I moved into my dad's car, relaxing after the interesting day. I sat down in the passenger's seat of the car. My dad turned to me and asked "How was your day?" He asked in a friendly voice. I sighed and stretched my arms, I turned to him to answer. "Well...If I tell you..promise me not to tell mom." I said trying to be stern. He cocked his eyebrow and looked at me.

"Well, I think I have a feeling about what it is. But why wouldn't you want her to know?" He said beginning to drive down the road. I fiddled with me thumbs for a bit, trying to figure out how to word it well. "You know how she is, she'd freak out. I want to tell her at a good time." I said, feeling nervous telling him. My dad nodded, agreeing with my statement. He knew her a lot longer than I had, so he knew that I was right.

He stopped at a red light, seizing the opportunity to ask what it was. "Well what is it you want to tell me?" He asked, moving the sun visor down. I took a deep breath before telling him. "You know that girl I'm friends with?.." I asked trying to keep my heartbeat calm. He nodded, a faint smirk on his face. "We're dating now..." I finished, controlling a small blush that appeared on my cheeks.

Thankfully he didn't have a fit of excitement like before, he simply nodded. He had a genuine smile on his face, he was clearly happy for me. He turned slightly towards me and asked "Do you want any advice?" I thought about it for a moment, considering I never even had a friend. I nodded, hoping he'd had something that might help. "Well, try to make sure trust is there. It's very important that you both know that you both can trust the other. Next, just be honest. Lying almost always comes back to bite you." He said all of this calmly.

I wanted to ask for more, or maybe just to elaborate about more. "What's the best way to do that? Instill those two things I mean." I asked. He simply shrugged and said to me "Be honest yourself, and trust her. Just hope she'll do the same."

I nodded, and looked out the window of the car. I hoped she was doing alright, I guessed I would ask her tomorrow. The more I thought about it, the more I wondered what me and her would do. Where would our first date be, how often should we talk, should I give a special gift?

I turned to my dad with a sigh. "I have a few more questions..." I said, hoping I wouldn't bug him. He simply chuckled, "Go on then. Ask away." He said with a smile.
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I stood in front of the school entrance a bit earlier than normal, hoping to sneak up on Gilda for once. Sadly the ominous breath down my neck proved she always seemed to show up early, which I found odd from someone who was supposed to be the misbehaving kid. I turned to see Gilda, she looking at her phone occasionally. "Why do you always show up early?" I asked legitimately curious at this point.

She rolled her eyes, I assumed she wasn't a fan of the answer herself. "My Grandpa tends to kick me out to go to school early. And I can't sneak away cause he always watches to make sure I go here." Gilda explained, clearly annoyed by it. I simply nodded, trying to control my smile of the situation. Then I remembered the bigger question I needed to ask her. "Oh and, is there anything that you really enjoy doing?" I asked, hoping she wouldn't guess my whole gift plan.

Gilda saw right through it, knowing I'd probably try and get her something. She smirked, leaning up against the wall. "Well, don't tell anyone about this....I like baking" She said this while closing her eyes. She shook her head and scoffed. I was just in shock, the most feared person in the school, and their hobby was baking. I tried to think of a quick way to continue the conversation, I was now quite curious by this new found discovery. "What do you like to bake" I asked...quite a creative question.

She opened one of her eyes to look at me. "I have a scone recipe that my grandpa taught me." She said. I bumped her arm trying to act cool..I just ended up hurting my hand. When I tucked that said hand to my side, Gilda just ended up holding back laughter. "As I was gonna ask...is it okay if I try one sometime?.." I said still holding my hurt hand. At this point, Gilda couldn't resist laughing.

She wiped away a few tears before answering my question. "Yeah..they're $1.50" She said this extremely seriously, to the point I wasn't sure if she was serious or joking. Either way, my mouth was left wide open from her answer. I cocked my eyebrow and nodded. "Oh okay...so I don't even get a discount.." I said, doing my best sad puppy impression. She looked back at me with a deadpan face.

"You are getting a discount, it's normally $2.00" Gilda answered back in that weird tone. It became apparent to me she wasn't joking. So I simply did a sad face while looking down. Gilda looked at me, squinting at my face. She then simply looked up and had a deep sigh. "Ugh...fine, you get one for free." She said clearly defeated. I smiled, happy over my victory.

I was gonna say something like "Oh you do love me" but then I wondered if that was too soon. In fact, I didn't know at all how fast me and her were supposed to go. I turned to her, specifically to ask her about that, only to see here scoping out the area. She had her head up high, turning it so she got a wider area of view. When she saw that practically no one was around, she got closer to me. Gilda wrapped her left arm around me, holding me against her chest.

"No ones around...so I can do this" Gilda said under her breath. I returned her embrace, holding her close to me. I wondered why she didn't want others to see us pretty much cuddling. Was she scared of being made fun of? She could always just scare them off, in fact I would feel sorry for anyone who would. Eventually, it didn't matter why she didn't want anyone to see. I just enjoyed it while it lasted. I could hear her breathing, I could smell her surprisingly sweet scent, and I could hear her soft heartbeat.

