Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Tori

Despite herself, Autumn grinned. "Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" She turned around to face her best friend of the past 2 years, Victoria "Tori" Bourne.

She'd changed her hair color again. Last week it was blue and green. Next week would probably be white and black, or neon yellow and orange, or some other crazy combination. She was also wearing purple boots with pink leggings, a short purple skirt to which she'd pinned some paper stars, and a pale blue button up with a cute little bowtie that matched the pink streak in her hair. Autumn frowned in consternation. "Oh no, you didn't."

"Yep!" Tori grinned, "Twilight Sparkle. You like?"

Autumn groaned. Lately Tori had been on a cartoon craze, and her most recent favorite was the one with the ponies. Last Saturday Tori had made Autumn watch an entire movie devoted to talking horses turning into rainbow-colored people. Now, apparently, she wanted to become one.

"You only wish that you could pull it off with me," Tori said sympathetically. "I'd make you Nightmare Moon. She's the bad guy for the first episode, and then she turns into a good guy. Sort of like you in the morning."

"I think I'd be Pinky," Autumn complained as she made her way to her locker. Everyone gave her a wide birth. She stood up straight, and tried to look as nice as possible, but everyone still shrank away from her. Most days it wasn't too bad, but today it was really getting to her.

"Pinkie Pie? You want to have luxurious, curly pinky locks and be the life of every party?" Tori nodded her head sagely. "Good idea. I think you'd look gorgeous with pink hair."

"No, I meant, you know, Pinky and the Brain?" Autumn self-consciously brushed her straight brown hair behind her ear.  "'Cause of all your brilliant plans to take over the world and stuff?"

"Ewe, no. I'm a horse," Tori said confidently. "Look at me run with my wild mane catching the wind!" She ran down the crowded hall, neighing, and Autumn hid a grin as she dialed open her locker. Tori had to be the craziest person she knew. Who else would be best friends with the freaky giant girl?

Tori was back a moment later, a huge grin on her face, completely unembarrassed. "So guess what we're going to do today?"

Autumn laughed. "The same thing we do every night Pinky. Try and take over the world!"

"You're right, I am way more Pinkie Pie than you," Tori laughed. "But guess. You'll never guess. Okay, I'll tell you."

Autumn simply nodded and smiled. When Tori was like this, the best thing to do was nod, smile, and be ready to haul butt as soon as their next escapade landed them into trouble.

"We're going to discover a secret world," Tori whispered, eyes flashing.

"Really."

"Yeah. I have it all figured out, just like in the My Little pony movie. The Librarian is obviously an evil hag who stays young by sucking out the brains of students. Or an alien, I'm still not sure which. So we wait till after night time, sneak into her private library, and find the spell that lets her go back to her home dimension!"

"Really."

"Yeah! Only, we're going to need help, so I decided to get Holly and Adelaide in on this. It's going to be epic!"

"Tori, I don't think finding a new world like that is even possible."

"Autumn, how often do you tell me that my plans are impossible?"

"Every time."

"And how often do they end up working?"

"Every time. But you gotta admit, this is way more far-fetched than anything you've ever come up with before-"

"Have a little faith, sis," Tori faked an agrieved tone.

"And we also always, Always get into trouble." Autumn finished.

"Well, that's why I always bring you with me, to get me out of it," Tori grinned and waved as she raced off to her next class.

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