After another day of school, Gaige hurriedly came to Hoofbucks to take a sip of their fresh super expensive coffee. It wasn't because she was exhausted at school, but she was completely tired of Flash. The boy kept on talking about Twilight Sparkle the moment they announced the Fall Formal was coming up. Everytime he would mention Twilight, Gaige would suddenly become envious, would start retaliating and become annoyed at Flash because he kept on begging for Gaige to help him ask Twilight out.

She quickly ordered her usual drink and sat on a table by the window. There, she saw people and cars pass by, the bright sun setting in, and heard loud chatter coming from around her. For the past few days, she began to feel even more different from before. The loud thumping from her heart began to accelerate faster, she begins to blush violently when Flash says something nice to her, and she can't even look at Flash for a few seconds without her looking away and saying "Baka".

"Hey, mind if I sit here mate?"

A familiar English voice came from her side. She turned to see a familiar black hair, black aviator sunglasses and the Crystal Prep uniform. The boy smiled at her and sat on the chair infront of her.

"Hello Gaige." Neon called out, taking off his sunglasses and taking a sip on his tea.

"Nylon right?" Gaige asked, forgetting his name as she played with her drink.

"Neon."

"Right. What brings you here?"

"The usual drink and watch other wankers pass." Neon joked.

"Right..." Gaige whispered as she looked at the window, avoiding eye contact with Neon.

Time went on as the two minded their own business. As Gaige was checking out her surroundings, she noticed that Neon had cerulean eyes hiding behind his glasses. Thinking that the whole situation is getting awkward, she began to spoke up.

"So why do you wear sunglasses?" Gaige asked as she tried to start a conversation.

"Makes me more intimidating," Neon replied, "Why ask?"

"Nothing, it's just that you have beautiful cerulean eyes." Gaige said with a slight blush as she looked away.

Neon felt a slight thump on his chest as he looked at Gaige.

"Eh? You think so mate?" Neon said with a smile.

"Err, probably?" Gaige replied.

"Oh hey by the way," Neon said as he smirked to Gaige, "How's your beloved Flash doing?"

Gaige began to blush violently as she flailed her arms around. Neon began to chuckle at the girl he was looking at. Gaige looked like she was about to burst into a fountain of sweat, but she quickly calmed down and sat down.

"H-He's fine, his very annoying as usual," Gaige nervously said, "Speaking of Brad, how the heck do you know each other?"

"Like I said, were childhood friends," Neon replied as he took a sip of his drink, "Well, it wasn't really a good friendship if you count always competing and fighting with each other."

"What about Ringo and Brawly?"

"I didn't really care much about those two, but they seem to get along with Flash during middle school."

Gaige began to rub her chin and look at Neon. She proceeded to grin in an evil way and said, "Tell me, who was the most dominant between you two?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Neon smiled.

"Yeah Flash is a pussy." Gaige chuckled as the two began to laugh.

The next day, Gaige was at her locker putting away some stuff and was getting ready for gym class. Every second, the Fall Formal got nearer and nearer, making her more nervous than before. She shook her head and thought of something else... Which was a mental image of Flash in a tuxedo.

Gaige began to blush violently and shut her locker door. She did not realize that Flash was behind the door smiling at her. This made Gaige back away from him in shock and making her look away as she tried to hide her red violent face.

"BAKA! DON'T STARTLE ME!" Gaige nervously said.

"How's my best friend doing?!" Flash grinned.

"...Excuse me?" Gaige raised a brow, "....You're just here to bug me about helping you get Twilight again aren't you?"

"No! No.... Yes."

Gaige began to walk away from Flash as he began to panic. He began to kneel and begged for Gaige to help him. Gaige proceeded to turn around with a smile and said, "Jibun seikō ikimasu."

"GAIGE PLEASE! I BEG OF YOU!"

"How can a guy like you not know how to get girls?!" Gaige exclaimed with her arms raised, "Neon was right about you being a wuss!"

Flash's eyes began to get teary and pouted. It was hard for Gaige to read Flash as she feels extremely different around Flash. She could not tell if Flash was really sad or just pretending due to the fact that her heart was racing. Suddenly, Flash grabbed a hold of Gaige's legs and begged even more.

*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*

"F-F-F-F-F-FLASH?!" Gaige exclaimed as her face became redder.

Gaige looked down to Flash and saw him with a saddened expression. Her eyes widened as she saw that Flash's emotions were genuine. Her heart began to grow heavy as she frowned. She couldn't just leave a friend helpless, even if Flash was douche to her. Having no choice, she let out a defeated sigh and placed her hand on Flash's head.

