A/N: The characters of this story are designed to be anthropomorphic which means that they are humanoid in appearance but retain certain features similar to their original form namely a tail and their coat color becomes skin that is the same color. I hope that you all enjoy and let me know what you think in the reviews because every time I read a well-written review it gives me the renewed vigor necessary to keep writing! Thanks.
"But Twilight! Come on I don't want to go to high school!" Exclaimed Spike as Twilight handed him the Letter of Registration She had just received from Cheerilee.
The purple unicorn in question replied with excessive patience and grace "It doesn't matter Spike you can't forgo your education or you will never get anywhere on life and besides it's a great way to get to know people and perhaps you can help me with my lessons on friendship. You still have to help me out around the library though okay?"
Spike, knowing he would not come out of this on top finally acquiesced saying "alright alright I will go to high school but you can't make me like it!"
Spike hated that Twilight had won and made him attend school with the other children after all he was not normal like the rest of them seeing as how he had dragon blood. To add insult to injury, He had never had to attend school back in Canterlot! About the only good thing that came from sitting in a classroom and listening to Miss Cheerilee's lectures was that it gave him the opportunity to sneak furtive glances towards Dinky Doo, who shared her mother's skin and hair color, but shared neither her eyes nor her personality. As it were he rarely had the chance to speak to her alone because she was always busy taking care of her mother or helping somepony else out but that would never stop him from admiring her beauty as well as the grace with which she moved.
This line of thought brought back into his mind exactly how he had ended up attending this school: It had all started about a month after he and twilight had moved to Ponyville. Once the excitement of moving to a new place and meeting new people had died down and Twilight had gotten settled into working at her new job as manager and custodian of the town library, Twilight had decided for him that since he was still young enough he could go back to school and finish his schooling.
His first day of school had been extremely awkward to say the least and yet he met two young colts who while perhaps not the best or most popular company were loyal to him and treated him well. Once he had figured out where he stood socially at the new school, he started to work on getting into the rhythm of going to class and dealing with the few bullies that went to this small-town high-school. It was several weeks in when out of the corner of his eye he noticed a beautiful Pegasus filly in his class who sat two seats away from him. Once he had noticed her he wondered how he had ever failed to notice her in the first place.
And so he found himself passing the majority of his time in class looking at her in awe wondering just how she had managed to so completely capture his attention.
It was while he was making just such a stealthy reconnaissance of her part of the room that he was rudely snapped back to reality my Miss Cheerilee's polite, yet stern voice drawing his attention to the front of the room.
"Alright class, for the science project we are going to pair up into teams of two partners and I expect you two to get together outside of school to research and plan the assignment and be ready to execute it in class when it is due. Are there any questions before we assign partners? None? Good."
After that she began to rattle off a long list of names that were so boring he decided to tune out. He stopped daydreaming when he heard his name however, "Spike will be paired with, let's see perhaps-, Dinky Doo." She continued to speak but Spike's mind was lost in a fuzzy haze of euphoria at discovering that he would finally have a chance and a reason to spend time with the filly of his dreams. His next thought however, sent dark, jagged edges through that white haze, and this thought was along the lines of nervousness and insecurity at all the things that could go wrong when they got together.
After class as Spike was packing his book bags to leave he was approached by a certain blonde-maned filly who said shyly, "So, it looks like we are going to be working together on this project. When do you want to get together to start going over it?
Nervously Spike replied "If you want to we can get together at my place. Since we are staying at the library it is the perfect place to study. Tomorrow night at 7 sound good?"
Dinky Doo assured him "Sounds great! It's a date see you at 7 in the library!"
