I wake up the next morning and got showered and packed for my next horrible day of High School, including my second day of punishment. I make my way towards English class and got out my notebook and copy of Lord of The Flies. As I laid them out, I looked back up to Miss Cheerilee who stood in front of the class with a smile on her face.

"Good afternoon, everyone," said Miss Cheerilee, "I know that I look very excited its because we have a new student starting her first day at Canterlot High."

"Pssh," I scoffed in my mind, "just what we needed, another person to come to this God forsaken school. I wonder how this chick will suffer?"

The door opens, getting everyone's attention, including myself. As she entered, my eyes widen with surprise. This new girl is really pretty. She had multiple colors on her hair such as violet, rose, and pale gold. Her eyes were the color of light purple that would hypnotize any guy within this school. As for clothing, she wore a blue jacket with the school's logo on it and wore a skirt. There was something about this girl that caught my attention; I believe her beauty is the reason. Never have I been so captivated by a beauty like her. I began to feel my heart beating a little quickly, as she waved to everyone in the class.

"Hi everyone," said the girl, as she stood beside Miss Cheerilee, "my name is Cadance and I hope we can all get along. I transferred here from Crystal Prep; that school was getting boring and I decided to come here."

"Why don't you sit beside Eren over there," said Miss Cheerilee, as she pointed at the empty desk beside me.

My heart skipped a beat; I can't believe she's gonna be sitting right next to me. That desk beside me has been empty for a while and now, a cute girl is gonna sit by me. I hope I don't ruin her image. I looked around and could see some people looking over to me surprised, as though they too didn't see that coming. The girl walks past me and sits down in her seat.

"Miss Cadance," said Miss Cheerilee, "have you read Lord of The Flies back in Crystal Prep before transferring here?"

"I have," answered Cadance, "I was up to chapter six."

"Oh goodie. You are ahead of the class."

Cadance smiled back to the teacher, before Miss Cheerilee began taking roll call. We all said out names, as Miss Cheerilee wrote down on her PC who was present and that there were no absence.

"Okay class," said Miss Cheerilee, as she picked up some papers, "you are to partner up with a student and are to answer the questions that are based on the two chapters you were supposed to read last night."

Everyone began crowding around Cadance, as they all knew she read three chapters ahead of us and would love to get help from her. I sat on my desk and began looking down at the questions.

"Everyone," said Miss Cheerilee, making everyone stop their actions and look back up to the teacher, "let Cadance choose who she wants to work with."

Everyone groaned and stepped away from Cadance to find another partner. Cadance looks around the class and caught her eye on someone; that 'someone'… is I.

She scoots her desk close to mine and sat beside me with a smile on her face.

"You look like you need a partner," said Cadance, "mind if I be partners with you?"

I looked around the room, as people murmured to one another' probably because Cadance wants to be partners with a guy like me. I felt like I was ruining her image, but I had no other option, but accept defeat.

"Sure," I replied, "if that's what you like."

The class went a bit quiet, as partners began discussing on the questions from what we were supposed to read the other night. Cadance and I began on the first question, as I knew what it was. I wrote down the answer before Cadance could copy what I wrote.

"Seems like I chose a good partner," said Cadance, as she smiled at me.

"I don't think choosing me was good," I said, not making eye contact with her, "you should've chose someone who wouldn't make your image bad."

"Why's that?" asked Cadance.

"… I'm just a guy… who doesn't get along with people."

"… Oh… why's that?"

"Let's just say, I'm the most pathetic man in the school who is bullied by a girl."

"A girl?"

"That's right… a girl."

I began reading the second question, as Cadance takes out a pencil sharpener and sharpens her pencil. Fifteen minutes past, as Cadance and I finished earlier than the others.

"So who is this girl that bullies you?" asked Cadance out of the blue.

"Why would you like to know?" I retorted.

"Because I feel bad for you. If something's wrong, you have to do something."

"I can't… I'm too much of a coward to stand up for myself. I just stand there and take whatever comes up to me."

"Alright everyone," said Miss Cheerilee, "times up, pencils down. Pull your chairs back to their normal spots."

Everyone pushed their chairs back to their normal spots, as I sit there with a sigh on my face. I then get a small piece of sticky notepaper on the corner of my desk. I grabbed it and looked through it.

