"EEEEP!" I heard a voice scream.

It was the third day that I was now in this new foriegn land. I don't think I've ever really been this confused in my life. I didn't know where my home was, I didn't know who my friends were, I couldn't remember faces or anything. But I still remembered that I HAD a past life, and I remembered so many things from it. I was now here, in the company of six teenage girls, all who had a special charm in some way. It wasn't all bad, though. Granted, now that I've had time to really think about this situation, I realized that a normal person would be crying for home. . . but really, this was so much happier. I've only really gotten to know Twilight, but the other girls seemed incredibly nice. Hell, the school I went to seemed like a fun place too. I missed my old friends, but there were always times where I wanted to recreate my life. I wanted to just leave the stress of home sometimes, and now this was my chance. It was. . . relieving. Still, I needed to focus on getting back home! I could take my time, though. . .

"Ah! Joseph! I'm so sorry! My shipment for AP Study Test Books came in and I dropped them!" Twilight apologized from across the room, putting a stack of nine books on the table near the couch I had slept on.

"Twilight. . . it's. . ." I took a look at the clock mounted above the door. "Four Thirty. In the morning. What are you doing up?"

"DUH, silly! School! I have to be early for the first day! I have to get ready and make sure to study!" She explained. For being so early in the morning, she sure was wide awake. I never really knew when she went to bed, which scared me a little bit.

"What time does school start?" I groaned, moving my blanket closer to me.

"8 o'clock!" Twilight replied happily. There was a deep moment of silence, as Twilight had her goofy enthusiastic grin on her face, and I had a look of utter despair.

"Oh. . . Welp, good night, see you in two hours!" I exclaimed, pulling the blanket on top of me again, covering my head.

"Oh no you don't! You have to be wide awake for learning!" Twilight exclaimed, tugging on the blanket. "What if you're still sleepy in your first period and there's a test!? Aren't you worried?!"

"Meh. I never really cared much about that anyway." I sighed, still under the covers.

"Well. . . well. . . I'll sit on you until you get up!" Twilight giggled, desperate for a way to get me out of bed and awake in her insane learning mood.

Twilight no.

"If you don't get out RIGHT NOW, I'm gonna do it!"

Twilight.

"Here I come!"

Twili-

I could feel my face reddening as I felt her posterior laying across my stomach, moving side to side to comfort itself atop of me.

"FINE! Fine! I'll get up!" I yelped, still blushing. "Just. . . get off of me!"

"I knew I could figure you out!" Twilight giggled, getting off of my stomach. I'm not sure weather she meant that she could figure out that I didn't like people sitting on me or that I liked having butts close to my Jontron. . . but I dismissed the thought from my mind. I have to stop being such a pervert, this isn't the time or place for that! I pulled my head out of the covers and stood up, wobbling slightly from my tiredness.

"So. . . books?" I asked Twilight, pointing to the stack of books on the nearby table.

"Oh! Those are AP Study Guides! I got one for each of your AP classes!" She giggled, handing me three large softcover books, each marked with my name and a small happy face.

"Tina. . . I like the books and all, but I really don't want to study! After all, like, I never really study for the big tests like that. I just pay attention in class and do the review." I explained calmly. All Twilight could do was stare at me, as I could feel the tension rising as she stared into my eyes, her lips trembling.

"How do you live with yourself?! Honestly! NOT studying?! You ALWAYS need to study!" She growled, still staring at me with eyes that pierced into my soul.

"Eep." I whimpered. "Fine, I'll study! I'll study! Just don't be scary like that!" I couldn't really say I was the bravest marshmallow in the candy kingdom, and this cute little girl just broke down the incredibly tiny wall of self-confidence that I had in me. This was going to be a fun experience.

"Good. Now let's start with AP English. . ."

