

“I...I think my brain broke.” I said, holding my free hand up to my head. “J-just how long was I out, and how long does it take for you to usually get an answer in that book?” No sooner did I say that, did the book start to vibrate while glowing with a soft green light.

“You were only out for about an hour, and there’s our answer.” Sunset replied, as she opened the book to a random page and began reading. I tried my best not to shout for her to hurry the hell up. I mean I wanted to scream, I wanted to cry, I wanted nothing more than to just go home and curl into a ball hoping this would all be over in the morning!

I stole a glance at the still worried Rarity. Except, if I did that, I’d just cause her to sink further into her guilt. I didn’t want to do that to her. Besides, with luck Sunset would say the counterspell and I’d be back to normal before dinner. After what felt like forever, Sunset set the book on her lap and looked first at Celestia, then Rarity and then me. Her expression caused my stomach to drop.

“I-I’m sorry. Twilight and I both agree, we’ve never heard of anything like this before, even in Equestria where magic is plentiful. We have no idea what could have caused this to work or even why.” I felt numb.

“S-so I’m stuck like this? F-forever?” She shook her head, likely preventing me from fainting again.

“I don’t know, but we don’t believe so. It’s highly likely this will wear off.” Highly likely? She mean positive right? Right?!

“Yes but when darling? I cast the spell and I don’t even really understand how!” Sunset sighed, giving us a shrug.

“Please don’t think I’m being unsympathetic, but that’s the thing, we really don’t know anything. I mean, this could wear off next month, or next week. It’s possible you could go to sleep tonight and wake up as your old self again next morning.”

“So, I could be back to normal by tomorrow? That’s great!” Sure I’d be stuck as a girl for a night, but all things considered it really isn’t the end of the world.

“I wouldn’t really count on that too much.” Sunset said, her gaze upon the floor. “Rainbow Dash’s guitar.” I blinked.

“Rainbow Dash? Guitar? What do either of those things have to do with me?” Sunset turned her gaze toward Rarity.

“If I remember your story correctly, wasn’t her guitar a different color before she began to play it in the music shop?”

“Well yes, it went from a light blue, to a much darker shade of it. It even got little lightning bolts up the stem, but I’m afraid I echo Mr. Evening’s confusion. What does that have to do with our current situation?”

“Simple, that means Rainbow’s magic changed the guitar right? Have you ever seen any signs of it changing back?” Rarity’s eyes widened.

“No, no it’s been that way ever since.”

“Which was a few months ago right?” I could feel my breath start to quicken again.

“Well yes, but Rainbow plays on that thing frequently! Surely it’s remained as is because of her constantly feeding it magic!”

“Yes, but there was the week she couldn’t play because she needed to practice for a soccer match. Far as I recall, the next time she brought it out, it was still the same. Much as I hate to say it, if I had to guess on the length of this spell, I’d imagine it won’t wear off till next month.”

“N-Next month!?” I screamed standing up, god my voice sounded so weird when I raised it. “I can’t wait around as a girl for a month! What about my job!? I’m suppose to be teaching the kids here! I can’t teach like this!”

“Why not?” I blinked, turning my head to Celestia who spoke. She was regarding me with a very cool gaze.

“B-but I’m-”

“Still a teacher.” She interrupted. “It’s not uncommon to have aides take over a class during times of need. We’ve even had representatives from Crystal Prep come here to teach classes anywhere from a week to a month as credit for their own education. I don’t see why we couldn’t set that up as a temporary solution.” I let that sink in. Well I wouldn’t be losing my job at the very least. That was just one small problem amongst many however.

“B-but how are you suppose to pay me? I can’t very well use my bank card looking like this!” She nodded.

“That could be an issue. Thankfully I’ve happened to make a few friends while in this town, one of them happens to work at the bank. I’ll see about setting up a new temp account for you to access as well as transferring any funds from your current account over.” I stood staring at her blankly.

“Y-You’re kidding, you can’t seriously just expect to do that.” I could see that knowing smirk creep upon her lips.

“I may only be Principal of this high school, but I take a very active role in the well being of this town. I assure you I can do as I promise here.”

“B-but…” I looked down. “What am I supposed to wear? I quite obviously don’t have any clothing for teenage girls at my house!”

“Hmm, that is a problem. Rarity, can I get your assistance with this?” Rarity nearly leapt from her seat at being addressed.

“What? O-Oh of course Principal Celestia, but I couldn’t possibly make her that many outfits!” Celestia shook her head.

“You misunderstand, I wouldn’t expect you to do that. What I propose is taking her shopping for a new wardrobe. I’ll supply you with three hundred dollars for the task.” Both of our eyes bugged out.

“T-three hundred?” I stammered in shock. I mean sure I couldn’t possibly afford this with my own funds, but for her to just offer this out of the blue!

“Consider it a loan Evening. What I would like to propose, is that I take twenty dollars from each of your future paychecks until it’s paid off. Interest free of course.” Her smirk had become rather playful. I didn’t know if I liked how this conversation was going.

“I-What? But I’m not a girl!” I protested, stamping a foot. I really hoped that didn’t look as cute as I think it did.

“Listen Mr. Evening Storm.” Celestia said, her expression once more becoming the serious one I had seen in the cake shop. “What has happened to you today is not something I had anticipated, and for not having the foresight to stop this I do apologize. Never the less, the fact is you are a teenage girl right now, and we do not know how or when you’ll revert back to normal.”

“I’ll do my best with Twilight to find a way to reverse this as soon as possible.” Sunset added, writing in the book of hers. I guess she was sending off another message. How weird, it was like old school texting. “In the meantime though, I think Principal Celestia has the best idea. I-I’m sorry but I really don’t have any clue yet as to how magic works in this world, or even where to begin to fix this.”

“Oh It’s all my fault deary. You go out of you way to help me, and this is how I repay you!” Rarity’s voice took on that really high pitched whine it did while I was talking to her during lunch. Was that just a thing of hers? All three of them sat there staring at me, waiting for me to make a decision.

“I-I-” With a sigh I sat back down in my chair, defeated. “I don’t really have a choice do I?” Celestia let out her own sigh.

“Not really. Again I’m sorry about this, but be assured I’ll make certain to help you out as much as I can.”

“Oh me too darling! I promise that I’ll do all in my power to make this up to you!” Rarity’s gaze was so intense it was starting to scare me.

“T-thank you.”

“Now then Rarity?” Celestia spoke up once more. “If you could fetch my sister for me? I’d like to discuss the loan with her, so there is no confusion on where the money is going.”

“M-Me?” Her gaze hovered upon me again. “Don’t you think-”

“I have something more to discuss with Sunset, and we wouldn’t want to give such a task to Evening right now after all he’s been through. So I’m afraid you are the only one I can trust with this right now.” Rarity hesitated for a bit more, but we could both see the logic in what Celestia said.

“Y-Yes of course, right away Principal.” As I watched her go, I felt a twinge of worry inside my chest. Poor girl was possibly more broken up over this then I was. I really wish I could set her mind at ease, but I don’t think I could pretend all this didn’t bother me.

“You’re wondering why aren’t you?” Celestia said suddenly, causing me to jump.

“W-what?”

“You’re wondering why I’m doing so much to help you right?”

“W-well I guess so. I mean I know you probably feel a bit responsible since you told me the magic would be harmless, and you said you want teachers like me at this school, b-but all this?”

“Make no mistake, this isn’t a ploy to cover up the strange magical happenings at this school or anything like that.” She placed her hands under her chin. “I’m very serious when I say I want teachers like you at my school. Just how terrified are you of all this?”

“Y-You mean being a girl? Younger?” She nodded.

“All of it. How terrified?”

“Extremely! I don’t even know what to do in this body!” The panic I was feeling flowed freely now, causing my entire body to shake. “How will people see me now? I don’t know how this body works, or even how people are going to treat me! I’m not suppose to be this way!” I felt Sunset’s hands upon my shoulders, attempting to calm me. I didn’t see her move to do that, but the support was welcome. I didn’t know how long I could deal with this. After everything that had been happening in my life, I thought I had finally started to climb back out of the pit, only for this to be thrown at me. Magic? Teenage girlhood? It was too much.

“All very understandable, and that’s part of the reason I want to help you as much as I can. However…” I looked at her, my eyes bleary from crying. I don’t remember starting.

“H-However?” She grinned in that mischievous way again.

“Why did you act as if everything would be fine when Rarity was in the room? It’s because you didn’t want her worrying herself over this mistake wasn’t it?”

I wanted to speak, but the words wouldn’t come. Too tired to protest I simply nodded. Was it really so obvious? Her grin widened.

“And that Mr. Evening, is why I want to help you and the reason I want you to remain a teacher. That’s a very fine quality to have as a person. So if you are willing, I’d like you to continue your duties here while in your new form. However long it may last.”

“I-I…” She held up her hand.

“Please, don’t decide right now. You have enough on your mind as it is. Sunset?”

“Yes Principal?”

“Could you drive Mr. Evening home? I’d rather he not attempt the bus in his, or I suppose her current condition.”

“Of course Principal Celestia.” She smiled at me. “I’ll even stay the evening if you like. I’m sure you could use some support. Rarity will likely want to join as well.”

“What? You can’t stay over! You’re both teenage girls and I’m-”

“Also a teenage girl.” She finished, causing my words to die in my throat. That’s right, I’m not a guy, I’m not even an adult, I-I’m the same age as both of them. If they did stay over, it wouldn’t be seen as creepy, just three girls hanging out. My hand went to my forehead. All of this was giving me a headache.

“Look at least let us see you settled in. If you really don’t feel like company we’ll head out okay?” She looked so concerned for me. How funny given I had spent the entire day trying to talk to her about the rumors. I never thought I’d find out the truth about it all like this. Maybe I could have a chat with her about that later tonight? I looked down at my newfound breasts. Then again, maybe I had enough to worry about.

“Fine, I- I really don’t like this, but I guess the best thing for me is to just get a good night’s sleep.” As if that could possibly be enough to prepare me for tomorrow. It was only Tuesday! I still had three days of class to teach!

“Excellent.” Celestia said, making marks on a piece of paper. “I’ll have Cheerilee take over your classes for tomorrow.” My eyes widened at the mention of that name. Cheerilee!

“Oh my goodness! I totally forgot about Ms. Cheerilee! Is she okay? She got hit by the spell too!” Celestia gave me an amused look.

“Relax Mr. Evening, I don’t blame you for not thinking about that till now, given your current situation. Ms. Cheerilee is just fine, if anything I think she’s enjoying her new youthful body a bit too much, but at the very least it means she should have the energy to teach both classes tomorrow.”

“I-I can’t do that to her! I-I mean she has to be a little upset right?” Celestia shook her head.

“While I appreciate your concern for her, it’s not… exactly like your case. You’re not just younger, but in a very different body. She just got a few years returned. She’s still herself in a sense.”

“To be honest I almost didn’t notice a change.” Sunset piped up, “You can tell she’s younger, but it’s subtle. Most might not even realize she’s different.” I couldn’t help but feel annoyed at that. Here I get my life turned upside down, and she’s having the time of her life it seems. Well it certainly made me feel less guilty about her taking over my duties for tomorrow. Wait, why was she doing that anyway?

“Hold on, so I don’t need to come in tomorrow?” Celestia actually laughed. I sure wish I could get her to do that while a guy.

“Do you want to come in tomorrow?” I quickly shook my head.

“That’s what I thought. I imagine if I woke up as a teenage boy tomorrow I wouldn’t want to come to work either. Give it a day and call me, we’ll go from there.” I nodded. Maybe things weren’t so bad after all. At the very least, I had a very understanding boss.

“Come on Mr. Evening, I’ll lead you to my car.” Sunset said as she picked up her book, “I should probably get your number too so I can call you the moment I find anything out.”

