A Life With Ponies

A Life With Ponies

Chapter 4 REMAKE: School Blues

"Look, guys, I know this is really weird... but I swear, they just appeared in the backyard a few hours ago... This isn't how I pictured this in my head..."

The room falls silent.

Then, Tristen stands up, with an eager grin on his face. He's not going to...

Oh, yes, he is.

He immediately walks over to Rainbow Dash, who takes a few steps back, before Tristen is right up close to her.

"Oh. My. God. It's you! I can't believe it! Rainbow Dash! And Rarity! Twilight! Flutter-!"

I punch him in the gut, which shuts him up quite quickly. "They. Don't. Know. About. That." I say through gritted teeth. Twilight walks over to my writhing brother, and places a hoof on his shoulder. "Know about what, JD?" She asks. "How does he know?"

My heart starts racing. Crap, I didn't think about that.

"Uh..."

Then, a signal pops into my brain.

Lie.

"There's a legend. It says that, generations ago, a wise old man had gone missing. People searched high and low, but he was nowhere to be found. Then, one day, he turned up far away from his home. He told everyone he had traveled to another world where ponies talked, and were defended by six ponies known as the Bearers of Harmony. These six ponies was a purple unicorn named Twilight Sparkle, a white Unicorn by the name of Rarity. There was a very shy Pegasus named Fluttershy, and a very adventurous one named Rainbow Dash. Then, there were two ponies without wings or horns. Pinkie Pie and Applejack."

The ponies stood awestruck.

"Wait. You' tellin' me, we're legends in this world?"

"Yeah." Dad says. "I-... I heard that legend."

Good to know he's helping me.

"If you want..." Anna says. "You can stay here until we find a way to send you home."

The ponies start conversing among themselves for a little.

"Mrs. Newport, we'd be honored!" Twilight says happily.

Aaaaand, that's when I completely lost it.

I let out a short scream and fainted.

As I come to, I can vaguely feel a bed under me and a blanket covering me. I groan, and strain to open my eyes. With little success, I decide to roll off the bed. This succeeds in waking me up, but also making my arm go numb.

I groan again. "Maybe it was all a dream... I'll open my eyes, and I'll have missed school...." I slowly open my eyes to reveal my wooden floor. So far so good.... I slowly stand up, prompting my head to pound.

I get up on my feet, and take a look around my room, and spot my pills beside my TV. I grab them and take two out, and pop them in my mouth, swallowing them down.

I sigh.

I step towards the door and open it, and walk out into the living room, and I see exactly what I feared I would see. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Twilight are sitting on one of the couches, while Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy sit on the floor, all watching Spongebob.

"This electronic device is amazing!" Twilight exclaims. "It plays an image for ponies to view at will, and you can change it!" She continues, pressing a few buttons on the TV remote, changing the channel, getting cries of annoyance from her friends.

"Twilight, change it back..." I say. She does so, and sets the remote on the coffee table in front of her. "Okay..." I walk over to the kitchen, and open up a cabinet, and pull out a few chocolate cupcakes. "Anyone.... Anypony want a cupcakes...?"

I hear an excited yelp from somepony- presumably Pinkie Pie- and that theory is proved as she pops in front of me with wide eyes and a gleam in her irises. "Cupcakes?!?!" She gasps. "You have those here?!" I chuckle, and toss her one, which she catches in her mouth and swallows in one fell swoop.

She smiles, and hops away happily.

The rest of the day went by uneventfully.

The Next Day

I slowly drag myself out of peaceful slumber, and open my eyes. The absence of light is unusual, as at this time Dustyn was awake and getting dressed, while he let me sleep in for a few minutes. Maybe he just got finished early.

I get up, and pull out a drawer, and get out a baby blue shirt with thin white stripes on it. I also grab a pair of light blue jeans. After getting dressed, I grab my pills and gulp two down. "Ugh..." I look at my small patch of blankets on the floor, and then to Rainbow Dash, who was sleeping in my bed with Fluttershy.

"See ya, guys."

I walk out if the room to see my siblings gathered on the couches, waiting to leave for school. "Why didn't anyone wake me up?" I ask.

"We did. You went back to sleep." Dustyn says.

"What?"

"Yup. Anyway, it's your turn to drive." Dustyn says, and tosses me a bundle of keys. I snatch them out of the air, and sit down next to Zack.

Soon enough, it's time to leave for school.

School. I remember when I used to be so excited to come here everyday... Then I went into the Sixth Grade, and that's when I realized that school was a cruel place, where the nerds like me were the prey for the popular teens and the jocks to pick on until we're nothing but bone.

As I walk in, my mood goes from bad to worse. The hallways are painted the school colors, black and grey. The colors seem to twist into each other, causing my head to become dizzy. I have low blood pressure, so, being dizzy doesn't help me any.

The school isn't built for the amount of students it currently holds. It has over eight hundred students, while the school is only built for six hundred. We make room by allowing some kids to go outside for a few class periods. This makes some room for a little time. When no kids are allowed outside, the rooms are very crowded.

During the twenty minutes where school hasn't officially started yet, but students must be there, my friends and I usually meet up at the back of the main part of the school. My friends are Christian, Jared, and Nicholas. Jared is a huge Sonic fan, like myself. He is also a fan of Batman, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Transformers. He's slightly on the heavy side, but he's not fat. He has short, brown hair, brown eyes, and pimples all over his pale face.

Nick is slightly paler, with medium length brown hair. His eyes are a deep aqua, and he is overall really skinny. Christian is the muscular guy of the group, being the only one who went into any sports. He has a facial structure much like Nicholas's, though his hair is longer. His eyes are blue, and is... Well, overall, he gets the girls. I'll let that speak for itself.

