Getting the Message Out

After not only being flat out rejected by Starlight, but learning that she and Trixie live together, Sunburst headed home with his head hung low and tears streaming down his face. Given that he had never asked a girl out before, this was the first time that he had been shot down. When he finally got home, he rushed into his room and collapsed down on his bed.

As he laid there he cried, "I don't get it, how could a girl love another girl? It's just not natural!"

He continued to wrack his brain, thinking about how he could perhaps open Starlight's eyes to what he thought was natural and not what he believed simply shouldn't happen. He learned that day that roses would not sway her and that poetry would not either. He then decided that he would get online to see what other guys do to woo the girls they have a crush on.

When he got online, he began his search and at first found stories of guys doing exactly what he did but actually succeeded. He sighed, "I tried that and failed! There has to be something else."

He continued his search and then an article caught his attention, an article about a guy doing a live stream that the girl saw and threatened to do something crazy that would harm himself unless the girl called and begged him not to. He read through it and discovered that in the end not only did the girl call and plead with him to not harm himself, but in the end they became engaged to be married. He exclaimed, "That's it, I've got to find something crazy to do on a live stream and invite Starlight to watch it."

He then began to wonder what it was that he could do that would cause not just her, but many people to watch. He then read about a new fad that some people their age was doing involving eating laundry detergent pods and in a couple of instances, girls had called guys at the last moment to stop them and they did wind up developing a relationship. At that moment he decided that he would do just that, it was just a matter of getting people to watch, especially Starlight.

Sunburst had one problem, he had very few friends on MuzzleMag, the primary social media site, but was determined to get Starlight's attention. The first thing he did was search for her and what frustrated him was that at first he was not finding her anywhere on there but all he found in the results was a user that went by the name StarTrix GlimMoon. While he wasn't completely sure who it was, the fact that it seemed to be a combination of her and Trixie's names, he clicked on the link and sure enough, it was their shared account.

Given that he was not a friend of the user, all he was able to see was their picture and sure enough it was of them. The picture was of them clinging to one another. Other than that though, all he could access was their basic information and when he read it, he learned that Flash Sentry was right about them, that they were lesbians. He continued to think, "How can that be? It isn't natural, it just doesn't make sense!" He continued to think and then he thought of something, what if they simply claimed this but they truly weren't like that, that they really did like guys and were just being silly.

At first he was unsure but then eventually he decided to send a friend request to StarTrix GlimMoon. Not only did he send a request, he discovered he could send them a message without actually being friends. He sent a message that read,

"Starlight,

I am not sure if you are interested but I am doing a live stream on Sunday night at seven and I hope you will watch. I just want to tell you how I truly feel and given that I will be doing it for all to see, you should know I am speaking the truth. Hopefully I'll see you on Monday.

Love,

Sunburst"

While Sunburst was friends with the other smart kids at school, he was not friends with any of the other students so there wouldn't be that many to watch him pour his heart out to Starlight and do what he hoped would get her to notice him. He figured that if the two did not check their social media account that often, he send friend requests to students that they were close to and the one student who had shown he cared a bit, Flash Sentry. He then decided to send them all messages hoping that it would not only cause them to accept his friend requests but watch the live stream as well.

Much to his delight, many of the students he sent friend requests to were actually accepting his requests and sending him messages stating that they would watch his live stream. By the time he headed to bed that night, every single request he sent had been accepted, except for one, he had yet to be accepted by Starlight and Trixie. He sighed, "Well maybe they will get on tomorrow and accept it."