The train was soon far away from the station. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Fluttershy and ditzy doo happily chatted and told funny family stories while Trixie pouted in the other side of the carriage.

"...so then my brother tricked his teacher into thinking his tail was gone!" finished RD. The others cracked up at this, but by now Trixie had fallen asleep. Trixie just lay there, dreaming of becoming the most popular filly in the school, how she would get back Fluttershy for not choosing her as a friend and how she would show up all these meek little fillies. However, Applejack was far more strong willed than Trixie thought. She had no intention of doing anything Trixie said. Soon, everypony was to tired to chat anymore. Applejack just sat and stared out the window, now remembering how far away her parents, her granny smith, her little sister Apple Bloom and Big Mac were. She sniffed as she remembered her mother: Pink Lady, and her father: Applebuck. She tried to remember that they were coming to see her at half term. Rainbow heard her sniffling and tried to cheer her up.

"Come on AJ," she comforted, "We're gonna be at school soon!" Applejack soon cheered up seeing as they would be at school soon.

Trixie had now awoken and planned her revenge on Fluttershy. She didn't even notice whenever the train pulled up at the school.

"Wow!" gasped Applejack. The school was like a giant castle, with one tower at each corner. It was simply beautiful in the sunlight.

"The other girls are here!" shouted Rainbow Dash. Some fillies (or mares) traveled the long journey to Canterlot with their parents, by car. RD raced up to a white pegasus with a bouncy blonde mane and three purple balloons as a cutie mark.

"Hey Surprise!" shouted Rainbow.

"Rainbow Dash!" squealed Surprise, "I thought you weren't coming!" Rainbow Dash then proceeded to give Surprise a hug. "Hey look, there's Bon-Bon!" shouted Rainbow. Bon-Bon, a white earth pony with a purple and blue mane, stood beside her best friend Lyra. Lyra was a green unicorn with a green mane. Rainbow introduced Lyra and Bon-Bon to the three new fillies, two happy, one pouting.

"Wait," said Lyra, "Aren't there supposed to be four new fillies?" Rainbow looked down at her list. Yes, there at the very bottom of her list was the name Cheerilee!

"Is there a Cheerilee here?" called Rainbow. A purple filly with light purple hair and no cutie mark trotted in. "Hello," she said, "I'm Cheerilee." Rainbow breathed a sigh of relief. Cheerilee came by car! She wasn't lost after all.

Meanwhile, Applejack was inside, looking at the dorm room, or dormy. There were eight beds, four on each side. Each bed was a deep burgundy colour with the letters FTM (for Filly To Mare) printed on the covers in gold. Each bed

had a burgundy bedside table beside it. There was a velvety deep red pull-around curtain dividing each little room. Again, each pull-around curtain had the letters FTM printed on it. There was a big window, looking out towards the seaside. Just when she was looking out the window, a voice said,

"The view is great, isn't it?" Applejack whisked around to see it was that pegasus, Surprise.

"Hello Surprise," said applejack. Surprise looked around at the eight beds and said,

"The ponies boarding in this dormy are Me, You, Rainbow Dash, Bon-Bon, Lyra, Twilight Sparkle, Cheerilee and unfortunately Trixe." Applejack now knew everypony in her dormy. She was really starting to feel at home. Trixie however, wasn't fitting in at all. Nopony in the dormy wanted to speak to her. Suddenly it hit her. She hadn't a single friend. She was suddenly determined to find somepony grand to be her friend.  She looked throughout the crowds of ponies. 'No, too short. Too tall. Perfect!' she thought to herself. She raced over to this wonderful pony.

"Why hello," said Trixie, in a self-confident sort of way, "My name is the Great and Powerful Trixie!" after her little speech, she quickly conjured a loud fanfare, with fireworks to match. The other unicorn looked at her in surprise.

"H-Hi," she stammered, "m-my name is fluer-de-lis." Trixie seized the moment. Fluer-de-lis was going to be her best friend!

Applejack sat at the meal table eating the special first-day dinner Mrs. Cake had prepared fir the new girls. Cupcakes, sugar cubes, apples from sweet apple acres! They made Applejack feel so close to home she accidentally kicked out at her chair! "Oopsy!" she said as she realised what she had done.

"No worries, sugarcube," assured Mrs. Cake, picking up her chair. As the girls finished up, Mrs. Cake brought out a simply enormous chocolate cake! Applejack, Twilight, and Trixie each ate a giant piece, before saying each of them had eaten enough. Twilight and Applejack were soon deeply engrossed in a conversation about cutie marks.

"I've tried juggling, singing, surfing and even digging! But nothing seems to work..." sighed Twilight.

Applejack replied, "Yes, same with me."

Trixie smirked, "Wow. Waiting for your cutie mark is sooo last month."

"And I suppose you have one?" retorted Applejack.

"Why um.... Yes!" stumbled Trixie very quickly.

"Let's see it then?" challenged Twilight.

"Well...um...it's so.....uh.....shiny, it could....uh...blind you. Yes that's it," stammered Trixie. Suddenly, a tall white unicorn with a silky pink mane came to Trixie's defense.

"Well I think Trixie, probably, has a great cutie mark," she said.

"Why, hello, fluer-de-lis," said Trixie, "You were saying?" Fluer-de-lis looked from Trixie to Twilight to Applejack,

"I was saying, that you shouldn't be so mean to Trixie." And with that, she strutted off.  

Soon after it was lights out everypony was sleeping. Well almost everypony. Surprise was lying awake, troubled. She tossed and turned but nothing seemed to help her. She screamed into her pillow in frustration. But she couldn't tell anypony about this. NOPONY could know.