* * *

"Come oooon, Joseph! We're going to be late!" Twilight moaned. For once, she wasn't kidding. School started in twenty minutes and I was still trying to do last minute packing for school. I should have known to mention 'Hey, Tina! I really would need a backpack for school! We have three hours until we have to go! Let's go to the store and get one!' Luckily for me, she had an extra bag lying in her supply closet. Unluckily for me, it was the girly backpack she had last year. I really felt embarrassed to have it on me, for on the front, there was a picture of her as a pony. Or at least I assumed it was her. After all, she had the same hairstyle and the same spunky demeanor. 'You remember April? She likes to draw, and one say, she was like 'What if we were all horses!'' she told me when I asked her about it.

"Fine, fine, I'm all good!" I whined, jogging over to the door. Before I could think about anything else, I felt a familiar hand grab me. I knew exactly what I was about to go through. . .

* * *

"Twilight. . . You're going to. . . have to. . . stop doing this. . . to me. . ." I panted, slightly less so than yesterday, as Twilight stood in front of the school, feeling accomplished. The school itself wasn't anything special. It felt like my old home's rival school. . . something that wasn't my school school. The buildings were all blandly grey and concrete, with art of our mascot, the pony (They took this "Horse Grazing" history thing pretty seriously, I guess) on every building, relating to the subject that the building contained. As I walked onto the campus, the bell immediately rang. At least Twilight got me to school on time, even if I almost had to die going through it.

"Allright! First class! E - 221!" Twilight exclaimed, grabbing my hand and walking towards the building with the pony reading a book. Honestly, the school wasn't really that big in terms of people. I wasn't fighting to walk to my class, but it was large and spaceous. If I wanted to run around in circles to reach my class, I had the space to do it without hindering other people. It was definitely a lot more comforting than my old school. Twilight took me up the stairs adjacent to the doors and lead me to the classroom marked "Mr. Dodswell - E221 - AP English Literature and Composition" We entered to see a fairly empty class. I took a look at the clock above the whiteboard, and saw that school didn't start for another five minutes. Phew. At least I got time to adjust to people before class started.

"TIIIINA!" A voice screamed from the front of the class. I looked over to see a group of three girls giggling and waving at us.

"Ah! Roseluck! Hi!" Twilight exclaimed. "Oh, it's so nice to see you! Break was so short!"

I looked at the three girls inquisitively. My first social event since meeting the six girls. Once again, no guys around. They were all pretty nice looking and all. They wore T-Shirts each with different flowers on them. The one that had called out Twilight was a red haired girl with a lighter red streak through her hair (Like, legitimate red, not that orange hair that people call red hair for some reason). She wore a light tan shirt with a picture of a rose embroidered on it. Behind her were two girls, one with green hair (Normal hair I guess wasn't the norm in this town) and another with blonde hair, both bushily rolling down to their chest. They both wore pink shirts, the green haired girl's shirt being a lighter shade. I couldn't see from the angle I was standing at, but I assumed that there was emboridery on their shirts as well.

"Oh, I KNOW! The flower shop was SUCH a drag!" The red haired girl sighed.

"And whooooo's this good looking guy?" The green haired girl giggled. "You get a boyfriend that you didn't tell us about?"

"No, sillies! This is Joseph. He. . . he just moved in!" Twilight stated, giving an awkward smile. She was a terrible liar.

"Oh, well how nice to meet you! I'm Lilly!" The yellow haired girl stated happily, waving hello to me.

"I'm Daisy!" The green one stated, waving at me.

"I'm Rose!" The red haired girl stated. "It's so nice to meet you!"

"Heh. Nice to meet you all too. Glad you all are so friendly." I stated shyly. I was never that good of a new people person, honestly. I was scared they would think I'm creepy because I had a "pedo-stache" or because I just kind of came out of nowhere.

*Ding!*

Twilight jumped into the seat in front of Roseluck, while I chose to sit next to her. Honestly, I had always hated sitting in the front. It was so hard to sleep while I was in the front of everything. However, I could tell that this wasn't a class that I would be sleeping in. After all, I had Miss Enthusiasm over here with her. . . enthusiasm, for both her AND I.

