A Symbiote's Best Friend

Jessica sprinted down the halls of Canterlot high, practically throwing herself around a corner when one appeared, this was the twelfth time in five weeks she would be late for her first class of the day.

"God damn it not again." She hissed to herself as she hit a turn a bit to fast. She jumped and ran across the wall for three steps before stepping back on to the floor. "Sling, you know this is your fault?"

"My fault? How is this my fault?" Sling said in Jessica's mind.

"Well for starters your the one who talked me in to going after that speeding car."

"True, but think about how good you felt when we caught them."

"You have a point. Now shut it, we're here."

Jessica reached her classroom and practically bursted. Immediately all eyes where on her. She gave a sheepish smile and walked towards her desk.

"Sorry, I'm late Dr Conners." Jessica said as she pulled her books from her bag and sat down.

"Honestly Jessica I can't even say I'm suprised anymore. This is the fifth time now. You've been late to my class specifically." Dr Conners said as he looked up from his computer. "Now, to catch you up to speed, we are on page fifty six in the textbook and we are looking at antibodies and healing."

Jessica nodded and flipped open the textbook and turned to the page.

"Jessica?" Dr Conners said.

"Yeah?"

"That's the wrong textbook. This is biology, not chemistry."

"Crap, my bad Dr Conners."

Jessica, looked back in to her bag and pulled out the correct book and then turned to the page. Conners nodded and looked back to his computer.

"Now I want you to read from that page to page sixty three." Dr Conners said. Jessica sighed and started to read. She picked up the information quickly thanks to Sling. Even before bonding with Sling Jessica was a bit of a nerd, but with the help of her new friend she was an even bigger nerd.

"Psst... hey..." A gentle voice came from infront of her. Jessica looked up from her book and saw Rainbow Dash looking back at her.

"What do you want Rainbow?" Jessica asked with a deadpan voice.

"Oh, nothing just wondering how in the world you could be late so often to this class, I mean it's not like you got anything interesting going on right?" Rainbow Dash said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. "Lile I know you're smart and all but you can't be smart enough to skip school."

"Rainbow Dash, be quiet and let Jessica do her work." Dr Conners said, not having to even look away from his computer.

"Sorry sir." Rainbow Dash said as she turned back to her own book.

Jessica rolled her eyes and looked back to her book.

"Can we go now?" Sling asked in Jessica's mind.

"Not yet." Jessica said silently.

"How, about now?"

"No."

"Now?"

"I said no"

The day was coming to an end and Sling had started to get extremely impatient. Jessica knew how much she hates school. But unfortunately for Sling this was important to Jessica.

Her pen scribbled across the page infront of her as she finished the final equation on the test sheet. She got up and walked to the front desk and slid it on to the teachers desk before walking back. While on her way back she noticed Rarity looked like she was having an absolute breakdown over the seventh question. She was, chewing the end of her pen nervously and tapping her foot. Jessica smirked a little and sat back down.

Not even a second after she sat down some faint static came over the intercom before someone began speaking.

"Can Jessica Jade please come to Principal Celestia's office. That's Jessica Jade to Principal Celestia's office."

Jessica sighed and stood up before grabbing her and walking out the door towards the Principal's office.

"Ooooo... how much trouble do you think she is in this time Twilight." Said Rainbow Dash as soon as Jessica stepped out the door.

Jessica sighed again and walked down the hall and made it to the office. She knocked on the door and a voice called from within.

"Come in."

Jessica opened the door and walked in.

"Jessica it's great to see you, please take a seat." Celestia said in a cheerful yet serious tone. Jessica wasn't sure how she did it, but nevertheless she did as she was told and sat across the desk from Celestia.

"So why did you call me in?" Jessica asked, but deep down she knew she didn't need to.

"Well I'm here to discuss your attendance at this school, your random acts of absence and your behaviour." Celestia said in a slightly more serious tone. "Now Jessica, I don't know what to do with you. Your constantly late or disappearing in the middle of the day, but yet your grades have stayed the same as they were when you were in New York. And I don't know if I'm impressed or not."

Jessica didn't say anything and looked down slightly.

"But you have to know I can't allow you to be constantly late or just dissappear, even if you have good grades."

"I understand Miss." Jessica said.

"So, reluctantly I'm going to put you in to after school detention for a week."

"What, no! She can't do that to us!" Sling yelled in Jessica's head.

"Now, I also want to talk about how you behave with others. You seem to keep your distance and not get close with your peers..."

"Yeah that's because they want nothing to do with me." Jessica said, cutting off Celestia. "To all of them I'm the freaky new girl who stays all by herself."

"I understand that, but you haven't put in any effort in to socialising. Now I know it must have been hard for you to suddenly move, but I need you to try your hardest."

Jessica huffed and crossed her arms, she refused to meet Celestia's eyes.

"Please Jessica make some friends." Celestia pleaded. Jessica said nothing and just sat there, uncomfortably shuffling every now and then.

"Alright... I'll let you go now." Said Celestia. Jessica nodded and stood up just as the bell rang to signal the end of the day. But for Jessica the day was still not over.

Jessica sat alone in a classroom with Vice-Principal Luna. She had been assigned some extra work by Dr Connors but she had already finished, so she sat there doodling random shapes, occasionally sneaking a look at her phone when Luna wasn't looking.

"Alright I'm stepping out for a bit, I'll be back in five minutes." Luna said as she stood up from her desk. Jessica simply put her thumb up and watched Luna leave. As soon as she had left the room Jessica pulled out her phone and looked at the news. The first thing that popped up looked like a live coverage of a bank robbery.

She immediately sat up in her chair and put her pen down. She looked to the window to her left and a single thought crossed her mine.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Sling asked.

"Yep."

A little over ten minutes later Luna walked back in to the detention room.

"Sorry, I got caught up with..." Luna paused her sentence as she noticed Jessica was missing and the window was open.

"Damn that girl is sneaky." Luma said as she shut the window.