"Psst. Hey. Hey. Hey. Sunset. Hey." Flash whispered from across the aisle to his ex-girlfriend.
Sunset rolled her eyes. "What is it, Flash?" She whispered back.
"I was wondering if maybe you'd like to grab a coffee with me, or something?"
"No." ...Was Sunset's instant reply.
Flash just sorta stared at her for a minute, then bent his head back and wailed.
The teacher looking up over his half-moon glasses fixated his stare on Sunset Shimmer. "Having a nice time back there, Miss Shimmer?"
"Are you seriously blaming me for this?" Sunset asked. "Are you seriously blaming me for the things this idiot does?"
The teacher shrugged. "We all know that someone has to pay attention to him, or else he'll get into the scissors, or accidentally set the sinks on fire, or just plain mess things up. So yeah, this is pretty much your fault."
Flash seemed to find what the teacher had just said to be funny, and he laughed a little bit before returning to wailing.
Sunset Shimmer felt herself growl a little bit. "Yeah, whatever." She glanced at Flash. "Dude, shut up."
He immediately stopped crying. "Anything for my precious little bacon-head!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!"
"Please, Miss Shimmer, no screaming in class," the teacher said. "I'm afraid for that I'm going to have to enter in a zero for your next test."
"WHAT?!" Sunset yelled. "HOW IS THIS MY FAULT?!"
"I'm going to have to take 50 points off your next graded classwork assignment..."
"RRG!" Sunset huffed, leaning backwards in her chair. "This sucks..."
"I can make eeeeeeeeverything better, my precious bacon-head," Flash said, giving her a toothy grin and a thumbs-up.
Sunset glared at him.
Sunset had decided to eat alone today in front of the statue, because Flash was pestering her nonstop about going out for coffee.
I just can't escape him, can I? Sunset asked as she caught sight of a familiar blue-haired boy coming out the front doors of the high school and towards her.
"SUUUUUN-SEEEEEEEEEET!!!" He yelled, waving his bag lunch in the air. "I'M GLAD I FOUND YOU! YOU WEREN'T IN THE CAFETERIA, OR THE RESTROOM, OR ON TOP OF THE ROOF EVEN!" He made a loud snorting noise. "CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!"
Sunset didn't even know how to reply to this. "You...looked in the bathroom for me?"
Flash nodded. "Both the men and women's ones, yes. All of them. On the entire campus. Even the ones in trailers."
Sunset face palmed. "You know, you're just a creepy stalker waiting to happen."
Flash looked hurt. "Sunset, I'm just trying to get you to notice me!"
"I notice you, all right."
Flash grinned. "Will you go out with me, then?"
"NO!" Sunset inched away as the idiot plopped himself down next to her. "Just because you notice someone doesn't mean you want to date them!"
Flash folded his hands in his lap and looked at her expectantly. "So, what do I have to do to get you to go out with me, then?"
Sunset sighed. "...Flash, nothing you do can make me like you again. Actually, I didn't even like you in the first place. But what's really puzzling is why you like me. Me, of all people!" She laughed sadly. "I mean, weren't you completely smitten with Twilight a few days ago?"
Flash averted his eyes and poked his index fingers together. "Well...Twilight...isn't ever really around..."
"And that's why you started liking me again? Because I'm always around?"
"That's not just it!" Flash said, waving his hands around. "Um...well, I noticed how nice you became, and then...my heart just sorta melted..."
Sunset gave Flash a bemused stare. "...You are...seriously creeping me out right now, you know that?"
Flash shrugged. "I'm just being honest. The heart wants what it wants, you know."
"Mm," Sunset kinda replied, watching the leaves of the trees rustle in the breeze. "I guess that makes the heart a greedy bitch then."
"Yeah, especially my heart," Flash said. "It's always all like, 'Flash, dude, my man! Listen, could you pick me up some chips?' And then I'm like, 'No dude, I gotta eat better,' and it's like, 'no you don't' and I'm like, 'yes, I seriously do' and it just goes on and on, back and forth, over and over again." Flash threw his hands into the air. "Because of my heart and it's stupid cravings, I've gained ten pounds!"
"I'm seriously beginning to question your intelligence," Sunset said, rifling through her own lunch.
"You're just now beginning to question it?"
Sunset paused, thinking back to what he had said before. "Wait...so to your heart, I'm basically just a bag of chips?"
"No, no!" Flash said, waving his arms around again. "You'd be a high-price, creamy strawberry cheesecake, at least." He glanced at her hair, not seeming to notice the creeped-out look she was giving him. "...Either that, or a pack of really expensive bacon."
Sunset couldn't keep a straight face. She doubled over with laughter, clutching her stomach. "Oh...oh my god! Holy crap that was terrible!"
"...Sorry..."
Sunset shook her head, eyes closed at tears streaming down her face. "Don't be sorry! Oh man, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time..."
Flash watched her for a minute. "So...you never got back to me on that question."
Her laughter finally dying down, Sunset wiped the tears from her eyes and looked up at Flash. "What?"
"You remember the question I asked you back in first period?" He said, standing up and offering his hand to her. "I'll repeat it—want to ditch school and go get coffee?"
Sunset smiled slightly. "You never said anything about ditching school."
"Is that a yes?"
Sunset looked at his outstretched palm, then smiled even bigger and placed her own hand on top of his, allowing him to pull her up. "...Sure, why not?"
Author's Note
...So, that happened. Yup.
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