"Hello class. I'm Mr. Dodswell. I'm your AP English teacher" Mr. Dodswell introduced himself. He seemed just like any other boring teacher, he wore a grey sweatervest and stood at a pretty average height. He was maybe around. . . 50? I was no good with ages. He wore thick rimmed glasses and had thinning and greying hair, and spoke in a very monotonous voice. "Let me take attendance. . . " He went on, calling the name of everyone in our class, a list that I don't even remember. The only person that seemed to be missing was a guy named Jimmy Russell. Damn, a guy would be nice to meet sometime. The class itself was incredibly boring, and if it weren't for Twilight, I would have definitely been out. We didn't talk about much, just about how he had high expectations for us, and how this was a college level class. He proceeded to tell a story of how over the break, his cat got loose and he had to chase it around the entire city. He felt it neccesary to describe every part of the city that he looked for the cat.

Thanks a lot, cat, for making first period suck.

Luckily, the class was over before I even knew it, as the bell heavily rung, and students seemed to move like zombies towards the door. Honestly, I couldn't tell if it was because of the teacher or because it was still too early for life to be happening after such a long break.

"Joseph! What's your next class?" Twilight asked me as I finished packing my things.

"Um. Oh. . . AP Government." I replied meekly.

"Oooh! Rose!" Twilight called to the red haired girl. "Joseph has the same second period as you! Can you show him where it is?"

"Sure thing, Twi! Let's go, Joseph!" Rose stated happily. Rose was the prettiest out of the three gi-

Joseph. Stop yourself. I can honestly say that I've been finding more and more people pretty at this school. I'm not sure what it was, but I felt a desire to be in a relationship more than ever. I couldn't really pinpoint the reasons for my desire, but even within the first hour of school, it was already consuming me. She was so nice and friendly and she had nice hair. . .

"So. . . where are you from?" Rose asked me as we walked to the building with a pony that looked like it was giving a speech.

"Oh. Um. . . " The question I had been dreading. "I'm from. . . " I remembered quickly skimming through a textbook at my desk in English that stated 'Published in. . .'

"Manehattan! I'm from Manehattan!" Did every town have to have a pony pun? I'd honestly never even heard about such a town.

"Oh, I'm so jealous! I've always wanted to go there!" She giggled, putting her hand up in a fist to cover her mouth.

"Yeah, it's. . . nice. So do you know who else is in Government?" I asked, trying to change the subject.

"Yeah! It's second semester, so I already know who's in all of my classes! There's. . . Harley, Christian, Lyre, aaand. . . Rarity!" she listed off "I don't really know much of the other people there. Sorry!"

"Oh, it's fine. The only person I know from there is Rarity. . . and you, of course" I gave a nervous smile to her, not wanting to seem mean on my first day.

"Heh, you're silly! Now, come on, it's G - 101, so it's right in here!" She stated, opening the door for me. I walked in as the bell rang, and noticed Rarity sitting in the back, messing around with her hair.

"Oh, Joseph, darling!" She wailed as she noticed me. "Come over here, dear!" I had no choice but to oblige. Rose walked up to Rarity with me, sitting in the seat in front of her.

"Darling, how has your day been? Have the other people been treating you nicely? Oh, I sure hope they have, I would be particularly ANGRY if anybody hurt a hair on you!" Rarity went on and on. . .

"Um. . . no. . .no battle scars as of now." I nervously replied. Rarity was either a morning person or put some special sugar in her Wheatie-Os this morning.

"AHEM" I heard from the front of the class. "If you'd excuse me, Miss Rarity, I'd like to start my class."

Rarity folded her arms and rolled her eyes as I took the seat next to her. Obviously this wasn't the first time these two had conflicted.

"No need to reintroduce myself. For you new guys, I'm Mr. McFerguson. I don't tolerate much other than paying attention up here. Got a problem with it? Then I got a problem with you in this class." He gave a nasty glance to Rarity, who pouted and folded her arms tighter than natural physics probably allowed.

