The Story of Nothing, the Story of My Life

Chapter 1- Unsocial

"Alright everybody, may I be the first to welcome you to Seaddle College! Enjoy your term!"

I slowly peeled my right cheek off of the window as my eyes drifted open. With my right arm, I wiped off a thick, warm line of drool hanging from my cheek. The window was fogged up from my breath, suggesting I had been out for quite a while.

Unconciously, I stretched my back and raised my hands up in the air. Realizing what I was doing, I shot my hands back into my pockets, where a phone silently sat. I stood up and pulled my large and heavy backpack up onto my back. Looking around, I realized that most everyone had already left or was leaving the bus except for one body. I walked down the aisle and towards the girl, and doing this gave me a better a look at her. She was fast asleep with her back to the window, one of her hands on her legs and the other hanging off the seat. She had long, vibrant, rainbow hair and a cyan jacket that had the word "Ponyville" on it, with jeans. On the back of her hands was her cutie mark, a cloud with a multi-colored lightning bolt coming from it. I lightly tapped one of her cyan sneakers, trying to wake her. Not to my surprise, she didn't budge. Noticing the bus driver getting a tiny bit annoyed, I squeezed her toes.

This gave proof to be efficient as she shot up and kicked with the reflexes usually reserved for war veterans. One of her wings shot out to her left side and the other behind. I jumped back from a cyan sneaker barreling towards my head and almost yelped as it almost skimmed my horn. I looked back at the girl and she seemed to have put the pieces together as to why a random stranger pinched her toes. The girl stared intently at me with striking magenta eyes. They were mesmerizing, I wanted to just stand there and stare into them, but I knew that that was an ultimate creep move. Realizing once again that time does not stop for my thought processes, I spoke up to the girl.

"Um, the bus has stopped. We're at the university," I stuttered. I turned back towards the front of the bus and walked down the aisle towards the door.

The bus driver, a heavy man with a gruff voice, repeated himself as I passed. "Welcome to Seaddle College, kiddo, have a nice term."

I muttered a 'thank you' before hopping off the bus and onto the sidewalk in front of the main dorm building. I heard a few heavy footsteps follow mine which I assumed was the rainbow-haired girl. It was a beautiful day, and most of the students had come outside to enjoy the good weather. There was a group of guys throwing a football back and forth, some couples were lying on blankets and looking up at the clouds, even a few of the more studious people were outside with their books. I walked up the main steps up to the doors and was greeted by a young lady carrying a clipboard.

"Hello, welcome to Seaddle College! Name and birthdate please?"

I quickly responded. "Alexander Reed. June 28, 1992."

She nodded and flipped through the pages on her clipboard until she came across the R section. After she verified my name and checked it off, she handed me a key with a blue grip on it.

"Your dorm is 4J, that's on the fourth floor. Enjoy your term!" She added.

"Thank you Ms. ..." I trailed off, realizing I hadn't gotten her name.

"Stuart. I'm Ms. Stuart, the school secretary."

"See you around," I called behind me as I walked into the main hall of the dorm building. There were a few groups of girls talking in circles, none of which noticed me walk in, which surprised me. Now, I don't mean that in a bad way, but at 6'4", when everybody seems to be half a foot shorter than you, you get used to being stared at. Honestly, I was glad nobody noticed me; I just wanted to get to my dorm and unpack, no socializing at all. I heard the girl from the bus talk to the secretary and I overheard her name: Rainbow Dash.

Fitting name, I suppose, with hair like that. I continued on to the end of the hall where the elevators were, and there stood another girl. She was somewhat tall, with a horn. Long purple hair fell in corkscrew down her back. It was obvious she spent some time on it. She had shining blue eyes and wore one of those short jackets in white and a purple skirt. She had her hand on her hip so I could clearly see her cutie mark, 3 diamonds. I walked over to her and gave the 'waiting for the elevator face'. I realized that she didn't have any bags with her. Before I could think of a reason as to why, she introduced herself

"Hello, I'm Rarity. Who are you?"