“Y-Yeah sounds good.” I reached into my pocket and pulled out my phone. A flip model that was probably five years out of date. Sure it wasn’t fancy, but it could send and receive calls and texts. That’s really all I needed. “Okay it’s- Oh wait, shouldn’t we wait for Rarity to get back with Vice Principal Luna?”

“Don’t worry about that.” Celestia said. “I plan to have Ms Rarity dropped off at your place later anyway, as Sunset said, not only will she likely insist, she’ll be able to drop off a few necessities, like sleeping garments, unless you plan to sleep in the nude.” I’m sure both of them were fighting back laughter at how quickly I shook my head at that. I didn’t even want to think about this body being naked right now!

“Very well, oh Sunset, a quick word before you go?” As Sunset walked back toward her, Celestia turned to me. “I’m sorry to ask this of you after all that’s happened, but can I get a moment alone with her?”

“O-Oh yes of course.” Excusing myself, I wobbled over to the door, shooing Sunset away as she tried to come over to help me. My balance was all off, but I couldn’t very well have someone leading me everywhere like this. I’m sure with a bit of practice I’d be able to walk just fine. I managed to get myself out the door without falling on my face at least. Whoa, had this room always been this big?

I’m so glad there wasn’t anyone in the waiting room with me right now, because they’d likely stare at the weird girl who looked as if she never saw a damn desk before, but I couldn’t help it! PIcking up a nearby vase full of sunflowers, I could barely lift the thing using both hands! Before I could have easily lifted this with just one! Everything in here just seemed so much larger than before!

I scolded myself mentally. Duh it looked bigger! You just lost like a foot or something in height! Trying not to look too suspicious, I began to walk around the room, trying to get use to all the little alterations to my center of gravity. Try as I might I couldn’t stop from stumbling. Seriously, it was just walking! How was it this hard? It was like my legs just refused to move the way I wanted them to.

Feeling frustrated, I began to force my body to go faster, attempting to re-adjust my balance whenever I felt like I was about to lean too far left or right. Before I knew it, I was actually walking a lot better, was being reckless really the solution? Why did I suddenly- are my hips swaying?

I took another couple of test laps around the room, and sure enough, I was swaying my hips ever so slightly as I strutted around in my circle. Seriously? I was not walking like that. I forced my hips to stop, and immediately had to grab the desk next to me to keep from falling. Try as I might, I just couldn’t move without that sway. Great, not only did I look like a girl, and sound like a girl, I moved like one as well. Wait did that mean?

...Yep smell like one too.

“Heeeeeeeeey Rarity! Sunset you in here!?” A pink blur asked seemingly popping out of nowhere. I jumped, nearly crashing into the nearby wall. W-where had she come from? I mean, I’m sure she had to come in through the open doorway to the hall, but I didn’t hear a damn sound!

“Oh, sorry Mr. Evening, didn’t mean to scare you like that. Say you look cute as a girl! Oh wait I’m sorry! You’re probably still really sensitive about that!” She reached into her purse and somehow produced a perfectly fine cupcake. Seriously the frosting wasn’t even mushed.

“Here! This should cheer you up!” She placed it into my hand, her mouth going a mile a minute. “Have you seen Rarity or Sunset? I mean I know they are both looking after you right now, but I realllly need to ask them if it’s okay to throw a “Group meeting to come up with ideas to help Mr. Evening’ slumber party! That’s you of course, (She snorted then) But of course you knew that! I mean I wanted to throw you a ‘Welcome to girlhood’ slumber party, but Rarity said you might be still scared about being a teenage girl, and you might not like that, and while It’s sad that I can’t throw you a party I tooooooootally get how it’d make you uncomfortable! I mean there was this one time I was dared to act like Rarity for an hour, and it was suuuuuper hard! I know that’s not like you’re situation really, but it’s the best I can think of. Still I bet it’s really scary for you, so I totally understand if you didn’t want a party celebrating it. Still I hope you’ll come to a party, because it’d be so awesome!” She stood there smiling at me, as my mind trying to catch up. This had to be the Pinkie Pie I kept hearing about.

“I uh… thanks? F-for the cupcake I mean. I-I don’t think I can do a party right now…”

“Aww, well I understand! I wouldn’t want a party celebrating something I didn’t like. Like what if someone threw a party for someone who just broke their leg, calling it a ‘Congrats on breaking your leg!’ Party? That would be the worst! So how’s the cupcake?”

“Oh uh,” stunned I quickly took a bite, my eyes widening. “Amazing!” I don’t know if it was my taste buds, or it was just that well baked, but this was seriously the best cupcake I’d ever had. Somehow her grin got even wider.

“Super dooper! I knew you’d like it! My Pinkie senses told me you’d like peanut butter chocolate! Oh hi Sunset!” I blinked as she waved to just behind me. Turning I caught the door closing as Sunset exited the office. Did Pinkie somehow sense she was coming out before actually she actually opened the door?

“Hey Pinkie, um, you aren’t giving Mr. Evening a hard time are you? She’s-”

“Had a long day, don’t worry I totally get it. No parties right now.” Sunset relaxed a bit at that, but still looked weary. To be honest, I couldn't’ tell if it was from Pinkie, or the conversation she just had.

“So…” Sunset said, letting the word trail off. Pinkie looked confused for a second, before literally gasping.

“That’s right! I know we can’t have a party for her right now, but I totally think we should do something for her! Maybe a lunch? Or a dinner! Or a Dinner Lunch brunch where everybody eats burgers with waffle buns?!”

“We’ll talk about it later okay? Right now I think Mr. Evening just wants to go home.” I had really thought Pinkie would protest but she just kinda shrugged.

“Alright! We’ll get together maybe tomorrow after school? See you later Mr. Evening! Ha! It’s so weird calling you that. Oh! Oh! Maybe you should get a new name? I mean new body, new name am I right? How about Evening Gale? Evening Star?” Her eyes suddenly widened so much I was afraid they’d pop. “I’ve got it! Morning Rain!”

“Morning Rain?” I repeated, my expression blank. “Why?”

“Because it’s the opposite of Evening Storm! Morning Rain? Evening Storm? It’s perfect!” She grabbed my hands, jumping up and down. “Of course it’s your name, so you can call yourself whatever you want, but it’s a good suggestion! Right? Right?!” At this point I was willing to tell her anything if only to get her to calm down.

“Sure! Whatever I’m Morning Rain!”

“Yay! I’ll go update my party files right now! You know juuuuuuust in case!” About as quickly as she popped up, she was gone, out the door and off to who knows where. I immediately placed a hand over my heart, trying to stop it from beating so hard. Forget surviving this way for a month, I just wanted to last the day!

“You okay Mr. Evening?” Sunset asked, placing a hand on my shoulder. “You’ll have to forgive her, she’s… well she’s Pinkie Pie.”

“Y-Yeah, I’m okay. I see now why the other teachers warned me about her. Does she ever calm down?”

“Not that I’ve seen.” She shrugged. “At least she has enough sense not to try and throw you a welcome party.”

“Thank goodness for small miracles.” I muttered as we both left the room. Finally we were on our way down the hall. With luck we could get to the car and to my house without anything else happening. It was still kinda strange how I had to sway my hips to walk, but at least I wouldn’t fall over. Curious I glanced over to Sunset’s own hips. Being slightly behind her I was able to observe her movement without her notice. Yep sure enough, her hips had a slight sway to them as well. Did every girl walk that way? Not like I’d ever really looked for that before. Maybe I could ask Sunset?

I thought about that. No, on second thought let’s not. This entire situation was awkward enough as it is. We walked on in silence, myself trying to ignore the weird looks I was getting. Did they know? Were they there when the transformation happened? Were they even now laughing about me behind my back? Or maybe. Maybe they were merely wondering who the new student was, not aware of my fate at all? Thankfully the halls were mostly empty, so I didn’t have to put up with that too much.

“How do you girls wear skirts like this?” I asked, absently trying to pull the fabric down. The cold air against my legs was something else entirely. Even as a guy I didn’t normally wear shorts. Of course my legs being devoid of any hair probably didn’t help matters. It got even worse when we stepped outside onto the student parking lot, the wind now playfully blowing against my legs. I immediately went to hold my skirt down. I was not about to flash someone!

“Heh, it takes a bit of practice I guess. Honestly it took me a while to get use to wearing clothing at all. Where I come from, it’s not really a big deal. Thank the Princess I never went outside in the nude here.” It took a few seconds for what she said to click in my head.

“Right, I forgot, you’re a unicorn from another world that came through a mirror.” I was getting another headache. “Just what kind of job did I take?”

“One full of surprises.” She stopped by a black car that had a weird sun symbol on it’s hood. At least I think it was a sun, could be a fireball. Wasn’t the same thing on that book of hers? I had just enough time to confirm that as she threw the book and a purple purse into the back. Purple? That didn’t match her at all. Wait no, focus on the symbols. I made a mental note to ask about them later.

“Yeah, well I think I’ve had enough for one day.” Even getting into her car felt weird. I mean it would have been weird anyway, a student driving a teacher around. Yet with me as I was right now? Total freakyness. Geez, was I just going to react this way about everything? I swear, even breathing felt different.

“So uh, where to you live?” Oh right, that was probably important.

“Do you know stable street? The one that intersects with wagon drive?” She nodded, good that’d make this easier. “I live not far from there, on a side street. I’ll point it out.”

Without another word, she put the car into drive and we were on our way. Much like our walk down the hall, for the most part we rode in silence. I spent this time staring out the window, trying not to flinch at what I could see of my reflection. Of course the window didn't really let me see too many details. I was going to have to spend some time in my bathroom when I got home if I wanted a good look at the damage. Wow that sounded a lot dirtier in my head then I had meant it to.

“Mr. Evening? Am I going the right way?” I looked up, seeing the crossroads come into view. I pointed right, indicating for her to turn onto my side street.

“It’s just a couple of blocks up this way. Old blue painted house, one three one three, and don’t say anything, the irony of the number isn’t lost on me.”

“Don’t worry I wasn’t, I figure you deserve a few breaks today.” Despite her saying this I could still see a smile on her lips. Eh whatever, I’ll let it slide. This did remind me about something important though. I doubt I’d like it, but it was probably for the best.

“A-also it’s Morning Rain.”

“What?”

“My name. You may as well call me Morning Rain like that Pinkie girl suggested. If you all go around calling me Mr. Evening Storm while I’m like this it’s just going to look and sound weird. So why not? New body new name.”

“Well, it makes sense but are you sure? I could just call you Evening.” I shook my head.

“Evening is commonly a boy’s name. I’d still get odd looks, nevermind those who know me might figure it out. However, no one would think it odd if my name was Morning. It’s almost poetic really. I’m called Morning because while like this it’s kinda like I’m in mourning.”

“That’s… a grim way to look at it.”

“Well excuse me if I didn’t feel like being turned into a girl today!” She flinched, I sighed.

“Look Sunset, I don’t mean to be cross-”

“No it’s okay Mr. I mean Morning. I get it in a way. I mean it was a bit of a shock for me to have hands and feet and all that when I came here, and I made the choice to come. I imagine if I had just been thrown here, I’d have freaked out.” I couldn’t really respond to that. Just what kind of stuff had Sunset gone through while here? She was certainly stronger than I felt right now.

I was out of the car and halfway up the walkway to my door when a terrible revelation came to me. When I was a guy, I had my keys and wallet in my pants pockets. Currently I was wearing a skirt with stockings. No way I had any pockets in this get up! Why didn’t I realize this earlier?!

“Problem! Problem!” I hissed, trying not to attract the neighbors. It was bad enough they were about to see a teen girl entering the home of a middle aged man. I didn’t want to focus on what conclusions they might draw from this.

“What? Are you okay? What’s wrong?” Sunset hissed back, quickly moving to my side.

