Secret Crush

Joe slammed the accelerator, they had finished lunch and Scootaloo had told Joe that her and Mario had met in the hallway and started chit chatting, leaving out the part about the kitchen scene for obvious reasons. “Shit, sorry if we’re late for class” Joe muttered, Scootaloo looked out the window of the car, it had recently stopped raining and the sun was shining brightly in the sky. The rain had left a beautiful glisten to Equestria and it was almost like one of those perfect moments where everything seems alright.

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The rest of the school day had went along without any sort of hiccups. Joe now ran outside with the rest of the high school football team as they practiced. The coach had the kick-off team doing their routine while the others ran laps around the field. “So Joe… a little bird… tells me that… you went out to lunch today… with Scootaloo” puffed Dandelion, one of the team members, as they ran their laps. “Who’d you here that from? Tiara?” Joe asked, his breathing was a little bit more controlled but he too was panting a little bit.

“Yeah… she said… that you drove her… in your car” Dandelion puffed. “Yeah, we went to Tony’s Place” Joe told him and Dandelion managed to chuckled between his exhausted pants. “TEAM… GET WATER” the coach called and the team stopped running and began gasping for air, for whatever reason the coach had them running laps for the last hour and a half with no breaks. The team jogged over to the watering hose, “So how’d it go?” Dandelion asked and Joe shrugged “Like any other lunch, got a table, ate lunch and left” Joe replied as he grabbed a water bottle and sucked back the water.

Dandelion raised an eyebrow “Anything else, interesting, happen?” Dandelion asked and Joe shrugged. “Not really… oh you sick perv” Joe laughed and Dandelion simply shrugged.

The team gathered together under the goal posts and the coach gave them a quick speech about healthy living and not to drink alcohol before any games and what not. The team nodded and the coach dismissed them.

As they entered the change room several other stallions started conversing about random shit. Joe started pulling off his shoulder pads, they hadn’t been meant for humans and didn’t quite fit on him right but he made it work. “Hey Joe, we’re having a party tonight at Mossy’s, wanna come?” Pipsqueak asked, Joe shook his head “Sorry boys, gotta work tonight” Joe replied, several of the team members grumbled, “Awe come on Joe” some of the team members pleaded but Joe shook his head.

“Man, you gotta work every night” Thunder Shot, a relative of Thunder lane, retorted. “Yeah well you know” Joe replied as he slipped on some jeans. “Yeah we know alright… know that you’re tapping that ass” Dandelion laughed, making a crude joke about Joe and Applejack. “Yeah ‘okay’, she’s like twice my age” Joe chuckled, not offended by the joke. The joke had started back in grade 10 when one of the football players began to tease Joe about him always working late and soon they began a joke that he was fucking Applejack, though the entire team knew it wasn’t true. “Twice the age, twice the experience” Dandelion laughed and Joe simply shook his head in disappointment at Dandelion’s crude joke.

Joe slipped on a loose white T-shirt and began to leave when Thunder Shot called out “Joe! Hoof wrestle with Revy”. Revy was one of the biggest offensive linemen and had a reputation to constantly butt heads with Joe in terms of pure brute strength. Joe turned back and saw that several football players had somehow managed to get a school desk in the change room. Revy kneeled down on one side of the table and got his hoof ready, Joe sighed to himself and dropped his duffle bag to the floor, several of the team members cheered.

Joe knelt down on the other side of the table, across from Revy, and grabbed Revy’s hoof with his hand. Thunder Shot held their hoof and hand together, “Okay when I let go… you two guys go at it” Thunder Shot said with a grin.

Thunder Shot let go of them and the duo began to grunt as they tried to overpower one another. Revy’s face instantly went beat red and veins started bulging from his forehead as her grunted in effort to overpower Joe. Both their biceps flexed and veins began to bulge from their massive muscles. Joe gave out small grunts and slowly began to overtake Revy, Joe began to smile as he eased down on his effort just to make it look a little more like a fair fight. Revy continued to grunt furiously as his hoof was slowly brought down to the table. Several of the team members cheered as they watched the two titans clash in a hoof wrestle.

Revy’s hoof was inches away from the table when he finally gave up, giving out a gasp and taking in a huge breath of air as Joe slammed his hoof down. Joe let out a deep exhale and took in a deep breath of air. Joe tapped Revy on the shoulder and shook his hoof “Good fight man, we’ll have to do that again sometime” Joe said as he got up. Joe stretched out and grabbed his bag as he left, giving a wave to his fellow team members as he left for work.

