Raspberry Girl

Hi! As you already know, my name is Layla Hearts. I attend Miss Peony's Academy for Wayward Unicorn Fillies and all of my best friends are pegasi. My mane is longer than my short body. I enchanted it so that it would be unable to get dirty at the bottom because of how much I dragged it. My Mommy's always tellin me to get it cut, but the enchantment I did put me out for school for a week because I used so much magical energy!

I'm going to talk about my friends now. Remember how I mention that they were all pegasi? Wonder why? Okay. All of the unicorns fillies at my school are always tripping me with my mane! Luckily, my manestyle is fluffy curls placed everywhere, so I fell into a raspberry smelling cushion. Oh! Still need to talk about my pegasi friends!

My first friend ever is Soarin. He has a tendency to ask stupid questions, but I don't mind. He says that he wants to become a Wonderbolt, and I always say that I'll see him at his school, The Academy of Flight. We both have to wear uniforms! Well, at his school, you can choose what color, but at mine, we have to wear raspberry colored ones! Take that Sunshine Glimmer! Anyway, Soarin always replies that I can't fly, but I always say that I'm working on a spell. We do that a lot. He also likes eating apple pie. Whenever he and my other friends come down to the ground, he always goes over to Sweet Apple Acres for pie! It's hilarious seeing him eat.

My second friend is Thunderlane. He's cute! Er..... I mean he's not bad looking........ Ugh! I have a huge crush on him! His coal black coat and mint green/blue mane contrast perfectly. His golden eyes are so pretty..... Thunderlane is Soarin's friend at The Academy of Flight, and is that one kid that seems unpopular, but is at the top of the social charts. He's always with two twins named Flitter and Cloudchaser. Flitter must've came out first, because we somepony refers to both of them, they say Flitter and Cloudchaser. He sometimes looks at me when I'm not looking at him, and actually offered to get a cloud walking spell and fly me up to the Academy! He said it'll take a while to get a spellbook with the spell in it, but he's noble like that.

My third and fourth friends are Flitter and Cloudchaser. They're fraternal twins, meaning that even though they are twins, they don't look the same. They like Thunderlane, so we usually get into arguments about it. We argue a lot! Our friendship works though. Flitter is fascinated with unicorn magic, and Cloudchaser is an adrenaline junkie, so she and her twin always allow me to practiced harmless spells on them. They also like the fact that I do many spell demonstrations, so they get out of The Academy a lot, but in return they give me baskets of raspberries! Yum!

My fifth friend is Spitfire. She comes down to the ground the least. She's Soarin's best friend, right after me. She's intense if you don't know her well. She actually likes puppies and hugs. She's really warm. Like, really warm. She's like a fi- Oh! What still amazes me about her is that she spends winter without anything to keep her warm! She, like Flitter, is also interested with unicorn magic. She's at the top of the class at The Academy, and has 'Drill Sargent Spitty' mode, in which she starts barking orders at everypony. See? Natural born leader, but a really short fuse. Be glad I've never ticked her off! I still wonder what happened to Air Current after she made Spitfire mad?

See, me and my friends have a signal for when we want to hang out. Well, I live near the floating academy, almost a straight shot down, so my friends always are coming down on Saturdays and Sundays. We hung out on Mondays 80% of the time to brood about our days. We never hung out on Tuesdays because I have Filly Scouts. We always met up on Wednesdays. We never hung out on Thursdays, but we partied hard on Fridays! We are very good friends because if one of us is sick or can't make it, we wait for them to get better or visit them. Let me tell you the story of how we met.

Five pegasi foals by the names of Soarin, Spitfire, Thunderlane, Flitter, and Cloudchaser sat at the edge of The Academy of Flight.

Soarin was wearing a cyan blazer, light powder blue pants and a green bow tie, along with black shoes with white socks. Spitfire wore an orange blazer and a red skirt, a yellow tie, and light red shoes with orange socks. Thunderlane wore a mint green blazer, light gray pants, white socks, black shoes, and a golden bow tie. Flitter wore a pink blazer with an equally as pink skirt, purple socks, pink shoes, and a purple bow tie. Cloudchaser wore a purple blazer, a equally as purple skirt, pink socks, purple shoes, and a pink bow tie.

"You sure we should do this?" Thunderlane asked. School had just let out. Cloudchaser playfully pushed him.

"Yes! No risk, no reward!" Cloudchaser declared. That did little to ease Thunderlane's nerves.

"What if we get caught? What would be the reward?"

"Touching grass! Duh!"

"Listen CC," Flitter started. "Thunderlane's just nervous. We're Cloudsdale born and raised. Going somewhere new....." Flitter trailed off as she looked at the long drop.

Soarin was practically bursting. "Let's go! I think I see a unicorn!"

Indeed a unicorn was trotting along a path. That unicorn was Layla, angrily holding an apple in her magic while stomping.

"I see her too! Let's go!" Cloudchaser jumped off of the cloud and spread her wings. The other followed her.

"INCOMMING!" A shrill voice screamed. Just as Layla was about to get the key to open her house, two colts and three fillies landed.

"Wow!" Flitter said. "A real live unicorn!" Layla was taken aback by that statement.

"What do you mean, 'A real live unicorn'? Haven't you seen one?" Layla then noticed their uniforms.

"Oh!" Layla smiled. "You must be from Cloudsdale. Never been in the ground before?"

"No." Spitfire said. "An adrenaline junkie over here," she pointed to Cloudchaser, "wanted to see the ground because of the strange filly walking."

"Spitty!" Cloudchaser exclaimed. "How could you!"

"Your words, not mine." Spitfire replied. Cloudchaser gave up.

click!

"Ya comin' inside or what?" Layla asked from the doorway. They filed inside.

Layla's home smelled like raspberries, and all of the furniture was different shades of blue. Many pictures hung from the wall, the biggest of Layla, her mother, and her father smiling.

"Stop staring and move it!" Layla playfully called. The group of five snapped out of it and were lead to a living room. They each took a seat.

"Tell me your names," Layla said as she took a seat herself. "Starting with Mister Mix-Match," She was pointing to Thunderlane, who was getting nervous.

"H-Hi," He stammered. "I'm T-Thunderlane. N-Nice to meet you!" The rest was a squeak. Layla giggled a little.

"Next!" She said, pointing to Soarin. Soarin smiled a a goofy smile.

"Sup! I'm Soarin and Ilike Apple pie!" Layla laughed as she pointed to Flitter.

"I'm Flitter and I'm interested in unicorn magic!"

"I'm Cloudchaser and Flitter's my twin sister!"

"I'm Spitfire and I'm allergic to Raspberries." Spitfire said plainly.

"Oh," Layla sounded a little down, but perked back up. "I'm Layla and my dad is a raspberry farmer and my mom is a baker!" Layla smiled.

"Now tell me about flying......." Layla began.

And the rest went down in history.

Yup! My friends are great. I love them a lot. Thunderlane's nerves are gone now, and Spitfire's now as hard as nails. Yes. We are an odd bunch, but we work.

We work great.