“M-My keys and wallet were in my pants before I got zapped, but they sure as hell aren’t in this get up.” I waved a hand over myself.

“My only spare key is in my personal storage locker at the school! We’ll have to go back!” Sunset looked worried for a second before she slapped her forehead.

“Oh that’s right, we forgot to tell you.” I raised an eyebrow.

“Tell me what?” Sunset was already heading back at her car. She quickly opened the door back up and began to fish for something inside. A few seconds later she removed the purple purse I saw earlier.

“This was found on the ground next to you after you changed. We confirmed it’s yours when we saw the ID in the wallet.” Stunned I reached out and took the thing. I guess out of everything else that changed this really shouldn’t be a surprise, but I still couldn’t believe it was mine. Sure enough though, upon opening it up, I found my wallet complete with my old ID card inside. Odd, so my clothing changed, but not my ID? Whatever, I’d had enough of this.

“Of course! Of course I have a purse! Why not? What’s next? I walk into my house and everything is pink? I own a thousand pairs of shoes? I… have something else that’s stereotypical of a girl to have?” Sunset gave me a look.

“Well I don’t know what teen girls in this day and age do or have! I’m a grown man!” My voice rising.

“Okay, I think we need to get inside now before people call the cops.” Sunset said, grabbing my purse and fishing out my keys. Right the neighbors, so much for me keeping a low profile. Damn it Evening, why do you have to be so stupid? No I’m sorry, not Evening, I’m Morning Rain now. Why me? Why did Rarity have to zap me? Why couldn’t I just keep to myself?

All I wanted to be was a teacher. I just wanted to feel like I was making a difference for once in my damn life. So many years I spent simply going from day to day, working because that’s what was expected of you. Why did it have to take such a tragedy for things to change? Was that what this was? Another screwed up event designed to get me to take some sort of step for self improvement? I put the work in to be the teacher I had always dreamt about being, what more did you want from me life? I’ve already lost someone important, did you have to rob me of my identity as well!?

Peering into the darkness of my home, I slowly began to trudge my way inside. This is what life wanted to throw at me huh? Fine, I’ll deal with all this too. That’s what mom would have told me to do. Heh, what would she say if she could see me like this? Her daughter instead of her son? Hell what would dad think? Shaking my head, I tried to once more gather myself together. With luck I’d be back to normal before I had to have that conversation.

A quick look around proved that nothing had changed. I guess the only things altered were my cloths and body. Well that was something I guess. Drained, I collapsed on my couch the moment I got to it.

“Ugh, please tell me the day is over.”

“Sorry Morning, not just yet.” I groaned. I had a feeling the real lessons in having to deal with my body were about to begin. A strange beeping sound emitted from Sunset for a few seconds, before she pulled out her phone and gave it a look. Given she didn’t answer I assumed it was a text.

“Rarity needs a ride. She’s got the loan from Principal Celestia as well.”

“Are you two really going to come over? This is weird enough as it is.” She nodded, closing her phone. The look she was giving me now reminded me a bit of Celestia’s serious face.

“It’s likely for the best, you’re going to need some help adjusting, and I don’t think Rarity would take no for an answer, and I… you were trying to talk to me today weren’t you?” My eyes widened. How did she know? I never said anything to anyone!

“H-How?” Her expression went back to being a smile.

“You kept giving me this look all day whenever I noticed you. It’s the same look I use to get whenever I wanted to talk to one of my friends, when I first became one to them that is.”

“I- Yeah I did. It was about the rumors.”

“Oh… guess you got your answers then…”

“Y-Yeah I did.” Silence.

“Are you going to be okay Mr. Evening?”

“Seriously, stick to calling me Morning. The sooner I get use to it the better, and shouldn’t I be asking you that?” I got a small giggle for that. Heh, it was kinda funny seeing her do that, given the tough girl look she wore.

“I’m not the one dealing with a life crisis right now.”

“I-I’ll be okay. Well no that’s a lie, I have no idea if I’m going to be okay, but I’ll manage. I have to.” Thankfully, It looked like she believed me. I didn’t feel like arguing my mental state with her. Still the look of concern didn’t leave her face.

“It’s just I need to pick up Rarity and something from my house, but I don’t want to leave you alone right now…”

“Sunset I’ll be fine. I’m not going to hurt myself while you’re gone.” This time I could clearly see her flinch, guess I couldn’t blame her.

“It’s the truth right? You’re all thinking it. You think I’ll hurt myself because of what happened.” No answer. Things were getting too heavy in here.

“I-I’m not going to lie to you, I don’t like this, but at the same time I realize there are far worse things I could have become. Just… please give me some time…” Without even thinking about it, I had my knees up against my chest as I sat there hugging them on the couch. Was I crying again? Ugh, I’m chalking it up to female hormones.

“Hey, Hey, it’s okay.” I could feel her hand on my head, causing me to look up at her. She had such a friendly smile, it made me feel better just knowing it was aimed at me.

“None of us are here to judge you okay? I told you already, it’s understandable. I may not be able to relate to this exactly, but I know enough to know how overwhelming it must be. That’s why Rarity and I are staying here tonight. To give you support.” I couldn’t believe how nice it was to hear those words, to feel her hand rub my head. Was this part of the spell? Shouldn’t I be upset she was treating me like a kid?

“T-thank you. Really thank you. I promise I’ll be fine without you for an hour, so go get Rarity.” Screw it, this felt nice and I wasn’t going to question why. After everything that had been happening in my life, no matter what was causing this, it was a wonderful change of pace.

“I’ll be back as soon as I can okay? You have my number now, so call me if you have need. I promise I’ll answer if I’m not driving.” I tried to give her a faint smile as I nodded. It took her a few more minutes to decide I was indeed going to be alright before she finally left. I waited till I heard her car drive away before locking the door.

So now I was alone. No one to see anything that I did. I practically ran for the restroom. I needed to see a mirror, now! I froze the moment I got inside, facing the glass. There she was again. That raven haired beauty staring back at me.

“T-this is so unreal.” Naturally the reflection mimicked me saying that exactly. I’d had this body for nearly three hours now, yet I still couldn’t believe it. If I had just woken up, I’d swear this was a window, some teen girl staring back at me from the other side. Just, how was this me? How could this be my body? My gaze once more shot straight down. How could t-these be my...my…

I slowly brought my hands up, amazed at how small they had become. They looked so delicate. No way I’d have the grip I use to, would I even have my old strength? What am I thinking? Of course not, this body had like a quarter of my size removed. Hell I couldn’t even feel the pitiful muscle I had built up anymore. My arms instead were slim, s-smooth.

I ran my hand up my arm a few times, marveling once again at it’s lack of body hair. W-whoa, that felt so weird. Was this just how sensitive skin was without the hair, or was it a female thing? I continued to feel around my body, going up my arm to my shoulder. Yeah, it was slimmer than it had been, not that I was surprised. So if I understood anything about female bodies, I’d loose the broadness here, but my hips would…

Whoa! Yeah they were wider alright. One might call them birthing hips. I shuddered, okay I’m not ready to think about that right now. Instead let’s… let’s move onto…

I stood, staring at the mirror. Deliberately focused on my chest, I began to turn to the side, my mouth going dry. There they were, jutting out invitingly. I shouldn’t right? It was wrong of me. Except, they were there. I mean right there! P-Plus they were mine right? It’s not like I’d get in trouble for it. I was going to have to in the morning when I showered anyway right?

Trying desperately to control my breathing, I lifted my hands and slowly cupped the underside of my boobs. O-Oh wow! Oh that feels so strange, and I was barely touching them. Weird, I was even wearing a bra. Well Rarity’s magic was through I’d give it that. Blushing I bounced them up and down a bit. Okay t-that felt even stranger! I-I wonder what it’d feel like if I gripped them?

Holy cow! Well they certainly were sensitive, it’d probably hurt if I was rough with them, but a gentle rub should be okay. Glancing over the the mirror I felt my face heat up at the sight of this teen girl nearly groping herself. I was such a pervert, I can’t believe I was doing this! I should stop, go sit on the couch and just wait for Sunset to get back with Rarity. Except…

Except what other time could I ever do this? Any other guy wouldn’t hesitate right? I-I was just doing what anyone would do in my situation. Yeah, that’s right, I could rub them if I wanted. I-It was just like a science experiment really. Steeling myself, I began.

“AH~” I gasped, slamming my mouth shut. D-did I just do that? What the hell kinda sound was that? It couldn’t be a moan right? I mean, yeah i-it felt nice, but that’d just be lewd. M-Maybe a few more minutes experimenting is needed to really draw a conclusion.

“Ah! NNNG!” Ah hell, those noises really were coming from my mouth! The soft feminine pitch of them was actually kinda turning me on a bit, which only made this all worse. I’d never actually gotten to feel these before. It was like they were full of sand almost, at least that’s how it felt in weight, though they didn’t quite shift as such. If I had to describe them to someone, it was like playing with heavy dense jello, just contained in two sacks of flesh.

“MMMF!” O-Okay maybe that was enough, I-I was feeling really weird in the pit of my stomach and… and other places I didn’t want to think about right now. Despite that, my right hand ran across my crotch. N-Nothing, or well, not what I had yesterday. Okay, that’s enough exploring for now. Breasts were one thing. I wasn’t ready to deal with the idea down there yet.

Focusing up top again, I couldn’t help but wonder. What would they look like bare? This was just more of me preparing myself after all. I’d have to bathe, get dressed and stuff, so I’d have to see them at some point. I began to lift up my… I didn’t even know really. It wasn’t a dress, was it a tank top? A blouse? With a groan I realized I had a long road ahead of me in being a girl. Perhaps I was better off taking this slow. Besides, there was still the bra. How did I take that off? Oh that was going to be a fun question to ask Rarity or Sunset.

CRASH!!!

What was that!? I spun around, my eyes on the door. I can’t believe I closed this behind me like someone was going to walk in. I was the only one here. Wasn’t I? That noise came from the living room. Had Sunset returned so soon? Or… or was somebody else…

My heart sped up again as I began to imagine someone breaking in. Straining to be as quiet as I could, I put my ear up to the door, trying to hear any other sounds. Far as I could tell there was nothing but silence. No shifting or rustling, but there was definitely a crash! What made that crash!?

Quickly checking my surroundings for a weapon, I cursed myself for neglecting this restroom. Being I lived alone, all my stuff was kept in my personal bathroom attached to my room. I only had soap and toilet paper in here, along with a plunger and toilet brush. Well I guess it was better than nothing. Grabbing the plunger, I cracked open the door, peering left and right, my ‘weapon’ at the ready.

The bathroom opened into a hallway, my room and the two spares to my right, the kitchen and living room to my left. I just so happened to keep a metal baseball bat in my closet for just such an occasion. The plunger at the ready, with the rubber part on the end I wasn’t holding, I quickly rushed to my room, throwing open the door. I winced at how loud that sounded as I dove for the closet. Fearing I’d see the shadow of some unknown person pop up on the wall any second, I grabbed the bat and-

Damn, this wasn’t as light as I remember it being. I mean sure I could pick it up, but I know it didn’t feel like this before. Ugh, no way I was swinging this one handed like I use to. Wobbling, I tried to give it a few test swings using both arms. All I managed to do was throw off my already messed up sense of balance. Stumbling, I fell upon the bed, dropping the bat to the other side.

It hit the wall with a loud clang. Damn it, if they hadn’t heard me before, they must have now! This stupid body was still too new to me. I’m sure if I had time to practice I could accommodate the change in balance and strength, but I doubt the burglar would be willing to stand aside while I did that.

Having no other option I grabbed the plunger again and braced myself, my hands gripping the wood in fear. I glued my eyes to the doorway, waiting for any signs of the approaching danger. A shadow, footsteps, heavy breathing. A full minute must have gone by before I realized no one was coming. Had they seriously not heard me? Or were they simply waiting for me to let my guard down? What if they got scared off? I mulled over if I should go check things out. That’s how people got killed in movies. Still, anything had to be better than just waiting in here alone.

