After class was over, everyone was talking about how interesting the lesson was. To be honest, I thought it was fascinating too, but I was too disappointed with the whole exam thing to feel good about it.

I caught Steely on the way to Wallflower’s locker and stopped him. “Where do you think you’re going?”

“Uhhhhh.”

“Look, don’t even bother wondering about whether if she is going to come or not. She will. So for now let’s see what the frick frack snick snack should we do about History!”

“Yeah, totally that is actually important….but you know-“

“NO!”

But we tried to see if we could find the files for the history exam on Vice Principal Luna’s computer anyway. Turned out it wasn’t even there; not yet, anyway. So there were only two possibilities: either Skull Mustache hadn’t given the file to her yet but would in a few days’ time, or he’s keeping it to himself and won’t even share the file with Vice Principal Luna before exam day.

I had hoped that he would give the file to Vice Principal Luna before exam day. But if I have learned anything about this guy it’s that he likes crushing his students. So I knew I had to think of something before it’s too late.

I left Steely afterwards; he probably went to the camera and started watching the walking broccoli who stole his heart. But I only had eyes to find Sunshine in school. It took me a while till I finally saw her bacon hair. “Whooh man, where were you? I was looking for you everywhere!”

“I was making sure that Wallflower wouldn’t back out from the date tonight.”

“So, how did it go?”

“It was harder than I expected but I convinced her anyway.”

“So she will definitely come, right?”

“Yes, she will.”

While we were walking, I started to wonder about something. “Hey, uh, how did you find out she likes Steely? Cuz I doubt she just came and told it to you!”

“Well, actually she did.”

“Really?”

“I was talking to her yesterday about how good they presented their project and all of that when I realized she was blushing much more than usual.”

“O.K.”

“And then I asked her about it, and she wasn’t going to tell me at first but I promised her I would keep it to myself … and I just broke my promise to her.”

“Huh, that’s weird.”

“Not that much. I mean I’m actually helping her to conf-“

“No, I mean that’s weird that you didn’t use your magic.”

“Oh, well, I am trying to respect peoples’ privacy!”

“Riiight! Anyway, don’t forget to ask Rarity about Steely’s clothes.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t forget.”

From there we parted ways. I tolerated the rest of the day and calmed Steely down about his date but the more time passed, his state got worse and worse. So after school, I took him to my home and tried to distract him a little by playing some games but even THAT didn’t help. His teeth were clacking on one another so fast that it could shred anything that came near them.

I decided to leave him in my room for a while and call Sunshine to see how things were going on her side.

“Hello, Sunset, how is everything?”

“Uhm, it’s complicated.”

“Let me guess, she is doubting everything about this whole thing and she is so nervous that you can hear the sound of her teeth’s clacking from another room. Am I right?”

She sighed. “Close enough,. I guess your situation isn’t any better than mine.”

“If anything it’s worse. I really don’t know what else I should do.”

“You know, I think if we dress them up and make them look better they could both gain some confidence.”

“That’s actually a pretty good idea. So Rarity had something for Steely?”

“Yes, and I think you might want to bring Steely there first since it will take me some time to get Wallflower there.”

“OK, sounds good to me.”

She texted Rarity’s address, and as Skull Mustache likes to say, I did not waste a single instant. “OK,” I told him, we’re leaving.”

“Wait, we’re leaving now?”

“We’ve got a stop to make first.”

Author's Notes:

Make sure to cheek out other chapters too.

Special thanks to my editor Daniel Drazen.