Mentally sighing and abandoning my strategy of not talking to anyone I answered "Alexander Reed" and didn't send back another question towards her.

However she picked up the ball, metaphorically speaking, and bounced it back towards me "What are you majoring in?"

"Computer programming," I answered again this time kicking the ball back, "And you?"

"Design," she happily responded seeming as if I had picked a point that I didn't have to respond to. But before she could get into the subject, someone else popped up.

"Rarity! Your here already! I thought I was the first!" the girl I now knew as Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Rainbow, darling, the others were here an hour ago, there all upstairs on the 4th floor, where I assume your dorm is too. You're the last one." Rarity stated and offered out her hand with the palm up. Rainbow Dash grunted and placed a $1 bill in her hand. Rarity smirked and placed it in her white purse. Just then the elevator beeped to signal its arrival and Rarity and Rainbow Dash stepped in and I stepped in after them.

Rarity pressed four and asked, "What floor do you need to go to?"

"You're fine," I assured "I'm on four". She nodded and began chatting with Rainbow Dash who I noticed was carrying a cyan duffel bag, which reassured my thoughts, why didn't Rarity have any bags? Once the elevator beeped again to the fourth floor, I let the two girls step out first before I stepped out after them

and was assaulted by a wall of multicolored confetti.

"Welcome Rarity and Dashie!" A high voice called out.

'Dashie?'

A shorter earth girl ran up to the two and was dressed in, well, pink. She wore a pink jacket; similar to Rainbow Dash's except in color, a pink skirt and pink sneakers. I could see 3 ballons on the back of her hand. 3 more girls followed behind the pink one.

The first girl was about the same height as Rarity, also wielding a horn, and had long, straight purple hair that had a pink streak through it. She had deep purple eyes and wore a more feminine purple polo shirt with a lighter purple skirt, however longer than Rarity's. On her hand, which grasped a book was a pink spark.

The second girl, much taller than the other ones, however not taller than me, had long, blond hair that was tied back in a ponytail and she had these earthy green eyes. She wore a plaid button-down shirt with jeans. It was obvious by her physique that she did a lot of physical work.

The last girl was shorter than all of them and stood behind the other two and stared at me with sweet blue eyes. She shook slightly however, like she was scared. She had long pink hair that covered half of her face and fell down the back. She wore a yellow jacket like Rainbow Dash and the pink girl's and a pink skirt like the girl with the book. She didn't even look at Rainbow Dash and Rarity, she just stared at me.

I politely tried to slip by their friend gathering until a pink blur with crazy blue eyes jumped into my vision.

"Hiya! Who are you! I'm Pinkie Pie, and I love making new friends. I also love baking, and parties, and throwing parties for my friends..." Her words began to trail off as millions of syllables began to bounce around the inside of my skull. Thankfully someone stopped her from making me implode.

"Pinkie, stop you're making him uneasy" the girl with the book ordered. 'Pinkie', I suppose, stopped almost immediately and turned towards the source of the order.

Pinkie tilted her head and gave a pout "Aww Twilight, I was just talking to him" and she backed away. The girl with the book, 'Twilight' she was called, walked up to me

"I'm sorry, she can go off on a tangent sometimes. Who are you?" She asked politely.

Mentally sighing for the second time and reason, I answered the question again, "Alexander Reed".

"I'm Twilight Sparkle and this is Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Flutter-Fluttershy?" She pointed along the line until the 5th disappeared.

Rainbow Dash piped up "Uh here, she's behind me". Rainbow Dash pulled out the missing girl who fought her to stay hidden.

Twilight Sparkle questioned "Fluttershy? What's wrong with you?" Fluttershy squirmed and finally got behind Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash tried to reason with her but she couldn't get anything out of her except squeaks. Twilight Sparkle apologized "Sorry, she's kind of shy. Anyways, if there is anything you need, I'm down in 4T-"

"Twilight!" Rarity interrupted.

"What?" Twilight Sparkle asked clueless.