It took a few moments for me to get my legs working again, but I managed to exit the bedroom and make my way down the hall. I kept shifting my gaze around frantically, trying to catch a glimpse of anything out of the ordinary. Coming up on my right was the door to the small washer and dryer room, still closed shut. I’m sure I would have heard them open it right? Ignoring it for now, I focused on the door-less opening in the wall just beyond it. The entrance to the living room. Taking a deep breath, I ran into the room, plunger swinging.

“AHHHHHHH!” I screamed, hoping to catch whoever off guard. There near my couch was an overturned box, now sitting in the middle of the floor. Someone had knocked it over! Where were they? Why hadn’t I seen them yet? I spun around frantically, trying to catch my assailant sneaking up on me. Oh why didn’t I just go with Sunset to pick up Rarity? Why weren’t they back yet!? I kept looking around, desperate for any clue on the burglar’s where abouts. The only clue I had was this one box, and the collapsed corner of another one by it.

Wait a second. Upon taking a closer look I realized the way the box was bent, was perfectly aligned with the box on the ground. As if the weight had finally worn it down enough to slide down and crash.

There was no burglar, I was just bad at stacking boxes. I felt the tension wash out of me like water. I can’t believe I just got so worked up over nothing. With a sigh I walked over and collapsed upon the couch exhausted. What the hell was wrong with me? I mean besides everything with my body right now.

Still, what if it had been a burglar? What would I have done? Stuck a plunger on their face? Didn’t that only work in cartoons? I couldn’t even swing a bat properly right now, and if they were bigger than me, could I even fight them off? Hugging my knees again I began to shiver.

What if they were men? Men who saw a small frightened teenage girl? I’d seen enough horror films to know the many ways that could end up. T-that could be me now. I’d be powerless to stop them. I didn’t have a gun, only the baseball bat and some kitchen knives. Would that be enough? Why couldn’t this place be smaller? Or better equipped with alarms? Why did I have to inherit the thing in the first place?! I’d give anything if only…

Damn it, there’s no point in thinking like that. It happened, and as a result I now owned this house. A three bedroom all to myself. How ‘lucky’. Oh why couldn’t Sunset hurry up? Feeling smaller than I had ever before, I sat there staring at the floor. I didn’t feel like checking out my body anymore.

“Mom I can’t do this!” I cried to the empty room. “Why!? Why did this have to happen!? I’m not strong enough for this! It’s too much... “ I pulled my feet up, once more hugging my knees to my chest, feeling my new breasts pressed against them.

“Why did you go? I-I don’t want to be alone…” There was no answer. No other sounds then my own sobbing.

Author's Note

Yay chapter 2!

Okay, when I originally began to write this, I had a planned stop. It's just after I finished I had so much written that I decided to break it into two chapters. So what does that mean? Well that means chapter 3 is already done. I just need to edit it. I'll alter what this paragraph says when it's out. (Or just add a bit on. The chapter is done and up at this moment.)

I'm sure many of you might be upset that Cheerilee is just kinda pushed to the side for the moment. Don't worry, we'll see her again, but the focus of this story isn't on her. (Come to think of it though, that'd be neat if we had a story with her side of things. Afraid I simply can not take on that work load though)

Nothing else to say that I can think of. As always, feel free to give suggestions for things you'd like to see. While I can't say they'll influence the story, it's possible. After all, the other names Pinkie came up with for girl Evening came from a story comment. ^_^

Oh one other thing I guess I can say. Yeah, Morning's skin is a similar color to Rarity's or Celestia's I guess. Maybe Applejack's. I basically see it as the normal Caucasian color. This... is a cheat basically as she's based off a pony OC of mine who doesn't have black hair, or a white flank. She's actually the same color as Thunderlane, with a sapphire blue mane and tail. However... honestly I just don't see that working for her in this story, so it's been changed.

Now that I'm a woman...

“Mr. Evening! Oh my are you alright!?” Puzzled, I looked up to see Rarity standing there with Sunset Shimmer. Huh? How had they gotten in? “Oh please don’t cry! I promise you we’ll fix you as soon as possible, so please try to cheer up…”

“Morning? What’s wrong? What happened?” Sunset asked, my keys dangling from one of her hands. Oh that’s right, she took them with her so she could get back in. How silly of me to forget.

“Morning?” Rarity looked up confused. “I’m afraid I don’t understand.”

“I-It’s my name…” I croaked. Wow my voice sounded terrible. How long had I been crying for? “I-I can’t go around being called Mr. Evening Storm.”

“Pinkie kinda came up with it. Evening, I mean Morning decided to take the name up since Evening sounds too boyish for, well her current form.”

“Oh, well I suppose that makes sense, but deary if it’s causing you this much distress-”

“That’s not it.” I said quickly. I still didn’t want to worry Rarity anymore then I had too. Hopefully I’d be fine now that I had gotten a lot of that out of my system. “I was just… remembering stuff. So uh, we got the cash?”

It was pretty clear they wanted to press the matter, but both seemed to decide it wasn’t worth distressing me further. Thank goodness, I really didn’t want to talk about that right now.

“Principal Celestia did as promised. Three hundred to help you out.” Sunset said holding up an envelope. I still couldn’t fathom that. Just bam, here’s three hundred bucks. She was an interesting woman for certain.

“She even gave us permission to skip school tomorrow so we can help you shop. If you don’t mind that is.” Rarity said, trying to avoid my gaze. I sighed.

“Rarity, we both know I wouldn’t have the first clue on what to buy. I don’t like this, but it’s my lot right now. I’m going to need help, I’m not too proud to admit that.”

“T-that’s good to hear…” This was getting awkward. I could not have this go on all night if I was to ever relax. Heavens give me strength.

“Look, Rarity, I forgive you okay? I need your help and I don’t want you looking at me with guilt all the time.”

“But Eve-”

“Morning Rain”

“Ahem, yes Morning Rain, but-”

“No buts, I’m a girl, and that’s that. I don’t like it, but my m-mom once told me that sometimes we are put into situations where all we can do is keep moving. I can’t just sit here and wallow in self pity. I-I have to prepare myself for what’s to come and I’m going to need your help, both of your help.” Sunset nodded right away, but Rarity still hesitated.

“I-I suppose. I’m sorry E- Morning, but I still feel terrible about this, you’re right that mulling over the past won’t get us anywhere though. I’ll do whatever I can.” I smiled at her. She really was a good kid. I wish I could have had friends like her growing up. Sunset too.

“I want to do more then just wait for Twilight to write back as well, so please let me know if you need anything.” Sunset sat besides me on my right, Rarity taking my left. Yep, just three teenage girls hanging out after school. It was almost funny.

“We can stay pretty late if need be, so is there anything you’d like our help with now?” Shivering, I recalled what had happened earlier. Gripping Sunset’s hand a bit more tightly then I really meant, I decided to make a proposal. We’d already gone this far.

“A-actually any chance you two can spend the night? I-I mean since we’re all girls it’s not dirty right? I-I’d just really like the company…” I was really afraid they’d protest being I technically was a guy, but I guess my new form really did defuse that kind of thinking.

“Why Darling, we’d be delighted!” Rarity exclaimed giving me a smile. It was nice to see her in good spirits again.

“Right Sunset?” She asked turning to her friend, who nodded in agreement.

“Truth be told, we both grabbed overnight supplies just in case. Even Principal Celestia suggested we try to stay the night. We just didn’t want to force you.” Huh, guess that’s what she was talking to Sunset about in the office after I left. She really was thinking of everything wasn’t she? I’m not sure why, but for some reason she reminded me of a princess looking out for her subjects.

“Please stay! I-I just really don’t want to be alone in this house while like this…” There were those worried looks again.

“Deary you aren’t thinking of-” I quickly shook my head.

“Earlier I thought someone had broken in… I’ve never been so scared before. I don’t think I could protect myself in this body as I am.” I was shivering again.

“Oh you poor dear. All this must seem dreadful at times.” Before I realized what was happening, I felt her arms around me in a hug. Rather astonished, I couldn’t do anything but tense up. Was this okay? She was a student hugging a teacher!

“Oh my! I’m terribly sorry dear!” She released me quickly. “I-I just got caught up in the moment is all.”

“I-It’s fine, I think…” I replied quietly. That felt nice, maybe a bit too nice. Except not in the nice I think I was suppose to feel. Not that I wanted to have questionable thoughts about Rarity, given our age gap. Well there wasn’t an age gap now, but… Augh! Why did this have to be so confusing!

“So uh, still unpacking?” Sunset said, looking around at the boxes.

“I’ve sorta been putting it off…” Rubbing the back of my neck, I looked around at the damage. I really had been skimping on this hadn’t I?

“Wait i-is this for real?” I looked over to what Sunset was talking about. Leaning against the wall, mostly hidden behind a few other boxes was another rather large flat box. Oh right that. To think I’d almost forgotten about it. The ‘condolences gift’ from my aunts.

“M-Mr, Evening!” Rarity exclaimed, forgetting my new name. “How can you afford this!?”

“It was a gift. For uh moving in. I never got around to setting it up as I don’t really have a stand for it.”

“Still, a seventy inch high def television! No wonder you’re so worried about thieves darling.” Huh, I guess they would go for that. Funny I didn’t think about that. Guess I was still worried about how they’d see me, and not my home.

“You have to let us set this up. Besides I think a movie is the perfect thing to take your mind off all this.” Sunset was already pushing aside boxes, looking just as excited as Rarity. You know what? She’s right, a movie would be great right now. I apparently had an entire day to learn how to be a girl tomorrow. I deserved some R and R.

“Fine, but I don’t have cable or anything yet. We’ll have to unpack my blu-ray player and movies as well.” I looked around at the sea of boxes. “They’re in… one of these.”

“Seriously Morning, what do you do with free time if you haven’t even opened this yet?” Sunset said, feeling along the box top.

“I have a smaller tv in my room okay? This one wouldn’t fit so I didn’t bother with it.”

“Wait, if you don’t have cable, what do you do with it?” I found myself rubbing the back of my neck again.

“Er, my gamesquare is hooked up to it.” Sunset actually looked shocked.

“You play videogames?” I crossed my arms.

“What you think I just grade papers all day and be boring?” She held up her hands.

“Fair point. Anyway let’s set this sucker up. Who wants to help?”

“Well I’m not getting all sweaty trying to set this beast up.” Rarity said, walking over to a box. “I’ll go through these while you two do it.”

“Most of the boxes are still taped shut, let me grab you a knife from the kitchen.” I started to head that way when she waved me off.

“Oh no need for that dear. Allow me to introduce you to one of the many girl’s best friends.” I raised my eyebrow at the object she was holding.

“A hairpin? Is it really a best friend because it’s pointy enough to open a package?” My comment earned a scoff from her.

“Hardly darling. True that’s the reason I’m using it now,” she said, slicing the seam to a box open in one neat swipe, “but besides its usual function, it’s also rather handy to stab a rouge hand reaching where it shouldn’t.” She wasn’t looking at me, but I think she predicted my expression.

“I know you forgive me dear, and I while I still feel guilt, I want to make it clear that being a girl does not mean you have to be defenseless.”

“She’s right Morning, I know you’re still getting use to your body, but you don’t have to worry about anything with us here.” Sunset smiled at me as she began opening the television box. Did she use a hairpin to break the seal as well?

“I-I know. I’m not trying to say girls are weak or anything, I-I mean my mother was anything but, it’s just… I’ve had this body for like four hours maybe…”

“Say no more, it took me at least a week before I really got use to a human body after growing up as a pony.” Sunset said, giving me another smile. I really liked her smiles. “Sorry Morning, I didn’t mean to put you on the spot like that.”