Meet me during lunch

• Cadance

I look back to Cadance, as she gives me half a smile. I scoffed and crumpled the note up. I placed it in my backpack pocket and waited for our next objective, as Miss Cheerilee began taking papers one-by-one.

"Today were are going to read chapter four and possibly chapter five if there's time," said Miss Cheerilee, as she takes my paper.

I grab my book and opened to chapter four.

The lunch bell rings, as everyone begins packing up for lunch.

"Okay everyone," said Miss Cheerilee, "you're homework tonight is to read the rest of chapter five. This Friday we'll have a test on chapters one through six, 'Kay?"

Everyone packed their things, including Cadance, as she walks out of the classroom, but was stopped by Miss Cheerilee.

"Miss Cadance," said Miss Cheerilee, "have a good lunch."

"Thanks Miss Cheerilee," said Cadance, as she walked out of the classroom.

I wave to Miss Cheerilee as I made my way out of the classroom. As I went through the door, Cadance was leaning against the lockers. I walk up to her, as she smiled to me.

"Like to hang out?" asked Cadance.

"No thanks," I said, as I walked past her, "find someone else to hang out with."

"What's your problem?" asked Cadance, as she catches up to me.

"My problem? It's just that you keep on being nice with me and you now want to hang out with me? Go find someone who won't ruin your image. There's plenty of guys you can flirt with besides me."

"I don't care what they say about us," said Cadance, making me stop, "you just seem like a person who deserves a friend."

"I don't have any friends and I especially don't need you. I'm going to say this one more time, 'stay away from me'."

Cadance gives me a frown, before I faced forward and headed towards the cafeteria. As I entered, I waited in line and waited for my lunch.

"What's with that Cadance girl," I thought to myself, "why is she so nice to me? Is she trying to pretend on being nice to me? I bet that's it. I bet she's a back stabber."

As I continued to wait in line, I couldn't get Cadance out of my mind. No matter how much I push her out of my mind, she keeps on coming up. I shouldn't fall for her beauty; I bet she's as nasty as Chrysalis or maybe even worse. I bet Chrysalis would become friends with that slut and eventually make my high school life even worse than it is now. I gotta stay away from Cadance.

My turn came up, as I paid my lunch and walked over to the usual table that I sit alone in. as I made my way, someone tripped me, making me fall to the floor and splattering milk all over my jacket and face, along with PB&J. Everyone laughed, as I gave out a grunt. I turn my head behind me and see Chrysalis looking down at me with her usual wicked smirk.

"Oops," said Chrysalis sarcastically, "I didn't see where I was going. Need a hand?"

I look to her hand, then back up to her face. I gritted my teeth and swatted her hand. She reels her hand back to me and looks down at me with a posed off look. She reaches down to the neck on my jacket and pulls me up.

"How dare you slap my hand, you little shit," said Chrysalis, as she slaps me across the face.

She then pushes me, but I luckily was still able to stand on my legs with the support of the side of the table.

"If you do that again, I will take you to my place and whip you like a little slut."

"It won't happen again, Chrysalis," I apologized, "I'm sorry."

"I think you deserve another slap," said Chrysalis, as she raises her hand.

I closed my eyes and waited for the smack on my face, but nothing happened. I opened my eyes and was surprised to see Cadance gripping hard onto Chrysalis's hand.

"That's enough, Chrysalis," said Cadance.

"Cadance?! You're here?!" said Chrysalis with surprise.

Cadance lets go of her hand, as Chrysalis takes a few steps away from us. She looks over to me and hisses, then looks back to Cadance.

"I'll let you go with this one, you little shit," said Chrysalis, as she looks over to me, "don't expect to be saved by her all the time."

And just like that, Chrysalis walks away, leaving Cadance and I to ourselves. She looks over to me, as I grabbed the mess and started picking up everything and throwing them into the garbage.

"Here," said Cadance, as she takes my lunch tray, "I'll go put this away."

I handed her the tray, as she walks over to the lunch lady. I look back towards the rest of the cafeteria as some students saw the incident, some muttered, and some laughed at the mess on my jacket. I rushed over to my usual spot and placed my backpack in front of myself to avoid peoples gaze.

"I can't believe this has to happen on Cadance's first day," I thought to myself, "though, why would she help me? No one in this school would ever come up to me for protection."