"Gah! Nevermind, I'll tell you later!"

Twilight Sparkle shrugged, waved and smiled "Bye"

She walked away and I did to in the opposite direction towards dorm 4J. However I heard the sound of wheels and turned my head towards the source. Being wheeled in from the elevator was a large load of bags on a cart. My mouth fell open, who would even need that many bags? Of course the one who claimed the cart was none other than Rarity, wow. I turned around and headed back towards my dorm. Once I had found 4J placed conveniently between 4H and 4L with 4K across the hall. I walked in and found my duffel bag on my new bed.

The dorm was nicer than most standard colleges. One bedroom, one bathroom of course, it's suited to fit one person, but it also had a living room area with a kitchen and a desk, all in the same room. It was nice, I was glad to call it home.

I zipped open the duffel bag on my bed inside were a large amount of clothes and a carefully placed cardboard box. I tore open the box and wrapped in an excessive amount of bubble wrap was the Xbox I so carefully brought. I placed my backpack on the bed and opened it up. It held most of my more personal belongings. I zipped open the backpack next and brought out a silver and gray controller and a sleek black headset. The movers had brought in the bigger things like the TV and had plugged it into the wall already. I hooked the Xbox and controller up and logged on. I popped in one of my more favorite games, Halo if you're curious, and went to the multiplayer menu. I logged on the fastest server I could find and began a match.

I won't bore you with the details of the match but one thing I will tell you about was the other players. Some were your standard jerk, video game obsessed, way to serious, morons but there was another voice that seemed like it had an echo to it. It was a higher voice, not as high as Pinkie Pie as I had heard in the hallway, but high so it seemed definitely female, which took me by surprise. Now don't give me that sexist look just yet, that's not what I mean, but she wasn't the slightest bit competitive, and she was GOOD. The echo however kept bothering until she laughed so hard I could hear it from the other room. I set down my controller and put my ear up to the wall that separated me and 4H and listened in. That might have been the weirdest thing I had ever done, but it proved to be worth it as the voice of the lead player in the game and the voice from 4H matched up perfectly. They both said the same thing at the same time, they definitely matched. I knocked on the wall and heard her get up.

She walked over to the wall and sputtered "Hello?"

I answered with a question assumed by most to be creepy if answered in the affirmative "Are you playing Halo multiplayer right now?"

"Yeah, I am? Who is this?"

"Binary7" I responded with my Xbox gamertag.

"Hey you're playing with me and...heh, you kinda stink" She giggled.

"Yeah, yeah. Hey, wait one second." I took my ear off the wall and walked into the hall and knocked on the door of 4H. I heard more footsteps as she answered the door.

The girl dominating the game was about Rainbow Dash's height and had wings too, she had blond hair that fell behind her. She wore a normal tank top and some shorts and on the back of her hand were some bubbles. What I found interesting was her eyes. One eye, her left eye, was focused on me while the other drifted off.

"Binary7?" She asked.

I nodded and said "Actually it's Alexander Reed, nice to meet you". I held out my hand for a handshake and she took it but didn't let go, instead she dragged me inside.

"Hi I'm Ditzy Doo, weird that we ended up on the same server right? I mean were just one wall away!" She gestured to the wall as she spoke. "Here, want to play here so I can beat you in person" She smirked but happily.

I shook my head "Nah, I got to get going, it was nice meeting you though Miss Doo!"

I was walking out when she said "You can just call me Ditzy".

I smiled back and walked back to my dorm. I sat down and realized what I had done. I mentally swore, 'How had I shown my hands around her, she could've seen! Then she would tell the entire school and I'll be a laughing stock!' I sat my head down on my desk and sighed, whatever. I checked the school website and went on to the available class list, trying to find some classes that start on Monday. I found a few technology classes and one specifically for computer programming. Great, now I had a few classes to get term started. I picked up my laptop and walked to my bed, eventually falling asleep to the sounds of Netflix, seemingly blank back hands at the keyboard.