“No, No it’s okay. I-I guess this will be a learning experience for all of us. Just, try and be patient with me okay?”

“Darling I’m sure I’ve said it before, but take your time. Neither of us expect you to adjust to this overnight.” Sunset nodded in agreement.

“And hey, who’s to say you have to? You could be back to normal before the weekend. So who’s up for just forgetting that right now and setting up this beast of a TV for a movie night?” I really liked how positive Sunset was. I really wish I could be more like her.

“Hear Hear!” Both Rarity and I yelled at the sametime. Caught off guard we both stared at each other for a moment, before she broke into giggles. Sunset soon followed, and despite myself I ended up joining in. It was strange hearing that bubbly sound escape my lips, and yet it felt liberating in a way.

We spent the next hour pulling the TV out of the box, and trying to make sure it was properly put together and working. Apparently Rarity had forgotten about looking for the movies as she put herself on ‘instruction duty’ which basically consisted of her sitting on the couch reading the instructions to us. Finally, after threatening to grab the paper out of her hands, we managed to work together enough to get the stand put on it and plug it in. One button press later, and it sprang to life, eliciting a cheer from all three of us.

“Finally!” I said collapsing on the couch next to Rarity. “I have to say, things seem a lot harder to do in a dress then I thought.” I fingered the skirt as I sat there. Despite the weirdness of it all, I think I was starting to really get use to the feel of the stockings against my legs. Not that I’d admit it to them.

“Welcome to my world darling.” Rarity said with a giggle. “It’ll certainly be a challenge when we go shopping tomorrow. I assume you aren’t really into the feminine clothing part of this, though if you don’t mind my saying, you have the perfect figure for it.”

I could feel my face heat up at those words. Was I blushing? Ugh, what the hell is happening to me? I was really starting to get worried that the transformation came with a slew of side effects I didn’t know about yet. I mean, that had to be the reason I was feeling like this.

“Uh, yeah sure.” I quickly stood back up. “Maybe I should change out of this already. Though finding clothing I own that fits is going to be a challenge in itself.”

“Oh yes, I almost forgot.” Rarity said suddenly leaping up and walking over toward the front door. She came back carrying a tote bag I didn’t notice before. Well I wasn’t exactly all that aware when they came in.

“I took the liberty of grabbing you a few articles of clothing just in case, including a set of pajamas. Y-You’ll have to keep wearing the undergarments you have on, but at least you don’t have to sleep in your current outfit.”

“Or nude.” Sunset helpfully added in. I shot her a ‘not helping’ look. She just grinned in reply.

“Rarity you’re a lifesaver! I’d give almost anything to get out of this skirt and into something more…” I was digging through the bag for the pajama set when I pulled up a single piece of cloth that consisted of what appeared to be a blue tank top, except the shoulder straps were rather thin and it looked long enough to reach my knees.

“P-Please tell me this isn’t what you were talking about.” I said lifting up what I could only guess was a nightie. This time it was Rarity’s turn to blush.

“Oh my! I’m so sorry! I didn’t think I actually grabbed that!” She yanked the thing out of my hands and quickly stuffed it back into the bag. “I promise you there is a real set of pajamas in there. The nightie was… a mistake.”

“I dunno it looked good to me.” Sunset said with a grin, before Rarity turned on her.

“It’s your fault! You kept rushing me to get back here that I just sort of grabbed whatever!”

“Girls keep nighties in their pajama drawers?” I asked before I could stop myself. Was that too much to ask? I know I’m not currently a grown male, but it still seemed like crossing a line.

“N-Not exactly…” She said, handing me the bag. “J-Just go into the bathroom and change! Sunset and I will figure out dinner! Do you mind if we use your kitchen deary?”

“I, uh yeah that’s fine I guess, I don’t think I have much though.” She really wanted to change the subject, what was the big deal about accidently grabbing a wrong article of clothing?

“Not exactly how Rarity?” Sunset asked, causing Rarity’s blush to darken a bit.

“I-It’s not really important.” I rolled my eyes.

“What’s the big deal? You just grabbed it on instinct or something right?” She didn’t answer.

“Right?” I repeated. Honestly I was curious now.

“I-I was thinking about how nice it’d look on you…” For a moment I thought I had misheard her.

“W-what?” She looked at me sheepishly.

“I’d never pressure you about it of course, and I’m sorry I brought it. I-I know you aren’t a girl at heart, but you really do have a nice figure and I was thinking about all the different outfits you’d look good in.” She could likely see the blush I knew was spreading across my cheeks, as she quickly began to wave her hands.

“No no! Not to worry Mr., I mean Morning, I promise you I won’t do that. Much as I admit it’ll pain me to restrain myself, I have no right to do that to you! Tomorrow I promise we’ll get outfits only you approve of! Nothing more!” Still embarrassed, she peered up at me. “Of course, if you would like to dress up a bit…”

“Y-Yeah, t-thank you. I’ll just um… g-go change.” I replied, quickly running and shutting myself in the restroom, my hand over my beating heart. W-what was this feeling? The entire time she was talking about dressing me up, I kept feeling this weird tingle, and that offer at the end! I-I wasn’t actually considering that was I? I’m a grown man for crying out loud! I can’t go around wearing dresses and nighties and stuff! I mean, they’d look silly on me.

Once more I was staring at the girl in the mirror. Yes, I would have looked silly. When I was a guy. As Morning Rain though I bet I’d look rather cute. I peered more closely at myself. You know, I can kind of see my mother’s eyes in my own. In fact the way my hair has that slight waviness to it is exactly like her’s. I guess I could pass as her daughter. She always did want a daughter, and to give me a sibling. Well one out of two isn’t bad I suppose.

Shuffling through the bag again, I found the pajama set Rarity was talking about. It was a plain white top, with matching white pants. Probably a spare set she had. Holding the shirt up to me looked off. Heh, I guess white wasn’t really my color. I really did think blue complimented me much more. Was that a normal thing to think? Hmm, speaking of blue…

I once more lifted the blue nightie out of the bag. No one could see me in here right? What harm would there be in just trying it on? It’s not perverted to know what you look like in an outfit, and I was just a curious teen girl right now right? It’s not like I could turn myself on or anything. I was already pulling my top off before I could question what I was doing.

Oh, so that’s what I looked like with just a bra on huh? It was a plain blue bra, but just seeing those two little mounds gently snuggled in it was enough to bring my blush back. I wonder how big I was? I mean I wasn’t huge, but I certainly couldn’t be an A cup. Was I a B? Maybe a C? Well I guess I’d find out tomorrow when Rarity or Sunset measured me. Boy was that going to be awkward.

Pushing that thought aside, I began to fiddle with my skirt. Was there a latch or something? After feeling all around the seem, I could only conclude that you just pulled it down and off like a weird pair of shorts. Sure enough, with a small bit of struggling, I had it off, now standing in only my stockings and underwear.

That was really me? This cute sexy girl? I shivered while shaking my head. I didn’t need to be thinking of myself that way, this was confusing enough. Still, while I didn’t possess the beauty of Rarity, I don’t think I was any slouch either. When I was going to high school I would have fainted if a girl like this asked me out.

I shook my head again. Okay time to stop thinking about stuff like that. If I was going to do this, I’d better do it before I lost my nerve. Taking a quick moment to make sure I had it right, I slipped the thing on, my eyes closed. Feeling to make sure it was on correctly, I braced myself and faced where the mirror was. Just remember, this wasn’t being perverted, I was just curious, and this could be worth a good laugh later. So, no regrets. On the count of three, I opened my eyes.

I couldn’t help it, I gasped. I really was a beauty! S-she looked amazing in this! Twirling around, I tried to take in as much as I could of it. This was likely the only time I’d ever wear one of these, so I should savor the moment. I almost wish I had a camera, too bad my phone was a piece of crap. Oh well, this was fun, but I should probably dress in the pajamas now.

“Morning dear? What would you like on a pizza? We decided it was the best...option… Oh my!” Rarity said holding open the door and staring directly at me. Feeling like a deer caught in headlights I slowly turned to her.

I had forgotten to lock the door.

“I-I…” I began, fearing the blush was over taking my face. How could I be so stupid!?

“EEEE! You look absolutely fabulous!” She screeched, turning me this way and that. “Oh I knew this would look wonderful on you! The color! It matches you to a T! Oh I’m so glad you like it! It’s yours dear! No no! No need to thank me!” Her finger on my lips before I could say anything. “I wouldn’t dream of taking this away from you now that I’ve seen you in it! Oh! We’ve got to show Sunset!”

“W-wait!” I cried as she yanked me from the restroom, my cries going unnoticed. In a matter of seconds I found myself standing in the kitchen where Sunset was scrolling on her phone.

“Hey, did you get what toppings Morning wants on her pizza? I think I’ve got a coupon for...” She finally looked up, my outfit causing her to blink.

“M-Morning?” I was unable to meet her eyes.

“Y-Yeah, I was uh… curious.”

“Doesn’t she look amazing darling!? Oh! Oh! We should all put on nighties! I’m sure I grabbed one for each of us!” Rarity was already out of the kitchen, looking through her bags. Completely embarrassed, I just stood there trying to turn invisible. It wasn’t working.

“I didn’t think you’d actually put something like that on.” Sunset said. I began to fiddle with my fingers, trying not to curl up into a ball.

“I-I thought I’d look cute a-and I mean it’s not like I’d get another chance…”

“Rright, well I should probably go stop Rarity before we’re all wearing one and you’re stuck in it for the night.”

“NO!” I cried grabbing her arm. Startled, we stood there for a few seconds before I let go.

“I-It’s fine. I can survive one night in this, besides, it’ll make Rarity happy, and I don’t want to worry her anymore.”

“Well, that’s fine I suppose, but Morning you really shouldn’t push yourself to do this. Rarity will understand if you feel uncomfortable in that.”

“I’m not, it’s fine honest.” What was I saying? I didn’t really want to spend the night in this right? Or was I going along with it because I’d get to see Sunset and Rarity in ones? Come on Morning, that’s wrong to think. They’re teenagers for crying out loud! If you were in your old body, you’d be nothing more than a dirty old man! Soon after, Rarity came rushing back in, already dressed in a matching white nighty of her own. Ha see! I wasn’t even attracted to her.

That was a good thing right?

“Here’s your’s Sunset!” She exclaimed, draping an orange nightie onto her arms, causing Sunset to raise an eyebrow.

“You just happened to have an orange one?”

“Ha, yes well always be prepared!” She chirped before pointing to the Living room. “Oh my! I forgot to locate the movies! Best go do that!” She was gone before we could protest.

“Ready for what?” I asked. “Who goes around carrying nighties?!”

“Allow me to introduce you to the real Rarity.” Sunset replied with a smirk. “Honestly you could probably ask for a wedding dress and she’d pull one out.” She shrugged and went back to her phone. Yeah, I wasn’t going to be asking for that. EVER.

“Ah here we go! I knew I had a coupon.” She turned her head toward the Living room. “So what do you want on your pizza? I’m thinking a small for each of us.”

“One small for each of us? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just do one giant one?” She shook her head.

“No, that could get complicated. I doubt we’d agree on the same toppings, and I’m not asking to make a third of the pizza one type and so on.” Huh, yeah I guess that made sense. If one of them wanted tomatoes on it, I’d gag. I hated those things.

“Well okay, but can I have a medium? I doubt a small will be enough.” Even before I finished the sentence, she was giving me this weird look. Was it taboo to get medium or something?

“Ahem, Morning, remember that you aren’t as big as you use to be.” What? What did that have to do with anything?

“So? Don’t teenagers eat more anyway?” I asked with a scoff. Her look didn’t waver though.

“Trust me, I doubt you could even eat an entire small.”

“Wanna bet?”

