It's been a week since I started attending Ponyville's school. On my way to and from school I am accompanied by Second. For the first three days I didn't even know she was walking- er, trotting next to me. The first time I actually interacted with her is when I almost called her out at lunch. Every time, every single time she instantly whispers "yes?" into my ear right before I call her name and scares the heck out of me.

I've learned that I'm bit more unprepared than I thought. School is five hours long, as Cheerilee told me on my first day here. The first half hour is spent socializing with the class. Drawing pictures together, maybe playing with a toy someone brought, all that jazz. The teacher frowns upon students being late within the first half hour but they're usually not punished. Then we open up with social studies, followed by math, each being an hour long. Then we have recess and lunch at the same time. We eat, and play with the time we have remaining. After that, we have an hour of general science followed by English, then we're sent home.

Social Studies is... odd. I mean, it's the study of equine social activity, I knew it was going to be different, but I didn't expect this. Pony history is vague at best, and a lot of it's issues were solved through magic or magic powered by concepts. Actually, magic seems to be frequently powered up through one concept: Friendship. Friendship seems to actually be a quantity of... something, that ponies use to, uh, power up? And then stop bad things that just kinda pop up out of nowhere?

For that matter, where did the alicorns come from? Roughly 1000 years ago, and it's always a 1000 years ago! Unless it was last week; Apparently evil likes to strike by the millennium. Anyway, 1000 years ago, the Alicorns fought over this, stopped that, helped this, found that... Which is great and all, but then history just stops at a certain point. I mean, what, we can't just ask from the source where they came from?

"Excuse me, Miss Cheerilee?" I raise my hoof.

"Yes Willy?" She beamed at me.

"Where did the four alicorn princesses come from?"

"Excellent question Willy! Nopony knows how Princess Celestia and Luna came to be, but we can pinpoint their first appearance somewhere between 82 to 94 years after the unification of the three pony tribes."

The what now?

"Princess Mi Amore Cadenza ascended 32 years ago in a small village called Hoofsburg near the crystal mountains. She was a pegasus filly adopted and raised by a Earth Pony couple, and live there happily till an evil pony by the name of Prismia used a love stealing spell."

32 years ago? Wow, that's recent.

"The Princess courageously challenged the witch and found a way to reverse her spell. Upon defeating her, she was ascended into the Alicorn of Love!"

Hey now, aren't we missing a lot of important details here?!?

"Princess Twilight ascended 18 years ago right here in Ponyville!"

That's even more recent! Where are all these alicorns coming from?!?

"One day, while researching an incomplete spell from Starswirl the Bearded, she swapped the cutie marks of her best friends. When she fixed her friends, she ascended into the Alicorn of Friendship."

Wow, that was a lot less impressive than Princess Cadenza.

"Thank you Miss Cheerilee." I nod my head.

"You're very welcome Willy." Cheerilee smiled.

Math was painful, but at least I knew why. Math still works the same, thank goodness, but all the symbols and terms are different, so I'm pretty much relearning math in a different language. I was ahead of the curb on reading and writing, so I didn't need to study to ace any test related to learning horse noises. Of course the language isn't really called English or horse noises, but I'm telling you this in English, so I might as well try to keep this from being confusing.

Science has been covering how magic works in our body. Pegasi feathers and hooves act like glue for magic, which allow them to fly and push clouds around. Unicorn horns are made of a special bone that works like a magical lightning rod. This allows them to both cast magic and be very accident prone. Earth pony muscles are slightly larger than other ponies and are full of magic, which they burn through to strengthen themselves or the things around them.

So to summarize, pegasi stick, unicorns attract, earth ponies give. That sorta explains things without explaining anything whatsoever. Considering they teach that to elementary school kids in about one day it's also probably inaccurate. To be honest, with the way things are going, I don't expect to get an answer for anything anytime soon. Maybe I should get a notepad and just jot down notes wherever I go. Would that be weird? I live in the same town as the Princess of Friendship. I imagine she probably tell me to go join some sort of club rather than research.

Living in a orphanage is kinda inconvenient for trying to have spending money. Maybe I could a get a job. What place would hire a little colt though? I'm not even allowed to walk around town yet. Ugh, maybe once-

"Willy."

Goodness! She is practically on top of my back whispering into my ear! How did she even get there?!?

"Hey Second, what's up?"

"Can I sit with you?"

"Yeah, sure..."

I give her a smile. Well, at least she's gotten a little more talkative. Whenever she sits with me though she just disappears. I'm guessing she just stays nearby or something? Whenever I ask her about it she simply gets all quiet. I've come to accept that she'll open up when she feels like it, I just hope that's sooner than later.

Since I am in school, and it's all about learning and the social experience, I figure having one friend (sorta) is no excuse to not make more. So, starting from youngest to oldest, I decided to pester the other students. Second and I are the youngest, so... Second's older than me. I mean, once you reach a certain age, you have to attend school. She was already here, so she must be older than me. Huh, that's kinda odd to think about-

Distractions. Distractions everywhere.

So the three closest to our age groups are these three earth pony fillies named Oopsie Daisy, Violet Rose, and Sunny Valley. Ignoring the tragic life that the first one is probably going to have, I approached the three with confidence.

"Hello-"

Oopsie proceeds to knock me into a desk while turning around. Not really all the painful, but I'm uncomfortably aware that all these fillies are bigger than me.

"Ooooooh! Sorry about that~!" Oopsie explains in what is very clearly a calm and thoughtful tone, " I didn't see you there lil' guy! You're Willy Nilly right?"

I watch as all three proceed to give me the ditzy blonde giggle. I can easily see why Second Shadow would feel uncomfortable among these three. Regardless, I clear my throat and give them my best winning smile.

"Hi! Yeah, my name is Willy Nilly. I don't really know anypony else besides Second Shadow, and I wanted to get to know my other classmates better. Could I play with you three?"

The three of them stared at me with a blank expression. This is going well.

"Sorry, I haven't really hanged out with anypony else, so I don't know if I did something wrong or not."

"The colt has extremely troubling unchildlike behavior!" Sunny screamed.

Uh-

"He's so uncomfortably polite!" Oopsie moaned.

"He's so stuffy!" Rose wailed.

Geez, I'm sorry!

"U- um." I manage to stutter out before I get cut off again.

"He's Cursed!"

"Hexed!"

"Enchanted!"

I'm what now?!?

"He's stuck acting like a stuffy old pony!" Sunny draped an arm over her eyes.

"His curse will spread to us!" Oopsie gasped.

"The horror, the horror!" Rose grabbed her face in... well, horror.

I proceeded to watch the three of them scream as they ran out of schoolhouse.

"Sick of this shit..." Ms.Cheerilee mumbled as she passed by me, going after them.

...

What the hell just happened?

No one's gonna bother explaining that? Is it something that normally needs no explanation? No really, everyone else didn't even blink an eye. Is this the norm for us? We're naked clown colored cat horses that live near a forest that shoots out demons daily and little children will randomly start screaming the horror and will run away due to the slightest provocation?

What is this life?

What is my life?

...

So next on the list is Prism Jewel's friend group~! They suddenly seem way more... relaxed in comparison now. I hope they're nice to me! I mean, what's the worst that could happen? Please let somebody in this school be normal. But of course, like all things that are doomed to go wrong, I feel something poking my side. Second is sitting to my left staring at me. Her eyes glance over at Prism's group, and then back at me. She slowly shakes her head.

That's promising.

You know something is very very wrong when the person who has your best interests in mind is a introverted stalker.