Runt POV:

My eyes gently glaze over as I glance through the newspaper skimming an article titled: Canterlot Highschool soccer and basketball team captain Rainbow Dash rescues fellow classmate from drowning freezing river!!

As I continued to skim the article I could see the basics: “Rainbow Dash and her classmate alive” “currently in the hospital” “minor injuries” “no name released yet.”

After my quick reading session I dropped the paper down on the dining room table and leaned back in my wooden dining room chair. It was my favorite spot in the house dunno why it wasn’t a particularly well made chair or very comfy but I felt comfortable here.

As I strangely obsessed about why I liked my chair so much I picked up my cup sipping some milk before deciding to down the entire thing in a secondary gulp. As I finished it I gasped at the air feeling the cold milk rush down my throat swiftly as milk can rush down something.

And with one last lip smack I put down my cup and stand up grabbing my old falling apart red backpack from the ground and slinging it over my shoulder as I was preparing to go to school.

I exited my house just as the school bus was coming around the corner stopping at my bus stop, just down the street from my house I ran over to catch it and barely made it in time.

Stepping on to the bus no one paid attention to me as per usual and I easily slipped into the middle of the bus because being a nobody in the back felt to cliche ya know.

As the bus continues its route I say there my mind drifting I wanted to think about Rainbow Dash and the river incident, my plan, my life? But my brain was being stupid as per usual and I couldn’t think of anything but whatever I was obsessing about that morning….

….Why do I like that damn chair so much? I pondered my brain obsessively trying to find a reason. But non came to mind and the entire bus ride my brain was trying to form a reason but it was failing miserably and before I knew it the bus came to a stop in front of my school Canterlot High, I’d wasted the entire ride thinking about a oak piece of furniture designed only to be sat on.

Climbing out of the bus in the line up of slow, lazy, and apathetic students already we lined up like the depressed office worker many of us would end up being. After a few minutes of waiting to head into school I enter my least favorite place on earth.

Then a thought pops into my head and internally I correct myself thinking: “my least favorite place on earth I’ve actually been to I’m sure worse places exist I’d just never been to those places!”

Throat my school day I heard various rumors circulating because a very prominent group of girl was missing. The five girls who with the help of a magical alien princess with wings vanquished a seemingly demonic version of our classmate Sunset Shimmer, who funnily enough was also missing.

Even stranger though was Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna were missing. Not that I minded any of those people going missing the only person I was even remotely worried about was Sunset. Even if I used to hate her for being a grade A bully, another part of me felt sympathy for the girl the bullying her classmates gave her after the whole demon thing was far worse.

As I continued to ponder all these thing the bell rings indicating it’s lunch time. Realizing the time and what I’ve been thinking about all day I realize that I haven’t paid attention in a single class today not that I care but I would suck for my grades.

Silently I grab my backpack and head towards the cafeteria I can practically see the gossip about the 6 missing girls, the newspaper article, and the principal and VP also being missing. I head over and get in the lunch line everyone talking amongst their friend groups/clicks.

But unlike most lunch goers I’m not looking for any friends or spots I fit in instead my eyes are looking for the three biggest gossips in the school and eventually I see them….

….The crazy flower chicks: Rose, Daisy, and Lily Valley. Knowing they wouldn’t talk to me I strategically sit at the table behind Daisy my ears perked and listening. If anyone in this school knows more details then it’s them!

And as expected of the class gossips they have already started barely even touching their food. Daisy was the main talker and she was saying: “I heard Sunset was the other one in the hospital and she was like seriously messed up…”

“Normally I’d feel bad but it is Sunset we are talking about….” Lily replies as Rose remains silent her two friends continuing.

“Well rumor is Sunset and Rainbow Dash were doing stunts at the bridge and a car hit Sunset off the bridge and Dash dove in after her like a hero!!” Daisy told Lily and Rose the more the talked the more Rose seemed to sink into herself.

“Oh yeah well I heard from Gilda that Rainbow Dash caught Sunset trying to drown a puppy and she saved it causing them both to be washed down river.” Lily replied both her and Daisy sparkling with a strange electric and malicious energy it was a disgusting vibe but to my surprise Rose usually the worst of the three was dead silent.

After another ten minutes of rumor after rumor the two girls finally seemed to notice what I’d noticed that Rose was deathly silent and was looking down at her hands. “Rosie what’s wrong?” Lily asks using an overly cute tone and nickname.

“Rose?” Daisy asks more concerned sounding than Lily but again no answer. At this point I’m very interested but despite my interest suddenly my thoughts drift away and I find myself thinking: “man this chair sucks I miss my chair…”

Feeing my thoughts drifting back to that damn chair I I pinch the back of my left hand with my right hand to snap out of it. And it works though I know eventually I’ll be thinking about that chair again.

“Come on Rose what’s wrong you can tell us we only wanna help?” Daisy asks. “Is this about Rainbow Dash and Sunset? I know you’re mom is a nurse..” Lily exclaims about the same time Daisy asked her question.

Finally erupting into tears Rose yells: “SUNSET TRIED TO KILL HERSELF!!!” As soon as she does the reaction is instant as the entire cafeteria falls silent as rose collapses onto the table sobbing.

Daisy looks like she’s been punched and Lily is close to tears immediately the rest of the cafeteria is a mixture of guilt, fear, anger, and tears as everyone reacts differently. Some people seem to be crying, other are silent/go catatonic, some start yelling at each other and yet…

…amongst this chaos the only one smiling was me. It was amazing the amount of guilt and anarchy a singular act act could cause and the amount of despair i felt pulsing off my fellow students.

This was the exact outcome I’d been hoping for it’s exactly why me and Big Boy had let Sunset attempt suicide and this beautiful anarchy was just beginning if I had my way and despite my scheme truly starting still I couldn’t stop thinking about my chair.

Once again I pondered why I was so focused on that chair and Finally after a few minutes of thinking I came to a conclusion amidst this chaos.

The reason I was so stuck on it was because I was so curious why I was stuck on it was because I couldn’t let go of that question therefore the chair remained stuck in my head.

I did always have trouble letting go of things it’s for that simple reason I am the way I am and it’s got that simple reason everything was going to get worse at Canterlot High.

Author's Note

This chapter took longer than eternity to write because of my IRL issues (hospitalization, court) and a bad case of writers block. And worst of all my greatest sin after all my IRL issues I forgot about the story but I’m back and I’ll try to be better…

I want to thank everyone who is coming back to read more after such a hiatus and I promise now that my IRL issues are resolved I’ll be trying updating semi regularly. Or at least more than I have been.