"Alright, I'll help you." Gaige smiled.

The boy's frown slowly turned into a smile as he slowly stood up. He began to wipe away the tears out of his eyes and proceeded to hug Gaige, in which she burned up to red once more. The hug broke out and Flash was once more happy as a horse.

"Thank you, you're the best." Flash smiled.

*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*

After that, together they went to the gym. Along the way, Gaige thought Flash the principles of girls, which were just some random things she thought, and which Flash believed (And because I know you don't want a chapter with boring tips and tricks on getting Flash to get laid). Flash was thankful for Gaige's aid, in which the latter was happy. But a part of the pigtailed girl was wrong, she did not feel as happy as Flash, she felt anxious. As usual, she shook it off and went ahead with her life.

During gym class, the two were paired and started doing the usual extreme exercises that Coach Iron Will instructed. As the Flash was holding Gaige's legs for the sit ups, he asked more questions in regards to taking care of girls.

"Look, it's like taking care of a flower; girls are very fragile when it comes to relationships." Gaige said as she did some sit ups.

"So basically girls are like paper?" Flash asked.

"Yes they're very delicate," Gaige said.

"Girls are complicated and weird."

"Well, not for me. It was like survival of the fittest for me in Japan. I had to exercise every damn day of the week to keep up."

"That explains the abs."

Gaige's eyes shrank as she lifted her head up. She looked down to her abdomen and saw that the sweaty shirt that was revealing her abs. Gaige began to get red once more and suddenly kicked away Flash, which knocked him to the people behind him doing sit ups as well. The two girls behind Flash, who were Bon Bon and Lyra, were knocked to the ground as the body of Flash was on them. Flash quickly got up and tried to apologize.

"Hey! Watch it!" Lyra exclaimed as she stood up and rubbed her head.

"I have no problem having my bestie on me but you pal has-"

As Bon Bon was about to finish her sentence, she quickly stopped moving and started to shiver in fear as she saw the horrifying glare that Flash was giving to her. Lyra began to get terrified as well as the two backed away from Flash.

"I'm sorry." Flash said in a serious tone but still attaining his glare.

"NONONONO! WE'RE SORRY!" Bon Bon exclaimed as she grabbed Lyra and ran off, making Flash raised a brow.

"Men are menacing!" Lyra added as the two headed for the locker rooms.

Gaige facepalmed as she looked at Flash. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and tapped the back of Flash.

"You should really stop glaring at people dude." Gaige said.

"Huh? I don't glare at people." Flash replied.

Gaige sighed and said, "I'm pretty sure that's why people avoid you. It's because you feel really scared inside, so everyone else gets scared of you."

Flash contemplated on what Gaige said as she began to walk to the locker rooms to apologize at Lyra and Bon Bon. She suddenly stopped and looked at Flash once more.

"I-I really like it when you smile." Gaige said with a slight blush.

As Gaige walked away from the Flash, the guy began to get red about her comment. He tried to look away and hide his face. Flash began to think about what Gaige said and learn from his mistakes.

Suddenly, a dodgeball hit him on the back. He turned to see Trixie and a boy with black shoulder length hair and white skin.

"Trixie is sorry! Alchemy threw the ball too hard and-"

Like Bon Bon and Lyra, Trixie froze in fear as she saw Flash's face. The guy continued to glare at her as the boy backed away slowly.

I-I really like it when you smile.

Flash remembered what his friend Gaige said to him. Realizing this, he quickly gave out a heartwarming smile to Trixie.

"It' okay." Flash replied with a big smile on his face.

Trixie's jaw dropped as she saw what was on her sight. She just realized that, Flash is actually attractive. Trixie smiled as she took the ball and ran off with the boy with him.

For Flash, he felt great. This was the first time a person didn't run away from him. He felt like he was the greatest man who ever lived and wanted to tell Gaige about it. He rushed down to the locker rooms, ignoring the fact he just entered the girls locker room. He began to look for her and finally found her when he heard a familiar sneeze coming from her. Flash then turned to a corner and found Gaige.

"Gaige! GUESS WHAT HAPPENED! I SMILED AT SOMEONE!" Flash said, unknown to what he was about to see, "Isn't that-"

Flash completely stopped talking and had his jaw dropped. His face became red as a tomato as he was dumbfounded at what he was looking at. Wearing only her underwear, Gaige shivered and her face turned to red as she clenched her fist. The sight of C cupped breast, stripped panties and smooth tanned skin made Flash even more uncomfortable. Not to mention Gaige had a great feminine physique. Flash slowly backed away as Gaige began to burn in anger as she deviously glared at Flash.