"Hey Gilda, can I ask you something?" I said in a calm voice. She turned to me, making a hmm noise. "Do you...wanna go on a date this Saturday?..." I said in an extremely awkward and shy voice, a massive blush growing on my face. Gilda just smirked with her eyes closed. "Yeah, but you're paying" She answered very confidently. I nodded, expecting something like that. Almost out of nowhere we started hearing people walking towards us, so Gilda moved her arm away, letting me go.

It was just the three freshmen girls again. The one with the red bow, the purple haired one, and the fancy one. When they saw Gilda, they quickly changed their direction. Gilda then had a sigh, almost one of relief. I raised my eyebrow to her, wondering why she was so worried. "What's wrong?" I asked clearly worried about her. Gilda just shook her head and looked at me. "Just..don't worry about it okay?" She said calmly. I nodded, even though it was a promise I couldn't keep.
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Me and Gilda walked through the hallways. It was after lunch, and we were heading to history class. I quite loved the class, mostly because in my opinion the teacher always taught the coolest parts. Even though Gilda wouldn't admit it, she also loved that class. I couldn't quite remember what he was teaching today, but that didn't matter to me.

I turned a corner to head to his class, when I bumped into someone. She was a small girl, pink hair, yellow skin, and a green top. I think she was one of Sunset's friends, but I couldn't remember. I moved down to pick up two books I had been carrying, and to apologize. "I-I'm sorry...I didn't mean to..bump into you.." I said, clearly shy and nervous. Just because I was comfortable around Gilda didn't mean I wasn't shy as hell.

The girl looked back at me with a set of blueish green eyes. Some of her hair covered her face, so I couldn't make out all of her features. "I-It's fine...it's my..fault anyways..." She said in an even more nervous voice. I shook my head at her and responded, "No..I wasn't looking...I should've paid attention."

She shook her head, moving some of her hair as she did. Admittedly she had an adorable face, I do hate thinking that..mostly because I'm worried Gilda would kill me if she knew I thought that. "No..I was listening to my friend...I should've looked....oh no.." She said looking up. I tilted my head, wondering what she was scared about. Then I too looked up, seeing something that made me feel uneasy.

Gilda and the rainbow haired girl stared at each other with murderous eyes. Gilda held a clinched fist at her, and the seemed to have been positioning herself to charge. "Gilda." The rainbow haired girl said. Gilda's eyes squinted at her. "Rainbow Dash" Gilda said back, anger clearly in her voice. I tried to think of something to say in order to stop a confrontation.

"So your boyfriend also likes hurting Fluttershy huh?" Rainbow said to Gilda. Fluttershy, who I had almost forgotten about, tried to protest. "N-no Dash...it was an..accident.." Fluttershy whispered quietly. I could barely hear her, so chances Rainbow heard it was slim.

Gilda took one step forward, with a terrifying rage in her eyes. "Excuse me? What did you just say about him?" Gilda asked as if she was about to commit murder. I needed to get involved, even if I did get hurt. I got up quickly and put my hand on Gilda's shoulder. She turned to me for a second, almost as if she was surprised it was me. "Gilda it's just a misunderstanding.."

Gilda didn't even look at me when she said, in the most angry voice I had ever heard anyone have "No, I'm not letting this goody two shoes insult you Orion!" After Gilda said this she moved forward. While nearly having a panic attack, I moved my hand over around her stomach. Because I was too weak to slow her down, I wrapped my legs around hers. It was much to slow her, but it stopped her for a moment. I took this moment to say quickly "Gilda you'll get in trouble again please stop..." I said in a truly scared voice. I wasn't scared for myself for once, but for Gilda. I couldn't let her do this, I wasn't even thinking about the bribe anymore.

If Gilda got in trouble she'd be expelled from the school. Sure I wouldn't get the bribe, but that wasn't important anymore. Gilda made me bot happy and nervous, she got me to start talking, I had began to be calmer around her ironically, I needed Gilda. She stood still, while I "Trapped" her in my hold. I saw her mutter something to Rainbow, but she didn't let any audio come out. Rainbow Dash squinted, and picked Fluttershy up with her hand. Then they both walked away from us, leaving us alone in the hallways. The bell then rang, meaning we were late for class.

I probably wouldn't get in trouble, as it would be the first time ever I had been late. Gilda on the other hand, I wasn't sure if she would get in trouble. "Let's go..." Gilda said in a quiet voice. I didn't want to make her more upset, so I just kept quiet and nodded. I removed my hands from her hips, and we went to class.

Author's Note

Hey, I'm really sorry about how long this took...I haven't had the best time lately. I just went through something really rough, I would say more but it is really private. If you have read this far thank you...it means a lot..