Chapter 8: The Surprise! Pt.1*edited*

Coraline had abandoned C.D. and Red. She hid in one of the playground structures while nopony was paying attention.

'Alone.' That word haunted Coraline. 'They're right. What it happens again?....No. They wouldn't. He wouldn't.'

"Coraline!" That voice. She leaned her head out through a hole in the playhouse and saw Cee with Red close behind. "Why'd you run? What did they mean when they said 'you'll just end up alone...Just like when you left us.'?" Cee asked with concern. Coraline left the playhouse and approached Cee.

"Do you really want to know?..." she asked in disbelief.

"I do." Cee said with a smile. "But only if, you know, you want to tell me."

"And me!" Red quickly added.

Coraline sighed. "It all started when-" The school bell had rung. Causing everypony in the schoolyard to groan.

"I'll tell you guys later." She got up and headed towards the building, leaving C.D. and Red siting on the grass.

"What do you think, Cee?" Red asked.

"I think...We should skip our class."

Red's jaw dropped. All he did was just look at Cee dumbfounded. "SKIP?!" He was, however quickly silenced by C.D.'s hoof.

"Shh!" He hissed. "I need to know why she's like this! And besides, that substitute won't care." He had a point. "We're just going to go to her class and confront her about it, I'll come up with an excuse for why we're there. Okay?" Red nodded.

"But what if somepony sees us? We'll be dead for sure."

"Red," Cee said mischievously. "What will Twilight Sparkle think if she knew you chickened out of something REALLY important?" Red's went as wide as dinner plates. "...She'll probably think of you as a...coward."

  Red stood up on his hind legs and went into a salute, "As Celestia as my witness, I will NOT let Twilight down!" He stomped back down on his fore legs. "Let's go." He began to walk towards the school.

  'I can't believe that worked!' C.D. thought happily.

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  The school was moderately small. There was a single hallway with 5 rooms either side. Cee and Red's class room was the third door on the opposite side of where they were standing. They quickly scanned every door until Red waved Cee over. He looked inside to see a teacher, with her back to the class as she wrote something on the board. There was nopony in the class that they recognized. Except the faded orange filly with lemonade yellow hair in the back of the class.

  "Okay, you ready?" Cee whispered. "You know, you don't have to do this if you don't want to."

  "Oh, please!" Red nudged him. "If I left you hanging, and something happened to you, Sky would never talk to me again... or see me as a hero."

"Wait...What?" Cee said puzzled. "Don't you mean 'Twilight'?"

  "Right." Red then looked at Cee. "What did I say?"

  "Never mind." Cee whispered. "Alright then. Here go's anything!" Cee opened the door and stepped inside.

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  Meanwhile, a small way away, Vinyl was pacing in her front yard. She was talking to herself, telling herself to 'calm the buck down'. Then Pinkie Pie trotted up carrying several boxes filled with decorations and supplies on her back. And for some reason, dragging a cannon tied to her tail..

  "Hey, Scratchie! I have the stuff-" She was silenced as Vinyl put her hoof over Pinkie's mouth.

  "Yeah, Pinkie, I'm glad you're here. But were you followed?" Vinyl asked looking around suspiciously.

  "Nope!" She muffled under the hoof.

   Vinyl removed her hoof and signaled Pinkie into the house. The living room had been cleared out to make space for the supplies...and the cannon.

   "This is soooooooooooooo EXCITING!!" Pinkie squealed. "I can't believe you're throwing a surprise birthday party for Octy tonight! This gonna be even bigger than your anniversary! Maybe bigger than the gala. Well, maybe not, but you know what I mean!"

    You couldn't tell, with the sunglasses and all, but Vinyl squinted at Pinkie. "Pinkie, it's hard to keep something like this a surprise, when you shout it out like that." Vinyl said with a cold tone, but quickly changed it to a happy and Pinkie-ish one. "But anyway, Hay Yes! This party is gonna be the bomb!" Vinyl jumped in the air, but she suddenly remembered something, and she fell with a thud.

   "What is it, Scratchie?" Pinkie said with a concerned face. Vinyl sat on the floor for a minute thinking and tapping her hoof to her chin, then a light bulb appeared above her head.

    "Pinkie!" She rose from the ground. "I need you to head down to the school! Find C.D. and tell him to get his friends

to set up their band in here!" She then levitated a box off Pinkie's back and ran towards the kitchen. She turned her head with a grin on her face. "By any means necessary."