"B-B-Baka.. What the hell are you doing in here?" Gaige said as her eye twitched.

"No wait I can explain!"

"YOU BAKA!"

*Sounds of punching, kicking,slamming and Flash basically screaming like a girl.*

For the past few days, Flash began to socialize and became friendly, much to Gaige's surprise. He became polite, generous and helpful over the course of a few days. Soon, girls began to surround him, which made Gaige incredible uncomfortable everytime they're together. Some even asked him to be their date during the Fall Formal, but declined due to the fact he wanted Twilight to be his date. It soon made Gaige distance herself from Flash.

It was now lunch time and Gaige was with the girls. For some unknown reasons for her, she wore a saddened expression the whole day. It became way worse every time she would look at Flash, who was always with girls nowadays. Rarity was the first to notice this and placed her hand on Gaige's shoulder.

"What's wrong darling?" A concerned Rarity said.

Gaige sighed and said, "Honestly, I have no clue."

"Is it because of Flash?"

"....Probably... I don't know." Gaige said as she played with her food.

"Look Gaige, nobody could have guessed that Flash would suddenly become popular," Rarity said as she looked at Flash in the distance, "After all, he is quite handsome."

Gaige remained silent as she tried to keep a straight face.

"Recently his attitude towards others has become really good, and so the misunderstanding has completely vanished," Rarity smiled, "So naturally, girls would develop good feeling towards him."

Gaige soon looked at Flash. He was with two girls, who she could tell that they were trying to get him as a date on the Fall Formal. Flash soon noticed Gaige and smiled at her. This made Gaige bloom red and look away.

"It's like you said Gaige, as long as he stops glaring at people, even if he doesn't do anything, others naturally go and talk to him." Rarity finished.

"It's quite amazing," Sci-Twi said, "It's obvious that his words don't match his looks, but who would have thouht that after his sudden popularity, everyone accepts anything he says.... Even the dumbest things that comes out of his mouth."

Gaige then looked at her food and began to get irritated.

"The confused girl that came to the right place to cure her loneliness." Applejack smiled as she looked at Gaige.

"....What are you talking about AJ?" Gaige said in irritation.

"What else could she be talking about?" Rainbow Dash added as she sipped on her soda, "It's getting difficult for you to get close to him now!"

"Before, nobody could go closer than two meters from him," Pinkie Pie continued, "Or maybe because the author just likes it that way."

Suddenly, Gaige quickly stood up and started to walk away. Rarity soon smiled and said, "Oh, I think someone's jealous."

Gaige stopped on her tracks and turned around. She wore a surprised expression as Rarity chuckled.

"....So this is jealousy?"

A few hours had passed and it was now near the end of the day. The next day will be the Fall Formal and Gaige still doesn't know what to do. She has never been to a dance before, she doesn't have a dress and more importantly, no date. Better yet, she felt completely anxious, which she still couldn't explain until now.

She was now walking in the hallways trying to exit the school until she heard shouting. She quickly turned to look and saw Blueblood and a first year. She quickly noticed that Blueblood had a pissed off expression and looked like he was about to hit the younger boy.

"Look I'm sorry!" The freshmen said as he tried to cover his face.

"That hurt, peasant!" Blueblood said in rage, "You should watch where you're going!"

"I'm sorry please don't hurt me!"

Blueblood began to burst his limits and had enough. He punch the poor boys guts and kicked him. The boy fell on the ground as Blueblood laughed maniacally.

"Whatever! I don't want to see you again! Get out of here peasant!" Blueblood exclaimed.

This made Gaige furious and was about to intervene when a familiar boy approached the bully first. It was Flash Sentry. Obviously. He wore a serious face and glared at Blueblood. The two began to look at each other eye to eye as Blueblood's eye twitched.

"What do you want?" Blueblood said in a serious tone.

"...I hate bullies." Flash replied.

Blueblood began to laugh loudly, which was noticed by a few students and began to surround the two. Blueblood began to grin as he circled Flash. Gaige too joined in and watch the scene unfold.

"You hate bullies? HA!" Blueblood laughed, "Ironic how you were the bully back then!"

"I've changed you asshole." Flash said, beginning to get furious.

"Changed? Are you sure about that?" Blueblood said as he approached Flash's ears, "Deep inside, you're still the troublemaker that everyone fears and hates."

"What about you then? OH THAT'S RIGHT! You're the pussy that everyone beat up," Flash retaliated, "Even Gaige put you down."

