A Tight Squeeze
[At Bright Eyes' house…]
"Hmm, what to wear today? A variant of my Body Sock no doubt but which one? Uh-oh, my mom forgot to do the laundry so all that's left in my drawer is one of those clear colored outfits!" thought Bright Eyes. [At school…]
"We're so busted if she finds out," whispered Melody.
"It wasn't completely our fault. We didn't have any other outfit left to wear," protested Bon Bon quietly.
"Maybe she won't truly notice," suggested Sweetheart softly.
"Shh, here she comes," whispered Clover. *Ms Hackney doesn't enter the room*
"Where is she?" questioned Bon Bon softly.
"Good morning, I'm subbing for Ms Hackney today while she's teaching my class as part of a special event called Teacher Swap Day, " announced Cheerilee (from The Runaway Rainbow movie) coming in the room *Melody and the other female ponies sigh in relief*
"Thank goodness," whispered Clover.
"Don't let your guard down completely," warned Starlight quietly.
"I understand you all were about to start learning comma splicing? Ah yes, there's a note here specifically stating to teach just that," concluded Cheerilee.
"We don't even know what commas are, Ms…..," protested Bright Eyes.
"You're Bright Eyes, right?" asked Cheerilee.
"That's right," answered Bright Eyes.
"Well, Bright Eyes, and class, call me Ms Cheerilee. I guess I'll teach you about commas then first. You'll see them hanging below the rest of the words in a sentence, generally when you're creating a list such as for groceries, steps to a problem, stuff like what I just did there. There are times when to use them and when not to use them. You never use them when you could otherwise create two separate sentences. In that case, you'd use either what's called a semi-colon, which looks like this, or a period to begin the second sentence with a capital letter. I've put a sentence on the board and I want a volunteer to come up and correctly put the comma in place," explained Cheerilee while putting up said punctuation marks on the blackboard. *the class chatters nervously*
"I-I'll go, Ms Cheerilee," stuttered Starlight nervously. *Ace, Teddy and Lancer chatter loudly as Starlight walks to the board checking around her before completing the task and sitting down*
"Very good, uh, Starlight," stated Cheerilee looking at the attendance list briefly. *The clock chimes 3PM and the class rushes out* [Later that day…]
"I was worried the entire time that Ms Cheerilee would notice either of our two, er, traits," stated Bon Bon.
"At least the boys were having a good time but not enough for Ms Cheerilee to get suspicious," added Starlight.
"We'll have to truly replace what we have on with a new Body Sock or cover up in case Ms Cheerilee comes by while we're talking," suggested Sweetheart. *They head off to the Ice Cream Shop* [At the Ice Cream Shop…]
"How is that idea going to work when we have nothing else to wear for the day? We can't even go home because our parents would totally kill us," reminded Starlight.
"It'd probably be the end of my cooking career," added Bon Bon.
"Maybe we can wear shorts over these when we have to wear them?" proposed Bright Eyes.
"That's an idea but we'd have to go home first and it won't be easy to do without our parents catching us first," replied Starlight.
"I guess that leaves only one option: Buy another bottom half to replace the one we have on and change into it," sighed Bright Eyes. [At Ponies XL, the store that sells most products for Pudgyville…]
"Well here we are, Ponies XL. Of course, since I own the store, I can give them at a discount to you guys but I can't give them for free," stated Bright Eyes. *The group pays for their outfits and quickly exchanges the old bottom half for the new one before throwing out the old one*
"That ought to do it and now we can go home," said Clover. *They head to their respective houses* [Elsewhere…]
"We caught you in the utmost way by having you expose yourselves in much more detail than you'd ever know," smirked Stella.
"Ponyville Press here we come!" shouted Mary.
"Shh! We can't let them know we're on to them," hushed Stephanie quietly.
"Sleep tight for tomorrow is your real nightmare," smiled Stella.