   "Okie, Dokie, Lokie!" And with that, Pinkie hopped towards the school.

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     Everpony rose their heads from the desks and looked at the colts who just walked in. Cee looked around the room nervously, hoping none of them would recognize him or Red, who hid behind him.

"E-excuse me." The teacher stopped writing and looked towards the door. She smiled.

   "Well, hello there! Who are you?" She asked politely.

   Cee dug deep down into his mind and re-found his accent, giving it a more rough sound. "Yea, Ah'm Mordecai 'und this be meh Brotha, Claude." He nudged Red. "We are foreign exchange students from out of town. We'll only be 'ere for a day! So we will just move to our seats!" He and Red moved nervously to the back row to the empty seats next to Coraline, who still had her head down the whole time.

   "Oh! Well, go ahead sit down." She said. "We were just about to learn about the workings of emotions." She then turned back to the chalk board. Cee shook his head at the thought of a teacher being so clueless.

    Red looked at Cee with a confused expression. "Claude? Mordecai?" He whispered.

    "Oh shut up!" Cee shot back. He then turned attention to Coraline. "Hey, Coraline." He nudged her. "Coraline, it's me! C.D.!" She lifted her head up and looked at Cee. Her annoyed look turned into one of horror.

    "What are you two doing here?" She whispered. "Your going to get in trouble!"

   "Oh don't worry. We came up with a story. I said we were foreign." He said proudly.

  ".....Okay." She said as she tilted her head. "But what are you doing in here?"

"You left in the middle of telling us what Diamond Tiara meant." Red added.

"Agh." She slumped in her seat and looked towards the front of the class. "You skipped class to here a sob story? Why do you wanna know so bad?"

         "You make it seem so not important. You ran off, and...well...." Cee looked down at the desk in front of him. A blush formed on his face.

         "What?" She said looking back at him.

         Cee looked back into her eyes. "Well....You see-"

         "Romeo, over here, got all worried and he wanted to see if you were okay." Red added again, this time getting glared at by Cee. "What? It's true!"

Coraline smiled and leaned her head against Cee's head. "Oh, you are so sweet!"

         "Yeah, uh...I-it's n-nothing! I mean...." His tongue tied itself into a knot.

         She lifted her head and turned her desk towards Cee's and Red's. "Okay...It all began almost a year ago, when I was still friends with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon..."

      ***FLASHBACK NOISES***

It was a cold and rainy day in Ponyville and all the colts and fillies were headed for home, all except Silver Spoon, Diamond Tiara, and Coraline, who were sitting in Sugar Cube Corner. *'We were talking about things, just stupid filly talk. Silver Spoon was talking about somepony she didn't like. I never understood why all she and Diamond did was complain about stuff. All I wanted to do was hang out with my so-called friends. I was already mad at them for forgetting my birthday a while before and was a bit tired of listening to her talk about nothing...'*

"So I was like, 'You can keep your stupid seat!' and she was like 'Fine!' and I was like 'Good!' can you believe that?"

"Unbelievable! She should be ashamed for taking your seat! Right, Cory?" Diamond looked over to Coraline sitting across from her and Silver Spoon, with her head tilted to the right with her eyes closed. "Cory!"

"Uh...Wha..?" She had dosed off during Silver's little banter. "Sorry. What did you do?"

"Were you, like, just sleeping?" Silver Spoon glared.

"Are you, like, getting bored of us, Cory? You always never find anything we say interesting." Diamond asked smugly.

"No!" She exclaimed. "It's just-*sigh* Nothing, all right?" She looked down at the table, away from the two fillies gazes.

"What's wrong with you lately? First, it was ditching us to go see a boring play-"

Coraline slammed her hoof on the table. "That 'boring' play was for my birthday!" She shot back. "Which you two forgot! And my parents wanted to take me because I never see them!" She shouted, causing ponies sitting around the shop to flinch.

Diamond Tiara snorted. "Whatever. Then, you declined a invitation to MY birthday!" She shouted, causing ponies sitting around the shop to flinch. "What's the excuse there?"

Coraline calmed down and looked out the window, down the road to the library where Twilight, Trixie, and Spike lived. "I was helping some friends around at the library...I owed them something-"

"So! Who cares? It was my BIRTHDAY!" Diamond was livid and was glaring at Coraline.

"Yeah and when we made fun of those Cutie Mark Blank Flankers, you defended them!" Silver Spoon added.