"Don't get cocky, peasant."

Blueblood grabbed Flash's shirt and glared at him. He raised his fist and was ready to strike. Blueblood launched his fist directly at Flash's face, but was quickly blocked by Flash's hand.

"There's no way this kid should have said something like 'I'm sorry' to the likes of you!" Flash exclaimed.

Blueblood began to panic as Flash's grip began to get harder. Flash quickly backed his head away and launched it to Blueblood's nose, knocking him down to the ground. The bully's nose began to bleed as he slowly got up to his knees.

"Get up and apologize, asshole." Flash said as he cracked his knuckles.

"Screw you." Blueblood replied.

Flash became even more irritated and lifted Blueblood from his collar. Once more, Flash raised his fist and was ready to hit him once more. As he was about to hit him, Flash stopped and noticed the crowd around them. His pupils shrank when he saw the terrified faces of students.

"Flash."

A familiar voice came from behind Flash. He turned and saw Gaige with a brow raised and her hands crossed. He slowly let go of him and faced Gaige.

"What are you doing?" Gaige asked.

"WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE?!"

The voice of Iron Will roared through the distance. Quickly, Gaige grabbed Flash's hand, much to his surprise, and ran out of the school as quickly as possible. The two kept on running as fast as they can until they've reached a deserted street. They sat on the bench nearby and rested. As the two panted, Gaige spoke up.

"Honestly, you ended up making things worse by intervening," Gaige explained, "I never though I'd have to run away from a teacher."

Flash remained silent as he wiped the sweat coming from his head. He wore a blank expression and sighed as he turned to Gaige.

"Gaige.... Did I do something wrong?" He asked, "This happened to me before... Alot of times actually. Everyone looked at me with fear. I don't know why this always happens to me, am I doing something wrong?"

"It's hard to say," Gaige replied, "What you've done isn't exactly wrong, but I know that.... You're a kind person."

(Play this song for an emotional effect)

The two remained silent for a while as Flash began to take in the words that Gaige said. Gaige on the other hand, began to realize that Flash isn't the bully she expected at first. To her, he was a warm and tender person, and everyone else will realize that one day.

"Heh, you were like a hero back there," Flash smiled, "It's lucky that when I got into danger, a hero like you turned up at the right moment and saved me."

"....Blueblood was the one who was in danger dude." Gaige smiled back.

The two began to laugh as their hearts felt light. It was like their problems vanished in the blink of an eye. Just from seeing Flash smile, she was happy.

"Oh I forgot to tell you! I just received word from Sunset that Twilight's coming to the dance!" Flash said in glee, "Isn't that awesome?!"

Upon hearing those words, the gloom and anxiety came back to Gaige in an instant. Her chest began to feel heavy once more, but she couldn't show him she was sad. She pretended to smile and be happy about it, not wanting to have Flash feel her pain.

"...That's g-great! I s-see my lessons have been paying off!" Gaige said with a stuttering voice.

"And I would have done it without you Gaige," Flash smiled, "Thank you."

With that said, Flash hugged Gaige warmly. But for her, it wasn't the same. She did not feel the adrenaline from before and she could still feel the sadness surrounding her. The two broke up the hug and Flash bid farewell to her as he went to prepare his suit for the Fall Formal. As soon as Flash disappeared in the distance, Gaige sat motionless on the bench. She simply stared at the sky as the thought of being sad filled her.

"There it is again.." Gaige said, indicating her sad state, "...F*ck life."

The next day game and it was almost time for the Fall Formal and Gaige was on her way to Carousel Boutique to meet up with the girls. Having no time to rent a dress, she wore a red plain long sleeves polo that her brother gave, gray fitted pants and her usual sneakers due to the fact that she doesn't have a date to go there and won't even bother dancing. Upon thinking of Flash, she became depressed at him for choosing Twilight. She was near Rarity's place, in which she was instructed to go to since she didn't have a date and would go to the dance with the girls instead.

Gaige knocked on the door and waited for an answer. She began to whistle the theme song that this fanfic is based on and looked around her. It was around 5:00 in the afternoon and the dance would start around 7:00. After a few seconds of waiting, the door opened to reveal Rarity wearing a bright blue dress. She was happy to see Gaige but her expression quickly turned into horror as she saw what Gaige was wearing.

"GOOD HEAVENS GAIGE WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?!" Rarity exclaimed in disgust.

"What? I didn't have time to rent a dress." Gaige said as she shrugged her shoulders.

