Rian slowly awoke, mid-day. He did his normal routine. Rian then notices that it was about 1 PM. Since he was already late, he decided to use his shadow spells to his advantage to help him sneak around.

He left his house and started walking to the tree. Since it wasn't far, he used his stealth spell to hide him in the shadows.

"When is he comin'?" he heard Applejack ask.

"Should be soon."

"Should be?"

"Well, I told him noon, and he came late to school yesterday, so it's obvious he was gonna be late."

"But we were meeting here at 1."

"We can't stay here forever, Darling," said a purple-curled hair girl. "This sweat will start to make my make-up run."

"But wouldn't it be great to have a new friend!?" jumped a fluffy pink haired girl.

"I-I don't know," said a pink haired girl shyly. "What if this new person is mean, or-or uh, something?"

"You have nothing to worry about," replied a girl with light and dark purple highlights to match her lavender hair. "Rainbow said he was a nice guy."

Rian was hearing all this. He noticed the shadow of the tree was in reach for him, so he trailed it to a branch on the tree. He laid down on the branch as he stopped the spell.

"Yeah, but he should be here by now," Rainbow said checking her watch.

"Ahh..." Rian yawned as the group jumped. "Sorry, I was sleeping." Rian rubbed his eyes with his fake fatigue voice.

"I didn't see you there before," comment Rainbow.

"I've been here this whole time," he jumped from the tree to the ground.

"Whatever," started Applejack, "now that he's here, where are we goin'?"

"Bowling?" suggested Rainbow.

"Bowling!" screamed Pinkie.

"Bowling, dear?" asked Rarity.

"Bowling," nodded Applejack with a grin.

"Bowling it is," said Twilight.

They all headed off to the bowling alley.

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Rian's POV

We all walked in to the bowling alley. I walked up to the counter. I said to the clerk, "3 games," like we had discussed.

"How many people?" he responded.

"Seven."

"That'll be..." he punched something in the machine, "$105.25"

"U-Uh..." How'd they get me to pay for this...? I took out my wallet and payed for the games.

We all got our shoes and found bowling balls to use.

Walking up to the lane, I heard, "I'm so gonna beat you!"

"No you ain't! Imma beat you!" Applejack and Rainbow were bickering again.

I was up first. My first roll I got 7 pins, then picked up the spare. Next was Rainbow Dash. She rolled the ball as hard as she could. It contacted the pins and made a loud crash noise, but she had only hit 4. She, "Grr..."ed and rolled again, this time getting a gutter.

"Ha, is that the best you got?" Applejack said with a chuckle. She happened to be up next. First roll she got, was a strike.

Rainbow's mouth was dropped.

I wasn't really focusing too much on the scores, but I was curious with the conflict between AJ and Rainbow. I noticed about... 3 frames in, something was up when Rainbow started picking up spares.

On the 6th frame, I closed my eyes and focused. When I opened them, everything was a gray-scale. I watched Rainbow on her second roll. A small aura started glowing around her. I know that aura, A levitation spell! I thought.

With the spell, the object still moves but you can control where it goes. "Cheater," I told her out loud as I stood up.

"What did you call me?"

"A cheater."

"I'm not a cheater," Rainbow declared.

"Uh, yeah you are."

"What proof do you have?"

I couldn't tell them about my vision spell. They already think I'm still learning magic like them. Wait, I know, "You were getting spares."

"Yeah, so? Everyone gets spares."

"But you started picking up spares consecutively ever since the 3rd frame. Before that was just gutters."

"Yeah," said Twilight, "I started noticing that too."

"You still don't have proof on how," Rainbow said, some nervous tone in her voice.

"It was a levitation spell. I was reading up on those not too long ago. So it's pretty obvious that you're using magic to cheat."

"So? Everybody uses magic to do stuff to help them."

"Yeah, to help around the house, or get to school. But nobody uses it in front of those who can't do magic. What kind of chaos do you think it would be if someone noticed this magic."

"U-... Alright fine," she said, crossing her arms with a pout. "I'll stop using magic."

"I can tell when you use magic, so don't even try."

"How are you gonna know?"

I blinked again, and everything turned back to normal color. "I'm smart like that."

XXXX

"Wait wait wait, you're telling me, you own all this stuff?!" said Twilight as she entered Rian's home without permission.

They were just walking home from bowling, and his home happened to the first. Twilight had a glimpse of the inside, and then this conversation started.

"Uh... yeah. It was actually my uncle's, he left it for me when he past away."

"You're uncle used to collect Starswirl the Bearded stuff!?"

Rian removed his hand from his ears, "Uh... Yeah... Are you gonna keep yelling?"

"Oh sorry about that... I kinda get excited over Starswirl the Bearded."

"Yeah, no kidding," commented Rainbow, walking in as well.

