Chapter 2: School Days

"Can this day go any slower?" Sweetie whined as she looked at the clock for the hundredth time in the last ten minutes. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon giggled as they watched Twist examining every little detail from her desk, leaning out so far that somepony could make her fall by just breathing on her. Applebloom and Scootaloo were sitting backwards in their seats as they watched Sweetie repeatedly lift up her head just to drop it back down on her hooves again, making a small thud sound each time. Cheerilee didn't seem to mind that everypony was staring at Sweetie, probably because she was focusing on the script for the play that was coming up in a few weeks, which had caused this entire fiasco because Sweetie was put as Celestia.

Now that she thought about it, why were they even doing a play that had Celestia in it? Sweetie Belle raised her head up from her desk quickly so she could go up to Cheerilee, but just as she got ready to move she felt somepony pluck a feather out of her wing.

"Ow!" Sweetie cried as the pain shot up from the end of her wing, making her eyes water.

"Oh, uh, sorry..." Twist said quietly, her pasty face turning bright red.

"Oh look, Wingie Belle's about to cry!" Diamond Tiara cheered, causing everypony to focus their attention on her. When all their eyes focused on her Sweetie felt her face flush red as her wings popped up, stiffening up completely. A chorus of laughter erupted from the class, snapping Cheerilee out of her thoughts.

"Looks like the dams are about to break!" Silver Spoon said, poking at Sweetie Belle just enough to make her want to run away, but Cheerilee jumped in.

"Hey, leave Sweetie alone and get back to your work!" Cheerilee ordered, but Diamond Tiara decided to me a smart little filly.

"But Miss Cheerilee, you haven't given us any work" Diamond Tiara said while she gave Sweetie a toothy grin, as if she had just beat her at something. Cheerilee froze for a moment as she thought about it, her hoof quickly coming up to her face in a facehoof when she realized that Diamond Tiara was right. With a loud breath Cheerilee turned around and headed to her desk, quickly rummaging through it to find something for the class to do that would be productive. After about a minute of her rushed movements Cheerilee came up from her disk, a smile on her face.

"Ok, now, I want each of you to find something on this list, and do it" Cheerilee said as she slapped a long list down on one of the empty desks she had at the front of the classroom. Slowly each member of the class crept up to the desk, all of them afraid of what kind of horrible things would lie in wait on that list. After the first few of them looked at the list the mood changed to one of interest, as they had all come away with smiles on their faces. The last ponies to get something to do were the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and it ended up leaving them the worst item on the list.

"Clean every desk in the classroom until they shine?!" Scootaloo complained as she look at the desks, some of them looking like they had been used as target practice for a Unicorn. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon shot each other devilish smiles before looking down at their desks. They had probably the messiest and most destructive tasks on the list, and with the Crusaders being the ones to clean desks at the end of the day...

"Oh no, I spilled the bright red paint all over my desk!" Diamond Tiara said as if it had been an accident, when she had actually just pushed it over with her hoof, making sure that none of it landed on her smooth pink coat. Scootaloo moved to clean it up when Silver Spoon stuck her hoof out, causing Scootaloo to fly right into the paint, covering her in it.

"Oh come on!" Scootaloo whined as she smacked her wet hooves against the ground before shooting an angry glare up at Silver Spoon. Scootaloo knew she had done it on purpose, and by Celestia she was going to get back at her for it. As Scootaloo left to get the paint out of her coat and mane Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon gave each other a high hoof, which Sweetie saw out of the corner of her eye.

"Applebloom, I think Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are up to something" Sweetie whispered to Applebloom as she continued to scrub the horribly disgusting desk that they had chosen to start on.

"Why do you think that?" Applebloom asked confusedly as she popped up from under the desk, her face covered in dust. Sweetie didn't say anything, but it was pretty obvious why she thought that as the two of them had started to do their little dance, ending it with their cliche butt bump. Applebloom raised an eyebrow at them before turning back to Sweetie Belle.

"Where'd Scoots go?" Applebloom asked, now noticing that Scootaloo was nowhere to be found.

"She had to go clean herself up after those two made her trip into the red paint Diamond Tiara spilled everywhere" Sweetie said angrily as she started scrubbing the desk harder than before. Applebloom shrugged and went back to her work under the desk, just as Scootaloo came out of the bathroom. She came trotting over to the desk with an annoyed look on her face.

"I hate those two" Scootaloo said angrily as she looked at Sweetie Belle. The two of them stared at each other for a moment before Sweetie started to squint at her. There was an odd silence as Sweetie leaned closer to Scootaloo's face, until her horn started to glow.

"You missed a spot" Sweetie said as she leaned back, pulling off some red paint that was behind Scootaloo's ear using her magic.

"Oh, thanks" Scootaloo said before she turned to stare at Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, already planning her revenge. Sweetie stared at them with her, which caused a chill to go up the bullies' spines and making them turn around. Their eyes met for a moment before Cheerilee looked up from her script long enough to catch them.

"You four, stop that!" Cheerilee said, staring at them with cold eyes until they backed down and went back to what they had been working on. When the Crusaders finally finished with the one desk they stood up and wiped sweat from their brow, just as the bell to go home went as well. They looked around to see most of the class packing up their projects so they could keep working on them tomorrow.

"Oh, looks like the Cutie Mark Cru-failers are going to be staying late to get the desks cleaned today~" Diamond Tiara said happily as her and Silver Spoon sauntered out of the classroom, leaving the three fillies with Cheerilee. They all let out a sigh at the same time, making all of them look up with confused looks on their faces.

"Did we...?" the four of them asked each other, making them more surprised than confused, "Are we...?" They continued to look at each other in confusion for a minute before shrugging it off and going back to whatever they were doing. Within a few minutes the rest of the desks were clean because the Crusaders were able to divide and conquer while Cheerilee watched, a small smile on her face. When they looked over to admire their work Sweetie's wings flapped, throwing all of the dust that was on the floor into the air.

"Uh oh..." Sweetie said as she looked around, seeing every single desk in the room covered in a fresh layer of dust, as well as the other three ponies in the room. They all gave her an angry stare before leaving her all alone. All alone to clean every single desk again, by herself.

"I guess I deserve this..." Sweetie said with a sad sigh as she got to dusting the desks clean again, the sun going down over the horizon outside the schoolhouse's windows. Next Chapter: Chapter 3: Freak Out Time Estimated time remaining: 13 Minutes