“Come on Twilight, come out already!” Spike said.

“You promise you won´t laugh?” came the reply from the closed bedroom door.

“Yes,” Spike said, rolling his eyes.

“Say you promise, Spike!”

“I promise, I promise! Just come out and let me see!”

Twilight opened the door and stood in front of Spike. “So, do I look good?”

Spike had to hold his breath to not burst laughing right there.

“Hey Twily!” came a voice from downstairs.

“Shining? What are you doing here?” Twilight asked, already starting to blush.

“I came to see how you look in unifo-” Shingin couldn't finish the sentence since he had to suppress a chuckle. “You look...fine.”

Twilight growled and left the room, missing the moment her two siblings finally broke and fell to the ground, laughing. Twilight kept blushing all the way from her dorm to the field of Celestia's School for Unicorn. She tried to avoid other students but when she reached the field she ran into a blue unicorn with a magic wand Cutie Mark and her posse, who all laughed at the sight of Twilight. Blushing harder, Twilight rushed to join the mass of the school band, bumping into another student.

“Sorry. I wasn´t paying attention,” Twilight said to a white unicorn with braces.

“Hey there, you must be new! You know, because I've never seen you here before!”

“Yes, my name is Twilight Sparkle and I…”

“Oh, that´s great! I mean, it´s weird for a student to join the band so late in the year but I´m so happy to meet you!”

“Thanks, listen…” Twilight tried to say something but the unicorn kept interrupting her.

“My name is Vinyl Scratch! What´s your name? Oh wait, you already told me! What instrument do you play? Oh, you brought a xylophone! That's cool! I play the cymbals! See?”  And Vinyl banged the cymbals, causing Twilight's eyes to bounce due to the impact. “Fun, right? Oh, I´m so glad to have you in the band, Twilight! I bet you´re gonna love it!”

“I´m not in the band!” Twilight said, pushing Vinyl aside. “I only joined because I need extracurricular activities to pass this course. I´m not interested in joining,” she finished explaining, blushing when she noticed the same blue unicorn laughing and mocking her from the stands.

“Oh, okay then…”

The awkward moment got interrupted by the teacher blowing her whistle and calling the band in formation. Twilight sighed, wishing to be done with this quickly. Holding the instrument with her magic wasn´t so difficult but she soon discovered that standing in formation and keeping the rhythm while doing so was almost impossible. She tripped and caused the nitre line to fall down. Once again, she heard laughs from the stands and unable to stand it anymore, Twilight ran off, hiding inside a storage room.

“Hey, you okay?” Vinyl asked, peeking from the door into the dark room.

“No, I´m not! I look stupid with this uniform, I really don´t how to play this and I´ve turn into a laughing stock!” Twilight said, tossing the hat aside. “I hate this! I rather be on the library that being exposed here like a clown. I don´t know how you can stand this, Vinyl.”

“Because I´m not a clown! None of them are! We´re the School Band and we´re proud of it! Maybe you´re too petty to be in this band but I´m not!” Vinyl explained, clearly offended and moving closer to her with each sentence.

“Hey, I´m not petty. I just don't like other ponies making fun of me,” Twilight answered, blushing although this time more out of guilt than embarrassment.

“Well, that´s your problem because I feel no shame in wearing this uniform! Vinly said and turned around.

Twilight approached her to apologize and got a glimpse of the band marching. Twilight´s eyes went wide upon looking that perfect formation. “It´s...flawless. Two set of straight lines, bot a pony out of place. I never noticed it.”

“You never saw the band playing before?” Vinyl asked and Twilight shook her head. “You need to get out of the library more,” she said, patting Twilight in the back.

“Vinyl, I´m sorry for what I said. Think you can you forgive me?”

Vinyl pondered for a few seconds and then levitated the xylophone to Twilight. “Let´s see first how you handle yourself in the field.”

Twilight smiled and took the instrument back. Vinyl tried to leave first but crashed against the door.

“It´s too bright outside. I have sensitive eyes,” she explained, rubbing her snout.

Twilight looked around the room and found a box with some lost objects. She elviated a pair of sunglasses and handled them to Vinyl.

“Hey, cool!” Vinyl said and almost crashed against the door again.

Twilight wasn´t the most talented xylophone player but she didn't cared. She was happy simply standing in formation and keeping the rhythm. The laughs of the other unicorns no longer bothered her and they stopped mocking the band when Princess Celestia came to see the rehearsal. With a proud smile, Twilight marched along with Vinyl as the band played the school's anthem.