Once he had found his friends, Bass walked up and said, "Notice anything different?". He was walking circles around them, and just like in the dining room with his sister, they were all suprised to see that he had his cutie mark at such a young age. Just then, Shining Sunrise had walked up to see what everypony was talking about. Then she looked at Bass and she gasped. "How did you get your cutie mark?", Shining asked. Bass simply replied, "I have no idea. It wasn't there yesterday, but when I woke up this morning, it was there". Having Shining talking to him was over-joyous, for he had a secret crush on her, but could never bring himself to ask her out. He was so excited by that day that he couldn't sleep later that night. He was trying to find the perfect way to ask out Shining, but he just shouldn't, wouldn't, couldn't do it. The one thing that Bass just could not tolerate was rejection, and there were so many possibilities of how she could say "no". What he didn't know though was that Shining also had a crush on him, and she was waiting for the right time to ask him. Later in the week, Bass was hanging out with his dubstep group The Bass Kickers, when Shining trotted up and Bass stopped the music, which was unlike him at all. His group members, Treble Melody, Affanato, and Blue Note (he would have these ponies in his group through the Canterlot Academy and through his life) were all wondering why the music had stopped. Bass shushed them and walked up to Shining Sunrise ans opened his mouth as though to ask a question, but nothing came out of his mouth except for a small squeal, and then he started to blush and ran off...