I continued to think about that, until I look to my side and see Cadance walking towards me. She sits down beside me and opens her backpack. She rummages through her backpack and pulls some napkins.

"Here," said Cadance, as she hands over the napkins to me, "use these."

I take them from her hands and wiped off as much as I could. I look back to Cadance, as she pulls out a sandwich and scoots it over to me.

"Have it," said Cadance, "you look like you need something to eat."

Why? Why is she so nice to me? Never have I met anyone in this school that is willing to bug me for being a good person. I grab the napkins and threw them in the garbage on my right.

"Th-thank you," I said, as I grab the sandwich, but stopped.

"Go on," said Cadance, "Take it. You look like you could use it."

I take the sandwich and started taking a slow bite into it. It tasted really good, making me eat more of it.

"Th-thanks I guess," I said, as I place down the sandwich, "for this and for back there."

"Don't you worry," said Cadance, "Chrysalis is mean, but as long as you have me, you wouldn't need to worry."

"What are you saying?" I asked.

"I'm saying is that I will be your heroine for protection."

There was something about her that made something within me feel comfortable. Perhaps I was wrong to judge her; she isn't as bad as I thought she was. As I looked back to Cadance, she gasps and covers her mouth.

"Are you okay," asked Cadance, "you're crying."

I take my index finger and swiped my face and began to feel the tears running down my eyes. I give out a little gasp of surprise, as Cadance takes out a napkin from within her backpack.

"Here," said Cadance, as she hands me the napkin.

I began wiping my face and ended up throwing the napkin away. I look back to Cadance, as she patted my back.

"Why," I asked, "why are you so nice to me?"

"You need a friend," said Cadance, "why not be friends with me?"

A friend? It's been a while since I had actual friends to talk to. I began feeling more tears pouring down my cheeks and eventually came to a sob.

"Y-yes," I said tearfully, "let's b-be friends with you."

Cadance scoots up to me and patted my back until I began to feel better. When I finished, Cadance scoots a little away from me and smiles warmly.

"That's all I ever wanted to hear from you," said Cadance, "from this day forth, we are now friends."

"I guess so," I said, "are you being serious or are you joking?"

"I'm being serious."

What I did was very much unlike me; for the first time around high school besides home, I smiled. Cadance eyes widened a bit from the corners of my mouth going up.

"You seem happy to know that," she said.

"You are my actual first friend around this school actually."

"Really? You haven't had any friends around here until I showed up?"

"That's pretty much it."

"Do you hang out with anyone else? Do you have friends outside of school?"

"I do. They go to Crystal Prep though."

"Have you been seeing them?"

"Not really."

"Why not?"

"Because of Chrysalis. It's embarrassing to let them know that I get bullied by a girl."

"I doubt they'll make fun of you."

"You think so?"

"If they're your friends, they won't. They'll be by your side no matter what. Go talk to them."

"… Okay, I'll take your advice Cadance."

She smiled, as I continued eating the sandwich that Cadance gave me. She goes through her backpack and takes out a fruit snack, an apple and a bottle of vitamin water. As she opened her back of fruit snacks, she looks towards my thin arm, then back to me.

"Have you been eating very little?" asked Cadance.

"I can't cook," I said, "you see, I live with my cat Babu and all I eat for dinner are salad containers I buy from the store. There's plenty to eat at home, but I just don't feel hungry with them."

"You poor thing," said Cadance, "tell you what, after school, I'll take you to my apartment and make you a delicious dinner. Would you like that?"

"You would do that for me? I feel like a burden."

"Don't feel bad," said Cadance, as she pats my shoulder, "I'm willing to cook for you."

My cheeks began to feel warm; a girl is asking me to come to her place for dinner.

"I would love to, but I can't."

"Why's that?"

"Throughout this week, I have to stay after school and clean up with Mr. Discord."

"What happened? How did you get in trouble?"

"… It's because of Chrysalis. She poured water onto herself and handed me the water bottle before pretending to be embarrassed and calling me a pervert."

"How mean of her."

"She made principal Celestia believe her and that's why I have to clean up after school throughout the week."

"My aunt will believe anything a student lies about."

"Hold the phone," I said, as I scoot a few feet away from her, "y-y-you're p-principal Celestia's niece?"

"That's right," said Cadance, "don't you worry. If Chrysalis ever messes with you again, I'll make sure to tell it to my aunt."

