THe next morning Sketch woke up from his bed feeling really sore from when he got hit yesterday. He got up and headed to his desk, his class today wasn't until much later in the day. He opened his Potions text book and began to read it so as to make up for the lost day he had for it. He skimmed through the table of contents and found an interesting chapter called "Personality Modifications and Alterations."

He was suddenly reminded of everypony thinking he was angry, what he never told them was...he was angry, always angry. It's not like he couldn't experience joy. It's just his natural state of mind. When he sees a joke he would laugh and the over time return to anger. So when he saw that chapter he immediately developed a theory. He reached over to his bookshelf and picked up a book titled as "The Strange Case of Hekyll Jekyll and Horse Hyde." He looked from the book to the chapter title for a bit. He then turned to the text book chapter and began reading and writing notes that would be helpful to his theory.

He finally closed the textbook after a few hours of work and packed his saddle bag for his next class. On his way to the castle he stopped by Sugar Cube Corner and got a coffe and a muffin. He walked up to the castle and saw Pinkie standing at the door giving greetings to the students.

"Hello miss Pie." Sketch said as he walked up to the door.

"Oh hello Sketch." Pinkie perks up. "How are you feeling from yesterday?"

"A little sore but I'm fine." Sketch then got an idea. He pulled out the muffin and handed it to Pinkie. "Here I'm sorry I made you sad yesterday. I can't stand making people upset."

Pinkie was shocked and began to tear a bit. "Thank you Sketch." She took the muffin and put it in her saddle bag. "Do you need to help to your next class?"

"Actually I would really like that. I'm taking Art History."

"Oh Rarity's class. She isn't in but Coco Pommel is taking her place. It's this way." Pinkie bounced herself to the class with Sketch following shortly behind her.

Pinkie then pointed at a very ornate door that stood out amongst the other doors. "Rarity decided her class need a certain touch." Pinkie said with a giggled.

Sketch gave a small smile to make Pinkie feel better about the fact he doesn't smile much. "Thank you miss Pie." And with that Pinkie left and Sketch entered his class.

...

The class ended and many ponies poured out of the class groaning and complaining about how boring that was. Sketch had walked out with everyone being the not complaining. I mean he was kind of bored with how soft spoken Coco was. God she could give Fluttershy a run for her money.

Sketch then headed toward the castle door until he saw a zebra walk out of a class room. That must be Zecora. He walked up to her and apologize for missing her class yesterday.

"Hello miss Zecora." He started.

Zecora looked at him and looked stunned at such a tall pony. "Hello sir it is a pleasure, though I do not know many of your measure."

Sketch lift an eyebrow and then thought about it. "Oh my height? yeah I am pretty tall." He chuckled. "My name is Sketchy Wicket I wanted to apologize for missing your class yesterday."

"Need not fret, my dear Sketch." She said. "For the pink blur, told me about your hurl."

"Oh miss Pie told you? That's good." He then thought about it. "Can you tell me what I missed yesterday so I can get caught up?"

"Oh we just spoke of the first chapter, so not too much reading rapture."

Sketch shook his head and smiled. "Thank you miss Zecora, see you next week."

And with that Sketch ran home and bought some food to eat. He decided to eat at the restaurant this time. Across the way he sees a mare with a long curly brown and pink mane, her coat was a simple light tan, and her eyes shimmered like that of emeralds. Sketch blushed and returned to his food with intense focus. Suddenly his body decided to hit him with a panic attack and he clenched his chest.

Many ponies noticed and some came up to him to see if he's okay. He dismissed them all with reassuring "This happens all the time." Until that mare came up to him and looked with concern.

"Are you okay?"

Sketch looked up at her beautiful face and his pain had doubled. But being him and as he's very honest. "No, no I'm not okay." He said shortly and honestly.

"What's wrong?"

"P-panic attack."

The mare then sat next to him and began to rub his back. While she did this she began to shush him softly. The motions and sounds matched so rhythmically he began to drowse, but his pain had begun leaving him.

"Thank you." He said under his breath while she kept shushing him. "Uh, miss the pain is gone."

The mare blushed and removed her hoof. "Sorry."

"It's fine." Sketch blushed and tried to avoid eye contact for a bit but failed to her beauty. "My name is Sketch."

"Thalia." She said softly. She then twiddled her hooves and got up. "Well I'm glad you're okay Sketch. Have a nice day."

As she walked away Sketch felt a thump in his chest, it was like the panic attack but this pain was nice. Really nice.

Author's Note

Hey just an FYI Thalia, full name Thalia Flames, is owned by this lovely lady http://valfiggs5.tumblr.com/

So go give her some love.