Canterlot High shared similarities to several high schools. If one were to walk the halls, they'd find nothing out of the ordinary, stick around and you'd find the school to be a magnet to bizarre events. One like today.
Adagio Dazzle pretty much had it all. From her stunning looks, to her regal posture, not to mention only the most "dazzling" of wardrobes. If she wasn't loved, she was envied, and everyone gave her the attention she desired, which was simply attention itself. She never cared for the feedback. She heard all the praises, she's received her copious of harsh glares, but none of it mattered. She held the staff in the palm of her hands, there was never a need to study, though she was far from stupid. In fact, she was rather clever, and fellow students feared her for it. She was by all means the Queen of Canterlot High. However, one day of all days changed that, with a chance encounter. While strutting down the halls with her backup, she hadn't paid attention to what was in front of her, she never had to. Imagine her surprise as she fell back on her rear from nearly being ran over.
"Aw crap, now look at what you did, watch where you're going!"
A number of students gasped. Adagio herself had wide eyes at the comment.
"Excuse me...?! Who do you think you are, do you want to be put in wheels!?"
She snarled and stood up to find another surprise. A new face in school picked up dropped books off the ground, while in a wheelchair. A boy with a star spangled beanie and horseshoe clip on the front stared at her with challenging eyes. His clothes were clearly from a poor thrift store, maybe even stolen, she thought. A thin turtleneck with a sleeveless over shirt, torn off and worn, both seemed too small as he wore them like a crop top. His pants were a mess. Patched jeans with the left calve missing, replaced by stitched stars and stripes styled jeans from another pair, poorly she added as she continued her quick exam. His shoes were the worst of this ugly sight. The front was blasted up as if his toes had exploded from within. The soles barely hung on and there were no laces. The only decent thing about him were his flower patterned cloth gloves. Though not aloud, she had to admit if it weren't for the bags under his eyes and small bruises, this new boy wouldn't look half bad. Then she heard him talk again.
"Sorry, Barbie, but someone beat you to it. Who walks with their head held so high? Jesus, what a crappy start for a first day."
Adagio was furious to say the least and she did not hide her fury. She chuckled and stood up with a calm smile.
"You have to be new here. Honestly, it's only the most logical conclusion."
He blinked at her before he held his arms up like shields.
"Uh-oh. She's using words with three syllables everyone, take cover, her head might blow up from the knowledge."
Her eyelid twitched for a moment. She had to humiliate this boy to put him in his place.
"Tsk! Is this really the first impression you want to make? Assuming the worst of a stranger?"
He lowered his arms and glanced around in thought.
"Hm... Mhn... Ehn... Yeah. Yeah, I do."
"And why's that, short stuff?"
Her backup snickered but the boy waved his arms with little care.
"Oh no~ A short name call. I am figuratively wounded beyond repair. But to keep things on track, I've got a class to get to, and I bet you do too."
He picked up the last book, but Adagio snatched it out of his hands, lightly hitting his head with the book.
"Now, now, you can't run from something you started. You have to finish it first."
His eyes narrowed into hers.
"Girl if you only knew. Now gimme that book back, I need it for Geometry."
One lackey raised a brow and leaned closer to inspect the book carefully.
"Hey, but this is an Biology textbook!"
The boy shrugged without breaking eye contact with Adagio.
"I need a proper pillow to sleep through the day, bite me."
Adagio dropped the book just out of reach for him with her smile turned to a scowl.
"Careful what you wish for. Besides, I'm not letting you go anywhere until you apologize."
She snapped her fingers to signal the release of her lackeys and onlookers. Only the boy remained in the hallway. He sighed and rolled back to move around her. She stepped in his way.
"You're joking."
He turned around only to have Adagio turn with him. She sneered and leaned into him with a menacing glint in her eye.
"I never play around, except with easy prey. And you, small fry, are as easy as cake."
At this moment, her head was close to his, he could just butt his head against her nose, but then she'd run to the faculty. Threats and glares didn't work, sarcasm and quips came back and forth, he felt cornered. He began to think, what could he do to get her to leave him alone? He hadn't survived all his life just for some prim preppy citrus afro to take him down. Then it hit him.
"If you don't back off and leave me alone, I'll do something you'll regret for the rest of your life, I damn well mean it."
The girl raised a brow and tilted her head before she got closer to intimidate him.
"And what would that be? Just try it, stupid. If you do, you're history."
Johnny sighed. In all honesty, he was hoping she'd say that.
"Don't say I didn't give you a chance."
"I'm getting bored of your hollow wo- Mhmpf!?"
He pulled her into a sudden kiss and opened his mouth for full effect. She dropped the book into his hand from the shock. Adagio wanted to hurl. The audacity, the nerve, the absolute insolence of it all. This boy made her taste him. Her first kiss taken by, this paraplegic, she wouldn't have it. She violently shoved him into a locker and spat on the floor.
"Y-You...! How dare y-"
"What're you gonna do about it? Let everyone that you let some smart mouth dwarf who can't even stand straight best you?"
"What...?"
The boy sneered back and held up a suggestive hand gesture.
"Go ahead, tell the whole world, not like that was your first anyhow! I'll even tell you my name. Go tell everyone how, Johnny Joestar, nabbed you!"
Adagio would have. In any other case or action. But this lowlife, if word got out, even if the story was told straight, her reputation would be sullied. No, it'd be utterly decimated, far beyond any reclaim. The rat had cornered the cat in this game of cat and mouse, and Johnny knew it, as did Adagio.
"I... I will make you pay! For this! I'll make you wish you were never born!"
Johnny only stared at her with a blank face. Emotionless, it bothered her for some reason, as if she wasn't talking to a person. By no means was she scared in the slightest, but an odd sense of worry came to her as Johnny spoke.
"I already made that wish, you'd only be doing me a favor. Now get out of my way before we escalate any further, I want the taste of bitch out of my mouth."
He began to push himself past her, but stopped as she savagely backhanded him across the jaw, hard enough to turn his head away from her.
"Don't you dare look down on me any further, I'm the one on top here, no one else! Understood?!"
He looked back at her in slight intrigue. Adagio was taken aback, she was sure he would've felt that, she put all she had into the slap. He simply shrugged and began to roll away.
"I did deserve that, I guess. At least now I got the taste of bitch out."
She growled but watched him leave. This boy was going to be nothing but trouble for her. However, she began to calm down and even smile again, she had been missing something within these past months. A challenge, something exciting and fresh, and this difficult boy began to amuse her.
"I'll see you around, Johnny Joestar."