"Well that makes me feel better," I said with a sigh of relief, "I worry if I anger you that you will tell your aunt on me."

"I want you to know that I am not gonna be a dictator of the school because my aunt is the principal, okay?"

"That makes me feel so much better too."

"So when do you get off?"

"Could you pick me up at six?"

"Of course. Dinner will be ready possibly by then."

"Then it's a plan. Thanks Cadance. I'm surprised to say this, but I'm glad to have met a friend around this school."

"I'm glad we met."

"I know I was a jerk before, but how about we start over?"

"Sure."

"Hi Cadance," I said, as I held my hand out to her, "my name is Eren."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Eren," said Cadance, as she shook my hand.

As our skin made contact, I was surprised to feel how soft her hand was. My cheeks began burning up again, as we broke the shake. We then continued eating more of our lunches together until the bell rang.

"All right," said Cadance, as the two of us began throwing out trash away and walking out of the cafeteria together, "I'll see you later."

"See you, Cadance," I said, as the two of us went our separate ways to our next classes.

"You seem to be in a good mood Eren," said Mr. Discord, as the two of us mopped around the lunchroom, "what happened?"

"Let's just say I made a friend around this school," I replied, as I dipped the mop into the bucket and went back to cleaning.

"What's his name?"

"Actually, it's a 'she'."

"Oh? Then what's 'her' name then?"

"Cadance," I said, as I began thinking back on her.

"Cadance? The new girl?"

"Yep."

"It's her first day and she became friends with you? How interesting. What's she like?"

"She's nice, she's smart and…"

"Pretty?" added Mr. Discord.

"Beautiful," I corrected.

"Looks like someone's in love. Am I right?"

"I'm not sure, but I think she's gonna be with someone else besides me who's far better looking."

"Who knows," said Mr. Discord, as he began cleaning the tables, "love works in mysterious ways. You may be with her or maybe not."

"Have you ever been in love, Mr. Discord?"

"Me? Well sorta."

"Really? Who?"

"The principal."

"Principal Celestia? You telling me that you have a crush on principal Celestia?"

"Why do you think I work here?"

"Well what if I told you that Cadance, Mr. Discord, is principal Celestia's niece."

"Really?! You lucky guy."

"Why don't you talk to principal Celestia?"

"I'm too nervous to talk to her."

"Look," I said, as I walked up to Mr. Discord, "if you're gonna make it with this woman, you need to learn to communicate with women. Play a dating simulator, that may work."

"A dating simulator? What the heck is that?"

"It's a game where you go up to girls and ask them out. A good one for you would be Hunie Pop."

"Explain this Hunie Pop, please."

"It's a game where you date many women and you go on dates and even more."

"More?"

"Exactly," I said with a wink.

"Ohhhhh," said Mr. Discord with realization.

"During the dating part, it's kinda like playing Bejewled. You do know what Bejewled is, right?"

"Of course I do. I have that on my phone."

"Then I think you'll do fine in that game. Tonight, I'll put the game file on an USB and I'll hand it to you tomorrow."

"Thanks, Eren."

"Your welcome, Discord."

"Say Eren."

"Yeah?"

"I'm surprised you are coming out of your shell."

"What do you mean?"

"When I see you around the school, you're always by yourself and you never talk much to other people. Ever since Cadance showed up, you and I have been having a good conversation."

"You think so?"

"Positive."

Now that he mentions it, I am becoming a bit of a socializer. I'm usually never talking to anyone around the school until Cadance showed up.

"I never realized it until now."

"Well now you have."

The two of us smiled and went back to work.

"We should be done in a bit," said Mr. Discord, "I have to get ready for the Big Bang Theory marathon."

"You watch the Big Bang Theory?"

"Fluttershy told me about the show and I became a fan of it. Sheldon is my favorite character."

"I hear it's really good, but I don't watch it. I'm still waiting on the third season of The Strain."

"You watch The Strain? What a coincidence, I watch that too."

"Wow, there's something we both like in common."

"Okay, enough jibber jabber, let's finish this."

"Right," I said, as I went further away from Mr. Discord to clean up an area.

As I cleaned the area, I look through the window to see the sun setting in the distance.

"Thank you, God," I thought to myself, "thank you."

Author's Note

Looks like Eren found a true friend. Could it be more than just friendship? Find out soon