I am Normal

Sparkling Stream walked towards school, like any other day. She waved goodbye to her mother as she walked into the small building. She sat down in the back where she normally sat. She brushed her hair out of her left eye. Now, for the most part, Streamy was "normal". With one exception. Her left eye was completely blind. Her right eye saw everything, which was quite straining. Streamy wore a pair of large square glasses.

Streamy looked to her right as a mare she didn't recognize sat down next to her. She was a unicorn with a white coat, green eyes, and blue pigtails. She was wearing a blue cape on her back.

The mare must've noticed Streamy looking at her, because she turned and said,"O-Oh, hi."

"Hi.." The mint green pegasus said awkwardly, not meaning to start a conversation. Not wanting to say any more, she turned her head to the front of the classroom. She scowled as she saw her school's notorious bullies, Scarlett Storm and Peppermint Aqua. They were playing keepaway with the bag of Sandy Quartz, a classmate. She wanted to step in, but felt too scared to speak. Luckily, they stopped as their teacher, Silver Lining-whom the students called Ms. Silver- walked in.

"Good morning,class!" She said cheerfully. "Before we begin, I'd like to introduce a new student. Her name is Raindrop. Would you like to introduce yourself?"

"Okay.." The small unicorn stood up from her desk."My name is Raindrop. I came from Canterlot and.. um.. my.. parents wanted to get away from Canterlot. So I'm here."

The Class sat silently as she sat back down. "Alright!" Ms.Silver said. "We're glad to have you. Now let's begin our math lesson."

The hour and a half of the first class seemed to fly by. Streamy got up from her seat and walked out with all the other fillies. Streamy walked over to a few fillies playing jump rope.

"Hey Cosmos!" She said cheerfully "Hey Cookie Crush!'

"Hi Streamy!" Cookie Crush said. "Wanna join us?"

The young filly nodded. She held one end of the rope. Cookie Crush was jumping first. Just as the rope started to swing, Streamy saw Raindrop walking over. All three fillies turned around.

"H-hey." The white unicorn said. "Can I join?"

"Sure." Deep Cosmos said. "You can jump with Cookie Crush."

Raindrop and Cookie Crush started jumping. Raindrop fumbled a few times, but soon got the hang of it. About ten jumps in, Raindrop got distracted by yelling at the other end of the playground. She turned around. It was Scarlet and Peppermint. They were surrounding some filly. A few others were watching. Raindrop nearly tripped over the rope as she ran over.

"What are you doing?" Streamy called to her. She dropped the rope and ran after her. She didn't want the new girl to be hurt on her first day.

Scarlet and Peppermint were around a lavender earth pony with a black mane and crimson eyes. They were holding a piece of paper over her head.

"Want this, demon girl?" Scarlet teased. "Too bad!"

"What are you doing?" Raindrop said loudly. The fillies turned around.

"Why do you care, new girl?" Peppermint snarled. "It's none of your business."

"You shouldn't be teasing her." Raindrop said, getting closer to them.

"So?"Scarlett said."What are you gonna do if we don't stop?"

"You don't want to know." Raindrop hissed.

Scarlet smirked."What's that cape for?"

"Nothing!" Raindrop seemed defensive.

"Raindrop!"Streamy was finally able to push through the crowd.

"Huh?" Raindrop seemed confused. "What are you-"

"Oh great, Blindy's here." Peppermint jabbed. "This doesn't concern either of you two!"

"Leave that girl alone!" Raindrop spat, insistent.

" Fine." Scarlet said, dropping the paper in front of the lavender filly. "But we're coming for you two next. C'mon Peppermint." The blue pegasus followed Scarlet to another end of the playground. The crowd dispersed. The Lavender filly walked over to Raindrop and Streamy.

"Thanks." She said.

"It was nothing." Raindrop shrugged it off. "You just looked like you needed help. What's your name, by the way?"

"Um, Lavender." She said. "Lavender Blood." Streamy seemed really tense around Lavender.

"Nice."

The bell rang for the next period. All the fillies walked in. There were two teachers standing next to Ms.Silver. One was a blue pegasus with a deep blue mane and pink eyes. The other was a unicorn with a red coat, a black mane, and green eyes.

“This is Blue Moon, your flight teacher.” Ms.Silver said, gesturing to the pegasus. “And this is your magic teacher, Volcanic Flame. Earth ponies will be taught strength,speed and agriculture by me. Pegasi outside, Unicorns follow Mrs.Blaze. Earth ponies stay here.”

All the group's went their separate ways. Streamy waved goodbye to raindrop. She felt somepony shove her to the side. It was Peppermint. Streamy groaned as she walked through the door to go outside.

“Today we will start our flight pretest.” Blue Moon Started. “It's fine if you get a low score, but I want to see improvement when we take our mid test and post test. You will be going in alphabetical order. First is… Abacus Slide?”

Streamy watched as all the young pegasus flew with almost no struggle. She sighed as she looked at her own wings. Her blind eye was an extreme disadvantage when it came to flying. She could barely see where she was going and pay attention to flapping her wings.

“Peppermint Aqua?”

The light blue filly strutted up to the beginning of the course. She tore through the obstacles, faster than Streamy had ever seen a filly fly. Peppermint was done in a matter of a few minutes. Streamy was stunned. She had never seen Peppermint fly like that. She watched more fillies complete the course.

“Sparkling Stream?”

The mint coated pegasus almost jumped at hearing her name. She awkwardly stepped up to the front of her course. She took a deep breath and opened her blue tinted wings. She started flying. She got as high as possible and flew toward to get through the cloud busting course. She got through it, but very slowly. She went through the some more of the course like that. Then she suddenly felt herself falling. Her wings had just snapped to her sides. Soon she was laying on the grassy ground, confused and surrounded by ponies.

“Give her space!” A student shouted. The crowd backed up. Blue Moon stood in front of Streamy.

“Are you okay?” She said.

“Um, y-yeah.” Streamy said, slowly getting up. She pushed her glasses up as she shook her head to regain vision. Through the crowd of worried faces, she could see Peppermint Aqua smirking.

“Let’s go on to the next pony.” Blue Moon said as Streamy moved back into the crowd of pegasi. “Snowstorm?”