I met them at the usual spot, where I find my three friends sitting there waiting for me. "Hey, guys." I say as I drop my backpack and sit down in between Christian and Nicholas. "Ugh... I'm tired."

"So am I." Christian responds. He is playing on his PSP, though I don’t look to see what game. Jared is looking at his Yu-Gi-Oh manga and Nicholas is just sitting there, listening to us talking. “But you don’t see me complaining.”

“I’m not.”

“Yes, you are.”

“Whatever.” I pull my iPod out of my pocket, and turn it on. I discover that I got a text message (Blasphemy!) from Anna.

Rainbow Dash told me to tell you that she’s going for a quick fly-by over the town.

I stare at the message. “Tell her that she can go. I’m not their boss.” I hit send, and after a few seconds, I get a reply.

She says that since you found them, they listen to you.

“Tell her that...” I pause. “Tell her that she can go. But I’m not they’re boss. They don’t have to listen to me.” I hit send, and after waiting a few seconds, I don’t get a reply.

Christian taps my shoulder.

I look at him, and he laughs his head off.

“I have come to two conclusions, JD... One: You met some creepy girl over the internet who has a fetish for acting like Rainbow Dash... or two: you somehow got the actual pony to come to your house.”

“I- uh- uh-.....”

He laughs again. “Please tell me it’s number one.”

I don’t respond, and his face starts to go blank. “JD... please tell me it’s number one.”

“Ah.... ‘bout that...” I laugh.

Needless to say, Christian lost his mind for about fifty minutes.

After school, Christian was walking with my brother, Zack, and I. For a few years now, I had to walk him home, ever since a problem with bullies arose. He could take care of himself, so I have no idea why I need to walk him home... probably the whole “I’m the bigger brother” thing. But, I do it anyway. Hey, maybe he could protect me.

Anyway, we were halfway home. That’s where Christian goes off on his own way, as he lives on a different street than I do. We were by a public pool, where we go for the summer during our free time. I don’t always want to go, but sometimes I do. And when  I do, I get harrassed by my school bullies everytime without fail.They stop for a week, then start up again.

It seems like they just WANT to drive me to kill myself. Which I have no intention of doing, by the way.

Anyway, I’m getting off topic. We were halfway halfway home. Just past the pool.

Then, as I should have guessed, some guy steps in our way. He was a Senior if I knew one. He was muscular, tall, has facial hair... In fact, I think I knew the guy when we were in Elementary school together.

"Can I help you?" I ask.

"You got a problem?" The guy responds.

"You're in my way." My mouth is moving on it's own. I have no idea why I'm mouthing off to this guy. I'm actually scared out of my mind.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Here, let me get out of your way!" He says as he pushes me down to the ground. My backpack flips off my shoulder and into the street.

I groan in pain.

I had landed on my shoulder, and it hurt like hell.

“Not so tough now, are ya?” The Guy says as he laughs some more. Slowly picking myself off the ground, I groan some more.

“That.... Hurt...”

Once I am on my feet again, I turn towards the street to pick up my backpack. Seeing that it’s still in it’s same position, I take a step towards it, only to find myself spiraling back towards the ground. That senior tripped me!

“JD!” Zack exclaims as he runs over to me, helping me off the ground. “Are you okay?”

“Hurting... but fine.” I cough a little, and I face the senior. “Okay... I... guess we’re fighting, now...” A sharp pain pierces my sides as the senior punches me, but, luckily for me, I did not go down again. I manage to recover fairly quickly, and swing a fist towards the senior.

I missed.

Zack manages to hit him in the chest a few times, before being thrown aside. Seriously, this guy is strong. He must have been in Weight Training since middle school. I swing yet another punch, and actually make contact with his ribs. I heard him grunt slightly, but other than that, I didn’t really do much to him.

He pushes me backwards and into a nearby pole. I close my eyes and breath heavily. This guy is very strong. and I’m just a nerd with six fictional ponies in his house.

Well, isn’t this a fair fight.

The senior starts to run at me, but I quickly dodge out of the way, surprising myself. I laugh a little, only to see that he’s recovered very quickly.

“Oh, man.”

I roll my eyes. Why is he fighting me? I don’t know. Why am I not running? I have no clue. What I do know is, is that I just found out one thing: He’s not very smart.

And that is one thing I have over him.

I step in front of a tree that’s off the side of the path. I get into a “Come at me, bro” stance, and wait.

He charged at me again, which I easily avoid like the first time. Unlike last time, however, he didn’t recover as quickly. He had broken his nose, I could tell from the blood pouring out of it, and the fact that it was bent at an awkward angle. He looked like he was in a lot of pain, which I’m sure he was.

“Are you gonna stay down, or does he have to do that again?” Zack jokes.

When the senior doesn’t get up, I take that as a “Go away before I beat you up”, and I grab my backpack.

“This... was an interesting day.” I say as I continue to walk Zack home.

A few minutes later, we arrived back home. I said hi to my Dad and Anna, and walked straight to my room. When I open the door, the first thing I see is Rainbow Dash sleeping on my bed.

“How can she still be asleep? ‘Laziest Mare in Equestria’, right here. Or... Earth.... I dunno...”

I quietly set down my backpack and walk over to her. Giggling a bit, I push her off the bed, which causes her to spring awake. “Huh?! What?! Who’s there!?” She stutters, before noticing me laughing. “You...” She growls, and rams me in the chest, sending me backwards a little.

“Ow! Hey!”

“Why’d you push me off the bed?”

“You were asleep.”

“And?”

“It’s 3:15. In the afternoon.”

She looks to the clock on my wall, and back to me. “You could have just woken me up.”

I slowly start to stand up. “I did.”

She rolls her eyes, but, despite trying not to, she starts to laugh. I soon join in, and we spent the next five minutes laughing our heads off.