Alright guys, this is kind of a short chapter, but longer ones will be coming, I promise. Probably not this weekend though, my birthday is Friday and I'm probably going to be out celebrating for a lot of it.

Spike finally bit the bullet and drank the coffee. It was as bitter as he thought it would be. He poured in five big scoops of sugar and enough milk that it turned more white than black. Still he couldn't get the unpleasant taste off of his tongue.

He wouldn't even need to drink the disgusting stuff if he didn't need to be alert. And he wouldn't need to be this alert if he could sleep in. But being the moron that he was he had scheduled to meet Sweetie Belle early.

They had stayed at the dance until around ten, and then drove everyone home. They had to go back to the school to pick up Pinkie Pie's boyfriend who they had accidentally left there. He had been as surprised as everyone else to learn that she was actually dating someone.

But still he had gotten in late and woken up early. So he felt completely and utterly beat, and thus the coffee. He took another gulp and gagged. Twilight was already up and working on some papers that she needed to help grade for a class that she was helping tach. She took a crunch of the toast that he had made her.

Sometimes she wouldn't eat unless he placed a forkful right in front of her face.

She paused and put her pen down, she rubbed at her eyes. He couldn't blame her working on all of that stuff so early in the morning.

"Oh man. This kids are just so stupid." Twilight said sadly. Spike leaned over a little to see whose paper it was she was grading. She quickly slipped it away and shook her finger at him.

"Tsk, Tsk."

"Sorry I was just curious." He replied taking another sip before biting into his cereal, the sweetness helped wash the taste out. Twilight looked at the clock then back at her little brother.

"Don't you have plans today?"

"Yeah, I'm meeting up with Sweetie Belle in an hour and a half." He said through a mouthful of cereal before swallowing.

"You?"

"I'm attending the band practice, Sunset is going to be teaching Rainbow a couple new chords she can't handle." Spike raised an eyebrow. "Sunset's words not Rainbow Dash's."

"Ah." He replied. Twilight smiled at Spike suggestively, he continued to chew and ignored her.

"So Sweetie Belle huh?" Spike's defensive system went up at the way that she said the name. He looked up slowly and nodded.

"Yeah...what about it?"

"Nothing, she sure is cute huh?" Twilight smiled and winked at him. Spike blushed and muttered into his coffee mug.

"What was that?" Twilight asked leaning forward.

"So is Sunset Shimmer." He responded dryly. Twilight blushed and twirled her hair around one finger.
"What do you mean? I have no idea what it is your talking about." She quickly spoke out not making eye contact. Spike grinned in response.
"You tease me about Sweetie and I will retaliate." He said taking a sip. Twilight rolled her eyes.

"Okay fair, but I'm just stating a fact, she is a nice girl. Plus a little Rarity told me that she is available." Spike tried not to expose his excitement but she could read him well. He sat up straight and looked excited for a moment, visibly hopeful. His eye sparkled like a gemstone at the information. He quickly looked at the clock.

"You know, it is a quite a walk downtown, I think I'm going to get started now." He gulped down the rest of his food and plopped the dishes in the dishwasher.
"Tell everyone that I'll be home either early tonight or late afternoon." He said as he embraced Twilight quickly around the neck and gave her an affectionate hug. She smiled as he zoomed out the door, his purple sweatshirt flapping behind him.

He would probably be an hour early but if he was willing to wait than Twilight wasn't going to stop him.

Sweetie Belle twisted over in her sleep. She slowly sat up and walked to her pile of clothes she had got out for the day. She hummed as she got dressed in a flowing white skirt, a pink cardigan and a purple tshirt, she slipped on her knee-high socks and her boots. She loved her boots.

She felt a little woozy as she left her room to go downstairs. She hadn't gotten as much sleep last night as she should have, but in her defense she had gotten in very late after having a great night. So it was justified. She prepared some tea and drank three cups before it was even really cool. She burned the roof of her mouth and gasped.

Running to the freezer she pulled out the ice cube tray and began sucking on one. The creak of stairs and the descent of her sister caught her attention.

"mrning Rarty." She mumbled out from around the ice cube.

"Good morning Sweetie Belle." Rarity responded as she looked into the tea bin to find that they were out. She looked at the three empty cups that sat in the sink and rolled her eyes.

"Sweetie darling could you sit down before you leave?" Sweetie looked at her sister suddenly concerned, Rarity had on her parental face, and that usually meant a discussion about her. Sweetie slowly sat down, resigned. She wouldn't even be able to argue her way out of it with the ice cube in her mouth!

"Now I know that you are off to see Spike today." Sweetie's heart race increased and she sat up straighter in her chair, his very name excited her, she looked at her sister concerned. What was Rarity going to do? Did she like Spike? Did she approve that the two were dating? What was the older girl going to say?

"Since you have started high school now I think that it is only appropriate that we set a few ground rules." With that Rarity pulled out her phone and glasses and cleared her throat.

"Line one Chapter one of fifty-seven." Sweetie Belle sunk into her chair already exhausted.