I slammed my head against the desk and groaned. The others sat at my table, writing. Sunset sipped her Sprite as she watched with a smirk. Lucky bastard. She was a fast writer. Maybe I could ask her to do my homework for me. I can’t ask her to write my essay for me because she already spent an hour after school with us all writing.

“This sucks. Might be the most boring thing ever done,” I grumbled. Vinyl glanced over at me before focusing back on her writing. “Why do we even have to write a report to Principle Celestia about our trip to Equestria, anyway?”

“Probably because the only reason she agreed to let us go to Equestria for a month while school was in session if we treated it as learning experience and wrote a paper documenting all we did and learned when we got back Lyra,” Bon Bon replied with her eyes glued to her paper. Derpy was chewing on the end of her pencil as she sighed in boredom.

“Fair enough,” I grumbled. I hated writing long essays like this. “Sunset, can you go get me a Sprite please?”

“Yeah sure,” she stood up from the table. “I’ll go talk to the sirens before I come back.” I watched as she walked out of the classroom to make sure she was gone.

“So guys I was thinking,” I began.

“Dangerous for you,” Vinyl quipped with a smirk.

“Shush Vinyl. This is serious.” Vinyl stared at me with a frown.

“We’re listening,” she said as she set her glasses on the table. “What’s up Lyra?” The others glanced at me nervously.

“I was thinking we should omit some details of what we did in Equestria,” I admitted.

“Do what?” Vinyl asked. I rolled my eyes in frustration.

“It means leave out,” Octavia explained. I gave her a grateful smile.

“Oh. What were you thinking?”

“Let’s see. In Equestria, we watched Sunset’s Equestrian mom die in front of us. And then we got kidnapped. And then we watched Sunset go on a massive murder spree because of an ancient amulet lost to time. If we leave that in the report, then Celestia and Luna would probably never let us go back to Equestria again. They already lied to our parents about us going on a month long nature trip. If they find out what happened, they may never let us go back and I want to go back,” I explained. A silence fell over us as we all looked at each other.

“She’s right,” Octavia admitted. “They would be asking a lot of questions about Sunset now if they knew.”

“I agree,” Cheerilee spoke up from her desk as her pen moved across her paper. Principal Celestia had wanted a report from her too. “I already planned on leaving it out. Technically, I was unconscious for most of the time during that situation so I didn’t see any of it.”

“See?” I pointed at Cheerilee with my pencil. “Even her mom agrees with us.”

“Okay we’re in,” Bon Bon said. “But Sunset thinks it was a dream. How do we know she won’t put her dream in her version of the report?” That was a good question. I didn’t think about that.

“Well let’s look at her paper,” I decided. “Where the fuck is it?”

“Language Lyra please,” Cheerilee said sternly. “We’re in school.” I turned a faint shade of red as Bon Bon giggled. I gave her a gentle shove before sighing.

“Sorry.”

“It’s okay. Just be careful who hears you,” Cheerilee chuckled as she finished writing and stapled her papers together before putting it in a folder. “As for Sunset’s paper, she already handed me it and I read it just in case. She didn’t mention the kidnapping incident. Nor did she mention her biological mom dying. She did briefly touch on it but all she said was she lost someone close.” I let out a sigh. It was still kinda affecting us all and we barely knew the women yet she was kind as hell to us all. Or mare I suppose I should say to be accurate.

“At least Sunset took all the pictures of her mom and belongings from her house,” Bon Bon sighed and leaned against me. She had asked Twilight to put all the furniture and other stuff from her old house in her room in the castle for safekeeping. She brought all the pictures and other personal belongings of her mom here.

“Yeah. Some nights I find her just staring at pictures of her mom,” Cheerilee admitted. “It sucks but all we can do is support her. Losing family never really goes away. You just learn to cope with it. Just give her time girls.” We all looked at each other and sighed.

“We know,” Derpy sighed. “Doesn’t make it any easier.” We all fell quiet and looked down sullenly.

“Hey Lyra,” Sunset strode into the room. “I got you your Sprite you asked for,” She paused and looked around in confusion. “Are you guys alright?” I took my Sprite and forced a smile.

“Yeah we are fine.” Sunset quickly sat next to me and Derpy, giving her a quick kiss. I gave the pair a smirk.

“What are you plans after school guy?” Derpy asked quickly. She must have sensed I was about to say something and decided to intervene. She was getting good at that. Scarily good.

“Me and Tavi have a movie night tonight,” Vinyl answered.

“Me and Bon Bon are going on a date. Just hanging out at my house but we both prefer simplicity some days. Unless it’s our anniversary,” I replied. “What about you?” More like we were gonna watch hella movies, make out and maybe some more physical activities but they didn’t need to know about that.

“I don’t know,” Derpy admitted. “Can I come spend the night Miss Cheerilee?” Cheerilee gave a shrug and smiled.

“Of course. Let me call your dads class room and let him know,” she answered as she picked up her classroom phone. “You’re always welcome to my house. Just like all of the other girls my daughter is friends with.” Derpy gave a massive grateful smile.

“Thank you.”

Author's Note

Next chapter might be one of the sirens povs.