The class was honestly stupid. If I had any motivation to get back home, it would be to get my old Government teacher back. I don't remember his name or face, but I remember that he was a great teacher. He made everything so easy. This guy, though. . . he kind of expected us to know everything. It was fine for me, since I natually had Government as my best subject, but still, I had so many questions during the class. Still, I was so nervous about everything. What if I asked a dumb question! People would look and me and be like "Wow how did he get into this class? He's so stupid, he probably is some richo who paid the principal to be in here." or something like that. Still, it was a pleasure. Rose and Rarity were fun to be around, even if they were forced to sit straight up and not talk to me. I kind of enjoyed the company, the fact that I had friends nearby me, and if there was a zombie apocalypse here, I wouldn't be stuck her alone. . . or something more friendship related, I'm no good at allusions.

*Ding!*

This day was going by fast. At this point, I honestly didn't give a dang, school was a drag so far.

"U-Um. . . Rose. . . Do you know where the music class is?" I asked Rose. I would have asked Rarity, but. . . she seemed a bit flustered today, especially when I did something with her. For instance, I lost focus and stared at a pencil bag she had on her desk, and I almost died when she noticed me and turned fifty shades of red. I'm not sure why anybody would blush because someone looked at their pencil bag, though. . .

"Oh. . . um. . . Christian!" She called out towards two tall guys walking out of the class.

Guys. Yes.

Two guys walked over towards us, both wearing black vests with white long sleeved shirts underneath. One of them had brown hair, roughly the same color as mine, in a formal sort of. . . not mess like mine was, it was hard describing man hair. The other one had blue wavy hair that went down to about his shoulders, hugging his head as it went down.

"My friend here, his name is Joseph. He's new here and needs help finding the band room." Rose asked them.

"Dude, don't even worry. We got this." The blue haired one casually replied.

"Yes, Rose, we'll show him from here. Thank you" The brown haired one added in, in a much more formal tone than the other guy. The three of us went out the door and headed back outside.

"So you the new bass bone guy?" The blue haired guy replied.

"Uum, yeah." I shyly replied. At least they spoke like they had an ounce of music knowledge.

"Fantastic. My name is Christian. Christian Anderson. That over there is Harley Ferguson. As you can tell, we are also part of the jazz ensemble" The brown haired guy explained.

"Oh, cool! What do you guys play?"

"I play Trombone 3 and Christian plays Alto 1. Like, dude, he's freaking good. Like serious" Harley explained.

"Trombone 3? So you're sitting next to me. Nice." I replied, giving a soft smile.

"Yeah, it's nice having someone else sit next to me. There's also Ron and Peter, but they're both juniors, you ain't gonna see them around much except for band and all. I'd be first, but this is my first year playing trombone. I mostly play Euph, but jazz seemed cool." Harley informed me.

"Nice. I'm a tuba player mostly but I've been playing bass bone for a while too." I explained to him. Damn, it was nice not to be so shy. I wasn't even all into Jazz, I couldn't name a single Bass Trombone player nor did I listen to Jazz much. However, it was cool having friends that I could relate to more than "Wow they're nice"

Christian and Harley lead me inside of a building marked with a pony playing the piano (How did horses even play the piano? Honestly.) and I was lead straight into the band room, the same one I had been in earlier for my "audition".

Apparently we got there early, as there were only four other people setting up equipment.

"AY YO GUYS WE GOT A BASS BONE PLAYER" Harley yelled out from the door. I wanted to slap him in the face. Luckily for me, so did Christian, and unlike me, Christian had the balls to do so. The four people setting up walked over to me and smiled.

"Dang, we've been waiting for a bass bone for a long time!" A multi-shaded blue haired girl exclaimed.

"Yes, yes we have. Honestly, it's so nice to have anybody join our ensemble. But I'm being rude, my name is Elizabeth. A lot of people call me Octavia, though." A black haired girl wearing a grey suit explained to me. If Christian was formal, then this was the epitome of formal. She politely outstetched her hand to shake mine, a gesture I surely followed. "I play the Alto Saxaphone. It's so nice meeting you.

"Oooh! Me next!" The blue haired girl exclaimed. She wore a fairly tight white shirt with blue and pink neon lights running in random directions about it. "I'm Candace! But you can call me Vinyl! I play drumset!" she exclaimed.