"I, he's kinda, my idol." Twilight started to blush. "Did you know he actually had a signature spell he created only for himself? He wouldn't tell anybody how to perform it. It was teleportation spell. Except, instead of teleporting yourself, you can teleport other people, even a huge group if you want."

Twilight continued talking until Rainbow screamed, "Twi! Stop it! Enough monologuing!"

Twilight bit her lip while blushing again. However, Rian knew that Starswirl did tell someone how to do that spell. "I've heard that signature spell was just a rumor," Rian said.

"I heard it everywhere. It can't just be a rumor."

"Yeah, it easily could."

"Well, anyway, you have to let me take a look at all this wonderful stuff one day! It'll be just spectacular!"

"I, uh, rather not," Rian responded. "There's so much stuff in here, it'll take hours. Not to mention there are some things my uncle didn't want to share to the public." Like his spell book, and how to perform them. He thought.

"Alright, fine."

The six of them started to leave Rian's house, but Rainbow stopped, "You guys go ahead, I gotta talk to Rian alone a bit."

"Yeah, sure," snickered Applejack, "Go 'talk' alone with him."

"Quiet you!" she yelled as the rest left.

Rainbow closed the door as Rian asked, "What did you want to talk about?"

"You," she turned towards him.

"M-Me?" Rian slightly blushed.

"Yeah. Back on the first day of school, when you stopped my fire spell. You said that stopping someone else's flame was fire spells 101. When I took a look online on our schools website, we're not gonna learn that till the end of the year."

"Yeah, but-"

"And... At the bowling alley, you would never have known I used magic to cheat unless you were using magic of your own; but I never seen magic like that."

"Well I-"

"You, are hiding something from us. Now, spill it."

"I, don't know what you're talking about. I'm smart, and I'm very observant."

"Tell me, I know you're lying. What are you hiding."

"I'm not hiding anything. I really have no clue what you're saying."

"Tell me, or else."

"Or else what?" Rian was almost hesitant to ask, but learned to try to control himself.

"You'll find out," she responded, grabbing the middle of his shirt.

"You don't realize how hard it is to be intimidated by someone who is smaller than me."

"Don't change the subject! Tell me, what you're hiding!"

"A-Alright, f-fine! I looked ahead in the school books, and tried some rumored spells I've heard. I, I'm a nerd when it comes to magic." Rian lied through his teeth, being a good actor to follow it.

She smirked, watching him through her menacing, narrowed eyes. She pulled him closer as their lips crossed. Moments later Rainbow pushed him away as she started to walk away herself.

Rian stood there, completely shocked. His mouth didn't close once she walked away. Rainbow almost got to the door when he said, "Uh- uh- uh-. W-Wait!" He ran up to her, tripping his own feet, but quickly catching his footing.

"What?" she turned around. Even with Rian catching his footing, they were still millimeters away. He had accidentally hit her, both of them falling to the ground.

Rainbow blushed along with Rian while he laid on top of her. He opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. The harder he tried to talk, the tighter his chest became. Y-You can't do this to me, he told himself, I have to know why she just did that.

He tried to speak once more, but she beat him to it. "Rian..."

"Y-Yeah...?"

"C-Could uh... Could you get off me please?"

He stayed silent for a moment before quickly getting up. Rainbow followed suit slowly. "I-I'm sorry about that."

"I-It's uh, It's okay. So uh, what did you want to say to me?"

"Well I," Rian didn't really want to say now, this already being embarrassing. "I wanted to know why you um... why you kissed me."

"I..." she noticed the door that she already opened, and ran out of it.

He, he couldn't do it. Rian couldn't run after her. His mind swimmed with thoughts of her. He stood in shock, staring at where she was before she ran off. Even breathing was hard for him at this point.

XXXX

Rian watched Rainbow walk in. They shared eye-contact for half a second before she looked down with a blush. He caught that he was blushing as well.

"What's that about?" asked a voice out of the blue.

"What's what about?" he turned to the voice, seeing a green-haired underclassman.

"I can see your blush, so can everybody else. Why is that?"

"Nothing, it's just, something happened between me and this girl last Saturday."

"With Rainbow after the bowling alley?" He noticed that Rian looked slightly shocked, "Sorry, Spike," he held out his hand, "Twilight's younger brother and apprentice."

After shaking his hand, Rian said, "Yeah, it was with Rainbow."

"What happened between you and her?"

"I... can't say. I can barely process it myself in order to explain to anyone else."

"Oh I see... Relationship problems..."

"What?"

"Trust me, I've been there. I also helped Twilight with it a bit when I was younger as well. Just see it through, hopefully it'll play out in your favor." The 5-minute warning bell rang, "Gotta go, see ya later." Spike got up to leave.

"See you later... I guess?"