"BUT THIS IS THE FALL FORMAL DEAR! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DRESS..Errr.... FORMAL!" Rarity said as she pinched Gaige's polo, "DASH! APPLEJACK! GRAB GAIGE QUICKLY!"

"Wait wha-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Dash and Applejack rushed onto Gaige and struggled to get her. After a quick UFC style struggle, the two got a hold of Gaige and dragged her inside. Gaige began to scream in horror as she was put on a chair. The girls began to surround her as Gaige began to shiver in fear. Pinkie stepped up as her hair deflated, making Gaige gulp.

"Girls," Pinkie said in a flat tone, "Strip her."

"Mommy!" Gaige said as the girls began to strip away.

After an hour of fitting dresses and putting make up, they finally put on the perfect dress for Gaige. She now wore a red dress, accompanied by a white scarf on her neck and topped with make up. The girls began to aww at her, as she looked completely adorable in her outfit. Gaige went to a mirror to look at herself. She was shocked to see how girly she looked like with the make up and dress on and blushed violently.

"Gaige you look so cute!" Fluttershy commented.

"Amen on that!" Applejack added.

"S-S-Stop it! I'm a nerd not a girl!" Gaige said nervously.

"...Technically you're a girl." Rainbow Dash said.

"WHATEVER! JUST LOOK AT ME! I LOOOOK AAAAAWFUL!" Gaige said as she pouted.

"Don't be silly Gaige, you look absolutely outstanding! Even Flash might go head over heels-"

Upon hearing the name, a part of Gaige died down. Once more, she felt extremely sad in which she still couldn't explain why. She felt like she was about to break down and cry. Rarity quickly noticed her gloom expression and placed her hand on Gaige's shoulder.

"Don't worry Gaige, he'll dance with you." Rarity said trying to cheer her up.

Gaige let out half a smile and sighed and said, "He better, I'm his friend after all."

After a few more make ups and the usual girls things that takes way too long, the girls rode Gaige's family limo, which was driven by Rupert, the Mix's butler. They soon arrived at the school and made their way to the front.

Meanwhile somewhere inside, Treble and Zero along with the others guys, who were dressed in fancy suits, were at a table waiting for the event to start. As the two remained silent, Zero got up to his feet with a clenched fist.

"Treble! I propose a challenge!" Zero proclaimed.

"Is it the PomE challenge where we duke it out on who has the better story?" Treble guessed, "Cuz I'm pretty sure my story is on a hiatus for some reason."

"What? No! I'm talking about right now! Fall Formal!"

"Alright, hit me."

*Punch*

"NOT LITERALLY!"

"Okay, whoever gets to dance with the most girls wins! Loser gets to buy the winner a big ass burger in McDonalds." Zero explained.

"YOU'RE ON!" Treble said as he got up motivated, "Does dancing with our girlfriends count?"

"Yes.. Yes it does Treble."

"Sister?"

"Yes."

"...Gay guys?"

"....Maybe."

"...Granny Smith?"

Zero facepalmed as he sat down in annoyance. The others just looked at them and laughed it off.

Back outside as they were walking, Gaige noticed Flash and a group of girls infront of the Wonderbolts Statue. She was hesitant to go talk to him, but she felt a tap from her back. She turned to see the girls with smiles, prompting her to go talk to Flash. Gaige nodded back and went ahead to Flash. As she got near, the two girls departed and Flash waved to her.

"Damn Gaige, I never thought you'd look so good in a dress." Flash smiled.

Gaige blushed a bit and said, "T-Thanks. What are you doing?"

"I'm just waiting for Twilight to come out. I'm just super excited to ask her out."

"Yeah... I'm happy for ya.." Gaige replied with a bit of sadness in her tone.

Flash raised a brow and looked at Gaige. He completely noticed her sad state and said, "Don't worry, once I'm done with Twilight, I'll dance with you."

*THUMP*

"Really?" Gaige said, having a bit of faith restored.

"Yeah, you deserved it from helping me out for the past month. You know, from friends to being social and to Twilight."

"Hehehe, it's what friends do," Gaige said as she faked a smiled, "I'll see you inside then?"

"Sure, just gotta wait for my lady."

Gaige began to walk away. She tried to not look back at Flash, as it will just make her anxiety even worse. Unfortunately, she had to look back. She turned her head and saw Flash just staring at the statue, waiting for the woman he loves. Gaige stopped on her tracks and looked at Flash for a moment.

Author's Notes:

Basically the chapter in a nutshell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J1-eYBbspA

I was a bit rusty and lazy when I made this so, it's quite rushed, fast paced and the words are off. Also caution, if you don't want spoilers, don't check my DeviantArt.

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