"I defended them because-"

"Because WHAT?" Diamond Tiara shot at Coraline.

"Because there my friends!" She yelled. "You guys aren't my only friends you know! And just because you don't like them doesn't mean I don't!" She stood up from her seat and head towards the door. "If you WERE my friends and cared about me, you wouldn't judge me. You two have issues" And she stormed off into the rain. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon watched as she trotted away to the library.

"She, like totally just ditched us!" Silver Spoon exclaimed. "She just got up and left! Why are we even hanging out with her?"

"We're not." Diamond Tiara said coldly. "And neither are Those blank flanks, or anypony else when we're done."

Silver Spoon looked puzzlingly at Diamond until she was told about the plan that Diamond had thought of. Just to get back at Coraline.

         ***FLASHFOWARDS NOISES***

"What did they do?" Cee asked with concern. Coraline looked down and back up into Cee's eyes.

  She sighed. "They got me back." She added nothing else.

"That's it? You're not gonna tell us?" He asked. "You went to Twilight's, right? Did they spread a rumor? Did they hurt-"

   "This isn't the place, Cee." She cut him off looking away to hide tears, but they soon dried up when she looked towards the front of the class and her eyes widened. "What is she doing here?" Cee looked, too. He swore he heard glass break when his eyes snapped open wide. Pinkie Pie had bounced into the classroom and was talking to the teacher.

   "Have you seen a colt with white fur and a black mane and blue highlights? His name is C.D.!"

   'Crap!' Cee ducked under his desk and prayed to Celestia that the teacher wouldn't remember him.

  "Yes, actually. But he told me he was a foreign exchange student and that his name was 'Mordecai'...Excuse me, you two in the back!" She looked at Red, who was frozen, but she couldn't find Cee.

"Mordecai?" Coraline looked at Cee with a confused look.

"Told you it was stupid." Red whispered.

"Shut up!" Cee hissed. He looked back up at Coraline. She looked scared, maybe it was about getting into trouble just by being associated with him. He felt bad. And he wanted her to feel better.

"Coraline..." Cee spoke dramatically.

"Yes, Cee?" She looked down to him.

         "If anything happens to me..."

         "Yeah?" She looked at his eyes with fear.

"I was gushing a bit last night...." He started blushing. "And I promise that you won't get any slack for this." This made Coraline's eyes glow with happiness. 'He was gushing about me! He cares! (Girly Scream)' She thought. She looked at Red. He was as still as a statue and had fear written all over him.

         "Hey, Cee?" Red said aloud.

        "Yeah, Red?" Cee asked.

        "We are so caught, aren't we?"

         "Oh yeah."

         "Cee!" Pinkie ran to the back of the class and picked him up from under the desk and then hugged him tightly. "You silly willy! Why are you hiding under a desk?"

         "Well..." He began, trying to think of a lie. This was all for not, however. 'Aw, hay. What's the worst that could happen?' He thought as he looked back towards Pinkie. "...because I skipped class to come to this one." He said calmly. Pinkie's face went from excited to shock in 1.25 seconds flat. Beat that, Rainbow Dash.

         "Actually....I was trying to get my friend here," He pointed his hoof at Coraline. "To, uh...Go to a party you were hosting?" He was shocked. And so was Coraline.'He came up with that so fast.' She thought. 'Was he serious?' And to his luck, there was a party brewing. Too bad the rest of the children in class were assuming it as a date and were 'Oooing' and making kiss noises. Kids, right?

         "Well, you came to the right pony! Because Vinyl is planning a surprise party for your mom!" Pinkie said as the smile came back to her face. "Oh, yeah! And she wants you and your band to play!"

         "Really?!" Red and Cee yelled in unison.

         "Now hold on a second!" The teacher interrupted. "These colts are in serious trouble! So, on your way out I think you should drop them of at the off-" Her sentence was cut short by a pie to the face, curtsey of Pinkie Pie. She fell back and flipped over her desk.

         "Bail!" Red yelled as he and Pinkie ran out of the class.

Cee was about to follow but stopped and turned around to grab Coraline by the hoof. "Come on! Before she wakes up!" He pulled her out of her desk and they bolted out the door.

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Authors Notes

Wow. Crazy, right? Well, if it looks like the story is ending, it's not. It's just getting started! (Epic Guitar Solo!) Hope you enjoyed the chapter! 1/9/12 Hey, Bronies and Bronetts! I added a few things here and there! Tell me what you think below!

-TLC