“Oh, this is getting exciting!” Rarity said, clapping her hands together as she walked back up. Sunset on the other hand just rolled her eyes.

“You don’t want to do this.”

“Oh yes I do! I bet you I can eat the thing and still be hungry! When I do you have to help me as my teacher's aide for an entire month!” Sunset shrugged.

“Sure that’s fine, I’m good at things like that. Very well I accept, but if you can’t then, then... hmmm.” She placed a hand on her chin.

“In addition to the clothing we buy her tomorrow, we get to dress her in whatever outfits we want!” Both of us turned to stare at her.

“Uh Rarity, didn’t you say earlier-” Sunset began, but she was cut off.

“I know! I know what I said darling, but after seeing her in that nightie I reeeeally want to dress her up! How’s this, we’ll stop if you get too distressed, but this is a bet after all. At least let me have one!” One girly outfit? If that’s all they wanted, I was getting off easy.

“Deal! I can live with being put in one measly outfit.” Rarity clapped her hands together again in excitment.

“Heh, you should make her Pinkie promise.” Sunset joked, the look Rarity gave her however was grave.

“Don’t even joke about that! You don’t know the horrors of the Pinkie promise!” Pardon? Just what were they going on about? The pinkie promise was just linking pinkies when you promised right? I relayed as much to them.

“No no no, you don’t understand darling.” Rarity said, her expression grim. “We don’t mean that pinkie promise. We mean a Pinkie promise, as created by our friend Pinkie Pie. To break one is to invite such unspeakable horrors!” She shuddered. “I dare not even joke about it!” I just rolled my eyes. I didn’t think Rarity could be this silly.

“Oh come now, you’re both over reacting.” To my annoyance they both shook their heads as if I just claimed water wasn’t wet. Just who were they fooling?

“You’re joking! You must be!”

“Morning I was joking, I shouldn’t have made it. Just trust me on this. You don’t want to invoke the Pinkie Promise.” Sunset said matter of factly. Okay, I had enough of this. What, they think because I got frightened earlier I was scared of some stupid promise? Just because I looked like a teenage girl, didn’t mean I thought like one. I was still an adult male in my mind. Magic being real or not, this was plain superstition. I was not about to be beaten by that.

“Tell me how to invoke it.” I could practically see the color drain from Rarity’s face.

“Darling, you really don’t-”

“No tell me. I’m going to prove how stupid this all is. Besides, there’s no way I’m going to lose this bet.”

“W-well you do this.” Rarity said, shifting her stance. “Ahem, cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” As she spoke she did various motions, ending with her pushing her fist into her closed right eye.

“Really? That’s it?” Sunset nodded.

“Yeah, but seriously don’t do it.”

“Oh please.” I took the same stance Rarity did. “Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye!” I did the motions exactly, making sure I had my eye closed when I lightly punched it. Then again, who’d be stupid enough not to do that?

“I ‘Pinkie promise’ “ I said doing air quotes. That if I can’t eat an entire small pizza by myself, that you can dress me in whatever you want tomorrow Rarity. No matter how girly!” I could see Rarity’s face light up with anticipation, but Sunset still looked very weary.

“EEEEE! Really darling? Anything! Oh this is going to be so exciting!” She was practically dancing for joy.

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you Morning. We’re both here to support you, and I don’t want to push you into anything, but this… this is something else.”

“Yeah, yeah, whatever. I have to fail in eating a pizza first. A small pizza. Speaking of which, we should probably get around to ordering them.”

“I still think you made a huge mistake, but what’s done is done.” Still shaking her head, she began to dial, stopping when it came time to hit the call button. “So what kinds do you want anyway?”

“Just a pepperoni for me deary.” Rarity said, scribbling on a piece of paper. Was she seriously already planning outfits for me? Whatever she was going to lose. Also just pepperoni? Bleh, how terribly plain of her.

“What was that look?” Rarity asked.

“What look?” I asked back. I was pretty sure I kept my face neutral.

“It was subtle, but you had this ‘ugh’ look.”

“What? I.. okay fine pepperoni? It’s your pizza, so eat what you want, I just find that a bit plain for my tastes is all.”

“Plain? How so?”

“Well I mean, it’s the base ingredients, and then the one meat. I know it’s popular, but I always found it so boring. The only thing worse is a plain cheese pizza.”

“Um, that’s what I’m getting.” Sunset said, raising her hand.

“Really?” I sighed. “But that’s not even a real pizza! It’s the bases for a pizza just without actually making one!”

“Well regardless, it’s what I want. It’s my pizza right?”

“Well yeah, but I mean just cheese? At least pepperoni is some sort of topping!”

“Yeah, I don’t eat meat.” Sunset said. I was about to ask why, when the reason kinda hit me. Right, former pony. Well now I kinda felt like a jerk.

“O-Oh right, sorry.” She shrugged.

“I’ve gotten use to it being a thing in this world, I just won’t eat it myself. Anyway what about your pizza?”

“Yes miss pizza queen, what will thy majesty have?” Rarity mocked, giving an over exaggerated bow as she spoke. Puffing up my chest, which made my breasts stand out far more than I intended, I answered with as much dignity as I could muster.

“Easy, I want italian sausage, with spicy italian sausage, and pineapple.” Rarity nearly gagged, while Sunset just made a face.

“Really deary? Pineapple?”

“What’s wrong with pineapple!?”

“Well nothing inherently, but on a pizza?”

“Yeah, you criticize our pizzas and then order that?”

“Bah! I can’t help having good taste!” I said, twirling around and strutting out of the kitchen.

“If you say so darling.”

“Well that was rather girly.” I heard Sunset say in a low voice, but not low enough for me to miss it.

“We’re sure he wasn’t always a teenage girl?” Rarity shot back.

“Well, we’ll find out when you play dress up with her tomorrow.”

“I heard all that!” I shouted back at them. “I’m not going to lose at eating a pizza!” I could hear them giggle in response. Bah, I’d show them. I use to be able to eat a large pizza back when I was a teenager the first time. A small shouldn’t be any problem at all.

Shoving thoughts of the bet and Pinkie promise aside, I attempted to locate my box of movies. It wasn’t like I had a ton of boxes, but there were enough that it was taking far longer than I hoped. After about fifteen minutes of searching, both Rarity and Sunset joined me. So many boxes had been left unpacked. Many of my cloths and even dishware were still boxed up. Admittedly I hadn’t really been all that eager to get around to unpacking all this, as if by keeping them in storage I wasn’t really moving into this place. Like, by not moving in made it seem that the last few months never happened.

If only...

Eventually we found the box we sought, that I thankfully had also packed the blu-ray player in. However, we still had the issue of the TV not having a stand. After a few moments debating it, we decided to simply use the box the TV came in as a table, and propped everything up on some sturdy boxes, making sure no corners would collapse like earlier. Thanks to the styrofoam, and some stuffed in clothing, the TV box was sturdy enough to support the massive television itself. Man, seeing this thing set up now was rather exciting. The sucker was huge! I should have done this weeks ago.

“Okay, so what should we watch?” Sunset asked, looking through my stuff. “All I’m seeing are cartoons in here. Don’t you have anything else?”

“Oh yeah, sorry the other movies are further down.”

“Of course they are.” Sunset grumbled as she began to set random cases to the side, both Rarity and I helping. After a few moments of digging Sunset’s eyes lit up.

“Hey! You have Teacher’s lounge? This is a classic! Aliens take over the faculty of a school, and slowly start to infect the place, making all the students into zombie slaves.” She spared a glance at Rarity. “Er, I swear I hadn’t seen this before my uh, crown thing plan.”

“Uh, well…” My eyes shifted toward the window. It was already getting dark outside. It’d just be the three of us here. Young teen girls, in nighties, all alone. S-surely there was nothing to worry about. I mean yeah that sounded like every horror movie ever, but this was real life! Nothing weird like that happened in real life! L-Like mind controlling students, or siren creatures roaming the town, or people being randomly gender swapped and age regressed...

“Oh wow! The Bitterness!” Sunset exclaimed pulling another movie from the box. I forgot I even had a copy of that. I think I got it in a bundle at some yard sale. “I’ve wanted to see this! It’s about this woman who is killed by her husband, and her bitterness curses the house, causing her ghost to kill off this new family that moves in!”

CRACK! Both Sunset and Rarity jumped at the sudden sound, before staring directly at me. What? What did I do?

“Uh Morning?” Sunset asked, gesturing toward my hands. Looking down, I saw I was holding two halves of a dvd, my knuckles white from gripping them.

“O-Oh, I guess I need a new copy of this…”

“Er, deary, perhaps a horror movie wouldn’t be the best right now. Why not a comedy instead?” Rarity, if it wouldn’t be so weird, I’d kiss you!

“Uh, right comedy. Um… huh Enchantment? About a princess that gets stuck in our world by an evil queen. Does the director of this know about the Equestria portal?”

“Oh I love that movie!” Rarity practically shouted. “The outfits the princess makes are dazzling! I mean she makes one out of a curtain! Oops, I suppose that’s a spoiler.” Sunset shrugged.

“Eh, I’ll give it a shot if Morning wants to watch it.” I quickly nodded my head. It was better than the last two options, and I had been meaning to see it again.

“Well, Enchantment it is then.” She moved over to the TV. “I know the pizza will be here soon, but do you have popcorn?” Sadly I shook my head.

“No, sorry I haven’t really had the budget for snack foods. I do have a hot air popcorn popper though!” I looked over the many cardboard squares. “In one of these boxes.”

“Ugh, it could take us all night to find it. How about I go get us some microwave popcorn from a store? Shouldn’t take me that long.” I tapped my index fingers together sheepishly.

“I uh, don’t have a microwave.” Both balked. Rarity was the first to comment.

“You have a seventy inch television but not a microwave!?”

“It was a gift!”

“And yet you also have a hot air popcorn popper?”

“It was really cheap…” I said in a near pout. Both girl’s sighed.

“Maybe stove pop popcorn?” I suggested. Rarity raised an eyebrow.

“Does your stove work?”

“Of course it works!”

“Nothing personal dear, it’s just at this point it wouldn’t have surprised me.”

“Ugh forget it!” Sunset cried, “I don’t even know if the nearby stores sell the stove top stuff. We’ll just make do without.” She finished setting up the movie, making sure everything was working before she headed to the bathroom to put on her own nightie. Part of me was eagerly awaiting to see what she looked like in it.

I still felt kind of dirty for thoughts like that, but well I was a male deep down. I couldn’t do anything in this body so why worry about it. Unless they were lesbians…

No! Bad brain!

Knock Knock. A visitor? At this hour? Oh right the pizzas.

“Hey Rarity, who’s paying for these anyway?” I asked as I headed toward the door.

“Oh, I’ve got it deary, let me get my purse- Morning wait!” Wait? What for? The delivery guy was here, and I bet it was cold out. He likely just wanted to finish this delievery and go home. Opening the door, I was met by a guy who was maybe just a few years older than Rarity or Sunset. In his arms was the bag containing our dinner. The moment the door finished opening, I felt the icy blast of air blow against my body. Man! It was freezing tonight! It certainly didn’t help matters that I was wearing… a nightie...

I was standing half naked in front of a boy very close to the age I had become. To make matters worse, I was now a girl. Likely a very pretty girl in his eyes. Slowly looking up at his face, I could see the healthy blush.

“Um, p-pizza ma’am.” At least I think that’s what he said, my mind was too busy trying to process what I just did.

“Ma’am?” He repeated looking worried.

“YES!” I squeaked suddenly, causing him to jump back. I wasn’t even aware my new voice could reach octaves this high. “Rarity! Money!” I said pointing to her, then to him. As she walked up to pay the guy, I made haste to the living room, hiding behind the couch.

