My radio started to play Timber and I forced my heavy eyelids open.  I fumbled with the alarm clock until I hit the button, cutting Kesha off mid-song.  I started to fall back asleep before my eyes jerked open.  It was the first day of school!

I threw the covers off of my body and all but jumped off the top of my loft bed.  Darting quickly down the stairs, I pulled out some cereal.  I poured some milk into the bowl and dug into my meal.  Once I'd finished eating, I got dressed into an orange top and some frayed jean shorts.  Skipping into the bathroom, I picked up my black hairbursh and began to painfully brush my white blonde hair.  Reaching for a hairtie, I started to messily braid my thick, long hair.  When I had finished that task, I began to brush my teeth with my orange toothbrush.  After I'd finished that, I ran down the carpeted stairs into the front hallway.  Snatching up my overfilled backpack, I hoisted it onto my shoulder, groaning a little at it's weight.  Walking down the brick driveway, I headed over to the bus stop where my friend Peony was already waiting. 

"JACKIE!" she exclaimed, thowing her arms around my neck and pinning my own arms to my side.  I laughed. 

"Hey Peony, how are you?" I asked once she released me.  Peony squealed a couple of times before elaborating. 

"Sad that I didn't see you over the summer, excited that I'm seeing you now!" she said excitedly, hugging me again.  She squeezed me super tight and I had to poke her a couple of times before she let me breathe.  We both laughed as the bus pulled up.  I coughed on the awful smelling smoke as I stepped onto the grungy yellow school bus.  My other two friends, Dash and Twi, were already on the bus in the second row.  The four of us gave identical squeals and began talking a mile a minute.  My final best friends, Unicity and Flit, clambered onto the bus. 

"HI GUYS!" the four of us yelled, to which Unicity and Flit replied,

"HI!"  All six of us started jabbering on about one subject or another.  We didn't stop talking until we arrived at our middle school.  Stepping off the bus, I lost my friends for a moment.  Suddenly I spotted Dash checking her blue phone.  Darting over to her, I started to speak. 

"Hi everyone!" I announced as I reached Dash.  Suddenly Peony hugged me again, but I laughed it off.  With a cry of horror, Unicity joined our group, brandishing a sewing needle.  She pulled some more material out of a fabric bag and began to alter our clothes.  When she finished, the six of us look a whole lot better.  My plain orange top now had red and green sequins on it in the outline of an apple, and my jeans had smiley faces on the back pockets.  Smiling, I blended into the crowd as I entered the school. 

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Disappointment overwhelmed me as I walked into advisory, our homeroom class.  No one in my advisory was remotley close to being my friend, although I'd hopefully manage.  I sat down at a desk as Mr. Master started to explain what the school year was going to be like.  I tuned him out as he started to talk abot keeping our grades up.  I had gotten all A's for a long time, so I wasn't too worried about grades.  He handed out schedules and told us our lockers were on the complete other side of the hallway.  We had to walk for a minute to reach them from our advisory classroom!

I picked a locker at the end of the row, between an open locker and a girl named Cynthia.  I emptied out my heavy orange backpack, hanging it up on one of the tarnished hooks in the red locker.  Once I had finshed organizing, I headed back to advisory and attempted to make conversation between reading the new Doesaria book that I had gotten from the library yesterday.  The bell rang and I headed to my classes. 

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Although advisory was dissapointing, the rest of my classes were more than satisfactory.  I had Twi in gym and Dash in language arts, reading, social studies, math, and science.  That meant I had a partner for any activity that needed one! 

Since the school day was over, I packed up my bag and got back on the bus.  We arrived at Dash's house, where we always went after school.  I raced up the stairs into my favorite rooom, the study.  Plopping my backpack on the desk, I collapsed into the black leather swivel chair.  I schooched closer to the labtop and started to work on my story.  I had only written a few hundred words before Peony's shriek made me jump three feet into the air.  I slammed the labtop shut and dashed down the stairs.  I laughed at the reason for Peony's outburst. 

Some sorbet sat on the table.  Dash and the others were already there and they were also laughing at Peony.  We decided to eat the sorbet while we discuss ideas for a group. 

"What are we going to do?" Dash asks.  Twi grins. 

"How about a Doesaria book club?" she suggests.  The other five of us nod our approval, ginning madly. 

"Great idea, Twi!" Dash annonces.  I scoop the last bit of sorbet into my mouth, happy as I can be. 

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Hey guys, it's 11pbskids.  My friends RainbowDashLoyalty (Dash) and TwilightSparkleMagic (Twi) are writing their versions of this story.  If you haven't already, go check it out!