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First day, new students and they were a strange bunch. There were stitches, fur, waxy eyes and yarn.... not normal phony ingredients but they were roaming the school halls now. Expired, with dull orange eyes sat, in the classroom bundled up as much as possible. His hair was weird, but there was no reason for any of the others students to know about his leg. That had to be the weirdest mutation. Bread leg pony; he didn't want to be known as that. Well truthfully... he didn't want to be here at all. The recess bell rang and all the little filly and colts ran outside to have fun in the snow. Ex, like a bundled up snowman, waddled outside but stayed away from most of the other students.

A bright colored phony seemed to be making her way over to him. He looked around almost tying to find an escape root, but sadly he didn't have a way to get out, unless he went be in.... and it was too hot in there. He stood their with a straight face as she said hello.... She even seemed to know his name already.

"Hello... Singsong." He felt strange actually trying to be nice to a classmate and was even more thankful she asked a question he really wouldn't know how to keep a conversation going with how quiet he was. "Mmm, no... Just new out of our packets. I guess you are not knew to the school, are you?"

He stood there mostly looking at the ground. He was normally pretty confident and could get kind of mean when he was in an element of his own. The school was just so new and there were so many little colts and fillies. Foals just like him... well no, not really but still he was just not sure about school yet.

He could handle just one filly. Hopefully no one else would come over or he might actually have to put an escape plan into place.

The most exciting? This place was terrible. All the people. All the clothes he had to wear.. 8I Well maybe that was his fault, but still he wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for school. Play. Oh no... he was already asking to play. The phony nervously shifted. "Umm? Play. No I can't. I'm not allowed to." The words came out of his mouth quickly. They felt and sounded strange. He just told a lie. Exp never felt like much of a liar and the idea of playing didn't seem that bad but for some reason he just lied.

"Yeah, my mom said it would be bad for me to play with the other children with my... really cool gem leg." Oh gosh... He just lied again about his leg. His leg was a boring piece of bread not made of gems. His face got stiff. But..I... I don't feel like showing if off right now. So I guess we can talk."

Ugh. Why did he do this. He was making his mom out to be some tyrant, when she was probably the best mom he could ever have... even if she did sells dozen's of baguettes that looked just like his leg. "Umm, no? I don't know. I can't really draw but I guess we can read for a while." It was better than playing... but the girl would still be hanging around. Lying like this was already so complicated... He was going to have to wear clothes like this all the time now in order to make sure this filly wouldn't know he had a dumb bread leg.

"Yeah... it's a lot like my hair. And yeah it bends, with joints or something like that. I don't really understand it either." Well that wasn't a totally lie.. he didn't understand how his bread leg moved either. Hmm... weird. "Umm. I don't know... maybe? Not right now though but maybe." Singsong was so chipper and excited about him being so cool. It was a nice feeling, but he knew pretty quickly that this was wrong. It was a good thing she wasn't picking up on it though, perhaps he could get way with it until the end of school. (Not)

Singsong was actually really sweet and understanding. That was nice... but seeing as he was being a big liar he was sure that she wouldn't be like this for very long. It made him kind of sad to think that he would probably have to push someone away that would actually be a good friend to him. His ears flipped back as she started to show him books. She did all these? Whoa that was really cool. He had never done something that he could call his own. Well maybe school art projects, but nothing like this. He wasn't as big of a reader as his older brother Rosewrite, but he enjoyed mysteries and stories of strange things. Even if none of these were a mystery he was interested looking them over.

"Whooooa. That is really cool. I think I want to look at all of them." He nodded as he used magic to thumb through the first one. "I can't believe you are able to do something like this. I do like comics too, but I really like looking over your work. It seems more genuine then alot of published books." He offered a bit of a smile, before returning to the book. He was very intent to the story she created in this first one.

Suddenly Ex had a lot more books on his place. He felt like he was going to have to check these out to properly enjoy reading them all, since it was a little hard to read with her so close... and touchy. It wasn't so bad, Singsong was actually darling but still it was weird to have someone want to be so close to him. It was interesting to hear of her family and close friends, as he read, thinking it must be nice to have people like that. Though as he thought about it he did have people close to him. A big family, the other mutants.... and maybe Singsong?

She outstretched a shaking hoof and it made him smile to see his opinion made a difference in her confidence. "It really is!" He chimed almost returning to actually read and finish the book. As he finished he looked up and nodded a few times before formulating his opinions... and she wanted to hear the truth.

"Wonderful. I will be a future customer in any books you should sell... maybe even visit book signing..." He gave a small grin. "Or heck, whatever else you decide to do I'd love to support you efforts then too."

Ex paused for a long moment, worried about what he was going to say next. "I lied to you before.... not about your books those still are a rare gem... but my leg is not... and I lied about not being able to play. I can play and have fun... and my leg is actually made out of bread.... not even like cool colored bread or something. I'm sorry, but i you decided to never talk to me again. I understand." The purple colt said as he took off his jacket and boots to show Singsong the truth as well.

Buddy. He was her buddy.~

It made him happy to think that she accepted him through all his faults and even admitted a few of her own. The purple stallion could only manage to nod and smile. He didn't want to mess up a good thing, but then again he was pretty sure no matter what he did she would stick with him now. "Thank you."

He moved on from the topic, diverting it from the topic of food since he still didn't enjoy the idea of eating a lot of bread... none the less with every meal. "I enjoy you use of colors here, the small palette is enjoyable to the eyes. Kids our age tend to like really bright and lots of colors." Ex commented, but then would continue what he did and din't enjoy about her book. A good critique could only make her stronger! (But he would still be gentle about it... at least with her.) Together they started to flip through one of her funnier book. He would snort and then she would giggle. They spent the rest of recess reading and buddied up in front of a lovely book.~



Finished.
Ex Honesty
Singsong Kindness