“So terribly sorry about that deary, she’s just very shy.” I could hear Rarity say from the front door. Then, as her tone shifted to a more flirtatious one. “Thank you sooo much for bringing these. Here’s a little tip for your trouble. Take care now!” The door closed, and after a few minutes I actually heard the car drive off. Funny how I hadn’t heard it approach. Shortly after Rarity leaned beside me.

“Morning Rain?” She placed a hand on my shoulder. “Darling? Are you okay?”

“He, he saw me.” I said with a shudder. “He saw me like this!”

“Yes darling he did. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to warn you quickly enough.” She rubbed my shoulder, trying to sooth me. “He’s gone now though.”

“I know it’s just. He blushed when he saw me. I mean I knew boys might find this body attractive but I wasn’t ready to see it happen!”

“I know deary, but it’s not really that big a deal. He saw me in my nightie as well after all.”

“Yeah but you’re use to being pretty!” I cried, I think she blushed.

“What’s all the commotion?” Sunset asked, walking back into the room. I looked up long enough to see that she had indeed dressed into the matching orange nightie, but I was too distressed to enjoy the sight.

“Morning accidently answered the door for the pizza guy as she is.” Sunset flinched.

“Ouch, you okay Morning?”

“I want to die.” I couldn’t see their faces since I just buried my own in my hands, but I had a feeling they were rolling their eyes at me.

“Really Morning, you’re blowing this out of proportion. I bet he hardly even noticed.”

“Actually if I saw correctly, a certain bulge proves otherwise.”

“Really? Damn. Well she is a cute one.”

“Not helping! YOU BOTH AREN’T HELPING!” I screamed wanting to choke them.

“Sorry! Sorry!” Rarity said quickly, standing up and picking the pizzas up off the couch. “Look the pizza’s are here now, and I’m sure you’re hungry, so why don’t we just watch the movie and eat? Forget all about today?”

“Yeah, come on, join us on the couch. You can’t tell me you never dreamed of having two cute girls in nighties sitting next to you.” Sunset said, giving me a playful wink. I groaned.

“That sounds so wrong on so many levels. I’m your teacher for crying out loud! I’m like twice your ages!”

“Oh? You look like just another teenager to me.” She said sitting on the couch, and opening her pizza box. “Come on, you don’t have to be one of the girls, but just be one of the teens for a couple of hours.”

“I agree deary, just relax a bit and go with the flow.” It was Rarity’s turn to wink. “Besides, don’t you have a pizza bet to show us up on?”

Yeah, yeah the pizza bet! She’s right! Screw all this, I had pizza and a bet to win. I wasn’t going to be beaten by this! I was going to show the world that despite all it threw at me I could still come out on top of it! Ignoring what just happened, I stood up.

“Let me at that pizza!” I exclaimed, earning a cheer from them both. “Time to show you just how much of a man I still am!”

* *

“T-this can’t be happening! It’s impossible!” I cried staring at the plate before me.

“I told you it was a stupid idea Morning, next time listen to me.” Sunset said, placing her hand on my left shoulder.

“A promise is a promise deary, and no one ever breaks a Pinkie promise.” Rarity added, placing her hand on my other shoulder. Crestfallen I simply stared at the three slices left. It had started out so well. I had scarfed down three of the eight slices like they were nothing, the delicious cheese sliding down my throat, the toppings exploding with flavor upon my tongue. However, halfway through my fourth slice, I felt my stomach begin to lose interest

Baffled, I kept eating, so sure it was just a fluke. No way it was giving out now! However after forcing the fifth slice down, my body had had enough. I had gotten maybe a bit out of the sixth piece when I began to feel the need to barf. Staring at the leftovers, there was just no way I was going to do this. I wasn’t going to risk throwing up all night just for a bet. Even if the consequences were as they were.

“I-I never said all in one night?” I asked timidly.

“Sorry darling, but a bet is a bet, and a Pinkie promise is as it is. I’m afraid you lost.” Damn it, it was worth a shot.

“Maybe I only put on the number of outfits I had slices left?” Also worth a shot.

“Nope,” Sunset said crossing her arms. “You made your bed, now you’re gonna have to lie in it.”

“Fiiiiiiine.” I said slumping down. I can’t believe I failed at this. It was just one pizza. A small one at that!

“I don’t get it! I use to eat large pizzas by myself when I was a teen. This should be a cakewalk!”

“It’s because of your body type.” Sunset answered, causing me to give her a confused look.

“From what I hear, Pinkie is like us and she could do it! Hell I bet Rainbow Dash could do it too!”

“That’s because Rainbow Dash is an athlete. They burn off more calories than we do and have to eat more to compensate.”

“As for Pinkie.” Rarity shrugged. “Honestly her entire existence is an enigma. It’s best not to try for an explanation.”

“So how does all this relate to my body type?”

“Well neither Rarity nor I are really as active as Rainbow Dash is, and neither of us could eat a full small pizza-”

“-so we figured you couldn’t either darling.” Rarity finished while giving me a smile. “Cheer up deary, why I bet once you get into the swing of things tomorrow you might even enjoy yourself!” I scoffed.

“Oh yes, enjoy being used as a grown up doll.” I groaned. “Whatever, I’ll deal with this tomorrow. Going back to the whole, ‘making beds and laying in them’ I think it’s time to sleep. I’ve had enough of today.”

“Agreed.” Sunset said, turning off the TV. “I think I speak for all three of us when I say there’s been enough excitement for one day.”

“I concur completely. I just hope Twilight can give us some insight on how to fix all this and soon.” Rarity’s smiled slyly. “Though maybe not till after the shopping trip tomorrow.” I decided to ignore that part.

“So which one is your guest room?” Sunset asked, taking the leftovers to the fridge.

“Uh, about that…” I said, my thoughts once more drifting to just how big and empty this house seemed. “I was wondering if you minded sharing a room?”

“I do hope you aren’t suggesting something impure.” Rarity said with a scowl, I waved my hands in a frantic motion.

“No! Of course not! I just don’t want to be alone!”

“Still frightened by earlier?” Sunset asked with concern. I barely was able to nod in response. Truth be told, I was still terrified of someone breaking in. Despite all that had happened tonight, being able to joke and laugh with these too had really helped. Just having them close was enough to make me feel safe.

“Well why didn’t you say so darling?” Rarity beamed, her expression doing a one eighty. “Go ahead and clear some room, and I’ll get the sleeping bags.”

I don’t remember much of what happened next. Even with my little nap earlier, I was increasingly feeling exhaustion pulling me down. I vaguely recall clearing a space on the floor in my room for two sleeping bags, before I crawled into bed and passed out. My last thoughts being about the rollercoaster ride today had become. I was turned into a girl, got to feel my first breasts, ignoring the fact they were mine, ended up dressed in a nightie, set up my TV, watched a great movie with great company, and even embarrassed the crap out of myself when I answered the door earlier. So many things I’d never dreamed I’d do, and I still had the day off tomorrow to look forward to!

Indeed, tomorrow was another day!

Now if I could only shake this sinking feeling it was going to be worse.

Author's Note

I finished up editing faster then I thought I would.

Ahem, so yes looks like Morning has gotten herself into quite the predicament tomorrow with her little bet.

Want to have your OC, or a character cameo during the shopping trip?

Well here's how! I'm going to try having a bit of fun here, so go back and read chapter 2 again. There is a total of NINE quotations. As in stuff in these "" brackets. Nine of these in a row consist of dialogue pulled directly from my favorite movie of all time. Every line is the same except ONE word is changed to another word to make it fit in the story. (This one word may or may not be repeated in the quotes)

The first person who can tell me what movie the dialogue is from, wins and I'll put their character in the next chapter!

(Here's a hint: It's an animated movie.)

Now on to the chapter itself. I want to point out that yes Morning doesn't like tomatoes, but likes tomato sauce. They do NOT taste the same. Neither does ketchup and tomatoes.

The movies mentioned in this fic are parody's of real movies. Since this is a fanfic I could have used the actual titles, but this was more fun. ^_^ Can you guess what movies they are parodying?

As always, post what you want to see in the comments. Heck, she's about to play dress up, so if there is an outfit/costume you want her put in, by all means, suggest away!

Omake #1

“So as you can all see,” I said while writing various phrases on the huge dry erase board in my classroom, “it is far better to show what happens when writing a story, then to just tell me.”

“You mean show not tell right?” Sunset asked. Though wearing a smile, I tsked her gently.

“Now Sunset we know we’re supposed to raise our hand before we ask a question.” I almost felt bad for her given how embarrassed she looked. Still good student or not I couldn’t treat her differently.

“Sorry Mr. Evening.” She said while raising her hand. I laughed it off.

“No worries, just remember for next time. Now keeping the hand raising thing in mind, anymore questions?” I was surprised at how well everyone was listening to me today. An entire class taking notes and eagerly hanging onto my every word! I must be doing an alright job of being a teacher after all! As I stood there looking them over, the hand of a boy in the front row shot up. Was he in my class? Confused, but eager to teach, I pointed at him.

“Yes? You have a question?” Now that I took a look at him, I swear he looked familiar. Had I met him before? I thought I knew all my students? Well, sure I didn’t know everyone by name and face, but he was in the front row! Also what was he wearing? It looked like a uniform with that visor of his. He was even wearing a nametag.

“Yes,” The boy exclaimed, apparently eager to hear my answer. “Do you have a boyfriend yet?” I blinked.

“E-excuse me?” To say I was taken aback was an understatement. Why would he ask that? In the middle of class no less! Wait no, not just that, but a boyfriend? I didn’t have a problem with such things of course, but I also didn’t swing that way personally.

“Sir I’ll have to ask that you refrain from asking inappropriate questions during class.” I replied as sternly as I could. Thankfully, he appeared to realized his blunder as he began to rub the back of his neck with a nervous posture.

“S-sorry, guess I should have waited till after class to ask you out.” I nodded.

“That’s right, you should ha- what?” I heard that wrong right? I had to.

“You’re joking right? I’m twice your age!” I shot back, feeling flustered. Damn it! What was wrong with me? If I kept acting like this, he’d get the wrong impression. As I was about to continue trying to explain to him why it wouldn’t work out, I saw Sunset once more raise her hand, now looking confused. Without thinking, I pointed at her.

“Twice his age?” She asked, tilting her head. “Morning you’re only fifteen!” Fifthteen? Is she crazy? There is no way I could pass for a fifteen year old! And who is this Morning person? That’s not my name, clearly it’s Morning Rain! Wait, that’s not right. That’s a girl’s name, I wouldn’t have a girl’s name! I meant to say I’m Morning! No! W-why can’t I remember my real name? Also, why are my legs so cold?

Looking down, I froze. This isn’t the body of a grown up man! It’s the body of a teenage girl! Worse yet, I’m still wearing that blue nightie I put on earlier! Petrified, I barely manage to look up at the classroom. The room full of nothing but males stare back at me. H-Hadn’t there been girls in this glass? Where did they go? With a chill I began to realize just how these guys were looking at me as well. A wolf longing for steak came terribly to mind.

“Yeah,” the boy from earlier said, standing up from his chair, “you’re only a year younger than me. That’s why I asked if you had a boyfriend.” He smiled as he got closer to me, my own body instinctively backing away till I felt myself reach the wall. Panicked I looked around for an exit, yet where once were walls now seemed like endless rows of desks and students.

“Because if you’re single, I’d really like it if we could go out.” He continued while kneeling down before me. Wait! Now I recognized why he looked familiar! It was that pizza delivery guy! As if my recognizing him triggered it, I watched as his clothing began to glow, changing from his work uniform into a suit of shiny silver armor, complete with cape.

“If it would please thy fair maiden.” He stated while reaching out and taking my hand. “I would be honored if you would become my wife.”

“You want me to WHAT!?” I screamed, feeling as if something was squeezing my heart. Not to be discouraged, he moved my hand to his lips, giving it a soft kiss. This isn’t happening! I screamed over and over in my mind. This was NOT happening!