"Heh, sorry if she's a bit weird, she. . . she had some special sugar in her Wheatie-Os this morning!" Harley butted in. Once again, I wanted to punch him. Nobody steals my unsaid metaphors.

"I did NOT! I'm just FRIENDLY, thank you very much!" Vinyl exclaimed, almost falling over from. . . a force that I didn't even know existed.

"Heh. On with the introductions, I guess. I'm Frederick. I'd share my nickname, but it's pretty much the same as my real name, and I refuse to explain how it's different." A narrow-eyed slender man stated, drawing attention away from Vinyl and Harley. He has light blonde hair that was kept in a small ponytail on the back of his head, going down his neck. Christian and Octavia couldn't help but laugh at the mention of his nickname. "Shut up, you two. Anyways, I play piano."

"I'm last! I'm Brittany! I play Bass!" A bubbly brown haired girl exclaimed. She definitely looked like she could lose a few pounds, and her bright blue 'Carousel Boutique" T-Shirt didn't help aleiviate that issue. Still, she looked nice.

"We gonna socialize or we gonna warm up?" A familiar booming voice called from behind us. All of us looked to see the class filled with many more students, and Mr. Acevedo sitting at the front of the ensemble. We all silently walked to get out instruments and began warming up. It felt incredibly nice to be in a real ensemble for once. Granted, I kind of wish that more of those six teenage girls were around. As much as they were weird, it felt like they were nowhere in my school. Damn, Diane played trumpet, she could have been here!

Band was nice, either way. Harley was a nimrod, but he was good enough at trombone anyway. These guys really knew how to play, though. I almost felt kind of inferior, just based on how skilled each person was. Granted, it wasn't like I did bad or anything! It's just that for once, I wasn't really the best. It sounds so cocky of me, but honestly, I've always been one of the best in music, which motivated me to stay in it so I could eliminate the "one of". It was a fresh start for me, a definite wake up call. We read a piece called "Pegasus" today, which honestly was one of my favorite pieces. I remember playing a few years ago at my nameless high school, and honestly, it was incredibly fun. Before I could have time to truly enjoy it, the period was over.

"Dude so Joseph, you're good." Harley mentioned to me as I was putting my instrument away.

"You really think so?" I asked him, reverting to my timid nature.

"Yeah. Like. Dude. Like. . . Like. . . " Vinyl flowed into the convesation, her eyes looking unfocused.

"Good." Harley finished the sentence for her.

"Damn. . . well, thanks." I responded. I was a humble person, I never once bragged about my skills. Sure, sometimes, I'd mention it, but I never was like "Yeah, I know I'm good." Still, though, it was well appreciated. However, before I could take the time to let the compliments soak in, I realized that I had to sprint to my fourth period class.

"Hey. . . um. . . Vinyl. . . you know where physics is?" I asked Vinyl, hoping to not get to loud of a response.

"Duuuude. Dude. Duuude. Dude. I know EXACTLY where that is!" She grabbed my hand and sprinted off out of the building. Luckily for me, she didn't sprint like Twilight, she only sprinted with the motivation of special Wheatie-O's, which weren't actually much motivation at all. Granted, we crashed into a building with a pony wearing safety goggles and pouring some sort of liquid into another liquid at the speed of weed. I couldn't even tell what class we were going in, but somehow I ended up in. . . some science class. She let go of my hand and rolled to her seat. . . which wasn't much of a roll, it was right next to the door. I stood by the door, not seeing anybody that I really recognized. Sure, Frederic was in this class, but he was already sitting around a bunch of other people that I didn't know. Suddenly, darkness overtook me.

"Guess who!"

Author's Note

NOTES:

Just to comment on character tags, just before anybody asks.

Cherilee and Braeburn will be appearing next chapter.
Big Mac will probably appear two chapters from now (or maybe at the end of the next chapter)

Anyways, thanks so much for reading this chapter! The next few chapters are going to be long since it's still introductions and stuff, everybody needs to get to know Joseph first. There will be more plot driven stuff later.

School. School takes time, so chapters will be coming out slower. Luckily, I'm super excited for this story, so it should motivate me for a while. I'll try getting updates out as much as I can.