A Hoof in the Waves

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The school bell rang. All of the ponies fled out of the room before you could say "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy". Tidal Wave got up from her seat and put on her bags.

"Hey Raindrop! Wait up!" Tidal shouted to her friend standing at the door.

"Hurry up then!" Raindrop replied jokingly. Tidal walked over to her friend and they exited the classroom.

"So?" Raindrop asked as they stood at their lockers, "Are you excited or what? Tomorrow's the last day of school before spring break!"

"Yea I am!" Tidal answered and grabbed a few books from her locker.

"Oh if it isn't Rainflop and Tidal Weirdo!" Roseluck said teasingly as she past the two and knocked the books out of Tidal Wave's hoofs. Tidal blushed with embarrassment and bent down to pick her books up.

"Hey!" Raindrop intervened, "Don't you have some 'Miss-Prissy-Know-It-All-Diva-Pagent' to get to?"

Roseluck sneered at Raindrop and replied, "Actually, for spring break, I'm going to Canterlot to attend a royal dance hosted by Princess Cadence herself!" Raindrop rolled her eyes as Tidal Wave stood up with her books in proper place.

"P-princess Candence? What ab-bout Princess Celestia?" Tidal asked.

Rose Waved her mane back and stood in a proud pose, "Well, it's a crystal themed dance, so it's hosted by the crystal princess, obviously. Although, with all those books you read, I thought you would already be nerdy enough to know that."

Raindrop was furious, she stood about an inch away from Rose's nose and shouted, "HEY! LEAVE US ALONE! YOU DONT WANT YOUR PRISSY LITTLE MANE TO BE MESSED UP DO YOU?"

Rose giggled and simply said, "Oh, you don't want to be suspended again, do you Rainflop?" Tidal Wave saw the situation's tension rising. She didn't want her friend to get in trouble. So she tapped her hoof on Raindrops shoulder.

"Umm Raindrop? We should go...."

"You know? You shouldn't let her get to you T.W. You're usually so vibrant and extroverted, but, when she's around, you're shy and nervous. Plus you stutter your words." Tidal shut her locker and walked off with Raindrop.

"And YOU shouldn't always resort to violence. You just wouldn't understand Raindrop.... we have...a history together." Raindrop knew that Tidal didn't like sharing her personal personal life. She wouldn't talk about her problems unless she was comfortable with it, and she clearly wasn't comfortable with her and Roseluck's past. So, she left the conversation alone. They made their way home.

"See you tomorrow, Raindrop!" Tidal said as she waved her friend goodbye. They always walked home together. Everyday, at the corner where the "Couches and Quills" store was, they would split up and make the rest of their "journey" home alone.

"Dad! I'm home!" Tidal shouted as she walked through her front door.
"How was school?" Tidal's father, Shooting Star, asked from inside the kitchen. Tidal's mother had died when she was very young, only 2 days after she was born. Her father had told her that her mother had wanted to name her Tidal Wave, meanwhile her father wanted to name her Navy Night due to her dark colored coat and stripped mane. When her mother died, her father named her the name her mother wanted to name her, for obvious reasons. Tidal Wave walked over to the kitchen.
"School was fine Dad, what's for dinner?" Tidal replied.
"It's your favorite! Carrot and radish mash with potatoes on the side." Tidal's mouth watered at the thought of it. She had loved that meal ever since she had teeth! It was her mothers recipe.
"Smells delicious Dad!" Tidal said dreamily, "I'll just be in my room." She started to make her way upstairs.
"Okay honey! Dinner's ready in about an hour!"
"Okay Dad!" Tidal yelled from upstairs as she entered her room. She lied down on her bed with her bag beside her. She grabbed her headphones from her bedside table and put them on. She was always a fan of music, and even wanted to be a singer, well, before Roseluck came along and IT happened. She turned the headphones on and closed her eyes as she was whisked away from her boring world into her own world run by DJ Pon-3's dubstep mixes and Octavia's smooth symphonies.

END OF CHAPTER ONE