Archive of Our Own

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6:20 AM — Wake up like every other day, remember your glasses, brush your teeth, do your hair, actually pick out an outfit now (you can’t just wear a uniform anymore…), eat a bit of breakfast, feed Spike, and make it to your bus before 7:45, it all was practically burned into Twilight's brain now. She weirdly found a strange sense of routine in it after the first few weeks after her transfer, though truly it was just to keep her a bit more sane before stumbling into school and all the problems she dealt with nearly everyday because of it.

It seemed everyday now she was accidentally left without context with classmates referring to events she wasn’t there to witness or people she never met, luckily no longer being mistaken for the Princess but still struggling to match everyone else socially. Conversations with people past school was never really her strong suit, it would’ve been pretty lonely for her had it not been for the constant distraction of formulas and equations that acted as an escape from the world around her, even in the middle of some elective class that most would be busy enjoying the lack of strict rules and embracing their creativity. But to her what they called “boring” or “too difficult” she found comfort in, working as a calm hum of white noise in the background of an overstimulating setting.

And then life of course had to screw her over.

A sudden swing from the door to the class quickly shut off any and all conversations in the room, leaving only the loud silence of an unfamiliar face and now caught off guard teacher—likely ready to scold whoever bursted in so late into the period. “And who may you be? You must be pretty important to be throwing open doors like that…” The teacher scowled, surprisingly demanding from such an older lady. “I would say I'm pretty important, Adagio Dazzle ma’am.” She marks with a sly smirk, almost conniving if anyone paid close enough attention to her.

The woman gives one more scrutinizing look over the newcomer before dismissing the comment with a short huff, “Well then, sit wherever…And don’t move around a chair unless you intend on moving it back before you leave.” She grumbles before going back to what she was doing before, sitting hunched over her computer and leaving the rest of the class to their own devices. Most of the class seems to return back to only a few minutes ago, conversations picking back up where they left off and projects being finished with their last details. Twilight of course going back to her textbook like the nerd she is, thinking nothing much of the scene. ‘Probably just another troublemaker coming in late…’

*Screechhh…..

“You don’t mind if I sit here right?” Twilight glances up only to be met with the newbie already sat right beside her. “Uh no you’re fine…I-I promise I won’t be in your way…” She can’t help but automatically go into pushover mode, really just trying to stay in the background where she was comfortable. But of course being kicked out of that comfort zone by some random girl who bursts into a class late and sits next to the once girl that doesn’t want anyone sitting right by her. “Oh don’t be silly, if you were in my way I would handle it on my own, you don’t gotta worry your pretty little head about a thing!” She remarks with another sinister yet sweet smile, though the former a bit more obvious with her strange comment thrown in, which Twilight just gave a small nod of acknowledgment in response. For a moment there was a barely tolerable silence, which Twilight prayed would be this girl’s sign to just keep to herself and leave her to zone out with square roots. But who’s gonna listen to her prayers? Not any god she was hoping it’d reach. Instead, after only a few minutes of silence, Adagio leans over the table slightly and into Twilight’s space, making no effort to hide how nosey she was and taking a peek at what she was doing, “Math work? Really? What? Did you have forgotten homework you’ve gotta rush to get done or what?”

“Actually it's not homework….It’s just some simple math I like to do for fun….” She awkwardly stumbles out before barely looking over at Adagio, not realizing how much closer she shifted just to peek at partially completed math work. She could already see the confusion blooming on her face, though a bit unsure whether it was from the reason she had it out or the work itself. Her eyes glanced down at the textbook before back at her, then back at the open page again. “You do quadratic formula equations…for fun…? And this is simple work for you?” She questioned both in a weird sense of adoration and perplexity. “It’s not too hard once you get a rhythm on solving it…Usually I prefer non-liner functions but I don’t like only doing one type of equation either, it’s good to keep all your skills sharpened—whether it’s more fun or not” Adagio just gives her that puzzled yet entertained look again before skimming over the page and pointing to a problem. “This one here, how would you solve that?”

“Oh that’s an easier one!”

“Easier?” She snips before letting Twilight continue, talking out each step surprisingly enthusiastic for something as lecturing as quadratics and algebra. Adagio shifts in her spot to plant her face on her palm while Twilight continued on her ramblings, eventually coming to a stop after she got the answer. “...And so that means Y can be between the values -17 and 5!” She proudly scribbled down the answer, turning back to Adagio to see how she followed, only to be met with her barely paying attention it seems, just kinda staring absentmindedly at her. She seems to somewhat notice herself being caught before shifting topic a bit “Y’know you would make a great tutor Twi…maybe if I get too stuck on some homework you can help me? You get to nerd out about numbers and I get my A’s, sound fair?” She offers with a hand stretched out to her, which Twilight almost took before stopping in her tracks after a question dawned on her mid handshake, “How did you already know my name? My nickname at that..?”

“You’ve got an unforgettable face, Twilight, hard to forget the name to it.” She smirks before the bell to dismiss from 1st period struck through the room almost on que. “Catch you later! Visit me at lunch sometime!” She blows a small friendly goodbye kiss as she grabs her things and shuffles out with the rest of the crowd of rushing students, leaving Twilight sat there a bit dumbfounded before realizing she needed to grab her own things and hustling out the class as well.