Sonny crossed his hooves over his chest and peered at the pony in front of him. Her dark brown mane was highlighted with a lighter brown, and it was pinned up with a rubber band into a messy bun. She had a small hoop in the cartilage of her left ear.

The more he looked at her, the more Sonny wanted to talk to her. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Joel slouched in his seat, staring at the clock. Sonny sighed, and flicked a pen with his nose so it rolled across the desk, expressing his boredom.

Suddenly, the pony in front of him jumped up from her seat and walked to the front of the room. She placed a paper on the teacher's desk, and then turned around, and Sonny got a full view of her face.

She had brown eyes, and her hair was cut into choppy bangs covering her eyes a bit, and a streak of blond was dyed into them. In the center of her forehead was a unicorn horn.

"Hey…uh…" Sonny started, trying to make conversation with her. She turned, and looked at Sonny.

"Yeah, kid?"

"I…um…well…" Sonny tried to speak, but couldn't find something logical to say, so he reached his hoof out and said, "Hi I'm Sonny!" in the most cheerful voice he could.

The unicorn filly looked a little startled, but her eyebrow lowered as she reached out to shake his hoof with her own.

"Sofi." She replied, and sat down in her seat in front of Sonny. Sofi looked a little freaked out that a fifth grader was talking to her, but Sonny didn't stop talking.

"So…uh…why are you in detention?" Sonny asked, looking down at his hooves, trying not to be weird. She seems like she would be a cool pony to get to know, he thought, as Sofi rolled her eyes.

"Look, kid, I know you're bored out of your mind in here, but I have to get back to what I'm working on." She began to turn in her seat, but Sonny stopped her.

"Okay, I have something to ask you."

Soft raised an eyebrow again, and Sonny noticed she had a nose piercing. A small silver hoop that glinted off her nose when the overhead light it right.

"What is it?"

Sonny looked at her and said, "I need you to help me help my friend."

Her eyes went cross as she tilted her head to the side, trying to understand what Sonny meant, "Wait…you want me to help you help your friend?"

Sonny nodded and motioned over to Joel, who had his head down on his desk. Sofi laughed and covered her mouth with her hoof.

"What's so funny?" Sonny asked, eyeing her.

"Dude," She said, "You mean Joel?!"

"You already know him?"

She rolled her eyes again and said, "I've known him since sixth grade. The first time we talked was when I saw him sitting out behind the buildings, slumped on his blank little flank." Sonny narrowed his eyes, knowing that both he and Joel hated being joked at.

"I was the only one who wasn't teasing him about still having a blank flank. Everyone else got theirs in sixth grade, or in the summer between sixth and seventh. Including me." She pointed to the microphone mark on her flank, "Turns out I had a talent for singing. I never would've found out unless I hadn't sung in a school play."

Sonny sighed, knowing she would be hard to get through to, "Look, do you want to help me or not?"

Sofi kicked back in her seat and flicked her tail to the side, "I don't think there's anything I can do. Plus, you're a little pony just trying to fit in with all the older kids, so you're just wasting your time."

Why do they keep calling me a little pony? Sonny growled and said, "I have to get him to play the piano."

"What?"

"Joel said that's the only thing he does now to pass the time, so I have to get him to play piano. If we could only…"

"Kid, you're wasting your time. He won't listen."

"If we could just…"

Sofi sighed and said, "There's no way he'll listen to a little fifth grader, just saying."

"Just hear me out!" Sonny shouted, and Sofi finally turned her attention to him, "We need to make a song."

Sofi snorted and said, "That's the most retarded idea I've heard."

"But…it could work. He could play piano, you could sing, and I could make the rest of the music. Then, we could send it to a radio station and…"

Sofi put her hoof on his mouth, shutting him up, "I'm not doing it."

Sonny pulled his face away from her hoof, "But you have to! Your talent is singing!"

Sofi sighed, "Alright! I'll do the freaking song, but how will we get Joel to join?"

An evil grin spread across Sonny's face, "I have an idea."

"Oh god." Sofi said as she got up, "Well, I have to go. See you later, kid?"

"Yay!" Sonny stood up and hugged her, "You're the best pony ever for helping me!"

Sofi stood still as Sonny clung to her, then after a few seconds tried to get him off, "Um…yeah…thanks? Can you, like, get off me, please?" After a few seconds, Sofi practically shoved him off, "Bye, kid." She said as she trotted out the door.

A few hours later, school got out. Sonny couldn't wait to talk to Joel about his idea. He was sure it was going to work, Joel just had to agree.

"Hi Joel!" Sonny ran up to Joel's side as he walked off the campus.

"I'm guessing nobody else mentioned your mark?"

Sonny frowned and said, "Well, a few ponies did, but they were far more interested on how I was able to make Guetta cry." Joel half-smiled, but didn't look at Sonny.

"So, I have an idea about how you can get your mark…" Sonny began, and Joel looked at him.

"Forget it." Joel sped up, walking at a brisker pace than Sonny, so he had to speed up.

"But I really think this will work!"

"I don't care." Joel began to run, trying to get Sonny to go away or at least shut up. Sweat started to form on Sonny's forehead as he used all his little pony leg power to keep up.

"Please. Just. Hear. Me. Out." Sonny said, squeezing words between gasps of air. Suddenly, Joel came to a halt and turned to an exhausted Sonny. Sonny knew he was going to fly away next to not wear out his legs, but Sonny had a plan.

"Sonny, freaking leave me alone." Joel turned his back to Sonny and began to flap his wings, lifting him an inch off the ground.

"But…" Sonny's eyes became big and innocent looking behind his black glasses, "I-I'm just trying to help…"

"I said: Go. Away. And. Leave. Me. Alone." Joel's tone became strong and strict as he began to fly away, leaving Sonny behind him. Guilt began to filter through his veins when he heard a soft crying sound coming from the ground below. He tried to stay strong and keep going, like he would in most other situations, but for some reason he felt really guilty about making the little unicorn cry.

"Damn it, Sonny." He muttered as he turned and landed on the ground in front of Sonny. He was sitting on the ground, his head down, and you could hear his soft cry. Joel reached out and put a hoof on Sonny's shoulder.

"Hey, kid…" He said in a soft voice, "I-I'm sorry for making you upset." Sonny stopped his fake crying and a smile began to play at the corners of his lips.

"I guess…I could make a song with you guys…" Joel shrugged as Sonny bounced back to his normal happy self, turning to look Joel in the eye, the biggest smile spread across his face.

"You will?!" Sonny pressed himself on his hind legs and held himself steady with his two front hooves resting on Joel's shoulders so he could look him in the eye.

Joel sighed, "I guess so."