Twilight Sparkle, a purple alicorn with a love for books, looked at the current book that she was levitating with disdain. This is why she hated re-shelving the books without Spike. The book always opened old scars. It was titled 'Star Swirl the Bearded's Encyclopedia of Magic' and while it was the first Star Swirl book she had to enjoy, it was also a part of a horrible memory that she'd never get over.

“LOOK OUT BELOW!!!” A somewhat feminine voice rang out before a rainbow blur crashed into her from the window.

“RAINBOW DASH! What did I tell you about coming through the window?” The alicorn scolded.

“To not do it?” The blue mare half asked.

Twilight just glared at her.

“Right, so what egghead thing were you up to before I interrupted like a boss?” The Pegasus asked with a cocky grin.

“Re-shelving the books...” Twilight said, not hiding her irritation in her voice.

“Can I help?” Rainbow asked.

“Are you sure you want to do that? It's a very complex procedure including—“

“Never mind, jeeze.” Dash interrupted, not caring about what was coming next.

“And stop calling me ‘Egghead’” Twilight demanded.

“What’s wrong with that name? I think it’s cool!”

“Well I DON’T!” Twilight yelled in her friend’s face and shoved her into the book shelf.

Rainbow Dash slammed against the shelf with a ‘thud’ and ‘oof’, the surprise knocking the wind out of her. Twilight remained in her position, glaring daggers at the rainbow maned mare, tears threatening to spill at any moment. Rainbow Dash sat up, dizzy and in pain. She felt something warm on the back of her head. After putting her hoof on the warm spot and looking at it, Rainbow’s eyes widened. Blood coated her hoof. She looked at Twilight in shock and disbelief. Something was REALLY wrong with her friend… and she intended to find out.

“Twilight… w-what’s wrong?” she asked with deep concern in her voice.

“I don’t… I don’t want… to talk about it.” Twilight whispered, tears falling down her cheeks.

“Twilight… listen. It’s bad to not tell anypony what bothers you. I know that from experience. You know you can tell me anything because I’m your friend. It’s my job to be there when one of my friends are down, because that’s what friends do. That… that’s what you taught me.” The Pegasus told her, hugging the purple mare in the process.

“Let’s go sit down and talk about it.” Rainbow led her to the couch in the library.

Twilight sat there for a moment, trying to calm herself down. Rainbow hugged her a little tighter and waited with a patience Twilight had never seen before in her life. After managing to breathe steadily, she began her story.

“It started when I was in third grade…”

A filly Twilight walked happily with her brother to school, bouncing in excitement. She always loved going to school in the morning, and was always on time every single day. She had perfect attendance, always making sure nopony knew when she was sick, and going straight into class instead of hanging out in the hallway like a lot of ponies did.

“Twily, you’re always so excited to go to school. I wish I was that happy to sit in class!” Her brother, Shining Armor commented.

“I’m not excited about school; I’m excited about the library!” She exclaimed.

“Ah, you’re just a little bookworm aren’t ya?” He chuckled, ruffling up her mane a bit.

Twilight giggled happily and parted ways with her B.B.B.F.F when they entered the school. Shining Armor also attended Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns in hopes of being a Royal Guard. He didn’t even expect his role to be that big, maybe a throne room guard or an entrance guard. Nothing too special.

The purple filly went into her classroom to her desk, which was in the back of the classroom, and pulled out her materials. Her materials were actually books, a paper and a pencil for taking down notes… about her books. She never talked to anypony or acknowledged them, only speaking to answer a question if called on by the teacher. All of her free time was spent in the library, where nopony visited often. The librarian would just sleep, and Twilight’s name would already be put down on the check out list for 20 books. It was a cycle to never be broken until…

“Yo, egghead! What’cha doin’?” A colt’s voice rang out from in front of her.

“Reading…” Twilight stated flatly, ignoring the little colt.

“Ugh, I told ya she was an egghead. She might be smart with them books, but she ain’t smart with her looks. She don’t even know how to have a friend! Shows how smart she is!” The colt yelled to his buddy on his left.

“Heh, you’re right! Let’s show her what we do with eggheads.” The other colt snorted as he knocked her book down to the ground.

“HEY!” She said as she finally truly noticed the two colts.

One of them was a black pegasus with a spiky orange mane, his cutie mark being a solar eclipse that she could’ve sworn it shined a little. The other colt was a chubby unicorn with brown fur and a black mane, his hazel/green eyes glaring mischievously at the purple unicorn.

“What’s wrong? Did we offend ya? Sorry, I’ll pick that up for ya.” The pegasus said and levitated the book up smacking her face in the process.

She looked at the pegasus in disbelief. Not only because he smacked her in the face with her heavy hardcover book, but because... he was a PEGASUS and he LEVITATED her book. How was that even possible? He must have figured out what she was thinking and groaned.

“I would’ve thought you and your Celestia damned books would teach you about pegacorns! Pegacorns are a rare race that has unicorn and pegasus traits so…yeah. You are dumber than I thought! You’d think with all of that reading, you’d know an obvious fact like that!” He said cruelly.

Twilight didn’t know what to say, she just whimpered and started to cry. But she would soon learn that crying was a bad idea. And that trusting bullies was a VERY bad idea. Where was the teacher when you needed one?

“Aye, no crying now. We ain’t mean nothin’,” the brown colt patted the purple filly on her back. “How about we go out and talk about it?”

The naive Twilight nodded her head and the two colts led her out the classroom and to the bathroom (multi gender). They then started laughing cruelly, asking how she was dumb enough to trust them. They then grinned evilly at the poor bookworm.

“So, like I said, we’ll show ya what we do ta Eggheads.” The pegacorn chuckled.

And that’s when the pain started. The two colts slammed their hooves into the defenseless unicorn, laughing at her and taunting her the whole time. It lasted for at least five minutes, and that was one of the most painful five minutes of her life. After they were done with her they left her on the ground, her fur stained and moistened with blood and tears.

“And don’t go snitching on us either, ya useless egghead!”

And just when she thought the pain was over, a book slammed into her face. When she got a clearer look at it, she gasped in surprise. It was her book from earlier, but a lot of pages were torn, with the remaining ones saying ‘useless Egghead’ all over them. The book was now unreadable, and she’d have to pay for it.

“Keep your stupid book!” They yelled and finally left her to cry on the floor of the bathroom and wonder what she did wrong.

That’s how she earned the nickname Egghead. But the story is not quite over. But for now…

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Author's Notes:

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