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The next morning Scootaloo arrived at school feeling good about life, though yesterday had been very strange and awkward she felt that today would be different and that things would go splendidly.

As the bell rang for school she trotted towards Joe’s locker, hoping to find him in need of her assistance but this time he wasn’t at his locker. She figured maybe he was running late or something and waited at his locker until the bell rang again, signaling that classes had started, she figured that perhaps he had finally figured out how locks worked and was probably already in class.

Scootaloo rushed to the history class where Mr. Cotton was already teaching the lesson, she looked to the back corner where she always sat with Joe. Only to see that he wasn’t sitting there, it took her off guard because he never missed class unless it was for a class trip from another class, but there was no class trips from another class today and she knew that because she was in all his other classes.

Scootaloo sat down but couldn’t keep her mind off of where Joe could possibly be. “Scootaloo?” Mr. Cotton asked and Scootaloo looked up, “Huh?” Scootaloo replied. “The answer to question 7?” Mr. Cotton asked her and Scootaloo was lost, “Uhm the what?” she asked and Mr. Cotton sighed. “Did you do last night’s homework?” Mr. Cotton asked and Scootaloo nodded her head, of course she always did her homework.

Scootaloo started rummaging through her bags, “Never mind, I’ll come back to you, Daffodil, the answer please” Mr. Cotton told another student. Daffodil began to tell him the answer about the evolution of technology during the beginning of the twentieth century.

Scootaloo trailed off again thinking about where Joe could possibly be and before she knew it Mr. Cotton was nudging her foreleg. Scootaloo shook off her thoughts, “Huh… uhm what question are we on?” Scootaloo asked and Mr. Cotton chuckled “Class ended two minutes ago, you were off in la-la land” Mr. Cotton laughed.

“Oh so sorry Mr. C” Scootaloo gasped and grabbed her things and rushed out of the classroom. Mr. Cotton shrugged. “See you tomorrow then” he muttered to himself and went back to his desk.

Scootaloo rushed down the hallways but as she did Diamond Tiara stood in her way and stopped her. Scootaloo skidded to a halt, “I have a bone to pick with you” Tiara scoffed and Scootaloo rolled her eyes, “I don’t have time for your stupid insults right now” Scootaloo grumbled and tried to push past when a large stallion stepped forward and blocked her path. Tiara stepped forward and poked her hoof into Scootaloo’s chest “You just stay the fuck away from Joe, he’s mine and no-pony is going to take him away from me, especially not some snooty little goody two shoes” Tiara scolded and Scootaloo stepped back as Tiara became more aggressive. “You understand me bitch” Tiara scowled and Scootaloo simply tried to move around them but the large stallion once again stepped in her way. ‘Jeeze where’s Joe when I really need him?’ Scootaloo thought to herself. “Hey bitch I’m talking to you, do you understand me or do I have to slap it into your head?” Tiara asked, in a bitchy tone. “Yeah whatever… slut” Scootaloo laughed, remembering the story Joe had told her.

“You dumb little cunt” Tiara gasped as she went to bitch slap Scootaloo, Scootaloo flinched but Tiara stopped just as a teacher came around the corner. “We’ll settle this later” Tiara hissed and trotted off, the big stallion following her. ‘If that’s her current coltfriend, then doesn’t he mind that she pretty much just said she was trying to get in another guys pants right in front of him?’ Scootaloo thought to herself as she rushed to her math class.

See managed to make it to class before she was late and sat down beside Applebloom. “Hey Scootaloo, how’s it going?” Applebloom asked and Scootaloo shrugged “Not bad, how bout you?” Scootaloo asked. “Same old, same old” Applebloom replied as the bell rang and the math teacher began the lesson.

The math teacher was going about the lesson and Scootaloo leaned over to Applebloom. “Class doesn’t seem right without Joe here screwing around” Scootaloo whispered to her friend. Applebloom leaned over, “Yeah ah know, last night at work he was applebuckin and him and Big Mac began to have a show of strength of who could kick down more apples. Anyway Joe went and booted a huge apple tree and it broke and landed on him” Applebloom whispered, “WHAT” Scootaloo gasped out loud and the teacher stopped his lesson. “Please Scootaloo don’t interrupt” the teacher told her but she paid no mind.

“Is he okay?” Scootaloo asked and Applebloom shrugged. “Well sis and muh brother brought him tah the hospital last night an…” Applebloom began but trailed off as Scootaloo dashed out of the classroom. The teacher watched Scootaloo dash out of the classroom and looked to Applebloom, “You mind telling me what just happened?” the teacher asked and Applebloom simply shrugged “Ah don’t know”.