School

Zipporwhill…Zipporwhill? ZIPPORWHILL?! I staggered back.

"Y-y-you're m-m-mean-nie Zipporwhill?!" I could seriously feel my face get hot.

She laughed.

"Yup. That's me." She looked at me again. "You didn't change at all. You're still the same old Featherweight from all those years ago."

"It's been ages. You suddenly left and never came back to school. What happen?" I asked.

"***"

As I was flustered, I heard footsteps behind me.

"Why're you so flustered Featherweight?" Applebloom asked.

I shook my head.

"O-oh it's nothing. I just uh... remembered something funny."

The girls looked at me funny while Zipporwhill smirked.

"Hey Feathers!"

I turned around to see Twist walk out the bookstore. I smiled.

"Hey Twist! Come here! I want you to meet someone."

Twist looked kinda annoyed.

"Girls, this is Zipporwhill. She was in our class back in Fourth grade." I grinned.

"Wait, you mean the same girl who left without telling anyone why? This is her? Applebloom asked surprised.

I laughed.

"Yeah. This is just as much of a surprise to me."

Zipporwhill looked kinda hurt and said,

"But I did-"

I covered her mouth with my hand.

"Ahaha, I'll just have a word with her. Excuse us a moment." I dragged her away from the group until we were far away. I removed my hand from her mouth.

She seemed a little dumbfounded by my sudden action.

"What? Don't they know the reason why I left?"

I shook my head.

"No, they don't. You didn't want to tell anyone."

"Why not?" she asked.

"***"

"Well, you can tell 'em now. I'm not scared of letting anyone know." She smiled.

"No! I won't. It would break their hearts if they found out. Plus, they won't like that. They're…kinda protective. Like sisters."

She laughed.

"Like sisters? It's not a good thing to keep secrets but fine, I won't tell anyone."

I looked at bet with confusion and spoke.

"What do you mean?" Before I could resume, I realized that this wasn't the most appropriate place to do this so I changed the subject. "Nevermind. Anyway, let's go back. I'm sure they're starving."

She nodded. As we walked towards the group, I felt arms slide around my neck.

No way. Was she-? She was hugging me from behind! My eyes quickly shifted to the girls and from what I saw, they were confused.

"Hey, what's going on here? Let go!" I whispered urgently.

"Mmm, don't wanna." She lazily said and decided to hug me tighter.

Ah, This was so embarrassing...

Sweetie Bell grinned.

"I called it, you guys are together."

Everything happened so fast. Zipporwhill let go of me as she aimed her hands towards them.

"It was just a simple hug. No need for the love notes." She quickly spoke.

Scootloo glared at her and shrugged her shoulders. For some reason, I felt if wasn't for their maturity, I'm pretty sure things would be a lot more awkward.

"Okay everyone. Let's go. We have an hour until the movie. Let's hurry up." Applebloom said changing the subject.

We all walked to the food court. The walk was kinda awkward since no one was really talking to each other. From what seemed like forever, we reached our destination. I decided to be the one to order. Twist also volunteered to help me.

We decided to order a group meal. Scootloo helped me out my carrying the trays to our table.

The table was rectangular shaped. The seating arrangement is the following (clockwise): Me-Applebloom-Sweetie Bell-Twsit-Scootloo-Zipporwhill.

I was used to eating with them since we always eat together in school, at our houses, when we go to the mall and nearly every day.I didn't realize I was starving until I saw the food. We began to eat.

After a few minutes, Zipporwhill pointed near my lips.

"Hey, Featherweight, you have a piece of rice on your face. Here, let me remove it for you." Her thumb glided near my lips and showed me the rice grain. I grinned.

"Thanks." I continued eating.

I was already used to my parents removing pieces of food from my face as a little kid. Ever since elementary, I was such messy eater but it didn't bother me. I could see from the corner of my eye that Twist's mouth twitched a little. She looked mad for some reason.

After eating, we packed up for the movie. After buying the tickets. Since it was a Saturday, the line was pretty long. It took some time for us to get inside the cinema.

Good thing we were kind of early for the movie so we had time to settle into our chairs.

The people started pouring inside the cinema.

"Oh my gosh. I didn't know poor people could afford tickets to a movie."

Oh no… Diamond Tiara, her friend and one other boy was seated in the chairs above us.

"Well I didn't know they allowed annoying girls like you inside the cinema." Scootloo glared.

Diamond Tiara simply giggled but stopped immediately when Zipporwhill  glared at them.

"Well uh…ah! At least I have a boyfriend who's going to watch with me." She grabbed the boy's arm. He looked a little shy and unsure what to do. I couldn't believe she was able to get someone in such a short time. She's such a jerk.

"What does that have to do-

I felt a hand land on my shoulder.

"He has someone. And that someone is me!" Zipporwhill said suddenly.

She raised an eyebrow. I looked at him.

"W-What?" I asked stunned.

"I-I mean of course. I'm Featherweight's girlfriend. Friend that is a girl. Applebloom, Sweetie Bell and Scootloo too of course. He doesn't need a girlfriend. He has his gang with him right?"

I felt my face go hot.

"Uh sure. Of course. They're the best friends I've ever had in my life." I put my hand on her shoulder.

Diamond Tiara simply scoffed and look back at the movie.

* * *

I enjoyed the movie. But for some reason, I found myself staring at Zipporwhill in some parts of the movie. She stared intently into the big screen. I never really thought she liked me... that way.

Wait. Why was I thinking these things? Why now? Something is wrong with me, seriously. I felt something on my shoulder. I looked down to see Zipporwhill… asleep.

I knew my face was scarlet red. Why are you acting like a scary cat, Featherweight?! This is Zipporwhill! You're bestest friend in the whole entire world! The one who knows all your secrets and hurts. I can't believe this. Nononononono. just please just no.

I adjusted her head so she would be comfortable in my shoulder and just continued watching the movie.