“Well DUH of course she does!” Pinkie yelled suddenly from my left, causing me to jump. Despite the situation, I was momentarily distracted by her getup. I mean, she looked like Pinkie, except she was wearing a striped purple outfit, and had… cat ears and a tail!? She smiled at me with a wide and eerie grin before continuing to speak: “That way we get to throw a super duper WEDDING PARTY!”

“WHAT!?” I screamed what was quickly becoming my favorite word of the day.

“No time for questions!” Sunset yelled, appearing on my right. I did a double take upon seeing her. Instead of her normal outfit from just five minutes ago, she was now in what I could only describe as a set of white bunny rabbit pajama, complete with the ears. In fact they even twitched and wobbled as she sat there staring at her now golden phone. “You’re late! You’re late for your very important date!”

Sure enough she turned the phone toward me with had a clock with the large hand on the word ‘You’re’ and the small hand on the word ‘late!’

“Late? What? Huh?” I stammered, trying to make sense of all this. Before I knew it, we were alone with her dragging me by the arm through various rooms and corridors.

“What’s going on?” I screamed as we sped around another corner. “Where did the pizza guy go?”

“Don’t worry about your beloved!” Sunset replied, flashing me a smile. “He’s waiting for you already! So hurry up! You’re late! So very very late!”

“Late!? Late for what?” I screamed back, trying in vain to slow us down. “Why are you dressed as a rabbit?” Instead of answering, she pointed to my left, allowing me to notice my reflection in a row of mirrors. I was no longer in my nightie, but now sported a blue dress with what appeared to be a white apron over it. A single black bow tied upon my head.

“Why am I dressed like this! I look ridiculous!” I shouted as she dragged me into a nearby room, before finally stopping. As I stood there trying to get my bearings and catch my breath, I found that the room we had entered was not a classroom, but instead a large church, all my students sitting on both sides of the middle aisle. Still stunned, I stared at them. Each and every one of them having become a large white rectangle with various symbols upon them. Were… were those giant playing card costumes?

“There you are darling! How dare you keep us all waiting!” Rarity cried as she rushed toward me. Once again I could only stare in exasperation at the insanity before my eyes. It was Rarity all right, except she was wearing a large crown upon her head that was topped with the largest heart shaped ruby I had ever seen. It matched the dress she had on perfectly, which happened to be a large red gown, decorated with endless pink hearts. She even had a scepter in her hand that had a heart shaped ornament at it’s end.

“R-rarity?” I croaked. “What’s with that outfit!?”

“What’s with my outfit? Deary what’s with your outfit! That’s hardly befitting for the situation. Now rise my minions! OFF WITH HER DRESS!”

The moment those words left her lips, the students closest to me lept from their seats and grabbed my arms and legs as they went to work tearing the blue dress off my body. Frightened, I tried to scream, but no sound would come out of my mouth. Instead my body went numb as I saw them begin to dress me in a new garment. For a moment I could see only white. When I was able to move again, I could feel something big and heavy draped upon my body.

“There! Oh darling you look positively marvelous!” Rarity said holding up a hand mirror. W-what the hell!? The outfit they had put me in was the largest white dress with more frills and ribbons then I had ever seen in my life. Next a veil was placed over my head, blocking my vision. Without a moment of rest, I found myself walking down the aisle, being hurried along by both Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna.

“I’m so very happy for you!” Luna cried while wiping a tear from her eye.

“I hope you find great happiness with each other!” Celestia added with a warm smile. “And don’t worry, take as much time off as you need to celebrate!” She winked. I was quickly not liking where this was going.

“Celebrate what? What’s going on! Let me go!” I cried, a bouquet thrust into my arms. Why couldn’t I stop moving to where they were leading me!? I didn’t want this! I-I couldn’t be doing what I think I was!

“Congratulations!” Sunset said to my right, clapping her hands.

“Congratulations!” Pinkie repeated to my left, before throwing confetti at me. One by one each and every student in my class appeared to one side of me, all clapping their hands while congratulating me. Their clothing now fancy dresses or suits. Desperately hoping to find someone in the crowd that could help me, I passed by Rarity, still in her weird heart get up, who simply smiled while pointing her scepter at me.

“OFF TO BE WED! OFF TO BE WED!” She shouted. My heart sank at those words.

“W-wed!? B-but I’m not-” Stunned I finally saw what lay before me, and the front of the church. There stood the pizza delivery guy decked out in a full tuxedo. He smiled at me though his face was now hidden behind a white mask. For some strange reason he was wearing a top hat upon his head as well. Horrified, I noticed that I was no longer being led by anyone. Instead I was now walking on my own. My legs betraying my pleas for them to turn and run.

I barely noticed Pinkie playing a strange tune on a guitar as the the delivery guy produced a single red rose, holding it out to me.

“My dearest Morning Rain, I can not wait for you to be my Alice for all eternity!”

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” I screamed, suddenly sitting bolt upright on a bed. W-what was going on? Where did all the students go? Where was the pizza guy? Oh god was this after it? I was in a rather large bed… No! NO!

I had to get out of here! I had to get out of here!

“Darling whatever is the matter?” Someone asked as a face popped into view to my left. The top of their head was huge and bright red, while two large green yet dull lifeless eyes stared at me, each one dotted with multiple black spots.

“EEEEEEEEEEEK!” I screeched, grabbing my pillow and giving the thing a good solid whack.

“ACK!” It screamed being thrown sideways as it’s eyes popped off of it’s head. Monster! I had to get out of here before it tried to eat my brain, or force me to get married!

“Morning! Morning!” Sunset was screaming from my right. Still gripping my pillow I spun around to face her, ready to smack her if it turned out to be another alien trying to catch me off guard. Instead all I saw was a very worried teenage girl in the same orange nightie she had gone to bed in.

“What’s wrong? What happened?” She cried, slowly reaching out to me. Confused I put down my pillow. Sunset? That’s right, she was sleeping in my room because I didn’t want to be alone. Wait, wasn’t Rarity in here as well? As if on cue, she popped up on my left, looking like something had impacted with her face.

“What was that for!?” She screamed rubbing her eyes with an arm as she fiddled with fixing the red towel wrapped around her hair.

“R-rarity?” I asked shaken.

“Of course it’s me deary, who else would I be?” Still rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she picked up what appeared to be two cucumber slices. “Now will you mind telling me what I did to deserve a pillow to the face?”

With a groan, I began to realize the ‘red skull’ was just the towel, and the eyes were obviously the cucumber slices. I had just assaulted Rarity for no other reason then I had a bad dream...

“S-sorry, I just…” My voice caught.

“Morning?” Sunset once again. “Did… did you have a nightmare?”

“M-Maybe…” I muttered, hugging my knees again. How pathetic. A grown man having a nightmare.

“Oh darling, now I understand.” Rarity said, placing her hand on my arm. I flinched but didn’t move away. My knees becoming wet. Was...was I crying? What the hell body?!

“Shhh, shhh It’s okay.” Sunset added, placing her own hand on my other shoulder. I-It was nice actually. Both of them sitting there comforting me. If only the part of feeling my boobs being squished could just be a nightmare as well.

That dream was a nightmare right? That feeling when I saw myself in that dress… no it was only a dream. Just a stupid dream.

“Do you want to talk about it?” I don’t know which one of them asked that, but I shook my head. Talking about that, was the last thing I wanted to do right now. Taking a peek at my clock I saw it now read nearly three am in the morning. I couldn’t let this affect my day tomorrow, though now I was ever so grateful to have it off.

“I-I’ll be okay. It’s late, we should get to sleep for… what we need to do tomorrow.” I could still feel myself shivering despite my protests. Great, at this rate I wasn’t going to get any sleep at all. Ugh, I’m such an idiot for letting it bother me this much!

Creak! Startled, I looked up as my bed shifted to see Sunset getting under the covers next to me. Immediately my face went red.

“S-sunset! What are you doing!?” I hissed as I tried to move away. Unfortunately my legs were still too numb from sleep to allow me to get very far.

“L-Look don’t go thinking dirty thoughts okay?” She said, as she settled in next to me. “I-It’s just my mom use to sleep with me when I had a nightmare, s-so I thought maybe…”

“Seriously darling?” Rarity asked, seeming to share my mind frame. “Don’t you think we are a bit old for that?” Now it was Sunset’s turn to blush.

“I-I know, but Morning is dealing with being a new age, and sex so… well I don’t know how else to help!”

“S-Sunset it’s fine really!” I said, trying and failing to keep my voice level. “I-I’m sure I’ll be f-fine…”

I had just enough time to hear Rarity sigh loudly before she too began to get into my bed from her side.

“Rarity!” I squeaked, only to be met with a no nonsense gaze from her.

“Morning you are clearly distraught by whatever dream you just had, and I’ll not be the only one to sleep on the floor when you two get a nice big comfy bed…” She said while running her hand over the mattress. “Why do you have such a large bed anyway?” I flinched again. That was another taboo topic right now for me.

“M-My parents didn’t need it anymore…” Please don’t ask why, I thought desperately. Thankfully though she gave me a look, neither her, nor Sunset pursued that line of questioning.

“Well regardless, I’ll be sleeping with you as well. For support purposes only you understand.” She crossed her arms at that. “I feel one adventurous hand, and you can bet you’ll get quite the slap!” Horrified I shook my head.

“I-I’d never do that! Ever!” I protested, before the situation caught back up with me. “Hey wait! You can’t just get in my bed! I’m your teacher! I can’t be in bed with my students!”

“Morning…” Sunset said, once more placing her hand on my shoulder. She waited until I was facing her before continuing. “We trust you. We know you’d never take advantage of this, and that’s why we are doing this. To show you can trust us. Right Rarity?”

“Indeed.” She replied also gripping my shoulder again. “Look darling, it’s very clear whatever dream you had was a doozy, and while I do find this a bit… silly perhaps, Sunset does have a point. After having a nightmare, my mother use to sleep in the same bed with me as well when I was a child.” I must have made a face when she said ‘child’ because she quickly waved her hand at me.

“Now now deary. Don’t go thinking I’m insulting you. I was just giving an example. You’ve been through a lot today. Let us try to ease your mind at the very least.”

“I-If you really find it inappropriate, we’ll leave the bed if you really want…” Sunset trailed off, letting me consider the offer. I was about immediately decline this, but the thought of them leaving me alone on the bed actually caused me to hesitate. Stunned I just sat here. This wasn’t seriously what had become of me right? I wasn’t seriously considering the silly idea of sharing a bed with them, because having them close really did make that big a difference.

Taking a good long look at both Sunset and Rarity. I had to submit. Yes, yes I did feel that way. Right now I felt small, and scared. Would it really be so harmful to just admit it? Anyone in my situation would feel the same, wouldn’t they? I-I just wanted to be close to someone right now. I just wanted someone to hug me and tell me it was all going to be alright. It was okay to have just that right?

Again I could feel the tears dripping from my eyes onto the blanket. As if they could read my thoughts, I felt their arms wrap around me. How strange this all was. Did they even see me as Evening Storm anymore? Then again, right now, did that really matter? I was still me where it counted right? I had endured so much since… since that time four months ago. I deserved a break. I could deal with all this in the morning.

“T-thank you.” I whispered. Neither of them answered. Instead they just continued to hug me for as long as I needed, until I finally drifted back to sleep. This time I was quite positive there wouldn’t be anymore nightmares.

Still, one final thing did enter my mind as I lay there. The remains of that movie I had accidently snapped in half earlier in the night. Before the last of my consciousness left me, I made a vow for when I woke up the next morning.

I was going to take a hammer to the rest of that copy of Alice in Wonderland.

Author's Note

Have something short and silly while I work on a proper update.

Also, if memory serves correct. Omake basically means 'extra' in Japanese.